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Do me like Jesus with Can't 
nobody do me like the Lord? 

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Can't nobody do me like Jesus? 
He's my friend. 

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Amen. 
He is a friend, indeed, friend 

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that sticks closer than a 
brother. 

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The scripture says, Amen. 
We welcome each one of you to 

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the First Apostolic Church. 
So thankful for you being here 

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today. 
And we are in a contest. 

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But as I've reached out to some 
that have come as guests, we're 

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thankful for you being here for 
that. 

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But beyond that, we're just 
thankful for you. 

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All right? 
Beyond that, we're just thankful

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for you. 
This is just a means for us to 

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rib one another and you know, 
say ha and all that. 

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But when it comes down to it, 
we're thankful for you today 

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being here in in the House of 
the Lord with us. 

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I want to just add a little add 
a denim on sister Mcgee's 

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bringing the candy. 
Bring candy that came man and 

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woman candy. 
In fact, if you probably like 

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it, you probably shouldn't wish,
you know, start passing some of 

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that around. 
Honestly, I I kind of like 

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black, so I can't bring that. 
I got to bring something else, 

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even bring some bring some candy
appropriate for kids. 

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And we appreciate that. 
I am on the green team. 

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And the only way I'm saying the 
only reason why I'm saying that 

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whenever I shook Scott's hand 
this morning, he said I figured 

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you'd have all four on your 
lapel that I told him I probably

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should have, but green would be 
at the top. 

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But nonetheless, Amen, we're 
glad to have he and his wife. 

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I think I'm we're going to get a
committee together, see if we 

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can't set up a mailbox somewhere
around Mount Carmel for y'all. 

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I think maybe you just need to 
make Mount Carmel home. 

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You know, I may come. 
I know the East Coast looks 

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great, but you just might need 
to might need just make Mount 

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Carmel your home. 
We're glad to have you, Amen And

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Dina, right, Katie's mom today 
start seeing that this was all 

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part of Katie's family. 
And Dina said, well, this ain't 

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all of us. 
So you have been warned. 

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You've been warned. 
The posse is coming. 

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The posse is coming. 
So we're glad to have them this 

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morning as well. 
Amen. 

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With us, all of these different 
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I'm going to be turning to the 
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of Isaiah, prophet Isaiah 
chapter #53 the book of Isaiah 

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chapter 53, going to begin 
reading with verse #3 today. 

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And of course, we are heading 
into a season in the church in 

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the world over all Good Friday 
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people already in the mindset of
all of that. 

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And so I know it's not either 
one of those days, but I felt 

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drawn to this passage of 
Scripture this week. 

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And so I'm going to share from 
the word of the Lord. 

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The Bible says in verse #3 of 
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This is prophesied what most 
would term the suffering servant

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in the Old Testament prophesied.
But if you read all of the 

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Bible, you understand who that 
suffering servant was that was 

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being spoken of in Isaiah, 
Christ Jesus. 

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So the Bible says in Isaiah 53 
and three, He is despised and 

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rejected of men. 
A man of sorrows, and acquainted

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with grief. 
And we hid, as it were, our 

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faces from Him. 
He was despised, and we esteemed

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him not. 
Surely He hath borne our griefs 

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and carried our sorrows. 
Yet we did esteem him stricken, 

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smitten of God, and afflicted. 
But he was wounded for our 

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transgressions, He was bruised 
for our iniquities. 

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The chastisement of our peace 
was upon Him, and with His 

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stripes we are yield. 
Think it's important today if we

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could draw our attention to 
verse #4 and this is kind of 

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little preview in actuality. 
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this verse tells us what the 
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that were taking in this whole 
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this man being stricken and 
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That's what this is. 
But there comes a shift in their

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understanding of what really was
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surely He had borne our griefs 
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little while this morning. 
I want to talk to you today 

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about suffering redefined. 
Suffering redefined. 

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Amen. 
I'm going to ask the Lord's help

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this morning. 
Thank you Jesus, God, for this 

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opportunity. 
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God continue to move, Lord, upon
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look at your word today, as we 
look at Lord Jesus, your story, 

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God, that has become our story. 
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that you have to help us in new 
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enlightenment and understanding.
God, revelation, Lord, in this 

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place today and will not fail to
thank you, praise you for the 

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lovely name of Jesus Christ, 
that I pray Hallelujah and Amen 

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and the church say Amen. 
You may be seated today. 

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Brother Zach. 
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picture up for me. 
This is a very no picture of our

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history, particularly after the 
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our world of that that that 
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America. 
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was in the 90s that this picture
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This is a picture that 
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took back in 1936. 
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It was taken in the Pono, 
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And the woman that you see here 
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She is at this time 32 years 
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where people were migrating from
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fields and such for the purpose 
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And so she's 32 years old by the
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brother Reese. 
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to start to guess or suppose as 
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mother of several children. 
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picture, but she has several 
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She's actually sitting alongside
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Her face, you look at her face 
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engraved, if you will, in her 
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her cheek, her children leaning 
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Some have described her as being
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worry. 
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iconic in the 1930s for 
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our world and the family and 
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It was depicted as a woman that 
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that was helpless. 
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this picture was taken and after
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and people had made their own 
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the picture of what that may 
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There were some journalists that
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Florence's relatives and their 
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woman that that scraped and 
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whatever was necessary to 
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determination. 
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wanting people to know that 
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supposed suffering that they 
seen in that picture, that those

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lines that were up on her face 
were not really woman in in a 

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place of resignation, but they 
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determining lines of a woman of 
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And that was resourceful, 
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whatever she could do. 
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you take that down, Brother 
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There are just a few things more
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misunderstood suffering. 
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Whenever you go through 
something and there's bystanders

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on the outside of your situation
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why you are going through what 
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are suffering the way that you 
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done, or what could have they 
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be met with this plight in life.
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scripture, it is such a story 
where people wrongly misread his

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suffering, wrong, misread what 
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The Bible describes that he sat 
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One place in scripture describes
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his horn, which is a symbol of 
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He defiled his horn in the dust.
And while Job sat in ashes, all 

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those that were viewing his life
sat in their opinions about why 

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he was where he was and why he 
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going through. 
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His children. 
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His body is broke. 
His reputation seemingly has 

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failed just because with 
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And he sat there and his 
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had seven days of silence, which
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they continued that way. 
But then they opened their 

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mouths and tried to explain 
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tried to explain why, why his 
livestock was slaughtered or why

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that was burned or why the wind 
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where his kids were celebrating.
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I believe it hasn't changed for 
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years. 
When somebody hurts, we want to 

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know why somebody's going 
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We just want to know why. 
Whenever somebody falls, we want

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to know, well, who's to blame? 
Is it somebody else or is this 

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their own doing that? 
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negative spot. 
They brought this on themselves.

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No, no other contacts, no other 
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We're just viewing their life. 
They brought this on themselves.

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And so we have questions that 
enter our mind, whether we speak

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them verbally or not. 
We say things like who failed or

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who failed them or, or what went
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deserve this, that this would 
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of this? 
Where is God? 

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And all this because society, 
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explanation, Amen. 
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respond to suffering. 
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I've lived upon this earth, if 
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why a person is suffering, we'll
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ourselves like they did in the 
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Their interpretation of the 
suffering servant and everything

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that he would go through, 
everything he would be exposed 

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to, everything that came into 
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Their interpretation is this. 
He's smitten, he's stricken, and

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he's afflicted of God. 
And they thought, as often times

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we think, we think we know the 
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Job in his book, all of his 
suffering and everything that he

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underwent, Amen points really 
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But Job really doesn't give us a
final answer on all of his 

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suffering himself. 
But that answer is going to come

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from another man. 
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from another sufferer in 
Scripture, one who was just as 

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completely misread as Job was 
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You must look at chapter 53 of 
Isaiah, The onlookers in this 

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book, they are misunderstanding 
the suffering that's taking 

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place here. 
They mislabel the suffering 

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that's taking place here. 
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They see a man, a man by the 
Reese that's smitten and 

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stricken and afflicted. 
And through the rumors that no 

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doubt had filled Jerusalem, 
through the rumors that had 

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filled the city where this man 
was as it filters across, they 

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understand that the type of 
people that are going to he be 

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alongside him. 
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On Gogolf this hill are the type
of people a man that also should

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be and ought to be crucified. 
They were just assuming in this 

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moment that swinging the hammer 
against the anvil in this man's 

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life and he ultimately deserved 
it. 

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Amen. 
They probably asked questions 

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among themselves. 
Did did he not in in his walk 

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among society and among the 
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sea where he walked? 
Did did he not do some 

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unacceptable actions on the 
Sabbath day and Sabbath 

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observances? 
And so no doubt this is part and

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parcel because he didn't 
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like he should have observed the
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And others are saying, well, I 
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God. 
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bear upon his suffering that 
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And there's others that said, 
well, he's declaring himself to 

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be the king of the Jews. 
So that's got to come into play 

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for surely he's being stricken 
because of that. 

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And then others say, well, I 
heard that they're they're 

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they're detaining him while they
let go a seditionist. 

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They're they're letting go 
Barabbas, they're letting go a 

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murderer and they're retaining 
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So surely he's done something 
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Surely he's done something worse
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are letting go, Because that 
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Surely his misdeeds must surpass
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all of this behavior that he has
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Calvary's not a place for the 
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Calvary's not a place for the 
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That Roman execution site, it's 
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spectacle. 
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That they have been rebellious 
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against the law, or they've done
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afflicted and smitten, he's 
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place in the right company. 
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thieves on each side. 
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But Bishop, what the I cannot 
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reveals to us here in Scripture.
It places us in the same world 

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of misinterpretation as it was 
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does so with, as I pointed out 
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began, the inverse of verse #4 
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smitten of God and afflicted, 
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griefs and carried our sorrows. 
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McGee? 
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happening right here within this
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On one hand, there's the 
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be, the appearance of what it 
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it could be. 
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the truth of what it really is, 
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taking place. 
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they misread everything that was
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They saw the pain and they 
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They saw the wounds and they 
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of God coming down. 
They saw the affliction and they

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assumed that he's being 
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as a verdict upon his life, 
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afflicted. 
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raises his voice and he says you
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punished for himself, but he was
really bearing what belongs unto

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you. 
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English version says. 
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this. 
He suffered and endured great 

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pain for us, but we thought his 
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God. 
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it was from God, but it was for 
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He was not suffering because he 
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He was suffering because we were
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He was, he was not suffering 
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something wrong. 
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humanity, the collective cloud 
of the world, was in wrong 

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standing and he was trying to 
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And so this is where the text 
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And we often do the same thing, 
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I know the reason. 
I don't know them from Adam's 

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House Cat, but Scott, I know the
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Plain as the nose on your face. 
It's what Job's friends did, the

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air that they made. 
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issue was to a certain degree. 
They had theology, yes, but 

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their theology was too neat for 
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They believed it all boiled down
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Righteousness equals blessing. 
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So if you're blessed, you must 
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All right, Come on, talk about 
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And if you're suffering, you 
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sin. 
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No Gray areas, very decisive 
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And so then we see hardship 
coming each other's lives and we

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go to our edge of our seat and 
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I said a few weeks ago, I 
almost, you know, and not try to

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be gross fit. 
Almost every time I hear it, I 

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kind of exert vomit just a 
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Oh, I'm just so blessed and 
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I'm just walking in heaven 
places with Christ Jesus. 

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Well, guess what? 
Sometimes I get a flat tire. 

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Sometimes I have three vehicles 
that need to see the mechanic at

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the same time. 
Sometimes Brother Fred, we come 

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home right after a trip and 
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our windows busted out. 
Kenny, that's not saying Brother

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Fred's not righteous. 
It's just saying humanity likes 

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to mislabel and misread 
suffering. 

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Christ Jesus entered suffering 
deeper than any other man has 

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ever known, yet still in that 
moment he was never more in the 

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center of God's will then when 
he was hanging in that suffering

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up on the cross. 
And he's suffering in reality 

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because he's volunteered for it.
He's volunteered for it. 

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The one who knew no sin was 
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itself. 
The Apostle Paul said in in 2nd 

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Corinthians 5 and verse 21. 
He said, for he hath made him to

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be sin for us who knew no sin. 
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Christ Jesus had sinned, but 
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He goes on to say that we might 
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in him. 
Jesus Christ was under the 

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weight of judgment because He 
chose to stand where we stood, 

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good, not smitten for Himself, 
but smitten for us. 

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And this is the wonderful 
pattern of Isaiah 53, this 

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constant for us, pattern that 
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It goes on in verse #5 Isaiah 
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But He, or I say He was wounded 
for us were transgressions. 

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He was bruised for our 
iniquities. 

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The chastisement of our peace 
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And with His stripes we are 
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Do you understand this? 
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#5 it's talking about Him being 
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Verse #4 smitten the God 
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And it comes with that strong 
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was He for our, He for our, our 
upon Him. 

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It's his constant pattern of He 
for us. 

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And So what that tells me is 
this, the suffering that's 

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taking place there. 
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That's not arbitrary suffering. 
That's just not because 

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suffering. 
That's not that at all. 

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What we see here, if we really 
understand it, Amen. 

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It's suffering as us. 
This is a substitutionary 

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suffering. 
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for their own, but for another 
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And the language Isaiah is 
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the concept of a crucifix was 
even in existence. 

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But he's writing the language of
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there's the concept of a 
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The crowd, yes, punish him, 
crucify him, and they've seen it

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as punishment. 
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that wasn't punishment taking 
place, That was deliverance 

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taking place. 
Someone say yes, I I want to if 

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you will accept and adopt the 
words of Saint John 129 that 

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whenever John seen Jesus Christ 
in shoe leather walking in his 

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earthly ministry before Calvary 
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Amen. 
For most that were were to 

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observe it, he said of Jesus, 
Behold the Lamb of God, which 

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taketh away the sins of the 
world. 

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The apostle Peter says that 
Christ in first Peter 224 he is 

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only himself bear our sins in 
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Matthew. 
The Gospel of Matthew lifts his 

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voice and says, what happened in
Christ fulfilled the prophecy of

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Isaiah. 
Matthew 817 himself took our 

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infirmities and bear our 
sickness. 

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So you can read Isaiah, you can 
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apostle Peter, you can read the 
apostle Paul, you can read 

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Matthew. 
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thoughts, whether it be any or 
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They're all the same thought 
proclaiming the same gospel, 

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Amen. 
Through different voices of 

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different times and different 
books that the suffering servant

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of Isaiah's prophecy, what's the
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New Testament? 
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Amen. 
That means the cross was not the

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point where heaven gave up. 
That's where heaven gave 

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everything. 
Yes, to the message we tote. 

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It's not that Christ suffered, 
but more specific, Christ 

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suffered for US. 
Judge it as you will and as 

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humanity did. 
But let's put the corrective 

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lens there, Tony, the whipping 
post and what took place there, 

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that was for you. 
The mocking, the spitting. 

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Ethan, that was for you. 
The nails in hands and feet, 

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Krista, that was for you. 
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Each one of those moments that 
it was for us or for this or for

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that word for just three 
letters, but a powerful word for

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gives the suffering direction. 4
gets the suffering direction. 

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It gives the suffering purpose. 
It gets the suffering destiny. 

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It's not a drifting agony. 
It's not a drifting sorrow. 

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It's not a aimless suffering. 
It was a redemptive. 

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Here's what I'm convinced years 
down the road that we walk in 

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churches all across America. 
We come with our own notions and

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ideas and believe, well, God's 
finished with me. 

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He's let me because I'm 
suffering right now. 

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We're not guilty of interpreting
other people suffering. 

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Then we get guilty of 
interpreting our own. 

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He must be finished with me. 
I must have ran out of chances. 

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He must have abandoned me. 
Suffering. 

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It's got to be. 
But folks, suffering is not 

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always a sign that God has 
abandoned someone. 

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Hear me. 
Calvary should be picture enough

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that sometimes God is doing His 
deepest work in some of the 

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places that look the most 
painful. 

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I wish I wish the story of 
everybody that ever came to God 

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or came back to God was just 
XYZ. 

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You know what? 
I woke up on one sunny 1 

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sunshine morning and the wind 
was blowing the clouds away and 

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the tulips was coming out of the
the ground and I said I'm going 

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to go to the House of the Lord 
and make him my Savior and King.

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I wish every story was that, but
I read other stories there were 

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David is talking about that. 
In my distress I looked into the

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Lord and I found many times the 
very impetus for the four that 

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led some people to God was their
sorrow, their pain, and their 

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suffering. 
It wasn't punishment. 

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It was God trying to woo them 
and draw them to where they knew

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they could find an answer, where
they knew they could find 

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healing, where they knew they 
could find hope. 

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Someone say Amen. 
He's getting what they deserve, 

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what he deserved. 
No, he was taking what we 

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deserved Heaven's rejecting him.
Look at that. 

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What would be happening if 
heaven wasn't No, no, heaven was

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sending him. 
We're going to stand here at 

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this crucifix as we Altas and 
we're going to watch the end of 

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a life No God right in the 
beginning of salvation for 

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someone right here at the good 
the cross. 

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Here's what I understand but 
them alone Job he didn't 

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understand the whole story while
he was living through it of his 

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own life enough times we don't 
understand ours while we're 

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living through it either. 
The point is, is that Christ, he

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knows what friends and what 
crowds and even what you may not

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know. 
He knows what we're trying to 

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make sense of it. 
All right? 

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Everything that happens, our 
life, we got to make sense of it

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right now. 
Be purpose got to be mean. 

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That's the reason why we 
scrounge around, try to give 

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purpose to things, even if it 
might not be the right purpose. 

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If I can give some purpose with 
it, even if it's 

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misappropriated, I'll feel 
better about it, even if even if

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it paints me in the negative 
senses. 

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I flubbed up everything that was
used that day. 

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Those whips, those nails, those 
thorns. 

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Yeah, all of that could have 
been instruments of human 

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cruelty, but they exceeded that 
Bishop. 

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They were the tools of rescue. 
And I think it's important 

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today. 
I love this about our Lord. 

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It's not as though Christ was 
sitting along the sidelines 

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giving some sideline advice to 
the hurting. 

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It wasn't like we are when the 
sports things are going on and 

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we're armchair refs. 
No, he entered the arena, He 

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entered the arena. 
He entered our hurt, He entered 

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our suffering. 
And so if he bore our griefs, as

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Isaiah said, and carried our 
sorrows, then here's what we all

451
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,120
sitting here need to understand 
today. 

452
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:03,040
Then then there is no reason for
us to carry our guilt, though it

453
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:12,000
still belongs to us, and pretend
like we can heal ourselves when 

454
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,440
He's taken that obligation on 
himself. 

455
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:24,240
We've been living in eternal 
rank, marching over orders since

456
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,880
the beginning of time. 
Even after Calvary. 

457
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,360
He bore our sorrow, but we're 
still trying to bear it. 

458
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,360
He's taking a large all of that 
suffering on us. 

459
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:45,000
But we're like no, I should feel
this bad because XYZ I deserve 

460
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,560
it. 
So we just continue on in life. 

461
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,200
I'm going to carry it because I 
don't deserve anything better 

462
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,880
than this. 
You want to hear me right now? 

463
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,960
You want to talk about trauma? 
Let's not go to your childhood. 

464
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,320
Let's just go to your being born
into this world. 

465
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,960
A feeling like you don't 
deserve. 

466
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,640
I don't deserve anything better.
I don't deserve anything good. 

467
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,840
Holly. 
He bore your grief, carried your

468
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,360
sorrow. 
Don't try to pick up what He 

469
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:27,000
already placed on the cross, 
Folks, We're tugging and pulling

470
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,320
over. 
We're tugging and pulling on 

471
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,920
things that's already been 
nailed there, and someone of you

472
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,600
has got your claw hook trying to
pry it off so you can put it 

473
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,800
back on yourself and carry it. 
That's not God's intention for 

474
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,320
you. 
He's redefining suffering today.

475
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:50,640
No, no, no, no, He did it. 
He can take it. 

476
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,760
I'm saying, Jesus, it was 
smitten and afflicted. 

477
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,920
Yeah, I'm going back to the 
three smitten and afflicted and 

478
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,960
stricken is the same one in New 
Testament Scripture. 

479
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:06,080
He calls out to whoever and he 
says, come unto me, oh ye that 

480
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:11,280
labor and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest. 

481
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,080
Fill my spirit today that we 
have restless people in here, 

482
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:24,440
all right? 
Sleepless nights toss and turn 

483
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,800
the agonies of what shouldn't 
have been but was. 

484
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,199
And what now? 
You're the Holy Ghost in this 

485
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,800
room. 
There's a call that's still 

486
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,440
echoing from eons of time that's
saying I want to give you a 

487
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:44,000
rest, a peace that passes all 
understanding to give you a rest

488
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,560
where in the weary can rest. 
Because what looked like defeat 

489
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:53,000
on Friday, right, was victory in
preparation for Sunday. 

490
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,440
Men thought they're ending his 
life. 

491
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,280
God said no, I'm just using 
death so you can start your 

492
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,920
life. 
The work is finished. 

493
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,600
The work is finished. 
Note the Scripture. 

494
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,560
Note the terminology that it is 
in Isaiah 53. 

495
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,200
This is not the way it was 
worded. 

496
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:25,040
He might have borne our grief. 
No, it says He hath borne our 

497
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:30,800
grief. 
It does not say maybe, maybe He 

498
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,960
carried our sorrows. 
It's not what it says. 

499
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,320
It says He hath carried our 
sorrows. 

500
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,600
Whatever Pastor McGee, whatever.
Well, this is my challenge to 

501
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,800
you today. 
We have a choice. 

502
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,160
As we stand here, as we look at 
the sorrows, we look at The 

503
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,920
Agonist, we look at the 
suffering we have. 

504
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,320
We have an opportunity. 
We have a, we have a chance 

505
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,240
here. 
Just as they did then, so we do 

506
00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:58,200
now. 
And this is what we got to ask 

507
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:04,000
ourselves, am I going to receive
the finished work of Calvary or 

508
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,840
am I going to walk away from 
that hill? 

509
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,640
Am I going to stand with the 
crowd as everybody else had 

510
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:14,200
their opinions that day and 
misunderstand him and 

511
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,160
misunderstand what was really 
taking place and misunderstand 

512
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,880
what was being done? 
Will I look at him as just being

513
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:30,320
one more victim in history? 
Will I accept him as my answer? 

514
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:40,120
Will I change my view of that 
supposed punishment and say no, 

515
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,720
no, tone up. 
That wasn't punishment. 

516
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:49,360
That was the display of a rescue
mission. 

517
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,720
That's what that was. 
Word explains it. 

518
00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,200
Now I'm getting to a closer by 
the means. 

519
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,080
The word basically explains it. 
This, if I can just bring it 

520
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,960
into a solitary sentence, that 
he was carrying what belonged to

521
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,120
us so that we might receive what
belongs to him. 

522
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:18,160
It's the story of Corinthians. 
He took all of our wrongs and he

523
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:23,280
the the word is imputed. 
He put them on his record and 

524
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,840
then his righteousness he 
imputed as the word, but it 

525
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,440
means he put that on our 
account. 

526
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,640
Now, there may be some here 
today said that sounds like a 

527
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,160
deal because if I got yoked up 
at the right person, we could 

528
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,400
say, hey, could we switch 
accounts in the real like 

529
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,960
financial world? 
Just go let the sky be the 

530
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,520
limit. 
Think of it. 

531
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,400
We're going to do an account 
switch. 

532
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,480
I don't know who the wealthiest 
person in the world is right now

533
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,720
there with you know, I know Bill
Gates is decently where, you 

534
00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:02,640
know, wealthy, you know, by my 
standards, but let there be a 

535
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,880
count switch that that that 
might be a little pleasing. 

536
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,640
A matter of fact. 
I don't know what I don't know 

537
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,560
if I'm even capable of managing 
that type of money. 

538
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,360
But I guarantee you this on my 
side, it would be debt free pro.

539
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,640
No, it wouldn't. 
He's going to he's going to 

540
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,520
inherit some debt, right? 
Oh, come on, debt. 

541
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,840
That's not his debt, right? 
And I'm going to get some 

542
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:38,840
riches. 
I never worked for folks. 

543
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,960
When Christ said I'll take yours
on me and you can take mine on 

544
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,200
yours. 
You just got the best deal there

545
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,560
ever was because he got things 
that's not even on him. 

546
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,520
And you got some things that you
didn't deserve. 

547
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,240
None of us deserve. 
But this isn't punishment. 

548
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:00,840
This is a rescue mission he's 
on. 

549
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:05,600
You didn't stand with me this 
morning by the Mason. 

550
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,240
We've been taught it's been 
ingrained in US. 

551
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,160
I think it's been ingrained. 
I don't know how. 

552
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,280
Maybe it's part of the there's 
some gene in the DNA strand 

553
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,880
that's common to all men. 
And that is we've been taught 

554
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,200
then that just pain always means
punishment. 

555
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,280
To what? 
That's what those jobs friends 

556
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,120
thought. 
That's what the people standing 

557
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,520
near or even afar from the cross
thought. 

558
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,200
Sometimes when I look at my own 
woundings in my life, it's kind 

559
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,720
of the the footnote that I write
on the woundings of my own life.

560
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,960
Punishment. 
Punishment. 

561
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:46,120
Oh, you got that diagnosis? 
Well, you got that diagnosis 

562
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,000
because of this. 
What? 

563
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,480
You did XYZ years ago. 
Everybody doing all right? 

564
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,400
Yeah. 
Come on, talk about it. 

565
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:52,760
Yeah. 
You were. 

566
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,960
You were stricken with with 
cancer or with the possibility 

567
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,800
of cancer because of that which 
you did. 

568
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,640
XYZ. 
You lost your job because of 

569
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,560
what you did. 
Everybody hearing me right now, 

570
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:14,360
pain's got to mean punishment. 
Isaiah 53 will not, will not. 

571
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,120
Let us say that. 
Not forever. 

572
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,320
It's trying to correct that 
mentality. 

573
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,280
It's the gospel, It's the death,
burial and resurrection. 

574
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,600
And it's the gospel in a 
nutshell. 

575
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,960
Isaiah 53 is it's the comfort of
Job, it's the meaning of the 

576
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,480
cross. 
It's all of those things. 

577
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,680
It's it's the hope of every 
wounded soul in here that may be

578
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,040
going through suffering right 
now. 

579
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:43,480
And we're asking, why would God 
allow this? 

580
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,680
And sometimes the answer isn't 
that God has turned away from 

581
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:52,920
us, but that God is doing 
something in that far greater 

582
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:58,120
than we can see, far greater 
than we can even comprehend. 

583
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,720
And the underlining thing is 
this. 

584
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:07,080
It's for us. 
We bow our heads in this place. 

585
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:13,960
It's for us. 
He wants to redefine suffering. 

586
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:26,120
Calvary redefined suffering. 
It's not just cut and dry that 

587
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:31,520
the righteous are blessed and 
the sin stricken ones are 

588
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:37,240
cursed. 
I've seen some very, very good 

589
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,160
in my estimation. 
Righteous people go through some

590
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,520
horrific things right now. 
What? 

591
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,920
My wife just spoke to you about 
Cotton Garnett, what he's going 

592
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,680
through right now. 
I know his mom and dad very 

593
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,840
aware. 
I've known him for 25 years. 

594
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,800
Good pastors, pastors, wife, 
great people that family, just 

595
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,480
tremendous family. 
Someone else might look at that 

596
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,720
and say, well, that's a 
punishment for whatever, but 

597
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,560
I've seen some really good 
people, might even call them 

598
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,600
righteous people, go some 
through some horrific things. 

599
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,840
I can tell you it's not always 
what it seems to be. 

600
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,320
It's not always what it appears 
to be. 

601
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,680
It's not always what people with
their opinions think it really 

602
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:21,800
is. 
God might be doing a sovereign 

603
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:26,760
work that our minds can't fully 
comprehend on this side of it, 

604
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,920
but when it's all said and done,
we might be able to test our 

605
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:35,200
eyes over our shoulders and say 
that's what God was doing 

606
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,840
through that. 
And it didn't mean anything of 

607
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:44,120
what I thought it was. 
Oh, I feel the Spirit of the 

608
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,520
Lord here. 
I'm convinced today that there's

609
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,200
people set in this place that's 
been interpreting things of 

610
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:57,080
their own life. 
They've used the darkest hues of

611
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:02,080
black and Gray to color in the 
lines of what's presently taking

612
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,400
place. 
But Sir, ma'am, I'm telling you,

613
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,520
but the Lord has a way of 
redefining sufferings. 

614
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,520
It might not be everything that 
it appears to be, and it might 

615
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,720
not be happening. 
Why you think it really is 

616
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,360
happening? 
God may be doing a sovereign 

617
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:26,200
work, even through pain, even 
through suffering. 

618
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:37,920
It feels like pastor, he's 
working against me, but the end 

619
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,720
result of it all is that he 
might be working for you. 

620
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,880
It's just that we've been 
accustomed to view anything that

621
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,400
looks negative as though it 
can't come out with a good 

622
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:59,400
outcome, that all things are 
possible with the Lord. 

623
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:04,720
This altar is open today, folks.
I'm not just saying this is hype

624
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:07,320
or anything like that. 
I'm telling you the Spirit of 

625
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,120
the living God is here today and
He wants to touch you. 

626
00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:16,160
He wants to minister to those 
points of your life that are 

627
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,040
being misunderstood by you and 
others. 

628
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,960
He wants to touch you today. 
He wants to minister to you. 

629
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:26,120
He wants to bring real truth, 
meaning to all of our 

630
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:33,160
suppositions of the wise. 
Why now, why this extreme? 

631
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,960
Oh God, if you feel comfortable 
today and you're standing by a 

632
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:43,440
loved 1, you just might just 
grab their hand today and just 

633
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:49,560
simply utter God help me help my
perspective, help my viewpoint, 

634
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,800
help the perspectives that 
others have placed upon what I'm

635
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,080
going through the opinions God 
that others that's come down the

636
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,440
pipe that is worn heavy upon my 
life. 

637
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:05,400
God, I know I know that 
reference point of Calvary, but 

638
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:13,160
God I've been trying to serve 
that come unto me, Paul ye the 

639
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:20,240
labor and are heavy laden. 
I will give you rest. 

640
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,560
It's a rest that can only be 
found in him. 

641
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,680
It's a rest that can only be 
found in Calvary. 

642
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,080
It's not a rest your doctor can 
give you. 

643
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,240
It's not a rest your therapist 
can give you. 

644
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,720
It's not a rest that 
pharmaceuticals can give you. 

645
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,160
It's not a rest that your family
can return to you. 

646
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:49,320
You need the rest that the one 
that carried your log, he's he's

647
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,160
imputing, he's changing accounts
with you. 

648
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,680
He's the only one that can do 
that. 

649
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:05,520
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God. 
He's pulling for us today. 

650
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:10,240
The Lord's pulling for us today.
He's wanting to redefine our 

651
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:13,280
mindset and our reading of our 
suffering. 

652
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,480
He's wanting to do it for us 
today. 

653
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:18,560
He is a gentleman. 
He is a good God. 

654
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:22,440
He's a long-suffering God. 
He is a patient God. 

655
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:27,840
He's a mindful God, and He's 
here for you, for you. 

656
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:34,680
He for us, He for us, our upon 
him. 

657
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,880
Come on, brother and sister. 
Mason, let's sing right now. 

658
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,280
Oh, I wish you'd be mindful. 
If you're say, man, I'm feeling 

659
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:44,840
something this morning, Pastor 
McGee. 

660
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,400
That's the Spirit of the Lord 
dealing with you. 

661
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,200
That's the Spirit of the Lord 
reaching for you. 

662
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,240
He knows where you're at. 
He knows the things you 

663
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,960
entertain in your mind and the 
defeat that's already taken 

664
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,720
place there and the hopelessness
and the helplessness that's 

665
00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:05,680
already taken place there. 
He knows you.