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All right, go ahead and turn to 
John Chapter 11. 

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The title of this message is how
to find hope when God delays. 

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How to find hope when God 
delays. 

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All right, so we're going to 
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reading. 
There's five different ways that

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we do that. 
We'll start off by reading the 

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1st 6 verses. 
It says this now a certain man 

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was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, 
the village of Mary and her 

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sister Martha. 
And it was Mary who anointed the

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Lord with ointment and wiped his
feet with her hair, whose 

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brother Lazarus was sick. 
And so we'll pick that up in 

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chapter 12 next week, but says 
this in verse 3. 

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So the sisters sent a word to 
him, saying, Lord, behold, he 

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who you love is sick. 
When Jesus heard this, he said, 

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this sickness is not going to 
end in death, but for the glory 

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of God, so that the Son of God 
may be glorified by it. 

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Now Jesus loved Martha and her 
sister and Lazarus. 

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So when he heard that he was 
sick, he stayed two days longer 

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in the place where he was. 
That's hard for some of you. 

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I, I know you've read that the 
first time you're like, wait, 

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wait a second. 
How could Jesus love and then 

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also delay at the same time? 
And we'll pick that up and we'll

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give you some, some reasons why.
But the first one, how to find 

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hope when God delays? 
The first one is this to know 

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the first one is to know why God
delays in crisis. 

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He's going to show us why that 
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And it's it's tucked right in 
your Bibles. 

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I'm not coming up with it. 
It's right there before you, but

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it's how many know that just 
because we read something that's

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truthful in Scripture, it 
doesn't mean it's it's easy to 

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live out right. 
It's not easy to live that out 

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that truth, but Jesus 
nonetheless, he gives us that 

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truth and it says this there's a
there's a few things that I want

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to share with you. 
Why knowing why God delays in 

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crisis. 
The first one is no matter what 

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we're to bring our concerns to 
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I love this in this passage, you
know, it's it says this that the

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the sisters sent word to him. 
Do you know what it means to to 

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send a word to the Lord? 
It's just means prayer that 

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first Peter 57 cast your anxiety
on him because he cares for you.

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And they just the other day, one
of my little guys, he came 

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running in my bedroom and he 
said, hey, he's like, hey, do 

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you got a prayer on peace? 
Do you got a, you got a, I'm 

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sorry, do you got a scripture on
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I said, yeah, I could come up 
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Why don't you try this? 
Why don't you try Philippians 

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4-6 and seven? 
And if you guys listen to seeds 

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worship and you know, a lot of 
your parents will put that on 

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for your kids, but it's so 
helpful to have your kids sing 

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the scripture because once they 
start singing the scripture, I 

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mean, it sticks. 
And so I, I, we turn to 

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Philippians 4-6 and seven and 
just says, don't be anxious 

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right about anything. 
But what pray right in prayer 

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and petition Thanksgiving, let 
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And then it says what? 
The peace of God will come in 

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and it will be beyond anything 
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Right. 
And so I, you know it just as 

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I'm, I'm sharing that with, Oh 
yeah, I remember the song. 

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And so he's like, you know, 
singing it as he's leaving, but 

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that stuff, it sticks. 
And he asked me, he's like, how 

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do I know? 
Like how do I just quickly 

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forget? 
I quickly forget after I read, I

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quickly forget that passage. 
And I said, it's like all of us,

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he's like, all of us forget the 
scriptures, right at times, But 

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you but the Holy Spirit's going 
to bring that up in the time 

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that is needed. 
And so the sisters had an issue.

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Their brother had just passed or
is dying and and they sent word 

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to Jesus. 
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It says here that Jesus heard 
this, but when Jesus heard this,

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he says this, the sickness is 
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for the glory of God so that the
Son of God might be glorified by

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there's a lot of glory, glory, 
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And, and, and sometimes when, 
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crisis moment, we're not 
thinking of the glory of God in 

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the moment. 
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we're thinking. 
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problem. 
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you're asking God to do. 
And that's what the sisters came

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to do. 
They said, look, we believe that

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Jesus is able to do this and 
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And I love the fact that Jesus 
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There's a human aspect here. 
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he's like I, I, they, they 
appeal to not that Lazarus love 

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Jesus. 
A lot of times we can, we can 

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appeal to that. 
Oh Lord, you know, my wife or my

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kids or oh, how much, how much 
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love you. 
But what they did is they appeal

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to what Jesus is love for them. 
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Because our love is what? 
It's fickle, it's up and down, 

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it's circumstantial, right? 
And so they did the right thing 

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and said this is a person that 
you love and we want you to help

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him. 
Don't forget that. 

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Just the simple request to God, 
God, you love these people. 

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I love what Moses says. 
You know, when, when, when they 

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were in the in the desert, they 
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They were making a mess. 
They just got delivered. 

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And it's like, man, the people 
whom you delivered, it's over 

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and over and over again in the 
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We're not boasting in our love 
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We're boasting in his love for 
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Amen. 
Now, that's not a manipulative 

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tool. 
It's not like, oh, you love 

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them, you love them. 
You got to do something about 

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this. 
It's a genuine like, man, we've 

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Jesus, he's human. 
Remember, He's not a machine. 

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He's not just this God who's 
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He actually had friends. 
He had it as a human, right? 

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He came as God and human. 
He put on flesh, God put on 

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flesh. 
And so he, there was a place and

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and it's, it's without saying 
it, but it sounded like they 

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were a wealthy family. 
They had a place for Jesus to 

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stay while he was coming to 
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Very, very impersonal. 
I mean, you can relate to this, 

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right? 
He had some friends and he's 

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like, man, when I'm coming 
through in Jerusalem, I'd love 

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to stay with you guys. 
And so you could just kind of 

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picture it in your mind. 
I mean, you know, they're 

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sitting there, they're having, 
they're having whatever meal, 

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they're, they're playing cards, 
they're having a good time, 

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they're talking. 
And now these, these people that

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he spent a lot of time with, one
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is now sick and dying. 
And so there's a human element. 

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There's someone who understands.
There's someone who hears it 

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says that when Jesus heard this,
he hears our cry, he hears our 

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prayer. 
You may not feel that in the 

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moment, but he does hear. 
And I think it's important for 

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you to understand that early on 
that when you when you cry out 

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to God, he hears you. 
He actually hears you. 

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You may not hit like it's funny 
because you're, you're sometimes

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when you're praying, you're 
like, did I get the right, Did I

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get the reception right? 
I mean, is there like, is there 

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a loss of reception? 
Am I, is there a loss of signal 

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because I'm just throwing stuff 
up there, but I'm not really 

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getting anything back. 
Have you ever felt like that 

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feel like that all the time? 
I mean, if you really walk with 

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God, you're going to feel that 
often, but just know that he 

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does care for you. 
It says let your request be 

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known to God. 
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Because he cares for you. 
You cast on like when you say 

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you have anxiety, right? 
The sisters had some anxiety. 

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We know one of them had probably
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the other, right. 
If you if you read the Bible, 

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right, OK, so Martha, right. 
But you're you're just casting, 

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you're literally like throwing 
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Your anxiety is like, do that. 
You're like, well, I don't want 

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to do that. 
That's not nice. 

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No, no, no, He can handle all 
your anxieties, whatever they 

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might be. 
Just cast your anxieties on them

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because it says he can care for 
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It's like it actually in the, in
the, in the Greek, if you see 

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it, it's like throwing a saddle 
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It's putting this burden on the 
horse, right? 

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This weight on the he can handle
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The horse is strong enough, God 
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whatever request you give him. 
Don't ever hold anything back in

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prayer. 
Don't ever hold anything back. 

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He can handle that. 
The other day, like I was 

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calling the airlines and Alfie 
ever, ever had this experience 

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before? 
But it was a foreign airline. 

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And the first thing that I said,
it says hello, we use AI and I'm

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like, this is so weird. 
I feel like I'm like in 21 O3, 

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you know, like the year. 
It's like, OK, what are you 

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going to do with this? 
It says, please accept the, the 

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terms and agreement and what 
the, the information that we 

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take. 
I'm like, Oh my goodness, this 

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is just so weird, you know, but 
as I finally get there, like, 

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oh, eventually we'll get to one 
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I was like, yes, I would love to
get to 1 of your human 

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associates. 
You know, do you ever have that 

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like that just frustrating, you 
know, because you're talking to 

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this robot, you know, that 
thinks they know everything and,

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and then finally get to the 
human being and how many, you 

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know that sometimes when you're 
talking to human being, you feel

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like you're still talking to a 
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Do you ever feel like that? 
Like, so I'm talking to this 

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airline and I, you know, some of
you guys know, I'm, I'm, we're 

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trying to head to Israel, but 
that's a little difficult as if 

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you're paying attention to the 
news, you're not living under a 

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rock right now. 
So I, I call it, I'm trying to, 

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I'm trying to get the tickets 
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And they said, Sir, we can't do 
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We can't change it to another 
city unless your city is 150 

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miles away from the destination.
So I just go into Google and I 

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check 150 miles from Tel Aviv, 
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That's not going to happen 
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Ocean. 
I don't think you land in the 

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ocean. 
Jordan's having some issues. 

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S there's no airport. 
Sir, what would you like me to 

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do? 
This is your policy. 150 miles. 

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You know, it's just like, well, 
I don't know, That's the only 

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part. 
You if you'd love to, we'd love 

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to change it right now if you, 
if you'd like to. 

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No, no charge. 
I'm like, Sir, there are 

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missiles flying within like 1000
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It's like you're they're just no
understanding. 

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You're like, I want to just talk
to the AI person. 

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Can I just get the AI person on 
the phone? 

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Would you ever feel like that? 
It's not like that with God. 

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God listens. 
He actually understands. 

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He's like, I have this friend. 
I know Lazarus personally. 

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Personally, I've sat with him, 
I've eaten meals with him, I've 

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stayed at his house. 
We're friends. 

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I get it. 
I know him. 

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Death is challenging. 
Have you ever lost anybody? 

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Maybe just even recently? 
I just went to a funeral on 

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Friday with a good friend and we
lost and the boys were 

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devastated. 
Their sons, we're devastated. 

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Just they sat in the front row. 
They're just weeping the whole 

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time as people are sharing 
stories about their mom. 

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It's very hard. 
In fact, Nicole is just still 

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texting. 
She was very instrumental in the

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early days of our church plant. 
She was she's an incredible 

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friend and one person said it 
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We don't we, it's not one of 
those funerals were like what we

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hope they're in heaven. 
One of them, One person said, we

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know she is in heaven. 
And so it wasn't this sad deal. 

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It was a celebration, but it was
still sad because people lost 

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their mom, people lost their 
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Death. 
Death brings a crisis. 

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It's challenging. 
And he says this, that it will 

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not end in death. 
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this story, it might look like, 
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sickness will not end in death, 
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you're either the sisters or 
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When someone says, hey, when 
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God is delaying, he's not 
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away in the way that you want 
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right just to hear, Oh, this 
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will be for the glory of God. 
That's not helpful, right? 

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So what is the glory of God? 
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What is God's glory? 
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There's, there's two ways that 
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There's the delay of love. 
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delay of it's not the delay of 
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delay of his love. 
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It, it, it looks like this like 
it when God's not answering your

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prayer right away, it looks like
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Maybe he won, doesn't listen, he
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are like, no, no, no, I know 
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He he listens, he hears, but 
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a lack of willingness, there's 
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indifference. 
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this in a second here at John 
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We're we're magnifying, we're 
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his, on his character of who God
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This is the glory, the glory 
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The glory which you have given 
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they may be one, just as we are 
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and they may be perfected in 
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know that you sent me and love 
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She's unpacking what His glory 
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Father, I desire that they also,
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where I am. 
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friendship, intimacy, so that 
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foundation of the world. 
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Father, although the world has 
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that this is key, so that the 
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There's a drama in this story. 
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to the climax of the story soon,
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So when you read your Bibles, 
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to read it as it. 
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oh, we already know how it ends.
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quiet time, you're kind of like 
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with what has already been 
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These sisters are, are desperate
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They're sending a messenger, 
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in your car and drive over there
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back with you. 
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already been one day and most 
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by the time they get to him. 
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Now Jesus delays two more days. 
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somebody said, oh, Jesus is 
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there and had skepticism saying,
you know, this God of yours is 

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indifferent, doesn't really 
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They might have a point because 
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with by going from the Jordan 
where Jesus is, and you get that

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from John 1040, he went away 
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This is after he's revealed 
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Now there's two more days which 
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a day for him to get there. 
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There's no hope for Lazarus, a 
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But he says this sickness is not
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the glory of God. 
So these messages probably went 

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back with that message, but I 
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It says now, and this is anytime
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said this before, but in verse 
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says explicitly loves people, 
you underline that most of the 

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church today does not understand
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Just imagine if we really 
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would happen? 
There's no need to turn to other

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sin, right? 
There's no need to turn to other

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worldly things, other idols, 
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he fills us completely. 
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her sister Lazarus. 
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there because he again, he knows
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refers to himself as the 
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So instead of rushing back, he 
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reveal the glory of God. 
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Why he delays is to reveal his 
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That's the first thing I I 
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or looked up this quote the 
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so good. 
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sign that he purposes to bless 
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a way so different from what we 
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So just think with me right now.
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an amazing time and no one's in 
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Praise God, then I'll just sit 
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find myself in these situations 
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I don't know about you. 
If you're in tune with your 

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life, you find yourself in that 
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You're crying out to God and you
have an expectation, You have a 

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desire in which God's going to 
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Starts with AD disappointment. 
Anybody disappointed this 

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morning and God saying like 
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going to be good. 
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He's like giddy about how he's 
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He's delaying and he's giddy 
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He's excited about it not 
because of what that not because

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it's going to cause you pain or 
disappointment because of how 

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it's going to end, where it's 
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That's what he's excited about 
and I love this is the second or

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his delay doesn't negate his 
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It actually approves. 
It proves it. 

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But the second one is a delays 
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His goal guys is to conform us 
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That is his main goal. 
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at Paul's letters like in 
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purpose, he works, Paul's 
working really hard to, to teach

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the Scripture so that they would
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into that, that all these 
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all these things, this labor 
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made into the likeness of Jesus.
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419 that there's like, it's like
birth pains like that they would

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be made into the likeness of 
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That is his goal. 
That's not our goal a lot of 

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times. 
That's why we get that's why 

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there's so that gap between his 
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likeness of Jesus, which would 
be to your joy, right and what 

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your expectations are that gap. 
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disappointment widens, right, 
The disillusionment comes, 

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disillusionment comes in then 
the despair or depression or 

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whatever else. 
You got to close that gap and 

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believe that that God delays not
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also strengthen our faith. 
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strengthened, what happens? 
Our joy is increased every time.

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Just think of how like the the 
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when God finally came through, 
did your joy increase or 

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decrease? 
It increased. 

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So did your faith your strength.
Man, God is real. 

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I just literally talked to one 
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believing for a child for a long
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having a hard time, you know, 
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And then it just literally they,
they woke up and their, their 

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baby was born just a week ago 
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diapers and they're, they're 
overwhelmed with joy and they're

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like, this is a child that makes
this is a symbol and a sign that

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God is real. 
But it wasn't fun months and 

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months ago. 
There's no there was 

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disappointment and despair. 
There was hardship and wondering

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and asking God the very question
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Why, Why, why, why? 
Why? 

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Have you ever asked God that? 
You know who else asked that? 

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The Psalmist. 
It's OK to ask that. 

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It's not OK to stay there, 
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That will destroy us over time. 
That's what the enemy wants us 

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to do, is to stay in. 
Why? 

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But maybe the question is how? 
How God, how will you turn this 

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in to my good? 
How will you turn this in? 

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How will I see your glory in 
this? 

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Moses said, show me your glory. 
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all right, just like a flip it 
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No, no, it cost him something to
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difficult spot. 
Ultimately, he strengthens our 

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faith because he wants us to 
know that it was him, right? 

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Isn't that the best moments of 
your walk with God? 

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I'm just like, when you go 
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the end you're like, man, I know
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he have to get you to know that 
that was God? 

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Does anybody know you just read 
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No, you go through a trial 
that's painful because then 

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ultimately you're like, man, 
that has to be God. 

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That that child being born. 
That's that's the war. 

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We tried doing it in our own 
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It's God. 
The second thing is here, verses

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7 through 16. 
Second thing you need to do is 

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know that Jesus desires to calm 
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said the disciples let us go to 
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So now they're making their trek
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The disciples said to him, 
Rabbi, the Jews, we're just now 

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seeking to stone you, and you're
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And Jesus answered, are there 
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If anyone walks in the day, he 
does not stumble because he sees

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the light of the world. 
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night, he stumbles because the 
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This he said. 
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them, our friend Lazarus has 
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I may awaken him out of his 
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The disciples then said to him, 
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then he'll recover. 
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death, but they thought he was 
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This is like the density of the 
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So Jesus then said to them 
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am glad for your sakes that I 
was not there so that you may 

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believe. 
But let us go to him. 

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Therefore Thomas, who is called 
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disciples, let us also go so 
that we may die with him. 

442
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,600
Sounds like an Eeyore. 
It sounds like a kind of an 

443
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,600
Eeyore character. 
But I'll, I'll show you in a 

444
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,800
second hear what it's actually 
pretty cool what he what he said

445
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,960
here. 
But after two days, the they 

446
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,880
were just shocked that Jesus 
wanted to go back because I 

447
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,880
think they were thinking, OK, 
Lazarus is dead. 

448
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,280
We don't need another guy dead. 
Because if you remember just 

449
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,080
previously there, he's starting 
to get towards the end of his 

450
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,160
life and people want to kill 
Jesus. 

451
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,200
So Jesus is saying this, Hey, 
let's go back. 

452
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,520
It doesn't matter. 
I'm not, I'm not afraid. 

453
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,080
I'm not, I, I don't, I, I don't 
live for self preservation. 

454
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,800
There are, he says, aren't there
12 hours in a day? 

455
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,960
Basically the Jews broke their 
days up into two 24 hour 

456
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,720
periods. 
There were 12 hours a day, 12 

457
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,360
hours a night, just to, you 
know, I, I know there might be a

458
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:13,400
little bit more daylight hours, 
but just go with that. 

459
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,520
So he's saying this, he's saying
just as you can't add one more 

460
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:22,320
daylight hour or subtract 1 more
daylight hour, you can't add one

461
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,360
more minute to your life, nor 
can you subtract 1 more minute 

462
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,560
to your life. 
Do you guys know you're not 

463
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,240
going to live one more day than 
God ordained? 

464
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,480
Do you know what Jesus was 
ultimately saying here, which is

465
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,480
so opposite of everybody in the 
room? 

466
00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:42,520
We give ourselves to what self 
preservation? 

467
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,400
If we thought we were going to 
go into a dangerous situation, 

468
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:52,120
we would not. 
Jesus was saying, hey, I God 

469
00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:54,800
knows the very number of hairs 
on my head. 

470
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:59,080
He knows the day I'm going to 
die and so I'm going, is it 

471
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,440
still light? 
The 12 hours of night symbolize 

472
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,320
death. 
The 12 hours of days symbolize 

473
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,200
life. 
Or he's like, I'm going to go as

474
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,760
it's light. 
I'm going to live because I know

475
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,160
death is coming. 
He's a, he says over and over in

476
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,640
your Bibles, if you look, if 
you're paying attention to the 

477
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,520
Scriptures, he says my hours not
come, my hours not come, my 

478
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,680
hours not come. 
What is he saying? 

479
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,240
My hour of death has not come. 
So therefore I'm going to go. 

480
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,600
God still has more, right? 
And so if you're living right 

481
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,000
now, if you have a pulse, like 
God has more for you and you 

482
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000
can't you, no matter I, I've 
literally said this like 

483
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,720
probably in the last several 
weeks even, and, and no one was 

484
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,960
in like a, a, a dangerous 
situation per SE. 

485
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:39,480
But you know, all of us live 
with fears, like all of us live 

486
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,400
with fears. 
Like, like, for example, like if

487
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,000
it, if you know, if a, if you 
have a of a baby and it's maybe 

488
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,640
been hard to have a baby and 
then all of a sudden you have 

489
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,440
one, you're like, I'm going to 
protect that, you know, and 

490
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,800
it's, and I understand you 
protect it with everything that 

491
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,680
you possibly have. 
And that's good. 

492
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,320
God wants you to protect your 
baby or things that are precious

493
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,920
to you. 
But you have to understand God 

494
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,760
gave that child life and gave 
you life. 

495
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:07,160
And that child is not going to 
live one more day or one less 

496
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,120
day than what God ordained. 
So why give in to self 

497
00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:15,120
preservation? 
He's asking us to believe and to

498
00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:19,920
trust him, right? 
He's saying, you know, I, I saw 

499
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,920
this the other day, you know, it
is safer to be with Jesus in 

500
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,960
danger than than to be safe in 
the world. 

501
00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:37,160
That's hard if, but it's true. 
Does anyone live like that? 

502
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,480
Does anyone, would anyone take 
that quote as their own? 

503
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,160
Does anyone actually believe 
that it is safer to be with 

504
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:51,240
Jesus in danger than to live in 
the safety in the world? 

505
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:57,640
Right, And I love this because, 
you know, everybody knows 

506
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,960
doubting Thomas and This is why 
it was kind of funny towards the

507
00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,680
end, right? 
Doubting Thomas, doubting 

508
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,880
Thomas. 
I mean, literally my kid just 

509
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,400
asked me that the other day. 
He was talking about Thomas. 

510
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,720
He's like, he's like, what does 
it mean that it's we're more 

511
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,400
blessed than Thomas was? 
I mean, he got to see the, the, 

512
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,880
you know, the wounds in, in his,
in his feet and his side and 

513
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,280
his, and his and his wrist. 
I mean that's, it's such a 

514
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,640
blessing. 
It's they're more blessed. 

515
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:23,960
I mean, I would love to see 
that. 

516
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,760
It's like, the point is, is that
I was like, do you believe right

517
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,160
now? 
Do you believe that Jesus died 

518
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,760
and rose again? 
Yes. 

519
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,760
Then you're blessed because you 
didn't have any physical proof 

520
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,600
of it. 
If God placed that faith inside 

521
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,360
you, that is a miracle. 
You never got to see it. 

522
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,480
You know, there were people even
on the scene that got to see 

523
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:50,280
Jesus literally die and there 
they got to see his resurrection

524
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,800
or at least hear of his 
resurrection from eyewitnesses 

525
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,200
in the 1st century and they 
still didn't believe. 

526
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,040
Now you understand why it's 
blessed. 

527
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,480
You're blessed if you believe 
because it's a miracle. 

528
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,680
It's the greatest, actually the 
greatest miracle of all time is 

529
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,080
for you to have faith in 
somebody that did something for 

530
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,680
you 2000 years ago that affects 
your life. 

531
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,360
So I mean, we might call him 
Doubting Thomas. 

532
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,360
I think it's a little unfair 
personally, after reading this, 

533
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,880
I'm like, wait a second. 
That's the stuff. 

534
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,920
He's like Jesus, I'd be willing 
to go with you and I'd be 

535
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,120
willing to die with you. 
It sounds a little like, that's 

536
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,560
why I said it sounds a little 
like he's so pessimistic. 

537
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,480
You know, he's like, well, I 
guess we'll die with you. 

538
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,520
I don't know. 
I used to read it that way. 

539
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,960
And now as I'm looking at this 
scripture, I'm like, hey, man, 

540
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,720
he's got some faith. 
He's like, all right, fine. 

541
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,480
If we're going to go back to 
Jerusalem, they're going to 

542
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:42,560
stone you. 
And I'm like, you know what, 

543
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,920
we're going to die with you. 
That's cool. 

544
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,480
We're good with that. 
And so there's a level of faith 

545
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,800
there. 
There's a level of devotion. 

546
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,600
They he showed more faith 
courage than the other. 11 And 

547
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,720
then thirdly, we got to know 
that Jesus, what Jesus is truly 

548
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,880
after, and verse 17 says this. 
So when Jesus came, he found 

549
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,520
that he had already been in the 
tomb for four days. 

550
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,960
And the scripture shows us that 
Jesus was glad that he waited 

551
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,400
four days because he wanted 
people to see without a shadow 

552
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,240
of a doubt this man raises from 
the dead. 

553
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,120
It is a bonafide miracle. 
It is not like, oh, he was, he 

554
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,200
was dead for like 1/2 hour, you 
know, and then maybe he really 

555
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,040
wasn't dead because they try to 
play those tricks on Jesus right

556
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,280
at the resurrection. 
Oh, he maybe he really wasn't 

557
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,840
dead. 
That's why he had to go through 

558
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,600
the Roman crucifixion. 
That's why he had to go through 

559
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,840
the whole process, because 
before he even, most people even

560
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,320
got to the cross, they died. 
So there's no way that Jesus was

561
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,600
still living on the cross, that 
when they took him down. 

562
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,880
And so Jesus wanted to see, 
wanted them to see four days in 

563
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,480
the tomb. 
No way, no way this man would be

564
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,080
still living. 
Now, Bethany was near Jerusalem,

565
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,360
about two miles off, and many of
the Jews had come to Martha and 

566
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,560
Mary to console them concerning 
their brother. 

567
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,480
Martha, therefore, when she 
heard that Jesus was coming, 

568
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,840
went to meet him, but Mary 
stayed at the house. 

569
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,520
Martha then said to Jesus, Lord,
if you have been there, my 

570
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,000
brother would not have died. 
You know, and that sounds like 

571
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,720
such a rebuke, right? 
But it's a it's if you've ever 

572
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,880
grieved before, it's a mixture 
of of, of, of emotion. 

573
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,040
It's like if you were, you know,
like you, you just say things, 

574
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,360
you ever just say things when 
you're grieving that you don't 

575
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,760
mean. 
Jesus understands that you don't

576
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,480
have to be embarrassed of that. 
You don't have to take those 

577
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,480
words back per say. 
I mean, that would does does 

578
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,640
that. 
Lord, if you've been there, come

579
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,360
on man. 
Like what are you doing? 

580
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:38,120
Teleport, whatever it takes. 
Jesus said to her, your brother 

581
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,960
will rise again. 
And Martha said to him, I know 

582
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,680
that he will rise again in the 
resurrection on the last day. 

583
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,520
And Jesus said to her, I am the 
resurrection and the life he who

584
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,800
believes in me will live if he 
dies. 

585
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,240
And everyone who lives and 
believes in me will never die. 

586
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,800
Do you believe this? 
And she said to him, yes, Lord, 

587
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:05,080
I have believed that you are the
Christ, the Son of God, even he 

588
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,160
who comes into the world. 
What a beautiful passage there. 

589
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,600
But I love this Martha who. 
And it's just cool to see this 

590
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,200
balance every now and then in 
Scripture because sometimes we 

591
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,520
give again with poor Thomas, he 
gets a bad name. 

592
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,800
Poor Martha gets a bad name. 
But God redeems all that. 

593
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,920
And even in this, if you 
remember in Luke 10, right, 

594
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,640
they're having a meal at 
Lazarus's house, at their house,

595
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,400
and Martha's in the kitchen 
being busy, right? 

596
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,800
And we always make make fun of 
her. 

597
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,000
Oh, she's the busy one. 
And then Mary is at the feet of 

598
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,360
Jesus. 
And Jesus does say she chose the

599
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,400
greater thing in this moment, 
that one thing right, that David

600
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,360
talks about, the one thing that 
I seek, the one thing that my 

601
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,560
life is about is to be in the 
presence of God. 

602
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,480
And, and Jesus is affirming what
David said and said this woman 

603
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,480
is doing the right thing. 
There's a time for everything. 

604
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,680
But isn't it interesting while 
Mary was back at the house 

605
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,760
because they would hire what is 
called mourners and they would 

606
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,480
come to the house and they would
mourn with you. 

607
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,320
So anytime you go to the 
gravesite and this would be 

608
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,920
about a month long, so they 
would do this for several weeks.

609
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,760
They would be with you, they 
would sit with you, they would 

610
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,480
mourn with you. 
It's kind of nice in a way. 

611
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,000
I mean, every time you would 
then hey, and you would go see 

612
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,120
the gravesite. 
So the mourners would kind of 

613
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,800
come out and they would meet 
with you. 

614
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,600
And and so if you're weeping, 
they would weep. 

615
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,680
And the Bible says that those 
you know, you need to weep with 

616
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,440
those who weep and rejoice with 
those who rejoice. 

617
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,440
But it was cool that, you know, 
even though Martha sound like a 

618
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:35,880
dog was in here, but Martha was 
was, you know, even though she 

619
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,960
was busy and everything, she was
like a Peter. 

620
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,360
She's like, man, if Jesus is 
there, you remember that one 

621
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,520
part in the in John chapter 21, 
like he will get there later, 

622
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,640
but he like jumps out of his 
boat and he jumps into the water

623
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,040
like he's like, man, that's 
Jesus, that's the Lord. 

624
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,920
And he's like, he just like he 
wants to be near the Lord. 

625
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,720
And I love this how Jesus 
redeems Martha. 

626
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,720
Like everyone's like Martha, 
Martha, Martha, this Martha, 

627
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,120
Martha. 
And he's like, no, no, no, 

628
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,760
Martha was like, Jesus is here, 
I'm there. 

629
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,280
And it's interesting. 
Mary's back at the house with 

630
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,080
the mourners, being consoled by 
the mourners and Martha's life. 

631
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,920
That's not enough. 
I need him. 

632
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,520
You know, nothing else is going 
to satisfy when you're in pain 

633
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,880
but Jesus. 
Nothing. 

634
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:27,320
I just love, I love this because
man, this is my goal is that my 

635
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,840
words would fade and that you 
would get the Scriptures. 

636
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,159
You're just reading it for 
yourself. 

637
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,360
You're leaving. 
You're like, oh, John said this,

638
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,920
John, it doesn't matter. 
Jesus said this. 

639
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,880
The Scripture said this. 
John the Apostle said this. 

640
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:45,840
That's what's going to stick. 
Do you know that like I, that is

641
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,199
what's important, the word of 
God is going to stick well 

642
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,400
beyond like if you go to another
church, you go somewhere else. 

643
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,719
I hope if anything, the words of
God stick. 

644
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,800
That's why we open up our Bible 
and we look at this and we're 

645
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,080
like, man, I'm more like a 
Martha. 

646
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,360
And you know, I'm busy, anxious 
and all this kind of stuff. 

647
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:01,600
No, no, no. 
OK, great. 

648
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,280
That that was her scene there, 
her scene here. 

649
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:09,520
God's redeemed, that God's 
redeemed, that she's a different

650
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,080
person. 
She wants Jesus. 

651
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,760
Amen. 
And we're not saying anything 

652
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,760
bad about Mary because we're 
going to see in a moment here, 

653
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,040
she's still the same person too.
And it's important that you look

654
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,120
at the scriptures, look for 
yourself, see it in the pages of

655
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,480
Scripture because it will change
your life. 

656
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,600
It will. 
The scriptures over the last 25 

657
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,240
1/2 years have changed my life. 
I've grown more in love with the

658
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:34,680
Bible in 25 years. 
Have you? 

659
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:41,400
Do you love the Scriptures? 
It's so good. 

660
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,560
Somebody was just challenging me
earlier that today in worship, 

661
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,440
they're like, you got to 
memorize the whole, a whole book

662
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,400
of the Bible, like Philippians 
or something like that. 

663
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,720
You got to do that. 
I'm like, man, that's just OK, 

664
00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:51,960
I'll read my Bible. 
I read my Bible. 

665
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,800
I know it's memorizing 
Scriptures, you know, it's so 

666
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,120
good. 
But that's great when someone 

667
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,920
can memorize a whole book. 
But as you memorize Scripture, 

668
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,560
you have it with you. 
Everywhere you go, it's there. 

669
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,160
The Holy Spirit's reminding you 
of what's important in the 

670
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,080
moment. 
And everybody here is going to 

671
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,000
go through a crisis at some 
point. 

672
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,280
You're either in it or you're 
going into it and you're going 

673
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:20,560
to need these words. 
So what's going on next here? 

674
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:25,240
It says this, this rebuke was a 
mixture of grief and with faith.

675
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:27,760
And that's a lot of times what 
our that's a lot of times what 

676
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,280
happens and this and, and if 
you, if you have friends that 

677
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,320
are rebuking you in crisis, find
other friends. 

678
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,720
You need friends who listen. 
You need friends to point you 

679
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:46,560
constantly to Jesus and your 
words you'll find and often if 

680
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,160
you have a relationship with 
God, your words will you'll find

681
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:53,640
yourself with both a mixture of 
grief and faith and that is 

682
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,320
normal and I love this what he's
getting us to hear. 

683
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:02,400
He says this, Jesus says 
Lazarus, he will rise again. 

684
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,320
Martha thought that he would 
eventually rise. 

685
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,760
What he's saying here is like, 
you know what Martha is like, I 

686
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,000
know my brother will rise. 
I know he will. 

687
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:19,040
What is he talking about? 
You know, our faith, it has 

688
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,160
stages, right? 
It there's different stages to 

689
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:26,920
our faith and for her the faith 
here and Jesus is trying to the 

690
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,920
Third Point here is know that 
what Jesus is truly after and 

691
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,440
you're going to see this in a 
moment here. 

692
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,640
But Martha had a little bit of 
faith and she knew that, you 

693
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,040
know, eventually it says 
something Psalm 16 that God 

694
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,200
would never let my soul undergo 
decay. 

695
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,760
What is he saying that 
eventually they understood the 

696
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,280
Jewish thought they understood 
that eventually in the end we're

697
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,040
all rise. 
But Jesus is like, no, no, no, 

698
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,720
you don't understand. 
Like I am the source of life and

699
00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:57,720
I will rise him in real time 
today in about 5 minutes and she

700
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:02,800
just didn't understand that. 
And I love the the patience that

701
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,880
Jesus has for us. 
He says no, no, I am the 

702
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,120
resurrection and the life. 
And this is the fifth of seven I

703
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,960
am statements. 
If you're following with John, 

704
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,800
he's getting closer to the end 
here. 

705
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,840
It's like in the 1st and John 
chapter 2. 

706
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,600
He's the God of joy, right? 
He turns water into wine. 

707
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,480
He saves a whole wedding and 
John chapter 5. 

708
00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:23,880
He says this that he's he's a 
he's a healer. 

709
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:28,240
He can't the the, the the man 
who is lame for 38 years. 

710
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:30,760
He can't on his own move towards
Jesus. 

711
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,160
And so Jesus moves towards him 
and then moving on from chapter 

712
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,640
6, he feeds us and otherwise we 
would starve. 

713
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,280
He says that I'm the bread. 
I am the bread of life and 

714
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,560
therefore those who eat of meat 
who's take me in will never 

715
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,800
starve, who never will never be 
empty. 

716
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,840
John eight. 
I am the light of the world and 

717
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,800
therefore he they never have to 
live in darkness ever again. 

718
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:58,520
They could have the light of 
life number John Chapter 9 heals

719
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,640
the blind and John chapter 10, 
which we just saw last week. 

720
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,960
He's the Good Shepherd. 
He's also the door into the 

721
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,560
relationship with God. 
He's the way, right? 

722
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,640
And then 14, which we'll get to 
you later. 

723
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,200
I am the way, the truth and the 
life and John chapter 15, I'm 

724
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,160
the vine. 
Why are these important for you 

725
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:22,840
this morning? 
Because this is who Jesus is and

726
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,160
he's just saying come to me 
experience these things. 

727
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,440
This is not just to be read on a
page and what Jesus is 

728
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,240
ultimately telling Mary he's 
like this. 

729
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,920
Do you believe this Do you 
believe I love that there is 

730
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,280
that was probably one of the 
best lines right for all of us 

731
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,680
in this room. 
Do you personally believe this? 

732
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,520
Do you actually believe that I 
am the resurrection of the life?

733
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:46,480
And what is the what is the 
after? 

734
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,600
What is Jesus ultimately after 
He's saying this? 

735
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,840
The greatest need, Martha, and 
I'll say this to you, Annie 

736
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,280
Orlando, the greatest need is 
not your theology. 

737
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,240
Your greatest need is Jesus 
himself. 

738
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:06,760
Do you understand what's 
happening here? 

739
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,720
If you're a good student in the 
world and you're paying 

740
00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:13,760
attention right now, you would 
understand that Jesus doesn't 

741
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:19,280
give a RIP about your theology. 
He doesn't want you reciting all

742
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,560
the things that you know about 
God in crisis. 

743
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:28,760
He wants you to what, go to him.
It's real time. 

744
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,000
He's like in this crazy. 
He gets beyond the theological 

745
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,480
and he gets personal. 
He's like, do you believe this? 

746
00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:37,320
What does he want Martha to 
believe? 

747
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,880
Not that they're going to 
resurrect one day. 

748
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,720
In the end, as Paul talks about 
in Thessalonians, we're all 

749
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,840
going to raise and have new 
bodies. 

750
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,240
He's not talking about that. 
He's saying, do you understand 

751
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:52,680
that I'm the source of life? 
And I want to give you hope in 

752
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,360
real time. 
I want to give you myself. 

753
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:01,680
See, guys, we don't ultimately 
what Martha and her sister Mary 

754
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:06,160
were struggling with, it wasn't 
that Jesus could do this 

755
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,000
miracle. 
That's why they came to him. 

756
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,200
They've watched him do miracles 
for the last, I don't know, 8 

757
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:17,240
chapters of his life up to 
chapter 2 was his first miracle.

758
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,360
They watched it, they were 
there. 

759
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:27,400
We don't question his ability. 
We question his willingness. 

760
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:36,720
Did you get that? 
We don't question his ability. 

761
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,000
Some of you guys do. 
I mean, maybe, but I personally 

762
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,840
don't. 
I don't question you. 

763
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,560
Don't you walk with Jesus long 
enough? 

764
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,160
You don't question his ability. 
He can do it. 

765
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:46,840
Are you kidding me? 
He's the creator of the 

766
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,960
universe. 
He can certainly do whatever he 

767
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:55,360
wants, but does he want to? 
That's what trips us up. 

768
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,760
That's why that's, that's why 
most of us, and maybe you're 

769
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,560
new, that's why most of us in 
this room, we can go throughout 

770
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,760
our whole life just reciting 
things in a cold way, in a cold 

771
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,680
manner. 
We could just recite theology 

772
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,440
all day long. 
And the older you are, the more 

773
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,960
theology you have. 
And Jesus is saying, I'm not 

774
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,760
interested in your theology. 
I'm interested in you knowing 

775
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:21,960
me. 
That's what I'm interested in. 

776
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,880
So when you're going through 
crisis, I'm not interested in 

777
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,840
how much. 
Dude, I have people literally 

778
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,520
coming. 
I mean, I've talked to a lot of 

779
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,240
people on campus and just even 
at the funeral, there was some 

780
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:35,280
people that we were talking to 
and just, they got so caught up 

781
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:39,640
into the theology, into so many,
just there are some people who 

782
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,680
didn't know the Lord there and, 
and we were just talking to them

783
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,200
about all these different 
things. 

784
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,480
But it was all these matters of 
theology. 

785
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,400
And all I wanted to say is no, 
no, no, no. 

786
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,880
Do you know him? 
Do you know God like the God of 

787
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,840
the earth? 
Do you know that He is not not 

788
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:59,280
just able, but wants to? 
He wants to, He wants to move in

789
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,880
your life. 
And until you believe that it 

790
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:06,400
won't happen, until you believe 
that he actually wants to move 

791
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,520
in your life in a personal way. 
It's the hope. 

792
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,160
The ultimate hope is the hope 
that he wants to. 

793
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:14,480
And do you live with that in 
your heart? 

794
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,600
Yes, God wants to. 
He wants to move, He's 

795
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,000
interested in me, in moving in 
my life. 

796
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:29,600
It's not just theory, it's 
reality #4 fourthly, know 

797
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,520
Jesus's compassion. 
After Martha believe she'd go, 

798
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,320
then goes and grabs her sister. 
I love this. 

799
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,320
She's in verse 28 when she said 
that she went away and called 

800
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,640
Martha, Mary, her sister, saying
secretly the teacher is here and

801
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,360
is calling for you. 
And when she heard it, she got 

802
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:45,840
up quickly and was coming to 
him. 

803
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,560
And now Jesus had not yet come 
into the village, but was still 

804
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:51,880
in the place where Martha met 
him. 

805
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,680
And then the Jews were were with
her in the house and consoling 

806
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,440
her. 
And when they saw that Mary got 

807
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,000
up quickly, they went out and 
followed her, supposing that she

808
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,600
was going to the tomb to weep 
there. 

809
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:08,840
And therefore when Mary came 
where Jesus was, she saw him and

810
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,120
fell at his feet, saying to him,
Lord, if you had been here, my 

811
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,240
brother would not have died. 
She's just like her sister, 

812
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:18,480
right? 
But I love this and in Luke 10 

813
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:24,800
and in John 11, Mary's the same 
person when things were going 

814
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,360
really well. 
Where is she at, at Jesus's 

815
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,560
feet? 
When things aren't going too 

816
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,400
well, where is she at, at 
Jesus's feet? 

817
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,720
Are you just with I, I know some
of us maybe are, you know, new 

818
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,400
at walking with God. 
But there are times early on in 

819
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:48,880
my life that it just, I, I kind 
of had this, you know, unhealthy

820
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,880
pattern early on, maybe in 
college and early young 

821
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:56,440
adulthood that when everything 
was like, man, I'm telling 

822
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,440
people about Jesus, it's 
awesome. 

823
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,680
He's changed my life. 
But then when things would not 

824
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,160
go too well, it was like, I 
wouldn't, I wasn't finding 

825
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,600
myself at the feet of Jesus. 
He had to teach me how to do 

826
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,880
that over time. 
But Mary, what's so beautiful 

827
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,200
about this is she was consistent
no matter if things were going 

828
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,600
well or things weren't going 
well. 

829
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,280
Where'd she find herself the 
feet of Jesus in the next 

830
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,520
chapter, chapter 12, You come 
back next week, we'll see the 

831
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:26,520
profound this of her of how she 
literally gave everything to 

832
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,240
Jesus because she knew who he 
was. 

833
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,960
You spend enough time at the 
feet of Jesus, especially in 

834
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:35,120
crisis, you'll know who he is. 
And that's why a lot of times 

835
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:36,640
you're like, well, I don't 
really know who God is because 

836
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,880
you're only at the feet of Jesus
when things are going well. 

837
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,640
Did you remember that? 
The glory of God reveals his 

838
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:47,520
nature, who he is, and it 
strengthens your faith for the 

839
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:52,360
long haul. 
And he says this in verse 33. 

840
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,760
When Jesus therefore saw her 
weeping and the Jews who came 

841
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,680
with her also weeping, he was 
deeply moved in spirit and was 

842
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,880
troubled and said, where have 
you laid him? 

843
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,320
And they said to him, Lord, come
and see. 

844
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,840
And it's the shortest verse in 
the Bible, right? 

845
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,200
So hopefully everybody's 
memorized it. 

846
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:16,000
Jesus wept so that the Jews were
saying, see how he loved him, 

847
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,920
but some of them said, could not
this man who opened the blind 

848
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,440
eyes have kept this man from 
dying? 

849
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,280
I love this is that, you know, 
deeply troubled. 

850
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,840
Jesus was moved and deeply 
troubled. 

851
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,280
This is how we should all react 
when we're in a sense of crisis 

852
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,760
or we're consoling somebody 
else. 

853
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,400
But in the Greek, it's kind of a
weird word. 

854
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:43,000
It's it's snort like a horse. 
So it's like, OK, was Jesus 

855
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,840
literally doing that? 
Like, I don't, we don't know. 

856
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,400
It doesn't say, but the Greek 
word is snort like a horse. 

857
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,200
It just means scolding or it 
carries anger. 

858
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,600
And you might be thinking, wait,
Jesus, does he do that? 

859
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,560
Why is he angry? 
What is he hangry angry at? 

860
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,520
Well, he's angry at the if you 
see the, the, the surrounding 

861
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:04,840
context, there's three reasons 
why Jesus wept, which means that

862
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:09,200
it's not tears that like the 
tears that like the mourners, 

863
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:14,160
like tears without hope. 
It's not a wailing, It's quiet 

864
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:18,200
tears. 
It's quiet tears of pain and 

865
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,000
hurt. 
Why? 

866
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,400
There's three reasons why he 
wept. 

867
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:26,560
And one, because sin kills. 
It hurts. 

868
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:32,200
Sin hurts. 
Let me ask you something. 

869
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,440
When's the last time you grieved
over your own sin? 

870
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,440
When's the last time you 
actually grieved over a friend 

871
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,560
who's living their life away 
from God? 

872
00:47:46,030 --> 00:47:48,790
He saw all the heartache. 
I mean, he's watching this. 

873
00:47:48,790 --> 00:47:51,600
It's like this moment, he could 
almost, he was like, you know, 

874
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,920
like those movies, like 
everything's happening around 

875
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,200
them, but they're giving you 
this like point of view and 

876
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,920
they're just quietly still. 
And it's like you can and then 

877
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,120
they kind of drowned out all the
sounds and all you hear is just 

878
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:03,680
it's just silence and they're 
just watching. 

879
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,200
It's like a movie scene. 
You ever see that? 

880
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,120
I don't know what movie I'm 
thinking of, but I've just seen 

881
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,360
some movie like that. 
And they're like all this chaos 

882
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,680
and commotion and he just has 
this moment and he's looking 

883
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,240
around and he's like, this is 
awful. 

884
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,680
The sisters are plus my friend, 
mourners are there and they're 

885
00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:26,600
they're mourning is people 
without hope. 

886
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,040
Do you ever just do you know the
difference? 

887
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,360
I remember some of my my 
actually when I got saved, my 

888
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,280
grandmother died. 
She's she's, I grew up in an 

889
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,640
Italian household. 
So Italian funerals are crazy. 

890
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,880
And, you know, everyone's 
wearing black. 

891
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,520
There's no celebration of life 
there. 

892
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:44,960
There was like, it was 
terrifying. 

893
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,680
And people are like way like 
these. 

894
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,920
My Italian aunts and others are 
like wailing over the casket, 

895
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,640
you know, like just, but I could
tell, like, those are not tears 

896
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,000
of hope. 
They're tears of despair. 

897
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:04,600
That's not why Jesus is 
grieving, because he's watching 

898
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,320
these people without hope. 
But he's also saying this. 

899
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,880
Of all the unbelief around him, 
do you know that he agrees at 

900
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:16,920
your unbelief? 
And thirdly, I think this is the

901
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:23,800
most human reason that we have 
that connects us to Jesus 

902
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,120
himself. 
Is he just Death is painful. 

903
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,640
To watch. 
He lost his friend, so I got 

904
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,920
miss, you know, you just, you 
know, when you miss somebody and

905
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,080
you, you've lost somebody you 
like, What do you do when you 

906
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:38,480
just remember all the good 
times? 

907
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,160
You're just like flashing. 
Like what's flashing before? 

908
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,880
You it's just all the I could 
just, you know, like a like in a

909
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,960
movie, right? 
I mean just flashback like he's 

910
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,280
like, you know, Martha, he's 
like Martha and Mary there. 

911
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,040
You know, Jesus is just joking 
with them and joking with 

912
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,520
Lazarus and they're having a 
good time. 

913
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:56,960
They're drinking and like just 
going back. 

914
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,720
He's like, man, I miss this guy.
I miss the times are never going

915
00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:04,960
to be the same anymore and to 
the other side of heaven when 

916
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,960
things are all made right, but 
on this side you know it's not 

917
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,600
going to be the same as it. 
And so he weeps. 

918
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,120
Isn't that amazing? 
I don't know who. 

919
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,440
If you're new, you're coming in.
I don't know what your views are

920
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,760
on Jesus, but I hope you have a 
better view of who he is today. 

921
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,640
He's both the Lord of. 
Heaven and earth. 

922
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,720
He has all the power in the 
world to do whatever he wants 

923
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:34,640
and yet at the same time he's 
puts subjects himself in a a 

924
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:39,960
world full of grief, unbelief, 
obviously opposition from verse 

925
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:44,840
36, you see, but he's also. 
He's lost. 

926
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:50,520
The God loses his friend and he 
weeps because it ripped. 

927
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,200
Death rips people apart. 
It hurts, but he's a high priest

928
00:50:54,200 --> 00:51:00,320
who sympathizes with our pain. 
And then lastly, don't get. 

929
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,480
Distracted from his ultimate 
goal. 

930
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,480
Which is ultimate goal. 
We'll see here in a second verse

931
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,240
3038. 
So Jesus again, being deeply 

932
00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:09,320
moved within. 
Do you notice that I love this. 

933
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,880
And verse 37, he's like people 
begin to start mocking him and 

934
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,440
come on, man. 
I mean, if you're going to open 

935
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,280
up blind eyes, my goodness, why 
weren't why isn't he here just 

936
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,480
healing this man of this 
disease? 

937
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,200
It's pretty simple, right? 
Have you ever kind of felt that 

938
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,120
way, right? 
And Jesus doesn't give in to any

939
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:27,280
of the mocking. 
What does he do? 

940
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:32,440
He sticks with the program. 
He's grieved, he's grieved. 

941
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,080
He's grieved within. 
And then he goes to the tomb, 

942
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:37,680
and now? 
It was a cave and the stone was 

943
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,680
lying against it. 
And Jesus says remove the stone 

944
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,840
and you don't get to see this 
right here, right? 

945
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:48,640
It's and I love this in the in 
the new King James, it says it 

946
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:53,240
stinketh there was a. 
Stench 4 days. 

947
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,280
They're about to open up this 
tomb, right? 

948
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,720
It was a stone. 
They just rolled it aside and 

949
00:51:57,720 --> 00:51:59,960
there it is. 
I mean, in other words, I don't 

950
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,480
want to get too graphic, but the
body started decaying. 

951
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,520
And they're like and again you 
can see like the. 

952
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,360
Unbelief Martha, the sister of 
of of Lazarus, this deceased, he

953
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,920
says, Lord, I mean like I love 
your heart. 

954
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,360
You want to see my brother, but 
I don't think this is a good 

955
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,400
idea. 
Again you can see. 

956
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,960
Proof here that she didn't. 
Believe that Jesus was actually 

957
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,120
going to raise him from the 
dead. 

958
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:34,080
How patient is God towards our 
unbelief, Lord by this time? 

959
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:37,280
It's going to be a stench. 
For he has been dead for four 

960
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:41,200
days and he's like, of course I 
know, remember what I said, I'm 

961
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,280
glad for your sakes. 
But this is not going to end in 

962
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,240
death. 
It's going to end, he says. 

963
00:52:47,240 --> 00:52:50,520
Did I not tell you? 
That if you believe, you would 

964
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,280
see the glory of God. 
So they removed the stone. 

965
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,760
Then Jesus raised his eyes and 
said, Father, I thank you that 

966
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,080
you have heard me, and I knew 
that you always hear me. 

967
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,720
But because of the people 
standing around, I said it so 

968
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:05,320
that they may believe that you 
sent me. 

969
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:09,560
He did all that. 
He sets up every trial in our 

970
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:15,520
life to reveal His goodness. 
You know that every trial you're

971
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:17,840
in every single circumstance 
that is hard. 

972
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:22,120
He sets it up to reveal himself,
to reveal his love, to 

973
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,240
strengthen your faith, to 
increase your joy. 

974
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,520
That's why he does it. 
And when he said these things, 

975
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:30,040
he cried out with a loud verse. 
Lazarus come forth in the in the

976
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,720
Greek, it just says Lazarus here
outside, that's what it says. 

977
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,840
It's kind of cool, isn't it? 
And there's some commentators 

978
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,840
that say if Jesus wasn't 
specific about, he's saying 

979
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:45,240
Lazarus here outside, every dead
man would have rose from the 

980
00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:49,840
dead. 
Like, Can you imagine? 

981
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,880
Like no, no, not not. 
You you go back to it's like 

982
00:53:53,880 --> 00:54:00,240
what the heck, you know, but but
I love that. 

983
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,120
I love that his words are so 
powerful. 

984
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:06,080
Lazarus here outside and he just
like comes out, you know, I 

985
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,160
don't know if he comes out like 
a mummy because he was wrapped. 

986
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,560
You know, it's like you can't 
really see. 

987
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,640
And it's cool that every person 
that was a bystander, whether 

988
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,400
they were believing or not 
believing got to be a part of 

989
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,120
his miracle because he says 
undress the person. 

990
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:26,040
And then I love the fact that he
cares about every little thing 

991
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,440
he says after he does the 
miracle right of raising the 

992
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,720
little girl, he says, come, give
her something to eat. 

993
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,840
Jesus doesn't care just about 
the miracle. 

994
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,320
He cares about the person and I 
love this that. 

995
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,800
Every single person. 
Right, Every single person that 

996
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:44,760
was watching this, that do not 
have a relationship with God saw

997
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,320
the miracle. 
Every person that witnessed 

998
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,800
this, that has a relationship 
with God got to actually see 

999
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,720
God's glory. 
Do you know that that every, 

1000
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,960
I've watched this many, many 
times where God has done a 

1001
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:58,800
bonafide miracle and everyone 
could attest to it. 

1002
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,920
There are people that are just 
like, wow, that's a cool 

1003
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:08,040
miracle. 
But the friends the. 

1004
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:12,600
Family, those close, what do 
they get to experience? 

1005
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,360
When Kathy and Nathan were going
through their. 

1006
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:22,920
Journey of adopting a child it's
very difficult for took about a 

1007
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:27,440
couple years and the actual 
process of adoption took many 

1008
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,880
years lots of money and you 
often think you know God you can

1009
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,200
do anything you can do it in the
moment in the moment you can you

1010
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:38,920
can do it you could have given 
them a child in the moment you 

1011
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,080
could have opened up the womb 
you could have done whatever you

1012
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:46,840
wanted to do and they had faith 
in God's ability but for. 

1013
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,640
Whatever reason God started. 
Putting more and more people in 

1014
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,160
their life. 
For what reason this is this? 

1015
00:55:54,160 --> 00:56:00,480
That God was glad. 
That it went about this way so 

1016
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,840
that. 
The friends and family could see

1017
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:06,920
the glory of God when that child
came back home. 

1018
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,120
I mean, there's so many people 
just showering that little one 

1019
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,160
with gifts and some of the 
things they need to be careful, 

1020
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,120
right? 
But just getting. 

1021
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,880
To see. 
Geez, God could have done it 

1022
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:19,600
simpler. 
I sometimes wonder, like God, 

1023
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,120
you could have done this in such
a simpler way, right after you 

1024
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,440
go through such pain and 
heartache through a trial. 

1025
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:27,560
Did you ever say that? 
Like this could have been a 

1026
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,360
simpler way. 
You could have just said the 

1027
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,200
words, boom, done. 
We don't even have to go through

1028
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:36,240
any of that. 
But he gathered everyone around 

1029
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,760
the. 
Elys so that we. 

1030
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,600
Who are? 
Friends with them could see the 

1031
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:48,240
glory of God. 
Do you think the Elys faith are 

1032
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:51,400
strengthened? 
Do you think their joy is 

1033
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,600
increased? 
Do you think they know? 

1034
00:56:54,600 --> 00:57:01,360
That God loves them. 
So good. 

1035
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:09,360
I think what we need to do often
is is just say to each other 

1036
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:13,640
when we go through. 
Trials, if you believe. 

1037
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,320
You will see the glory of God. 
I think we. 

1038
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,440
Need more friends in our life 
that just when. 

1039
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,880
We're going through really hard 
things and we will in this 

1040
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,400
church. 
It's not just all awakened 

1041
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,680
trips. 
And we love college ministry and

1042
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:29,720
we love I, I mean, that's my 
favorite. 

1043
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,680
I, I leave college ministry with
the guys. 

1044
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:33,600
I'm that's my favorite ministry 
out of all the church. 

1045
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:39,240
But I know that in the family 
ministry and as you grow in your

1046
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,320
faith, you're going to go 
through some stuff and you need 

1047
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,240
friends to come around you and 
say, you know what? 

1048
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:50,040
You are going through this. 
So that you will see the glory 

1049
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,560
of God. 
God has set all this up, 

1050
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:59,640
ultimately to draw you near. 
I gave a message not that long 

1051
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:00,480
ago. 
And Luke? 

1052
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,720
Five, I'm not going to go 
through the whole thing, but 

1053
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,200
Peter is really struggling. 
That night he tried it. 

1054
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:06,640
He. 
He. 

1055
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:11,000
Needed to He's a fisherman. 
So he's just like, hey, I need 

1056
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,640
to make a living. 
And Jesus comes near him and 

1057
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,160
says this is this like probably 
second or third encounter. 

1058
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,080
And Jesus just says to him in 
Luke 5, hey, throw the net into 

1059
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,400
the boat, off the boat, into the
water, See what happens. 

1060
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,920
He's like, OK, because he said, 
so I'm going to do it. 

1061
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:31,200
So all of a sudden all this fish
came into the boat and almost 

1062
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,720
capsized their boat, the Nets, 
There's so much fish in there. 

1063
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,320
The Nets broke. 
And what did he do? 

1064
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:41,200
He got down on his knees and he 
said to Jesus, depart from me. 

1065
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:46,240
I am a sinful man. 
The grace of God is overwhelming

1066
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,800
in our life and when it comes, 
when we get to see where there's

1067
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,000
children born or adoption or 
whatever miracle that comes into

1068
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,840
your life, whenever you see the 
breakthrough of God, they're 

1069
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,480
only responses. 
God, I do not deserve that. 

1070
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,400
And it's funny how on the front 
end you're like, I deserve this 

1071
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,280
God, you have to come through. 
And then he takes you through 

1072
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:12,240
this crazy, painful experience 
and in the end you see the glory

1073
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,400
of God and you're like, no, 
depart from me. 

1074
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:21,880
I'm a sinful man because you saw
what God's patience and his 

1075
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,040
grace move through your life. 
He walked with you in your 

1076
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,360
unbelief and in your ups and 
downs. 

1077
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,640
And then when you say, oh Lord, 
if you were here earlier, you 

1078
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,480
would have, you would have done 
something about this or 

1079
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,640
whatever. 
He's, he just puts up with you, 

1080
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:35,080
right? 
He doesn't just put up with you.

1081
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:36,560
Actually, no, he doesn't put up 
with you. 

1082
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,840
He loves you. 
He's with you, He's committed to

1083
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:43,480
you, and I love. 
This is that in that you. 

1084
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:47,520
Know Peter could have easily 
just said OK Lord what we're 

1085
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,480
going to do here is we're going 
to come up with a great business

1086
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,200
plan you're going to come on all
my fishing adventures and you'll

1087
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:59,000
make me a lot of money and Jesus
just says something very simple 

1088
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,520
I'm paraphrasing but he says 
forget the fish I want you and 

1089
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:06,720
until we. 
Realize that until. 

1090
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,560
We really truly understand what 
God is after. 

1091
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:16,840
We will be people despairing all
the way through the trials and 

1092
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,200
tribulations until we understand
that He puts us in this. 

1093
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:24,960
He sets everything up to draw us
near, to draw us close. 

1094
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:29,640
Says this in Psalm 27. 
Verse 13 and 14 says the one 

1095
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:34,160
thing right we want is this 
glory, but it says this we would

1096
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:38,840
have despaired unless I believed
that I would see the goodness of

1097
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:44,080
God and the land of the living. 
And he says in verse. 14 we'll 

1098
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,040
wait upon. 
The Lord, let's take heart. 

1099
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:50,360
Do you know this? 
This miracle? 

1100
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,720
This. 
Is another great thing about 

1101
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:57,480
this passage as we close the 
miracle was not dependent on 

1102
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:03,040
their faith. 
It would have happened 

1103
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:07,640
regardless. 
You know what that shows? 

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01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:14,520
God is incredibly, incredibly 
patient with your up and down 

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01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:22,600
faith and that truth alone just 
draws us. 

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01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:26,040
And that's why He does it. 
He doesn't have to. 

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01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:29,440
Answer our prayer, He. 
Doesn't have to perform the 

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01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:33,280
miracle even in our unbelief or 
even in our struggling faith, 

1109
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,840
but He does so anyways because 
of His grace. 

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01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,520
This miracle was not dependent 
on Martha. 

1111
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:43,080
It wasn't dependent on Mary, 
certainly wasn't dependent on 

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01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:44,720
Lazarus, because he's already 
dead. 

1113
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,560
It's not dependent. 
On anyone. 

1114
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,360
Around there, not even his 
disciples because they struggled

1115
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:56,560
and unbelief, but it was 
dependent on who was dependent 

1116
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:59,480
on God and he would have done 
the miracle regardless. 

1117
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:03,440
And he did do it regardless 
because when our faith is weak, 

1118
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:07,320
he is faithful and he's showing 
himself true over and over and 

1119
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,640
over again. 
And I want to, I want to land on

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01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:16,040
just this song. 
I asked the the band to to just 

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01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:17,920
sing this bridge. 
And I think it would just will 

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01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:18,440
be. 
Helpful. 

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01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,280
And I'm just praying for a 
breakthrough in the room that 

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01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,720
maybe perhaps some of you guys 
are really struggling in this 

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01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,560
season with whatever it is, 
whatever breakthrough you need. 

1126
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:30,120
And it just doesn't seem to be 
coming quick, quick, at least 

1127
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:34,560
according to your expectations. 
But God is incredibly patient 

1128
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,960
and he's faithful. 
And this bridge just says it 

1129
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:40,360
like this. 
Help me to trust the way you 

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01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:45,880
lead me in and out of every 
season in gardens or in desert 

1131
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,160
places, the good and the bad. 
I will trust your patience. 

1132
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:54,320
He's incredibly patient with us.
So I wanted you to see first 

1133
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:57,480
hand for you to look. 
And as I'm, I'm just falling 

1134
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:00,800
more in love with God throughout
this, this journey and John, 

1135
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,800
because I'm like, man, we get to
see this first hand, who he 

1136
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,520
really is. 
And he says this, the sickness 

1137
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,000
will not end in death. 
His words are true. 

1138
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,880
His words will never fail but 
for the glory of God, so that 

1139
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:16,080
the Son of Man may be glorified.
He allows you to go through the 

1140
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,280
things you go through so that 
His glory ultimately that would 

1141
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,160
be revealed to you so that you 
might draw closer to Him. 

1142
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:26,800
Help me to trust the way you 
lead me in and out of every 

1143
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:30,200
season, Lord, in the gardens or 
in desert places. 

1144
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:33,560
I will trust your patience a 
stand and worship Him.