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I would say the worship team got
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Amen. 
Was that good? 

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Today is going to be just a very
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just amazing. 

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God's doing some great things 
and I just want to celebrate 

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God's goodness today if I can. 
There's amazing passage in First

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Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 
16. 

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And if you if you know this, 
there's a couple pieces of it. 

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You're going to see that some of
the two shortest verse in the 

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Bible and my stage play is not 
working. 

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So I'm Steve is back here. 
OK, we're good. 

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So help me out here. 
Rejoice when, always pray when 

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and give thanks in what for this
in the will of God and for you 

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in Christ Jesus, Amen. 
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things about joy and about 
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and gratitude. 
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because you really can't have 
one without the other two. 

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If you're a person of prayer, 
you, you have joy in your life, 

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you have gratitude, life, you 
have gratitude, you're a person 

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of prayer and joy. 
This all these just work 

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together. 
And this season, this is the 

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verse of this season. 
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some of this, by the way, 
rejoice always come on somebody,

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you just memorize the verse, 
Amen. 

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Pray continually. 
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Amen. 
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letter count, but these two tie 
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So you guys can be like, I 
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back-to-back, right? 
I've been teaching this with my 

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daughter. 
She's going through it and I was

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like, oh, this is awesome. 
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summarizes this season for us. 
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celebrate. 
Number one, we had one person 

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start relationship with Jesus 
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Amen. 
Never gets old. 

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Paul says there's more rejoice 
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repentance than 99 who do not 
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And that's why we do this. 
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mission and never forgot what 
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be found and that that prodigal 
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just fantastic. 
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this was just crazy. 
So if you look at last Sunday, 

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the sun before, and you go back 
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same Sunday, we are 40% larger 
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Is that crazy? 
This is like mind numbing. 

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Like, yeah, 80% of churches are 
plateaued or dying. 

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OK, So we've got 40%. 
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something's happening. 
And we're just like riding the 

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coattails like a kite flying the
God's grace. 

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Amen And so I'll say thank you 
guys have been inviting and 

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bringing and there's a lady on 
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started out and she's like, man,
I, I can't, I've been doing this

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for 8 weeks and I can't believe 
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eight years. 
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grind, Amen. 
Like it nothing dies easy, you 

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know, I mean, we're chasing 
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every every Sunday. 
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Amen And it's kind of like these
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cinema and all this stuff. 
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told me he goes, you're like a 
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I thought, man, what a great way
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Amen Because like we don't need 
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It's like we're we've been here,
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grinding. 
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Like I didn't know who we were, 
whatever, great. 

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Like we've been behind the 
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tearing down being portable 
dinner thing and then as God 

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just makes away. 
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And so it's been one of the 
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thinking about what this bell 
and semi 8 would mean for our 

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church and what it looks like. 
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is that there'll be the number 
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Christ because that space, it's 
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Like I come in there and I like,
you know, I'm doing all those 

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inspections and hang out people 
and trust me, the place needs 

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work, you know, but I'm in 
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I'm like, oh man, wouldn't it be
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this place and come to know 
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So I'm looking at this worship 
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keep the same seating by God's 
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And like people sitting here and
I can just see the worship team.

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By the way, the worship today 
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It was another level. 
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maybe it's because I've been out
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this, the fruits really sweet 
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Jared Diane, like the team, I 
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Jared started playing like 
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back in like 2007, you know, and
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often. 
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Like what passion? 
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amazing to see what God could do
in that space and the kids and I

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mean just walk in. 
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We're proud of it. 
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People are ready to receive and 
do the work of God and have 

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their sacred spaces and these 
sacred moments all throughout 

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that space. 
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praying, you know, drive around 
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want to fall down, come on 
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Like I know a lot of you guys 
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It's just, it's just an amazing 
opportunity and not just for the

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young people come to Christ, but
the number of people who will 

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help other people come to 
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Like it's not just about coming 
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I, I hope our church never 
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it's like sucks up at all the 
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like we want to be ascending 
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come, get healed and then get 
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sent out. 
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Like a launching type of church,
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I know Barry said earlier, I 
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the goal of, to be a Christian 
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people about Jesus. 
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about how many people 
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for overseas and for impacting 
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like that. 
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never know the name of Jesus 
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like structure and things that 
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building. 
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Like I live in the world every 
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is way bigger than we could even
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And we we have this vision frame
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cast vision more often, but my 
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really three things is 
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And I'll just read it because I 
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I'll ever say it. 
But I see a church that reaches 

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beyond our city by investing in 
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and internships. 
See a church that multiplies new

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leaders, new gatherings, new 
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and new campuses across Kansas 
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Real life will be the church 
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professional at producing high 
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Amen. 
It's not just come and say this,

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let's produce, let's multiply, 
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transformation. 
I see a church that perfects the

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art, which is a lost art by the 
way of taking lost people and 

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develop them into disciple 
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Just that one thing changes 
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Real life will be a Commission 
based church with commissioning 

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hundreds of South Makers from 
our church into our city into 

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the world to a Prince people to 
Jesus. 

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We'll add deep value in people's
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They can't wait to come and 
gather on Sunday. 

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Last thing is restoration. 
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Amen. 
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and have just head knowledge, it
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financial legacy, divorce, care,
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housing and mentorship, jail 
ministry, just powerful 

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ministries to restore people 
into God's purpose, Amen. 

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This is the heartbeat. 
This is like, why do we do this 

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building? 
Like it's like, oh, it's about 

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the, it's not about the 
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Like as we all get excited about
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and the seeds, it's about Jesus 
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Amen. 
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We, we wrote this vision. 
I have this vision frame. 

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We, we adapted every year and, 
and some goals stay on, some 

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don't. 
And so last year we had updated 

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this goal and I'm going to read 
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And I want you to see what God 
did this kind of like a North 

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Star document for us. 
This vision frame. 

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We had a mid range goal in 2025 
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space and places here was to 
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permanent church facility. 
And last year we had commitment 

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Sunday and we committed. 
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1,000,000. 
Remember that guy's praise 

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Jesus. 
So we hit the goal. 

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So you guys are doing that this 
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A 20,000 square foot space off 
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intersection of 49 and 58. 
God is good, Amen. 

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That's like I should have wrote 
a bigger number. 

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You know, it's like bringing a 
bigger cooler when you go 

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fishing, you know, just catch a 
bigger fish. 

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But it just got in his goodness,
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And if you look at this, you're 
like, we have been preparing and

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planning and praying and you 
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stepping out of faith. 
And then God brings an 

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opportunity. 
So thank you, Jesus, Amen. 

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And so I just continue to ask 
you guys to continue to pray for

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divine favor, divine 
appointments. 

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We have a lot of infrastructure 
in that space. 

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Everything basically needs 
updated. 

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If if you've been there, you 
know, parking lot to roof to 

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HVAC, there's going to be a lot 
of infrastructure going in. 

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Amen. 
So let's put a little equity 

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back in and we'll just sweat it 
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We'll get where God needs us to 
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But I mean, we're excited for 
what God's doing today. 

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I want to give a little more 
honor to some runners do this. 

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Last week we had some help, 
cleaned up some the Tornadoes, 

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tornado I should say. 
And we went to Tessa's house and

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she had the tree through her car
and all sorts of stuff. 

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We gave you guys an amazing, 
really huge on ramp of time of 

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one hour. 
Come on, somebody. 

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And we texted you guys and was 
like, all right, we're going to 

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be there in an hour. 
And we had 15 people show up and

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we cleaned up this tree and 
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And legit from when I got out of
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truck was 40 minutes. 
Thank you, Jesus. 

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Amen, because if you all didn't 
show up, I'm back there for four

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or five hours, you know, but we 
got it done. 

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And so just that's just the 
culture of real life. 

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Like there's been so many times 
where it's it's just like, Hey, 

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this person needs to be out and 
we got to help them move and 

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just boom trucks and trucks to 
people and just amazing. 

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So thank you guys for being 
church that loves on people and 

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carries for people. 
I want to give some big honor 

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today. 
There's a family church. 

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We we said they're leaving, but 
they're really launching and 

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it's Scott and Dana, Jermaine 
family. 

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You got Jordan, Marissa, Ashton,
Lauren, the whole crew. 

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They have built a house up north
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Liberty somewhere out there, 
beautiful home. 

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They're moving in this week. 
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between the school, closer to 
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acreage. 
Come on, somebody. 

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But man, they have been a 
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even if you don't know them. 
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between Scott and Dan and I for 
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out then youth ministry and 
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up their home and we'd go over 
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hundred plus kids, their house. 
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Some of the some of the first 
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way, have served faithfully ever
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kids areas and setup and tear 
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missing life groups open that 
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I don't know, five years, I 
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Amen. 
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the space we're in without them 
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handed people play star roles in
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extremely open handed and God 
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roles, even if you don't know 
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star, but God just has a way of 
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done amazing. 
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We love them today. 
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You, you guys might be like, 
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Scott guy? 
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up north. 
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launching out and that's what 
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Come on, somebody like didn't 
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to heaven, but we're on the same
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Just refill for Christ. 
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You'll see these guys around. 
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disappearing on face the map. 
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But man, they I cannot tell you.
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me stand your shoulders. 
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grab their coattail and if they 
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to get behind it and to, to 
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facility, there wasn't, there 
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support us. 
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something for me with my faith 
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So thank you guys one more time,
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these guys. 
I'm going to try to avoid crying

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this morning. 
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I was even listening to worship 
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morning, heart abandoned that 
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Some of you guys were there, but
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first Sunday, September 17th, 
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I was still at exact same spot 
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something new and it was because
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facility and it's like heart 
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Man, what a what a song, you 
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jump in the Bible. 
I I know I've probably burned 

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more time, but it was good. 
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And I don't have a clock, so 
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bit, but it's going to be good. 
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the out of the rest of us? 
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intend the Bible to be 
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It's not written to scholars. 
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really by everyday people, a lot
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But as a as a person, you want 
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We want to how to get the Bible.
You're asking questions, right? 

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Like if I'm gonna give my life 
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Like, like, was this by God? 
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Was was this edited? 
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Is this a fable? 
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Scripture and also start with 
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It does take faith to believe in
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It's not blind faith. 
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Amen. 
It does take a step, but I would

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consider this, if you believe in
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believe in Abraham Lincoln, I 
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same kind of optic or same kind 
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scrutiny of history for those 
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Amen. 
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Bible and they'll say, well, it 
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it's possible to this and it's 
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probability, Amen. 
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didn't exist. 
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more probable that the 
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based on historical evidence 
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There's 5000 Greek manuscripts 
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written by eyewitnesses. 
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over, say, autography and 
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scrutinize and you have 
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faith, Amen. 
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today for you guys is that you 
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critical in your intellect. 
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your approach to Scripture, that
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faith to the things you believe 
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You look at the Bible and give 
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you can scrutinize the words and
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things or, or inside evidence or
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go to, the more, you know, I've 
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their faith always increases, 
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write off the Bible and say, 
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It's just this. 
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excuses because they don't want 
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living God. 
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bat. 
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come with a humble approach to 
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probable, Amen. 
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that there's a lot I could 
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six weeks on this. 
You're gonna get like 20 

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foundation, like the very basic 
footing of how we got Scripture.

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It's called inspiration that the
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God. 
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going to second Timothy 3 verse 
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This is Paul's letter to his 
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This is Paul's last letter he 
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So this is like his sign off. 
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This is his last words. 
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He says, in fact, everyone who 
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Christ Jesus will be what helped
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Persecuted. 
OK, so if you're getting 

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persecuted and the world feels 
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You're in God's will. 
Amen. 

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Because it it's going to be 
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It's going to be difficult. 
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evil doers and imposters go from
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Does this sound like 2026 to you
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The world is full of this 

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deceiving and being deceived. 
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to Timothy, continue in what you
have learned and become 

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convinced of because of those 
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you have learned it and what 
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saying the Bible is really not 
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What what what he's saying is 
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you're going to see like it was 
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faith. 
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dad, grandpa, whatever they're 
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based upon their character that 
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Amen. 
Like the person that's sharing 

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the Scripture with you or how 
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Christian, we talk about joy, 
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Guess what, not depend on any of
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Amen. 
Like the mark of the Christian, 

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there's nothing to do about 
what's happening around you has 

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to happen what's in you. 
And so you can choose those 

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things no matter how hard it 
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And what Paul's telling Timothy 
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that are spoken to you, don't 
forget who spoke them to you 

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because you can bank on it. 
If God is faithful to them, 

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he'll be faithful to you. 
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remember how from infancy. 
So when he was born, you have 

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known the Holy Scriptures. 
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That's a good family. 
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I didn't grow up in that not 
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or something crazy. 
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Bible. 
I did not. 

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I can't. 
I can't say I knew from infancy.

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I knew when I was 15. 
Come on with somebody because 

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somebody shared Jesus with me. 
But for Timothy, his mom, his 

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dad, his parents, his 
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him, they model things to Christ
taught in the Scripture and look

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what it says about it, what 
you're able to make you wise for

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salvation through faith in 
Christ Jesus. 

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I always get nervous when people
tell me like how they met Jesus 

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and it doesn't involve Scripture
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Now, I'm not saying God doesn't 
speak through dreams. 

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Come on somebody like I know he 
speaks through dreams. 

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I know he speaks especially the 
Muslim nations through dreams. 

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I'm not saying God doesn't give 
visions. 

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I'm not saying God doesn't do 
certain things, but it's very 

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hard for me to believe that the 
Bible says that faith come 

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through hearing and hearing 
through the word of God. 

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And so when you hear the Bible, 
like when I heard the Bible very

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clearly for the first time in my
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neo savior. 
It came through scripture. 

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Amen And so for for Timothy, he 
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Scripture. 
And so if somebody tells me 

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like, well, I've always known 
Jesus, red alert, you know, 

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nobody's born as a Christian, 
Amen. 

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And and it's a personal choice. 
We don't, we don't all become 

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Christians because one person 
can we, we make our own choice 

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to humble ourselves and to call 
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Amen. 
And and so there's a moment in 

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time. 
So, but it goes with Scripture. 

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That's one of the reasons we 
know the Scripture is because it

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makes us wise for salvation. 
It saves our soul and then Paul 

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goes on to say verse 16. 
He says all Scripture, how much 

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scripture, all scripture is what
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God breathe. 
We'll talk about in a second is 

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as useful for four things. 
And he's going to say teaching, 

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which is sharing the word of 
God, what your life should look 

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like, what direction should go 
and it navigates decisions for 

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rebuking. 
That's really calling somebody 

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out. 
This is the wrong path you're 

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living life is in this is broken
in your life and correction is 

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the path you should go on. 
So rebuking is saying that's 

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wrong and correction is saying, 
here's the way to go and 

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training in righteousness. 
I love that. 

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Like if you want your life to be
right with God, guess what? 

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Know the scripture, Amen. 
Like this is your compass. 

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This is your road map, this is 
your north star. 

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This guides everything in your 
life. 

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This is a filter through every 
decision for every thought for 

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00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,080
everything in your direction in 
your life goes through 

449
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,600
Scripture, Amen. 
It's not just, well, I'll just 

450
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,520
run the direction on a run. 
It's like, is this match up with

451
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,680
the word of God? 
Has the Holy Spirit lead me, 

452
00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,800
which is going to lead directly 
into the Word of God? 

453
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,520
Verse 17, it says that the so 
that the servant here's the 

454
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,640
purpose of God mainly thoroughly
furnished or equipped for every 

455
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,400
good work. 
So if you know the word of God 

456
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,160
and you put into your life, then
all of a sudden your life is 

457
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,360
useful for the Kingdom. 
The works of God go through you 

458
00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:35,480
because you've been shaped and 
tempered and obedient to God 

459
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,360
himself. 
So the word God breathed, that's

460
00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:38,920
pretty interesting. 
Like God actually breathed the 

461
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,120
Bible. 
Do you guys believe God breathed

462
00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,080
the Bible? 
It's a pretty interesting word. 

463
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,560
It's Theo, so God, and you had 
the word for nostril, nostris. 

464
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,880
So Theo nostris, it means the 
breath of God. 

465
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,040
And what he's basically saying 
is that Scripture comes from God

466
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,560
himself, Amen. 
That every one of these words is

467
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,640
actually coming from the 
heartbeat of God, from the 

468
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,640
authority of God, from the voice
of God, from the intellect of 

469
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,160
God, from the leadership of God.
This is coming from somewhere 

470
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,800
else. 
It's a sacred book, Amen. 

471
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,080
Amen. 
Like you're like, where do I go?

472
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,240
Go to Scripture and you can see 
these words, like where they 

473
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,240
come from. 
Jesus tells us in John chapter 

474
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,320
12, verse 44. 
This is interesting. 

475
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,160
These Pharisees and these 
Sadducees, these leaders are 

476
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,800
following Jesus, but they're too
afraid to openly follow Jesus. 

477
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,880
And so they're called secret 
disciples. 

478
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,400
And I know for most people 
there's probably a season where 

479
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,880
you're a secret disciple. 
Well, you don't your friends 

480
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,240
know you're going to church or 
you read the Bible in private. 

481
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,480
Nobody knows you're following 
God. 

482
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,480
And this is what Jesus tells 
these secret followers, people 

483
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,320
like Nicodemus, right, Joseph, 
Marathia, these are people that 

484
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,080
are secret disciples until Jesus
died and they just mustered the 

485
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,040
faith when they saw him being 
crucified. 

486
00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:52,000
But says this in John chapter 12
verse 44 says then Jesus cried 

487
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,160
out. 
He says whoever believes in me 

488
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,280
does not believe in me only, but
the one who what? 

489
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,560
The one who sent me. 
And so if you believe in the 

490
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,480
Son, you're actually also 
believing in the Father. 

491
00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:08,760
It's pretty amazing, Amen? 
And you get right with Jesus, 

492
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,080
you're actually right with the 
Father himself. 

493
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:17,400
Verse 45 says the one who looks 
at me is seeing the one who sent

494
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,720
me and often times feel like, 
man, I don't know what God looks

495
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,320
like, just look at Jesus, Amen. 
Jesus is the perfect picture of 

496
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,680
the Father, His, his character, 
he what the words he speaks, 

497
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,640
everything he does is a perfect 
picture of the Father. 

498
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,000
Verse 46 that says I've come 
into the world as a light so 

499
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,000
that no one who believes in me 
should stay in darkness. 

500
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,160
Verse 47, it says if anyone 
hears my words but does not keep

501
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,960
them, I do not judge that 
person, for I did not come in to

502
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,040
judge the world. 
So I did not come to judge the 

503
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,720
world, but to save the world. 
Amen. 

504
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,240
Thank you Jesus, that you come 
to save the world. 

505
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,320
This is John 317. 
I didn't come to condemn the 

506
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,160
world, but to save the world 
through myself, through Jesus. 

507
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,520
And so that's the good news. 
Amen. 

508
00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:06,760
Got to go. 
Next verse though, there is a 

509
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:12,560
judge for the one who rejects me
and does not accept my words, 

510
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,880
that there there is going to be 
an account because this is the 

511
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,160
standard by which we live. 
He says the very words I've 

512
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,800
spoken will condemn them at the 
last day. 

513
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,760
And so the words of Jesus, 
obviously the words of God, 

514
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,480
because Jesus, God, the book of 
the Bible is breathed by God. 

515
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,200
So it's the words of God. 
And this is our standard. 

516
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,480
We're accountable to this. 
And So what he's saying is in 

517
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,840
this lifetime we make a choice. 
And the next time lifetime we 

518
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,920
have to live with it. 
Amen. 

519
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,480
Because a lot of people just 
dismissed the Bible like, oh, 

520
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,760
that's an old book. 
It's, it's a good teaching. 

521
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,240
You know, Jesus is a good moral 
teacher. 

522
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,560
Nobody's going to argue that 
Jesus didn't exist. 

523
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,520
He's found an extra biblical 
text all over the place. 

524
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,080
You can see that. 
But you're going to argue that 

525
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,680
this is actually the word of God
and I can live my life on it. 

526
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,680
All of a sudden people like, 
yeah, I'm a little hesitant. 

527
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,520
I just, I have a personal 
relationship with God. 

528
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,680
I don't really do anything that 
looks like Jesus, but me and God

529
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,920
are cool. 
It just does not work that way. 

530
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,920
Amen. 
You have to actually walk with 

531
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,840
Jesus. 
And so look at this verse 49 for

532
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,160
I did not speak on my own. 
So every word of Jesus is not 

533
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,400
his says, but the Father who 
sent me commanded me to what 

534
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,800
helped me out say all that I 
have spoken. 

535
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,360
I know that that his commands 
leads to eternal life. 

536
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:31,320
So whatever I say is just what 
the Father has told me to say. 

537
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,880
You know what's really cool? 
When you read the scripture and 

538
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,120
you see something that Jesus 
says, you hear his words. 

539
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,880
It's amazing to me. 
It's so humbling to know that 

540
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,920
those words were actually spoken
between Jesus and the Father 

541
00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,400
around the throne of God and are
brought here for us. 

542
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,640
Like, how much different would 
we read the Scripture and humble

543
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,080
ourselves if we knew those are 
conversations and past that 

544
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,280
Jesus had in heaven that just 
had an eternity past with the 

545
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,600
Father and he's delivering the 
Father's news to us. 

546
00:24:58,960 --> 00:24:59,960
That's amazing. 
Amen. 

547
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,920
And so I read this book. 
It's not just any book, it's a 

548
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,280
living book of an insight into 
the heart of the Father and the 

549
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:11,000
heart of God himself. 
And so Peter learned this quite 

550
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,360
a while back and we're going to 
talk to a little story, the 

551
00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:14,360
Peter. 
So going to be second Peter 

552
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:16,680
chapter 1. 
And Peter is writing to the 

553
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,000
underground church in Rome. 
He calls it Babylon in first and

554
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,520
second Peter. 
This is where he's beginning to 

555
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,440
encourage these Saints that are 
being persecuted. 

556
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,240
They're blamed for the burning 
down of Rome, which we knew Nero

557
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,920
blamed the Christians. 
He said his own city on fire 

558
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,440
seeker rebuild. 
They wanted to and he blamed the

559
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,920
Christians. 
They're being persecuted, being 

560
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,840
killed. 
They're being ran from every 

561
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,400
place. 
And so they they didn't write 

562
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,040
this to the Church of Rome. 
They wrote it to the Babel to 

563
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,200
Babylon so these people wouldn't
be persecuted anymore. 

564
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,720
And this is what Peter says to 
him. 

565
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,240
He says, so I will always remind
you of these things even though 

566
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,400
you know them and are firmly 
establishing the truth. 

567
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,320
You, you now have. 
And so he's going to say it 

568
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,440
again, like, I'm just going to 
remind you like a lot of you 

569
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,080
guys, you know what I'm saying 
today. 

570
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,280
Like you like, oh, yeah, I 
totally believe this is the word

571
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,560
of God. 
I know this for sure. 

572
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,840
And what Peter's saying is I 
want you to know again, like 

573
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,160
I'm, I'm going to say it one 
more time, just in case you have

574
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,200
any doubt in your mind. 
I was going to clarify. 

575
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,040
This is his last book. 
Peter is not going to make it 

576
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,000
much further after he finished 
his writing. 

577
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,160
Second Peter like he he he knows
he's going to die and so he says

578
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,880
this verse 13. 
He says, I think it's right to 

579
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,080
refresh your what Yeah, I want 
to bring it back to mind. 

580
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,640
He says as long as I live in the
tent of this body, as long as 

581
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,240
I'm physically here on earth. 
I'm just going to keep saying it

582
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,280
and saying it and saying it 
because I know that I will soon 

583
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,080
be put aside as the Lord Jesus 
Christ has made clear to me, 

584
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:42,000
he's rushed me back all the way.
John 21 it really he's, he's 

585
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,760
being, you know, restored by 
Jesus. 

586
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,120
And Jesus tells him, your arms 
will be stretched out. 

587
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:47,560
They're going to take your 
clothes. 

588
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,120
You're going to go somewhere you
don't want to go. 

589
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:50,320
You're going to LED somewhere 
you don't go. 

590
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,320
And he was talking about his 
death. 

591
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,280
He was talking about his 
crucifixion. 

592
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,800
And so Peter like knew like at 
some point the gospel is going 

593
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,040
to cost me my life. 
And before I die, I just want to

594
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:07,320
remind you of what my passion is
and what my life is built on and

595
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,200
why I'm willing to die and what 
my faith is built on. 

596
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,040
And so I'm going to remind you 
about this scripture. 

597
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,400
So he says this is verse 15 and 
I will make every effort, 

598
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,440
somebody say effort. 
I'll make every effort to see 

599
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,720
that after my departure, you 
will always be able to remember 

600
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,160
these things. 
This is Peter's legacy, Amen. 

601
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,000
He he wanted like more than 
anything when I die, I still 

602
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,400
want you to remember that the 
word of God is from him and it's

603
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,440
true and reliable is not 
made-up. 

604
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,280
That's what he wanted more than 
anything like I'm going to 

605
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,360
depart. 
But you still here whether it's 

606
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,240
our kids or the church or our 
influence. 

607
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,840
I want you to know that this 
Bible is real and you could 

608
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,240
build your life on it and God is
faithful and to trust him. 

609
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,560
The most persecuted group 
probably in history. 

610
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,280
He is pulling them back to 
Scripture. 

611
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,200
Verse 16. 
He summarizes like this and said

612
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:06,160
so well for we did not follow 
cleverly devised stories. 

613
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,680
Now think about this. 
When somebody is crucified and 

614
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,120
you still follow the person 
crucified, it's almost like you 

615
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,640
committed societal shame and 
you're it's, it's societal 

616
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,280
suicide because you're like 
this, oh, yeah, I'm with that 

617
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,120
guy you just crucified. 
And they were like, oh, no, 

618
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:29,320
you're not. 
Get out of here. 

619
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,080
What are you talking about? 
You can never associate with 

620
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,920
that guy. 
But for those disciples and 

621
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,120
everybody who knew Jesus, their 
faith got bolder and the words 

622
00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:39,560
got louder and they begin to 
share even more. 

623
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,000
Amen. 
Most people somebody crucified 

624
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,280
like I never met that guy in my 
life. 

625
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,520
I've never heard of Jesus. 
Why would I follow Jesus but for

626
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,560
Jesus being crucified. 
These men stood up with bold 

627
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,480
faith and he's declaring they 
did not make up a clever devised

628
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,680
story about this man that died 
on the cross. 

629
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,040
He was a man, a God man that 
rose from the dead. 

630
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,400
He says we have told you about 
the coming of the Lord Jesus 

631
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,960
Christ in power. 
But we were what? 

632
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,880
Help me out. 
Eyewitnesses of his what? 

633
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,280
His Majesty, what he's telling 
this group of people is we 

634
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,560
didn't make this up. 
Amen. 

635
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,960
I mean, Pete Peters at the very 
beginning, people are doubting 

636
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,400
and they're worrying. 
He didn't write this because 

637
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,800
people had bold faith. 
He's writing it because their 

638
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,640
faith is being tested and he's 
telling them, hey, just do you 

639
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,200
know, we didn't make this up. 
Matter of fact, we were there. 

640
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,120
I was an eyewitness to what 
Jesus did on the cross. 

641
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,400
I was eyewitness to seeing his 
body resurrected. 

642
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,000
I was eyewitness when I ate the 
fish. 

643
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,560
And he's going to talk about 
some of these stories. 

644
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,520
But it's important to understand
in the New Testament that every 

645
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,800
single book of the New Testament
is actually directly linked to 

646
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,400
an eyewitness account because a 
lot of people say, oh, the Bible

647
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,280
was written over all these 
centuries. 

648
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,360
Yeah, OK, we can talk about the 
Old Testament, but let's look at

649
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,360
the New Testament. 
It's not written over all these 

650
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,920
centuries, OK? 
It's not made-up over 4 or 500 

651
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,040
years. 
This all this is written within 

652
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,800
60 years after Jesus died. 
Every single part of the New 

653
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,320
Testament. 
I want you to see that every 

654
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,760
book in the Testament ties back 
to an eyewitness account pretty 

655
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,200
good. 
You go to a courtroom, Amen. 

656
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,440
You get an eyewitness testimony.
So Matthew, we'll start with 

657
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,960
talk the New Testament scholars.
So Matthew was, who was the 

658
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,360
disciple of Jesus, Amen. 
He, he, he was a tax collector. 

659
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,680
He, he lived with Jesus for 3 
1/2 years. 

660
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,920
He knew everything. 
So he wrote this book of Matthew

661
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,480
to the, to the Jews, tell him to
understand who Jesus was, Who's 

662
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,160
the eyewitness account. 
So Mark, which is actually John 

663
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,520
Mark, he traveled with a man 
named Peter. 

664
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,960
And so when you read the book of
Mark, it's actually through the 

665
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,280
eyes of Peter. 
And so when you read the book of

666
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,520
Mark, you're like, this is 
really Peter's version of the 

667
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,360
Gospel. 
Amen. 

668
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,400
It's pretty amazing to think 
through like this is Peter's 

669
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:48,720
account like, well, Peter only 
wrote two books. 

670
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,440
Well, really, he influenced Mark
heavily. 

671
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,080
And so Mark knew eyewitness 
because he traveled with Peter. 

672
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,800
Luke, Luke was like meticulous, 
right? 

673
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,760
He's a doctor. 
He's interviewing all these 

674
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,000
people so he can put the most 
excellent account together. 

675
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,920
He even interviewed Mary 
herself. 

676
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,200
That's we have the song of Mary 
and the story of Luke. 

677
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,280
It's one of the it's was the 
longest gospel. 

678
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,200
That's why it's given the most 
details possible. 

679
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,760
So you know it to be true 
eyewitness accounts they took, 

680
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,560
took and wrote the book from. 
How about the book of John? 

681
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,360
The book of John is written by 
John, the disciple of Jesus 

682
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,040
loved, right? 
And he wrote first John, second 

683
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,360
John, third John Revelation. 
And this was the disciple. 

684
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,560
He's the eyewitness account of 
everything he saw. 

685
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,120
Amen. 
Amen. 

686
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,120
This isn't written by somebody 4
or 500 years later. 

687
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,960
That's just trying to manipulate
the whole world. 

688
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,680
How about Paul Now Paul didn't 
come along until after Jesus 

689
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,000
ascended into heaven but Jesus 
something he actually came back 

690
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,000
and he called him on the road 
Damascus and scholars believe 

691
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,520
that Jesus that Pete Paul man 
would have spent 3 1/2 years 

692
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,320
with Jesus in the wilderness. 
That's why Paul's called the 

693
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,960
last apostle cause to be an 
apostle always get it's always 

694
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,880
interesting to me. 
But this church is like apostle 

695
00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,440
this and that apostles are 
people actually physically spent

696
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,880
time with Jesus. 
Amen. 

697
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:04,800
So somebody says they're an 
apostle. 

698
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,800
I'm like, OK, interesting 
because Paul was the last 

699
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,600
apostle and he spent time with 
Jesus and he he went full on for

700
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,280
the gospel wrote. 
We talked about last week so 

701
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,920
many books in the Bible, but he 
is an eyewitness, Amen. 

702
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,920
He's not writing about something
he never heard of or somebody 

703
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,080
told him 3 generations deep book
of Hebrews. 

704
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,960
Interesting. 
We don't really know who wrote 

705
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,200
it. 
We don't really think it's Paul.

706
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,960
There's a lot of scholars on it,
but it's obvious that they talk 

707
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,800
to the apostles, the writing and
the scripture itself. 

708
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,040
It lends the fact that they have
eyewitness testament of all 

709
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,200
these things of the book of 
James. 

710
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:37,920
James is who? 
Help me out. 

711
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,480
Yeah. 
He's a half brother of Jesus. 

712
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,880
Amen. 
You think he has some eyewitness

713
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,000
testimony? 
I get tickled to death, man, 

714
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,240
because like, as your siblings, 
you don't usually prop up your 

715
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,760
sibling too far. 
You know what I'm saying? 

716
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,280
You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
yeah, sure, man. 

717
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,480
I know it's true, but I'm not 
going to tell somebody. 

718
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,760
And James, I mean James, those 
guys, nobody stood for Jesus to 

719
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,840
his hometown and they go throw 
him off a Cliff and he walked 

720
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,560
through the crowd. 
But when Jesus resurrects James,

721
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,000
all of a sudden his faith is, is
extreme. 

722
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,120
Matter of fact, James is the 
first pastor of the Church of 

723
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,440
Jerusalem. 
James would be beheaded for his 

724
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,640
faith and his brother. 
That's pretty bold, isn't it? 

725
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,680
And he writes this book about 
putting your faith in action. 

726
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,600
Do something about it. 
Because I knew him. 

727
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,360
I grew up with Jesus, matter of 
fact. 

728
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,120
Then you got Peter, which we 
talked about obviously was an 

729
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,320
eyewitness. 
He traveled, he's a disciple 

730
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,320
with Jesus. 
And then you have Jude and Jude 

731
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,720
is another half brother of 
Jesus. 

732
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,200
You might not have known that. 
Now you read the book of Jude 

733
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,080
and it's like, holy smokes. 
And all these people I just 

734
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,600
named that I named 8 people. 
And we didn't know who wrote 

735
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,320
Hebrews. 
So there's nine New Testament 

736
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,760
writers that all are based upon 
eyewitness accounts of walking 

737
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,200
with Jesus. 
That's good news. 

738
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,120
Amen. 
So when somebody tells to tell 

739
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,160
you like, oh, this is a cleverly
devised fable. 

740
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,480
This book is just written. 
It's just made out by this. 

741
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,000
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 
no. 

742
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,080
These, these are written by 
people who all died for their 

743
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,320
faith in Christ. 
All these people died in Maher's

744
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,520
death besides John, and they 
tried to kill him. 

745
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,800
Every single people gave up 
their life for a lie. 

746
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,480
No, they gave their life because
they knew who Jesus was. 

747
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,920
And it's amazing you go to 
courtrooms today and eyewitness 

748
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,840
accounts are not always like the
greatest, but they're better 

749
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,840
than the second account. 
All somebody told me that's 

750
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,320
called hearsay, right? 
But if you go to court and 

751
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,880
you're an eyewitness, you could 
go on the stand. 

752
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,520
You can testify what you saw 
that stands up in the court of 

753
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,000
law. 
Amen. 

754
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,600
So it can be scrutinized, but 
Peter, he goes on verse 17, he 

755
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,280
says he being Jesus received 
honor and glory from God the 

756
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:35,480
Father when the voice came to 
him from majestic glory saying 

757
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:42,920
this is my son whom I love and 
with him I am well pleased. 

758
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,360
He's quoting. 
If you saw that he put quotes. 

759
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,080
So Peter is going back in time 
and he's saying God received 

760
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:54,040
glory and honor from on high and
he goes back to the bound 

761
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,719
transfiguration. 
Remember, Peter's like, I'll 

762
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,960
never let you die. 
And he Jesus says, get behind 

763
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,440
me, Satan. 
And then he restores him and he 

764
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,960
takes Peter, James and John and 
he goes up the mountain. 

765
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,240
Transfiguration. 
And the voice of the Father 

766
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:09,040
speaks to them. 
Behold, this is my son whom I 

767
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,000
loved him. 
Well, please. 

768
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:14,120
He cut the part out that said 
and listen to him because Peter 

769
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,440
was too busy trying to build 
altars, you know, and he just 

770
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,920
forgot about the glory of God. 
But that moment in time stuck 

771
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:25,520
with him forever because he 
heard God's voice in verse 18 he

772
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,640
says we ourselves, you talk 
about James and John and him 

773
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:33,000
heard this voice that came from 
heaven when we were what with 

774
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,760
him. 
We were eyewitnesses that the 

775
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,720
father broke through the clouds 
and he spoke to the son. 

776
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:42,600
We heard it with our own ears 
and he says on the what the 

777
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,720
sacred mountain. 
Now this is real interesting. 

778
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,560
This is really it's really good 
because there's moments in time 

779
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:50,920
of your life where God speaks to
you. 

780
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,160
It's not just that moment is 
sacred. 

781
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,320
Actually the place becomes 
sacred as well. 

782
00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:58,600
There's moments in your life 
where you'll never forget what 

783
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,000
God did in that space. 
We we we drove by last week. 

784
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,800
The church that I can't came to 
Christ in at blue is bad. 

785
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,360
This simple and I was with Holly
and Diane. 

786
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:08,960
We were dropping off supplied 
the drapes some other church 

787
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,000
doing some stuff. 
So maybe just got to check it 

788
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,480
out, you know, and man, it was 
just like I remember there's 

789
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,160
potholes everywhere. 
Things fall down, come on 

790
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,080
somewhere. 
The youth, the flood. 

791
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,280
I was a youth pastor down there 
after I came to Christ when the 

792
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,840
college came back. 
So I know about it. 

793
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,040
But I can look back and I'd be 
like, hey, right behind this 

794
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,360
door, you're going to walk 30 
steps into this other room. 

795
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,440
And I knelt my knees and that's 
where I started relationship 

796
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,440
with Jesus. 
That's a sacred place for me, 

797
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,720
Amen. 
Because I heard from God in that

798
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,760
room, in that space. 
And for Peter, like that was a 

799
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,880
sacred mountain. 
And those are mountaintop 

800
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,520
moments, by the way, when you 
when you when you never forget. 

801
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,320
Like that tree. 
I remember 2003. 

802
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,280
There's a tree right outside 
this Chapel of John Brown 

803
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,640
University. 
I went back there a few years 

804
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,000
ago, Drew. 
Drew took a youth group down 

805
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,240
there and I went out there with 
my son and I was probably 7, he 

806
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:52,400
was probably 7 a couple years 
ago. 

807
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,320
And we walked out and said, see 
this tree right here? 

808
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,120
This is where Dad surrender his 
life to whatever God won his 

809
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,680
life. 
This is the spot. 

810
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:01,960
This is a sacred spot, Amen. 
And I still talk to my son. 

811
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,640
He'll say, yeah, Dad to that 
tree. 

812
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,240
I surrender my life too. 
Like he's supposed to be just 

813
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:09,880
like Dad because there's sacred 
mounds and sacred spaces, Amen. 

814
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,920
I was in a Chapel when I was in 
college and heard the story of 

815
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,680
Bob Hughes and this missionary 
subbu in the Philippines and, 

816
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,160
and just how God used his life. 
Like God, man, just use my life 

817
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,520
for that, God. 
Just use my life for missions 

818
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,240
and for your glory and just be 
open forever. 

819
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,520
You have Lord sacred spaces. 
You guys got sacred spaces 

820
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,440
because God spoke to you, Amen. 
It's not sacred for any other 

821
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:30,560
reason. 
It's sacred because you heard 

822
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:37,720
the voice of God and it lines up
with his word, verse 19. 

823
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,920
We also have the prophetic 
message, some with the Bible as 

824
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,800
something. 
How's he describe it? 

825
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:53,400
Completely reliable. 
That's good news, Amen. 

826
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,760
Like I could build my life on 
this, like these eyewitnesses, 

827
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,760
this all this guy you crucified 
and like I'm still with him. 

828
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,800
You can put him to death, but 
guess what? 

829
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,760
He lives, brother, He lives. 
He's more alive today than he's 

830
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,760
ever been. 
He's doing the work, work 

831
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,000
together with him and he's 
talking about the sacred mound, 

832
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,800
heard the voice of the Father 
talking to his son. 

833
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,160
That's what he says. 
You would do well to pay 

834
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,200
attention to it. 
Amen. 

835
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,720
Your life would be totally 
different if you did pay 

836
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:20,840
attention to what this is 
saying. 

837
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,000
If you could just put your nose 
to the Scripture as to a light 

838
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,600
shining in a dark place, that's 
amazing. 

839
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,720
Like think about the Bible as a 
light in the darkness. 

840
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,280
It was a little dark in here 
earlier under the house lights 

841
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,920
went off or something, right? 
And and you put one light in the

842
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,840
room and all of a sudden it's 
just enough to get through, 

843
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,600
right? 
Like the emergency lighting in a

844
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,880
space and all of a sudden it 
just the Bible. 

845
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,640
It lights through the culture. 
The culture is crazy, by the 

846
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,720
way, just so you know, it kind 
of looks like Jerry Springer. 

847
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,520
Just so you know, it makes no 
sense. 

848
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,040
And I've, I'm not trying to make
sense of it and I'm not trying 

849
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,400
to water anything down either. 
I'm not trying to like 

850
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,000
incorporate the world into the 
church. 

851
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:00,240
I'm just trying to follow Jesus,
Amen, and build it on his 

852
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,400
scripture. 
And so whatever he says, we're 

853
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,480
going to go with because it's 
reliable. 

854
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,800
So the world's going right, 
we're going left, the world's 

855
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,400
going left, we're going right. 
We're doing what God calls to 

856
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,640
do. 
And he says until the day dawns 

857
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,720
and the morning star rises in 
your hearts, you should follow 

858
00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:19,760
the Scripture. 
Until the day dawns, we talk 

859
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,760
until the eastern sky splits and
Jesus comes back, you should 

860
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,200
follow Scripture. 
That's what he's saying. 

861
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:27,760
Even how hard it gets in what 
direction it goes. 

862
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,760
Remember, he's talking to the 
most persecuted church in 

863
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,640
history and he's saying even the
darkest moments and everything 

864
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,480
is falling apart that your life 
needs to follow what the 

865
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,560
Scripture says. 
Build your life on what's 

866
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,880
reliable. 
When I leave and I die and 

867
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,080
there's just a marker, if not 
even a marker, just remember 

868
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,720
that your life should build on 
Scripture because eyewitnesses, 

869
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,480
and he was one of them. 
He says this above all, verse 

870
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,640
20. 
You must understand that no 

871
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,800
prophecy of Scripture came about
by the prophet's own 

872
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,120
interpretation of things. 
Amen, Amen. 

873
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,880
It just isn't just like 
somebody's opinion, since for 

874
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:11,120
prophecy never had its origin in
what human will. 

875
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,480
If you try to make scripture 
like just looking through all 

876
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,960
the books, it is impossible. 
For any human to have this much 

877
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,080
wisdom and put anything remotely
close together of what's in this

878
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,400
scripture, even if they were to 
try, but that's not happened. 

879
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,240
That's not what happened. 
Did not come from human. 

880
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,680
Well, didn't come from men. 
It wasn't a human system. 

881
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,960
This isn't like when you go to 
school and you study Greek 

882
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,320
mythology and you started Roman 
mythology and you hear about 

883
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,840
these fables and you read The 
Iliad and you read all these 

884
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,480
works of literature from the 
past. 

885
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,720
It's not on the same level. 
Amen. 

886
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,280
It's a whole nother level and 
there's so much evidence like I 

887
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,480
can't even get into today. 
The evidence for the manuscripts

888
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:54,000
of how many are there and 
reliable that you look back to 

889
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,800
and you'd be like man, why did I
question that there's so many. 

890
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,960
He says for prophecy, not as 
origin human will, but prophets 

891
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:07,000
through though human spoke from 
God as they were what carry 

892
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,400
along by the Holy Spirit. 
It's pretty cool. 

893
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:16,680
God breathed that breath of God.
It's like the Holy Spirit like 

894
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,520
moves a sail on a boat and just 
moved on people. 

895
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,720
And God breathed through people 
that they moved the pen, but God

896
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,280
was writing the story. 
Amen. 

897
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,960
There's some guys where they 
were in jail and Paul would talk

898
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,840
and somebody else would write 
the pen, but the Holy Spirit was

899
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,040
moving through them for God to 
write his perfect word to us. 

900
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,240
And so my question for you guys 
today is, is really simple. 

901
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,880
We talked about this morning 
earlier on joy, prayer and 

902
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,240
gratitude. 
And when you find that those 

903
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:55,040
sacred moments in your life, 
those are mountain top moments, 

904
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,160
Amen. 
But what Peter's talking to is a

905
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,120
group of people in the valley. 
He's talking to people that are 

906
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,760
being persecuted and they're up 
against the wall and they don't 

907
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:04,960
know where they get the next 
meal. 

908
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:06,600
They don't know what's going to 
happen. 

909
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,680
They're confused. 
It doesn't like anything they'd 

910
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:12,280
ever dreamed of or desired, but 
God is in it. 

911
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,320
And so I would encourage you 
guys, if you've lost your joy, 

912
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,800
if you've lost your gratitude, 
if your prayer life is non 

913
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:24,800
existent, I would encourage you 
that you have to go back to the 

914
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,800
sacred space and create a sacred
space in your life where God can

915
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,760
speak to you because those 
mountaintop moments are what 

916
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:37,480
carry you through the valley. 
Amen and Peter in the valley, he

917
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,120
goes back to where God spoke to 
him, which today he speaks 

918
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,000
through his word, through his 
Holy Spirit and he goes back to 

919
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,360
that moment where God spoke to 
on that ballot. 

920
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,240
Top guys. 
I'll never forget that moment 

921
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:47,560
and that drives me every single 
day. 

922
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,080
And I want you to know when I 
die and I'm gone, that's worthy 

923
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:51,600
enough that you can leave life 
on this as well. 

924
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,360
And so if you don't have enough 
gratitude, enough joy in your 

925
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,720
life, I would encourage you. 
You may not be spending enough 

926
00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:59,880
time with Jesus. 
You may not been opened the 

927
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,720
Bible recently. 
You have to create sacred spaces

928
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:04,000
and you create sacred space 
anywhere. 

929
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,720
This week there's a few men at a
church that are in the hospital 

930
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,760
and guess what? 
You can take the hospital room 

931
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,080
and you can turn into a sacred 
space. 

932
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,080
Amen. 
Like it was, it was interesting.

933
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,320
There's a man in our church. 
He went to the hospital, he read

934
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,640
Psalm 23. 
He, he read some other scripture

935
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,920
with some other people and then 
like hours later he's in the 

936
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,840
hospital himself. 
And it went like roller coaster 

937
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,960
like crazy, went home and then 
like went back unconscious. 

938
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,520
Like all this stuff's going on 
and I show up and I meet this 

939
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,640
guy and you know what's on his 
lips? 

940
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,000
The things of God. 
He, he, he just, it's a sacred 

941
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,960
space. 
Like, and it was like, dude, the

942
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,280
enemy's trying to Take Me Out, 
but guess what? 

943
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,600
I'm still here. 
Like God used my life. 

944
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,960
This guy's a soul winner. 
He's passionate for Christ. 

945
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,080
He knows the scriptures. 
It's like that's a sacred room 

946
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,800
now that's been given to God. 
There's been other people in the

947
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,320
hospital this week. 
You can make these chairs. 

948
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,080
They're not really pews, OK, but
you can make them into a sacred 

949
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,480
space, Amen. 
For some of you, you, this could

950
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,280
be the moment you start 
relationship with Jesus and 

951
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,840
you'll never forget like that 
really dark room, right? 

952
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,040
That school, because we'll move 
on from here and you'll drive by

953
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,080
and you'll say, hey, I'll show 
you no son or daughter or 

954
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,800
whoever you're with. 
I say, dude, I came to Christ in

955
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,200
that room right there. 
I never forget it. 

956
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,160
That Sunday morning, this weird 
dude spoke, come on somebody, 

957
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,760
right? 
But I heard about the Gospel and

958
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,440
my life's been ever changed 
because that room, because I 

959
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:20,440
heard God's voice. 
Amen. 

960
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:22,480
And you get to create that for 
other people. 

961
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,840
It's not just you. 
You get to help other people 

962
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,760
have sacred moments. 
You get to issue people into the

963
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,680
Word of God, like when you're 
coaching or counseling or or in 

964
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,200
influence or leadership or own a
company or whatever management 

965
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,120
you're in. 
Why don't you bring in Jesus in 

966
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,840
that conversation? 
Why don't you bring in more of 

967
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,000
the scripture of the 
conversation? 

968
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,680
Why don't you give them some of 
that joy and some of that 

969
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,280
passion? 
Who's going to fire you? 

970
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,720
Come on, somebody, have they 
fired you yet? 

971
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:49,560
Give it a try. 
Like we're so worried about it, 

972
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,080
right? 
And we're timid about the 

973
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,360
scripture, but it's like, no, we
need to elevate the scripture. 

974
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:56,080
We need to elevate things of God
and we need to show things, the 

975
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,360
things of scripture in our 
lives. 

976
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,160
So create some sacred moments. 
And as parents, you create 

977
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,320
sacred moments with your 
children. 

978
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,960
You should, it should be an 
obligation. 

979
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,000
It should be and I'm a duty, but
like a joy for you. 

980
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,280
So like I'm getting a scripture 
every single day with my kids 

981
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,000
like I'm going to make sure they
know about God. 

982
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,720
We're praying we're asking 
questions you leave here from 

983
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,840
from Sunday morning. 
Hey, what'd you learn the kids 

984
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,880
program. 
We didn't learn anything. 

985
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,640
I'm sure you learned nothing. 
What did you learn? 

986
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,320
I will call Miss Christie right 
now. 

987
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,520
You better take this kid right. 
We have the moments that you can

988
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,080
create for your children. 
They'll forever change their 

989
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,040
future. 
So we're called to do Amen. 

990
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,640
And it's a pretty amazing 
because always seeing this with 

991
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,360
so many people, the moment you 
see God's glory for yourself, 

992
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:36,920
you can never stop the rest of 
your life from helping other 

993
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,800
people see the same glory. 
It can never change. 

994
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,840
That's what drives these guys 
and it drives our church. 

995
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,240
It drives me. 
I'm just so thankful for God's 

996
00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:49,320
glory and His Majesty. 
So thank you, Jesus. 

997
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,520
God, thank you so much for your 
word, for your truth that's been

998
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,040
passed down through eyewitness 
accounts. 

999
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:56,160
God, this is God. 
Breathe. 

1000
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,600
God, thank you for building, 
allowing me to build my life on 

1001
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,280
your scripture. 
God, you've been so faithful. 

1002
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,200
I know so many people in the 
room would attest the same 

1003
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,840
thing. 
God pray for those Jesus 

1004
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:04,960
followers today. 
They say, you know what, I need 

1005
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,240
to get back in the word of God. 
I I need to spend time with 

1006
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:08,960
Jesus. 
I need to create some sacred 

1007
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,480
spaces. 
Maybe it's in my car ride. 

1008
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,040
Maybe it's in my bedroom. 
Maybe it's in the office. 

1009
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,960
I need to spend time with you 
and you're calling us to do 

1010
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,320
that. 
So we gotta pray. 

1011
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,320
We just humble ourselves. 
God, we just get in tune with 

1012
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,560
your word and realize it's not 
just any book. 

1013
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,440
This is a living book, the book 
that changed our soul, the book 

1014
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,640
we build our life on this 
reliable and we do well to be in

1015
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,520
it. 
I'll pray for one group, people 

1016
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,960
in the house specifically, 
that's those your day that they 

1017
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,800
have the greatest sacred moment 
you could ever have. 

1018
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,160
The moment you step into a 
permanent lasting relationship 

1019
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,000
with Jesus because you know 
you're a Sinner and Navy Savior 

1020
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:44,000
and you call on Jesus to be 
saved by grace alone through 

1021
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,320
faith alone in Christ. 
Those you recognize that Jesus 

1022
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,440
isn't somebody just in history. 
He is a living God that chose to

1023
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,720
come and die for you on the 
cross and Rosie on 3rd day that 

1024
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:57,080
drove Peter to write these books
that die for him. 

1025
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,120
And it'll drive you to be called
to to drive you home to the 

1026
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:05,960
cross to remind you that you're 
loved, to give you the grace of 

1027
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,880
God, that you've been chosen by 
God and forgiven by God. 

1028
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:10,480
The Bible says we'll give you a 
new name. 

1029
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,720
He'll change from the inside out
and he'll transform your life, 

1030
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,200
not just rebuild. 
It may be transformed. 

1031
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,160
And that sacred moment back in 
2000 where I called on Christ. 

1032
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,480
My life has never been the same.
God's been faithful. 

1033
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,920
It's been a quarter century and 
I'm a test in the fact that 

1034
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:27,920
God's faithful. 
So if you need Jesus in your 

1035
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:28,880
life today, I'm not going to 
call you. 

1036
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,920
I make it weird, but if you need
Jesus in your life, we just 

1037
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,800
raise your hand real high today 
and say I need Jesus, a 

1038
00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,160
relationship with Christ today. 
New life in Jesus today. 

1039
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,480
Well, that's you. 
I'm going to leave your prayer. 

1040
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,280
The prayer does not save you, 
but your heart towards him. 

1041
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,680
It's a faith in him. 
It's a belief in him. 

1042
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,200
Just call and say, Father God, 
today is a sacred moment. 

1043
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,960
I recognize that I'm a Sinner 
new Savior God, I recognize that

1044
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,640
you down the cross that you're 
wounded for my sins. 

1045
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,200
God that you love me enough that
you choose to die for me. 

1046
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,760
And so God, thank you God with a
heart full of joy and gratitude.

1047
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:08,160
My very first prayer is 
submission and humility to the 

1048
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,080
gospel that's going to save my 
soul. 

1049
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,240
So thank you God for the wisdom 
from your word that led me to 

1050
00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:17,000
this today. 
And I pray this in Jesus name. 

1051
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,960
And the church said, Amen. 
Come on, give some glory to God 

1052
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:20,800
today. 
Amen. 

1053
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:26,640
Thank you Jesus. 
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1054
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,280
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