1 00:00:01,900 --> 00:00:03,900 All right. Hey, how you doing? 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:07,900 How's everybody doing? It is good to be in the house of 3 00:00:07,908 --> 00:00:11,500 the Lord and it is always good to be with the people, the Lord. 4 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:13,600 And when you're around the people, the Lord you just get 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,500 better. And I'm just thankful that we 6 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:20,000 get to share this time together. We you think of this stage, huh? 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,600 It's coming along. It's big and what you don't 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,900 know, what you don't realize is that for years now we've been 9 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:33,600 standing on a portable A portable platform and it was 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,300 being held up by boxes. This is the truth. 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,800 And so you know, not exactly a small man and I'd walk in and 12 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:43,400 it's because I like that, you know? 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,400 And so it was always an exercise of Faith to come out here and 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,600 and now, you know, it's like I'm standing on the solid rock, you 15 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,500 know? It's just, it's, it's absolutely 16 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:58,200 awesome and something else that you all don't know, at all of 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,600 our locations. We're putting in new equipment, 18 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,300 a lot of new equipment, upgrading our Tech equipment, 19 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:10,600 and that's why I'm look at that. Anybody know what that is? 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,400 It's called a Bible. Anyway, you know, I were 21 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,700 usually, we usually have a, like, a screen up here and stuff 22 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:19,900 like that and they're still in process, but if you would have 23 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:24,700 been here yesterday, you would have seen boxes everywhere and 24 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:29,000 the place all messed up. And it was amazing how our Tech 25 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,400 teams just Just actually went to work and put it all together and 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,100 we all owe a lot of a lot of thanks and a lot of gratitude to 27 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:41,300 our Tech teams, all of our locations just turn around and 28 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:45,100 say thank you guys for everything that you do 29 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:49,200 appreciate you so so much every location. 30 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,600 So many of volunteers that do that and they're just tireless 31 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:56,300 at that and we really, really appreciate it. 32 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,400 Well I want to welcome all of those campuses across the 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,800 region. Buddy, that's inside everybody 34 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,900 that's online. You heard that incredible 35 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:08,699 announcement last week that there have been a thousand. 36 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:15,100 And I think it was 1002 baptisms that we've been able to 37 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:18,100 participate in in our inside location. 38 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:22,000 Since we started that over 1,000, just absolutely 39 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,100 incredible. My hat's off to build to Adele 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,300 who was a chaplain for many years at Western Illinois, 41 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:31,100 correctional center, he might Can be sitting over there right 42 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:33,400 now. Yeah, he is right over there and 43 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,000 just just incredible. The ministry that's happened. 44 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,200 And I know that was said last week, but sometimes, you know, 45 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:42,800 like, you may have heard me preach before, you got to say it 46 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,500 again, and I'm saying it again. Anyway, and we're in the middle 47 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:53,900 of Camp season, and God's doing incredible work at camp, and 48 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:58,000 everything is good this year, and we're not dealing with a lot 49 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,600 of the circumstances that we The deal with last year and you know 50 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,900 why it's so important. You may have never heard this 51 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:10,200 statistic but about 85% of decisions initial decisions that 52 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,600 are made for Christ happened before the age of 15. 53 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,300 And I, that makes sense to me because young hearts are more 54 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:22,100 open to Faith. You know, we get a little older. 55 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:27,100 We start to get crusty. Our hearts get hard and life and 56 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:31,900 experience, do a lot of things to us and it's just awesome to 57 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:34,900 see that those Open Hearts for Faith. 58 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:37,900 And Jesus told us that he told us that two thousand years ago 59 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,100 when he said did the little children come to me, don't 60 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:42,900 forbid them because that's what the Kingdom of Heaven is all 61 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:49,000 about and I love that. We have a special place to be 62 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,200 able to share those possibilities and to share those 63 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:57,800 victories and that's what Camp location is able to do and it 64 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,600 connects with this last sermon in the series from Ecclesiastes. 65 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:07,700 We've been calling chasing Shades because when Solomon 66 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:15,100 concludes this book, this rather dark cynical whole book that 67 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:19,300 we've been going through. He says something in the last 68 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:25,000 chapter that chapter 12 verse 1. He says, remember your Creator 69 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:29,800 in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, 70 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:35,300 anybody can get a name in there because the days of trouble 71 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:37,400 come, don't they? Yeah. 72 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,300 Remember your creator in the days of your youth before the 73 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:43,800 days of trouble come and the years approach. 74 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:51,500 When you will say, I find no pleasure in them, So we really 75 00:04:51,500 --> 00:05:00,300 believe in investing in infants, preschoolers children and 76 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:06,200 students here at the Crossing and we want to help parents to 77 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:09,100 have the tools. They need to help build their 78 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:12,000 faith. The faith of their children 79 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:14,700 because you know why? Let me tell you why this is so 80 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:17,400 important because it isn't going to be that long before they're 81 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,100 going to make all the decisions for you. 82 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,100 You. Some of you need to come to the 83 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:27,800 steps right now, don't you? Yeah, because that's kind of 84 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,900 scary that that could actually happen later on in life. 85 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:35,800 So there's a couple and a lot of times we think couple, you know, 86 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,200 we're thinking of like dating or young married. 87 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,200 Well, this couple is a little different than that Jake is 92 88 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:48,400 years old and his girlfriend is Betty and she's 89. 89 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,200 And Widow widower and they meet each other and they fall in love 90 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,100 and that a great story right there and they decide that they 91 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:02,800 want to get married. So Jake and Betty. 92 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,400 You're going to get married and they're walking down the street 93 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,700 one day and they're talking about their upcoming wedding and 94 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:13,200 Jake decides to go to the go into a drug store and ask the 95 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,700 pharmacist a few questions that he had on his mind. 96 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:19,000 And so this is what he asks. He says, do you sell heart 97 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,300 medication? And he says, yeah, we do. 98 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:24,400 This is how about pills for high blood pressure. 99 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,000 He got that and he goes, yeah, we have that. 100 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:28,100 How about something for hair loss? 101 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:30,900 Do you have that? He says, yeah, we have thats 102 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:34,700 over there on aisle 3 and how about creams that you can put 103 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:36,200 on, like, when your joints are stiff. 104 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,700 He goes, yeah, we have that as well. 105 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:41,400 Sure, what about something you can take for, like, memory loss, 106 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,700 like, Prevagen or whatever that stuff is, right? 107 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:45,300 He goes. That's on aisle five. 108 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,500 He goes. Do you have wheelchairs or 109 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:49,000 Walker's? Here he goes. 110 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,700 We got them, we can get them for you and all Shapes and sizes. 111 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:56,000 And he goes, that is so great. We're going to use this store as 112 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:04,100 our bridal registry. How many of you can relate to 113 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:09,600 that every day? Every day, I'm relating to that 114 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,500 more and more. Let's face it. 115 00:07:12,500 --> 00:07:16,500 We're wearing out, right? Some of you don't realize it 116 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:20,600 yet, but time and experience is going to show you that you're 117 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,000 going to wear out. Mark, Lowry a singer and a 118 00:07:24,008 --> 00:07:27,800 comedian says that he doesn't bother with those BMI numbers 119 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,100 anymore. That's how many of you are. 120 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:32,300 Okay, with not bothering with BMI number. 121 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:35,200 Anymore. Yeah, I hate that like you have 122 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,500 to be like 100 and zero and six foot nine to be in the right 123 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,400 spot on that chart. They have at the doctor's 124 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,200 office, I hate that, I hate that. 125 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,300 So what he has he's come up with this own, his own way of 126 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:54,500 figuring his body mass index and he just does it with the number. 127 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,100 So like if you ask Mark, you know, what is what your BMI 128 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:00,100 he'll say? I'm a 6. 129 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,900 And okay, that sounds good. Like, okay, I can have the way 130 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:08,800 he does that, is he steps out of the shower? 131 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,200 He looks in the mirror, he has a stopwatch, he Stomps his foot 132 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:21,200 hits the stopwatch when everything stops jiggling That's 133 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,600 his number. So he's like 6 seconds before, 134 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,700 everything stops moving. I like that idea. 135 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:35,000 I don't know about you. So this is such a depressing 136 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 chapter, I had to start with some jokes. 137 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:43,100 Anyway, Solomon gives us a very very poetic way of looking at 138 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:45,800 the harsh reality of getting old. 139 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,400 And that's really what Ecclesiastes 12 is about. 140 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,200 So I'm going to start, we already did 12:1, remember the 141 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,400 Creator in the days of your youth, right? 142 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:58,000 12:2. Says this. 143 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:04,900 Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow 144 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:08,500 dark. In the clouds, return. 145 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:13,300 After the rain, What does that mean? 146 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,400 Remember your creator before this stuff happens before the 147 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,800 sun and the light and the moon? The start you know what he's 148 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,900 talking about? He's talking about the loss of 149 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:30,900 your mental faculties. It's a poetic way where he's 150 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:33,700 talking about you struggle with remembering. 151 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:38,400 And you know you can't recall things that you just did. 152 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,600 How many of you been to the refrigerator and you don't 153 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,400 remember if you were taking something out or putting 154 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:47,200 something in I mean yeah. So you know it would be great 155 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,300 and some of you have experienced a real tragedy of this in your 156 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:54,500 family with Dementia or with Alzheimer's and and some of you 157 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:57,300 been Caregivers for that and that's just a reality. 158 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:02,100 And that's what he's describing in Ecclesiastes, 12 to because 159 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:07,700 those the days come when this becomes a reality in your life, 160 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:14,800 You lose your mental faculties. in 12 3, he says, when the 161 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:21,700 keepers of the house, tremble, And the strong men stoop. when 162 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:26,300 the grinder cease, because there are few and those looking 163 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:33,300 through Windows grow dim, The keepers of the house, tremble. 164 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,700 Have you ever seen a? I know, I remember this for my 165 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:41,700 mother. My mother had my father too. 166 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:44,500 Had incredible handwriting. They don't even teach cursive 167 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:46,000 writing. I don't think anymore, but back 168 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,600 then, they did right. And and people took great pride 169 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:55,600 in how good a penmanship they had, and they could write so 170 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:00,700 beautifully, but when they, but when my parents got older, It 171 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:05,000 was hard even to see what they were writing or to decipher, 172 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,000 what they were riding. Because the keepers of the house 173 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,600 were trembling The strong men stoop. 174 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:20,100 Talking about arthritis, it's talking about arthritis in the 175 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:24,800 back or you know, different kinds of illnesses that we have 176 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:30,200 where we are no longer able to straighten up. when the Grinders 177 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,800 cease because they are few, how many of you know what that's 178 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:38,600 talking about talking about your teeth, That's what it's talking 179 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,500 about course, you know. Now we have different ways of 180 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:44,200 solving that problem back, then it was just pull the teeth, 181 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:48,500 right? The Grinders cease because they 182 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:52,100 are few. And those Looking Through the 183 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:59,700 Windows grow dim, Talking about what losing your eyesight. 184 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:08,100 Let's look at verse 4. When the doors of the street are 185 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:12,400 closed in the sound of grinding, Fades men. 186 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:18,800 Rise up at the sound of birds. But all their songs grow faint. 187 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,100 talking about your mouth being closed because you can't eat, 188 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:28,100 what you used to be able to eat how many of you remember, when 189 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:30,400 you could do, you could eat whatever you wanted and you 190 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,500 could just It would just work out, right, and anymore, you 191 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:38,300 can't do that. And how many of you remember, 192 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:41,100 when you could sleep till noon and you could just keep going 193 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:45,000 and now you can't do that. You can't sleep long enough 194 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,700 because you rise up at the sound of birds, you don't sleep as 195 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:55,400 deeply or as long as you'd like. And how many of you? 196 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:59,900 Don't hear the sound of grinding anymore. 197 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:06,400 Because your ears don't work like they used to and all their 198 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,400 songs of the birds that they rise up to, they grow faint. 199 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:17,300 Look at verse 5. when men are afraid of heights and of dangers 200 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:21,400 in the streets and when the almond tree blossoms and the 201 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:27,600 grasshopper drags himself along and desire is no longer stirred, 202 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:32,700 Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about in 203 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:37,500 the streets talking about when you get older, there's an 204 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:41,700 increase in fear. you don't have the same level of confidence 205 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:46,100 that you had before, and so that's why he says you're afraid 206 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:49,900 of the Heights and dangers in the streets, you know, one fall 207 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:53,700 And you may not be living in your home anymore, right? 208 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,500 Something could happen. You could break a hip or 209 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:00,100 something else. You're afraid of the Heights and 210 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:04,700 you're afraid of dangers in the streets and so you're a lot more 211 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:07,900 careful about, you know, keeping your doors locked. 212 00:14:07,900 --> 00:14:12,600 And are you, you know, are you safe where you are and that fear 213 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,000 of safety? And when the almond tree 214 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,600 blossoms, you know, when the almond tree blossoms, it turns 215 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,600 White. So, it's talking about your 216 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,300 hair. Turning white. 217 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:31,200 In the grasshopper drags himself along when it's hard to get up 218 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,900 and walk. You remember, when you could 219 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:38,100 just sit some of you you could just sit on the floor and you 220 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:42,100 didn't need anybody to give you a hand and you didn't need to 221 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:44,500 kind of work yourself to your feet. 222 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:47,200 Yeah. The Grasshoppers dragging 223 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,500 himself along and desire is no longer stirred. 224 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:52,900 You know what that's talking about. 225 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,400 Talking about your sexual appetite. 226 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:03,900 And then man goes to his eternal home. 227 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:08,500 And mourners go about in the street. 228 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:12,900 I actually like that verse because Solomon actually gives 229 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:15,600 you a glimmer of hope that he actually believes that there may 230 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,200 be something later, even though he doesn't really investigate it 231 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,300 in this book, he doesn't talk about it much. 232 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:29,100 He does say that one line man goes to his eternal home. if you 233 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:32,200 read the rest of the book, you'd know that he really kind of 234 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:37,100 considers death as the end, but he does give you a couple of 235 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:41,200 little glimmers and that's one and mourners go about in the 236 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,400 street. Look at verse six. 237 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,800 Remember him before the silver cord is severed. 238 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,500 The Golden Bowl is broken. before the pitcher is shattered 239 00:15:54,500 --> 00:16:02,200 at the spring or the wheel, broken at the well, Now we can 240 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,100 conjecture about this, but it's talking about different ways. 241 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:10,700 We die. the silver cord being broken, could be talking about a 242 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:16,000 spinal cord injury or paralysis, The Golden Bowl being broken is 243 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:22,400 head trauma or stroke. When he talks about the pitcher 244 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,500 is shattered at the spring. About heart issues or a heart 245 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:30,600 attack than the wheel broken at the Wells, talking about 246 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,000 circulation problems. These are the same things that 247 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,400 we died of now. Right. 248 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:43,300 And then sums it up in verse 7 and the dust returns to the 249 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:45,600 ground. It came from and this is the 250 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,600 second time, he says it in this chapter and the spirit returns 251 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,900 to God, who gave it? Another glimmer of hope. 252 00:16:56,500 --> 00:17:01,600 Man goes to his eternal home and the spirit returns to God, who 253 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:08,599 gave it? How depressing was all of that? 254 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,099 Was there any part of that? That was an encouragement to 255 00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:17,500 you? Certainly wasn't to me. 256 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:22,599 But you have to admit, this is just life. 257 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:26,700 Isn't it? This is just the lower story. 258 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:29,800 This is what happens to everyone. 259 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:35,200 And in many ways, it describes a pretty scary future. 260 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:40,800 I didn't know how your read that or you think about your future 261 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,300 and then you realize, because maybe you've seen it with your 262 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:47,400 grandparents, your parents great-grandparents. 263 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,000 You've actually watch this happen participated in it, how 264 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:58,600 you can have this, underlying fear this underlying emotion 265 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,600 about what's happening to happen in my future. 266 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,400 Now, we have a lot of Technology, don't we? 267 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,100 We have a lot of stuff that we trust in today and with that 268 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:18,000 technology and the science behind it, and all the things 269 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,600 that we know now we can hold it off for a while. 270 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,400 You know what you can do, you can take just the right set of 271 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,500 pills. And your doctor will help you 272 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:31,200 figure out what those are right. And they'll hold this back, you 273 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,500 can work out. You can buy just for men. 274 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,200 Keep that almond tree Springtime all around, right? 275 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,000 You can do lots of dental work, put in implants and then the 276 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,300 Grinders aren't for you. They're not yours but they're 277 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:51,200 not few. In the windows that grow dim. 278 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,100 Well, you can have cataract surgery. 279 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,600 And you can get more time out of your eyes, or you can have hair 280 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,500 implants. If you're losing your hair, or 281 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,600 if you can't hear the sound of the birder, the grinding you can 282 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,500 buy hearing aids, or you can have LASIK, or you can have knee 283 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:11,100 replacement, or you can have hip replacements. 284 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:14,700 So the strongman doesn't stupid anymore and you can buy a home 285 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:17,800 security system. So you won't be afraid of who 286 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,300 might want to break in. You can get yourself a handgun 287 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,600 and take some lessons or you can buy some Viagra. 288 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:31,600 For that last line. But eventually. 289 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,100 All that's going to fail. And the same conclusion will 290 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:41,700 come. True. 291 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,600 So far, this sermon is really depressing. 292 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:49,300 I just want to leave. How about you you want to take 293 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:50,700 off right now? Yeah. 294 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,500 And that makes sense because, you know, the person who wrote 295 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:57,600 this book was coming from that place. 296 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,600 He really was, he was a man who was dealing with depression. 297 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:07,500 I think it this is a book that were a man is dealing with being 298 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:12,400 severely depressed because he's writing it in old age. 299 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,500 And he has done all these things in life and he's realizing that 300 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:22,200 all of the opportunities he had all the money, all the power, 301 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,200 all the relationships, all that stuff really didn't get him 302 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,500 anywhere because his body Going to fail. 303 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,400 He was realizing something, he was realizing he was mortal. 304 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:41,100 And so over and over, in this book, he prefers to death. 305 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:44,900 Doesn't he talks about death? And makes sense, that he would 306 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:50,800 say, it's all meaningless. Because he looks at his life all 307 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,400 that he's accomplished, all that he's done, all of these 308 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:58,900 experienced and he is feeling his old age and he's looking at 309 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,500 life and kind of in a retrospective way and he's 310 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:07,200 going, what's the point? It doesn't really make any 311 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:15,700 sense. she was looking for something to satisfy him for the 312 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:19,300 Long Haul and even though the things that he was doing with 313 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:24,300 satisfying him in the moment, none of that was supplying what 314 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:28,100 he needed. For the Long Haul. 315 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:33,300 But just because Solomon didn't have a handle on it, it doesn't 316 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:35,600 mean that it needs to escape you. 317 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,900 And that's really what I want to talk about. 318 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:45,400 I said all of that. So I could see this in 319 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,200 Ecclesiastes, 12 verses 13 and 14. 320 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:53,400 He says now all has been heard Here is the conclusion of the 321 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,800 matter. Fear God and keep his 322 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:05,900 Commandments for this is the duty of all mankind, for God 323 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,900 will bring every deed into judgment including every hidden 324 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:13,800 thing whether it is good or evil. 325 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,100 Now, there's an interesting word here that I want to point out to 326 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:21,100 you, when he says, fear God and keep his Commandments. 327 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:26,000 For this is the whole duty of all mankind and that's an 328 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,400 English word. And an English phrase that 329 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,100 doesn't do justice to the original language, but we're 330 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:36,600 Duty. Because when you look at that in 331 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,600 its original language, what you actually find out is that the 332 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:46,000 word that really describes, what he's saying is wholeness, Fear 333 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,800 God and keep his Commandments for this is the wholeness of 334 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,100 mankind. What does that mean? 335 00:22:54,800 --> 00:23:02,100 Wholeness To give a sense of completion to give a sense of 336 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:05,400 satisfaction. That goes beyond the things of 337 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,900 this world fear God, and keep his commands and it'll provide 338 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:11,700 this wholeness. Now, I got to ask you a 339 00:23:11,708 --> 00:23:16,000 question. Do you feel wholeness? 340 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:23,000 In your life right now. Or are there empty spaces and 341 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,500 places that you just can't seem to get filled up. 342 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:32,300 It's always looking for the next thing, the better thing, the 343 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:35,800 more up-to-date thing because that's what's going to actually 344 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:37,600 you think is going to fill that up. 345 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,000 Well, you should know from The Book of Ecclesiastes that just 346 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,300 doesn't happen. Do you have a wholeness? 347 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,200 Is there a way that I can find it? 348 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,800 Is there a way that I can find wholeness and how in the world 349 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,500 am I supposed to trust this guy that has literally tried 350 00:23:55,500 --> 00:24:00,200 everything else? you know what, I think, I think 351 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,300 that the biggest secret in the Book of Ecclesiastes is that 352 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:08,300 Solomon knew the answer I think he knew the answer the whole 353 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:13,000 time. I think that he knew after God 354 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,100 told him. What he was supposed to do in 355 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:19,300 life because he had two conversations with God. 356 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:23,900 He just didn't want to make the investment in that direction he 357 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:26,200 wanted to make the investment in worldly things. 358 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,900 So he laid up his treasures on the earth rather than his 359 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:35,200 treasure in heaven and because of that wholeness escaped him, 360 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:39,000 Now, you still knew what was right? 361 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:45,400 You just didn't walk it out. The wholeness that he and we are 362 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,700 searching for can only be found in one place. 363 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:53,500 You realize that And that is in what he said, fearing, God and 364 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:57,300 keeping his commands. And when you think of those two 365 00:24:57,300 --> 00:24:59,600 terms fear, God keep his commands. 366 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:02,400 It's actually talking about what's going on in your heart 367 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,800 and mind fearing, God is something that's happening 368 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,100 internally, right? It's a mental understanding and 369 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:11,400 it's also an emotional understanding. 370 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,200 So it's a heart and mind thing. And then the actions that go 371 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,600 with, it are keep his commands, right? 372 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:24,600 So what what God is saying through Solomon is that we need 373 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,200 to have the right heart and mind to fear God and then we need to 374 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:33,700 walk that out in our daily life. Now this word fear really trips 375 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:40,000 us up Doesn't it fear God, because what we do? 376 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:50,300 Is we come up with this idea? That God's mean he's unforgiving 377 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:54,600 and he's intimidating and he never stops measuring us. 378 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:58,300 And so we have to be afraid of him. 379 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,800 In order to understand the term, we need to understand ourselves 380 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:08,000 as God's children. now, some of us have struggled with parents, 381 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:13,800 some of us have nightmare stories about parents, And so 382 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,600 the idea of fear has very different context with you, but 383 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,300 some of us had really good parents. 384 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:23,100 But that doesn't mean we didn't fear our parents. 385 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:30,200 Here and I'm saying you can have bad parents and for bad reasons. 386 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,200 You are afraid of them. You can have good parents and 387 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:40,100 you can still fear them. But it's not the same because to 388 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:45,400 fear is not the same in this context as to be afraid of. 389 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,500 Okay, it carries a different connotation. 390 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:53,700 So I want you to understand that I want you understand that 391 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:58,500 connotation for those of you that have had good parenting 392 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:02,500 and, you know, you're very thankful for whose who God put 393 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,200 in your life as parents, you think you're, you'll capture 394 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,700 this more for those of you that have. 395 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:10,900 Struggles with parents, it'll be a little bit harder to grab 396 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:14,000 ahold of, but I want you to try. Okay, because what I'm going to 397 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,800 do is I'm going to break the word fear down into an acronym 398 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:22,200 and F.E.A.R, okay? So here's the first because this 399 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,200 is where it applies, this is where you apply it. 400 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:29,300 Number one, F the F and fear meets to have faith. 401 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:38,000 To have faith that God is here. That God is near that, he is a 402 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,700 God who sees that, he's a God, who knows? 403 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,200 And that, he's a God, who remembers? 404 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:49,900 How you doing? You understand how that can be 405 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:54,500 fear? I lived in a neighborhood where 406 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,600 if I did something wrong three mothers had called my mother 407 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,600 before I ever got home. You hear what I'm saying? 408 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,500 so, if I was doing something wrong, I would be afraid. 409 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:12,900 But you have to ask, you have to, you have to internalize 410 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,100 that. How do you feel about a god 411 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:18,000 who's here? How do you feel about a god 412 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,200 who's near? How do you feel about a God? 413 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,500 Who sees, how do you feel about a God who hears and knows and 414 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:32,200 remembers. Faith this funny in it because 415 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,800 we've won the think of Faith as a positive word, but in the 416 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,900 different context, it can be actually a scary word. 417 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:40,300 Right? Because like I don't know if I 418 00:28:40,308 --> 00:28:45,300 want God to hear or see or know or remember what I do. 419 00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:51,800 There's two sides to that. The only issue is, is the win, 420 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:54,100 right? Is like, what am I doing at this 421 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:59,000 particular time? So face actually, this idea of 422 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,400 faith is actually very sobering to me. 423 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:08,100 Fear, God have faith in God but that means it's that God. 424 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,200 What does the E stand for experience? 425 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:19,600 His grace? Experiences Grace because just 426 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:24,800 the F just the just the have faith in God that he can see. 427 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,600 All that actually that is a very sobering and can be very 428 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,500 frightening. But if I put the e in there to 429 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:35,200 experience his grace, this is what I also know about God. 430 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:39,600 He loves me. He protects me. 431 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,700 He forgives me. and like it says, in First Corinthians 13, 432 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:51,000 he keeps no record of wrongs even though he's a God, who 433 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,600 remembers He keeps no record of wrongs. 434 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:01,700 Wow, while my faith can frighten me his grace, calms me down. 435 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:06,100 To fear. God means I understand the 436 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:09,700 reality of the truth about who he is and what he knows and 437 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:14,700 where he is. But the other part of his grace 438 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:17,900 experiencing his grace means that I know this about his 439 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:21,900 nature. That is not a harsh. 440 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:27,500 Mean-spirited God. And, you know, that brings me to 441 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:31,200 the AA and fear. Because when I think about those 442 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,000 two things together, it gives me a sense of awe, and that's what 443 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,600 a stands for. Aw, I'm in awe of a God who can 444 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:48,500 know every flaw every secret thought in me and still will 445 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:51,900 extend his grace. I'm in awe of that. 446 00:30:54,700 --> 00:31:02,100 And the r stands for resolved. Resolved, I am resolved. 447 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,800 If I want to fear God, I am resolved to live for a God that 448 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:12,100 I cannot fool. That isn't gullible or naive, 449 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:18,600 whose firm, but loving who's just, but merciful who's strong, 450 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,200 but tender, who has all the answers. 451 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:28,000 But is always listening is passionate but kinder. in 452 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:35,600 control, never surprised but filled with wonder, Someday I'm 453 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,400 going to stand before him and so, will you and everything I 454 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,700 ever did will be brought into judgment every hidden thing, 455 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,400 whether it's good or evil will be exposed to that light. 456 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,600 Now, that's a scary thought and this is where Solomon story 457 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,100 ends. But it's only the beginning of 458 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:00,700 mine. And it's only the beginning of 459 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:06,800 yours. because I know that when those records are brought out 460 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,700 and everything I've ever done or thought, Is recorded in those 461 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:15,800 books. I know that Jesus will step 462 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:20,800 forward and he will take those records away because Jesus Paid 463 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,300 It All. See that he paid it all. 464 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000 And that's the gospel. That's the gospel in 465 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:35,600 Ecclesiastes is I have plenty of reasons to be afraid of God but 466 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,800 I have a God who extended his grace when he sent his son Jesus 467 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,800 down here to this earth to live to die. 468 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:48,500 Not for anything, he did. But for what I've done That he 469 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:53,000 paid my debt. Not his that he was nailed to my 470 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,400 cross. Not his Did he took my beating 471 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,200 not his? That he endured my death. 472 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:07,200 When he died, but proved his power over death when he rose 473 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,200 from the dead. That's the gospel. 474 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:17,800 So today I can fear God but I don't have to be afraid of 475 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,700 God's. Matter of fact, the Bible says I 476 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:25,200 have confidence to approach the holy place to be in the very 477 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,000 presence of God, I can confidently, stand in the 478 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,500 presence of God because he sees his child. 479 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,600 Because of Jesus Christ. How about you? 480 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,400 Are you afraid of God? Or do you fear God? 481 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,800 You want to keep his commands. This is the whole duty of man, 482 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,900 kind, this is what makes you whole. 483 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:56,400 God will bring everything into account. 484 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:03,300 Whether it's good or evil. But he's taken care of all that 485 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:06,200 evil through the grace that was given to us through his son 486 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:12,199 Jesus. Solomon says, remember your 487 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:16,699 creator in the days of your youth before the days of 488 00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:20,500 trouble. Come And I find in you find no 489 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:23,500 pleasure in them. I say. 490 00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:29,000 You will never be younger. Than you are right now. 491 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,199 Amen. So just like it said in the book 492 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:38,699 of Acts Today is the day of salvation. 493 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:43,800 Don't wait for tomorrow. We're moving to a time of 494 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:51,199 decision. How do I do that? 495 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,600 How how do I take that step? I love being able to explain 496 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,200 this every time I stand on the floor right here, I love being 497 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,900 able to explain that. That God knows you're a sinner 498 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:10,500 just like you do. That you can know that everybody 499 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:12,800 sitting around, you is no better than you that we're all in a 500 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:18,500 boat and it's sinking. and we all share in the same fate 501 00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:23,500 except for somebody gave you something that you didn't 502 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:24,700 deserve. You could never earn. 503 00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:28,400 It was too expensive to ever pay for and that's what Jesus did 504 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,000 when he died on the cross was buried. 505 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,700 And he rose again that gospel message. and when you take God 506 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:40,300 at his word, And you believe that he loves you that much, 507 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:46,200 that he would not withhold the life of his only son so that you 508 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,900 can spend eternity with him. And you agree with that truth. 509 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,600 And you realize that, Or you want to accept a truth that 510 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,200 maybe he's hard for you. That Jesus didn't die for the 511 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:07,200 whole world he died for you. He died for you. 512 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,200 It's easy to say that Jesus died for the whole world, but when 513 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:18,100 you say that you seem pretty insignificant but God doesn't 514 00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:21,700 want you to feel insignificant. He wants you to know. 515 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,800 Did Jesus died for you? He knew your name. 516 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,000 Two thousand years in the future, he knew your name. 517 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:40,600 When he was dying on that cross. That's why the Bible says it was 518 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,800 for the joy. Before him that he endured the 519 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:50,500 cross, the joy of spending eternity with you. 520 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,600 Some of us are going well, you don't know, you don't know. 521 00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,500 No, I don't but he does. And he's not a liar. 522 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:05,200 Regardless of what you've done, he loves you. 523 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:11,800 And Jesus is for you and just like Jesus said, only sick, 524 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,900 people need a doctor and only Sinners need a savior. 525 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:22,700 We're all the same in this room. And if you have never made that 526 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:26,800 personal decision to say, I want to be in an intimate personal 527 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,400 relationship with Jesus Christ. You can do that right now. 528 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:32,700 There's going to be somebody standing right over by the 529 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:35,300 baptistry that would love to talk with you, pray with you 530 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:37,200 answer any questions that you have? 531 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,800 You could be, you could get in that water. 532 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,500 We've got all the stuff for you to change in water's warm. 533 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:48,900 And you could bury that old self. 534 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:52,700 You could die, be buried, and rise from the dead, and be a new 535 00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:55,200 creation in. Jesus Christ, you could do it 536 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,500 today. There's nothing standing in the 537 00:37:58,508 --> 00:38:03,300 way but you many of you here today have made that decision 538 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,900 you live in that reality but don't try to fool everybody to 539 00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:12,000 think that you've got it all figured out because you don't 540 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:17,900 neither do I And that's why. We have these steps. 541 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:22,700 We always have these steps. Cuz we just need to be able to 542 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:28,200 approach God to do business with God. and I want you, if you've 543 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:32,700 got a burden that you're caring for yourself or someone else, To 544 00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:35,900 come up and not be too proud to get on your knees and humble 545 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:41,200 yourself before an almighty God. And say, take this burden. 546 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:47,400 Help me. Like Peter did when he sank when 547 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,900 he was walking on water. He just said, Lord, save me. 548 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:58,500 Sit And the hand went down and he lifted him up and put him 549 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:02,500 back in the boat. And he'll do that for you today. 550 00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:07,400 Would you stand with me? Let's pray together in Jesus 551 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,500 name, Heavenly Father, take this moment. 552 00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:14,600 Take this moment from our perspective because the moment 553 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,100 every moment, every breath it belongs to you, but take this 554 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:23,900 moment because we acknowledge your ownership of it. 555 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:29,900 And I pray. Father that You would just 556 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:33,100 produce a harvest with it in our hearts. 557 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:40,800 You're so good. Help us to trust you and to go 558 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,000 to you in this moment. I pray in Jesus name. 559 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:37,300 Amen. You're so good. 560 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,700 Help us to trust you and to go to you in this moment. 561 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:45,000 I pray in Jesus name. Amen.