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Father, we turn our eyes to you 
again tonight, and our prayer is

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simple. 
Your servant Paul told the 

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Thessalonians that our gospel 
came to you not only in Word, 

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but also in power and in the 
Holy Spirit, and with full 

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conviction and Lord, from the 
bottom of our hearts, we pray 

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that what happened among the 
Thessalonians would be our 

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portion tonight. 
We ask that you would do it by 

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your Spirit. 
Let your presence come and touch

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us and renew us, heal us, 
convict us, save some. 

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Only you can do that. 
In Jesus name we pray. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Meet me in your bibles in First 
Kings chapter four. 

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First Kings chapter 4. 
Beginning in verse 24. 

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First Kings 4 verse 24 to 25. 
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Holy Spirit says, for he had 
dominion over all the region 

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West of the Euphrates, from 
Tifsa to Gaza, over all the 

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kings West of the Euphrates, and
he had peace on all sides around

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him. 
And Judah and Israel lived in 

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safety from Dan even to 
Beersheba, every man under his 

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vine and under his fig tree, all
the days of Solomon. 

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Solomon's name simply means 
peace. 

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It derives from the Hebrew word 
Shalom, and it was a very 

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fitting name, because peace was 
a factor that distinguished 

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Solomon's reign in comparison to
all the other kings of Israel. 

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Solomon has something very 
special about him. 

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He did not fight wars like his 
father David did. 

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He actually, he didn't know any 
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There was an unusual 
tranquility. 

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There was an unusual alliance 
and serenity with Solomon as he 

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took over as the leader of the 
people of God. 

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And as we just read in summary 
of this verse, this man was able

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to maintain decades, years upon 
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internationally. 
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That's significant. 
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other king following Solomon who
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peace in the land. 
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that there was safety among the 
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border, that's what we read 
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We also realized that there was 
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was under his establishment, 
what they enjoyed because of 

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Solomon's leadership. 
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You read it with me. 
It says every man under his vine

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and verse 25 and under his fig 
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Men and women did not have to 
hide in their homes, did not 

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have to be worried about any 
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outside. 
They were able to liberally be 

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in their own personal gardens 
and enjoy the fruit and the 

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shade found therein. 
And this was not just a one time

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commentary about what Solomon 
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people of Israel. 
This became a proverbial 

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expression, a proverbial 
expression that would describe 

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enjoyment and rest and peace. 
And more significantly, it 

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actually became a prophetic 
hope, a prophetic hope for the 

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future generations of the people
of God. 

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And so even the prophets 
borrowed that First Kings 425 

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statement to give the people 
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So when the son of David, the 
promised son of David, who would

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rule and reign forever and ever,
they would long for that even 

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more. 
They would have a scene of what 

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they could expect. 
Here's proof of that. 

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When you go to the prophet Micah
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verse three and four, this is a 
prophecy about Jesus Christ, not

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in his first advent, but when he
returns, Jesus Christ is coming 

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back. 
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Christ will return on this 
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this planet, he will plant his 
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And when he does so, he will 
also establish His throne in 

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Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, and he 
will rule and reign the nations 

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for 1000 years. 
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looking forward to. 
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for Christ to take us up, we're 
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down. 
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going to prove to all the 
governments, all the nations, 

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all the peoples for all 
generations, that there's no 

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king like him. 
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in the Old Testament of the 
second Advent of Christ, of what

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you and I are expecting. 
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that he's coming very soon. 
Here it is in Micah 4 three to 

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four. 
Hope we have it ready. 

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More importantly, have it ready 
in your Bible. 

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He shall judge between many 
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strong nations a far off. 
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into plowshares, meaning they're
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farming equipment. 
There's going to be no war when 

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he comes and their Spears into 
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Nation shall not lift up sword 
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they learn war. 
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hundreds upon hundreds of years 
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Look at the next verse. 
But they shall sit every man 

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under his vine and under his fig
tree, and no one shall make them

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afraid for the mouth of the Lord
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That's spoken. 
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Spirit borrows the language of 
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a future reality to come. 
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the Messiah is that he will 
settle disputes among the 

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leaders of the world and there 
will be a peace unlike any other

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time, and every single person 
will enjoy personal prosperity 

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and security unmatched. 
Oh, here's that, just Micah. 

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Here's Zechariah and Zechariah 
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Is Zechariah another prophet 
near the end of your Old 

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Testament? 
We're told something in one 

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simple verse that echoes what 
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That echoes what Solomon was 
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What day? 
When Christ comes, when he comes

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in that day, declares the Lord 
of hosts, everyone of you will 

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invite his neighbor to come 
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victory. 
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anticipation, an expression of a
desired daily reality that there

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will be mutual trust, that there
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that there would be this sense 
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people. 
No crime, No Fear, no bad news. 

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It would just be this, everyone 
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utopia. 
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whether you look WE north or 
South, oh come Lord Jesus, come 

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Lord Jesus. 
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is when you have this Old 
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may add something. 
This is just a little nugget for

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you to enjoy. 
I hope that it adds something 

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perhaps to a a very specific 
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Jesus's ministry when he was 
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So let me show you that if you 
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chapter one and look here in 
John chapter one, verse 45, John

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the Baptist is telling people, 
behold the Lamb of God. 

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He's here. 
He's in our midst. 

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Now Jesus is beginning to draw 
his Father's namely his 12 that 

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he wants to train to be 
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And here's one of them, Philip. 
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to him, We have found him, We 
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the law. 
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Jesus of Nazareth the son of 
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So he friends his He find his 
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We we we found him the one 
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He's here. 
And look at the response of his 

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friend in verse 46. 
We are told here, Nathaniel said

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to him, Can anything good come 
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Phillips said to him. 
I love Phillips. 

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Never come and see. 
I'm not going to hear. 

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Argue with your come and see. 
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If you know the story, you know 
that he was praised by Jesus 

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himself of being someone who had
no deception in him. 

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There was no guile in him. 
There was no trickery in him. 

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What you see is what you got. 
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he spoke his mind. 
And you get proof of that right 

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here. 
And what girl can come out of 

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Nazareth? 
So this is not somebody who's 2 

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faced. 
This is somebody who was 

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transparent, somebody that you 
can trust, somebody that you 

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didn't have to second guess 
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of his character. 
And we praise Nathaniel for that

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Jesus praise. 
And we praise and we long to 

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emulate what Jesus praise. 
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have limited Nathaniel to that 
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You know what you see here about
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You know what I at least see 
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Nathaniel was not just simply 
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person who was open. 
Nathaniel was a strong, serious 

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seeker of God. 
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Because Philip, when he came to 
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being the Messiah, he goes to 
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Now, you know this. 
When you have some good news, 

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when you have something that you
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people and you tend to make the 
phone call to those who will 

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value what you have to say, 
right? 

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I hope you're not those who just
tell people anything and they 

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just, you know, they just 
trample on whatever you have to 

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say, especially if it's 
spiritual things. 

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So we have an idea here that 
Nathaniel was somebody who knew 

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about the Messiah. 
Somebody that just not only knew

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about the Messiah, but longed 
for the Messiah. 

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He was who was somebody who 
longed for the Messiah. 

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And then and Philip knew to go 
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Nathaniel would appreciate this 
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That's it. 
That's a wonderful thing. 

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And Jesus confirms, I believe, 
something further it it. 

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It just solidifies that truth 
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Look what Christ says about it. 
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Jesus face to face in verse 47, 
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Jesus saw Nathaniel coming 
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Behold in Israelite indeed in 
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That's an interesting word 
that's not often used in the New

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Testament. 
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is not often used in the gospel 
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But look what Nathaniel says 
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How do you know me? 
Jesus answered him before Philip

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called you. 
When you were under the fig 

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tree. 
I saw you now. 

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Light bulb maybe went off right 
before Philip called you. 

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When you were under the fig 
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I saw you, I saw you. 
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Many people have concluded from 
the story that what Jesus did 

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was showcase his omniscience to 
demonstrate to Nathaniel, 

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doubting Nathaniel that he is 
indeed the Messiah. 

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His nature is indeed more than 
human. 

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He is divine, and that is true. 
He does showcases all knowing 

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power. 
But out of all the details that 

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Jesus Christ highlighted about 
Nathaniel, out of all the things

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he could have said, the one 
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saw you sitting underneath that 
fig tree. 

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I saw you sitting underneath 
that fig tree. 

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Why is that even significant? 
Why is that important? 

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Why was Nathaniel sitting 
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All the scriptures doesn't 
explicitly tell us, but when you

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look at Christ giving him this, 
Nathaniel answers in a certain 

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way. 
In a moment I'm going to show 

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you that. 
But it makes you wonder 

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concerning Nathaniel about his 
his knowledge of the prophets. 

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It makes you wonder if Nathaniel
being a strong seeker, is much 

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stronger than you and I thought.
Philip and I just only found a 

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friend who is, who is aware of 
the Messiah and his potential to

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arrive at any time, even in his 
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There was something about here 
in this moment revealing the 

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depth of his faith during 
Solomon's reign. 

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What are we told? 
That people were sitting 

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underneath their vine and their 
fig trees concerning the Messiah

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to come. 
What are we told? 

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That they're going to enjoy the 
same when the Son of David 

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arrives? 
What is Nathaniel doing sitting 

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underneath a fig tree? 
There's no liberty here. 

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There's no peace. 
You have Roman oppression. 

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You have spiritual corruption 
that has been unchallenged 

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concerning man's greed and their
manmade tradition. 

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So for for for this man to sit 
beneath or underneath a fig tree

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doesn't reflect accurately the 
environment that he is in. 

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You might disagree with me, but 
I I think there's something 

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here. 
I think that with Nathaniel is 

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doing at this very spot was not 
lounging around mindlessly. 

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I'm persuaded that Nathaniel 
here is contemplating and 

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meditating of what it would be 
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clean up this mess. 
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This victory in Jesus is not 
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I know where you are physically.
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I know what's in your heart. 
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Here is a man here. 
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perhaps, about the Kingdom to 
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Could it be? 
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You're saying? 
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That might indicate Nathaniel 
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Rabbi, you are the son of God. 
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The King of Israel. 
You're the king. 

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You're the king. 
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Jesus was interacting with 
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deeper going on. 
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that Christ revealed about 
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in him. 
And if this is true, if what I'm

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presenting to you is a 
possibility, then what a 

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glorious truth it is. 
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where you're sitting. 
Jesus Christ knows what's 

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occupying in your heart. 
He knows what you yearn for. 

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He knows what you desire. 
He knows your ambitions. 

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He knows what your affections 
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And when they are set on him, he
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He's aware of it. 
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know that those aches of the 
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Christ to be known to be real, 
to come again, He's fully, fully

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aware of that. 
And that blesses me. 

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I hope it blesses you. 
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We haven't accomplished our goal
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Because if Jesus is greater than
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to accomplish and discover here 
that what more does he have to 

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offer if the prophecies of the 
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echoing what Solomon was able to
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So Solomon was able to give 
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underneath their vines and their
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And here is Jesus who is going 
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rules and reigns forever and 
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That's wonderful. 
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you today is that Jesus Christ 
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building a greater temple. 
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offers a better peace and 
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And that's what I want to 
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Christ is able to offer 
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able to give during those 40 
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And the peace that Jesus is able
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when he rules and reigns for 
1000 years. 

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You just have to let him rule 
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Christ being king is not a 
future reality. 

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Christ is king right now, and 
you either have him as your king

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or you're your enemy and his 
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That's all it is. 
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There's no in between. 
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person here would bow the need 
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That's what my prayer my 
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You're going to hear the gospel 
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the gospel tonight. 
And even if there's one person 

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in here who has not made Jesus 
Christ king, you have an 

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opportunity to do so in these 
very dark and trying times. 

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But let's talk about the peace 
of Jesus. 

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You heard the summary verse in 
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I would open the service, the 
summary verse that from border 

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to border there was peace in the
land and there was security that

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every Israelite was able to 
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Is there a summary verse about 
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offer? 
And I propose to you there is. 

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Here's a summary verse, at least
one among many, that 

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communicates what Christ can do 
with peace. 

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It's in 2nd Thessalonians 316. 
Turn those Bibles there and 

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highlight it and never forget 
it. 

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Second Thessalonians, Chapter 3,
verse 16. 

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We are told what the Lord of 
Peace can do now. 

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May the Lord of peace himself 
give you peace. 

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Look at the quality of this 
peace at all times. 

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In every way, the Lord be with 
you all. 

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What kind of peace does Jesus 
Christ give? 

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It's all-encompassing. 
What kind of peace does Jesus 

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Christ give? 
It's unending. 

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That is the peace that Jesus 
Christ gives and this is what 

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Paul is saying to these 
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God is able to secure in your 
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spiritual serenity. 
Check this out. 

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I know it sounds too good to be 
true, but it is true every 

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second of every season that you 
walk through. 

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It's not exaggeration. 
I'm just reading the Bible. 

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I'm just giving you the verse. 
What does at all times in every 

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way mean? 
Is this poetic license or is 

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this true promise? 
I choose the latter at all 

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times, in every way, and it is 
extremely fitting that Paul 

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would write this promise, though
it is applicable to all. 

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He wrote this promise, 
particularly to the 

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Thessalonians. 
Again, you want revelation in 

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the Bible? 
Ask one simple question. 

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Why? 
Ask it a lot. 

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Why? 
Why? 

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Why? 
Why? 

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Why? 
And things will come. 

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So here's my question. 
Why them? 

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Why them? 
And guess what? 

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You have the answers. 
Are you at 2nd Thesalonians? 

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No. 
Yes. 

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Yes, You were there. 
OK, Second Thessalonians, go 

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there with me. 
Go to chapter one. 

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Let's do this quickly here. 2nd 
Thessalonians 1. 

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Four. 
There was something happening in

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every single chapter of Second 
Second Thessalonians. 

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There's three small chapters. 
Here's chapter one, verse 4. 

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Here's what the church is going 
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Therefore, we ourselves boast 
about you in the churches of God

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for your steadfastness and faith
in all your persecutions and in 

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the afflictions that you are 
enduring. #1 The Church of this 

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group of believers was enduring 
suffering outside. 

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They were enduring persecution. 
They were enduring challenges, 

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threats. 
And verse five tells us that 

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they are suffering because of 
these persecutions. 

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Something that we're not very 
familiar with. 

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Suffering is not when you don't 
have a strong Wi-Fi signal, OK, 

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that's not suffering. 
That's suffering for Christians 

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in America. 
Mostly, that's not what we're 

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talking about. 
Real suffering, like go to jail.

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Suffering for believing in Jesus
Christ, being stone kind of 

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suffering, being separated from 
your family because you claim to

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believe in this Messiah that 
challenges all these other 

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pantheons of gods. 
That's the kind of suffering. 

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But you go to chapter 2 and you 
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And two, the suffering doesn't 
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But no, there's even more now 
concerning the coming of our 

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Lord Jesus Christ and are being 
gathered together to him. 

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We ask you, brothers, not to be 
quickly shaken in mind or 

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alarmed, either by a spirit or 
spoken word or a letter seeming 

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to be from us to the effect of 
the day of the Lord has come. 

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So now you have another degree 
of suffering, not just people 

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persecuting from the outside, 
but false teachers who are 

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creeping inside. 
And they are harassing these 

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pure hearted believers trying to
convince them this faulty view 

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of the last days that the Lord 
has already come and they're 

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there and they missed out on the
return of the Lord. 

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And they are shaken. 
They're shaken in mind. 

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They're disturbed from within 
because false teaching can do. 

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They can rob you of your peace. 
There's a lot of people today 

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who have no peace in their 
salvation because of false 

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teaching. 
There are a lot of people today 

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who are tormented, who have had 
all the joy sucked out of their 

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walk with the Lord because of 
false teaching. 

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And so you have your spiritual 
suffering. 

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You have a spiritual suffering 
where these people, these poor 

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Christians who who have been 
raised up by Paul are now being,

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are being harassed. 
You think that's enough? 

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You think that's enough. 
You have persecution from 

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outside. 
You have false teachers coming 

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inside chapter three. 
You go to chapter 3 and you read

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verse 11, and what do you read 
here? 

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Second Thoughts Thelonian is 
311. 

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Here's what we're told for we 
here. 

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Paul says that some among you 
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Idleness is to cease from any 
useful activity. 

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That's what it means to be an 
idle person. 

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Among You walk in idleness, not 
busy at work, but busy bodies. 

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When people are not busy with 
good work, they become busy 

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bodies. 
You know what a busy body is? 

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Sounds weird, right? 
Busy body. 

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It means to meddle in other 
people's affairs. 

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Does it happen in churches or 
no, It happens a lot. 

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Come, Lord Jesus, happens too 
much. 

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Busy bodies, one person said it 
cleverly. 

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Gossip is the fruit of idleness.
But you know what I discovered? 

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There's even busy people who 
still gossip. 

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So that's like an extra evil. 
It's like if if if if 

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fruitfulness is supposed to 
occupy, so you don't have time 

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to do things that you're not 
supposed to do, how is it that 

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you're so busy and you still are
doing this stuff that's like a 

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that's like a grace to be so 
evil? 

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I just don't understand it. 
Walk in idleness but busy at 

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work. 
Not busy at work, but busy 

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bodies. 
So not only do you have false 

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teachers, you have troublemakers
in the church. 

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I want Christians slandering and
talking. 

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Did you see what you do? 
And now there's issues within 

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the church, and the pastors have
to sit down with everybody and 

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figure out what's going, that 
kind of stuff. 

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So let's let's bring it all 
together. 

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You have persecution, you have 
suffering, you have false 

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teachers. 
You have people who are 

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Christians who are creating 
problems in the Church from all 

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sides. 
Problems outside problems inside

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spiritual suffering, social 
suffering, relational suffering,

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suffering. 
You're swimming and suffering, 

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Thessalonians. 
And how does Paul sign off on 

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the letter Now? 
May God deliver you from every 

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single affliction, and may you 
never know any kind of pain, 

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ever. 
It isn't right that. 

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What does he say now? 
May the Lord of Peace himself 

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give you peace at all times and 
in every way. 

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You see how context makes 
everything so beautiful after 

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all the problems that they're 
enduring, Paul says. 

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I'm praying and asking not that 
these things would go away, but 

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that you would stand firm and 
that you would know a stability 

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and an unshakable confidence in 
the goodness of God despite 

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these challenging circumstances 
that are washing over you like a

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raging current. 
That's the kind of peace that 

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Jesus gives. 
Why is it better than the peace 

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that Solomon gives? 
Because as much as sitting 

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underneath your vine and fig 
tree is a wonderful proverbial 

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expression of a national time of
enjoyment and prosperity, it is 

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only produced and only possible 
through what Solomon was able to

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do. 
What did Solomon do? 

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He was a political genius. 
That kind of thing was only 

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because the economics were in 
their favor. 

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It was surface level. 
But the moment those things 

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disappeared, that reality of 
sitting underneath the vine tree

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was no longer a reality. 
It was stripped from them. 

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The peace that Christ gives is 
not dependent on those things. 

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It's a reality. 
Despise, whether they are 

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reality or not. 
And I know, I know that sounds 

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like Christians. 
We all know that, right? 

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I I know that this is very 
familiar to us. 

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But peace at all times, in every
way, that's our inheritance. 

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When Christ is king, that's what
he bestows upon his subjects as 

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servants, his friends, his 
children. 

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I want it. 
I don't want to just quote it in

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a sermon. 
I don't want to just give it to 

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the counseling because I want it
for myself. 

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And Paul here is not giving 
wishful thinking. 

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Here. 
He he's giving even more than 

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just a theological truth. 
He is giving a truth from 

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personal testimony. 
Paul was something else. 

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Would you agree with me? 
And as great as Paul was, Christ

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towers over him. 
It's a great study to see how 

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Christ even makes Paul look, 
small as a big of a giant as he 

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was. 
But still Paul, arguably the 

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greatest Christian who've ever 
lived this man. 

460
00:24:28,030 --> 00:24:30,790
Every time I read the Book of 
Acts, I feel small. 

461
00:24:31,670 --> 00:24:34,910
I feel small, especially when 
you come near the end of the 

462
00:24:34,910 --> 00:24:37,430
Book of Acts. 
I mean, this guy gets battered 

463
00:24:37,470 --> 00:24:42,320
and bruised, tossed and thrown, 
and you don't get a peep out of 

464
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,800
him. 
You don't you you. 

465
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,400
You can't squeeze murmuring out 
of the guy, no matter how much 

466
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,960
he's crushed. 
Nothing. 

467
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,200
And as I was preparing this 
thinking, like Paul is writing 

468
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,120
here from experience, yes, by 
the spirit, primarily. 

469
00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:58,200
More importantly, this is 
supernatural, divine revelation.

470
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,160
But Paul can say, I know what 
it's like to have peace at all 

471
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,920
times. 
In every way, Paul's a real 

472
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,920
person. 
Let me give you one example 

473
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,280
among many, many portraits of 
how this man was absolutely 

474
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:16,040
dominated by this kind of peace.
In Acts 28, Paul gets stranded 

475
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,840
on an island not with his 
friends, but with a bunch of 

476
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,160
strangers who were prisoners on 
their way to Rome. 

477
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,400
Paul was numbered among these 
prisoners. 

478
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:29,000
The false Jews there, who were 
giving accusation concerning 

479
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,280
Paul, brought him to the point 
where he wanted to appeal to 

480
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,200
Caesar concerning his case. 
And so they put him on a ship 

481
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,280
and they they launched him over 
there to Rome and and there was 

482
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,920
a detour storm breaks out, a 
horrific storm. 

483
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,640
There was darkness for several 
days and eventually the ship was

484
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,680
steered off course and they 
crash and they land on an island

485
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,960
called Malta. 
And here's Paul Drenched, 

486
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,680
drained, exhausted. 
And in Acts 28, verse 2, this is

487
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,920
what you read between Paul and 
those 200 and something 

488
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,850
prisoners showing up on the 
shore. 

489
00:26:03,850 --> 00:26:08,010
And the native people here 
showed us unusual kindness, for 

490
00:26:08,010 --> 00:26:11,970
they kindled a fire and welcomed
us all because it had begun to 

491
00:26:11,970 --> 00:26:14,290
rain and was cold. 
So just imagine. 

492
00:26:14,290 --> 00:26:15,970
Pause. 
It's OK to imagine it. 

493
00:26:15,970 --> 00:26:18,970
Here's Paul. 
You were just flipped over into 

494
00:26:18,970 --> 00:26:21,570
the ocean. 
You found your way over to this 

495
00:26:21,570 --> 00:26:26,530
random bank, and now it's 
raining and it's cold, raining 

496
00:26:26,530 --> 00:26:27,650
and cold. 
That's enough for people now to 

497
00:26:27,650 --> 00:26:29,250
go to church on Sunday. 
It's raining and it's cold, 

498
00:26:29,250 --> 00:26:30,820
right? 
Here's Paul. 

499
00:26:30,860 --> 00:26:33,100
He's on an island. 
He's already soaked and he's 

500
00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:35,580
soaked on top of it. 
What does Paul do? 

501
00:26:35,580 --> 00:26:40,300
Look at this in verse three, 
when Paul had gathered a bundle 

502
00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:42,660
of sticks. 
Paul, what are you doing? 

503
00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:46,020
And put them on the fire. 
Here you have a man after all he

504
00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:47,420
went through and he still wants 
to serve. 

505
00:26:49,340 --> 00:26:51,620
He already proved this point 
that he, though he wasn't the 

506
00:26:51,620 --> 00:26:53,820
official captain, was really the
captain of that ship. 

507
00:26:54,590 --> 00:26:56,070
If you read that account, he's 
giving directions. 

508
00:26:56,070 --> 00:26:57,270
Like I told you guys, you guys 
were wrong. 

509
00:26:57,270 --> 00:26:58,670
Now that This is why we're in 
this mess. 

510
00:26:58,670 --> 00:27:03,190
You didn't listen to me earlier.
So Paul, Paul had already won 

511
00:27:03,190 --> 00:27:05,350
the admiration of many of these 
people. 

512
00:27:05,350 --> 00:27:08,150
And here's this man who is now 
on this island. 

513
00:27:08,630 --> 00:27:11,870
And out of all the people, Paul 
is highlighted for his humble 

514
00:27:11,870 --> 00:27:14,550
service. 
He looks around and he finds 

515
00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:16,790
these sticks. 
Hopefully they're dry so that he

516
00:27:16,790 --> 00:27:19,900
can feed the fire. 
And as he is picking up these 

517
00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:24,420
sticks, camouflage in the bunch 
is a Viper came out because of 

518
00:27:24,420 --> 00:27:26,500
the heat and fasting on his 
hand. 

519
00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:29,620
OK, this has got to be the 
breaking point. 

520
00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:33,380
This has to be the breaking 
point, right? 

521
00:27:33,660 --> 00:27:35,340
You've been to trial after 
trial. 

522
00:27:35,340 --> 00:27:40,340
You were in chains, you had 
people saying false things about

523
00:27:40,340 --> 00:27:41,860
you. 
You were beaten and bruised. 

524
00:27:42,740 --> 00:27:44,860
You're put on a ship. 
You're sent over with a bunch of

525
00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:47,020
prisoners. 
You endured a time where people 

526
00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:49,020
did not even eat because it was 
so horrific. 

527
00:27:49,020 --> 00:27:50,780
There was number sunlight. 
There was number guidance. 

528
00:27:51,020 --> 00:27:53,380
Imagine, imagine being in the 
middle of the ocean with no 

529
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:57,460
sense of direction. 
After all of that, here, now 

530
00:27:57,460 --> 00:27:58,780
they come into this random 
island. 

531
00:27:58,780 --> 00:28:01,500
Paul wants to go to Rome. 
He wants to preach the gospel to

532
00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:04,340
Caesar and all those officials. 
And here he is now, on a 

533
00:28:04,620 --> 00:28:08,540
unfamiliar terrain with random 
people, a bunch of criminals. 

534
00:28:08,740 --> 00:28:12,140
And he still wants to do good. 
He still wants to reflect 

535
00:28:12,140 --> 00:28:14,380
selfless sacrifice. 
And has he's doing it. 

536
00:28:14,580 --> 00:28:17,860
A snake plunges its its venom 
into his hand. 

537
00:28:20,860 --> 00:28:23,380
What do you do when you suffer 
when you're doing good? 

538
00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:28,540
Notice the Viper didn't attack 
anybody else. 

539
00:28:28,820 --> 00:28:31,340
Just Paul. 
Just Paul. 

540
00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:33,260
Out of all the hundreds of 
people that that Viper could 

541
00:28:33,260 --> 00:28:36,900
have, like, I had to be the most
righteous man on that island. 

542
00:28:38,940 --> 00:28:41,420
Serving God does not exempt you 
from suffering. 

543
00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:45,940
Serving God does not exempt you 
not just from one time 

544
00:28:45,940 --> 00:28:49,460
suffering, but from perpetual 
consistent challenges and 

545
00:28:49,460 --> 00:28:51,300
trials. 
I don't know what kind of 

546
00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:53,540
Christianity you bought into, 
but get back to the biblical 

547
00:28:53,540 --> 00:28:55,620
Christianity. 
Understand that Paul said in 

548
00:28:55,620 --> 00:28:58,020
Acts 14 that through many 
tribulations we must enter the 

549
00:28:58,020 --> 00:28:59,940
Kingdom of God. 
Many tribulations. 

550
00:28:59,940 --> 00:29:03,770
Not some. 
So Paul had gathered a bundle of

551
00:29:03,770 --> 00:29:05,490
sticks. 
He he put them on the fire. 

552
00:29:05,490 --> 00:29:08,570
Viper came out because of the 
heat and fastened on his hand. 

553
00:29:08,690 --> 00:29:11,450
And now this man has a dangling 
snake on his hand. 

554
00:29:16,490 --> 00:29:20,090
What do you expect him to do? 
Well, let's read on and see what

555
00:29:20,090 --> 00:29:24,090
happens in verse four when the 
native people saw the creature 

556
00:29:24,090 --> 00:29:26,130
hanging from his hand. 
Just imagine that sight. 

557
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,240
Clothes ripped up, skin 
shriveled up from the salt 

558
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,240
water. 
It's cold. 

559
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,680
It's raining. 
Here's Paul with a snake 

560
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,760
dangling from his hand. 
They said to one another. 

561
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,960
No doubt this man is a murderer.
Though he has escaped from the 

562
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,560
sea, justice has not allowed him
to live. 

563
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,600
So here's how they interpreted. 
Perhaps the native people 

564
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,720
learned very early on that all 
these men that just showed up on

565
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,400
our island were in fact 
criminals. 

566
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,110
Perhaps the Roman leaders who 
were governing that ship told 

567
00:29:56,110 --> 00:29:58,190
them, you know, we got a bunch 
of criminals here, so they 

568
00:29:58,190 --> 00:29:59,830
understood who they're dealing 
with here. 

569
00:30:00,150 --> 00:30:03,470
And so Paul was a nice guy, nice
enough to help out, but they 

570
00:30:03,470 --> 00:30:05,790
understood because of the snake 
dangling from his hand. 

571
00:30:05,990 --> 00:30:07,990
Oh yeah, he must surely be a 
murderer. 

572
00:30:08,310 --> 00:30:10,830
He must surely be a criminal. 
And they had this understanding 

573
00:30:10,830 --> 00:30:14,270
of divine retribution. 
You do evil, evil comes to you. 

574
00:30:14,270 --> 00:30:18,430
And that's how many people 
believe and understand how life 

575
00:30:18,430 --> 00:30:19,790
works, even in the relationship 
with God. 

576
00:30:19,950 --> 00:30:23,230
Do good, only good will come. 
Do bad bad things happen. 

577
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,480
That's Job's friends theology. 
That's the whole problem with 

578
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,040
Job's friends job. 
The only reason why you're 

579
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,920
suffering to this extent is 
because you have sin. 

580
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,040
Cuff it up and repent. 
Cuff it up. 

581
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,120
You can't be suffering like 
this. 

582
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,400
If you're a true follower of 
God, you must have done 

583
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,760
something along the way. 
Just admit it and we can move on

584
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,720
and God will bless And Job's 
like you're not getting it. 

585
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,320
I've walked to my conscience and
my knowledge. 

586
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,440
I've walked right with him. 
So it's this faulty view, the 

587
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,200
skewed view of how God allows 
things to happen into our lives.

588
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,360
And these, these native people 
had no different theology than 

589
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,480
Job's friends and many even 
unfortunately today. 

590
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,680
Well, let me, let me stop here 
and and just make this point. 

591
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,520
They were wrong and how they 
interpreted this event in Paul's

592
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,000
life. 
But were they entirely wrong? 

593
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,200
No doubt. 
This man is a murderer. 

594
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,920
Was Paul a murderer? 
He was a murderer. 

595
00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:24,340
He was a murderer. 
He approved of the death of 

596
00:31:24,340 --> 00:31:27,660
Steven. 
He ripped families apart who 

597
00:31:27,820 --> 00:31:30,500
named the name of Christ. 
They weren't wrong in their 

598
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:32,900
assessment of who Paul was in 
his past. 

599
00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:35,900
Where they were wrong is that 
though Paul was a murderer, he 

600
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:38,260
was a forgiven murderer. 
That's the difference. 

601
00:31:38,580 --> 00:31:42,420
And when you are a forgiven 
Sinner, this concept and this 

602
00:31:42,460 --> 00:31:46,900
illusion of karma is destroyed 
by the blood of Jesus Christ. 

603
00:31:47,410 --> 00:31:49,730
It doesn't apply to you. 
So yes, he is a murderer, but 

604
00:31:49,730 --> 00:31:52,570
he's a forgiven murderer. 
Big difference. 

605
00:31:54,170 --> 00:31:58,010
And look how Paul. 
Look how Paul responds in verse 

606
00:31:58,010 --> 00:32:00,370
five. 
It's so amazing to see this man 

607
00:32:00,970 --> 00:32:04,370
and one civil verse. 
He, however, shook off the 

608
00:32:04,370 --> 00:32:07,050
creature into the fire and 
suffered no harm. 

609
00:32:09,450 --> 00:32:12,730
He just took it off. 
So it comes on his hand. 

610
00:32:14,390 --> 00:32:15,110
Why? 
He's a murderer. 

611
00:32:15,550 --> 00:32:16,950
Look, justice has come after 
him. 

612
00:32:16,950 --> 00:32:21,070
And here's Paul and shook it off
into the fire and just went on 

613
00:32:21,070 --> 00:32:23,270
to feed the flames with the 
sticks again. 

614
00:32:26,870 --> 00:32:29,950
No fist with snake hanging off 
of it raised up to heaven. 

615
00:32:32,270 --> 00:32:36,830
No, enough is enough. 
God, how much more do I need to 

616
00:32:36,830 --> 00:32:38,830
sacrifice for you? 
And this is what I have to this 

617
00:32:38,830 --> 00:32:42,070
is my portion, this is my plot. 
I'm a man. 

618
00:32:42,070 --> 00:32:45,090
How much can I endure? 
I'm over there. 

619
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:47,210
I'm going to sit right there on 
the in the island, and when 

620
00:32:47,210 --> 00:32:49,330
you're ready to make this thing 
work out for me, I'm ready to 

621
00:32:49,330 --> 00:32:50,410
serve you. 
None of that. 

622
00:32:51,810 --> 00:32:55,450
He shook off the snake, and 
Revival broke out on that 

623
00:32:55,450 --> 00:32:59,810
island. 
What was his secret? 

624
00:33:01,610 --> 00:33:07,290
How does a man able to absorb so
much and yet remain at peace? 

625
00:33:08,210 --> 00:33:10,410
Would you like to know? 
Because there's an answer. 

626
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,480
Something happened many, many, 
many chapters ago in the Book of

627
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:19,760
Acts that anchored Paul to 
endure all that he would up to 

628
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,280
the end of the book of Acts, 
before all of this really 

629
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,240
started, before it really took a
downward spiral. 

630
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:30,480
Paul was in prison and his faith
was being determined, supposedly

631
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,800
from a human standpoint, from 
the officials. 

632
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,320
God had already determined his 
destiny, and and Paul, while 

633
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,000
he's in the barracks, is 
waiting. 

634
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,390
Jesus appears to him. 
And when Jesus appears to him, 

635
00:33:42,510 --> 00:33:46,710
Jesus tells him something. 
And that is the secret to Paul's

636
00:33:46,710 --> 00:33:49,870
peace. 
That is why he can endure the 

637
00:33:49,870 --> 00:33:51,790
storm. 
That is why he can endure the 

638
00:33:51,790 --> 00:33:53,950
snakes. 
That is why he can endure the 

639
00:33:53,950 --> 00:33:55,750
slander. 
He can endure. 

640
00:33:55,750 --> 00:34:02,670
All of that because of Acts 23, 
verse 11, Acts 2311 is the 

641
00:34:02,670 --> 00:34:08,070
secret to this man's peace at 
all times, in every way. 

642
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,600
The following night the Lord 
stood by him and said, take 

643
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,520
courage. 
For as you have testified to the

644
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:20,480
facts about me and Jerusalem, so
you must testify also in Rome. 

645
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,239
You catch it. 
Jesus told Paul, Paul you're 

646
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,760
going to Rome, you're going to 
go to Rome. 

647
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,159
And Paul believed the word of 
Jesus. 

648
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:40,850
So when the ship lost its 
course, when the snake inserted 

649
00:34:40,850 --> 00:34:44,730
its poison in his veins, you 
know what I believe was going in

650
00:34:44,730 --> 00:34:46,530
the back of mine's Paul Paul's 
mind? 

651
00:34:46,690 --> 00:34:50,850
I'm going to Rome. 
Jesus told me I'm going to Rome.

652
00:34:51,610 --> 00:34:54,250
Nothing will stop me from going 
to Rome. 

653
00:34:55,250 --> 00:34:57,250
Nothing. 
Because Jesus said it. 

654
00:34:58,090 --> 00:35:00,450
So here I am, delayed in life, 
right? 

655
00:35:00,490 --> 00:35:03,010
I'm on Malta when I'm supposed 
to be in Rome by now. 

656
00:35:03,290 --> 00:35:06,290
But Jesus said I'm going to 
Rome, so I'm going to Rome. 

657
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,920
Here's this life threatening 
attack. 

658
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,520
But Jesus told me I'm going to 
I'm not dying because he says 

659
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:17,080
you must testify also in Rome. 
I'm going there all what would 

660
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,960
happen to our peace if we really
believe the Bible, all what 

661
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,520
would happen to us if we really,
really believe the word of God? 

662
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,760
You'd be amazed to know how even
with ministers, when things get 

663
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,960
really tough, they don't believe
the Bible, even the Bible that 

664
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,480
they preach week after week 
after week. 

665
00:35:37,990 --> 00:35:41,150
Believe him. 
What did Paul say in 2nd 

666
00:35:41,150 --> 00:35:45,150
Festivals 316? 
That the Lord of Peace himself. 

667
00:35:46,310 --> 00:35:47,550
I'm going to end with that. 
I won't go there. 

668
00:35:47,550 --> 00:35:48,670
But let me give you another 
example. 

669
00:35:48,670 --> 00:35:51,550
This is this is unplanned, but I
think it's helpful. 

670
00:35:51,550 --> 00:35:54,910
This is just another example of 
what happens when the Lord is in

671
00:35:54,910 --> 00:35:59,190
your life, when you have the 
Lord Jesus standing by you 

672
00:35:59,230 --> 00:36:03,190
though you perceive it or not. 
There's an interesting story. 

673
00:36:03,190 --> 00:36:05,150
It's one. 
It's one of my favorite stories 

674
00:36:05,150 --> 00:36:07,800
in the Old Testament concerning 
the miraculous. 

675
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,800
And where else would you go 
concerning the miracles of God? 

676
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,240
You can go to Moses, you can 
argue for that. 

677
00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:17,600
But Elijah had just a highlight 
reel of miracle after miracle 

678
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:20,200
even more than Elijah. 
Some people debate and argue 

679
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,960
that Elijah had double the 
miracles than Elijah because he 

680
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,680
asked for a double portion of 
Elijah's anointing. 

681
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,480
So Elijah, at one point in 
Second King's chapter 6 is in a 

682
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,240
specific place, and I want you 
to turn there, turn there with 

683
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:36,480
me in Second King's chapter 6. 
And he's there with his servant,

684
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,480
his unnamed servant, in Second 
Kings. 

685
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:46,600
And in Second Kings we read 
something in verse 15 when the 

686
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:51,480
servant of the man of God rose 
early in the morning and went 

687
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,600
out. 
Behold, an army with horses and 

688
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,640
Chariots was all around the 
city. 

689
00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:01,000
Imagine waking up to that. 
And the servant said, Alas, my 

690
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,400
master, what shall we do? 
So here's the servant of Elijah,

691
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:08,030
and he goes, there's two of us 
and there's hundreds and 

692
00:37:08,030 --> 00:37:12,030
thousands of our enemies 
surrounding our home boss. 

693
00:37:12,150 --> 00:37:19,230
What do we do? 
May the Lord of Peace himself 

694
00:37:19,550 --> 00:37:22,990
give you peace, and always and 
every time. 

695
00:37:23,190 --> 00:37:24,910
What does Elijah say to his 
servant? 

696
00:37:25,790 --> 00:37:30,630
He says in the next verse. 
He said, do not be afraid, Do 

697
00:37:30,630 --> 00:37:32,870
not be afraid. 
For those who are with us are 

698
00:37:32,870 --> 00:37:36,840
more than those who are with 
them, The servant is thinking, 

699
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,560
What are you saying? 
There's you and me. 

700
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,200
What are you alluding to? 
And here's what Truman of God do

701
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,280
for people who can't see what 
they see, the next verse tells 

702
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:59,350
us. 
In verse 17 maybe we froze and 

703
00:37:59,350 --> 00:38:01,150
you go to second king seven say 
This is why you have to have a 

704
00:38:01,150 --> 00:38:05,350
copy of God's word because 
technology sometimes fails you. 

705
00:38:05,710 --> 00:38:11,860
Then Elijah prayed and said, Oh 
Lord, please open his eyes that 

706
00:38:11,860 --> 00:38:15,380
he may see. 
Please open his eyes that he may

707
00:38:15,380 --> 00:38:17,140
see. 
So the Lord opened the eyes of 

708
00:38:17,140 --> 00:38:21,300
the young man. 
Older generation pray for the 

709
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:25,340
younger generation. 
What did Moses do for Joshua? 

710
00:38:25,340 --> 00:38:28,300
Joshua was fighting the battles 
Moses, symbolizing the older 

711
00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:31,140
generation, had his hands up 
while the young one was fighting

712
00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:34,300
battles with the Amalekites. 
Intercede for this young. 

713
00:38:34,300 --> 00:38:36,100
It's very easy to complain about
Gen. 

714
00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:40,570
Z, but we have to pray for them.
Oh Lord, please open his eyes 

715
00:38:40,570 --> 00:38:42,930
that he may see. 
So the Lord opened the eyes of 

716
00:38:42,930 --> 00:38:48,050
the young man, and he saw and 
behold, imagine this. 

717
00:38:48,210 --> 00:38:51,770
The mountain was full of horses 
and Chariots of fire all around.

718
00:38:52,090 --> 00:38:57,570
Not the city, not the house 
around 2 Elijah. 

719
00:38:58,650 --> 00:39:00,330
So just imagine. 
Here's Elijah. 

720
00:39:00,330 --> 00:39:03,970
And from Elijah all the way 
expanding to the mountains were 

721
00:39:03,970 --> 00:39:07,930
these Chariots of fire. 
And here's this young man. 

722
00:39:08,810 --> 00:39:12,690
Wow. 
It's a special story. 

723
00:39:12,690 --> 00:39:13,970
But you know what makes it more 
special? 

724
00:39:13,970 --> 00:39:15,890
The details that we tend to 
overlook. 

725
00:39:15,930 --> 00:39:17,850
Does anybody know? 
I know we have trivia tonight, 

726
00:39:17,850 --> 00:39:19,130
but here's another trivia 
question. 

727
00:39:19,370 --> 00:39:22,370
Does anybody know the specific 
location by name where this 

728
00:39:22,370 --> 00:39:27,290
miracle took place? 
And some are looking down at 

729
00:39:27,290 --> 00:39:33,010
your Bibles, which is smart. 
Go to verse 13 if you please 

730
00:39:33,290 --> 00:39:36,280
would. 
And he said, go see where he is.

731
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,280
This is before this the the army
surrounded Alan China, servant 

732
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,240
that I may send him, sees him, 
it was told and behold, he is in

733
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:46,240
where Dolphin. 
He's in Dolphin. 

734
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,240
Dolphin. 
That is where the vision of 

735
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,480
these Chariots of fire 
surrounded this one servant of 

736
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,880
God saying, what's significant 
about Dolphin? 

737
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,920
Here's what's significant. 
It's only mentioned in one other

738
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,640
place in all of the Hebrew 
scriptures. 

739
00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:10,540
Dauphin is only mentioned in one
other place in all of the Bible,

740
00:40:10,540 --> 00:40:12,940
and I'm not going to tell you 
where it is. 

741
00:40:12,940 --> 00:40:14,380
I'm going to tell you to turn 
your Bible there. 

742
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:19,740
In Genesis 37 is where we were 
told at first about Dauphin, and

743
00:40:19,740 --> 00:40:23,500
this is the second and last time
that Dauphin is mentioned in 

744
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:25,940
Genesis 37. 
Let's begin in verse 15. 

745
00:40:28,060 --> 00:40:32,140
Joseph was summoned by his 
father to go search for his 

746
00:40:32,140 --> 00:40:34,910
brothers, who were shepherds, to
check up on them. 

747
00:40:35,670 --> 00:40:38,470
So he goes to check up on them 
because he's told that they are 

748
00:40:38,470 --> 00:40:40,230
in check him. 
So he arrives there and he's 

749
00:40:40,230 --> 00:40:42,470
looking around, check him, and 
he can't find his brothers. 

750
00:40:43,550 --> 00:40:47,070
He can't find his brothers. 
And so a man. 

751
00:40:47,150 --> 00:40:50,510
This is one of my favorite 
examples of God's Providence in 

752
00:40:50,510 --> 00:40:53,950
our lives. 
A man, unnamed unknown, found 

753
00:40:53,950 --> 00:40:57,910
him wandering in the fields and 
this man asked him, what are you

754
00:40:57,910 --> 00:41:00,790
seeking? 
What are you seeking? 

755
00:41:01,830 --> 00:41:06,030
Pause there. 
He's going to tell him what he's

756
00:41:06,030 --> 00:41:08,070
looking for, and the man is 
going to give him directions to 

757
00:41:08,070 --> 00:41:09,830
his brothers. 
Do you realize that if this man 

758
00:41:09,830 --> 00:41:13,390
had not asked him where his 
brothers were, Joseph could have

759
00:41:13,390 --> 00:41:17,790
avoided all that trouble? 
Do you realize that everything 

760
00:41:17,790 --> 00:41:21,150
in Joseph life, you can argue, 
hinged on this man? 

761
00:41:22,870 --> 00:41:24,470
There are no accidents in the 
Christian life. 

762
00:41:25,830 --> 00:41:29,150
No accidents, Not one accident. 
Do you know what security you 

763
00:41:29,150 --> 00:41:32,090
live with when you realize that 
yeah, the flat tire was in an 

764
00:41:32,090 --> 00:41:38,370
accident when the the job didn't
come through and you called 

765
00:41:38,370 --> 00:41:40,690
several different places and 
none of them answered back. 

766
00:41:40,690 --> 00:41:45,290
That's not an accident. 
You prayerfully even in your 

767
00:41:45,290 --> 00:41:47,450
singleness, though it might feel
like an affliction. 

768
00:41:48,050 --> 00:41:50,770
It's not an accident. 
It's not an accident. 

769
00:41:50,770 --> 00:41:53,570
God doesn't toy around with us. 
He doesn't put the world into 

770
00:41:53,570 --> 00:41:56,570
motion and from time to time see
people come to know him. 

771
00:41:56,570 --> 00:41:58,970
Say you're my child and I get 
back in there and figure it out.

772
00:41:59,780 --> 00:42:01,940
That's not how God works. 
There's not one accident in your

773
00:42:01,940 --> 00:42:05,580
life if you follow Jesus Christ.
A man found him wandering in the

774
00:42:05,580 --> 00:42:09,420
fields, and if this man had not 
asked him, Joseph could have 

775
00:42:09,420 --> 00:42:11,140
went right back home and said 
that I didn't find them. 

776
00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:15,580
And he could have enjoyed his 
nice colorful robe, but he would

777
00:42:15,580 --> 00:42:20,300
have missed the call of God. 
The man asked him, What are you 

778
00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:22,300
seeking? 
Here's how Joseph answers. 

779
00:42:23,620 --> 00:42:24,860
I'm seeking my brothers, he 
said. 

780
00:42:24,860 --> 00:42:27,700
Tell me, please, where they are 
pasturing the flock. 

781
00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:31,170
You must have seen him. 
There's there's many of them. 

782
00:42:31,650 --> 00:42:35,570
And he gives him what he 
believes to be the right answer 

783
00:42:35,610 --> 00:42:39,610
in Genesis 37 verse 17. 
And the man said they have gone 

784
00:42:39,610 --> 00:42:46,810
away for her. 
Them say let us go to, let us go

785
00:42:46,810 --> 00:42:49,370
to Dothan. 
So Joseph went after his 

786
00:42:49,370 --> 00:42:50,770
brothers and found them at 
Dauphin. 

787
00:42:50,770 --> 00:42:52,810
That's the only other place 
where Dothan is mentioned in the

788
00:42:52,810 --> 00:42:56,090
Bible. 
What happens to Joseph at 

789
00:42:56,090 --> 00:43:00,410
Dauphin? 
He's taken by his brothers and 

790
00:43:00,410 --> 00:43:03,250
he is thrown into a pit like a 
trapped animal. 

791
00:43:05,930 --> 00:43:08,930
And after a short period of 
time, he's sold into slavery. 

792
00:43:08,930 --> 00:43:10,450
And you know the rest of the 
story. 

793
00:43:12,650 --> 00:43:15,170
So with two instances where you 
see Dawson mentioned in the 

794
00:43:15,170 --> 00:43:19,970
Bible, two things happen. 
In Elisha's case, in Dauphin, he

795
00:43:19,970 --> 00:43:25,210
was ambushed by his enemies. 
In Joseph's case, in Dauphin, he

796
00:43:25,210 --> 00:43:28,110
was. 
He was abandoned by his family, 

797
00:43:33,030 --> 00:43:36,630
and I believe with all of my 
heart that this simple reference

798
00:43:36,630 --> 00:43:40,910
of Dauphin in two situations 
where two different servants of 

799
00:43:40,910 --> 00:43:51,190
God were surrounded the same 
reality that Elijah enjoyed was 

800
00:43:51,190 --> 00:43:53,550
the same protection that Joseph 
knew. 

801
00:43:53,990 --> 00:43:59,010
In Dothan. 
Elijah was surrounded by the 

802
00:43:59,010 --> 00:44:01,850
presence of God's faithfulness 
and goodness. 

803
00:44:02,330 --> 00:44:04,690
Is it any less true for Joseph 
and Dothan? 

804
00:44:06,330 --> 00:44:09,250
No, it was just as much true 
said prove it. 

805
00:44:09,530 --> 00:44:13,570
I can prove it because in Psalm 
One O 5, verse 17, we are told 

806
00:44:13,570 --> 00:44:18,170
he sent a man ahead of them 
Joseph to go into Egypt. 

807
00:44:18,170 --> 00:44:21,530
Who's he? 
God, you say? 

808
00:44:21,530 --> 00:44:23,170
That man gave him the 
directions. 

809
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,160
Yeah. 
But God was the one who sent 

810
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,200
him. 
You're saying? 

811
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:28,680
But he was sold into slavery? 
Yeah. 

812
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,240
But God was the one who sent 
Joseph. 

813
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,760
You're saying, Yeah. 
But he was thrown into a pit. 

814
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,920
And and he, he was made to 
believe that he died and his 

815
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,640
father believed that he, he 
ceased to exist. 

816
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,920
Yeah, but God sent Joseph. 
God was the master planner. 

817
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,360
And he used those agents and 
those actors, and even the evil 

818
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:49,680
of jealous, envious men, to 
fulfill the will of God, to 

819
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,360
preserve the family of Jacob, so
that in the end the Messiah 

820
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,880
would be able to usher in and 
come through the seed of Father 

821
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:02,840
Abraham. 
Joseph was just as surrounded in

822
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:07,800
Dothan as Elijah was in Dothan, 
for the Lord was with him, 

823
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,480
because when he sends you, he 
goes with you. 

824
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:18,670
And I love that story about 
Elijah because the servants eyes

825
00:45:18,670 --> 00:45:22,420
open, he goes. 
Wow, they're everywhere. 

826
00:45:23,300 --> 00:45:27,100
And when you continue in second 
kings, you realize that those 

827
00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:30,700
Chariots of fire, they didn't 
really do anything. 

828
00:45:32,180 --> 00:45:35,420
They didn't attack the armies 
surrounding Alysha. 

829
00:45:35,420 --> 00:45:37,980
They they were just stationary. 
They were there. 

830
00:45:39,140 --> 00:45:41,620
They seemed almost irrelevant 
because Alysha goes on to pray. 

831
00:45:41,620 --> 00:45:44,180
Lord strike them with blindness 
and he does some merciful thing,

832
00:45:44,180 --> 00:45:46,420
leading them to a banquet 
instead of to their slaughter. 

833
00:45:47,210 --> 00:45:50,730
But all Elijah and his servant 
needed was the knowledge of the 

834
00:45:50,730 --> 00:45:54,170
presence of God. 
God didn't even directly 

835
00:45:54,170 --> 00:45:56,890
intervene. 
All God did was open their eyes 

836
00:45:56,890 --> 00:45:59,890
to the truth. 
There's more for us than there 

837
00:45:59,890 --> 00:46:04,290
is against us. 
That's all Elijah needed, the 

838
00:46:04,290 --> 00:46:07,130
acknowledgement and the 
awareness that the Lord is here 

839
00:46:07,130 --> 00:46:10,970
with me. 
He may not have, but he's aware.

840
00:46:10,970 --> 00:46:12,890
He may not. 
He may not turn the situation 

841
00:46:12,890 --> 00:46:15,750
around, he may not provide a 
supernatural intervention, but 

842
00:46:15,830 --> 00:46:19,430
all I need to comfort my soul is
the knowledge that he's here. 

843
00:46:20,790 --> 00:46:25,150
He knows, he sees. 
That's all you need. 

844
00:46:29,590 --> 00:46:35,790
So I end with that summary of 
the peace that Solomon was not 

845
00:46:35,790 --> 00:46:41,550
able to give 2nd Thessolians 316
May the Lord of peace himself 

846
00:46:42,610 --> 00:46:45,010
give you peace at all times in 
every way. 

847
00:46:45,010 --> 00:46:48,570
The Lord be with you all, the 
Lord be with you all, the Lord 

848
00:46:48,570 --> 00:46:51,650
be with you all. 
Here's what I take from this 

849
00:46:52,010 --> 00:46:56,250
this peace that was delivered 
unto you through the word of 

850
00:46:56,250 --> 00:46:59,610
God. 
That level of peace is 

851
00:46:59,610 --> 00:47:02,090
impossible without the Lord of 
peace. 

852
00:47:05,210 --> 00:47:07,850
So here's what I want to say to 
you, because I'm going to speak 

853
00:47:07,850 --> 00:47:09,330
to two different groups of 
people. 

854
00:47:09,330 --> 00:47:18,290
In closing, You can't have peace
from the Lord unless you first 

855
00:47:18,290 --> 00:47:22,690
have peace with the Lord. 
Do you have peace with God? 

856
00:47:24,890 --> 00:47:30,010
Do you have a settled 
relationship with the Lord? 

857
00:47:31,930 --> 00:47:35,490
You can't have peace from the 
Lord until you first have peace 

858
00:47:35,890 --> 00:47:37,490
with the Lord. 
Are you saved? 

859
00:47:38,770 --> 00:47:42,520
Are you saved? 
Because Christ is the means by 

860
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:52,280
which we have peace with God. 
This Friday night, I want to ask

861
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:57,120
you a simple question in your 
heart of hearts, down deep 

862
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:01,720
inside, do you know that you 
know that you know that you're 

863
00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:07,970
right with God? 
Do you know I'm not asking what 

864
00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:10,450
an evangelist in your local 
church or that event that you 

865
00:48:10,450 --> 00:48:13,050
went to many years ago, signed 
in your Bible and said on this 

866
00:48:13,050 --> 00:48:13,970
day? 
I'm not asking that. 

867
00:48:13,970 --> 00:48:17,650
I'm asking does your heart 
testify I have peace with God? 

868
00:48:19,690 --> 00:48:23,450
You will not have any peace with
God unless first you receive his

869
00:48:23,450 --> 00:48:28,330
son, unless first you bow your 
need to the Lord Jesus Christ. 

870
00:48:28,330 --> 00:48:30,210
I know your mom did. 
That's great. 

871
00:48:30,210 --> 00:48:32,330
I know your dad did. 
That's wonderful. 

872
00:48:32,330 --> 00:48:34,370
Salvation is not a family 
package, though. 

873
00:48:36,610 --> 00:48:39,690
You have to make a choice at one
time. 

874
00:48:39,690 --> 00:48:43,650
Consciously, Jesus Christ is my 
Lord. 

875
00:48:43,690 --> 00:48:48,290
Jesus Christ is my Savior. 
Jesus Christ is the only one who

876
00:48:48,290 --> 00:48:50,610
can watch me and forgive me of 
my sins. 

877
00:48:52,170 --> 00:48:56,250
Have you done that? 
Have you with your mouth, 

878
00:48:56,250 --> 00:48:58,730
confessed that he is Lord and 
believed in your heart, that God

879
00:48:58,730 --> 00:49:01,450
raised him from the dead? 
Have you, whether in a meeting 

880
00:49:01,450 --> 00:49:06,190
or in your bedroom, bowed your 
knee to him and said, Lord, I 

881
00:49:06,190 --> 00:49:09,110
surrender my life to you. 
Have you done that? 

882
00:49:11,070 --> 00:49:12,990
Because if you have not done 
that, you will not know this 

883
00:49:12,990 --> 00:49:15,510
peace. 
You will not know this peace in 

884
00:49:15,510 --> 00:49:17,990
this life, and you will surely 
not know peace for all of 

885
00:49:18,070 --> 00:49:19,430
eternity. 
You know, I was thinking about 

886
00:49:19,430 --> 00:49:22,710
this the other day, and 
sometimes these thoughts come at

887
00:49:22,710 --> 00:49:24,910
night, and they keep me up at 
night. 

888
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:29,990
I was thinking about eternity. 
Eternity. 

889
00:49:30,070 --> 00:49:36,000
Think about it. 
Never ending existence. 

890
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:41,040
Never ending existence. 
Scripture says that eternity is 

891
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:44,560
written on our hearts. 
There is a desire for 

892
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,600
immorality, immortality, right? 
We want to live on forever. 

893
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,160
And there's there's something 
seriously wrong with a person 

894
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:56,280
when they want to cease to live.
We even our body reflexes in a 

895
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,000
way. 
You blink. 

896
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,120
Your body protects your life 
because you want to continue to 

897
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,590
live on. 
And there is a life to come 

898
00:50:02,590 --> 00:50:07,950
where you will never, ever, 
ever, ever, ever die. 

899
00:50:09,190 --> 00:50:13,350
Ever. 
And there's only two locations 

900
00:50:13,350 --> 00:50:17,510
where that eternity will be 
experienced. 

901
00:50:19,630 --> 00:50:22,350
This is I present this to you 
because I, I, I've had somebody 

902
00:50:22,350 --> 00:50:24,870
tell me this many years ago. 
You shouldn't try to scare 

903
00:50:24,870 --> 00:50:29,310
people to get saved. 
So what does Jude say? 

904
00:50:30,230 --> 00:50:34,430
Snatch others with fear? 
Snatch them? 

905
00:50:34,430 --> 00:50:36,630
Some people need to be snatched.
Need to be waking up. 

906
00:50:36,630 --> 00:50:39,710
You've been to 1000 meetings and
you're still not saved, man. 

907
00:50:41,110 --> 00:50:43,870
You've been to 1000 meetings 
like this, and you're still 

908
00:50:43,870 --> 00:50:46,670
going to get up and go about 
your way, and you're not even 

909
00:50:46,670 --> 00:50:49,030
confident that you have peace 
with God. 

910
00:50:50,110 --> 00:50:52,990
What's wrong with you? 
How? 

911
00:50:53,030 --> 00:50:55,430
How do you go to bed at night? 
How do you get up and laugh with

912
00:50:55,430 --> 00:50:58,670
your friends, not knowing that 
your soul is in the hand of God?

913
00:50:58,950 --> 00:51:02,910
How you will enter into 
eternity, you will. 

914
00:51:05,390 --> 00:51:08,630
And either you will hear from 
Christ, enter into the joy of 

915
00:51:08,630 --> 00:51:12,830
your master, well done, good and
faithful servant, or depart for 

916
00:51:12,830 --> 00:51:13,670
me. 
I never knew you. 

917
00:51:13,710 --> 00:51:15,470
And guess what? 
There's no second chances. 

918
00:51:15,870 --> 00:51:20,550
That's it. 
You will be sealed in a fate 

919
00:51:20,550 --> 00:51:23,390
where there is no prayer hard 
enough that you can pray. 

920
00:51:23,750 --> 00:51:26,190
There is no scream. 
Louder that you can scream. 

921
00:51:26,350 --> 00:51:29,610
It's settled. 
You've heard about him. 

922
00:51:30,170 --> 00:51:33,610
He's been offered to you. 
And yet you still have swatted 

923
00:51:33,610 --> 00:51:37,210
away his salvation over and over
and over again. 

924
00:51:39,010 --> 00:51:42,290
Do you have peace with God? 
Have you? 

925
00:51:42,410 --> 00:51:46,530
Have you settled where your soul
is going to go? 

926
00:51:47,650 --> 00:51:49,450
You've planned where you're 
going to go to school. 

927
00:51:49,450 --> 00:51:51,450
You've planned where you're 
going to go on vacation. 

928
00:51:51,570 --> 00:51:53,370
You've planned how many kids 
you're going to have. 

929
00:51:53,490 --> 00:51:54,930
You've planned where you're 
going to live. 

930
00:51:55,050 --> 00:51:56,610
You plan your business 
invention. 

931
00:51:56,730 --> 00:51:59,130
And you haven't thought a 
thought about your eternity. 

932
00:52:01,410 --> 00:52:03,490
Not one thought where I'm going 
to go when I die. 

933
00:52:06,970 --> 00:52:10,890
And I'm trying to convey to you,
I know it's intense now. 

934
00:52:11,090 --> 00:52:13,090
It's okay. 
Intensity is good. 

935
00:52:14,010 --> 00:52:16,890
I want to convey to you that 
Christ and his love is calling 

936
00:52:16,890 --> 00:52:19,630
for you and he wants to save 
you. 

937
00:52:20,630 --> 00:52:23,630
He's not indifferent. 
He freely loves you. 

938
00:52:24,310 --> 00:52:27,070
He's not under compulsion by the
Father to rescue sinners. 

939
00:52:27,350 --> 00:52:29,950
He longs. 
I lay down my life. 

940
00:52:30,190 --> 00:52:33,550
No one takes it up for me. 
I lay it down. 

941
00:52:33,550 --> 00:52:36,750
I want to lay down my life. 
I want to die. 

942
00:52:36,750 --> 00:52:40,230
I want to get on that cross so 
that I can save sinners. 

943
00:52:40,390 --> 00:52:42,590
I love them. 
They're created in my image. 

944
00:52:42,930 --> 00:52:45,810
I want to rescue them and I want
them to be in my bosom forever 

945
00:52:45,810 --> 00:52:47,410
and ever. 
That's Jesus heart. 

946
00:52:48,730 --> 00:52:52,490
He wants to save you and he 
wants. 

947
00:52:52,490 --> 00:52:54,970
You to have peace with God. 
He wants you to never worry one 

948
00:52:55,090 --> 00:52:57,450
moment after you confess Christ 
about where you're going to 

949
00:52:57,450 --> 00:53:02,010
spend eternity, not one moment. 
He wants you to ever doubt that 

950
00:53:02,290 --> 00:53:05,650
if you stand before God, whether
you will be accepted or not, He 

951
00:53:05,650 --> 00:53:08,690
will accept you. 
That is how much God the Father 

952
00:53:08,690 --> 00:53:14,690
loves the Son, and through the 
sun loves you, receive Jesus 

953
00:53:14,690 --> 00:53:17,490
Christ and realize, as my 
brother said earlier, that you 

954
00:53:17,490 --> 00:53:23,210
have sin from head to toe. 
You are polluted with evil, and 

955
00:53:23,210 --> 00:53:25,970
there is only one way by which 
you can be washed. 

956
00:53:26,570 --> 00:53:29,650
Cleanse every record around 
every perversion that would make

957
00:53:29,650 --> 00:53:32,810
you blush if you shared it even 
with your closest friend. 

958
00:53:33,050 --> 00:53:36,610
Even such sin God knows about, 
and He's willing to forgive. 

959
00:53:37,570 --> 00:53:40,170
He's willing to forgive the 
thing that embarrasses you, the 

960
00:53:40,170 --> 00:53:42,810
thing that keeps you up at 
night, the thing that makes you 

961
00:53:42,810 --> 00:53:45,970
even cringe physically because 
you thought, how did I go so far

962
00:53:45,970 --> 00:53:48,450
into that depravity, even such a
sin. 

963
00:53:48,730 --> 00:53:52,370
Christ is willing to forgive. 
He's willing to receive. 

964
00:53:52,370 --> 00:53:55,970
And wash gladly, but you have to
come. 

965
00:53:55,970 --> 00:53:59,720
To him, you have to be humble. 
You have to be desperate, oh, be

966
00:53:59,720 --> 00:54:02,200
desperate tonight. 
Be desperate enough to forget 

967
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,040
anybody behind you, in front of 
you, beside you and say, oh, I'm

968
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:08,480
going to even bow my knees 
before Christ say, Lord wash me,

969
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,560
please forgive me. 
I want to be born again. 

970
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:16,800
I want, I need peace with God. 
I need peace with God. 

971
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,480
He's willing to give it peace 
with God. 

972
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,840
And not just peace for all he 
turned, but peace from that 

973
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,730
moment on. 
Walk with God like Joseph, 

974
00:54:25,730 --> 00:54:29,090
knowing that even when the most 
closest people to you betray 

975
00:54:29,090 --> 00:54:32,050
you, he stands by you. 
Peace with God. 

976
00:54:32,050 --> 00:54:33,610
That as you're serving him, 
there's enemies. 

977
00:54:33,730 --> 00:54:36,450
As we're seeing rise up in 
America, enemies against the 

978
00:54:36,450 --> 00:54:38,890
gospel truth. 
No matter how much we might be 

979
00:54:38,890 --> 00:54:42,370
squeezed with our freedoms, no 
matter what's coming down the 

980
00:54:42,370 --> 00:54:44,770
Pike, no matter what we're going
to see happen to local churches,

981
00:54:45,090 --> 00:54:47,290
oh, there is more for us and 
more against us. 

982
00:54:47,690 --> 00:54:54,600
That kind of peace is available.
Only when the Lord himself is 

983
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:59,920
received, I invite you. 
Today, to repent of your sins 

984
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,440
and to crown Jesus Christ as 
Lord. 

985
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:08,240
To beg him to forgive you. 
To ask Him and to confess that 

986
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:11,200
He's the only way into the 
Father's arms. 

987
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:12,880
And he'll do it. 
Tonight you'll leave here 

988
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,640
changed. 
Your eyes will be opened. 

989
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,240
I remember what it was like to 
be born again. 

990
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,320
Believers, do you remember when 
you were born again? 

991
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:21,920
Yes. 
Do you remember what it was 

992
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,090
like? 
Yes, I'm going to talk to you. 

993
00:55:25,090 --> 00:55:27,850
Tomorrow about the reports that 
Queen Sheba heard concerning 

994
00:55:27,850 --> 00:55:31,570
Solomon, and those reports so 
moved her heart, she said. 

995
00:55:31,570 --> 00:55:33,690
I got to find out about Solomon 
myself. 

996
00:55:35,170 --> 00:55:37,930
Aren't you? 
Bothered unbeliever by the joy 

997
00:55:37,930 --> 00:55:39,890
that the people you know who are
Christians have that you don't 

998
00:55:39,890 --> 00:55:43,050
have. 
Isn't it just you're like, I 

999
00:55:43,050 --> 00:55:46,570
want that. 
Don't is is not a part of of 

1000
00:55:46,570 --> 00:55:48,770
what a Christian does in a 
person's life. 

1001
00:55:48,850 --> 00:55:52,860
We we elude that peace and that 
joy that should cause people to 

1002
00:55:52,860 --> 00:55:55,820
thirst because we're salt. 
I hope so. 

1003
00:55:57,740 --> 00:56:00,180
It can be yours. 
It can be yours. 

1004
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:02,060
Today. 
Tonight you can be changed. 

1005
00:56:02,540 --> 00:56:04,660
And even though you've heard 
this every single year and 

1006
00:56:04,660 --> 00:56:07,740
you've left the same, why, why 
not tonight? 

1007
00:56:08,100 --> 00:56:15,420
It'd be different now. 
Believer peace. 

1008
00:56:16,700 --> 00:56:18,620
You have peace. 
You're his. 

1009
00:56:18,620 --> 00:56:21,150
You belong to him. 
The Father is yours. 

1010
00:56:21,310 --> 00:56:25,390
You're accepted in the beloved. 
But may the Lord of Peace 

1011
00:56:25,390 --> 00:56:28,230
himself. 
He's speaking to Christians at 

1012
00:56:28,230 --> 00:56:31,310
all times, in every way. 
I'm sure all of us in here can 

1013
00:56:31,310 --> 00:56:34,830
say I I can't say that that is 
my Christian experience. 

1014
00:56:36,390 --> 00:56:38,230
And if we can. 
Humbly confess that before the 

1015
00:56:38,230 --> 00:56:40,950
Lord, here's what I want. 
I'm not saying this to condemn 

1016
00:56:40,950 --> 00:56:42,430
anybody. 
I'm actually saying this to 

1017
00:56:42,430 --> 00:56:44,550
excite us. 
No matter what our experience 

1018
00:56:44,550 --> 00:56:47,190
is, no matter what your 
personality is, your quirks are 

1019
00:56:47,730 --> 00:56:49,050
the high level anxiety that you 
have. 

1020
00:56:49,050 --> 00:56:51,090
That's abnormal in comparison to
the next person. 

1021
00:56:51,490 --> 00:56:54,050
This is your inheritance in 
Jesus Christ. 

1022
00:56:54,810 --> 00:56:56,530
That's your that's your 
inheritance. 

1023
00:56:56,530 --> 00:57:00,490
That's what King Jesus gives to 
his servants, something that 

1024
00:57:00,490 --> 00:57:03,370
King Solomon could not. 
King Solomon could not calm the 

1025
00:57:03,370 --> 00:57:08,810
conscience. 
King Solomon can only offer the 

1026
00:57:08,810 --> 00:57:12,210
peace as long as everything he 
did was in favor for the people.

1027
00:57:13,130 --> 00:57:16,870
King Jesus, On the other hand, 
Chapter one, Chapter 2, Chapter 

1028
00:57:16,870 --> 00:57:19,750
3 can still say, but you can be 
at peace. 

1029
00:57:21,270 --> 00:57:25,110
That's strength, that peace that
protects your joy, that keeps 

1030
00:57:25,110 --> 00:57:30,550
you anchored. 
How do we get that peace? 

1031
00:57:31,590 --> 00:57:34,950
How do we stay in that peace? 
Well, that's whole another 

1032
00:57:34,950 --> 00:57:37,590
sermon on its own. 
But there's a hint from this 

1033
00:57:37,590 --> 00:57:38,870
very verse. 
What is Paul doing? 

1034
00:57:38,870 --> 00:57:42,150
He's praying this peace to be 
real in the believers lives. 

1035
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,760
Now may the Lord, I'm asking the
Lord to do this in you. 

1036
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:49,960
And so I even invite you 
tonight. 

1037
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,040
I want to be very specific. 
You're here. 

1038
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,080
You've made time to be in the 
presence of God's people. 

1039
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,600
But we're not here just to 
listen to lessons. 

1040
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,960
We're here to meet with God. 
You're the temple of the Holy 

1041
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,160
Spirit. 
What was the purpose of the 

1042
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:10,160
temple for God's people and God 
himself to come as close as 

1043
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,240
possible to meeting with one 
another? 

1044
00:58:14,070 --> 00:58:16,990
And so when we're the temple of 
the Holy Spirit, every single 

1045
00:58:16,990 --> 00:58:20,590
time we gather, we gather 
despite the singing, despite the

1046
00:58:20,590 --> 00:58:21,950
praying, despite. 
That's all wonderful. 

1047
00:58:21,950 --> 00:58:25,750
But those are all means for one 
chief end, and that is to meet 

1048
00:58:25,950 --> 00:58:31,990
with God, Meet with God. 
I want to invite you today as a 

1049
00:58:31,990 --> 00:58:36,150
blood bot child of God, to bring
the matter that you don't have 

1050
00:58:36,150 --> 00:58:40,890
peace with to him. 
You're unsettled, You're 

1051
00:58:40,890 --> 00:58:43,090
disturbed, You're frustrated. 
You're angry. 

1052
00:58:43,210 --> 00:58:45,090
You have no security. 
You have no hope. 

1053
00:58:45,210 --> 00:58:47,210
It's keeping you up at night. 
It's causing arguments. 

1054
00:58:47,210 --> 00:58:49,210
It's causing friction. 
It's causing you to doubt. 

1055
00:58:49,210 --> 00:58:51,610
It's causing you to regret. 
It's causing you to kick 

1056
00:58:51,610 --> 00:58:53,170
yourself. 
Whatever the means is, whatever 

1057
00:58:53,170 --> 00:58:55,610
the reason is, bring it to the 
Lord tonight. 

1058
00:58:56,930 --> 00:59:03,050
I need peace here. 
My marriage, Lord, is killing 

1059
00:59:03,050 --> 00:59:04,450
me. 
I need peace in my marriage. 

1060
00:59:05,410 --> 00:59:08,450
I'm in my singleness, Lord, and 
it's been a long time. 

1061
00:59:09,180 --> 00:59:12,540
I need peace here. 
Give me peace even if I remain 

1062
00:59:12,540 --> 00:59:14,860
this way. 
Give me peace even if my spouse 

1063
00:59:14,860 --> 00:59:16,860
doesn't change. 
Give me peace. 

1064
00:59:17,180 --> 00:59:19,340
I'm afraid, Lord, of how to 
raise my children. 

1065
00:59:19,540 --> 00:59:21,220
I don't know how I'm going to 
provide for them. 

1066
00:59:21,220 --> 00:59:24,100
Lord, I'm anxious. 
I'm trying to be strong in front

1067
00:59:24,100 --> 00:59:26,220
of my wife. 
Give me peace, Lord. 

1068
00:59:26,740 --> 00:59:28,060
What? 
I'm serving you in the ministry 

1069
00:59:28,060 --> 00:59:29,740
and there's troublemakers in the
church. 

1070
00:59:29,740 --> 00:59:31,380
There's false teachers that are 
coming. 

1071
00:59:31,660 --> 00:59:33,900
There are people outside that 
are threatening me. 

1072
00:59:34,140 --> 00:59:36,560
There are even believers causing
all these issues. 

1073
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:38,640
Lord, give me peace. 
Help me have this peace so that 

1074
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,240
I can do what you've called me 
to do with joy and happiness and

1075
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:45,120
integrity. 
Give me this peace. 

1076
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:55,000
Will he not do it, Spurgeon? 
Said many things, and he says 

1077
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,200
things unlike really many other 
preachers can. 

1078
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,480
He has the power. 
To breathe peace into the. 

1079
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:06,110
Heart. 
To create peace in the soul and 

1080
01:00:06,110 --> 01:00:08,790
lull. 
The spirit into that sweet sleep

1081
01:00:08,790 --> 01:00:13,630
of the beloved which is the 
peculiar gift of heaven, I will 

1082
01:00:13,630 --> 01:00:18,750
give you rest, said he and he 
can and will do it. 

1083
01:00:20,550 --> 01:00:22,350
You'll breathe the peace into 
your heart. 

1084
01:00:24,030 --> 01:00:29,710
So really, I think everybody has
a call here to answer non 

1085
01:00:29,710 --> 01:00:35,560
believer man, how many more 
signs do you need in our world 

1086
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:39,040
for you to get it? 
We're not a. 

1087
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:42,480
Random planet floating in the 
blackness of space. 

1088
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:44,920
I know there's a lot of talks 
about aliens. 

1089
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:50,200
We're willing to believe that, 
but not Jesus. 

1090
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:55,160
It's incredible. 
This is not random. 

1091
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:58,320
God created one hurt world to be
inhabited by man. 

1092
01:00:59,150 --> 01:01:00,470
I know they're going to try 
really hard to make that a 

1093
01:01:00,470 --> 01:01:02,790
reality in Mars and on the moon 
or wherever they're trying to 

1094
01:01:02,790 --> 01:01:04,950
go. 
But God created one world to be 

1095
01:01:04,950 --> 01:01:08,910
inhabited by man. 
And this world is not an 

1096
01:01:08,910 --> 01:01:11,790
accident. 
This world is perfectly 

1097
01:01:11,790 --> 01:01:16,750
described by the word of God, 
your existence, the commentary 

1098
01:01:16,750 --> 01:01:19,550
of all the chaos and the 
problems, all the evil. 

1099
01:01:19,790 --> 01:01:23,270
It's this book that gives the 
precise diagnosis and gives us 

1100
01:01:23,270 --> 01:01:25,510
the solution. 
Jesus Christ is real. 

1101
01:01:27,230 --> 01:01:29,630
He's alive. 
He came once. 

1102
01:01:29,630 --> 01:01:31,430
He fulfilled many hundreds of 
prophecies. 

1103
01:01:31,750 --> 01:01:34,190
What makes you think that he's 
not going to fulfill the rest of

1104
01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:35,830
them. 
He's going to. 

1105
01:01:38,510 --> 01:01:40,150
I want you to be ready when he 
comes. 

1106
01:01:41,110 --> 01:01:43,230
He will. 
And I want you to be ready to 

1107
01:01:43,230 --> 01:01:48,750
stand before Jesus Christ of 
Nazareth who died was. 

1108
01:01:48,750 --> 01:01:53,790
Buried Rose again and will come 
back to be the ruling king 

1109
01:01:53,910 --> 01:01:56,630
forever and ever. 
Are you right with him? 

1110
01:01:56,790 --> 01:02:01,420
How do I get right with him? 
Go to the cross, run to the. 

1111
01:02:02,460 --> 01:02:04,740
Where's the cross? 
It's the truth of the cross. 

1112
01:02:05,460 --> 01:02:08,180
Bring your sins, bring all your 
burdens and bring them to the 

1113
01:02:08,180 --> 01:02:10,340
Lord. 
Saying, Lord, the preacher said 

1114
01:02:10,340 --> 01:02:12,740
that I can bring all my sins 
because your word says you're 

1115
01:02:12,740 --> 01:02:15,020
willing to forgive all. 
Can you forgive me? 

1116
01:02:15,020 --> 01:02:17,500
You will be forgiven. 
Lord, I want you to be king of 

1117
01:02:17,500 --> 01:02:19,700
my life. 
I don't want you to be king when

1118
01:02:19,700 --> 01:02:21,140
you come. 
And I'm not ready. 

1119
01:02:21,140 --> 01:02:23,900
I want you to be king now so 
that when you come, I have joy. 

1120
01:02:25,780 --> 01:02:31,410
So be king now of my life. 
Do that tonight, Believer. 

1121
01:02:31,450 --> 01:02:33,370
What is it in your heart that 
has weighed you down? 

1122
01:02:33,370 --> 01:02:35,250
It's robbing you of your 
testimony. 

1123
01:02:37,690 --> 01:02:41,530
It's not helping you sing. 
You're even distracted. 

1124
01:02:41,530 --> 01:02:47,170
Now, while I'm preaching, 
because you're so overcome by a 

1125
01:02:47,170 --> 01:02:51,410
sorrow, by harassment, by a 
thorn. 

1126
01:02:53,410 --> 01:02:55,930
Come to the Lord tonight. 
I know we have a program 

1127
01:02:55,930 --> 01:02:57,350
tonight. 
You know, what's the best 

1128
01:02:57,350 --> 01:02:58,550
program? 
Meeting with God. 

1129
01:02:58,990 --> 01:03:01,230
That's the best program. 
It's the best program. 

1130
01:03:07,070 --> 01:03:11,150
And I just, I can't. 
I I know that there's order and 

1131
01:03:11,150 --> 01:03:12,630
service. 
I'm all for that, right? 

1132
01:03:14,270 --> 01:03:18,430
But there are meetings that call
for response, a call for an 

1133
01:03:18,430 --> 01:03:21,510
answer. 
You hear all this and to just 

1134
01:03:21,510 --> 01:03:23,870
dash it away as just well, that 
was really stimulating. 

1135
01:03:24,910 --> 01:03:31,140
That's it. 
God, please hear me. 

1136
01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:34,140
I want the supernatural truth in
my life. 

1137
01:03:35,980 --> 01:03:38,820
But this place can turn into a 
Nazareth real quickly. 

1138
01:03:39,220 --> 01:03:41,140
Jesus could not do many things 
in Nazareth. 

1139
01:03:41,860 --> 01:03:44,500
He was. 
He was amazed at their unbelief.

1140
01:03:49,500 --> 01:03:51,660
You know, I read an interesting 
verse in First Corinthians. 

1141
01:03:51,700 --> 01:03:56,210
I'm done here. 
There is a place in a public 

1142
01:03:56,210 --> 01:03:58,810
meeting. 
There's a place in. 

1143
01:03:58,810 --> 01:04:01,330
A public meeting. 
Public meeting is for the 

1144
01:04:01,330 --> 01:04:04,570
corporate expression of worship,
fellowship, all those things. 

1145
01:04:04,570 --> 01:04:08,010
But there is a place in the 
public meeting for you to talk 

1146
01:04:08,010 --> 01:04:11,170
to God alone. 
Can I show a scripture for that?

1147
01:04:11,490 --> 01:04:13,330
I read this other than I made 
and it just made me glad. 

1148
01:04:13,770 --> 01:04:16,850
It's in First Corinthians 1428. 
Look, I'm proving it to you. 

1149
01:04:16,850 --> 01:04:20,290
I'm done after this first. 
Corinthians 14. 

1150
01:04:20,290 --> 01:04:23,090
Thank you, brother. 1st 
Corinthians, 1428. 

1151
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,120
This is speaking about the gift 
of tongues and how that works in

1152
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,080
the church. 
I'm sure you would love for us 

1153
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:31,920
to talk about tongues right now.
We're not going to talk about 

1154
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,080
them, but look at the principle 
here. 

1155
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,120
But if there is no one to 
interpret, let each of them keep

1156
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:40,360
silent in church and speak to 
himself and to God. 

1157
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:44,640
Let. 
Him speak to himself and to God.

1158
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,840
The idea there is that in some 
moments, though it's a 

1159
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:51,760
particular context, there is a 
place for you and God. 

1160
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:54,770
You and God, I want that for you
now. 

1161
01:04:55,170 --> 01:04:57,530
Tonight. 
You and God don't worry about 

1162
01:04:57,530 --> 01:04:59,690
what's coming up next. 
You know how this conference 

1163
01:04:59,690 --> 01:05:00,930
goes. 
Nobody's sleeping tonight 

1164
01:05:00,930 --> 01:05:03,490
anyway. 
Nobody is. 

1165
01:05:06,050 --> 01:05:09,090
Meet with God. 
Are you at peace with God? 

1166
01:05:09,770 --> 01:05:12,330
Let me put it this way, even if 
you're a believer. 

1167
01:05:12,650 --> 01:05:15,250
Hey, hey, hey, you're faithfully
walking the Lord. 

1168
01:05:15,250 --> 01:05:16,850
But something's disturbing. 
I'm not even talking about that 

1169
01:05:16,850 --> 01:05:18,050
kind of believer. 
Now I'm talking about you, 

1170
01:05:18,050 --> 01:05:19,490
believer. 
You walked away from God. 

1171
01:05:20,850 --> 01:05:23,450
You're backslidden. 
You're icy cold. 

1172
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,440
You've been in here the past two
days, day and a half. 

1173
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:29,880
I lost track of it and nothing 
has moved you. 

1174
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,960
Not one thing. 
And you're content in that place

1175
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:35,200
now. 
One thing has. 

1176
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,760
Wooed your heart to say. 
Isn't the Lord amazing? 

1177
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:39,960
You haven't even talked about 
God this whole time. 

1178
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:49,040
And you're a Christian and 
you're dry as a stick, Though 

1179
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:54,000
you have justification, 
practically, you're not right 

1180
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:57,080
with God. 
That needs to change. 

1181
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,880
And let this conference be the 
opportunity for you to change. 

1182
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:02,080
Like, here's the goodness of 
God. 

1183
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,320
It's that I believe but help my 
unbelief. 

1184
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,720
Here's the man with his child. 
Jesus says anything's possible 

1185
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,040
for those who believe. 
And here's this man just it 

1186
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,160
spills out like something. 
Hit him in the gut. 

1187
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,200
He goes, I believe, but I help 
my unbelief. 

1188
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,920
It's weird, Lord, I do believe, 
but I kind of don't. 

1189
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,510
And the Lord still heals his son
you can. 

1190
01:06:24,510 --> 01:06:30,270
Come the way you are, but based 
on the simple invitation, you're

1191
01:06:30,270 --> 01:06:32,990
willing to act on that little 
truth, and God is still willing 

1192
01:06:32,990 --> 01:06:36,590
to honor your humility and 
touch. 

1193
01:06:36,590 --> 01:06:39,950
You and rescue you from the 
place that you're in right now. 

1194
01:06:40,270 --> 01:06:46,670
It's been too long, man. 
It's been too long and. 

1195
01:06:46,670 --> 01:06:49,110
You've gotten used to the rhythm
of just going through the 

1196
01:06:49,110 --> 01:06:52,810
motions, but your soul is 
shriveled up. 

1197
01:06:54,690 --> 01:06:59,810
And you knew a time when there 
was a fire in your belly and 

1198
01:06:59,810 --> 01:07:03,850
there was a time where you just 
couldn't help but sing his 

1199
01:07:03,850 --> 01:07:05,530
praises and talk of his 
goodness. 

1200
01:07:05,810 --> 01:07:08,530
And those are just, those are 
just memories. 

1201
01:07:08,530 --> 01:07:12,130
Now why we go from glory to 
glory, not from boring to 

1202
01:07:12,130 --> 01:07:18,450
boring? 
All to say, I'm not going to 

1203
01:07:18,450 --> 01:07:21,550
give you any more scenarios. 
All to say is can we meet with 

1204
01:07:21,550 --> 01:07:24,070
the Lord tonight? 
Can we just say, Lord, please, I

1205
01:07:24,070 --> 01:07:25,910
need peace, Lord, I need peace 
with God. 

1206
01:07:26,270 --> 01:07:28,390
Lord, I need you to do some of 
my heart because I know I'm not 

1207
01:07:28,390 --> 01:07:30,190
walking right with you. 
And it's been a few months now 

1208
01:07:30,190 --> 01:07:31,270
and I know it's only going to 
get worse. 

1209
01:07:31,510 --> 01:07:34,190
You need to rescue me now, 
tonight, Lord, you, why don't we

1210
01:07:34,190 --> 01:07:35,510
do that? 
And let's see what the Holy 

1211
01:07:35,510 --> 01:07:37,190
Spirit will do. 
Would you bow your hearts? 

1212
01:07:37,190 --> 01:07:38,230
Would you bow your heads with 
me? 

1213
01:07:38,510 --> 01:07:42,910
And can the musicians come and 
and just assist us in our 

1214
01:07:42,910 --> 01:07:52,170
attention to the Lord? 
Now may the Lord of peace 

1215
01:07:52,170 --> 01:07:56,370
himself, Now may the. 
Lord of peace himself, thank 

1216
01:07:56,370 --> 01:08:00,290
you, give you peace. 
At all times and in every way. 

1217
01:08:00,490 --> 01:08:05,930
At all times and in every way, 
oh Lord, you know exactly where 

1218
01:08:05,930 --> 01:08:16,680
each of us are at you. 
Know who doesn't have the peace 

1219
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,479
of salvation? 
You know who doesn't have the 

1220
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:24,430
peace of your promises? 
And we ask. 

1221
01:08:26,350 --> 01:08:32,069
That is, Paul prayed for a 
supernatural impartation of this

1222
01:08:32,069 --> 01:08:37,910
allencompassing, unending peace.
May you breathe that peace into 

1223
01:08:37,910 --> 01:08:43,350
our hearts, Father. 
We cannot force or manipulate 

1224
01:08:43,350 --> 01:08:46,189
anything. 
We cannot do anything for 

1225
01:08:46,189 --> 01:08:50,390
people's lives to change. 
But we do do our best in 

1226
01:08:50,390 --> 01:08:53,189
positioning ourselves for you to
touch us. 

1227
01:08:54,319 --> 01:08:58,160
And so at this time, whether we 
sit or kneel or stand, lift our 

1228
01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:01,240
hands, or bow our heads, Lord, 
we just asked that you would 

1229
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:09,760
look upon our hearts, and that 
you would help us, help us trust

1230
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:13,520
that you are a greater king, and
that you give. 

1231
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:17,800
A better peace than even Solomon
did for. 

1232
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,640
Those who don't yearn for you, 
like Nathaniel, yearn for you, 

1233
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:29,760
renew that, yearning for you. 
Help us know the joint. 

1234
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:34,279
Security of being in right place
with you and we look to. 

1235
01:09:34,279 --> 01:09:39,479
You now as we seek your face. 
Amen. 

1236
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:46,240
The musicians. 
Will will play softly, not to. 

1237
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:52,060
Manipulate your emotions but. 
To assist the truth that we 

1238
01:09:52,060 --> 01:09:57,820
heard and to help us meditate. 
Maybe you need to pray with 

1239
01:09:57,820 --> 01:10:01,380
someone, and I want to be one of
those people to pray with you. 

1240
01:10:01,380 --> 01:10:04,140
And so as I often do, I'll be 
standing in the back somewhere 

1241
01:10:04,140 --> 01:10:06,940
there, and I'm more than willing
to pray. 

1242
01:10:06,940 --> 01:10:10,820
Pastor Mark, who opens and who 
has been opening the services, 

1243
01:10:11,860 --> 01:10:15,100
Pastor Mark, also a servant of 
the Lord, is willing to pray 

1244
01:10:15,100 --> 01:10:17,140
with you. 
You've seen him every service. 

1245
01:10:17,140 --> 01:10:18,900
So you know how he looks and 
where he is. 

1246
01:10:19,310 --> 01:10:21,310
You can just approach him. 
I'm sure that's fine, Pastor 

1247
01:10:21,310 --> 01:10:23,270
Mark. 
He will be more than willing to.

1248
01:10:23,270 --> 01:10:25,150
Maybe you came with a brother of
a friend. 

1249
01:10:25,150 --> 01:10:27,070
Maybe you there's a believer 
that you know beside you can 

1250
01:10:27,070 --> 01:10:29,030
pray with him. 
But let's just seek the Lord in 

1251
01:10:29,030 --> 01:10:31,630
his in his presence as the 
temple of the Holy Spirit. 

1252
01:10:31,630 --> 01:10:35,070
The veil has been torn. 
The veil has been torn. 

1253
01:10:35,670 --> 01:10:37,870
We don't go to a building now. 
You are that building. 

1254
01:10:38,830 --> 01:10:42,550
Your heart is his home where you
are, right? 

1255
01:10:42,550 --> 01:10:46,710
Now you can meet with him. 
You can meet with the Lord just 

1256
01:10:46,710 --> 01:10:48,910
in quietness. 
If you need to get up for any 

1257
01:10:48,910 --> 01:10:51,230
reason, if you need to go. 
We're not holding you hostage. 

1258
01:10:52,030 --> 01:10:53,870
All I ask is that you don't 
disturb because there's 

1259
01:10:53,870 --> 01:10:58,190
something powerful when we pray.
There's something powerful when 

1260
01:10:58,190 --> 01:11:01,110
we pause and we say, God, I'm 
here to meet with you. 

1261
01:11:02,030 --> 01:11:03,470
Please don't interfere with 
that. 

1262
01:11:03,550 --> 01:11:06,150
You're going to laugh and throw 
Frisbees until 1:00 in the 

1263
01:11:06,150 --> 01:11:09,350
morning after this. 
But for now, just meet with the 

1264
01:11:09,350 --> 01:11:13,900
living God. 
As they do this, and as you 

1265
01:11:13,900 --> 01:11:15,940
pray, we'll, we'll continue with
singing in a moment. 

1266
01:11:15,940 --> 01:11:19,060
But I'm back there, please. 
I know that sometimes people 

1267
01:11:19,060 --> 01:11:21,100
want to share their hearts, but 
for the sake, if there's more 

1268
01:11:21,100 --> 01:11:24,660
than one person to just, let's 
go straight to the matter and 

1269
01:11:24,660 --> 01:11:27,420
pray about it so that others can
have a chance to be prayed over 

1270
01:11:27,420 --> 01:11:29,980
as well. 
Seek the Lord and. 

1271
01:11:29,980 --> 01:11:33,700
His face seek his strength 
continually.