1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Thank you for listening to this message from Lifehouse Church. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:20,360 Alright, how's everybody doing this morning? 3 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:21,360 Long time no see. 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,600 There's probably a bunch of people here that have never seen me before. 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,000 Hey, I'm Eric. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Nice to meet you. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,040 My name is Eric, I'm the campus pastor at our East Shore campus in Harrisburg. 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:34,040 It's been a trip. 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,880 I say if you really want to be a minister, start a church. 10 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,600 It'll test your faith. 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,040 It's very encouraging over there. 12 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,760 We're super excited what's happening at East Shore. 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,560 I want just God's plans for all of it. 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,520 But in the meantime, I'm super happy to be here with you guys again. 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:50,520 It's been a while. 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:51,520 I missed you. 17 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:52,520 Abby and I have missed you. 18 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:54,520 We're just happy to be here. 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,520 But I did want to start off with a question though. 20 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:04,280 The question is, how cool would it be if you could tell the future? 21 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,280 Everyone wants to know the future. 22 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,520 Imagine, imagine if you're leaving. 23 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:11,520 Yes. 24 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,920 But imagine you knew somebody who could tell the future. 25 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,720 Maybe they come up to you and they say, hey, I can tell the future. 26 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,920 So instant reaction right there is like, okay, crazy person. 27 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,760 I'm going to move on with life now and act like I didn't meet you. 28 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:33,240 But what if, why is that so appealing to the human being to know the future? 29 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:40,520 Because we always have that desire to be where we're supposed to be in life. 30 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,480 If we could just know the future, then we would take the active steps to go into that 31 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,760 future. 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,800 But the truth is we don't. 33 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:53,360 And yet when people speak into our futures, we're encouraged. 34 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:59,480 Some person might say, oh, man, you're going to be a great entrepreneur someday. 35 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,600 And you're like, dude, I just made a lemonade stand and charged a dollar for a cup. 36 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,320 Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. 37 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,680 Or someone might say, hey, you're going to be an amazing engineer. 38 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,920 And you're just like, dad, I just did two plus two equals four. 39 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:16,320 Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. 40 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:17,320 It's a simple thing. 41 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:22,760 But yet when you hear that, you're like, wow, you really think so? 42 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,960 Can I really be that? 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,920 Can I go the distance there? 44 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,400 But nobody knows your beginning and your ending more than God does. 45 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,400 Amen. 46 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,720 Psalm 139, 16. 47 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,440 You saw me before I was born. 48 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,680 Every day of my life was recorded in your book. 49 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,040 Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. 50 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,560 This tells me that God has a plan for us. 51 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:56,120 And if he has a plan written down, then it is possible that we can go outside of his 52 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:57,560 plans. 53 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:03,680 He wrote a book that tells the story he had in mind when he created you, when he was forming 54 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:04,680 you. 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,680 He was writing your story. 56 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,720 He would get so excited of when, you know, Jeff is going to be like in trouble with his 57 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:11,720 neighbor. 58 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,840 But you know something, he's still generous. 59 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:13,960 He was still forgiving. 60 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:15,080 He was still loving. 61 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,840 That was his preferred future for them. 62 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,960 He gets excited about the wife, the mother, the friend, the business owner that takes 63 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,040 the distance and goes steps into what God's plan is. 64 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,760 He gets excited about that because he wants so much for us. 65 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:40,160 He recorded every moment that he called you to do that he planned for you. 66 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,760 But it's up to us, though, to believe, to believe God's plan for us. 67 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,320 He has a preferred future for us. 68 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,440 And what do I mean by preferred? 69 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,960 I mean, God prefers that you believe him, believe what he has written and spoken over 70 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:54,960 you. 71 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,920 You don't have to believe, but it is very preferred that you do. 72 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:04,720 If we don't believe, how could we move forward into what God has spoken to us and what he 73 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,280 has said? 74 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,960 So if you have your Bibles, we're going to spend some time in Hebrews chapter three today. 75 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:17,200 And Hebrews is a book that was written to, well, you guessed it, Hebrews. 76 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:24,360 So but the author is writing to them so that they don't abandon their faith because they 77 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,720 were very tempted to return back to the old way of doing things as a Jew, going back to 78 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,800 the law, going back to all the practices, because you know what? 79 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:32,800 It's a lot safer. 80 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:40,800 It's a little better than being a Christian right now. 81 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,440 The Old Testament, they needed to know, as the author has pointed out, that it all points 82 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,440 to Christ. 83 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,480 Everything in scripture points to Christ. 84 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:55,640 And so just before we get into the word, we're going to pray over the word that God just 85 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,360 pierces our hearts this morning. 86 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,360 Amen. 87 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,160 So Lord, we just thank you for your goodness. 88 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,160 We thank you, God, for your kindness that you move our hearts like nobody else could 89 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:04,160 move them. 90 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:09,720 This is our hearts are boulders that are just so hardened, Lord, but you find the power 91 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,960 to pierce through that boulder, to break that heart of stone and make it a heart of flesh 92 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,360 that is sensitive to your spirit, Lord. 93 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,000 And Lord, I pray that your spirit will just be in this place, Lord, piercing hearts, changing 94 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,520 lives, making known your will for us. 95 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,720 And it's the mighty name of Jesus we pray. 96 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:26,720 Amen. 97 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,800 So, Hebrews 3, starting with verse 1, it says, And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong 98 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,320 to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus 99 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,120 whom we declare to be God's messenger and high priest, for he was faithful to God who 100 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,840 appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God's entire house. 101 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:50,800 But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves 102 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,360 more praise than the house itself. 103 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,680 For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God. 104 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,760 Moses was certainly faithful in God's house as a servant. 105 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,680 His work was an illustration of the truths God will reveal later. 106 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,080 But Christ said the Son is in charge of God's entire house, and we are God's house if we 107 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,040 keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ. 108 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,700 That is why the Holy Spirit says today, when you hear his voice, don't harden your hearts 109 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:18,120 as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness. 110 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,120 There your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty 111 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,120 years. 112 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,240 So I was angry with them, and I said, Their hearts always turn from me. 113 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,080 They refuse to do what I tell them. 114 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,320 So in my anger I took an oath, they will never enter my place of rest. 115 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,240 Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters, and make sure that your own hearts are not 116 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,880 evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. 117 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,280 You must warn each other every day, while it is still today, so that none of you will 118 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:45,880 be deceived by sin and hearted against God. 119 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:51,160 For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, 120 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,880 we will share it in all that belongs to Christ. 121 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:00,680 So the writer of Hebrews says, hey, Moses is great, but Christ is greater than Moses. 122 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:06,040 Moses was a faithful servant in God's house, but Christ is in charge of God's entire house. 123 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,920 He built God's house. 124 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,840 Tell me, what's more worthy of praise, the builder or the building? 125 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:14,560 The builder. 126 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,560 The builder. 127 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:22,720 And it says we are God's house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope 128 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:23,720 in Christ. 129 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:24,720 Everyone say if. 130 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:25,720 Amen. 131 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,500 That's an important if. 132 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:30,720 God has a desired destination for us. 133 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,720 It's His best. 134 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,200 And who here wants God's will for their life? 135 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:35,400 Men? 136 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:36,880 Recall Jeremiah 29, 11. 137 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,280 For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. 138 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:45,100 They are plans for good and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope. 139 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:46,840 And those days when you pray, I will listen. 140 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,200 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. 141 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,560 So God says I have a future in mind for you. 142 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,540 If you look to me wholeheartedly, not giving up, but remaining confident in me, and I will 143 00:07:58,540 --> 00:08:02,080 bring you to that preferred future that I wrote about. 144 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:08,160 God's preferred future for us requires that we remain confident in Christ. 145 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,240 Following God will always be a decision. 146 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,280 There's not one day where we're just, you know what, any decision you make, you're just 147 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,600 going to totally be placed into what God's preferred future for you. 148 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,640 No, it's following Him. 149 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:24,120 If I make my own decisions apart from Him, I'm going in the opposite direction of Him. 150 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:25,360 That's why we follow Christ. 151 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,360 We believe Him. 152 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,800 Believing in Him is to follow Him. 153 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:34,720 We do that by being courageous and deciding to remain confident in Him. 154 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,040 So let me show you who didn't remain confident in God. 155 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:41,160 The writer of Hebrews points to the Israelites in the wilderness. 156 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:47,280 In a quick summary is that Joseph was the second command in Egypt and his family, the 157 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:52,720 twelve tribes of Israel, moved into Egypt and after a few generations, it says that 158 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,840 the Israelites greatly multiplied. 159 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,520 It says the Israelites had many children and grandchildren. 160 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:04,720 In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land. 161 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,280 So this becomes a threat to the Pharaoh of Egypt. 162 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,400 In the order, the Israelites become slaves. 163 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,600 For 400 years, the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. 164 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,760 Does that sound good for your family line? 165 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,840 Yeah, 400 years we were slaves in Egypt. 166 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,000 The only hope though for the Israelites was that God would deliver them out of Egypt and 167 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,660 He delivered on His promise. 168 00:09:24,660 --> 00:09:27,280 He set the Israelites free from Egyptian slavery. 169 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:33,040 Now, I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pumped if I just got delivered and set free 170 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,680 from slavery for 400 years. 171 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:39,560 All you've ever known is slavery. 172 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:40,560 That's a shift. 173 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:46,040 And I'd be grateful because in those days, I mean, hard, hard labor, long hours, scraps 174 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,760 for food, getting whipped while you work. 175 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:59,040 And I know it seemed like you could go through a lot at work sometimes, but this was rough. 176 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:03,440 How could we ever doubt the character of the one who set us free? 177 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:09,160 That life of gratitude and thankfulness of what He's done allows me to believe Him all 178 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,160 the more. 179 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:16,280 And yet Israel, time after time, when things got uncomfortable, Israel would cry out and 180 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,440 lose their confidence in God. 181 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:19,440 Just like that. 182 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:20,440 One moment it was, yay God. 183 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:25,080 And the next was, how could you do this to us? 184 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,440 It was so much better for us in Egypt. 185 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,400 Why has God let us out here to die? 186 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:39,560 It sounds very dramatic to me when I read it. 187 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:44,680 Israel would see a dead end and instantly lose confidence in God and His preferred future 188 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:45,680 for them. 189 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:53,160 God, 400 years earlier, promised to Abraham a promised land. 190 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,080 And Israel at this time is on a journey with God to this promised land. 191 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,960 They experience victory after victory. 192 00:10:58,960 --> 00:10:59,960 Why? 193 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:00,960 Because God is with them. 194 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,140 And they get really close to the promised land. 195 00:11:03,140 --> 00:11:06,560 And Moses, the leader says, hold up guys, before we get too far ahead of ourselves and 196 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:10,120 just go willy nilly in there, let's scout the land. 197 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,400 Let's see what it's like. 198 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,520 So Moses sent 12 spies into that promised land called Canaan. 199 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,180 He used to instruct them, see what the land is like. 200 00:11:18,180 --> 00:11:22,480 Find out whether the people living there are strong or weak, few or many. 201 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:23,760 Seek what kind of land they live in. 202 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,760 Is it good or bad? 203 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,080 Do their towns have walls or are they protected like open camps? 204 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,640 Is the soil fertile or poor? 205 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:31,640 Are there many trees? 206 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,160 Do your best to bring back samples of the crops you see. 207 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:41,520 So first off, I want to point out, why does Moses want to scout it out before he enters 208 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,720 at what's already promised? 209 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,400 Why is that such a thing? 210 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:51,000 I believe because Moses wanted their desires for the promised land to only increase and 211 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,320 not decrease. 212 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,840 You know how maybe in your family, you're like, oh, I'm thinking about having burgers 213 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,600 tonight but I don't care. 214 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,960 But then you see a commercial, whether that's a Whopper or Big Mac, whatever you see on 215 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:08,180 the TV, like, holy moly, I want burgers tonight. 216 00:12:08,180 --> 00:12:09,180 Let's get going. 217 00:12:09,180 --> 00:12:11,200 I want it now. 218 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,680 That's what it was like for them because that was the preferred future. 219 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:14,760 You wanted that burger. 220 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:21,320 But seeing that on the TV was like, that's my preferred future, baby. 221 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,720 All right. 222 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,200 Moses was expecting them to come back from the promised land and say, you know what, 223 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,320 it's everything we ever thought of. 224 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,320 Let's go get it. 225 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,180 I want it now. 226 00:12:31,180 --> 00:12:32,520 But this is with the report. 227 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:37,760 We entered the land you sent us to explore and indeed a bountiful country, a land flowing 228 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:38,760 with milk and honey. 229 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,680 Here's the kind of fruit it produces. 230 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:41,680 It's incredible. 231 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:46,120 But the people living there are powerful and their towns are large and fortified. 232 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,640 We even saw giants there that had sent in a panic. 233 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,280 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. 234 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,600 Let's go out once and take the land. 235 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,840 He said we can certainly conquer it. 236 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,560 So the majority of the Israelites spies that scouted land said, yeah, it's incredible there, 237 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:07,240 but we simply can't take the land. 238 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,600 They're too big for us. 239 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,360 Matter of fact, they'd probably have us for lunch. 240 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,080 We'd be grasshoppers dipped in honey. 241 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:18,220 That was a regular diet back then. 242 00:13:18,220 --> 00:13:23,240 But Caleb with the unpopular opinion remained confident in the hope of God's preferred future 243 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,240 for them. 244 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,200 Meanwhile, the other spies did not remain confident in God's preferred future. 245 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,020 And they convinced all the entire community of Israel to lose their hope and confidence 246 00:13:33,020 --> 00:13:40,720 in the one who just set them free from Egyptian slavery. 247 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,780 It says the whole community began weeping aloud and they cried all night. 248 00:13:44,780 --> 00:13:47,840 Their voices rose in a great chorus of protesting against Moses' Aaron. 249 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,840 If only we died in Egypt or even here in the wilderness, they complained. 250 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,760 Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? 251 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,040 Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder. 252 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,120 Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt? 253 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:06,560 Then they plotted among themselves, let's choose a new leader and go back to Egypt. 254 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,820 It's funny to me. 255 00:14:08,820 --> 00:14:12,000 They wanted things to go back to the way they were. 256 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,680 Back into slavery in Egypt. 257 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:21,480 Not only that, but they wanted to pick a leader to help them do that. 258 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,680 God was so eager to give them the land, but they lost confidence in him. 259 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,480 They became so discouraged at what they saw and said, there's no way. 260 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:36,180 Why God, why would you lead us to the promised land when it's just so unobtainable? 261 00:14:36,180 --> 00:14:37,920 Our natural hope will only take us so far. 262 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,660 Israel experienced that. 263 00:14:39,660 --> 00:14:44,320 They had hope to get to the promised land, but that's where their hope ended. 264 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,560 God's kind of hope said, no, we aren't finished yet. 265 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:52,200 You've seen how wonderful it is, go there and fight and I will give you the victory. 266 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,640 If you're a believer in Christ, that's just what we do. 267 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,200 We believe God above everything. 268 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,560 Our hope never fades because he never fades. 269 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:06,640 We courageously remain confident that he who began a good work in us will bring it to completion. 270 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,600 If he said one thing, he's going to follow through on that. 271 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,160 Every day there's an opportunity to exercise our confidence in God and enter into his preferred 272 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,280 future for you and I. 273 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,520 Do you have confidence in God to reach out and compassion to others? 274 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:24,400 Do you have confidence in God to take enemy territory and your job or your family? 275 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,360 Because maybe the enemy has gotten into the territory that God has called yours, but you're 276 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,480 saying, you know what, I give up. 277 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:41,040 How did Israel learn that the promised land was God's preferred future for them? 278 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,000 The answer is they heard him. 279 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 He spoke. 280 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,080 How could we do anything God prefers if he doesn't tell us what he desires? 281 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,520 It'd be a cruel joke if he didn't, but he does. 282 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:55,300 He shares with us what he desires because in order to enter into God's preferred future, 283 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:57,600 we must hear from him today. 284 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:58,600 Today. 285 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,600 Everyone say today. 286 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:01,600 Today. 287 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:02,600 Not tomorrow. 288 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:03,600 Not next week. 289 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:04,600 Not next month. 290 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:05,600 Not two years from now. 291 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,600 Today, God is speaking. 292 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,600 Do you believe God speaks to you daily? 293 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,600 God doesn't speak to us via the post office system where you receive a letter in the mail 294 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:20,600 from him once a week, once a month, once, six months, you know, it's a late, delayed 295 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,600 delivery, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. 296 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,600 I mean, we have advanced in society a lot since that was the primary way of communication. 297 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,600 Now we have texting. 298 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:30,600 Woo! 299 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,600 Now we have phone calls that are, you know, caller ID. 300 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,600 I mean, I grew up in the 90s too, so I am familiar with caller ID from back in the 90s, 301 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,600 but now it's even quicker. 302 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,600 You want to hear your friend's voice? 303 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,600 You give them a call. 304 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,600 You want to clarify plans or if they're going to be at said event, you text them and they 305 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,600 say, I'll be there. 306 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,600 What if you never got the call though? 307 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,600 What if you never got the text from them? 308 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:03,600 You would start to question that they even cared about you or your well-being or where 309 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,600 you're even at and maybe the communication was just delayed. 310 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:14,600 But if you can call or send them text and they don't get back to you until a month later, 311 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:19,600 how many know you're kind of over it by then? 312 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:24,600 It doesn't mean the same thing as if it was a timely message that was received. 313 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,600 We tend to think God is like that though. 314 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,600 We can start to believe, oh, well, God speaks to me from time to time. 315 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,600 You know, I think he's listening. 316 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,600 You know, he sends a letter to me here and there, but really God is speaking to us every 317 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,600 day. 318 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:39,600 Today he is speaking. 319 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,600 He sends messages we may not be aware of every day, but receiving the message is dependent 320 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:49,600 on our anticipation and our awareness of what he is saying. 321 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,600 How many of you order something that says it'll be arriving in two days? 322 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,600 You get kind of excited like, oh, okay, cool. 323 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:55,600 Two days? 324 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:56,600 No problem. 325 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:02,600 And then that day comes, you're like, I cannot wait to open that package up. 326 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,600 I mean, I know I'm not alone here, guys. 327 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:11,600 When there is a package in front of my door, now I'm like, it came and here it is. 328 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:12,600 Yeah. 329 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:13,600 Oh, yeah. 330 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:18,600 And then you see what's inside and you're like, about time. 331 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,600 That's the anticipation, the excitement that comes from just hearing what God is saying, 332 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,600 because it's not that he's not speaking. 333 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,600 It's just we're not aware of it. 334 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,600 We're not eagerly anticipating what he's saying because we're too caught up in our little, 335 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,600 our things, our weeds in life. 336 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,600 Now, for the delivery service, I mean, that's three days. 337 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,600 I mean, if you have Amazon Prime, it's two days, whatever. 338 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:50,600 But God speaks moment by moment, day by day. 339 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,600 His messages or His calls are His thoughts for us. 340 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,600 And they outnumber the grains of sand in the entire world. 341 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,600 And since that is true, that means He wants to share all of His thoughts with you. 342 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,600 He's not the God that withholds. 343 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,600 He's the God that gives. 344 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,600 He doesn't want to withhold anything from you. 345 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:14,600 Why would He withhold His voice? 346 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,600 The Hebrew writer says it like this. 347 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:23,600 This is why the Holy Spirit says today, say today, when you hear His voice, don't harden your hearts 348 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,600 as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness. 349 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:37,600 The Hebrew writer is actually referencing Psalm 95, which just says, if only you would hear His voice today. 350 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,600 This is why the Holy Spirit says is all scripture is God breathe. 351 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,600 It's God's word inspired by His Holy Spirit. 352 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:50,600 And it's Holy Spirit's job to make known to us what God is saying. 353 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,600 Likewise, God's voice is always available to us. 354 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,600 God's word is like the mail being delivered to your house. 355 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:02,600 But Holy Spirit can't make it known to you unless you check your mailbox and open up the letter. 356 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,600 Israel didn't have the written word of God. 357 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,600 I mean, they had the law, but God didn't speak to them personally. 358 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,600 They had to speak to Moses. 359 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:18,600 Aren't you grateful that you have the you can access God's word any time of the day, especially via your phone now? 360 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,600 It's pretty cool. 361 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,600 Can you imagine not having any indicator of God speaking to us? 362 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,600 For Israel, it was Moses. 363 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,600 They heard God only through another person. 364 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:34,600 Israel said to Moses, OK, you speak to us, we'll listen. 365 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:35,600 All right. 366 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,600 But don't let God speak directly to us, because if he does, we're going to die. 367 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,600 We can't handle it. 368 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,600 Sad, right? 369 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:50,600 God wanted a relationship with all of Israel, a direct relationship with him. 370 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,600 But they said, Moses, you got this. 371 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:54,600 We're out. 372 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,600 You just tell us what he says and we'll do it. 373 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,600 But what if Moses never told them what God said? 374 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,600 How would they know what God's preferred future for them was? 375 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,600 They never would have known. 376 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:13,600 Moses wouldn't have been in the know and Israel would just be questioning everything. 377 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,600 It'd be like having your kids in the backseat when you're driving to a said place. 378 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,600 Are we there yet? 379 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,600 How long is this going to take? 380 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,600 Where are we going? 381 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,600 Why do we have to do this now? 382 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,600 I was doing something. 383 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,600 How much longer? 384 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,600 Moses, as the driver, would have known God's preferred future. 385 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:39,600 But Moses kept it to himself, how could Israel enter into God's preferred future for them? 386 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,600 His promise. 387 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,600 The fact of the matter is that Moses did answer those questions. 388 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,600 He gave them the why. 389 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:49,600 He gave them the where of what God's future was. 390 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,600 And that is where they headed. 391 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:57,600 If they didn't hear God, they never would have been in the car going to the exact same location. 392 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,600 If we do not know what God is speaking to us, how could we enter into his preferred future for us? 393 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,600 Into his overall story, his plans for us? 394 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:11,600 If we do not know what God is speaking, could we even have any confidence in what we're even doing day to day? 395 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:18,600 We hear people out when they have to say something, but why not go to the author of your story? 396 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,600 Don't you want to experience his words to you personally? 397 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,600 We all have access to his voice every day. 398 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:31,600 And it's important that we become aware of what God is saying so that we can walk in that direction. 399 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:39,600 If we become aware and knowingly heard his voice, but do not respond, that's called disobedience. 400 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,600 And that's the last place you want to be. 401 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,600 Verse 15. 402 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,600 Remember what it says. 403 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Today, when you hear his voice, don't harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled. 404 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,600 And who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? 405 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,600 Wasn't the people Moses led out of Egypt? 406 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,600 And who made God angry for 40 years? 407 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,600 Wasn't the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness? 408 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,600 And to whom was God speaking when he took an oath that they would never enter his rest? 409 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,600 Wasn't the people who disobeyed him? 410 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:17,600 So we see that because of their unbelief, they were not able to enter his rest. 411 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,600 There's a correlation here. 412 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,600 You see that because of their unbelief, they were not able to enter his rest. 413 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,600 So for those who do believe, we can enter into that rest. 414 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,600 We can enter into God's preferred future for us. 415 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:37,600 In this example, God spoke, they heard, they didn't follow through. 416 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,600 God equates lack of confidence in him with sin or disobedience. 417 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:47,600 If I have a friend from out of town and we're driving to a local event and he's driving, I'm just guiding him. 418 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,600 I say, hey, turn left here, but he turns right. 419 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,600 Why did you do that? 420 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,600 Because they didn't have confidence in me in giving them directions. 421 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:04,600 Their lack of confidence in me had them go the opposite way of the preferred future that we both had desired. 422 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:09,600 He disobeyed my directive to enter into that place. 423 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:15,600 After their lack of confidence in God and taking the promised land, God was pretty heartbroken. 424 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,600 I mean, he sounds mad because he's upset. He's heartbroken. 425 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,600 Because he wanted so much for them to be a part of that. 426 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,600 He said, all right, then, if you don't believe me, then let's just go back in the wilderness. 427 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,600 This is what I have for you, but you don't want to have confidence in me. 428 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:41,600 You spied in the promised land for 40 days, so you will wander in the wilderness for 40 years until every last one of you has passed away. 429 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,600 There were consequences for their disobedience to God. 430 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,600 And God shared their consequences to Israel. 431 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,600 Moses spoke God's word and they received a new direction. 432 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:57,600 They were to go away from the promised land and go back wandering in the wilderness until they had passed away. 433 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,600 And it says Israel was filled with grief. 434 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,600 Israel tried changing their minds. 435 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:08,600 They woke up early the next morning and they said, hey, Moses, buddy, old pal, you know something? 436 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,600 I'm so grateful for your leadership. 437 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,600 Dude, you do a fantastic job in getting God's word to us. 438 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,600 And you know something? 439 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,600 We were silly. 440 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,600 We were wrong yesterday. 441 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,600 And so let's get the promised land. 442 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,600 I get it. God's going to provide the victory. 443 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,600 I get that now. Let's go. 444 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:26,600 You know what Moses says? 445 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,600 Absolutely not. 446 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:34,600 It's too late. 447 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,600 So are you going to disobey again? 448 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,600 God just gave you a new directive and you're wanting to disobey again. 449 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,600 If you try going to the promised land now, God is not going to bless that battle. 450 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,600 You will lose. 451 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,600 Israel took it as a do this or else. 452 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,600 But God's not in the business of scaring you into believing him. 453 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:56,600 He's not. 454 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,600 He wants it to be a personal relationship with you where you have confidence in what he has said. 455 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,600 No matter what, Israel still didn't understand that. 456 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,600 Even if they went back to the promised land, it would have been an obligation. 457 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,600 Oh, OK, I see the or else here. 458 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,600 So I'm just we're going to go to the promised land now. 459 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:13,600 You guys ready? 460 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,600 You're ready to go? 461 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,600 He said no. 462 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:19,600 God said no. 463 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,600 This was your promise. 464 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:22,600 This was your preferred future. 465 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,600 But you know what? 466 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,600 It's for your children now. 467 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,600 Maybe they'll believe me then. 468 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,600 Israel was saddened by the consequences of their unbelief. 469 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:39,600 Not because it hurt God's heart, but because it was still about them. 470 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,600 Moses said it's too late. 471 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,600 If you turn back now, you're just disobeying God. 472 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,600 And I know what you may be thinking at this point, but God wanted them to enter the promised land. 473 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,600 Why does he not want to do that now? 474 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,600 The truth of the matter is that Israel did not have confidence in God. 475 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,600 They were not affected by his nature. 476 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:02,600 They were not convinced that what God was saying, even if they did go back, their heart would not have been a heart that puts confidence in God. 477 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:11,600 And you cannot enter into God's preferred future unless you have confidence in him. 478 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:17,600 We all get opportunities to display God's heart, to openly show others his goodness and beauty. 479 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:26,600 It is by confidence in God in any of our circumstances that we enter into his preferred future for us. 480 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:27,600 You have to think. 481 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:32,600 Every day there's an opportunity to enter into his preferred future, and you enter into that by believing. 482 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,600 And maybe God is speaking that you need to forgive somebody, to obey that. 483 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,600 Because he knows it's not just for his sake, it's for your sake too. 484 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:51,600 Because if you don't trust him, you put your confidence in the command to forgive somebody, you're the one that's going to be wandering in the wilderness, slowly dying. 485 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,600 And it could look like greeting somebody with the biggest smile and warmest welcome. 486 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:56,600 Why? 487 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:03,600 Because I believe I have confidence in God's preferred future for them, and it makes me excited for them. 488 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:09,600 If I treat people as common or less than, that shows my that demonstrates my lack of confidence in God for people. 489 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:18,600 And I can't let people's shortcomings discourage me from believing what God says about people. 490 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:26,600 If you didn't have confidence in what God says about others, it will hurt. 491 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:32,600 It could look like putting your confidence in God to pierce other people's hearts. 492 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:33,600 Amen? 493 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,600 Because like we said earlier, our heart of stone is a heart of stone. 494 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:38,600 It doesn't respond to God. 495 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:45,600 But when we believe for the breakthrough for other people, they can be sensitive to his spirit just as much as we are. 496 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:46,600 Amen? 497 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,600 They can be lavished in his love. 498 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:57,600 Anything God speaks of the Bible and we believe it is an opportunity to be a witness to God's preferred future for everyone. 499 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,600 Amen? 500 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,600 So we're going to we're going to close soon. 501 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,600 And if you are, please stand in the house. 502 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,600 Pastor Kipp is coming at East Shore. 503 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,600 If you're watching online, just read your hearts. 504 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:23,600 Now, if God spoke into you, I just ask that you receive that and let that word change you from the inside out. 505 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:29,600 Israel was God's chosen people, the nation that would be close to God and have a relationship with him. 506 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:37,600 God's preferred future for them was to take the promised land, be fruitful and multiply his glory throughout the entire world. 507 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,600 But how could they do that if they lost their courage to have confidence in him? 508 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,600 How could they accomplish God's preferred future? 509 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:50,600 If he didn't hear what he was saying, if they're just disobeying what he says. 510 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,600 God is for us, not against us. 511 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,600 We think we know what's best for us, but God knows best for us. 512 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,600 And it's trusting in his word, trusting in the character of Jesus Christ. 513 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:10,600 The visible expression of the word of God made flesh and this place on earth for us to see what the father was really like. 514 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:19,600 What it looked like to believe dad over anything. 515 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,600 Where's children? 516 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,600 How can we not trust our father? 517 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,600 He's not a bad father. He's not a father that doesn't follow through on his word. 518 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:41,600 He's the father that wants your best to reflect his nature, to be a son or daughter in the most high. 519 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,600 Your royalty, your treasured. He has thoughts that outnumber the grains of sand. 520 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:50,600 He thinks so much about you. 521 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,600 I don't know about you, but I'm curious. I want to know what he's thinking. 522 00:30:53,600 --> 00:31:00,600 I want to know what he's saying to me and to the people around me, because it's only the truth that will change your life. 523 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:07,600 The Holy Spirit ministering to you here today. 524 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:13,600 I just ask that you really activate that. Don't don't not respond. 525 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,600 If someone gives you a gift for your birthday, do you go? 526 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:23,600 No, you take that gift, open it excitedly. 527 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:31,600 Wow, I can't wait to use this. He's given us his own son. 528 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,600 Are you ready to respond? 529 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,600 So I'm going to pray. 530 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:47,600 OK, I'm going to ask that if any of you have that tugging that prompting that there's something in your life right now that you've lost courage and you've lost your confidence in God with. 531 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,600 I just invite you to come up front here. 532 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,600 I'm sure we have the prayer team that is more than willing to pray with you as well. 533 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,600 So let's pray. 534 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,600 Father, we just thank you for your kindness, Lord, for your mercy. 535 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,600 And Lord, you've never forsaken us. 536 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,600 You've never left us for dead. 537 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:10,600 You've never not considered our hearts in the matter, but you have our best interests in place. 538 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:19,600 I pray, Lord, that there are there are children in this house today, Lord, that would see you as the true father, the true loving God, 539 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,600 who's not withholding anything from them. 540 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,600 They're willing. 541 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,600 You're willing to give your word to them, Lord. 542 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,600 You're willing to give your grace in all matters. 543 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:35,600 There's power in the name of Jesus to overcome every obstacle that we face when we feel heavy, Lord. 544 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,600 Let your word penetrate our hearts and be light unto the world. 545 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:46,600 Let us fly like eagles renewing our strength because our hope is in you alone. 546 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:55,600 There are families here that you're discouraged. 547 00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:00,600 And God is wanting to reunite the family household. 548 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:08,600 And it's his design for the family to be fruitful and multiply, to raise them up in the Lord Jesus Christ, to to let them know the truth, 549 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,600 to set them free and be fruitful and multiply the truth across the world. 550 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,600 I just pray over that right now, Lord, let your hand be on the families in here. 551 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,600 Let your your hand be on every individual, Lord. 552 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,600 Show them the father. 553 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:33,600 Show them your will to be one, one household, one family, one family under God in Jesus name. 554 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,600 Strongholds be loosened in the name of Jesus. 555 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:45,600 We bind every stronghold of the enemy and we lose heaven's reality into the household at this moment in Jesus name. 556 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:54,600 Lord, this is life house, but your house, your your house, Lord, and the family of believers unite in Jesus name. 557 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,600 Let there be a beacon of light, not just here in this place, Lord, but outside. 558 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,600 When people see us, they see Christ. 559 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,600 When people see our families, they say, how do you do it? 560 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:14,600 How do you do it? We love God and he loves us and we're not ashamed of it. 561 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,600 We thank you, Lord, for your mercy and grace. 562 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:30,600 Holy Spirit, we thank you for just showing us the father, for showing us truth and reminding us of who we are and you. 563 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:36,600 We continue the holy work that you've started in us, Lord, in Jesus name. 564 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,600 Amen. Amen. 565 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,600 So it's been awesome being with you guys today. 566 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:51,600 I just pray a special blessing over you that God's grace would shine on your face, that as you walk, you walk in step with him because you're not, you're not doing this out of obligation. 567 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:59,600 You're doing this out of believing in him and believe in God will propel you into his destiny for you. Amen. 568 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,600 So have a wonderful week. God bless you. 569 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,600 God.