1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,500 And what sounds 1:22 says, I was glad when they said to me, let 2 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:13,500 us go to the house of the Lord. I was glad when I got invited to 3 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:16,400 go to church. That was the greatest invitation 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,500 that I could receive. Can I ask you a question? 5 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:23,600 If somebody were to ask you, Where's your favorite place to 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,600 be? Or where would your favorite 7 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,500 place to be? What would you be able to 8 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:30,700 answer? Would Church be the first thing. 9 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:34,800 I hope so. Do you know why? 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,600 Being in the house of God is the greatest place to be on this 11 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,000 side of Heaven. Because it's the closest thing 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,200 to Heaven. That's why to be surrounded with 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,700 God's people, to be surrounded with the truth of God and to 14 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:51,100 sing praises to God. Ephesians 2:20 to says that we 15 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:55,700 are being built up together as a dwelling place for God as a 16 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:58,700 dwelling place for God. So, even if your bone tired this 17 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:02,400 morning, because I see a lot of baggy eyes today, I know we had 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,500 we celebrated many people here, celebrated marriage, a marriage 19 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:10,400 between a man and a woman that represent Christ in the church 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,300 and are part of this church. So, I'm fully aware that many 21 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:16,300 people in here are exhausted, but even when you're exhausted, 22 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,700 it's still a good thing to be in the house of God. 23 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,900 With that being said, turn to James chapter, 5, James chapter 24 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:32,100 5, beginning in verse, Eight. James 58. 25 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,500 You also. Be patient. 26 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:52,100 Establish your hearts. Prepare your hearts. 27 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:59,000 Get your heart to ready. Establish your hearts for the 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,600 coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not Grumble against one 29 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,900 another brothers, so that you may not be judged behold the 30 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:12,300 judge capital J. The judge is standing at the 31 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:17,100 door. Verse 10 as an example of 32 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:19,900 suffering. And patience Brothers, take the 33 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:22,900 prophets. Who spoke in the name of the 34 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:25,900 Lord behold. We consider those blasts Who 35 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:30,500 Remain steadfast you have heard of the steadfastness of job. 36 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,200 And you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is 37 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,300 compassionate and merciful. Let's pray together. 38 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:45,400 Lord, as we just saying. And as we just read We establish 39 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,000 our hearts Lord, for your coming. 40 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:54,100 And we pray that. You would find us ready. 41 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,300 Lord, we just ask that you would speak through your word in the 42 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:00,500 power of the holy spirit that even through our weariness. 43 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:04,000 God, your where would grip has penetrate into the depths of our 44 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,200 soul. Or if there's anybody in here, 45 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,100 who's not ready for your return? Make them ready. 46 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:12,300 By convicted me of sin and reminding them that they need. 47 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,000 Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. 48 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,600 Let it be done today in this house for the glory of your 49 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,000 name. We ask that this meeting be free 50 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,200 from distraction discouragement. Or destruction. 51 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,900 And now your purpose is Prevail. We ask and the precious name of 52 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:30,000 the Savior Jesus we ask amen. Amen. 53 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:33,100 The scriptures are emphatic, Ali? 54 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:39,600 Clear that the second coming of Jesus Christ is an undeniable 55 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,200 event, that will take place at one point in history, based on 56 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,300 the trustworthy, testimony of the Bible. 57 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,300 You and I could be sure of this, that in the midst of all the 58 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:52,300 things that are happening in life. 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,100 Jesus said as in the days of Noah, this is fitting for our 60 00:03:58,100 --> 00:03:59,400 context. There will be people who are 61 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:00,600 marrying. There will be people who are 62 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,800 buying they'll be people who are selling in the midst of all of 63 00:04:02,808 --> 00:04:06,100 that. Jesus Christ will interrupt all 64 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:10,900 of our plans for his ultimate plan to bring the church to him 65 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:13,000 and to bring judgment on the world. 66 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:16,399 It's coming, it's coming whether you believe it or not, it's 67 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:18,000 coming whether you're ready for it or not. 68 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,100 And James here is reminding us of that. 69 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,200 But there's something else that he wants us to. 70 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:28,400 My to be reminded of that between this moment now and that 71 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,300 event that will take place whether it's in our lifetime or 72 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:38,400 not, there is a guaranteed experience that we will have in 73 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,800 that time period between now and Jesus returning. 74 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:45,700 There is a guaranteed just like the sucking Second Coming, is 75 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:48,500 guaranteed. This also is something that will 76 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,500 happen inevitably and it is this, that you and I will to 77 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,400 some degree. Free suffer. 78 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:02,000 And not just suffer, but be tempted in the midst of our 79 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,400 suffering. To become weary. 80 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:12,300 And to become relaxant and are faithful zealous obedience to 81 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:17,500 the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what the Holy Spirit does 82 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:21,100 through James and verse 10, verse 8 and verse 9, he's 83 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:24,300 telling the people his audience, he's telling us today. 84 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,400 Hey, hey, Jesus is coming back. And then he goes into this 85 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:32,400 seemingly random subject relating to suffering and 86 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:33,600 patience. And you go, what's the 87 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,900 relationship between now? And then we might suffer, and 88 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:41,200 some more than others, some with greater intensity than others. 89 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,200 But it is something that is surely to come to pass in the 90 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,400 Christian experience. And so he says, listen. 91 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,400 It's going to happen, the second coming and trials and 92 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,800 tribulations, and this is a beautiful thing for us because 93 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:00,500 he's not providing a philosophical explanation of why 94 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:05,000 Christians suffer he could have. And there are some places we can 95 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,100 go to explain that instead of giving us an explanation of why 96 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:14,400 we suffer, he wants to give us examples of suffering. he wants 97 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,500 to give us clear pictures in the Bible that you and I are to take 98 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:24,400 hope in and find life in You know what he does. 99 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:27,600 He says Annex as an example of suffering. 100 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:29,800 I want you to look to the prophets. 101 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:33,100 I want you to look at the prophets of old who spoke in the 102 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:35,900 name of the Lord. And I want you to see what they 103 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:40,500 experienced as as a means by which you can continue to walk 104 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,400 Faithfully with the Lord. Like they walked Faithfully with 105 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:48,000 the Lord. And this heads-up from the Lord 106 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,700 to say, hey, things might not go your way in life, should not 107 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:54,400 discourage you, and I should not discourage us if anything. 108 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,100 It should encourage us because we know that he already knows 109 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:00,800 what's to come, and he is Sovereign over our suffering. 110 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,500 So I have hope and I have, I have an anchor of my soul to 111 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:06,300 know that I've read in the Bible already that if I've been 112 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:10,100 stamped by the blood of Christ, if anything goes against me and 113 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:12,300 it's not for me per se on the surface level. 114 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:14,900 I can rest to know that God is in control. 115 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,600 Control. And we have this commandment 116 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,500 from God. This this prescription go to the 117 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:24,900 Old Testament and look at the prophets of old. 118 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:29,100 He says, because they suffered and James. 119 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:32,500 I don't think James has one type of suffering inspired by the 120 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:34,500 Holy Spirit, one type of suffering in mind. 121 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,800 When you hear the word suffering, what comes to your 122 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,700 mind immediately. Severe persecution, physical 123 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,000 pain, severe disease, extreme poverty. 124 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,000 What comes to your mind? What jolts in your mind as an 125 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,800 image? When you think or hear the word 126 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,400 suffering, the reality is suffering comes in different 127 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,100 packages in various forms. And I believe James here does 128 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:01,800 not have one idea of suffering per se. 129 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,100 Why? Because he says look to the 130 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:07,400 prophets, plural, not one prophet. 131 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,200 And what we know from the prophets, Is that though they 132 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,200 all suffered in different in one way in the sense that they were 133 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:16,900 persecuted. They all had their unique 134 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:20,600 experience. Each Prophet had a slightly 135 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:25,600 different bent to their experience of pain and trials 136 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,700 and tribulations, which is amazing to us as a source of 137 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:33,100 encouragement because we can look at the vast roster of 138 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:36,100 profit, and look at one of them in a season of life and say, oh, 139 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:37,600 if he went through it, I can go through it. 140 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,500 So, if that person experience that, surely I can experience it 141 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:44,800 and this is the beauty about the Theology of suffering in the 142 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,600 practical sense, isn't it true that when we go through 143 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,900 something, we tend to Magnetize ourselves towards those who have 144 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:54,500 gone through the very same thing or something, similar and have 145 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:59,300 overcome it. Our ears are more open to those 146 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:03,000 who can relate to US based on experience, because no matter 147 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,300 how shattered we are in the midst of what we're going 148 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,100 through. We are faced with someone who is 149 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,900 flesh and blood like us but as overcome and there is hope even 150 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:16,500 if it's a small small dosage of it, we are drawn to people who 151 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:17,800 have experienced what we've experienced. 152 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,700 And James is saying, listen, go to the prophets and draw some 153 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:25,300 help from them. Because as much as they're 154 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:29,200 calling was very preacher, like and full-time Ministry. 155 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,700 Based there is something about the prophets in which the Bible. 156 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:35,200 In wisdom says you can actually relate to them more than you 157 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,200 think. And there's suffering is not as 158 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,600 far-fetched as you are experiencing in this Western 159 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,300 age. The purpose of this message, the 160 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:51,400 purpose of James's message to us this morning, is that we would 161 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,800 glean from them. And that we would have the 162 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,700 strength from that to continue to walk Faithfully with the 163 00:09:57,700 --> 00:10:01,300 Lord. Which profits can we go to? 164 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:06,700 Which profits can we go to someone who has overcome? 165 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,800 Something that we seem to be overcome with. 166 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:19,600 I think one that is. Undeniable is Jeremiah. 167 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:23,700 Jeremiah turn to Jeremiah chapter 20. 168 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,500 Jeremiah chapter 20 beginning in verse 7. 169 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:45,700 Jeremiah chapter 20. What's the context here? 170 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:48,000 Jeremiah is doing? What Jeremiah was called to do. 171 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:54,600 Preach the word of God. And I one point, his audience 172 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:01,200 was greatly discomforted uncomfortable by his words and 173 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:04,200 verse 1, you can just lean over as his Passion of the priest, 174 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:07,200 the son of immer, who was the chief officer in the house of 175 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,900 the Lord, her Jeremiah prophesying these things. 176 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,300 And what did he do? He beat the guy up and threw him 177 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:18,500 in a holding cell overnight. Some response to a message and 178 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:22,500 what is Jeremiah experience? What he's been experiencing for 179 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,700 most, if not all of his ministry, rejection after 180 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:32,700 rejection after rejection, after rejection, And in this chapter 181 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:37,300 in particular it seems like Jeremiah the single-minded 182 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:44,500 devoted man of God has reached a Tipping Point in his soul. where 183 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:51,400 he now begins to Open his heart bear before God, and begin to 184 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,800 express without filter. What he's truly sensing. 185 00:11:57,100 --> 00:12:00,300 What is he saying? First verse 7 O, Lord you have 186 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:04,100 deceived me. And I was deceived. 187 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:08,600 You were stronger than I and you have prevailed. 188 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:13,300 I'd become a laughing stock, all the day, everyone mocks me. 189 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:18,500 Think about what he said, you have deceived me. 190 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,600 And you're stronger than me. And you and In this wrestling 191 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:30,400 match, you actually overcame me. That's a bold thing to say to 192 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:41,800 God. you have tricked me, you have Manipulated you have hidden 193 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:44,300 goals behind this whole thing. What does he mean? 194 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:46,600 By say, you deceive me? He's going back to when he was 195 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,400 called in chapter one. When he was called as a young 196 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,600 man to be a preacher in the first place. 197 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,800 And he is now slipped into such Despair and discouragement and 198 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,100 such raw form. He pretty much just saying in 199 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:04,800 modern language, I did not know that all of this was a part of 200 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,100 the package. So when you came to me Lord and 201 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:12,500 you this you just brought this idea to me and you you said 202 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:16,000 these wonderful things about who I was that I was consecrated for 203 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,900 my mother's room and I was chosen to be a prophet to the 204 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:22,100 nation's and when I came to you as a response to that and I 205 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:25,800 said, listen I'm but a youth. You told me not to worry and I 206 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,500 said I can't speak very well and you said, don't worry, I'm going 207 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:31,700 to be with you. And when I was fearful of this 208 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:35,200 apostate Nation, you said I will be with you to deliver you. 209 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:37,500 That sounded really, really Good. 210 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:39,900 But I didn't know all of this would be a part of it. 211 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,600 Because up to this point, I'm not really seeing much fruit in 212 00:13:42,608 --> 00:13:49,900 my Ministry. That was all Splendid. 213 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:51,500 That was beautiful. Lord, that call. 214 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:54,700 I mean, we all go to that. Even we go to that chapter to 215 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:57,400 bring us, hope to know that God really has a plan for our lives 216 00:13:57,700 --> 00:14:00,900 from the moment that we are even conceived in our mother's womb. 217 00:14:01,700 --> 00:14:04,500 But Jeremiah saying, I feel tricked. 218 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,200 I did not see this in the small print. 219 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,900 I'm getting beat up and I'm getting thrown into prison and 220 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:19,800 I'm getting laughed at by everybody. 221 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:26,300 I was humbled at first, I was excited at first I was willing 222 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:29,600 to make any sacrifice. Do you realize in Jeremiah 16:1, 223 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,900 probably one of the hardest things that Jeremiah had to 224 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:34,400 hear. Read it read it one day, God 225 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,900 tells them you're not getting married. 226 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,400 And you're not going to have children. 227 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,500 In this place, it's not going to happen. 228 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,700 I don't think we really realized the waiting is the depth of this 229 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:50,900 ministry and the sacrifice that this man had to make in order to 230 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:53,400 serve the Lord and Jeremiah was willing to do it. 231 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,200 Whatever it is. You want to put a hold on my 232 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,000 season of marriage. You want to put a hold on? 233 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,300 I mean, wanting to have children. 234 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,500 That's fine. I'm willing to serve you Lord. 235 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,000 And who knows what was going on in Jeremiah's, my, but all these 236 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:10,100 wonderful things that God had called him for no converts. 237 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:14,800 I mean, at least, if I'm going to make these sacrifices, I 238 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,200 would see some fruit. Come out of my Ministry. 239 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:20,200 If I'm going to go to these Great Lengths of putting things 240 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,900 on pause and life and and preaching an unpopular message, 241 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:27,300 surely there's going to come some fruit out of it. 242 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,200 And in fact, I'll top of all the things that he had to lay aside 243 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,400 for the Lord. He's getting pummeled by his own 244 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,400 people. Never mind Gentile Nations. 245 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:42,900 Did God deceive him? Did God leave that out with God? 246 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:44,600 Like well if I don't tell him the whole thing he's not gonna 247 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,300 know know Jeremiah just did not realize the extent of it here. 248 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:52,100 This in chapter 1 verse 19. God told them this stuff was 249 00:15:52,100 --> 00:15:55,700 already going to happen, but it's just in our fallen nature 250 00:15:55,700 --> 00:15:59,000 that we have selective hearing. Not only that, we didn't, we 251 00:15:59,008 --> 00:16:01,100 don't just do that. Jeremiah is not just doing that 252 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:04,300 because it's Jeremiah we do that with our Bible reading the only 253 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,700 We find ourselves picking the things that we like, and we find 254 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:12,200 ourselves kind of muting our ears to the things that we're 255 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:17,100 not too fond of. Jeremiah 119, this is what the 256 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:19,000 Lord says they will fight against you. 257 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:22,800 But they shall not Prevail against you for. 258 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,000 I Am with You declares the Lord to deliver you. 259 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:27,900 It's going to happen, Jeremiah, but it's not to the point where 260 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:31,900 it's going to overcome you. so he's just frustrated here, he 261 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:37,400 and in chapter 20, is come to a place of just Total despair. 262 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,600 And I believe a great part of his despair as the weeping 263 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,900 prophet was. He did not see much apparent 264 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:47,900 success. In terms of people turning from 265 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:51,000 their ways and walking Faithfully with the Lord. 266 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:58,700 And that crushed him. And you say, what's the point? 267 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,200 How does that relate to James five? 268 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:03,500 It relates in this way that between now and waiting for 269 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:06,700 Jesus to come back, you and I can suffer in the same way 270 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:11,000 Jeremiah did in what sense that we remain faithful and Ministry 271 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,700 and don't really see much things coming out of it. 272 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:19,099 And that can make us weary of remaining faithful in Ministry. 273 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,599 This point is for those who really want to live for Christ. 274 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:24,500 If you don't want to live for Christ, this point means nothing 275 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:27,300 to you but if you have made it your ambition to bear fruit for 276 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:30,600 the glory of God. I hope this encourages you. 277 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,100 Because you hear it from pastors and you even hear from Layman 278 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:39,500 that want to serve God, you hear from people that really want to 279 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:41,600 serve the Lord. And we're not seeing things. 280 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:42,800 What? They've been praying for what 281 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,100 they're believing God for what they read in biographies and 282 00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:49,400 stories, but they're not really getting it, it wounds them. 283 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,300 It weighs them down. It takes the fight out of them. 284 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,600 Like Jeremiah. Especially when you believe that 285 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,900 God has called you to something, especially when you felt like, 286 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:06,100 God is open a door and gifted you with something and you're 287 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:09,300 walking into that and as you're walking into that, you seem like 288 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:10,500 everything else seems to be crumbling. 289 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:13,100 All the things that you knew that you sacrifice to get to 290 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:15,800 this point all the hours, all the energy, all the driving, all 291 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:22,500 the prayer meetings and nothing Little bit of Hope here and then 292 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:24,100 it ends up. It doesn't take much long before 293 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:27,500 the people that your ministry or backing, all these things that 294 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:30,000 are crushing the man can Crush you and me as well. 295 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,000 And it feels tricked. Was this really worth it? 296 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,200 Man, I could have bought into something else. 297 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,200 That would have brought me instant results. 298 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,500 I could have invested my time and energy and other things, I 299 00:18:45,508 --> 00:18:48,600 would have brought some kind of instant satisfied satisfaction. 300 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,200 But here I am living for God. Feel like I'm all alone and all 301 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,000 these wonderful things that he's given me as promises and I don't 302 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,700 really seeing things I thought I would see. 303 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:07,300 Been there. Are you there? 304 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:09,600 My get there. One day. 305 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:16,500 But take hope. Because something happens to 306 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:21,100 this man in a moment. And what happened to Jeremiah in 307 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:22,800 this text. I believe it's happened to many 308 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,700 great men and women of God, you hear me very carefully. 309 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:31,500 In 1793, there was a man by the name of William Carey was a 310 00:19:31,508 --> 00:19:34,200 missionary to India. He felt his heart stirred to go 311 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,200 to that place to preach the gospel and so he picks his stuff 312 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,500 up to go. He goes with his wife named 313 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:46,400 Dorothy and his sister-in-law Dorothy's wife sister Kitty and 314 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,100 they go to this place in India and they met a man named John 315 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:52,500 Thomas who was an acquaintance, a partner in the ministry. 316 00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:55,400 So they have this band of people, you have, William Carey, 317 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,000 you have his wife, Dorothy you have. 318 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:00,300 Her sister Kitty of this man named John Thomas and you have 319 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:04,500 their families in a new land with Great Hopes believing that 320 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:09,000 Christ has commissioned, all Christians of all generations to 321 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:14,400 make disciples of all Nations. And it in a matter of a few 322 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,600 short years. In order to to, to sustain and 323 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,300 to live, William, Carey John, Thomas work in a factory, to 324 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,500 gain some income from their family, but this man John Thomas 325 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,200 ends up squandering all the money. 326 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:34,700 Within a short amount of time. William, Carey son, Peter died 327 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:38,500 at the age of five. Within a short amount of time, 328 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,200 William Carey sister-in-law, chitti abandons, the mission 329 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,200 field to go, marry a British shoulder Soldier within a short 330 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:50,300 amount of time because of some believe of the death of the sun 331 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:53,000 and the whole environment itself. 332 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,800 William carries wife literally, goes insane, To the point where 333 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,800 she saw her husband as the greatest enemy of her life. 334 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,400 And where people were trying to convince this man, put her in an 335 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,000 insane. Asylum. 336 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:17,300 And so wired, was she? With this mental illness that 337 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:20,900 she ended up dying. Probably due to that. 338 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,400 And you think, okay, this man had it on his heart to go. 339 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:29,800 He goes with his family, he has this plan, this Vision. 340 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,500 Surely something came out of this. 341 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:35,400 How many converts do you think William Carey saw in the first 342 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:43,700 seven years? Seven years baptized one person. 343 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:55,600 God, what did I get myself into did he have that know this man 344 00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:01,500 is known now as the father of the modern Mission movement and 345 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:07,500 the fruit that came out of this man's sacrifice, As far beyond I 346 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:12,500 believe, what he thought, Bible translation school, and converts 347 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:19,200 in the hundreds after those first terrible years, at least 348 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:24,100 in the natural sense. What kept this man going? 349 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:28,200 What made him not jump ship and go back to England. 350 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,700 What was it? What was it? 351 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:32,000 That anchored him and faithfulness? 352 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,300 And not growing weary and serving the lord and proclaiming 353 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:36,300 the Lord? I believe, what? 354 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:40,500 Jeremiah in? Jeremiah 29. if I say, I will 355 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:44,200 not mention him, Or speak anymore in his name. 356 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,600 He's saying, if I say that if I come to the point where say I'm 357 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,100 done with this, I'm not preaching anymore. 358 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,300 I'm not gonna go and do these Mission things anymore. 359 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:55,500 I'm not going to serve and this I'm done. 360 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,500 I'd rather invest my time and my energy elsewhere. 361 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,200 If I say that there is something that reacts to very thought 362 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,400 before it leaves my tongue, what is it? 363 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:07,700 There is a my heart as a were a burning fire. 364 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,200 Shut up in my bones. And I am weary with holding it 365 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:20,900 in. I cannot I try to convince 366 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,100 myself. I try to make myself look like 367 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:27,600 the victim and right, when I'm about to press, right? 368 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,300 When I'm about to bring in my papers, right? 369 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,800 When I'm about to bring in my two weeks notice Something 370 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,500 begins to burn up inside of me and it's a fire. 371 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,300 What is that fire? I believe it's Jeremiah. 23:29 372 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,300 were Jeremiah says is not your word like a fire. 373 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,300 Like a hammer that smashes The Rock in pieces. 374 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,100 There was something in Jeremiah that was greater than the 375 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:58,200 discouragement that try to overcome Jeremiah and it was the 376 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,500 word of God. The word of the Lord that 377 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:07,000 consumed him and even listen, it was so deep inside of him, even 378 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,100 when he came to the place where he thought that he would not 379 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:15,200 even share it, he couldn't, he would burst open. and I believe 380 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,800 it's something that we can relate to in Acts chapter 4 20, 381 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:23,200 For Peter and the rest of the Christians were commanded. 382 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,400 Don't you dare preach anymore? In this name Jesus? 383 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,000 And you know what they say we cannot help but speak of what we 384 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,000 have seen and heard. We cannot help but to speak what 385 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,900 we have seen and heard you know what, Peter was trying to say 386 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:38,000 there. I've seen too much. 387 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,700 And I've heard too much. For me to retire. 388 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,700 And to retreat from what I believe, God is calling me to do 389 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:55,800 in this life. In other words, there are too 390 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,100 many testimonies, and too many Revelations that I have been 391 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:04,800 exposed to, for me, not to move forward for me to stop or to go 392 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,100 into reverse is actually in a possibility. 393 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,900 I have a question for you, this morning. 394 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:15,400 What have you seen? And what have you heard? 395 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:23,700 Have you been so blinded by the glory of God in your walk with 396 00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:27,200 Christ? That to give up is actually 397 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:35,500 equal to dying. Have you been so enamored? 398 00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:38,100 Have you been so stunned? Have you been so touched by the 399 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:39,800 Holy Spirit through the word of God? 400 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:43,600 Has your deliverance and salvation been so great? 401 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,100 That you're single purpose and the Earth is to glorify Christ 402 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,200 and whatever way he asked you to and if not then Lord take me to 403 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,900 Glory because it's all about your glory. 404 00:25:54,900 --> 00:26:01,900 Anyway, Have you so burn the bridges behind you brother. 405 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,000 Have you so burn the bridges behind you sister. 406 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:11,400 Like, Elijah, when he was called by Elijah, he went back and he 407 00:26:11,408 --> 00:26:13,200 made a barbecue out of his business. 408 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:18,000 You realize that he was a farmer with oxen and with plows, and 409 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,300 when Elijah call them, he said, let me just do one more thing 410 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,000 here. Hey guys, no turning back. 411 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,400 We have it on our sweaters, right? 412 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,700 I'm burning all of this and let's have a feast because it's 413 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:34,500 one way, and there's no turning back, you know, where God wants 414 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:37,100 to bring all of us this morning. God wants to bring all of us to 415 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:39,300 such a place in our devotion to God. 416 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:46,200 Is that turning back or retreating or ceasing is 417 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,900 actually impossible. Because that's the only reason 418 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:53,800 why you live. I don't live for any other 419 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,700 purpose. So I go back and there's nothing 420 00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:59,400 to go back to because there's no Bridge. 421 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,100 Onward. Christian Soldiers. 422 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:12,100 Jeremiah say I can't do it even if I'm trying to convince myself 423 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:15,600 it's not working. Peter says, Hey we've seen and 424 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,900 heard too much to keep silent. The only way you're going to 425 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:21,000 actually keep us from doing what God's called us to do is if you 426 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,600 kill us and they ended up doing that. 427 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,100 I'm sure all of Hell, had vacation when Paul Peter and 428 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:35,900 John died. Jeremiah. 429 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Said there's a fire in my bones. And I'm weary of holding it in. 430 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:44,100 This is the place where God wants to bring us. 431 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:48,700 So if you're here today and you're suffering and what sense 432 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:54,800 if you're suffering, With the emotions of discouragement and 433 00:27:54,800 --> 00:28:00,000 despair in light of the lack of apparent fruit in your ministry, 434 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,000 take courage, it's not about the fruit, it's about the 435 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,700 faithfulness that God looks for in our ministry. 436 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,900 I believe Jeremiah Jeremiah Was A spectacle to Heaven and Hell. 437 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:16,200 Why? Because when all the nation was 438 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,700 going downhill, you had a man who would weep because he knew 439 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:24,600 God's heart and he remained the course, And he's just as human 440 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,400 as you and I are. Take courage. 441 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:36,600 Don't give up. Let's look at another profit 442 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,500 together. We might not consider this man 443 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:45,100 as a prophet. He was a man that perhaps 444 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:48,100 suffered in a way that we would not necessarily immediately 445 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:52,300 consider suffering. But once we explain them or 446 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:54,100 perhaps, you'll be able to say, oh yeah, I know what that feels 447 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:58,900 like. This man is a prophet according 448 00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:02,300 to the scriptures saying, who is he Abraham? 449 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:10,000 Abraham Genesis 27, God describes Abraham as a prophet. 450 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,200 And this man is another faithful servant of the Lord. 451 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:23,600 And he had an experience like Jeremiah that we can all 452 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,900 somewhat relate to if we really meditate on it. 453 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:33,500 How did Abraham suffer I believe Abraham experience suffering and 454 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:37,600 patience like James says, in light of this one thing that all 455 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,800 of you have experienced all of us will experience something 456 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:47,600 called waiting on God. Waiting on God. 457 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:52,300 Go to Genesis 15. Genesis 15 too. 458 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:11,800 Genesis 15 too. But Abram said, Oh Lord God, 459 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:15,700 there's a cry. They're all Lord God. 460 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:21,200 What will you give me? Fry continue childless. 461 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,800 And they are of my house is Eliezer of Damascus. 462 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:30,900 You can't read that verse without feeling the ache in this 463 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:37,000 man's heart. And he had a desire, and it was 464 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,600 not a selfish desire. This man had made great 465 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,900 sacrifices to follow the lord as well. 466 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,900 He was called to leave the comfort of his own home. 467 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:49,200 He was called to lead the familiarity of his area. 468 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:52,000 He was called to go somewhere where he did, not even really 469 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,600 know where he was going and to drag his family with him. 470 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,300 This man after a great victory in chapter 14 over many kings. 471 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:09,500 Had an underlying cry in his heart and that cry was I want a 472 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:16,200 child. I want somebody to continue my 473 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,000 legacy, I want to success sir, I want an heir from my own for my 474 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,200 own seed. And this is something that when 475 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,900 you read verse to, you know, that this is an ache in his 476 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:30,200 heart, you know, it was in the back of his mind, oh, even 477 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,400 throughout the whole adventure of following the Lord and all 478 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,100 the great acts of faith. And all the interventions of 479 00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:39,000 God, this was still something that he could not fully bury. 480 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,600 This was something that always surface. 481 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,400 It was something that always came up, I'm sure as he laid 482 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,300 there in his tent at night, I'm sure when he saw other families 483 00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:50,300 with their children, something was stirring and Abram. 484 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:53,500 And he would say, Lord, I really This. 485 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:58,200 And it's not a sinful desire. It's not a bad thing too long 486 00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,800 for it's a. Holy thing. 487 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:02,200 It's a wonderful thing. It's a joyful thing. 488 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,300 It's a gift from God. He says, God will you give me 489 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:10,500 this? And God makes him wait. 490 00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:17,500 And he's not in his 20s. He's not in his mid-30s, he's in 491 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:22,300 his 70s. He gets to his 80s and he's 492 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:24,300 just, he looks at his wife and he realizes, this is just 493 00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:27,000 getting crazy. This is not going to happen. 494 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,400 Is it? But God promised him. 495 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,200 It's so this isn't just like it's going to happen within the 496 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,600 spent every single day counted at this point in his life. 497 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:44,500 It was a day by day thing that this man had to walk through and 498 00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:48,400 trusting in the Lord's timing and again you could see that 499 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,100 because he is worried and he's anxious about this. 500 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,800 Very awesome thing. He starts to make plans even in 501 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,800 that statement. So as Eliezer of Damascus 502 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,800 supposed to be my Heir, is that the plan that somebody that's 503 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,200 outside of my family is going to continue my name and what 504 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,500 happens in the next chapter in chapter 16, his wife starts 505 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:12,000 getting antsy and a Buys in. And what does he do? 506 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,400 He marries Hagar. So, you can see that this guy, 507 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,700 he's fidgety in the soul and he's longing and he's wanting so 508 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:23,200 desperately that he begin to. Now maneuver In the Flesh, plan 509 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,300 in his own ways, to make something happen that God said, 510 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:27,900 what happened? But didn't tell him when it 511 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:35,600 would happen. And this man love God, he 512 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,000 sacrificed for God. But he had a concern for his 513 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,900 future, you have a concern for your future. 514 00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:48,400 Do you want something from the Lord? 515 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,300 But you just want to right now. That's what Abram wanted. 516 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:56,600 The sooner the better Lord. Have you ever prayed that? 517 00:33:57,900 --> 00:34:02,600 I'm ready to get it now. What else do I need to do? 518 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,400 What else do you want me to fulfill until you bring this 519 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,699 thing into my life? And we even start to give God 520 00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:12,199 advise. Lord, I'm getting old here. 521 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:17,100 Laura. I think it can bring you more 522 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:19,000 glory in my younger years. If I do it. 523 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:23,100 Now, if you give me this opportunity, now if you give me 524 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:26,100 this relationship, now if you give me that job, now if you 525 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:28,600 give me that Ministry, now I think I'd be better now. 526 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:42,400 No answer. and you wait and you wait and you wait and you saying 527 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:48,300 yeah, I know that Abram waited So, what does that have to do 528 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:52,300 with suffering? Waiting can sometimes be 529 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:56,300 torturous. Sometimes the hardest thing in 530 00:34:56,300 --> 00:35:00,500 life is to wait. In fact, some people in here, 531 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,600 maybe could testify that the most difficult thing in their 532 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,900 life right now. Is that they're waiting? 533 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,000 It's not that they don't have enough. 534 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:09,800 It's not they don't have the right people in their lives is 535 00:35:09,808 --> 00:35:12,400 not like, no, they're waiting for something. 536 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:18,100 They're not getting it. And some maybe would even pay 537 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:21,800 money to get that thing, whatever it is. 538 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:26,800 Just so you can be satisfied in that area of your life. 539 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:32,100 But here's the joy. If you were suffering between 540 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,800 now and the second coming of Christ in your desire to walk 541 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,700 Faithfully with the Lord because it's amazing like Abram, we can 542 00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:42,400 allow waiting on, God become so overwhelming that it begins to 543 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:47,200 affect our faithfulness. We get so impatient and we get 544 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,400 so antsy that we begin tonight. Begins to affect the way. 545 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,400 We obey him and walk by him and wait on him and seek Him and we 546 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,300 go. Well if I don't get it then I 547 00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:57,800 can't serve him the way I want to serve him. 548 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,100 Listen listen, listen. Listen this morning if God says 549 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:03,500 wait, is he still worthy to be loved and served? 550 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,500 If God says, hold on, hold on. Wait is one thing? 551 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,700 Let's take another notch if God says, no, Is he still worthy to 552 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:21,400 be served? It's convicting. 553 00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:26,300 You know, why you can say yes to both of those things? 554 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:28,000 Do you know why you can say, yes, brother. 555 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,800 I can, I can love him and worship him and adore him. 556 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,600 I can do it with joy. You know why? 557 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,300 Because whenever God says wait or no, it's always because he 558 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,500 has something better. Always, God is not in heaven, 559 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:43,000 using you as a guinea pig, just for the thrill of testing you to 560 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,800 see what he can get out of you. That's not God's heart or mine 561 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:50,000 God because he's your father and mine whenever like a good dad 562 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,700 says wait or no, it's because he loves you enough. 563 00:36:54,800 --> 00:37:02,900 Can I give it to you right now? That's where the pain begins to 564 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:06,900 drain. When we realize, the reason why 565 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:11,700 he's not letting it happen in our timing is because he has a 566 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:17,400 mind and thoughts that we don't. Sometimes we need a sermon like 567 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,000 this. We need to be preached to for us 568 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,300 to be reminded of that. Even if it's a truth that we 569 00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:28,200 already have memorized, You know how we can believe that? 570 00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:34,700 It's because we know why Abram had the way to some degree. 571 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:40,200 How do we know? Let me read this to you from 572 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:46,000 Hebrews 11 12. Therefore, as is describing 573 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,800 Abraham. Therefore from one, man. 574 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,500 And him as good as dead. Were born descendants as many as 575 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,900 the stars of Heaven, as many as the innumerable grains of the 576 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,300 Sand by the seashore. Did you read that slowly? 577 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:04,400 Therefore, why did God make him wait so long? 578 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,500 Why at 100 years old of all times at 100 was Isaac born to 579 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,500 Abraham. You know why? 580 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,700 Because Hebrews says that God was waiting for him to be as 581 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:20,600 good as dead. Abraham. 582 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,500 I want to get you to an age and I want to get you to a Frailty. 583 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:29,500 I want to get you to such a dependency that when I deliver 584 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:31,400 what I promised to you. And when I want to give to you, 585 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,300 that very thing that's been stirring in your heart, all 586 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:40,400 these years I'm going to time this so specifically that the 587 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:45,100 timing itself will be a testimony to my glory. so that 588 00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:50,500 when people see little Isaac in your arms, Whenever heat, they 589 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:53,400 hear his giggling and whenever they see him stumbling across 590 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,900 the field, they will know that this is a gift. 591 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,700 It miraculous provision from God. 592 00:39:02,100 --> 00:39:05,500 They won't be able to attribute it to Natural circumstance. 593 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:09,300 They won't be able to say. This was some know, every time 594 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:13,500 they see Isaac, they'll see God. Every time they see your little 595 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:16,600 family picture that sent over to the neighbors for Christmas. 596 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,700 They're going to see God. In other words, I'm going to 597 00:39:20,707 --> 00:39:24,200 make that desire that you want so bad I'm going to time it for 598 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,000 a testimony. God's timing is for a testimony 599 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,500 for his glory but all the goodness of God it goes even 600 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:36,600 deeper than that my family. Genesis 21:6. 601 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,900 Look what happens to Sarah. When Isaac was born and Sarah 602 00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:43,100 said, God has made laughter for me. 603 00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:47,900 Everyone who hears will laugh over me? 604 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:52,300 So when this baby comes, when Isaac the promise is fulfilled, 605 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:53,900 you know what she says? She's not speaking, 606 00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:56,000 sarcastically hear someone assume. 607 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,800 She goes, whenever people hear of this they're actually going 608 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:08,200 to rejoice. So I look at that truth and I 609 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,100 say okay I really want something really badly and God knows that. 610 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:16,600 But I can take comfort to know that the timing of this being 611 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,100 fulfilled is so that God would get maximum glory. 612 00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:24,800 And that my joy would be to the brim And that not just my joy 613 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,100 like Sarah, who laughed, but when other people see it, and 614 00:40:28,100 --> 00:40:30,400 hear of it, they're going to rejoice as well. 615 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:36,100 What an awesome God. We serve That's hard for us. 616 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,600 You know why? Because the day we live in 617 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:42,000 everything in our day is almost instant. 618 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,300 You can order a precious product and get it at your front door 619 00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:49,500 without you putting your shoes on in a matter of hours, 620 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,800 everything is in your hands whenever you want it and it is 621 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,700 so affected us. Listen, it is so affected us and 622 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:00,400 I'm not pointing I'm saying I'm included here too. 623 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:05,100 Here in the west with all of our services, we are growing more 624 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:08,400 and more impatient to things that are ridiculous. 625 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:14,600 Even things that 10 years ago would have taken weeks now, take 626 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:19,400 hours minutes even and unfortunately, because our food 627 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,500 comes so quick because our internet service comes so quick 628 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:25,200 because of our products that come in so quick, all of these 629 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,100 things that can come right in the snap of a finger. 630 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,800 We've translated that into our relationship with God, listen, 631 00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:33,600 Amazon might have changed how their products come quickly to 632 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,200 your house but God's ways do not change. 633 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,900 God is the same in Genesis as he is today. 634 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:46,500 And God has wisdom. in his timing and he knows when to give 635 00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:50,300 it for his maximum glory and for the joy of your own heart and 636 00:41:50,300 --> 00:41:55,700 for those who would witness your patient endurance, Or you can 637 00:41:55,700 --> 00:42:00,600 birth in Ishmael. I don't want to birth in 638 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,900 Ishmael. If there's a prayer, you can 639 00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:05,900 pray between now and God fulfilling what you believe. 640 00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:08,400 He wants to fulfill in your life or give to you a gift. 641 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,600 A natural. Holy Gift. 642 00:42:11,300 --> 00:42:14,800 Ask God between that time. Don't let me birth and Ishmael 643 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:21,400 please. I rather not have one then have 644 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,800 one that's enough from you. Gosh. 645 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:26,900 You hear some married? Couples. 646 00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:33,800 Say that even today. We can go on two different 647 00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:37,700 Prophets. How many prophets can we go 648 00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:38,900 through? We can go to so many prophets 649 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:43,000 that have experienced a unique Dynamic of suffering, but we go 650 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,800 back to James. And what is James choose to do? 651 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,200 Inspiration of the Holy Spirit? He goes to not a man who was a 652 00:42:49,207 --> 00:42:51,900 messenger? Not a man who was a messenger 653 00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:54,000 called to full-time Ministry but a family, man. 654 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:02,300 And in james511, it says, behold we consider those blessed Who 655 00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:07,300 Remain steadfast, you have heard of the steadfastness of job. 656 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,600 And you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is 657 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:15,600 compassionate and merciful. So now he's owns it and he says, 658 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,100 I want you to consider job you've heard of him, right? 659 00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,800 And not only have you heard of him, but you've seen how his 660 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,800 patient endurance during that time has brought about a 661 00:43:25,808 --> 00:43:28,800 manifestation of the compassion, and mercy of God. 662 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,700 Now, if you've ever read the book of job, you might have a 663 00:43:32,707 --> 00:43:36,800 different opinion. Because if you read the first 664 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,900 chapter of job, I encourage you to do this. 665 00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:41,000 The next time, you read the book of Job, take a timer. 666 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,100 And we've done this before here. When we went through job, a long 667 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:46,900 time ago, anybody remember that long time ago, we've talked to 668 00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:52,100 Joe, take a timer and read the moments where everything was 669 00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:55,200 stripped away from Joe. From the moment you he gets the 670 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,100 news and read it and then stop the timer and realize that the 671 00:43:58,100 --> 00:44:02,100 man lost his business, his family, everything around him 672 00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:04,700 burned to the ground within a matter of seconds. 673 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:08,900 That's how the text reads because one person comes in. 674 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:11,000 As soon as he finishes another person comes, as soon as he 675 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,900 finished another, it was just literally chaos in a minute. 676 00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:17,400 You know what that tells you and me though, because there was a 677 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,400 hedge of protection, if God were to remove hedge of protection 678 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,100 over you, and I it would be a matter of seconds before 679 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:24,900 everything in our lives would be destroyed by the devil. 680 00:44:25,500 --> 00:44:29,200 Oftentimes, we don't see God doing something and we get 681 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,900 frustrated brother and sister, you have no idea what God is 682 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:35,100 saving you from every single day. 683 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,600 Seven. Job chapter 1 shows you and me 684 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,400 that when moment God lifts his hand from your life, all of Hell 685 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,900 will eat you up like cereal in a matter of seconds. 686 00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:49,600 So we praise him and we thank him. 687 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:56,500 You read job and you go. Compassion and mercy. 688 00:44:57,100 --> 00:45:00,100 Not only do I see that? The devil attacked a man to his 689 00:45:00,100 --> 00:45:06,200 very bones. I see that God allowed it. 690 00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,300 And like many things in life, it's not really until you get to 691 00:45:13,300 --> 00:45:16,000 the end of the story where you see God's mercy and compassion. 692 00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:21,400 Even during, but that's for another time. 693 00:45:21,900 --> 00:45:25,600 Because something happens at the end of Book of Job job 4212. 694 00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:28,600 He says in the Lord blessed the latter days of job, more than 695 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:33,000 his beginning. And the Lord blessed the latter 696 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,700 days of job, more than his beginning. 697 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,900 The end of the matter produced something greater than if 698 00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,900 nothing had happened to job in the first place. 699 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,200 And in light of what James is saying, look to job and see the 700 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,400 mercy and compassion of God in light of suffering. 701 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,900 And patience, this is what we can take out of this, that no 702 00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:54,700 matter what suffering I experienced between now. 703 00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:59,700 And when Jesus comes back, we'll always in the end proof for 704 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:02,000 greater fruitfulness and blessing in my life. 705 00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:04,800 That's the principle of the story of job in light of James. 706 00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:08,400 So as I go through it, I may not get it. 707 00:46:08,408 --> 00:46:11,400 But the at the end of it, there's going to be something 708 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:15,000 better in me, through me. And for me, then if I had not 709 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:19,200 been touched by the devil in the first place, do you see the 710 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,600 win-win in the Christian Life? That have God protects you. 711 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,700 It's a blessing, but of God allows the devil to touch you. 712 00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:26,500 I'm going to be better at the end of it than what I've started 713 00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:32,500 without it. so God bless him and in the Old Testament, there's an 714 00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:35,600 emphasis on physical blessings material blessings, but in the 715 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:40,200 New Testaments emphasis on spiritual blessings, but I think 716 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,600 there's something even more that job experience that was greater 717 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,300 than more fields and crops and lands and everything else that 718 00:46:45,300 --> 00:46:49,400 God gave to him in verse 5 earlier and job 42, the same 719 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:54,300 chapter liquid job says, I had heard of You by hearing of the 720 00:46:54,300 --> 00:47:04,200 year. but now my eyes, see you This was a faithful man. 721 00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:07,500 According to chapter one who feared God, who interceded for 722 00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:09,600 his family without missing a beat day by day. 723 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,500 While they were having their celebrations out their houses 724 00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:12,700 and they were eating and drinking. 725 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,800 This father came not in self-righteousness or hypocrisy 726 00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:18,500 and Camus said, oh God less they've sinned against your 727 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:19,800 hearts. Would you forgive them? 728 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,800 Oh God I bring my children before you. 729 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,300 I love in the midst of all of his prosperity and blessing. 730 00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:28,500 This guy was a business guy he'd never lost priority about God. 731 00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:33,300 He never lost his relationship with the Lord and yet Through 732 00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:37,000 his suffering and God's revelation of himself in that 733 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,500 suffering. Job says, at the end, I've only 734 00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:44,100 heard of You by ear, but now I see you, like, I've never seen 735 00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:54,700 you It's a wonderfully dangerous thing to ask. 736 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:58,200 God to know him more because he just might use suffering to do 737 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,600 it. Not to destroy you. 738 00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:06,500 Not to harm you not to crush you, but only as we sang to 739 00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:09,400 refine you. And in that refining, not only 740 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,700 do you look like him more, you get to see him with Clear 741 00:48:12,700 --> 00:48:17,300 Vision. He said, how can you say that? 742 00:48:17,300 --> 00:48:21,700 Because I know people who have suffered and when they've 743 00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:27,300 suffered, they said, brother Jesus is near to me than ever 744 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:32,900 before. I don't want this to end. 745 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,800 You don't want this to end, man. You have cancer. 746 00:48:35,900 --> 00:48:39,200 I know, but I know that the moment this cancer comes off me. 747 00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:50,300 I'll start walking my own way. I only heard of you with my ears 748 00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:51,400 but now I see what is he trying to say? 749 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,900 I perceived you in a manner that I've never perceived you before 750 00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:55,300 in the midst of all. This chaos. 751 00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:56,800 Oh God. If this is the only reward that 752 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,100 I have that you are more beautiful than you were. 753 00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:04,100 When I first knew you then. Let me suffer. 754 00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:16,000 Jesus is coming back soon. That's a promise. but know, this 755 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,900 is another guarantee that you and I as Christians may suffer 756 00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:24,400 And some more than others, maybe you're suffering right now, in 757 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,600 light of these three examples, maybe you're suffering in the 758 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,700 fact that you're serving the lord Faithfully like Jeremiah. 759 00:49:29,700 --> 00:49:31,400 But you are not seeing what you thought you would see. 760 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,000 In fact, you were seeing the opposite of what you 761 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,500 anticipated. To maybe you're suffering like 762 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:40,100 the prophet Abraham suffered in what sense, in which he was 763 00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:42,400 waiting on God for a promise that he was walking with the 764 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,300 Lord. And you are, you are on the 765 00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:47,300 verge of birthing and Ishmael God, right now is telling you 766 00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:56,800 don't wait for the Isaac. Or three. 767 00:49:58,100 --> 00:50:01,100 Maybe you have suffered like job has in a very real way where 768 00:50:01,100 --> 00:50:04,900 you've lost someone or something and you don't understand why. 769 00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:07,300 But let me tell you this, according to this book. 770 00:50:07,300 --> 00:50:13,000 Wait till the end of the story of your life. you'll realize 771 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,300 something about God that you never thought you would realize 772 00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:18,100 and you'll realize that it was better for you in the end and it 773 00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:23,600 was before you were put on this journey of Trial. 774 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:57,900 Let's pray. Before we pray corporately, I 775 00:50:57,900 --> 00:51:04,300 want to end with this note. Do you know how each of those 776 00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:06,600 men handled their suffering while they were going through 777 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,700 it? Because though they're suffering 778 00:51:08,700 --> 00:51:15,100 was unique, they all experienced one, common thing. if you read 779 00:51:15,100 --> 00:51:20,900 those men's stories carefully, they all Express their pain to 780 00:51:20,900 --> 00:51:26,000 the Lord while experiencing it. each of them came to God in 781 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:33,500 honest form and brought about their need While they were going 782 00:51:33,500 --> 00:51:37,900 through it and funny enough here, this just hear it in James 783 00:51:37,900 --> 00:51:41,400 5:13 after these instructions, about suffering and being 784 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,400 patient. Look what he says in verse 13. 785 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:48,800 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. 786 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,400 That's what it says. It is anyone among you 787 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,500 suffering? Let him pray. 788 00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:02,000 I can come to God if I'm not seeing what I'm supposed to, 789 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,100 what I believe. I'm supposed to be seeing, it's 790 00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:07,500 a god. I don't know what this is all 791 00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:09,300 about. I did not sign up for this 792 00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:11,600 necessarily. Would you help me as you're 793 00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,600 waiting? God, when will you give me this 794 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,200 shot him? I say, get out of here. 795 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:21,400 You faithless kid. Jabba says all that I would have 796 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,100 a mediator. Oh that I would come before him 797 00:52:24,100 --> 00:52:28,000 and plead my case and God comes and blesses him. 798 00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,800 So if there's one Avenue between now and the end of this thing, 799 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,800 it is this that I can come before the Lord and say I need 800 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,200 you. He's all ears. 801 00:52:41,500 --> 00:52:43,700 So now as a response to this message, we're going to do just 802 00:52:43,700 --> 00:52:45,900 that because maybe you find yourselves in one of those three 803 00:52:45,900 --> 00:52:48,900 categories or you're in a whole different category itself, James 804 00:52:48,900 --> 00:52:52,300 by the holy spirit gives you permission to pray when no 805 00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:56,100 matter what you're suffering with and God is there, why pray? 806 00:52:57,300 --> 00:53:01,800 Why does why do we pray while we suffer what kind of, because 807 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,100 there's something that comes out of it for you to endure it, 808 00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,100 that's why. Let's pray now. 809 00:53:27,100 --> 00:53:29,100 You seek the Lord on your own just in your own heart. 810 00:53:29,100 --> 00:53:30,000 You know what you're going through. 811 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,400 You know what? What part of this was for you 812 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:36,800 and just bring it before the lamb and just speak to your God. 813 00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:41,600 And then we'll sing together and then closing prayer. 814 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:45,800 But just now just do what the Bible says and pray.