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Well, good morning Crossing 
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How are you doing today? 
Good to see Full House at 48th 

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Street and it was a full house 
last service of 48th Street, 

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thankful for that. 
Hope there's a full house and 

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every one of our locations, we 
are welcoming you. 

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It's so glad just so glad to be 
together to be the house of the 

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Lord with the people of the 
Lord. 

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And right now we're celebrating 
12 year anniversary. 4929, give 

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it up for 929. 
So thankful for all of the 

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incredible things that God has 
done in your Just among you and 

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he's doing that all across the 
board is we're just so thankful 

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for that. 
We also welcome everyone that's 

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inside and online along with all
of our locations throughout this

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region. 
So thankful for each and every 

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one of you and I have been 
thankful for the last five weeks

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because I have heard some solid 
gold coming from Clayton. 

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Amen, been awesome. 
Awesome. 

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Be able to share in that 
Ministry. 

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God is so incredibly good one? 
The things that we've been 

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incorporating into this series, 
there has to be a place series. 

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Is we've been spending some time
in prayer, been doing that the 

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beginning of each sermon time. 
So I want to do that with you as

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well. 
So if you'll stand to your feet,

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I would appreciate that all of 
our locations. 

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If you'll do that, now, I know 
that we've been asking for 

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people to raise their hands and 
then people come around other 

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people. 
But this today, what I want to 

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do is I just want to concentrate
on you, I want you to 

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concentrate on. 
You. 

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Okay, if you'll do that with me 
a little while back, we had 

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Randy Frazee here and he was 
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really important things that I 
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important as we move through and
post pandemic. 

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And one of the things he talked 
about was stress, how many of 

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you honestly, you're feeling 
some stress, right? 

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If there's somebody Randy 
doesn't have their hand up. 

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So like, what what are you 
taking like, what? 

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Whoa, really because I feel 
stress. 

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I mean if there was a stress 
check serial I'd be probably 

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eating that because it's just 
like stress a lot of stress and 

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we're dealing with a lot of 
stress and he did something in a

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directed prayer time when he was
here that really impacted me, 

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all right? 
And I'm going to explain it 

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first and then I'm going to lead
you through it and this is what 

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he did. 
He had us all put our hands down

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to our sides. 
Don't do this right now. 

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Have to worry about it right 
now. 

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Because I'm just going to tell 
it to you. 

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Then we'll do it. 
Okay, he had us, put our hands 

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down to our size and then he had
ass clench our fists like as 

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hard as we could. 
And hold it. 

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Like just, just bearing down 
because I think that is a good 

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physical representation of what 
stress feels like, it's where 

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you just get. 
So wound up. 

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You get so tight because you're 
just trying to control. 

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You're trying to hold on, you're
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However, you want to describe it
is like, You know, and we held 

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that for a while and then he 
said, what I want you to do is 

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just it's just release that and 
put your palms down. 

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And he talked about the illusion
of control and how we tend to 

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try to be people who try to 
control everything and a lot of 

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our stress comes from. 
That it comes from this desire 

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to control everything but we 
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in. 
Jesus Christ, one of the 

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greatest things that we have 
that we get to do, is we get to 

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release that, we get to turn 
that over to the Lord, Bible 

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teaches us that. 
So here's what I want you to do.

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I want you to Bow your heads. 
Close your eyes with me. 

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And I want you to put your arms 
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Now, I want you to take those 
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and now I want you to just put 
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can just and just hold it. 
Don't let go just hold on to 

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that stress. 
And I want you to think about 

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all of the stuff you're dealing 
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Right now, the relational stuff,
the financial stuff, the work 

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stuff, the marriage. 
The children, all the things 

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that you're trying to manage all
of the plates, you try to keep 

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spinning all that stuff down in 
the lower story in your holding 

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on, trying to keep it together. 
Hold that just keep holding it 

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because that's how it feels 
heavenly father, this is what 

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it's like. 
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everything. 
We're trying to hold on to 

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everything. 
It's sometimes, it's just 

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painful, it's hard. 
We don't want to let go because 

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we're afraid, if we let go of 
it, if we don't hold it, this 

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tight, something really bad's 
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We don't want that to happen. 
So we hold on, we hold on. 

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Now, I just want you to let go. 
Just put your palms down. 

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Father, that's what we want to 
do right now. 

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We know this is a safe place. 
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place. 
We want you to have our burdens.

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We want to cast our cares upon 
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care for us. 
Take our burdens. 

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It helped us to relinquish 
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Hand it over to you and Jesus 
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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Have a seat. 
I hope that is getting you 

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ready? 
For what I'm going to talk about

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today, we're in the last sermon 
in the series, there has to be a

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place. 
And what I want to talk to you 

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about today, is there has to be 
a place where truth matters. 

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There has to be a place where 
truth matters. 

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Now, I'm the youngest of six 
children and I grew up in a 

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family of eight, and there were 
plenty of times when the wheels 

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came off in our house that ever 
happened in your house, going to

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get a name in. 
So, with six of us, there were 

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plenty of arguments and fights 
and confrontation, and Mom and 

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Dad, acted as judge jury. 
And yes, executioner. 

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And I don't know if executions 
work the way they did back then 

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because I know that there's a 
lot of different rules, but I 

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can tell you, I experienced a 
couple of those executions 

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myself. 
Now, when we were caught or 

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called out, we all became 
lawyers I don't know if you 

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become a lawyer that's we all 
become a lawyer. 

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We would plead our cases, we 
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the thing that was actually in 
the shortest Supply in those 

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moments was the truth. 
Because what we would do is, we 

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would spin it and we would 
emphasize one part over another 

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part, we would minimalize the 
other part, or we might just lie

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and deny it all together. 
I didn't do that. 

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I don't know who did that. 
And if you connecting with this,

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the thing is no matter how much 
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still mattered, and it seems to 
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Today it's getting increasingly 
hard to find the truth with all 

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of the agendas out there. 
How many of you agree with me 

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about that? 
Yeah, it is hard to find the 

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truth with all these agendas so 
the Oxford Dictionary Name this 

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word, this hyphenated word post 
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Their word of the year in 2016 
in 2016 think about what's 

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happened between 2016 and 2020 
to I mean, think about what 

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we're living in right now, this 
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and it's married to the social 
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misinformation and 
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It makes post truth, a really 
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doesn't it? 
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disinformation and 
misinformation But there has to 

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be a place where truth still 
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where you going to find it? 
Where you going to find that 

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truth? 
I want you to ask yourself a 

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question right now, along with 
me how important is truth to 

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you, how about truth from your 
doctor that important to you Be 

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pretty important to me. 
How about truth on your bank 

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statement. 
Would that be important to you 

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that truth? 
How about truth from your 

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employer? 
How about truth from your 

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spouse? 
Or your kids you name it. 

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Truth is still very important to
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So it gets a little crazy living
in a post truth culture, right? 

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Hopefully, we're smart enough 
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politicians or news media or 
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But you know what? 
That's pretty hard because we 

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get a lot of our information 
from those places, right? 

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And it's hard because there is a
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if we drill down on it, we might
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side of it. 
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But rather than admitting it, 
maybe he would just want to blow

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it off just blow the truth off. 
But is that a good trade? 

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Is that a good idea to do that? 
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I think it's a bad trade now. 
The Bible is the Wellspring of 

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Truth for our souls and it's as 
just as refreshing as it is 

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nourishing. 
And if we want to have truth in 

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a post truth culture, that's 
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First, you know why? 
Because it gives you a firm 

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place to stand amid all of the 
shifting and sinking sand of the

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lower story that surrounds you, 
you know, Jesus really keyed in,

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on this, on the greatest sermon 
ever preached, The Sermon on the

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Mount. 
It's actually how he ended the 

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sermon. 
He talked about two houses one, 

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that was built on a rock, and 
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Sand. 
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elements Rose Up against those 
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and the storm and that blew 
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And the one that was on the sand
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the one that was built on the 
rock it stood, the test of the 

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storms of life And I think 
that's exactly what we want. 

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We want to build our life on a 
firm foundation and in order for

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that to happen we have to find a
place where truth matters and we

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have to apply that truth to our 
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So here's what I want to do. 
I want to take you to God's word

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and I'm going to show you all of
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that truth can do for you, but 
you're going to find that truth 

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comes with a 10. 
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If you're going to take that 
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to understand what goes along 
with it, and there's 15 of 

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these, and it'll take a little 
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So rather than you just killing 
yourself writing notes. 

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We're going to put a QR code up 
here and I'm going to stand next

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to this so that so that you have
plenty of time. 

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If you want to take a picture of
this with your phone, it'll just

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put that into your phone. 
So you'll be able to refer to 

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that these 15 things because I 
think that you're going to agree

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with me when we go through this.
You're going to go. 

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Yeah, I want that. 
Yeah, I want that. 

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And then it's going to help you 
to understand how that becomes a

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reality in your life. 
Are you ready to go through them

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with me? 
How many of you ready? 

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Go, through them with me. 
Yeah, give me an amen. 

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It's better than hands. 
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All right. 
Alright, here's the first one 

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pretty well. 
Known truth can set you free. 

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How many of you want to be free?
How many want to live free? 

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Truth can set you free but not 
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Jesus said then you will know 
the truth and the truth will set

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you free. 
There's the promise and there's 

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the condition you have to know 
it if you want it to set your 

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free. 
Okay here's the next one truth 

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can overpower sin but not until 
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See, that's a problem with us. 
We don't want to admit that we 

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are sinners that were sinful 
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It can overpower that sin, truth
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we read that in first, John 18. 
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we deceive ourselves and the 
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Truth has the ability to 
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Love. 
How many of you want to express 

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love in your life? 
Can I get an amen? 

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Yeah, but not until you act on 
it. can't just say it you have 

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to act on it first John 3:18 
dear children let us not love 

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with words or speech but with 
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be recognized, you can you can 
understand it, you can see it 

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but not until you discern it you
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first. 
John four six but we belong to 

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God and those who know God 
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If they do not belong to God, 
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That is how we know of someone 
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spirit of deception. 
Truth can defend you. 

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You want to be defended. 
I want to be defended. 

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I don't want to have to stand 
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Right. 
Any people on my team with me? 

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Truth can defend you but not 
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Second Timothy 2:15. 
Do your best to present yourself

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to God as one approved, a worker
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And who correctly, handles the 
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Truth can hold you up when you 
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when you're going to blow it, 
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until you secure that truth. 
Not until you secure it. 

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Ephesians 6:14 about the armor 
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Stand your ground. 
Putting on the belt of Truth in 

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the body armor of God's 
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I don't know about you, but I 
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hold your pants up. 
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embarrassing than having your 
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very good way to fight because 
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yourself, right? 
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you need to secure that truth. 
Truth also has the ability to 

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recreate you but not until you 
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Look what it says in James 1 18,
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That's re-creation through the 
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That we might be a kind of 
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want to be recreated and that's 
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Truth can surrounds you with 
Glory. 

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Think about that the glory of 
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not until you behold it, John 
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made his dwelling Among Us. 
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glory of the one, and only son 
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Of Grace and Truth. 
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transport you. 
But not until you Worship in it.

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I mean, it literally take you 
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now. 
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To the throne room of God, but 
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John 4:24. 
Jesus is talking to the woman at

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the well and he says, God is 
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Worship in the spirit. 
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you let you in but not until you
pass through it. 

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Jesus is very clear on this in 
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He says I am the way, the truth 
and the life. 

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No one comes to the father, 
except through me. 

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The truth can guide you and we 
all need that God. 

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What do you want me to go? 
What do you want me to do? 

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The truth can guide you but you 
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John 16:13 says this but when he
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will guide you into all the 
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He will not speak on his own, he
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and he will tell you what is Yet
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Truth can sanctify, you set you 
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have Read it. 
It's not gonna happen until you 

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read it. 
Jesus told us this in John, 

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17:17 sanctify them as he's 
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truth. 
Your word is truth. 

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Truth can choose you. 
We all want to be chosen. 

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Truth can choose you but not 
until you testify to it. 

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John 18:37 and 38 says, this is 
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You're a king then said pilate. 
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You say that I'm a king. 
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and came into this world was to 
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Everyone on the side of Truth 
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And then Pontius Pilate says 
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in our world in our culture 
today are saying What is truth? 

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With this, he went out again to 
the Jews gathered there and said

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I find no basis for a charge 
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But it didn't matter did it? 
It didn't matter that there was 

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no basis for a charge against 
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You know why? 
Because as far as Pontius Pilate

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was concerned, what is truth? 
Truth can set you apart, we all 

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want to be special, don't we? 
We all want to feel that 

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knowledge of being special in 
God's eyes. 

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It can set you apart but not 
until you believe it. 

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Ephesians 1:13 says and you also
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heard the message of Truth, The 
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you believed you were marked in 
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Holy Spirit. 
And Truth can make you rejoice. 

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But not until you Delight in it.
Are you delighting in it? 

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First Corinthians 13 6. 
Love does not Delight in evil. 

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But rejoices with the truth. 
Wow, all 15 of those, those are 

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awesome. 
Give me some of that. 

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I need some of that I want all 
that, but as you can see, there 

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is a cost to each aspect of it, 
and that makes it not so easy. 

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Right, here's what is easy 
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Ready, just make truth. 
Totally subjective. 

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Hey, you do you I'll do me. 
What's true for? 

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You isn't true for me. 
I'll Define God how I really 

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would like him or her. 
It, I'll take my truth, all a 

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cart. 
I'll just get the things off the

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buffet that I want, the rest of 
my leave their right, or I'll 

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just deny truth. 
All together. 

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I'll make up my own story, I'll 
put it on social media. 

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I'll put it in all capital 
letters, so people think I 

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really believe it. 
But there are grave grave 

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consequences. 
To that line of thinking. 

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When I make up my own truth 
civility, goes out the window. 

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You can forget it because if 
your truth and my truth aren't 

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the same, I can cyber bully you 
because I don't like you because

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that's my truth. 
I can take advantage of you 

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because it's my word against 
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I can use racial slurs because 
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than you are. 
I can rob you because I think 

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somehow you owe me. 
Laws and punishments are 

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supposed to be based on truth to
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Jungle, right? 
Where might makes right, but 

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where our laws come from are 
just some it's just as important

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as the fact that we have them, 
right? 

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Because we have all seen and 
studied and heard of cultures 

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that are in charge and they make
laws and they're anything. 

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But right. 
And just because there's a law 

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about it doesn't make it right 
and just because they're afraid 

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there isn't a law about it 
doesn't make it okay. 

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I remember the early 2000s, I 
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former East Germany, a place 
called buchenwald, so only time 

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I've ever been at a Nazi 
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It is horrible. 
There's a very eye-opening 

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experience, but very horrible. 
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space, right in front of the 
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And of course, they have those 
graphic pictures there, that 

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shows you how it was used at the
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they were killed or died were 
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Like cordwood this direction, 
and in this direction, and then 

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just load it in Mass into these 
crematoriums in the Smoke, went 

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up constantly. 
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got me. 
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Right next to the crematorium 
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The top of the fence there was 
concertina wires that keep all 

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the prisoners in all the people 
that were going to be killed in 

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right on the other side of that 
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There was a road and right on 
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there was a zoo and had an 
enclosure for bears and lions 

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and tigers, and monkeys and 
everything. 

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You could think of that would 
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And SS officers would bring 
their children there to have a 

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nice picnic and enjoy the zoo. 
20 yards away from where they 

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were loading dead bodies into a 
crematorium because the law said

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it was perfectly, okay to do 
what they were doing. 

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Bottom line is might does not 
make right? 

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It's very important where your 
laws come from and if your laws 

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don't come from the word of God,
they're coming from the wrong 

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place. 
Secondly. 

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Truth, doesn't move. 
But we do. 

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So we need constant realignment 
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Not the other way around. 
So we're living in the time of 

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the year where this wonderful 
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Are created, right? 
Because of the constant freezing

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and thawing and and plowing and 
everything else that happens in 

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the American Midwest. and so 
you're like me, you're driving 

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down the road, you're minding 
your own business, you're 

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staying in your lane and pow 
your car, your truck hits, that 

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pothole and then something 
really strange happens. 

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You're turning right all the 
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Because your vehicle is turning 
left all the time. 

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And you're compensating, you 
know what we call that we call 

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that being out of. 
Yeah, you're out of alignment. 

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So what you have to do is you 
have to go to a place and they 

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put it on this contraption and 
they have to do a lot of things 

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to the geometry of your vehicle,
to put it back, right? 

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Because your vehicle is out of 
alignment now. 

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How many of you would say? 
No, that's not what I do. 

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I just go to roads that turn 
left and that's all I drive on. 

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I'm just gonna drive on the Rosa
turn left because it's harder to

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be on the roads that turn, 
right? 

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Because then I'm really tugging 
hard on this thing, right? 

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Or do you just get mad because 
what you know what is wrong with

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this road? 
There's nothing wrong with the 

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road. 
Roads, don't move. 

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It's your car that has the 
problem. 

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Repentance is how I get 
realigned to the truth. 

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It's ridiculous to expect the 
road to submit to my car. 

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I have to teach my car. 
How to submit to the road 

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repentance is how I get 
realigned to the truth. 

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We live in a culture today that 
his post repents. 

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We're post Civility and we're 
post repentance. 

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You know what repentance is is 
what tells me that God is right 

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and I'm not him If I'm always 
right. 

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And things go wrong in my life. 
Well, you know what I like to 

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do, I like to put a label on 
myself. 

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Maybe you do too. 
I'm the victim. 

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Oh, I'm the victim sound 
familiar. 

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But repentance reminds me that 
I'm flawed that I make mistakes 

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and that I'm accountable. 
So I need to realign to the 

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truth. 
I don't need the truth to 

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realign to me. 
In opposed to culture, that's 

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what we're doing. 
I need truth. 

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I have to find the place where 
truth matters, you know. 

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Jesus never ever asks you to 
confess the sins of others 

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although we seem to all be 
experts at it. 

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Have you ever noticed that you 
get on social media? 

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Everybody's pointing out the 
problems and everybody else, 

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right? 
God Jesus never said hey confess

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the sins of everybody else. 
He only tells you to confess 

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yours. 
Right? 

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I don't want to do that. 
I'm the victim. 

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No. 
No. 

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We need to be people of 
repentance. and if truth doesn't

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move, we will be Isn't it 
interesting how few people are 

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willing to be accountable to 
anyone except themselves? 

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It takes us to this place where 
trust no longer exists, like why

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we going to we can't trust 
anyone, right? 

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Because no one's being 
accountable to me like they're 

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supposed to, you know, why? 
Because they're being 

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accountable to themselves. 
And so, then we create these 

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pockets of post, truth culture, 
that become nothing more than 

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Echo Chambers where everyone 
says, and thinks exactly the 

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same way that I say. 
And think so, there is no 

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accountability. 
But where there is no 

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accountability, there is no need
for Grace. 

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If you never do anything wrong, 
you don't need anybody to 

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forgive you. 
You don't need any Grace, right?

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And so, what we end up doing, 
when we live in a post truth 

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culture, we lose civility. 
We lose lose the ability to 

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realign and there's no 
accountability. 

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We tear ourselves away from the 
truth and that means we are 

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tearing ourselves away from the 
very thing that saves us. 

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There has to be a place where 
truth matters and it needs to be

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this place. 
This is the place where truth 

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needs to me some matter. 
Now I'm so thankful that you 

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applauded that because truth can
never matter in this place until

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it matters in this place. 
Displace. 

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If a person can be one who has 
committed to biblical truth in 

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their heart, then collectively 
we can be a place where people 

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can find it. 
Not your truth, not my truth but

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all caps the truth I want to 
give you seven ways quickly. 

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That you can align yourself. 
To truth that matters. 

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You can take action right now 
and you can claim those 

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wonderful benefits of truth that
I shared a little while ago. 

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Number one, anchor yourself to 
God's word, anchor yourself to 

452
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God's word, give up, trying to 
be God, and submit right and 

453
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wrong to him. 
You know, when we accept Jesus 

454
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as our savior and our Lord, the 
Lord part means that we give up 

455
00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:08,100
our freedom to determine right 
and wrong. 

456
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For ourselves and we yield to 
right and wrong as God defines 

457
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,900
it. 
Anchor yourself to the word of 

458
00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:20,300
God, number to stop the spin. 
Stop spinning, excuses. 

459
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,400
And rationalization 
rationalizations are just 

460
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attempts to manipulate the 
people around you and manipulate

461
00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:28,500
yourself. 
So stop spinning. 

462
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,500
Number three, repent of your 
sin. 

463
00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:39,400
We are all part of the problem. 
The reason that we have steps at

464
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,100
all of our locations is because 
we got to play. 

465
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,100
We have to have a place where we
can back up the truck and dumped

466
00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:51,400
our sin We need repentance. 
Listen. 

467
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,600
You will never address what you 
were unwilling to confess. 

468
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:04,900
We need to be a place. 
We're confession is normal. 

469
00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:08,600
We confess our things to God. 
We let those things down. 

470
00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:14,000
Next one, Embrace love. 
Embrace love. 

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00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,700
Remember that. 
On the other side of repentance 

472
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,700
there is forgiveness for 
yourself and for others. 

473
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:26,100
I don't to be forgiven because 
then I have to admit that I've 

474
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done something wrong, but when 
you admit that and when you 

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share that and you ask for 
forgiveness for that, then the 

476
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opportunity to give and receive 
forgiveness, is there? 

477
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,400
And that is the way you Embrace 
love next one. 

478
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,700
Push politics down for goodness 
sake. 

479
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:48,900
Push it down. 
God Is Bigger Than politics and 

480
00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:51,100
politics is never fixed the 
world. 

481
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,900
But Jesus dead. 
So stick with that. 

482
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,300
When the world politics become 
our God? 

483
00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:08,800
What a low bar? 
Here's one that's going to get 

484
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,600
up in your grill, you ready? 
Love people, you disagree with. 

485
00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:21,900
If your version of Christianity,
doesn't include loving people, 

486
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,900
you disagree with it in 
Christianity. 

487
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:27,700
I don't know what it is, but 
it's not Christianity. 

488
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,000
Jesus didn't exactly agree with 
the people that were nailing him

489
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,700
to a cross, but he loved them. 
He died for them, love people. 

490
00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:43,300
You disagree with number seven. 
Hold on to hope. 

491
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,700
Hold on to hope it's the lower 
story. 

492
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,200
That's the cynical story. 
It's the lower story. 

493
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:56,200
That's the sinking sand story. 
Hold on to Hope because the hope

494
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,900
is in the upper story. 
Quit looking down. 

495
00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:03,500
Start looking up. 
Old adage goes to men. 

496
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,500
Look through prison bars. 
One sees the mud. 

497
00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:09,900
The other sea stars will. 
Look at the mud, there's plenty 

498
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:13,000
of it. 
My dad used to say if you look 

499
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,200
for the bad and people you'll 
always find it. 

500
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,500
Look for the good. 
Keep your head up. 

501
00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:26,100
Hold onto hope because it's in 
the upper story and in Hope 

502
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:30,100
where we find this saturation of
Truth. 

503
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,100
I want to end with this. 
A lot of times when I'm 

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preaching or Clayton's 
preaching, we start with a Bible

505
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,300
story and then we kind of take 
it apart, right? 

506
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,600
And we come up with three points
in a poem at the end to 

507
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,900
emphasize all the things we 
learned in the Bible story but 

508
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:49,500
this time I'm going at it the 
other way I'm going to I'm going

509
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,600
to put a bow on it with a Bible 
story. 

510
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,000
And this Bible story is found in
Luke 23 and it is one of the 

511
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000
most informative stories on 
truth. 

512
00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:05,400
That I think you'd ever find. 
The context of the story is 

513
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,300
Jesus being crucified on a cross
bearing, the sins of the whole 

514
00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,200
world. 
He's sweating. 

515
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:13,400
He's bleeding. 
He's dying. 

516
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,300
He's an absolute agony, but he's
not alone. 

517
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,200
There are two other people that 
are dying beside him. 

518
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:28,000
One on each side, both of them 
thieves one of the thieves joins

519
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:33,400
with the crowd that is revealing
and cursing Jesus out. 

520
00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:38,200
You're the Son of God. 
Save yourself and us. 

521
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:45,100
He says Really dying, but he 
still has time. 

522
00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:50,600
To be hateful. 
But then there's this other 

523
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:56,100
Thief. 
And he's one of the most amazing

524
00:33:56,100 --> 00:34:02,800
characters in all of God's word.
And from his cross, he declares 

525
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:08,300
for truths, for truthful 
statements that are just 

526
00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:11,600
amazing. 
Here's number one. 

527
00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:18,400
Don't you fear God? 
He says that to the guy on the 

528
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,400
other cross. 
Don't you fear God? 

529
00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:28,300
That's an amazing truthful 
statement that this guy in 

530
00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:31,800
revealing Jesus is actually 
revealing God. 

531
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,800
He is equating Jesus. 
And God, think about this, he's 

532
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,600
looking at a man bleeding and 
sweating and dying on a cross 

533
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,000
right next to him. 
And recognizes that, he's God, 

534
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,800
All evidence to the contrary. 
Isn't that amazing? 

535
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,900
Don't you fear? 
God. 

536
00:34:51,699 --> 00:34:56,000
Wow, it's easy to have a love 
and respect for God when 

537
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
everything is going right in 
your life. 

538
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,600
But when things get all turned 
upside down, it gets a little 

539
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,600
harder. 
We start blaming him, right? 

540
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,100
We start cursing him. 
We're like the thief on the 

541
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:07,800
other side. 
I think you see something 

542
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,500
amazing out of that Thief when 
he makes that statement, second 

543
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,800
statement is this, we're getting
what we deserve. 

544
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,300
Is that true? 
Yeah, it's true. 

545
00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:26,100
The fact is sin leads to death. 
The Bible is very clear about 

546
00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:30,700
that, right? 
And he recognizes I'm guilty, he

547
00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:36,600
admits the truth about himself. 
We are getting what we deserve. 

548
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,700
Do you admit that truth about 
yourself that you need to be 

549
00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:42,700
saved? 
Because you can't do it 

550
00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:47,400
yourself. 
Next truthful statement, but 

551
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:56,700
this man has done nothing wrong.
Amazing, all evidence to the 

552
00:35:56,700 --> 00:36:00,000
contrary is being executed by 
the state. 

553
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,600
But obviously this thief on the 
cross realizes that there's a 

554
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,200
truth. 
That's greater than the truth of

555
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,400
the state or the truth of 
government. 

556
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,500
This man has done nothing wrong.
He's innocent. 

557
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:17,600
He's the Lamb of God, he's 
taking on the sins of the world.

558
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,800
And then finally, number four, 
Jesus. 

559
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,500
Remember me? 
When you come into your kingdom.

560
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,400
The only thing. 
That would give this guy. 

561
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:38,600
Any inkling of that truth would 
be a symbol of mockery. 

562
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,100
A crown of thorns that it's on 
Jesus head, or maybe the sign 

563
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:45,400
over his head that says, Jesus 
of Nazareth, King of the Jews, 

564
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:50,300
like, two items of mockery. 
And yet, in this, this 

565
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:55,700
incredibly poignant moment in 
the death of this thief, he 

566
00:36:55,700 --> 00:37:00,500
says, remember me when you come 
into your kingdom, You know what

567
00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:03,000
I love about that. 
Truth it stands. 

568
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,500
Those four truths stand against 
everything. 

569
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:09,400
That culture would have said to 
that guy. 

570
00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:17,100
And he held on to that. 
That's Solid Ground. 

571
00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:21,900
So Jesus would say this day, 
You'll be with me in Paradise. 

572
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:26,100
Wow. 
I challenge you. 

573
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,400
All of you at all of our 
locations. 

574
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,400
You have found a place where 
truth matters. 

575
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,300
You have found the source of 
Truth. 

576
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:45,300
In God's word in the presence of
Jesus, hold on to that truth. 

577
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,700
And don't let go. 
We're moving to a time of 

578
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:59,200
decision. 
So so okay, so okay. 

579
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,400
I'm sitting here. 
I heard you. 

580
00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:08,600
I believe, it's like great. 
Let's not let us not love with 

581
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,600
words. 
Let us not love with our rear 

582
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,400
end in a seat. 
Let's move. 

583
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:26,100
Let's let actions speak for us. 
There are some of you here 

584
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:30,700
today. 
That have never entered into an 

585
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,900
intimate personal relationship 
with Jesus Christ ever. 

586
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,900
I have no idea who you are, but 
there's someone walking up and 

587
00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:46,800
down these aisles. 
He knows exactly who you are. 

588
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,600
And he's been planning for this 
day, he's been planning for this

589
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,200
moment. 
He wanted you to hear the truth.

590
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,400
And here's the truth. 
He loves you. 

591
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:04,700
He loves you enough to die for 
you and did. 

592
00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:09,400
In fact, Die for you. 
He did nothing wrong. 

593
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:18,000
And he has a kingdom. 
And if you come to him and 

594
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,400
accept that truth, he will 
remember you. 

595
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:31,200
So, I will remember. 
If you don't have an intimate 

596
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,100
personal relationship with Jesus
Christ. 

597
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:36,500
I encourage you to go over by 
the baptistry in a moment, 

598
00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:39,600
they'll be somebody there who 
help you, with your next steps. 

599
00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:45,400
And I know that takes some 
boldness, but truth is a bold 

600
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,300
thing. 
And I want you to consider 

601
00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:51,600
making that decision your 
decision today. 

602
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:57,300
Somebody accepted that in the 
first service, we watched him 

603
00:39:57,700 --> 00:40:00,500
immersed into Christ. 
Someone somebody on a snowy 

604
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:04,000
night on Thursday night, made 
that decision and we watch them 

605
00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:08,300
get immersed into Christ. 
The angels will sing for you 

606
00:40:08,300 --> 00:40:13,600
today. if you come to that 
knowledge of the truth and let 

607
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:19,700
it set you free, Many of you 
here today have made that 

608
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:23,600
decision to come to Christ into 
that enter into that 

609
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:29,300
relationship but you know what? 
Hit you pretty hard when you're 

610
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:33,200
making those fists a while ago 
because you're trying to carry 

611
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:37,600
it. 
You're trying to handle it. 

612
00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:40,900
And what the steps are all 
about. 

613
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,800
It's to get low. 
Just to get low. 

614
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:51,300
And then to feel the Arms of 
Jesus come around you, lift you 

615
00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:55,000
up. 
Because he will. 

616
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,700
When you drop those burdens to 
feel the freedom. 

617
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:07,400
Of casting, your cares on him. 
Knowing how he's going to love 

618
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,100
you. 
In hard times. 

619
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:20,000
I really want you to consider 
just backing the truck up and 

620
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,400
dumping the junk and 
experiencing the freedom. 

621
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,900
Because when you know the truth 
that Jesus Paid It All. 

622
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:37,500
It'll set you free. 
Would you stand with me? 

623
00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:42,300
Heavenly father in Jesus name? 
Take this moment. 

624
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:47,500
It's all yours. 
It's all yours now. 

625
00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:54,500
I pray that your Holy Spirit 
would work in our hearts so that

626
00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:58,100
we can yield. 
And let you have your way. 

627
00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:06,800
In US. 
Now, in Jesus name, amen.