1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,480 Hey, I'm really excited to be here with y'all this morning. 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,280 I for those of y'all who don't know who I am, I should 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:09,800 introduce myself, right? That's polite. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,640 I'm Lance Morris. I'm the youth director. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,200 Oh, wow. Pause. 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:16,079 Stop. Whoa. 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,200 Pastor. Now I'm the youth pastor. 8 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:20,760 And the. I know. 9 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,560 That's really weird. The offer still stands. 10 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:30,080 I do weddings. Now I can, I'm actually really 11 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,080 nervous to do a wedding, if I can be very honest with you 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,680 guys. But I'm the the youth and the 13 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:40,600 creative pastor here and I have been tasked to continue the 14 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,000 Valley Series. Have y'all been, have y'all been 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,560 like in the Valley series? Good. 16 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,680 Yeah. It's tough, man. 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,640 It's tough when you when you talk about a whole series of 18 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:57,080 being in the Valley, it's like, oh, that's got some weight to 19 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,120 it. You know what I mean? 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:03,760 And I've been tasked with an equally weighty sermon of 21 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,120 preaching the Valley of Heartbreak. 22 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,960 Yeah. I hope y'all are. 23 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:14,640 Hope y'all are ready for this one. 24 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,400 But just as a preface and to just be very upfront and very 25 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,960 honest, this will be a hard message this week. 26 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:26,640 As I have been preparing, I have been Uber weepy. 27 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,720 Like I'm just in my office. Like as I'm typing this message 28 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,880 out and as I've been praying and it's I want you to, I want to 29 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,600 preface all of this before we get into it because while I have 30 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,960 been weepy, I feel like the Lord has called me to say some, some 31 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,200 very tough love things this morning. 32 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,360 So I want y'all to, I want you to hear my heart real quick 33 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:53,360 before we get into it. I'm not standing up here as an 34 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:58,480 emotionally distant person who's like, I know you need to know to 35 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,920 be better. I'm up here sharing with you the 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,440 very things that God has shared with me and the very things I 37 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,560 have to hold myself accountable to as well. 38 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,039 OK? Because heartbreak's inevitable. 39 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:14,240 I would love to stand up here and go give your life to the 40 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:15,760 Lord. Heartbreak will never happen 41 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,920 again. Right on. 42 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,520 You know, I would love to be able to say that to you, but if 43 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,920 you've read the Bible to any capacity, you know, heart breaks 44 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:25,720 a reality of living in a fallen world. 45 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,920 It's a reality. And it's not even just a reality 46 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:33,640 that we read Scripture where God's hearts, his heart is God's 47 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:35,920 heart is broken for his people too. 48 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,960 And there's this beautiful tension that we kind of have to 49 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:45,120 hold with God, where it's like, God, you authored emotions like 50 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:52,320 sadness and anger into us. So how do I walk through this 51 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,160 sadness and this anger? Because I'm going to be honest 52 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,120 with you guys. When you walk through 53 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:56,560 heartbreak, are y'all happy about it? 54 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,560 Anybody here happy about it? You're like, praise the Lord, my 55 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,520 heart's broken, praise the Lord. No one's like that, right? 56 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,320 You're sad, you're angry, you're anxious, you're depressed. 57 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,360 That's heartbreak, right? Anyone in here got broken up 58 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,560 with in high school? You feel what I'm saying here, 59 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:15,440 right? You get it? 60 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,400 I walk with students through that and it's I feel really bad. 61 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,040 There's one time I had a student, it was Christmas Eve. 62 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,080 He came up to me and he's like, hey, my girlfriend just broke up 63 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,680 with me, blah, blah, blah, blah. Me and my infinite wisdom. 64 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,680 I turned and I looked at him. I said we weren't going to marry 65 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:29,160 here. So who? 66 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,400 What's the big deal? Merry Christmas. 67 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,000 Merry Christmas. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. 68 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,680 We're sitting. I was working the the I was 69 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,520 greeting at the front door then, too, and it was right in front 70 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,360 of everybody. That student still, he's a 71 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,080 volunteer now. I actually shout out. 72 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:49,640 I guess I didn't hurt his feelings too bad. 73 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,200 Praise the Lord. I have put my foot in my mouth 74 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,400 more times than I would love to tell you guys about. 75 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,680 But hey, as we are entering into this sermon, I'm going to stop 76 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,600 telling you dumb stories. I want to pay honor to some. 77 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,360 I want to kind of pay a little bit of honor to somebody. 78 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,160 It's so cool that God will speak to us in all kinds of ways and 79 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,399 there is nothing outside of of God's control. 80 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,519 This week I was scrolling on Instagram, which you can kill me 81 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:23,720 for it, it's fine. I'll stand on this hill all day. 82 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,840 Instagram Reels is better than TikTok. 83 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:30,320 OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you, Toby. 84 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,360 I see you, buddy. So much better. 85 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,160 OK, when I'm on TikTok, I feel like I'm scrolling through team 86 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,560 news website. It's like, this is gross. 87 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,080 This is gross. It feels gross. 88 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,400 Anyways, I was scrolling through Instagram reels and I saw a 89 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,520 sermon snippet from Pastor Tim Keller. 90 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,760 And you know, when I, I, I heard it and I was like immediately 91 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,960 put my heresy hunter hat on and we're like, is what you're 92 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,120 saying true? And I went and I scrolled, it 93 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,640 was talking about Job and he scrolled through And I sure 94 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,760 enough, that man, that Pastor Tim Keller was right. 95 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,720 And I want to pay honor to him because there was a lot of 96 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,520 influence that that little one minute snippet had on what I'm 97 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:09,880 about to preach to you all this morning. 98 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,040 And I want to pay honor to him. OK. 99 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,960 And I also at the same time want to say there's no such thing as 100 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,320 a new sermon. If you, if a pastor comes up 101 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,400 here, up here and goes, I have brand new revelation. 102 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,240 Walk out, walk out. The church has been around for 103 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,400 2000 years. God's Word has been being 104 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,600 preached for 2000 years. And I promise you in the year of 105 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,640 2025, no one's coming up here going. 106 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,400 I figured something out that all the church fathers before me 107 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,800 didn't like. They didn't know that's not how 108 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,000 this works. OK, so cool. 109 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,960 We we cool with that. All right, if you got your 110 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,800 Bibles open up with me, we're going to be in Job chapter 3. 111 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,560 We're actually in a couple different places, but we're 112 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,520 going to start off in Job chapter 3. 113 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,480 It's only fitting that we read through a little bit of job 114 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,200 talking about heartbreak, right? Anybody in here know if you know 115 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,040 who Job is? You know, right. 116 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,080 But I'm going to give you some context before we really start 117 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:07,000 reading through this this chapter 3, these little section 118 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,920 in chapter 3. So Job, and this is what the 119 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,920 Bible is saying of Job. He was a very righteous and 120 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,200 upright man, OK? So much so that Job would 121 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:23,840 OfferUp sacrifices just in case his kids send like this is how 122 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:28,360 much he feared and he loved the Lord that like he was literally 123 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,040 like, OK, Lord, my kids may have sinned and they may not have 124 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,880 known that they sinned. I'm going to OfferUp extra 125 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,240 sacrifices to you. And so you read about how holy 126 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,840 or not holy, he's not holy, how righteous and upright Joe was in 127 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:45,040 the eyes of God. And then you also read how 128 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,440 wealthy Job was. Job was a very, very wealthy 129 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,040 man, wealthy and livestock. Like he had like thousands of 130 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,560 camels and different stuff like that. 131 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,360 Like what do you do with camels other than ride them? 132 00:06:58,360 --> 00:06:59,720 You know what I mean? But like he's got other 133 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,520 livestock too. And he's you read about how 134 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:07,440 wealthy Job is and then you Fast forward later in chapter 1 and 135 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:12,760 it's like the, it's like if sitcoms like instead of like it 136 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,880 being funny, it was just like horror, right? 137 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,400 Like sit horror, I guess. I don't know. 138 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,200 And it's like 1 dude, one of his servants walked in and said, 139 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,360 dude, your livestock's dead. And then another guy walks in 140 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,160 and goes and your kids are dead. And another guy walks in and 141 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,320 goes and more of your livestock are dead. 142 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,400 And it's like, dude, it's literally in the Bible. 143 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,280 It's like 1 after the other. They come walking in going 144 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,120 everything you have is gone, dude, it's gone. 145 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,600 And then we find out, right? We find out I'm reading Job 146 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:46,040 chapter 1, that God is in heaven and the angels come before him 147 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,600 and Satan comes with the angels. And it's so silly the 148 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,800 conversation, like I just kind of play it out in my head. 149 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,840 I'm a visual person. So when I'm reading the Bible, 150 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,720 like I'm seeing it, right? I'm seeing it through through my 151 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:04,560 lens of like my life, right? And Satan walks in and God looks 152 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:13,360 at him and goes where you been? And Satan goes around read it. 153 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,400 Read it. Where you been, Satan? 154 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,480 Oh, I've been coming to and fro upon the face of the earth. 155 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,880 It's like, Satan, are you trying to be cute, dude? 156 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,960 Like, what the heck? And God's asking that question 157 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,840 not because he doesn't know, but because I guess I don't know why 158 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:27,840 God asked him that question, to be perfectly honest with you, 159 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,720 right? And then immediately, you know 160 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,960 what God says you're a thought about my friend Job. 161 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,080 It's like, oh God, you just do that, dude. 162 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,480 Underneath the bus, right? Well, really. 163 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:41,960 So what does, what does Satan do here on earth? 164 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,960 What he steals, kills and destroys. 165 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,640 And So what God knew is that Satan is going to and fro on the 166 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,800 earth looking to steal, kill and destroy. 167 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,800 Here's the thing that we have to know about Satan, though. 168 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,160 Satan is not the omnis, right? He's not everywhere all the 169 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,840 time. He's not all knowledgeable. 170 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,080 I'm missing 1. And we'll just say all the 171 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,960 omnis, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. 172 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:07,800 Thank you. That's why I just say all the 173 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:14,320 omnis, Satan has to be somewhere at a specific time, OK? 174 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,680 He's not this. He's like all knowledgeable, you 175 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:19,520 know what I mean? He's like, I know what's going 176 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,560 on in your head, Taylor. I see you, you know, like he's 177 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,640 not doing that right. So he's going. 178 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:30,040 The silly conversation plays out and God goes, Ever thought about 179 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:35,000 my friend Job? I'm going to be honest with you. 180 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,840 That's scary. And then we read about 181 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,880 everything that happens to Job, how a gust of wind goes by and a 182 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,600 house collapses on all of his kids as they're eating. 183 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,920 We read of Raiders who come in and pillage and and steal off 184 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,480 all of his lives a livestock. We read about all these things. 185 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:59,200 And then as you would it, only it gets worse. 186 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,080 After all that happens, Satan does the same thing again, 187 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,040 acting all cute with God, right? He goes up while the angels are 188 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,280 presenting themselves to God and Satan's there and her. 189 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:16,320 He shows up with them and God goes where you been around and 190 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:24,520 God again goes, you ever thought about Job and this is where 191 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,960 Satan takes it up a notch. She goes, I guarantee you, 192 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:37,200 guarantee you when I'm done, he's going to turn and curse you 193 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,920 to your face, meaning he's going to walk away from you and curse 194 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:48,760 you. And God goes, OK, he won't, but 195 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:54,080 OK, so Satan comes down and he has sores from the the soles of 196 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:55,440 his feet to the crown of his head. 197 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,840 So this man can't sit because that hurts. 198 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,360 He can't lay down because that hurts and he can't do anything 199 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,120 standing it all, all of it hurts to the point where he's sitting 200 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,600 there with, with, with shards of pot. 201 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,680 Not not pot, right? Like pot like as in like clay 202 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,160 pots, right? Shards of clay pots that have 203 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,040 been dipped in ashes. And he's scraping the sores. 204 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,280 Yeah, I know. It's pretty gross, right? 205 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:25,880 Because these were like more like boils, right? 206 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:29,360 Like there, there is pus on the inside of them and he's scraping 207 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,000 them and his wife. And again, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm 208 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,560 giving you context because I, I'm a creative person. 209 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:39,680 So I use a lot of Photoshop and stuff and I love textures. 210 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,120 And what I believe is that context give us, gives us 211 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:46,040 texture for what God's doing. So I could just read chapter 3 212 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,520 and you'd kind of understand. But I want to give you guys as 213 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,320 much context as possible because I think it's important for us to 214 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,800 understand context when we read the Bible. 215 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:57,440 When we lose context, that's when you can take the Bible and 216 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,480 make it say whatever you want it to say. 217 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,240 And I ain't about that. I am not about that. 218 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:10,280 So Job's wife comes to him and goes, dude, just curse the Lord 219 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:15,840 and die already. Kids died, livestock died. 220 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,440 He's got, he literally has nothing. 221 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,400 And then his wife's like, dude just freaking die. 222 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,960 Just do it, dude. Like curse the Lord and die. 223 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,800 And that's where we pick up in Chapter 3. 224 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:35,760 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 225 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:41,240 And Job said, Let the day perish on which I was born in that 226 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:47,840 night, in the night that said a man is conceived, let that day 227 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,320 be darkness. May God above not seek it, nor 228 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,920 light shine upon it. Let gloom in deep darkness claim 229 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,480 it. Let clouds dwell upon it. 230 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,840 Let the blackness of the day terrify it. 231 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,800 Aren't y'all glad y'all came to church that night? 232 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:10,360 Let thick darkness seize it. Let it not rejoice amongst the 233 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,040 days of the year. Let it not come into the number 234 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,160 of the months. Behold, let that night be 235 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,520 barren. Let no joyful cry enter. 236 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:28,080 I would say Job's not happy. Anybody disagree? 237 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,640 Right on. Job's not happy to the point 238 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,520 where he's like, Lord, I wish I would have never ever, ever been 239 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:40,680 born the day I was born. I pray it is blotted out. 240 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:42,760 I pray it was nothing but darkness. 241 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,000 I pray I never later on he goes, I pray it never came out of my 242 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,680 mother's womb like he. This dude is just lamenting and 243 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:54,040 going, father, please no, right, rightfully so. 244 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,640 You can't stand, you can't sit. You lost everything and your 245 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,400 wife said to curse the Lord and die. 246 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:04,200 And then we read also in Job further on, he's got three 247 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,800 friends and his three friends come to him. 248 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:11,040 They are Elfaz, Bildad and Zofar. 249 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,960 Those are crazy names. My wife's not here. 250 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:20,000 I was going to ask if we can name our next child Zofar, but 251 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,760 I'm willing to bet she's going to say no. 252 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,640 They come and they sit with him for seven days, right? 253 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,640 And then when they come and they sit with him for seven days, 254 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,960 they're silent, right? They're just there with him, 255 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,200 right? Sometimes you just need a friend 256 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:32,640 that's going to come and just sit with you. 257 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,200 You don't need them to try to tell you it's going to be OK, 258 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,240 but you need somebody who's just going to sit there and be in the 259 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,120 muck with you, right? So they do for seven days. 260 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,000 And then his friends start getting frustrated with job. 261 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,960 And they're like, job, dude, you must have done something wrong. 262 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:53,600 And Job's like, I haven't, I've been, I've been sacrificing like 263 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,480 I didn't do anything like like I, I promise you, I haven't 264 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,760 sinned against the Lord. And so not only is Job has he 265 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,400 lost everything, Job is now having to like practically like 266 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:10,200 argue with his friends, debate team style on Hey, man, I 267 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:11,880 promise. Like I haven't sinned. 268 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,760 And his friends are straight up accusing him and they're pulling 269 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,680 all the things out the book. They're pulling it all out. 270 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,120 They're pulling scripture out to go. 271 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,040 Dude, we promised you sinned, man, and this wouldn't happen if 272 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,360 you didn't sin. And Job's like I didn't. 273 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:29,520 I didn't sin. And then later on in Job, you 274 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:36,760 read that Job calls God's judgement and his plan into 275 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,400 account. Job goes, God, I I don't 276 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,240 understand why you've done this to me. 277 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,360 I don't get it. Why have you done this to me? 278 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,200 And that's why I want to pick up again if you can move with me in 279 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,320 your Bibles. Job chapter 38 verses one 280 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:58,160 through 7. Keep in mind these last 35 281 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:02,680 chapters is Job arguing with his friends and not only just 282 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,800 arguing with his friends, he's lamenting and telling the Lord, 283 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:12,040 I wish I had never been born. And now finally the Lord speaks 284 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,360 and this is crazy to me, dude, this is insane. 285 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,520 First off, I love God's word. I love God's word, man. 286 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:26,520 It's we're undeserving of a God who would give us his word that 287 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,360 would be so clear with us as to who he is in his word. 288 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,120 We're undeserving of that. And so this is a book that we 289 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,200 should cherish. His words are things that we 290 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,200 should cherish. And verse verse 1 of chapter 38, 291 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,520 who is this who obscures my plans with words without 292 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,280 knowledge? Brace yourself like a man. 293 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,880 Boy howdy, I will question you and you shall answer me. 294 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,480 Pause. You know what God's doing here. 295 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:04,240 God is calling Job into account. He's like, oh, you're going to 296 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,599 call, We'll pause. Hey, you're going to call me 297 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,280 into account for why I did what I did? 298 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,520 Job, let me call you in for account. 299 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:14,920 That's what that's what God's saying. 300 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,640 Here He goes. Well, you questioned my plans. 301 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:18,440 I'm going to call you to account now. 302 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,560 That's where we're going to pick up in verse 4. 303 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,720 Where were you when I when I laid the earth's foundations? 304 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,280 Tell me if you understand who marked off its dimension. 305 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,280 Dimensions. Surely you know who stretched A 306 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:36,840 measuring line across it on what were its footings set, or who 307 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,760 laid its cornerstone while the morning stars sang together and 308 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:48,240 all the angels shouted for joy? Talk about being humbled. 309 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,640 Boy howdy, that's just the catch phrase of this morning. 310 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,640 I guess God in these verses are like, oh, you're going to call 311 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,120 me into question. Well, let me call you into into 312 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:00,160 question. Where were you? 313 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,040 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? 314 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,240 Where were you at? And God keeps going on and keeps 315 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,200 talking to him and keeps saying all these things. 316 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,000 And I get it. It may sound like a crazy thing 317 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,000 to, to say to somebody that you had just allowed Satan to in a 318 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,200 way kind of torture and take everything away from. 319 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,720 But I want to read one more passage to you. 320 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,120 It's going to be 41 through 10. We're reading a lot of scripture 321 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:33,840 this morning. I'm not sorry because I the 322 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:35,960 Scripture is so it's just super important. 323 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,520 This is the way that we get to know who God is through his 324 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,040 word, right? This is one of the ways that he 325 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:46,000 speaks to us. I want to read one more passage 326 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:47,480 and I want to start connecting dots. 327 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,800 OK, so I'm just kind of putting some dots out there. 328 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,200 I promise I'm going to wrap it up with a nice little bow, but I 329 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,840 need to give you all the context before we start connecting dots. 330 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,920 Verse 40 or sorry, chapter 42, verse one. 331 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,680 Then Job replied to the Lord. Pause real quick. 332 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,240 Sorry, more context as I'm reading. 333 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:07,600 I'm like, Mom, I need to tell you more things. 334 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,680 This is the first time that Job is talking to God. 335 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,080 After God goes through. Where were you after God says 336 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,680 all these things? This is the first. 337 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,440 This is the first reply that Job has to God. 338 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,880 Then Job replied to God. I know that you can do all 339 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,520 things. No purpose of yours can be 340 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,640 thwarted. You asked who is this that 341 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,200 obscures my plans without knowledge? 342 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,440 Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too 343 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,600 wonderful, wonderful for me to know. 344 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:41,680 Job right now is repenting. I want y'all to see that you 345 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,760 said. Listen now and I will speak. 346 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,840 I will question you and you shall answer me. 347 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,440 My ears have heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you. 348 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,640 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes. 349 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,640 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to 350 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:02,160 Eliphaz the Temenite, I'm angry with you and your two friends 351 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,080 because you have not spoken the truth about me as my servant 352 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,760 Job. As my servant Job has pause, 353 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,880 pause, pause, pause, pause, wait, wait. 354 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:17,440 So God here is saying, Hey Job, you question my plans. 355 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,520 That's not cool, buddy. I'm just going to lay it out for 356 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,200 you. And not only am I going to lay 357 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,280 it out for you. I also still view you as upright 358 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:32,960 and righteous even in the midst of practically 35 chapters of 359 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,800 him mully grubbing and saying God why this hurts. 360 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,000 I wish I was never born Eliphaz, you're wrong, right? 361 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,320 Like I didn't stand out. Like in the process of all of 362 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:51,840 this, God still just, he still looks at Job as righteous and 363 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:57,000 upright. Can I present something to you 364 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,440 this morning? God is not scared of your 365 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,400 emotions, and He's definitely not scared of your words. 366 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,160 Do you know why Job was seen as still righteous and upright in 367 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,800 God's eyes? Because even in the midst of 368 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,840 complaining, he never turned his back. 369 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,080 Sure, he complained to God, He questions God, He questioned 370 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:26,160 God's, God's plans, but he never turned his back on God. 371 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,360 He never cursed God to his face like Satan said he would. 372 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,200 That's why God still sees him as upright. 373 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,400 Hold that and put a little dot in your head. 374 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,520 OK, right. We're going to we're I'm going 375 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:44,520 to keep reading verse 8. So now take 7 bulls, 7 Rams and 376 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,000 go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for 377 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,760 yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you 378 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,400 and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to 379 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,240 your folly. You have not spoken the truth 380 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:04,960 about me as my servant Job has. So Eliphaz the Temenite, Bildad 381 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,680 the shoe height. I hope I said that right. 382 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:12,640 And so far, the Namathite did what the Lord told them, and the 383 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:19,000 Lord accepted Job's prayer. I want, I want to, I want to 384 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,320 show you all this through line that's happening here. 385 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,080 In the midst of loss and in the midst of heartbreak, Job 386 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,040 complained to the Lord. He went even as far as 387 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,040 questioning the Lord, but the Lord still viewed him his 388 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,240 upright. And then when the Lord came and 389 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,800 said, Hey, dude, where were you when I laid the foundations of 390 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,680 this earth? Where, where were you? 391 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,080 And really in that, in that God is proving the point of hey, 392 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,200 dude, I know more than you. I see things ready for this. 393 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,880 I see things through the lens of eternity, not just your time on 394 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,360 earth. And so you're calling me into 395 00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:59,640 question. The person who knew before there 396 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,920 was a thing and I will know after there were ever after 397 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,320 there will ever be a thing. You're calling me in the 398 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,880 question. But even in the midst of all of 399 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,000 that, God still viewed Job as righteous and upright. 400 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,240 Can I present something to you this morning, Church? 401 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,680 God is looking at your life through the lens of eternity, 402 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,680 not just through your life here on earth. 403 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,640 Do you know what we as believers in Jesus, do you know what we 404 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:33,600 have for eternity? Relationship with the Father. 405 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,480 And this is the part where I'm going to present something 406 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,320 pretty heavy to you. Y'all cool with that? 407 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,040 If God never did another thing for you, relationship with Him 408 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,840 for eternity is vastly more than you ever deserve. 409 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,120 A lot of times when we enter into heartbreak and we enter 410 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:57,120 into seasons of loss, we like to question God. 411 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,000 But not only question God, we start to ask the questions. 412 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,840 Why would a good God allow something bad to happen? 413 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,640 Why would he allow that to happen to me? 414 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,760 And we start getting into this cycle of stinking thinking where 415 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,880 it's like, why would God allow bad things to happen to me? 416 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,600 I've done all the things right. Joe did all the things right. 417 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:21,920 He was a righteous and upright man. 418 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:26,920 That's what he was known for. But The thing is, is God isn't 419 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,200 looking at you through the lens of just your time here on earth. 420 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,480 Because if that was the case, your time on here on earth would 421 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,040 be phenomenal. Then what would happen after you 422 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,000 died? It's like, God, buddy, that's 423 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,600 out of my jurisdiction. No, he looks at you through the 424 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,880 lens of eternity because he's like, listen, dude, I know I get 425 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,000 it. You live in a fallen world. 426 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,680 It's really unfortunate. But I gave you the free will. 427 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,560 I gave Adam and Eve the free will to be able to make that 428 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,800 level of decision. And that's what happened. 429 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,880 And because I'm a good and loving Father, I'm going to 430 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,240 allow this to play out. But even in the midst of 431 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,760 allowing it to play out, I'm still going to be there for you. 432 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,720 I'm still going to supply you with the strength to keep going. 433 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,400 In the valley of the shadow of death. 434 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:10,160 I will fear no evil for your rod and your staff will comfort me. 435 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,280 Church, is eternity enough for you? 436 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,320 If God never delivered what you're praying for right now, 437 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,360 would eternity still be enough for you? 438 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,200 Is relationship with the Father is that enough for you? 439 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,400 Is the Holy Spirit living inside of you? 440 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:49,660 Is that enough for you? It's a tough question and again, 441 00:25:50,740 --> 00:25:53,600 this is hard, so please don't think that I'm up here as an 442 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,000 emotionally distant person that's just telling you what to 443 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,040 do and you should be more like me. 444 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,760 That's not the case. I think everyone in this room, 445 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,960 if we're to really go around and start to get real with each 446 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,800 other, I think every single person in this room has 447 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,440 experienced heartbreak. Every single one of us. 448 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,800 We've had some kind of loss in our lives, some kind of bad 449 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,200 thing, some kind of whatever, you name it, something has 450 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,480 happened because we live in a fallen world. 451 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,240 And I want to be so sensitive to that. 452 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,920 And at the same time, Church, I don't want us to lose sight of 453 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,840 eternity. James 414 Yet you do not know 454 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,640 what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? 455 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,160 For you are a mist that appears for a little time, then 456 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,320 vanishes. Church, I want to present this 457 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,320 to you. Please, please, please, please 458 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:43,200 hear me. Please hear me, if you are in 459 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:48,760 the middle of the valley of heartbreak, the only way out of 460 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,880 it is surrender. Not surrendering to the world, 461 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,360 it's surrendering to God and going, dude, I told you I gave 462 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:59,080 my life to you. I told you that I made you Lord 463 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,080 of my life. That verse where it says though 464 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,560 I shall walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall 465 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,400 fear no evil. Your rod and your staff shall 466 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,760 comfort me. That whole chapter is about how 467 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:14,040 God is a Good Shepherd. Are you cool if your shepherd 468 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,240 leads you into a valley of heartbreak? 469 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,640 Are you cool if he leads you through it? 470 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,680 Church, I don't want us to lose sight of eternity. 471 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,920 The battles already won. That doesn't mean that there 472 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,480 isn't going to be loss along the way. 473 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,520 But church, we're going to be in heaven one day with God where 474 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,480 there is no loss, there is no heartbreak, there is no 475 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,520 sickness, there is no evil. And it's going to be so awesome 476 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,000 one day when we get to sit at the feet of God and just worship 477 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,760 Him. I don't want you to think that 478 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,920 heaven's just people going like singing the Halo theme song, 479 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,240 right? That's not what this is right? 480 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,720 Worship is so much. I hope some of y'all picked up 481 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,400 on that. OK, thank you. 482 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,560 I was really worried that that wouldn't go over and you're 483 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,120 like, what's Halo? Like the Halo? 484 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,800 No, y'all know. All right, right on. 485 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,280 I'm in a good crowd. So squirrel moment. 486 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,160 I hate that. OK, pull together, Lance. 487 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,480 Worship is so much bigger than just music. 488 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,400 Worship is doing anything for the glory of God and we get to 489 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,080 go to heaven and we get to do all these different things for 490 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,760 the glory of God because guess what? 491 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,040 He's our Father and he loves us. Y'all, He's such a good father. 492 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,800 He's such a good father. That doesn't mean because he's a 493 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,000 good father, only good things are going to happen to you. 494 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,840 But I can tell you this, a good father is going to put purpose 495 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,720 to the heartbreak and revelations. 496 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,760 I believe it's chapter Chapter 11, verse 13 for the testimony 497 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,600 of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 498 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,240 What if you going through heartbreak and a hard season and 499 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,440 a lost season right now? What if that isn't for you? 500 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,800 What if that's for the person next to you that you got to go, 501 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,840 hey, I went through it and I promise you me going through it 502 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,960 and God providing for me, He's going to bring you through it 503 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:04,480 too. We're called to be ambassadors 504 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,400 of Jesus ambassadors. You know what that means? 505 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,600 We're representatives in a foreign land. 506 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,040 We do not belong to this earth. We don't, we don't belong to 507 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,120 this earth. This earth is not our home. 508 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,560 Praise the Lord, this earth isn't our home. 509 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,760 I'm going to ask another hard question. 510 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,680 I hope none of y'all just start leaving on me, OK? 511 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,280 Have you counted the cost of following Jesus? 512 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:38,920 Have you counted the cost? He's a good father, but he's a 513 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:45,720 good father that will walk you through a valley and he'll 514 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:51,840 comfort you by his correction and his guidance or sorry, his 515 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:58,120 perfection or pro. Right on. 516 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,880 That's cool. He will comfort you with his 517 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,480 guidance and protection. That's what a rod and a staff 518 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,640 is, right? The rod was to beat off wolves 519 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,680 and beat off bears and bears. Oh my right. 520 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,560 And then the staff was to guide the flock. 521 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,880 Is that comforting to you? I want y'all to notice 522 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,280 something. Job's wife when she came to Job 523 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,240 and said just curse God and die already. 524 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,040 You know that's how Satan comes and talks to us, right? 525 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,760 We're when we're in a valley of loss. 526 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:41,120 Hey bro, just just go drink. You already lost them. 527 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:45,440 Who cares? Hey, just just go back. 528 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,120 Just hey, that that addiction that you, that you've been 529 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,400 fighting for 20 years, that you've, that you've seen victory 530 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,200 in, hey, just go back. You've already lost it all. 531 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,320 Who cares? Just do it. 532 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,960 Why not? Hey man, just go check out. 533 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:09,760 You've already lost everything. That's how Satan talks to us. 534 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,920 Church, I want to present something to you this morning as 535 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,000 we are about to go into a a time of response. 536 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,080 What I feel like is the Lord wants, He wants something very 537 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:26,680 specific from us. He wants our surrender because 538 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,160 when we say that Lord that, that Jesus is Lord of our lives, that 539 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,480 he's Lord of everything. And not only is he just Lord of 540 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,320 everything, He's Lord of the valleys and the mountain tops. 541 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,880 That's what he's the Lord of. He's the Lord of everything. 542 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,760 And the only way that you're going to be able to make it out 543 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,760 of a heartbreak valley, a heartbreak season, is just 544 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,880 surrendering and going, Lord, it's yours. 545 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,520 Come what may, I don't care, but it's yours. 546 00:31:54,640 --> 00:32:00,360 And I'm going to follow you this morning. 547 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:05,000 Can we enter into this time of response with surrender in our 548 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:10,080 hearts going, Lord, it's yours. If that new job never happens, 549 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,200 Father, for you, for God be the glory. 550 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,480 If loss is the reality in which I have to live by, for God be 551 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:24,160 the glory. If I lose everything for God be 552 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,320 the glory. That's so hard. 553 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,720 Like I can't imagine the like Peter, right? 554 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,760 Peter was like crucified upside down and he's like for God be 555 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,320 the glory. I can't be crucified like my 556 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,760 savior did put me upside down, big dog. 557 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,720 I'm not worthy of that. Let me read about these people 558 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,960 who love the Lord so much that they're like, everything's on 559 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:54,800 the table for this guy. Everything is church. 560 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,320 Can we, can we do that? Can we surrender? 561 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,680 Can we have that level of surrender where it's like, Lord, 562 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,440 if you lead me there, I'll go through it. 563 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,400 I promise I love you. I'll do it. 564 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,440 You just take, you told me jump. I promise I'll jump. 565 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,080 You just got to tell me where you want me to go. 566 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,560 Church. That comes from fearing the 567 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,160 Lord. It's not fear as in Almighty 568 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,920 Snyder. It's like like fear as in Lord, 569 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,560 I respect you and I know the power in which you hold. 570 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,480 I know I know what you I I I know you and I know what you can 571 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,840 do. It's what job is saying here in 572 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,520 in verse 42. He goes, I know that you can do 573 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,480 all things. No purpose of yours can be 574 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:46,480 thwarted. Church this morning, can we 575 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,440 enter into this time of response with surrender in our hearts? 576 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,880 Because I know that during seasons where the Lord may be 577 00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:00,000 moving you around or seasons where there's heartbreak, we 578 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:08,360 almost try to bargain with God. Well God, but if if you would 579 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:15,400 just bring XYZ back or to fix XYZ, I'll do XYZ. 580 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,040 The Lord isn't looking for that. He's not looking for your 581 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:23,800 actions. He's looking for your heart. 582 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,639 Is your heart surrendered to him? 583 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:31,639 Is everything surrendered to Him? 584 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,320 What if he asked for more time during your week? 585 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,960 What if he asked you to sell your house? 586 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:54,080 What if he asked? I don't know. 587 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,760 Honestly. For you, for everyone, it's 588 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:01,640 different. What if he asked you to give up 589 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:09,200 a relationship? What if he asked you to give up 590 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:14,880 your pride? Is His sovereignty and His 591 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:20,000 Holiness not enough? Is eternity with a Father not 592 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,480 enough for you to give those things up? 593 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,640 I play, I present all these things. 594 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:32,160 Not because you know, for giggles, I guess I want to 595 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,640 present these things to you because what happens is I don't 596 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,240 want us to be complacent in our walk with Jesus. 597 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:48,280 I want us to when we are walking with the Lord, I want us to be 598 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,320 fully abandoned going Father, it's your will, not mine. 599 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,440 I just want to follow you. I'm going to leave you all with 600 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,080 a really cool scripture here. It's First Corinthians chapter 2 601 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,480 verse 9. But as it was written, what no 602 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:08,320 eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man, imagine what 603 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,800 God has prepared for those who love him. 604 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,880 If you are walking through loss and you're walking through 605 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,880 heartbreak, please understand my heart is with you. 606 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,960 I've been weeping for you all week. 607 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,000 But I also really want you to see this too because too 608 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,560 brighter days are coming and even if they're not here on 609 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:37,400 earth, brighter days are coming. Unity. 610 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,680 We're going to have unity with our Father in heaven one day. 611 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:49,280 Like how crazy is that? I'm going to pray prayer team. 612 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:50,600 If you'd start making your way up. 613 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,520 We're about to go into a time of response, guys. 614 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:03,800 And I, I want to encourage y'all with something as we go into 615 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,200 this time of response. I want to discourage the, the 616 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,520 leaving. I want to encourage y'all to sit 617 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,520 on the altar of your heart and to go, Lord, what do I need to 618 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,200 surrender to you today? What do I need to give you? 619 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,840 The altars are open, right? You can come up here. 620 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:25,480 You can just lay flat on your face. 621 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,320 No one's going to judge you. I may walk around and pray for 622 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:35,440 you, but I with with 0 hesitation guarantee that 623 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,080 everyone in this room has something to surrender to the 624 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:43,520 Lord today. For me, I have to surrender 625 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:51,880 wanting to know it all because it consumes my mind thinking 626 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,120 about all the little things. Well Lord, what if you do this? 627 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:59,200 What if you do that? Everyone in this room has 628 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,160 something to surrender. I'm going to be kind of bold 629 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,520 here. So it hurts your feelings. 630 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,200 I'm sorry if you walk out of here without surrendering 631 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,560 something to the Lord. I want you to. 632 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:14,880 I'm just, I would ask you that is your heart. 633 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,680 Heart is your heart hardened to him. 634 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:27,880 Cool beans, Father, we love you. Jesus, during this time of 635 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:34,800 response, I ask that you would give that you would give us the 636 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:39,120 boldness to surrender to you. Holy Spirit, I ask that you'd 637 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,200 come and you would sit in this place with us, that your hand 638 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:48,320 would be heavy, would be so heavy on us that in the midst of 639 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,920 this surrender, Lord, this, this feeling, God, Lord, I know, I 640 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,960 know, I know, I know that there's Father, I know that 641 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,160 there's some people in this room that need to surrender regret to 642 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,480 you. I need to surrender guilt. 643 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,800 Father, I pray that you'd give us the boldness to come up and 644 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,200 pray with somebody or maybe just to lay down on our faces and 645 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:17,160 just give it to you. Lord, we love you, we love you, 646 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,720 we love you. We thank you so much for your 647 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:25,680 son and what your son has done. Thank you Jesus. 648 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:35,960 God, you're so holy. In the mighty name of Jesus, we 649 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,320 pray. Amen.