1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,560 Good to be here tonight. Would y'all turn? 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,360 Somebody turn the lights on in the nursery please, in case the 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,800 visitor there need it and get to have them tonight. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:29,920 Heavy Bibles going to be in John chapter 16. 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:38,720 Galatians 3 and Galatians 4 had this thought a while back and 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,800 you know, I'm getting to the age if I don't write them down or 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,040 put them in my notes on my phone or forget the thought. 12 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,200 You ever do that? I was like, man, I thought 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,520 something good the other day and now I just got to remember it so 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,160 I can preach on it. But I was looking through some 15 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:55,440 notes and I found this and I begin to recall the setting that 16 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,080 I received it in. And I titled this tonight. 17 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,160 Sometimes what you see destroys what you thought you had. 18 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,200 Can I say that again that that let that sink in. 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,720 Sometimes what you see with these eyes, it can destroy what 20 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:18,840 you thought you had anybody ever been there in a relationship and 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,320 a job and career, whatever it is. 22 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,040 But you know, I was looking around when the Lord give me 23 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,760 this thought and I was looking at some calves. 24 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,200 Cattle prices are really good. And I was looking at some calves 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,840 and thinking about how thankful I was for what they was going to 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,280 bring when I sold them because I've, I've sold some. 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,200 It didn't do very well in past years. 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,080 But I begin to looking at the caves and thinking about how 29 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,960 they were going to do good at market and bringing over 5-6 30 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,640 dollars a pound. And then I begin to look around 31 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,240 at the rest of them. I thought, you know, I had some 32 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,120 of these cows a while. Some of them is getting old and 33 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:55,680 they wear out. Tay man. 34 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,560 And while I was looking at this, I just begin to think about that 35 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:04,640 sometimes what you see can destroy what you thought you 36 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,960 had. We know it's so true in this 37 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,919 life. But you know, when we look at 38 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,039 that, when I looked at that cow, I thought, you know, without 39 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:14,840 that cow, I don't have that calf because it wouldn't be here. 40 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,520 She wouldn't nurture it. She wouldn't raise it. 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,400 It just it wouldn't be possible. So in the near future, I got to 42 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,280 start replacing some of those things or what I thought I had 43 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,800 can begin to crumble. God give me that thought. 44 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,800 And then I did. And then I turned it right to 45 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,120 the spiritual. What we see destroys what we 46 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,040 thought we had. You know, I know when I was in 47 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,840 the drilling business for a lot of years and doing those things, 48 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,800 I look around, I'd have some new equipment, new things, and all 49 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,120 of a sudden, three years later, you're looking at, man, where 50 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,120 did it go? It's wore out. 51 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,320 I got to replace it. I got to, I got to get new to 52 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,320 keep rolling. And that's the way it is 53 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,080 spiritually. Because see, when trials of 54 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:59,640 sickness come and financial struggles, job problems, anybody 55 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:05,920 got those broken relationships, friends that's betrayed you, 56 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:11,600 anybody got those? A contract that's gone bad in a 57 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,840 business deal, The list goes on and on. 58 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,960 Vehicles breaking down that are out of warranty that cost 59 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:23,200 thousands to fix today and for many it's the addiction that 60 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,160 they thought they had under control a man and it begins to 61 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,200 creep back up and I want to share some things tonight. 62 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,760 This, this message is really real to me because sometimes 63 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:39,000 what you see can destroy what you thought you had. 64 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,120 I come in the other day and I told my wife, I said, I can't 65 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,520 find this heifer and I went to look for and she's coming two 66 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,480 years old. I've raised her up two years, 67 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,680 got several of them I have. And she's about to have a calf 68 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,960 in the near future and go down there and can't find her only to 69 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:58,840 find her dead $3000 loss. And you know, my wife's going 70 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,200 through those things that she's going through now with cancer 71 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,800 and things. And she said, she said sometimes 72 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:08,000 you feel like job, don't you? And I said we do in life, but we 73 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,240 always know that we have a God that's working on the other end. 74 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,680 And see this thought hit me. Sometimes what you see destroys 75 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,920 what you thought you had. It can happen that way. 76 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:25,120 In John chapter 16 and verse 25, Jesus said he was talking about 77 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,040 overcoming the world. And in John 16 and 25, he says 78 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,960 that these things I have spoken to you in figurative language, 79 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,960 but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in 80 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,600 figurative language. He had just got through telling 81 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,760 the disciples that he was going to go away. 82 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,120 And you know, I was reading that today and he said I'm going to 83 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:46,560 go away. I've been with you for a little 84 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,240 while, but I'm going to go away for a little while. 85 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:51,920 It doesn't seem like a little while, but yet his time frame is 86 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,960 different than ours. His day is 1000 years and he 87 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,080 says I'm no longer going to speak to you like this. 88 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,040 But I tell you plainly about the Father, in that day you will ask 89 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,880 in my name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father 90 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,400 for you. For the Father himself loves 91 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,840 you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came 92 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:16,080 forth from God. I came forth from the Father, 93 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,720 and have come into the world again. 94 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,720 And I leave the world, and I go to the Father. 95 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,480 And his disciples said to him, See, now you're speaking plainly 96 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,840 and using no figure of speech. Now we are sure that you know 97 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:32,480 all things and have no need that anyone should question you. 98 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,640 By this we believe that you come forth from God and Jesus 99 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:42,280 answered them and he said, do you now believe verse 32 and the 100 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,920 hour is coming and yes has now come, that you will be 101 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,080 scattered. Each one of you, His own will 102 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,160 leave me alone. And yet I am not alone because 103 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,760 the Father is with me. You're not alone tonight. 104 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,680 And in verse 33, he said these things. 105 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,840 I have spoken to you. And this is a very powerful 106 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:06,480 passage of Scripture because it is just as the promises of God. 107 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,480 It is a truth of Scripture that Jesus said these things. 108 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,480 I have spoken to you that I'm with you is what he was saying, 109 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,680 and that you may have peace, but he automatically changes. 110 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,760 And he said in the world which we live in today, in the world, 111 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,080 you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. 112 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,040 I have overcome the world. What a promise. 113 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,800 Say man, in this world, we will face trials, we will face 114 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,760 tribulations, but we have overcome the world. 115 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,400 I preached a message one time. The storm's blowing. 116 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,840 What happens? Our faith walk must continue. 117 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:46,360 We can't stop, we can't lay down, we can't quit. 118 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,680 We will have tribulation, but be of good cheer because I have 119 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,480 overcome the world. Let's go to Galatians chapter 3. 120 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,520 We're going to read some more about this Galatians chapter 3 121 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:04,400 and verse 26. Apostle Paul here was preaching 122 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,840 on some things to the church. He was telling us some things. 123 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:13,280 Galatians chapter 3 and verse 26, he says for you are all sons 124 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,880 of God, how? Through faith in Christ Jesus, 125 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,120 for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on 126 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,680 Christ. That's what water baptism is, is 127 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,920 putting on Christ. Everything about it. 128 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,320 There's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither slave nor free, 129 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,280 there's neither male nor female boy. 130 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,960 That rocks some people's world about women preachers, doesn't 131 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:34,760 it? He said. 132 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,040 When we put on Christ, we don't see those things. 133 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:43,560 For you are all one in Christ. I like that we're all one in 134 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,040 Christ. And if you are Christ, then 135 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,720 you're Abraham's seed boy. This gets really good right 136 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,200 here. And your heirs according to the 137 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,560 promise, go read what he promised Abraham. 138 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,280 I don't have time tonight, but it's a lot of blessings. 139 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,760 It's a lot of it's a lot of great things. 140 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:05,000 And in chapter 4 here, in verse 1, he says, now I say that the 141 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:11,000 heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ from a slave, 142 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,760 though he is master of all, he owns everything, but he's a 143 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:16,240 child, right? He's a heir. 144 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,040 He's referring to us here, but is under guardians and stewards 145 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,920 until the time appointed by the father. 146 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,800 What is that time until we grow, right? 147 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,400 We're an heir of a lot of promises. 148 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,840 We're a heir of a lot of things. Over 7000 promises in this Bible 149 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,440 that we've been promised. And in verse 3 it says Even so 150 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,520 we when we were children, we're in bondage under the elements of 151 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,640 the world. Anybody remember when you was in 152 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,360 your little Christian walk and you first started and and you 153 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,720 were a you were a babe in Christ and you were still wondering how 154 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,560 the thing work. But when the fullness of time 155 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:52,440 had come. And what he's really referring 156 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,600 to here is the babes that in Christ that were walking around 157 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,040 under the law, right? And all the things that they 158 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,160 could not keep. He said when the fullness of 159 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,320 time, when you read that in the Bible, the fullness of time, it 160 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,400 was the IT was the completed time designated by God, God that 161 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,160 should elapsed before Jesus came, before the Son of God 162 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,720 would come to the world and see God sent forth his son. 163 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,240 It was God who acted. When we were under the law, we 164 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,240 could not keep the law. Aren't you glad God acted? 165 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,600 See, the law required. What did the law require us to 166 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,960 do? It required man to act. 167 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,120 It required us to do something. If we were still under the law 168 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,360 today, a lot of Christians wouldn't make it. 169 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,200 Amen. They wouldn't make it if we 170 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,120 because they don't really want to do anything. 171 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,960 But man could not keep the law, so Jesus came. 172 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,680 Now we just have to have confidence in what he did at the 173 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:47,360 cross. And so many people don't have 174 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,240 confidence in what he did at the cross or they would have more 175 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,400 faith in God. See we have to. 176 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,440 I like the word confidence. To me it means confide in to 177 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,040 walk in the newness of life what Jesus did at the cross, paying 178 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,600 the penalty and freeing us. What an awesome God we serve. 179 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,400 And in verse 6 here he goes on to say or read the rest of this. 180 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,360 It says let's go to verse 4 Galatians 4 when the fullness of 181 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,200 time had come, God sent forth his son born of a woman, born 182 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,120 under the law to redeem those who were under the law that we 183 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,120 might receive the adoption as sons. 184 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:30,560 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his 185 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:35,400 son where into our hearts. The Spirit of the Son lives 186 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,560 within our hearts crying out ABBA Father. 187 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,560 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son and if a son 188 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,560 and heir of God through Jesus Christ. 189 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,840 We have many privileges as I preached Sunday about the Spirit 190 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,800 and the gifts of the Spirit because see, we're his sons. 191 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,720 And, you know, sometimes I think I get some looks on Sunday 192 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,600 morning about, you know, the people that that does the way 193 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,000 that I make some churches out to be ignorant of the things of 194 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 God. I preach that y'all gather that 195 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,640 sometimes that I, that I, that I feel like some churches are 196 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,000 ignorant of the things of God. I, I had a call with a guy that 197 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,200 a guy that I know a friend of mine and, and I was simply being 198 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,160 truthful about what I preached on Sunday morning and got to 199 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,280 talking about the gifts of the spirit and about people that 200 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,160 have not heard that. And it's a huge charge. 201 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,240 They go to way bigger than we are and do a lot of great 202 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:29,600 things. And he said, I don't know that 203 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,200 I've heard that mainstream denomination church doesn't 204 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,640 preach on the gifts of the Spirit. 205 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,040 And it's just, it's astounding to me that that, that that 206 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,400 happens. But see when, when you realize 207 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,760 that you are his Son, that God has sent forth his Spirit and 208 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,560 it's been placed in our hearts because as we as we preach 209 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:52,640 Sunday morning, no one can even say that Jesus is Lord, except 210 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,600 how by the Holy Spirit being within us, a portion of it. 211 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,240 And as we realize that the Holy Spirit's in us, he says we can 212 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,960 cry out ABBA Father, because we are his sons and the Holy Spirit 213 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,760 has been sent to take up permanent residence within our 214 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,560 hearts. Aren't you glad of that tonight? 215 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,400 See, in the Aramaic, when they cried out ABBA Father, it was a 216 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:20,240 close, trusting, intimate relationship with God. 217 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,040 It was more than, you know, when your kid says, hey, dad, as I've 218 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,120 said many times, and then they come up and they say, daddy, you 219 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,600 know, they're in them. You know, they're wanting 220 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,920 something more. They're wanting your time, 221 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,600 probably your money, right? They're probably wanting some of 222 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,600 those things. When they say, hey, daddy, and 223 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,800 you know, we're like, I just want to be dad for a while. 224 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,640 Let's forget about daddy. But God never does that, thank 225 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,640 God, right? But we cry out ABBA Father. 226 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,280 What happened when it becomes a close and trusting and intimate 227 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,280 relationship with God and see what this means is that the Holy 228 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,520 Spirit, because it's within us, it says we can't even cry out 229 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:59,120 that Jesus is Lord without the Holy Spirit being within us. 230 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,440 So that tells me we have a portion of the Holy Spirit and 231 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,480 we begin to cry out ABBA Father, and we long for that trusting 232 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,160 and intimate relationship with our heavenly Father. 233 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,960 What happens? The Spirit is actually doing the 234 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,280 crying, right? It's crying within us. 235 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,120 The Bible talks about that. There's something within us. 236 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,520 There's a hole how many tried to fill in the world. 237 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,440 There was a hole that you could not feel. 238 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,880 No matter how deep you win or what you did. 239 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,000 You could not feel that hole with the worldly things until 240 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,320 you found Jesus Christ. You were empty and alone. 241 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,520 Why? Because the Spirit does the 242 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,320 crying to the Father on our behalf. 243 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,880 You know, I begin to think about this so many people that that 244 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,040 that pray and don't enter into a prayer language of the Holy 245 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:46,200 Spirit. It's there. 246 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:48,600 You just got to learn to walk in it. 247 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,320 Praying in tongues is evidence of this crying to have a father 248 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,560 because there's something in you that's crying out repeatedly. 249 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:59,600 And we cry out to the Father in Romans 8 and 26 says that when 250 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,200 we know what, not what we ought to pray, the Spirit intercedes 251 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,080 for us and makes intercession with groanings that we can't 252 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,280 even express. So don't grieve it, just receive 253 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,160 it. Don't worry about or pay 254 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,880 attention to the sound. Just cry out to God. 255 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,440 Just cry out, ABBA. Father, let the Holy Spirit cry 256 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:20,560 out. If there's anything that's 257 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,440 lacking in our churches today and in our homes today, and we 258 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:28,040 need fixes today in every area of our life, it's because of our 259 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,320 lack of simply crying out. Amen. 260 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,560 You're the problems we have. God can fix them, but it's on 261 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,680 his time frame, right? We just have to cry out to God 262 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,240 on a daily basis. And when we do, it says that 263 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:46,520 we're no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir of 264 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:52,760 God through Jesus Christ. But what I see and what you see 265 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,800 and what many people see, it only destroys what we thought we 266 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,800 had. You know, I was reading this 267 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,240 today and the Holy Spirit just flooded my heart with this 268 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,480 because there's so many people that get saved and they've 269 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,040 they're told they're saved. They pray the sinner's prayer 270 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,400 and then they walk out into a cruel world. 271 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,920 And, and many of the churches are just watching on our many 272 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:16,920 Christians. Let me not say churches are 273 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,920 watching on for them to fail. Anybody ever felt like that when 274 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,320 you was a young Christian? Many of us have to think back a 275 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,880 long time ago. And then when you do fail, you 276 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,440 had condemnation. Everything that you wanted to do 277 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,760 was fun, fun. And everything that was fun, the 278 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,400 church said you couldn't do. So you begin to battle in your 279 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,720 mind, right? And you begin to to weigh those 280 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,000 options and what you could see destroyed what you thought you 281 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,320 had. And then you would step out and 282 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,560 you couldn't do what you heard being preached. 283 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,520 You couldn't do what was being read in the Bible and what you 284 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,720 were reading. And it destroys what we think we 285 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,280 have many times. And Satan has become the master 286 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:55,600 of this. He destroys everything that we 287 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,920 think we have because we're looking with the fleshly eyes. 288 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,680 Ever heard anybody say, well, when I see it, I'll believe how 289 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,200 many found out? That does not work spiritually. 290 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,200 You got to believe it before you see it. 291 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,600 But many take that as a truth. Well, if God would just do it 292 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,560 and I could see it, I would believe it. 293 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,000 Keep watching because you're probably not going to see it. 294 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,240 Amen. Because God is a faith God, and 295 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,600 He does not change the principle of faith for anyone. 296 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:27,480 But see, when you realize that you're a heir to things that you 297 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,840 can't see, we just read that we're heirs and joint heirs with 298 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,960 Christ, but we can't see heaven, right? 299 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,600 But yet we're an heir to it. We can't see the promise of the 300 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,600 Holy Spirit until we receive it and hear the mighty rushing wind 301 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,320 coming through the through our life. 302 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,200 But I'm an heir and a joint heir with Christ. 303 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:53,000 Let's go to 2nd Corinthians 5 and 7, 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 304 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,920 and and verse 6. I'm going to start in six. 305 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:00,080 It says so we are always confident knowing that while we 306 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,240 are at home in the body, you know, a lot of people are at 307 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,480 home in the body. They think it's their home 308 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:11,520 forever. We're absent from the Lord while 309 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,240 we're at home in the body. You ever had that that just that 310 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,000 just hit me today. While I'm in this body, I'm 311 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,359 absent from the Lord, but yeah, we spend it in our entire life 312 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,880 trying to stay in this body right. 313 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,599 I envy the old people that didn't have doctors back then. 314 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,320 I really do. I envy him. 315 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,560 You lived your days out When God got ready, he called you home. 316 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,040 You didn't You know we go through a lot of pain today. 317 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,720 I believe because we don't just live our lifeout. 318 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,000 We've changed a lot of things. Landry could bout she when my 319 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,360 wife the other day to the reconstructive surgeon and my 320 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:49,000 wife said about made her sick to see a lady's face that come in 321 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,680 there and her lips were all pooched out and there. 322 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,560 I guess that was the deal and she was worried about when she 323 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,560 could put her lipstick back on. I don't know about you all but a 324 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,320 busted lip hurts me. I'm not going to go get my lips 325 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,920 cut on to affect the way that I look. 326 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,720 You can go up there. You see some crazy things. 327 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,920 You know, I, I fear for a lot of those folks because when they 328 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,800 get to heaven, God may not recognize them. 329 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,280 That's not what I created. Who are you? 330 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:25,160 Just a thought. I know He can recognize this. 331 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,840 I know. But you know, we do things that 332 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,360 God never meant for us to do, right? 333 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:37,120 So while we're in this body said, we are always confident 334 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:42,280 knowing that while we are at home in this body, we are absent 335 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,120 from the Lord. What's the truth? 336 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:48,440 Isn't it in verse 7 what I really want to preach to you 337 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,480 tonight? When what you see to draw 338 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,600 destroys what you thought you had? 339 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,680 The problem's not with God. It's with us because we're 340 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,360 seeing with the wrong eyes. Because right here at the 341 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:07,160 apostle Paul says what he says. For we walk by faith. 342 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,000 What is faith? The substance of what we're 343 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,680 hoping for described in Hebrews, the evidence of what we cannot 344 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,640 see. So we're walking somewhere we 345 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,720 cannot see, right, Right. A lot of people have a lot of 346 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,000 problem with this kind of walk because they want to see where 347 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,520 they're going. But it says for we walk by, say 348 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,440 it with me faith and not by sight. 349 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,360 We are confident, yes, well, please, rather to be absent from 350 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:36,320 the body is to be present with the Lord. 351 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,760 What a promise. We walk by faith and not by 352 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,880 sight. But sometimes what you see 353 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,600 destroys what you thought you had. 354 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:51,240 That's why I got to walk by faith and not by sight what I'm 355 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,000 hoping for, but with that which I cannot see. 356 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,200 And that gets confusing for a lot of people. 357 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,000 But when what you see destroys what you thought you had, I want 358 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:05,240 to give you a few points here. What to do #1 We must trust God, 359 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:10,080 oversight. We must trust God, though we 360 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,600 cannot see. And rely on God's Word instead 361 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:19,560 of what we see, what we feel, what we think, and many times 362 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,280 what we hear. Because a lot of people aren't 363 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,280 hearing the voice of God. Because God will never 364 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:29,320 contradict His word #2 we must learn to take action without 365 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,920 full understanding. And we live in a world of 366 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:38,040 understanding. Today we all are quiet, I said. 367 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,200 We live in a world of understanding. 368 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,400 If you don't understand something, what do you do? 369 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:50,400 What? I'll say I'm in a different 370 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,440 situation. Because if I got to understand 371 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,280 what I preach to you and I Google it, could it be false? 372 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,680 Can I preach Google and be a truthful preacher? 373 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:07,600 So what I got to do? I got to pray what to preach and 374 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,600 when I pray and God gives it to me, I can't Google it. 375 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,480 I got to fast over it and I got to realize if what I heard was 376 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,200 from God because I'm going to be judged on a higher level because 377 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,880 I'm delivering it to more people a few times a week. 378 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,800 I can't Google what I preach, but yet some of my friends are 379 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,520 getting sermons Googled to them and it's a lot easier. 380 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,280 It's not very stressful for though. 381 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,840 They just that you can get them set up, you can get them Googled 382 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:39,800 and and, but I do Google some things and usually the things I 383 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,480 Google, they don't understand. We Googled about the coin that 384 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,200 was in the fish's mouth one time, you know, Jerry said. 385 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:49,160 I Googled that because I was preaching about the tithe is not 386 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,520 about the 10th as much as it is about the coin in the fish's 387 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,040 mouth, right? About obedience. 388 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,600 And you need it when it's there and God's supplying your needs, 389 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,640 right? And he said, Google said that 390 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,440 it's not possible to go catch a fish out of a brook or a pond 391 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:04,760 and there'll be a coin in his mouth. 392 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:06,960 That's what it said, right? Jerry? 393 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,720 I didn't Google what he did, but I just thought, I'm going to 394 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,680 see. I'm going to see what this said 395 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,000 when what you see, I want y'all to get this tonight. 396 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:25,160 When what you see destroys what you thought you had because it's 397 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,760 happened to me many times in my life going through some things 398 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,280 Now you know when you when you know when you're when you're 399 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,560 going through a trial and and you're preaching the gospel 400 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,320 every week. Sister Linda said she battled 401 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,560 every time she got up here and got this mic, somebody in her 402 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,560 family got sick. And she said, I'm just going to 403 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,440 wait a little while past her, you know, and you go to hearing 404 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,760 these things about what's going to happen if you keep preaching 405 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,280 the God, the devil just keeps poking. 406 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,120 But see, I know that voice. I know that's not God. 407 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,680 But when what you see destroys what you thought you had, Google 408 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:03,320 says you're experiencing A profound, traumatic and often 409 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:09,880 sudden dismantling, dismantling of your reality, a phenomenon 410 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,920 sometimes called reality fragmentation. 411 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,800 You know what I got out of that? You messed up. 412 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,880 It's intense. It's traumatic. 413 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,960 See, they're right. When what you see destroys what 414 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:32,760 you thought you had, it's going to get intense. 415 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,880 It's going to get traumatic in your life and it's isolating 416 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:41,280 experience where your brain struggles to to reconcile boy 417 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,320 like this. This will preach because many 418 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,960 Christians are in this right here. 419 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,640 Let me back up and read it again. 420 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,040 When what you see destroys what you thought you had, Google says 421 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,000 you're experiencing A profound, traumatic and often sudden 422 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,800 dismantling of your reality that happened at salvation. 423 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:04,160 Salvation isn't reality. Hey man, it's the truth. 424 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,920 It's not a reality, your reality and trying to live real and to 425 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,280 whatever you're trying to live real and to say you got to throw 426 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,840 all that out when you are believing in something and a man 427 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,360 that died 2000 years ago that made a blood covenant that can 428 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,800 wipe away every sin you ever committed and cast it as far as 429 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,600 E is from the West and bring peace to your life. 430 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,000 Hey man, that's not reality. That was a sacrifice. 431 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,720 But you're experiencing A profound, traumatic and often 432 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,480 sudden dismantling of your reality, a phenomenon called, I 433 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,000 can't say some of these words, reality fragmentation. 434 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:46,160 It's intense, it's traumatic and an isolating experience where 435 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:51,840 your brain struggles to reconcile past trust with 436 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:57,680 present contradictory evidence. Can I explain that? 437 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,880 What it's saying is you get so caught up in the traumatic and 438 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,680 the sudden dismantling of your reality, and the enemy gets you 439 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,400 to look at what you see and think that it's destroying what 440 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,320 you had. And you got to back up and say, 441 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,480 wait a minute, just like David did. 442 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,600 He said, I killed a lion and a bear that was threatening my 443 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,280 life. I can face this giant, I can 444 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,840 whoop. I recall all the past victory. 445 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,200 But see, the enemy wants to get your eye off of the past 446 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,040 victories that God has done and make you think that God can't 447 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,560 pull you through where you're at right now and it messes. 448 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,240 You'll trust up. But when you begin to trust a 449 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,880 God that's never failed, it shouldn't be hard. 450 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,440 He's never failed. He's come through every time. 451 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:51,840 But see, he reconciles the past trust our brain becomes unable 452 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,400 to do that. I believe that's true for a lot 453 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,600 of people. Grief for the future you thought 454 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:04,680 you had, wasn't that true? Grief for the future you thought 455 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,960 you had. We see this in marriages a lot. 456 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,560 You know, the little petite lady that marries old great headed 457 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,760 man that's got a fat wallet and they go to the funeral and they 458 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:21,560 cry like they really loved him. Hello, I watched the show 1 time 459 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,840 and you know what he did? He didn't leave her nothing. 460 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:30,280 He had it all to his kids. She was grieving for the future 461 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:35,200 that she thought she had, right? A lot of people are like that. 462 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,560 They come to Jesus Christ because some preacher told him 463 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,920 how he's going to make them rich and bless them, you know? 464 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:44,920 And then they have grief for the future because it wasn't 465 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,600 thought. It wasn't what they thought they 466 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:53,040 had imagined, right? The safety you felt and the time 467 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,080 you invested lost. That's what Google says. 468 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,840 When what do you see destroys what you thought you had? 469 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,640 Be careful on Google. You must learn to take action 470 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,960 without full understanding, was the second point I made. 471 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,520 Like walking in the dark. Anybody ever do that? 472 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,680 I don't know why I'd do it. My kids are grown. 473 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,160 I think I got in the habit of when these little babies try not 474 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,040 to wake them up. And you know I try not to. 475 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,920 I just don't like to be woke up when I do get to sleep. 476 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,800 Hey man, do y'all. But some people don't care. 477 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,120 They'll just walk in there. I think it's really rude, you 478 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,680 know, cuz sleep is a special time for me cuz I don't get to 479 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,280 do it a lot. But some people just walk in 480 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,760 there. My wife's good at it. 481 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,520 And I tell her, I tell us I respect when I come in at night 482 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,120 and, you know, should we go to bed a different time? 483 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,040 I said, I'll be really quiet. I walk around in the dark. 484 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,840 I said in the morning you need something. 485 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,200 You'll just flip the light on if you're up before me and just 486 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,360 wake me all up. And I said, I said, let's have a 487 00:27:52,360 --> 00:28:00,160 little respect. You know what she said You 488 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:07,640 should have went to bed earlier, but walking around in the dark, 489 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,360 you ever done that? I do it all the time. 490 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,880 I mean, I'll go in there, she's asleep, her bathroom doing I 491 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,000 won't turn the lights on, brush my teeth in the dark. 492 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,720 I might have a little night light on, but then when I leave 493 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,240 there, I turn everything off and I don't like the light shining. 494 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,280 And I'm I'm, I know where that counter is and I can follow that 495 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,200 counter. See, I can follow that counter. 496 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,040 It's dark, but I know where I'm going because I've been there 497 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,400 before. I know where the door is at now. 498 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,120 Sometime I may go because the door is shut. 499 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,640 I may hit my head because the door is shut, but I know the 500 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,320 door is there and I got to back up. 501 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,600 That's the way I got it. I might have to back up and open 502 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,480 the door and say, all right, Lord, what I need to do 503 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,920 different. That door is shut. 504 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,800 But I read a scripture that said just keep on knocking. 505 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,280 Hey man. And as I keep on knocking, he 506 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,600 said, the door can be open. But see, that's kind of like 507 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,560 walking in the dark. You're holding on to the wall or 508 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,040 the balance. You know that the doors there, 509 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,480 you don't been through it many times. 510 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,720 See, we must learn to take action without understanding. 511 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,720 I may not know where I'm going, but I know he's leading the way, 512 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,640 right? You don't have to know that. 513 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,160 You don't have to know the future. 514 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,160 You just have to know who holds the future. 515 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,000 And, you know, sometimes they're stumbling blocks. 516 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,240 You know, I was walking through there one night and I've been 517 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,400 through that door many times, But my wife sitting this little 518 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,160 chest out there, it's about that tall and it's got a corner like 519 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,440 a razor blade, and it loves to catch little toes. 520 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,840 You want to test where you're at spiritually? 521 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,920 My son-in-law Ty, I thought he'd come a long way and he would 522 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,040 stay at her house one night and he caught that thing. 523 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:58,280 He said I had to repent. I said, brother, I caught it one 524 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,680 time too. And I said, oh, thank you Jesus. 525 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,800 It didn't break it. See, I never, I never knew. 526 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,360 I never figured out what doing any good would to cuss 527 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,760 something. It never did anything. 528 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,040 But when I said thank you, Jesus said it didn't cut it off and it 529 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,400 it felt like it just broke it in half. 530 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,640 But see, it felt better when I said thank you Jesus instead of 531 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,160 had I called it a blah, blah, blah, blah. 532 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,320 That didn't do nothing. I ain't curt. 533 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,840 You know, do you ever see anybody's have a custom fit 534 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,240 today? And you think, man, I used to 535 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,440 look like that, I used to act like that, but now the Holy 536 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,960 Spirit's in me and I've learned to take action without full 537 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,240 understanding and I don't have to do that no more. 538 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,000 The third thing, focus on God's plan. 539 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,240 People looking everywhere for God's plan. 540 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,960 You know what His plan is to get you to heaven. 541 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,120 That's God's ultimate plan. And the sad part, I ain't going 542 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,680 to say it's the sad part. It is kind of sad because I want 543 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,560 to go in the rapture. I want to see what the rapture's 544 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,360 like. Hey, man, I want to go in the 545 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,320 rapture. I don't want to go by the grave. 546 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,960 But we don't get to choose. We don't get to set the way that 547 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:18,920 we go, but focus on God's plan long term spiritual, his 548 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,040 spiritual reality see is over our temporarily earthly 549 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,480 challenges. He's much more focused on the 550 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,720 future Scriptures full of examples of faith in God's word 551 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,080 over rather than visible evidence. 552 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,840 We love the evidence. What would have happened if Noah 553 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,080 would have just simply said it never rained here? 554 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,400 What would have happened? What would have happened? 555 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,840 The fourth thing there would well, there would never been an 556 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,640 ark. That creation might have been 557 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,160 destroyed. We don't know what would have 558 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,840 happened because Noah obeyed even in the midst of a place 559 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,480 that had never reigned. Isn't that awesome? 560 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,800 God spoke to him. What's God speaking to you 561 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,040 tonight? Though it's never happened 562 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:10,600 doesn't mean it can't happen to you #4 have confidence in God's 563 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:16,360 promises even when the outcomes are not yet visible. 564 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,960 We have to have confidence in God's outcome even when we don't 565 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,080 see a way out. I'm going to recap these and see 566 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,240 some of your writing. But when what you see destroys 567 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,440 what you thought you had, you must trust oversight. 568 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,640 Trust God oversight. Rely on God's Word instead of 569 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,560 what you see, what you feel, or what you think. 570 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,920 We must learn to take action without full understanding. 571 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,840 We must focus #3 on God's plan, which is getting us to heaven, 572 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,960 instead of our plans and what we can see. 573 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:59,160 And #4 as you stand tonight, have confidence confiding God's 574 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,800 promises even when the outcomes are not yet what visible. 575 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,160 Trusting in the dark, knowing that God has a plan. 576 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,440 I want to read the rest of that Second Corinthians as we close. 577 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,200 I meant not Corinthians, Galatians and four and eight, it 578 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:24,080 says, but then indeed, when you did not know God, anybody 579 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,320 remember that time? It's been a long time for some 580 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,400 of us. We did not know God. 581 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,560 You serve those which by nature are not gods. 582 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,480 But now after you have known God, or rather this got me today 583 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,400 when I read this, or known by God. 584 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,760 Isn't that awesome? After you have known God or 585 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,480 rather or known by God. So he says it's the same thing 586 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,120 there to know God. And when you know God, you're 587 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,880 known by God. And then he asked this question. 588 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,160 He says, Paul says, how is it that you turn again to the weak 589 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,680 beggarly elements? But we're good at doing it time 590 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,639 and again. When we begin to walk, when we 591 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:12,239 begin to walk by what we see, when we begin to walk by sight 592 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,159 and not by faith, we'll become weak and beggarly. 593 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,360 To which you desire again to be in bondage. 594 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,679 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 595 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:28,960 Look what he said right here. He said I'm afraid for you, lest 596 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,600 I have labored in vain. Thanks for listening to the 597 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,920 Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true hope, 598 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,000 peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 599 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,159 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 600 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,679 person. You can find service times at 601 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:47,280 crosspowerchurch.com.