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Crossing family. 
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and every single one of you. 
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I've missed you. 
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spend some time with you today. 
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you in. 
I don't know the circumstances 

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surrounding you coming. 
Some of you are navigating, 

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probably a really rough time in 
your life right now. 

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You had a rough week, some of 
you because the things that are 

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happening to you relationally, 
some of you because of the 

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heartbreaking stuff you're 
seeing in the news and I just 

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want you to know you made. 
One of the best decisions that 

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you can make to surround 
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to spend time in the word of God
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move in your life, which is the 
only hope that this broken world

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is going to have is that people 
getting connected with God 

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through his Holy Spirit and his 
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And so I'm just so glad so glad 
that you're here. 

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I have to do this as a little 
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I just feel compelled to do it. 
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I went to a really small church 
and they had a time in the 

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service where they did Request 
and you just raise your hand and

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everybody heard your prayer 
requests and then made a list 

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and they prayed for it. 
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called this. 
Anybody in here, raise your hand

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if you know what this stands 
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I just want to know the people 
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Okay, this stands for praise the
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And there were these moments 
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service, where you got to say 
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in your life. 
And that was your praise, the 

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Lord moment and we acknowledge 
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and I have a PT l-- thing 
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So I wanted, I wanted to walk a 
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that was something I wanted. 
No, I wanted on my on my list of

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things and my stepdaughter 
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And so when she got married he 
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to walk her down the aisle. 
I got the distinct honor of 

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officiating the wedding, but 
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kids, the first two came out 
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risk a third because we're going
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comes to a food bill. 
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to stop for budgetary reasons. 
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you know, well there goes that 
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Well a girl named Lisa go. 
I've talked about before she 

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lived with us for a year. 
She reached out about four 

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months ago. 
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married up in Chicago, over 
Memorial Day weekend and vanilla

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for it's one of my dear friends 
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Pastor is officiating the 
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get to walk her down the aisle 
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then I hung up the phone. 
I went to my bedroom and I just 

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bawled, I just bawled because 
only God can just answer the 

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deepest desires of your heart 
and unexplained ways and just 

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one small Act of obedience from 
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house, created the opportunity 
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heavy on my heart. 
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it to God, to just declare his 
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answers prayers and he hears us 
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In fact, scripture commands. 
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In Psalm chapter 40. 
I'll Proclaim your saving acts 

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in the great assembly. 
So I felt like I should I do not

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seal my lips. 
Lord, as you know, I do not hide

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your righteousness. 
In my heart. 

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I speak of your faithfulness in 
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I do not conceal your love and 
your faithfulness from the great

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assembly. 
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to say this, what you and I are 
supposed to do declare his glory

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among the nation's, His 
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peoples. 
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worthy of Praise. 
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gods and I felt it would be 
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acknowledge where God has been 
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And that is one of the ways that
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relationship with Jesus, can 
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is when we declare how God is 
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can have that intimate personal 
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So I had to get that out of the 
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owed it to him. 
So, thank you for indulging. 

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Me in that. 
I want to welcome you from all 

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of our different. 
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And if you're brand new to the 
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called chasing Shades and Jerry 
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of introducing the The Book of 
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And he talked about a 
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get on the Merry-Go-Round of 
life and you go round and round 

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and round, but you don't go 
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You, right where it found, you 
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pocket and I could not stop what
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You guys have seen it. 
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All right, and listen tell me is

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this not us? 
We've fallen off the ride, but 

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we're not letting go isn't that 
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We're still hanging on. 
We're in a bad relationship with

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a boyfriend, or a girlfriend. 
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But we're still hanging on, we 
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Our jobs, our money, our stuff 
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anymore fulfilled. 
But there we are still hanging 

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on our marriage. 
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We know that the trajectory were
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We still keep doing the angry 
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We're still Hanging on. 
I know, I just, I just want to 

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tell you let go. 
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Just let go stop. 
This. 

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Merry-Go-Round won't solve 
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All you're going to get now is 
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I was talking to Jerry about 
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series for me comes from a very 
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I see so much pain and 
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I hear stories each week that 
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of the worst pain that I 
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day pain. 
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Say one day pain, you know, one 
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They're getting ready to walk 
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And you know that when they walk
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going to experience an awful lot
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We've all seen people on the one
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that business practice that 
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relationship, that purchase that
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going to cause them an awful lot
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The list could go on and on and 
some of us we could provide 

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testimony. 
If we were to pass the mic 

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around at each of our locations 
and talk about the one-day pain,

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that you've experienced in your 
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All of these road signs. 
All of these people yelling turn

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around, but you just kept going.
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instead of slowing down. 
And one day, it all came 

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crashing down. 
This sermon series is designed 

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to keep you from one day pain. 
It comes from a place with a of 

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added a sincere, desire to help 
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and apply it in your life and 
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There is a model of learning 
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you teachers, don't noose me 
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Just I know I'm not a teacher 
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was so good. 
Back went. 

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Okay, just track with me. 
Okay, you don't make sense. 

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Visual auditory reading and 
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And you guys, you guys are all 
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You get all this visual. 
It's people who are better able 

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to retain information when it's 
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graphs and charts and diagrams 
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Learners are people that it 
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they hear it when it's presented
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When they hear it they begin to 
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and writing is when they focus 
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resources. 
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and then There's the kinesthetic
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engage, when they take an active
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during the Hands-On approach 
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that's why. 
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sure that we're hitting as many 
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The one we can't do is the 
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You have to do that one. 
When you leave, you have to 

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trust God. 
You have to get take a step of 

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faith and go. 
I'm going to apply what I 

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learned visually auditorily 
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I'm going to put it into play in
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revealed through my actions can 
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employ all of these methods. 
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that can only be learned can 
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Like, I could all of us right 
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change a tire on any four of 
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Like, you could, you know, you 
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how to change a tire. 
You could go out for the most 

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part. 
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most of you, you could put the 
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could hear someone talk you 
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Go out, spend it on your good to
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Some of you, you could, you 
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instruction manual and you Like 
how many newtons of torque 

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numbers like, when you can't 
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That's when it's good. 
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of those when it comes to 
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to ride a bike. 
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Can you imagine someone saying 
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You like? 
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It's a steep hill. 
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All right. 
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well when it comes to life I 
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avoid having to learn 
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I want you to learn visually by 
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Christians around you, or people
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seeing what happens. 
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attention, and listen to the 
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You proclaiming wisdom, and 
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God's word and listening to 
people who have already 

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travelled down that road and can
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wrong, and how that's going to 
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That's how people can spot one 
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Because they've already been 
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and they're trying to prevent 
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I want you to learn about life, 
through Reading and taking notes

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of those who have gone before 
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And if you have to learn life 
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you to choose to engage 
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other people around. 
You have experienced massive 

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success, or at least have an 
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Because experience is a profound
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price tag is high. 
And I know that that's not life 

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is not that simple. 
Sometimes it's hard and you're 

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going to have to do backflips 
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And I know that's tough. 
But when you have to find 

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yourself in a moment where you 
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safety net. 
True story. 

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I want to be able to do a 
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I've wanted to know how to do a 
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school and I practice and I have
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Okay. 
Now, you know why I'm still 

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standing here and not, you know,
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It's because I don't practice in

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the front yard. 
Okay, I pick a place that has. 

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So I practiced when when you 
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to go to a trampoline park. 
I don't do the foam pit. 

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I don't do it on the trampoline 
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back and you know, I don't 
that's a lot of weight on one 

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Little Neck. 
Okay, but listen, if you take me

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to your backyard pool and you 
get on your diving board, I will

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pull off a beautiful backflip 
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yet where I'm going to like, you
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and jump up and grab my knees. 
Just not ready there. 

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So you can try the bigger 
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If you have a better safety, net
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coming to me from both the past 
and the future to give you a 

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nun, the ability to learn 
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aesthetically. 
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from the past and the future. 
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because he's Been there, done 
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but he's also coming to you from
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Because if you were to take 
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and Ambitions and multiply them 
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You still wouldn't be in the 
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experienced and he found all of 
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Halo. 
I want you to pay close 

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attention to him. 
I want you to learn from him. 

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I want you to lean into the 
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give you because if you don't it
will cost you what you treasure.

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Most it will cost you time and 
relationships. 

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It will rob you of purpose and 
meaning we did the sermon survey

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a while back, and this is what 
you said. 

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In our church. 53 percent of us 
are searching for purpose and 

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meaning. 60%, six out of ten of 
you need help handling stress. 

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40% of, you are dealing with 
burnout 40% for in 10 of us, are

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dealing with an identity crisis 
in short. 

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We don't know who we are. 
We don't know why we are, and we

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are stressing and burning 
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That's why we're preaching about
chasing sheets. 

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It's because I want you to take 
in Solomon's wisdom and apply it

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in your life and experience the 
blessing, the chapter I'm about 

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to talk to you is about is all 
about the piece. 

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It is pleasure projects, 
possessions power profession, 

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and position. 
I'm not going to say that fast 

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because Papa please just 
preached this sermon. 

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Okay. 
Now you'll remember, it 

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Ecclesiastes chapter 2. 
I'm going to walk you through 

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the whole chapter. 
So if you brought your Bible, 

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use it, here we go. 
I said to myself, this is 

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Solomon. 
Come now. 

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I will test you with pleasure to
find out what is good, but that 

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also Have to be everybody, help 
me out. 

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That's interesting. 
Laughter. 

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I said is madness and what does 
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I tried cheering myself up with 
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mind, still guiding me with 
wisdom. 

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I wanted to see what was good 
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heavens during the few days of 
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pleasure of substances, and he 
doesn't Find meaning and purpose

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at the bottom of the bottle. 
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it's waiting for him when he 
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That's why I'm so glad our 
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has a region Ministry because it
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recapture. 
What drugs alcohol and pills 

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have taken. 
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meaning in Christ. 
Jesus. 

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So solemn and tries pleasure in 
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there. 
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doesn't find it there either. 
All the comedian's, all the 

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Netflix specials can can never 
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Replace the realities of this 
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You can laugh as much as you 
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You can try to find ways to keep
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sorrow and the misery, but 
eventually it's going to come it

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too is meaningless. 
So then he goes on chapter 2, 

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verse 4, through 6. 
I undertook great projects. 

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I built houses for myself and 
planted Vineyards. 

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I made Gardens and parks and 
planted all kinds of fruit trees

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in them. 
I made reservoirs to water grows

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of flourishing trees. 
So he's tried pleasure. 

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He's tried. 
He's tried wine, didn't find it,

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tried laughter, didn't find it. 
You know what? 

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I'll do, I'll just build great 
things and that is exactly what 

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he did. 
He built absolutely beautiful 

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things. 
He built the temple of God and 

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it took him seven years to build
it. 

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Then he went to build his own 
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something about his relationship
with God. 

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That the house of God was only 
worth half of the time that he 

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spent for his. 
When his own house, but you 

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know, some of you can relate, 
you're like man, I've been 

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waiting for my husband to put 
outlet covers on our house for 

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about 13 years. 
You're like, I get it. 

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I understand how it happens and 
I just want you to know this, 

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all those things that he built, 
you can still touch them to this

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day in 2023. 
Our church is gonna be going to 

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Israel. 
You're going to get some 

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information about that and 
you're going to be able to 

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actually physically touch the 
foundation stones that he put in

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place for the temple and you're 
going to be amazed at the wisdom

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that it must have taken to 
figure out how to get those 

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things into. 
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You can go there and 3,000 years
later. 

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They're still there, but they 
don't have any meaning in them. 

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Have you ever met somebody? 
Raise your hand. 

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If you know somebody who's built
a house, all those people are 

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the worst, aren't they? 
The probably like they're 

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convinced that everybody cares, 
right? 

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You met them. 
Look at these pictures. 

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And this is how we did our 
electrical stuff. 

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And I did this cool thing with 
the plumbing, and here's a cool 

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sound system. 
Like, oh man, so like, makes 

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sound and stuff. 
Cool, dude, right? 

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You've met those people. 
Yeah, and then then, after they 

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get done, Their house, they 
poured the have the wet concrete

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and they all put their name in 
it and like 40 years later. 

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You can't even see what the name
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Like, who's that? 
I don't know. 

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It's the idiot who didn't put a 
light in the pantry, right? 

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It's like what's the what's the 
deal with this dude? 

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Right? 
Look, I just our every time we 

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get money. 
It has to go somewhere. 

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So we've been saving up to do a 
remodel on our house and then 

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the roof leaked. 
Okay, and I put really cool 

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shingles on my house because I 
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pretty sure. 
My neighbors would get upset if 

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I put a regular metal roof. 
So I found the metal roof, that 

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makes it look like real shingles
and I spent all of this money to

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fix my roof and nobody comes 
nobody. 

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Nobody has come by my house and 
like, those shingles look, 

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awesome. 
No, they don't even know Irish. 

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Gold my roof. 
They don't even care. 

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I try to tell him. 
And, you know, see though, you 

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know what, you're not going to 
believe this that thing that you

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can barely see right there, 
right there. 

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Look real carefully. 
You see that? 

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That's actually metal. 
They're not going up. 

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I'd like to accept Jesus. 
You're so tell me more 

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Copernicus, writing. 
They never not be. 

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There's like, okay, cool. 
Cool Flex, man, like well, I 

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didn't just do it there. 
I did it there too, but did the 

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whole roof? 
Frank. 

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You okay, cool, man, and I'm 
super pumped about the project 

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and nobody cares and whenever I 
sell that house. 

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There's going to be some guy 
going. 

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Yeah, some dude, put all this 
money in the middle on the roof 

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and his cabinets. 
Don't match. 

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What? 
Okay, it's good. 

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You've been there. 
Some of you, you're boiling your

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life down to how good your yard 
looks or how nice your living 

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room, enhances conversations, 
and we went with the vaulted 

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ceiling. 
So that way when people come in,

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you can hear the laughter 
reverberate through the drywall,

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but you're a mean person. 
So, nobody ever comes over to 

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your house and these say, It's 
not there. 

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I'll look what he says, 
Ecclesiastes 24/7 through 8. 

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I bought male and female slaves,
and had other slaves. 

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Who were born in my house. 
I owned more herds and flocks 

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than anyone in Jerusalem. 
Before me, I am as silver and 

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gold for myself, in the Treasure
of kings and provinces. 

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I acquired male and female 
singers and a harem as well, the

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Delights of a man's heart. 
Here he talks about power 

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possession and pleasure. 
He has employees for every task.

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He has a gardener and a pool boy
and a cup bear and a coffee 

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maker and a close picker router 
and a clothes iron. 

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ER, he has them all. 
And it's not there. 

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He has all the flocks and herds 
you could ever want one time, 

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when he dedicates the temple. 
He Slaughters, 22 thousand cows,

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120 thousand sheep and goats. 
That's just what he sacrificed 

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to God. 
That's not what he had in his 

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possession. 
As for his sound system. 

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He has the original surround 
sound. 

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He has people that are like his 
walking soundtrack. 

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And he's like, do the Bruno. 
Okay, and they're like, we don't

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talk about Bruce, don't know. 
And they're like, oh, that's 

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cool. 
Right. 

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That's all he has. 
He's living it up. 

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It's, you know, instead of 
Dolby. 

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It's Solomon surround sound, ask
for money. 

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He was making 2.7 million a day.
As for sex, 700 wives and 300 

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concubines. 
This is a man who has all the 

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money, all the toys, all the 
power and all the sex you could 

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ever want. 
And he comes to one conclusion 

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Church. 
Meaningless. 

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Look what it says. 
In Ecclesiastes verse 9. 

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I became greater by far than 
anyone in Jerusalem before me 

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and all of my and in all of 
this, my wisdom stayed with me. 

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I denied myself. 
Nothing my eyes desired. 

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I refused my heart. 
No pleasure. 

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My heart took Delight in all of 
my labor. 

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And this was the reward for all 
of my toil here. 

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We see position and power. 
He's the best, the greatest. 

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No One Compares them before, or 
Come after him. 

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He is the undisputable. 
Goat the greatest of all time. 

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No one could deny him. 
Absolute power. 

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He's out the Pinnacle. 
No one tells him. 

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No, nothing's Out Of Reach. 
Nothing costs too much. and he 

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says, It's meaningless. 
Jim Carrey. 

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Jim Carrey make this statement 
at a graduation ceremony where 

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he was the keynote speaker. 
I wish people could realize all 

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their dreams and wealth and fame
so they could see that. 

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It is not where you are going to
find your sense of completion. 

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Ecclesiastes 2 verse 11 yet. 
When I surveyed all that my 

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hands had done and what had I 
had toiled to achieve? 

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Everything was meaningless a 
chasing after the wind. 

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Nothing was gained other, the 
sun, after all, this all the 

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pleasure, all the possessions, 
all the power, all the position,

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all the projects. 
It's meaningless. 

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He's lived a selfish life, a 
life dedicated to himself, and 

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it did not satisfy. 
He drank deeply of all that the 

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world had to offer and yet he 
was still hungry and thirsty. 

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It never quenched. 
It never filled. 

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Verses 12 through 16. 
Then I turned my thoughts to 

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consider wisdom. 
And also Madness and Folly. 

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And what more can the king's 
successor do than what has 

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already been done? 
I saw that wisdom is better than

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Folly just as light is better 
than Darkness. 

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The wise Have Eyes in their 
heads, while the fool walks 

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around in the darkness, but I 
came to realize that the same 

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fate, overtakes them both. 
Then I said to myself, the fate 

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of the fool Will overtake me. 
Also, what then do I gain by 

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being wise? 
I said to myself this too, is, 

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if I help me out meaningless for
the wives, like, the full will 

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not be long remembered. 
The days have already come when 

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both have been. 
Gotten like the fool. 

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The wise too must die. 
Now he comes and realizes that 

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death, awaits us all. 
It comes for everyone, the wise 

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and the foolish. 
And if this life is all there, 

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is this life can't be it because
he has searched the Heights and 

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depths of it and found it 
meaningless. 

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And he keeps going like, man. 
I'm glad we came here. 

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We needed to pick me up, 
Clayton, appreciate this 17 

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through 19. 
So I hated life because the work

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that is done under the sun was 
Grievous to me. 

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All of it is meaningless a 
chasing after the wind. 

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I hated all the things I had 
toiled for under the sun because

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I must leave them to the one who
comes after me and who knows, 

452
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,600
whether that person will be wise
or foolish. 

453
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,700
Those of you who are older, who 
put a little bit of money, 

454
00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:11,700
aside. 
You're going man. 

455
00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:13,800
I worked my whole life for this 
and I'm going to turn it over to

456
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,700
the kid. 
He was wearing skinny jeans, and

457
00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:17,900
I don't know. 
I just don't. 

458
00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:21,700
He realizes that eventually 
everything he has is going to 

459
00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:25,000
belong to someone else. 
He realizes, he can't take it 

460
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,400
with him and those coming after 
him, they squander, what took 

461
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,000
his entire life of toil to set 
aside. 

462
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,300
Or they could take what was 
given to them, and they could 

463
00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:39,800
waste their entire lives. 
Trying to find meaning in it. 

464
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,200
He's depressed. 
And he keeps going. 

465
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,400
Yet, they will have control over
all the fruit of my toil into 

466
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,900
which I have poured, my effort 
and skill Under the Sun, this 

467
00:25:55,100 --> 00:26:00,600
too is meaningless. 
So my heart began to despair 

468
00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:06,100
over all my toilsome labor Under
the Sun for a person may labor 

469
00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:07,800
with wisdom, knowledge and 
skill. 

470
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,700
And then they must leave all by 
own to another who has not 

471
00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:14,800
toiled for it. 
This too is meaningless in a 

472
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,400
great misfortune. 
What do people get for all the 

473
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,000
toil and anxious striving with 
which they labor Under the Sun? 

474
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,500
All their days? 
Their work is grief and pain 

475
00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:30,400
even at night. 
Their minds, do not rest. 

476
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,500
This too is meaningless. 
He turns to your profession. 

477
00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:37,900
Because how did you get the big 
pile that you have that you're 

478
00:26:37,900 --> 00:26:40,300
going to leave to your kids? 
Oh, I remember how you got it. 

479
00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:43,800
You got it by giving all of your
days and all of your life to a 

480
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,800
job and you piled it high and 
you had your success but you you

481
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,400
got up early and you stayed up 
late but you neglected your 

482
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,100
health and your marriage and you
neglected your kids, you burnt 

483
00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:57,000
yourself out, you stretch 
yourself out, you run on empty, 

484
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,900
you fill yourself up through the
drive-thru window, only to find 

485
00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:01,800
yourself way down with grief and
pain. 

486
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,400
You can't even sleep because 
you've been striving for a 

487
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,300
profession. 
Does not satisfy. 

488
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,000
You hear people talk all the 
time about finding the job that 

489
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,400
they want that? 
They were meant for doesn't 

490
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,900
exist. 
You were meant for God. 

491
00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,600
That's what you were meant for. 
You remember that? 

492
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,800
You may enjoy what you do. 
Cool. 

493
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,200
Great. 
But if you're trying to find 

494
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,800
your meaning in that, not their 
man, look. 

495
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,800
What he says, something turns 
here A person can do nothing 

496
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,000
better than to eat and drink and
find satisfaction in their own 

497
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,100
toil this to, I see is from the 
hand of God for without him. 

498
00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:47,200
Who can eat or find enjoyment to
the person who pleases him. 

499
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,400
God gives wisdom, knowledge and 
happiness. 

500
00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:52,900
But to The Sinner, he Gives the 
task of gathering and storing up

501
00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:56,600
wealth to hand it. 
Over to the one who pleases God,

502
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:02,600
this too is meaningless a 
chasing after the wind here is 

503
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,200
where he gives us the answer. 
It is when you take the things 

504
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,300
of the lower story and you aim 
them at heaven, when you aim 

505
00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:14,000
them at the upper story, that is
where you find your meaning and 

506
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,700
purpose, it is when the things 
that God has given you here on 

507
00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:19,100
Earth are leveraged for 
eternity. 

508
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,900
It's when you eat and drink with
friends, to share the good news 

509
00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:25,800
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
That's when you invite people 

510
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,200
over, and you have something to 
drink to put a cheers together 

511
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,000
for God and His favor over your 
life, his protection, and his 

512
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,500
provision. 
It's when you take your position

513
00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:39,400
and you leverage it to point 
people, to Jesus at work. 

514
00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:43,500
It's when you come become, the 
boss that prays for his 

515
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:46,800
employees and hopes that one 
day, you get to join them in the

516
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,000
baptistry and baptize your 
employees. 

517
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,100
Your job isn't to employees. 
Many people in possible and to 

518
00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:55,800
grow as big as possible, but you
see yourself as a Bosco and I'm 

519
00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,800
so glad I get the opportunity to
employ people and treat them 

520
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,900
well, so that way I can point 
them to Jesus who made it all 

521
00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:04,000
possible. 
It's when you build your house 

522
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,000
with the hope of entertaining, 
The Young and the orphan, The 

523
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,200
Refuge, and the distraught and 
the questioning, and you go, we 

524
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,200
have more rooms in our house 
than we have people on. 

525
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,800
Wonder, if there's people who 
need a room and you start 

526
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,200
bringing people in and loving 
them and showing them the ways 

527
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,900
of Christ. 
It's when you were getting ready

528
00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:24,000
for the summer. 
It's when you turn your camper 

529
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
or your lake house into an 
opportunity to be a Ministry 

530
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,500
Retreat or to invest in a young 
couple who are trying to figure 

531
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:32,800
out how to navigate the 
challenges of marriage. 

532
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,100
It's, when you take your 
possessions and you turn them 

533
00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:38,200
over and try and make them a 
gift to the kingdom of God, to 

534
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,300
be leveraged to bring people 
into the kingdom of God. 

535
00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:44,900
It's when you decide to see your
work as an opportunity to show 

536
00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:48,300
off how good God is when you 
want to be the very best 

537
00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:49,800
employee. 
So that way your boss is 

538
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,500
scratching your head in. 
Why do you show up early? 

539
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,100
Why do you stay late? 
And why do you work harder than 

540
00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:57,300
everybody else? 
And you, you look at your boss 

541
00:29:57,300 --> 00:29:59,500
and you go, it's because I'm not
working for you. 

542
00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:04,100
Because the Bible tells me to do
it all as if I was doing it 

543
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:06,900
under God. 
When you become that kind of 

544
00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:08,300
person, that's where it finds. 
Meaning. 

545
00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:11,500
I'm doing this job to point 
people to Jesus. 

546
00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:16,200
Now, how do I wrap this all up? 
I'm huge. 

547
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:18,600
I'm ginormous. 
I can't even. 

548
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,000
For those of you to other 
locations. 

549
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,500
It's hard. 
I'm just a big old dude. 

550
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,900
And I cannot I cannot I cannot I
cannot find clothes that fit me.

551
00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:29,900
It is one of the most impossible
things on planet Earth and it's 

552
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:32,200
incredibly frustrating because I
want to look nice when I go 

553
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,300
places and all the clothes that 
I end up buying just are from p 

554
00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:40,600
and so my wife put me on Stitch 
fix and for the longest time, we

555
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,500
were able to get a whole bunch 
of outfits that kind of made me 

556
00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:44,400
look decent when I stand in 
front of you because I get 

557
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,400
insecure. 
And the problem is they're 

558
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,600
really good at finding me pants 
and sweaters. 

559
00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:53,100
And if you remember, last year, 
I preached through the summer in

560
00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:57,100
sweaters and when you're my 
size, that's a lot of sweat. 

561
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,400
Okay, I'm getting dehydrated. 
Can't get enough in my system. 

562
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,500
And here's the thing. 
Everybody. 

563
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:04,800
I meet says, oh, you should try 
this store. 

564
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,100
No, man. 
It doesn't have it. 

565
00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:09,100
It just doesn't and you all use 
your try. 

566
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:11,900
This one doesn't have it like 
seven years ago. 

567
00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:14,600
We went to Vegas and everybody's
like, oh, we're going to go 

568
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,400
shopping. 
Popping. 

569
00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:18,200
I bought a cigar and just sat 
outside because there's like, 

570
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,400
nothing. 
I'm I talk to people on the 

571
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,200
street about Jesus and watch The
Magicians and, you know, tried 

572
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,000
to sing a couple Tunes with the 
street guys, but there ain't 

573
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,300
nothing in there. 
And people will convince me. 

574
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:32,800
You've got to come in here. 
They'll have stuff in your size.

575
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,200
I walk in, go to, it takes me 
about two seconds noop. 

576
00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:39,900
And then they'll say this, as if
I've never heard this before, 

577
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,200
have you ever tried a big and 
tall store? 

578
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,900
The thought, never crossed my 
mind here? 

579
00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:47,500
I am big and tall my whole life 
and I never even thought to 

580
00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:48,800
Google it. 
Not once. 

581
00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:52,500
Yeah, I've been to all of them. 
All of those stores are big, not

582
00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:54,600
tall. 
I mean, I could put a couple 

583
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,700
poles and a family of five could
sleep in whatever shirt they 

584
00:31:57,700 --> 00:31:59,400
want to give me. 
That's it. 

585
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:04,700
Okay, and it's like, incredibly 
frustrating because I want to 

586
00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:07,600
look nice. 
I don't want to look frumpy and 

587
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,700
I get so tired of preaching and 
sweaters in the summer. 

588
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,900
This past weekend. 
We went somewhere. 

589
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,600
And guess what? 
Everybody on the, on the, on the

590
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,500
trip wanted to do. 
They wanted to shop? 

591
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,400
Okay, so I'm like, alright, 
where am I sitting? 

592
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,300
And they're like, would you just
try this one store? 

593
00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:37,900
Would you just give it a shot? 
Lecture, so I walk in, I go all 

594
00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:42,400
along this, the left side. 
Jenny. 

595
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,800
No. 
Jenny house. 

596
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,200
All right. 
Well, we tried. 

597
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,000
And then my wife said this, they
have a big and tall section. 

598
00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:59,100
Okay, I heard that before. 
We go in there and I try on a 

599
00:32:59,108 --> 00:33:04,900
shirt. 
And holla at your boy, if it 

600
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:09,300
didn't fit like a glove. 
As I'm demonstrating right now. 

601
00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:12,500
Okay. 
Yeah, praise the Lord. 

602
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,500
Yeah. 
This shirt is so stinking comfy.

603
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:22,300
It's like made with Angel Souls.
It is, you know, I'm telling 

604
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:27,100
you, I'm on point right now. 
I go into the, I go into the 

605
00:33:27,108 --> 00:33:30,400
changing room and my wife just 
starts bringing me more and 

606
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,400
more, and every one I put on. 
Unlike. 

607
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:44,100
Yeah, I think we should. 
And the running a sale 25% off, 

608
00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:48,000
you know, that means every 
fourth shirts foot for free. 

609
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,500
So I stack a bag and I walk out 
and I I'm like, all right. 

610
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:55,800
I got I got four shirts. 
I feel I feel great. 

611
00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:57,400
I'm not going to sweat all 
summer. 

612
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,800
And I'm standing up and I'm just
like me. 

613
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,400
And that was just fantastic. 
I just This is amazing. 

614
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:10,199
My wife skills. 
Do you think we should go back 

615
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:11,699
in there and get the rest of the
shirts? 

616
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,800
So, I went back in. 
And I go to the back and Felicia

617
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,699
bees there. 
There's to Felicia's Felicia be,

618
00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:22,600
was there. 
You can be, hopefully she's 

619
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,199
watching this weekend because 
she's coming to Women's 

620
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:25,600
Conference. 
And so is the lady who the other

621
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,699
lady, who checked us out because
I'm not going to tell you how 

622
00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,300
long that receipt while I was a 
kid. 

623
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:32,000
You not. 
I bought every shirt they had. 

624
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,500
Their that was my size. 
I had people, I had people 

625
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,300
voting. 
I took the little folding table 

626
00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:39,300
that had the wheelie chair and I
put all the shirts that were my 

627
00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:41,600
size and I was like, okay, let's
do a quick vote. 

628
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,600
Only the unanimous ones are 
getting into the pile and I 

629
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,900
stacked it. 
I then I went to the front and 

630
00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:48,600
then I Clayton. 
Do you know, you could get an 

631
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,699
extra 15% off? 
And I said, how do I do that? 

632
00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:52,600
Sign up for the text. 
Message thing is like, well, I 

633
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,699
already paid only 25% off on 
these shirts. 

634
00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:56,300
The first time around, like, 
well, you have to return all 

635
00:34:56,308 --> 00:34:58,200
those. 
So I returned all of the shirts.

636
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,300
I had purchased for 25% and then
I purchased all of them for 40% 

637
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:04,800
off and I walked out with two 
bags, which listen to me in the 

638
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,700
history of my life. 
I have never had two bags of 

639
00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:10,600
clothes that fit me. 
Why is this simple matter to 

640
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,500
you? 
This is the closest thing that I

641
00:35:13,508 --> 00:35:16,500
can tell you about what it is. 
Like when you finally experience

642
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:20,200
Jesus, I'ma tell you why. 
Track with me. 

643
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,600
You have searched in place after
place after place after place. 

644
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,300
And everybody has told you that 
it's in pleasure and everybody's

645
00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:29,700
told you it's in projects and 
everybody's told you that if you

646
00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:31,900
finally get your house that you 
want, you'll finally be happy. 

647
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,100
And everybody's told you that if
you have the right kind of dog, 

648
00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:35,600
you'll be happy. 
And if you have the right kind 

649
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,400
of house, you'll be happy. 
And if you have the right kind 

650
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,700
of cars, you'll be happy. 
And then if you have more cars 

651
00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:41,500
in the cars that you can 
possibly drive, if you finally 

652
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:44,200
have For cars, but you only have
two drivers then you'll be 

653
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:45,300
happy. 
And they've told you that if you

654
00:35:45,308 --> 00:35:47,000
get different kind of carpet, 
you'll in your house. 

655
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:48,900
You'll finally be happy. 
And they told you that, if you 

656
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:50,500
repaint the walls, you'll 
finally be happy. 

657
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:52,800
And if you make those friends 
and you belong to those clubs 

658
00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:54,900
and you have this kind of job 
and you make this kind of money,

659
00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:57,100
and you have these kind of 
benefits, you've been told over 

660
00:35:57,100 --> 00:35:59,900
and over and over again. 
By people, if you just have 

661
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:03,900
this, then you'll be happy. 
And one day someone says 

662
00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:05,400
something you like. 
Hey, man, have you ever heard 

663
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,900
about Jesus? 
And you like man? 

664
00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:11,200
I've tried everything and I'm 
not going to find it there 

665
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,900
either and they go all. 
But would you would you come in 

666
00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:17,700
for a little bit when you give 
Jesus just a chance and you find

667
00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:20,300
yourself in an unassuming town, 
at one of our unassuming 

668
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:23,400
campuses, and someone talks to 
you about a person named Jesus 

669
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,700
and you try it. 
Jesus on a little bit in your 

670
00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:29,000
like, hold on a second. 
It fits. 

671
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,400
And man, does it feel good? 
And they're like, well, there's 

672
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,300
not just there's not just 
forgiveness. 

673
00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:39,300
There's mercy and you're like, 
oh my goodness, Mercy feels good

674
00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:40,600
too. 
And you're like, oh hold on a 

675
00:36:40,607 --> 00:36:41,800
second. 
There's not just forgiveness and

676
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,600
mercy, there's Grace. 
The you like hold on a second. 

677
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,600
There's not just mercy and 
forgiveness and Grace. 

678
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,700
There's also love you like. 
Oh my goodness. 

679
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:54,600
I can't believe I finally found 
it and you go up to the register

680
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,000
and you go to pay and you're 
like, well, it's actually 

681
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,700
already been paid. 
And you're like, oh my goodness 

682
00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:04,700
in you and you walk out of the 
store and you're going, I can't 

683
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:06,600
believe that all of this was in 
there. 

684
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,700
I never would have guessed. 
And then somebody looks at you 

685
00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:14,600
and he says, do you think you 
should go back in? 

686
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000
And so you go, you go back in 
and you, you go to the place in 

687
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,300
your hold on a second. 
There's, there's meaning and 

688
00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:27,400
their significance. 
And there's purpose, and there's

689
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,000
Mission. 
All of this is there. 

690
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,100
And it's, it's for me and it 
fits and I can have it and you 

691
00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:38,400
go up to the register. 
Your like, I was in here earlier

692
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,400
and it was I know the price was,
I couldn't believe it, but I 

693
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,500
picked up some additional items 
and they're like, actually these

694
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:50,700
items are on sale, too. 
If you, and I could stop chasing

695
00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:52,800
all the things that this world 
has to offer. 

696
00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:58,000
And finally chased Jesus. 
I am fully convinced that all 

697
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,300
the question marks in your soul,
will turn into exclamation 

698
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,600
marks. 
We're moving to a time of 

699
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:14,100
decision. 
For those of you in this room 

700
00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:15,900
and watching online. 
I'll be quick because I went 

701
00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:22,000
long and I apologize. 
I am ate up with the person and 

702
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,000
work of Jesus Christ. 
And that is the mission of this 

703
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,800
church is to help people find an
intimate personal relationship 

704
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,700
with Jesus Christ. 
And there's some of you in this 

705
00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:33,700
room or some of you watching 
online. 

706
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,900
You have watched everybody else.
Walk out of the store lit up and

707
00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:39,500
excited about what they have 
found in Jesus. 

708
00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:42,600
And you just keep peeking 
through the window. 

709
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,700
Go man, it'd be nice if I could 
and boy. 

710
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:49,300
It looks like they're super 
happy, but I don't know if they 

711
00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:52,900
have my size. 
I'm telling you, man. 

712
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:57,000
They have it. 
Jesus has the answer for all 

713
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,300
shapes, and all sizes, and all 
colors, and all backgrounds and 

714
00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:06,000
all economic statuses. 
He has, what every single person

715
00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:08,600
is looking, but you are never 
going to experience. 

716
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,100
What Christ has to offer by 
looking at them. 

717
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,700
It's only when you place your 
trust in him, when you receive 

718
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:18,600
the work that he did for you on 
the cross. 

719
00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:23,000
And we here at the Crossing, the
way you start to experience that

720
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,300
relationship with Jesus Christ, 
as when you recognize that God 

721
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:29,400
is God, and you're not that 
you've sinned and you can't 

722
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,800
figure it out on your own. 
You can't pay it back on your 

723
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,300
own. 
There's a debt that you can't 

724
00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:36,000
handle and you recognize that 
when Jesus came, he lived a 

725
00:39:36,008 --> 00:39:39,800
perfect and sinless life on your
behalf in the he died on the 

726
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,900
cross on your behalf to Searches
for, you, freedom, and 

727
00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:47,700
Redemption, and Eternity. 
That the lower story is not your

728
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:51,800
destiny, that there is something
more coming later and you go, 

729
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,000
you know what, I want that. 
And the way you receive that is 

730
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,500
when you become obedient than 
the area of baptism and you 

731
00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:00,200
allow yourself to model what 
Jesus Christ did on the cross. 

732
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,200
You allow yourself to be buried 
and brought back to life in the 

733
00:40:03,207 --> 00:40:05,500
Bible, says, in second 
Corinthians 5:17. 

734
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,300
Anyone who is in Christ, is a 
new creation. 

735
00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:11,700
The old has gone. 
The new has come and some of 

736
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:13,200
you. 
Have been watching everybody 

737
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,900
else step into the newness and 
going. 

738
00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:17,200
Well. 
I'm not ready yet. 

739
00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:21,000
It's like you're wearing burlap 
and just going man. 

740
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,900
I just wish this wasn't so 
scratchy and everybody around. 

741
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:27,300
You is like will then take it 
off. 

742
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,100
Like you are walking in your own
pain, in your own misery for 

743
00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:37,500
your and it's your own choice. 
You could experience the healing

744
00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:42,000
power of Jesus if you want it. 
And if there's some of you in 

745
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,400
here today to have that 
question, you're in that spot. 

746
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,600
There's any people over by the 
Baptist who love to just talk 

747
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,700
with you. 
Just have the conversation for 

748
00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:52,200
the rest of you already have a 
relationship with Jesus Christ. 

749
00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,500
When are we going to become a 
brand ambassadors? 

750
00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:58,200
We're going look where I mean. 
Listen me there. 

751
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,300
I'm going to get tons of emails 
this week, Molly's here. 

752
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:02,200
She'll handle him. 
I'll tell you exactly where I 

753
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,800
got them because they're fly. 
I'm going to be wearing one 

754
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,100
every week. 
When you see me, I'm gonna be 

755
00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:10,300
like the most beautiful 
plus-size model the world has 

756
00:41:10,300 --> 00:41:14,100
ever seen. 
When you find it and it means 

757
00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:16,900
something to you, you can't help
but become a brand ambassador. 

758
00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:21,700
And if there's if there's 
nothing in you that swelling up 

759
00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:24,600
and gratitude towards God, where
you would talk about them, the 

760
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,900
problems not with him. 
The problem is probably with us.

761
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,900
And we spend just a little bit 
of time on our knees. 

762
00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:34,800
Just saying, God, help me to get
that passion back for me to get 

763
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:35,500
that. 
Right. 

764
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,400
Would you stand with me? 
God used this moment right here,

765
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,000
right now to do a transforming 
work in this church. 

766
00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:45,800
Got I know that all across this 
region campus pastors are 

767
00:41:45,808 --> 00:41:49,200
landing the plane right now and 
I pray that people at all of our

768
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,400
locations including this one 
would be willing to take a step 

769
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,600
of faith. 
Maybe it's getting down on their

770
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,900
knees and praying or going over 
and talk to somebody about 

771
00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:59,700
baptism, but God were believing 
in asking and begging. 

772
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,200
Being you to do a work in us, 
not in the people around us not 

773
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:08,400
in our row, but in us us first 
your name, I pray. 

774
00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:09,300
Amen.