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Welcome to Hub City Vineyard.

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To get connected or to give online, go to hcv.church or give.htv.church.

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If at any point during this message you feel called to make a change in your life, text

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change me to 970-00.

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Thank you and enjoy the message.

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen.

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It's a beautiful day here in the Tri-State area.

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Welcome back to Hub City Arena where your favorite local worship team is two for two

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on the season and headed to the plate for another big hit.

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So please get ready to stomp your feet.

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Put your hands together as Hub City Vineyard, Hub City Worship brings you one of the biggest

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stadium anthems of the century, the White Stripes Seven Nation Army.

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I'm gonna fight them off, a seven nation army couldn't hold me back.

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They're gonna rip it up, taking their time right behind my back.

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And I'm talking to myself all night because I can't forget.

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Going back and forth through my mind behind a cigarette.

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And the message coming from my eyes says leave it alone.

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Don't wanna hear about it.

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Every single one's got a story to tell.

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Everyone knows about it.

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From the Queen of England to the Hounds of Hell.

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And if our kids are coming back, we're gonna be the first to know.

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And that ain't what you want to hear, but that's what I'll do.

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And the feeling coming from my bones says find a home.

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Find a home.

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I'm gonna win Chita.

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Far from this opera forevermore.

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I'm gonna work the straw.

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Make the sweat drip out of every pore.

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And I'm breathing and I'm bleeding and I'm bleeding hard before the Lord.

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All the words are gonna bleed from me and I will think no more.

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And the stage coming from my blood says go back home.

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I'm gonna win Chita.

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Yes, yes, welcome to Hustle and Bender.

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Good morning, good morning.

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If you weren't awake before that, now you are, right?

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Yes, happy Father's Day.

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How's everybody doing today?

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Yeah.

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What a great Sunday.

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What a great Sunday.

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We hope you received a root beer and some hot dogs when you came in or a high five.

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And if you're joining us online, we're so glad you welcomed us into your space.

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You don't get a hot dog this morning, but you do get a great band and the Word of God.

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So, yeah, so excited to be here today.

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I'm gonna welcome you guys.

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My name's Jess if you don't know me.

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I don't think I introduced myself for service, but anyway, they'll figure it out.

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And so this is another week of Summer Jams where we explore popular songs through a God-sized magnifying glass.

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And this week, our amazing team, you can give it up for them one more time.

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And Elijah performed Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes.

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The White Stripes are part of a post-punk garage band revival that emerged around 2000.

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And now the worship team is all, they're arguing if they're punk, if they're not punk.

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I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna copy what's on the thing.

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But yeah, so it's like a stripped down version of rock and roll.

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The band consisted of only two members, Jack and Meg White.

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The Seven Nation Army has one of the most famous bass lines in music.

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But interestingly enough, it wasn't created with a bass.

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The White Stripes didn't have a bass player.

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They're only a guitar and a drummer.

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So Jack White played the rift using a guitar with an octave effect to sound like a bass.

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Jack White despised the rift at a sound check before a show in Melbourne, Australia on January 29, 2002.

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Jack recalled to the Rolling Stone,

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Jack White told the Independent that the main riff was a riff he planned to use if he ever got asked to do a James Bond theme song.

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But he didn't think that was likely to happen, so he went ahead and used it in Seven Nation Army.

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Ironically enough, he later got asked to write a James Bond theme song with Alicia Keys, so it was awesome.

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Seven Nation Army didn't catch on right away.

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The song only made it to number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release in March of 2003.

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But though it did top alternative charts, but its life as a sports anthem began six months later

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when fans of the Belgian soccer team traveled to Italy for a match against AC Milan.

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The Italians heard it, they loved it, they adopted it as their own, and when Italy won the World Cup in 2006, the world heard it.

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It's a simple, catchy, and aggressive, according to one news reporter.

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Fans sing the song's guitar central riff, it's just,

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, come on. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, good, yes, you guys know it, see, it was so easy, so easy.

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It's hypnotizing, it's powerful, it's just, everybody feels connected.

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So these seven perfect notes are sung by so many of us.

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However, do you know what we're singing?

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We know the meaning behind the words.

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Sometimes we find ourselves singing

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or in a crowd of people,

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and we just are going along with the crowd.

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So today, we're gonna explore what's behind the music.

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We're gonna explore the lyrics,

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and we're gonna explore to see

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if we can grow in our relationship with God and others.

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Let's pray.

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Holy Spirit, we thank you for your presence here, God.

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We thank you for your peace, Lord.

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We thank you that you are present.

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Lord, we thank you that we can learn about you

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through music, through life, through circumstances.

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And Lord, today I just ask that you would use my words

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to just glorify you, Lord,

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that those that came in today

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would just come away changed, Lord.

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We just thank you for all this.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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Amen, so my first point today is a really great one.

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It's we deceive others for our own gain.

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So I'm just gonna start right off with sin.

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Sorry, guys.

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Sorry, guys, so, but you know, it's okay,

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because we all lie.

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And we've actually all been taught to lie as a social norm.

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In a scientific article,

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The Origins of Lying and Deception in Everyday Life,

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Michael Lewis talks about,

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they do these experiments on kids.

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They take the kids and they give them a toy

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that they didn't want,

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but the kids learn how to lie and say, oh, I like it.

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I think we've all kinda done that one.

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Grandma gives you the toy.

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You say thank you and you smile.

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I don't care if you don't like it.

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She got it for you.

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All right, we will return it later.

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All right?

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I don't know why we encourage that as parents,

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but we do,

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because we wanna make the other person feel good, right?

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If we all were honest all the time,

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we'd have a lot of people that were crying.

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Anyway, I guess, I don't know.

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But you would tell me like my shirt is a little mesmerizing

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and like why did she wear that shirt?

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And I'd be like, okay, I don't know.

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And anyway, so there'd be a lot more honest conversations.

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So we often call this practice little white lies,

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although as scientists, as people, we prefer to say,

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lying to protect the feeling of others.

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And this is socially acceptable, but is it God's best?

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However, there are other types of lies or deceptions.

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So as kids begin to tell those lies

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that you're telling them to tell their grandparents,

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they then start to tell lies

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so that they can get away with stuff for their own good.

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No, I didn't watch any TV today.

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No, I picked up my toys.

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I can watch TV, right?

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They start to tell lies

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so that they can do what they wanna do, right?

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I ate all my dinner.

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Weren't you just in the bathroom

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and you took your plate and scraped it in the toilet?

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No, no, that wasn't me.

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And they've got the facial expression and everything.

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But then we continue this practice as adults,

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deceiving our friends, deceiving our family,

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because we still don't wanna get in trouble.

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We don't wanna face consequences for our actions.

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I'm not sure where all that cash went.

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I guess I might have given it to the kids.

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I've only been watching Netflix for like,

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this is only my second episode, yeah.

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I plan on doing the dishes later.

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Yeah, I've only been playing my game,

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on my game system for like an hour.

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I swear, I swear.

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It's only been an hour.

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I'm gonna go and mow the grass later.

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Or that last piece of cake, what?

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Oh, you would never believe it.

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The dog came up and got the cake.

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We're not supposed to be eating sweets.

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It's just gone, right?

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We just make up those lies all the time

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just to protect ourselves, to make other people happy.

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And then we also are doing it

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so that we can have an advantage, right?

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Some of us go further by lying to our employers

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or by cheating on our taxes or our assignments at school.

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It's all on the internet.

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We can just kinda copy and paste.

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It's not really cheating, right?

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Everybody does it.

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Or then we go take it further.

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We cheat on our spouse, right?

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The one lie builds on another and we are trapped.

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So good news is there are people in the Bible

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that did the same kinda thing.

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So I think lying's been around for a long time,

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but we're gonna see how God helps us through it, okay?

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So let's head into the Bible this morning

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and learn from a story that's all about lies

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and family deception.

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Happy Father's Day.

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You all have broken families.

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It's good, we're gonna talk about it.

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We're gonna pray at the end.

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You'll be good, okay.

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So in Genesis, if you guys have ever read Genesis,

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Genesis is where the Bible starts.

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And so Abraham and Sarah, these old people,

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and they get blessed with a child and his name's Isaac.

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And through Isaac's line, the world's gonna be changed

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and we're gonna be blessed through this family line.

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And Isaac became a father to twin boys

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through his wife, Rebecca.

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And when the boys are born, the twins literally like,

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there's two, they're called Jacob and Esau,

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and Jacob is literally holding onto Esau's heel.

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He's trying to pull him back into the womb.

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He's trying to pull his brother back into the womb.

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I could not imagine this.

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I birthed six kids, right?

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None of my stories are like this.

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I never had twins.

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Christy, who's our administrator,

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her daughter just had twins.

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God bless her.

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But her story is not like this.

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This isn't a common story about a twin

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grabbing onto another twin

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and trying to steal the birthright.

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So Jacob's name literally means

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heel catcher, subplanter, or deceiver, right?

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He wants to take what's his brother's.

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He wants to fight for it, right?

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He wanted to come out first.

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And so we're gonna learn his story.

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So fast forward, so we have Jacob and Esau

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and they're born to Isaac and Rebecca.

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And so Isaac has one blessing,

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and typically on that day they bless the older son

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with the blessing.

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So it's time to receive the blessing from Isaac,

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but guess what?

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Mama steps in.

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Oh no, my son, who I love, is Jacob.

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So Jacob was closer to his mom,

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and Isaac was closer to his daddy,

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like to hunt and do those things,

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and Jacob stayed home.

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So mom wants to make sure her son gets the blessing.

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So she comes up with this story,

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and Jacob goes along with it.

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So she says, you're gonna receive the blessing,

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you're gonna trick your father and your brother,

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and I'm gonna help you, all right?

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They're not a dysfunctional family at all.

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Let's read together.

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So he agrees to the plan,

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and then this is when Jacob is actually

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taking the blessing away from his brother.

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So it says Genesis 25, 29 through 34.

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Let's read together.

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One day, Jacob was cooking some stew.

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Esau arrived home from the wilderness,

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exhausted and hungry.

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Esau said to Jacob, I'm starved,

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give me some of that red stew.

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All right, Jacob replied,

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betray me the rights as a firstborn son.

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Esau, look, I'm dying, I'm starving here,

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like I don't care about my birthright,

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just give me some food.

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It sounds like Chris when he gets home,

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and some of my kids, they just want to eat.

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They just want to eat.

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And so, what good is my birthright to me right now?

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But Jacob said, first you must swear

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that your birthright is mine.

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So Esau swore an oath,

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thereby selling all his rights

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as the firstborn brother to Jacob.

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So, Jacob's got Esau,

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but Esau's kind of still oblivious.

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He's out hunting, he gets his food,

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he doesn't really remember it.

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Okay, so fast forward a couple days.

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Rebecca is cooking up more stew,

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literally and metaphorically.

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And Jacob applies fur to his arms.

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So apparently, Esau was a hairy man,

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he had hairy hands.

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So, Jacob decided,

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I don't think mom, dad's gonna really,

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I don't have any hair on my arms,

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I don't think he's gonna believe this story.

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Okay, well what do you want to do?

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Okay, let's go and get some hair

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and attach it to your arms.

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So literally, they are cocking and deceiving

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the father and the brother.

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So he attaches the hair to his arms, or the fur,

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and the mom cooks the stew,

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just like Jacob likes it.

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And so, they go in and they trick the father.

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Here we go.

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Genesis 27, 21 through 24.

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Then Isaac said to Jacob,

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come closer so that I can touch you

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and make sure you are really Esau.

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So Jacob went closer to his father

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and Isaac touched him.

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The voice is Jacob's,

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but the hands are Esau's, Isaac said.

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But he did not recognize Jacob

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because Jacob's hands felt hairy,

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just like Esau's.

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Hairy hands, that's my son Esau.

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So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob.

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But are you really my son Esau?

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So Jacob's got so many opportunities.

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How many times do we tell lies

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and we have so many opportunities to get out of them,

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but we keep saying the same thing

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just to stay with the story, right?

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He said, yeah, yeah, I am, I'm Esau, Jacob replied.

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In the New Testament,

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Paul communicates to the church at Philippi.

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Philippians 2, 3 through 4 says,

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do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,

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rather in humility, value others above yourselves,

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not looking to your own interests,

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but each of you to the interests of others.

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So Jacob deceived Esau for his owner interests

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because he wanted the blessing.

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He wanted to be the firstborn son.

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I know growing up in my family,

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I was the firstborn daughter

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and my brother was above me

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and I was like, I wish I was the firstborn son

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because my parents still like held tight to that, right?

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Or I wish I was a boy,

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I would get all the attention, right?

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Or I wish I was my sister, right?

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You have that sibling rivalry all the time.

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I've got two daughters who play softball,

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so one is always compared to the other

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and she's like, she doesn't know how it feels

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to be compared to her, right?

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We all go through things like this, right?

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But we're not allowed to steal each other's birthright, right?

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God wants to bless all of you, right?

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Because he's a good father

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and he's got plenty of blessings for all of his children.

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So according to Jack White,

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the song Seven Nation Army is about gossip.

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It's about me, it's about Meg,

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and it's about the people we're dating

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and it's full of anger and rage towards those people.

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Let's read verse one.

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I'm gonna fight them off.

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A Seven Nation Army couldn't hold me back.

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They're gonna rip it off,

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taking their time right behind my back.

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I'm not gonna sing it like Elijah does, he's amazing.

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So Jack is angry because of all the gossip

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surrounding the band.

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He just wants to play music,

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he wants his music to be heard,

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but he doesn't want people to worry about who he's dating,

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who Meg's dating.

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He's angry because he can't control people.

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How many times in our life are we angry

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because we can't control what people are saying about us?

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We can't control people?

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I don't know if any of you guys are a control enthusiast,

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that's what they call him now.

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I'm a control enthusiast, not a control freak, right?

364
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I only like to know what everything's going on.

365
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Just tell me, you didn't tell me about that?

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Why didn't you tell me?

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I didn't think I had to.

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Well why not?

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I'm a control enthusiast.

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I can cheer you on if I know.

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If I don't know, I'm not gonna be able to cheer you on.

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So there's so many times we become that person, right?

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We want control, we wanna know what's going on,

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and that's what, he's just mad.

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He can't control the situation,

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he can't control the people,

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and that's what happens inside our hearts.

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We get mad, we rise up, we get angry

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when we can't control people around us.

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The irony of the situation is that Jack actually told a lie

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that really caused a lot of the gossip around them.

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It's later known as the white lie.

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So when they first rose to fame,

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the white stripes portrayed themselves

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as brother and sister.

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Jack always said Meg's my older sister,

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we're playing in a garage band together.

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So people would focus on the band's music

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rather than the relationship between the two band's members.

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But that made the band cool.

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They were brother and sister team,

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Meg played the drums, he played the guitar.

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They were retro, indie, punk, garage,

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whatever you wanna call them, right?

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But then on March of 2001, the Detroit Free Press

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ran a story that they were actually

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former husband and wife.

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They were divorced since March of 2000.

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So Jack had really taken Meg's name, Meg,

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it was Meg White, and Jack took her name,

401
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so they were the whites, right?

402
00:20:16,620 --> 00:20:18,560
But Jack continued to tell the lie,

403
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no, that's my big sister Meg.

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You know, that's my sister and my musical partner.

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We've got passion together.

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So you see, he was reaping the fallout from sin.

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So that's our point two, we reap the fallout from our sins.

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In verse two he says, I don't wanna hear about it.

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Everyone's got a story to tell.

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Everyone knows about it.

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From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell.

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And if I catch it coming back my way,

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I'm gonna serve it to you.

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He's angry, right?

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Everybody knows about it, right?

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Everybody goes and gossips around that, right?

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I don't believe gossip is from God.

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I don't believe gossip is a good thing.

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But people start to talk, right?

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Especially if you tell a lie.

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Especially if you get caught in lies.

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Galatians 6, 7 through 8 says, don't be misled.

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You cannot mock the justice of God.

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You will always harvest what you plant.

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Those who live to satisfy their own sinful nature

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will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature.

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Jack White wanted to sow in, I'm a cool band.

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I wanna focus on the music.

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I'm just gonna lie.

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But he harvested the gossip that came with it, right?

431
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And Jacob, he planted the seeds of deceit.

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He tricked his brother, right?

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And he's gonna harvest the repercussions of that.

434
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We can't plant a tomato seed, right?

435
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,340
And expect a lemon to grow, right?

436
00:21:39,340 --> 00:21:40,440
A lemon tree to grow, right?

437
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So whatever we sow into the crops,

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whatever we plant, we're gonna sow, right?

439
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And it doesn't mean God doesn't love us

440
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and God's not faithful and God's not with us.

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Sometimes we make bad choices

442
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and we're gonna have consequences from it.

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We keep trying to teach Phoenix consequences of his choices

444
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and it's not working too well.

445
00:21:56,580 --> 00:21:57,580
I'm like, Phoenix.

446
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He's four years old.

447
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If you guys don't know, we have a Phoenix.

448
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He's four years old.

449
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And I'm like, Phoenix, I need you to listen to me

450
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because if you don't listen to me,

451
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then you're gonna get hurt.

452
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So you've gotta, it's not healthy to watch

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more than one show of TV.

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We need to turn off the TV after one show.

455
00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:15,900
Well, listen to me.

456
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I wanna watch TV and I think it's good

457
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and they're gonna rob the bank

458
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and the guy's a fireman and I wanna watch TV

459
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,620
and I wanna go out and pee on the ground

460
00:22:24,620 --> 00:22:26,520
and I don't care if people see my penis.

461
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:31,520
And I wanna be a dog.

462
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The dogs get to go outside.

463
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Why can't I?

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Listen to me, listen to me.

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I want this.

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I want, I want, I want, I want.

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How many times do we sound like Phoenix to God, right?

468
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How many times do we want something

469
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and not trust that God has got these beautiful boundaries

470
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in place so we don't get hurt,

471
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so people don't see our penis, right?

472
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,440
So how many times is that in place, right?

473
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,440
So there's reasons, there's reasons, right?

474
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:54,920
So let's continue with the story.

475
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,240
I'm getting a little sidetracked there.

476
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So Genesis 27 through 35 says,

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as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob

478
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and almost before Jacob had left his father,

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Esau returned from the hunt.

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Esau prepared a delicious meal

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and he brought it to his father.

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Then he said, sit up father and eat my wild game.

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So you can give me your blessing.

484
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But Isaac asked him, who are you?

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Esau.

486
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Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably.

487
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Uncontrollably.

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His father had been broken by the lives of his son

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and by the lives of his wife and said,

490
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then who is it that just served me the wild game?

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And I've already eaten it and I've blessed him

492
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just before you came in.

493
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And yes, that blessing must stand.

494
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When Esau heard his father's words,

495
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he let out a loud bitter cry.

496
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Oh my father, bless me, bless me too.

497
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Right?

498
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,400
But Isaac said, your brother was here, he tricked me

499
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and he is taking away your blessing.

500
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The whole family is affected by one person's sin, right?

501
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,440
Affected by this deception.

502
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Esau becomes enraged.

503
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,280
He hates Jacob.

504
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,080
He plans on killing him, right?

505
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,280
Many of you guys are torn apart by your families.

506
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,280
Many of you guys are torn apart by other people's families.

507
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,480
Right, by other people's sin in your family

508
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,120
that has affected you for generations, right?

509
00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,800
Your father, the sins of your father,

510
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,720
the sins of your mother, the sins of your family

511
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,200
have affected you and you're being left with the pieces,

512
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:22,040
right?

513
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,960
And so I mean you say, God, what's in it for me?

514
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,040
You know, my mom screwed up, my dad screwed up.

515
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,400
Why am I not gonna screw up, right?

516
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,720
But God's got bigger plans.

517
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,680
God's got bigger plans for you, right?

518
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,680
And this holiday today is a struggle for so many of you.

519
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,720
Some people here don't know who their father is.

520
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,280
But I'm here to tell you today,

521
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,640
you have a father who loves you completely, right?

522
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,760
You have a father who receives you regardless of your choices,

523
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,640
regardless of your mistakes, right?

524
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,680
So we run away.

525
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,560
When we make those sins, when we make those choices,

526
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,720
we run away, but we are always haunted by our past.

527
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,320
We try to run from our families.

528
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,680
We try to run from the things that hurt us,

529
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,320
but we are always haunted by our past.

530
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,720
Verse three goes, I'm going to Wichita,

531
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,760
far away from this opera forevermore.

532
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,040
I'm gonna work the straw.

533
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,760
I'm gonna make the sweat drip out of every pore.

534
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,720
So Jack wants to go to Wichita.

535
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,400
He wants to get away from music.

536
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,880
He wants to get away from his life.

537
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,400
He wants to go away.

538
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:23,240
And some of us are like,

539
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,880
if I can just get away from Hagerstown,

540
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,560
if I can just get away from Martinsburg,

541
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,280
if I can just get away from my family,

542
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:29,640
then I'm gonna be okay, right?

543
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,760
And he's like, I'm staying away from this opera.

544
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,800
How many times does a family seem like an opera in your ears

545
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,280
that you don't wanna hear, right?

546
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,600
Over and over again, really loud, right?

547
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:40,720
And he says, I'm gonna work the straw.

548
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,040
I'm just gonna work it out.

549
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,920
I'm gonna go and I'm just gonna get a common everyday job

550
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,640
and I'm gonna make the sweat drip out of every pore.

551
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,240
So Jacob, in the same way,

552
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,120
Jacob ends up fleeing the situation.

553
00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:55,200
He runs away because Esau is gonna kill him.

554
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,040
And so he runs to his uncle Laban's house

555
00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,520
and Laban has two daughters

556
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,240
and Jacob falls madly in love with Rachel,

557
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,640
who is the younger daughter.

558
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,560
And Laban's like, do you like her?

559
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,240
Yeah, she's your cousin, but I'll sell her to you.

560
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,840
I'm so glad I don't get sold.

561
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,080
Seven years of labor.

562
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,640
Okay, deal, deal, seven years.

563
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:15,480
Seven years of labor.

564
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,760
So in the Bible, seven is a significant number,

565
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,840
appearing more than 700 times

566
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,560
in both the Old and New Testament.

567
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,120
Seven symbolizes completion or perfection, right?

568
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:29,080
God created the world in six days

569
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,520
and on the seventh day he rested, right?

570
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,120
It represents divine intervention

571
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,280
and spiritual completeness.

572
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,560
Maybe that's why the rift of this song is so famous,

573
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,040
because it's seven notes.

574
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,840
And maybe it is a little bit of perfection, right?

575
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,400
When you're chanting in the ball field with everybody else,

576
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,560
it feels pretty perfect.

577
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,320
Genesis 29, 21 says,

578
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,800
so Jacob had worked for the seven years.

579
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,160
He had worked for Rachel.

580
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,360
He had sweat and labored.

581
00:26:57,360 --> 00:26:59,920
He was getting away from the toil of being home.

582
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,520
He wanted to establish his family in another country.

583
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,720
So finally the time came for him to marry her.

584
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,920
I fulfilled my agreement, Jacob said to Laban.

585
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,440
Now give me my wife so I can sleep with her.

586
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,960
So Laban invited everyone in the neighborhood

587
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,280
and prepared a wedding feast.

588
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,560
But that night when it was dark, Laban took Leah to Jacob.

589
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,720
Now Leah was the older daughter, right?

590
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:21,800
And he slept with her.

591
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,240
But when Jacob woke up in the morning, it was Leah.

592
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,080
What?

593
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,880
What have you done to me, Jacob Raged?

594
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,160
At Laban, I worked for seven years and you tricked me.

595
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,280
Guess what?

596
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,920
Jacob is receiving the same thing he sowed.

597
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,280
He tricked his brother.

598
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,920
And so he's receiving the same treatment from his uncle.

599
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,000
I don't know if it just runs in the family

600
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,440
or God's trying to teach him a lesson, right?

601
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:43,260
Right?

602
00:27:43,260 --> 00:27:46,600
So he is receiving the things he sowed.

603
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,560
And so Jacob the deceiver is deceived.

604
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:49,760
His uncle goes ointment,

605
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,720
exploit him for another seven years.

606
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,800
He says, okay, yeah, but we marry our older daughters

607
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:55,640
off first.

608
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:56,480
So you worked for seven years.

609
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:57,400
You've got Leah.

610
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,120
So you work for another seven years and you can have Rachel.

611
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,280
And so Jacob agrees because he loves Rachel, right?

612
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,320
And so he works for another seven years.

613
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,160
He gets Rachel, but then he continues to work for him.

614
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,200
And God blesses him in this, right?

615
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:11,200
God blesses him.

616
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,360
He blesses him with sheep.

617
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:17,160
And he ends up working for 20 years for his uncle, okay?

618
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,800
So even though Jacob is away, he's in another country,

619
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,620
he's fleeing God, God hasn't forgotten him.

620
00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:24,480
God is blessing the work of his hand

621
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,760
and God is preparing him, right?

622
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,680
He's sowing things in him as Jacob is working it out, right?

623
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,360
So finally he's so blessed, everybody's kinda like,

624
00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:35,880
what's up with this Jacob dude?

625
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,280
He's got too many sheep.

626
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:38,560
We wanna kill him.

627
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,160
So basically they're like, oh, let's take his stuff

628
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,320
and get rid of him.

629
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,960
So Jacob knows people are getting mad with him

630
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,800
so he's like, I gotta get out of Dodge.

631
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,200
So I'm gonna take my wife, my crazy wives,

632
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,920
and their two servants,

633
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,080
because he slept with them too

634
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,640
because they were all competing,

635
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,840
and crazy children, and all my livestock,

636
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,080
and my insecurities, my fears for the future,

637
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,480
and I'm gonna head back to my hometown.

638
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,160
Sounds good, right?

639
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,680
So Jacob has nowhere else to go but home, right?

640
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,120
And so on the pre-chorus, Jack sings,

641
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,120
and the feeling from my bones is find a home.

642
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,760
So Jacob tried to find a home in a foreign country,

643
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,960
but God didn't allow him to stay, right?

644
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,580
How many of you know that God uses situations in our life

645
00:29:20,580 --> 00:29:22,440
where we're trying to flee from other people,

646
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,720
God can use that for his glory, right?

647
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,320
So point number four is we wrestle with God

648
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,200
when he caused us to change.

649
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,320
We wrestle with God when he caused us to change.

650
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,080
Verse three continues, and I'm bleeding,

651
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,880
and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding right before the Lord.

652
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,240
Now, Jack White was a Catholic,

653
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,280
and so most people think that this was his Catholic

654
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,040
background referencing Jesus bleeding before the Lord.

655
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,800
He's bleeding because all these people

656
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,120
are talking about him, and he's,

657
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,520
he just is a distraught, and he doesn't know what to do, right?

658
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:53,920
How many times do we feel like

659
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,680
we're bleeding before the Lord?

660
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,080
How many times do you feel like I'm on my last leg, God?

661
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,240
I don't know what to do, right?

662
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,680
He's emptied Jacob out, right?

663
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,480
He doesn't know what to do.

664
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,560
And so in Genesis 32, 22 through 25,

665
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:10,880
during the night, Jacob's going home,

666
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,160
and so during the night, Jacob got up,

667
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,560
took his two wives, his two servant wives,

668
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,600
his 11 sons, and crossed the Jacobuk River with them.

669
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,120
After taking them to the other side,

670
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,400
he sent over all his possessions.

671
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,520
This left Jacob alone, all in the camp, and a man came.

672
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,160
So Jacob's alone at this point.

673
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,960
He puts everything that he has to the side,

674
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,840
and he's by himself, and he's going to face his brother.

675
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,520
He doesn't know what's gonna happen tomorrow.

676
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,000
He doesn't know what's gonna happen on the other side,

677
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,800
but he's by himself, and he's like, God, what's going on?

678
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,440
How many times have we found ourselves in that place of like,

679
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,600
I don't know what's going on, God.

680
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,600
And we really need to wrestle with God.

681
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:49,680
We really need to work it out.

682
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:50,520
Well, guess what?

683
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,320
God counts in this situation.

684
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,160
It says,

685
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,920
this left Jacob all in the camp,

686
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,760
and a man came and wrestled with him

687
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,440
until the dawn began to break.

688
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,840
When the man saw that he would not win the match,

689
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,000
he touched Jacob's hip and wrenched it out of his socket.

690
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,760
And the man said, let me go, for dawn is breaking.

691
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,760
But Jacob said, I will not let you go until you bless me,

692
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,280
unless you bless me.

693
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,120
What's your name?

694
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,040
And the man asked, he replied, Jacob.

695
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,640
Your name will no longer be Jacob, the man told him.

696
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,800
From now on, you will be called Israel,

697
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,120
because you have fought with God and with men and have won.

698
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,600
Hebrews 4, 16 says, so let us come boldly

699
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,960
to the throne of our gracious God.

700
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,920
There we will receive his mercy,

701
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,280
and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

702
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,040
Jacob wrestled with God, and God changed his name.

703
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,960
He was no longer Jacob the deceiver,

704
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,560
Jacob the subplanter, he was Israel,

705
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,320
the one who wrestles with God and wins, right?

706
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:56,920
Right?

707
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,640
I have five younger brothers.

708
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,080
Have you guys ever been to a wrestling match?

709
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,080
There's some crazy ones on TV now.

710
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,000
But I grew up in the 80s and 90s,

711
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,440
and we liked the WWF back then.

712
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,120
We had Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, okay, right?

713
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,480
So my brothers all thought

714
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:12,920
that they were tougher than all those.

715
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,260
So every night when I sat down on my couches,

716
00:32:15,260 --> 00:32:16,480
or every afternoon or whatever,

717
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,200
it was just like they'd fly off the couches,

718
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,360
they'd pretend they're the rings,

719
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,960
and they're just wrestling, right?

720
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,640
And Chris loves to wrestle with the kids,

721
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,080
but you know what, sometimes everybody gets hurt.

722
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,360
You like wrestle, and it's fun until you get hurt.

723
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,040
I'm like, somebody's gonna get hurt!

724
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,360
And I just remember my mom going,

725
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,400
somebody's gonna get hurt!

726
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,480
And I do the same thing at my house, and they do.

727
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,680
They get hurt, but they still do it, right?

728
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,960
But when we wrestle with God,

729
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,760
when we wrestle, Jacob got hurt.

730
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,920
He got his hip knocked out of place, but guess what?

731
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,800
He still held onto God, right?

732
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,660
It hurt, he went through pain, right?

733
00:32:48,660 --> 00:32:50,360
But he still got his name changed.

734
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,300
He still received God's blessing.

735
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:54,320
So I'm not gonna say that you're gonna go through life,

736
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,360
and you're gonna feel perfect,

737
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,840
and everything's gonna be great,

738
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,720
and your hip isn't gonna get out of place,

739
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,160
or you're not gonna have to have a knee replacement, right?

740
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,600
I'm not saying that.

741
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,360
But I'm saying that when we wrestle with God,

742
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:07,360
when we wrestle with God,

743
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,400
it's important because he'll change our name.

744
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,040
We'll know our true identity.

745
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,040
Jacob's true identity is found in God now.

746
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,640
It's not found in his father.

747
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,360
It's not found in what he did.

748
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,960
It's found that he wrestled with God, and he won,

749
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,840
because God was there to bless him, right?

750
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,680
He wanted something from God, and he was desperate enough,

751
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,120
desperate enough to wrestle the whole night with him.

752
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,400
There's some of you in this place today

753
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,200
that you want something desperate enough,

754
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,920
and you need to go to God.

755
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,280
You need to go to God, right?

756
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,880
And point number five is we make peace by embracing humility.

757
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:46,320
The song concludes,

758
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,460
"'And the stains coming from my blood tell me go back home.'"

759
00:33:50,460 --> 00:33:51,300
Go back home.

760
00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:54,600
So Jacob decides, I'm going back home.

761
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,320
After he wrestles with God, after he gets his name changed,

762
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,640
he's like, okay, whatever, here we go, right?

763
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,880
His insecurities, his fears, it's all there,

764
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,880
but he's like, okay, God changed my name.

765
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,180
I am Israel.

766
00:34:08,180 --> 00:34:09,720
I wrestled with God.

767
00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:12,480
So let's read Genesis 33, one through four.

768
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,440
It says, then Jacob looked up and saw Esau

769
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:15,720
coming with 400 men.

770
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,440
So he was still a little scared.

771
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,080
His brother who was angry had lots of men,

772
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,440
because guess what, God still blessed Esau.

773
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:23,880
God still blessed Esau.

774
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:24,880
That's another part of the story,

775
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,680
but we don't have time for that today.

776
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,200
So he divided up the children among Leah and Rachel

777
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,080
and his two servant wives and put the servant wives

778
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,760
and their children at the front, and then Leah,

779
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,440
and then Rachel, who he loved the most, and Joseph last.

780
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,680
Then Jacob went on ahead, and as he approached his brother,

781
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,400
he bowed to the ground seven times.

782
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,200
The perfect number, right?

783
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,400
I wanna make peace with you.

784
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,800
I wanna live with you, right?

785
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,760
He bowed to the ground seven times before him,

786
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,600
then Esau rammed to meet him and embraced him.

787
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,500
He threw his arms around his neck and kissed him,

788
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:59,540
and they both wept.

789
00:34:59,540 --> 00:35:03,900
Notice, as Jacob bows, it's saying, I'm done fighting.

790
00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:05,620
I'm done struggling.

791
00:35:05,620 --> 00:35:07,280
I'm done with the past.

792
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,280
I wanna come back home.

793
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,140
I want you to be my brother again.

794
00:35:12,140 --> 00:35:14,400
I wanna see my father and my mother.

795
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,120
I'm done fighting.

796
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,700
Sometimes we're fighting with God so hard,

797
00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:21,160
we just have to, and we wrestle, and it's like, come on.

798
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,920
Just accept the peace that he wants to bring with us.

799
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,760
Ephesians 4.3 says, make every effort

800
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,260
to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace.

801
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:32,920
So what I'm asking you today is,

802
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,720
what anthem are you singing?

803
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:37,260
We're all singing something.

804
00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:39,040
Sometimes we don't even know what we're singing.

805
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,480
We've been hypnotized by our own song, right?

806
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,040
We're singing the same song over and over

807
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,360
and over and over and again in my life.

808
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,520
I wish, I wish I could do that.

809
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,060
I wish I could do that.

810
00:35:50,060 --> 00:35:51,200
Oh, my life is awful.

811
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,300
Oh, my life is awful.

812
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:53,240
Oh, I don't have enough money.

813
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:54,440
I don't have enough money.

814
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,480
I don't have enough time.

815
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:56,760
I don't have enough time.

816
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,040
We see the things over and over and over to ourself,

817
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,560
and God wants to give you a breakthrough today.

818
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,100
Tell you what, when I went to Kenya,

819
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,960
I was floored, so humbled by the poverty,

820
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,920
the things I complain about with my food and when I eat.

821
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,440
I mean, you had kids eating a cup of porridge

822
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,080
and a thing of rice, and that's all they get all day,

823
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,320
and they were happy.

824
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,640
They were happy, and there's times I complain

825
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,720
about my food, I complain about my resources,

826
00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:27,480
I complain about stuff, but you have kids

827
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,080
that are just starving, and they're happy,

828
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,600
and they're just putting on a, they're dancing.

829
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,000
They're dancing for me, and they're starving, right?

830
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,280
So it humbles you, and you see what you really have, right?

831
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:43,760
God, show me what I really have.

832
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,040
God, I may not have money, but what do I have?

833
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,440
God, I may not have health, but what do I have?

834
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,720
I have you, because God says I'm never gonna leave you

835
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,160
or forsake you, because I love you.

836
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,480
Are you angry?

837
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,200
Are you singing that anthem, the Seven Nation Army,

838
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,320
I'm gonna kill them, I'm gonna get them back.

839
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:03,860
They hurt me so bad.

840
00:37:03,860 --> 00:37:05,880
I can't believe my dad, I can't believe my brothers,

841
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,400
I can't believe my family, I can't believe those people,

842
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,480
right, I can't believe my ex-wife, right?

843
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:13,520
Are you scared?

844
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:15,860
Are you depressed?

845
00:37:15,860 --> 00:37:17,740
Are you hopeless?

846
00:37:17,740 --> 00:37:18,780
Are you hopeless?

847
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:20,060
Are you masking guilt or shame?

848
00:37:20,060 --> 00:37:22,180
Can you not get over your past?

849
00:37:22,180 --> 00:37:24,740
Can you not give over the choices you made for your past?

850
00:37:24,740 --> 00:37:26,220
Right?

851
00:37:26,220 --> 00:37:28,860
But I'm here today, whew, so fun.

852
00:37:28,860 --> 00:37:31,580
I'm here today to challenge you to make a change, right?

853
00:37:31,580 --> 00:37:34,300
You need to revive those seven notes in your life.

854
00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:35,660
Whatever anthem you're singing,

855
00:37:35,660 --> 00:37:38,020
God's gonna give you a new one, it says,

856
00:37:38,020 --> 00:37:41,220
this is the one God gave me, God loves me, and he,

857
00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:44,860
I don't have a hand, God loves me, he knows my name.

858
00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:47,600
God loves me, he knows my name.

859
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,780
So if you don't have an anthem to sing today, take mine.

860
00:37:50,780 --> 00:37:53,360
God loves me, he knows my name.

861
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,080
So the first way to change your anthem is to stop running.

862
00:37:58,260 --> 00:37:59,900
You can't escape.

863
00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:01,200
You can't escape God's presence.

864
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,280
Jacob couldn't run away and escape God's presence.

865
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,900
Jack White couldn't run away and escape the news media,

866
00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:08,720
right, if he wanted to do what he loved.

867
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,500
It says Psalms 139, seven through 10 says,

868
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:13,620
you can never escape from your spirit.

869
00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:15,460
I can never get away from your presence.

870
00:38:15,460 --> 00:38:16,900
If I go up to heaven, you are there.

871
00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:18,720
If I go down to the grave, you are there.

872
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:20,420
If I ride the wings of the morning

873
00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:22,500
and I dwell in the farthest oceans,

874
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,420
even there your hand will guide me

875
00:38:24,420 --> 00:38:26,180
and your strength will support me.

876
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,940
You can't run away from God.

877
00:38:28,940 --> 00:38:30,580
He's gonna meet you wherever you are.

878
00:38:30,580 --> 00:38:32,260
So stop, stop running.

879
00:38:32,260 --> 00:38:34,740
Some of you guys are really tired, right?

880
00:38:34,740 --> 00:38:37,220
Stop running and turn to God.

881
00:38:37,220 --> 00:38:40,540
Point two is wrestle with God and hold on.

882
00:38:40,540 --> 00:38:44,500
You know, we don't have a black and white striped life.

883
00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:45,500
It's not black and white, right?

884
00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:47,060
We live in a complicated world.

885
00:38:47,940 --> 00:38:50,620
Babies die, people we love gets cancer,

886
00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:54,820
there's money, there's drugs, our sins blow up families.

887
00:38:54,820 --> 00:38:56,860
Two people who love one another

888
00:38:56,860 --> 00:38:59,320
use their kids as pawns to control each other.

889
00:39:00,820 --> 00:39:02,860
What things do you wrestle with?

890
00:39:02,860 --> 00:39:05,300
You know, I wrestle with,

891
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:07,900
you know, I lost a brother a couple years ago to drugs.

892
00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:11,060
And I'm like, God, why?

893
00:39:11,060 --> 00:39:12,220
Why my brother?

894
00:39:13,140 --> 00:39:15,500
And I met with somebody this week that lost their daughter

895
00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:20,340
after she had gotten healthy and she lost her again, right?

896
00:39:20,340 --> 00:39:22,620
I talk to people all the time of lost loved ones

897
00:39:22,620 --> 00:39:25,660
that they just loved and they still lost him anyway, right?

898
00:39:26,980 --> 00:39:29,300
Why did we have to lose him, right?

899
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:31,100
Why did the enemy get in there?

900
00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:34,600
Why did I have to lose my children before they were born?

901
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,820
You know, why is my son or daughter

902
00:39:35,820 --> 00:39:38,300
choosing to not talk to me, right?

903
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:41,180
There's things we wrestle with God over, right?

904
00:39:41,180 --> 00:39:42,880
And these are all important.

905
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,380
Anything that you're going to struggle with

906
00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:46,300
is important to you, right?

907
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:48,260
And God wants to wrestle that out with you.

908
00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:50,300
He wants to work it out with you.

909
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:51,980
It's okay because guess what?

910
00:39:51,980 --> 00:39:54,340
He says, I will never leave you or forsake you.

911
00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:56,420
He has seen every tear you've cried

912
00:39:56,420 --> 00:39:58,340
and he holds them in a bottle, right?

913
00:39:58,340 --> 00:39:59,980
We've gotta hold on to the fact

914
00:39:59,980 --> 00:40:03,300
that God is good all the time, right?

915
00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:06,340
God loved my brother just as much as I did.

916
00:40:06,340 --> 00:40:09,120
God knew my brother struggles more than I did, right?

917
00:40:11,180 --> 00:40:14,740
And he loved him and he loves me.

918
00:40:14,740 --> 00:40:16,980
And things happen, people die, right?

919
00:40:16,980 --> 00:40:18,180
And our hearts hurt.

920
00:40:19,060 --> 00:40:19,980
And if our hearts didn't hurt,

921
00:40:19,980 --> 00:40:21,980
that means we didn't really love, right?

922
00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:24,060
Right?

923
00:40:24,060 --> 00:40:25,980
What do you wrestle with?

924
00:40:25,980 --> 00:40:27,300
It's okay to wrestle with God.

925
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:28,560
It's okay to wrestle with God.

926
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,660
Wrestle with God and hold on.

927
00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:32,900
Even Jesus, the reason I know it's okay

928
00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:35,580
is Jesus, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,

929
00:40:35,580 --> 00:40:36,500
wrestled with God.

930
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,780
Matthew 26, 39 says, he went on a little further

931
00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:41,460
and bowed with his face to the ground,

932
00:40:41,460 --> 00:40:43,900
with his ground praying, my Father,

933
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:46,420
if it's possible, let this cup of suffering

934
00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:47,620
be taken away from me.

935
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,740
If it's possible, God, I don't wanna die on the cross.

936
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:54,420
I don't wanna go through this pain.

937
00:40:55,380 --> 00:40:58,760
Yet, I want your will to be done, not mine.

938
00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:01,060
That's what Jesus said.

939
00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:03,620
So in my life, I say, God, I don't want this to happen,

940
00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:06,480
but not my will, your will be done, right?

941
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,580
Use this situation for your glory.

942
00:41:08,580 --> 00:41:10,260
If my brother had to die from drugs,

943
00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:13,660
you help me use his story to change other people's lives,

944
00:41:13,660 --> 00:41:14,620
right?

945
00:41:14,620 --> 00:41:17,220
Not my will, but your will be done, God, right?

946
00:41:19,420 --> 00:41:20,260
Not my will.

947
00:41:20,260 --> 00:41:23,380
If my marriage has to die, God use my marriage.

948
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:24,500
Use my story, right?

949
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:27,980
If my, whatever happens, God use it for your glory

950
00:41:27,980 --> 00:41:32,980
because God is bigger and God loves you, right?

951
00:41:33,140 --> 00:41:34,520
Just because you go through pain and suffering

952
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,220
doesn't mean God doesn't love you.

953
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,460
Jesus, his own son, went through pain and suffering, right?

954
00:41:40,460 --> 00:41:42,100
Some of you guys have been hurt by the church.

955
00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:43,860
You're like, how can I go home with church

956
00:41:43,860 --> 00:41:45,540
if this has happened?

957
00:41:45,540 --> 00:41:47,580
You know, how can I move forward?

958
00:41:47,580 --> 00:41:49,200
And I have an example for you.

959
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,220
In Matthew 15, 24 through 26, it said,

960
00:41:52,220 --> 00:41:55,460
we have a Gentile woman who annoys the disciples

961
00:41:55,460 --> 00:41:57,520
and Jesus calls a dog.

962
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,100
All right, Jesus, way to go.

963
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,380
He was perfect though, so obviously, I don't know.

964
00:42:02,380 --> 00:42:04,500
Then Jesus said to the woman,

965
00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:06,900
I was only sent to help God's lost sheep,

966
00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:08,100
the people of Israel,

967
00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:10,600
but she came and worshiped him, pleading again,

968
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:11,680
Lord, help me.

969
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,280
Jesus responded, isn't right to take the food

970
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,180
from the children and throw it to the dogs.

971
00:42:16,180 --> 00:42:18,860
And she replied, that's true, Lord,

972
00:42:18,860 --> 00:42:21,060
but even the dogs are allowed to eat the scraps

973
00:42:21,060 --> 00:42:24,700
that fall beneath their master's table.

974
00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:27,080
Dear woman, Jesus said to her, your faith is great,

975
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:28,540
your request is granted,

976
00:42:28,540 --> 00:42:30,420
and her daughter was instantly healed.

977
00:42:30,420 --> 00:42:31,260
Guess what?

978
00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:32,740
She didn't care Jesus called her a dog,

979
00:42:32,740 --> 00:42:34,180
she didn't care people in the church hurt her,

980
00:42:34,180 --> 00:42:35,280
she didn't care the disciples,

981
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:36,980
she wanted healing for her daughter

982
00:42:36,980 --> 00:42:38,940
and she would do whatever it takes.

983
00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:41,980
She wrestled with God until she got her healing

984
00:42:41,980 --> 00:42:44,020
for her daughter, right?

985
00:42:44,020 --> 00:42:45,900
So people are perfect, right?

986
00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:47,720
The disciples were perfect.

987
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:49,460
Jesus just communicated to her

988
00:42:49,460 --> 00:42:51,280
what the Father had told him to do, right?

989
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:58,280
But her faith, her faith helped heal her daughter, right?

990
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:02,780
Point three is don't bleed, receive.

991
00:43:02,780 --> 00:43:04,860
You know, many of us keep bleeding out,

992
00:43:04,860 --> 00:43:06,780
just like the song, right?

993
00:43:06,780 --> 00:43:08,580
I'm bleeding out, I'm bleeding out.

994
00:43:08,580 --> 00:43:11,280
We put ourselves on the cross for our mistakes,

995
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,060
for our failures, if only I would have done that.

996
00:43:14,060 --> 00:43:16,100
If only I wouldn't have said that.

997
00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:17,580
Maybe my family would be together,

998
00:43:17,580 --> 00:43:20,060
maybe this person would be in my life, right?

999
00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:23,140
So we keep putting ourselves on the cross

1000
00:43:23,140 --> 00:43:25,620
and then we also keep that negative self-talk going

1001
00:43:25,620 --> 00:43:27,340
over and over and over again in our minds.

1002
00:43:27,340 --> 00:43:30,540
We run that situation over and over again.

1003
00:43:30,540 --> 00:43:33,660
But we read in scripture, 1 Peter 2, 24 says,

1004
00:43:33,660 --> 00:43:38,660
he personally carried our sins in his body on the cross

1005
00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:43,180
so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right.

1006
00:43:43,180 --> 00:43:48,180
By his wounds, you, you are healed, right?

1007
00:43:48,180 --> 00:43:49,740
You are healed by his wounds.

1008
00:43:49,740 --> 00:43:51,940
Pam, you are healed by his wounds, right?

1009
00:43:51,940 --> 00:43:54,940
Eric, you are healed by his wounds, right?

1010
00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:56,260
Right?

1011
00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:59,260
Lance, you're healed by his wounds, right?

1012
00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:05,100
So I want you guys to take out your communion element today.

1013
00:44:05,100 --> 00:44:07,060
So no, just kidding.

1014
00:44:07,060 --> 00:44:08,660
Well, actually it's gonna be our communion element.

1015
00:44:08,660 --> 00:44:10,620
So do you guys know why the band

1016
00:44:10,620 --> 00:44:12,460
were called the White Stripes?

1017
00:44:13,940 --> 00:44:16,580
Anybody into your research?

1018
00:44:16,580 --> 00:44:18,540
You know, okay.

1019
00:44:18,540 --> 00:44:21,020
So Meg, who was a band member, loved,

1020
00:44:21,020 --> 00:44:25,140
I'm gonna put it in my mouth, loved peppermints.

1021
00:44:25,140 --> 00:44:28,060
And so she wanted the band to be called the Peppermints.

1022
00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:29,980
So could you imagine the peppermints singing

1023
00:44:29,980 --> 00:44:30,820
the Seven Nation Army?

1024
00:44:30,820 --> 00:44:33,660
It might not be quite as effective.

1025
00:44:33,660 --> 00:44:37,780
Well, in our true peppermint, there's white stripes in it.

1026
00:44:37,780 --> 00:44:39,420
So Jack's like, or whoever's like,

1027
00:44:39,420 --> 00:44:40,620
well, we could be the White Stripes.

1028
00:44:40,620 --> 00:44:42,780
So that's why they were the White Stripes.

1029
00:44:42,780 --> 00:44:44,620
So yeah.

1030
00:44:44,620 --> 00:44:49,620
So you all should have received a white stripe,

1031
00:44:49,620 --> 00:44:52,260
a striped peppermint today when you walked in.

1032
00:44:52,260 --> 00:44:53,860
And so I want you guys to look at it

1033
00:44:53,860 --> 00:44:56,220
if you don't have it in your mouth already,

1034
00:44:56,220 --> 00:44:58,140
or it's still in your pocket, right?

1035
00:44:58,140 --> 00:44:59,300
See that the red stripes,

1036
00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:01,860
when I see the red stripes on a peppermint,

1037
00:45:01,860 --> 00:45:05,340
I think about the blood of Jesus.

1038
00:45:05,340 --> 00:45:08,380
I think about the freedom I can receive

1039
00:45:08,380 --> 00:45:09,660
in taking that, right?

1040
00:45:09,660 --> 00:45:11,340
So some of you have a peppermint in your mouth.

1041
00:45:11,340 --> 00:45:12,460
Jesus says, here's my blood.

1042
00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:13,580
It's in your pocket, right?

1043
00:45:13,580 --> 00:45:15,780
And we don't put it in our mouth, right?

1044
00:45:15,780 --> 00:45:17,540
We don't receive it.

1045
00:45:17,540 --> 00:45:20,500
We said, no, I'm gonna hang on the cross.

1046
00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:21,700
I want people to feel bad for me.

1047
00:45:21,700 --> 00:45:23,740
I'm not good enough.

1048
00:45:23,740 --> 00:45:25,100
I've done so many bad mistakes,

1049
00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:28,260
and God's like, no, just receive my blood.

1050
00:45:28,260 --> 00:45:29,980
Just receive my healing.

1051
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:31,660
Just receive my forgiveness.

1052
00:45:31,660 --> 00:45:34,980
But we have to put it in our mouths, right?

1053
00:45:34,980 --> 00:45:37,940
We have to make the choice to receive it.

1054
00:45:37,940 --> 00:45:39,180
I wouldn't know what this tastes like.

1055
00:45:39,180 --> 00:45:40,420
I wouldn't know what this mint tastes like

1056
00:45:40,420 --> 00:45:42,300
unless I put it in my mouth, right?

1057
00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:46,340
And the red stripes remind me of the blood of Christ, right?

1058
00:45:47,260 --> 00:45:48,380
And I'm trying to set this down

1059
00:45:48,380 --> 00:45:50,100
because I'm trying to show you something.

1060
00:45:51,580 --> 00:45:54,620
And once I receive it, the blood takes away my sins,

1061
00:45:54,620 --> 00:45:55,740
and I'm forgiven.

1062
00:45:57,260 --> 00:46:00,620
So, that'll have to take a little bit longer.

1063
00:46:00,620 --> 00:46:05,500
So, so I must have a lot of sin

1064
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:06,900
that I need a healing from.

1065
00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:11,740
So, yeah, so as you begin to receive God's healing,

1066
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:14,900
His blood will cover all those sins.

1067
00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:16,140
You need to ask for forgiveness.

1068
00:46:16,140 --> 00:46:19,580
Some of you need to ask for forgiveness from others, right?

1069
00:46:19,580 --> 00:46:21,900
Some of you need to forgive yourselves.

1070
00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:23,060
And so, that's what we're saying is,

1071
00:46:23,060 --> 00:46:26,220
God, forgive me for what I've done.

1072
00:46:26,220 --> 00:46:28,180
Forgive me for not being a good father.

1073
00:46:28,180 --> 00:46:31,500
Forgive me for hating my children for this.

1074
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:37,500
Forgive me for being so angry with you, God, right?

1075
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:39,700
Forgive me for just doing what the world tells me to do,

1076
00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:40,540
and I'm lying all the time.

1077
00:46:40,540 --> 00:46:44,460
So, once you do it, and you suck really hard,

1078
00:46:44,460 --> 00:46:47,100
it's clear, it's white, right?

1079
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:49,780
Your blood, the sins are gone, right?

1080
00:46:49,780 --> 00:46:50,860
This is how God sees you.

1081
00:46:50,860 --> 00:46:54,860
He sees you pure and clean and white as snow,

1082
00:46:54,860 --> 00:46:56,780
and He's like, you're my child.

1083
00:46:56,780 --> 00:46:58,340
I can't see any fault in you.

1084
00:46:58,340 --> 00:46:59,740
I can't see any sin.

1085
00:46:59,740 --> 00:47:02,180
And then, you have to walk in it, right?

1086
00:47:02,180 --> 00:47:03,900
You have to walk in it, right?

1087
00:47:04,980 --> 00:47:07,020
Jesus wants us to come home to Him today.

1088
00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:10,140
If you haven't received Jesus,

1089
00:47:10,140 --> 00:47:11,980
if you haven't received that blood in your own life,

1090
00:47:11,980 --> 00:47:15,420
can we all pray together today to just receive,

1091
00:47:15,420 --> 00:47:18,220
to get healing, to receive forgiveness?

1092
00:47:18,220 --> 00:47:19,300
All right, let's pray.

1093
00:47:20,220 --> 00:47:21,620
Jesus, I'm broken.

1094
00:47:23,220 --> 00:47:24,860
Full of doubt.

1095
00:47:24,860 --> 00:47:26,460
Regrets.

1096
00:47:26,460 --> 00:47:27,900
Fear.

1097
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:28,740
Change me.

1098
00:47:28,740 --> 00:47:33,740
Help me receive from you all that you want from me.

1099
00:47:34,780 --> 00:47:38,780
Help me receive your forgiveness.

1100
00:47:40,020 --> 00:47:45,020
Help me forgive others because you've forgiven me.

1101
00:47:46,020 --> 00:47:51,020
Help me walk as a person I'm called to walk into now.

1102
00:47:53,820 --> 00:47:55,780
Change my name.

1103
00:47:55,780 --> 00:47:57,820
Change my heart.

1104
00:47:57,820 --> 00:48:00,580
Make me new.

1105
00:48:00,580 --> 00:48:01,660
In Jesus' name.

1106
00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:03,740
Amen.

1107
00:48:04,620 --> 00:48:06,140
Amen, so once you receive that,

1108
00:48:06,140 --> 00:48:09,940
you need to live in peace and walk in humility.

1109
00:48:09,940 --> 00:48:12,300
So when the enemy tries to come in and say,

1110
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:15,660
hey, you did this, you need to say no, that's a lie.

1111
00:48:15,660 --> 00:48:17,420
I'm covered by the blood of Jesus.

1112
00:48:17,420 --> 00:48:20,300
This is how Jesus sees me now, and you can't go back.

1113
00:48:20,300 --> 00:48:21,300
You can't go back.

1114
00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:24,260
Hebrews 12, 14 says, make every effort

1115
00:48:24,260 --> 00:48:26,620
to live in peace with everyone and to be holy.

1116
00:48:26,620 --> 00:48:29,580
Without holiness, no one will see the Lord.

1117
00:48:29,580 --> 00:48:33,140
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God.

1118
00:48:33,140 --> 00:48:34,740
So remember to check yourself.

1119
00:48:35,700 --> 00:48:39,180
So we don't just wanna follow when it comes to sin.

1120
00:48:39,180 --> 00:48:41,780
We just don't wanna follow the crowd, right?

1121
00:48:41,780 --> 00:48:43,340
We wanna be different.

1122
00:48:43,340 --> 00:48:45,900
We're called to not only receive Jesus, right?

1123
00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:48,740
We don't only just receive Jesus and receive healing,

1124
00:48:48,740 --> 00:48:51,180
but we walk towards him, we walk in his way.

1125
00:48:51,180 --> 00:48:52,460
We follow the way of Jesus.

1126
00:48:52,460 --> 00:48:54,540
That means we're honest.

1127
00:48:54,540 --> 00:48:56,660
We're gonna have tough conversations, right?

1128
00:48:56,660 --> 00:48:58,180
We don't fall into sin.

1129
00:48:58,180 --> 00:49:01,060
We don't fall into the easy route, right?

1130
00:49:01,060 --> 00:49:02,580
Don't be like my phoenix, right?

1131
00:49:02,580 --> 00:49:03,980
Don't fight against God.

1132
00:49:03,980 --> 00:49:06,940
Just say, okay, God, I choose the path, right?

1133
00:49:06,940 --> 00:49:09,100
I choose the goodness of God.

1134
00:49:09,100 --> 00:49:11,980
God gives us good boundaries because he loves us.

1135
00:49:11,980 --> 00:49:15,020
Don't be hypnotized by the world's anthems or standards.

1136
00:49:15,020 --> 00:49:18,780
Live in the light and follow the example of Christ.

1137
00:49:18,780 --> 00:49:22,380
Matthew 5, 9 says, God blesses those who work for peace,

1138
00:49:22,380 --> 00:49:25,060
for they will be called the children of God.

1139
00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:25,900
Guess what?

1140
00:49:25,900 --> 00:49:30,260
You're called the children of God when you walk in peace.

1141
00:49:30,260 --> 00:49:34,020
Micah 6, 8 says, people, the Lord has told you what is good,

1142
00:49:34,020 --> 00:49:35,980
and this is what he requires of you,

1143
00:49:35,980 --> 00:49:38,540
to do what is right, to love mercy,

1144
00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:40,940
and to walk humbly with God.

1145
00:49:40,940 --> 00:49:43,300
Your new anthem starts today, people.

1146
00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:48,100
Your new anthem of peace and unity and love starts today.

1147
00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:49,580
Can I have all the men stand up,

1148
00:49:49,580 --> 00:49:52,140
all the fathers and all the men?

1149
00:49:52,140 --> 00:49:54,420
We're gonna pray for you today.

1150
00:49:54,420 --> 00:49:55,260
We're gonna pray for you today.

1151
00:49:55,260 --> 00:49:57,540
And if you have a man around you

1152
00:49:57,540 --> 00:49:59,900
that just lay hands on him, come on,

1153
00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:02,260
we want everybody to be surrounded by the love.

1154
00:50:02,260 --> 00:50:04,340
The world tears our men down.

1155
00:50:04,340 --> 00:50:06,940
The world, for a long time,

1156
00:50:06,940 --> 00:50:10,580
the world has torn men down for a while,

1157
00:50:10,580 --> 00:50:14,020
and it makes me sad because I love our men.

1158
00:50:14,020 --> 00:50:17,700
I love, there's so many good men.

1159
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,140
We have so many good men, and you, yeah,

1160
00:50:20,140 --> 00:50:22,740
we have so many good men.

1161
00:50:22,740 --> 00:50:24,820
We have so many good fathers in here.

1162
00:50:24,820 --> 00:50:26,420
We have so many good men,

1163
00:50:26,420 --> 00:50:28,140
and we need to encourage our men

1164
00:50:28,140 --> 00:50:30,780
to be the man that God's calling them to be.

1165
00:50:30,780 --> 00:50:34,060
And the only way we can do that is by prayer, right?

1166
00:50:34,060 --> 00:50:36,180
The only way we can do that is by supporting them.

1167
00:50:36,180 --> 00:50:38,220
We're not perfect, right?

1168
00:50:38,220 --> 00:50:39,660
But we need to walk in God's way.

1169
00:50:39,660 --> 00:50:42,300
So let me pray for you this morning, all right?

1170
00:50:42,300 --> 00:50:43,220
Okay.

1171
00:50:43,220 --> 00:50:45,100
And this song that they're playing right now

1172
00:50:45,100 --> 00:50:47,140
is called Run to the Father.

1173
00:50:47,140 --> 00:50:49,500
This is a song about when we are scared,

1174
00:50:49,500 --> 00:50:52,100
when we are lonely, we turn back and we run to the Father,

1175
00:50:52,100 --> 00:50:53,180
and we fall into grace.

1176
00:50:53,180 --> 00:50:55,700
Some of you guys need to fall into grace today.

1177
00:50:55,700 --> 00:50:59,660
Some of you guys don't know who your father is, right?

1178
00:50:59,660 --> 00:51:01,340
But you do have a heavenly father,

1179
00:51:01,340 --> 00:51:03,580
and he loves you so much.

1180
00:51:03,580 --> 00:51:05,460
He loves you so much.

1181
00:51:05,460 --> 00:51:06,700
Holy Spirit, come.

1182
00:51:08,020 --> 00:51:10,420
Holy Spirit, fill this place.

1183
00:51:10,420 --> 00:51:13,020
God, we just pray over the fathers in this room today.

1184
00:51:13,020 --> 00:51:15,420
We pray over the men in this room.

1185
00:51:15,420 --> 00:51:16,740
They're stepping in as fathers.

1186
00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:18,500
We pray over all the men in this room.

1187
00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:22,860
God, I pray that they walk in their identity in Christ, God,

1188
00:51:22,860 --> 00:51:26,940
that you have called them as men to lead by example, Lord.

1189
00:51:26,940 --> 00:51:29,860
You have called them to lead through your anthem, Lord.

1190
00:51:29,860 --> 00:51:32,620
Let them not just slip into the world's habits for them.

1191
00:51:32,620 --> 00:51:35,860
Let them not slip into complacency or laziness

1192
00:51:35,860 --> 00:51:39,820
or just depression or hopelessness, Lord.

1193
00:51:39,820 --> 00:51:42,780
They have what it takes because they have you, God.

1194
00:51:43,980 --> 00:51:45,300
You are proud of them.

1195
00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:47,100
God, I just ask that you would just pour out

1196
00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:50,260
blessing upon blessing over the men in this room,

1197
00:51:50,260 --> 00:51:51,580
those who are watching online,

1198
00:51:51,580 --> 00:51:54,340
that they would know that they have a good, good father

1199
00:51:54,340 --> 00:51:58,740
who loves them, and that you are proud of them,

1200
00:51:58,740 --> 00:52:02,100
and that when you see them, he knows your name.

1201
00:52:02,100 --> 00:52:03,380
He knows your pain.

1202
00:52:03,380 --> 00:52:04,660
He knows what you've been through,

1203
00:52:04,660 --> 00:52:07,660
and he's there with you, right?

1204
00:52:07,660 --> 00:52:09,700
God doesn't promise his life's gonna be perfect

1205
00:52:09,700 --> 00:52:11,100
and things aren't gonna happen, but he promises you,

1206
00:52:11,100 --> 00:52:13,980
I will never leave you or forsake you, God.

1207
00:52:13,980 --> 00:52:16,500
So God, I pray that you would just show these men

1208
00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:19,260
in this room, God, where you are today.

1209
00:52:19,260 --> 00:52:21,580
I pray that you would bless them with your presence

1210
00:52:21,580 --> 00:52:23,900
and your peace, Lord.

1211
00:52:23,900 --> 00:52:26,660
I pray that as they live in your light, God,

1212
00:52:26,660 --> 00:52:28,140
as they walk in your ways, Lord,

1213
00:52:28,140 --> 00:52:31,500
you would just overflow them with goodness

1214
00:52:31,500 --> 00:52:34,100
and mercy and justice.

1215
00:52:37,100 --> 00:52:40,700
We just thank you and we praise you again in Jesus' name.

1216
00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:41,540
Amen, amen.

1217
00:52:41,540 --> 00:52:46,540
Amen, amen.

1218
00:53:11,540 --> 00:53:13,540
Thank you.