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 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,200 trials. In my life I've had questions. 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,200 I know God's in control, but for me to say I don't have questions 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,000 would be a lie. We have questions. 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,200 I don't understand when God doesn't heal because I've seen 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,240 it so many times. I've seen God heal. 10 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,720 I picked the bull rider up off the ground one night. 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,200 He wouldn't get up and this bull was turning back by and we 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,640 rushed out there to get him in a little old deal, little old 13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,960 rodeo. And he began to scream as we got 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,440 to him and he had a spur with a Shank, about a three inch Shank 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:52,600 and a row. This big? 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,920 Stuck in his leg like this and we begin to move him. 17 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,640 He began to scream and I watched the blood. 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,120 There's no way he was supposed to live the blood that was 19 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,160 coming out of him. I don't know what everybody else 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,040 did, but I begin to pray and I begin to seek God right there. 21 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,960 And he lived. It was in his order, artery, his 22 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:14,320 main. I've seen God instantly heal. 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,800 I seen him heal my neck when it was broken. 24 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,160 I've seen God instantly heal. I've seen it. 25 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,120 I can't tell you that, God. Will heal you, but I can tell 26 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:33,080 you he can. But as I preach. 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,240 Wednesday night you know God gets us ready for things and we 28 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,160 did not have the result of all this stuff till Friday and I 29 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,680 preach Wednesday night under a heavy heart and God had given me 30 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,720 this in Habakkuk chapter 3. And those of you here Wednesday, 31 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,480 you heard it. But let's stand in the reading 32 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,440 of the word. And I know you probably don't 33 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,600 have this back there on your. Scripture but Habakkuk. 34 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,920 Chapter 3 and verse 17. Habakkuk was. 35 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:02,040 Preaching to a nation that repeatedly rebelled against God, 36 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,800 much like where we Live Today. And he kept getting. 37 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,240 Messages from God that. God was telling him I'm going to 38 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,320 destroy it all. I'm going to do away with it 39 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,840 all. I'm going to do. 40 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,040 Away with this nation of Judah. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm 41 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,720 going to destroy. I'm going to tear down those 42 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,680 things and Habakkuk chapter. Three, he said, though the fig. 43 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,480 Tree may not blossom in 3 and 17, nor the fruit beyond the 44 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,520 vines. Though the labor of the olive. 45 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,000 May fell in the fields yield no food, though the flock may be 46 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,760 cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls. 47 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,760 I love what he says in verse 18. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. 48 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,600 I will joy in the God of my salvation the last. 49 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,360 Time I read this. To you I was. 50 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,920 Reading it under great. Faith that God was going to just 51 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:57,240 do away with this. Thing and in verse 19 the Lord 52 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:58,880 God. Is my strength. 53 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,560 He will make my feet like Deer's feet and he will make me walk. 54 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,680 On high heels, Father, we come before you today. 55 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,320 We thank You for Your word that is truth. 56 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,400 It's life to a lost and dying world. 57 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,280 Though we don't understand, we trust. 58 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:20,720 Though we don't see, we know that You have all things in the 59 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,560 palm of your hand. Yeah, though we walk through a 60 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,560 valley of a shadow of death, we. Fear no evil, for we know that 61 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,120 you're preparing a way before us. 62 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,120 We thank you for your love and your mercy. 63 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,880 It's in your son's name. I ask for the anointing to 64 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,800 preach your word one more time in Jesus name, Amen. 65 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,600 So what is Habakkuk saying? Here, though, there's times. 66 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:51,160 That are tough, we have to ask ourself there's times that we 67 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,000 will feel. All. 68 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,680 Alone. But when you're alone, you're 69 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,640 really not alone. We trust God to. 70 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,960 Accomplish what he promises. To us in his word. 71 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,280 But the real battle of faith comes. 72 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,480 Can I say that? Again, the real. 73 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,840 Battle of Faith comes. When he appears not. 74 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,120 To respond to our trust. I go and pray. 75 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,920 With James Reed and so does brother. 76 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,600 Tony, for years we've been praying here for a lung 77 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,880 transplant and then we see it and and if there's anybody 78 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,840 that's had faith, it's. James Reed. 79 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,760 Amen. If there's anybody that didn't 80 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,800 want prayer but wanted to pray for people, it's James Reed. 81 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,320 But yet complication after complication. 82 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,520 We see these things. We see, it seems that God 83 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,040 appears not to respond. Or trust. 84 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,040 And if you're a Christian to the day and you say, well, he 85 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,080 always. Does it always happen? 86 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,000 You're going to walk through a time that it seems that God does 87 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,080 not hear. You're going to walk through a 88 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,680 time that the enemy will try to convince you that God does not 89 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,520 even care. If he does, Why am I? 90 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,560 What do we do when God appears to have ignored our request? 91 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,440 Jesus felt that way. On the Cross of Calvary he felt 92 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,640 forsaken for a short period of time. 93 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,000 Will we continue to rely upon him? 94 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:19,240 Despite the disappointments. Yes we will, but many choose to 95 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,400 blaze their own path and turn away from the Lord in. 96 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,280 Discouragement. I've been there. 97 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,880 It doesn't work too good, but when we look at Ibaka here, he 98 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,520 demonstrates. A great essence of faith of 99 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,000 true. Faith that we must continue to 100 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,120 trust. God and know. 101 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,400 That Lord has wisdom. That can see ahead. 102 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,520 He's faithful, and when he seems inactive or uncaring in our 103 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,480 life, our faith. Becomes at this point. 104 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,720 A matter of devoted. Allegiance to the Lord Jesus 105 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,880 Christ, not for what he could do, but for what he's already. 106 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,280 Done for the blessings we already have, right? 107 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,720 But we all come to the place. We have to ask ourselves, do I 108 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,120 have confidence in him? Regardless of the circumstance. 109 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,240 That's a big question. A lot of. 110 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,920 Christians have an answer to their serving. 111 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,440 God on a circumstance say man and and if they don't? 112 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,800 Discourage and the circumstance is good enough. 113 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,280 We'll keep serving God. But if not, we may go backwards 114 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:18,000 a little bit, or we may withdraw from the church. 115 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 We may do that. What? 116 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,080 Whatever it is, ask yourself. Do I have confidence in him 117 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,080 regardless of the circumstance? Do I cling to God? 118 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,160 The second question I preached this Wednesday. 119 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,080 Night I had no. Idea what was in? 120 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,160 Store I I knew. Healing was in store, I had no 121 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,560 doubt. And then it hit and I had to go. 122 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,240 Back and read this Do I cling to God and his Word? 123 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,560 Despite silence. I'm going to preach on that 124 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,120 today. A little bit about silence. 125 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,680 Do I cling to God and His Word? Despite the silence as. 126 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:57,200 Habakkuk do we say? Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. 127 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,840 I've seen many miracles of God I we've had. 128 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:03,360 People here healed here. In the last month facing surgery 129 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,200 for sciaticas and things. Like that instantly healed. 130 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,920 We know. That God does, but there's a. 131 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,000 Great passage of. Scripture in the Bible that says 132 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,320 I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 133 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,200 That's God's choice. But we must. 134 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,320 Remember that God's. Word is an immovable anchor in 135 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,080 the times of ours, of the storms that we face. 136 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,400 How do I answer the questions? How do I? 137 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,640 Cling to his word. I want to look at some time 138 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,360 here. It's that God has. 139 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,920 Been silent many times throughout scripture for periods 140 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,520 of time, but we're as I'm going to build up to preaching. 141 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,800 Some. On the on the birth of Christ 142 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,400 and what it really means. Can I say that again of? 143 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,600 What it really means, it's not about a tree, it's not about 144 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:48,280 gifts, it's not about the things that we have really misconstrued 145 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,720 today, but it's it's about a it's about a savior sent to a. 146 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,720 Lost and dying. World but if you've read your 147 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,000 Bible and maybe you know this, maybe you don't, but the book of 148 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,920 Malachi, let's go to Malachi, the last chapter in the Bible. 149 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,680 I think it's very important and one reason it is very important 150 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,560 is because Malachi was prophesying the great and coming 151 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,240 day of the Lord in the last book of the Old Testament. 152 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:18,280 There would be 400 years of nothing recorded from Malachi to 153 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,720 Matthew. Not one prophet spoke. 154 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,000 We can only go to history to see that there was silence in this 155 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,920 400 years. Where was God? 156 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,480 He had made the children of Israel promises. 157 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,480 They had seen the man on the ground. 158 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,400 They had seen the fire by night leading them the way. 159 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,919 They had crossed Canaan, come on somebody and they had seen the 160 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,799 promised land, but yet they still rebelled against God. 161 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,720 Yet they still fell into their Pagan religions and and all 162 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,080 these things and God was telling Malachi something has got to be 163 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,360 done. Something is going to happen. 164 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,600 People no longer let the word of God have any impact in their 165 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,000 life. That is where Malachi was at. 166 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 He could they they had had the word preach, but in in chapter 4 167 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Malachi one it says for behold. The day is coming. 168 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:13,160 This is the last words that God spoke to Malachi for 400 years, 169 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,280 for behold, the day is coming, burning like an. 170 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,200 Oven. And all the proud, yes, all who 171 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,440 do wickedly, will stumble, And the day which is coming shall 172 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,640 burn them. Up says. 173 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,800 The Lord of hosts. What are we waiting for today? 174 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,320 Believers are I'm just going to make this simple and I hear so 175 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,320 many messages today. They confuse us they they beat 176 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,040 around the Bush. What is it? 177 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,480 What are we waiting for today? Those that believe in Jesus 178 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,160 Christ and the virgin birth and the death and the burial and the 179 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,720 resurrection of him are waiting for a thing called a rapture. 180 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,400 That's a about to take place and take God's children out of here. 181 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,040 The others are waiting for what, Malachi, there's no in between. 182 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,360 You're in one or two places. See the church has gotten really 183 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,200 good at preaching this comfortable in between message 184 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:01,920 and it's not there. Amen. 185 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,120 God said my people are going to repent because after 400 years 186 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,960 of telling them, look, it's this thing fixing to burn up. 187 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,200 Those that aren't that do not know Jesus Christ today, What 188 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,800 are they waiting for? They waiting to burn up, Amen. 189 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,080 They're waiting to be destroyed. That's all they're waiting. 190 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,480 I come by to ask you, what in hell do you want? 191 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:25,240 I read about hell and I can tell you there's nothing I want 192 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:26,120 there. Amen. 193 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,400 I don't want the addictions and the things that hell piles on 194 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,280 me. I don't want the sickness that 195 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,680 Satan placed on me. There's nothing in hell that I 196 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:36,440 want. And there's nothing on this 197 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,400 earth that can keep me from going to heaven except my mind 198 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,320 and my feet. If I think the wrong things and 199 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,240 walk the wrong way, I will end up in hell despite of the 200 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,800 prayers that I have prayed. If I do not put God first in my 201 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,880 life. When I read this Bible, Hebrews 202 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,520 10/26, we need to learn it by heart. 203 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,600 He says if I if you go on sinning willfully after you've 204 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,760 received, that's a big kicker. I've received the knowledge of 205 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,880 the truth. He says that there no longer 206 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,320 remains A sacrifice for your sin, but a fiery indignation 207 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,400 that will devour the adversaries of God. 208 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,440 I'll never forget when I read that for the first time. 209 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,520 I was living and then trying to figure out how much of the world 210 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,840 I can hang on to and still go to heaven. 211 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:22,360 And that made it very clear to me. 212 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,360 There was no Gray area as people speak. 213 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,240 There's no purgatory, Amen. There's no praying a prayer that 214 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,280 and God saving you and you've never changed in your. 215 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:36,000 Heart and mind and. Giving it to Jesus Christ, put 216 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,200 it on the podcast, put it in every first, second, third 217 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,360 church you want to. There is no way unless you have 218 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,840 a relationship with Jesus Christ. 219 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:49,120 You're waiting to burn up this morning, he says. 220 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,840 The day which is coming. It shall burn them, says the 221 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,640 Lord of Hosts. They will leave them, neither 222 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,080 root nor branch. It's all going to be destroyed. 223 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,000 But you fear my name, boy, I like that. 224 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,120 But you fear my name. Why do I live righteous? 225 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,200 Because I fear his name. Amen. 226 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,000 The Son of righteousness, here we go. 227 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,240 He's about to, he's about to figure it how God is, God is, 228 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,680 it's like God is things are going through his mind right 229 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:16,480 here. But he says, But the Son of 230 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,120 righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings, and you 231 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:25,040 shall go out, and you shall grow fat like a stalled calf, and you 232 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,360 shall trample the wicked. Why not? 233 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,560 Put the word of. God in me to make me heavier. 234 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,400 So when I step on the devil, I'm going to trample him. 235 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:32,920 Amen. And. 236 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,320 To get this, he says, they should be ashes. 237 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,160 Of your feet. On the day that I do this, says 238 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,760 the Lord of hosts, remember the law of Moses, stay with me. 239 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,520 The last words God spoke for 400 years, they're pretty important. 240 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,800 Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Herod for all 241 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,480 of Israel. With the statues and the 242 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,800 judgments. He says, Behold I. 243 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:02,280 Will send you and Elijah and. Elijah the Prophet. 244 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,440 Before the coming and the great dreadful day of the Lord. 245 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,960 And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, in 246 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,320 the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and 247 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:17,040 strike the earth with a curse. So what was happening I've. 248 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,640 Often wondered, you know. God, he can wake up and he can 249 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,400 look down as we look at an. IPhone and he sees all the 250 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:27,760 world, he sees all the people, he sees all the cancer, he sees 251 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:28,400 all the. Tears. 252 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,720 He sees all the strife. He sees all the. 253 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,320 Dictions that he don't even have to. 254 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,520 Click a button. He's omnipotent, he's 255 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:40,000 omnipresent, he can see it all. But yet this 400 years during. 256 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,560 The From the Old Testament of the Book of Malachi to the New 257 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:48,120 Testament, what happened? From to the book of Matthew, 258 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,160 they're often called the. Silent years. 259 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,960 But during this time it there's no prophets as I said spoke, 260 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,640 there was nothing recorded yet God. 261 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,960 People thought God was absent, but yet His. 262 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,280 Silence was anything but inactive. 263 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:03,120 He was getting some things ready. 264 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,920 He was preparing just as he is today. 265 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:07,400 The Bible says, you know, used to. 266 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,480 I'd read the Scripture that says man is without excuse. 267 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,960 You know, used to. Well, I hear this all the time, 268 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:14,640 mom and Daddy. Didn't take me to church. 269 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:24,560 You can't walk. Daddy Drake all time. 270 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,120 What does that got to do with you? 271 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,640 Yeah, it can affect you, but we get in this crippled. 272 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:36,920 Handicap spiritual mentality. But see, God was meticulously, 273 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,040 meticulously preparing. Something He was setting the 274 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,080 stage. For our Lord and Savior Jesus 275 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,640 Christ, when God doesn't answer, get ready, child of God, because 276 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,880 when He doesn't answer, he's fixing the answer real big. 277 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,680 He was getting us ready. See the. 278 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,800 Period teaches an important truth. 279 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,560 Even when it seems like God is absent. 280 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,720 Even when it seems. Like he's not at. 281 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,040 Work. He's orchestrating a. 282 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,040 Perfect plan. See, the Bible does not record 283 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,280 any of this. In these silent years you have. 284 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,200 To go to history, you have to look in to some of those things 285 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,080 about the silent years, but I want to cover just a few of 286 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,920 these as we look at them. What was? 287 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,080 Happening in the silent. Years 300. 288 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,680 And 50. Some odd years before Christ, 289 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,920 what was happening? What was God doing the Greek 290 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,600 cultures in the languages throughout that they were being 291 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:31,440 spread, but yet they were being lined up See, by the time Jesus 292 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,520 had arrived, the Greek had become a. 293 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,680 Someone language allowing. The gospel message to spread 294 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,880 quicker to all the world. What does God do in 2025 years 295 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:44,760 later? He's been allowing as I. 296 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,480 Said a while ago, man was it is without excuse because one of 297 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,720 the promises of the Bible is the son of man will not return to 298 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,880 this earth until. Everyone has had a chance. 299 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,120 To hear the gospel, they've had a chance. 300 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,640 It's at the fingertips. If we're ignorant of the word 301 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,360 of. God, it ain't nobody's fault. 302 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,320 It ain't the preacher's fault. You can go way beyond my 303 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,920 knowledge. That fast and look it up, but 304 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:10,360 see we look. At this. 305 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,040 Alexander the Great and. He was spreading the Greek 306 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,400 cultures he was conquering. God was a lying. 307 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,640 We look at the Roman Empire. Which was established. 308 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,920 It was a vast network of roads and. 309 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,600 And be as Daniel. Prophesied in the last days, 310 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,440 people will go to and fro as never before. 311 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,520 You can go get on a step a foot on a. 312 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,040 Plane in. Dallas today and be anywhere. 313 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,000 Pretty much in the world by nightfall. 314 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,520 But see during this period. They were there. 315 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:39,360 Was a lot of. Creek connectivity and 316 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,440 creativity. Going on the the packs romaine 317 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,600 that we hear about the peace, the Roman peace provided the 318 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,120 infrastructure that was needed in the day when the Messiah 319 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,560 would come to spread the gospel. See, during this period, Jewish 320 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,880 people were doing what they were building great synagogues that 321 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,160 there had never been and places of worship for teaching that 322 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,920 people would go and say, we can now hear some of the things that 323 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,119 was in the that was in the Torah and that was. 324 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,079 In the Old Testament and they were. 325 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:11,040 Getting these things ready, they become hubs for communities that 326 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,520 a place that they could go. And and life. 327 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,040 Centers for discussing scriptures and setting the stage 328 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,960 for us to hear the gospel. Of Jesus Christ and for. 329 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,560 Paul to do what to later preach in these? 330 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,800 Cities and in these places across the Roman Empire, we. 331 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,440 Look at some other things that that was going on the the SERPT 332 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:32,840 agenda. It was being created. 333 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,840 It was a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture so that 334 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,360 people could understand them. Amen. 335 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,960 That that they could get it the gospel out. 336 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,240 It was all about the gospel. God had a plan in place. 337 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:49,200 During the silent years. See it made the Old Testament 338 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,680 accessible to non Hebrew speakers. 339 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,280 They can now read what the prophets had wrote, the 340 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,480 groundwork and the message was getting. 341 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,040 Ready for all these? Things and they can read about 342 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,840 the the things that were fulfilled, see the hardships 343 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:07,080 that were faced by the Jewish people under foreign rain from 344 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,200 the Persians and the Greeks and the Chaldean Sea. 345 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,880 All this was being set up to deepen the children. 346 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,200 For a longing of a Messiah. But see today it. 347 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,600 Seems that the more that we should fall into this same 348 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,880 category of being deep and longing for a rescuer, it seems 349 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,760 that God's children are falling more in love with the. 350 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,920 Activities and the things. Of the world. 351 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,960 Than they are the. Messiah that's about to. 352 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,400 Return Can I get a witness? See the silence? 353 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:40,120 Between Malachi and Matthew. It was anything but silent. 354 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,480 It was a season of preparation. Can I tell you today we're in a 355 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,560 season of preparation. What's God preparing us? 356 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,000 For you know, there's two ways to look at sickness and disease. 357 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,120 It's it we can get down or we can get up and say, God, what 358 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:56,400 are you preparing me for? Where you taking me? 359 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,200 Why are you healing me? Why if I am? 360 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:00,200 Healed. What will I? 361 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,640 What will? I do, you know, I like what 362 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:04,800 brother Randy said. He's honest like I am, he said. 363 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:05,680 I was praying for God. I. 364 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,880 Healed my shoulder and he said the Spirit of the Lord spoke to 365 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,240 me. So what have you done for me? 366 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:11,520 I'm glad he don't. Only deal with me. 367 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,080 That way. But some people say, oh God, 368 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:15,240 don't take deal. He don't. 369 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,200 Yeah, he does. See, the silence between Malachi 370 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,800 and Matthew is anything but silent. 371 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,680 It was a time of preparation. God was aligning political 372 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,800 powers. He was aligning all the cultural 373 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,400 and spiritual things, and the circumstances were made perfect. 374 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,080 So he could do what? So he could send his son into. 375 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,160 History. Galatians chapter. 4 I'm going 376 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,880 to back this up in chapter 4 and five. 377 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,520 Let's read Galatians chapter 4, verse four and. 378 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,640 Five, it says. But when the fullness. 379 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,680 That's what the scripture. Was talking about but when the 380 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,960 fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son from a woman 381 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,800 born under the law. Verse 5 says. 382 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,160 To do what? To redeem those who were under 383 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,720 the law. Thank God to redeem us that we 384 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,200 might receive the adoption as a son. 385 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,960 That's what God was doing. But see. 386 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,760 Just as God was working during this. 387 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:15,400 Season in the silent. Years. 388 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,560 He's working in your silent times as well, when you're by 389 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,040 yourself. Say it with me, I'm really not 390 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,160 alone. God was working during the 391 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,840 silent years. He's working in your life even 392 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,760 though you can't see, even though you can't feel His 393 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,080 presence. I want to look at these few 394 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:40,160 lessons that we can learn in the silent times, because it's not 395 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,320 our timing. Write this down #1 We need to 396 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,760 trust God's timing. We often want. 397 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,400 God to act according to our schedules, to perform according 398 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,680 to what we think should be done when it should be done. 399 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,400 But his timing is perfect, just as he waited for the fullness of 400 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,760 time. Just till he waited. 401 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:02,120 You know, they didn't. The gospel would have been very 402 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,280 hard to get out of Jesus with man. 403 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,560 Jesus was healing him. He was performing great signs 404 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,680 and wonders and what did the what did they do to him? 405 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,920 They killed him, but yet he was God was preparing for a way. 406 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,760 To spread this gospel to. Get it out. 407 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,800 We have to trust God's timing, the fullness of time He sent 408 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,840 Jesus. He awaits the right time in our 409 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,040 life to fulfill the promises in our life. 410 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:33,760 The second thing He does is preparation happens in silence. 411 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,120 When God doesn't speak, He's preparing us for something. 412 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,280 It's no time to stop. It's no time to quit. 413 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,440 But the enemy is. The enemy can become very. 414 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,200 He can become so real at getting us to quit during the silent 415 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,360 times. The silent years remind us that 416 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,280 these seasons of our life aren't wasted if we keep digging, if we 417 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,320 keep responding to God and what he wants to do. 418 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,480 And you never know when you begin to respond in that quiet 419 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,760 season. You never know when God's about 420 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,120 to speak and answer big. God prepares. 421 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:09,680 Us and the circumstances around us for what he has planned, not 422 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:10,600 what we have. Planned. 423 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,400 Can I get a witness? Trust that God is shaping you 424 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,440 even when it doesn't happen immediately and you don't see 425 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,600 the results. I'm going to try to move ahead. 426 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,000 I'm running out of time but. Another thing we must. 427 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,400 Remember is God works behind the scenes, He's working in things I 428 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,560 cannot even see. Even when we don't hear. 429 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,800 His voice or it seems unclear or the evidence of activity is 430 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,320 nowhere around us. He's at work, He's at work. 431 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,880 He's preparing opportunities, opening doors that we cannot 432 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,640 open. He's a closing doors and opening 433 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,120 doors that no man can shut. But you can rest. 434 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,640 The next thing I want to share with you can rest that God's 435 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,720 promises are sure. The promise made in the Old 436 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,760 Testament about the Messiah were fulfilled after this 400 years. 437 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,520 God had not forgot his promise, though he had not spoken, the 438 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,280 promise remain. Somebody ought to say man, they 439 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,320 were fulfilled with what Jesus Christ. 440 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:14,320 The assurance to us that God promises that we know are 441 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,640 reliable and that he will return. 442 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:24,840 Isaiah 55 and 11 Let's read it. His promises are sure they will 443 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,240 happen. But our faith. 444 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:32,040 Should grow in silence. Say that with me, my faith. 445 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,840 Should grow. In silence, seasons of silence, 446 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,320 they challenge us to learn and to lean not on our own 447 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,840 understanding, right in Proverbs 3, five and six, that they lead 448 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,400 us to trust in God's character, trust in God's faithfulness, 449 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,640 that to know that God is able to do is seatingly and abundantly 450 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,720 all that we can think, ask, or imagine. 451 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,120 Faith grows in silence, but we tend to do right the opposite, 452 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,600 right? We get hung up on the thing, at 453 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,840 the task at hand, when sometimes we need to skip over and just 454 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:12,200 keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving. 455 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,680 Perhaps you're in a season where God feels distant, where you 456 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,040 feel like you're alone. God speaks to us. 457 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,080 I'll never, I'll never forget I was feeding cows a day. 458 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,960 We were waiting on this call Friday. 459 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,600 And you know, if you, if you let it, the call will just get in 460 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,920 your mind. And I said, wait a minute, I'm 461 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,520 not putting my faith in the call. 462 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,120 And I was out there in the mud with a bunch of old cows and I 463 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:38,560 laid over the steering wheel and the power of God hit me and I 464 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,040 felt that he I felt man, if I've ever felt that she was healed, I 465 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:47,000 felt it. And then the let down of what 466 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,840 the doctor said. Y'all been there, but see we got 467 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,360 to learn not to have the let down. 468 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,200 What I do know is I felt the presence of God, something this 469 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,480 world did not give me, though it was not the answer I was looking 470 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,240 for. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, 471 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,960 yet I will rejoice. But see the story. 472 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,960 Of the silent year is reminding us that God is never inactive. 473 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,320 He's always at work orchestrating our details to 474 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,960 accomplish His glory. Isaiah 64 and four it. 475 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,160 Beautifully captures this truth. That says, since ancient times 476 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:28,920 no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any 477 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,920 God beside you who acts on the behalf of those who do what? 478 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,600 Wait for him. Trust that God is working in 479 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,720 your waiting. The silence is not an end to the 480 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,520 story, It could be only the beginning. 481 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,440 What happens after this 400 years? 482 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,440 It's preparing for something far greater than mankind could ever 483 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,440 imagine. I'm sure mankind was waiting for 484 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,800 the for the second destroying of creation which God had already 485 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,440 done. Wasn't playing with this deal. 486 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:02,120 He had already destroyed. Everything he had made. 487 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:03,720 Save what? Save no one. 488 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,520 The ones on the ark. He'd already done it, and he was 489 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,200 about to do it again. But. 490 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,240 But he had found a man way back there in Genesis named Abraham. 491 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,280 Why does the church today leave the God of Abraham, the God of 492 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,720 Isaac, and the God of Jacob? They're good at leaving him out 493 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,440 of the church. And they're creating this God 494 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,640 for America, this God for Russia, this. 495 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,880 God for the. World No, he's the God of 496 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,960 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob because the plan of salvation was set up 497 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,960 on Mount Moriah with a man named what? 498 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,160 Abraham? Because God found a man that 499 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,640 says I will OfferUp my only son and I'll obey you God, and I 500 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,680 won't question why I got to put the knife to his throat or stab 501 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,280 him and kill him and let the blood. 502 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,160 I'm not going to question it because you're in control. 503 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,800 And therefore God set up the blood covenant with us that we 504 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,560 read about in Matthew and I got news for people. 505 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,880 John the Baptist did not come say saying once saved, always 506 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,800 saved. He was in the. 507 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,280 Desert, he said. Repent for the Kingdom of heaven 508 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:12,000 is at hand. Repent what happened? 509 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,560 He got his head served up on a platter. 510 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,640 What happens to a lot of the churches? 511 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,400 Today that. Tells you once you got saved, 512 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,280 you ain't always saved. You got to serve. 513 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,760 God, you got to fight till the end. 514 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,840 You got to keep. Reaching till the author and the 515 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,720 finisher. But if you do what John the. 516 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,440 Baptist said repent. For the Kingdom of heaven is at 517 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,160 hand. Yes, you will be saved. 518 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,880 But go look up what repent. Means when you find Jesus, 519 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:34,840 repent. I'm gonna get. 520 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,600 To preaching here in a minute. Repent. 521 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,920 Will mean a whole nother thing. See the time between. 522 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,480 Malachi and Matthew. It was not a pause, it was God's 523 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,000 plan. It was a crucial part of it. 524 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,840 It was a season of preparation, a season of alignment. 525 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:56,440 But in our lives we can take comfort in knowing even though 526 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,560 God's silent today, he's still in control. 527 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,680 He's still in control. He's still in control. 528 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,000 I had someone tell me one time you prayed for that person, they 529 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,520 didn't get healed, they died. And how do you still preach it? 530 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,160 I said because God can. I can't tell. 531 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,040 That's all I can tell you. I don't know. 532 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,520 I don't know when your healing's coming. 533 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,400 I don't know when the wayward child that you pled blood. 534 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,000 Sweat and tears. For is going to be here? 535 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,120 I don't know, but I know God can. 536 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,720 But I can tell you. And your deepest, darkest. 537 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,200 Point is, you stand your feet and I'm going to close. 538 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,520 I felt this message for a few weeks and I have not. 539 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,880 Preached it. I felt it because I heard a song 540 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:47,200 about about it one late night. But I come by to tell you when 541 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,320 you, when you. Feel like you're alone when you 542 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,000 feel. Like God is silent. 543 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,800 You're really not alone. Crank it up, let's worship. 544 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,920 If you need prayer today, just come say Pastor, I want to know. 545 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,640 That God's with me. Maybe the world's. 546 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,560 Crumbling down on each and every side. 547 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:08,880 And you? Feel alone. 548 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,120 I just want to remind you, you're never really alone. 549 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,280 Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast. 550 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,240 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 551 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,640 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 552 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,800 would love for you to join us in person. 553 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,360 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.