WEBVTT 00:00:06.059 --> 00:00:09.320 As Mr. Sidney has already pointed out this morning, 00:00:09.460 --> 00:00:14.080 we're going to go over 14 scriptures, Lord willing, 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:16.280 but it's not going to be as bad as you think. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.539 We are not going to do an in -depth study of 00:00:19.539 --> 00:00:21.820 all 14, unless you all want to, and we can spend 00:00:21.820 --> 00:00:23.739 a little time and break each one down and look 00:00:23.739 --> 00:00:26.179 at the Greek and we can see what it says, but 00:00:26.179 --> 00:00:30.039 we won't do that this morning. So we'll try to 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.659 get through these pretty quickly. That's one 00:00:32.659 --> 00:00:35.340 reason I put all of these scriptures in the bulletin. 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:36.899 It's because we are going to go through them 00:00:36.899 --> 00:00:39.579 pretty quickly. And you may not have time to 00:00:39.579 --> 00:00:41.600 turn to all of them, but I want you to know where 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.159 they are. Because maybe there will be some of 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:48.100 these scriptures that we look at today that may 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:51.000 be a good scripture for you to think about. It 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:52.719 may be something that hits close to home. It 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:54.880 may be something that shakes you up a little 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.320 bit. So we're going to pray, and then we'll work 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:02.509 our way through some of these things. God, I 00:01:02.509 --> 00:01:04.310 come to you today. I thank you for all these 00:01:04.310 --> 00:01:07.250 people that are here. I thank you that you let 00:01:07.250 --> 00:01:09.209 us be part of this church and this fellowship. 00:01:09.310 --> 00:01:12.969 I thank you for being good to us, for providing 00:01:12.969 --> 00:01:15.670 for us, for loving us, dear Lord. And I pray, 00:01:15.769 --> 00:01:19.150 God, that you just would pour your spirit out 00:01:19.150 --> 00:01:22.450 on us today, that we come into this place with 00:01:22.450 --> 00:01:25.170 a lot on our mind of things that we have done 00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:28.609 or need to do or want to do. A lot of things, 00:01:28.650 --> 00:01:31.370 God, that are constantly competing for our attention. 00:01:32.390 --> 00:01:35.969 But I pray, God, that in these few minutes that 00:01:35.969 --> 00:01:38.109 your Holy Spirit would speak to us, that you 00:01:38.109 --> 00:01:41.269 meet us where we are, dear Lord. Maybe there 00:01:41.269 --> 00:01:43.090 are some today that are just struggling. There 00:01:43.090 --> 00:01:44.909 are some that are seeking. There are some that 00:01:44.909 --> 00:01:47.650 just aren't really sure what's going on in life 00:01:47.650 --> 00:01:49.849 or what to make of it, dear Lord, trying to find 00:01:49.849 --> 00:01:51.590 their way, dear Lord. This is us. This is who 00:01:51.590 --> 00:01:55.010 we are as humans. We struggle. And so, God, I 00:01:55.010 --> 00:01:57.790 pray that today that you just bring us comfort 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:00.930 and guidance and encouragement, that you would 00:02:00.930 --> 00:02:02.969 help us to draw closer to you and that you would 00:02:02.969 --> 00:02:06.890 help us to seek Jesus Christ. God, I pray that 00:02:06.890 --> 00:02:09.210 you'd be with me, that you'd help me to preach 00:02:09.210 --> 00:02:11.150 and teach in a way that brings glory and honor 00:02:11.150 --> 00:02:13.750 to you. Take away any fear or pride that's within 00:02:13.750 --> 00:02:17.889 me, and let us all seek you in these next few 00:02:17.889 --> 00:02:21.270 minutes. And I ask these things in Jesus' name. 00:02:22.509 --> 00:02:27.439 Amen. It is a new year. There's something about 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.900 turning that calendar page. It's really January 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:33.599 1st is no different than the last day of December. 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:36.560 But there's something about flipping a page in 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:38.500 a calendar. There's something about going from 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:43.039 a 25 to a 26 that makes us stop for a minute 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.680 and think. I want to do some things better. I 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.639 want to change some things. And we start out 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:50.520 and we say, I'm going to eat healthier, I'm going 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.860 to exercise more, I'm going to read my Bible 00:02:52.860 --> 00:02:55.419 more, I'm going to come to church more, or whatever 00:02:55.419 --> 00:02:58.139 it is. We have all of these things, and there's 00:02:58.139 --> 00:03:02.139 something in our mind that triggers us to say, 00:03:02.219 --> 00:03:05.520 there's some areas that I want to do better. 00:03:05.979 --> 00:03:08.180 And that's a good thing for us. That's a good 00:03:08.180 --> 00:03:11.960 thing for us to recognize those things physically 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:16.400 and spiritually. It's a good time at the start 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:22.879 of a new year for us to examine ourselves. Now, 00:03:22.939 --> 00:03:24.759 I'm going to put a picture up on the screen, 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.000 and I want you all to tell me, does anybody know 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.159 what that is? That's a check engine light. Some 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:32.680 of y 'all are thinking, that's money. That's 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.240 what that is. Because that pops up, right? Every 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.719 once in a while on your car, you crank it up, 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:41.280 it's been running fine, and all of a sudden, 00:03:41.340 --> 00:03:44.659 the check engine light comes on. Service engine 00:03:44.659 --> 00:03:48.759 soon. Okay, well, praise the Lord nowadays. Well, 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.259 maybe not, praise the Lord. I don't know if it's 00:03:50.259 --> 00:03:52.460 better or not. Everything is electronic. And 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:55.039 so back in the day, cars were real simple. They 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.560 had to have a spark, some gas, and some air. 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.039 And as long as you got that, it was going to 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:01.659 run. And if you didn't have that, you didn't 00:04:01.659 --> 00:04:03.939 have much to look at to find a problem. But nowadays, 00:04:04.139 --> 00:04:06.259 you've got computers, and you've got sensors, 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:08.740 and you've got all this stuff. But thankfully, 00:04:08.979 --> 00:04:13.569 when that pops up on your car or truck, You can 00:04:13.569 --> 00:04:15.909 go down to the mechanic shop. You don't even 00:04:15.909 --> 00:04:17.689 have to now. You can plug a thing in yourself 00:04:17.689 --> 00:04:20.209 and see on your smartphone. But you go down to 00:04:20.209 --> 00:04:22.550 the mechanic shop, and they plug something in 00:04:22.550 --> 00:04:25.329 under your dash. They plug in a little computer, 00:04:25.790 --> 00:04:30.750 and it does a diagnostic test. So it runs, and 00:04:30.750 --> 00:04:34.370 it checks all the stuff on your car to see if 00:04:34.370 --> 00:04:38.589 it can diagnose what the problem is. Now, sometimes 00:04:38.589 --> 00:04:41.689 we know that there's something going on, right? 00:04:42.300 --> 00:04:45.740 we feel a vibration or there's a weird smell 00:04:45.740 --> 00:04:49.439 or a weird sound. And boy, that's something. 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.240 You go to the mechanic trying to explain the 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.060 sound and you're like, well, this is squeaking. 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:54.259 And he's like, well, does it sound more like 00:04:54.259 --> 00:04:56.620 a cat slimed down a tin roof or like a train 00:04:56.620 --> 00:04:58.839 slamming on brakes? And you're trying to figure 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.139 out how to describe it to him because your car 00:05:01.139 --> 00:05:03.139 will never do what it's doing when you get it 00:05:03.139 --> 00:05:06.560 to the mechanic. But we go and they do a diagnostic. 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:10.600 They have to diagnose what the problem is. And 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.639 sometimes we have an idea that there is a problem. 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.600 We can hear it, we can smell it, we can feel 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.540 it. And other times we don't even know that there's 00:05:18.540 --> 00:05:21.060 a problem. Sometimes we go in the shop and we 00:05:21.060 --> 00:05:22.259 don't even know that there's something going 00:05:22.259 --> 00:05:24.920 on and they run that diagnostic test and they 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:27.879 say, hey, you need a new O2 sensor or something, 00:05:27.980 --> 00:05:31.699 whatever it may be. And so sometimes in life 00:05:31.699 --> 00:05:34.519 when it comes to our vehicles, we have to have 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:39.259 a diagnosis to see what is going on. Well, our 00:05:39.259 --> 00:05:42.959 spiritual life is really no different. Because 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.060 sometimes there are things in our life that we 00:05:46.060 --> 00:05:48.839 know just aren't quite right. They just, they 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.379 don't, it don't feel right. There are things 00:05:51.379 --> 00:05:53.660 in our life, it just, it doesn't feel right. 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:58.560 It just, we're just not running good, spiritually 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.800 speaking. We just, there's something within us 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:03.750 and we... and we feel tension or we feel sorrow 00:06:03.750 --> 00:06:07.069 or we feel burden or we feel stress or whatever 00:06:07.069 --> 00:06:09.569 it is there, sometimes we feel and we just know 00:06:09.569 --> 00:06:12.810 that there's something that's not right. Other 00:06:12.810 --> 00:06:15.709 times there are things in our life that aren't 00:06:15.709 --> 00:06:18.189 right, and we don't even realize that those things 00:06:18.189 --> 00:06:20.430 are there or maybe that we need to change in 00:06:20.430 --> 00:06:24.089 those ways. Now, when it comes to our car, when 00:06:24.089 --> 00:06:27.009 you start getting those symptoms that something's 00:06:27.009 --> 00:06:28.670 going on, you better check it out because it 00:06:28.670 --> 00:06:31.519 could. It could be more serious than you think. 00:06:32.339 --> 00:06:34.860 And so we have a couple of options when we realize 00:06:34.860 --> 00:06:37.680 that our check engine light is on. We can take 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.699 our car to the shop because we know something's 00:06:40.699 --> 00:06:44.160 going on, and we can get it fixed, or we can 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.339 just put a piece of black tape over it. Some 00:06:46.339 --> 00:06:48.779 of you have done that before. I'm tired of seeing 00:06:48.779 --> 00:06:51.060 the check engine light. How do I make it go off? 00:06:51.139 --> 00:06:52.639 Well, you get your little piece of black tape 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:54.519 about one inch by one inch, and you stick it 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.199 over it. And you can cover up the check engine 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.100 light, but there's still a problem there. And 00:07:00.100 --> 00:07:02.480 when you know there's a problem there, you don't 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.300 want to cover it up. You need to deal with it 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:09.860 and fix it, or it could lead to a disaster. And 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:13.899 so spiritually speaking, the same is true. Sometimes 00:07:13.899 --> 00:07:15.720 there are some things in our hearts, some things 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.699 in our souls, some things in our life that aren't 00:07:18.699 --> 00:07:23.220 good, that we need to get checked out. And sometimes 00:07:23.220 --> 00:07:25.480 we know that those things are in our heart and 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:27.360 in our life. And we just pretend like they're 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.920 not there. And that's not good for us. That's 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:34.319 not healthy for us. And so we've got to get it 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.019 fixed. We need a diagnostic test run on our heart 00:07:38.019 --> 00:07:40.360 to see what's going on in there and what's wrong 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:42.959 and what the problems are and what's needed to 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.360 fix it. And maybe, just maybe, it's going to 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.639 reveal some things that we didn't even know were 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.180 there that need to be addressed. And our diagnostic 00:07:51.180 --> 00:07:55.800 test for us to check our heart is the Word of 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:59.459 God. It's our Bible. Now, I want to ask you, 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.620 when's the last time that you read your Bible? 00:08:03.379 --> 00:08:06.360 You may read it every day. Praise the Lord. You 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.240 may read a chapter a day. You may read three 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:12.240 chapters a day. You might read a verse a day. 00:08:13.060 --> 00:08:14.939 You might have hadn't picked up your Bible in 00:08:14.939 --> 00:08:16.500 a month. You say, well, I come to church. Well, 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.449 praise the Lord. That's good. We as individuals, 00:08:20.610 --> 00:08:24.709 we need to spend some time in God's word because 00:08:24.709 --> 00:08:27.269 that's what we're going to use to check ourselves. 00:08:27.430 --> 00:08:30.350 That's the way God's going to speak to us. We're 00:08:30.350 --> 00:08:33.049 going to read these words of God and they're 00:08:33.049 --> 00:08:35.870 going to begin to reveal things that maybe we 00:08:35.870 --> 00:08:38.409 didn't even know were there in our life. It's 00:08:38.409 --> 00:08:41.669 going to begin to convict us and kind of show 00:08:41.669 --> 00:08:44.110 us, wait a minute, you don't need to be living 00:08:44.110 --> 00:08:47.139 this way. You need to change this. And so just 00:08:47.139 --> 00:08:49.759 as our cars need to be plugged into that computer, 00:08:50.139 --> 00:08:53.399 well, we as Christians need to be plugged into 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:57.720 the Word of God. And what's it going to reveal 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:01.139 to us? Well, it may reveal more than you realize, 00:09:01.299 --> 00:09:04.860 more than you know. It may provide the solution 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:08.019 to your problem that you didn't even know existed, 00:09:08.139 --> 00:09:10.980 but it's right in the Word of God. We're going 00:09:10.980 --> 00:09:12.919 to go through some scriptures real quickly. You 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:14.639 can jot them down. If you want to try to turn, 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:16.519 you can. But I'm going to go through them quickly 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.200 just to give you an idea of what I'm talking 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.059 about. When I'm talking about the Word of God 00:09:21.059 --> 00:09:24.080 is good for us to help repair our problems and 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.759 show us our deficiencies and help us perform 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:29.879 up to our full standard that God wants us to. 00:09:30.019 --> 00:09:33.779 That's why the Word of God is so important. Here's 00:09:33.779 --> 00:09:35.779 something that the Word of God talks about. If 00:09:35.779 --> 00:09:38.259 we plug into the Word of God, you may come across 00:09:38.259 --> 00:09:42.870 the topic of... Worry. Does anybody in here worry? 00:09:42.950 --> 00:09:44.850 You don't have to raise your hand. I know you 00:09:44.850 --> 00:09:49.769 do. Every single one of you in here worry. I 00:09:49.769 --> 00:09:53.350 suspect that that's probably one of the biggest 00:09:53.350 --> 00:09:58.509 things that everybody in the world deals with. 00:09:58.850 --> 00:10:01.330 It's probably very few people that don't struggle 00:10:01.330 --> 00:10:04.169 with worry. And you might be sitting there saying, 00:10:04.370 --> 00:10:06.990 but you don't even understand what I got to worry 00:10:06.990 --> 00:10:09.610 about. And some of you, while I've been talking 00:10:09.610 --> 00:10:12.289 the last five minutes, are worrying. Some of 00:10:12.289 --> 00:10:13.649 you are worrying, I'm going to go through all 00:10:13.649 --> 00:10:15.110 these scriptures, it's going to take three hours. 00:10:15.809 --> 00:10:17.990 Some of you are worrying about how you're going 00:10:17.990 --> 00:10:20.549 to pay your bills. You've got a bill due tomorrow. 00:10:21.669 --> 00:10:23.690 You've got your check engine light in your car. 00:10:23.789 --> 00:10:24.950 You're worried about how you're going to pay 00:10:24.950 --> 00:10:27.929 for that. You're worried about your kids. You're 00:10:27.929 --> 00:10:29.710 worried about somebody that's sick. You're worried 00:10:29.710 --> 00:10:31.409 about a neighbor. You're worried about a friend. 00:10:31.549 --> 00:10:33.690 You're worried about church. You're worried about 00:10:33.690 --> 00:10:37.870 something. Well, we plug into the Word of God. 00:10:37.950 --> 00:10:40.850 What does it tell us? In Matthew chapter 6, verses 00:10:40.850 --> 00:10:44.250 25 and 26, it says, this is Jesus speaking, by 00:10:44.250 --> 00:10:47.990 the way, This is why I tell you, don't worry 00:10:47.990 --> 00:10:50.289 about your life, what you will eat or what you 00:10:50.289 --> 00:10:52.889 will drink, or about your body, what you will 00:10:52.889 --> 00:10:56.190 wear. Isn't life more than food and the body 00:10:56.190 --> 00:10:58.990 more than clothing? Look at the birds of the 00:10:58.990 --> 00:11:03.110 sky. They don't sow or reap or gather into barns. 00:11:03.340 --> 00:11:07.279 yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:11.120 worth more than they? That's a pretty good verse. 00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:13.919 That's a pretty good verse for us to plug into 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.200 the Word of God and say, okay, I'm worrying. 00:11:16.299 --> 00:11:18.860 What am I going to do? I have a problem. Man, 00:11:18.899 --> 00:11:21.580 things just don't feel like it. I just feel this 00:11:21.580 --> 00:11:24.399 stress. What's my diagnosis? Well, my diagnosis 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.019 is that I'm worried, okay? We've established 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:31.480 that. So what does Jesus say? Jesus says, take 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:37.940 a deep breath. He says, know this. God loves 00:11:37.940 --> 00:11:43.519 you. He cares for you. Look at the way God cares 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:47.480 for the smallest things in the world. The birds 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.820 of the sky and the grass of the field, the flowers 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:53.440 of the field. They're here today and they're 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:57.360 gone tomorrow. And yet God provides for them. 00:11:57.419 --> 00:12:01.059 They don't worry. How much more so will God? 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:06.159 Provide for you. Now Jesus says here, do not 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:09.700 worry. If Jesus says do not do something and 00:12:09.700 --> 00:12:13.299 we do it, then that's a sin. Now we might not 00:12:13.299 --> 00:12:16.340 think of worry as a sin. And I'm not telling 00:12:16.340 --> 00:12:19.480 you that I have mastered not worrying. I get 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.299 it. Because man knows sooner than you stop worrying, 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.000 it comes right back. You start worrying again. 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.960 But maybe we find comfort in the word of God 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.379 today. Maybe you are worried today, and maybe 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:33.019 you just need these words of Jesus of reassurance 00:12:33.019 --> 00:12:38.000 that you have to trust the Lord, not depend on 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.379 yourself, not get overwhelmed by the things of 00:12:41.379 --> 00:12:45.679 the world, but know that God is watching out 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.840 for you today. And he may not give you everything 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.960 that you want, but he's going to take care of 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:54.620 you. And there are plenty of us in this room. 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.299 that could testify to that today. That there 00:12:58.299 --> 00:13:00.519 have been seasons in our life that God has taken 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:02.820 care of us. That as a church, that there have 00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:04.960 been times that have been tough, that God has 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:08.720 provided and taken care of us. So we plug into 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.980 the Word of God, and it helps us to see that 00:13:11.980 --> 00:13:13.879 we don't need to worry. If worry is your problem, 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.659 this is a good scripture to turn to. Here's another 00:13:16.659 --> 00:13:19.340 problem that some of you may face. Anxiety, kind 00:13:19.340 --> 00:13:22.539 of in the same family as worry. Does anybody 00:13:22.539 --> 00:13:26.379 ever get anxious about anything? Probably all 00:13:26.379 --> 00:13:29.659 of us. Boy, we get anxious. We get worked up. 00:13:29.779 --> 00:13:33.179 And, man, it's just bad when you have an anxiety 00:13:33.179 --> 00:13:35.860 attack. Some of you really had some serious anxiety 00:13:35.860 --> 00:13:39.539 attacks, I bet. And, man, that anxiety is overwhelming 00:13:39.539 --> 00:13:42.759 because in the midst of our anxiety, we're not 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:44.620 sure how we're going to make it out. What am 00:13:44.620 --> 00:13:47.059 I going to do? What do I need to do? And we just 00:13:47.059 --> 00:13:50.100 get in this panicked state where we can't do 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:52.659 anything. And we just feel the weight of that. 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.460 And some of you come into this building today, 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.399 perhaps, and you feel the weight of that anxiety. 00:13:58.659 --> 00:14:01.139 Some of you listening online feel the weight 00:14:01.139 --> 00:14:06.340 of that anxiety. Here's a great scripture. Okay, 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.480 we got a problem. We feel it. We feel, we know 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.460 there's a problem. We plug into the word of God. 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:12.980 What does it say? In Philippians chapter four, 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.159 verses six and seven, it says, do not be anxious 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.720 about anything. Well, that's easier said than 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.139 done, right? I can stand up here all day and 00:14:21.139 --> 00:14:22.679 tell you don't be anxious, but it's not that 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.500 easy. But praise the Lord, not only does the 00:14:25.500 --> 00:14:28.700 Bible tell us not to be anxious, it doesn't just 00:14:28.700 --> 00:14:31.360 stop there. It tells us what to do. Listen to 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.320 what the Scripture says. Don't be anxious about 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:39.039 anything, but in every situation, by prayer and 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.899 petition with thanksgiving, present your request 00:14:41.899 --> 00:14:45.889 to God. and the peace of God, which transcends 00:14:45.889 --> 00:14:49.269 all understanding, will guard your hearts and 00:14:49.269 --> 00:14:53.809 minds in Christ Jesus. Man, that's good advice. 00:14:54.710 --> 00:14:57.610 Be anxious for nothing, okay? So what am I going 00:14:57.610 --> 00:14:59.610 to do, God? You're telling me not to be anxious. 00:14:59.669 --> 00:15:02.210 What do you want me to do? Well, the answer is 00:15:02.210 --> 00:15:04.610 pretty simple, and we probably know the answer, 00:15:04.690 --> 00:15:07.799 but do you do it? Be anxious for nothing but 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.700 in everything. Through prayer and supplication, 00:15:10.700 --> 00:15:15.320 let your requests be made known to God. Are you 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.279 praying to God about your struggles, about your 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.379 anxiety, about the things that have you feeling 00:15:21.379 --> 00:15:24.879 this way? Well, the scripture, man, this is a 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.200 good scripture to plug into. If you got stuff 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.019 going on in your heart and your life, man, you 00:15:31.019 --> 00:15:32.940 might want to jot this one down. You may want 00:15:32.940 --> 00:15:35.960 to memorize it. I don't do good at memorizing 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:37.639 scriptures, but this is one of the first scriptures 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.860 I memorized. And maybe it's good for some of 00:15:40.860 --> 00:15:43.379 you to think about and bookmark or memorize. 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:47.259 Because that anxiety, man, it comes. It seems 00:15:47.259 --> 00:15:50.139 like it just comes more and more often. But the 00:15:50.139 --> 00:15:53.659 cure for that anxiety is to take your problems 00:15:53.659 --> 00:15:57.460 to God. Say, God, I need you. I just feel the 00:15:57.460 --> 00:15:59.580 weight of this situation in my life, whatever 00:15:59.580 --> 00:16:02.940 it may be. God, I need you. God, I feel the weight 00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:05.259 of my sin. God, I need you to forgive me. God, 00:16:05.299 --> 00:16:07.440 I need you to be my strength. I need you to help 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.139 me. And what does it say? That if we pour our 00:16:11.139 --> 00:16:13.120 heart out to the Lord, if we let our requests 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:17.019 be made known to God, what does it say? That 00:16:17.019 --> 00:16:20.519 we'll experience the peace of God which transcends 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.480 all understanding. Boy, in the midst of our struggles 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.740 and our anxiety, we say, I don't understand how 00:16:26.740 --> 00:16:28.200 I can get out of this. I don't understand how 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:31.710 I can get any freedom from this. God can give 00:16:31.710 --> 00:16:33.970 you freedom from it. He can give you a peace 00:16:33.970 --> 00:16:36.889 that you can't understand until you have received 00:16:36.889 --> 00:16:40.830 it from him. You struggle with anxiety today, 00:16:40.909 --> 00:16:44.149 plug into the word of God. The scripture may 00:16:44.149 --> 00:16:47.830 help you to get through those tough times. Here's 00:16:47.830 --> 00:16:50.769 another problem. Maybe some of you in your life, 00:16:50.809 --> 00:16:52.429 you got something going on, you plug into the 00:16:52.429 --> 00:16:54.129 word of God and you begin to read about fear. 00:16:55.470 --> 00:16:58.990 Boy, I bet we've all been afraid before. Sometimes 00:16:58.990 --> 00:17:01.909 we are afraid of things that don't really amount 00:17:01.909 --> 00:17:04.410 to a whole lot. We're afraid of the monster under 00:17:04.410 --> 00:17:07.529 the bed or whatever it may be. But even those 00:17:07.529 --> 00:17:10.289 fears are real to us. Sometimes we're fearful 00:17:10.289 --> 00:17:13.410 of more serious things. What if I lose my job 00:17:13.410 --> 00:17:16.609 and I can't provide for my family? What if something 00:17:16.609 --> 00:17:18.690 happens to my loved one who's in the hospital? 00:17:19.250 --> 00:17:21.670 I mean, there are real fears that come up in 00:17:21.670 --> 00:17:24.880 our life. Okay, God's put something on my heart. 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:26.900 He's kind of put it on my heart that I need to 00:17:26.900 --> 00:17:29.700 go talk to a friend or a family member and share 00:17:29.700 --> 00:17:32.180 some scripture with them or pray with them. God, 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:34.180 I don't know if I can do that or not. I'm pretty 00:17:34.180 --> 00:17:37.759 afraid. I don't know God. And there's a lot of 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.880 things in our life that bring about fear. But 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:43.980 we plug into the Word of God. Here's one thing 00:17:43.980 --> 00:17:46.880 the Word of God says about fear. Joshua 1, verse 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:51.680 9. God says, Haven't I commanded you be strong 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.380 and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged 00:17:55.380 --> 00:17:59.299 for the Lord your God is with you wherever you 00:17:59.299 --> 00:18:02.880 go. Now that's pretty reassuring. That's pretty 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.119 reassuring because the truth is that you and 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:09.990 I are weak. You know you're weak and I know you're 00:18:09.990 --> 00:18:12.529 weak. We're strong to a certain extent, but there 00:18:12.529 --> 00:18:16.049 is a weakness that is in us. There are things 00:18:16.049 --> 00:18:19.309 that we go up against and we say, I don't know 00:18:19.309 --> 00:18:22.890 if I can do this. I don't know that I can make 00:18:22.890 --> 00:18:25.390 it. with my loved one who has passed. God, I 00:18:25.390 --> 00:18:28.069 don't know that I can make it in this marriage. 00:18:28.130 --> 00:18:30.789 God, I don't know that I can make it through 00:18:30.789 --> 00:18:33.470 this horrible situation. I don't know that I 00:18:33.470 --> 00:18:35.750 can do this thing that you're calling me to, 00:18:35.849 --> 00:18:39.089 God. I just don't know. I'm too afraid of what 00:18:39.089 --> 00:18:43.170 might happen if I do this or of what the future 00:18:43.170 --> 00:18:45.710 may hold for me. And there's a fear that just 00:18:45.710 --> 00:18:50.440 kind of grips and holds on to us. Boy, those 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:54.339 words that God spoke to Joshua, those are good 00:18:54.339 --> 00:18:58.440 words. He spoke these words when Joshua was about 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.460 to lead God's people into the promised land. 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:03.000 Moses had got them right up to the doorstep. 00:19:03.700 --> 00:19:05.759 And God said, that's going to be Joshua. You're 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:07.440 going to be the one that's going to do it. So 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:10.019 it's your turn now, Joshua. You're going to lead 00:19:10.019 --> 00:19:12.339 my people, which probably was a couple of me 00:19:12.339 --> 00:19:14.420 and maybe more by this point of God's people. 00:19:14.500 --> 00:19:16.259 It probably was a lot of folks. You're going 00:19:16.259 --> 00:19:20.240 to lead them into a foreign land. This land ain't 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:21.900 empty, by the way. There's a lot of people living 00:19:21.900 --> 00:19:23.319 there, and they're not going to be happy you're 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:25.059 coming. But you're just going to go in, and you're 00:19:25.059 --> 00:19:28.920 going to live there. But don't worry. But don't 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:32.920 worry. This was a scary thing for Joshua. I expect 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:35.599 it would have been. And maybe that's why God 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:38.240 tells him multiple times here in this first chapter. 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:43.279 Do not be afraid, because God says, I will be 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:47.220 with you wherever you go. Maybe you need that 00:19:47.220 --> 00:19:49.259 reminder today to know that God will be with 00:19:49.259 --> 00:19:53.200 you wherever you go. Here's something we struggle 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:55.579 with. We plug into the word of God in our life 00:19:55.579 --> 00:19:58.000 and our struggles. And what does it talk about? 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:01.920 It talks about temptation. Is anybody in here 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.160 ever tempted? Absolutely. Now, everybody's temptations 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:07.599 are different. We need to realize that. There 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:08.980 are things that other people do and you say, 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:11.640 I don't know how they can do that. They just 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.299 need to stop doing that. Well, hold up a second. 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:16.900 There may be some things that you're doing that 00:20:16.900 --> 00:20:19.119 you need to stop doing too. But it's a lot easier 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.299 for us to tell everybody they need to stop their 00:20:21.299 --> 00:20:26.000 sins. Maybe we need to stop our sins. So temptations 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.259 are all around us. They're not all the same. 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:31.660 Some of you may be tempted to lie. Some of you 00:20:31.660 --> 00:20:35.559 may be tempted to steal. Whatever your temptation 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:39.019 may be. Our temptations are not all the same, 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.440 but they are all temptations nonetheless. What's 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.500 the Bible say about temptation? In 1 Corinthians 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:49.200 10, verse 13, it says, No temptation has overtaken 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.839 you except what is common to humanity. God is 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.660 faithful. He will not allow you to be tempted 00:20:55.660 --> 00:20:58.460 beyond what you are able. But with the temptation, 00:20:58.740 --> 00:21:02.099 he will also provide a way of escape so that 00:21:02.099 --> 00:21:06.339 you are able to bear it. Okay, temptations are 00:21:06.339 --> 00:21:09.279 going to come. But praise the Lord for the word 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:10.700 of God because you're going to be struggling. 00:21:11.099 --> 00:21:13.140 Maybe this afternoon. Maybe later this week. 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:15.079 Maybe next month. There's going to be a point 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:17.019 in your life where you are going to be tempted 00:21:17.019 --> 00:21:19.680 to do something you shouldn't do and you know 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:21.960 you shouldn't do it. You're going to be tempted 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:23.859 when somebody says something to you or does something 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:25.500 to you, you are going to be tempted to open your 00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:27.859 mouth and just let them have it. You are going 00:21:27.859 --> 00:21:29.880 to be tempted to punch them in the nose. You 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:31.480 are going to be tempted to say something, to 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:33.619 do something. You are going to be tempted in 00:21:33.619 --> 00:21:37.220 some way. Them temptations are going to come. 00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:40.880 But the Word of God says, look. God's going to 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:42.960 be with you. He's going to give you a way out. 00:21:42.980 --> 00:21:45.099 And maybe in that temptation, we need to remember 00:21:45.099 --> 00:21:47.220 this verse. We need to plug into the word of 00:21:47.220 --> 00:21:49.859 God. We need to remember verses like this and 00:21:49.859 --> 00:21:52.319 say, God, I need you to show me the way out. 00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:57.019 God, I'm tempted to drive to the bar. God, I'm 00:21:57.019 --> 00:21:59.220 passing by. God, I need you to give me a road 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:01.619 to turn off the other way. God, I need a way 00:22:01.619 --> 00:22:04.500 to avoid my temptation. God, my mouth is about 00:22:04.500 --> 00:22:06.880 to open. God, I need you to help me to have the 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.059 strength to walk out of the room. God, show me 00:22:10.059 --> 00:22:12.099 the way out. Let me see the way out. Convict 00:22:12.099 --> 00:22:14.019 me of the way out. God, I don't want to give 00:22:14.019 --> 00:22:16.119 in to this temptation. So God, you need to help 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:19.859 me. And God will help us if we'll seek him. We 00:22:19.859 --> 00:22:22.759 don't have to give in to our temptations. There 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:26.299 is a way out. And praise the Lord, we plug into 00:22:26.299 --> 00:22:31.339 the word of God and it reminds us of that. How 00:22:31.339 --> 00:22:34.779 about freedom? Scripture talks about freedom. 00:22:35.539 --> 00:22:37.519 That's something that we probably all seek and 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:40.039 desire. We all have those temptations that we've 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:42.940 given in to just a few more times than we want. 00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:46.380 And we just keep giving in to them. And they're 00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:48.400 addictions and they're things that we crave. 00:22:48.539 --> 00:22:51.140 And it may be a chocolate chip cookie or it may 00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:54.059 be that next drink or it may be that next whatever 00:22:54.059 --> 00:22:57.539 it is. It may be that thing that we're craving 00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:59.420 and that we just keep giving in to that temptation 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:02.680 and it's unhealthy for us in some way, spiritually 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:05.380 or physically, and we just keep giving in and 00:23:05.380 --> 00:23:07.880 giving in and giving in and we say, God, I'm 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.059 tired of giving in. Well, I want to tell you 00:23:11.059 --> 00:23:13.079 today that there is freedom from your sin, whatever 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:16.099 it may be, that temptation, that sin that so 00:23:16.099 --> 00:23:18.859 easily ensnares you, there is freedom from that 00:23:18.859 --> 00:23:25.220 today. God's Word says in John chapter... 8 verse 00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:28.140 36. Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:31.319 will be free indeed. Man, that's a good verse. 00:23:31.900 --> 00:23:34.079 You want to be set free today? You can be set 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:38.059 free by Jesus Christ. You don't have to let your 00:23:38.059 --> 00:23:41.779 sin get the better of you. You might fail again. 00:23:41.940 --> 00:23:43.859 I won't say that you won't give in to that temptation, 00:23:44.140 --> 00:23:47.400 but I'll tell you, you can stand up to the enemy. 00:23:47.460 --> 00:23:50.759 You can stand up to the temptation with the power 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:52.980 of Jesus Christ, but you cannot do it alone. 00:23:53.869 --> 00:23:55.970 But if you will seek him, you will find him. 00:23:56.349 --> 00:23:58.750 And you will find freedom that brings a peace 00:23:58.750 --> 00:24:00.710 that you have never imagined. There are some 00:24:00.710 --> 00:24:02.369 things that some of you may have struggled with 00:24:02.369 --> 00:24:04.309 your whole life, but I want to tell you today, 00:24:04.430 --> 00:24:07.349 there is freedom in Jesus Christ. And I'm not 00:24:07.349 --> 00:24:09.289 telling you it's always going to be easy from 00:24:09.289 --> 00:24:11.609 this point forward, but I'm telling you, and 00:24:11.609 --> 00:24:13.829 I promise you that if you would seek Jesus Christ 00:24:13.829 --> 00:24:16.309 with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, 00:24:16.569 --> 00:24:18.789 that he will give you deliverance and you will 00:24:18.789 --> 00:24:21.470 experience a freedom that you have never felt 00:24:21.470 --> 00:24:25.609 before. And how do we know these things? We know 00:24:25.609 --> 00:24:30.190 them by plugging into the Word of God. And it 00:24:30.190 --> 00:24:32.710 reveals stuff to us that maybe we already know 00:24:32.710 --> 00:24:35.809 is there, and it reveals other things to us as 00:24:35.809 --> 00:24:38.289 we continue to read it that maybe we weren't 00:24:38.289 --> 00:24:41.549 aware of, that God said were wrong, or that they 00:24:41.549 --> 00:24:45.869 were things that we were doing in our life. How 00:24:45.869 --> 00:24:48.029 about depression? Does anybody in here ever feel 00:24:48.029 --> 00:24:53.119 depressed? Man, depression's a serious thing. 00:24:53.900 --> 00:24:58.000 It gets you down. You don't want to be around 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:00.539 people. You don't want to come to church. You 00:25:00.539 --> 00:25:03.000 don't want to read the Word of God. You just, 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.059 everybody has given up on you. Everybody's your 00:25:06.059 --> 00:25:09.259 enemy. Nothing is going to work out. Your life 00:25:09.259 --> 00:25:11.380 is the worst that there's ever been in the history 00:25:11.380 --> 00:25:15.599 of the world. And you just, you see no hope in 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.759 life. There is no glimmer of hope in your life. 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.690 Nobody cares for you. Man, when we get in that 00:25:22.690 --> 00:25:25.589 place, that's when depression begins to set in. 00:25:25.809 --> 00:25:29.730 Nobody cares about me. God doesn't even care 00:25:29.730 --> 00:25:32.609 about me. Well, I want to tell you that's a lie 00:25:32.609 --> 00:25:37.390 today. God does care about you. God cares about 00:25:37.390 --> 00:25:41.009 you more than you could possibly realize. How 00:25:41.009 --> 00:25:44.190 do we know that? Well, we know that when we plug 00:25:44.190 --> 00:25:48.359 into the Word of God. 1 Peter 5, 7 says, casting 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.319 all your care on him because he cares for you. 00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:55.380 There's a lot of cares that we have. Man, there's 00:25:55.380 --> 00:25:57.339 a lot of burden in this room. There's a lot of 00:25:57.339 --> 00:26:00.259 people in here. And if we begin to make a list 00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:03.299 of the cares and the worries and the anxieties 00:26:03.299 --> 00:26:06.880 and the burdens that we have, we'd be here all 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:10.559 day writing those things out. And you may say, 00:26:10.619 --> 00:26:13.740 nobody cares. But I want to tell you that God 00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:17.299 cares today. He wants you to put your cares on 00:26:17.299 --> 00:26:20.740 Him. God cares today. He loves you today. He 00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:23.259 has not forgotten you today. If you would just 00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:26.160 seek Him, I'm telling you that I'm not guaranteeing 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:28.680 you that your life is going to just magically 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:31.380 get better. But I'm telling you when you seek 00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:32.960 the Lord, you're going to find a strength and 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:36.240 a freedom and a peace that you never knew existed. 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:40.039 Don't let your depression get the best of you 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:45.640 today. Know that God cares about you. What else 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:47.619 does the Bible tell us when we begin to plug 00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:50.819 in? Well, it talks a little bit about greed and 00:26:50.819 --> 00:26:56.500 the love of money. 1 Timothy 6, verse 9 says, 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:00.700 But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.160 a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.980 which plunge people into ruin and destruction. 00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:14.160 Watch out. Now, Most of us in this room, we would 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.480 probably say, oh, we're not rich. Well, hold 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:20.599 up a second. Maybe you're not rich compared to 00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:22.779 some of the people you know that have the big 00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:25.500 mansions and the fancy cars or the private jets, 00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:29.880 but there's a lot of people in this world. And 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:32.440 I would venture to say that most Americans are 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:35.099 probably richer than 95 % of the people in the 00:27:35.099 --> 00:27:38.720 world. There's a lot of people in the world that 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:41.839 have not eaten today. They will not eat today. 00:27:43.180 --> 00:27:45.599 And I would venture to say that most of you have 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:47.539 something in your pantry and your refrigerator. 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:50.759 It may not be what you want, but you probably 00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:52.839 have something in there. And if you don't, just 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.019 hit me up after church and we're going to see 00:27:55.019 --> 00:27:59.259 that you're took care of. But if we compare ourselves 00:27:59.259 --> 00:28:01.579 to the billionaires of the world, then we're 00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:05.519 not rich. But when we begin to look in the rest 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:08.019 of the world, perhaps we are richer than we think. 00:28:08.890 --> 00:28:11.950 Boy, we begin to accumulate that wealth, and 00:28:11.950 --> 00:28:14.490 we begin to accumulate those materialistic things, 00:28:14.670 --> 00:28:17.930 and pretty soon we just want more and more and 00:28:17.930 --> 00:28:21.769 more, and we become greedy. Boy, people become 00:28:21.769 --> 00:28:23.829 greedy. Guess what happens? People start doing 00:28:23.829 --> 00:28:27.769 a whole lot of crazy stuff for money. People 00:28:27.769 --> 00:28:29.890 do crazy stuff for money. I ain't talking about 00:28:29.890 --> 00:28:31.390 just sticking their hand at the cash register 00:28:31.390 --> 00:28:33.650 at the grocery store. I mean, people will come 00:28:33.650 --> 00:28:36.509 up with plots to kill people for money. I mean, 00:28:36.509 --> 00:28:39.660 that's what greed will do. And maybe we don't 00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:42.279 realize we have a love of money. But boy, we 00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:45.359 plug into the word of God and it begins to kind 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:47.619 of run through our soul. And all of a sudden, 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:49.960 it makes us aware that maybe there's a problem 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.059 in our life that we did not know was there. That 00:28:53.059 --> 00:28:55.400 error code pops up. Uh -oh, you've got the greed 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.160 error going on in your life. You need to fix 00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:59.859 this. Why? Because that greed is going to lead 00:28:59.859 --> 00:29:02.839 to your destruction. For the love of money is 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:05.839 the root of all kinds of evil. Now, money in 00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:08.559 and of itself is not evil. No more than a gun's 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:12.000 evil. But boy, when you begin to use it for evil, 00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:15.460 when you begin to use it to do things that are 00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:18.099 not what God desires, when you begin to trust 00:29:18.099 --> 00:29:21.140 in those things of the world, all of the sudden 00:29:21.140 --> 00:29:25.240 we have a problem. So praise God. That if we 00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:29.119 would just read the word of God, there is so 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.559 much instruction there. Maybe we don't want to 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:35.509 hear it. Maybe we know there's some things in 00:29:35.509 --> 00:29:37.170 our life that shouldn't be there, some things 00:29:37.170 --> 00:29:40.089 that need to be fixed. And we just take our little 00:29:40.089 --> 00:29:42.210 black tape and we just put it right over that 00:29:42.210 --> 00:29:45.309 check engine light because we don't want to deal 00:29:45.309 --> 00:29:47.789 with it. But the things that we don't want to 00:29:47.789 --> 00:29:51.549 deal with will destroy us spiritually. So if 00:29:51.549 --> 00:29:53.529 we know things are there, then we need to seek 00:29:53.529 --> 00:29:56.180 a solution for those things. And we need to begin 00:29:56.180 --> 00:29:58.519 to get into God's word and say, okay, God, these 00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:00.920 are the things I know I'm struggling with. Help 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.460 me with these things and reveal to me the things 00:30:03.460 --> 00:30:05.720 that I'm not aware of. And the moment we plug 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:09.160 into God's word, it begins to diagnose our problems. 00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:13.400 And praise the Lord. Here's another one of our 00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:18.359 things that we may struggle with. Pride. Anybody 00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.400 struggle with that? Maybe you do. Maybe you say, 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:24.690 I'm not proud. I'm as humble as anybody in this 00:30:24.690 --> 00:30:26.410 world. Well, maybe you need to listen to this 00:30:26.410 --> 00:30:30.289 next verse. Maybe you are a little proud. Maybe 00:30:30.289 --> 00:30:33.329 pride creeps into our hearts more than we realize. 00:30:33.569 --> 00:30:36.150 What does the scripture say? Proverbs chapter 00:30:36.150 --> 00:30:40.630 11, verse 2. When pride comes, disgrace follows. 00:30:41.650 --> 00:30:45.150 But with humility comes wisdom. Okay, pride may 00:30:45.150 --> 00:30:48.410 pop itself up, but be aware what's going to follow 00:30:48.410 --> 00:30:52.769 that pride. It's going to be disgrace. Boy, pride 00:30:52.769 --> 00:30:56.150 comes before a fall. So the moment we start thinking 00:30:56.150 --> 00:30:58.210 that we are all that and a bag of chips, yeah, 00:30:58.269 --> 00:31:00.329 I'm so cool, I'm the best there's ever been, 00:31:00.589 --> 00:31:02.869 ain't nothing going to happen to me, you better 00:31:02.869 --> 00:31:06.130 watch out because we begin to let our guard down. 00:31:06.269 --> 00:31:08.769 We begin to make foolish decisions. We begin 00:31:08.769 --> 00:31:11.529 to trust in ourself and not God. And the next 00:31:11.529 --> 00:31:15.509 thing you know, we have fallen quick. I mean 00:31:15.509 --> 00:31:20.789 quick. So, man. If you've not read the book of 00:31:20.789 --> 00:31:24.109 Proverbs, I would encourage you to start 2026 00:31:24.109 --> 00:31:27.369 off reading the book of Proverbs. It'd be a great 00:31:27.369 --> 00:31:30.690 book to start and read through in the month of 00:31:30.690 --> 00:31:34.509 January and February and March and April all 00:31:34.509 --> 00:31:38.089 the way to 2027. Because you begin to read things 00:31:38.089 --> 00:31:40.230 like that in the word of God and it begins to 00:31:40.230 --> 00:31:43.309 reveal things about foolishness in there. And 00:31:43.309 --> 00:31:46.410 all of a sudden you realize, wait a minute, I 00:31:46.410 --> 00:31:49.019 might be the fool. We don't like to think of 00:31:49.019 --> 00:31:51.279 ourselves as the fool, but when we plug into 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:54.359 the word of God, it says the fool does X, Y, 00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:56.920 and Z. And you say, wait a minute, I do all those 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:02.220 things. And so the word of God humbles us if 00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:05.400 we'll read it. But boy, we don't plug into the 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:07.299 word of God. We don't address our pride. Next 00:32:07.299 --> 00:32:11.839 thing you know, we're falling quick. A couple 00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:17.029 more. Another. that some of us may deal with 00:32:17.029 --> 00:32:21.690 is loneliness. Anybody ever here feel lonely? 00:32:22.410 --> 00:32:24.509 It kind of goes along with some of the rest of 00:32:24.509 --> 00:32:27.589 the things we talked about, depression and fear. 00:32:27.890 --> 00:32:30.809 Those things all kind of go together, but sometimes 00:32:30.809 --> 00:32:34.289 we feel lonely. Sometimes we feel like we're 00:32:34.289 --> 00:32:38.789 walking through this world on our own. But again, 00:32:39.029 --> 00:32:41.829 we plug into the Word of God, we realize that 00:32:41.829 --> 00:32:47.039 that's not true. Psalm... Verse 4 says, Yea, 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:48.680 though I walk through the valley of the shadow 00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:52.480 of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:58.440 me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Boy, 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:00.059 you're walking through some dark valleys, some 00:33:00.059 --> 00:33:03.079 of you. Maybe you are today. Maybe you have in 00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:06.400 the past. Maybe you will in the future. Boy, 00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.140 we walk through those valleys and it feels like 00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:15.529 we're a lone wolf. We're on this journey. This 00:33:15.529 --> 00:33:19.769 is dark. This is scary. Death is upon me. All 00:33:19.769 --> 00:33:22.130 these fears, all these struggles are upon me. 00:33:22.910 --> 00:33:26.750 But what does the Lord say in the Psalm? But 00:33:26.750 --> 00:33:31.769 thou art with me. David says, thou art with me. 00:33:31.809 --> 00:33:34.890 God, I know that I am not alone. I am walking 00:33:34.890 --> 00:33:37.670 through this dark valley in my life, but I know 00:33:37.670 --> 00:33:41.109 that I am not alone. Man, the Bible is full of 00:33:41.109 --> 00:33:43.950 good verses like this. that remind us that we 00:33:43.950 --> 00:33:46.849 are not alone, that God loves us, that God cares 00:33:46.849 --> 00:33:50.769 for us. But the only way we can know these things 00:33:50.769 --> 00:33:54.289 is to read the Word of God, to be plugged into 00:33:54.289 --> 00:33:59.130 the Word of God. Here's one some of us may struggle 00:33:59.130 --> 00:34:03.049 with, lust. Anybody ever struggle with lust before? 00:34:03.109 --> 00:34:06.670 Don't raise your hand. Here's what Jesus says, 00:34:06.910 --> 00:34:11.699 Matthew 5, verse 28. But I tell you, everyone 00:34:11.699 --> 00:34:14.840 who looks at a woman to lust for her has already 00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:20.519 committed adultery within his heart. Well, that's 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.780 pretty serious. Boy, we've all probably looked 00:34:23.780 --> 00:34:29.579 at somebody, men, women, had an unpure thought, 00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:32.000 thought something we shouldn't have thought, 00:34:32.139 --> 00:34:35.579 let our mind go a little too far with that thought. 00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:39.920 What does Jesus say? He says, if you've lusted, 00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:42.159 you've committed adultery in your heart. Well, 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:44.480 what is he doing here? He's saying your sin's 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:47.360 worse than you think it is. You think, boy, I 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:49.280 could do this little thing. This isn't hurting 00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:51.739 anything. I'm just looking. I'm not following 00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:54.980 through. I'm not touching. But what Jesus says 00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:57.920 is your sin is worse than you think it is. And 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.139 these little things you do are having more of 00:35:01.139 --> 00:35:04.119 an effect on your heart than you realize that 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:09.969 they're having. Galatians chapter 5 verse 16 00:35:09.969 --> 00:35:12.750 says, I say then, walk by the Spirit and you 00:35:12.750 --> 00:35:16.329 will not carry out the desire of the flesh. All 00:35:16.329 --> 00:35:18.489 right, we have these fleshly lustful desires 00:35:18.489 --> 00:35:21.030 and fleshly desires to do plenty of other things. 00:35:21.610 --> 00:35:23.530 So what does Scripture say? Okay, here's the 00:35:23.530 --> 00:35:26.010 problem. You lust in your heart and guess what? 00:35:26.130 --> 00:35:28.829 It's worse than you think. But the Scripture 00:35:28.829 --> 00:35:32.909 also says, don't walk in the flesh, walk in the 00:35:32.909 --> 00:35:35.559 Spirit. Well, how do we walk in the Spirit? Well, 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.340 one, we have to accept Jesus Christ. We have 00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:39.760 to have the Holy Spirit in us. We have to know 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.539 the Word of God. So we have to plug into the 00:35:42.539 --> 00:35:46.920 Word of God. And finally, there's plenty of things 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:48.920 we could go through. This is a short list, but 00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:53.019 anger. Does anybody in here ever struggle with 00:35:53.019 --> 00:35:59.000 anger? Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. Here's 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:01.679 what the Scripture says, Proverbs 14, verse 29. 00:36:02.590 --> 00:36:06.590 A patient person shows great understanding, but 00:36:06.590 --> 00:36:10.750 a quick -tempered one promotes foolishness. Are 00:36:10.750 --> 00:36:13.889 you quick -tempered? Are you quick to anger? 00:36:14.610 --> 00:36:19.469 Are you wise or are you foolish? Proverbs chapter 00:36:19.469 --> 00:36:23.110 15 verse 1 says, A gentle answer turns away anger, 00:36:23.309 --> 00:36:29.789 but a harsh word stirs up wrath. Do you struggle 00:36:29.789 --> 00:36:32.460 with anger in your life? Well, you plug into 00:36:32.460 --> 00:36:34.420 the word of God, those proverbs are pretty good 00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:39.079 reminder for us that we need to keep our mouth 00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:42.860 shut. Now, this is not an exhaustive list of 00:36:42.860 --> 00:36:45.099 all of our sins. And maybe you struggle with 00:36:45.099 --> 00:36:47.099 some of these things that we've looked at today. 00:36:47.900 --> 00:36:51.500 Or maybe you struggle with other things. But 00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:54.480 I want to tell you the word of God is good. If 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.000 you would plug into it and just say, God, I need 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.860 a diagnostic test. God, I want to open my heart. 00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.940 up to you i want to read your word i want to 00:37:03.940 --> 00:37:06.260 let it speak to me and reveal things that i need 00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:08.880 to see god i want to see what's going on in my 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:11.500 heart and we begin to read god's word and it 00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:13.420 begins to work on our heart and it begins to 00:37:13.420 --> 00:37:18.059 reveal things to us here's what it'll reveal 00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:22.380 to us romans chapter 3 verse 10 says there was 00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:27.780 no one righteous not even one that's the diagnosis 00:37:27.780 --> 00:37:31.199 for you and i Is that we are evil and that we 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.820 are sinful people. That we have plugged into 00:37:34.820 --> 00:37:38.119 the word of God and it has diagnosed that there 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:40.400 is a big problem and that is our sinfulness. 00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:43.559 No different than when you go to the mechanic 00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:47.300 and they plug in that diagnostic tool and they 00:37:47.300 --> 00:37:50.960 come back and they tell you that your spider 00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:54.880 valve actuating agitator is broke. You're going 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:57.599 to have to replace it in your car. They come 00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:59.639 back to you and they say, we have run this test. 00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:03.059 We have diagnosed that there is a big problem 00:38:03.059 --> 00:38:07.179 that you have to fix right now. Boy, don't you 00:38:07.179 --> 00:38:11.059 love it? You go to the shop. You get your oil 00:38:11.059 --> 00:38:13.519 changed or you're getting something done. And 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:15.059 they come in there. Y 'all have probably had 00:38:15.059 --> 00:38:17.019 this happen before. They come in there and they've 00:38:17.019 --> 00:38:19.380 got your in -cabin air filter. And they're holding 00:38:19.380 --> 00:38:21.619 this thing up. Boy, it's covered in dust. And 00:38:21.619 --> 00:38:23.300 they're flopping this thing around. And they 00:38:23.300 --> 00:38:24.960 say, you're going to have to replace this in 00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:27.409 -cabin air filter. You are breathing in this 00:38:27.409 --> 00:38:30.750 air. Do you know how dangerous this is? I said, 00:38:30.769 --> 00:38:32.869 I wouldn't even put my dog in this car. And you're 00:38:32.869 --> 00:38:34.610 probably riding your kids around. You better 00:38:34.610 --> 00:38:37.889 change this in -cabin air filter. How much is 00:38:37.889 --> 00:38:39.730 it? It's $50. You need to change this thing. 00:38:39.789 --> 00:38:41.590 I'm surprised you made it over here today alive, 00:38:41.829 --> 00:38:44.269 breathing in this air. Boy, and they come. They 00:38:44.269 --> 00:38:45.949 say, you've got a big problem. You've got to 00:38:45.949 --> 00:38:48.289 fix this. You've got to fix it right now. And 00:38:48.289 --> 00:38:51.050 I say, okay, put it in there. $50 here. Put it 00:38:51.050 --> 00:38:53.409 in there. I need it. Thanks for saving my life. 00:38:53.730 --> 00:38:56.039 And then they come back and they say. I'm not 00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:58.420 making this up. And they say, we've also got 00:38:58.420 --> 00:39:00.780 this disinfectant spray that we'll spray on it 00:39:00.780 --> 00:39:03.519 for $15 to kill anything that goes through it. 00:39:04.699 --> 00:39:07.179 I said, look, here's my card. Take $30. Spray 00:39:07.179 --> 00:39:12.780 it twice. Whatever you got to do. Sometimes we 00:39:12.780 --> 00:39:15.880 go to the mechanic shop and their diagnosis is 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:18.940 not really too serious. Nothing that we need 00:39:18.940 --> 00:39:22.400 to take very serious. But when it comes to the 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:26.670 word of God, And when it comes to our soul, and 00:39:26.670 --> 00:39:30.190 God's word begins to speak to us, and we begin 00:39:30.190 --> 00:39:32.429 to see the dirtiness and the nastiness there, 00:39:32.610 --> 00:39:35.650 it's far worse than our in -cabin air filter. 00:39:36.650 --> 00:39:40.010 It's a serious problem that needs to be dealt 00:39:40.010 --> 00:39:44.150 with. So the diagnosis is that we are sinners, 00:39:44.389 --> 00:39:47.280 that our hearts are evil as they can be. That 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.360 we do and we think and we say things that we 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.980 shouldn't do. That God does not want us to do. 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.780 That God does not approve of. That God says don't 00:39:54.780 --> 00:39:57.300 do these things and we do them and we're so full 00:39:57.300 --> 00:40:00.420 of evil and sin and it weighs us down. That's 00:40:00.420 --> 00:40:04.500 the diagnosis. But here is the fix. Here's the 00:40:04.500 --> 00:40:12.519 fix. Ezekiel chapter 36 verses 26 and 27. I will 00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:15.440 give you a new heart and put a new spirit within 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.760 you. I will remove your heart of stone and give 00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:22.260 you a heart of flesh. I will place my spirit 00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:25.099 within you and cause you to follow my statutes 00:40:25.099 --> 00:40:30.460 and carefully observe my ordinances. What's our 00:40:30.460 --> 00:40:33.820 diagnosis? Our diagnosis is our heart is horrible. 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:38.099 But what's the fix? Your heart's horrible, but 00:40:38.099 --> 00:40:40.400 here's what it's going to take to fix it. It's 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:43.519 going to take a new heart. And that's exactly 00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:48.150 what God told his people. In Ezekiel. He said, 00:40:48.170 --> 00:40:50.889 I want to take out your heart of stone. I want 00:40:50.889 --> 00:40:54.590 to take out your sinful heart. I want to put 00:40:54.590 --> 00:40:57.969 my spirit within you. I want to transform you. 00:40:58.010 --> 00:41:00.449 I want to make you into a new man, into a new 00:41:00.449 --> 00:41:03.429 woman. I don't want you to live in your sin anymore. 00:41:03.570 --> 00:41:05.489 I want to give you freedom. I want to show you 00:41:05.489 --> 00:41:07.969 love. I want to give you grace and I want to 00:41:07.969 --> 00:41:12.230 give you peace. God says, you got a bad heart, 00:41:12.369 --> 00:41:17.699 but I want to change that. I want to change that 00:41:17.699 --> 00:41:20.420 into something beautiful and something pure and 00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:22.579 something that's been washed as white as snow. 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:27.980 And we'll go to the mechanic shop, and they come 00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:32.159 back with their diagnosis and the fix. They tell 00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:34.739 us, here's what you need, and what's the first 00:41:34.739 --> 00:41:37.739 question we ask? How much is that going to cost? 00:41:39.980 --> 00:41:43.039 You may be asking that question today. You said, 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:45.909 I get it. I didn't even need to have a diagnostic. 00:41:45.969 --> 00:41:50.190 I know my heart is evil. We know our heart's 00:41:50.190 --> 00:41:52.070 evil. We know we need a new heart. What's that 00:41:52.070 --> 00:41:57.690 going to cost? It's not going to cost you anything. 00:41:59.389 --> 00:42:04.969 But it costs Jesus everything. Jesus Christ gave 00:42:04.969 --> 00:42:08.389 his life on a cross so that you could be forgiven. 00:42:09.750 --> 00:42:12.789 He shed his blood so that if you would Call out 00:42:12.789 --> 00:42:14.690 to him if you would seek him, if you would repent 00:42:14.690 --> 00:42:18.030 of your sins, that he would forgive you of those 00:42:18.030 --> 00:42:22.730 sins, that he would wash those things away, that 00:42:22.730 --> 00:42:25.170 the Holy Spirit would come and indwell in you. 00:42:26.409 --> 00:42:29.889 If you would just seek him today, if you would 00:42:29.889 --> 00:42:32.349 just seek his word today, if you would just plug 00:42:32.349 --> 00:42:35.590 in to the word of God today and let it speak 00:42:35.590 --> 00:42:39.489 to you, you may find that there's a lot of fixes 00:42:39.489 --> 00:42:43.039 for your soul and for your heart. that God wants 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.179 to work in your life if you would just let Him. 00:42:46.019 --> 00:42:48.280 You may find that there are some things that 00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:50.980 God wants to work on that maybe you didn't even 00:42:50.980 --> 00:42:53.119 know were there if you would just plug in to 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:58.420 the Word of God and let Him. All you have to 00:42:58.420 --> 00:43:00.739 do is follow Jesus Christ. He's paid it all. 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:04.320 He's paid the price. He's covered the cost so 00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:08.840 that your heart can be made new. 1 Peter 2, verse 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:14.179 24 says, He himself bore our sins in his body 00:43:14.179 --> 00:43:18.860 on the tree, so that having died to sins, we 00:43:18.860 --> 00:43:22.280 might live for righteousness. You have been healed 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:29.260 by his wounds. Have you been healed today? Spiritually, 00:43:29.260 --> 00:43:31.179 he wants to heal you. He wants to forgive you. 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:34.239 You don't have to give in to the temptations. 00:43:34.699 --> 00:43:37.679 You don't have to be overcome by fear and anxiety. 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:42.280 You don't have to feel alone or afraid. You don't 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:44.119 have to live in depression. You don't have to 00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:49.380 live in addiction. Jesus Christ has paid the 00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:52.800 price. If you would only ask him for forgiveness 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:56.400 today, he would forgive your sins. Let's pray. 00:43:57.380 --> 00:43:59.920 God, we thank you for your good word. We thank 00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:02.139 you that we can look at it, that it can encourage 00:44:02.139 --> 00:44:05.480 us, that it can correct us, that it can convict 00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:08.789 us, dear Lord, that it can guide us. God, we 00:44:08.789 --> 00:44:11.130 have to be in your word to be able to experience 00:44:11.130 --> 00:44:15.269 these truths. So I pray, dear Lord, that if there 00:44:15.269 --> 00:44:17.949 is one here today that does not know Jesus Christ, 00:44:18.090 --> 00:44:21.570 that maybe there was a passage we read today. 00:44:21.690 --> 00:44:24.190 Maybe there was a truth that was spoken today 00:44:24.190 --> 00:44:28.309 that just hit home. Maybe there are some today 00:44:28.309 --> 00:44:30.309 that are struggling with their fear and their 00:44:30.309 --> 00:44:32.650 depression and their temptations and addictions. 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:36.340 The things that are common to all of us, dear 00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:38.559 Lord, we all have these struggles, but maybe 00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:40.559 there are some today, God, that are just struggling 00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:44.960 so hard they just need some help. And I pray 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.980 that they would know that that help comes through 00:44:47.980 --> 00:44:50.239 Jesus Christ. I pray that they would seek him 00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:54.519 right now. That they would pray to you. That 00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:57.719 they would ask for forgiveness today. God, maybe 00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.860 there are some that have never known Jesus Christ. 00:45:01.059 --> 00:45:04.630 They've never trusted him. But maybe today they 00:45:04.630 --> 00:45:07.170 realize that their sins need to be forgiven. 00:45:08.110 --> 00:45:10.409 Maybe they realize that the peace that they so 00:45:10.409 --> 00:45:13.789 desperately seek is found only in Jesus Christ. 00:45:14.969 --> 00:45:17.130 God, maybe there's some in here today and maybe 00:45:17.130 --> 00:45:20.070 they're yours. But maybe they just hadn't been 00:45:20.070 --> 00:45:22.250 in your word. Maybe they've heard it. Now you 00:45:22.250 --> 00:45:24.909 know it. But maybe they've been putting a little 00:45:24.909 --> 00:45:27.670 piece of black tape over all those warning lights 00:45:27.670 --> 00:45:29.750 that's been going off. I pray today, dear Lord, 00:45:29.849 --> 00:45:32.630 that they'd rip it off. that they would open 00:45:32.630 --> 00:45:35.590 their heart, that they would let your word speak 00:45:35.590 --> 00:45:38.570 to them, your spirit would work on them, God, 00:45:38.769 --> 00:45:42.969 that they would repent. God, I pray that everyone 00:45:42.969 --> 00:45:45.030 in here today will know that you love them, that 00:45:45.030 --> 00:45:48.230 you care for them, and that Jesus Christ died 00:45:48.230 --> 00:45:52.070 on the cross. So God, I pray that you would help 00:45:52.070 --> 00:45:55.650 us to be in your word, and I pray that your word 00:45:55.650 --> 00:45:59.389 would do a mighty work in our hearts today and 00:45:59.389 --> 00:46:02.590 every day moving forward. And I ask these things 00:46:02.590 --> 00:46:04.530 in Jesus' name. Amen.