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Crossing family for thankful to 
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They let me hear a whoop-whoop. 
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getting together and being with 
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It is so nice to be able to kind
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circumstances and kind of lift 
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fix our eyes, on the upper story
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can redeem. 
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here today here at 48th Street 
at all of our different 

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locations. 
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watching online and inside on 
the front end, I want to make a 

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couple of announcements. 
First one is next weekend on 

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this stage. 
Jerry Harris will be back and 

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he'll be preaching. 
He's my wife's favorite preacher

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and so when he gets back it's 
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If you're excited to have Jerry 
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Put your hands together, it's 
gonna be good. 

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He's going to be closing out 
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sermon that he's going to be 
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place that gives people truth. 
And in a world that is full of 

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shifting sand and all kinds of 
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We got to have something to hold
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We have to have something to 
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anybody. 
You better to bring that word 

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than Jerry and I can't think of 
any better truth in the truth of

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God's word. 
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you aware of is on Super Bowl 
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We are going to have an 
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all of our different locations 
Jerry and I are switching it up 

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a little bit this year. 
It's gonna be something new. 

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We haven't done this before. 
We actually brought somebody in,

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we interviewed them. 
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they are, but I am rooting hard 
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they are going to be sharing. 
A story we got to meet with them

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this week an absolutely 
incredible person and a truly 

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touched by just the way that 
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the Lord. 
And I think you guys are going 

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to be absolutely blessed. 
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be doing and we're going to be 
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locations is we are going to be 
celebrating and coming along 

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side of all of our communities 
schools and their Sports 

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programs and after-school 
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How many of you when you were in
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Hi. 
You were a part of choir. 

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Show choir jazz band band. 
Football basketball wrestling, 

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baseball volleyball, all the 
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Yeah. 
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great time with those directors.
And those coaches, they invest 

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in you, they helped shape who 
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You get this. 
You are not the only voice that 

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your kid is hearing. 
You are not the only voice that 

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they respect. 
Sometimes you're like, they 

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don't respect my voice at all, 
and you are Super thankful for 

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good. 
Godly coaches teachers and 

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directors. 
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church is we want to come 
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celebrate them that weekend. 
So here are a couple things that

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we're going to be doing to 
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We're going to be doing, I 
believe are the largest giveaway

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in our Church's history because 
we've committed to giving 25,000

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dollars a way we could give up 
to 50,000 dollars away that 

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weekend. 
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that forever. 
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been talking to all the 
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their after-school activities. 
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register. 
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is we're going to give you guys 
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you, you get to pick. 
Hey, I am a part of this school 

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and this is the activity that we
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love and however, many people 
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They're going to get five bucks.
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behalf of every single person 
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that you choose. 
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it's going to be an incredible 
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because they've had a rough two 
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change the narrative. 
If churches are known for taking

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money but they're not 
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the script on that. 
We're not doing it because we're

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flush with cash. 
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we're going to do everything in 
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reality. 
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Now, what I want you guys to do 
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we're going to price, would you 
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This is going to get deep quick,
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transition. 
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announcements stuff, this is 
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pray for all across our region. 
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Let me just talk to you first. 
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different groups of people and 
if you're brand new to our 

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church, this might freak you out
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Just know you're surrounded by 
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and you're going to see that in 
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The specific group of people 
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want to pray for people who are 
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anxiety, mental health, 
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self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
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for for those people for you, 
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those of you who are on a 
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struggling in one of those areas
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an awful lot of weight that you 
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process. 
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of their anxiety or their 
challenges in the last two 

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years, we've seen a huge spike 
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just mentioned. 
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it can be exhausting. 
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experiencing them personally or 
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So real quick, if you are either
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doing life with somebody, 
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you're a friend, a co-worker, a 
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grandparent. 
Would you guys just raise your 

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Okay? 
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we're going to pray for you and 
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anybody to come over and get any
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and stuff like that, I 
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But if you would like someone to
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and pray with you leave your 
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People are going to move around 
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your shoulder. 
Go ahead and put your hand down 

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if You're a super strong 
Christian and your have your 

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hand up, but you're seeing that 
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to, would you go and find that 
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Put your hand on their shoulder,
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I'm seeing a couple people in 
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Campus pastors, if you need to 
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location because I want to make 
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today. 
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All right, while you're there, 
before you start praying, let me

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give you three. 
Verses pay attention to me 

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Peter 5:7. 
It says, cast all your anxiety 

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on him him as God because he 
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You can give him all of your 
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of your pain, all of your cares 
to God, because he cares about 

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you. 
How do I know that he cares 

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about you? 
Because he's got holes in his 

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He cares about you? 
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Jesus to die on the cross, for 
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your pain, your struggles, he 
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You need to know that when 
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praying to a God who cares 
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Psalm 99 says the Lord is a 
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times of trouble, and if you 
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things that I just mentioned, 
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trouble. 
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And I want you to know that in 
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Jesus. 
He is a stronghold that will 

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never let you down. 
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Romans chapter 8. 
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than conquerors through him. 
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I am convinced that neither 
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nor demons, neither the present,
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neither height nor Dep or 
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will be able to separate us from
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That is in Christ. 
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I know, right now those of you 
who are battling this, you could

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be tempted to say, God doesn't 
love me because I'm wrestling 

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And those of you who are part of
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people who are in that, I need 
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the eye. 
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You be able to pull out Romans 
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that nothing can separate and 
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person needs and it's a hope 
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should share, would you guys 
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Heavenly Father, Right now, I 
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that is stretching over 10,000 
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God, I know that there are a lot
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I know there's some people that 
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And God, I pray that you would 
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that you would confirm in their 
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you care about them and that you
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leave them and you will not 
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Help us as a church to be 
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Care. 
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in those situations. 
Give us a wisdom to know what to

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say. 
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say it in Jesus name, I pray. 
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God bless you guys. 
Would you have a seat? 

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Well, we're in a sermon series 
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Week 1. 
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for everyone and it's going to 
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that happen. 
And we looked at this spiritual 

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And we realized that we have an 

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obligation and a responsibility 
to everybody on this Continuum 

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to those who are far from Jesus 
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following Jesus for a really 
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our region and that our hope is 
to make this region and whatever

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God grows it to be the hardest 
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hell from that many years from 
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now. 
People would say I was fortunate

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enough to be born in a The they 
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God could change things that 
there would make a place a home 

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where anybody was welcomed. 
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and then we talked about there 
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people time and that sometimes 
we acknowledge this truth that 

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we can get frustrated because it
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for people to grow in their 
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Jesus are fine. 
Jesus and we committed as a 

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church that we're going to be a 
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to give and love and serve. 
Serve and care and pray for 

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We want to give them the time. 
They need, we're going to be 

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patient with them because we 
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abundantly patient with us. 
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has to be a place for Water 
Walkers for people to take their

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steps of faith. 
And we want to root for them and

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cheer for them and celebrate 
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can't cheer for people from Boat
that it's only after we take our

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Steps of Faith that we're able 
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other people to take theirs. 
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about there has to be a place 
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that while we may fail our 
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final that we learned about 
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who went set walked 70 miles out
of his way to cook breakfast on 

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a beach for a guy who betrayed 
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And that there has to be a place
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And restores people that proudly
proclaims, that when Jesus is in

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the story, the story isn't over 
today. 

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My sermon is called there has to
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to your neighbor. 
Say lost causes There has to be 

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a place for lost causes. 
I'm guessing. 

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That just a couple of moments 
ago when I asked you to raise 

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your hands. some of you that 
raised your hand, you feel like 

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a lost cause you feel like, 
because of everything that 

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you've been through and 
everything that you're going 

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through, But there's not much to
look forward to. you think that 

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if the people around you could 
use a phrase to describe you, 

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they might, they might whisper, 
they're a lost cause maybe 

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you're a person who's been 
journeying with somebody for a 

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really long time. and while you 
don't say it to him publicly and

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while you still hop in your car 
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it, there's times where you just
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you're in is a bit of a lost 
cause And so on the outset of 

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this message, I want to tell you
my my desire is today, I'll my 

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hope is to give you hope. 
Is to rekindle a belief in you 

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that when Jesus is in the 
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as lost causes that when Jesus 
enters the scene, everything can

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change. 
Today, we're going to look at a 

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story of what happens when Jesus
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Cause tell me if you think that 
this guy sounds like a lost. 

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Cause Mark, chapter 5 verse 1 
through 5, then they went across

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the lake member, we've been 
talking about there has to be a 

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place to the Region of the 
gerasenes when Jesus got out of 

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the boat. 
A man, with an impure Spirit, if

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you look at this in the original
language and depending on what 

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Bible you use, they would say 
he's demon-possessed, okay? 

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So this is a pretty soft 
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He's he's he's got it. 
He's demon-possessed came from 

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the tombs to meet him. 
This man lived in the tombs and 

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no one could bind him anymore. 
So he's been tied up. 

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What's he been tied up with not 
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For he had often been chained 
hand and foot, but he toured the

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chains apart and broke the irons
on his feet. 

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No one was strong enough to 
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the tombs and in the Hills, he 
would cry out and cut himself 

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with stones. 
Do you feel the pain of this 

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moment? 
I mean, if you are just reading 

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through this, would you have 
read through it so fast that you

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wouldn't have allowed it to sink
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Can we take just a little bit of
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And just explore what it would 
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I mean, what was it? 
What was he like, before this 

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moment? 
Can you see him? 

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Can you see him playing in the 
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Can you see the smile on his 
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As he learned to ride a bike 
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Can you see his cheeks? 
Get red as he experiences his 

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first crush? 
Did he excel at sports? 

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What was he like when he was a 
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Parents, you've been there? 
You remember that there is this 

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day where your kids would come 
down and you would talk them and

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they still have their baby 
voice. 

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And then one day they came 
downstairs and they talk to you 

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and it was gone and you didn't 
know it was gone until you watch

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an old video and you hear it 
parents. 

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Do you remember what it was like
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I'd still give you a kiss on the
lips before they headed off to 

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school but one day you kissed 
him and that was the last time 

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that you got a kiss, but you 
didn't know. 

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It was the last time when you 
gave it, What was it like to be 

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this guy? 
And now he's something 

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different. 
I mean, he possesses 

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Supernatural strength, but not 
the kind of strength that's used

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to help people. 
It's the kind of strength that's

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used for Destruction. 
His once baby soft. 

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Skin is now. 
Tarnished with the marks of him,

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cutting himself with stones, his
four arms and legs are a 

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tattered mess telling the story 
of a life of pain and suffering.

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Can you see the people who tried
to bind him? 

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This is a small town. 
We get small towns. 

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Who were the people that tried 
to bind him? 

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Was that the very same guys that
he went to homecoming and prom 

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with? 
Who were the his former 

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classmates was at the ones that 
he hung out with after school 

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that had to try and put the 
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This wasn't some unknown face. 
This was somebody that they grew

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up with that. 
They skipped rocks on the very 

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Shores, that Jesus docked on. 
Can You Feel It? 

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Do you see his parents, the one 
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their hands and dreamed about 
what his future would be? 

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Would he take over the family 
business or what he venture out 

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on his own? 
Did he marry somebody? 

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Oh, he wasn't this way when he 
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But over time, he became the 
sky. 

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Does she? 
They have kids? 

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Is the son picked on at school 
because he doesn't excel at 

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sports because he doesn't know 
how to play the game like 

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everybody else because he's 
never had a dad around to show 

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him. 
What's the daughter like Does 

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she moved from relationship with
one guy to a relationship with 

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another guy to a relationship 
with another guy? 

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Desperately trying to fill the 
hole in her heart, that should 

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have been filled by a father, 
What's it like at Christmas 

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does? 
The mom give them presents from 

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dad even though they know that 
dad's not around. 

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Did she tell him? 
What happened or does she keep 

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it a secret? 
What's it like for this guy and 

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his family late at night? 
Do they turn on the sound 

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machine? 
Do they get a box fan and turn 

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it on high to create as much 
white noise as possible to make 

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sure that they don't hear the 
cries of their father, as they 

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try to go to sleep. 
Because night and day, he cries 

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out from the tombs. if there was
ever a lost cause I think this 

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guy was it. 
If you and I were to chart this 

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guy on the spiritual Spectrum. 
Where would you put him? 

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I mean I think we can all agree.
He's not a minus one. 

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Probably not a -3. 
If I were to say -5 some of you 

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would go Clayton. 
That's way too. 

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Conservative, where would you 
place him at this point in the 

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story on the spiritual 
Continuum, I'm guessing most of 

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us would put him off screen 
because let's just admit this 

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guy's a lost cause Let's keep 
reading in the text. 

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What happens next when he, this 
is the demon-possessed man saw 

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Jesus from a distance way off. 
He ran and fell on his knees in 

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front of him. 
He shouted at the top of his 

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voice. 
What do you want with me? 

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Jesus, Son of the most high God 
in God's name. 

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Don't torture me. 
For Jesus had said to him come 

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out of this man. 
You impure Spirit then Jesus 

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asked him, what is your name? 
My name is Legion. 

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He replied for. 
We are many Now, we found 

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ourselves in a spiritual 
standoff. 

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On one side, we have Jesus, Son 
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Who's the one who says this? 
What's the demon-possessed, man?

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Well, how did the 
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Jesus was? 
Well, it's because, you know, 

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this in your Bible and James 
chapter 2, it says even demons, 

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believe that there is one God 
and they shudder at the thought 

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of it, the demons know exactly 
who's in the presence. 

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It's everybody else who's trying
to catch up. 

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So you have Jesus on one side 
and then on the other side, you 

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have this man who's possessed by
a legion of demons, which is an 

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odd thing to say, Allegiant is a
military number. 

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It's this used to describe a 
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So are there a thousand demons 
in this man? 

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Or is we just trying to go? 
There's lots of demons. 

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It appears. 
I'm just being honest, that 

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Jesus is outmatched. 
I mean, maybe maybe Jesus could 

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do something. 
If it was one. 

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Jesus verse one demon Or maybe 
one Jesus verse a couple smaller

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demons. 
The odds are not in his favor. 

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This is one. 
Jesus first thousands of demons 

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if there was ever a lost cause 
this had to be it, this guy's 

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finally in the presence of 
Jesus, but Jesus is so vastly 

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outnumbered This guy's a lost 
cause and everybody can see it. 

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Let's keep going and he begged 
Jesus again and again not to 

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send him out of the area. 
A large herd of pigs was feeding

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on the nearby Hillside, the 
demons begged Jesus send us 

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among the pigs allow us to go 
into them. 

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He gave them permission and the 
impure Spirits. 

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The demons came out of the man 
and went into the pigs. 

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The heard about two thousand in 
number rushed down the Steep 

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Bank into the lake and were 
drowned. 

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Now pause for just a second, 
we've been given a bunch of 

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numbers in this story. 
We were given a legion that's 

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6,000. 
And then we were given a group 

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of pigs about 2,000. 
So it's reasonable to believe 

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that all of the pigs have the 
exact same effect. 

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As soon as they experience the 
demon, they ran off the hills 

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and they died. 
So, I think it's safe to say 

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that there were at least two 
thousand demons that had taken 

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up residence in this man's life.
Let's just say, it was a real 

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number of 6,000 and each Pig got
three demons. 

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There's a lot of math for this 
early in the morning. 

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I get it. 
Look what happens to the pigs? 

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The moment three demons interim 
that run down the bank. 

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They jump into the water and 
they drown and die. 

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And this man has had all of 
those demons Waging War in his 

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life. 
For, who knows, how long if 

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there was ever a lost cause this
was it. 

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Well let's keep going. 
Those tending to pigs. 

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Ran off and reported this in the
town and the countryside. 

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Well this would be big news. 
If 2000 pigs showed up dead in 

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any of our communities today. 
There'll be an awful lot of 

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news. 
I mean I'll be right there in 

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the middle of it with my smoker 
I would have been right there. 

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Like this is a tragedy, I'm 
hoping one happens in a couple 

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weeks, okay? 
And the people went out to see 

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what had happened. 
When they came to Jesus, they 

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saw the man who this is past 
tense. 

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For those of you like, English 
had been possessed by the Legion

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of demons sitting there. 
Dressed. 

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And in his right mind and they 
were afraid, This man had an 

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encounter with the Son of God, 
and now all the people are 

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seeing him sitting there. 
Remember our previous 

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descriptions here, and about 
night and day among the tombs. 

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Now, he's just sitting there, 
he's not cutting himself, he's 

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not Breaking Chains, he's under 
control. 

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They see him dressed. 
Luke goes that this man had not 

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worn clothes in a long time. 
He just ran about the tombs 

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naked. 
Furthermore, he's in his right 

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mind, he's no longer running 
around the tombs. 

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Crying out, cutting himself, 
he's sitting there dressed and 

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in his right mind, something had
happened to him. 

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Something had gone on. 
He had been changed. 

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He had been made new. 
It was almost as if second 

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Corinthians 5:17. 
If anyone is in Christ there, a 

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new creation and the oldest. 
On. 

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And the new has come. 
He's interacted with somebody 

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who specializes in lost causes. 
Oh, that's right. 

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He met Jesus. 
And Jesus loves lost causes and 

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Jesus specializes in lost 
causes. 

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And if I were to be honest with 
you, and I think if you were to 

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be honest with me, we would 
agree that there are a lot of 

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lost causes in our communities. 
There are a lot of people that 

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we would not not publicly and 
definitely not a church that we 

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would call lost causes and I'm 
here to tell you that there has 

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to be a place for lost causes. 
And I'm saying that place should

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be right here right now and it 
should be with us. 

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It means that they're going to 
be people welcomed into the 

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different doors that are 
different locations that you 

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don't like and you don't agree 
with and they're going to be 

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people that you see here that 
have hurt you and have wronged 

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you but the one who hurt you and
wronged, you maybe hasn't met 

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Jesus. 
Just yet there still - there's 

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still - 5 or whatever you would 
classify him as there, might be 

452
00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:31,700
a person that comes to this 
church that you are praying to 

453
00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:34,600
God that they would leave you 
alone and I need you to know. 

454
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,600
That's fine. 
I just need to know that there's

455
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,200
other people praying to God, 
that they would be saved. 

456
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,300
There has to be a place. 
That means that Jerry or myself 

457
00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:44,300
or campus pastors are different 
staff. 

458
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,300
Might hang out with people that 
frustrate you because of who 

459
00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:50,300
they are, how they are but I'm 
telling you there has to be a 

460
00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:56,900
place for lost causes because I 
was a lost cause you see me 

461
00:25:56,900 --> 00:26:01,500
standing here in front of you. 
Dressed. 

462
00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:05,600
Thank you. 
Jennifer and in my right mind, 

463
00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:11,200
mostly, and every week you let 
me come up and I get to talk to 

464
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,700
you about Jesus. 
Because what you're seeing is 

465
00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,200
you're seeing a snapshot of me 
after Jesus got a hold of me, 

466
00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:20,700
but I didn't date your daughter 
in high school. 

467
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,800
I didn't run with your son in 
high school. 

468
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,600
You want the police officer that
picked me up? 

469
00:26:30,100 --> 00:26:33,800
That's not who you are. 
You just know me after Jesus. 

470
00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:40,200
and if you had a place to bet on
me before Jesus got ahold out of

471
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:45,500
me, you do lost And I'm willing 
to wager that if somebody placed

472
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:51,600
a bet on you before Jesus got a 
hold of you they do lost to 

473
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,400
there, has to be a place that 
looks at people, in their pre 

474
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,900
Jesus and has an imagination 
about what they could be post. 

475
00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:03,300
Jesus. 
Because when Jesus gets ahold of

476
00:27:03,308 --> 00:27:07,200
somebody, there's no such thing 
as a lost cause look what 

477
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,200
happens. 
Those who had seen it. 

478
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,100
Told the people what had 
happened to the demon-possessed 

479
00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:14,400
man and told about the pigs as 
well. 

480
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:16,900
Then the people began to plead 
with Jesus to leave their 

481
00:27:16,900 --> 00:27:20,000
region. 
These people don't want to be 

482
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000
around. 
Let's keep going. 

483
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,400
As Jesus was getting into the 
boat. 

484
00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:27,600
The man who had been 
demon-possessed begged to go 

485
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,900
with him. 
Jesus did not let him but said, 

486
00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:33,300
go home to your own people and 
tell them how much the Lord has 

487
00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:36,700
done for you and how he has had 
mercy on you. 

488
00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:40,400
So the man went away and began 
to tell in the decapolis, that's

489
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,400
the 10 cities. 
How much Jesus had done for him 

490
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,900
and all the people were amazed. 
All the man wanted to do after 

491
00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,800
Jesus had rescued him. 
It's just stay with Jesus. 

492
00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:54,900
Can you blame him? 
Isn't that kind of what you want

493
00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:58,500
to do from time to time it 
happens every year at camp with 

494
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:00,500
our kids. 
They go there and they have such

495
00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:02,700
an incredible experience and 
they'll say things to the small 

496
00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:05,200
group leader. 
I just wish I could stay here 

497
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:08,700
and sometimes you guys have that
experience that are different 

498
00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:11,200
locations. 
You like I just wish they'd sing

499
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,200
another worship song when 
Jerry's preaching. 

500
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,100
Like I wish there was just 
another sermon, if we could just

501
00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:18,900
stay here a little bit longer 
because listen, it is great to 

502
00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:20,600
be in The Fellowship of 
Christians. 

503
00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:23,900
It's great to be around. 
People who love you and who love

504
00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:26,500
the Lord, but that's not why we 
exist. 

505
00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:33,100
We exist to take our story and 
go out into the world and tell 

506
00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:36,200
people what can happen when 
Jesus gets a hold of him. 

507
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,500
And that's exactly what he did. 
That man went and he told his 

508
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:44,400
story, he lived out his 
testimony in front of the very 

509
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,800
people that they saw, right? 
That testimony, when you met 

510
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,100
this guy on the spiritual 
Spectrum. 

511
00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:55,100
When we were looking at him, 
Where would you have placed him 

512
00:28:55,100 --> 00:29:00,800
before he met Jesus? 
Well, he meets Jesus he wants to

513
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,500
stay with Jesus, but Jesus sends
him out. 

514
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,400
And the next time Jesus comes to
that Region, 4 thousand people 

515
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,000
show up and they get fed by 
Jesus, how did that region go 

516
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,300
from one dude, in a region where
they said, get away from us? 

517
00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:17,700
Jesus to the next time he comes 
back? 

518
00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:21,100
There's 4,000 people ready to 
hear the word of God. 

519
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,800
How does that happen? 
I'll tell you Like I was a lost 

520
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:29,000
cause now, where would you place
in now, where would you place 

521
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,900
the guy who brings 4,000 people,
to the feet of Jesus? 

522
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,000
Where would you put him on this 
spiritual Continuum if you're a 

523
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:43,500
three Maybe. 
Maybe we shouldn't spend so much

524
00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:45,700
time. 
Looking at how lost a cause 

525
00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:50,300
might be and start thinking 
about how big our Jesus is. 

526
00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:55,700
When he enters a situation or a 
person who is a lost cause there

527
00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:59,300
has to be a place for lost 
causes there has to be a place 

528
00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,700
for lost causes so they can be 
loved and cared for until they 

529
00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:05,900
become face to face with Jesus. 
There has to be a place that 

530
00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:09,300
helps them turn their lives 
around and then sends them out 

531
00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:11,600
to share what God can do with a 
person. 

532
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:18,800
Just like them. if you would 
have, if you were like me, you 

533
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,500
would have put him at -1000. 
But when Jesus got a hold of 

534
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:29,400
him, there was no stopping him. 
I don't just think that that's 

535
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,100
true for that man. 
I know it's true and me and I 

536
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:36,900
know it's true in some of you 
and there's not a person that is

537
00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:40,900
listening to the sound of my 
voice that God, can't redeem 

538
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:47,400
repurpose and restore. 
You are not a lost cause as long

539
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,500
as Jesus is Alive, and we know 
that Jesus is Alive. 

540
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:54,900
We also know he's coming back. 
We want to help you get ready 

541
00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:56,200
for that. 
We're moving to a time of 

542
00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:03,500
decision. 
There are some of you in here 

543
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:06,100
today that you've never started 
an intimate personal 

544
00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:10,000
relationship with Jesus Christ. 
Now, I just need you to hear me 

545
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,000
say this. 
When Jesus is in the picture, 

546
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,100
there's no such thing as a lost 
cause there's no situation, no 

547
00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:20,900
circumstance, no challenge that 
he can't overcome. 

548
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:25,000
And I know that for some of you 
in here, you're going Clayton, I

549
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,300
get it. 
But you just don't know how lost

550
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:29,800
I am. 
And I just need you to know 

551
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:33,400
you're right. 
But you don't know how jacked up

552
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,000
the people of that you're 
sitting next to really are. 

553
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:41,100
You don't know how messed up the
people in your row really are 

554
00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:43,300
because you're just seeing 
there. 

555
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,700
After Jesus life, you don't know
the depths of their pre Jesus 

556
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:52,300
life. 
You don't know how much that he 

557
00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:56,800
can redeem and restore and 
repurpose and reuse because 

558
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,900
maybe we owe you an apology. 
And we haven't shared the depths

559
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:05,500
of our pre Jesus life. 
And you might be sitting there 

560
00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:09,700
going man, Clayton. 
I hear that but I mean I'm a 

561
00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:14,200
really, I'm a really bad person 
and I've done really, really bad

562
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,600
things and I just need you to 
know. 

563
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,600
Yeah, that's the room, you're 
in. 

564
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,500
That all of us have sinned, all 
of us have fallen fallen short 

565
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:32,700
and continue to fall short. but 
it's Jesus, that changes it and 

566
00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:37,300
redeems, it and I would hate for
you to be in this room or 

567
00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:41,000
watching online and believing 
that the good news of Jesus is 

568
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:48,000
good for everybody, but you 
Because the real power of Jesus 

569
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,300
is when you realize it's for 
you. 

570
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:57,100
That when he comes into your 
life, everything can change. 

571
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,900
And I've said this a ton of 
times here and I'm just going to

572
00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:04,200
keep saying it. 
I know you think that if I just 

573
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,000
need to get a couple more things
figured out and then I'll say 

574
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,600
yes to Jesus. 
I just got to fix a couple 

575
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,700
things on my end. 
I just need you to hear me. 

576
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,100
They call him the demoniac in 
the scriptures. 

577
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,100
Here's what he would have said, 
if he was you, I just got to get

578
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:28,900
these demons down to like 5,000.
998, then maybe Jesus can 6000. 

579
00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:32,400
She's too much. 
He's like, you know what, if I 

580
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,000
can just get, if I could just 
get down to four thousand 

581
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,300
demons. 
Maybe then Jesus could I got to 

582
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:39,900
do my part. 
I maybe, if I could get, if I 

583
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:43,000
can Whittle these demons down, 
if I could just get rid of these

584
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,700
issues down to, like 2,500, you 
know, that'd be great less than 

585
00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:49,600
half. 
What would you say to him? 

586
00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:53,700
What would you say to the guy? 
Who's like, I've only got one 

587
00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:57,000
demon. 
I don't even need Jesus. 

588
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,800
No, you'd look at that guy and 
go one demon, that's all you 

589
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,700
got. 
But you can't get rid of it. 

590
00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:10,100
You can't shake it on your own 
power because you and I can't 

591
00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:15,300
fix sin. 
We can't no matter how big or 

592
00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:19,699
how small you think it is, you 
can't fix it, which is why God 

593
00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:25,199
sent Jesus on your behalf. 
So whether you send a lot or a 

594
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:29,900
little, every single one of us 
equally needed the grace, that 

595
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:33,699
was provided to us through. 
Jesus Christ on the cross and 

596
00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:38,100
you can have it, and you can 
experience it and you can place 

597
00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:42,900
it in your heart today. 
And if you want it, it's just a 

598
00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:44,000
few moments. 
There are people here. 

599
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,900
That would love to answer some 
of the questions that you have 

600
00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:49,100
and they're going to be right 
over there by the baptistry. 

601
00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:51,400
When the people around you stand
up. 

602
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,500
I want you to seriously think 
about coming up here and get 

603
00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:57,600
talking to them and start that 
relationship to the rest of you 

604
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,500
in the room. 
I want to talk to you about two 

605
00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:03,200
different groups one. 
I know that some of you you're 

606
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,800
dealing with it, your journey 
with somebody and it's hard 

607
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,600
right now. 
I just need you to remember 

608
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,200
that. 
Jesus is bigger than anything 

609
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,200
that they face. 
Do not lose, hope do not be 

610
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,200
discouraged. 
He is ever present. 

611
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,800
He is the helper you've always 
wanted and he can supply more 

612
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:25,900
than you could ever imagine. 
Don't give up the person. 

613
00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,700
You are walking with is not a 
lost cause they just haven't met

614
00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:34,000
the full power of Jesus yet, and
God might be using you. 

615
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,200
Yeah, you yeah. 
You to be Jesus to them. 

616
00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:43,400
So don't hold back. 
I want this to be a church that 

617
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:47,800
bumps into a lost cause and says
you can come to church, you can 

618
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,500
come to my church and you can 
sit with me and that we would be

619
00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:56,400
a group of people that take joy 
and sitting amidst what other 

620
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,200
people would call lost causes. 
But we proudly oh no that's 

621
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,100
exactly where I want to be 
because that's where Jesus is 

622
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,600
You notice. 
Jesus, just hopped on a boat 

623
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,000
came over interact with the 
demon-possessed, man, and then 

624
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,800
got back on the boat. 
It's all he wanted to do. 

625
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:14,200
There's a demon-possessed man 
over there and I'd love, I'd 

626
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,800
love to spend some time with 
him. 

627
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,500
Those of us who are Christians, 
we need to be people that are 

628
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:22,400
willing to spend time with 
people that others have called a

629
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,900
lost cause because we know 
there's no such thing. 

630
00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:31,700
Maybe some of you. 
You need to pray about the 

631
00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:35,300
situation you're in. 
It's so close to home, and 

632
00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,400
you've been seeing the problem, 
get big, and your Jesus somehow 

633
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,700
has gotten smaller. 
You've been fighting the fight 

634
00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:44,900
for a really long time. 
You've been answering the phone 

635
00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:47,900
calls, you've been making the 
emergency trips for so long, 

636
00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:51,300
you're just worn out, and maybe 
you need to just get down on 

637
00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:54,500
your knees for the Lost Cause in
your life in the Lost Cause and 

638
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,200
your family and you need to just
lift them up in prayer. 

639
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,100
Maybe you need to lift yourself 
up and go God. 

640
00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:03,900
I'm just tired and I'm worn out.
In my perspective has been jaded

641
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:07,800
over time, I need you to give me
fresh eyes. 

642
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,400
I need you to Kindle in my 
spirit, that you still move, and

643
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,700
you still heal, and you still 
change people. 

644
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,400
I keep wondering. 
What could God do with the 

645
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:25,700
church like that? 
All I know is it's only going to

646
00:37:25,707 --> 00:37:30,000
happen if you do it and I do it 
because it's going to take 

647
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,400
everyone to make this place that
kind of place. 

648
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:37,900
Would you join me? 
But stand Got them believe in 

649
00:37:37,908 --> 00:37:41,100
right now that you're going to 
do something special in our 

650
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:44,700
hearts got to whether we get to 
see it or not. 

651
00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:46,800
We want to be a church that's 
committed to you. 

652
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:53,500
That believes in you that chases
after the people that you came 

653
00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:57,500
for. 
God, I can't imagine the amount 

654
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,500
of pain and discouragement and 
frustration and hurt. 

655
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,000
That's being carried by people 
in this room and online right 

656
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,300
now. 
But God, I rejoice in the fact 

657
00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:08,000
that you are big enough to 
manage it. 

658
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,100
All you're big enough to hear 
every prayer to pay attention to

659
00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:16,900
every need that nothing escapes.
You So, we got over these next 

660
00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:20,200
couple of songs. 
Would you just Have a genuine 

661
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,900
encounter with all of us. 
Make it clear what we're 

662
00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:26,100
supposed to do. 
In your name. 

663
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:27,500
I pray. 
Amen.