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What's up, y'all? 
Good to see you this morning. 

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Oh, man. 
So, yeah, it is what it is. 

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This is very hard. 
So my name is Carlos. 

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I've been a pastor here for five
years, five years. 

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Well, a year and a half before 
that and then back. 

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Yeah. 
So we, me and my family, we 

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moved to Des Moines 04 months 
before we planted this church to

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be a part of the core team. 
And so we've been here for a 

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long time. 
And and so, yeah, this is my 

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last Sunday here and I have, I 
have a story for that. 

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Come to the party, I'll tell 
you. 

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But also I, I, I really do 
believe I have a word from the 

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Lord specifically for, for us 
that, that I've just asked God 

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to like, basically give me, give
me like one last, what would you

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tell these people? 
And so I think it's fitting that

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today's the Sunday with all the 
kids in here because that 

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sermon, this sermon involves 
kids. 

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So we're going to be in Psalm 
127. 

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So if you have a Bible, go ahead
and open that up. 

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We're going to be there. 
We're going to be there. 

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But like I said, we're moving, 
we're moving down to Florida, 

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the Sunshine State. 
And I've been I've been thinking

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a lot about Florida and, and my 
family. 

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And it reminded as as I've been 
thinking about that, it reminded

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me of one of my favorite 
pictures of my family that I 

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have. 
It's a picture of my great 

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grandmother back in the rural 
Florida around 1920 something 19

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early the early 1900s is black 
and white. 

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And it's just every time I look 
at that photo, I asked the 

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question, man, like what was 
life like back then? 

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You know, just a few decades 
from slavery and entrenched in 

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like Jim Crow, the Jim Crow era.
What was it like to not just 

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live back then, but follow Jesus
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So let's ponder that a little 
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time, families would have who 
would have been bound by change.

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They were now, for the first 
time, free to build something on

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their own, with little money and
less land. 

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They gathered scrapped wood and 
made bricks out of mud and dug 

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with their bare hands. 
They built their homes with 

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sweat, but also with prayer. 
But here's what moves me the 

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most about this. 
Many of them, with the need to 

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build their lives in front of 
them, stopped on Sunday mornings

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to worship Jesus, right. 
They lit lamps, they gathered 

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with others, they shared meals, 
they sat under God's preaching, 

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and they lifted songs to God. 
They didn't just work, but they 

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also worshipped. 
Why? 

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This is a good question I 
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Why is because they believe that
the homes they were building 

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were not just theirs alone. 
They believed that God was 

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building with them. 
They were poor, but they weren't

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abandoned. 
They were tired, but they 

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weren't alone. 
They were free and now God was 

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their provider. 
And this isn't just for these 

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followers of God. 
If you look within the the 

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biblical narrative you will see 
the Bible is littered with 

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examples of people in real need 
to build houses and to seek 

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protection and to then to 
provide provision for 

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themselves. 
Yet they have an awareness and 

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the wisdom to work with God from
a place of rest in God. 

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Now this confronts me and maybe 
this confronts you too. 

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As I have thought about what I 
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what I felt like God wanted me 
to leave you all with, it was 

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this. 
This is the summary of my 

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sermon. 
My prayer is that frontier would

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be known as a joyful people who 
work with God from a place of 

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rest in God, trusting that our 
good God will supply all your 

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needs. 
And this is what Psalm 127 is 

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all about. 
And this message should be 

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relevant because there is a lot 
of work to be done here. 

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Hospitality team, you got to 
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Cleaning team, there's floors to
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cleaned and the offices that we 
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I'm sorry about that. 
Thank you for cleaning those for

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us. 
Pastoral team, the gospel needs 

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to be proclaimed. 
Souls need to be shepherded. 

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There's a lot to build. 
There's so much that needs to be

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watched. 
There's provision that needs to 

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be gathered. 
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would be tempted to rise early, 
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grind, or tell yourselves, or 
should I say convince yourselves

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that this is all for the right 
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This is for family. 
This is for legacy. 

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We're doing this for Kingdom. 
But this song confronts me and 

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it should confront you because 
we have fallen for the lie I 

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believe that permeates our 
culture that and that I think 

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it's leaked into the church that
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We are enough for me. 
For us. 

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We have believed a lie that 
celebrates hustling and 

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overextending ourselves to get 
things done that where that we 

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have believe the lie that 
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But I believe beneath all of 
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vigor and all of that grind, 
what's really driving us is 

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fear. 
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this because this is my 
struggle. 

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I have been a pastor at this 
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this has permeated my life at 
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And as I leave, I want to preach
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can be labeled as a joyful 
people who work with God from a 

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place of rest in God, trusting 
that our good God, he will 

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supply all of your needs. 
And we're going to unpack Psalm 

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127. 
But as I read, I want you to 

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notice that within this Psalm 
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example of God's provision to 
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I want you to know that God sees
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toward anxious toil and me 
centered work. 

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And because he is a good and 
gracious God, he gives us little

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visible, noisy reminders that 
preach to our hearts the good 

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news that God is a good God who 
gives things to his children 

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even while they rest. 
So see if you can pick up this, 

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these little reminders while we 
stand for the reading of God's 

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Word. 
Let's stand if you're able. 

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And we're going to be in Psalm 
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I'm reading from the CSB 
version, but there are ESB 

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Bibles in the pews if you don't 
have them. 

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It's very similar. 
This is the word of the Lord, a 

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song of a sense of Solomon. 
Unless the Lord builds a house, 

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it's laborers labor over it in 
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Everybody say vain. 
Unless the Lord watches over a 

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city, the watchman stay alert in
in you get up early and stay up 

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late, working hard to have 
enough food. 

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Yes, he gives sleep to the one 
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Three sons are indeed a heritage
from the Lord, Offspring a 

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reward like arrows in the hand 
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Are the sons born in one's youth
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Happy is the man who has filled 
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They will never be put to shame 
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enemies at the city gate. 
Heavenly Father, I kneel before 

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you and I asked Lord that you 
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which is make your word come 
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I pray that you would do what 
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convict hearts and courage spur 
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Come alongside those who need it
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So just use me Lord, I am a tool
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Swing freely Lord with me this 
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I pray all that Jesus name, 
Amen. 

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You can be seated. 
Pastor Eugene Peterson, who's 

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one of my spiritual heroes, has 
a book called A Long Obedience 

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in the same direction. 
When he's looking at all of the 

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psalms of ascent and he's 
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chapter. 
He says this about our Psalm. 

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He says this. 
It'll be on the screen. 

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The greatest work project of the
ancient world is a story of 

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disaster. 
The unexcelled organization and 

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enormous energy that we're 
concentrating and building the 

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Tower of Babel resulted in such 
a shattered community and 

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garbled communication that 
civilization is still trying to 

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recover. 
Listen to this guy's effort. 

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Effort, even if the effort is 
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Perhaps, perhaps, especially 
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does not justify anything when 
we open up the pages of our 

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Bibles and turn to Psalm 127. 
Solomon, the writer of this 

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Psalm, calls the labor and work 
and watchfulness done apart from

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God. 
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He says that it is anxious toil.
So how do we identify what this 

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anxious toil may be in our own 
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Well, you can identify this if 
you've ever thought this while 

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working. 
Man, if I don't do it, it won't 

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get done. 
If I don't protect, it is going 

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to fall apart. 
If I don't provide, no one else 

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will. 
If I don't put in over X amount 

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of hours, it won't get 
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And working from this place, 
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building from this place is 
summed up to be vain and 

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Solomon's wisdom. 
He repeats that three times 

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within the the five verses of 
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That's more times than there is 
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The problem isn't our work, 
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We just did a whole sermon 
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godly and there was work before 
the fall. 

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So I'm not re preaching that 
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You go on our own online and you
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The issue is with the type of 
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that when we anxiously toil, we 
work as though we were orphans 

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and not beloved children in whom
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as if God is distant or 
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give us what we need. 
Solomon, who also happens to be 

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the widest, wisest builder in in
Israel's history, tells us this 

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true work. 
He elusive. 

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This true work flows from rest. 
First one says unless God builds

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bills, our building is in vain. 
Unless God watches, our watching

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is in vain. 
Anxious toil is work that flows 

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from keeping us and our efforts 
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Solomon says me center at work 
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Here's the thing about crazy. 
Here's the here's the crazy 

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thing about building from a 
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that when you're, when you're 
building from this place, you, 

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you actually, you often times 
tear down the very thing that 

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you're trying to build. 
I've experienced this as a 

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business owner. 
I've built a business and it's 

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grown and I've been like, Oh my 
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do. 
I got to do this, I got to do 

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that, I got to do that. 
And by holding on anxiously to 

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everything, trying to do it all,
I actually like end up tearing 

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it all down in the process when 
I should I actually just be hand

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to get off raise coming 
alongside my my my employees to 

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help them do the work. 
I believe that it all depends on

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me. 
But the same thing can be said 

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for watching from a place of 
anxiety too. 

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And watching and seeking to 
protect you inadvertently miss 

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the things that you actually 
need to be paying attention to. 

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Unfortunately, I've also fallen 
victim to this as well. 

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A couple months ago at the call,
one of my best friend, he's the 

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best man in my wedding. 
And I was just meditating on 

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Psalm 127 like I always do. 
And I was just like, man, bro, 

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like your mom passed away like 
right when I moved to Iowa and I

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was not there for you. 
I was caught up in me trying to 

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do ministry, me trying to prove 
myself and I just missed it. 

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And, and, and he was very 
gracious with me, like the good 

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friend he is. 
And he was like, man, you were 

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busy. 
And but the truth of what it was

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is I was anxiously trying to 
build a new life and prove 

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myself in the work. 
And he was a victim of my 

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anxious toil. 
I missed him. 

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Does that make sense? 
Ultimately? 

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Anxious toil takes our eyes off 
of God and puts them on 

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ourselves or our circumstances. 
And that's because anxious toil 

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tells a lie that if we don't 
have enough, that we don't have 

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enough and the resources are 
limited. 

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But in the Kingdom of God, we 
know that's not true, right? 

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And as we look back at our text,
that's what Solomon tells us, 

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doesn't he? 
He wants to remind the people 

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where their provision really 
comes from. 

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He says in vain, you get up 
early and stay up late working 

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hard to have enough food. 
Yes, he gives sleep to the one 

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he loves. 
Now, if you got a Bible, if 

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you're old school like me, you 
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I would circle that, circle that
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If you have a highlight or a 
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just go ahead and click that on 
the Bible app and highlight it. 

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Solomon says that our anxious 
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He says that our labor produces 
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Your work, you're waking up 
early, you're burning the 

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midnight oil. 
It is all in vain, he says. 

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It is useless, ineffective, 
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Why? 
Why it is hopeless. 

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It is useless. 
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God who gives rest to his 
beloved. 

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Now, who is God's beloved? 
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It's the community of God. 
It's God's chosen people. 

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It's the remnant of God snatched
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fellowship and relationship with
himself. 

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In fact, that phrase he gives 
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literally be translated like 
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This is so good. 
Lord have mercy. 

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He gives such things to his 
loved ones while they sleep. 

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He gives such things to his 
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Solomon is literally saying 
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bed late, believing that your 
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watching, you're working, We'll 
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the safety and fulfillment that 
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No, it is God who does that and 
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it. 
He does it while you are 

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sleeping. 
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biblical narrative, the from 
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will see that this is how God 
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within the Bible. 
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Genesis. 
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Go and mark the way that God 
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He does it. 
He gives them blessings while 

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they are at rest. 
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In the garden God does what to 
Adam after Adam names all the 

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animals and and Adam says man I 
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I don't need a giraffe. 
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different. 
You know I thought it was funny.

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What does the guy do? 
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He puts Adam to sleep, and when 
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freestyling. 
He's like, hey, yo, this is bone

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of my bone and flesh. 
He starts singing. 

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In Genesis 15, Abraham is put 
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this sleep that God establishes 
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In Genesis 28, Jacob falls 
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has his vision of this ladder 
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and earth. 
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vision of Jesus and this is the 
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God provides blessing for His 
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And Solomon is reminding us that
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hand and gives us what we need. 
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asleep. 
And if we look back at our text,

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your boy is struggling today. 
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If we look back at our text, 
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It's almost as if Solomon knows 
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like, bro, this is too good to 
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Like while I'm asleep. 
And so Solomon, he shifts, look 

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back at our text, easy to shift.
He points them to a living, 

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breathing example of God's 
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Why this shift? 
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contextualize this this this 
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make sense. 
Psalm 127 is 1 of 15 psalms that

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the Jewish people. 
It's one of 15 psalms called the

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Psalms of ascent, like 
Ascending, that the Jewish 

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people would sing and rehearse 
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journeyed up towards Jerusalem. 
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in Palestine. 
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ascending to the city of God and
they are singing these songs 

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together. 
They're singing these songs 

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together. 
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of Tabernacles, the the 
Passover, and they did this also

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for Pentecost. 
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dysphoria would journey toward 
the city of God, reading and 

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singing these psalms, including 
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They were used to prepare their 
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city that house the presence of 
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And when you think about this 
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context of community, then it 
makes sense why Solomon would 

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use members of the community to 
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provides for them apart from 
their efforts. 

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In fact, the psalms of a sin can
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of what it means to journey with
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heavenly home. 
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wants to get into your hearts 
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children within the community of
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provision apart from your 
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In fact, children are the 
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us out of our joy and while we 
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And Solomon goes on the show how
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shows us how He meets every need
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Solomon shows us how children 
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Recenter, Recenter excuse me, 
Our building and our watching 

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and our work on God. 
Psalm 27. 

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Psalm 127 says that when we see 
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to the city of God, we are 
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particular. 
We're reminded of God's legacy 

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given to us, God's protection 
given to us, and God's provision

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given to us. 
So let's break this down real 

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quick. 
OK, three points. 

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Children. 
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Children show us we have a 
legacy. 

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Where anxious toil seeks to 
build something that will last 

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apart from God, children are the
reminder that God has freely 

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given us an inheritance that 
will outlast us even when we're 

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gone. 
First three says that children 

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are a heritage inheritance. 
You should say. 2 weeks ago I 

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was had a meeting with my 
business mentor and I was just 

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telling him like about my 
business and like how I was just

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like, I want to build this 
business because like I don't 

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have an inheritance and like 
this is the thing that's going 

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to like help extend my legacy 
when I'm gone. 

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And then I had to roll up until 
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the fact that bro, first of all,
you don't know what you're 

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talking about. 
Second of all, God is giving you

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a legacy that is beautifully and
fearfully and wonderfully made 

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in Zion, Ezra and Elam. 
The only thing and and think 

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about this, the only thing that 
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enjoyment. 
That's the only thing that I 

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contributed. 
Eugene Amen. 

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Relax, we got kids in here. 
Eugene Peterson says this. 

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What do you what do you do to 
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Very little. 
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procreation and reproduction 
requires our participation. 

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But listen, but hardly in the 
form that what of what we would 

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call our work. 
We did not make these marvelous 

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creatures that walk and talk and
grow among us. 

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We did what we participated in 
an act of love that was provided

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for us in the structure of God's
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Bars, huh? 
Please stop it. 

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But remember guys, remember, 
remember, before we go too far 

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ahead of ourselves. 
This is this Psalm is written in

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the context of community. 
So not only are my kids 

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MyHeritage, but all these kids. 
This is our inheritance. 

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I mean, look around. 
God is freely given a signpost 

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that scream that God is going to
build something that will 

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outlast us. 
Our work will not be in vain. 

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And to those in here who 
struggle with infertility, God 

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is giving you a community of 
children that you can look to 

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and stay hopeful if and when God
decides to provide that for you 

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as well. 
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This is God has given us these 
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we journey toward our our 
heavenly home. 

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But we must go on point number 
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Children show us that we have 
protection. 

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Our text says that although 
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children, excuse me, we are 
provided with protection. 

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Verse 4 like arrows in the hand 
of a warrior are the sons born 

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of 1's youth Happy, everybody 
say happy. 

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Happy is the man who has filled 
his quiver with them. 

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Now this is set to directly, 
excuse me, speak to the watchman

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who are looking to protect the 
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Solomon says, bro, God is giving
you freely giving you sons 

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that'll shoot your enemies in 
the face. 

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You have a bunch of face 
shooters in in your community 

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that needs to be a T-shirt. 
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these children are the arrows 
that you that you get to launch 

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into the world. 
These children, they will grow 

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up and after being discipled by 
you and raised up by you and 

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influenced by you, they will 
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God to keep you safe from the 
evil. 1 These young boys, they 

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will grow up and they will 
become qualified men to lead and

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shepherd your hearts. 
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become women who can lead you to
pursue justice and mercy into 

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the city. 
These children are the arrows in

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your hands to help you watch and
fight against the Kingdom of 

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darkness. 
And guess what? 

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It's God who has provided these 
for you, not your efforts. 

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God has given these to you. 
And if God can effortlessly 

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provide you with the protection 
that you need like this, then 

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you can rest assured that He 
will provide for you in the 

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future, whatever may come. 
Children show that we have 

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protection and point #3 And 
lastly, children show us that we

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have provision. 
You guys with me, rock with me, 

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OK? 
Children will be the legacy of 

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Frontier Church and children 
Kids you will be the ones that 

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God uses to protect the church, 
but you are also something else.

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You are the church's provision. 
Verse 5 says this they you will 

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never be put to shame adults 
with their enemies at the city's

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gate. 
Now, what Solomon is alluding to

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here is the fact that parents, 
that sons were used to 

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legitimize parents while they 
were on trial, right? 

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And and those trials that 
happened at the city's gates, a 

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place that was considered the 
most vulnerable place in the 

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city. 
It was the entrance to the city.

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And the more sons or kids that 
you had to more legitimize that 

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you were. 
So let me say this again, this 

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trial where these sons were 
happening, where it happened at 

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the most vulnerable place in the
city. 

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And so this speaks directly to 
the to the rising early and 

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going to bed late to have enough
food, which Solomon mentioned in

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verse 2. 
Hunger does what it puts you in 

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a vulnerable state. 
In fact, when you're hungry, you

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really can't I excuse me, let me
speak for myself because I'm of 

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y'all are probably stronger than
me. 

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When I'm hungry, I can't think 
about nothing else, nothing 

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else. 
And God through the wisdom of 

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Solomon reminds this community 
through the number numerous 

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amount of kids in the community 
that it is God who provides your

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provision for you in the most 
vulnerable circumstances. 

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Not you, not your efforts, not 
your giftings. 

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It is God who provides and 
frontier. 

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This is a very important point 
for you because you are in a 

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vulnerable state. 
I'm gonna call a spade a spade. 

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You are in it. 
We are in a vulnerable spot. 

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Budgets need to get balanced 
right. 

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My position needs to get filled.
Systems need to be further 

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established as we move from 
church plant to establish 

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church. 
We are in a very vulnerable spot

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and the enemy stands at the gate
waiting to devour. 

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But what the chatter in this 
room reminds me, and what it 

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should remind you, is that God 
will provide for you in your 

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moment of vulnerability. 
He will provide for you in your 

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moment of vulnerability. 
He will put the shame, the 

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schemes of the enemy. 
These little ones remind me that

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that though that vulnerability 
is real, there is an army rising

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up. 
There was an army rising up. 

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God will provide for you and 
your moment of vulnerability, 

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and it is your responsibility to
work with God and to not 

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anxiously try to provide for 
yourself. 

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Now, I've said a lot. 
How do I know all of this is 

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true? 
I know Solomon says this to this

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community way back when, but how
can, how can we be assured that 

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this is that this is going to be
true for you guys? 

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Yes, children were a legacy. 
They were a source of 

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protection, they provided 
provision. 

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But how can we be sure of this 
today? 

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Well, let me tell you, Frontier,
I can be sure of this. 

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I can be certain of this because
this is your reality right now. 

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This is your reality right now. 
Just like the Jewish people who 

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are on a journey, you 2 are on a
journey. 

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We all walk through the desert 
Rd. 

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Of life in search of a city 
where God can be found. 

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A place that promises life. 
A place that promises security. 

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A place that promises 
fulfillment and purpose. 

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A place that promises that what 
we build it will last. 

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Yet if you are like me, we often
times find ourselves coming up 

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short. 
And so we attempt to build our 

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own lives apart from God. 
But it never lasts. 

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And we try to stay alert and 
watchful, but there's just way 

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too much to to look for. 
And we we grind early and burn 

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00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,280
the midnight oil, hoping to 
satisfy the hunger and thirst of

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our souls. 
Trying any and everything to 

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simply feel some relief. 
Yet like the prophet Jeremiah 

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says in Jeremiah 2, we have dug 
our own cisterns, broken 

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cisterns that cannot hold water.
We are we are trying to dig our 

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own source to draw water, but 
our cups have holes in them. 

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And this is what the Bible calls
sin. 

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It's our propensity to grab at 
life and do it on our own. 

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But the Bible says that this is 
the life at all. 

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This is death. 
In fact, Genesis 3 says that we 

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were dead because we lack the 
power, or I would say the 

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ability or the the the 
willingness to find life at the 

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source. 
We went for it ourselves. 

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And while this is your reality 
or excuse me, was your reality. 

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What's also our reality is the 
beautiful good news of the 

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gospel that comes to you while 
you were sleep in your sin. 

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The apostle Paul says this in in
Ephesians 2. 

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He says, but God, who was rich 
in mercy because of his great 

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love for you made you alive in 
Christ, even though you were 

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what dead in your trespasses and
sin. 

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You have been saved by grace, 
meaning that the riches of God 

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came flooding to you while you 
were asleep in your sin. 

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Or as the psalmist says this 
morning, he gives what we need 

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even while we sleep. 
And what did he give us Himself?

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God gave us his Son, His Son. 
The beauty of Psalm 127 is the 

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reality that God gives us his 
very beloved while we were 

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asleep, so that all those who 
place their faith in Jesus 

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become the beloved of God. 
This is the good news of the 

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gospel. 
Jesus is the Son of God. 

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Jesus is the reward of God. 
Jesus is the richest of God. 

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And that reward and those riches
are freely given to you while 

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you were asleep, while you while
you could do nothing. 

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Psalm 127 is simply a shadow of 
the gospel that you live into 

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today. 
Jesus is the Son of God and the 

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arrow of God sent down from 
heaven to shoot the enemy of God

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in the face, so that all who 
would give up their anxious toil

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00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,639
and their anxious striving 
should experience in a real way 

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00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:34,159
the protection of God in Christ.
Satan has been defeated. 

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Amen. 
OK, I was like, that's good news

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00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,040
y'all. 
Your sin has been obliterated 

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and you now have free access to 
run to the throne of God to have

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your soul satisfied because the 
thing that kept you from God has

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00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:54,960
been removed. 
Your sin, which is the main 

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00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,440
stumbling block toward your 
relationship with God, has been 

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destroyed because the Son of God
took on sin on Himself. 

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Your tips at trying to provide 
for yourself? 

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They can cease because the Son 
of God has completed the work 

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00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,520
for you. 
And so now you can build with 

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Him the things that can never be
destroyed. 

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And now you can watch within the
city that will never get 

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invaded. 
And now you can live this life. 

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Oh my gosh, you can live this 
life in rest knowing that 

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although life will bring moments
of vulnerability, you will 

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00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:36,480
always have what you need. 
And the very cherry on top of 

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00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:46,680
all of this, the very cherry on 
top of all of this, is that we, 

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the promise of the city that 
we're we're going toward will be

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ours. 
Death is no more. 

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And what was and what was once 
the end of our story is now a 

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comma that the holy of the holy 
city that we're journeying 

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toward our whole life. 
So this is so good. 

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I just want to stay at her all 
day in Christ. 

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When you stand at the gate of 
that city, vulnerable, exposed, 

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the enemy accusing you of what 
you did, what you didn't do, the

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sin you committed, the pride in 
your heart, the lack of love you

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displayed to your neighbor, the 
anger that just won't go away. 

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00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:43,000
When you stand in that gate and 
you feel shame and guilt, when 

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you stand at the threshold of 
God, totally vulnerable, the God

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00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,880
who gives us his Son will plead 
your case and say not guilty. 

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00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:57,520
That's what Psalm 127 is saying 
when it says that they will 

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never be put to shame when they 
speak with their enemies at the 

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city gate. 
You would never be put to shame.

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00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:09,560
And when your sin tells you that
you can't enter the city of God 

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because of all the wrong you 
did, the Son of God will look 

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00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,400
you in the eyes and say, bro, 
you can enter because I am the 

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gate. 
I am actually the doorway to 

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00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,800
enter into the city. 
Your ticket has been purchased 

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by the precious blood of Christ.
So as I close, how can I be 

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confident that God will build 
His church? 

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How can I be confident that God 
is going to continue the good 

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00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:47,240
work of fighting for joy that 
that He has done here? 

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00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,200
I can be confident because the 
gospel is true. 

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00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,160
The gospel is true. 
It has redeemed and saved me. 

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00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,400
It is saved two of the three of 
my kids. 

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00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:06,400
I can be confident in that. 
And if at any time as you guys 

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are building in the future and 
looking to, to watch and provide

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00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,600
and you find yourself an anxious
toil, this is my one 

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00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:24,360
application. 
If you do any of those things I 

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00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:30,080
want, I want you to step back 
every 5th Sunday, every July, 

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maybe once or twice a month in 
roots and look at all the kids 

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00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,320
in here and be reminded that God
provides for you while you 

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00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,120
sleep. 
And if you keep that in the 

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00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,800
front front forefront of your 
work in your ministry here, if 

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00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,960
you actually build your 
grandchildren's church, Frontier

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00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:56,360
will be a joyful presence that 
will have longevity in the city.

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00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,080
God has already done the work 
and he just says simply, he 

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invites you to join him. 
That's all he wants. 

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00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:10,880
The work is accomplished. 
Now as I close, if you guys feel

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comfortable, you're going to get
a little weird up in here. 

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I want all the kids to come up 
to the altar if if your family 

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feels comfortable and I just 
want to pray a blessing over the

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00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:25,720
kids before I leave. 
Parents, adults, if as I as I do

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00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:30,520
this, just have your hearts be 
reminded and encouraged of God's

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00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,840
provision for you. 
So I'm going to do that. 

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00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,680
Joseph, you want to play a 
little, do it a little bit. 

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00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,720
I just want to pray over the 
kids and then I'm going to get 

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00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:43,960
out your way. 
Can you guys stand up here? 

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00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:45,760
He's standing around here. 
Right here. 

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00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,120
Right here. 
Hey, can you say nothing? 

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00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,720
OK, You say that's fine. 
Is that cool? 

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00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:05,900
OK. 
All right. 

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00:40:08,020 --> 00:40:10,300
Let me pray for you, kiddos. 
Y'all look good. 

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00:40:10,420 --> 00:40:11,740
Look at y'all. 
Y'all look good. 

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00:40:11,740 --> 00:40:15,860
It's quiet. 
May the Lord bless you and 

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00:40:15,860 --> 00:40:18,900
protect you. 
May the Lord make his face shine

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00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:21,580
on you and and be gracious to 
you. 

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00:40:21,580 --> 00:40:26,180
May the Lord look with favor on 
you and give you peace. 

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00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,920
For my young ladies, I pray that
God would make you shine like 

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the beautiful treasure that you 
are. 

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00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:39,200
May He give you courage like 
Esther, steadfastness like Ruth,

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00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:44,120
and faith like Mary, and conform
you into the image of Jesus. 

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00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:48,520
For my young dudes in here, I 
pray that God would make you men

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00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,280
who have hard hands and soft 
hearts. 

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00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:57,040
May God give you faith like 
Abraham, courage like Joshua, 

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00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,200
and steadfastness like Joseph, 
and conform you into the image 

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00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,400
of Jesus. 
Amen. 

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00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,320
God can be seated. 
I love you guys. 

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00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:15,720
Let me pray for us. 
Heavenly Father, I thank you for

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00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:18,760
this church. 
I thank you for the way in which

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00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:24,000
you have built me, that you have
watched over me, and you have 

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00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,680
provided for me through the 
hands of these people. 

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00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:59,280
I pray, Lord 
make a ruckus when they, when 

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00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:03,800
the kids make a ruckus to remind
us who have quote UN quote 

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00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:09,240
become too mature or too grown 
up, that the way to enter the 

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00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:13,280
Kingdom Lord is to be like a 
child, make a child like Lord 

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Jesus. 
I pray this in Jesus name, Amen,