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Now, let's open God's word and 

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If you would turn to the 16th 
chapter of John's gospel, and we

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will be discussing this morning.
Joy and what it means to walk in

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joy. 
Before I begin this, message 

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this morning in between 
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I went into my study and opened 
a book. 

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That is dear to my heart. 
It is the Valley of Vision which

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is a Collective Book of Puritan 
prayers. 

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And there's no name to who 
prayed this and no person gets 

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credit for it. 
But I read this, it's an O 

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Christ. 
All thy ways of Mercy tend to an

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end in my delight. 
Now, de sweep sorrow suffered 

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that I might rejoice. 
This person understood that 

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Christ. 
We sorrow for his Joy X 

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promises, shown my future 
happiness. 

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Given me a living Fountain. 
Thou Art preparing, joy for me. 

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And meet for joy. 
I pray for joy. 

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I wait for Joy. 
I long for joy. 

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Give me more than I can, hold 
desire or think of measure out 

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to me. 
My times and degrees of Joy at 

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my work business and duties. 
If I weep at night, give me joy 

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in the morning. 
Let me rest in the thought of 

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thy love, pardon for sin. 
My title to Heaven, my future 

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unspotted state. 
I read those words. 

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As I prepared to bring this 
message, this morning was 

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overwhelmed. 
By the joy of the Lord Jesus is 

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going to talk about that today. 
It's not going to seem as we 

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begin to read this that he's 
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In fact, you will wonder, what 
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And he's going to get to his 
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be Joy. 
He has promised his disciples 

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way back in chapter 14 of John's
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to them the indwelling Holy 
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He has made that promise over 
and over again to them in John's

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gospel, reminding them that with
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things. 
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love joy, peace patience, 
kindness goodness, gentleness 

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faithfulness and long-suffering.
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them about walking in Joy. 
That's what I want us to learn 

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today. 
I want us to learn how to walk 

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in true Joy. 
What this really means. 

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He's going to teach them that 
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have to go out on this crazy 
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But that Joy has been provided 
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His Joy is Promised by Jesus 
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it's procured by his sacrifice. 
That means he obtains it for you

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through his sacrifice. 
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supermarket or to Walmart and 
purchase it, there could be no 

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price put on it because it would
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on our own. 
Christ procured it for us 

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through his sacrifice. 
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indwelling Holy Spirit again 
that he has promised to all who 

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are in Christ. 
So Joy is something that every 

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believer has direct access to 
but that many Believers often 

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forfeit in their day-to-day 
lives many Believers often 

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forfeit. 
This Joy walking in the Sorrows 

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of this world, walking in the 
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the pain of this world. 
The trials of this world in the 

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sufferings of this world, Jesus 
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today, that it should not be so.
Here in John chapter 16 he is 

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going to talk to them about 
walking and joy and how they can

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walk enjoy. 
I pray that you would learn this

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lesson that he gave to his 
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that still applies to us. 
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verse 16, we will begin. 
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let's read it in its entirety 
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it. 
It says here in verse 16 where 

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we left off. 
Last week in a little while you 

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will see me no more and then 
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see me some of his disciples 
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he mean by saying in a little 
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You will see me no more and then
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see me and because I am going to
the father Disciples wondered. 

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What was he talking about? 
What what could he possibly mean

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by this statement? 
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me no more and then after a 
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Of course it's caused much 
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circles throughout the ages. 
What is Jesus actually talking 

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about here? 
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that he's going to die? 
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where we find ourselves here, 
just hours from the cross, is he

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going, is he talking about the 
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that he's going to be buried. 
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little while they will not see 
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three days, they will see him 
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He could possibly be talking 
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That's one Theory. 
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Ascension to the father? 
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imminent, returned, a scripture,
declares that he talking about 

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that when he says in a little 
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But then, in a little while you 
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he talking about? 
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Is Ascension in regard to this 
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me but then in a little while 
just days. the holy spirit is 

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going to descend from heaven 
upon you and while you and you 

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will see me again as the Holy 
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spirit, you have you have seen 
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see me in just a short time, 
God, in spirit living and 

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dwelling. 
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everyone here is let's not make 
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Because in every one of those 
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saw him again so it's really 
irrelevant what he's talking 

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about in regard to this. 
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That Jesus, they're going to ask
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If Jesus is not even going to 
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We read on this text is, what 
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Because I'm going to the fob, 
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won't see me. 
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you will see me again because 
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18, and they kept asking, what 
does this mean by a little 

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while? 
We don't understand what he's 

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saying. 
And Jesus saw that they wanted 

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to ask him about this. 
And so he said to them, are you 

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asking one another? 
What I meant when I said in a 

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little while, you will see me no
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while, you will see me, isn't 
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Funny how Jesus did that? 
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wondering. 
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what you guys are talking about?
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weep and mourn while the world 
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your grief will turn to Joy. 
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question that he knows that they
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He talks about a bigger issue, 
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have grief and the fact that 
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did he say? 
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A woman giving birth to a child 
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come, he's going to illustrate 
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But when her baby is born, she 
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her joy that a child is born 
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All the pain is worth it at that
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So, with you now is your time of
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and you will rejoice and no one 
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day, you will no longer. 
Ask me anything. 

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I tell you the truth, my father 
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in my name, according to his 
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until now, you have not asked 
for anything in my name, ask and

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you will receive Receive and 
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Please see the context of this 
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about Joy. 
The whole time though, I have 

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been speaking figuratively. 
A time is coming when I will no 

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longer use this kind of language
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my father, In that day, you ask 
in my name, in my name. 

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I am not saying that I will ask 
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He doesn't have to. 
He's giving you direct access to

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the father through his 
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Know, the father himself loves 
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It's for all the people who say,
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loves the son, but he can never 
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No, he loves you. 
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Why? 
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The Father loves you not because
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you're good in and of yourself, 
not because you're worthy of his

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love. 
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me and have believed that I came
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I came from the father and end 
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Now, I'm leaving the world and 
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then Jesus disciples said, now 
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And without figures of speech, 
what he's been saying the whole 

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time Now we can see that, you 
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not even need to have anyone ask
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believe that you came from God. 
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of Christ and they say this 
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You believe it last? 
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coming and has come when you 
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own home. 
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I love that. 
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Plain and simple. 
Yet, I am not alone for my 

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father is with me. 
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if you left me alone, you're 
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You're going to try to Bear the 
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Don't worry about it. 
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of me. 
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that in me you may have peace in
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You will have trouble, but take 
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world. 
Jesus is talking to his 

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disciples here about walking in 
complete joy and walking in 

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complete. 
Joy comes. 

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Write this down first by 
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power, verses 16 through 22. 
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they're first. 
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What we see is this we see that 
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must trust that the Lord will 
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Into Clarity verses 16 through 
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They're asking the same question
over and over and over in a 

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little while you won't see me. 
But then, in a little while, you

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will see me, this doesn't make 
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Never in their life. 
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anything like this? 
They know that when people die, 

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you never see them again. 
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You won't see me and then you'll
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Jesus is telling them that 
things are going to be confusing

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confusing in your life and just 
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But I'm going to bring all of 
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I have the power to transform 
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that is exactly what Jesus does 
he transforms our confusion into

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Clarity? 
This brought confused and into 

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their lives for a moment. 
As they tried to understand all 

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of this from the human 
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intellect. 
Remember they weren't getting it

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as we read through that text at 
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Then all of a sudden everything 
began to click because they were

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no longer trying to understand 
through the natural intelligence

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of man. 
They began to understand and to 

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see things through the spiritual
and all of a sudden and seeing 

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things through the spiritual. 
Their confusion was transformed 

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into Clarity. 
We find ourself confused in this

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world often. 
Don't we confused and void of 

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Joy. 
When we try to understand this 

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world with our own human, Human 
intellect from a human 

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perspective. 
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You're going to find yourself 
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And then it's going to move you 
to a state of an absence of joy 

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in your life. 
You began to watch everything 

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going on in this world, from 
just your human intellect and 

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your human understanding, you 
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That's why in these chaotic 
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on the rise. 
Is so many people are confused. 

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How could we not be confused? 
Everyone seems to be confused. 

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We don't know the difference 
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We don't know the difference 
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We don't know the difference 
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from a human perspective, you're
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confusion, you're not going to 
understand, either you're going 

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to be depressed and anxious 
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But aren't you thankful those of
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walk enjoy. 
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transforming power, the fact 
that he can transform our 

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confusion into Clarity and joy 
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when we get into the word of 
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on the word of God, when we get 
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sudden, All the confusion is 
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confusion doesn't just go away 
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No, he begins to transform your 
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And as it is transformed, now 
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had confusion. 
Now since to each of you this 

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morning, if you are confused 
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moment, I don't care. 
We like to often say it's only 

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teenagers are can who are 
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You might be retired and still 
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If you're confused about life at
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It is only in Christ that you 
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meaning of life. 
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Because he is the resurrection 
and the life Clarity comes when 

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your mind is transformed in 
Christ. 

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This statement that they're 
looking at it, it brought 

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confusion into their life, what 
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He's going to in a little while,
I'll be gone and then in a 

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little while we're going to see 
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N. 
Jesus is going to just as he 

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does in our life. 
Take their confusion and give 

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them Clarity. 
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this happened at his 
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Things begin to become clear 
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morning and it was empty, they 
ran back to toe all the other 

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disciples. 
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Hey, you know what we were 
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He was supposed to be the 
Messiah and then how he's in a 

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tomb, then someone came back and
said he was in a tomb, but the 

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tomb is empty. just like you 
said, they received a little 

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Clarity in the midst of their 
confusion, and then We know this

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on the day of Pentecost, after 
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had already promised them. 
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Told him to wait in Jerusalem 
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them and here they are in 
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I'm waiting. 
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does descend on the Believers 
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came. 
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this is what Joel said was going
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This is it this is the promise 
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We have a little more clarity. 
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it clear. 
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One day. 
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heaven, where he has promised 
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earth. 
He is going to return and he's 

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going to bring ultimate Claritin
so I choose not to get into the 

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debate with all of the scholars 
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His resurrection was a talking 
about his Ascension, wasn't 

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talking, and the coming Holy 
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Ascension, maybe in reference to
the return of Christ is talking 

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about all of those things. 
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Who brings Clarity to our 
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When he returns to this earth. 
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Clarity. 
Paul wrote about this in First 

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Corinthians chapter 13. 
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now we see but a poor reflection
as in a mirror poor reflection 

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as in a mirror mirror kind of 
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their days. 
They just would take a piece of 

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glass and polish it the best 
that they could, didn't have all

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these fancy cosmetic mirrors. 
Like you ladies have where you 

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can blow up a nose hair where it
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They had a piece of polished 
glass, that's all they had and 

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so they could tell that was an 
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at. 
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Clear. 
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reflection as in a mirror. 
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see or shall see face to face, 
you are going to see 

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face-to-face. 
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everything is going to be clear.
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don't park. 
There are some things that are 

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clear. 
And it is removed, my confusion 

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about some things. he says, but 
then Then. 

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I shall know fully even as I am 
fully known, it is trusting in 

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God's transforming power that he
is constantly Transforming Our 

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confusion into Clarity and he 
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Christ returns to redeem this 
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all things clear. 
Many people say this when I get 

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to heaven, the first thing that 
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won't. 
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going to do, when you get to 
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at the feet of Jesus 
face-to-face than all of your 

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Earthly questions are going to 
be answered in all of the 

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confusion of this life is going 
to be gone and you will have 

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complete Clarity. 
He is going to transform and is 

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transforming for those of you 
who are in Christ. 

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You're a confusion to Clarity 
and that ought to bring you 

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great joy. 
The disciples wanted hey, fix 

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our confusion. 
Jesus said no, making a fixture 

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confusing. 
I'm going to transform it into 

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Clarity. 
That's why they said, oh, now we

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see, now we get. 
It was like those moments in my 

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study where I have that portion 
of scripture that's difficult to

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interpret in the Holy Spirit, 
then gives me insight into it 

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and I'm overwhelmed with joy. 
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He's taking my confusion and 
he's made it into clarities 

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turned it into clarity. 
God is a master of doing that, 

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isn't he is a God who transforms
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We find great joy in that 
Christian know that perhaps 

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you're confused about something 
right now, go to your knees, go 

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to the word of God. 
And see if God is Not faithful 

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to transform your confusion to 
Clarity, our answers are found 

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here in these 66 books, that are
bound between two pieces of 

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leather. 
They are here it. 

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We wonder why we don't have joy.
We don't have joy because we 

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don't seek Clarity from the Lord
we accept confusion. 

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He says, guys, you don't have to
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You want to find Joy. 
Trust in my power, to transform 

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your confusion in the clarity. 
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this It is he who has the 
transforming power to transform 

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our grief into Joy. 
Not only, does he transform our 

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confusion into Clarity, he 
transforms our grief into Joy. 

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Spurgeon said this, he said your
sorrow itself, shall be turned 

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into Joy. 
Not the sorrow to be taken away 

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and joy to be put in its place, 
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Grieves you the same thing that 
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He says shall be turned into 
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That's the transforming power of
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God not only takes away the 
bitterness and give sweetness in

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sweetness and it's Displays, but
turns the bitterness into 

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sweetness, it's self. 
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He's saying exactly what Jesus 
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I'm going to turn your grief 
into Joy. 

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Look at verse 20. 
He says it right there. 

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Verse 20 of chapter, 16. 
I tell you the truth, you will 

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weep and mourn while the world 
rejoices they're going to 

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Rejoice at the fact that I died.
And I'm gone. 

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I am no longer a thorn in the 
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you will grieve, but your grief 
will turn to Joy. 

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That word turn is be transform. 
Your grief will be transformed 

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into joy. 
And why is that so important? 

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Because the God who transforms 
Winter into spring or watching 

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it happen right now in just 
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We have seen the green leaves 
bud in the flowers bloom and two

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and a quarter inches of yellow 
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showing us. 
This showing us that God doesn't

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just take away winter and 
replace it with spring. 

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There is a transformation that 
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He transforms winter into spring
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then summer into fall. 
He is a God God, who transforms?

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He transforms your confusion 
into Clarity and he transforms 

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your grief into Joy. 
What a promise from Christ, not 

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that he's going to do as the 
world would desire him to do and

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here's how the world does 
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Take my grief away so that I 
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And just give me joy. 
No, God, doesn't work like that.

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What God does is he allows you 
to suffer grief so that he can 

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display his transforming 
Supernatural, power to take 

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grief and to turn it into Joy. 
So that he receives all glory 

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and honor and praise as a God 
who transformed. 

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Will transform our grief into 
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The desire for God to simply 
just remove your grief, make you

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go away. 
Is the desire of an immature 

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Christian at best. 
It is the desire of an immature 

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Christian at best. 
Because where would we be 

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Church? 
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Without a God. 
Who transformed the sorrow of 

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Christ. 
And the suffering of Christ and 

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the grief and the pain of 
Christ, where would we be 

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without a God who transformed 
the greatest suffering, that the

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world has ever seen and to the 
greatest joy that we could ever 

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know? 
Look at the illustration that 

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Jesus uses there and verse 21 
you ladies who have children 

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here understand it quite well as
men, we have no idea. 

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Unless we've had kidney stones. 
But in verse 21, he uses an 

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illustration. 
That's why I don't have to come 

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up with some cool. 
Hip illustration. 

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Jesus has a great one right 
here. a woman giving birth, he 

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says, a woman giving birth to a 
child has pain because her time 

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has come She's in labor when her
baby is born when he transforms 

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her pain into Joy. 
When her baby is born, she 

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forgets the anguish because of 
her joy that a child is born 

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into the world. 
What an illustration that the 

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Lord gives us. 
I'm going to turn. 

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Your grief in your pain. 
Into your greatest joy just like

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the pain of Labor turns into the
mother's greatest joy. 

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Oh, those of us who have 
children and who were there in 

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that moment, we got to see God 
transform. 

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The greatest pain that our wife 
is ever gone through besides 

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dealing with us. 
Into the greatest joy as she 

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held that child for the first 
time. 

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And she wept and she praised her
God all of the pain at that 

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moment in time was transformed 
into Joy. 

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What are you saying that he 
does? 

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He transforms grief into Joy, he
transforms confusion into 

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Clarity that brings us great 
joy. 

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It is in the same cross. 
Jesus didn't have a cross of 

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sorrow and suffering and then a 
separate Cross of joy. 

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It is in the same cross that 
suffering. 

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Enjoy means where the father 
took the suffering of the Cross 

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and he changed it into 
transforming it into the joy of 

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Christ. 
Look what Hebrews says in 

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Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2, it 
says let us fix our eyes on 

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Jesus, the author and Perfecter 
of our faith who for the joy, 

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set before him Endured the 
cross. 

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Scorning its shame and sat down 
at the right hand of the Throne 

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of God, he was transformed from 
a position of suffering and 

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pain, and Agony and death. 
To a position of honor and 

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Authority where he was seated at
the right hand of the father. 

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What a blessing we get. 
When we see that, we have a God 

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who by Nature transforms things 
Transforming Our confusion into 

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Clarity and Transforming Our 
grief into Joy. 

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I must hurry. 
Number two. 

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He walk enjoy not only by 
trusting in God's transforming 

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power but secondly by believing 
God's promises. 

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I really believe in God's 
promises in verses 23 on down 

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through 28. 
Jesus is going to speak of some 

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specific promises though. 
We should cling to all of his 

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promises and he's want to speak 
of specific promises here. 

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One our access to the father and
to the Ascension of Christ and I

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want to break that down because 
he speaks of both of them here 

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in reference to the Joy. 
And the lives of the disciples. 

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He says, in that day, you will 
no longer. 

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Ask me anything. 
I tell you the truth. 

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My father will give you whatever
you ask in my name. 

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Until now you have not asked for
anything in my name, ask and you

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will receive, and your joy will 
be complete. 

455
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,500
No, I have been speaking, 
figuratively, figuratively. 

456
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:23,100
A time is coming when I will no 
longer use this, kind of 

457
00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,200
language, but will tell you 
plainly about my father, and 

458
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,400
that day, you will ask in my 
name. 

459
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,500
I am not saying that, I will ask
the father on your behalf. 

460
00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:34,700
No. 
The father himself loves you 

461
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,700
because you have loved me and 
have believed that I came from 

462
00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:40,000
God. 
What is Jesus saying there? 

463
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:46,300
He's saying you can have joy 
because of your access to the 

464
00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:50,100
father I want Christians to 
understand this because many 

465
00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:55,600
Christians fail to understand 
this principle we have in Christ

466
00:29:56,300 --> 00:30:02,200
and since we are in Christ, we 
have direct access to almighty. 

467
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,500
God, the Father Many people 
don't understand that. 

468
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:10,700
That we can as Hebrews chapter 4
tells us. 

469
00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:18,000
Because of Christ. 
We can approach the father in 

470
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,400
confidence Hebrews 4:14 says, 
therefore, since we have a great

471
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,300
high priest who has gone through
the heavens Jesus, the son of 

472
00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:26,000
God, let us hold firmly to the 
faith. 

473
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,600
We possess he says because of 
Christ in our confidence in 

474
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,500
Christ and also allows us to 
have confidence in something 

475
00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:31,200
else. 
Watch this. 

476
00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:34,300
But we do not have a high priest
who is unable to sympathize with

477
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:36,900
our weaknesses but we have one 
who has been tempted in every 

478
00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:39,800
way just as we are yet guests, 
as we are yet with is was 

479
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,900
without sin. 4:16 says let us 
then approach the throne of 

480
00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:49,800
grace with confidence. 
So that we may receive mercy and

481
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,200
find Grace to help us in our 
time of need. 

482
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,700
There are many of you even as 
believers who are missing out on

483
00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:03,500
great joy because you think that
something you did as a Believer 

484
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,700
has hindered your access to the 
throne of grace and that is 

485
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:13,600
positively not true. 
It is in Christ, the great high 

486
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,100
priest that we have access to 
the father. 

487
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,900
That's what Jesus is telling 
them, you're no longer, going to

488
00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:22,400
have to count on me to intercede
for you. 

489
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:27,000
I am interceding for you. 
Now, what you were going to 

490
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,900
realize is, you have direct 
access to the father. 

491
00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:34,700
When you ask in my name, 
according to my will, the father

492
00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:41,100
will act and react on my behalf 
for you and on your behalf. 

493
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,300
Half because he now loves you 
because you love me. 

494
00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:49,900
What promise? 
Not to bring us great joy that 

495
00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:53,200
we have access to the creator of
the universe. 

496
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:57,000
The throne room is open to his 
children. 

497
00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:03,200
The veil has been torn. 
You can confidently walk into 

498
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,800
the holy of holies because of 
the great high priest. 

499
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,400
The Lord Jesus Christ. 
Who made a way for you through 

500
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:16,200
his sacrifice he gives us access
to the father Through that torn 

501
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,600
Veil, his broken beaten body and
allowed us access into the 

502
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,300
presence of a holy God and 
Christ. 

503
00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:30,000
We now have peace with God that 
hostility that once was there 

504
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,000
between God and unbelieving man 
has been reconciled. 

505
00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:39,300
And it is through him. 
The finished work there at 

506
00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:44,000
Calvary. 
We can have great joy in 

507
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000
accessing the father. 
He says that you can approach 

508
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:51,700
with confidence. 
Oh how many times has the enemy 

509
00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:54,200
kept you from approaching the 
Throne of God because of 

510
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,200
something you did. 
Oh you're not worthy. 

511
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,400
No not the crisis. 
But you can't really think that 

512
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,600
you can still approach God in 
your condition. 

513
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,000
No, I can't. 
But Christ has covered my sin 

514
00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:11,100
and so I can I can confidently. 
Trust in the finished work of 

515
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:14,400
Christ as access to the father 
and with that becomes. 

516
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,900
Rejoice in my life. 
We walk by Joy by believing 

517
00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:23,900
God's promises. 
The promise that he has told us 

518
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:27,100
that we have access to the 
father but also the Ascension of

519
00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:31,500
Christ in this text. 
The two main promises that we 

520
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:35,700
see here verse, 28 speaks of the
Ascension of Christ. 

521
00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,600
It says I came from the father 
and entered the world. 

522
00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:42,600
Now I'm leaving the world and 
going back to the father with 

523
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,100
there's no debate there. 
He's obviously talking about the

524
00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,300
Ascension because he's going 
back to the father. 

525
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,900
What is the Ascension of Christ 
have to do with anything in 

526
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:57,500
relation to our joy? 
Well unfortunately, the 

527
00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:02,800
Ascension of Christ is that most
of the time, untalked about 

528
00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:06,700
aspect of the finished work of 
Calvary, it is his death, his 

529
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:11,400
burial, his resurrection and his
Ascension that gives us great. 

530
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,800
Hope Jesus is wanting them to 
see the importance of his 

531
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,500
Ascension because they're going 
to see that in just a short 

532
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,400
while. 
Is Jesus Ascension confirms some

533
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,900
things for the believer, for 
one. 

534
00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:25,500
It confirms says, it should 
bring you great. 

535
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:30,000
Joy his head. 
He is who he said that. 

536
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,400
He is our, we can remember in 
John's gospel. 

537
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,100
How many times have we seen? 
Jesus said that. 

538
00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:38,600
I came from the father. 
And I came not to do my will, 

539
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,400
but the will of the father, and 
then when I'm done doing his 

540
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,199
will, I'm going to return to 
him. 

541
00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:44,900
And so when we see the Ascension
of Christ that he has truly 

542
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:47,699
return to the father, you know 
what, we can have confidence in 

543
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,699
the work of Christ has done. 
It's complete, he doesn't have 

544
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:55,800
to come back and do another 
thing so that we can be saved so

545
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,300
that we can be secure in him. 
So that all of our sin can be 

546
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:00,200
forgiven and we can walk and 
true Joy. 

547
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,900
He doesn't have to do a single 
thing, it is already done. 

548
00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:07,000
In fact, on the cross, Jesus 
declared it is, what finished? 

549
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,100
What a declaration with his 
Ascension, it put the stamp on 

550
00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:15,800
it, he is who he says, he is 
when they saw him leaving this 

551
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,600
earth going into the clouds to 
go back to the father. 

552
00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:22,300
But don't, you know that the 
disciples were elbowing one 

553
00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:25,900
another, he's going back to 
where he said he came from. 

554
00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,100
He is the Christ, the son of the
Living. 

555
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:32,200
God has a spirit has allowed us 
to see that and allowed us to 

556
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,400
believe that he is who he says 
he is. 

557
00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:37,500
And don't, you know, they were 
overwhelmed with great joy at 

558
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:42,700
the Ascension of Christ. 
He confirmed, he is who he says 

559
00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:44,700
he is, but it also confirmed 
that his work was finished. 

560
00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:47,300
It's done. 
Yes to do. 

561
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:52,000
Nothing else to redeem those who
he desires to redeem finish. 

562
00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:56,900
He's Ascension also confirms. 
That there is. 

563
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,500
Constant. 
Intercession occurring on behalf

564
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,100
of the Saints. 
Consonants that, you know, he 

565
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:10,400
doesn't have to intercede. 
He doesn't have to intercede in 

566
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,200
reference to our access to the 
father. 

567
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:17,100
But he is there and he is 
interceding for us. 

568
00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:21,200
What does that mean? 
Hebrews chapter 7 makes this 

569
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,600
very clear. 
Verse 23 says now, there have 

570
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,400
been many of those priests 
talking about the lineage of 

571
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,800
high priest under the levitical 
system since death prevented 

572
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,600
them from continuing and office.
He said, there's been a lot of 

573
00:36:33,607 --> 00:36:35,300
them because they all die. 
That's one. 

574
00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:37,600
Common thing that we all have in
common, isn't it? 

575
00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:42,000
We all die. 
But because Jesus lives forever.

576
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,900
He has a permanent priesthood. 
All of the priests in the Old 

577
00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:50,700
Testament. 
Time had a temporary priesthood.

578
00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:52,600
It was for their life, but when 
their life was over, it was 

579
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,100
done. 
But Christ who lives forever, 

580
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,100
the resurrection and the life. 
He is a permanent priesthood. 

581
00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:08,400
Therefore, he is watch this able
to save completely those who 

582
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,200
come to God through him. 
He doesn't need your help, he 

583
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,000
doesn't need anything extra from
you. 

584
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,000
He is able through his 
intercessory work, as the 

585
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,500
atoning sacrifice to save you 
completely because he always 

586
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:25,000
lives to intercede for them. 
What Does that mean? 

587
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,700
That means this one Kirk misses 
up on this Earth as a nun, 

588
00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:32,700
glorified believer. 
When I blow it though, I don't 

589
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:35,100
want to blow it. 
I long to live a life that is 

590
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:39,200
pleasing to God. 
But when I do, because I do, and

591
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:45,700
I can just be around me long 
enough and I'll prove that. when

592
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:50,400
I do, Christ intercedes on my 
behalf. 

593
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:56,000
None of my sins as a Believer 
will be held to my charge 

594
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,200
because the great high priest 
who lives forever is constantly 

595
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,200
there in a position of my 
atonement just as the high 

596
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:10,000
priest would go in once a year 
and perform sacrifice for the 

597
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,400
sins and then a sacrifice for 
himself. 

598
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,500
Christ has presented a sacrifice
once and for all and he 

599
00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:22,400
continually sits there and that 
position of intercession as our 

600
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:27,800
great high priest. 
No sin will be held to my charge

601
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:32,400
because Christ is the high 
priest who lives forever that 

602
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,100
ought to bring you great 
assurance that ought to bring 

603
00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:38,200
you great confidence. 
That ought to bring you great 

604
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,300
joy and it is the Ascension of 
Christ. 

605
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:44,300
That shows us. 
That's where he is. 

606
00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:47,600
Jesus isn't wandering, aimlessly
around on this earth. 

607
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,500
Now, in fact, Jesus said when 
people start saying here's 

608
00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:53,300
Christ, I saw him here and I saw
him there. 

609
00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:57,900
He said, don't listen to those 
people. he is seated at the 

610
00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,000
right hand of the Throne of God,
the high priest who lives 

611
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,400
forever interceding on behalf of
all, who trust in him, and in 

612
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,000
his sacrifice, And his Ascension
confirms that. 

613
00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:13,000
Romans 8, verse 31 says, what 
shall we say in response to this

614
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
if God is for us, who can be 
against us? 

615
00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,800
He who did not spare his own 
son, but gave him up for us all.

616
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,600
How will we will? 
He not also along with him? 

617
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,800
Graciously, give us all things, 
who will bring any charge 

618
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:29,600
against Those whom God has 
Justified or chosen none. 

619
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:31,900
You can't bring a charge 
against, that's why. 

620
00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:34,100
Because when it charges brought 
against us, even by the accuser 

621
00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:35,900
of the brain that Brethren's 
Satan himself. 

622
00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:39,200
Jesus says they have been 
forgiven but you don't know 

623
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:39,800
what? 
Kurt did. 

624
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,800
Yes, I knew it. 
Kirk did before the foundations 

625
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,900
of the earth and he is whiter 
than snow because of my Twice. 

626
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:48,800
Oh, doesn't that bring you great
joy to know that you have an 

627
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:54,300
intercessor who lives forever to
intercede for you who will bring

628
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:56,100
a charge against Those whom God 
has chosen. 

629
00:39:57,100 --> 00:39:59,300
It is God. 
Who justifies he chose to 

630
00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:01,000
justify me? 
No one could bring a charge 

631
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,000
against me. 
Why? 

632
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:07,600
Because God himself chose me to 
be righteous in Christ. 

633
00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:10,900
And he has declared me 
righteous. 

634
00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:16,000
That's what Justified means. 
Verse 34, who is he? 

635
00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:18,200
That condemns Christ. 
Jesus. 

636
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,100
He's the one who got his 
appointed to judge the living 

637
00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:24,400
and the dead who died and more 
than that, who was raised to 

638
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,400
life. 
He died and more than that. 

639
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,100
He was resurrected and is at the
right hand of God, how did he 

640
00:40:30,107 --> 00:40:32,200
get to the right hand of God? 
Don't forget the Ascension of 

641
00:40:32,207 --> 00:40:33,500
Christ. 
He ascended into heaven and 

642
00:40:33,508 --> 00:40:35,300
gives us great confidence and 
great joy. 

643
00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:38,500
Because Christ ascended into 
heaven, we have confidence that 

644
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:41,200
now he is as the word of God 
says, at the right hand of God 

645
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:51,600
and is also interceding. 
Or us. when the father sees, 

646
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:56,800
those of us who are in Christ, 
he sees the righteousness of his

647
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,400
only begotten son, the Lord 
Jesus that has been imputed to 

648
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,000
us because they're in that 
position of great high priest 

649
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,900
Christ, constantly and forever 
intercedes for us. 

650
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:13,300
What A Savior we have. 
Ascension confirms. 

651
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:18,200
The intercessory work of Christ 
in the continual intercessory 

652
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,400
work of Christ but it also 
confirms that Christ will return

653
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,200
again. 
He will return again. 

654
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,200
In fact, if we go to the account
of his Ascension in Acts chapter

655
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,400
1 verse 9, verse 8, he promises 
the Holy Spirit and that when 

656
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,600
the Holy Spirit comes They will 
receive power to be his 

657
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,800
Witnesses. 
But then he says this in verse 9

658
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,700
or this occurs in verse 9, watch
this after he said this, he was 

659
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:44,000
taken up before their very eyes 
and a cloud hid him from their 

660
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,400
sight. 
He was taken up into the air 

661
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,600
raptured if you would for all 
the people don't want to believe

662
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,700
in a Rapture argue with Jesus 
about that, he just got raptured

663
00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:53,400
up into heaven. 
They were looking intently up 

664
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,800
into the sky as he was was going
when suddenly two men dressed in

665
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,600
white, Stood Beside them. 
Men of Galilee they said, why do

666
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,200
you stand here looking into the 
sky? 

667
00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:09,100
Where did he go? 
What do you? 

668
00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:10,300
Where did you go? 
He's been telling you the whole 

669
00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:13,800
time. 
I'm going to the father The 

670
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,300
reason I'm going to the father's
because I'm the intercessor for 

671
00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:17,800
you. 
You have no hope of going to the

672
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,500
father apart from me. 
I am the way the truth and the 

673
00:42:19,508 --> 00:42:20,900
life. 
No man comes to the father but 

674
00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:23,600
by me because he goes to the 
father, we can have great joy 

675
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,300
knowing this that because he 
went to the father has at his 

676
00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:27,800
Ascension. 
We too will go to the father as 

677
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,000
well, but also, we can have 
great Joy about because of what 

678
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,500
he's about to say. 
Why do you stand here looking 

679
00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:37,100
into the sky? 
This same Jesus, who has been 

680
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:39,700
taken from you into heaven, will
come back in the same way. 

681
00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:41,400
You have seen him go into 
heaven. 

682
00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:45,700
We have great joy in knowing 
that Christ is going to return 

683
00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:49,700
when we see the Ascension. 
She the fact of the Ascension, 

684
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,900
it seals the promise of his 
return. he went away as at his 

685
00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:58,200
Ascension from this Earth to the
father leaving us a promise that

686
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,900
one day I will return and he's 
going to return and if the 

687
00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:03,900
Ascension of Christ and looking 
at that doesn't bring you great 

688
00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:07,000
joy and the return of Christ 
because you see his Ascension 

689
00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:09,800
Might one examine your heart 
today to see if you really 

690
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,600
believed in the return of 
Christ? 

691
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,900
I don't know about you but I can
answer for me. 

692
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,600
I longed for his appearing just 
as the Apostle Paul says, he 

693
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,000
longed for his appearing. 
Why does he longed for his 

694
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,200
appearing? 
Because with his appearing, He 

695
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,300
will bring reward, he said 
there's a crown of righteousness

696
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:29,700
that is kept for me, but not me 
only. 

697
00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:36,300
But for all of those who long 
for his appearing, if you don't 

698
00:43:36,300 --> 00:43:40,400
long for the appearing of 
Christ, perhaps there is not a 

699
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,300
crown of righteousness that 
awaits you in and I would dare 

700
00:43:43,300 --> 00:43:46,800
to say this if there is not a 
crown of righteousness that 

701
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,700
awaits you, you are not in 
Christ because it is the crown 

702
00:43:49,700 --> 00:43:52,300
of Christ. 
His righteousness that we will 

703
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,700
be crowned with only to take it 
off. because we are So Unworthy 

704
00:43:55,700 --> 00:44:02,300
and to lay it at the feet of 
Jesus, where it been long, What 

705
00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:05,300
great joy we have and talking 
about the Ascension of Christ 

706
00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:09,900
because the Ascension confirms 
that he will return again. 

707
00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:15,200
Psalm 19, the psalmist said this
in verse 8, he said the precepts

708
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,900
of the Lord are, right? 
It's precepts and Promises of 

709
00:44:19,900 --> 00:44:23,600
the Lord are right. 
And he goes on to say giving Joy

710
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,600
to the heart. 
And we look at all the chaos in 

711
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,100
this world, think about the 
Ascension of Christ. 

712
00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:33,400
And what that means, it confirms
that he is who he said he is. 

713
00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:35,300
Because Christ went back to the 
father. 

714
00:44:35,300 --> 00:44:39,300
I know that he is everything 
that he said that he is because 

715
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:41,300
Christ has returned it to the 
father. 

716
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,400
I know that everything that he 
had to do in the Plan of 

717
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,500
Redemption, he accomplished, 
there's nothing else that I can 

718
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:47,600
do. 
I can't help him out with my 

719
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,100
works. 
I can't help him out with my 

720
00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:50,800
baptism. 
We're about to see baptism in a 

721
00:44:50,808 --> 00:44:52,900
second and let me just tell you 
this any of you who are about to

722
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:55,000
get baptized thinking that it's 
going to save you your 

723
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,100
dreadfully wrong. 
You need to be saved this 

724
00:44:57,100 --> 00:45:00,500
morning before your baptized 
because baptism is agreeing with

725
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:02,400
the death burial and 
resurrection of Jesus Christ 

726
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,300
that you already understand. 
Baptism. 

727
00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:05,800
Won't save you church 
membership. 

728
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,400
Won't save, you religion will 
not save. 

729
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,000
You religion is man's attempt to
get to God. 

730
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,500
Christ is God coming to man, 
that is the difference between 

731
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:17,700
Christianity and all the Pagan 
religions of this world that are

732
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:19,200
false and leading people to 
hell. 

733
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,200
It is in Christ. 
We truly know God. 

734
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,500
It's almost as the precepts of 
the Lord are, right? 

735
00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:29,800
Giving Joy to the heart. 
It's when we know Christ and we 

736
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,200
know his promises and we dressed
in those promises that we walk 

737
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,400
enjoy. 
Thirdly. 

738
00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:43,100
Lastly. 
We walk in Joy by faith in God 

739
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:48,500
in Christ position. 
This is a big one faith in 

740
00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:54,200
Christ position. 
Verses 29 through 33, speak of 

741
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,900
the position of Christ. 
And disciples said, now you are 

742
00:45:56,900 --> 00:45:59,100
speaking clearly, and without 
figures of speech. 

743
00:45:59,900 --> 00:46:03,800
Now we can see that, you know, 
all things you see how he 

744
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,900
transformed their confusion to 
Clarity. 

745
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:10,100
We see we see now clearly we're 
hearing you now. 

746
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:12,700
We can see that you know all 
things and that you do not even 

747
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:17,200
need to have anyone ask you 
questions, this makes us believe

748
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:22,900
that you came from God. 
Jesus clearly failed for them. 

749
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,600
His omniscient power that he 
knows everything and they said 

750
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:33,000
this means you are really God. 
He says you believe it last but 

751
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,500
a time is coming and has come 
when you will be scattered each 

752
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:39,600
to his own home yet and you will
leave me all alone yet, I am not

753
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,600
alone for my father's with me. 
I told you these things so that 

754
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,700
in me, you may have peace in 
this world. 

755
00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:49,000
You will have trouble, but take 
heart, I have overcome the 

756
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,300
world. 
Jesus is offering joy to his 

757
00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:58,600
disciples here based on his 
position and faith in that 

758
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:01,300
position position. 
Regarding specifically. 

759
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:06,900
Here is attributes his 
attributes to know who Christ 

760
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,000
is, it's important that each of 
us who claim Christ in this 

761
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,600
room. 
And in this, World study the 

762
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,700
scriptures all that we can so 
that we can see his attributes 

763
00:47:17,900 --> 00:47:22,300
clearly, so that we can know who
he really is. 

764
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,800
Because there are all sorts of 
false Christ being presented in 

765
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:31,000
our day, How do we know the true
from the counterfeit? 

766
00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:35,600
We learned the truth. 
We learned a true we Focus On 

767
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,800
Christ who he is here. 
They see his attribute of 

768
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:44,100
omniscience though we would 
serve ourselves well to learn 

769
00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:47,200
all of his Divine attributes 
that we see in scripture, this 

770
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,700
specific one here is highlighted
They receive Comfort because of 

771
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:53,200
his omniscience, he knows 
everything. 

772
00:47:54,900 --> 00:47:57,000
That should bring us great 
comfort today to know that 

773
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,700
Christ knows everything. 
He knows your weaknesses. 

774
00:48:01,700 --> 00:48:05,200
He knows your Temptations. 
He knows your flaws. 

775
00:48:06,100 --> 00:48:09,700
He knows your shortcoming. 
He knows your strengths. 

776
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,900
He knows your heart. 
He knows all things and it 

777
00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:18,100
brings us great joy as Believers
to see that. 

778
00:48:20,300 --> 00:48:25,100
That he exercises, his 
omniscience here, to let us 

779
00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:28,400
know. 
That he knows everything. 

780
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,700
And he still loves us. 
He's not going to hold it 

781
00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:35,500
against us. 
He let them know here, watch it.

782
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,200
You're going to abandon me. 
I know that too. 

783
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:40,700
That's what they said. 
They said we see that. 

784
00:48:40,700 --> 00:48:43,100
You know everything and so that 
we know you come from God. 

785
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,600
He said I also know that you're 
going to abandon me Don't beat 

786
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,000
yourself up about it. 
Fathers not going to. 

787
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,900
Abandon me. 
Don't beat yourself up about 

788
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:54,400
that. 
I do know all thing. 

789
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,500
It's not going to shock me when 
you abandon me. 

790
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,200
I'll be fine. 
So, will you? 

791
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:10,900
Rest in my peace, what a 
compassionate savior. 

792
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,700
He knows. 
He knows that Peter is going to 

793
00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:24,100
deny him just as he is already 
said. and In This Moment, He 

794
00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:30,300
reminds him of it again. and in 
the context of this is, don't be

795
00:49:30,308 --> 00:49:33,500
troubled by will be troubled by 
it. 

796
00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:39,300
There's a greater plan. 
I can't help, but go to the 

797
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:43,600
banks of Galilee. where I've 
actually stood, where they 

798
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,600
believe is the actual location 
where Jesus fed his disciples 

799
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:52,500
fish on the shore of Galilee 
after his resurrection, when 

800
00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:56,100
they saw him there, I can't help
but go there and think of Peter 

801
00:49:56,100 --> 00:50:01,100
who disrobed and jumped in the 
water out of a boat, like some 

802
00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:05,900
raging lunatic and swam as fast 
as he could to Christ on that 

803
00:50:05,900 --> 00:50:08,600
Seashore, as he had prepared 
that fish for breakfast. 

804
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,800
I can't help, but imagine the 
joy that flooded the heart. 

805
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:20,300
Saint Peter, when he heard those
words, Go feed my sheep. 

806
00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:25,400
Go feed my sheep. 
Oh, I can you imagine everything

807
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,400
in Peters mind is everything 
began to just come to the front 

808
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,100
of his mind? 
He remembers the conversation 

809
00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:33,500
that he and the Lord had in Luke
chapter 22. 

810
00:50:34,700 --> 00:50:38,900
Luke 22:31, the Lord says to 
Peter Simon Simon. 

811
00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:40,800
Satan has asked to sift you as 
wheat? 

812
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:46,700
But I have prayed for you Simon.
That your faith may not fail. 

813
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,800
Oh, did Peters Humanity fail? 
Yes. 

814
00:50:54,100 --> 00:50:55,200
His faith. 
Never failed. 

815
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,900
We see that on the banks of 
Galilee his faith never felt. 

816
00:50:58,900 --> 00:51:06,700
And when you have turned back, 
wow, he said, Peter, your faith 

817
00:51:06,700 --> 00:51:10,900
is going to hold you. 
Because it's true. 

818
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,700
You can say the same thing about
Judas. 

819
00:51:15,100 --> 00:51:17,800
You can say that about Peter, he
said, and when you have turned 

820
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,200
back, Jesus told him right 
there. 

821
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:24,000
You're going to have an issue. 
You're in a fall, you're not 

822
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,600
going to fail. 
Faith is going to uphold you. 

823
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,300
It's faith mean because of your 
faith. 

824
00:51:29,300 --> 00:51:32,700
In me. 
I am going to uphold you and 

825
00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:35,500
when you return, that's a doctor
to perseverance here. 

826
00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:39,900
We see it again the True 
Believer always return and when 

827
00:51:39,900 --> 00:51:43,300
you return Strengthen your 
brothers. 

828
00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:47,300
How did he strengthen them with 
the joy that he received from 

829
00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:50,600
the Lord after he was 
strengthened? 

830
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,200
But a gracious compassionate 
savior. 

831
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:58,300
We see there. 
We can walk enjoy by faith in 

832
00:51:58,300 --> 00:52:02,500
Christ's position regarding his 
attributes and his great joy in 

833
00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:06,700
seeing them to know that he 
knows all he sees all even 

834
00:52:06,700 --> 00:52:12,000
before anything happened. 
That he is determined in 

835
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,600
eternity past to love you. 
If you were in Christ here, this

836
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:22,400
morning in spite of you, What 
joy we have. 

837
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,000
They're not only that he's 
teaching them to walk. 

838
00:52:26,900 --> 00:52:30,800
Enjoy. 
By faith in Christ position 

839
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,100
regarding his attributes, but 
also regarding his 

840
00:52:33,100 --> 00:52:39,400
accomplishments. 
Not only who Christ is, That 

841
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:45,600
wasn't enough. 
But what Christ did and will do.

842
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:52,400
For those who are in Christ, we 
will walk in Great Joy Church 

843
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:57,800
when we learn to rest by faith 
in the accomplishments of Christ

844
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:02,900
in, in that alone, not in. 
Did you get the raise that you 

845
00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:05,100
wanted not in? 
Did you get the promotion that 

846
00:53:05,100 --> 00:53:05,800
you wanted? 
Not in? 

847
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,100
Did you score the grade on the 
test that you desire? 

848
00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:18,300
Not in anything of this world? 
but when we learn to rest, In 

849
00:53:18,308 --> 00:53:22,200
the accomplice accomplishments 
of Christ Alone. 

850
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,000
We'll have great joy. 
Look what he says to them in 

851
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,500
this world, you will have 
trouble. 

852
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:36,700
But take heart. 
I have overcome the world. 

853
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,700
What a statement? 
He tells them. 

854
00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:41,900
You're going to be scattered. 
He's already told Peter you're 

855
00:53:41,900 --> 00:53:46,300
going to deny me. 
And now he says, there's going 

856
00:53:46,300 --> 00:53:48,300
to be all kinds of trouble in 
this world. 

857
00:53:48,300 --> 00:53:50,100
Can we testify to? 
Yes, that's true. 

858
00:53:52,700 --> 00:53:55,700
What he says, for each of us. 
Take heart. 

859
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,800
That means don't lose heart. 
Don't lose. 

860
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,300
Hope. 
Don't lose faith. 

861
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:08,100
Trust in him, take heart. 
I have overcome the world. 

862
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,600
He says your Hope For Joy is in 
mine accomplishments. 

863
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,200
Well, isn't that true? 
Any hope of joy that we have in 

864
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:21,800
this wicked and disgusting and 
dark and satanic and evil World 

865
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:26,100
any hope and joy that we have is
found in the accomplishments of 

866
00:54:26,100 --> 00:54:31,800
Christ and Christ Alone? 
John says it like this in his 

867
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:36,200
first epistle chapter 5. 
He says for everyone born of 

868
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,100
God, overcomes the world. 
And this is the victory that has

869
00:54:40,100 --> 00:54:41,600
overcome the world. 
Even our faith. 

870
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,900
It is a our faith in Christ's 
victory. 

871
00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:47,500
That allows us to overcome the 
world. 

872
00:54:48,300 --> 00:54:50,400
There's so many Christian songs 
these days about how you're an 

873
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,700
overcomer and they forget to say
that you're an overcomer only 

874
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:54,800
because of the accomplishments 
of Christ that he is an 

875
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,900
overcomer. 
You're not an overcomer in and 

876
00:54:56,900 --> 00:55:00,300
of yourself because you develop 
some kind of positive thinking 

877
00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:02,200
or some kind of psychological 
help. 

878
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,300
You're not an overcomer in and 
of yourself at all. 

879
00:55:04,300 --> 00:55:08,100
You are the world. 
But it is in Christ. 

880
00:55:08,100 --> 00:55:10,800
And his accomplishment through 
his death, his burial, his 

881
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:15,000
resurrection, his Ascension and 
we know his return, it is in 

882
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,800
that his accomplishments that we
will overcome the world, who is 

883
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,400
it? 
John says That overcomes the 

884
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:22,900
world. 
Who is it? 

885
00:55:23,900 --> 00:55:28,400
The successful. 
The rich, the famous. 

886
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:34,100
The nice, the perfect. 
No, who is it? 

887
00:55:34,100 --> 00:55:35,400
That overcomes the world. 
The religious. 

888
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,400
No. 
Who is it? 

889
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:43,100
That overcomes the world only 
anytime you see the word to only

890
00:55:43,100 --> 00:55:45,700
in your Bible, I want you to 
start highlighting that and see 

891
00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:50,000
how exclusive the gospel is 
only. 

892
00:55:50,700 --> 00:55:54,900
He who believes that Jesus is 
the son of God. 

893
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:01,100
What Joy? 
That we receive those of us who 

894
00:56:01,100 --> 00:56:05,200
believe that. 
In this world you have trouble, 

895
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,800
but take heart, I have overcome 
the world, you can have joy in 

896
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,900
the midst of this world. 
In the midst of all the chaos 

897
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,800
because I have overcome the 
world now because you like the 

898
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,700
circumstance that you're in. 
Not because you like the 

899
00:56:14,700 --> 00:56:16,800
situation that you're in not 
because you like the culture 

900
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,800
that you live in a country that 
you live in, not because of 

901
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,000
those things. 
Take heart. 

902
00:56:23,500 --> 00:56:27,300
Because my accomplishment, I 
have overcome the world in your 

903
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,900
place. 
Therefore, now if you were in 

904
00:56:29,900 --> 00:56:34,100
Christ, you too are an overcomer
you wanna walk enjoy. 

905
00:56:35,900 --> 00:56:40,800
Trust by faith in Jesus Christ 
his position who he truly is, he

906
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,800
is the Overcomer who through his
death on a cross. 

907
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:48,100
Overcame sin. 
He overcame sin for all who will

908
00:56:48,100 --> 00:56:50,700
believe in him. 
He will forgive you and he will 

909
00:56:50,700 --> 00:56:54,800
wash you of that sin. 
This very day that alienate you 

910
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,400
from a holy God. 
He will allow you to overcome 

911
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:03,600
your sin because he has overcome
this world, we trust in Christ 

912
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:04,500
today. 
Going to walk. 

913
00:57:04,500 --> 00:57:05,900
Enjoy trust in Christ. 
Yes. 

914
00:57:07,500 --> 00:57:12,200
You know, walking confusion and 
chaos and depression anxiety. 

915
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,400
Keep trusting in you. 
One of that angers, a lot of 

916
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:21,200
people. 
It's the truth because the word 

917
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:26,300
of God says that it's true. 
In trust in your own emotions. 

918
00:57:28,100 --> 00:57:31,500
Don't feelings. 
Or you can trust by faith in the

919
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:34,700
accomplishments of Christ. 
And when you do great, joy is 

920
00:57:34,700 --> 00:57:37,600
yours for the taking. 
You will walk in that Joy, you 

921
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:41,700
have access to that Joy. 
He is earned it for you. 

922
00:57:45,100 --> 00:57:48,300
His accomplishments for his 
accomplishments, he proved that.

923
00:57:48,300 --> 00:57:51,200
He is truly Lord, that he is 
truly savior. 

924
00:57:52,300 --> 00:57:55,200
And that he truly came from the 
father. 

925
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:00,200
My, what he did. 
We learned in John chapter one 

926
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,200
way back. 
Then, verse 14, the word became 

927
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,600
flesh and made his dwelling 
among us. 

928
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,000
And we have seen his glory, the 
glory of the one, and only who 

929
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,000
came from the father full of 
grace. 

930
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:15,300
And Truth. 
He proved to be exactly who he 

931
00:58:15,300 --> 00:58:17,700
said that he is, he's proving it
here even more. 

932
00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:23,500
So in John chapter 16 promising 
his disciples joy to walk in 

933
00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:26,800
through his accomplishments. 
What accomplishments we don't 

934
00:58:28,300 --> 00:58:30,500
Talk about the accomplishments 
of Christ enough. 

935
00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:32,900
How about his virgin birth that 
could have only happened through

936
00:58:32,900 --> 00:58:38,000
the supernatural power of God. 
It's impossible for a virgin to 

937
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,500
Bear. 
A child, yet a virgin buried a 

938
00:58:39,500 --> 00:58:42,100
child, you say explain that. 
To me, I cant its immaculate. 

939
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:45,100
It is the Immaculate Conception,
it is Supernatural, it is done 

940
00:58:45,100 --> 00:58:47,800
by God, there is no explanation 
for it, it for it. 

941
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,700
All I can tell you is that it's 
true. 

942
00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:53,700
Jesus was born of a virgin. 
What? 

943
00:58:53,700 --> 00:58:56,800
An accomplishment. 
No one ever has been born of a 

944
00:58:56,808 --> 00:58:58,600
virgin. 
No one ever will be born of a 

945
00:58:58,600 --> 00:58:59,700
virgin. 
But the Christ, why? 

946
00:58:59,700 --> 00:59:04,000
Because that seed of God was 
placed into that woman. 

947
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:08,200
Just as Genesis 3:15 said that 
it would be in his through the 

948
00:59:08,207 --> 00:59:10,000
Virgin birth. 
That we have great joy in 

949
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:14,600
knowing that our savior is a 
supernatural savior, all of the 

950
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,600
others saviors and said 
religions were not virgin born. 

951
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:20,400
It's important that you see his 
accomplishments. 

952
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:24,400
He came into this world. 
Born of the Virgin, Mary just as

953
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:31,000
scripture say, Not only that. 
He lived a powerful life and a 

954
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,800
perfect life. 
He displayed the power of God 

955
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:35,700
through his miracles, through 
his authority, through his 

956
00:59:35,700 --> 00:59:38,800
teaching, he displayed the power
of God, through his life of 

957
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:44,200
piety and Perfection, living the
letter of the law, perfectly 

958
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:48,700
never sinning. 
No one else can make that claim.

959
00:59:48,700 --> 00:59:51,600
It is only the Christ mom and 
cannot make the claim. 

960
00:59:53,300 --> 00:59:55,100
That he is perfect for. 
He is a sinner. 

961
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,800
Buddha could not make a claim 
that he is perfect. 

962
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:05,400
He too is a sinner. 
All religious leaders, Charles 

963
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,500
Taze Russell, the religious 
leaders of the Jehovah's, 

964
01:00:08,500 --> 01:00:11,800
Witness, guess what? 
He can never claimed to be 

965
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,100
perfect. 
He was a sinner. 

966
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,800
The Mormon. 
Or later as well. 

967
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,900
Joseph Smith Center, but it is 
in Christianity. 

968
01:00:25,900 --> 01:00:31,700
It is in Christ that our far 
master that we follow prove that

969
01:00:31,700 --> 01:00:34,900
he is who he says that he is by 
his accomplishment of living a 

970
01:00:34,900 --> 01:00:38,900
sinless life. 
How many of the false religions 

971
01:00:38,900 --> 01:00:40,500
of this world and say he's a 
good profit. 

972
01:00:40,500 --> 01:00:45,100
Know he is the perfect Savior 
and his nothing less. 

973
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,500
He is the only one to which we 
can come to God, the Father 

974
01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:53,000
accomplishments of Christ should
bring us great. 

975
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,600
Joy is atoning sacrifice on the 
cross. 

976
01:00:58,700 --> 01:01:03,100
Where he bore the wrath of God. 
In the place of wicked Center. 

977
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:13,000
Every sin that I ever committed.
Has placed upon his back. 

978
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:21,500
The Wrath that I deserve. 
The death that was mine, Jesus 

979
01:01:21,500 --> 01:01:26,800
Christ, bore that death for me, 
no religious false religious 

980
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:30,700
leader in all the history of all
of the false religion ever died 

981
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:34,800
for their people. 
Yet Christ, didn't only died for

982
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:39,300
me, he died in my place, 
satisfying the Wrath of the holy

983
01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:45,000
God satisfy his indignation on 
my behalf restoring me to a holy

984
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,100
God. 
Once I was a sinner separated. 

985
01:01:48,100 --> 01:01:52,400
Now I have been unified with the
master of the universe. 

986
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,800
Why the accomplishments of 
Christ? 

987
01:01:56,900 --> 01:01:58,300
It is Christ. 
Who did this. 

988
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:04,400
It should bring us great joy. 
To know that our Lord. 

989
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:10,300
That's home for the sacrifice. 
It's home to as a sacrifice, 

990
01:02:10,300 --> 01:02:14,500
excuse me for the center. 
He is the atoning sacrifice. 

991
01:02:15,500 --> 01:02:17,400
We see his accomplishment there 
on the cross. 

992
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:23,700
What we see is accomplishment in
his burial No one other than 

993
01:02:23,700 --> 01:02:27,900
Lazarus. 
During the times of Christ 

994
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:30,500
walked out of a tomb. 
The only reason that he walked 

995
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:34,200
out of atoms because Jesus told 
him to because he is the 

996
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:36,900
resurrection and the life and it
is in the resurrection of Christ

997
01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:41,300
that accomplishment that we see 
that he is who he said that he 

998
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,800
truly is doing what only God 
could do. 

999
01:02:46,700 --> 01:02:48,800
And we see his Ascension into 
heaven, had he not come from 

1000
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:51,000
Heaven. 
I can guarantee you this. 

1001
01:02:51,500 --> 01:02:52,900
He couldn't have returned to 
Heaven. 

1002
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:58,000
He'd already told his followers 
at No one knows how to get 

1003
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:01,800
there. 
Except he who's come from there 

1004
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,800
and the only way that you're 
going to get there is if you 

1005
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:07,700
follow me I am the way the truth
and the life. 

1006
01:03:07,700 --> 01:03:10,400
No man comes to the father but 
by me. 

1007
01:03:12,700 --> 01:03:16,600
He proved he was through his 
accomplishments his Ascension 

1008
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,500
into heaven, where he sits at 
the right hand and making 

1009
01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:20,600
intercession for those who 
believe. 

1010
01:03:21,500 --> 01:03:25,900
And he will prove one day. 
To the whole world. 

1011
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:31,000
At his return. 
When he comes to judge the 

1012
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,900
living and the dead. 
Those of you men who are here on

1013
01:03:34,900 --> 01:03:36,800
Thursday nights, we are in 
Revelation. 

1014
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:43,600
The 19th Chapter, we have just 
seen the marriage banquet of the

1015
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:48,700
Lamb. 
And Christ is about to put his 

1016
01:03:48,700 --> 01:03:51,500
foot, in the Stirrup of that 
white stallion. 

1017
01:03:51,500 --> 01:03:55,800
And the host of Heaven who are 
clothed in white because of him 

1018
01:03:55,800 --> 01:04:01,400
are about to return to the Earth
where he will rule and Reign 

1019
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,500
forever. 
We can think of his 

1020
01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:07,200
accomplishments that have not 
yet come to pass. 

1021
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:08,800
Why? 
Because they are written in 

1022
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,700
eternity past they are as good 
as done. 

1023
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,400
He will return. 
That ought to bring us great 

1024
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:18,400
joy. 
Can't we find true joy and walk 

1025
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,700
and true Joy regarding the 
accomplishments of Christ. 

1026
01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:24,100
Oh, we don't Ponder those things
enough. 

1027
01:04:24,100 --> 01:04:29,700
Do we Christian So, what do we 
do with this? 

1028
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,200
What do we do with the lesson on
walking enjoy? 

1029
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,300
We asked this question. 
Of course, are you walking 

1030
01:04:35,300 --> 01:04:38,400
enjoy? 
Are you walking enjoyed today? 

1031
01:04:38,900 --> 01:04:41,400
In order to answer that 
question, you have to answer 

1032
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,300
some others. 
Are you in Christ? 

1033
01:04:44,700 --> 01:04:46,300
I'm not talking about. 
Are you in church? 

1034
01:04:46,300 --> 01:04:48,900
You're here. 
That's already answered. 

1035
01:04:50,300 --> 01:04:52,200
Going to church, doesn't mean 
you're in Christ. 

1036
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:54,900
It means you're in a building 
with Christian. 

1037
01:04:56,900 --> 01:04:58,900
Being raised in a Christian 
home, doesn't mean that you're 

1038
01:04:58,900 --> 01:05:00,800
in Christ, it means that you 
were fortunate enough to be 

1039
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:04,800
raised in a Christian home. 
I'm asking you this question. 

1040
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,800
Are you in Christ in reference 
to the joy that we talked about 

1041
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:10,100
this morning? 
Because if you're not in Christ,

1042
01:05:10,100 --> 01:05:12,900
you do not have access to his 
Joy. 

1043
01:05:14,300 --> 01:05:16,900
It's not for you. 
For those who are in Christ, 

1044
01:05:16,900 --> 01:05:19,700
have you truly surrendered to 
Jesus as your lord and savior? 

1045
01:05:19,700 --> 01:05:21,300
That's the question that I'm 
asking you today. 

1046
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:26,600
Have you surrendered to Christ? 
Have you trusted in him to 

1047
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,700
forgive you of your sin and to 
place you in right standing with

1048
01:05:29,700 --> 01:05:33,000
God, the father, have you 
repented of your wickedness and 

1049
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,400
turn to him and him alone to 
save you, have you? 

1050
01:05:37,500 --> 01:05:41,100
If you haven't, perhaps today, 
you will turn from your sin and 

1051
01:05:41,100 --> 01:05:44,700
turn to Christ as a spirit 
draws, you and Woos you out of 

1052
01:05:44,700 --> 01:05:47,900
Darkness that you'll turn from 
the religions of this world. 

1053
01:05:47,900 --> 01:05:50,700
And you will turn from all of 
the chaos of this world, and you

1054
01:05:50,707 --> 01:05:54,000
will turn to Christ and Christ 
Alone who will save you. 

1055
01:05:55,500 --> 01:05:57,900
Whosoever shall call upon the 
name of the Lord shall be saved.

1056
01:05:57,900 --> 01:06:02,200
Will you call upon him today as 
the spirit draws you to receive 

1057
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:06,100
salvation? 
Maybe you are saved today, you 

1058
01:06:06,100 --> 01:06:11,500
know, Christ. 
Are you walking in joy as a 

1059
01:06:11,508 --> 01:06:14,100
believer? 
Are you walking in that Joy? 

1060
01:06:14,100 --> 01:06:19,200
Are you walking in the joy that 
he provided for you through his 

1061
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:23,300
accomplishments? 
Are you for fitting? 

1062
01:06:23,300 --> 01:06:24,700
That Joy is f what Jesus did 
for. 

1063
01:06:24,707 --> 01:06:28,100
You doesn't really matter. 
It does matter. 

1064
01:06:28,100 --> 01:06:31,300
Doesn't it? 
It does matter that we exercise,

1065
01:06:31,300 --> 01:06:33,400
the blessings that we've been 
given enjoy is one of those 

1066
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,900
blessings are you walking in 
that by trusting, in God's 

1067
01:06:35,900 --> 01:06:40,700
transforming power, perhaps 
you're in a situation now, you 

1068
01:06:40,700 --> 01:06:42,500
need God to transform that 
situation. 

1069
01:06:42,500 --> 01:06:45,900
Are you resting in him with 
great joy in knowing that he's 

1070
01:06:45,900 --> 01:06:49,600
in control? 
Are you resting in a familiar? 

1071
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:52,000
Passage of scripture that I've 
mentioned over and over in 

1072
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:55,700
Romans 8:28 that all things are 
working to the good to those, 

1073
01:06:55,700 --> 01:06:57,600
who love him who are called. 
According to his purpose. 

1074
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:00,600
Are you resting in that? 
That brings great joy in your 

1075
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:04,300
life? 
Not you're missing out on a 

1076
01:07:04,300 --> 01:07:06,500
promise that Jesus is giving to 
his disciples here. 

1077
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,600
Are you walking enjoy by 
believing in God's promises 

1078
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:14,300
trusting in his word. 
I want to help you if you're not

1079
01:07:14,300 --> 01:07:16,200
reading his word daily, you're 
not. 

1080
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:21,100
I don't say that the beat you 
up, I say that because I love 

1081
01:07:21,100 --> 01:07:23,200
you. 
I don't want you to miss out on 

1082
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,400
the joy that comes with knowing 
and walking in the promises that

1083
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:29,900
we find here in the word of God,
get into it and read it is. 

1084
01:07:29,900 --> 01:07:32,100
So when I don't understand it, 
get into a Bible study where 

1085
01:07:32,100 --> 01:07:36,400
they teach it. 
Then, as you continue to study 

1086
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:40,300
it, you will see that your 
confusion is, says it did in the

1087
01:07:40,300 --> 01:07:44,300
lives of the disciple. 
It's transformed into Clarity. 

1088
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:46,600
You begin to learn. 
You begin to grow. 

1089
01:07:47,500 --> 01:07:50,300
Are you walking enjoy believing 
in the promises of God? 

1090
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:52,900
Are you indifferent to the word 
of God? 

1091
01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:56,100
Indifference to the word of God 
seems to be an epidemic in the 

1092
01:07:56,100 --> 01:07:59,200
so-called church. 
I might bring my Bible to church

1093
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,900
with me, I might read it, I 
might not this is just for free 

1094
01:08:01,900 --> 01:08:03,200
it has nothing to do with the 
sermon. 

1095
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:08,100
Get in the word. 
See, if you're not overwhelmed 

1096
01:08:08,100 --> 01:08:11,500
with joy, in the promises of 
God, see if he's not faithful to

1097
01:08:11,500 --> 01:08:14,900
every single one of them, are 
you walking enjoy by faith in 

1098
01:08:14,900 --> 01:08:18,899
Christ position? 
Are you trusting in who Christ 

1099
01:08:18,899 --> 01:08:23,000
really is the fact that he is 
truly king of kings and Lord of 

1100
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,300
lords, and that by his 
accomplishments, your 

1101
01:08:26,300 --> 01:08:31,200
relationship with God, the 
father has been settled once and

1102
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:34,300
for all, are you walking in the 
joy of those things? 

1103
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:39,000
If not Christian, I would say to
you, repent confess. 

1104
01:08:40,700 --> 01:08:42,899
See what it is in your life that
has waited you down. 

1105
01:08:43,899 --> 01:08:46,899
That's inner that weight that so
easily entangles. 

1106
01:08:46,899 --> 01:08:50,200
You cast it off today as you 
confess your sin to the Lord 

1107
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:52,100
knowing this that he is faithful
and just to forgive you, your 

1108
01:08:52,100 --> 01:08:53,800
sins and cleanse you from all 
unrighteousness. 

1109
01:08:54,700 --> 01:08:58,300
If you're here today and you're 
not a believer, You will live a 

1110
01:08:58,300 --> 01:09:02,700
life. 
With the absence of joy. 

1111
01:09:04,500 --> 01:09:10,500
Only to spend an eternity in 
hell with an eternal absence of 

1112
01:09:10,500 --> 01:09:14,300
joy. 
Trust in Christ today that your 

1113
01:09:14,300 --> 01:09:18,500
joy may be complete. 
Let's pray together, father in 

1114
01:09:18,500 --> 01:09:20,200
the name of Jesus, we thank you 
for your word. 

1115
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:24,600
We thank you for truth. 
As your truth is gone forth. 

1116
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:31,600
May it do exactly what you 
desire for it to do. 

1117
01:09:32,700 --> 01:09:35,300
May it draws Sinners to 
repentance and Faith this 

1118
01:09:35,300 --> 01:09:40,800
morning. may it encouraged the 
same. 

1119
01:09:43,100 --> 01:09:47,600
And may we rejoice in the joy 
that we have in Christ. 

1120
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:53,200
Holy Spirit. 
We yield to you. 

1121
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:57,200
May your work be done in Jesus 
name. 

1122
01:09:58,100 --> 01:10:01,500
Amen. 
Thank you for listening to the 

1123
01:10:01,500 --> 01:10:04,400
key Life Fellowship, Pulpit 
Ministry podcast. 

1124
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:07,700
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one of our pastors, please email

1125
01:10:07,700 --> 01:10:13,200
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1126
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:20,100
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1127
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:25,200
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1128
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:29,200
You have a blessed week and 
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1129
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:25,200
dark. 
We hope and pray. 

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You have a blessed week and 
remember you are light in the 

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dark.