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We welcome you to the VI Zion 
Sermon Podcast. 

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We are a church based out of 
Chennai, India. 

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We are thrilled that you tuned 
in today and hope that you will 

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be refreshed, revived and 
energized by what you hear. 

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Our desire is that you will live
life with a renewed sense of 

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purpose that stems from a 
vibrant faith in Jesus. 

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The year 2025 is 1 where we will
be positioned by God to possess 

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our promise. 
We start a new sermon series 

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called Rekindled where we look 
closer at our own lives and ask 

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the Holy Spirit to revive and 
restore things that have gone 

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dormant in the dry seasons of 
our souls. 

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We pray that this series will 
help you dive deeper into 

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yourself and see where you need 
more of God. 

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Hi church, it's a joy and a 
privilege to be bringing God's 

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worthy today. 
I can't say it an honour. 

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We've been going through this 
entire series called Greek. 

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And even as you saw the bumper, 
for those of you watching and 

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you're listening online, I just 
want to encourage you that you 

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might find this daunting, you 
might find this uncomfortable, 

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but that's where the Holy Spirit
meets with us when we celebrated

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the Day of Pentecost. 
One of the reminders for us is 

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the fact that when we wait on 
Him, we are taking the promised 

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person with us everywhere. 
And that's what the day of 

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Pentecost is about, where Jesus 
asked his disciples to wait and 

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he promised the Holy Spirit. 
And when he came, he gave them 

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strength, He gave him courage, 
He came them boldness, He gave 

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them purpose. 
And I believe this rekindling 

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that we are asking for is so 
that we don't remain the same, 

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so that we are rekindled to be 
who God wants us to be. 

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We're going to go into the 6th 
part today and we've been seeing

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on these three key topics, 
faith, hope, love. 

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And you're coming to the last 
part of hope and this continuing

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from what we saw last week, 
which is a healing hope. 

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And we saw that three key things
which Tina spoke about. 

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And I would encourage you to go 
and listen to that sermon 

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because I believe God wants to 
minister to us through that. 

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One of the things we saw from 
that sermon was our arms have to

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become strong so that we can 
hold it high up in worship 

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because that's posture of 
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One of the things we saw in the 
second part is that the enemy 

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takes out our knees. 
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our knees? 
We are unable to stand. 

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We are not unable to resist the 
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And that's why we ask God to 
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we'll be able to move in prayer.
We'll be able to take ground, 

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move in faith wherever he's 
calling us to think. 

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And the third thing we saw was 
our anchor should be in Jesus so

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that we are able to tide through
whatever comes our way. 

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So even as we continue on, one 
of the key references that you 

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know, across the entire city has
been ministering to me was one 

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where Paul encourages Timothy. 
And a lot of us probably have 

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read this passage or have heard 
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And I want to revisit that again
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And this is what it says from 2 
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It says I'm writing to encourage
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rekindle the fire of the 
spiritual gift God imparted to 

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you when I laid my hands upon 
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For God will never give you the 
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Spirit who gives you mighty 
power, love and self-control. 

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There's an interesting word that
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He encourages Timothy to step 
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that spiritual gift that was 
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In fact, in the, the different 
other translations, it talks 

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about, you know, fan into flame.
And when you look into this 

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Greek word about the fan into 
flame, it's broken down into 3 

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sections. 1 is Anna, one is Zune
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print. 
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does Anna mean? 
Repetition intensity. 

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So this rekindling that we are 
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same level in of intensity or to
decrease it, but rather increase

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it. 
And so this rekindling will 

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cause us to burn brighter. 
This rekindling will move the 

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cold so that it'll burn 
everything else that's still not

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burnt. 
And this zoom which is mentioned

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here is of a living creature. 
God wants to move in the living 

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parts of our body. 
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dead things into the living 
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And so today, probably you just 
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that's living. 
This rekindling will ignite the 

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entire heart that you probably 
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that's in order in vitamin. 
When he rekindles that it will 

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reorder everything else. 
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mentioned there is fiery, which 
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consumes. 
And so today this fan into 

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flame, it's one of intensity. 
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of a body and it's fiery, which 
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and it spreads. 
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says to kindle a fresh to kindle
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Timothy is being encouraged by 
Paul to fan into flame, to 

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kindle afresh so that you don't 
move back in the call that God's

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given you, but rather you take a
step forward, you move in faith.

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And so as we look into this, why
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because many a times we think 
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restful place, but God's wanting
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place that he's placed his right
now in that struggle, in that 

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tiff, in that war that you're 
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our spirit. 
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the world, what does rekindling?
Rekindling always comes in a 

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time when something is just 
stagnant, when something is just

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boring you suddenly we've heard 
this phrase weakening of 

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relationships, we with a 
partner, rekindling of 

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friendships weaken your family 
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People might rekindle an 
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sport of cooking or of doing 
something that will bring them 

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enjoyment. 
And so today the rekindling that

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the world talks about is in 
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rekindling that the Holy Spirit 
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be all consuming, all consuming.
And so today the fire that has 

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to be the rekindled in our lives
is won by the spiritual gift of 

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God which was imparted, is 
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And so today, I don't know what 
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like for you, but I believe that
all of us are carrying certain 

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sections of hope. 
Hope that God the future will 

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turn out better. 
Hope that my family will turn 

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out better. 
Hope that my children will turn 

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out better. 
Hope that my marriage will last.

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Hope that there's hope in 
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But I believe that God is 
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hope. 
And the sermon title today is 

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called hearty hope. 
Why hearty? 

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Hearty is 1 where you're, we are
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full. 
It's a we, we say hearty meal, 

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which means you've enjoyed it 
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You're you've, you've consumed 
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you're willing to live in it 
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And so today this hearty hope is
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hope that has to come inside of 
us in one Peter we see versus 

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one to three. 
I know we talk about this 

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passage every time we talk about
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But the beautiful thing is, a 
lot of us have not invited the 

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resurrection power into our 
lives, rather striving in the 

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path that's been given to us, 
but the path that we itself can 

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control. 
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from one Peter 1/3 Praise be to 
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Jesus Christ. 
In His great mercy, He has given

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us new birth into a living hope 
through the resurrection of 

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Jesus Christ from the dead. 
He has given us new birth into a

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living hope through the 
resurrection of Jesus Christ 

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from the dead. 
When we talk about our living 

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hope, it always references to 
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We get to partake of it right 
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You're not just declaring it 
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You're not just expecting it. 
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be able to see it. 
No, you are partaking of it 

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right now. 
Wherever you're at, you're able 

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to partake of it right now. 
Let's read it from the message 

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version and this is what it 
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What a God we have and how 
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this God of our Master Jesus. 
Because Jesus was raised from 

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the dead, we've been given a 
brand new life and have 

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everything to live for, 
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And the future starts now. 
God is keeping careful watch 

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over us in the future. 
The day is coming when you'll 

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have it all. 
Life healed and cold. 

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The aspect of heaven is real. 
That's 100% the aspect that we 

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will be in. 
No more sickness. 

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Yes, that's true, but the aspect
of hope being lived out here on 

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this earth is the main thing 
that we need to take in and 

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strive, move through our 
physicalness and allow see God, 

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would you come into this place? 
I can live it right here because

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a lot of us are not willing to 
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We are. 
We're content knowing that we 

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are there. 
And so today, what is it that 

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it's we've been given a brand 
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for, including the future in 
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But the future starts now. 
It starts now. 

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This hearty hope starts now. 
This heart, this hope that we 

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have, this healed hope starts 
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It starts now right where we are
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where we have everything to live
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You know, the beautiful thing 
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has given to us is we are 
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Every step, every age, every 
year, every time you and I can't

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take a step back saying I, I 
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know what is there in the 
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No, with Jesus, we can be 
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And so that's why we when we 
live in this world, things 

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engulf us. 
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you know, surround us? 
Grief, pain, loneliness, our 

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support systems crumbling, our 
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that. 
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everything because the future 
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Are we willing to invite the 
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Because it's in this that we see
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Are we willing to invite Him 
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Are we willing to invite Him 
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things not working out? 
Because if not, we will be 

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living without hope. 
We would have hope for when we 

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close our eyes, but we won't 
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you're called to live right now 
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That's why Paul writes to the 
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the church that that some of 
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But we don't grieve like we 
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We grieve of those like have 
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Grief is real hardship. 
Everything is real, but the hope

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should cause us to have that 
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Hope should take us back to His 
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We may not feel like reading it,
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which we can listen to God, 
worship Him, listen to His Word.

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Find ways to allow that to 
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One Thessalonians chapter 4 
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dear brothers and sisters, we 
want you to know what will 

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happen to believers who have 
died so you'll not grieve like 

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people who have no hope. 
But for since we believe that 

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Jesus died and was raised to 
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when Jesus returns, God will 
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believers who have died. 
And I, I, I really can't imagine

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what it is to lose a loved. 1 
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I've struggled with deep 
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I, I, I can't quietness scares 
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You know, the room just being 
house, being all quiet scares 

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me. 
And I know that is real. 

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And even as I'm preaching this, 
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This might be really hard for 
some of your walking, that 

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journey of grief. 
But I would also encourage you 

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that there's a future where God 
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future. 
As long as your eyes are opened 

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here on this earth, you can live
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And I pray this is where 
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afresh some of those areas in 
our life which have been 

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deadened. 
That's why I said earlier, even 

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if there's a little section of 
our heart that's living, the 

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Holy Spirit is wanting to come 
in and rekindle that because He 

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wants it to spread to every 
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When we see those 3 words which 
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poor, I believe we need to allow
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those areas of our struggles 
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His. 
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that struggle that you're having
as a living person, we allow His

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fire to consume us because many 
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You're saying, God, I don't like
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But God's saying, no, I want you
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What is a hearty hope? 
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all-encompassing. 
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you, you've answered me. 
God, I've called you, you've 

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seen me to God, I know that I am
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it's full. 
There's no holes in the hope 

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that you're having. 
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to, I want us to go back to a, 
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have? 
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know, his kingship. 
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there was one probably, there 
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something that was complete in 
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see what God did through him, I 
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for us so that we'll be able to 
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us to, that we won't cave in to 
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We won't cave in to the spirit 
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Taking a step back, the future 
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The first thing we see is if you
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we need to be secured in Jesus 
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Our security should be in Jesus 
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in him, we are secure in the 
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we leave no room for insecurity.
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we secure? 
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You know one of the a lot of us 
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insecurities of our life. 
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something is not fixed, 
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doubts on our own capacity. 
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Because it's very important how 
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You know, growing up I was a 
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playing and I was given the 
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sense of insecurity. 
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allowed me to grow beyond that. 
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everything to the thing that I 
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move to a place where we move 
where and, and today there are 

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those pockets of insecurity, but
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able to know who he has created 
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security of the very thing that 
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gets stripped away. 
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see a lot of railway tracks. 
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trains when they're moving, you 
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when they have to move, 
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out of the station and they have
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directions. 
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tracks are so close, the 2 
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other and then suddenly they 
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railroad switch. 
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It's just a switch. 
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takes another direction. 
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allow insecurity to lead us, it 
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We suddenly are not moving the 
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us. 
We suddenly are diverging away 

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and moving away. 
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We suddenly instead of relying 
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everything. 
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seeing the people that he's 
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lid and start controlling them. 
We start seeing different things

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that are breeding out of our 
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And so today I want to come to a
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called us to be. 
The fact that many a times this 

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hope that has to come out, has 
to come to a place that I am 

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secure and that I am a child of 
God. 

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Probably your parents are not 
called you, that probably your 

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parents have been partial to 
your siblings and that's 

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affected you. 
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You are secure in Jesus because 
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He's created you for who you 
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Probably, you know, you're 
growing up, you've been 

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differentiated by the colour of 
your skin between your relatives

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have done that, your parents 
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were certain things that you 
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gender bias. 
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favour the son or the daughter. 
Whatever it is, rise up to a 

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place to know that you've been 
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God created both man and woman, 
and so don't allow very people 

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that he's created to distinguish
and the market rise above to 

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being secure in who he's called 
you to be. 

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Hebrews chapter 6 verses 13 to 
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Abraham, since there was no 
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swore by himself, saying, I'll 
surely bless you and give you so

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many descendants. 
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Abraham received what was 
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People swear by someone greater 
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confirms what it said and puts 
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Because God wanted to make the 
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very clear to the heirs of what 
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with an oath was 18. 
God did this so that by two 

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unchangeable things in which it 
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We who have fled to take hold of
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greatly encouraged. 
We have this hope as an anchor 

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for the soul, firm and secure. 
It enters the inner sanctuary 

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behind the curtain where our 
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our behalf. 
He has become a high priest 

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forever in the order of 
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When we read this passage, there
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God himself stands as guarantee 
for the promise. 

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He says what I said will come to
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And so today the hope that we we
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promised you'll make it come to 
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and was 19 is that we are God 
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And So what happens is we have 
this hope and we can take 

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encouragement knowing that it 
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Yes, I might have to wait it on.
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It's built on nothing less but 
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And I pray that we will live in 
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will take you at your word. 
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it's the anchor of the soul 
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It enters the inner sanctuary 
behind the curtain where our 

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forerunner Jesus has entered on 
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in Jesus. 
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Who is the great high priest? 
Through him we have access to 

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everything. 
Through him, we are able to 

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stand strong in this. 
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We've been meditating in the 
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I believe that it's in those 
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ourselves with God. 
We need to make sure that we are

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there in the inner sanctuary. 
We need to make sure that that 

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we are there worshipping Him 
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We need to be waiting there for 
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We need to be waiting him 
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We need to be knowing that this 
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Many a times we're waiting in so
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believe the breakthrough that 
God's wanting us to see is far 

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bigger. 
The breakthrough that God's 

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wanting us to hold on to is in 
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I believe the mysteries that He 
wants us to step into and hope 

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for are in that inner sanctuary,
the very thing that Abraham held

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onto, the promise of God. 
What was spoken came from a 

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place of deep intimacy. 
And so today, the security that 

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you have, if you have to beat 
away in security, you need to 

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move to the place of realizing 
who has God created you to be. 

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Today we all are called to walk 
as secure people. 

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My security doesn't lie on the 
race that I get, doesn't lie on 

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the money that I bring home. 
It lies on the fact that there's

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a God above who holds 
everything. 

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He still knows me, my name. 
He still can count the number of

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hair that's there on my head. 
He still knows my heart. 

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He knows my intentions. 
You know why is this important? 

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Because when we don't take it 
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everything else comes here. 
We're taking it from a source 

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Who says I am standing guarantee
for the promise? 

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I do not lie. 
I am the one who's giving it 

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solely to you. 
I'm not coming through a 

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mediator. 
No longer is there another 

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person. 
I am the high priest myself. 

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I am giving it to you. 
The early Church did not step 

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into the Great Commission with a
feeling of insecurity. 

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The Holy Spirit comes in and 
fills every void of insecurity 

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to secure it so that they'll be 
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They'll be able to live in the 
future that God's called them to

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live now. 
They all lived with the hearty 

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hope which was secure in Jesus 
and through Jesus. 

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If you look at the lives of the 
early church, they were 

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uneducated in the Law of Moses, 
but the revelation came from the

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Law Giver himself. 
The revelation came when the 

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minute they were anointed by the
Holy Spirit, they spoke out. 

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They spoke out. 
Scriptures being fulfilled, they

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were. 
They hesitated to speak in 

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public, but the rekindling of 
the hearts and the Holy Spirit 

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gave them courage to speak in 
spaces, in squares, in temple 

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courts, in palace rooms, in 
houses. 

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The message was contained for a 
specific group of all those who 

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came for the festival, but when 
they were rekindled, they took 

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the message far and wide to the 
ends of the earth. 

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They followed Jesus with their 
insecurity and when they were 

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allowed to encounter the Holy 
Spirit, they were secure of the 

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one that had called them because
He was inside of them. 

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Today you and I are called to 
step into these places with a 

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hope that is secure in Jesus. 
Secure when I'm saying secure, 

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get rid of every insecurity. 
Get rid. 

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Of course, it's the things that 
we feel in the physical that 

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numb the spiritual, the things 
that we that we we give credence

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to in the physical that we 
discount what is happening in 

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the spiritual. 
The one transformational thing 

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that we see happen in Christian 
life is what happens inside, 

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shows up in the outside because 
I believe the greater the one 

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who's in me than he that is in 
the world. 

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It all starts in we need to 
build up our spiritual and that 

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dictates our physical that 
causes us to move into places to

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things, into doing what God's 
called us to do. 

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As I said earlier, we're looking
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Let's read a passage from there 
in two Chronicles chapter 34 

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verses one to two. 
Josiah was 8 years old when he 

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became king and he reigned in 
Jerusalem 31 years. 

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He did what was right in the 
eyes of the Lord and followed 

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the ways of his father David, 
not turning a side to the right 

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or to the left. 
It's interesting. 

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He was 8 years old when he 
became king. 

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He reigned in Jerusalem 31 
years. 

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He did what was right in the 
eyes of the Lord, followed the 

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ways of his father and did not 
turn to the left or to the 

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right. 
It's interesting David was way 

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before his time. 
In fact, his great grandfather 

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was Hezekiah. 
His father was Manasseh. 

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His grandfather was Manasseh, 
his father was before him and in

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fact he was just king for like 2
1/2 years when they assassinated

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00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,200
him. 
He did more evil. 

450
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,200
Manasseh did more evil, more 
unspeakable things. 

451
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,480
In fact he went and erected an 
image in the temple of God. 

452
00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,640
He did. 
He drove his people to towards 

453
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,560
idol worship far away from God. 
We see his grandfather Hezekiah 

454
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,760
was king. 
We see that Manasseh became a 

455
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,360
king when he was 12 years old. 
But it didn't end well for him. 

456
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,600
But something about Josiah when 
he was 8, something that he knew

457
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,440
that this is what God's called 
him to do. 

458
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,480
Yes, the people were around. 
That definitely adds a lot of, 

459
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,960
but there's something that 
happened internally. 

460
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,520
And I believe he was secure and 
who God had called him to be is 

461
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,720
today insecurity causing me to 
live in a state of hopelessness.

462
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,240
Hopelessness that I'm unable to 
move into the space that God 

463
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,800
wants me to be in. 
Am I in so much despair that I'm

464
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,840
unable to operate in the place 
that God's given me? 

465
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,240
Am I in so much of negativity 
that I'm moving in an opposite 

466
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,160
direction where God's calling me
towards something? 

467
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:55,520
I derailed myself because of my 
insecurity that I've failed to 

468
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,280
see that this is who God's 
called me to be. 

469
00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:02,840
We need to identify these issues
as we look into our own lives. 

470
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,560
Insecurity will breed jealousy, 
hatred, disunity, division, and 

471
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:12,240
in turn causes to derail. 
As we read in Romans, the anchor

472
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,400
is in Jesus and in his 
resurrected power. 

473
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,280
So today, where do we need his 
resurrection part to come into 

474
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,440
our lives so it can live with 
that heart? 

475
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,760
You because you and I have to 
kill a certain level of identity

476
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,440
that we've sought after the 
world and say, Lord, I need your

477
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,840
resurrection part to resurrect 
the identity that you've called 

478
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,640
me to live in, because that's 
when we'll be living in the 

479
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,920
secure hope that God's called us
to God put to death whatever I 

480
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,960
don't think the world is, 
because whatever the world 

481
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,520
gives, the world will take and 
it'll when the when it takes, 

482
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,800
it's hurtful. 
It's it brings me down. 

483
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,040
It it takes me along for them to
the right. 

484
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,560
Let me move to a place of 
realizing who I am in you lot, 

485
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,120
because when I know who I'm in 
you, I am able to deal with 

486
00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:56,120
grace. 
I'm able to deal with kindness, 

487
00:26:56,120 --> 00:27:00,240
gentleness and able to see you 
clearly for who you are. 

488
00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:05,080
So today, as we see from the 
life of Josiah, you might think,

489
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,760
yeah, he got a privileged 
position, but he didn't have the

490
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,520
examples of living right, even 
though he had privilege with 

491
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,640
him. 
Today, transformation happens 

492
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,040
internally. 
And I believe if you want to 

493
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,200
have this secure hope, you need 
to move to a place of taking the

494
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,280
promise from the promise giver 
directly. 

495
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,960
You need to be in the inner 
courts, in the Holy of Holies, 

496
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,040
receiving it from Jesus himself 
what your assignment is, because

497
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,640
that's when you'll find that you
are secure in who He has called 

498
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,400
you to be. 
The second thing is when you 

499
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,120
have to live this hearty hope. 
It is continual all our life. 

500
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,440
It just doesn't stop in one area
of our life. 

501
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:53,200
It's continued strength is from 
God for every stage of our life.

502
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,680
God gives us strength every 
stage of our life. 

503
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,960
And I pray that we will all move
in this hope extremely well, 

504
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,120
every stage of our life. 
You know, one of the things I 

505
00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,400
keep telling Tina is that we 
would love to grow old with 

506
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,400
people that we've made friends 
with just because there's so 

507
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,680
much that you're hoping for now.
It'd be interesting to see what 

508
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,280
you're hoping for 20 years from 
now, 30 years from now. 

509
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,280
So where is a reference point of
hope in our lives today? 

510
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,400
Where is a reference point? 
You know, we always have a 

511
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,520
reference point for something. 
We is it moving with us every 

512
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,440
year? 
Is it moving with us every time 

513
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:34,680
we take a step of faith or is it
stuck five years back, 10 years 

514
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:35,920
back? 
A lot of us have a lot of 

515
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,120
reference points of hope quite 
some time back, you know, back 

516
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,240
in the day, but today are you 
living because the future is 

517
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,880
now? 
Are you living with hope today? 

518
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,040
Are you is your reference point 
today and you might be like you 

519
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,360
know what I didn't see so many 
things come through yes, but I 

520
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,080
can still be hopeful today and 
that is 1 where God wants us to 

521
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,360
be 1 of hearty hope saying it's 
continual today tomorrow when it

522
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,680
comes, I will have hope day 
after yes. 

523
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,720
Is our hope stuck in a long time
ago phase. 

524
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,200
We as Christian followers have 
to take this hearty hope into 

525
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,240
our everyday every month, every 
year, which means we learn to 

526
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,120
live with this hope in our world
of opposites because our 

527
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,960
strength comes from God. 
What is a world of opposites? 

528
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,400
You know world of opposites is 
if God the miracle didn't come. 

529
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,280
OK, I'll look for an alternator.
Now that becomes my sustenance. 

530
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,080
And so, oh, that didn't work, 
there's something else. 

531
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:31,360
Oh, that didn't work, there's 
something else. 

532
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,720
And suddenly we have gone far 
too long and our hope is stuck 

533
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,440
way back. 
The reference point has gone 

534
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,400
back. 
And that's what we see when we 

535
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:39,680
read in Philippines chapter 
fours. 

536
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,680
It's 12 to 13. 
I know what it means to lack, 

537
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,680
and I know what it means to 
experience overwhelming 

538
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,320
abundance. 
For I'm trained in the secret of

539
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,720
overcoming all things, whether 
in fullness or in hunger. 

540
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,280
And I find that the strength of 
Christ's explosive power infuses

541
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,840
me to conquer every difficulty. 
When I talked earlier this a 

542
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,640
couple of minutes back, I said 
about strength. 

543
00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:04,680
We need to find strength in God 
so that we can hope today. 

544
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,640
Because Paul writes this to the 
Philippine church. 

545
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,320
And even as they give, he talks 
to them and he encourages them. 

546
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,920
And he says, you know what? 
I've learned to live in plenty. 

547
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,000
I've learned to live in little. 
But the secret of overcoming all

548
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,680
this is the fact that my 
strength is from God alone. 

549
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,840
It's from Jesus Christ alone and
the passionate beautiful. 

550
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:29,040
He says strength of Christ's 
explosive power infuses me to 

551
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,160
conquer every difficulty. 
So today God's called us to be 

552
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,560
conquerors. 
What does that mean? 

553
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,440
Which means we take him along 
with us every step of the way. 

554
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,720
Hope is something I take along 
with me. 

555
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,040
When my kids were toddlers, I 
hoped for certain things. 

556
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,840
When they went into pre 
kindergarten, I hoped for 

557
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,800
certain things. 
When they came into middle 

558
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,680
school, I'm hoping. 
When they move into high school,

559
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,000
I'm hoping. 
I'm hoping and alongside I'm 

560
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,320
starting to. 
And so if if I hope for myself, 

561
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,800
I'm hoping for my spouse, I'm 
hoping for my children. 

562
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,480
And as you do, life this 
hopeless just keeps increasing. 

563
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,600
And you'll be surprised to see 
that as it keeps increasing, 

564
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,800
many start getting fulfilled. 
And when you start getting full 

565
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,120
figure saying, God, this is all 
you because we did this in 

566
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,920
faith. 
We did this because of your 

567
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,880
strength. 
We were able to sustain this 

568
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,600
because you gave us the grace 
and the strength and you 

569
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,880
encouraged us in times of 
loneliness. 

570
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,280
This is not making us devoid of 
anything. 

571
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,600
It's a fact that in the midst of
everything, I will look to you 

572
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:35,920
for strength. 
That's what Paul says. 

573
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,040
When I had plenty or when I had 
little, when I was hungry or 

574
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:44,000
when I was full, it was God's 
strength and power that infuse 

575
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,920
me to conquer every difficulty. 
I can do all things who 

576
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,720
strengthens me. 
We move from realizing the God 

577
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,880
is taking us from a journey so 
we can be refined in our 

578
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,240
understanding of Him, in our 
depending on Him, in our knowing

579
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,440
of Him. 
Transformation occurs when we 

580
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,200
fall, when we fail to see him in
our everyday. 

581
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,600
We settle into doing things such
as complaining, looking at our 

582
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,200
weight with someone else's 
picture. 

583
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,240
Psalm 106 beautifully says this 
as I was meditating it couple of

584
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,560
days back in my daily Bible 
reading passage. 

585
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,920
It is a reminder that as the 
Israelites were delivered from 

586
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,560
Egypt, as they were brought out.
It's interesting when we allow 

587
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,120
hope to be set in a different 
place. 106 versus 10 to 13. 

588
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,320
This is what it says. 
He, he saved them from the hand 

589
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,040
of the four, from the hand of 
the enemy. 

590
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,920
He redeemed them. 
The waters covered their 

591
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,960
adversaries. 
Not one of them survived. 

592
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,080
Then they believed His promises 
and sang His praise, but was 13.

593
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,960
But they soon forgot what He had
done. 

594
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,960
I did not wait for His plan to 
unfold. 

595
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,720
I believe a lot of us are short 
circuiting of hope so that 

596
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,800
because you're unwilling to wait
for Him to unfold. 

597
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:00,480
Hope enables me, continual hope 
and enables me to allow God to 

598
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:05,520
unfold things, Unfold things. 
God shows us when He gives us 

599
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,720
that glimpse of hope. 
It's like a keyhole effect where

600
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,320
you see it through the eyes of 
the keyhole and then you're 

601
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,800
suddenly waiting it to live in 
the reality of it. 

602
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,320
And that's what happens. 
God wants us to take us in that 

603
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,800
journey, but we are we. 
We are forgetfulness. 

604
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:26,720
We are so caught up in our 
present struggles that we forget

605
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,040
what He's done for us. 
And we say blatantly that we 

606
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,800
can't wait for Him to unfold 
things. 

607
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,120
A lot of us are short circuiting
so many things. 

608
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,920
A lot of us are giving up on 
things that God's called us. 

609
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,080
A lot of us are prematurely 
moving to other cities. 

610
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:45,920
Probably God is moving us to. 
God is doing so many things we 

611
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,000
think is right, but we fail to 
understand and ask God, God, is 

612
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,600
this part of your plan? 
Is this? 

613
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,880
Will hope come with me if I do 
this? 

614
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,000
Or will hope be behind me? 
We are not careful. 

615
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,240
We will self sabotage what God 
wants to do through us. 

616
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,080
They forgot what God had done. 
They did not wait for his plan 

617
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,080
to unfold. 
And so today I want to ask you, 

618
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,880
are we forgetting what God's 
done? 

619
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,960
I'm unable to have him with me 
on my journey and I'm lacking 

620
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,120
hope because we've caught on to 
so many other things. 

621
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,480
That's why when I started off, I
said even if there's a section 

622
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:27,520
of your heart that has hope, 
allow him to rekindle it so that

623
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,360
you can go ahead in faith with 
the living hope beside you. 

624
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,960
You know, Josiah carried the 
Lord in his heart from the time 

625
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,520
he was made king. 
It's obvious because there were 

626
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:44,000
influences in life like his own 
mother called Jedediah who which

627
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,239
clearly means beloved. 
We can clearly see there were 

628
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:52,600
reforms that were done, and I 
believe this is where we see God

629
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,480
do things. 
Why I'm saying continuous, You 

630
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,719
can see there are two different 
stages in his life of two 

631
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,200
different reforms. 
Two Chronicles 34, three. 

632
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,760
It says in the eighth year of 
his reign, while he was still 

633
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,280
young, he began to seek the God 
of his father David. 

634
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,480
In his 12th year, he began to 
purge Judah and Jerusalem of 

635
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,600
high places, Asherapols and 
idols. 

636
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,600
In the 18th year of Josiah's 
reign, to purify the land in the

637
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:18,960
temple, he sent Son of Azalea 
and Messiah, the ruler of the 

638
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:23,080
city with Joah, son of Joahas 
the recorder, the repair the 

639
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,560
temple of the Lord his God. 
What we see is it's continuing. 

640
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,000
He's hoping and he's taking that
step every day. 

641
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,120
And if you read it, there are so
many lessons we can see. 

642
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,560
He's taken God with him. 
He's living with the future of 

643
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,520
hope right there in his eighth 
year, in his 12th year, in his 

644
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,560
18th year. 
So today you and I, are we 

645
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,160
willing to take him into all 
these different stages of our 

646
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:53,840
lives because I'm scared that I 
might just be so comfortable of 

647
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,720
receiving it once and then going
ahead without him. 

648
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,040
When you read Psalm 106 is very 
scary. 

649
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,600
In verse 14 and 16 is what it 
says in the desert, they gave 

650
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,480
into their craving in the 
wilderness, they put God to the 

651
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,200
test. 
God gave them what they asked 

652
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,320
and send a disease among them. 
In verse 16, in the camp, they 

653
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,760
grew envious of Moses and of 
Aaron, was consecrated of the 

654
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,280
Lord, and what happened? 
The earth opened up and it 

655
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,920
swallowed those who had actually
become envious and spoken I'll 

656
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,200
of it. 
It's when you continue to read 

657
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,600
from verses 19 to 23. 
It says that Horeb. 

658
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,800
They made a calf and worshipped 
the idle cast from metal. 

659
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,320
They exchanged their glorious 
God for an image of a bull which

660
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,200
eats grass. 
They forgot the God who saved 

661
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,240
them or done great things, 
miracles in the land of Ham and 

662
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,960
awesome deeds by the Red Sea. 
So he said he would destroy 

663
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,040
them, had not Moses, his chosen 
1, stood in the breach before 

664
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,920
him to keep his wrath from 
destroying them. 

665
00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:01,000
Today are you and I part of this
trading game where we're seeing 

666
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,280
which works well, which works 
well, which works well? 

667
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,840
Are we willing to just trade off
God just so that we'll be able 

668
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,160
to see certain things fulfilled 
in our lives today? 

669
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,880
You know, I, I know this is, 
this is difficult for us to 

670
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,240
swallow and understand, but God 
saying, I want to journey with 

671
00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:22,200
you right here because this is 
important in our Christian life,

672
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:27,760
because there will be times when
this continual hope is lonely. 

673
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,320
Continual hope will just be 
between you and God will be just

674
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,680
between you and the closest 
person you're believing with, 

675
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,840
probably your spouse or just 
your family. 

676
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,520
You will feel alone. 
You will feel all by yourself. 

677
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:44,040
But God saying this is where I 
want to come in so that when the

678
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,680
fulfillment happens, it'll have 
me all over. 

679
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,880
You'll be able to take it every 
stage. 

680
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,280
Josiah just didn't stop with 
just giving a decree. 

681
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,600
He went ahead and pulled down. 
He went ahead and consecrated 

682
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,080
the temple. 
He went ahead and did so many 

683
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,760
things because the hope was with
him. 

684
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,880
That gave him strength, that 
gave him assurance, that gave 

685
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,520
him clarity of vision, that gave
him a renewed purpose and 

686
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,560
understanding of who He was 
created to be. 

687
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,320
You and I are in the same place.
A lot of us are unable to 

688
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,480
overcome certain things in our 
life because we've not really 

689
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,960
allowed God to work. 
We've not hoped for God to come 

690
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,040
through before He can come 
through. 

691
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,640
We've self sabotaged it before 
He can unfold. 

692
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,160
We've gone on to complain. 
We've gone on to derail 

693
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,560
ourselves. 
And I pray that we will allow 

694
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,640
Him to come to a place where 
He's continuous with us every 

695
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,000
stage. 
You know, I want to carry this 

696
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,440
rekindling way into my old age 
because I believe that's when 

697
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,160
there'll be even more tangible 
things that I'll be able to see.

698
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,600
Every time I open God's word, 
there's a lot of tearing up that

699
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,640
God does of my own self, my own 
pride, my own things that I 

700
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:04,160
think I've accomplished. 
I'm having to go back saying, 

701
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,160
God, I want a renewed sense of 
hope today, Lord Jesus, and I'm 

702
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,840
bringing hope in into my day 
today. 

703
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,840
I'll take it in definitely into 
my tomorrow. 

704
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,520
And so today would it be a 
continuous hope into our lives. 

705
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:24,280
The third thing we see is we 
live now with a hearty hope that

706
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:29,240
glorifies God always about what 
all I have achieved. 

707
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:32,680
We glorify God. 
We put God above everything 

708
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,440
else. 
You know, we see when Josiah 

709
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,400
became king, he was eight, he 
was 8. 

710
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,840
And then at 26, the temple was 
ready. 

711
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,480
It was in the process or at 
which they found the book of the

712
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,880
law. 
And in finding the book of the 

713
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,280
law, they go ahead and they hear
from this prophet Haldah. 

714
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,720
And this prophet goes on to give
this prophecy that Judah had 

715
00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:56,840
sinned. 
And you know, they they are 

716
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,240
going into captivity. 
And the promise comes that 

717
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:03,480
nothing will happen to Josiah, 
that he'll be able to put his 

718
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,880
head at peace. 
He'll be able to lay his head 

719
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,160
here, but Judah as a country 
will go into captivity. 

720
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,560
And so as we hear that, we see 
that Josiah is just not content 

721
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,760
with that. 
He's not, he's not like, you 

722
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,200
know what? 
No, but he he pushes in. 

723
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,320
And this is what amazed me is 
the fact that I would be happy 

724
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,040
if I got an answer. 
But there's definitely something

725
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:29,520
that he wanted his people, his 
country to experience that he 

726
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,280
pushed further in. 
Even though he was guaranteed 

727
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,080
peace in his time, he still were
handed, gathered everyone to 

728
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,800
worship God. 
Something about hope that we get

729
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,000
everyone to participate in hope 
this doesn't this. 

730
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,200
I don't just keep it, but I make
sure others are able to 

731
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,520
participate in it. 
Two Chronicles 34 versus 28 to 

732
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:51,760
33. 
This is what it says. 

733
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,520
So they took her answer back to 
the king. 

734
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,080
Then the king called together 
all the elders of Judah and 

735
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,200
Jerusalem. 
He went up to the temple of the 

736
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,600
Lord with the people of Judah, 
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 

737
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,800
the priests and the Levites, all
the people from the least to the

738
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,400
greatest. 
He read in the hearing all the 

739
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,280
words of the book of the 
Covenant which had been found in

740
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,560
the temple of the Lord. 
The king stood by his pillar and

741
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,320
renewed the covenant in the 
presence of the Lord, to follow 

742
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,440
the Lord, and to keep his 
commands, statues, and decrees 

743
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,840
with all his art and with all 
his soul, and to obey the words 

744
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,320
of the covenant written in his 
book. 

745
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,080
Then he had everyone in 
Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge 

746
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,720
themselves to it. 
The people of Jerusalem did this

747
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,480
in accordance with the covenant 
of God, the God of their 

748
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,080
ancestors. 
Josiah removed all the 

749
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,720
detestable idols from all the 
territory belonging to the 

750
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:44,240
Israelites, and he had all who 
are present in Israel serve the 

751
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,520
Lord their God. 
As long as he lived. 

752
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:49,200
They did not fail to follow the 
Lord, the God of their 

753
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,720
ancestors. 
It amazes me that Josiah knew 

754
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,880
who the real king was. 
He could have had his way. 

755
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:03,320
The history for him was not one 
that was done well. 

756
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:07,200
The history for him was one who 
had given to given into the 

757
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,040
pleasures or whatever. 
But it's something here where he

758
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,760
fulfills what God had told 
Samuel. 

759
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,360
God had told Moses in fact, when
he was saying there will come a 

760
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,800
time when my these people will 
ask for a king. 

761
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,400
Let the king write the law and 
the let him write it down so 

762
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,640
that he'll know it. 
It's literally what he's doing 

763
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,680
here. 
He is taking the law of God in 

764
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,520
making it his own. 
He's making sure the people 

765
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,840
under him are following it. 
What a testimony to live by 

766
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:38,200
that, that you take what has 
been given just because he's 

767
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,280
made it through. 
He's like, no, I need even this 

768
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,360
God. 
Even if I know I can't change 

769
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,600
your heart, I can't change what 
you've already planned. 

770
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,160
But I still want to bring others
into this hope so that they'll 

771
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:49,840
be able to experience your 
goodness. 

772
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,560
They'll be able to experience 
your goodness today. 

773
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,520
We live in a time where Jesus 
has done it all. 

774
00:42:56,240 --> 00:43:00,560
He is willing to change people's
lives inside out. 

775
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,680
And so as we journey with 
people, we take that hope 

776
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,480
alongside with those who don't 
have that's that's one of the 

777
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,880
Great Commission that we are 
given with as much as we are 

778
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,600
called to make disciples, one of
the ways we make disciples is to

779
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:18,720
be hope hopelessnesses. 
And so today we take hope 

780
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:23,560
because we are able to see God 
is glorified in our hope that 

781
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,320
we're able to take it to the 
people. 

782
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,240
We see some of the things that 
Josiah did when we read in Two 

783
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:32,040
Chronicles, chapter 35, we see 
that Josiah celebrated the 

784
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,080
Passover and it wasn't done in 
this manner. 

785
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,760
We none of the kings had done 
it. 

786
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,560
And I believe there's something 
about hope when this glorifies 

787
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,880
God alone and no one else. 
Two Chronicles 35, one to two, 

788
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,680
it says Josiah celebrated the 
Passover to the Lord in 

789
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,200
Jerusalem and the Passover lamb 
was slaughtered on the 14th day 

790
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,120
of the first month. 
He appointed the priests to 

791
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,400
their duties and increase them 
in the service of the Lord's 

792
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,680
temple. 
This I provided for all the lay 

793
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,960
people who were there, a total 
of 30,000 lambs, goats for the 

794
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,040
Passover offerings and also 3000
cattle, all from the King's own 

795
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,800
possessions. 
His officials also contributed 

796
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,920
voluntarily to the people and 
the priests and the Levites. 

797
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,120
Hilkiah, Zechariah, Zehil and 
the officials in charge of God's

798
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,200
temple gave the priests 2600 
Passover offerings and 300 

799
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,080
cattle. 
So at that time the entire 

800
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,320
service of the Lord was carried 
out in the celebration of the 

801
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,560
Passover and the offering of the
burnt offerings of the alt of 

802
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,040
the God, as King Josiah ordered.
The Israelites were present, 

803
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,320
celebrated the Passover at that 
time had observed the festival 

804
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:36,840
of unliving breath for seven 
days. 

805
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,120
The Passover had not been 
observed like this in Israel 

806
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,080
since the days of the prophet 
Samuel, and none of the kings of

807
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,320
Israel had ever celebrated such 
a Passover as did Josiah with 

808
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,360
the priests, the Levites, and 
all Judah and Israel who were 

809
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:51,920
there with the people of 
Jerusalem. 

810
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,400
This Passover celebrated in the 
18th year of Josiah's name. 

811
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,320
Josiah could have been 
convenient in the place where he

812
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,960
was because he had received it. 
But the beautiful thing about 

813
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,960
hope is you can't contain it. 
Just because you've received it 

814
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,120
doesn't mean you have to contain
it. 

815
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,880
He couldn't contain it. 
He participated in everything. 

816
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,480
He was willing to let go of his 
own possessions with his people.

817
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,040
What happened in that? 
He was also able to see three 

818
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,800
things happen. 
He participated in it 

819
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,200
generously. 
His officials participated in 

820
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,760
generously. 
He bridged the gap between the 

821
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,480
priests and the lady. 
What we see happened here is He 

822
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,600
bridged that gap. 
There was no longer a divide. 

823
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,840
All of them sought God. 
It was just not the priests. 

824
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,120
They all celebrated the Passover
together because when God 

825
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,880
brought them out, He brought 
them out as an entire nation. 

826
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,960
He was their God. 
He was their king and what we 

827
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,000
see happened in this is being 
reinstituted. 

828
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,840
The same thing where everyone is
made equal and God is glorified.

829
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,960
That's why it says that no one 
had celebrated this like this 

830
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,800
before the time of Samuel till 
even before there was a king. 

831
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,120
And I believe hope causes us to 
be the great equalizer because 

832
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,440
God is glorified in and through 
us. 

833
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,440
We see Josiah could have been 
convenient so that he could have

834
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,120
laid his head at peace and not 
be captured in his lifetime, but

835
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:22,240
he was had this hearty hope. 
He somehow knew if I could turn 

836
00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:24,960
because he followed David. 
It said it didn't say he 

837
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,080
followed Hezekiah or Manasi or 
his dad. 

838
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:31,720
It said he followed David And 
David had access to the heart of

839
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:34,960
God where he knew how to worship
to get God's heart. 

840
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,920
And I believe something about 
that caused Josiah to realize if

841
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,160
we can all go back into 
repentance, if the entire nation

842
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,400
could repent, we could probably 
change God's heart. 

843
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,400
But whatever the outcome is, I 
believe Josiah did it with all 

844
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,000
his heart because he loved God. 
And so today I want to ask you, 

845
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,280
are you in love with God? 
Because if you're in love with 

846
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,960
God, you'll be able to see that 
this hope that we have is 

847
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,080
glorious. 
You know, David Livingstone, who

848
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,960
was a missionary, says this. 
If a Commission by an earthly 

849
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,840
king is considered an honor, how
can a commissioned by a heavenly

850
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,240
king be considered a sacrifice? 
We are commissioned by a 

851
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:20,160
heavenly king. 
It's an honor to do it. 

852
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:27,640
Today. 
I believe Josiah is an immensely

853
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:32,120
successful reformer, more than 
any other king who preceded him.

854
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:38,640
He leads the nation to revival, 
going back to times of 

855
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,920
repentance. 
Even though the fate is sealed, 

856
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,080
even though the outcome of it is
the fact that they would go into

857
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:52,040
captivity, it does not stop them
from worshipping God holy 

858
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,840
wholeheartedly. 
And I believe that is a true 

859
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,840
depiction of hearty hope. 
Irrespective of the outcome, 

860
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:05,000
Lord, I will have a hearty hope.
And as I conclude, I wanted to 

861
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,440
leave this one thing with you. 
As Christians, as Christ's 

862
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,000
followers, one of the things 
that we are concerned about with

863
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,080
regard to hope is 
sustainability. 

864
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,680
Lord, who will sustain us? 
Who will carry us? 

865
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,680
Lord, we, our bank balances are 
depleting. 

866
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,960
Our children won't be there to 
look after us. 

867
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,800
Or Lord, the world is so busy. 
Lord, the world is having so 

868
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,320
much of chaos. 
This world sustainability. 

869
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,280
Everyone is talking about 
sustainability, and the 

870
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:34,160
beautiful thing is we as created
beings, we cannot sustain 

871
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,640
anything. 
It's the Creator who can 

872
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,600
sustain. 
And so today I want you to move 

873
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,640
to a place of realizing 
sustainability is the Lord's 

874
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:46,400
hope will end and I hope in God 
he will sustain me. 

875
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,880
That is his promise. 
Isaiah 46 verse 4 says this even

876
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,000
to your old days. 
This is when the people have 

877
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,560
gone into Babylon and the Isaiah
is telling them even to your old

878
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,960
age and grey has I am he I am he
who will sustain you. 

879
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,320
I have made you and I will carry
you. 

880
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:03,920
I will sustain you and I will 
rescue you. 

881
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,440
So today, if you've been running
Helter Skelter looking for 

882
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:13,720
sustainability from the world or
building systems around you 

883
00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:16,960
thinking and sustain, I pray 
would you come to the creator 

884
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,480
who created us because he's the 
one who can sustain us. 

885
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:25,640
And I believe when we have this 
hearty hope, we will be secure. 

886
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,160
We will be continuous. 
We'll have this hope continually

887
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,360
in our lives. 
We will always glorify God. 

888
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:33,880
We will always point back to 
him. 

889
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,440
We'll always say, God, this is 
you entirely. 

890
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:43,480
So I pray that as we step into 
this week, we will have hearty 

891
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,760
hope. 
I pray for those of you who just

892
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,280
have a section of your heart 
that's hopeful. 

893
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,480
I pray as you rekindle it, the 
entirety of your heart will 

894
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:56,120
experience hope, faith, and it's
love. 

895
00:49:56,720 --> 00:50:00,480
I pray specifically for those of
you who have, who have haven't 

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been able to see the futures now
because of grief, because of 

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loss, because of failure. 
I pray that you'll see yourself 

898
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through the eyes of the Maker 
who's made you, who's called 

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you, is one who says I have knit
you in your mother's womb. 

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I know how to sustain you, that 
you'd give your hands to the 

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makeup and he will carry us 
forward. 

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Can we pray, Lord? 
We thank you, Lord, for this 

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time. 
I thank you, Lord, for all those

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who are listening and all 
watching. 

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I pray even right now, Lord, 
that even as your word goes 

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forth, Lord, I pray it would 
create a stirring in their 

907
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,960
hearts right now, a spiritual 
awakening, a holy fire being 

908
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:35,520
birthed within. 
Lord Jesus. 

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I pray areas that they've been 
struggling to step into, they 

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will boldly step into knowing 
that you are with them. 

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Lord Jesus. 
I pray that they'll be able to 

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acknowledge you as Lord and 
King. 

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They'll be able to see how 
Josiah saw Lord continually 

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through their lives, step by 
step. 

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00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,440
Whatever was done was done 
because you were that you were 

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00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,600
involved in the picture, Lord 
Jesus, that they were able to 

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bridge, they were able to 
reform. 

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They were able they'll be able 
to chase the trajectory of their

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of their history, of their 
generation. 

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People will be amazed. 
Is this who this person is. 

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Their past look different, but 
their present and their future 

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looks glorious because Jesus is 
in them. 

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I pray that will be the story of
our lives, Lord, a hearty hope 

924
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,720
where we'll be able to say you 
are with us, you are in US, 

925
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,880
you're working through US. 
Lord, I pray we will rekindle 

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every area, Lord Jesus, every 
area. 

927
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,040
I pray you'll go before us, 
bless us, take charge. 

928
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,000
I pray as each one watches, you 
will strengthen them. 

929
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,240
Take charge of them. 
I pray as we step into this 

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00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:38,120
week, go before us, help us 
accomplish all that we set out 

931
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:39,920
to do. 
I pray we'll be able to give you

932
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:41,320
the glory. 
We'll be able to give you the 

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honour. 
Take charge. 

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In the most holy name we pray, 
Amen. 

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00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,280
Amen. 
Such I just want to charge you 

936
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:51,000
that as you go out, go out that 
you'll be be strengthened, 

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00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,000
You'll be you'll be captivated 
by Jesus in every step of the 

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invitement. 
Allow him to do it. 

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00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:04,040
It's painful, it's rewarding, 
it's hard, but it's fruitful. 

940
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,000
At the end, you become a tree of
life where you not only are a 

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00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,480
blessing to yourself, you're 
established in the Lord, but you

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00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,600
become a blessing to many alone.
I pray that you have a blessed 

943
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,840
week. 
God bless you and remember this,

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that whoever finds Jesus finds 
life. 

945
00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:24,120
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946
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,960
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00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:32,320
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00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:53,280
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