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All right, Well, it's good to be
in God's house tonight. 

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I just crazy to think. 
I remember when this church 

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started and I remember it 
started out of a hotel lobby and

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just to see what the Lord has 
done with it, even tonight is 

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amazing. 
Well, turn your Bibles, if you 

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will, to book of John chapter 8.
John chapter 8. 

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It's always a blessing to get to
visit this church. 

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I was thinking I was, I was 
driving up here. 

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I was like, man, I'm so excited 
to be in church tonight to hear 

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all the good singing. 
And I was so excited. 

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Then I remembered he was 
preaching. 

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So I was like man, and I was 
disappointed. 

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But all right, we'll turn your 
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we'll reverse start off with 
verse one. 

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Jesus went into the Mount of 
Olives, and early in the morning

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he came beginning to the temple,
and all the people came unto 

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him, and he sat down and taught 
them, and the scribes and fears 

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she's brought unto him a woman 
taken in adultery. 

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And when they had sat her in the
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Master, this woman was taken in 
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Now Moses and the law commanded 
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But what says thou This they 
said, attempting him, that they 

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might have, that they might have
to accuse him. 

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But Jesus stooped down, and with
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as though he heard them not. 
So when they had continued 

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asking him, he lifted up himself
and said unto them, He lives 

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without sin among you. 
Let him cast the first stone at 

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her. 
And again he stooped down and 

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wrote on the ground, and they 
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their own conscience, went out 
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eldest, even to the last. 
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the woman standing in the midst,
when Jesus had lifted up himself

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and saw none but the woman. 
He said unto her, Woman, where 

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are those thine accusers? 
Hath no man condemned thee? 

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She said. 
No man, Lord? 

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And Jesus said unto her, Neither
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Go and say no more. 
John Bunyan is credited with 

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this quote. 
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temptations can attain a true 
understanding of the Holy 

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Scriptures. 
Tonight I'm going to preach on 

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the topic that the Lord has laid
on my heart and that has a topic

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of trials. 
According to Merriamwebster's 

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dictionary, the word trial is 
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patience, stamina through 
subjection to suffering or 

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temptation. 
In the Bible, we have just over 

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70 different instances of people
going through trials in their 

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life. 
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somebody going through trials 
without thinking of Job and all 

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that he endured. 
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right after that is Joseph and 
all that he endured, even from 

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his own family. 
Tonight I'm going to just take a

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few minutes and go over 
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we face them and how to overcome
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Let's pray. 
Dear and Father, Lord, I just 

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thank you for this place, Lord, 
and just what a blessing this 

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church is. 
Lord, I've heard that you would 

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just be with me now, Lord, help 
me to deliver this clearly, 

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Lord, in a way that it can be 
understood. 

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Lord, and just fill me with your
spirit. 

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Lord, I've heard that you we 
would just help us to get 

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something from the message 
tonight. 

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And chase. 
Name, I pray. 

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Amen. 
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to start out with tonight is 
trials that are results of our 

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own actions. 
We read those verses in chapter 

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8 of John and we'll start back 
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We see Jesus went into the 
mountain of olives, and early in

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the morning he came again into 
the temple, and all the people 

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came unto him, and he sat down 
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And the scribes and Pharisees 
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into adultery. 
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midst, they sat in him. 
Master, this woman was taking an

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adultery in the middle of the In
the very act we see here the 

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Pharisees take this woman to 
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Now Moses in the law commanded 
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But what sayest thou? 
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Jesus what they should do with 
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you see the Pharisees do this 
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They will bring, they will go to
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they'll confront him with 
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is what the Bible says, but what
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it? 
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to do is trick Jesus or find 
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And we see here the rest of 
verse six, that they might 

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accuse him, but Jesus stooped 
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on the ground as though he heard
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I'm glad that we serve a God 
tonight that can't be tricked in

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ascending. 
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man have tried to trick Jesus in
ascending Pontus Pilot tried to 

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find sin in Jesus, but he 
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We see the devil even for three 
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three days straight and all 
throughout the rest of Jesus 

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ministry as well. 
But we see the devil couldn't 

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trick Jesus in ascending. 
And here we see the Pharisees 

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tried to trick Jesus in 
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that as well. 
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When they continued asking him, 
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unto them, He this without sin 
among you, let him cast the 

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first stone at her. 
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Pharisees of their sin, of their
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verse #8 says, And again he 
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ground. 
We're not told what Jesus wrote 

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on the ground, but either way we
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At this point the woman is 
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She was about to be stoned. 
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Jesus. 
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the Pharisees, then he writes in
the sand, and then he addresses 

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the Pharisees again. 
All the while this woman is left

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here and she has no clue what 
these next few moments could 

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hold for her. 
She has no clue if she's going 

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to be stoned or released. 
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like in our own Christian lives,
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worst day, I'm glad that we can 
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We Jesus had lifted up himself 
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Those next 4 words are extremely
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This is the first time in this 
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spoken to this woman face to 
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She was in the middle of a trial
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the entire time. 
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he didn't speak to her in front 
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Just say, Oh well it's okay, you
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We didn't see that happen. 
He didn't even speak to her at 

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all. 
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alone. 
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We have to get along with God in
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speak. 
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say this God is so powerful, yet
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How does he choose to speak when
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He wasn't in the wind, he wasn't
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earthquake. 
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When we get along with God, 
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voice can be heard the loudest. 
Thankfully for this woman we see

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in the story it worked out well 
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through. 
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sinning and caught in this in 
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gotten into this trial. 
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invite trials into our life. 
Go ahead and turn your bibles if

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you will to Genesis chapter 37 
as we move into our second point

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tonight, Genesis chapter 37. 
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says a Jacob dwell in the land 
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stranger in the land of Canaan. 
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Jacob. 
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feeding the flock with his 
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the sons of Bill Nall in the 
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wives. 
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father their evil report in the 
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We see this is extremely 
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Israel loved Joseph more than 
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a son of his old age, and he 
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And when his brother saw that 
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all his brethren, they hated 
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They could not speak peaceably 
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And Joseph dreamed a dream, and 
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they hated him yet the more. 
Go ahead and jump down with me 

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to verse #10. 
And he told it to his father and

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to his brother. 
And his father rebuked him, and 

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said unto him, What is this 
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Shall I and thy mother and thy 
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ourselves to thee to the earth? 
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We see Joseph was just living 
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the Lord. 
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see his brothers were envious 
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happening in Joseph's life. 
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verse 18 says. 
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even before he came near unto 
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to slay him. 
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Behold, this dreamer cometh Come
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slay him, and cast him into some
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And we will see, and we will 
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devoured him, and we shall see 
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And Ruben heard it, and he 
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hands, and said, Let us not kill
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And Ruben said under them shed 
no blood, but cast him into this

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pit that is in the wilderness. 
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he might rid him out of their 
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father again. 
And it came to pass, when Joseph

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was come unto his brethren, that
they stripped Joseph of his 

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coat, his coat of many colors 
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And they took him and cast him 
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And the pit was empty. 
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Joseph is just living his life 
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If we see in just a few verses, 
his world has completely 

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changed. 
His own brothers threw him into 

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a pit. 
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this terrible time, Joseph still
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Genesis chapter 50 verse 20 
says, But As for you you thought

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evil unto me, but God made it 
unto good to bring it to pass as

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it is this day to save much 
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The Bible says that Joseph 
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He made a decision that it 
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brothers for what they had done 
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He chose to trust God through 
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And the Bible says in Genesis 
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have to turn there. 
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says in the name of the second 
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caused me to be fruitful in the 
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God bless Joseph through this 
trial. 

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Just like in Joseph's life, 
sometimes God, since trials our 

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way figure all him closer to 
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Back in 2020 at the time of 
COVID, my family went through a 

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really big trial, as I'm sure a 
lot of other people have through

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COVID. 
It was just a tough time. 

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We were in the middle of 
pandemic, churches shut down and

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it was just a really dull time. 
Well, my grandpa, he's actually 

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here tonight, but he, he got the
virus back in 2020 and from the 

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virus he developed pneumonia 
induced COVID-19 basically. 

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So he got COVID within a few 
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He had to go into the hospital 
with pneumonia and because of 

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the COVID restrictions, we 
couldn't go to the hospital to 

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see him at all. 
And so we basically took him to 

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the hospital. 
He was there and we basically 

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could not communicate with him 
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His he had trouble breathing and
he had lots of shortness of 

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breath, so we couldn't really 
talk to him on the phone at all.

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And like I said, there was 
restrictions so we couldn't get 

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in to see him. 
There was a really trying time 

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in our life and all we could do.
There was nothing we could do 

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except for get on our knees and 
pray for God to work a miracle 

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in his life and through phone 
calls to nurses and just trying 

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to get informations from 
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It was like a roller coaster. 
One day he had a good day and it

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was like he has seen slight size
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And then the next day they were 
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going to have to go on a 
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look good and we didn't know 
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The next few days could hold and
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prayer meeting and they had, 
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beginning of the month. 
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our church that I looked up to 
just going and pouring their 

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hearts out and praying for my 
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And that was just really amazing
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I just remember our whole church
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And after about a month of being
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saying that his oxygen level was
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breathing enough on his own that
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But the thing was he was going 
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But they said he was going to 
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in house care and he was going 
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his life. 
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completely off of the oxygen. 
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and he's here tonight. 
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And it's just amazing to see how
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And that's the perfect example 
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to draw us closer to him. 
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turning your bibles to Isaiah, 
chapter 38, Isaiah, chapter 38. 

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My last point tonight is 
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our life to make his glory 
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Isaiah chapter 38, verse one 
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sick unto death? 
And Isaiah the prophet, the son 

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of Amos came unto him and said 
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set thy house in order, for thou
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Then Hezekiah turned his face 
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the Lord and said, Remember now,
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have walked before the in truth 
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have done that which is good in 
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And Hezekiah Wepsore, here we 
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Hezekiah is faced with a huge 
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In verse two and three we see 
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wall and the Bible says he weps 
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God. 
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his life is going to end 
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knees and it says he weps sore 
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If you want to see God work in 
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your face before him. 
When was the last time that you 

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were moved to tears about 
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sword and got on your face 
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In verse five we see that God 
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God, God still answers prayer. 
We serve a God today that still 

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answers prayer, but we have to 
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the effort to meet him and to 
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As a student at the Crown 
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You could say it's almost like a
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I would like to share you all, 
share the story with you all 

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really quick if I can find it. 
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On June 4th, 2004, my life was 
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I was only nine years old and 
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It was about 10:30 PM on a 
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call. 
I was lying next to my parents 

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bed when the phone rang and my 
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I remember hearing her call out 
to my dad, saying that the 

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president of Crown College 
wanted to speak with him. 

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I realized that was the college 
where my brother had just 

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graduated from the month before 
and he and his wife were leading

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a traveling singing group for 
Crown College that summer. 

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The men sang, my sisterinlaw, 
played piano, and my brother 

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preached. 
As soon as my dad got off the 

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phone, people were knocking on 
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I was so confused and scared. 
I followed my dad to the bedroom

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and I could tell that he was 
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Dad, what's wrong? 
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Aaron was in a car accident. 
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Is he okay? 
All my dad could say before he 

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shut his bathroom door was no 
panicking. 

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I ran to each person in the room
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Everybody looks scared to tell 
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word. 
Finally my dad came out and put 

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his arms around me. 
He pulled me closer to whispered

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Autumn Erin is dead. 
I hugged my dad tight and stared

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into our dark kitchen. 
I knew this had to just be a 

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dream. 
People started knocking on our 

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door and coming into our home 
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started to wonder if it was all 
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I woke up the next morning and 
realized this hadn't been a 

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dream. 
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my home, to my home, I 
remembered the dream that I did 

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have that night. 
It was of my sisterinlaw, Darcy.

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I could see her clear as day in 
my dream and she was shining and

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surrounded by clouds. 
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voice, It's going to be Okay. 
It was so real and her smile was

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so peaceful. 
That's when I knew it had really

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happened. 
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night and the next day we began 
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My brother Aaron, Sisterinlaw, 
Darcy and three other young men,

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Brad, David and Jonathan, were 
traveling in Florida on their 

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way to a church to sing and 
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While they were all up towards 
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their songs, a tractor trailer 
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them head on, killing all five 
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Instantly the truck engine flew 
into the van causing an 

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explosion. 
Everything was burned and very 

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little remained of the van. 
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unharmed and untouched by the 
flames and was found lying on 

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the side of the road near the 
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It was a CD wrapped in plastic, 
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The name of that CD was God 
Makes No Mistakes. 

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I don't know why these Bible 
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the very beginning of the Main 
Street and so young in life, but

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I know this. 
God makes no mistakes. 

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I don't know why we lost loved 
ones and our church is shut down

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back in COVID, but I know God 
makes no mistakes. 

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I don't know why a shooter broke
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couple months ago and shot 6 
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children. 
But I know this. 

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God makes no mistakes. 
I don't know what problems 

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you're going through tonight or 
what trials you might be in 

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right now. 
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mistakes in life. 
It is a guarantee that if you're

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not going through a trial right 
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So get close to God and get in 
His word and spend time in 

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prayer so when it comes, you're 
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power and not your own. 
And if you're here and you're 

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going through a trial right now,
let God use it to draw you 

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closer to Him. 
As I was preparing this message,

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the Lord gave me the words to 
write this little poem that I'll

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read to you now closing as I 
stood there and thought, Lord, 

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how could this be, these 
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Why must it be me? 
While others do prosper And all 

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seems so right? 
Why must I? 

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Why must I struggle all day and 
all night? 

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I'm way down with heartache and 
feeling defeat. 

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And all of these trials seem to 
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I cried to my Savior. 
He said this to me. 

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Bring it all here. 
Said it all. 

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My feet. 
Trials are going to come into 

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your life. 
Be prepared to face them through

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God's power, not your own. 
Let's pray. 

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Dear Lord, I just thank you for 
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Lord, I pray that you would just
be with each person in this 

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room. 
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trials are going to come in our 
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Lord, I pray that we would just 
get close to you so that when 

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they come, Lord, we have, we're 
able to deal with it through 

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your power, not our own. 
Dear Lord, just bless all this 

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stuff here at night there, 
Lauren, just give us a good week

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as we go out and she's new, 
upright And then.