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Welcome to the sermon podcast of Coosada Baptist Church.

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We want to be a lighthouse to guide you on your journey through life.

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Listen, as our pastor, Dr. Jim Graham shares a message from God's Word,

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and offers sound biblical direction for your daily life.

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Here we are, starting a brand new series.

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It's called If You Believe, and I hope you'll join us for these next few weeks as we talk about it.

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We're going to be walking through the book of

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Second Kings, I'm going to be telling you some stories from the life of Elijah.

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And the premise is basically this. If you believe something, it affects your actions

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and affects what you do. If you believe it's cold outside, then you put on a jacket.

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If you believe that the traffic's bad on the way to where you're going, you're going to leave it a little early.

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If you believe that they won't take a credit card at the place you're showing up to,

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you're going to make sure you got some cash with you.

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Like, just what you believe affects what you do.

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And so we're going to talk about that over the next few weeks, because people come to me all the time,

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and they're like, they'll say, you know, I believe, I believe.

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And oftentimes, I don't look at them going like,

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you don't know because if you believed, wouldn't you do this or if you believe what, you know,

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wouldn't it affect what you're doing? When you make different choices,

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if you really believed that there was a God, and he was who he says he was.

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So that's my premise. Today, I want to specifically ask this question.

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If you believe that there's a God, and that he loves you, that he cares about you,

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that he's a just God, that he's a righteous God, and that he has a plan for lives,

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and he wants to direct our paths.

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If you believe that, then if you've got a situation, and you want to know the truth,

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you want to know what to do, then you would go to God.

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And then myory man is, we don't often do that.

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So I want to talk to you about that if you really believe.

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And as I thought about this, I thought about a situation in our own home.

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Because often times, my kids are all young adults, they'll call,

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and they're wanting to tell us some grand thing.

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And then a lot of times this grand thing is some problem, some situation, right?

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And so they're telling us this whole thing, something happening work,

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or something that happened with someone, and they're telling me.

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And as soon as they start talking, if they're talking to me, I start wanting to fix

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the situation.

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Like, I'm like, well, I want to ask questions, I want to give them advice,

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I want to whatever.

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And sometimes I get frustrated in those conversations,

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because they're going on and on, and I especially get frustrated,

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if I say, this and they go, yeah, but, and then I tell them,

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and they yell, but, and I was like, ah, they don't want solutions,

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they just want to be in, and then I say, I think you call the wrong parent.

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The parent who will just listen to you and let you go on and on,

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and just be so patient and take it all in,

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is the other parent.

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She's sitting over there. Like, she'll do that.

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I don't have that level of thing.

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In fact, I'll tell you something.

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This is actually true, and this will happen.

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We will have them on speaker phone, between us,

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and they're telling us this whole thing, right?

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They're just going it whatever.

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And at a certain point, I look at her, and I go,

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you can take them off speaker phone now.

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You with me on that one, brother.

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Thank you, Amen. How will you?

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Like, you can take them off. You can just take over.

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You can do, you can fly solo on this when I'm done.

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I'm checking out.

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Let me know if y'all need me, you know?

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You see, here's the thing.

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When we have a situation,

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and we often have situations, right?

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I mean, some are minor, some aren't that big,

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big deal, but sometimes they're a little bigger.

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They're a little more involved. They're a little more, you know?

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I have a situation this week.

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Somebody asked me before the first service of how was your week.

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I said, I'll tell you how my week was.

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I had one of those weeks where I had a situation that took over three days of my week.

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Like, literally took over three days of my week.

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I didn't get anything else done except that thing.

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I kept dealing with that thing for three days, you know?

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And there's, oh, your week sounds like his week.

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And I was like, oh, you had one of those weeks.

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We often have those, those kind of things.

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So if you got that kind of thing, a thing that's takes over,

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maybe don't take over your work, why it was a work thing.

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Sometimes you'll have a personal thing, and it'll consume the personal parts of your life,

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at least that part of the time.

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But you have a thing, okay?

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So you're in a thing, and it's consuming some of your emotions.

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It's consuming some of your time.

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You're having to deal with the thing.

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And you want to talk about it.

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We tend to talk because there's a couple of things we want.

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One of the things we want is sympathy.

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We want sympathy.

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We want someone to turn to us and go, you poor thing.

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I cannot believe that that's terrible.

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That's all.

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I can't believe how dare them.

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You know, they just, we want sympathy.

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This is definitely what Carl Hart do not call me.

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Doesn't, I don't, I'm not very good at that.

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You know? So like, you know, they want sympathy.

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Second, but I want sympathy too sometimes.

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Like, I have those, and I go, you know what I do?

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I go talk to her.

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That's what I do.

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And like, can you believe that they did that right?

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Second thing we want is affirmation.

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We want somebody, instead of focusing on what they did to us or what happened or

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can you believe it.

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We want somebody to look at us and go, like, I don't blame you one bit.

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I would do the same thing.

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Of course you should do that.

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Of course you should build that way.

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We want affirmation.

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Now there's a third thing that we should want, but it can be problematic.

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The third thing is truth.

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Truth.

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See, the problem though, is sometimes truth goes against sympathy or affirmation.

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That's problematic.

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Now please don't misunderstand me.

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Sometimes truth will let you give you a little bit of sympathy or for a little while.

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Or it will give you a little bit of affirmation for a little while.

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Sometimes it won't give you any at all, okay?

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Truth.

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And the problem is when we're seeking, you know, situation.

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I mean, go ahead and think about what your situation is easy for me.

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I had a big one this week.

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So it's easy for me to think about my situation.

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You get yours, you know, whatever it is.

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Unfortunately, some of you have four.

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And you got these things and think about it.

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What we do is we want sympathy, we want affirmation.

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Do you want the truth?

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And if you want the truth, where you go for truth?

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If truth is the opposite or against sympathy or affirmation, we have a problem.

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A problem?

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It's hard.

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I don't like it.

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So I want to tell you a story.

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The stories and second kings, I'm just going to ask you to put a few of the verses.

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Okay?

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We're not going to put all the verses up this morning.

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I want to put a few of them up.

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I'll put this first one up.

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It's about a guy named A. Hazar.

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And he'd fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself.

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I would like to have more details on that story.

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Sometimes I look at the Bible and go, like, could you tell me a little bit more about this?

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How does it do fall through whatever office balcony?

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Something.

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Push him was, you know, as the a little bit tips, like what happened?

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I want to story.

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I want to know what happened.

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But regardless, I don't know what happened except that he failed.

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And he severely injured himself.

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So severely injured himself.

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And it says, so he sent messenger saying to them, go and consult bells above the God of

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Echron to see if I'll recover from this injury.

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Echron was this city and Philistine territory.

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And that's where he went.

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All right, you can just put it back on the main slide there.

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And I'm not going to read this to you.

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I just want to tell you this story.

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Okay?

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The story is, just put it on where do you go for a trip.

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There you go.

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I want to tell you the story.

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Instead of you reading it.

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So here's what happens.

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He says, go find out.

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Go ask this.

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Now he's not going for truth, right?

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There's a source of truth.

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And so he's seeking something else.

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You would think he really wants to know.

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He doesn't really want to know.

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If you really want to know the truth, you will go to the source that will give you the truth.

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He's not going to that source.

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But his advisors take off and they start going to Echron.

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Well, at this very moment, God speaks to Elijah.

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He's a prophet. He's a man of God. He has an audience with God.

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He listens to God. He speaks for God.

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And God says, go, and listen to what's happening.

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Go interrupt their journey and ask them a key question.

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Is there no God?

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Is there no genuine God that you would see him?

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Why are you going to other places?

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Now we know why.

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It's the same reason you do.

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It's the same reason I do.

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Because I want someone to give me sympathy.

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Oh, you poor thing. You fell off about getting.

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Or we want affirmation.

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No, you're going to be fine.

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You're going to be fine. It's no big deal. You're good.

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You're good.

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We won't that.

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We don't really want truth.

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If we wanted truth, we would look in God's word.

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We would talk to God ourselves.

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We would seek the prophet of God to speak on behalf of God.

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We would go to wise friends who have an audience with God.

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We won't truth.

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Where do you go for truth?

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So my question for you is even right now.

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Whatever your situation is,

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or your four situations, whatever it is.

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Are you seeking truth?

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Or are you just seeking sympathy and affirmation?

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We have a path.

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We know what we want.

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We know how we wish it would be.

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We want to vent.

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We want to have our moment.

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We were wrong.

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We were victims.

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We were whatever.

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We had a good with faith.

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We were kind of happy.

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So I want to have faith.

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We was like, are you.

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You know.

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And now I'd authorize us to feel this way or do this or whatever.

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And oftentimes we don't really want to talk to God.

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Because we kind of afraid of what God's going to set.

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I think I shared with you this with you before.

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So I've got a situation with my parents, especially my mom.

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know what I really want to do, you know, I'm sitting on a really, would like to, you know,

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do this and she said, well, what is God telling you?

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And I looked at her and she said, she and I'm telling you, and I sat there and she goes,

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it's Jim Grimm, you're not going to tell me that you have an asked him what you want him

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to do.

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Well, I knew he wasn't going to tell me what I wanted him to say.

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Me, your pastor, I'm admitting it to you.

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I know how you are because I'm that way too.

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You don't want to go to truth.

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Do you want truth?

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Do you want truth?

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If you want truth, you will go to the source for truth.

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God always gives you truth.

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Always.

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He loves you.

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Let me tell you what love means.

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Love gives you what you need.

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So I just want you to know something.

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If you need sympathy, he will give it to you.

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He is the God of all comfort.

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He is.

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If you need affirmation, he will give it to you.

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He is the God of encouragement.

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He will give it to you.

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But I also want you to know something.

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If that is not what you need, he will not give it to you.

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He won't give it to you just because you want it.

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He won't give it to you just because you need it.

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He will give it to you if you need it.

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But he will always give you truth.

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So where do you go or truth?

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Now here's our problem.

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How do we react to the truth?

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I love emojis.

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I love the little thing.

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I love the fact that you can text me and I don't even have to work at giving your

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you an answer.

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I can hold my thumb on it and just choose like it.

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Don't like it.

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Ha ha.

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Right.

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Exclamation point.

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It's been such a blessing to others of us who don't want to, you know.

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Thing.

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Good.

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How do you react though when you go for sympathy and affirmation and you get truth that doesn't

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give you that?

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No, we don't like that.

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See that truth is uncomfortable.

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That truth is telling you the opposite of what you want.

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You're telling God about what they did or that situation, your coworker, your spouse,

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your kid, your whatever.

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You're telling them about that thing and you're going now God, you know, if you step in

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there, straighten them out and you're talking to other people who are going I can't believe

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and God looks at you and goes let's talk about you for a second.

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I don't want to talk about me.

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I don't want to talk about what I need.

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I want to talk about them.

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Oh, is this uncomfortable for you?

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I want to talk about you.

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I want to talk about your attitude.

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I want to talk about your mindset.

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I want to talk about what you need to change.

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All you want to talk about is me changing that or them and I want to talk about changing

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you.

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Well, I want to hear that.

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So we've run from the truth.

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Sometimes we even get mad at the truth.

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Like mad at it.

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We'll get angry and we lash out because we're hearing the truth.

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We get upset at it.

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How do you react?

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Let me tell you how a has reacted.

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Here's what he did.

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He said, I don't want to talk to that guy myself.

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He sends these people to go talk to the other God and Elijah God tells Elijah to go interrupt

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them.

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Elijah goes and stands in the road.

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His hold up, fellas hold up, hold up.

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Is there no God?

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Where you all headed?

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Is there no God?

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And he said, I'm going to save you all some time.

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You all can go back to King A.

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He has ironed.

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You can tell him he's not going to recover.

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So they turn around and go back to the King.

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You ever have this happen when somebody says, I got to run to the store.

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I'm going to win Dixie here.

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I'm going to whatever I got to go to the store and you're thinking they're going to be

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an hour and they show back up 15 minutes and they said, he said, whoa, I thought you were

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going to the store and I stopped at Dollar General on the corner because there's a Dollar General

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on every corner.

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Well, that's what happened.

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They just showed back up and the King says, hey, you hadn't had time to go do what I told

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you to do.

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What are you doing here?

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They said, well, we already got the answer.

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This guy shows up and he told us God said, you know, you're not going to recover.

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He actually said, why are you even going to talk this?

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Is there no God?

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Is there no God?

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Why are you consulting anybody else?

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And not God.

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If you believe there's a God and you want to know the truth, of course you would consult

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God.

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He is the truth giver.

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So if you're not, do you really believe?

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You either don't believe there's a God or you don't want to know the truth.

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One of those things, right?

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He said, what that guy looked like, now they take some Elijah was kind of weird.

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He's a prophet and he's kind of weird.

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He was like a mountain man or something.

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He dressed in like, skinned, animal skinned stuff with fur on it and leather straps and

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scraggly beard.

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He looked like he walked out of the heel.

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Come off some heel and walk down here and go, oh, hold up.

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He didn't look like everybody else.

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He's dressed with linen.

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They got cotton clothes on or whatever.

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He didn't look like that.

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And so they tell him, well, he looked like this and he went, I know that guy.

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That's Elijah.

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You know, that's Elijah the prophet.

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I know that guy and he said, go get him.

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He was angry because the messenger, you ever done that?

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You ever gotten mad at the messenger?

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And the messenger's just telling you the truth.

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And he got mad at the messenger and says, you go get him and you bring him in here to talk

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to me.

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So he sends a captain with 50 million and they go and confront Elijah and guess what?

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He is sitting up on a heel.

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He's sitting up on a heel, you know, perched up there and it's kind of steep and they

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come up and they said, call that to him, man of God, come down.

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Get down here.

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And Elijah looks at him and says, what did you call me?

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You call me man of God.

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You call me a man of God.

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Do you really think I'm a man of God?

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I mean, think about it.

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What authority are they ordering him around?

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The kings of thwart, right?

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What Elijah is answering to a higher authority than the king.

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So this guy's ordering him around on the kings of thwart and he just looks at him and goes,

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like, you think I'm a man of God?

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Well, if I am, let's just say I am a man of God.

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I mean, you don't want to know the truth.

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You don't want to listen to the man of God.

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You want to chase after some other thing.

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So here's the deal.

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If I'm a man of God, may fire fall from heaven at this moment and consume you.

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Well, now that'll get your attention.

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So word gets back to the king.

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Now does the king go, oh my goodness, I better listen to this guy.

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No, he just gets madder.

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Now before you laugh at the king, I won't tell you something.

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We do that too.

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Sometimes we just buckle down.

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We get mad at God because we're going to God about our situation.

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We're telling him about our thing or that person or that thing.

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And he doesn't do what we want him to do.

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Like he's not doing it.

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He's telling us some other thing.

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The truth, we don't like it.

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And then things get worse because we just do it our way.

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We step in and say what we want to say and do.

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And things get worse.

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Now we're more upset at God.

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So he sends another captain with 50 more men.

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And this guy steps it up.

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He says, man of God, this is what the king says.

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Come down right now at once immediately.

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So he steps it up.

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Hey, I'm coming based on the king's authority.

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You better get down here and you better get down here right now.

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Kind of reminds me of talking to my kids when I was a little younger.

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You better get in here and you better get in here right now.

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He says, well if I am a man of God may fire come down from heaven and consume you in

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your 50 men.

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So I have some questions.

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We have to figure out guys, how can I figure out if something is truth or not?

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Is there a way to do that?

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Is there a way to figure out what's truth and what's not truth?

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And we have some problems in this area.

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One, we might not want the truth.

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We want sympathy or affirmation.

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But I want to tell you another problem we have.

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We have a problem called confirmation bias.

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Is anybody ever heard of that term?

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Confirmation bias.

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Here's what it means.

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It means you already have developed your own theory about what is truth and so you look for

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evidence to support what you already think is true.

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Like you call it looking for truth but you are not really looking for truth.

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You are looking for evidence that will support what you already think is true.

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So if you think that guy is a jerk and then something happens that will confirm that there

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a jerk, you go see.

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I told you so.

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And if it's a little squirrely, you'll pick out the parts and go see.

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I told you there a jerk.

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And if you think that guy is a jerk and you see information that goes against that,

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guess what you do with that information, you dismiss it.

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But you are not really seeking truth.

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Now here's the problem.

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We all have confirmation bias.

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It's not something that we people have.

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We all have it.

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We all have confirmation bias.

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So deal with it will research this week on journalistic integrity.

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So not saying it exists.

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I'm just saying it's supposed to exist.

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It's supposed to exist.

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If you go to journalism school, they teach you certain things.

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And one of the things they teach you is that you need to verify that something is true before

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you print it.

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That's what you're supposed to do.

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You verify.

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And one of the things you need to do is you have to realize you have confirmation bias.

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You have to realize that you're prone to go get information that confirms what you already

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think.

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So you actually have to work hard to find a counter argument.

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If you really want to know the truth, you look for the counter argument.

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You go to the wise person, you go to the Lord, you go to somebody.

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And you say, this is what I think.

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Now tell me how I'm wrong.

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Tell me.

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I need to know the counter argument.

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I need somebody to tell me the opposite.

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Because sometimes the opposite isn't easy to hear, but when I want to hear it, it's not

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hard to hear.

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I want to hear it because I want to know if I'm doing the right thing.

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I want the truth.

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I am a true seeker.

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Here's the beautiful thing about the Lord.

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He wants you to know the truth.

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There are not a lot of things that are black and white in life, but I want to tell you something

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that's very black and white in life.

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Satan tells nothing but lies and God tells nothing but truth.

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Period.

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That's it.

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Satan tells nothing but lies.

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God tells nothing but truth.

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If you want to know the truth, God will tell you the truth.

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Now the problem is, a lot of times we really don't want to know the truth.

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So if we want to know the truth, we actually approach God a certain way and we actually

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say to God and whatever you tell me, I'm going to accept it and I'm going to do it.

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So I want to ask this question like, how do you approach?

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So these other two guys, they're coming in their approach and with some problems.

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They're approaching on the kings authority, which doesn't hold water to God's authority.

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And they're arguing for their rights.

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We often go to God and we think we have rights.

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You don't have any rights in front of God.

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The only argument, you know what I mean?

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We say, God, this is not fair.

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No, God is always just.

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People will come to me and they've dismissed God because God didn't do what they wanted

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them to do about their situation.

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Well, I don't think you won't God then.

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But surely God would do this or that.

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Like we start putting ourselves on God.

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We think we have rights.

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And we have the only argument that I have before God is to call back to him a promise that

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he made to me, hey, God, you said, that's the only thing I can offer to him.

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The kings authority on my rights, on my whatever, none of that operates in the realm of

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God.

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The only thing that operates in the realm of God is God, you said this, this is a promise

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you made.

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You said, you love me.

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You said you would direct my path.

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You said, you had a plan for my life.

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You said, you know.

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So do you want to know the truth?

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And you know how we do, you know how your kids do or we do like.

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But you said, Johnny, Johnny hit me first, right?

501
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And you know, as a parent, you always look at him and say, well, I'm not talking to Johnny,

502
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right?

503
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I'm talking to you.

504
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We do that with coworkers, you know, yeah, but they don't have to do this or what

505
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it, like we want to be fair and whatever.

506
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See God is always talking to you.

507
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He's, I'm not talking to them.

508
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I'm talking to you.

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Do you want to know?

510
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Do you want to know?

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The truth.

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So the King sends a third captain.

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Can you imagine being here?

514
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Since a third captain, he sends him with his 50 men.

515
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But this guy goes to the bottom of the hill and he bals down and he says, man, of God,

516
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please, please, please respect my life and the lives of my men.

517
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We are your servants.

518
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I'm just here doing my job.

519
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The King wants to talk to you.

520
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I realize I have no authority over you.

521
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I'm just trying to do my job.

522
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Please don't kill us.

523
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We do believe your man and God.

524
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And God said, you can go with him.

525
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Part of our problem is how we approach God in the first place.

526
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So I've got a couple of pieces of advice for you on that.

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And you need to go humbly to your God.

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If you go humbly to God and say, I want to know the truth, and it doesn't matter what it

529
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is because I believe in you and your God and I'm going to follow you.

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I'm your servant.

531
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You just tell me what I need to know and what I need to do.

532
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And even if it's hard for me to hear, just open my ears and help me hear because I'm

533
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going to do it.

534
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I'm going to tell you in that instance, he'll go, all right.

535
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Thank you, servant.

536
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All right, here you go.

537
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The second thing that I need to tell you is you need to be patient.

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Because we often, I like to act once, you know, when I can pray in the God and I want

539
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to do something, I want them to do it right then.

540
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But God's timing is always perfect.

541
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You will talk more about God's timing.

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We're going to talk about it in my Bible study on Wednesday night and talk about God's

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timing.

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But I won't tell you one last thing, okay?

545
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If you want to know the truth, you need to know this.

546
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The truth is the truth.

547
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The truth is the truth.

548
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Doesn't matter.

549
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Because Elijah does go down, he does go to talk to the king and he faces the king and the

550
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king is laying there in his bed and he's really, really sick.

551
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He's really injured and he says, tell me the truth.

552
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Now in that scenario, look, it's easier to act.

553
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It's easier to declare the truth standing on the road to the king's health.

554
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It's different to stand in the king's room where he could say, pull the sword, take him

555
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out.

556
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I don't like his answer.

557
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,840
And Elijah just looked straight at him and he said, I'm going to say what I said to

558
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,000
them, is there no God?

559
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Because if there's a God, you should be seeking God to know the truth.

560
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The message that I gave them is the same message I'm going to tell you.

561
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You're not going to recover.

562
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,520
You're never going to leave the bed, you're lying on them.

563
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:33,640
And then the last verse of this story says, so he died, so he died.

564
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The truth is the truth, whether you believe it or not.

565
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,320
So this is what I want you to do right now.

566
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:49,480
Whatever your thing is or things, whatever that person is or that situation, I want you

567
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,040
to talk to God about it right now.

568
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,440
So would you close your eyes?

569
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,440
Would you focus in with God right now?

570
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:57,640
Just close your eyes right now.

571
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,560
I want you to focus in on God right now.

572
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:07,760
And I want you to ask in about your situation.

573
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:15,720
Would you say, guy, I really, really want to know the truth.

574
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,960
I want the truth.

575
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:25,320
And whatever the truth is, I'm down with the truth.

576
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:31,960
And I realize my 10-lit see-years, the secret I want, my 10-lit see-years to want sympathy, my

577
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:37,720
10-lit see-years to want affirmation, but what I want more than anything is the truth.

578
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,040
Because I do believe in you.

579
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,040
I do believe in you.

580
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,560
I even believe in you in the truth is hard.

581
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:52,400
I want the truth and I'm your servant and I will follow you.

582
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,040
My friend, I believe if you say that to the Lord, he'll give you the truth.

583
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,040
And you'll have a path.

584
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:01,000
You can follow with your situation, but you need to open your eyes and you need to open

585
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,240
your ears too.

586
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:12,040
And you pray for your Lord, help us to seek the truth, to seek the truth, to seek you, to

587
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:21,320
seek your word, and to be open to you.

588
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:27,440
The follow, the true path, Lord so many things happens and they disrupt our plans or our

589
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thoughts or the picture that we had of how it would go and it doesn't go right.

590
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,800
And it throws us for a loop and struggle.

591
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And we want answers.

592
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,560
Is there no God that we would go anywhere else?

593
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We seek you and we seek your truth and Jesus namely, friend.

594
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Amen.

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It is our prayer that it's been helpful in this part of your life journey.

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