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Hey, Go Church Family, welcome back to part one out of three for our July series titled

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Able to.

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Able to.

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I am able to.

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I am able to as well.

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That is true about me.

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Such a play on words.

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You know, I was just thinking about our grow groups.

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I love the Go Church as a groups centered church.

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And I wanted to just say this.

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You know, if you have someone in your life and you're thinking, I would love to introduce

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them to first my church family, but also I really just want them to get to know Jesus,

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bring them to a grow group.

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You know, we have Alpha and Alpha is a great place for people that have no church background,

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don't know Jesus.

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We have basics that is a great place for people to learn about what we believe.

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But grow groups are a great place to learn about who we are as a church family.

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And you know, one of the reasons why we do the welcome at all of our grow groups is so

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that it's a safe place for new visitors to come for us to always invite our friends and

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family.

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And I just want to encourage you, you know, think about people that you could bring to

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a grow group so they could get to know us and more than get to know us, get to know

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Jesus.

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And right along with that, if you know someone that needs a miracle, needs healing in their

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body, needs a miracle in their life, bring them to grow group.

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The Bible says pray one for another.

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The Bible says that the effective prayer of a righteous person makes tremendous power

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available.

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And you know, our grow groups are full of righteous people.

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Because Jesus has made them righteous.

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That's 2 Corinthians chapter five verse 21.

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So as we, you know, we do it every grow group, we pray one for another.

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Let's not forget that and you know, bring people in and pray one for another.

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Amen.

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That's absolutely right.

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And we lean on the word of God.

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We lean on His promises.

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We lean on who He is.

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That's what's so special at Go Church Beirut is that, you know, thank God for our leaders,

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thank God for the people who volunteer and every single person who plays a role.

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But in these kind of things, we don't rely on people.

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We rely on the word of God.

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So all we need to do is lean on the word of God.

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This is what the word of God says concerning your situation or concerning this part of

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your life.

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And we're just going to believe that what the Lord says is more true than what you're

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dealing with.

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And that thing must change.

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And we can have great confidence in that because the Lord is not through blessing you.

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That's right.

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Amen.

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I've just been singing that to myself.

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You should sing it to us as well.

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Well, I don't know that you would enjoy that near as much.

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So I also do want to say that in case you missed the message at the big Sunday, you can listen

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to it right here on our podcast that's available.

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We like to make all these things available on podcasts so you can not only hear it for

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the first time in case you missed it, but so that you can go back and listen to it again

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and again and again.

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Because we don't only believe that it is Pastor Matt preaching or someone else preaching.

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We believe that we are drawing by faith the things that the Holy Spirit is trying to tell

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us as a church.

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So by believing for utterance through the speakers and through what the different ministry teams

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are doing in the church, we can hear personally directly from the Lord.

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Praise God.

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And so I encourage you to go back and listen to the podcast and hear what not what Pastor

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Matt said on Sunday, but what the Holy Spirit is saying to you through Pastor Matt.

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Amen.

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So let's get right into the series.

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We are able to, and that's what we're talking about all month.

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So let's talk about the purpose of our series.

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We want everyone in the Go Church family to know that through God's supernatural ability,

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we are able to see, able to say and able to do things that the world around us cannot.

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We are able to break down limits to emerge into the place God has called us individually

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and as a church.

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And that word emerge there is key because it refers to a prophetic word or what we would

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say just, you know, to define that and inspired by the Holy Spirit utterance that came to

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Go Church at the end of April and you can actually go back on the same podcast channel

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and listen to that.

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It's just titled Emerge by Pastor Joel Sims and I would encourage you if you haven't listened

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to that recently, I would listen to it again.

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Yeah, that's right.

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So we're still on the same key scripture.

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We're still in the same key scripture that we've been looking at since the beginning

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of June in this series that we called able and now able to and the scripture is second

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Corinthians chapter nine verse eight and God is able to make all grace abound towards

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you that you always having all sufficiency of all things may have an abundance for every

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good work.

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You know, just and we're going to talk more about this in our groups, but I would encourage

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Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians, not in chapters and verse, but like you would

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write a letter, you know, he would, he wrote it along themes in paragraphs and really the,

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the, this verse eight is part of a larger, you know, text about the same subject.

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And if you want to kind of get the context of this, go back to chapter eight verse one

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and start reading from there and read through, through the end of chapter nine or, you know,

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That's right.

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First 13 maybe.

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But I would just encourage you to get the context of that.

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That's right.

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I mean, when I, when I read those, those chapters, I really get the themes of the ability to

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give to God's things, the ability to do more and the ability to have more financial

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potentially for purpose and for a Godly life.

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Cause we're applying the able to message generally, but this verse specifically is, is talking

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about finances and it certainly applies to finances.

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You know, if you are afraid of speaking publicly, I'm telling you that God has made you able

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to overcome that fear.

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But these verses specifically are talking about financial provision.

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That's right.

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This month.

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So we're, we're, we're in basically week one of week three for our discussion on able

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to, and we are focusing on able to see.

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So Pastor Mark, tell us what you mean by able to see.

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Well, when we were talking about, you know, able, it automatically lends itself to able

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for what, for what is the, what is the something that we are now enabled in.

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So I, when I was looking at this, I thought about three different, three different things

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that we could look at from the scripture.

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And the first one is we're able to see and that purpose, you know, we want everyone to,

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to start with seeing, because I think from the scriptures, we can see this pattern that

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the people that are able to see something that others can't can do things that others

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can't and they can receive things that others don't.

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There are so many amazing examples in the Bible.

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Exactly.

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And when we talk about them, because we're about to talk about a couple, I find this

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so interesting, especially that it flows from last month's discussions and last month's

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discussions in week three, we talked about the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

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And we talked about two key components, which is the wisdom of God and the power of God.

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So wisdom is what the Lord gives us concerning knowing where to go or what to do for in line

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with His will, His purposes.

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And a corresponding action means that we position ourselves to see the power of God in operation.

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And I think that able to see is really, really, really close in line with able to do something

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with the wisdom of God.

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That's exactly right.

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And I find that so interesting because it takes us, this is where we get to work with

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the purpose of God.

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So think about it, think about the language of when you're struggling with a concept,

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for example, and then suddenly you understand it.

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You often hear someone say, ah, I see that now.

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I see it.

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And that's the seeing that I'm talking about.

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There are just some people, like they can't see a way out of their situation.

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They can't see a way out of their diagnosis.

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They can't see a way out of living and surviving on prescription medicine or a particular kind

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of care.

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They can't see themselves living free from that.

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I want, I want us to move to a place where we're able to see.

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We're able to see the inheritance that we have received in Christ made ours.

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Praise God.

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Pastor Matt, you have a story that you wanted to share about Jesus.

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I really liked this when you shared it with me initially about what happened here and

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as a result, Jesus reveals the purpose behind the action.

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So we're referring to Mark chapter 14, which takes place following the resurrection of Lazarus.

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And Mark chapter 14, I'm just going to read this from verses three through six, and then

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I'll read verses eight and nine.

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As Jesus sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil.

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And the scripture defines what kind of oil that was.

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It was a spiked art.

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But what it is is very costly.

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Why is it very costly?

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Well, it's costly because it's precious.

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It's costly because it's scarce.

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It's costly because other resources were invested to make it and to make it hers.

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Then she, this is Mary, the sister of Lazarus.

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Then she broke the flask and poured it on Jesus head.

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Verse four says, but there were some who were indignant among themselves indignant.

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So a funny word, actually, it means they didn't act right.

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That's literally the simple definition of that.

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They didn't act right.

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And those that some those people, those are the disciples of Jesus.

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Why was this fragrant oil wasted?

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Notice that the scripture says that that question is not right.

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So this lady, Mary breaks a very costly flask of oil over Jesus and the disciples, they

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don't act right.

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And they ask this question.

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Why was this fragrant oil wasted?

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Notice that they saw waste in her giving.

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Verse five, for it might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor,

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300 denarii is about a year's wage for a working adult.

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And they criticized her sharply, verse six, but Jesus said, let her alone.

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Why do you trouble her?

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She has done a good work for me.

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She has done what she could.

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Notice that she has done what she could.

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She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial.

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Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this

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woman has done will be told as a memorial to her.

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Look at the look at the setting there in someone's house and Mary brings this very costly oil

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and breaks it over Jesus.

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It's obviously an act of worship.

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She's doing this from a place of love.

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In essence, she's saying that everything, everything about Jesus is worth more than this

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precious thing that I have.

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And so I'm going to take this thing that I have, which is according to the world standards,

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precious, which is scarce, which is finite.

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And I'm going to invest it in something eternal and unlimited.

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Why that's so big for me is everyone that's there.

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And if you're there, you're probably there for a reason, right?

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You're there because you are also very invested in what Jesus is doing, right?

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The other people there, Peter, John, Bartholomew, these are the fellows that are around the table

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and Judas.

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You know what?

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It says in verse three, the beginning of verse three, it says they were at the house of Simon,

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the leper.

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Who's he?

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I'm pretty sure he's not a leper anymore.

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He was the leper, right?

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So they're actually at a dinner of the miraculous.

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It's all about miracle power.

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And in that setting, the disciples, they only see waste in what she's doing.

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But Jesus revealed meaning in what she gave.

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He opened up seeing for her that, Hey, this thing that you did, it's tied to my eternal

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purpose.

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It's so big.

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It's so big.

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And then these words just stand off to the page to me, stand off to the, you know, stand

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up off the page to me.

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I tell you, Jesus said, I tell you wherever this gospel is preached, this will be told

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as a memorial to her.

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It's not a memorial to Jesus.

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Her giving created a memorial for her.

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We're talking about able to see something.

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The disciples of Jesus starting with Judas.

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And this is significant because immediately after this, Judas went and made the deal to

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turn Jesus over to the Pharisees.

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Interesting fact, he agreed on a price that was 10% of the value of this offering.

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That's how that's how blind Judas had become.

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And this is something that I think everyone should recognize because if there's one place

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to see truth, it's living and walking with Jesus.

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And yet here he's in a place where he doesn't see it.

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But she saw so much value in who Jesus was that she gave what she could.

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Notice that notice that in there in the text, he, he, Jesus said she has done what she could.

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He didn't say that she did something that she could not.

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He didn't say she did something that was too much for her.

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She did what she could.

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Praise God.

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It's so big because what other people saw as unusual, what other people saw as waste,

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he saw differently.

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And she saw differently too.

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And as, as you were sharing his notes with me and I was looking through this, you, you,

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you wrote this and you just said it, that she saw eternal value and also eternal purpose

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in this action.

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And I wrote this to add to that.

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I saw that her willingness to give unlocked her ability to see that value.

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Man, that's good.

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She was willing to give.

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She was willing to do something.

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She saw the size of the thing behind it.

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So I want to, in, in like with the same flavor, I want to share something that, you know,

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we were just talking about at our worship meeting not long ago.

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And we were just talking about, you know, the testimonies that we might know about and

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the testimonies that we might not know about.

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And I saw this and I realized it.

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And on one hand, these things that we're doing could seem a bit monotonous or repetitive.

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We're meeting, we're just practicing the same songs.

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We're learning how to sing.

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We are, you know, we got to plug in unplug cables countless times and we got to just set

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up here and prepare sets and make sure we don't mess up notes and make sure we don't

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mess up lyrics.

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But on the other side to it, the eternal significance of doing that is there might be someone who

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walks into that meeting one of the Fridays and it's so impacted that this changes their

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lives.

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And that's a testimony that you might never hear until you get to heaven.

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That's a fact.

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So your willingness to give through that team or your willingness to do something somewhere

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will unlock your ability to see further that there is an eternal purpose to what you're

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doing in this team.

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There's an eternal purpose to what you're willing to give to Jesus.

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And that unlocks the ability for you to see what he's trying to do so that it gets clearer

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and you go further in that direction.

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So what you're saying about this ability to see, it's connected to the wisdom of God.

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This is what we were talking about in week three in June where it's important that we

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receive the wisdom to go in the right direction.

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And with that to some degree, you start seeing the pattern and what the Lord is trying to

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accomplish and what he's showing you that he's trying to accomplish.

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I think it's so powerful.

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I don't mean to move on so quickly, but I really wanted to talk about that story in

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first Chronicles in chapter one about King Solomon.

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He was the son of King David.

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And what did the Lord tell him?

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He told him that your son's going to build it.

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And so when Solomon comes into this position, you see this in first Chronicles chapter one

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verses eight through the 12, which I do want to read here.

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I apologize.

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It's actually second Chronicles chapter one verses eight through the 12.

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And Solomon said to God, you have shown great mercy to David, my father, and have made me

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King in his place.

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Now, oh Lord God, let your promise to David, my father be established for you have made

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me King over people, life, the dust of the earth and multitude.

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Now give me wisdom and knowledge that I may grow out and come in before this people for

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who can judge this great people of yours.

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Then God said to Solomon, because this was in your heart and you have not asked riches

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or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked a long life, but you've

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asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may judge my people over whom I've made

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you King.

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Wisdom and knowledge are granted to you and I will give you riches and wealth and honor

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such as none of the Kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the

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like.

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You see Solomon's heart.

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He wasn't looking after his own.

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He was willing to give something to the Lord.

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He was saying, give equipped me to do something for you.

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He had a willingness to give to the Lord and in return he got the ability to see, but also

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the ability to do.

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And looking at that, you know, taking that one step further and you see the request for

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wisdom, the ask for wisdom, which by the way aligns with his dad's instruction of in

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all of your getting get wisdom and get understanding.

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What is that that's seeing?

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Ultimately, wisdom and understanding.

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We that's that's what I mean by seeing because it's it's that site is the ability to understand

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to discern and to move in a direction.

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This is the part that's missing in Mark 14 for all the disciples, even though they're

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in the place to see they don't.

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A couple of years ago, we were, you know, just starting to do meetings, group group meetings.

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And so we wanted to make the group meetings easy and try to make it repeatable.

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And you you remember some of these discussions, of course.

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Well, we were, you know, buying different things to try to build a box to, you know,

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make the group successful.

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And someone came to me and they said, Why, why should the why should Go Church provide

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the the cookies and biscuits and tea, the people in their their house, they can do that

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themselves.

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And I made the comment then, you know, we talked about making things repeatable and

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building a system.

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But I said, What's what's it worth if someone, you know, comes to one of these group meetings

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and they give their heart to the Lord?

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And wouldn't that be worth the price of a package of Lotus cookies?

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And of course, the person I was talking to, they said, Yeah, yes, but they were looking

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at it just from the just from the the finance side.

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Well it happened that week that a person came to a group meeting and both myself and the

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person I was talking to was there.

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And at the end of the group meeting, this person raised their hand and said, I would

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like to receive Jesus.

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We weren't even talking about that.

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Honestly, they just just, Hey, is this okay?

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Can I do this now?

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I turned and looked at him and we were like, Yes, yes, I understand.

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Seeing value where Jesus sees value.

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This is the the point here in Mark 14.

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Jesus, his focus was on his purpose.

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And he saw Mary's gift lined up with his purpose.

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Yes.

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And she got there not with an expensive gift, but with the demonstration of faith.

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Because ultimately, all she was doing was she was doing what she had ability for.

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This is something that she was able to do.

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There are some some people are able to, you know, maybe pay for we talk about Reema experience

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Reema day.

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We talked about that last week.

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Someone might be able to pay for their entire school fees and not take a scholarship.

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Other people, maybe they can barely make the payment of the module payment.

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First Corinthians or second Corinthians chapter nine is very clear that our giving is not

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based on what we don't have.

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It's based on what we do have here.

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Jesus said she did what she could.

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But what she did wasn't just an like a transaction.

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What she did was she responded to something she saw.

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And in that action, she saw something more.

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She got more light.

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So and and that's what I think when we step out in the what we see Solomon, he could see

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man, I'm in charge of all these people.

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I need to know what to do.

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And so he saw a little bit.

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The Lord said, I'm going to show you more.

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That's right.

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He did show him more and the Lord showed him more.

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And this is this is what's what's amazing about this subject and about this, this truth

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right now that we're talking about is that he asked for wisdom.

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Wisdom is like seeing grace.

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That's that's literally what it is.

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It's the grace to see the planet of the purpose of God, of God, the will of God.

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So the Lord showed him more.

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This is it.

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Like he was willing to step out in faith and the Lord showed it more.

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And based on that ability to see the Lord put the plan of the temple in Solomon.

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And he had so much grace to see that he spared no expense to accomplish the plan of God, no

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matter the cost.

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That's right.

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So the in modern value, the gold alone in the temple in modern day prices is a hundred

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and ninety four billion dollars of gold.

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The silver was twenty two billion dollars.

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And that's that's nothing to Solomon compared to what he saw in terms of the eternal purpose

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of what the Lord was trying to accomplish.

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The message there is not just, you know, incredible big numbers.

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It's that we are the temple.

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Yes.

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There is nothing too precious for you.

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Nothing.

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In fact, the most precious thing was already given for you.

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And that's the precious blood of Jesus.

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And I want you to see that and I want you to see that you are able not to just live

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up to maybe what your parents said, not maybe to what your community says, but you're able

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to do and be who he said.

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And I want to go back to the series on crazy faith.

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Let's circle back and look at that for a minute and let's just open up that subject up that

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we can carry through the whole month and maybe in our discussions.

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The ability to see directly impacts what we're able to believe for.

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Right.

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Right.

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And we talked in crazy faith that we need to unlock our imagination so that we can see

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more happen.

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So how does this tie in with what we're talking about right now?

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Well, that's unlocking our imagination is saying the limits that maybe my natural circumstances

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have set up are not my limits.

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In fact, what I should do is say, Lord, show me like Solomon.

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I want the wisdom to see how to, you know, Solomon said, how should I govern your people?

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Lord show me because I'm part of Go Church Beirut.

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What am I supposed to be doing?

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Where am I supposed to be serving?

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Instead of saying, well, I'm limited because of my time.

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I'm limited because of my ability to just fill my tank with gas to get to meetings.

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Lord show me what I'm supposed to be doing and show me the truth about tithing.

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Show me the truth about your generous heart.

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You know, these are scriptural prayers.

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And if we pray this way, you know what he's going to do?

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Show you.

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He's going to do that because he's made us able to see.

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I would just challenge you.

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Do that.

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Say, Lord, show me, show me where I'm limiting you.

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It's big.

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Praise God and Go Church family were out of time for this week.

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Yeah.

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But we're looking forward to our discussions in the grow groups this week.

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I am looking forward to this for the next two weeks.

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I am looking forward to it.

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Well, if no one told you, God bless you.

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We love you and we're praying for you.

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Thank you for listening to this message.

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We want everyone to experience the unconditional love of God growing his love and go with his

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love to the rest of their world.

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We invite you to connect with us at one of our groups or our next gathering.

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And if no one told you yet today, we love you and believe God's very best for you.