1 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,440 Australia. All right, here's the scripture 3 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,280 that God placed on my heart as as soon as I prayed for you 4 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,560 actually says this. Paul is talking about a man who 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,880 received an amazing revelation, all right, and he's talking 6 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,880 about boasting. He's talking about what he 7 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,080 should tell people. He's talking about what his prep 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,280 should be proud of. It says On behalf of this man, 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,200 this great revelation man, I will boast. 10 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,160 But on my own behalf, I will not boast. 11 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:45,000 Are we in the right? Yep, except of my weaknesses. 12 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,400 Thought about that and that. Wonderful. 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:52,440 Have you ever walked into a room? 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,280 And. Just thought, what am I going to 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,960 tell people at this party? They need to know about my 16 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,599 weaknesses. Though. 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,840 If I should wish to boast. I would not be a fool, right? 18 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,200 You know, for I would be Speaking of the truth. 19 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:16,160 But I refrain from it here, this one, so that no one may think 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,560 more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 21 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,000 How's that? Yeah. 22 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,680 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the 23 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,600 surpassing greatness of the revelations God gave, I mean, he 24 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,000 wrote a third of the New Testament. 25 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,440 I mean, it's a fierce statement. OK, a thorn. 26 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:53,960 Was given me in the flesh a messenger of Satan to harass me. 27 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:57,680 Why? To keep me from becoming 28 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,120 conceited, right? Can you see? 29 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,440 Can you read? Am I in the way? 30 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:10,600 I'll move back a touch. 3. Times I pleaded with the Lord 31 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:15,640 about this, I begged him, I pleaded, I came to my father and 32 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:17,880 I asked him, Please God, remove it, you know? 33 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,560 That it should leave me. Please take this. 34 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:27,800 Thorn from me. But God said to me he didn't. 35 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,080 It wasn't a no or a yes. Have you ever had that? 36 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,400 You've gone to pray. You want to know her? 37 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,640 A yes. And God says something 38 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,040 different. It is. 39 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,600 My grace is sufficient for you. How's that? 40 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,880 Listen to this. For my power, God's power, the 41 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:52,520 power of God is made perfect in weakness. 42 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,400 What? How? 43 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,040 Can God's power? Be not perfect originally. 44 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:09,200 It's perfected through your weakness my. 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,960 Power is made. Perfect and weakness. 46 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,120 Have you ever read? Hebrews And you thought about 47 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,160 how Jesus was made perfect through suffering. 48 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,680 Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses. 49 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,320 So that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 50 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,120 For the sake of Christ, then listen to this. 51 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,680 I'm content with weaknesses. What? 52 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:52,200 Insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities. 53 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,080 Calamities. I'm thinking he was probably 54 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,400 thinking of shipwrecks and natural disasters. 55 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,080 And then finally, here's the big, the big banner over today's 56 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:11,560 sermon that I want in our minds for when I'm weak, then I'm 57 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:19,870 strong. I, I think one of the the 58 00:04:19,870 --> 00:04:23,790 greatest prayers we can ever pray is God help me. 59 00:04:24,670 --> 00:04:28,360 God help me, just help me. Please, please, God help me, 60 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,360 help me with this. Help me with that. 61 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,440 Oh God help me. Oh God, I'm lacking, help me. 62 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,200 I was ministering at a, we have a like a youth and young adults 63 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,720 camp in our region. And I was there and I was 64 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,520 sitting with a young guy in his 20s who's just started a massive 65 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,240 workload, a faithful lover of Jesus. 66 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,440 But he's he was overwhelmed and he was confessing to me. 67 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,800 He said my quiet times have slipped. 68 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,320 I feel like my faith is slipping. 69 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:55,840 He's beginning to weep. He says. 70 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,440 I just, I'm so overwhelmed. He says, don't know what to do. 71 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,320 I can't add. Anything more to my life? 72 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,000 And I just began to let God let in my heart. 73 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,640 I said, I said, mate, have you ever thought about not coming to 74 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,960 God with all the things you have to do for him, but just asking 75 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,840 for help? Did you know that God cares 76 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:18,600 about that? Have you gone to have you just 77 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,120 said God please help me? Got him so stressed, got him so 78 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,720 busy, got him so frustrated, got him so overwhelmed. 79 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:29,280 Just be honest. God help me. 80 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,080 I'm just began to pray and minister and he had this 81 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,360 revelation. He didn't have to. 82 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,680 It was a new season for him. He'd never encountered this sort 83 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,840 of pressure, pressure on his life that wanted to make him 84 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:44,040 clam up and and and stress and and. 85 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,200 He's added so many. Additions to his life. 86 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,280 And he didn't know what to do. And he? 87 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,240 Felt like he was on the roller coaster and he's felt like he's 88 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,440 going to. Fall over and he just didn't 89 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,200 know how to. Then he felt his quiet time 90 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:55,600 shrinking. He didn't know what to do. 91 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,720 He felt his faith shrinking. Where's? 92 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,760 God in that well, God's. God's involved in weakness, 93 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:10,760 yours and mine and His. One of the best things we can 94 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,800 ever do is pour our hearts out to God. 95 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,520 So here's some questions. Like Paul, for the sake of 96 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,960 Christ, are you and I content with weakness? 97 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,960 Are we content with insults or hardships, persecutions and 98 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,440 calamities? Do you and I believe that when 99 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:40,480 we are weak, then we are strong because His grace is sufficient 100 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:55,080 for us? There's the there's another 101 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,840 scripture that says don't think more highly of yourself than you 102 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:02,240 ought to. Isn't that a slap in the Bible? 103 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,120 Isn't the Bible wonderful like that? 104 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:05,840 Hey, I know you've been. Thinking about. 105 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:11,680 Yourself a bit maybe you shouldn't be, you know, I mean, 106 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,760 just realise your position now. Now I'm a. 107 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,800 Worshipper. That's that's my background. 108 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,520 I got saved in my bedroom with a guitar. 109 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,640 I I love worshipping God, but you get this revelation when you 110 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,600 become a worshiper that that you're not God. 111 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:33,240 You know, he's, he's higher, he's more, he's stronger, He's, 112 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,760 he's greater. He, he is, he's God and we're 113 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,000 not by comparison. And then you. 114 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:41,520 You. You. 115 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,320 You make him Lord, but you have to get this revelation that 116 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,560 maybe he's better than you. Maybe he's. 117 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,440 Maybe he's stronger than you. You know, people often talk to 118 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,120 me and they said, you know, I can't figure out all these 119 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,240 questions about God and you know, you know, doesn't make 120 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:59,080 sense. And I just. 121 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,640 Kind of say to them, well. Maybe God knows stuff you don't. 122 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,120 Have you ever thought that maybe he's cleverer than you? 123 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,080 You know, maybe you should. If you could figure it all out, 124 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,200 then maybe you wouldn't need him. 125 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:18,000 But he's God and, and, and we would be. 126 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:25,280 Wise to learn to and continually trade our weakness for his 127 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,320 strength. But we're so foolish and we 128 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,600 don't. And I and I don't just mean. 129 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,039 With the impossible. Things, I think it's easier 130 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,640 sometimes to try to trade your weakness for the impossible 131 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,200 things like you can't, you can't heal anybody, right? 132 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,240 So you have to go to God for that. 133 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,240 Someone says, pray for me. You're like, Oh no, I've that's 134 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,400 not you. Know I. 135 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,320 Don't have an ad in me, so I'm going to go to God. 136 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,120 But but I think this means more than that. 137 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,360 What about just every day. God help me to be a good dad. 138 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:00,680 I don't know how to be a good dad. 139 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:03,320 I'm trying. I'm not sometimes. 140 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:11,520 What about, you know, just got grumpy again, Just help me, you 141 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,040 know, I want to be a good husband. 142 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,520 I want to. I want to. 143 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,320 I think the longer that I've lived, the more I've realized 144 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,640 I've come to the end of myself again and again and again. 145 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,960 And I think that's normal. I think we're kind of supposed 146 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,600 to. I don't think we're supposed to 147 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,040 be the strong ones in this relationship. 148 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:36,160 Have you ever wondered, and this is just my musings, OK? 149 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,760 This isn't scripture. This is just my thinking. 150 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:45,200 But why is it that we're at our strongest when we're like 2530 151 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:52,440 physically and yet we live? That's like nothing. 152 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:59,080 That's like what, 1/4? Maybe God's more concerned with 153 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:06,720 inner strength or reliance than he is on us being able to do 154 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,960 everything ourselves, right? There's a there's a period where 155 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,040 you leave your mother, your mother and your father, and you 156 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,680 need to learn to stand on your own 2 feet. 157 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,920 So God gives you strength, He enables you. 158 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,720 You learn you, you get ideas and you leave home and you and you, 159 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,800 you, you create a world for yourself and you build a family 160 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,880 and you do all that sort of stuff with God's help. 161 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,680 And then you start getting weaker. 162 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,240 You know what I mean? You know what I mean? 163 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:40,600 And and but you're not dead and there's more to do and there's a 164 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,320 life to live and this year's ahead of you and all this sort 165 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,440 of stuff and it's. Because it's because because 166 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,480 God's not finished with you learning things and there's so 167 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,560 much for him. And so he begins to teach you 168 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,040 about reliance. And maybe one day we could be 169 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:01,160 like Paul. Maybe we would understand that 170 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,080 when we're weak, there's opportunity for fantastic 171 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,360 strength because Grace is just there. 172 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,480 How do you live this life without him? 173 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,720 I don't know. How do you go through trial? 174 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:13,920 And hardship. And heartache. 175 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:15,680 How do you? Deal with brokenness. 176 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,520 How do you deal with trauma? How do you deal with pain? 177 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,080 How do you? Deal with suffering or just 178 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,000 annoying. People. 179 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,000 Right. Like how do you do that? 180 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,560 What about your next meeting? What about your next connect? 181 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,160 With your. Friend, imagine if you prayed. 182 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:34,840 God, I'm going to have, I'm going to go have a meal with my 183 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,240 mate. God, I just pray. 184 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,680 It's an awesome time. God just help me, help me to say 185 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:41,720 the right things. Help me to. 186 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:43,240 I want to feel. I want to leave. 187 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:44,760 Feeling refreshed. I don't know how to do that. 188 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,600 I just want to. Be with my mate. 189 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,400 And just have a great. Like can you just cover that 190 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:56,560 Time Lord? Acknowledging our weakness and 191 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:02,240 receiving God's grace is a prerequisite to strength, true 192 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:09,800 strength, His strength. Now there's a problem to that 193 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,480 gets in the way of receiving the strength. 194 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,880 It's we probably all know what's the problem. 195 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,880 What's the problem? Pride. 196 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,560 Say it again. Pride. 197 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,920 Yeah. I know I'm familiar. 198 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:29,080 James Chapter 4. Verses 1 to 10. 199 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,880 It's one of the the most sobering verses, I think in the 200 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,960 Bible for me at least with the revelation God's given me to 201 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,800 this point. I'll read it to get we'll read 202 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,280 it together. It's 10 verses says what causes 203 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,960 quarrels and what causes fights among you. 204 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,240 Have you ever been in a quarrel or a fight? 205 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,160 Never. Hey, never, never, never had a 206 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:56,640 fight, never had an argument and. 207 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:57,880 I don't know what. They're talking about. 208 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,840 Is it not this? That your passions are at war 209 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:08,000 within you. You desire and do not have. 210 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,760 So you murder, you covet and cannot obtain. 211 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,800 So you fight and you quarrel. You do not have. 212 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,000 Because. You do not ask, says God. 213 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,400 OK, there it is. Pray and you ask. 214 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,720 And do not receive because you ask wrongly to spend it on your 215 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,440 passions. And he's a. 216 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,480 Good father. You know, sometimes my children 217 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,360 ask me for things I'm like, that will kill you. 218 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:37,640 No. You know, no, I'm not giving 219 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:38,880 you. I love you too much to give you 220 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,360 that. You adulterous people. 221 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,600 Do you not know that friendship? With the world is enmity with 222 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,600 God. Have you thought about that? 223 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:58,600 That's not a subtle statement. That's not a throwaway 224 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,280 statement. If you love the world, you're my 225 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:10,640 enemy. Who therefore, whoever wishes 226 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,680 just wants. To be a friend of the world 227 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:19,600 makes makes himself or makes of himself an enemy of God. 228 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,880 Or do you suppose? It is to no purpose that the 229 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:28,400 Scripture says he God yearns jealously over the. 230 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,200 Spirit. That he has made to dwell in US, 231 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,480 but he gives more grace. OK, don't get too scared. 232 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,640 He gives more grace. Therefore it says, and this is 233 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,200 the big, the big banner of this text for me. 234 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:48,920 God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. 235 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,720 Submit yourselves therefore to God. 236 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,400 Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 237 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,720 Draw near to God. And here's a promise. 238 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,920 And he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. 239 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,480 Purify your hearts, you double minded. 240 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,360 Be wretched. Mourn and weep. 241 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:12,840 Let your laughter be turned to mourning. 242 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,240 And your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the 243 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,880 Lord and He will exalt you. Isn't that powerful? 244 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,280 There's lots in that. We can't unpack it all, but I 245 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,960 want you to focus on this. Did you know that God opposes 246 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,000 the proud? And that is not a that's not, 247 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,520 that's not passive. That's not a passive act on 248 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,080 God's behalf. He's not sitting back, just 249 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,640 ignoring you. He's actively working against 250 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,240 you. It's opposition. 251 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,640 Oh, it's terrifying. You. 252 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,400 You want to be proud. God will work against you. 253 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:09,320 He will apply his might. It's like where do I hide? 254 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,440 You know, like, where's the corner? 255 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:17,120 And where can I hide? But but the humble, the weak, 256 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,600 the ones who acknowledge their weakness, he's going to. 257 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,960 He's going to give grace. Grace enabling grace. 258 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,800 Grace is grace is wonderful. It's getting what you don't 259 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,560 deserve hey, you don't deserve his strength. 260 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:39,800 You don't deserve his goodness. But he gives it but he gives it 261 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,400 to the humble. He gives to the humble. 262 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:49,520 He doesn't give to the proud. He squashes the proud, OK, He 263 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:54,600 squashes the proud. There's a, I've got lots of 264 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:55,920 scriptures, we'll go back to them. 265 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:02,240 But I want you to just for a moment think of Jesus, OK, our 266 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,000 great king. I want you to think of Jesus in 267 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,880 this light of, of weakness and humility and what God did 268 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:14,319 through him and what and how God exalted him as a result, OK? 269 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:23,040 He took off divinity and he stepped out of heaven, away from 270 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,880 riches. OK, you want to know about 271 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:30,520 humbling? OK, he came to Earth and was 272 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:38,640 born in dodgy circumstances. You know I. 273 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:43,760 Live in a small town. Bethlehem would have known. 274 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:48,120 The family would have known and there would have been whispers 275 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,280 that his whole life. OK. 276 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:56,960 He born into poverty. His family paid the poor tax. 277 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,880 OK. He he walked. 278 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,920 He he took on vulnerability. Have you thought about God? 279 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,840 God made himself vulnerable. He could bleed. 280 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,240 God couldn't do that before. Who's going to cut God? 281 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,680 No one became vulnerable, became humble. 282 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,960 Do you know that that that the word says he only said what the 283 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:30,400 father asked him to say? How's that for laying down your 284 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,760 agency? You walk into a room, try and do 285 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,560 it, try and do it for the rest of the day. 286 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:43,200 Just just just just try and do that walking anywhere. 287 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,240 Someone starts talking to you, asking questions, and you go, 288 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,800 God, what do you want me to say? And you wonder why his? 289 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,880 Disciples were frustrated, eh? Just say it plain please, you 290 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,280 know. No, he's just sharing what God 291 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,720 laid on his heart. He only did. 292 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:06,280 What the father asked him to do. Submission, Humility. 293 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:15,920 Imagine that this is the king. He, he, he followed through all 294 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:17,000 the way. OK. 295 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,280 Even even to the point of death and a horrible death. 296 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,280 This is our this is our savior. You can even see it wasn't easy 297 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,720 for him. We see glimpses of of his. 298 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,720 Humanity and his suffering throughout it. 299 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,480 The Garden of Gethsemane is the the probably one of the biggest. 300 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,520 Moments. He's sitting there. 301 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:38,600 He's he's begging God with an agony. 302 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,480 Have you been there? God, please, I don't. 303 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:41,760 I don't. Want I don't. 304 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:46,000 Know I don't understand. And then submission again. 305 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,560 Oh, but God, it's. Just not my will. 306 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,080 It's just God. It's God calling. 307 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,720 Another example for me is, is Nebuchadnezzar king 308 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,760 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. OK, there's a story, you might 309 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,800 not know it. You can read it the book of 310 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,920 Daniel, and he's up on his. Palace walls, OK, up, up at the 311 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,040 top of his rooftop. And he's looking over his vast 312 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,560 Kingdom and he's the king of the world and he really is. 313 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,320 And it's not like a king we know today, you know, like kings back 314 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,760 in the day, if you look at a king, you die. 315 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,280 You look, you catch their eye, you did. 316 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,640 That's authority, that's power. That's like a power 317 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,680 differential, right? Whatever he wants, he can have. 318 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,960 He is he. And he's looking over his 319 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,800 Kingdom. And he was warned by God. 320 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,040 Careful, careful. Don't let pride come up in your 321 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,920 heart. And then one day he's on the 322 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,360 rooftop and he's looking over and he says something to the 323 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:45,360 extent of look at my mighty Kingdom that I've made with the 324 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:48,640 power of my might. God crushes him. 325 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:55,360 He makes him insane. Read it. 326 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:57,200 Read it. God says come down and said, 327 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,880 because you've said this, you're going to lose your mind and one 328 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,760 day I'll restore you when you understand. 329 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,480 It says that he went in and ate in the field like a cow, and 330 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,640 it's until his hair grew long like feathers and his nails like 331 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,560 eagle's claws. And then one day he got it. 332 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,000 I think he learned. He learned who the real king is, 333 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,440 right? He learnt we make nothing. 334 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,160 Without God's will. And he we're not we're not the. 335 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,040 Boss. He's the boss. 336 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,000 God restores him and and gives him back his Kingdom, and his 337 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,200 Kingdom becomes even greater once he understood and he 338 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,960 becomes an evangelist to the whole world. 339 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,520 A whole chapter in the book is him evangelizing to all the 340 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,920 other nations once he understood. 341 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,400 Amazing, right? What's another one, Paul? 342 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:55,440 Paul himself, OK, revered, trained by the best, educated 343 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:57,160 What? What did he? 344 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,360 Have to do he. Encounters Jesus and he becomes 345 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:06,400 blind, loses it. That'd be terrifying #1 back 346 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:14,080 then even more 3 days. Doesn't know what's happening. 347 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,280 Encounters God. He's his whole world shifts and 348 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:23,440 he begins to strip off his his dignity, his reputation, his you 349 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,520 know, his money. He was likely to be a quite a 350 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:34,160 wealthy dude. He he, he joins the enemy. 351 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,880 A lot of those Christians probably hated him. 352 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:44,160 So he has to now try to befriend people he's harmed and who hated 353 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,200 him and who he used to hate and has to go through that 354 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,760 awkwardness and then try to prove himself. 355 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:55,600 He has to re study, start from scratch, build his reputation 356 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:06,280 from the ground up, humbled and exalted, wrote 1/3 of the New 357 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:11,800 Testament. These amazing, I mean, Jesus is 358 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,280 on another level. But the others, they're amazing 359 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,120 men, right? They became strong through 360 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:22,960 weakness, through humility. They understood this key, and 361 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,960 it's this key I write, I write this down. 362 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,560 Our salvation is dependent on weakness. 363 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,200 Our sanctification is dependent on weakness, right? 364 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,440 Our glorification, really it's dependent on weakness. 365 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:35,240 We will be. Bowing. 366 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,720 Trust me, the. Disciples wanted to be great, 367 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,640 and Jesus asked them to be children. 368 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,880 Hey, he asked them to be servants. 369 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,640 There's a, there's a key. There's a, there's a, I think 370 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,600 it's almost like scales falling off our eyes. 371 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,480 Realize your state, realize you're human, realize you're 372 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,600 weak. And that's OK because you have a 373 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,400 strong father. And what, what he wants us to be 374 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,000 as strong our whole lives and strong through everything. 375 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,920 He wants us to be part of his unshakable Kingdom. 376 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,640 He doesn't want things to throw us off. 377 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,800 And but you, you don't get that strength. 378 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,160 It doesn't just happen. It it comes through trial. 379 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,240 It comes through trusting God. It comes through when you're 380 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,480 aching and you don't know if you can sustain it and and you're 381 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,880 failing and your legs are shaking and you're nervous 382 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,800 inside and you're stressed out because tomorrow's so scary to 383 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:39,200 even think about. And you get on your knees and 384 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,600 then you get up with the strength of the Lord. 385 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,160 But you trust Him, you trust Him. 386 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,960 Faithfulness is faithfulness. Why would you need faithfulness 387 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:49,840 if you had? Power. 388 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:55,760 Yeah. I think some of the most 389 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:02,320 powerful testimonies that I've ever heard is when it feels like 390 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,120 hell is unleashed on an individual, OK? 391 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,960 And they trust God through it. I think one of the greatest 392 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,360 testimonies in the Bible is Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. 393 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:19,280 Our God can save us, but even if he doesn't, So what? 394 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,360 That for me is a powerful testimony. 395 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,800 That's that's like. What can you do to me? 396 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,640 So what? You kill my body? 397 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,800 God. Still God hasn't changed that. 398 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,000 Yes, he can save me. And we'll pray that way. 399 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,920 Cool. Even if he doesn't won't shake 400 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:36,880 me. I know, my God. 401 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,960 I'm faithful. I know. 402 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:39,920 I know. I'm weak. 403 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,520 What's this body? Nothing. 404 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:49,440 I'll get a new one. We need to trade our apparent 405 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,760 strength or our human strength for heavenly strength. 406 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,200 And we access heavenly strength through weakness. 407 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,480 And I wrote, it's an astronomical net game, OK. 408 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,440 It's a. It's a big win. 409 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,920 It's a big win to get on your knees and receive grace for what 410 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,520 God wants to, you know, what you're walking with. 411 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:16,720 And I just, yeah, Yep. I thought, how do we trade it 412 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,280 right? How do we trade it our 413 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,520 weaknesses for strength? I said pray unceasingly. 414 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,640 Read your Bible consistently and believe it. 415 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,480 Confess your sins to God and break confession, breaks pride. 416 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:37,200 OK, Confess your sins to God and let it break pride in you that 417 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,720 wants to rear its head. Ask for help from God all the 418 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,320 time. All the time. 419 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,480 Seek God for wisdom to make decisions fast to overcome your 420 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,760 fleshly desires, and let the spiritual access be there, you 421 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,000 know. Seek God, resist temptation, 422 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,240 flee from it. Run. 423 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:58,800 You're not strong. Run. 424 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,120 Ask for help. Get faith from God to live your 425 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:04,920 life in a certain direction and then be faithful to it. 426 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,560 Just do what he said and just keep doing it. 427 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,120 Simple to say they super easy words to come out of them. 428 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,400 Come out of my mouth. But it's profound. 429 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,880 Just remember what he said to you and do that. 430 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:19,880 And do. It till he says something 431 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,240 different and if you do that you'll and rely on. 432 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,360 Him and it's going to be hard and it's going to be good, and 433 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:27,200 you'll be laughter and there'll be trial and there'll be 434 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,000 brokenness and there'll be sickness and there'll be 435 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,320 hardship. We live in a broken world, but 436 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,440 God is consistent through it all and He there is strength 437 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,960 available to us. And there will be miracles, and 438 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,040 there will be breakthrough. And there won't be. 439 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,760 But he's still the same king, all right, and you can be strong 440 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,120 through it. Whatever comes. 441 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,640 Take communion regularly. To. 442 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,480 Remember Jesus and his sacrifice for you to know that you're 443 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,320 loved and that you're free. You know, Jesus asked us to do 444 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,640 that. He said think about it. 445 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,360 Why would God say think about it? 446 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,680 Because we forget about it. That's an instruction from the 447 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,560 Lord. Hey, hey. 448 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,880 When you do this. Remember, remember that you 449 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,120 loved. Remember my body broken for you, 450 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:16,920 right? Remember the extent I went to 451 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,520 for you. Never forget it. 452 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,360 Never forget that you're loved for by God, for God so loved I 453 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:24,560 came for you. I didn't stop at the first cut. 454 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:32,360 You know I came after you. I, I did everything in my power 455 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,520 because to demonstrate my love for you. 456 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,600 Do not forget it, never doubt it. 457 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,200 Do this often so that it's part of your heart. 458 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,400 And then what about the wine? Remember you're free. 459 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,960 You used to be a slave, but when you drink this, remember the 460 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,120 freedom that I've bought for you. 461 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,680 You're no longer a slave. There's there's a. 462 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,520 Washing you're completely free. That's a you're free of your 463 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,040 past sins and empowered. So you don't have to have future 464 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,520 sins. God, God can help you in it and 465 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:00,760 wash you're free. You're free. 466 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,040 From your patterns, remember. My the, the value of my blood, 467 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,400 my grace is sufficient for you. There's nothing. 468 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,400 Stronger than my blood. I've got you. 469 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,920 We need to remember that constantly. 470 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,320 And then I wrote ask for things from God and ask with the 471 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,920 correct intent. Here's some more scriptures. 472 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:28,160 Let's read together Philippians 4 verses 11 through 13. 473 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:37,480 It's Paul again, he says. Not that I'm Speaking of being 474 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:44,880 in need, for I've learned in whatever situation I am to be 475 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:53,400 content. I know how to be brought low and 476 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,640 I know how to abound. You know, you have to learn how 477 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,600 to abound. That's also a dangerous place. 478 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,640 It's difficult for the rich man. The Bible says. 479 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:08,280 That's a whole new thing in any and every circumstance. 480 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:14,200 I have learned the secret, OK, I've learnt it of facing plenty 481 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:19,880 and hunger, abundance and need. That's I'm pretty sure he's 482 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,240 that's his way of saying everything. 483 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:30,920 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 484 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,760 Doesn't say. I can do all things because of 485 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:42,360 I've got a great character. That's what we sometimes think, 486 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:43,880 right? Maybe one day I'll be mature 487 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,800 enough. Maybe I'll reach a level. 488 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,520 When I'm a level 10 Christian, I'll be able to do all things. 489 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,680 Doesn't say that. Through him, he strengthens me. 490 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,680 The power of acknowledging your weakness and leaning on 491 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:07,800 strength. OK, what about Proverbs chapter 492 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,520 3, verse 5 to 8? Trust. 493 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,840 Trust. I like that word Trust. 494 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,280 Trust. That's what children do. 495 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:26,000 They trust. Trust in your muscles, trust in 496 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,160 your wisdom. Trust in. 497 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,480 Trust in what? Trust in. 498 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,960 Your life experience, trust in, I don't know, trust in the Lord 499 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,720 with all your heart. Do not lean on your own 500 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:48,160 understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge 501 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,160 Him and He. What's His promise? 502 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,600 You make your paths straight. Don't we long for that? 503 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,920 I long for that. Sick of walking around bushes 504 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,480 and mountains. Just want to get from A to B 505 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,800 you. Know what I mean? 506 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,880 Why am I in the wilderness again? 507 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Be not wise in your own eyes. So that's a put that on your 508 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,680 mirror. You know, if you ever think I've 509 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,280 got this, I've got, I understand now. 510 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,520 I think I've I think I can do this now I know what to do. 511 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:42,960 Be not wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord rather, and I like 512 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,400 that. That means realize you're a 513 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,600 human and he's God. That's what fear the Lord means. 514 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:49,560 It looks like. It looks like. 515 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,120 Oh. You know, you know what I mean? 516 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,640 Oh. I I once worked for Drug Free 517 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,720 Sport New Zealand and that was one of my jobs through uni and I 518 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,600 got to drug drug test all our professional athletes. 519 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,360 I got to be in the All Blacks changing room. 520 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,720 OK. I felt like a man until I walked 521 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,200 into that changing room, let me tell you. 522 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,400 OK, I was, I was like, yeah, I walk in there. 523 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:15,240 I was like, yeah, she's like what? 524 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,120 You know I'm a. Child, I'm a baby. 525 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,000 These guys are ginormous. What the heck? 526 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,120 Thighs on them? Like you wouldn't like even 527 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:24,600 bigger. I was. 528 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,120 Just like oh, but I don't know. You know, and you just realise 529 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,120 you're just a weak pathetic. Pink thing, you know. 530 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,160 And it's that kind of, it's like, that's just a silly. 531 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,560 Example, but that's kind of like. 532 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,280 When you when you realize who God is and who you are, that's. 533 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,680 Fearing the Lord. You know what I mean? 534 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:48,200 You think like, yeah, yeah. Whoa, fear the Lord. 535 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,080 Rather, don't think you're wise. Fear the Lord. 536 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,200 Turn away from evil. Don't do. 537 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,400 What this guy doesn't want you to do when you do that, it'll be 538 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:07,000 healing to you and refreshment. OK, Ephesians 6, you know, we're 539 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,360 about to go into Ephesians armor of God with our church going to 540 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,239 try to train our people how to wear the whole armor. 541 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,120 But listen to this. This is this is verse 10 of 542 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:28,639 Ephesians 6. Finally be strong. 543 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:40,520 How and the Lord and in what the strength of his might think 544 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,960 about that. That's the that's like a 545 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,400 summary. It's like a hey, you've got all 546 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,960 these tools. Great. 547 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:52,920 Remember who the strong one is. Be strong in the Lord, be strong 548 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,000 in him and in the strength of his might. 549 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,719 Don't get up from here and think you can do it. 550 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,840 No, no, get up from here and be reliant. 551 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,320 Be reliant on the king. He's given you tools. 552 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,440 Wonderful, but be strong in his strength, the strength of his 553 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,840 might. He's so powerful. 554 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:13,560 He's so powerful. You know, what does a victorious 555 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,240 life look like? What does a successful life look 556 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:25,680 like? Perhaps it's someone who's 557 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:32,320 faithful in weakness. Perhaps it's someone that is on 558 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,120 their knees before they're created, consistently asking for 559 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:41,440 help. Thank you for joining us for 560 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,840 today's message. For more information about The 561 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:48,040 Way Church, please visit ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot 562 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,440 AU. Have a blessed day.