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Today Richard will be continuing
our series on reimagining rest, 

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our scripture reading today is 
from Genesis 3, verse 8. 

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Then the man and his wife heard 
the sound of the Lord. 

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God as he was walking, in the 
garden in the cool of the day. 

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And they hid from the Lord God, 
Among the Trees of the garden. 

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This is the word of the Lord. 
Hey, good morning. 

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That was a short reading, right?
Oh you think it's going to be a 

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short sermon, don't you? 
Appreciate a few weeks I'll be 

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preaching at the dinner table, 
they're in the middle of a game 

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just because I got got stuff to 
say, hope you're ready. 

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No, I'm joking. 
I'm not joking. 

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I'm serious. 
I'm excited. 

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I'm excited to preach God's 
words today. 

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Let me pray for our time. 
Father, thank you for your work.

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Word that it's alive. 
That's active that it's bread, 

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nourishment and in life. 
So we pray for you were to fall 

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on good soil. 
And yeah. 

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Meet with us today reveal 
yourself to us, your church, 

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your people. 
In Jesus name. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Well Happy, Father's Day to 
biological dad, spiritual dad's 

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mentors. 
This is your day. 

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Shout out to you. 
Use it all up, because tomorrow 

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thing, Go back to normal. 
Okay. 

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As we can as we continue our 
series on rest, I want today to 

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steer our attention to our why 
and when I say why, what I'm 

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saying is getting back to what 
we were made for, Shortly after 

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God created Adam he creates Eve 
why does God create Eve for 

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human connection because we were
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God said, it's not good to be 
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I remember as a kid, I was the 
only kid for the first seven 

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years of my life. 
And during that time, I was 

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like, I want to stay bling. 
I want to Simply I want a 

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sibling because it's lonely 
playing with these toys by 

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myself, watching these shows by 
myself. 

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I want someone to play with, I 
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with together. 
So my parents bought me a bird. 

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Okay. 
And um, and so I had this bird 

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and I started to terrorize the 
Heard and my parents gave the 

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bird way to my cousin. 
And then a few years later, I 

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just ditched their and I 
terrorized her, but they kept 

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her, they kept her the capture, 
they didn't get rid of her. 

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And so another thing that God 
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is not just surround adamant 
with Community, with ease, some 

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something, with Eve, something 
else that God does in this 

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account that I think can be 
easily overlooked God, God 

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frequent it, his children to 
God, didn't have children, and 

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just leave them abandon us the 
okay to stay on Earth and good 

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luck and I'll see you later. 
He frequents them. 

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He visits them in our passage. 
It says this and I know it's 

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short. 
But there's a lot in this 

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passage says they heard the 
sound of the Lord as he was 

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walking in the garden, in the 
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See, here's what eat and 
represented Eden was at the 

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meeting place. 
It was, it was the inner section

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of Heaven and Earth between God 
in humans. 

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This because we were made for 
communion with God. 

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In the book. 
Not the way, it's supposed to be

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Cornelius, Antigua describes 
creation account. 

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As a picture of peace and peace 
goes by the word shalom, in the 

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Bible, which roughly roughly, 
which he roughly translates. 

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The way it's supposed to be. 
Whoever says that phrase, 

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whoever watches the news and go,
that's not the way it's supposed

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to be or watches LeBron playing.
Oh, that's the way it's supposed

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to be me. 
That's Beauty. 

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That's Artistry. 
I'm sorry. 

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I'm just joking. 
But right, you see something, 

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and it's done, right? 
And there's something within you

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go, that's the way it's supposed
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Or you see something that feels 
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And you go, that's not how it's 
supposed to be. 

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And we go through this creation 
account, and God puts in this 

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community, and he puts him this 
communion between God and Adam 

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and Eve. 
And what are you saying? 

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When you say this is good? 
He's saying this is how it's 

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supposed to be. 
Are you with me? 

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All right, I got one with me. 
Okay, I'm gonna try to get the 

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rest of you soon. 
In other words, when we see this

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picture, this was God's 
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He intended for humans to have 
fulfilling and flourishing 

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relationships with one another 
and with God and I don't know 

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about you, but there's something
deep within me that says I want 

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that too. 
I want to experience life the 

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way it's supposed to be. 
There's a deep desire in me to 

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have deeper connection to life 
is Buddy here, desire that. 

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Okay, I got one still, okay, 
akan who a connection with God? 

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We're experienced his experience
and his peace and Shalom. 

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We all want that we read these 
stuff and we read devotional, we

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go all man. 
I want that, I want that with 

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God, and then here's the thing, 
life is full and busy, and 

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messy. 
And if I look at some of your 

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calendars were like, man guy, I 
need this. 

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To happen. 
A lot easier than it is God. 

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I have a small window of time. 
Can you show up now? 

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Can you show for now in your 
fullness? 

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Inbounds is written, nine 
prayer, nine books on prayer. 

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And he says this, I think 
Christians fail, so often to get

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answers to their prayers because
they do not wait long enough on 

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God, they just drop down. 
Say a few words then jump up, 

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forget it and expect God and 
expect God to answer them. 

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Such. 
Praying always reminds me of the

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small boy, who ringing his 
neighbor's door bell and then 

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running away as fast as he can 
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If you've been the human long 
enough, you know this connection

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takes time. 
Connection takes time. 

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Connection takes intentionality 
and connection requires our 

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hearts availability. 
Because connection with one 

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another connection with God, 
happens from the inside out. 

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Who here remembers the movie 
Bruce Almighty. 

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Okay yeah we're dating ourselves
some of us I'm and so Bruce 

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Almighty you don't know it's Jim
Carrey and he's complaining 

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about how God's running the 
world and he gets an opportunity

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to harness God's power for a 
season. 

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And so Jim Carrey is harnessing 
the power of God and he has a 

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breakup and he's trying to get 
his ex back and he tries to 

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command her to love them. 
Love me. 

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Love me. 
And it doesn't, it doesn't work.

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And what he realizes is what he 
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Fame power and money is 
connection. 

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When we realize, what were made 
of and we feel the, the, the 

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distance between actually 
experience in it, it can be 

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frustrating, right? 
So that when hear other people 

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talk about the relations of God,
you're just like, oh, man, 

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forget it. 
I've never, I'm never gonna have

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that. 
I think we think about 

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connecting with the God we can 
go. 

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This just seems too elusive. 
God is just too slippery. 

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He doesn't really want to be 
found and I'm trying and it's 

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just there's nothing happening 
or you just like I'm not 

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spiritual enough or we talk 
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Will of God, really knew me. 
If God really got close to me 

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and he saw really how I am. 
Maybe he wouldn't want that 

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connection with me. 
So in this, in this story we 

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have we have a serpent and this 
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Eve and here's it, here's two 
things, the serpent objective to

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drive people away from God. 
The Serpent's strategy to plant 

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lies in our head about what God 
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Connection is about drawing 
close to God that God is the 

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source of Abundant Life. 
Jesus said in John 15, that he 

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is the vine and that we are. 
The branches that he is a source

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of life for human flourishing. 
You with me. 

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Okay. 
All right. 

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I couldn't tell. 
All right. 

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This way it's it's Father's Day 
and I know many of us relate to 

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this day differently, but I just
want to say this personally as a

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father, the last thing I want my
kids to do is distance 

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themselves from me. 
Listen, if you, if you want to 

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break God's heart, don't spend 
quality time with him. 

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This the secret to real soul 
level rest is sitting at the 

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feet of Jesus. 
There's these two women about in

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the Bible, Mary and Martha and 
Jesus comes over their house to 

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visit them. 
And Martha is running around 

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trying to prepare everything and
and clean the house. 

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And Mary is just sitting at 
Jesus feet and Martha's 

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complaining like floor, tell her
to get up and do something. 

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And Jesus says, few things are 
needed or indeed, only one Mary 

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has chosen. 
What is better? 

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And it will not be taken away 
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In other words, Jesus is Saint. 
Mary has chosen the right thing 

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because I'm here with you right 
now and she's sitting at my 

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feet. 
I don't know what your church 

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background is, or what your 
conclusion in conclusion is on 

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what you've owned. 
Were you've landed on how God 

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feels about you? 
But I just want to say this when

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I read the scriptures that I 
know this that God desperately 

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wants you to know him, God 
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experience his presence. 
Here in here in Genesis week we 

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run across a story where Adam 
and Eve they missed. 

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The mark that God tells him 
don't do something and they do 

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it and they're and they're 
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They're feeling shame. 
They're feeling all the 

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emotions, but what I want you to
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God's action. 
The God still shows up to meet 

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with them. 
God shows up in the garden to 

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meet with his people, and their 
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And it says a previously in 
verse 7, that after they ate the

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fruit, that they, they realized 
that they were naked and they 

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try to cover themselves. 
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saying, I don't want God to see 
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see the state that I'm in right 
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If God sees me the way I am 
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He will be disappointed. 
Need in me. 

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See when we talk about 
reimagining rest, some of us 

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might need to reimagine how God 
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If you view yourself and you see
yourself as a worst thing you've

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ever done and you put that on 
God that God sees you as the 

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worst thing that you've ever 
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You will not only distance 
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You would disinter stuff from 
people in life that God's put 

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around you. 
What we're talking about here is

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a relationship in the connection
with God and you can experience 

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God's Embrace. 
If you're too ashamed to let God

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see you, as you truly are. 
Because if you're too ashamed 

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for God to see you as you truly 
are, you won't allow him to 

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embrace you. 
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the story says in verse 8, that 
They hid from God. 

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So, now, when I was a teenager, 
my mom, let me drive the car 

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mostly out of necessity because 
we just, you needed me to drive 

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him. 
Take my sister daycare, but she 

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let me go out one night, and I 
took the little Han died. 

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Hatchback, on little, little 
little road, trip around the 

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block, and I wasn't a great 
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I am now, holds Andrea driver 
yet and um, got a little fender 

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bender. 
And when I got that fender 

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bender, here's the thing. 
I tried to come home and hide It

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and this is a vehicle people. 
I tried to come home and hide 

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it, and I tried to hide from my 
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And I mean here's here's what 
the here's what makes it hard 

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because I had a good I had a 
great opportunity to have a 

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vehicle and I blew it and it was
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It was too much to face. 
So I try to dodge her and do 

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little things on the side to 
show that I'm good and I try to 

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stay busy distracted and distant
And I think we often do this 

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with God and and we try to dodge
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Or don't let him in close, 
that's actually worse than the 

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thing that you're trying to 
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Man, some of you didn't really, 
really not really hearing me and

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maybe rather go back and hear 
the podcast. 

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I'm just so, let me give you a 
practical example. 

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My kiss, they did something. 
They didn't do their homework or

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they got in trouble in class. 
If they try to dodge me and 

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don't spend time with me and I 
want to see that's the worst. 

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It just telling me what you did 
because we missed time together.

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And so the thing that they did, 
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is worse than the thing that 
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accepted and his Embrace where 
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redeem their lives. 
I want you to know me more than 

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anything else. 
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hide. 
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never really experienced God's 
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Jesus says, you know, this is 
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are weary and burdened and I 
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He says, you will find rest for 
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He just come to me, he didn't 
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You will find rest. 
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for something. 
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Looking for our, why we're all 
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that makes this human? 
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We're all looking for Jesus, 
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The writer of the book of 
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God's rest over and over again. 
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And the thing that he says that 
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God's rest is if you harden your
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motions of religion. 
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You have made us for yourself O 
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until it rests in you God loves 
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God wants you to experience his 
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rooted in his love. 
Jesus said that again John 15 as

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the father has loved me. 
So have I Loved You Now remain 

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in my love. 
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those of us have been in church 
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To all that we know about God, 
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When we go through something 
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spending time with God, Like 
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go. 
I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull myself

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out of community. 
I'm gonna do devotions laughs. 

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I'm going to talk to God less 
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thing. 
God is like actually when you're

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going through something 
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you're spent or you're at your 
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where you need me. 
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have this since this sixth 
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always tell my kids, when 
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attention because they distance 
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the same house, even though 
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square feet, they just, they 
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themselves and I go. 
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Where are you? 
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together. 
God does this when he enters the

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guard he says where are you? 
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He knows where they are is not 
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like I know where you are. 
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He's saying, don't you realize 
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though we're in the same Garden?
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I'm right here and that I didn't
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Don't you realize that you still
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with me? 
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God is initiating a 
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I wonder if God is looking for 
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God is saying, where are you? 
What's distance to what's caused

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you to distance yourself? 
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Guilt inadequacies, cause you to
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Here's a phrase that I want us 
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and adopt, no matter where we 
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Say this, you're welcome here. 
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progression of most of the 
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Why me? 
This is hard. 

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I don't want to, but you've been
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Wait a minute, you are good? 
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Psalm 139, the psalmist realizes
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What if we got that? 
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Give up on us? 
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your thoughts. 
God how vast is the some of them

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were I to count them? 
They would outnumber the grains 

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of sand. 
When I awake, I'm still with 

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you. 
Even in your hiding, God is 

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saying I'm with you, even in 
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me be your hiding place. 
Let me be your Refuge. 

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Where are you? 
Don't you know that you were 

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made for me and I for you 
Church, make God you're hiding 

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place. 
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Psalm 31, you hit them in the 
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you can feel them in your 
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Psalm 91. 
He who dwells in the secret 

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place of the most high shall 
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Y'all my I wish I had two people
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the word of God right now. 
It is like, man. 

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I know. 
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Okay, I don't know. 
I read these things. 

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I was like, oh, man. 
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You can be my refuge that I can 
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That you will hide me. 
And you will, you will Rescue 

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Me. 
Like have you ever had people 

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come after you and God said I 
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I'm your strong tower. 
I'm with you. 

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I didn't want you to run away 
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I wanted you to run towards me. 
I can tell you what you were 

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made for, but you have to answer
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Do you want it? 
Do you want God to do stuff for 

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you? 
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only do I seek that, I may dwell
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the days of my life, to Gaze on 
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him in this Temple. 
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God comes in the cool of the 
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Hebrew word ruach, which means 
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commentator says this, this may 
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That when God shows up in the 
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he wants Adam and Eve to know 
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unmistakable Way Church when we 
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when we talk about resting in 
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He wants us to be a people that 
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What's it to be a people that 
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presence? 
When God, created the garden, he

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created an environment where we 
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been creating and cultivating 
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him, all through the scripture, 
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where he is in the middle of the
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Of the people of God, he creates
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Why? 
So we can meet with them. 

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Jesus comes and makes his place 
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Why? 
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So we can meet with him he says 
man you want to know the secret 

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to life? 
Lock the door, get away with God

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talk to him. 
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secret God rewards openly Aw 
Tozer. 

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He is a pastor and author of 
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He says this, I want the 
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don't want at anything at all to
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that God has, or I don't want 
any Psalm 84 better is one day 

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in your courts than a thousand 
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Do you have a place? 
Do you have a place where you 

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can create an environment to 
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And here's the thing, God will 
make every provision in way for 

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you to meet with him. 
And Adam and Eve's worst God 

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creates covering for them. 
God will create environments for

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you to meet with him and 
unlikely places and seasons of 

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your life. 
But will you take, will you stop

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take off your sandals? 
So I'll end with the story. 

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Moses, Moses, you guys know 
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You seen the show? 
The Prince of Egypt, right? 

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And he, he was raised to be a 
kingly person, The Prince and he

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kills an Egyptian and for 
Injustice and he's on the run 

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and he's serving his 
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nowhere and he's a bush on fire.
Verse Exodus 3 says this there, 

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the angel of the Lord appeared 
to him in flames of fire from 

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within the Bush. 
Moses saw that the Bush was on 

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fire and it did not burn up some
oldest thought. 

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I will go over and see this 
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Why the bush doesn't burn up 
when the Lord saw that he had 

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gone over to look God Called to 
him from within the Bush, Moses.

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Moses. 
And Moses said, here I am. 

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Moses takes off his sandals, God
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Moses is in the space and the 
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Earth and his encounter with God
changes his life forever. 

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God wants us to be a people that
are marked by his presence 

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because we spend time with them 
because they're willing because 

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when he calls our name. 
We said here, I am man. 

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You know my past, you know what,
I've just done but if you call 

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my name here I am. 
If you tell me to come closer to

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the bush, I'll take off my 
sandals and I will come. 

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I believe God invites us to rest
because he wants us to know the 

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way things are supposed to be. 
In the garden with a God who 

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shows up in the cool of the day 
to meet with you to give you 

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rest. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
We pray for us. 

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Father. 
Thank you for Thank you for your

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word.