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Hello Crossing Church. 
How are you doing today? 

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You do not ride. 
Aha, I don't know how you can't 

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be. 
That was 30, baptisms. 

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You know, we just watched 30 
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Just, I guess it's amazing. 
You know what? 

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We call that at the Crossing, we
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and there's so many things that 
are going on in this world that 

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can be. 
So discouraging depressing can 

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create disillusionment, it's 
good to know that God never 

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stops working. 
That he's working in the hearts 

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and the Lives of people and that
visits a visual reminder of 

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that. 
That's not just an individual. 

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That's being changed. 
That's a family that's 

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generation after generation. 
I mean, there's incredible 

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things that God is doing. 
We sing that song, even if I 

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don't see it, you're working. 
If I don't feel it, your work, 

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you never stopped working and he
never does stop working. 

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I'm so thankful that we have 
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that truth. 
I want to welcome all of the 

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campuses that are joining With 
us today from all over this 

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region if your Insider online. 
So thankful for each and every 

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one of you as well. 
We're in this series, called 

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weeds in my garden, talking 
about this issue of mental 

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health, that we're all dealing 
with and how that relates to 

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God's word, what God has to say 
about it and how we walk that 

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out. 
Spiritually, would you agree 

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with me? 
That it seems like every 

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generation has a rougher time 
than the Duration proceeding it.

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It just seems like the problems 
they get just more pronounced, 

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they get more Vivid strong and 
harder to to manage. 

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And as a church, we really want 
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We want to, you know, we see 
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to reach out to that. 
I noticed that at camp, this, 

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this last year. 
I mean, we had an incredible 

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Camp, largest amount of students
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We were full With our camp for 
virtually every week and all the

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rest of the camp weeks were 
taken up by other churches using

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our camp. 
So lots of business done for the

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Lord, all this summer, but there
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that camp that really kind of 
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One of our camps is called fuse 
camp and that's Middle School. 

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Junior high. 
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all these kids that we have 
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and having a full Camp. 
The the kids that would come to 

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Camp would probably the most 
connected, the most plugged in, 

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right? 
Half 50% of the kids that went 

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to fuse Camp. 
Attend church less than six 

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times in a year. 
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Which means their parents 
probably aren't attending 

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either, and I'll tell you why. 
That's a big deal to me. 

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It's a big deal because if 
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their spiritual nourishment, if 
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about who they are in Christ and
and how they can develop 

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spiritually, and they're getting
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that. 
How are they going to manage in 

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this world that just keeps 
spiraling culturally? 

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How are they going to have the 
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That they need and of course, 
I'm looking at that going how as

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a church. 
Are we able to substantially 

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help them in that process 
especially if we have so little 

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exposure to them? 
Early this year, Allison. 

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I had the opportunity to go 
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He's a pastor of a church in 
Post Falls Idaho, right across 

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the border from Spokane. 
Washington, his name's Jim 

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Putman, his wife's Lori Putman 
and we were doing some 

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Consulting for them. 
Like secret shoppers was 

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actually a lot of fun going to 
their different locations and 

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then talking about all the 
things that we saw whether they 

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were good or bad and to try to 
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It was great to connect with 
them and when we're in the car 

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together, you know, you're going
to be talking about things that 

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pertain to Ministry, one of my 
questions to him was like, what 

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it was, one of the best sermon 
series that you've done in the 

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recent past that you feel like 
really just got a lot of 

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traction. 
And he told me about a series 

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that they were doing, they had 
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And it was a it had it had to do
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Wow that's like preaching on 
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He said well in our community 
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School of Public School 
administrators committed 

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suicide, not too long ago. 
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captain of the football team, 
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And it just it just rocked the 
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there was an epidemic they were 
realizing it's just epidemic of 

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people. 
That are doing this, they're 

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committed. 
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they're doing it. 
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on these statistics where they 
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the schools to do counseling. 
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did some research and this 
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lot of things. 
There were 400 kids in that 

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public school. 
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to, and they thought that there 
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go We get permission to tell 
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Half of the student population. 
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we're planning a mental health 
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Anyway, I really felt like this 
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because, you know, that's not 
something that's just happening 

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in northern Idaho. 
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country, we're all experiencing 
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And it may, you may have 
experienced that with people 

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that, you know, that you love 
that, you care for and it spins 

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you out, like, what in the world
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His teaching focused on three 
lies that Satan surrounds us 

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with it, encourages us to 
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and irreplaceable. 
That series was about 

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dispelling, those lies and where
he got. 

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Those was from people that he 
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had talked to that had 
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suicide and then others, who 
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what they left in their suicide 
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So this week, I'm going to talk 
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the next three weeks. 
We're going to talk about these 

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three lives and we're going to 
dispel this, because because 

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it's amazing how much we might 
believe these lies first one. 

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The first why we tend to believe
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My life is meaningless. 
It doesn't really matter. 

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It's worthless. 
I really won't be missed. 

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So what's the point? 
Many of you have had that 

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thought in your head. 
Some of you actually have that 

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thought in her head right now, 
So the question is, where does 

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that lie come from? 
I'm going to show that. 

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It's a lie, where does it come 
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What's contributing to it? 
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In the late 1990s as a result of
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I mean we all kind of remember 
Columbine and and then it start.

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I mean, it's becoming more and 
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You're hearing Dartmouth medical
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the prestigious college did a 
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called hard-wired to connect. 
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done by Children's doctors by 
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health professionals and youth 
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And this was the opening 
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What is the crisis? 
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The first part is the 
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mental, health of us children. 
We are witnessing high and 

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Rising rates of depression 
anxiety, attention deficit 

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conduct disorders. 
Thoughts of suicide and other 

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serious, mental, emotional and 
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Children and adolescents Listen 
to how the report concludes 

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because you won't believe it. 
The report concludes that the 

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main cause of the crisis in 
American Childhood and 

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Adolescence is a lack of 
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IE close connections to other 
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This is the part that blows me 
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spiritual meaning. 
This was Dartmouth. 

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It's not a Christian School, you
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It wasn't written by Christians 
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realized that moral and and 
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critical. 
To your emotional well-being. 

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Underneath this fact is that 
there are destroyers of those 

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critical Connections in our 
culture today, right? 

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Things that just wipe us out 
like divorce, like the busyness 

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of our schedules, like, the 
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like people having a lack of 
honesty, in their relationships,

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like, people moving because they
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they're disconnecting from their
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they're close friends, Is and so
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lifelong connections that are so
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Listen you and I We were wired 
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God made us that way. 
We're wired for Intimate 

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Relationships, but because many 
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not intimate anymore. 
It is producing a lot of anxiety

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and depression, between 2007, 
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The number of those suffering 
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tripled, and teens, The Journal 
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Association stated this. 
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In each generation of the 20th 
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likely to experience depression 
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generation. 
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that depression can be passed on
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contributes to these increasing 
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contribute to this. 
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can't shut our brains off. 
You get in a room with seven 

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people just sitting down with 
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A tan, your net airport, and 
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any? 
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Everybody's on their phone. 
Everybody is on their phone, and

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you know what's happening? 
They cannot disconnect, can't do

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it. 
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whether its media, whether it's 
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gaming, whatever it is, and they
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West Beavis is going to be 
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Psychiatrists psychologists 
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overworked of the stimulation of
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Those hormonal areas that 
provide Is serotonin and 

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dopamine, and they overworked Us
in those areas until they burn 

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out their ability to produce it.
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God created you to produce those
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they contribute to feelings of 
peace and joy which you all need

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and I need Now you already know 
that I'm standing up here and 

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I'm not going to be focusing on 
all that stuff. 

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I'm going to be focusing on a 
spiritual problem. 

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But I want to be really clear 
about this before. 

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I do that, anxiety, depression 
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illnesses are real. 
They are real and we have to get

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over the stigma. 
That hey, just suck it up 

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buttercup. 
We got to get over the stigma 

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of, you know, that's not really 
like you should just be able to 

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manage that. 
Look, if you came to me and I, 

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you know, and while we're 
talking you had a little, you 

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know, a little beeper, go off 
and I'm watching you inject 

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yourself with some insulin 
because you're diabetic, would 

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you think I would say hey you 
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Just pray about it. 
You just need to pray about it. 

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And this is just as real as 
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And I want to say one other 
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God uses doctors. 
He uses doctors. 

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He's the one who's empowered, 
doctors to know, what they need 

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to know to prescribe what they 
need to prescribe to help you. 

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So you need to embrace that. 
That's a gift of God and we need

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to get over this stigma, okay? 
Use the tools that are that are 

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available for you, but there is 
a big piece being left out and 

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we have to consider it even 
focus on it. 

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And that's what I want to do 
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And I'm Begin with the Apostle, 
Paul's words in Ephesians 

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chapter 6, starting in verse 10.
He said this finally be strong 

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in the Lord and in his mighty 
power, put on the full armor of 

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God, so that you can take your 
stand against say this with me 

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the devil's schemes. 
For our struggle is not against 

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flesh and blood. 
This is not a human battle, but 

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against rulers against the 
authorities, against the powers 

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of this dark world and against 
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the Heavenly or spiritual Realms
that's scary. 

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I mean, is he just trying to 
scare us? 

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Is he trying to tell us some 
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something? 
No, Satan is real. 

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The Bible is very clear, Satan 
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and whether or not you want to 
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in that battle. 
Let me tell you something about 

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it. 
You're fighting against an 

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enemy. 
You can't see. 

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And he is a lot stronger than 
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than you. 
Jesus spoke about it. 

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Do you believe him? 
Do you trust? 

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Jesus. 
John 8:44. 

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He says this, you belong to your
father, the devil and you want 

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to carry out your father's 
desires. 

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He's speaking to those people 
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He was a murderer from the 
beginning. 

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Not holding to the truth for. 
There's no truth in him. 

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When he lies, he speaks his 
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liar and the father of Lies. 
What does Jesus teach us? 

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The devil is a liar, and he's a 
killer and he will try to take 

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your life. 
He'll try to take it all at once

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or he'll try to take it a piece 
at a time. 

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How does he do it? 
You know, how he does it? 

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I don't need to preach this to 
you already know Satan creates a

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culture, he creates a culture of
darkness and he creates a 

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culture of death, and he doesn't
with lies a culture of darkness 

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and death with lies, he partners
with our culture. 

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I mean, we live in this culture,
right? 

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He partners with our culture and
that's where this lie comes 

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from. 
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angles and I don't have time to 
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I'll hit a few of them. 
Okay, here's one. 

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Education. 
Academics science. 

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At least certain kinds of 
science. 

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Every one of you, all of you at 
my location. 

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If you went to public school, 
you were taught that you are the

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product of evolution, right? 
Right? 

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You have been taught that the 
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years old. 
You're taught about natural 

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selection, survival of the 
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Darwinism. 
You're taught about all this, 

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right? 
Ultimately, if you want to boil 

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all that down and see what's at 
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you're done, boiling it. 
All out, it's this, the LIE is 

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you are a product of randomness.
You're a coincidence. 

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The reason that you exist is 
that just certain things came 

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together over a long period of 
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Basically, you're an accident. 
You're not special, you're not 

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important. 
And when you think about the 

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vastness of the universe, you're
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insignificant. 
Because there's no such thing in

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that world, that academic world,
or that Science World about a 

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spiritual realm. 
Then, it's just silly to think 

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that there's actually an enemy 
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Can you think of a better way to
Ambush us then for a whole bunch

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of people to believe that he 
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Just think about what he's able 
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So, when you're dealing with 
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what you hear. 
I know what you hear. 

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I hear it too. 
That's just your own voice in 

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your head. 
Listen, there's nothing after 

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you die. 
You just die. 

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Listen, you're in pain so just 
end your pain. 

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It won't matter because you 
don't matter. 

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He lies to us. 
Those are the lies we're 

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hearing. 
I mean, how can we do that? 

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If we're not hearing that, and 
if we don't have something 

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that's going on in our lives 
reinforcing that he lies to us 

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about who we are. 
He lies about the consequences 

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of our Behavior. 
He says. 

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There are no such, there's no 
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You know what? 
Laws of morality is it's just 

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what everybody gets together and
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right and wrong. 
There's no absolute right and 

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wrong. 
If you want to be happy, you do 

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you If you want happiness in 
your life, make that happiness 

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yourself, do whatever you need 
to do, to get that happiness 

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yourself, right? 
It's okay. 

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It's okay to step on others 
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right and wrong. 
It's all about making you feel 

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better. 
If you want to be a bully, go 

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ahead and be a bully. 
Go ahead, write that post, get 

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your likes. 
If I want to have sex with 

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somebody else, if that makes me 
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If I get pregnant or cause a 
pregnancy, we can just abort it.

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That little babies in the way of
my happiness. 

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My future and my happiness is 
more important. 

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Look just don't call it a baby. 
Call it a fetus, it's easier. 

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He lies about the nature of Who 
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People are just animals. 
We're just animals. 

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We're part of the whole Animal 
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We're a little smarter than they
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little bit more, but we're just 
animals, dude, we kill animals. 

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Anybody been to of McDonald's 
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You're eating an animal. 
You ever go to Arby's? 

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They got the meats where you 
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What's the difference? 
Satan says. that person's skin 

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color means, he's inferior to 
you, lie, that person at the 

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borders, wrecking, our economy, 
Me happiness, those older people

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are destroying so security. 
Why don't we have euthanasia? 

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And on, and on, and on it goes, 
listen to me, we live in a 

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culture of darkness and death. 
Filled with lies. 

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Now, right now, I'd like to have
like a bottle of mouthwash and 

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like the like little and true 
because that's all that is. 

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That is not you. 
That is not who you are, but we 

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believe these lies. 
And the mist of all of that. 

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Now, I'm glad you stayed with 
me. 

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In the midst of all that God, 
creates a culture of light and 

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life and Truth. 
Would you just for a moment? 

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Let God tell you the true nature
of who you are. 

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Would you do that? 
You know, how far you have to go

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in the Bible to find this out 
first page? 

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You can find it out in the very 
first page. 

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Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 and 
27. 

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This is who you are. then God 
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this with me in our image. 
Basically that's saying let us 

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make mankind like us. 
Like us. 

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In our likeness. 
We what does that mean? 

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Means we look like him. 
Set right, my right. 

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Not wrong. 
So that they may see this word. 

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Do you know that only God 
Sovereign God has an 

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indisputable right to rule? 
Only God, has the right to rule 

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and he rules over the whole 
universe, right? 

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And you know how he made us, he 
made us to do this because we 

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are Made In His Image. 
In in his likeness we reflect 

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him. 
Wow, let them rule over the fish

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of the sea, the birds of the 
sky, over the livestock, the 

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wild animals, over all the 
creatures, that move along the 

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ground, so God created Mankind 
in his own image in the image of

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God. 
He created the me says a three 

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times. 
He wants you to know that. 

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I mean is it once enough? 
No, I'm going to say three times

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in two verses. 
Male and female. 

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He created them. 
This world is not an accident. 

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It was designed intelligently by
someone, you can't. 

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And I can't fathom can't even 
begin to understand. 

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You are not an accident. 
This world is not an accident, 

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you're not an accident. 
As a matter of fact, you're 

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special Very, very special. 
You have a quality in you 

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because you were made in the 
image of God that will Outlast. 

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This world, there is an eternal 
quality to you because you were 

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made to be like him. 
Now, these three words, I just 

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hope that they resonate with you
today. 

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And it's this, you are known. 
He knows you. 

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Go. 
God knows everything. 

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Okay, believe in a God, God 
knows everything. 

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God knows me. 
Oh no! 

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Your you don't get you don't get
that word. 

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You don't get that word known. 
Let David the king explain it to

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you. 
In Psalm 139 You have searched 

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me. 
Lord and, you know, me. you 

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know, when I sit and when I 
Rise, he knows when you get a 

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snack when you're watching TV, 
He knows you perceive my 

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thoughts from afar. 
He knows what you're thinking 

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right now. 
Keeps track of what you're 

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thinking. 
You discern my going out and my 

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lying down for those of us that 
are older. 

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Yes is keep up with us it night 
right? 

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We're gettin up and never mind 
anyway. 

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You're familiar with all my 
ways. 

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He knows all your ways. before a
word is on my tongue, you Lord 

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know it completely Does this 
sound like a distant? 

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God does this sound like a god 
who's really not that 

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interested? 
You hit me in behind and before 

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you lay your hand upon me. 
Such knowledge is too wonderful 

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for me to lofty. 
For me to attain God made you 

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and he made you uniquely, 
there's no one like you, there's

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no one even remotely. 
Like you, you are a masterpiece 

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of God, he signs his work. 
And if you don't believe me, 

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look at the verses 13 to 16 in 
that same chapter. 

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Or it says for you created my 
inmost being you knit me 

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together in my mother's womb, I 
praise you because I'm fearfully

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and wonderfully, made your 
works, are wonderful. 

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I know that full well my frame 
was not hidden from you when I 

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was made in the secret place. 
When I was woven together in the

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depths of the earth, your eyes 
saw my unformed body. 

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All the days ordained for me 
were written in your book before

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one of them came. 
Aim to be. 

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Wow. 
Some of you got Mom issues and 

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dad issues and you know what 
your biological mother and 

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father participated in your 
birth, but it was God who 

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created you. 
It was God, who created you? 

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And you need to understand that,
because no matter what anyone 

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else says about you, you are 
valuable to him. 

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And his opinion is the opinion 
that matters most. 

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He made you beautiful and he 
made you precious and if you 

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doubt that for a minute answer 
me this why would he give up his

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only son to die for you if he 
didn't consider you precious and

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when they nailed Jesus to that 
cross as those Nails pierced his

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flesh and held him to that would
he was saying hey I love you 

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like this much. 
That is how valuable you are to 

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him. 
You're known. 

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God tells you the true reality 
of your behavior because we all 

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have Behavior, right? 
And let me just tell you this 

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sin is real and you've done a 
lot of it. 

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And so have I, we're all 
Sinners. 

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It's in. 
You don't give me any excuses. 

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You can blame God if you want, 
but you and I were the product 

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of our sinful Nature's and the 
product of all the sinful 

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Nature's of all the choices of 
all the people around us in our 

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Culture that they made for us, 
these choices they made for us, 

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right? 
Because this is a sinful Dark 

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World filled with lies. 
From the Devil Himself. 

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And if you wonder you know well 
if I made in the image of God, 

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why do I find it so easy to run 
into darkness? 

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Well, that's why. 
It's because of that nature 

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inside of us. 
And the people around us. 

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But beneath all that you're 
more, you're so much more and 

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God God beneath all that. 
When he sent Jesus, to come here

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to this earth and died on the 
cross and shed his blood to 

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cleanse, you from your sin to 
rise from the dead to prove that

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he has the ability to raise you 
from the dead. 

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Before Jesus was born 700 years.
Before Jesus was born, Isaiah 

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wrote this in the Old Testament.
He said the people walking in 

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darkness have seen a great 
light. 

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And those living in the land of 
deep Darkness, a light has 

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dawned, John recorded it in John
15. 

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And 112. 
He said this the light shines in

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the darkness and the Darkness 
has not overcome it. 

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He says in 12 yet, all who did 
receive him, because Jesus is 

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that light to those who believed
in his name, he gave the right 

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to be called the children of 
God. 

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Remember God wasn't creating 
when he made you, he was 

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procreating. 
Because You're Made In His 

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Image. 
Jesus died for you. 

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He died for you because he loves
you. 

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It's as simple as that. 
It's not rocket science. 

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And even though we're Sinners, 
Jesus can make us clean and new.

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Now, some of you are going, 
well, you have kind of the 

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world, you have G, don't know 
what I've done, didn't we just 

455
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,800
take care of that heat up. 
He doesn't only know what you've

456
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,900
done. 
He knows what you thought. 

457
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:50,300
He knows the words that are 
going to come out of your mouth 

458
00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:52,700
before they come out of your 
mouth and he still loves you. 

459
00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:56,000
Not just everybody but you 
individually. 

460
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,400
He loves you. 
You are known. 

461
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:06,500
You are not a Accident you were 
not an insignificant Speck, that

462
00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:11,700
no one will miss. 
You have position you have 

463
00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:14,200
purpose. 
God has a plan for your life to 

464
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,100
live out here. 
On this Earth. 

465
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,000
There is a spiritual realm. 
There is an enemy who is trying 

466
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,100
to kill you. 
He lies to you. 

467
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,800
He surrounds you with lies. 
The devil is a liar. 

468
00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:32,300
But if we do a John says listen 
to what John says. 

469
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,100
In first John chapter 1, this is
the message we have heard from 

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00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:39,100
him and declare to you, that God
is light. 

471
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
And in him, there is no Darkness
at all. 

472
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,700
And if we claim to have 
fellowship with him, and yet, 

473
00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:47,900
walk in the darkness, we lie. 
And we do not live out the 

474
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:49,700
truth. 
That's what it would be with the

475
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:54,500
devil, right? 
But if we walk in the light, as 

476
00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:57,800
he is in the light, we have 
fellowship with one another and 

477
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,200
him. 
And the blood of Jesus, his son 

478
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:07,500
purifies us from all sin. 
You see what's there for us, in 

479
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:11,100
the midst of a culture where 
there isn't connectedness like 

480
00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:12,900
there needs to be where people 
are. 

481
00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:15,500
So disconnected. 
We can have that connectedness 

482
00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:20,400
to our father. 
And in community of Fellowship 

483
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,300
like this church we can have 
connectedness to one another and

484
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:27,800
we can drive down deep into that
connectedness and it'll make a 

485
00:32:27,808 --> 00:32:31,100
difference. 
And in the process of all of 

486
00:32:31,108 --> 00:32:36,200
that, those lies are going to be
exposed to the light because 

487
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,900
Satan hates the light. and even 
though he's way stronger and 

488
00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:45,900
smarter than you, he's nothing 
compared to Jesus. 

489
00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:52,500
And if Jesus is in you, you win,
You will always win. 

490
00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:58,300
We can have a greater 
fellowship, and listen, you can 

491
00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:00,800
go all the way back to the Old 
Testament, to Moses. 

492
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,000
His last sermon before he goes 
up on Mount, Nebo and 

493
00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:06,700
Deuteronomy 30. 
Look what he says to you and me 

494
00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:09,600
today. 
He says this day, I call the 

495
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,300
heavens and the Earth as 
Witnesses against you that I 

496
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:18,600
have set before you life and 
death blessings and curses Now, 

497
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,500
choose life. 
So that you and your children 

498
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,800
may live and that you may love 
the Lord, your God and listen to

499
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:31,300
his voice and hold fast to him 
for the Lord, is your life. 

500
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000
And he will give you many years 
in the land. 

501
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,300
He swore to give your father's 
Abraham. 

502
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:42,800
Isaac, and Jacob. 
Listen, you are known And he 

503
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:47,000
wants you to choose life. 
Choose life. 

504
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,100
You know what? 
There's some that are here today

505
00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:53,000
that are fighting this battle 
right now and I want you to know

506
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000
that as a church. 
We want to fight alongside of 

507
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,600
you. 
We want to surround you. 

508
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,300
We want to lock arms facing 
outward. 

509
00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:05,100
We don't want the enemy to get 
to you and we want you to do the

510
00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:07,800
same for us because we are all 
in the same battle. 

511
00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:12,100
We all have the same problems 
just because some people may 

512
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,400
look better. 
They may polish it up better. 

513
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,900
They're Just as big a mess As 
You Are. 

514
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:24,100
I'm the proof of that. 
We want you to have deep and 

515
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:27,500
meaningful and transparent 
relationships that will help you

516
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:31,300
along the way. 
We need that and we need those 

517
00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:36,100
relationships grounded in our 
mutual faith in Jesus, but most 

518
00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,800
of all, I want you to have an 
intimate personal relationship 

519
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,300
with Jesus Christ, because he's 
the only way to life. 

520
00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:48,699
He said it himself in John 14:6,
the day before he died for our 

521
00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:52,199
sins. 
He said, I am the way, the truth

522
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:56,800
and the life and no one comes to
the father, except through me, 

523
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,800
Jesus is life, he is Your life. 
Choose life. 

524
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,200
Choose Jesus, we're moving to a 
time of decision. 

525
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:15,800
So, you know, that what I'm 
saying is true that there's this

526
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,700
epidemic. 
And it's all because of this 

527
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:24,100
devaluation of life. 
And it's surrounded us write 

528
00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:26,500
this whole devaluation of life 
is surrounded us. 

529
00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:29,700
And we hear these lies, we 
believe these lies and we don't 

530
00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:34,300
have the structures in our life 
to change that to counteract 

531
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:38,500
that to hear those things. 
I was really contemplating that 

532
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,100
this week. 
I'm preparing for this message 

533
00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:45,200
this week and last week, it 
There's a word that hit me 

534
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,700
pretty hard this week. 
And it's a word that's in First 

535
00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:52,500
Corinthians 13. 
That's the chapter that you 

536
00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:56,100
heard read all those times you 
went to weddings if I speak in 

537
00:35:56,100 --> 00:36:00,300
the tongues of men and angels 
and have not lie know that Love 

538
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,600
is patient. 
Love is kind, doesn't boast, not

539
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,500
proud, right? 
All that and then you get to the

540
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:08,800
bottom of it, like toward the 
end of the chapter and it says, 

541
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,300
and these three remain Faith, 
hope and love. 

542
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,800
But the greatest of these is 
love. 

543
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,700
I want to talk about the middle 
one because we don't talk about 

544
00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:27,800
it a lot. 
And that's hope. you know, I 

545
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,900
think that people that are 
struggling when we talk about an

546
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:37,300
issue like suicide, that's where
right where it is. 

547
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:44,300
Hope they don't have it. 
What is it Anyway? 

548
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:48,500
What is hope, hope is like maybe
you see yourself in a place 

549
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:51,900
you'd rather not be but you can 
see out in front of you enough 

550
00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:54,600
to believe that there's 
something good coming, like 

551
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,800
there's something good on the 
way and so hope is what's out in

552
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,700
front of you. 
It's like, yeah, I can believe 

553
00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:04,900
that and I have to believe that 
a person Who contemplates? 

554
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:06,800
This is a person that can't see 
that. 

555
00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:09,900
So, I want to ask you a hard 
question, each one of you 

556
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:12,800
individually this question? 
Where do you get it? 

557
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,600
Where do you find it? 
Where do you find it today? 

558
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:24,300
Where do you find Hope? 
In the relationship, you have. 

559
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:31,000
In the next thing, you buy next 
accomplishment that you cross 

560
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,900
off or check mark. 
Where do you find Hope? 

561
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
And where do you find hope that 
lasts? 

562
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:42,300
We've, we sing a song at the 
Crossing and in the chorus. 

563
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:47,900
It says hope has a name And his 
name is. 

564
00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:55,500
You see I don't I don't think a 
lot of us really have a grasp of

565
00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,800
that. 
We don't have a hold of 

566
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,600
something called hope and I want
you to have hope today. 

567
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,900
If you don't have an intimate 
personal relationship with Jesus

568
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:08,800
Christ. 
Right now, I want you to know, 

569
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,100
That there's going to be someone
over there by that baptistery in

570
00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:17,600
just a moment. 
And they will, they will be 

571
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,400
happy to pray with you or share 
with you anything about what it 

572
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,800
means to have an intimate 
personal relationship with Jesus

573
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,800
Christ. 
And I guarantee you you walk out

574
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:33,200
of here with hope. 
Many of you are here today and 

575
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,600
you're dealing with issues in 
your life circumstances 

576
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,700
challenges, right? 
And it's getting you down and 

577
00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:43,200
you're getting kind of caught up
in the lower story and I'm going

578
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,700
to invite you to come up here 
and get down on your knees. 

579
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,100
because I guarantee you, If 
you're struggling with hope and 

580
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:53,100
just because you're a Christian,
doesn't mean you don't struggle 

581
00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:55,800
with it. 
I guarantee you get down on your

582
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,000
knees up here and you spend a 
little time with the Lord 

583
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,600
talking to him. 
You're going to get back up on 

584
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,800
your feet and you're going to be
more hopeful when you get up and

585
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,600
win. 
You got down on your knees. 

586
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:15,800
Did you see anybody in that 
baptism video that got out of 

587
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,600
that water and looked 
frustrated. 

588
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,100
Did you see anybody that came 
that their face broke through 

589
00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:23,600
the water and they were like, 
that was a dumbest thing I ever 

590
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,300
did. 
Do you know what I saw? 

591
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:37,100
Hope it's what I saw. 
Maybe it isn't you maybe today. 

592
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,600
You're doing. 
Okay, you're a solid 7.5, you 

593
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:48,600
know, maybe you're carrying a 
burden for somebody else. 

594
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,700
A lot of you. 
A lot of you are carrying a 

595
00:39:54,707 --> 00:39:57,500
burden for someone else. 
I want you to consider coming up

596
00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:03,100
here with their burden, Plead 
their case before almighty God, 

597
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,500
you don't think he hears that 
prayer. 

598
00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:07,600
He knew it, before you put it in
your mouth, he knew it. 

599
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,700
When you were thinking the 
thought of right, Huh. 

600
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:16,700
Some of you're going to see 
this. 

601
00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:19,700
This whole front is going to 
fill with people and you're 

602
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:23,900
going to go, it's full We made 
lots of space here. 

603
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,000
You don't have to actually touch
the steps. 

604
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:33,200
Just come up, put some action to
your desire to your faith. 

605
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,900
Would you think that? 
Would you consider that right 

606
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,900
now? 
Let's stand heavenly, father, 

607
00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:39,400
I'm praying. 
I pray in Jesus name that will 

608
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,400
just get out of our own way and 
let you have your way and you 

609
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,600
would just speak to us right now
and that we would move because 

610
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,700
we know that you're there and 
that you care and that were 

611
00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:59,000
known Pour your spirit out. 
Here. 

612
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:05,900
With your family. 
I pray in Jesus name, amen.