1 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,600 Christ is alive, he's alive. And well, Jesus has heard our 2 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:16,500 voices, he sits at the right hand of the father and he is 3 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,800 patient as he desires all to reach repentance. 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:25,200 But there is a day coming when that number will be complete and 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,400 he will return and take us home. And we be with him forever and 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,700 ever and ever. And until then we want to please 7 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:33,400 him. Do we not, we want to. 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,100 Seek him, we want to know him and I pray as much as we've sang 9 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:41,300 about our freedoms and Jesus, we would also fear Him for he is 10 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:44,700 alive and he is Holy and he can intervene. 11 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:49,000 In this very moment, he can bring life and he can also cease 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,200 life, he can bring restoration and he can and his perfect 13 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,800 Justice. Bring destruction. 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,800 And so the Christ that we just sang to is the Christ that we 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,700 are going to hear from. And I pray with you, I'm sure 16 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:03,400 you are with me on this that his voice. 17 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,500 And his voice alone would be heard and we're going to hear it 18 00:01:07,508 --> 00:01:13,000 in Mark chapter 5 together. The Bible is God's word. 19 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:17,100 And the word of God is the voice of God. 20 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,700 So meet me in Mark chapter 5. And scroll down in that chapter. 21 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:37,000 Down to verse 35. If you were here last week, you 22 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,900 know, where we ended, we ended at a very awkward place because 23 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:44,200 we didn't complete the story as because the story's written a 24 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,300 little differently. It's two stories really 25 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:48,900 conjoined. Together, there's an 26 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:51,900 intersection. There is a meeting of two people 27 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:55,800 who had the same desire and desperate plea for Christ to do 28 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,600 something in them. And at this time, we will 29 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,800 continue where we left off and where we left off is with a 30 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:08,199 crowd that is fixated on an interaction between the Jesus 31 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:11,600 that we love in. No, and a broken woman who has 32 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,000 been made whole by not him touching her but by her touching 33 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:23,700 him And in this atmosphere of faith and compassion and love a 34 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:28,000 group of Messengers. Come to gyrus, the the man who 35 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,700 originally invited Jesus to his home because he also has a need. 36 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:34,300 He has a little baby little girl. 37 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,200 The age of 12 who is terminally ill and she is ready to give her 38 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:43,800 final breath at any second. And this group of people come to 39 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:50,300 update gyrus with what had taken place with his child and in that 40 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:55,100 very precious moment where so many hearts came alive. 41 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,800 Gyrus would have the wind of Hope knocked right out of him as 42 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,700 he would hear. The words that no father would 43 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:08,000 want to receive concerning their ailing child. 44 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:15,300 Your daughter is dead. Your daughter is dead and you 45 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:19,600 can imagine how the heart of this desperate father sank to 46 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,000 his stomach. He can also Imagine The 47 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,600 intrusive thoughts, the crashing ideas that would have visited 48 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,300 him in that very moment. A flood of confusion may be 49 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:36,500 frustration and fear that would have buried him further into 50 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:40,900 despair, unless the Lord had interjected immediately and 51 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:46,100 provided a word of a show. Assurance, a revelation that 52 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:49,000 would have rescued him and it did. 53 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:57,700 Do not fear only believe. Do not fear only believe and 54 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:01,200 there is no doubt that gyrus here would have experienced this 55 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,700 temptation as a prevailing one. The prevailing thought could 56 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:09,500 have been that he would have connected the death of his 57 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:13,600 daughter with the delay that Jesus had prolonged. 58 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,899 Let's read this together. They understand what I am 59 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:19,800 saying. In verse 35, while he being 60 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,700 Jesus was still speaking. There came from the rulers 61 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:25,700 house. House some who said your 62 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:28,300 daughter is dead? Why trouble? 63 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:32,700 The teacher any further? But overhearing what they said. 64 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:37,200 Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not fear, only 65 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,700 believe. And he Allowed no one to follow 66 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:44,900 him, except Peter and James, and John, the brother of James. 67 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,900 You read that in verse 35, while he being Jesus was still 68 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:52,500 speaking. Speaking to the woman that he 69 00:04:52,508 --> 00:04:55,400 just restored. This woman who was stunned by 70 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,700 the fact that this man who was a obvious men of God, a prophet 71 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,900 more than a prophet Messiah turning to her and saying 72 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:05,600 daughter daughter and reassuring her. 73 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,100 Not just of her restoration physically, but of a 74 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:12,500 relationship, a relationship with the true and living God. 75 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:17,100 He's speaking to her And while he's speaking to her, these 76 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,600 Messengers came and tell this father your daughter is gone. 77 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,600 Why bother him? And he further Why move forward. 78 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,800 This is it this is the Finish Line let's just let's just go 79 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,100 home. There's a funeral waiting for 80 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:34,100 you. Could it be that gyrus thought? 81 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:38,500 Oh, Jesus. If you had just kept walking 82 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:43,000 instead of talking What would you think if you were gyrus in 83 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,100 this moment? What would be the thoughts? 84 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:48,300 What would be the calculations you would have made? 85 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:53,900 Maybe my daughter wouldn't have died if Lord, you weren't I'm 86 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:58,100 sorry to say distracted. May be distracted. 87 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,800 And here we have already an instruction from the school of 88 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,300 faith. That is absolutely important for 89 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:06,000 you and I to know about ourselves. 90 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:10,200 Our fear comes from many things, but let me tell you what the 91 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,100 strongest, or one of the strongest motivations for our 92 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:17,200 fear. It is from a perception, a false 93 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,500 perception that Christ supervision over our fares is 94 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:23,700 subject to negligence or oversight. 95 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:28,700 One of the things that create fear is our, our failed 96 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:33,700 perception, that Jesus is subject in his lordship of my 97 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:38,200 life, to being negligent forgetful. 98 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:43,500 Overwhelmed. Maybe sometimes. 99 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,800 Emotionally unstable. And I didn't do my best this 100 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,000 week, so he changed his ideas about how he's going to bless me 101 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,700 and guide me and provide for me. You know, if I were to ask every 102 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:59,100 single person in this place, do you believe Jesus is The 103 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:01,300 Shepherd of your soul? Do you believe he really guides 104 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:02,500 you? Do you believe you can provide 105 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:05,800 everything that you need? It would be very hard for me to 106 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,200 believe that one of you would even say I don't think so unless 107 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,300 you're a non-believer. I don't think that's the object 108 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:14,200 of our doubt. I think we all can say yes it's 109 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,900 right. Jesus Does lead us he promises 110 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:21,300 to not forsake us. But it's our doubt that comes 111 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,200 from his ability to do so consistently or adequately. 112 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:30,900 And if we're not careful that kind of fear when it is 113 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:36,700 nurtured, and tolerated can convince us that we can evaluate 114 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:41,000 the Lord's faithfulness based on whether or not he comes through 115 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,300 according to our timetable, or are preferred type of provision. 116 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:50,700 And then we sit on the Judgment seat. looking down at our Lord 117 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:55,200 and saying, You claim to be faithful. 118 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,600 But look I can point to different things where to me, it 119 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:00,800 wasn't really the best that you can do. 120 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,000 I know that's not easy to hear, but listen, are ugly hearts. 121 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,400 Can testify of what I'm saying. We've had those thoughts. 122 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,300 We've had those ideas come through. 123 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:16,400 And gyrus did the right thing of coming to the Lord. 124 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,600 He did the absolute perfect thing to come to the Lord. 125 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,000 And to just unravel his heart and say, here I am. 126 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:27,700 This is something that I can do. I give it over to you. 127 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,500 And because of the nature of the problem, the nature of the 128 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:34,100 issue, that's all gyrus could have done. 129 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,900 And that's a freeing thought that. 130 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:40,400 When you and I come to the Lord with a burden in that very 131 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:45,600 moment, we also have to rest and knowing that's all I could do. 132 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:51,300 This is all I can do. This is what gyrus need to do 133 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:54,500 this very moment that the same Jesus you called upon as the 134 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:59,600 same G's as you are supposed to continue to trust in moment, 135 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,900 after moment, day after day, regardless of how things play 136 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:07,600 out and here is why the rest comes from the Revelation that 137 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:12,000 you have surrendered, it to an all Sovereign God who actually 138 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,200 cares about you? That's where the rest comes. 139 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,000 You've placed it before him and because of that, there should be 140 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,900 a Serene Stillness. That is unshakable. 141 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:29,300 In fact it's amazing how the Bible describes what should come 142 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:33,400 about for those who claim to have faith in this God and I 143 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:37,100 want to show you one of the most precious promises attached to 144 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:41,300 simple Faith like simple trust in the Lord. 145 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:44,500 It's an Isaiah 28. And I would like you to go there 146 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:52,200 with me in verse 16. Despite delays despite the 147 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,400 circumstance of concern, that seems to grow worse and worse 148 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,700 before your eyes. here's what God says about those who really 149 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:09,900 believe who truly believe Isaiah 28, verse 16. 150 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,400 Therefore, thus says the Lord God. 151 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:21,400 Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation and Zionist 152 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,100 own. A tested Stone, a precious, 153 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:26,900 Cornerstone of a sure Foundation here it is. 154 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:33,400 You ready whoever believes will not be in haste whoever believes 155 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,300 will not be in haste. What does that mean? 156 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,600 It means that a person who really believes is not overcome 157 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,400 by uncertainty. They're not fidgety. 158 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:50,500 They're not fickle. They're not frail. 159 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,300 They are someone who understands the foundation that they've laid 160 00:10:56,300 --> 00:11:00,800 their life on, Is something that you can rest on continually 161 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,400 regardless of the trembling beneath your feet. 162 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:07,900 A person who is not in haste as somebody who doesn't scatter, 163 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:11,800 and abandon his post to try to find a different recipe of 164 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,300 success. You're not the soil that is 165 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:18,300 received this thing with joy immediately, but the moment 166 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:21,800 Trouble Comes, you uproot yourself and move somewhere else 167 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,900 to give your roots to know a person who really believes is 168 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:28,500 not in haste. His faith. 169 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:34,000 Empowers him by the grace of God to be composed and calm, 170 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,600 regardless regardless of anything that would demand 171 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,600 otherwise. He will not be in haste. and 172 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,300 then Paul, the Apostle borrows from this very scripture in 173 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:50,400 Romans 9, To make a case about faith. 174 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,600 But even though he is making the same point as the prophet 175 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,300 intended, the Holy Spirit puts a different shade on it. 176 00:11:57,300 --> 00:12:01,700 Not that Paul changes this verse but he borrows the Greek version 177 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:04,300 of the Hebrew text called the Septuagint. 178 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,800 And it is still scripture obviously, but there's a 179 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,700 different shade to this promise that only adds to the blessing 180 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:16,300 of what it means to be a person who believes. 181 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,300 And so you have to see it for your own eyes and with your own 182 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:22,600 eyes and Romans 9. And in Romans 9 33, look how 183 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:27,300 Paul gives the same verse and notice the difference in the 184 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,400 promise though, it is the same heart. 185 00:12:35,100 --> 00:12:40,600 Romans 9:33. Isaiah said, whoever believes 186 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,300 will not be in haste. Paul says, as he quotes the same 187 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:50,100 text as it is written, behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of 188 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:55,300 stumbling and a rock of offense and whoever believes in him will 189 00:12:55,300 --> 00:13:00,200 not be put to shame. Will not be put to shame the 190 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:05,500 same text a different shade. And what he means here is that 191 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,600 the emphasis for the believer, the promise toward him, who 192 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,400 believes, is that? Because of his faith, he will 193 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:18,800 never be disappointed. Never, he won't be embarrassed. 194 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,700 He won't be regretful. He will in hindsight realized. 195 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:27,800 Oh, this Foundation is the only foundation. 196 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:33,000 And this Messiah is a faithful, God. 197 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,200 And so put those things together, the believer will not 198 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,600 be in haste. He's not panicky. 199 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:43,900 He doesn't drift. He's solid. 200 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:48,200 Because the foundation is solid and more than that beyond that 201 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,400 he will never be put to shame as you continue to trust the Lord 202 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:55,100 and petition. The Lord, and wait on the Lord. 203 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,000 His promise to you is I'll never make you blush. 204 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,500 I'll never make you think that I really, really, really do the 205 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:08,200 right thing and giving myself to this truth You will know the 206 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:13,200 light. So you'll be stable through and 207 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:18,700 you will be joyful when you come through, whoever beliefs The 208 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:21,800 news of his daughter's death is not the only thing that these 209 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,700 Messengers brought forth to him. What did they say afterwards? 210 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:27,100 Your daughter is dead. Then they went on to say why 211 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:32,300 trouble the teacher any further. In other words, these Postman 212 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:36,900 came to gyrus and they said there's no more that Christ can 213 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:40,800 really do at this point. Your daughter's been sealed with 214 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:46,100 the fate of the grave. So just dismiss him and move on 215 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:49,600 and let's just go and mourn your loved one. 216 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,900 And yet again, we have another instruction, here concerning the 217 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:56,400 school of Faith because we're all in the school of Faith. 218 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,600 We're just at different levels. And God has one goal for all of 219 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,200 his children that they would graduate. 220 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:08,200 So, here's another truth gyrus here, unfortunately, was the 221 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,000 recipient of Agents of fear. Instead of faith. 222 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,100 These men came to him not to build his faith in the person of 223 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:20,500 Jesus, but the cast more doubt. If it caused him to ultimately 224 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:25,900 deny the power of Jesus. And if we are not continually 225 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:29,700 aware of that, if you're not prepared for that, you can be 226 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:33,400 caught off guard. And you can be swept up by the 227 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,500 skepticism and by the Limited understanding of others who 228 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:41,500 might mean well, but don't know the God of this Bible the way 229 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:46,700 they should. Not everybody is an agent that 230 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:50,500 will benefit you and bless you. Unfortunately, there are some 231 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:55,900 who will come to stifle and to dampen and to bring you low and 232 00:15:55,900 --> 00:15:57,800 here's the thing. Yeah they're unbelievers there 233 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,400 on my social media to do that. No, no. 234 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,100 I'm talking about people who have some kind of grasp of who 235 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:05,500 Jesus is and what he can do. These people understood that he 236 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,700 was a teacher and they understood that he could do some 237 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:09,600 things. But their problem was their 238 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,400 scope of Faith was very limited Christ, demanded so much. 239 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,100 Why bother the teacher any further, meaning he could have 240 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:21,400 done something up to this point, but beyond this point, he's not 241 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,500 very helpful. You have people who are like 242 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:27,000 that in the realm of Christendom. 243 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,200 They have an idea of what Jesus can do but they really don't 244 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,800 have a full understanding of what he can do. 245 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,900 And those kind of people affect those who are really believing 246 00:16:36,900 --> 00:16:40,000 God for something and trusting and waiting on the Lord more 247 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,300 than anybody else. What should have the counsel of 248 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:46,700 these men be, I don't want to add to scripture, but we have 249 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:49,300 enough scripture to know exactly what true friends, true 250 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:52,100 Messengers should have done. I suggest that they shouldn't 251 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:53,700 have downplayed the death of the daughter. 252 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:57,700 But also, instead of saying, why bother the teacher any further, 253 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:02,100 you know, what, I would have said to drivers Why not seek the 254 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:09,099 teacher further? Why not teach yourself by coming 255 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:13,400 to Jesus and trusting that there is nothing too great for him. 256 00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:17,300 And that in that moment, whatever counsel he gives rest 257 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:19,599 in that truth, that would have been much better message. 258 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:25,200 Hey, this thing escalated gyrus turn to the Lord now and beseech 259 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,400 him and implore him and see what he says. 260 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,300 Let him make the final call, let him draw the line. 261 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:38,300 But that is not the case, not everyone around us will spur us 262 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:40,200 on to Christ and to trust them more. 263 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:45,800 So be aware be very aware fear is just as contagious as 264 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,900 faithless. Fears just as contagious as 265 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:52,000 faithless and this is an instruction throughout the 266 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,700 Bible. Even when Israel would go to war 267 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:58,600 before they would head out, they would have a pep talk and the 268 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,900 leader would look out and see if any of you are afraid. 269 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:04,700 Go home. If any of you are afraid go home 270 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:07,100 less, you make your other Brethren's, Hearts melt and 271 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:09,600 fear. So the Bible is very aware and 272 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,800 clear and telling us that people who are fearful can rub off on 273 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,700 even those who have a little bit of faith. 274 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,400 There's so many examples of that, but I want to move on. 275 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:24,400 We see here. That Christ was speaking to this 276 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,300 woman at this time. And guess what? 277 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,100 Jesus heard it verse 36. But overhearing what they said, 278 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:34,500 Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not fear only 279 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,300 believe based on how Jesus is dressed in. 280 00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:40,100 Do you know how we know what happened to gyrus? 281 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:47,300 Clearly, he was smitten. By some kind of anxiety or 282 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:49,800 Terror and we can understand that. 283 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,500 And so Jesus addresses that he focuses on Isis. 284 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:54,100 Listen, I know what you're feeling right now. 285 00:18:54,300 --> 00:19:00,000 Do not fear, do not fear, and then he provides the antidote to 286 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,500 overcome it and it's summarized in two simple words, right? 287 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:11,600 We all know it only believe. Only believe fear might have 288 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,200 many faces, I'm telling you, the object of people's fears are 289 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,300 vast and wide though. The fear itself is universal, we 290 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:23,500 all know what fear feels like. One's fear might be another's. 291 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:27,100 Forte might be their strength and might be you actually 292 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:31,000 bothered by this. Nevertheless, the remedy is the 293 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,100 same for all types of fear, whether that fear is financial 294 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:37,400 challenges, potential failure, the fangs of enemies who are 295 00:19:37,408 --> 00:19:43,800 merciless or the unknown future. The solution is the same only 296 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:51,600 believe, only believe And in Luke's version of the same text, 297 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,300 the Holy Spirit tells us that Jesus added something to that. 298 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:58,800 So he said in Luke 850, you don't have to turn there unless 299 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:07,000 you want to Do not fear only believe and she will be well. 300 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:14,700 And she will be well, okay. I'm going to just be very 301 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:18,300 pastoral now We're gonna do some discipleship. 302 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:21,100 Just very practical impartation here. 303 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:28,000 One of the most effective ways to Prevail against the energy 304 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,200 draining night. Stalking feeling known as fear. 305 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:40,100 This is the best way to do it, is to Face it with the most 306 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:44,400 tailored promise that you can find in God's word regarding 307 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,900 that very same thing. That is trying to nudge you 308 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,500 Here's the point that I'm trying to make the more specific, the 309 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:58,600 truth is the sharper, the blow will be against that, very lie, 310 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,900 that wants to ravage your faith. Believer. 311 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,300 I want to stretch you hear God wants you to grow. 312 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:11,300 Don't settle in spiritual warfare for generalities about 313 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:17,200 who God is. Don't try to go out there and to 314 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,200 live this life for the glory of Jesus Christ and depend upon 315 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,800 vague ideas of who God is and what he can do. 316 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,000 It won't take you too far. The best thing that you can do 317 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,600 the most brilliant thing that you can do to whether trials or 318 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,900 to endure, those Seasons where you are really struggling to 319 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:46,800 maintain peace and trust and glory to Jesus Christ is to take 320 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:53,600 what came from God's mouth. And then to play it over and 321 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,700 over again in your mind and especially in your prayers. 322 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:02,900 What did God say? What did he say? 323 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:08,000 What did he really say? No, it become familiar with it. 324 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:10,500 Hide it. Rehearse it. 325 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:15,500 We need to go beyond in those hours of Crisis. 326 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:18,000 God, you're good. I need some help here that that 327 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,800 is okay. But there's better. 328 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:29,600 Reach deep in the Armory of faith and pull out those weapons 329 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:34,400 that come from the words of God about you and toward you. 330 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,800 Wield it and watch it / Every Lie. 331 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,600 And cut deeper. Until it bleeds to death. 332 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,800 When I think about this, I have so many examples that come to 333 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,300 mind, but the one that came to mind was that a Jacob? 334 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:58,600 Remember Jacob was told go to your uncle laban's house. 335 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,700 And his mother said. I'll fetch for you when his 336 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:03,600 anger subsides and we have no indication that she ever sends 337 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,000 an email. Hey, he says doing better. 338 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,900 You can come back home. He stays for years, he gets 339 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:14,200 married. Got tricked into one of them. 340 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:19,000 It's married. Again, has children, he has an 341 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:24,300 Empire of a business and the next thing that he hears about 342 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:29,600 his brother, Esau who comforted himself of murdering his own 343 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,200 blood, is what you see. In Genesis 32, I want you to see 344 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:41,000 it in verse 7. Let's go to the beginning here. 345 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:46,400 And see how the Bible is harmonious with its precepts and 346 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,600 promises and principles. Here is the next thing that this 347 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:55,200 man hears. About his brother. 348 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:04,500 Let's go to verse 6 of Genesis 32 and The Messengers returned 349 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:08,400 to Jacob saying we came to your brother Esau and he is coming to 350 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,700 meet you and there are four hundred men with him. 351 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,600 How comforting is that? If you had just said, Isa was 352 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,500 coming. I can deal with Esau. 353 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:23,000 But for whatever reason he saw it necessary to bring 400 guys 354 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:28,500 with him, some kind of reunions. You can imagine how he felt 355 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:30,700 verse, 7 tells us so you don't have to go too far with your 356 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:34,000 imagination, then. Jacob was greatly afraid. 357 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:39,700 Greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who are 358 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:42,500 with him and the flocks and herds and camels into two camps 359 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,000 thinking if he succumbs to the one camp and attacks it, then 360 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,800 the camp that is left will escape so he plants I don't 361 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,300 blame him. Okay let me break this thing up 362 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:54,300 so that he doesn't completely devour me. 363 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:58,400 One side can at least accept Escape if he's to come the way. 364 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,800 He is planning to come. That's not all he does. 365 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:05,300 He does what you and I should do. 366 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:10,000 He does what gyrus did verse 9 and Jacob said, oh god of My 367 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,400 Father, Abraham God of my father Isaac. 368 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,900 Oh Lord, here's the part. Look at this. 369 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:23,700 Who said to me, Who said to me, you said something to me. 370 00:25:25,300 --> 00:25:28,200 You inscribe something over my fate. 371 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,300 You've determined my future. Who said to me, return to your 372 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:38,200 country and to your Kindred that I may do you good? 373 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:46,400 so, the sphere Just unannounced, visits him and he knew exactly 374 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,800 how to wrestle it. He wrestles it with what God had 375 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,500 said to him. I got news about Esau, I'm now 376 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:58,300 going to combat it with the news that God already gave me And he 377 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:02,200 begins to now in the presence of God before God tell God, not 378 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,000 that God is forgetful. But for his own heart, his own 379 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,500 soul. You told me, you told me return 380 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:14,000 to your country, He didn't just stay there, scroll down to verse 381 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,900 12 and see what he continues to do. 382 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,200 Verse 12, but you said he's still praying. 383 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,400 But you said I will surely. Do you good and make your 384 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,800 Offspring as the sand of the sea? 385 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,800 Which cannot be numbered for multitude. 386 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:28,800 Jacob new. The promises of God. 387 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,800 There right there. The bullets were in the chamber, 388 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:40,600 they're ready to fire. And so he says you said this and 389 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:46,100 Lord, you also said this. That's how you overcome that's 390 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:49,700 how you see Victory, that's how you see yourself, escaped the 391 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:53,600 clutches. Of anxiety and worry. 392 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:59,300 Despair. And if you're serious about 393 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,900 living, Fearless, if you're serious about knowing and 394 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:08,100 coasting in life, With peace and serenity. 395 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,100 And Repose, then you'll be serious about what God had said. 396 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,100 You'll be serious about what God had said, and I get it. 397 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:17,700 Because I've been there. I've been there. 398 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:22,900 Here's where I've been Putting great effort into looking at the 399 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:28,300 word of God, trying to memorize the word of God. and when the 400 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:34,400 Trouble Comes, it seems as though things just evaporate, 401 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:41,900 And you can't hold on to anything and it's very hard to 402 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:46,700 remain calm and to recollect when your heart, and your mind 403 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:54,100 is being flooded with so much. So, the best thing really is in 404 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,200 that moment to have it ready on your lips, right? 405 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,000 And just to know what to say in that time, but if you can't find 406 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,900 those specific promises for every single situation in life, 407 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:05,800 though, that would be the greatest thing and do the next 408 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:11,200 best thing and have have just a couple solid solid promises 409 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,600 about who God is descriptions of the faithfulness of God, 410 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,600 examples of what God has done in other people's lives and have 411 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,200 those things ready to apply to anything. 412 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,000 At any moment, I shared this a few Fridays ago and I think it's 413 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,900 worth sharing. Now, I remember years ago, 414 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:29,700 talking to someone who reached out to me and I barely talked to 415 00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:32,000 this person, they just felt that impressing their hearts to 416 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,100 update me and to hear what's going on in my life. 417 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:38,100 And when we just share, what's going on and that person asks, 418 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:40,100 how can I pray for you? I shared a couple of requests 419 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:42,900 and in that moment he prayed like any of us would pray what's 420 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:46,300 on our hearts, what we may be said before, but in that prayer, 421 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:50,400 he paused and I knew he wasn't reading a text or a verse or 422 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,200 anything from an Actual page. But just from his heart came out 423 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:59,600 a passage from Isaiah. And when he had said it, that 424 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,800 was the most impactful thing he prayed for me. 425 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:10,100 Because God said it, it came from God's mouth. and to this 426 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:14,400 day, that left an imprint on my heart and I forgot everything 427 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:20,000 else that men prayed for Have something ready? 428 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,600 Have something ready for you. Have something ready for a 429 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,100 brother have something ready for that. 430 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:26,200 Emergency phone call have something ready. 431 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,000 When you bump into a person, and in that moment, you have nothing 432 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,200 to turn to, but it's there and you can rehearse it, and you can 433 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,400 declare it and you can share it. And you can also see perhaps 434 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:40,300 somebody else delivered, If you can't, if you can't even get 435 00:29:40,308 --> 00:29:42,600 yourself to get there, if you're still rather, I'm being honest. 436 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,700 It takes takes much for me to arrive there. 437 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,200 Then do the next best thing. Here's the next best thing apart 438 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:48,700 from this. I don't know. 439 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:54,200 I was to help you, I'm sorry. Be familiar enough with the map 440 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,900 of the Bible. Your Bible get a copy of God's 441 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:02,300 word in your hand. I'm a book guy, get God's book 442 00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:05,400 in your hand because there's something about even not being 443 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,400 able to know references at the top of your head. 444 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,700 There's something about reading it, consistently enough being 445 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,200 familiar with it enough where, you know, where it's vaguely 446 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,300 connected in some page in the right side than the side of the 447 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,200 book and that book. And here's the next best thing. 448 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,600 No, at least where you can find the promise of God with the word 449 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:27,200 of God in your hands. So you can turn there as you're 450 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,800 breathing heavily and sweating profusely and you can look at a 451 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,600 scripture or Psalm that you know where to go to and just rehearse 452 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,000 it and read it and wash yourself in it. 453 00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:44,500 I know our faith is about Grace by, God's not going to help us 454 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,900 do this. He gave us a brain. 455 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:52,900 He gave us a book and he gave us principles so that we can grow 456 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,100 and no greater strength against our foes and this flesh. 457 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:00,600 Jacob knew how to wrestle because he knew what God had 458 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:06,200 said. Something was set the gyrus. 459 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,700 Do not fear only believe. Luke says, she will be well, 460 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,700 that's what he held onto, and we have every reason to believe 461 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:18,300 that he trusted and obeyed. What Jesus had said, because we 462 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:20,700 find ourselves in the next portion of this, text 463 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:26,400 approaching gyrus is home. But before we enter into his 464 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,200 house, we're told something quite interesting in verse 37. 465 00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:34,000 We're told by the spirit of God, that Jesus only allowed. 466 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,700 Peter and James, and John, the brother of James to go with him. 467 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:42,300 So remember there was a crowd, that was following Jesus. 468 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:46,600 And then there was a checkpoint, the woman grabs ahold of His 469 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:51,300 Garment Jesus pauses and a dresser gyrus now is they're 470 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:54,100 filled with fear because these messenger said your daughter is 471 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,500 dead and so at that at that point Jesus looks at the crowd 472 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:02,800 and he dismisses them. and not just them, he looks at his 12 473 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,000 and he says, you, you come with me Come with me. 474 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,500 Peter James and John. Let's go. 475 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,200 No reaction from the others. This is the first time that we 476 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,600 are introduced in our study of the gospels of Jesus, Inner 477 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,200 Circle, Jesus had Inner Circle and it was the same Trio. 478 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,700 We find them here, we find them in different portions and 479 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:29,400 different miraculous events. We find them even in those final 480 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,200 moments, in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus would, 481 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,900 you pray with me and they couldn't even do that for an 482 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:37,300 hour. I'm not going to spend time here 483 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:40,000 explaining why Jesus had an inner circle. 484 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,900 But I want to show you for one brief moment who was in a circle 485 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:50,500 and why that should bless us three people mention, you know 486 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:55,600 who moves me? the fact that Peter went, out of 487 00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:00,600 all of them, Peter Yeah, he had leadership qualities but he 488 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,100 messed up a lot. And you're saying, well, where 489 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:05,700 did he mess up here? He actually did. 490 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:11,100 Go back to verse 30 and 31. We didn't cover this in depth 491 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:12,600 last week, but it's worth looking at it. 492 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,900 Now, when Jesus was touched by this woman, it says, in verse 30 493 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,700 perceiving in himself, that power had gone out from him 494 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000 immediately turned about in the crown and said, who touched my 495 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,200 garments? Who touched my garments and his 496 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,900 disciples said to him, you see the crowd pressing around you 497 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:35,600 and yet you say who touched me? Okay, here are the disciples 498 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,100 again proving that they are lagging. 499 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:41,500 And are limited and their understanding of divine 500 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:44,800 perspective, Jesus experienced something, Jesus perceive 501 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,200 something, they couldn't register why he would ask such a 502 00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:52,200 question when there is pendemonium going on and people 503 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,600 pressing in on him perhaps even others trying to grab him as 504 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,800 well. And yet, Jesus is asking who 505 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,200 touched me? And there's a hint of criticism 506 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,800 here from the disciples. Are you actually asking this 507 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:12,800 question? And you can also imagine that 508 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,199 these disciples are feeling a little squeeze because they feel 509 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,199 the stress and the pressure of getting to gyrus is home before. 510 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,000 It's too late and here's the Lord pausing and asking a 511 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,900 question. Like that, who touched me Lord? 512 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:29,600 Is it really important? Now to figure out the obvious? 513 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:35,500 Everyone is touching you They understand that there was power 514 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:39,300 that came out of him. There is someone who really 515 00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:42,900 touched me. They didn't perceive that. 516 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,000 But when you go to Luke's version, who do you think the 517 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000 main spokesperson of the criticism was, you don't have to 518 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,600 guess it, but I want to show you so don't think I'm lying Luke 519 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,300 8:45. Luke 8:45. 520 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:08,400 We're told in Mark all the disciples side this but Luke by 521 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,500 the spirit highlights, the spokesman Luke 8:45 and Jesus 522 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:17,400 said who was it that touched me? When all denied it, Peter said 523 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:22,100 Master the crowds around you and you are and are pressing in on 524 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:26,400 you. Peter Peter, Peter. 525 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:35,100 So quick to speak. So quick to sound Superior and 526 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:39,600 smart. So quick to bring correction, 527 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,500 you didn't do it just this time he brought correction on 528 00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:46,200 different occasions to Jesus. What kind of audacity have to 529 00:35:46,207 --> 00:35:48,200 criticize? Someone who is perfect? 530 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,900 That's who we're dealing with you Peter? 531 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,600 And think about if Peter was responsible here for these 532 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,000 comments, you would think that he would be the last guy to get 533 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,200 a front-row seat to a resurrection. 534 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:08,000 And yet Jesus, when he chose his Trio, said, Peter, let's go. 535 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:12,900 That was the others as we really, Lord m. 536 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,900 And I looked at that, and I thought to myself meditating on 537 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:22,600 it last night and here's the question that came to mind. 538 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,000 Rhetorically, are you not happy? Are you not glad that? 539 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,900 Jesus still allows us to follow him to gives us, give us 540 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:34,800 glimpses of his glory and his goodness, even though at times 541 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,900 we doubt and maybe even internalized criticism towards 542 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:45,900 his leadership. I'm just so blown away from time 543 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,500 to time that the Lord allows me to still play on his team. 544 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:55,800 And doesn't bench me. even though I do things like what 545 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,900 Peter's done, it's amazing to know that we can slip up mess 546 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:04,800 up. He had the Lord is still willing 547 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,700 to invite us deeper. Take us further. 548 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:13,000 See, that's not fair. Well, that's what Grace is. 549 00:37:13,700 --> 00:37:17,100 It's not fair. Well, wouldn't that encourage us 550 00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:20,700 to just mess up even more, not, not if you love him. 551 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:26,100 It will melt you, it will mold you. 552 00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:29,200 It will be the greatest encouragement to Holiness that 553 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:35,900 you can imagine. So, Peter gets to go. and Jesus 554 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:39,700 brings three, because there is a law in Deuteronomy that On the 555 00:37:39,707 --> 00:37:42,700 basis of two or three Witnesses. A thing is established. 556 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:48,100 So he brings three to testify. What's about to take place? 557 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,800 So they come. As encouraging as that point is, 558 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,400 we have to balance it. We have to balance it with an 559 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,200 honest view of how Jesus responds to Faith. 560 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:04,800 And it is true that it he is patient and he beckons us 561 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,000 despite our imperfection and are stumbling. 562 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:09,200 But look at what he's about to do. 563 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,100 Now is he encounters a crowd that is crushing into the home 564 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,100 of gyrus verse 38? They came to the house of the 565 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:21,000 ruler of the synagogue and Jesus saw a commotion people weeping 566 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,600 and wailing loudly. And we had when he had entered, 567 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,400 he said to them. Why are you making a commotion 568 00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:30,700 and weeping? The child is not dead, but 569 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,400 sleeping and they laughed at him. 570 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:38,000 And they laughed at him but he put him out all outside and took 571 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,200 the child's father and mother and those who are with him and 572 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,600 went in with a child was, they laughed at him? 573 00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:45,800 So here's what happens. Jesus enters into the scene and 574 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:51,700 it's chaos. Wailing weeping, pulling 575 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:56,700 screaming. Screeching And the Lord steps 576 00:38:56,700 --> 00:39:00,600 in. And he provides comforting 577 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,500 correction. What is this all for? 578 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:12,900 She's asleep, she's not dead. And it makes you question. 579 00:39:12,900 --> 00:39:15,900 Whether this grieving was a performance or if it was sincere 580 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:18,900 because they were able to shut that off so quickly and turn to 581 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:22,600 him and begin to mock him. It's very difficult for a 582 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:27,100 morning person to do. Jarvis was unimportant, man. 583 00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:28,700 It's not a mystery. Why? 584 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,500 There are so many people attending his daughter's 585 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:34,400 funeral. And the Lord wants to now do 586 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,000 something even in their hearts. By elevating their perspective 587 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,800 about this situation to God's Viewpoint of her condition and 588 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,400 of her hopeful future by saying she's not she's not dead. 589 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,600 She's asleep. Listen. 590 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,400 When you're in Christ and when you believe this Christ and when 591 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:57,500 you follow this Christ, you see things differently, everything 592 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,200 differently. When you're truly born again. 593 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,500 May God help you. If you are selling for a cheap 594 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:10,900 fake salvation, just to have some social credit among other 595 00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:13,700 professing Christians don't settle for anything. 596 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:16,100 But the true thing because when you're truly born again, I'm 597 00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:18,700 telling you, you'll know you're born again and when you know 598 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,000 you're born again, here's one way. 599 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,600 You see things differently? You see things differently. 600 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:26,700 Your eyes are open to New World though. 601 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:29,100 You've traveled through these streets before, and come into 602 00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:31,700 these buildings before. And ate the same food before and 603 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:34,600 handled the same money. Before everything now is 604 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,800 changed, there is a redefining of all aspects of life, 605 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:41,700 including the dreaded appointment that you and I have 606 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:47,500 with death. Because of the supremacy of the 607 00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:52,000 Lord Jesus Christ, his authority, his vicarious death 608 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,600 and Resurrection. He's able to look at something 609 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,900 as permanent as death and give it a different definition. 610 00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:03,900 He's able to give it a different metaphor, different figure and 611 00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:09,300 say, This is just a transition. This is temporal. 612 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,700 She's not sealed in this condition forever, she's coming 613 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:18,900 out of it and every time you go through the New Testament and 614 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:24,100 you read the reference of death labeled as sleep, it is a 615 00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:28,200 reminder from the Holy Spirit to you that one day your body. 616 00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:31,700 Will be awakened at a resurrection morning. 617 00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:36,700 We don't believe in Soul, sleep. We don't believe that when you 618 00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:39,400 die, it's like when you go to sleep, and then when the 619 00:41:39,408 --> 00:41:41,500 Resurrection comes, then you will be present with the Lord, 620 00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:43,400 we believe that the moment you give your final breath, your 621 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,700 soul is in his arms and you come into His presence. 622 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:53,000 And the resurrection that we're speaking of here, the sleep is 623 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,200 the body that same body that has been corrupted by sin, scarred 624 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,600 by iniquity traumatized, by your own decisions, and by the force 625 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,700 of others that same body, one day when Christ, makes the call, 626 00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:09,300 will know a glorification, a healing and a renewal forever 627 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:13,600 and ever and ever. It's sleep. 628 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,600 So why grief Christian that's why our funerals should look 629 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,600 different. That's why our morning is not 630 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,800 extended. Can I tell you something? 631 00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:31,200 Christian marriages are a joy and this may sound strange, but 632 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,200 it may be just as strangest. Death being referred to as sleep 633 00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:37,600 funerals are also exciting when it comes to a person that you 634 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,900 know who's in that casket walk with God. 635 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,700 I don't like the funerals. I go to where people claim to be 636 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:45,800 Christians but their life, testifies otherwise and you just 637 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,000 hope that they're in heaven. I don't like those funerals. 638 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:52,400 I like those funerals where you go and you're like, I know where 639 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,200 that guy is, I know where she is. 640 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,400 Oh, that person. Loved God. 641 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,000 That person served. That person was truly a saint 642 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,300 because of the grace of Jesus, guys in them and through them. 643 00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:08,500 Celebration. They're sleeping and I can go up 644 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:11,400 to that casket and pay my respects and say, I'll see you 645 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:16,700 soon. Do you have that confidence? 646 00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:21,900 Death is referred to in the Book of Job as the king of Terrors. 647 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:27,400 People say I'm not afraid of death, really. 648 00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:31,000 You just flinched at them and you see them go like that, 649 00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:33,200 clearly, you're afraid of being hurt. 650 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:40,100 If you're afraid of being heard and you're afraid of dying, But 651 00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:45,100 Christ delivers you from death. He delivers you from the fear of 652 00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:48,700 death. And he gives you a whole new 653 00:43:48,700 --> 00:43:52,800 dictionary on life. Were you able to look at death 654 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,400 itself and say? Because of Jesus, this is sleep 655 00:43:56,700 --> 00:44:00,100 for the believer that stirs you to worship for the unbelieving. 656 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,900 It's a cause for derision and Scorn. 657 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:03,500 And that's exactly what we just said. 658 00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:06,200 And heard. They laughed at him. 659 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,500 It's not just a chuckle because of a surprising comment made by 660 00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:14,900 some stranger to just deal with the awkward tension. 661 00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:20,400 It was a collective effort. To mock Jesus and his message. 662 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:23,900 It was continual, they kept jeering at him. 663 00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:29,400 And it came to the point where the reaction of these people was 664 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,700 enough for Jesus, to say, okay, I know what I'm going to do with 665 00:44:31,700 --> 00:44:35,700 you and he pulls them away from the whole thing and pushes them 666 00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:36,900 out. That's how much Authority had. 667 00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:39,800 I don't know how he did it. That's kind of like a cleansing 668 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,100 of the temple thing but he managed to take a packed house 669 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:51,300 and with his authority, get out. And the same way that we read 670 00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:55,600 this reaction and believe that it points to a reflection of the 671 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,600 culture that we are in today, which blasphemes God's truth. 672 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,800 On so many fronts I believe that the Judgment that Christ gave 673 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,700 this crowd is also a foreshadowing of what will come 674 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,300 on that final day to the same type of people. 675 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,000 They laughed at him and we read but he put them all outside. 676 00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:21,600 He put them outside of a home to not witness a resurrection, but 677 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:26,300 there will be a final evasion where people will not be in the 678 00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:29,400 presence of God and will not know the resurrection unto life. 679 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,500 Because during this life, they mocked him. 680 00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:40,300 They hated him, they despised him and they rejected his truth. 681 00:45:40,300 --> 00:45:42,700 When it was given to them. Don't be that person. 682 00:45:43,700 --> 00:45:49,300 Don't be that person. You will miss out on so much. 683 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,600 not just in this life, but in eternal life, these people were 684 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,600 exposed to the truth but they were expelled. 685 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,500 And one day there will be a people who have been exposed to 686 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:03,100 truth. And there will be an eternal 687 00:46:03,100 --> 00:46:06,000 expulsion. Where there will be weeping and 688 00:46:06,008 --> 00:46:08,500 gnashing of teeth. I pray that your soul would be 689 00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:13,000 saved for real if you're not born again, in this place. 690 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:19,000 Jesus tells them to leave. Let's finish this together with 691 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,000 an alertness, shall we? Verse 41. 692 00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:27,400 Taking her by the hand. I love that. 693 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,400 Because Mark is very descriptive of how Jesus is personal and his 694 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,400 miracles. He looks around to see, you see 695 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,900 a lot of seeing from Jesus in, Mark, there's a lot of touching 696 00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:42,900 with the Miracles and Mark to show that he's personal. 697 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,400 He's compassionate, he wants to be near. 698 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,800 He doesn't just want to dispense his power from afar. 699 00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:51,100 He wants you to feel him and know his love and every touch 700 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:55,200 taking her by the hand, he said to her talitha, koum. 701 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,300 I Aramaic. Which means little girl, I say 702 00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:02,100 to To arise. You can imagine the suspense of 703 00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:06,700 that moment, right? And immediately, the girl got up 704 00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:10,900 and began walking for. She was 12 years of age and they 705 00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:14,300 were immediately overcome with amazement. 706 00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:19,500 This healing was so complete. There was no need for Rehab. 707 00:47:19,500 --> 00:47:24,000 There was no need for any kind of supervision or inclination 708 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,300 towards restoration. It was immediate she left. 709 00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:30,700 She just jumped out of bed and began walking around with full 710 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:35,200 strength in Her Bones in her muscles in her nerves. 711 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:41,300 They were amazed that what they had seen And it could have ended 712 00:47:41,300 --> 00:47:45,800 there but it ends with verse 43 and verse 43 is so insightful 713 00:47:46,700 --> 00:47:50,400 and he strictly charged them. That no one should know this. 714 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:57,300 Why why not? Well, one reason for certain is 715 00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:02,700 because Jesus again did not want to fuel The hysteria of people 716 00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:07,000 coming to him just for miracles, he had a message, there is 717 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,500 healing in his gospel that he wanted to prioritize. 718 00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:13,100 And to throw this out there with would probably just cause people 719 00:48:13,100 --> 00:48:15,400 to get all caught up in the Miracles all over again. 720 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:22,100 And so he hesitates for this news to go out just yet, But 721 00:48:22,100 --> 00:48:24,500 there's something else, he tells them. 722 00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:29,300 And told them to give her something to eat. 723 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,700 Now, we look at that were like, okay, that's, that's a sweet 724 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:35,500 gesture know. It says something, it says 725 00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:38,600 something about Christ. Because again, let's go back 726 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,300 into that scene that bedroom, right? 727 00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:43,400 This young girl gets up, she starts walking and you can just 728 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,900 imagine the joy just bursting forth. 729 00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:50,200 You can imagine that belief but this belief, you can imagine the 730 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,700 embrace, you can imagine the tears, the crying if she had 731 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,200 siblings, while she was the only one that maybe other relatives 732 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,400 in there, that would hear later on the reunions, that would 733 00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,500 happen that and all these things, right? 734 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,000 And yet, with all of that, Holy commotion, Jesus is aware of 735 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,600 something that nobody else is aware of. 736 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:11,200 Hey, she needs to eat. Give her something to eat. 737 00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:13,100 She probably hasn't eaten in days. 738 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,100 Give her some food, somebody preparers some lunch. 739 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,400 And reflecting on that. I thought to myself that showed 740 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,200 that the Lord was more attentive to her needs. 741 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,900 And anyone else in that house, he knew exactly where she was at 742 00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:31,400 and the depth of his awareness of what she needed. 743 00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:39,400 Is an insight about how he is. More knowledgeable, more caring, 744 00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:45,400 more present, more aware than anyone, you know, anyone you 745 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,600 know. You might have a mom who adores. 746 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,700 You. It might have a father who 747 00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:53,800 provides for you. You might have siblings who will 748 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,100 die for you. You might have friends who make 749 00:49:56,100 --> 00:49:58,900 so many promises to be there for you. 750 00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:02,700 You might have a pastor who supports you but no one like 751 00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:07,100 Jesus. They all missed it. 752 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,600 He didn't. You see Christ, what he does 753 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,800 here. Is it brings to the attention of 754 00:50:14,808 --> 00:50:17,400 the people, something that he knew that she needed that they 755 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,600 didn't, and Christ does this in ways that I hope you would never 756 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,300 be blind to. I think about even Elijah, how 757 00:50:24,300 --> 00:50:26,600 God tells him go to the east of the Jordan. 758 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,300 And I have commanded the Ravens to feed you there. 759 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,000 So, he goes in twice a day, the Ravens come and they provide him 760 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,200 a meal. And notice when the Ravens come, 761 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,300 they provided me exactly what he needed for that meal. 762 00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:40,500 He had no leftovers. So you have to trust that 763 00:50:40,900 --> 00:50:45,500 dinnertime a Ravens, going to come and the next day another 764 00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:48,300 Raven other Raven. And then from there, he tells 765 00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:52,200 him to go to Zarephath which was inside on and he says, go there 766 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,600 for. I've commanded a widow to feed 767 00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:59,200 you there. God has all these instruments. 768 00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,400 All these vessels around us and whether you're aware of it or 769 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,400 not, he moves through people through Providence because he's 770 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:10,400 aware of what you need and he places it perfectly in your 771 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:15,300 path. How the Lord knew how to take 772 00:51:15,300 --> 00:51:17,400 care of Elijah, how he knew how to take care of this woman. 773 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,200 The Lord knows how to take care of you and me. 774 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,900 Remember how it mention Grab ahold of one or two promises 775 00:51:23,900 --> 00:51:26,900 that you can tuck in here and from time to time, sharpen your 776 00:51:26,900 --> 00:51:30,700 memorization of it so that you be ready to face that fear that 777 00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:33,000 wants to viciously. Rip it out from you. 778 00:51:34,300 --> 00:51:38,200 Here's one to consider Isaiah 49:15. 779 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:44,500 Can a woman forget her nursing child That she should have no 780 00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:47,700 compassion on the son of her womb, you know what the Lord is 781 00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:49,900 doing their, he's pointing to one of the strongest 782 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:55,500 demonstrations of human love. A woman, a mother for her 783 00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:57,500 nursing child. That baby can't do anything in 784 00:51:57,500 --> 00:52:00,200 return for that mother. And yet there's something 785 00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,600 churning in her, there's something, keeping her up at 786 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,200 night. There is no doubt in any part of 787 00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,500 who she is. That she will give 10 lives for 788 00:52:07,508 --> 00:52:09,200 that baby to survive another day. 789 00:52:11,500 --> 00:52:13,400 And the Lord points to that kind of love. 790 00:52:14,500 --> 00:52:17,300 And he says extreme in as high as that love is it is still 791 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:21,000 subject to fail. It's possible. 792 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,500 Even for a mother to forget on some level. 793 00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:30,100 And then he contrasts that love with his love my love as we read 794 00:52:30,100 --> 00:52:32,500 here. Even these may forget yet, I 795 00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:36,200 will not forget you, my love is not only stronger, it's 796 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:45,000 Unbreakable It's constant. It doesn't have episodes, It's 797 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,800 dependable. It's strong and it's something 798 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,400 you can lean on and I don't get tired of it. 799 00:52:54,700 --> 00:52:57,600 A mother may know. Exhaustion, I do not sleep. 800 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,900 A mother may burst out from time to time. 801 00:53:01,900 --> 00:53:08,000 What did I get myself into I don't. 802 00:53:12,100 --> 00:53:15,400 Even these may forget. Yet, I will not forget you. 803 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,300 But secondly this command shows how practical God is. 804 00:53:21,900 --> 00:53:23,800 Does it not give her something to eat? 805 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,100 Lord, you just raise her from the dead. 806 00:53:26,100 --> 00:53:32,200 Maybe you can also make a meal. All right, you can feel her 807 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:33,700 belly. You, you filled her body with 808 00:53:33,700 --> 00:53:35,900 breath. You can feel her belly. 809 00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:38,200 Maybe you can make something appear before her on her lap 810 00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,900 before she even takes another step. 811 00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,600 But he doesn't do that. He did his part, he looks at the 812 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,100 parents and he says, now make her something. 813 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,600 God is very practical. And what you see here is that 814 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,000 the power of Christ in our lives does not discourage us, 815 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,500 discourage us from participating and making things happen. 816 00:53:59,900 --> 00:54:03,500 Let me put it this way. Not every situation in your life 817 00:54:03,500 --> 00:54:09,700 requires a miracle. God has expectations on you. 818 00:54:09,700 --> 00:54:12,800 He has instruction, he has wisdom, he has given us skills 819 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:17,200 resources, and he expects us to plan and prepare accordingly for 820 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:23,400 things to be accomplished. From time to time, he may allow 821 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,700 us to face a situation like what gyrus face, so that we would 822 00:54:27,700 --> 00:54:30,300 have to call on him because there's nothing else we can do. 823 00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:38,200 And in those moments where only a miracle makes sense, Do not 824 00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,800 fear. Only believe. 825 00:54:41,800 --> 00:55:06,200 Let's pray. Even these may forget. 826 00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:19,100 Yet, I will not forget you. Father, help us believe in your 827 00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:21,700 personalized. Love for each person here. 828 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,400 Help us. Not wait for a subjective surge 829 00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:38,200 of emotion. Help us, not look to events to 830 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:44,400 qualify how you care for us. Like Jacob. 831 00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:48,900 May we be greatly acquainted with what you have said, already 832 00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:57,000 in your word. Help us believe your word. 833 00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,400 Lord, you know. The fears in this place, the 834 00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:11,500 unspoken fears. The fears that might be 835 00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:15,200 embarrassing to share about because they seem so silly and 836 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:23,600 trivial. the Lord, as you showed with this young girl, You know. 837 00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:31,900 And you care. We love you for that. 838 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:38,500 It's loading this very moment. We want to worship you. because 839 00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:41,600 as we leave this place and go and deal with the Affairs of 840 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:47,100 life, As we go into our bank account and look at numbers that 841 00:56:47,100 --> 00:56:53,300 might not be the most favorable. Or a calendar and see things 842 00:56:53,300 --> 00:56:57,400 that are coming up. That might be overwhelming or 843 00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,500 going back to a home. That might seem anything but a 844 00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:04,400 home. Will might receive a report. 845 00:57:05,700 --> 00:57:09,600 I will rattle us to the Core. We just pray. 846 00:57:11,500 --> 00:57:13,300 That this word would not be forgotten. 847 00:57:16,500 --> 00:57:19,700 Help us ignore the Agents of fear in our lives. 848 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,400 That don't believe fully what you're able to do. 849 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:30,700 Mute every other voice. And magnify your own. 850 00:57:32,900 --> 00:57:38,300 And Lord in those moments. Where we feel lazy toward your 851 00:57:38,300 --> 00:57:42,600 word indifferent. Help us. 852 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:47,000 God cultivate a familiarity so that we can be prepared. 853 00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,000 We sing to you because we are grateful to you. 854 00:57:51,900 --> 00:57:56,500 You deserve the glory. We love you Lord in Jesus name. 855 00:57:56,900 --> 00:57:59,000 Amen let's Stand Together.