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Many of us don't realize this, but we have a global water crisis right now.

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If you're watching this video, you can probably stand up and go over to your faucet and get

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a glass of clean water if you're thirsty.

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But over one billion people don't have access to clean water right now on our planet.

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The two major issues we have with water is an access problem and a quality problem.

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With the access problem, there are people all over the planet that cannot gain access

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to clean water.

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This is where wells come in or other ways of getting access to them.

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The other problem is a quality problem.

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Many people get water through lakes or streams or rivers or rainwater harvesting, but it

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has disease-causing bacteria and contaminants in it.

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This is where filtration comes in, and that's why we're here in El Salvador.

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Ride for Water started in 2010.

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It was a bike ride that I went on when I finished grad school.

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On that bike ride, I would travel every day.

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I slept in a hammock and met a lot of great people and went through 10 different countries

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on my bicycle.

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I learned along the way that I was a person that grew up in the U.S. and you just go to

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the tap and turn the tap on and clean water comes out, but that wasn't a reality for a

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lot of people.

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I decided that I'd start this thing called Ride for Water.

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The bike ride part of it lasted about a year, and that was an amazing journey.

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When I moved back to San Diego, I started to talk with my friends about what it would

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look like for us to begin to ride together to help people in places where they need clean

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water.

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The last couple of years has been a journey.

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We've started to do some bike rides and do some stuff in skateboarding and do some stuff

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with surfing to try to help people out wherever we can.

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This was our first trip to El Salvador, and this happened because we met Doreen, who walked

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into a coffee place that I work at in Ocean Beach, and through that contact, we decided

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that we would come down here and help her out.

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So we're here now and we've done several school assemblies.

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The need here is great.

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The government services are not what we have in the U.S., so we're here to come alongside

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and help provide some infrastructure for people that they can have healthy water to drink.

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My role on this trip has been that of a translator.

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I speak fluent Spanish, so I've been here translating for the team and in the schools

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and the villages when we go in and deliver the water filters, just speaking Spanish and

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translating for the team.

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So actually what Ride for Water does provides a huge impact in their lives because the hard

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work that they do to bring water back to their homes, it pays off when that dirty water can

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be transformed into clean water and it's drinkable and it's usable and it's healthy.

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It's also just been really cool to be able to come back to where I'm from.

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I'm part Salvadorian, and just hearing my mom share stories from when she was younger

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and growing up in this community, in these areas, and it just makes me so happy that

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I can come back somewhere that I know I have roots in and impact a community that I could

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call family.

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Like, people here are my family because I'm connected to them.

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I'm hoping in the future that people will begin to ride however they want.

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There's kind of no rules, and if people can use the activities that they're involved with

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on a daily basis that they're passionate about to raise minds, then we can raise money and

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begin to help people in areas of the world that need it.

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So that's what I'd like to see Ride for Waterhead in the future is that more and more people

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would say, what activity do I have?

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What influence do I have?

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So that I can leverage that beyond myself to help other people.

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Welcome to Ocean Water.

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We hope you feel refreshed by the living water of Jesus Christ as we help people receive

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drinking water from the ocean for free.

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Thanks for joining us for this weekend's message, and if you enjoy it, please share it with

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a friend.

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Hi, I'm Ryan with Ocean Water.

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I'm here today at the beach where I live.

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It's 80 degrees.

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It's very warm.

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Forgive my sunglasses.

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It's very bright.

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But I'm really glad that you can be with us for this week's Beach Talk.

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Now, this week marks several new beginnings.

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It's why I showed our Genesis video for Ocean Water and how we got started and how we've

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grown and changed along the way.

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Now, we're starting something new this weekend.

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We're beginning to read the Bible again.

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It's our goal to read or listen to the entire Bible in the next year.

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We have a group we put together for this.

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The first year, 56 people participated and 10 people completed the entire Bible.

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We're starting this again this weekend, and we'd love for you to join us.

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We actually have four different reading groups this time, which is very exciting.

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We would like you to message us at Ocean Water to get you involved in hearing from God's

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Word every single day.

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You know, if we'll just make the space and the place for that in our life, we can hear

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about new and amazing things.

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We would love for you to be a part of that.

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Now, also, we're making another change this weekend.

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Each of my Beach Talks each week will be from our readings, from our reading group.

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So today we're starting in Genesis chapter 1, and each week I will teach in my Beach

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Talks on one of the readings from the week.

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Now, this is very nice because all you need to follow along and read each day or organize

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a group during the week or listen to our Beach Talks is to be on the same reading plan.

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It's very simple and straightforward.

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Genesis 1 reads, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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Now the earth was formless and empty.

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Darkness was over the surface of the earth, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the

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waters.

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And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

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God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

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God called the light day, and the darkness He called night, and there was evening, and

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there was morning, the first day.

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And God said, Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.

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And God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it, and

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it was so.

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God called the vault sky, and there was evening, and there was morning on the second day.

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And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the ground

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appear.

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And it was so.

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God called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters He called the ocean, and God saw that

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it was good.

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And God said, Let the land produce vegetation, seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit

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with the seed in it according to their various kinds.

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And it was so.

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Now the land produce vegetation, plants bearing seed according to their kinds, and trees bearing

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fruit with their seeds in it according to their kinds.

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And God saw that it was good, and there was evening, and there was morning, the third

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day.

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And God said, Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night,

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and let them serve as signs to mark the sacred times and days and years.

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And let there be light in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.

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And it was so.

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God made two great lights, the greater of the light to govern the day, and the lesser

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of the night to govern the night.

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He also made the stars.

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And God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day

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and the night, and to separate light from darkness.

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And God saw that it was good, and there was evening, and there was morning, on the fourth

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day.

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And God said, Let the waters team with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth

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across the vault of the sky.

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So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which water

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teams and moves about in it according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to

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its kind.

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And God saw that it was good.

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God blessed them and said, Be fruitful and increase in number, and fill the water in

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the ocean, and let the birds increase on the earth.

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And there was evening, and there was morning, the fifth day.

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And God said, Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds, the livestock,

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the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its

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kind.

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And it was so.

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God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds,

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and the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.

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And God saw that it was good.

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And God said, Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over

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the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,

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and over all the land and the creatures that move along the ground.

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So God created mankind in His own image.

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In the image of God, He created them.

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Male and female, He created them.

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God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and

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subdue it, rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, and over every living

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creature that moves along the ground.

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Then God said, I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and

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every tree that has fruit with seed in it, they will be yours for food.

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And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures

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that move along the ground, everything that has breath of life in it, I give every green

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plant and food.

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And it was so.

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God saw all that He had made and it was very good.

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And there was evening and there was morning and the sixth day.

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Now today I want to focus on Genesis 1, 1 which says, In the beginning, God created

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the heavens and the earth.

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You know, God created something out of nothing.

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God created all the beauty in this world out of nothing, out of the immaterial.

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It's because that's His essence and that's His nature.

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God does this all the time.

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He creates something out of nothing.

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That's God's job description.

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He makes heroes out of zeros.

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He forms Pulitzer Prize winners out of dyslexic people.

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He makes the Sistine Chapel out of a depressed artist.

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God is infinitely creative and brilliant in everything that He does every single day.

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Now Pete, you might be saying, well what could God do with my life?

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Stay tuned.

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You have no idea.

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Isn't that great news?

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God spoke this world into existence with His spoken Word.

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The physical elements heard His Word and reacted.

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Now we hear God's Word and we react.

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God's Word is the lion that is released into the universe and changes things and reverberates

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with everything that interacts with it.

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It's like a nuclear power.

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It has the ability to soften the human heart, to reorganize energy in real time.

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That's the most powerful force in the universe.

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It causes atoms to reorganize and the material to form and unform.

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Now this was God's spoken Word.

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Now today we have God's written Word.

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2 Timothy 3.16 says, all scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true

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and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives.

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It corrects us when we're wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

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All God's Word to us is available every day.

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Let me ask you a question.

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Isn't this a great time to hear from God?

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You know the last few months have been a giant global game of he said, she said and people

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have frankly never been more confused.

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God's words are there for us to comfort us and to give us peace.

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It will just take the time to listen.

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There's never been a better time for that.

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God shouted to the universe through his spoken Word and now he whispers to the human heart.

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He says, I am.

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I'm here.

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I made you.

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I have a plan.

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Jeremiah 29.11 says, for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord.

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Plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.

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Then you will call on me and come and pray to me and I'll listen to you.

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You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart.

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I'll be found by you declares the Lord and I'll bring you back from captivity and I'll

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gather you from the nations and places where I have banished you declares the Lord and

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I will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

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God's just waiting.

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Now God wants to speak to you as powerfully today as he did in Genesis 1.1 when he says

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in the beginning, I created.

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God wants to create something out of our lives and out of ocean water.

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Now I'm not talking about religion or religious people.

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Frankly, both of those are very exhausting.

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Jesus had some words about this in Matthew 11.

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He says, come to me all of you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.

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Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I'm gentle and humble and heart.

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And you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

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Well, how do you know if you're religious?

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Well, a lot of us organize ourselves by groups and ideologies and Jesus doesn't do that.

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He will do that.

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Jesus only calls us to himself full of love, full of grace, full of kindness, full of humility,

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full of truth, full of power.

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Jesus comes to give us freely the grace that is ours.

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Matthew 21 says Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling

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there.

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He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling does.

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It is written, he said to them, my house would be called a house of prayer, but you are making

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it a den of robbers.

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Jesus isn't about money or control or religion.

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He's about prayer.

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He's about healing and he's about freedom.

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And he wants us to come to him and wants us to give our burdens to him.

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Jesus is about that relationship.

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Religious people and religion is about control.

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Jesus is about freedom, about letting go, the call to serve the poor, the call to meet

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the needs of the oppressed.

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What's that?

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Those who don't have water, those who don't have food, those who don't have housing, the

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poor, the downtrodden, the oppressed.

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These are the people that Jesus speaks to us about and calls us to and beckons us to

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meet the needs of.

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Those are the people that Jesus wants to help us love.

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We need to pray for God's grace and guidance to do that every day.

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Now we want to follow Jesus and the teachings of Jesus and the practice of Jesus and the

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word of Jesus.

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We can do this a few different ways.

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The first way is we love God by following his word, his spoken word, his written word.

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He says, if you love me and keep my command, you will keep my commands, John 14, 15.

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Now are there people who mock God's words?

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Of course.

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It says, you hate my instruction and cast my words behind you in Psalms 50 verse 17.

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The second thing we can do is know that God's word is how we discern.

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It says, for the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword

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that penetrates even to the dividing of soul, spirit, joints, and marrow and judges the

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thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

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Hebrew 412.

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God's word judges our thoughts and our ideas.

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It gives us discernment.

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I saw somebody on Facebook this week post, who do you listen to right now?

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I rode my bicycle with my friend last week and he asked me, where do you get your news

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from these days?

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Because trust in sources of information is at an all-time low.

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I recommend putting trust in God's word, which can be at an all-time high.

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Stop following the trends of today and put your hope and your trust in the timeless truths

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of God's word.

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Trendy thinking versus timeless thinking.

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God's word gives us discernment.

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Boy do we need that these days.

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The third thing is we want to do what God's word says to us.

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Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves.

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Do what it says.

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James 1.22.

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Many of you remember Allen Iverson, one of the all-time greats to play NBA basketball,

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who famously quoted in this following clip where he talked about practice.

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Watch this, it proves a great point.

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Come it up when you just talk about practice.

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We sitting here, I supposed to be the franchise player and we in here talking about practice.

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I mean listen, we talking about practice.

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Not a game, not a game, not a game.

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We talking about practice.

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Not a game.

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Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last.

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Not the game.

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We talking about practice man.

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I mean how silly is that?

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We talking about practice.

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I know I supposed to be there.

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I know I supposed to lead by example.

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I know that.

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And I'm not shoving it aside like it don't mean anything.

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I know it's important.

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I do.

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I honestly do.

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But we talking about practice man.

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What are we talking about?

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Practice?

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We talking about practice man.

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All we have is practice.

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There are no games, it's just practice.

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Life is one game.

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That's it.

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So habits matter, which leads me to my last point.

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God's word, his spoken word, his written word that he used to bring this world into existence

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helps us think clearly.

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It says take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of

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God.

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Bad advice is everywhere these days.

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In fact, most of it invites us.

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We invite it into our lives as we just scroll through the different media themes that we've

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created in our own virtual worlds.

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Stanford recently released a study that showed the average human being has about 70 thoughts

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a day.

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How many of our 70,000 thoughts each day are shaped by God?

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How can your thoughts be shaped by God each day?

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If you don't hear from God each day.

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How can we not hear from God each day if we don't take the time to hear his spoken and

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written word to us each day with our subconscious and our conscious thoughts?

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In the beginning, God spoke and he is still speaking today.

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Are we listening?

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Now every week we end our time together with a simple prayer that we should walk with God

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this week and follow him in our lives.

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Would you pray this simple prayer with me?

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Would you say, God, I thank you for this day, a new day to follow you.

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I repent from my sins.

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I know I fall short.

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Help me to follow you today and this week.

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Help me to listen to you each day through your word.

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Help me to serve you by serving others.

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I put my trust in you.

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Take control of my life.

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In Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Now I want you to go online today to Oceanwater.com.

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I'd like you to pray and think about what you can offer up as part of your worship.

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We're most like God when we give.

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And in the next 12 months we're going to be doing work in four different parts of the

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world.

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And that's really important because God's a global God and he wants us to serve the

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poor and meet their needs.

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So I'd like you to pray and be led by the Holy Spirit what he puts on your heart.

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Please be obedient to.

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Thank you for being with us today and have a beautiful week.

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You'd like more information about Ocean Water Church.

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How to join us on an upcoming trip.

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How to be part of one of our Clean Water projects.

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How to financially support our movement.

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Or even information on how you can start an Ocean Water Church yourself.

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Please look us up at Oceanwater.com.