1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,320 Welcome to be on Sunday, an extension of the preaching 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:08,160 ministry here at Leamington EMC. My name is Jonah Chitty and I am 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,840 joined as always by Pastor Joe Penner. 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,520 Woo. Hoo woo, it's really cold 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,720 outside today, Joe. It is bitter. 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,480 I got I got a funny story. This will be this will be coming 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:25,120 out on Wednesday of this week. And I would do. 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,720 We just heard that they're cancelling school in in Alabama 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,680 where we're from because it's going to get really cold, really 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,120 cold, like in the 20s in Fahrenheit. 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,080 I don't know. That's like, plus, I don't know, 12 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,000 I don't even know what it is it. Would be like minus I I don't 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,160 know either. Probably a -, 2 or 3 or 4 or 14 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:43,080 something like that. In their defense, it's supposed 15 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,240 to sleet and have like ice storm and they have no infrastructure, 16 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,240 but they're going to can't they cancel school from today, which 17 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,080 is Monday all the way to Thursday. 18 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,000 Wow. I know it's like, hey, I know 19 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,240 kids enjoy it, right? If you're from Florida, Alabama 20 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,440 area and you're getting sleet and snow, just know we had a 21 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,520 foot over the last week and everybody just kept doing 22 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,880 whatever they do. Well, it's funny, I know. 23 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,040 Maybe not a foot, I don't know. It was probably more like 6 or 8 24 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:08,680 inches. I don't know. 25 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,600 I know a lot of people here at our church would know people 26 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,120 from Manitoba and I have family there too. 27 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,200 And like they, they have, they cancel school when it gets too 28 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,280 cold, but that's like -35 or like -40 which I don't know what 29 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:23,120 that would be in fair. Enough. 30 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,320 I think they're the same -35 and -40 I think that's when they 31 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:30,640 meet and they're the same, yeah -40 is -40. 32 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,680 That reminds me of a, a comedian that I was listening to, I think 33 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,800 it was Jeff Allen and he was talking about like North Dakota 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,960 or something like that. And he's, he's there and he's 35 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:43,720 like, I went there and he's and it was negative 80 and he's like 36 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,920 and that means it could warm up 80° and it would only be 0. 37 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,560 That's crazy. Oh man, that's cold. 38 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,800 That is freezing. Yeah, it is very cold. 39 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,400 Very, very cold today. So my Florida feet are freezing 40 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,200 because I'm still wearing Crocs. You know, Crocs. 41 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,880 I'm wearing socks, though. I'm wearing socks. 42 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,760 Crocs and socks. Crocs and socks Joe, you preach. 43 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,479 I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it like very 44 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:13,600 proudly, like your last two sermons have been like some of 45 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:14,680 the best ones I've heard you preach. 46 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,880 So I, I really appreciated your sermon Sunday. 47 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,440 I'm not trying to like make your head expand so you can't walk 48 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:22,520 out the door or anything like that. 49 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,760 I just felt like the Lord used it and maybe that's just because 50 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,600 of where I needed to be. You know what I needed to hear 51 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,880 at the right time where I am in my own personal spiritual walk. 52 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,040 But you preach the sermon from Nehemiah chapter 2. 53 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,200 You started at verse 11 and went all the way to the end of the 54 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,440 chapter. Yes, Sir. 55 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:42,720 And your sermon was pursue a God sized vision for your life. 56 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,560 You want to give us a recap? Yeah, yeah. 57 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,400 So I I started out with the illustration from from 58 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,280 scripture, the Tower of Babel in these people who are trying to 59 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,200 make a name for themselves. Wait, hang on there. 60 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,200 I think we're just going to plug Bible reading. 61 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:02,840 Yeah, because that probably came from. 62 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,040 Absolutely. OK, You're reading in Genesis. 63 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,200 Yeah. And you're studying for Nehemiah 64 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:13,000 and and also in the Lord. The Lord shows you an example or 65 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,080 an illustration from Genesis that would be useful in your 66 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,760 sermon in Nehemiah. Yeah, your Bible reading 67 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,000 matters. It does. 68 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,720 I can't tell you how many times that happened last year, whether 69 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,760 it was, you know, our New Testament plan that we were 70 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,760 going through or it was like our Scripture memory, you know, 71 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:31,280 memorizing the Sermon on the Mount. 72 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,920 Like I can't tell you how many times that tied in exactly to 73 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,920 what I was preaching or going through that week. 74 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,600 Or singing I noticed sometimes the you would use the songs like 75 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,440 the the scripture from the like between the song and the opening 76 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,840 scripture and then the benediction would come from the 77 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,280 Bible reading from that week. It is so true it it it does 78 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,840 matter. It does help absolutely. 79 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,520 It helps shape and form you, So anyway, right? 80 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:53,840 And for? Everybody else, I mean, you 81 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,240 know, you're not preparing a sermon, but it will do the same 82 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,240 thing for you, for things that you're going through in your 83 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,120 life. Like also you'll be like, wow, 84 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,120 this ties in exactly with what I'm. 85 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,840 Going I was having a conversation with someone on 86 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,800 Wednesday night just about that same thing, 'cause we're talking 87 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,200 about Bible reading as a discipline in my class. 88 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,400 And it came up, they were just like, you know, it's so crazy 89 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,240 how often that what I'm reading is so applicable to what I'm 90 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:17,760 going through that week. And I'm like, you know, it's 91 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,600 not, it's not, it's not really coincidental. 92 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,079 It's not a surprise. It's not at all the Lord knows 93 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:24,920 and and again that just to sort of like emphasize that a bit 94 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:28,760 thinking that, you know, like last year, I remember one time 95 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,120 we picked First Corinthians at the beginning of the year. 96 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,960 Yeah. And then, you know, in October, 97 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,520 as we're in, you know, First Corinthians chapter 14 or 98 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,880 whatever, we're in and I'm like, and that what I'm reading in the 99 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,920 Bible plan is exactly coordinating with where we're at 100 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,600 in that chapter in First Corinthians. 101 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,440 I'm like, man, the Lord is. Just he knows. 102 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,800 It's like, you know, he knew this way ahead of time. 103 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:54,200 And it's, yeah, he knows. He knows what we need at the 104 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:54,960 right time. Yeah. 105 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,600 And that's that's so comforting. It is his sovereignty is so 106 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,160 comforting. It is so comforting. 107 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,360 I cut you off. I'm sorry. 108 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,560 You started with an illustration in Genesis from Tower of Babel. 109 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,000 Yeah. And so these people are trying 110 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 to make a name for themselves and the Lord sort of interrupts 111 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,880 what they're doing to, to, to fulfill what he's trying to 112 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,880 accomplish, right? So they, they found themselves 113 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,960 working against God. And so God had to come and 114 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,000 redirect them so they would accomplish what he is trying to 115 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 accomplish. And so my whole point in that is 116 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,920 that we need to pursue a God sized vision for our lives. 117 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,840 You know, we need to come alongside what the Lord is 118 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:32,080 doing, which is exactly what Nehemiah does, you know. 119 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,240 You know, he found himself in a specific place at a specific 120 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,800 time in history, and he came along. 121 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,320 What God was doing, you know, the Lord was working in his 122 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,640 heart. He was bringing about these 123 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,240 events in his life. He was sharing what was going on 124 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,920 in Jerusalem. He was finding this out. 125 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,080 And the Lord laid this vision on his heart for something that 126 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,400 like he might not have picked himself or might not have 127 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,200 recognized himself, but the Lord began to put this vision on his 128 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,640 life. And maybe he was comfortable, 129 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,760 maybe he was happy. Maybe he was content to stay 130 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:01,800 there. I don't know that he would have 131 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,280 been right, but maybe he was. And he's like, you know what? 132 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,840 I have a lot to lose here. You know, I'm in a pretty good 133 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,000 situation. And he was willing to give it up 134 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,680 for something bigger than himself, something that God was 135 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,520 doing, a God sized vision. Yeah. 136 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,760 And so my points throughout the text were first, that you need 137 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,360 to seek a God sized opportunity. And so as, as he goes back to 138 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,480 Jerusalem, he begins, you know, fleshing out this opportunity. 139 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,640 And you know, as he's seeking out the opportunity, he's 140 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,480 seeking God in secret, right? He's going out in the rubble by 141 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,400 himself. He's not telling anybody else 142 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,240 what, what God is revealing to him. 143 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,440 And he's seeking God in the rubble. 144 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,840 And he's, he's trying to discern exactly what God wants him to 145 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:45,600 do, how he's going to do it, making his plans, right, but 146 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,240 seeking God in secret. And he hasn't shared it with 147 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,040 anybody yet. And so I sort of tied that in 148 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,360 with an illustration about a dam, the Saint Francis Dam, and, 149 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,680 and it has these leaks and these cracks and they didn't take it 150 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,560 seriously. And I sort of applied that to, 151 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,600 you know, it led to disaster, but I applied that to our lives. 152 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,840 And how many times do are are we unwilling to go to those hard 153 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:09,000 places, right. Nehemiah went to the rubble and 154 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,680 he sort of sat in the brokenness. 155 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,640 And we need to do that so that we look at the brokenness and 156 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,280 look at what does God want me to fix in my life? 157 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,600 It's something that I didn't really mentioned in the sermon 158 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,280 that I kind of wanted to tie in a little bit more was that a lot 159 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,440 of times it's like we we can see those cracks and leaks in our 160 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,000 life and for now we're just sort of OK with it. 161 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,560 Yeah. Let's talk about your Bible 162 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,560 reading being relevant. Well, this morning I read about 163 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,040 Lot and a lot like God warns him to get out of the city. 164 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,240 And it's like it says, but lot lingered. 165 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,560 And it's like, man, how many times do we just linger in our 166 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,480 sin? But think, if I continue to do 167 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,360 this, where is that going to take me in five years, in 10 168 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,080 years, in 15 years, in 20 years? It's like, where is this going 169 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,480 to lead me? And do I want to go there, 170 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,920 Right. And so like, recognize those 171 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:59,800 warning signs and do something about it. 172 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,000 But again, don't do hasty things because I think so many times we 173 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,520 just make empty promises, right? Like, oh, yeah, I need to do 174 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:06,600 that. I need to stop that. 175 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:07,960 I'm going to I'm going to do this. 176 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,800 And it's like it's an empty promise because you haven't 177 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,680 really felt the pain. You haven't even, you haven't 178 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,280 really sat in the rubble and sought God and what God is 179 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,840 trying to do in that situation. But all in that rubble, in those 180 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,440 broken parts of your life, that's a, that's a God sized 181 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,640 opportunity for him to do something great in and through 182 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,240 you. And then I moved on to .2 like 183 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,720 now share your God sized vision. This is where Nehemiah shares 184 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,080 with the people what he's doing. And so a God sized vision 185 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,120 requires teamwork. It requires people to come 186 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,760 alongside you and help you can't do a God sized vision on your 187 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,559 own. And it also requires God, he's 188 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,720 going to be working behind the scenes doing things that you 189 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,640 can't do. And so I, I sort of tied that in 190 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,640 with an illustration about Samson and, and his tendency to 191 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,000 trust in himself and applied that to us and go, you know, we, 192 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,040 it is so easy for us to think that we can do things on our 193 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,640 own, but we need other people. We need God and we need to learn 194 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,600 to trust in those people. And so calling people to, to 195 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,680 share that vision with other people, have other believers to 196 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:11,840 come alongside you, to help you as you trust in God, to work in 197 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,880 and through you. And then my last point was 198 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,800 submit to a God sized God. You know, enemies are going to 199 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:18,920 come. That's what happened at 200 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,800 Nehemiah. They started to come and slander 201 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,280 them and, and try to make them feel bad about what was going 202 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,640 on. But Nehemiah trusted in God. 203 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,000 And my, my sub points there were that when your plans are God's 204 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,880 plans, they will succeed. Nehemiah trusted that God was 205 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,160 going to make them prosper. And when your enemies are God's 206 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,240 enemies, they will fail. You know, even they were rising 207 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,440 up against them. Nehemiah knew it's like, you 208 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,320 guys don't have any right? You don't have any claim. 209 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,640 You don't have any portion of what we're doing here because 210 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,120 you're you're an enemy of God and you're going to fail. 211 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,400 And I used an illustration there of David and Goliath that, you 212 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,480 know, David, you know, the only Israelite who is trusting in a 213 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,080 God who is bigger than what their enemies look like. 214 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,200 And you know, we need to do that as well that, you know, we need 215 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,560 to have this holy stubbornness that TJ Betts that quote that I 216 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,280 mentioned that when enemies rise up, we just need to have that 217 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,480 conviction that we're we're doing what God has called us to 218 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,440 do. That's been clear to this point. 219 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,320 And so therefore, we're just going to continue doing what 220 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,960 we're doing because we know that God is going to give it success. 221 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,160 And then at the end of the sermon, I sort of tied this in 222 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,480 this whole, this whole book really. 223 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,280 But this section is tied this section of Nehemiah into like 224 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,120 Christ, because the Old Testament points us forward to 225 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:28,600 Christ. You know, when when Jesus was 226 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,400 walking in the road to Emmaus, he showed his his followers, his 227 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,880 disciples, how the Old Testament scriptures prophesied about him. 228 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,200 And so, you know, Nehemiah comes to Jerusalem and that's exactly 229 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,120 what Jesus did. We see as sort of like. 230 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,760 Parallel or. Parallel or like typography or 231 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,760 typology is the word. Yeah. 232 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,480 It's like Christ is Nehemiah is a type of Christ. 233 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,040 He actually foreshadows what Christ was going to come to do. 234 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,680 And so we see Christ coming to Jerusalem, inspecting the 235 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,760 worship, inspecting the city, watching their corrupt worship. 236 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,480 He comes and he, he, he preaches and he teaches the truth that 237 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,320 the Kingdom of God and he shows that he is the way to to peace 238 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,280 with God and that relationship with God. 239 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,680 And he's willing to suffer and die even in the face of his 240 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:15,720 enemies because he's trusting in God. 241 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,280 And so it really points us to Christ and all that he is going 242 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,240 to do as a fulfillment of God's promise. 243 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,240 And so that we should trust in Christ and follow that same 244 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,560 example and be willing to give our lives for the sake of what 245 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:32,520 He's doing and has done for us. Yeah, yeah, it was a good 246 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,760 sermon. A lot of good stuff in there. 247 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,840 I like the typology stuff at the end. 248 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,880 I'm a little nerdy and when it comes to stuff like that. 249 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,600 So I get really excited when I see those when when they're 250 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,320 pointed out. And you did a really good job 251 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,040 pointing it out like and and going back and forth in the 252 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,880 sermon. You you went, I think I don't 253 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,480 know how long it took you maybe two or three minutes of of going 254 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,760 back and forth and giving us example after example of how 255 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,160 Christ perfectly did what Nehemiah was doing here. 256 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,880 Yeah, it's good. Oh, what did I write down? 257 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:08,080 It was on Oh, your first point under seek a God sized 258 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,760 opportunity. I, I I'd really like thought 259 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,280 about that seeking God in secret part in the your first sub 260 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,720 point. And I was like, I don't know. 261 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,000 I don't know if I was convicted or what, but I, I Nehemiah, it 262 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,600 just, he wanted to be, he wanted God to be the influence in his 263 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,200 life and not someone else. And like, how often am I just 264 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:34,400 like so quick to avoid prayer and to go to you or to go to 265 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,120 someone else and say, Hey, what do you think about this? 266 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:37,640 Right. What do you think about that? 267 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,440 Yeah, maybe you should do this instead of like, really like, 268 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,640 OK, no, I need to, I need to spend some time with the Lord 269 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,800 and let him influence me. Yeah. 270 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:50,840 And instead of others. So I thought that was really, 271 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,000 really helpful. That is so true. 272 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,320 It's like it's God is not, not our first resort. 273 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,320 A lot of times it's like, like I said, it's like if, if I want an 274 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,800 answer or if I want to think of something, it's like I'll go to 275 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,680 Google or yeah, I'll, there's got to be a good book that 276 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:08,360 somebody wrote about this or like, like you said, a friend or 277 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,680 a counselor or somebody around you. 278 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,320 Which are all good things, right? 279 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,240 They are. But I think that that when 280 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,800 they're our first, like our first option is to not go to 281 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,280 God. That's the that's where we mess 282 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,960 up. And man, I, I was just convicted 283 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,440 by that. Nehemiah wants God to be the 284 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,600 influence and he didn't tell anyone what he was doing. 285 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,880 He wants to go and inspect, just sit in And sitting in the rubble 286 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:29,080 was another thing like, and you've mentioned that you were 287 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,400 preparing for this for like 2 weeks. 288 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,080 So you were, you were, you were sitting with this text for, I 289 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,600 don't know, two or three weeks, 2 weeks at least and talking 290 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,880 about sitting in the rubble and just really like, like being 291 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,480 willing and open to pain. I don't know if that's, I don't 292 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,840 know how many people are willing to do that. 293 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,520 It's hard, Yeah. Because I have, I have to 294 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,440 wrestle with the fact that I'm failing, right? 295 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,560 And that's why it's so hard because none of us wants to feel 296 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:00,880 like a failure, right? And, you know, that goes men and 297 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,120 women, it doesn't matter who you are. 298 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,800 It's like you. We feel the weight of of us 299 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,320 being a failure. And that's where you really have 300 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,000 to be discerning about what voice it is that you're hearing, 301 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,600 right? You know, because is it the 302 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,320 voice of God or is it the voice of the enemy? 303 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,000 Because the voice of the enemy is going to be much like 304 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,960 Nehemiah's enemies here. It's like it's going to be a 305 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,920 discouraging voice. I mean, what do you think you're 306 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:23,680 trying to do? Like you can't do this. 307 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,560 Like you really think this is going to work? 308 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,440 That's the voice of the enemy. When that's the voice in your 309 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:29,880 head. You need to know that you're 310 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,080 under spiritual warfare and spiritual attack and you need to 311 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,800 run to the Lord. The Holy Spirit is. 312 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,760 This is why it takes discernment because the Holy Spirit is 313 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,640 similarly wanting to make you holy and righteous. 314 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,960 But that voice is not like, oh, you can't do that. 315 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,920 That voice is, hey, that area of your life. 316 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,160 Like I'm not content with that. You need to surrender that to 317 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,800 me. You need to come to me. 318 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,080 There's better things for you. It's, it's like a, a conviction 319 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,840 to, to become more holy and more righteous. 320 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,360 That is the voice of the Lord because he wants you to 321 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,440 experience fullness and wholeness. 322 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,960 And so when it's a, when it's a voice that is not content to 323 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,560 leave you, you know, in your sin, that's the Lord. 324 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,600 It's the conviction of the Holy Spirit. 325 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,280 When it's a discouragement or like beating you down, it's like 326 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,520 that's the voice of the enemy. That's that's really helpful 327 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,560 thinking about because they're, I don't know if they're telling 328 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,880 you the same thing, but you can't do it right. 329 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,120 Whatever it is, right, you can't beat it. 330 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,440 So like the enemy's telling you that in a discouraging way. 331 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,160 The Holy Spirit's telling you that saying, hey, you know what, 332 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,320 you need to like you said, surrender this to me. 333 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,760 That was really helpful. Yeah, that's really helpful. 334 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,760 Shift in thinking. It's subtle, but really like, 335 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,880 yeah, you need to surrender that. 336 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:42,720 That's something you need to let. 337 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,360 I'm not. And I like the way you said that 338 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,720 too. The Holy Spirit says, I'm not 339 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,040 content with this in your life. Surrender that to me. 340 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,040 Like basically like that CS Lewis story. 341 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,120 And I told back I don't know how many months ago now, like just 342 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,280 let me kill it, right? Let me kill this thing in your 343 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:58,680 life. Surrender it to me and let me 344 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,120 kill it. But we're just like lot, right? 345 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:04,360 It's like we linger and we just sort of like, man, I really want 346 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,360 to give this over to God because I mean, the reason we give in to 347 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,200 sin is because sin feels good, at least for the moment, right? 348 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,120 It's never as satisfying as we think it's going to be, right? 349 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,280 But in the moment it's like we don't want to let go of our sin. 350 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,400 Yeah, we do enjoy it. But as far as like, as far as 351 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,640 like seeking God in the rubble, I, I really thought like just 352 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,520 practical hands on like what should somebody do? 353 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,720 Like I'm thinking of an even in my life like schedule. 354 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,840 I'm literally like schedule a time. 355 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,400 And I need to do this for myself this week too, like put an hour 356 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,880 in my schedule where I'm just going to go for a quiet walk and 357 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,960 I'm literally just going to pray and ask God to show me leaks and 358 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,040 cracks in my life. Because, I mean, I, I think as I 359 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,440 was preaching through that as people were listening, you're 360 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,000 probably getting a sense for areas of your life. 361 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,120 Yeah, for sure. You know, maybe it's like, hey, 362 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,200 you know what? I don't pray with my kids. 363 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,880 We're not reading the Bible together as a family. 364 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:05,000 I'm not praying with my wife. We don't attend church as 365 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,760 regularly as we should. We don't come to Bible. 366 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,760 I'm not reading my, but whatever it is, right? 367 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,839 Like I can feel myself starting to take slippery roads at my job 368 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:15,680 where it's like I'm more willing to be dishonest or whatever it 369 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,000 is you you're noticing. Maybe everybody got a bit of a 370 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,319 sense. And I think you need to sit 371 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:24,400 alone with the Lord for an hour and think through that and pray 372 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,160 through that and help him. Have him help you come up with a 373 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,560 vision of like, all right, what steps can I take to avoid that? 374 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,080 Yeah. And what plan can I put in 375 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,720 place? Again, not an empty promise 376 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,240 like, oh, yeah, I will do that. No. 377 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,440 Give yourself actionable steps and then go and have someone 378 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,600 come alongside you to hold you accountable and help you with 379 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,240 that. Yeah, yeah, something like an 380 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,800 indicator, probably not like the problem, but an indicator of a 381 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,000 problem in your heart. Like I've I've been reading a 382 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,840 poultry book called Dangerous Calling. 383 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,600 It's a book for pastors. But one thing that he keeps 384 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,080 saying in there, he kept keeps saying like an indicator that 385 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,880 you're, there's something going on in your heart. 386 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,400 Is this like if you're numbing yourself with like, like hours 387 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:10,360 of mindless television or social media scrolling and it's he, he 388 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,720 repeats it. And like, if you spot yourself, 389 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,560 OK, my default now I just want to like withdraw from everybody 390 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,800 and I want to scroll in my phone or I want to watch a show for 391 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,760 four hours, you know, whatever. Binge watch something that's an 392 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,280 indicator of a real problem in your heart. 393 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,800 And you know, you would you would say it's not I'm just I'm 394 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,320 just relaxing or I'm just trying to like decompress. 395 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,680 But it's really an indicator that you're just trying to 396 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,240 withdraw from, from the world around you, right? 397 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,680 And I was convicted by that. So it's like a crack that's like 398 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,640 you're looking for a crack. OK, You want to see that in your 399 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,400 life. And then like, OK, what's really 400 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,120 causing me to want to like do this? 401 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,160 Because it's not the show, right? 402 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:53,760 You know what I mean? It's not, it's not that 403 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,600 interesting, right? There's nothing that interesting 404 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:57,800 unless it's like a football game. 405 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,080 It's like playoffs, right? Yeah, which are interesting. 406 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,040 I'm just defending myself for watching 8 hours of football on 407 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,800 Saturday. So anyway, no, oh man. 408 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:09,240 But no, you know what I'm saying? 409 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,680 It's like it's not that interesting. 410 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,720 There is, there is a deeper problem. 411 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,560 There is a crack or a leak somewhere in your life that 412 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,480 you're you're trying to plug with something else. 413 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,600 Yeah. And so I think it's really good 414 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,520 to think about like, like the taking that one hour and just 415 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,040 asking the Lord to reveal, yeah, our sin to us, like the, the 416 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,480 things that we think we don't have. 417 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,280 Like, you know, I was thinking back to Kyle's sermon. 418 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,800 People think they're sinless, You know, somebody's think 419 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,280 you're sinless. No, you need to confess that. 420 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:39,880 You need to ask the Lord to show you where you're. 421 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,240 Yeah, where you're sinning because you are. 422 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:42,480 Yeah. There's something in your life 423 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:43,280 so. Yeah. 424 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:48,000 And something I, I last week, I had this, this thought as I was 425 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,680 thinking, you know, I was thinking about, you know, like I 426 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,840 start the day off with, with the word and with prayer and 427 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,160 spending time with God. And I always feel very refreshed 428 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:57,760 and energized and strengthened by that. 429 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,080 And I was thinking about how I schedule my day, you know, you 430 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,560 know, busy, like really deep work gets done in the mornings. 431 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,320 I try to like set that time aside. 432 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:10,080 But that was as I was thinking about, I was like, you know 433 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,480 what, I should schedule things that energize me. 434 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,320 Because it's like, you know, here, it's like I'm pouring out, 435 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,120 right? I'm, I'm researching, I'm 436 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,120 studying, I'm like, I'm preparing a sermon. 437 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:20,680 I'm preparing whatever it is that I'm doing. 438 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,000 And I'm pouring out, right? And for everybody out there 439 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,440 who's listening, it's like whatever job you're doing, it's 440 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,920 like you're pouring out. It's like, I'm, I'm building 441 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,560 this house, I'm building this wall, I'm working at this 442 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,160 factory. It's like I'm, I'm pouring out. 443 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:33,640 I'm doing things for other people. 444 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,960 And I had this sense that it's like, you know, I should 445 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,960 schedule things in my life that pour back into me so that I can 446 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,960 now have strength. So one thing that I was thinking 447 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,760 was I feel energized by like a like going for a coffee with 448 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,680 someone or like having a good conversation like that energizes 449 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,000 and strengthens me. But as I was thinking about it, 450 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,080 I was like, you know, I really ought to spend time with the 451 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,200 Lord because he does that. That is his, that is him pouring 452 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,280 into me. But I think the way I I needed 453 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,040 that shift in my mind to happen because I think a lot of times 454 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,560 the way the reason I avoid going to God, whether it's reading or 455 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,680 prayer, is because for some weird reason, I think I'm 456 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:22,400 pouring out. I'm doing something for God, but 457 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,640 I'm not right. I'm not doing something for God. 458 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:30,040 I'm, I'm creating a, a way for him to pour into me by me coming 459 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,680 to him in his word, by me praying, by me seeking his 460 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,960 wisdom and his guidance. He can pour into me. 461 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,840 And so I needed that shift in my mind to go. 462 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,200 I need to go to the Lord because that's His opportunity to fill 463 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,840 and strengthen me again with His Spirit and give me energy and 464 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:48,560 strength to get through the rest of the day. 465 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,320 That is like taking it from. I'm checking a box exactly. 466 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,080 I'm spending time with a person. Exactly right, because again, a 467 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,680 lot that that's why you checked the box. 468 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,360 You're like all right, I did that thing for God. 469 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:03,080 Now God's happy with me again and we don't say that we we 470 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,920 don't talk like that. That is, but that 471 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,840 subconsciously. Is what you think, right? 472 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,640 Yeah. Oh, man, that's good stuff. 473 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,000 Solid gold. Really good. 474 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:18,080 OK. I liked the whole. 475 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,240 I love the whole sermon. I like the teamwork part. 476 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,480 We can't do it on our own, you know. 477 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,600 Yeah. And then that Samson story, I 478 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,240 love the the part where you said that his pride led him to 479 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,360 believe that his strength came from his hair and not from God. 480 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,280 And as you were saying. And I was like realizing it, 481 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,200 like his sin was not that. And it was, it was thinking that 482 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,280 that his vows, his Nazarite vow is what gave him strength. 483 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,080 Yeah. And how often, how often are we 484 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,680 like caught up in that? Like this mentality, like, OK, 485 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,080 it's our tradition or it's the ceremony or whatever this thing 486 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,920 is that does it for us, that gives us our strength, our power 487 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,080 or whatever. Even meeting on Sunday, we 488 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,120 started to think like prioritize these things. 489 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:08,280 Like this is what gives us no, God gives you anything. 490 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,240 It's all him, right? And dude, it's just such a big 491 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,480 view of God like that that Samson had a small view of God, 492 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,320 right? He said OK, my my abilities come 493 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,640 from what I do for God, My vow I gave to him and not from him 494 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:22,440 himself. Yeah. 495 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,480 And did that's something to think about like it requires God 496 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,880 and then. Well, and like and like you're 497 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,800 saying too though, that it like that again, changes it from 498 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,200 checking a box to like pursuing God. 499 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,440 Yeah. It's not a + B = C It's like if 500 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,160 I do this, if I do that, then God will bless me and God will 501 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,440 reward me. God doesn't operate like that. 502 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,760 I mean, God does have standards for his people and he does have 503 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,920 rules and instructions to them to follow, but God is not a God. 504 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,280 It just like it's, it's like a science experiment and you're 505 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,160 always going to get the same result every time you do 506 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,720 something. It's not right. 507 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,600 I've been thinking of like Ezra and Nehemiah here. 508 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,200 You have two different guys who go back to begin rebuilding what 509 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,680 was broken down in Jerusalem, right? 510 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,480 Nehemiah, We've just Pastor Jake talked to us about talked to us 511 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,920 about this last week where it's like he asked the king to go. 512 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,640 He asked the king for letters so that he would get safe passage. 513 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,920 He asked for timber to rebuild the walls. 514 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,520 He you know what I mean? And he gave him an escort and he 515 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,880 wasn't ashamed to ask for all that stuff, which seems like 516 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,040 maybe that doesn't seem weird. But Ezra, when he goes back, 517 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,400 he's like, I was way too ashamed to ask for anything. 518 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,760 He didn't even ask for an escort or anything because he was like, 519 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,000 he recognized, well, if I'm saying that we trust in a big 520 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,560 God who can protect us and deliver us safely, that seems 521 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,000 sort of contradictory for me now to ask for an escort. 522 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,400 And so he was just trusting in God, right? 523 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,880 So here you have two different guys who did things very, very 524 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,000 differently and yet God bless them both in what they were 525 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,520 doing. And I think for us to put God in 526 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,560 this sort of box that makes it seem like if I do this, that I 527 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,680 will be blessed. That's just not how God. 528 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,320 Operates I know and you think to like all through Scripture. 529 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,760 I'm going back to the reading plan. 530 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,480 Last week we saw the the covenant that God made with 531 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,720 Abram, right? Like, like what happened? 532 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,320 What happened when it came time to make the commitment, Abraham 533 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,880 is put into a deep sleep. Yeah. 534 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,440 He's not even part of it. He doesn't go through. 535 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,440 He doesn't. God is the one who makes the 536 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,320 commitment. Abraham's not even God knows 537 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,080 that Abraham can't keep it. Yep. 538 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,720 So I'm going to keep it like I am the one who is faithful. 539 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,040 Yeah. And how do we just forget man? 540 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,880 Yeah. That God cut the covenant. 541 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,040 Abraham didn't. Right. 542 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,040 And it was God's promise to Abraham, not a like a joint 543 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,200 venture, not like a handshake. OK. 544 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,200 If you do this, I do this. No, it's not that. 545 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,480 Right. God says I'm going to do this. 546 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,240 Yeah, and here is my commitment to you. 547 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,000 It's crazy for us to think of right? 548 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,960 Well, and the interesting thing about that I was sharing this 549 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,680 with my D group on the weekend is that who Who does God swear 550 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,280 by? Himself. 551 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,520 Himself because it's like. There's no higher authority, 552 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:05,920 right? There's no higher authority, 553 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,320 right? When we make a contract, if you 554 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,000 and I make a contract, if you break your, your end of the 555 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,800 deal, it's like I can go to the, I can go to the local authority 556 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,720 or some, some court or some lawyer, some judge and he's 557 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,240 going to judge between US and he's going to make you fulfill 558 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,160 your end of the. Agreement. 559 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,560 It's based on whatever law of the state or a province you live 560 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,920 in. Yeah, it's based on those laws. 561 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,880 Exactly. And God is like, he's so 562 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,560 powerful, so mighty. It's like, who is going to hold 563 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,000 God accountable? Nobody, no one can hold God 564 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,400 accountable because he's God. But he swears by himself because 565 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:41,560 he's good and just. And it's like he is going to do 566 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,520 the right thing. And so we're, we're some people, 567 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,200 their view of God is that he's a tyrant or he can do whatever he 568 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,400 wants. And that's a scary thing We look 569 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:54,240 at and go, well, God, He swears by himself because he alone is 570 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,280 righteous. He alone is just. 571 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,760 He alone is good. And man, what comfort should 572 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,240 that give to us? Because he is going to do the 573 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,760 right thing, man. It should. 574 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,120 It it If it doesn't blow you away, there's something wrong. 575 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:08,160 Right? Like it's it. 576 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,680 It's mind boggling. Yeah, it is mind boggling. 577 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,400 Well, and we see today, even in, in today's writing, right, like 578 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,400 in Genesis 18, where Abraham's going to God, God's like man, 579 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,800 what are we going to do with Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham 580 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,520 sitting there going, he's like, man, if there's 50 righteous 581 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,680 people in there, are you going to sweep away those righteous 582 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,480 people? And like his questions are 583 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,840 intense. Like he really, I'm just going 584 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,160 to quickly flip there so I can read it because it, it really 585 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,720 blew my mind that he is, he seems really bold to God. 586 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,960 And he says, Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with 587 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,840 the wicked? Suppose there are 50 righteous 588 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,480 within the city. Will you then sweep away the 589 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,720 place, and not spare it for the 50 righteous who are in it? 590 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,720 And then listen to that. Far be it from you to do such a 591 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,640 thing, to put the righteous to the to death with the wicked, so 592 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,640 that the righteous fare as the wicked. 593 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,320 Far be that from you? Shall not the judge of all the 594 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,760 earth do what is just? And I was really thinking about 595 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,680 that this morning. I'm like, where does Abraham get 596 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,040 his theology, his understanding of who God is at this point, 597 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,440 Right. And it just really struck me 598 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:25,480 though, because I feel like God, God was really patient with 599 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,680 Abraham in my mind because he's very bold in what he asks of 600 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,040 God, but he calls it like me. He's really stating that like 601 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,760 God is the judge of all the earth and he should do what is 602 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,800 right and God shows God's like, yeah, you know what? 603 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,440 If there's 50 righteous I will spirit. 604 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,160 But it's like Abraham understands that you know God. 605 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,760 He keeps going right. He goes down to 10, right? 606 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,480 Yep, he goes all the way down to 10 and and God shows his, his 607 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,200 mercy, his grace, even in that moment to do what is right, to 608 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,560 do the right thing. Where does he get his theology 609 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,840 about who God is? Is gets it from God himself, 610 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,320 right? He's spending time with him. 611 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,840 Yeah, that's the lesson for us there, right? 612 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,800 Man, that's really good, really, really good to think through 613 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,840 when you're on God's side. Like we talked about this some 614 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,560 last week, not on podcast, but as as you were preparing your 615 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,720 sermon talked about like, is God against you or are you against 616 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:20,400 God? Like am I? 617 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,000 I just think we're pushing against an immovable force when 618 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,640 we're trying to do something. He's not in his will. 619 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,760 So my question for you is like, all right, So thinking about the 620 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,520 sermon, think about our our context and thinking about all 621 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:35,120 sorts of things that's going on, like what would be like, what do 622 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,000 we need to do with this text? Like, like, I know there's 623 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,120 personal things, what we talked about our personal things like 624 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,080 corporate laser or something. What's the God size vision? 625 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,800 Like what is God doing in Leamington? 626 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,280 I don't. Know yeah, well, I, I mean, I 627 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,200 alluded, I, I didn't just allude to it. 628 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,920 I, I shared that in my second point that I really felt like, 629 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,800 you know, God has been, you know, giving us as pastors and 630 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,840 and a leadership as a church that he's really giving us this 631 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,520 vision of discipleship. Right. 632 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,480 And we've really just seen like, I guess the broken down wall 633 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,240 would be that. And it's not our church. 634 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,040 It's it's churches in general that, you know, in the 80s and 635 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,920 the 90s as churches, we, we moved to, you know, they thought 636 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:16,000 the best thing for the church was programs that they shifted 637 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,520 towards programs. And so for every, every felt 638 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,480 need that we have, right like I need to be a better husband. 639 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,920 We need, you know, to reach moms who are, you know, struggling 640 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,720 with their kids at home. And so, so whatever need there 641 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,040 was that we all start a program, we'll start a program that will 642 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,480 specifically meet that need. And so the problem that that 643 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,720 created was it made people, church members, consumers, and 644 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,520 it turned them into people who come to church to get my need 645 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,840 met and to help me with this specific area. 646 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:53,240 And so at the end of at the end of that, you know, 2020 to 25 to 647 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,360 30 years later, what they recognized was, and I know one 648 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,400 of the churches, the name of the church is escaping me right now. 649 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,600 But they actually did a study because they were tracking this. 650 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,080 They were one of the churches that that were leading this 651 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,920 movement. And they realized after after a 652 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,640 number of years, it failed. It didn't work. 653 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,760 People weren't growing. They were just as helpless as 654 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,240 they were before. But it created this dependency 655 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,960 for people to be dependent on the church, which is exactly the 656 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,000 opposite of what we want, right? And so now in the last five to 657 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,240 10 years, churches, there's been movements of people moving 658 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,560 towards discipleship because we recognize that meeting felt 659 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,960 needs, having programs doesn't make disciples, right? 660 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,680 And so when we're talking about discipleship as a church, I 661 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,520 guess I want people to know that, like, this is not 662 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,840 something we're coming out out of nowhere. 663 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,760 This is something that like worldwide, we're recognizing 664 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,960 that Christians just aren't maturing as they should be. 665 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,960 And and this really came to light during COVID when people 666 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,800 couldn't go to church. You know, a lot of churches were 667 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,240 shut down, at least for the beginning, right? 668 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,760 People had, no, they weren't, they weren't growing. 669 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,360 They had no way to feed themselves. 670 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,560 They had no way to grow. They were so dependent on the 671 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,120 church that they didn't know what to do. 672 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,720 And so we recognized that like, we'd failed. 673 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,320 Churches had failed. People weren't, you know, in a 674 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,680 close enough relationship with the Lord that they could feed 675 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,680 each other and feed one another. And so as we move towards 676 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,560 discipleship, we're we're leaning into what Jesus modeled 677 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,200 for us, which is discipleship with his, with his followers. 678 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,520 He had personal one-on-one relationships with them in a 679 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,600 larger group and in a smaller group to help them grow. 680 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:33,200 Because you need to teach to obey all that he has commanded 681 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,000 us. That's that's what. 682 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,240 His. Yeah, that's the Great 683 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,720 Commission. That's what we're doing. 684 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,520 And the way that you teach others to obey Christ is to 685 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,120 disciple them, to walk with them as they grow in God's word and 686 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,600 to teach them to, to follow God's word. 687 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,240 And so, and again, one thing that we've got from, from some 688 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,920 ministry that we follow, replicate ministries is that the 689 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,600 establishment process isn't complete until the person being 690 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,680 discipled is discipling other people. 691 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,380 That's when you know you've arrived or you know, quote UN 692 00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:07,200 quote arrived. Is that now someone's been 693 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,920 pouring into me and now I can begin to pour into other people. 694 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,120 And so that's sort of like that's sort of the measure of 695 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,240 success that it needs to be being passed on. 696 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,360 Yeah. To other people. 697 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,200 And it's not dependent on specific like church leaders or 698 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,560 whatever. So I think that's sort of the 699 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,160 broken down wall that that, you know, we're not maturing as we 700 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,040 as we ought to. Hebrew. 701 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,240 So the problem would be that they're the church is not 702 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,560 producing mature believers, right? 703 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,440 They're still drinking milk. Yep, Yeah, Hebrews 5, right? 704 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,880 You, you, you guys ought to be teachers by now. 705 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,560 That's exactly what, you know, the writer of right? 706 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,160 Writer of Hebrews is saying. Yeah, if you've been in a 707 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,920 church, if you've been a member of a church or been a like a 708 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,080 believer for any, any amount of time longer than like a year or 709 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,200 two, you should be further along than you are. 710 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,480 But like, there's people I can think about from my past and 711 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,520 like, there are people who have been in the church 30 plus years 712 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,200 and still drinking milk. You know what I mean? 713 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,720 Like they're just not. They're just not not committed 714 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,640 because like you said, they've been fed just baby food the 715 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,040 whole time. Like, OK, come here for this or 716 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,920 that event, this one specifically to becoming like 717 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,960 more manly or this one's today we're going to be talking about 718 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,360 whatever it is. I don't know. 719 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:18,040 It's just like programs. So yeah, dude. 720 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,760 So the problem is people are not mature. 721 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:24,080 They're drinking milk. What's the what's the the God 722 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,360 sized vision then? Well, I again, I think the God 723 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,520 sized vision is discipleship. I think the God sized vision is 724 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,000 and I, and I want, I don't want people to feel overly guilty 725 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:32,760 about that. Right. 726 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,679 You know, you know, maybe God is asking you to sit in the rubble 727 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:37,840 of the fact that, you know, maybe you should be farther 728 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,000 along, but God isn't telling you that. 729 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,639 So you'll feel horrible about yourself and feel destroyed. 730 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,320 No, it's just like that. Just the Holy Spirit nudging. 731 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,159 Exactly. You need to let this go. 732 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:49,239 We need to. We need like, let me take, take 733 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,040 you somewhere else, right? Take you out of this. 734 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:52,679 Exactly. Like, you can lament the fact 735 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:54,840 that like, yeah, I should have been here 30 years ago, but 736 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,639 you're not. And God is asking you to start 737 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:59,000 rebuilding from where you're at now because you can change your 738 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,640 trajectory for the future. And so I don't want people to 739 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,200 feel guilty about that because the truth is, you know, I've had 740 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,000 this question asked of me and it's like, who discipled you? 741 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,240 I was in a book that Robbie Gallery wrote. 742 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:12,880 He's like, OK, well, how many of you have had an example of 743 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,680 someone who who pulled you alongside and said, I want you 744 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,200 to join me. And I'm going to disciple you. 745 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,440 I'm going to show you how to do this. 746 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,440 I'm going to show you what it looks like to pray for your 747 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,480 wife, to pray with your family, to lead your family in devotions 748 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:28,440 and just honestly like. Almost never will anybody say 749 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,560 they had somebody. Yeah, almost nobody has ever had 750 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,560 that modeled for them, right. And so you don't know it's, it's 751 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,680 not your fault in that sense that you haven't been shown how 752 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,880 to do it right. And so you'll need to take some 753 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,320 responsibility, but there's also a responsibility that's placed 754 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,400 on the church, right? And so we need to do our part as 755 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,960 a Church of creating an atmosphere, an environment of 756 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,160 discipleship in our church where people can grow spiritually. 757 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,400 That means you're gonna have to do the work, right? 758 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,600 Yeah, we're not feeding you anymore. 759 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,600 You know, it's like that's you. You can't come here and just 760 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,160 get, I mean, you can still, you can still come here to get 761 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,320 stuff, but it's like you're just not going to. 762 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,360 Grow The thing is the programs change like the things that we 763 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,080 do here at the church would have to change, right. 764 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,480 Or they're going to. Yeah, like you may have already 765 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,040 noticed it. Like there there are things that 766 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,720 are just different, like they're Wednesday night things. 767 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,400 Well, Wednesday night exists, right. 768 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,280 So here. So it's one thing that wasn't 769 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,400 happening for adults. There's there's study, but 770 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,160 things are different now than they used to be, right. 771 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,840 At times. And that's not a bad thing, 772 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,840 right? Like the, the things that are 773 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,720 happening are focused on maturing as believers. 774 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:34,040 And so like, so like if you're, if somebody taps you on the 775 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,360 shoulder and says, Hey, you want to be in AD group, you should 776 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,600 probably say yes, because it's not just us trying to fill a box 777 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,720 and like to say, Hey, we got, you know, 85% of our people in 778 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:47,080 discipleship groups. It's we want you in the word 779 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,640 with other people, growing closer to the Lord, maturing as 780 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,040 believers so that you'll have the strength to endure what's 781 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,720 coming. Because we think, I mean, who 782 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,600 knows what's coming, right? Yeah, persecution is coming. 783 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,240 And you won't, you won't be able to survive it if you if you're 784 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,520 not mature. And so, yeah, I think you're 785 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,440 right, man. I think discipleship is. 786 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,040 And then it's a buzzword and a lot of people like, oh, it's 787 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,800 what does it mean? It can, it's all-encompassing. 788 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,680 Like we mean people reading the Bible together. 789 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,560 Yeah. Talking about what they read 790 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:23,440 together, talking about how it has shaped their life that week. 791 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,080 Yeah. And then praying for each other, 792 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,400 holding each other accountable for all the different 793 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,640 disciplines. That's what I mean when I mean 794 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:32,760 discipleship. Exactly. 795 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,040 It's word centered. Yeah. 796 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,240 Like it's all centered on God's Word because that's how he 797 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:38,880 reveals himself to us. Absolutely. 798 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,480 You know, and it's, you're gonna grow together as you share in 799 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,000 God's Word together, Maybe someone will challenge you and 800 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,120 say, Hey, I'm not sure that that's what that means. 801 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,000 You know, like you may be corrected. 802 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,720 And, and it's like you're going to learn like through the, the 803 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,800 here journaling method that we use, you're going to learn how 804 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,720 to faithfully take God's word and apply it to your life. 805 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,480 And like you said, have people holding you accountable. 806 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,000 And it's like, man, you, you just will grow. 807 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,600 Like I guarantee that you will grow based on what the Lord, If 808 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,240 you are a believer and you know you're trusting in the Holy 809 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,120 Spirit and those people, it's like you're going to grow in a 810 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,840 year in a way that you you will not believe when you look back 811 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,320 over the last year. You say a year that's just kind 812 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,520 of like timeline that that generally they they last. 813 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,040 That's kind of what the model is set up for us. 814 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,560 So you commit to each other your group for a year and then after 815 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,240 that, the idea is that you go out and start your own group or 816 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,320 part of you go out and start another group so that more 817 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,920 people are able to be discipled. So like, I don't know, God size 818 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:42,080 vision would be the whole church, like from yeah, from 819 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,120 like adults all the way down to youth, I think should be 820 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,880 figuring out some way to do discipleship together. 821 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,040 That would be God size vision I think. 822 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,640 Absolutely. Because if you're if you're 823 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:58,240 3040, fifty years old and you know you've never been discipled 824 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,320 and you go through a year of discipleship, guess what? 825 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:07,320 You can disciple a fifteen 2025 year old person and give them 826 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,240 what you never had. That's exactly right. 827 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,280 And disciple them so that they don't have to wait until they're 828 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,520 50 to finally be shown how what it means to be a follower of 829 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,320 Christ and how to read the Bible and how to pray and, you know, 830 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,160 how to just do everyday Christian things that we should 831 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:23,920 be doing. Yeah. 832 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,480 And I think it's so important to just to use a reading plan to go 833 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,880 through that because there I've, I've had conversations with 834 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,080 people recently like, you know, I never knew that story was in 835 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,840 the Bible. And I'm like, that's a pretty 836 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,560 basic story, right? You know what I mean? 837 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,880 It's like, it's not, I wasn't like critical or anything like 838 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:40,800 that. It's like, oh, OK, that's 839 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,800 interesting. But like, it's a pretty basic 840 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,800 thing that was popping up. And I'm like, it's because you 841 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,680 never read your Bible. You know, it's not like a, it's 842 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,960 not an obscure story. I don't remember exactly which 843 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:55,400 one it was, but it's important for you to read the whole Bible. 844 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,160 Absolutely. Read your Bible. 845 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,840 He wants us to read it all. The whole thing. 846 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:00,960 And. We, we had an Old Testament 847 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,120 professor, I don't know if Doctor Betts he, that's the one 848 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,920 we're using this commentary for Nehemiah and I remember him. 849 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,080 He would joke that it's like, you know what, I'm just going to 850 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,960 read the Bible that Jesus had. And it was drawing to this point 851 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:16,040 that like when Jesus was alive, the only Bible he had was the 852 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,840 Old Testament. He didn't have the New 853 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:18,560 Testament. They didn't. 854 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:19,600 Call it the Old Testament, they just. 855 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:20,760 Called the scriptures, right, right. 856 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,200 And that's, that's what he had. And so he would always make that 857 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,840 joke. But it's like, you know, all 858 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,120 your New Testament people, it's like you read the New Testament. 859 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:28,440 I'm, I'm an Old Testament professor. 860 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,760 I don't know anything. About or the, the Hebrew people, 861 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,800 the guys who loved Hebrew would always talk about the Greek guys 862 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,120 like, oh, we just like to read in the, in the language that God 863 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:40,520 uses, not man's language, right. So it's so funny. 864 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:42,800 Yeah. But I think part of the reason 865 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,440 this is a God sized vision discipleship is because it's not 866 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,520 a quick fix. You know, if anybody thinks, oh, 867 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,800 this is just a fad, it's just, no, it's not. 868 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,040 It's, it's a long term goal because it takes time. 869 00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:58,920 You know, you, you think about a group, it's like, well, we, I'm 870 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,880 going to pick three guys and we're going to meet together for 871 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,360 a year. So that means for an entire 872 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,880 year, there's just, there's just spiritual growth going on in US 873 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,680 4. But but the beauty of this model 874 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,400 is that, you know, after a year, maybe maybe you maybe all four 875 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,400 of you split off and go start new groups or maybe just you 876 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,080 break off in twos, right, and start new groups, whatever it 877 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,120 is. That's where multiplication 878 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,880 starts to happen, right? And it doesn't take, it doesn't 879 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,680 take that many years until, you know, potentially the whole 880 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,480 church can be reached and then you can start reaching out into 881 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,040 the community and invite like, you know, and, and again, this 882 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,600 is discipleship for, for our church that we're specifically 883 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,320 trying to grow the people in our church. 884 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,880 But if at some point, you know, there's three people, three 885 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,000 members of a church and one guy who's like, you know what, 886 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,240 there's a believer at my work and you know, he just, I really 887 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:48,240 sense that he needs to be in our D group. 888 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,400 And you bring somebody from the outside, it's like, you know, 889 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,360 that's OK too. And that gives them an 890 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,880 opportunity to grow. And, you know, the vision 891 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,560 becomes so much. That's where the vision starts 892 00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,800 to go into our community, right? And how it can influence, you 893 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,320 know, people outside of our church. 100% yeah, that's the 894 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,120 thing. Like, but there's so many people 895 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,720 in our church that aren't in one right now and they need to be 896 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,280 like if if you're just just don't be shy about it, right? 897 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:16,240 Like just just try it. Yeah, it if you try it and, and 898 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:18,680 you're a believer, the Lord will use it in your heart and you 899 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,720 will see how it can help you. And if you're, and honestly, if 900 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,520 you maybe you say, I don't need that. 901 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,200 I'm older. I've done this, I have been 902 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,200 discipled or I, you know, I feel like I am a mature disciple. 903 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,680 You need to be doing it. You need to be discipling other 904 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,360 people. You need to be pouring into the 905 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,840 lives of, of those around you who, who haven't. 906 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:40,440 And so this is a, it's just a great way and it's centered on 907 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,600 the word, not on what I want. It's not a program. 908 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,160 It's not on like I want to learn more about XY or Z. 909 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:48,160 Well, you're going, you're going to, yeah. 910 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,840 It may not be in the time frame or anything that you're you're, 911 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,360 you're expecting, but you're going to learn, you know, you're 912 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,080 going to you're going to read it in the Bible and you're just 913 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,440 going to come up next to it. We're going to have a chance to 914 00:42:58,440 --> 00:42:59,360 talk about it. Yeah. 915 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,120 So, yeah, I think that's, I think that could be, could be. 916 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,120 I think it is the answer to a lot of the issues that we see in 917 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,280 our church and like our church and everybody else's church. 918 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,880 It's like the reason people aren't growing is because 919 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,840 they're not reading their Bible and they're not and they're not 920 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,800 being, they're not, they're not sharpening each other. 921 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,800 Not just not reading your Bible. You could read your Bible all 922 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,720 day long. But if you're just in an echo 923 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:25,280 chamber and you're only, you're holding it to yourself, you're 924 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,240 not sharpening each other like you sharpen me, I sharpen you. 925 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:31,960 It's just one of those things and it's not comfortable sitting 926 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,520 in because sometimes you got to sit in the rubble. 927 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,240 You're going to go painful things are going to come up. 928 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,600 It's not fun like this book that dangerous calling book not fun 929 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,280 to read right. It points out pride in my heart 930 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,080 all every time I pick it up and I sometimes don't want to pick 931 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,760 it up, but and. That's God's word too, right? 932 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,280 Exactly like God's Word. You know, I had a professor who 933 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,480 had always, he called God's Word like it was a piercing comfort, 934 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,480 the piercing comfort of God's Word. 935 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,400 Because on the one hand, it's like, if you're reading it 936 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:03,440 right, yeah, it's piercing it. It divides between joint and 937 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,840 marrow and like your heart and your intentions and all that 938 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,360 sort of stuff. Like it is uncomfortable if 939 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,720 you're reading it right. And but then it gives you the 940 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:14,560 comfort of what? Of the fact that God has made a 941 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,360 way for you to be forgiven, for you to have a relationship with 942 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,800 God, for how you'd have peace with God through Christ. 943 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,720 And so it's like, on the one hand, it's like it hurts to show 944 00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:27,160 you the pain, but then it gives you that comfort of how you move 945 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,640 forward and you continue to grow. 946 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:32,000 And this is like, you know, the analogy is like of medical 947 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,320 field, right? It's like a lot of times it's 948 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,040 like you have to do something painful to fix what's broken, 949 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,040 right? And so that's a good thing. 950 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,840 The Lord is going to grow us as we spend time at His Word. 951 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:47,280 Man, really good final thoughts on your your sermon from chapter 952 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:48,200 2. Yeah. 953 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,880 Well, I guess just from there, like this God sized vision, you 954 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,200 know, us as a church and everybody individually, it's, 955 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:55,440 it's that we're trusting in God to do the work, right? 956 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,800 That this is the plan that, you know, again, like churches 957 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,680 around the world, organizations around the world are recognizing 958 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,040 that discipleship is the missing link, You know, that that we've 959 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,920 sort of strayed from as churches. 960 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:08,960 And this is God's vision for the church. 961 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,080 If we follow in Christ's footsteps and his model of 962 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,080 discipleship, it, this is God's vision, This is what he's trying 963 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,280 to do. And as we disciple one another, 964 00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:18,520 it's like we can just be confident. 965 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,040 This is what God has in store for us. 966 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,400 And so when enemies come up, when opposition comes up, it's 967 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,440 like we can just continue forward knowing that it's like, 968 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,440 you know what, God is going to make this prosper. 969 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,760 And we're going to continue doing it because we believe it's 970 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,160 from God. And we just know that he's going 971 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:33,640 to he's going to make it successful. 972 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,200 Yeah, that's true. We need to spend time trying to 973 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,720 figure out and discern what God is doing in our community, 974 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:41,920 right? Yeah, We need to. 975 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,000 Yeah, That's that. I think that would be like when 976 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,200 you're sitting in the rubble, you're trying to sit there and 977 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,520 like, like, let's look at the walls. 978 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,160 Let's figure outlook for cracks, look for leaks. 979 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,520 Like that's me. I'm thinking like, we got to 980 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,160 figure out what is God doing in Leamington? 981 00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,920 Yeah. What is God doing in our church? 982 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,480 What it, what it, what is he doing? 983 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,120 And then get on board with that. Yeah. 984 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,080 And stop trying to push against what he's doing or like to go 985 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,200 the opposite direction. That's where I'm getting from 986 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,640 this from as we're reading through this book and, and 987 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,760 really studying it, it's like, no, Nehemiah, you, you said it 988 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,160 earlier. He, he saw he was just in the 989 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,880 right place at the right time. He saw what God was doing. 990 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,360 And he just like, I'm just going to be a part of that. 991 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,000 However I can be, however I can be useful. 992 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,560 He was, he was in the right place at the right time. 993 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,080 He had the ear of the king God. And God nudged him and said OK, 994 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,640 And then he just said yes. And so I think that's what we 995 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,200 have to, we have to keep that in mind, Joe. 996 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,400 I don't. It's just because if we're not, 997 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,280 we're just pushing against the like a like an immovable force. 998 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,040 Yeah. Yeah. 999 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,520 So anyway. Absolutely. 1000 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,080 That's encouraging. Yeah, for sure. 1001 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,240 Anything else today? I think that is. 1002 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,840 Everything OK? It was really good. 1003 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,680 That was a fun podcast episode. Yeah, I hope it's helpful. 1004 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,280 Yeah, I think so. Joe, would you would you mind 1005 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,040 praying for our church and for our community? 1006 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,120 Yeah, I, I, well, I guess I'll say before I say that, No, I 1007 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,280 just, I, I'm just, as I go into the prayer, I don't know if 1008 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,640 people have recognized this, but it's like, you know, the first 1009 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,760 sermon in Nehemiah that I did like, you know, I, when I 1010 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,800 preach, OK, I, I scour over the text, you know, some of the sort 1011 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,120 of the advice I got with sermon prep is like, man, you really 1012 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:26,520 ought to read the text, you know, 10/15/20 times just to 1013 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:27,960 wrap your head around what's going on. 1014 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,320 And every time you read it, it's like the Lord reveals something 1015 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,560 different to you. But the positive side of reading 1016 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,840 a text that many times in a week is like you sort of have it semi 1017 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,200 memorized, right? And so people have probably been 1018 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,600 recognizing this, but it's like over the last like 3 weeks, it's 1019 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,520 like almost all of my prayers, even my personal life and my 1020 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,240 public prayers, it's like they're being shaped by 1021 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:48,760 Nehemiah's prayer. That's awesome. 1022 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,120 And sort of the flow that it comes with. 1023 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,880 And I just encourage people, I encourage people all the time 1024 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,680 pray the Bible. And when there's prayers in the 1025 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,280 Bible, model those prayers and pray those prayers back to God. 1026 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,200 And you know, pray the words that are written there And then, 1027 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,480 and then you can sort of add to it from your context, right? 1028 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,680 And so I'll probably do that right now and just encourage 1029 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,080 people to pray the Bible back to God. 1030 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,960 That's his word and you're praying it back to Him. 1031 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:18,840 Sounds awesome. Lord, we come before you this 1032 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,800 afternoon and we're grateful that you are the great and 1033 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,600 awesome God. You are the great and mighty 1034 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,000 God. You are the Lord the God of 1035 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,880 heaven, and you are above all of the things in this world. 1036 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,240 And we are so grateful to know that that you are in control of 1037 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:34,720 everything that comes in our life. 1038 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,680 And we pray to you, a God who keeps his covenant and keeps his 1039 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,320 steadfast love with those who love him. 1040 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,160 And Lord, we come recognizing that you are faithful to those 1041 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,800 who are faithful to you. And so we recognize that 1042 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,520 promise. We recognize your faithfulness, 1043 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,600 your love, and and we recognize how far we fall short of that 1044 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,280 standard, that even though we want to be faithful to you, we 1045 00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,680 want to love you. We recognize in our own hearts 1046 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,040 our failures and Lord, we confess our own sin as we come 1047 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,960 to you, not having lived up to the standard that you have given 1048 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,320 to us, but trusting in the way that you have made for us, that 1049 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,360 Christ has come and offered himself as the ultimate 1050 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,560 sacrifice, the once for all sacrifice that we can be 1051 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,880 forgiven. And when we come to you in his 1052 00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,960 name, he is the way, the truth and the life, and we can have 1053 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:28,160 peace with you through him. And we thank you for that Lord. 1054 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,600 And this gives us the confidence to pray now, to pray in Jesus 1055 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,640 name that whatever we ask, Lord, you've promised that, that you 1056 00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,560 hear it and that we have the request that we ask of you. 1057 00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,360 And, and we learned from Christ our Savior to pray in your will. 1058 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,840 And so we pray, we try to pray in your will. 1059 00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,600 We, we pray that our, our prayers would be saturated in a 1060 00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,000 desire to make your name great. Not just that we would have all 1061 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,920 of our requests and our wishes and our desires met. 1062 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,840 But then in our prayer, we would be seeking to make your name 1063 00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,640 great in and through us as a community, Lord. 1064 00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,760 And so we pray that you would strengthen us to rebuild the 1065 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,680 walls as we talked about today with discipleship that we have 1066 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,960 your people who have been saved by your grace. 1067 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,120 And our our Commission, our mandate is to make disciples to 1068 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,600 help people grow in their faith, that they trust in Christ, that 1069 00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:19,280 they read his word, that they obey his commands and walk in 1070 00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,280 his ways. And in the promise that we have 1071 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,840 is that you will be with us until the end of the age. 1072 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,800 Lord, thank you for the fact that you are with us through the 1073 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,080 power of your spirit. Would you strengthen us to be 1074 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,040 bold as we trust in your power and your strength? 1075 00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,040 In Jesus name we ask, Amen. Amen. 1076 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,680 Well, we are praying for you, LMC, and we appreciate you 1077 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,000 joining us. Until next time.