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Welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast, where we bring God's Word to you weekly.

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We pray what you hear will bring clarity to your situation and open doors in your life.

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Enjoy the message.

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Isn't he a wonderful God?

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He's worthy of all our praise and all our worship.

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We freely give it to him, don't we?

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I trust you do.

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Hallelujah.

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Well, when Pastor Betty was here, I thought, well, just keep going, you know, I'm redundant.

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Just keep going.

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It's good to be encouraged by someone that's been up the road a bit further.

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Hallelujah.

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We've been encouraged this morning a few times to have an expectant heart.

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And I just want to say again, why did you come to church today?

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Well, if you came to worship God, that's good.

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But we need to have an expectant heart that I just don't turn up and it happens and I

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go home.

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What are you expecting to receive from God?

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What are you expecting to hear from God?

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Are you open to hear God?

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You might say, of course I am because I came to church.

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No, not necessarily.

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There's something about being here, but there's also something about being present while you're

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here.

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Being present while you're here.

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Sunday morning is not a time to come into the house of God and fall asleep.

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I know sometimes we're not off because we're tired and because of this and because of that.

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But regularly, you know, and I'm not talking about this church particularly, but regularly

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I have seen people come to church and just fall asleep.

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When the preaching starts, they fall asleep.

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And I thought, well, not while I'm preaching, please.

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So I remember a couple of times there, you know, got rather demonstrative in my preaching

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and made a lot of noise and everything else.

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They couldn't go to sleep.

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But anyhow, I think I better quit.

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Anyhow, why are you here this morning?

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Be present while you are here, not just be here.

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I think that's a good thought.

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So open your heart to receive this morning.

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Open your heart to receive.

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You might say, well, nothing particularly that I want, but you want the blessing of

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God.

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You want to hear what God wants to say to you today.

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Open your heart to hear.

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Otherwise, friend, you're in the place and it just goes over your head and you're missing

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out.

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Don't miss out this morning.

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Let God be God and let God do what God wants to do in your life, in my life, in our lives,

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in this church.

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Because this world needs God.

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This world needs God.

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The events of this week even, the president or one of the candidates, Mr. Trump, somebody

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tried to kill him.

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It's not a really good look, is it?

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Thank God we live in Australia.

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And you see all the, I'm not knocking the Americans, but all the stuff that goes on

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with their elections is to me way over the top.

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But anyhow, they had their thing and he was endorsed as their candidate and whatever.

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I don't know what's going to happen there.

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The president is, anyhow.

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And I'm not for one or the other and whatever.

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But I tell you what, this world needs someone to stand up and be strong.

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Needs someone to stand up and be strong.

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Well, it may as well be me and you.

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It doesn't have to be the president of the United States.

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It would be good if one of them did, but anyhow.

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We need to stand up and be strong.

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Friend, the world is in a mess.

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You know the world is in a mess.

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You read about it, see about it.

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You live in it every day.

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But our heart needs to be, and I'm sure that it is mostly, that we're wanting God to do

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something.

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We're wanting God to move in our midst and to move in our government.

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And for those of our Christian politicians in Australia, that they would stand up and

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be counted as Christians.

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And some of them are.

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Most of them are.

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Some are sort of in the background there and yes, I'm a Christian and I go to church and

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they do the right thing.

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But we need ones to stand up and be strong and say, no, that's not what God wants.

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And the people will follow.

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Some won't, but most will because they're looking for someone to lead.

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Because that's a leader's job is to lead.

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Not just to kowtow and bow down to every crackpot person that comes along and says, you need

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to be doing this.

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Oh, well, okay, I'll please you then do that.

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You can't please everybody.

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You know the thing I like about God?

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He doesn't care what I think so much.

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I need to care what he thinks.

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Oh dear.

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God wants us to have a good time.

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He wants us in our life to have a good time.

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He wants us to be joyful and happy and whatever, but he also wants us to be serious at those

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right times.

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And friend, I believe it's a time to be serious in God.

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It's a time to be serious for our nation.

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It's a time to be serious for yourself.

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And this morning I want to share a few things that I trust would help you and encourage

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you.

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As we look at the children of Israel, and so much can be said, so much can be taken

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from Exodus and Deuteronomy and all those books in the Old Testament there that tell

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us about Israel and their journey.

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For we know that the children of Israel being in captivity in Egypt, slavery, that they

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were there making bricks out of straw and doing what they were, subservient people there.

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But God had chosen them and God led them out of there.

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He led them out of their slavery and He took them into the promised land.

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But that's a picture of our salvation.

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We're in bondage in sin and enslaved to sin.

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Not because so much of what I, it's just because of sin.

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We are born in sin.

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It's not the sin of our parents, it's the sin that we're just born into.

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We are born with a sinful nature.

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And God came and set us free because Jesus died on Calvary, shed His blood, and as we

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receive Him as our Saviour we are cleansed and we are free.

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As they put the blood over the doorposts and the lintels of their houses when the angel

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of death was passing over.

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They were under the blood and the blood set them free.

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The pictures are there.

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The Old Testament is a picture book of the New Testament.

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It's a picture book of our journey of salvation.

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And then God led them out and He led them across the Red Sea.

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They saw the miracles there across the Red Sea.

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They were baptised in the water as it were.

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They went through the waters.

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We get baptised in the water for the remission of our sins.

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Their enemies were cut off and drowned behind them.

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And then we know that they wandered around for 40 years in the wilderness and I'm jumping

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ahead of myself but anyhow they wandered around there for 40 years and then they had to go

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into the Promised Land and cross Jordan.

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And friend I believe the crossing of the Jordan is that time that we, is the baptism in the

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Holy Spirit.

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However, some might not agree, I don't know.

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But let's read from Deuteronomy chapter 1.

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So we're looking here at this stage.

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Oh no, I'm jumping ahead again.

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My goodness.

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Let me just read this.

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Chapter 1, 1 to 8.

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These are the words of Moses spoken to all Israel on this side of Jordan in the wilderness

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in the plain, the opposite Sufa between Peran, Tofel, Laban, Hazaroth and Dizba.

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You exactly know where they are, don't you?

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In the 11th day's journey from, it is the 11th day journey from Horeb to Mount Sur to

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Kadesh Barnea.

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Now it came to pass in the 40th year of the 11th month on the first day of the month that

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Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments

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to them.

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After he had killed this king of the Amorites and he dwelt, who dwelt in Heshbon and Og,

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the king of Bashan, who dwelt in that place and there.

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And on that side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law saying,

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the Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb saying, you have dwelt long enough in this mountain.

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Jordan, and take your journey and go to the mountains of the Amorites and all their neighboring

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places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowlands and in the south and in the

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south coast, in the sea coast to the land of Canaan, of the Canaanites to Lebanon as

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far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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See I have set the land before you, go in and possess the land which the Lord swore

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unto your fathers to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to give them and their descendants after

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them.

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So God is saying here, or Moses is saying here and rehearsing with this, now the next

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generation of Israelites that came out of, these are the kids that came out of Egypt,

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not the mums and dads.

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That generation perished in the wilderness, 40 years they wandered, that's a generation.

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They perished in the wilderness and these are the children now that Moses is reminding

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of what God said prior to just going into the promised land.

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So Moses is rehearsing all that God had done, had got them to that place.

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I wouldn't want to have been Moses.

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I like to talk to Moses when we get to heaven, might have to join the queue, I think there

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would be many that would like to talk to Moses.

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But he was the pastor of some rebellious people wasn't he?

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You got an easy job Rod, you haven't got rebellious people.

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We're not rebellious are we?

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Not intentionally.

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But he was a pastor of these three million or something of them that were there and he

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had some difficulties.

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And the Bible says that Moses knew the ways of God.

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The people saw the acts of God but Moses knew the ways of God.

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Friend I tell you there is something in that that if you can get a hold of that, that can

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change your life.

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We just don't go looking for the miracles of God and say oh yeah God's good and God

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did this and God did that.

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But that we would know how God works.

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We would know the ways of God and we know that, we can know that if we know the Word

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of God because these are the ways of God.

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This is how God does it.

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This is what God wants, not what someone else says, not what Mother Mary said, not what

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Aunt Jane said, not what Uncle Bill said, but what God says.

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Moses knew the ways of God.

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And yet out of the frustration that he felt at different times and I tell you what out

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of three million people, surely he got frustrated a few times.

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He struck the rock in anger and he struck it twice.

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God said just strike the rock.

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But that rock was Jesus.

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It's a type of Jesus.

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And he smote the rock in anger.

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And as a result of that, God said you're not going in.

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Of all that you've done and all that he did because of one thing, he didn't go in.

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God said you're not entering the promised land.

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And the last chapter of the book of Exodus, it tells you there how what happened to Moses.

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God allowed him to go up into the mountain there and have a look across and see the promised

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land but he couldn't go in.

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And God buried him in that place.

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No one knew where he was buried, the Bible says.

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And God buried him there.

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He died.

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God took him.

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Could I just say there's a price to pay if we don't obey?

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Anyhow let me get to this.

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In that chapter verse 6, it says the Lord God spoke to in Herob saying you have dwelt

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around this mountain long enough.

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And oh thank you.

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I'm not used to people picking up my notes.

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You have dwelt around this mountain long enough.

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In other words, you've been going round and round and round and round the problems.

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You've been going round and round and round and round with your attitudes and God is saying

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fix up your attitudes and move forward.

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That's my interpretation of what God is saying here but I believe it's correct.

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He wanted them to move forward.

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Deuteronomy, the book of Deuteronomy is an interesting book.

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I just want to give you a little bit of a background.

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But the key word of the book of Deuteronomy is remember.

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It was a whole book about remembering this.

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Remember God did this.

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Remember the commandments.

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And Moses is going through this with the next generation to go in who are now adults and

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saying these are the commandments and he read them out to them again.

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He reminded them of all the good things that God had done for them and how He provided

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for them.

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So the key word is remember.

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The time of writing is just prior to entering the promised land.

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The location is on the plains of Moab, this side of Jordan in the wilderness.

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So they had come from Egypt, from Egypt.

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They had gone across the Red Sea, round and round the mountain in Sinai.

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They came up here to Catechisphani and then they went around and on the eastern side of

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Israel and then they attacked Israel or the land of Canaan from the east.

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From the east and they went westward and they were camped at that eastern place there.

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And this is where Moses is speaking to them.

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Just for your Bible scholars and we should all be Bible scholars to one degree or another,

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the synopsis or the whole general thing of the book of Deuteronomy is in chapters 1 to

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4 there's a rehearsal there of God's past dealings with Israel.

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Then in chapters 5 to 11 you've got a repetition or a re-reading of the Ten Commandments and

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the choice Israel had to be a separated people obedient to the divine command.

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See God just didn't take, He chose Israel to be His possession.

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Chosen ones.

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Special people.

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Thank you.

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Special people.

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He chose them to do that, to be that.

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But to be that special people they had to do it God's way.

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And we know that the people when things were going good wanted to do it God's way but when

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things were going bad they wanted to do it the world's way.

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In other words they didn't want the prophets to rule over them and they didn't want to

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obey all that God had said.

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So they said they wanted the king like the other nations had a king because they didn't

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have a king.

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But they had God who said to them if you do all the things that I'm wanting you to do

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you I will do awesome things among you.

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That was the promise.

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You see they ignored these promises.

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A lot of them.

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And friend I want to dare say to you how many times, let me put it in personal things, how

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many times have I ignored what God has said to do?

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How many times have you ignored what God has said to do?

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You've read it in the Word.

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You've seen it in there.

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You've maybe heard it preached or whatever but you haven't done it.

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You've ignored it.

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You've just gone and done what you've done before.

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Or you tried it and it didn't work so you just said oh well I've moved on.

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You see if we do it God's way awesome things can happen.

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That's what he said.

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Awesome things can happen.

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Anyhow so God, Moses was reminding them of this particular thing.

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That they were a separated people to live under that, to live under God's guidance.

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Chapters 12 to 26 is the whole code of laws to be observed when they got into Canaan and

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then the final words of Moses and his song and blessing in chapters 31 to 33 and then

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the account of Moses' last vision of the promised land and his death in chapter 34.

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So there you have a good study of Deuteronomy.

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Now my notes are pretty much shot at the moment because I've jumped ahead and whatever but

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let me just read what I had here because it succinctly puts it.

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It had been 40 years since they left Egypt.

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The journey which should have taken a few weeks had not been completed because of their

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whinging and complaining and their disobedience causing frustration and heartache to their

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leader Moses.

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They had spent about two years camped at Mount Horeb and they refused to enter the promised

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land which God had promised them so they wandered aimlessly in the desert in the wilderness

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for 38 years.

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That's a long time.

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You think of 38 years ago.

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What were you doing 38 years ago?

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So if you're 80 today you were 42.

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That's a long time ago.

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That's a lot of living.

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And they were going round and round and round and round in circles for 38 years.

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They were now camped on the eastern border of Canaan, the promised land in the valley

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opposite Bethphor in the uplands of Moab overlooking the Jericho and the plains of Jordan.

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Moses is now speaking to this next generation.

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So he said all that.

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And this next generation had lived in the consequences of their father's disobedience

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and rebellion.

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These are the kids.

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I mean they didn't know anything.

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If mum said this or dad said that or if they were a bit rebellious you know and whatever

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or over the meal they complained about what God was doing or what Moses was doing or something.

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You know they were just there listening to it all.

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And I'll say this now because I might forget to say it later.

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They didn't blame their parents because these are the ones they're standing now that actually

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went in and took the land.

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Anyhow.

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And they faced new challenges and new foes, new temptations and even new leadership as

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they prepare now to go forward with Joshua under his command to take the land.

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You see God is always wanting his people to move forward.

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Always wanting his people to move forward.

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It's been said before that if you are not moving forward you're moving backwards.

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Well that's not necessarily right.

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But if you're not moving forward you're going nowhere.

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That's what I'd rather say.

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Like I can stay here and I can move forward.

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Yes I'm moving forward.

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But if I stop moving forward I'm not going backwards.

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I'm just stagnant.

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Getting stale.

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Standing in one place.

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And if I do that so long and everything well then I can backslide.

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Well then I'm going backwards.

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But God always wants his people to move forward.

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To advance.

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To go on.

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To progress.

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And to grow up and be strong.

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That's what he wants for you and me.

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Now I'm not saying that you're not doing that.

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I'm just saying this is what God wants.

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Just keep doing it then.

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It's the same for us today isn't it?

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Ask yourself.

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Am I growing or am I getting stagnant?

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Am I staying in the one place?

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Am I changing and becoming more like Jesus?

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Or am I the same as I was a year ago?

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Do I see growth in my Christian walk?

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Or is it just the same old me as it was 40 years ago?

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50 years ago.

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Last year.

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You see God says his ways are not our ways.

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Hang on to that one.

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His ways are not our ways.

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His ways are not our ways.

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Why did the children of Israel rebel to the extent that God denied them the entrance into

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the promised land?

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They had God as their deliverer coming out of Egypt.

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He was their leader.

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He led them through the desert.

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You know, fire a pillar, pillar of fire by night, pillar of cloud by day.

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You know what I mean.

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He was their provider.

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The manna falling from heaven every day.

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Only enough sufficient for that day.

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He was their warlord.

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And they lived on miracle provision and miracles every day and safety.

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What was their problem?

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What was their problem?

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I mean you think to yourself, what was their problem?

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Why were they whinging and complaining?

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Well, I believe it was their wrong thinking.

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It was their negative mentality.

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It was their negative attitude.

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I can imagine, you know, being one of them and living in probably fairly rough conditions

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in a tent, but it was cold and it was hot and everything else.

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And maybe they had some cause to complain.

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Maybe they could even justify that they had cause to complain.

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But did complaining help them or hinder them?

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It hindered them.

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Friends, let me just say this.

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I might have cause to complain about something, but if I complain, is it going to help me

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or hinder me?

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Is it going to help me to go forward if I complain or is it going to help me to be grumpy

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and just complain more and whinge and whine?

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Aussies are good at that.

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Any of you that have been in the military forces, be it Air, Navy or Army, you'll know

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that it's a saying that if a whinging soldier is a good soldier, a complaining soldier is

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a good soldier.

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He's always complaining about something, especially about anything, especially Australians.

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But we're a different breed.

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Oh, that's a message for another time.

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You see, it's the wrong thinking, it's the wrong attitude that holds us back.

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You know, I've said this to Claire so often.

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My biggest job in life, my biggest task in life is to maintain my good attitude, is to

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keep my attitude right.

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Is that correct?

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Just to keep your attitude right.

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You can lose your attitude about a lot of things if you want to, but what good does

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it do?

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Maintain a good attitude.

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It's a full-time job, I've found, about you, it's a full-time job.

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Oh dear.

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See, I want you to see it's not the environment, it's not the circumstances that we live in

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that determines faith and hope and trust in God.

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It's our attitude and response to those conditions and the environment.

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Look, a simple example is a bit like road rage.

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Someone cuts you off, someone does the wrong thing or they can't merge or you think, oh,

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you idiot.

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And you might be right in, yes they did the wrong thing and whatever, but to go on about

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it is not helpful.

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Just to say, you don't know what you're doing, but I do and off you go.

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Confidence, coming into a roundabout, to merge in a roundabout, oh goodness me.

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Be confident and just do it.

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People tend to have got their blinker on, stop and do all these sorts of things and

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create traffic problems and accidents and see, you can get all complaining and everything

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about that, can't you?

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But it doesn't do a hill of beans, it's good to complain about it.

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It doesn't change them because you're not talking to them.

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All you're doing is letting the frustration come out, which may be a good thing if you

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can just cut it off at that point, but normally it goes on and on and you get home and you're

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saying, you know that bloke cut me off of that thing and couldn't merge, they're idiots,

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they don't know what they're doing.

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How are they letting those old people drive?

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And we can just have a good whinge and a complain.

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I know you're smiling because you do it.

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We all do it.

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Maybe to one degree or another, but we all do it.

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You see, the children of Israel, they focused on the things around them rather than what

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God had promised them.

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For us, we focus on the things around us rather than what God has promised us.

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If you're sick and you think about the sickness all the time and not think about what God

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has promised all the time, friends, you're going to just not be healed unless God sovereignly

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does something, which He can do.

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Some things are needful, I know, but whether we have a new car or a bigger boat or a better

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job and money to live in a new house, that's not the issue, but all those things are good

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things.

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They're not wrong to have those things, but you can have them all and still not be happy

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and fulfilled in your life.

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And there are many, many, many people in the world who have all those things and they are

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not fulfilled, they're not happy.

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What does the Bible say?

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I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than whatever.

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These things won't help when you have unwanted stresses and problems and hardships and trials

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that come in life that come to your life.

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And these things won't help you at all.

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And if you have a wilderness mentality, you'll be struggling to be the overcomer that you

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need to be and God says you are.

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You see, if we're thinking about the wrong things, that is the problem, as far as I can

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see.

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We all want to be successful and prosperous and happy in our life and that comes by allowing

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the Word of God to help us see where we need to change and how to apply that Word that

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will bring the change to our lives.

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And I guess if you look back over a lot of preaching that you've heard, that would be

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the gist of it.

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It's no good giving you all the bells and whistles and everything and all the little

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if it doesn't come to down, this is the problem, this is the answer, you need to do it, this

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is how you do it.

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You say that's a bit harsh.

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It's truth.

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All that God said to the children of Israel, be obedient, obey what I'm saying, do what

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I'm saying, do it the way I'm telling you to do it.

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This is what he said.

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And this is the thing about God, that there's no correspondence ended into that.

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You can't write him a letter or talk to him and say, God I don't agree with that.

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Well you can but it won't make a bit of difference.

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His Word is unchangeable.

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If he says to do it, we need to do it.

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I'm saying that if it says to do it, I need to do it too, I'm not just saying you, we

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need to do it.

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But see the Israelites, they didn't get it.

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They saw things from their point of view and didn't see things from God's perspective.

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They didn't see the way God saw it.

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God said, I've chosen you and I want to be your leader and I want you to live under my

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divine covering, protection, provision and everything else.

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And they said, no, we don't want that.

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We want to king like the other lot.

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We want to till the ground.

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We want to do all the stuff that the others do, nations.

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So they didn't get it.

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And it cost them their lives though, didn't it?

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That generation died out.

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And God purposefully caused them to wander around until they died out.

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He said, no, that's it.

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You're not going to do that, you won't enter.

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The generation that died in the wilderness, they died unfulfilled and disillusioned even

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though God loved them and chose them as His special people.

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00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:03,480
So Christians, we can look at them and say they were foolish, they were ungrateful.

482
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,040
But as we look at our own lives, are we any better?

483
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,000
Hmm, challenge there.

484
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,720
Are we full of faith and hope for the future and obeying the promises and instructions

485
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,720
of God's Word every day, all day?

486
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,040
Are we complaining, comparing, arguing away the truth of the Scripture and not applying

487
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:25,140
its life-giving principles and words and then wonder why the things don't go the way they

488
00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:28,800
should go?

489
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,540
If you've got a roadmap and the roadmap says this is the way to Bila Mkanka out there,

490
00:32:33,540 --> 00:32:38,240
but you would say, well I think I ought to go this way, you're not going to end up there.

491
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,760
It is that simple.

492
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,840
The signpost says that's the way to Bila Mkanka, wherever that is.

493
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:51,200
But you say, no, we'll go this way.

494
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,960
Well we know all roads lead to Bila Mkanka because you can go around the world and come

495
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:01,960
in another direction and you'll get there but that's not the smartest thing to do.

496
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:15,160
James 1.22 simply says with great, great emphasis, be doers of the Word and not hearers only,

497
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:23,000
deceiving your own selves.

498
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:31,280
Psalm 119, I'm not going to read the whole Psalm, but Psalm 119, every verse except a

499
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:41,680
couple in that of 175 or something, other verses in that Psalm, it mentions the Word

500
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,660
of God in every verse.

501
00:33:44,660 --> 00:33:48,920
The testimony is God, the statutes of God, the Word of God, whatever it is, the mention

502
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:49,920
is there.

503
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:54,800
And so the whole thing of Psalm 119 is the Word of God is important and you need to obey

504
00:33:54,800 --> 00:34:00,720
it because He's saying in that Psalm, because I do this, God you're doing that, because

505
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:07,880
I attend to your Word, you look after my life, that sort of thing.

506
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,200
So as we look at the attitudes of the children of Israel and see the results, it may be a

507
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:18,680
reflector of our attitudes and we will do best to take some heed.

508
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:25,520
Wilderness mentality, and that was the title of my message, wilderness mentalities, but

509
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:32,000
a wilderness mentality is wrong thinking and having a wrong attitude.

510
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,420
That's wilderness mentality.

511
00:34:36,420 --> 00:34:42,720
And if you're finding that you seem to be not progressing in your Christian walk or

512
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:46,280
you have a problem and you don't seem to be able to overcome that problem, whatever that

513
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:57,440
problem might be, it could be that your thinking is wrong and your attitude is wrong.

514
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:04,160
Now some of you are looking at me like a bull looking at a new gate, like you've never heard

515
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:15,800
that before but I know you've heard it before.

516
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:21,760
See if you're feeling that you're in the wilderness, I believe that's the reason.

517
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,840
Because wilderness mentality, I'll say it again, is wrong thinking and having a wrong

518
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:34,080
attitude.

519
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:41,240
And if your thinking is wrong, this is just a, anyhow, read it, but if your thinking is

520
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:47,600
wrong, your attitudes are wrong and if you think the wrong things, you will do the wrong

521
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,320
things.

522
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,920
If you think the right things, you will do the right things because everything that you

523
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,080
do starts with a thought.

524
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,760
Remember that.

525
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:04,080
Everything you do starts with a thought.

526
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,880
People get murdered because someone thinks that that's what I'll do.

527
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,560
I'm going to kill that person.

528
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:12,560
You say, but I'm not a murderer.

529
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:13,560
No, of course you're not.

530
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,480
But I'm just saying the principle is that.

531
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:23,360
Banks get robbed because people think about robbing banks.

532
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:24,360
I never robbed a bank.

533
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,800
I never think about robbing a bank.

534
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,800
Have you?

535
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:27,800
You have?

536
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:28,800
Oh, okay.

537
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,520
But you thought about it and then you bought that thought in the captivity of Christ and

538
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,320
then you dealt with it and you didn't.

539
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:35,320
Good one.

540
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:44,080
But see, everything starts with a thought.

541
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,420
Some things become automatic though, don't they?

542
00:36:47,420 --> 00:36:51,400
Like you get in your car to come to church today.

543
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:57,120
I guarantee you never got in your car and thought about everything you did.

544
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,380
You didn't think about walking up to the car.

545
00:37:00,380 --> 00:37:03,840
Now I have to pull this handle out and that'll open the door.

546
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,000
Now I have to put my foot in there and that shuts the door.

547
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Now I've got a key.

548
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,200
I've got to put that in there and oh, if I turn that, that's right, it goes.

549
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,160
And then I have to put this in there and I have to... you don't think that.

550
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,800
You just get in and do it.

551
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,080
It's automatic for you, isn't it?

552
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,960
Whether your car's a manual or automatic, I'm talking about your automatic reaction.

553
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,440
You just do it because you've done it so many times.

554
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:33,120
Friends, sometimes we get so in the automatic mode of our living that we're missing out

555
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:39,040
on the real gist of what God is wanting to do because we're saying, oh, I tried that

556
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:45,720
before or something and it's just we're in the automatic mode rather than we might be

557
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:55,160
there but we're not present.

558
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,760
I tell you what, I know you've heard me preach a few times, I know that.

559
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:05,160
And you've heard me say it before about thinking and all our things and if you haven't, you

560
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:09,200
can get all the tapes I suppose if you want to.

561
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:17,680
But friend, it's such a major thing that when you talk to some people and you're not trying

562
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:23,640
to psychoanalyse them, you're not trying to counsel them, you just hear what they are

563
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,200
saying and it's all, you're a Christian?

564
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:33,240
I'm hearing all this verbal garbage coming out of you.

565
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,920
And then you say you love God and you're obeying everything that God said to do.

566
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,800
You can't do that.

567
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,760
The results would be different.

568
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:47,160
So let me say it again, if your thinking is wrong, your attitude will be wrong and your

569
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:53,320
actions will be wrong and you will be wrong because every action starts with that thought

570
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,800
and the more you think about something, the more you'll focus your thoughts on something

571
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,480
and stronger the desire to activate that thought and do it.

572
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:06,240
Now, there's good and bad thoughts, isn't there?

573
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:20,480
Like you think about a good, juicy steak, yay thick, sauce, onions, potato, you got

574
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:21,480
the picture?

575
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,160
That's a good thought.

576
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,280
You can sit and look at that all day and think about that all day but if you think about

577
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:32,720
that long enough, you'll say to your wife or your husband, I really feel like a steak,

578
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:41,200
let's go and get one because it starts with a thought.

579
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:53,040
But then if you think about a wheat bix with peanut paste on top of that, you got the picture?

580
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,760
The dry old wheat bix and the sticky old peanut paste on top of it and you try and eat that

581
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,160
and I'll tell you what, that'll gum you up for a month.

582
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,200
It'll gum your mouth up for a month.

583
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,200
It's not pleasant.

584
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,440
You wouldn't think about that for once and say, oh, I didn't think about that at all

585
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:14,240
and you wouldn't say to your spouse then, I think we need to go and buy some wheat bix

586
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:18,360
and buy some peanut paste and really have a feast, that'd be wonderful.

587
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:19,360
It's wrong thinking.

588
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,200
It's just ridiculous.

589
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,040
It's unpleasant.

590
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,640
But positive thoughts are pleasant.

591
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:32,240
So you have your steak and you have the wheat bix, you have positive thoughts are pleasant,

592
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:39,120
negative thoughts are unpleasant.

593
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:45,800
So the more they thought about how worse off they were, the children of Israel, after their

594
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:52,880
miracle deliverance from Egypt, listen to this, they produced attitudes of ungratefulness,

595
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:59,080
of blame, of porous, self-pity, unteachableness and more.

596
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,280
And they became a foot stomping complaining rebellious people who wanted everything to

597
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,160
be perfect with no problems and to have immediate results.

598
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,040
And they didn't want to put in the effort.

599
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:16,720
And God, while you're about it, a variety of diet would be good, thank you very much,

600
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,560
attitude Israel.

601
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,080
And I'm sick of these clothes that don't even wear out and the shoes I'm wearing don't

602
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,080
even wear out.

603
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,960
I can't even get a new dress, all the ladies said.

604
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,160
So they're complaining but they were living in a miracle.

605
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,000
The Bible says that their garments never wore out.

606
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,280
Their shoes never wore out on their feet.

607
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,840
But they complained about it in any case.

608
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:48,240
Because Mrs. Jones over here, she said, these shoes, I've had them so long, I'm getting

609
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:49,240
sick of them.

610
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:51,640
Yeah, well, that's all, I never thought of that, but yeah, mine are too.

611
00:41:51,640 --> 00:42:02,040
Yeah, and Jones, you remember that, and you remember, yamanyamanyamanyamanyam.

612
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,080
They were so blinded by their wrong attitudes, they couldn't see and appreciate all that

613
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,960
God was doing and that they were living in those abundant miracles every day.

614
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,880
They started off excited about their deliverance.

615
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,320
They saw the plagues, they saw the waters of the Red Sea open up, they saw their enemies

616
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:16,880
defeated and drowned.

617
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:21,120
They were free from slavery, but thankfulness and obedience to the one who delivered them

618
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,880
was short lived.

619
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:29,960
They took the responsibility for their future welfare and their journey from God because

620
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:35,760
they thought they could do it better.

621
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:41,800
Without me saying it all the time, are you applying what I'm saying to you, to yourself?

622
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:50,840
But God still loved them and He led them because their plans couldn't change the plan of God.

623
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:59,240
See, God will always love you and He'll always care for you and His desire is always to bring

624
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:03,280
you into a better place.

625
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:09,200
And the smart person, the spiritual person would not rebel against God or rebel against

626
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:15,040
His Word, but rather do it so that God can do what He wants to do in us.

627
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:21,600
So what are some of these wilderness mentalities?

628
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:26,560
As I said, a wilderness mentality is a wrong mindset.

629
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:31,520
In 2 Corinthians 10, 5 and 6 it says, casting down imaginations and arguments and every

630
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:36,600
high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity

631
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:41,640
every thought to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience when

632
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,040
your obedience is fulfilled.

633
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,760
See, we need to cast down these imaginations, bring every thought into the captivity of

634
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:48,880
Christ.

635
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:54,320
And that is not always easy because sometimes things get so fast and happen so fast you're

636
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,040
caught before you realise it, but then you need to deal with it.

637
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:03,960
But see, every thought that comes, you start to think about some person and you're negative

638
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,000
about that person.

639
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:12,440
We need to bring that under the Word of God and captivate that thought and just hold it

640
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,520
there, hang on, hang on, hang on.

641
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:16,600
And then deal with it.

642
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,680
Is this godly thought?

643
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:19,920
Is this what God would do?

644
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,200
Is this what God wants?

645
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,840
Yes, no, whatever.

646
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,040
And then we deal with it.

647
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:29,760
And the last part of that verse then says, and being ready to punish all disobedience

648
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,040
when your obedience is fulfilled.

649
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:41,720
So when we are obeying what God said, we can deal more easily with what that thought is

650
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,720
and we can just deal with it and effectively fix it.

651
00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:47,760
Now it's not, there's more to that than that, I know.

652
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,600
But bringing that thought into captivity, think about what you're thinking about.

653
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:58,520
Just don't let your brain run off and think about everything and anything because that

654
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,600
brings worry and whatever.

655
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:06,000
So I just listed a few things here that maybe are things that might help you because this

656
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:11,000
is what I see in the children of Israel when they went round and round in a problem and

657
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,520
they were stuck in the wilderness there.

658
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,840
They were, first thing was they were ungrateful.

659
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,200
They were ungrateful.

660
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:26,160
Deuteronomy 2.7 says, for the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.

661
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,020
He knows you're trudging through this great wilderness.

662
00:45:29,020 --> 00:45:33,520
These 40 years the Lord your God has been with you and you've lacked nothing.

663
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:38,600
But they were still ungrateful.

664
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,040
As I said before, their clothes didn't wear out and their sandals on their feet didn't

665
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,040
wear out.

666
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,760
And how that worked, I'm not sure.

667
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:52,240
But as their foot grew, the sandal grew.

668
00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:56,880
I remember my grandmother, she used to live with us, my dad's mum.

669
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,040
She lived with us.

670
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,760
And she made me some clothes.

671
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,880
I was only a kid.

672
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,920
She made me some clothes.

673
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:13,240
And she labored away at the machine and stitched this thing up and a pair of shorts and a shirt

674
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:17,120
and I hate to say it but the shirt had buttons on it that went through the shorts.

675
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,160
You remember those?

676
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,640
And you had to button the shorts so your shorts didn't go down and you sort of had, and it

677
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,680
was old curtain material.

678
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,880
Oh grandma.

679
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:35,920
Anyhow, I must have said something but I remember these words, you ungrateful little tyke.

680
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:42,240
I never forgot it.

681
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:46,720
You can see the children of Israel, they were ungrateful as I've said quite a number of

682
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:47,720
times this morning.

683
00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:53,240
That they were ungrateful but they were living in the miracle power of God.

684
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:58,960
Water, food, everything they had.

685
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,200
And God was with them.

686
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:07,960
What about, so we need to have an attitude of gratefulness.

687
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:08,960
Gratefulness.

688
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:19,000
Thankfulness if you like, but being grateful.

689
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,640
It's a challenge if you set it for yourself.

690
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:31,440
And there was a lady who wrote a book and it was called A Thousand Gifts.

691
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,360
Ross, Ross Camp was it?

692
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,920
Whatever her name was.

693
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:43,480
And she chose things and made notes of it and put it into a book of things to be grateful

694
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:44,480
for.

695
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:50,760
There's a whole story with that but like even the tree, she was grateful for this tree

696
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,520
outside her window.

697
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,480
She was grateful for the clothes that she wore.

698
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:59,260
You think about things to be grateful for, list them all out and be grateful for them.

699
00:47:59,260 --> 00:48:00,260
Maybe do one every day.

700
00:48:00,260 --> 00:48:04,600
That would be a good exercise even if you set yourself, say I'm going to do ten or

701
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:05,600
whatever it might be.

702
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,440
But anyhow, an attitude of gratefulness.

703
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,240
What about an attitude of just blaming the past?

704
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:14,000
Just blaming everybody else.

705
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,200
We blame others, blame parents, blame school teachers, blame the boss, blame the government,

706
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,200
blame anybody.

707
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:20,680
But it's not me.

708
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:25,120
Don't blame yourself.

709
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,120
You see it's the oldest thing in the book isn't it?

710
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,120
Genesis 3, 12 and 13.

711
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,760
This is where God came and sought Adam and Eve in the garden after they'd eaten of the

712
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,880
tree and he said what have you done?

713
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:46,200
And Adam said well this woman you gave me, she gave it to me so I ate it.

714
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:47,920
And then he said Eve, well what happened to you?

715
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:52,640
He said well the serpent that you put in the garden, so I ate it.

716
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,160
Blame someone else.

717
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,560
It's the oldest thing in the book.

718
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:57,560
It's the oldest thing in the book.

719
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,120
It happened in the schoolyard didn't it?

720
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:00,120
At school when you're there.

721
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:06,200
There was always the blame, with your brothers and your sisters.

722
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,840
Wasn't me, must have been them.

723
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:09,400
Who made the mess in the lounge?

724
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:15,480
Not me, he did.

725
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:21,340
But the next generation didn't blame their parents as far as I could see here.

726
00:49:21,340 --> 00:49:22,340
They could have.

727
00:49:22,340 --> 00:49:27,480
It was pretty hard living but you know they could have but they didn't.

728
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:32,400
They were the ones now Moses is speaking to and they were now like on tender hooks, we're

729
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,960
going to go into this promised land, we're going to take this thing.

730
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,840
Our parents didn't and we're not saying oh well we can't because they didn't or because

731
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:47,000
they did that well we're not as strong as we should be because they didn't look after

732
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,000
us well enough.

733
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,520
They had to sleep on a hard bed or something.

734
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,240
We can't blame others.

735
00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:56,280
You have to take responsibility.

736
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,880
And the other thing is what about just the way I am?

737
00:49:58,880 --> 00:49:59,880
It's just the way I am.

738
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:00,880
I was born that way.

739
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,440
It's just the way I am you know.

740
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,920
And I can't, I'm not going to change, it's just the way I am.

741
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:10,280
You've heard people say that, oh well that's just me.

742
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:11,800
That's just me, that's just the way I am.

743
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,320
That's the way I was born, that's the way I was made, you know whatever it might be.

744
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,040
That's a defeatist attitude.

745
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:22,520
You see in Judges 6 Gideon's standing there, thrashing the wheat and he's down in the thing

746
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,040
there cowering away because of the Midianites.

747
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:30,320
And God, the angel comes to him and says, Hail mighty man of valor.

748
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:31,320
He says, who me?

749
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:32,320
Not me.

750
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:38,520
He said, Go in this might of yours and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites.

751
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,480
Have I not sent you?

752
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:44,080
In verse 15 he says, Oh my Lord how can I save Israel?

753
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:49,600
I indeed, in my clan is the weakest in Manasseh and I am the least in my father's house.

754
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:56,800
So he was just saying, I've had it before I start.

755
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,360
That was his attitude, I just can't do it.

756
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:05,060
But we know the story, the end of the story is that he did and he became one of the judges

757
00:51:05,060 --> 00:51:08,120
of Israel.

758
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:15,380
What about comparing yourself to others?

759
00:51:15,380 --> 00:51:20,720
Comparing yourself to, it's a wilderness attitude friend.

760
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:25,640
I know if you're going to measure up to someone, there are very, very few people that you would

761
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:33,360
choose in your life to measure up to, to compare yourself with.

762
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,520
If you've had a good relationship with your father or with your mother, the girls with

763
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:42,260
the mother and the blokes with the father, but you know you might sort of want to measure

764
00:51:42,260 --> 00:51:43,760
up to them.

765
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:48,840
It might be a spiritual leader, it might be a pastor or a teacher or some other of the

766
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,120
Word of God and you would want to measure to them.

767
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:57,760
But the best one is to measure to Jesus and this is how we do that, by obeying the Word

768
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,360
and reading the Word and loving Him and whatever.

769
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:07,020
So you know, things like, expressions like, I'll never be as good as them.

770
00:52:07,020 --> 00:52:12,240
I was told at school, my brother was older than I was and he was good at school, he was

771
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:22,640
in the top one and two of the classes and I was in the other part.

772
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:29,840
And this teacher said to me one day, you know, you'll never be as good as your brother.

773
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,360
You'll never be the boy your brother is or the man your brother is.

774
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:38,400
You know, and that took me a long time to get rid of that because that held me down.

775
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,200
I'll never be as good as him, that's what he said.

776
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:45,040
And it's not a conscious thing, it's just niggles away there anyhow.

777
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:49,400
And so that's a good expression, a bad expression.

778
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,720
I'll never be as good as that person.

779
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:57,720
Well that person mightn't be real good anyhow, you only think they are.

780
00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:01,480
What about the attitude of comparing to others and you say, huh, look at them, they're all

781
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:05,120
their new car and their new house, they think they're so good, eh?

782
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:09,440
It's a wilderness attitude, that's not doing you any good.

783
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:14,920
Is it alright if I say all this stuff?

784
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,400
Are you hearing what I'm saying?

785
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:19,400
Are you hearing what I'm saying?

786
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:20,400
Yeah, good, okay.

787
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,400
I've just got a couple more.

788
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:33,040
You know I love you and I'm just not trying to anyhow.

789
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,120
What about she always wears nice clothes?

790
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,960
You know, these ladies, that one, she always wears nice clothes.

791
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:39,960
We don't care men, do we?

792
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,960
You know, if you've got a nice jumper, I don't want your jumper.

793
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,560
I don't have to have the same jumper as you, I'm happy with what I've got.

794
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,560
But the ladies seem to always sort of compare about clothing.

795
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:54,680
I don't know whether that's right or wrong, shoot me dead if I'm wrong on that one, but

796
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,560
it just seems to be a thing.

797
00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:00,920
Don't compare yourself to other people, don't cover other people's goods, don't cover their

798
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,520
cloak or their whatever.

799
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,320
You know, just be you, with God.

800
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,440
Let God work in you.

801
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:13,960
Let God take care of everything else and everybody else.

802
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,880
To Corinthians 10-12, enough of that one.

803
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:23,880
For we do not care at class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves,

804
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:29,880
but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves

805
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,160
are not wise.

806
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,920
I'll leave that one at that.

807
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,200
What about not taking responsibility?

808
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:41,160
What about just opting out, just dropping out, I just want to drop out of the world.

809
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,800
I just want the world to stop so I can get off.

810
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,760
I just want this situation to go away.

811
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,840
Take responsibility, friend.

812
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:55,160
Take responsibility, don't pass it on to someone else and want them to fix it for you.

813
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:59,340
You do something about the problem, especially your own problems.

814
00:54:59,340 --> 00:55:01,480
What about being unteachable?

815
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:02,740
They think they know it all.

816
00:55:02,740 --> 00:55:06,440
People that think they know it all, they don't know it all because nobody knows it all except

817
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,840
God.

818
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,640
And some Christians always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,

819
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,360
to Timothy 3-7 says.

820
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,160
What about this thinking of being unworthy?

821
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,280
I'm not worthy.

822
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,440
I'm unworthy.

823
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,440
Even the word is a terrible word, it's unworthy, you know.

824
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,960
Makes you feel bad.

825
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:35,320
You are worthy because God has made you worthy when He forgave you for your sin.

826
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:40,160
When you asked Jesus into your life and He cleansed you from your sin, He made you a

827
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,640
child of God.

828
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:51,560
And He said, you're my son, you're my daughter and we are now co-heirs with Him in the kingdom.

829
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:55,920
Anyhow, what about being impatient?

830
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,440
That's not a good attitude either.

831
00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:58,440
We all struggle with that.

832
00:55:58,440 --> 00:55:59,840
I think it's probably a good one.

833
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:03,960
But I tell you what, sometimes it's good to be impatient, especially if you're in the

834
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,400
public place and you want to go to the loo and there's nobody and there's no loo to

835
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:11,480
have, you know, or they're all occupied and you're just starting to get a bit impatient.

836
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,200
That's good impatience.

837
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:18,440
But there's bad impatience like getting impatient at every traffic light.

838
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:25,440
What about, hey, what about the Microsoft collapse the other day?

839
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:29,960
I think there are a few impatient people around the other day.

840
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,640
There sure was, I'll guarantee that.

841
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:37,440
My son was at Bunnings and he bought one or two things and he went to the checkout, didn't

842
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:38,440
know anything about this.

843
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:43,960
There was a guy in front of him who had six or seven things and he was the first that

844
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:49,080
they were processing to pay when all their computers were down.

845
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,480
So he's thinking, I'm going to be here for an hour, you know.

846
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:57,800
Anyhow, what they had to do, they had the person there had to use their own mobile phone

847
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:05,560
to get onto their website, which still seemed to be working, to find out what to charge.

848
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:10,120
Then they got out the old machine and the bit of paper and the card and this sort of

849
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:11,680
thing, you know.

850
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,520
Then they had to write on all the items.

851
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:15,520
This is taking time.

852
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,520
That's why we ditched all that thing a long time ago, didn't we?

853
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:22,280
And progressed to just tap the card.

854
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:28,080
But then the new cards don't have the raised up letters on the new cards so that when they

855
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:32,280
put the new cards on there, there's nothing just to write, so they had to hand write all

856
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,080
the numbers and the name.

857
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:39,400
It just took him 35 minutes to get four items and then he had to step up to the plate for

858
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:40,400
his two items.

859
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,400
Took him an hour to get out of the shop.

860
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:44,400
Patience.

861
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,880
Poor girl couldn't do anything about it.

862
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,080
Anyhow, there you go.

863
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:55,240
But having patience is not my ability to wait, but my ability to have a good attitude while

864
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:56,440
I wait.

865
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,560
That's patience.

866
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:01,560
What about pride?

867
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:06,240
Well, you know, we know about that one.

868
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,160
Pride.

869
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:09,160
And others.

870
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:12,200
And there are plenty of others that we could talk about, but we're not going to talk about

871
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:13,200
them this morning.

872
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:14,200
Enough has been said.

873
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,840
I think you get the idea.

874
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:21,960
Friend, the thing that you think about is so important because it reflects your attitudes

875
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,760
and it brings things.

876
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:25,760
Think good things.

877
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,160
What did the Bible say?

878
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,840
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are just, whatever things are holy, righteous,

879
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:31,840
good.

880
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:33,880
Think on those things.

881
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,800
Sometimes when we're just sitting and we're just stargazing, you know, we're just sitting

882
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:41,920
there having a cup of coffee and looking at what's going on and our mind just starts to

883
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:42,920
wander.

884
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:47,120
That's a dangerous time.

885
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,400
Don't let your mind wander.

886
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,440
Direct your mind to good things.

887
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:54,280
Think on the good things.

888
00:58:54,280 --> 00:59:00,560
You see, God's ways are higher than our ways because there's a way that seems right to

889
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:06,440
man, the Bible says in Proverbs 16, 25, but in the end, the way is death.

890
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,600
My ways are higher than your ways.

891
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:10,840
My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.

892
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:14,760
Friends, God's way is best.

893
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:23,240
Some people live in the wilderness and some people pass through the wilderness.

894
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:26,120
Be one that passes through the wilderness.

895
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:29,520
You might be in the wilderness, but you're moving through it.

896
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,480
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

897
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,720
Yea, though I walk through the valley.

898
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:36,000
I'm not camping in there.

899
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,400
I'm not staying in there.

900
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:39,120
I walk through the valley.

901
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:43,400
I walk through the wilderness, but those that live in the wilderness, they're the negative

902
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:44,400
people.

903
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:47,560
They're the ones that complainers.

904
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:49,200
All those sorts of things.

905
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,880
Don't be one of those.

906
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:56,240
Don't live an unfilled, miserable life as though you're stuck or bogged down wishing

907
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:58,140
you were somewhere else.

908
00:59:58,140 --> 00:59:59,140
Get somewhere else.

909
00:59:59,140 --> 01:00:01,060
Do something to be somewhere else.

910
01:00:01,060 --> 01:00:04,860
Have you tarried and camped and skirted this problem long enough, the Bible says.

911
01:00:04,860 --> 01:00:08,600
It's time to take the promises of God and apply them to your life.

912
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:16,760
Move forward with joy and the freedom that God has given you.

913
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,160
So that's the best part.

914
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,120
Move forward.

915
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:22,840
Move forward.

916
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,080
Let God be God.

917
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:26,080
Let God be God.

918
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:31,760
Oh Father, I just thank you for every person that's in this place this morning.

919
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:35,600
I pray God your blessing over them, Father, in their living and in their lives, in their

920
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:43,960
daily lives and whatever they're doing that Lord, we would as pastor say that communion

921
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:52,320
this morning Lord that we should just be... I forget what you said.

922
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:57,160
Lord Jesus help me.

923
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,280
Think about God all the time.

924
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:01,580
Think about God all the time during the day.

925
01:01:01,580 --> 01:01:02,700
Take him with you.

926
01:01:02,700 --> 01:01:03,700
That is the thing.

927
01:01:03,700 --> 01:01:05,720
And so Father help us to do that.

928
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,280
Bless these ones Lord.

929
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:08,480
Bless these ones Father.

930
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:11,200
I thank you Lord for every person here.

931
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,000
Lord that you would watch over them.

932
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Help them in their living.

933
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:18,400
Lord help them to see the truth of your word and apply the truth to bring change into their

934
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,600
lives and while your heads are bowed and your eyes are closed.

935
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,600
Friend if you're here this morning and I know there are visitors here today and if I've

936
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:28,120
preached a bit long I'm sorry about that.

937
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:32,880
But if you're here this morning and you've never asked Jesus to be your savior, if you've

938
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:36,960
never asked him to forgive you for your sin and you say well I don't know whether I have

939
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:37,960
or I haven't.

940
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:38,960
If you have you will know.

941
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,440
If you haven't you don't know and you need to do that.

942
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:46,680
The Bible says and Jesus said it you must be born again because if you're not born again

943
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,760
you can't understand the things of the kingdom of God and if you're not born again you're

944
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,960
living in your sin and that sin separates from God.

945
01:01:53,960 --> 01:02:03,800
But what Jesus did on the cross when he died for you and shed his blood for you and as

946
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:11,000
we receive that sacrifice personally into our lives he forgives you for your sin and

947
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:19,760
he links you into God that your spirit becomes one spirit with him and you are born again.

948
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:21,120
That's what you need to do this morning.

949
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:24,880
If you're not born again this morning while every head is bowed and every eye is closed

950
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:26,720
no one looking around please.

951
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If you're here this morning and I know that some of you were all here this morning but

952
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:37,180
if you're here and you've never given your life to Jesus I want you to raise your hand

953
01:02:37,180 --> 01:02:40,520
and saying that you're saying yes I want to give my life to Jesus.

954
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:41,520
Thank you.

955
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:42,520
I see those hands.

956
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:43,520
Thank you.

957
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:44,520
God bless you.

958
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:45,520
You can put them down right now.

959
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:49,400
You see Jesus said if you acknowledge me before men I'll acknowledge you before my Father

960
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:50,400
in heaven.

961
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:54,880
But if you deny me before men I'll deny you before my Father in heaven.

962
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,400
Is there anyone else this morning you want to give your life to Jesus?

963
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:03,040
Those of you that are watching this morning online you need to give your life to Jesus.

964
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:08,400
You need to let God come into your life and cleanse you from your sin and be born again

965
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:14,800
and then let God touch your life with newness and joy and everything that he says in his

966
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:15,840
word for you.

967
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:19,860
You need to open your heart to him this morning and I see some of you there watching this

968
01:03:19,860 --> 01:03:23,040
morning in your lounge rooms and you're struggling with that.

969
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:26,120
You're struggling and you're saying I don't know whether I can trust this.

970
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:27,120
I don't know whether.

971
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:28,880
You can trust God friend.

972
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:33,240
I've been saved for 60 something years and I say yes you can trust God.

973
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:34,800
He's never let me down friend.

974
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:36,080
He'll never let you down.

975
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:40,240
Give your life to him today and when you do that just pray this simple prayer.

976
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,520
Lord Jesus come into my life.

977
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:44,560
I confess my sin before you.

978
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,140
I give you my life.

979
01:03:46,140 --> 01:03:49,760
Come and be my Savior and my Lord.

980
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:54,480
And my friend I receive you as my Savior now in Jesus name.

981
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:59,680
If you've said that prayer friend watching online you just let us know.

982
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:00,680
Send us an email.

983
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:01,960
Come to this church whatever you like.

984
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:06,680
No pressure but we'd just like to help you talk with you if that's what you want to do.

985
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,040
The information is there on the screen for you to do that.

986
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:10,520
So God bless you.

987
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,200
While your heads are bowed and your eyes are closed one more time.

988
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:17,880
Is there anybody else here this morning you want to give your life to Jesus?

989
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:20,920
Anybody?

990
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:21,920
Could I ask you?

991
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:25,360
There's two folk up the back that raised your hand.

992
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,160
Would you come to the front and let me pray for you?

993
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:32,460
Jesus said if you deny me before men I'll deny you before my Father but you're acknowledging

994
01:04:32,460 --> 01:04:33,920
me right now.

995
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:37,200
You're acknowledging God and he will bless you.

996
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,200
He'll encourage you.

997
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:43,160
Hallelujah.

998
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:44,640
Thank you for joining us.

999
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:47,400
We pray God's richest blessing on your life.

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01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:52,000
If you haven't already make sure to join us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

1001
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,680
You can also find us at LoganCityChristianChurch.com.

1002
01:04:55,680 --> 01:05:18,880
See you next week.