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Hey, good morning, real life 
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So great to see you this morning
in the house. 

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And man, we're just excited to 
worship with you. 

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I invite you to stand to your 
feet and I invite you just to 

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sing boldly this morning and 
just direct it all to him today.

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I'm also going to invite you one
more thing that's clap along 

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with us today. 
Yo world, it's a lamp unto my 

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feet. 
Yo is the only way for me. 

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It's a narrow Rd. that leads to 
life. 

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But I want to be on it. 
It's a narrow Rd. but the mercy 

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is why? 
Because you're good on your 

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promise. 
Let's sing. 

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I'll take you at your world. 
If you said it, I'll believe, 

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man, I've seen how good it was. 
If you started, you're 

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completed. 
I'll take you at your word. 

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That's right. 
We keep those hands going. 

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We got some fun in the house 
today, so we can keep singing. 

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You spoke and the chaos fell in 
life. 

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Oh, I know because I've seen it 
in my life. 

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It's a narrow Rd. that leads to 
life, but I want to be on it. 

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Yes, it's a narrow Rd. 
The tide is high, but you're 

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part of the water. 
I'll take you at your world. 

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If you said it, I believe it. 
I've seen how good it was if you

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starting your computer. 
I'll take you at your word if 

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you said it. 
I believe it. 

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I've seen how good it was. 
If you starting your computer, 

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take you at your word, 'cause 
you're good on your promise. 

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Yeah, you're good on your 
promise. 

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All right, guys, I just invite 
you to keep singing along today 

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and sing directly to him. 
You said your love would never 

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give up. 
You said your grace is always 

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enough. 
You said your heart would never 

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forget or forsake me. 
You said I'm saved. 

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You said I'm saved. 
You call me yours. 

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You said my future's full of 
your hope. 

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And you've never failed. 
I know that you'll never fail 

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me. 
Come on, sing it again. 

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You said your love never give 
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You've said your grace is always
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You set your heart. 
Never forget or forsake me. 

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You said I'm safe. 
You said I'm safe. 

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You call me yours. 
You said my futures full of your

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hope. 
You've never failed. 

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I know that you'll never fail 
me. 

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I'll take you out your work. 
Come on, you said it. 

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I believe it. 
I've seen how good it was. 

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You started your competing. 
I'll take you at your world. 

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I said it. 
I believe it. 

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I've seen how good it works. 
If you start in your company, 

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I'll take you at your word. 
You're good on your promise. 

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Yeah, you're good on your 
promise. 

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Take you at your word. 
Come on. 

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Do you believe that this 
morning? 

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Do you believe he's a good guy? 
That we can trust in his promise

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today to give him a hand? 
Come on. 

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Lift up all your praise and your
heart today for him. 

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Come on, come. 
On, let's try. 

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Giving some praise this morning,
man, it is so good to worship 

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God with you, to praise him 
together with one voice this 

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morning. 
And I know this, that God is 

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chasing you, that He is pursuing
you, that He sees you and He 

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wants a relationship with you 
this morning. 

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So come on, let's give Him our 
praise today. 

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For I spoke a word you were 
singing over me. 

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You have been so so good to me. 
Before I took a breath, you read

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your life in me. 
You have been so so high to me. 

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All the overwhelming never 
ending reckless over God chases 

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mean I'll fight still and father
leaves the night and night I 

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couldn't Hardy I don't deserve 
it till you give yourself away. 

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All the overwhelming Never Rain.
Need a reckless love again? 

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How was your fool still your 
love far from me. 

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You have been so, so good to me.
I felt nowhere. 

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You paint it off for me. 
Thank you, Jesus. 

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You have been so, so kind to me.
Come on, look this up. 

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This one voice hold me 
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reckless of the God. 
It chases me down, fights too. 

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And the founder leaves the 
nighty night. 

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I couldn't hide it. 
I don't deserve it. 

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Still you give yourself away. 
Hold me overwhelming never in 

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the reckless love God. 
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There's no shadow. 
You won't light up mountain You 

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won't climb up. 
Coming after me. 

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There's no oh, you won't kick 
down a light. 

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You all tear down coming after 
me. 

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There's no shadow. 
You won't light up mountain. 

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You won't climb up coming after 
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There's no oh. 
You won't kick down a lie. 

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You won't sit down coming after 
me. 

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There's no shadow. 
You won't lie mountain. 

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You won't climb up coming after 
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There's no oh, you won't kick 
down a lie. 

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You won't turn up coming after 
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There's no shadow. 
You won't light up mountain, you

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won't cry, you know, call it 
after me. 

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There's no you won't kick, you 
lie. 

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You won't turn up, come it after
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Holy, overwhelming never and 
deep reckless love of God where 

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chases means I'll fight too 
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Please not God, not going to 
learning, not going to stop this

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till you give yourself away. 
Holy over the world in every way

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regularly is the love of God. 
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There's no mountain, no shallow,
no coming after me. 

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Amen, God, it's your love, and 
it's only your love, God, that 

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comes after us. 
And so we lift up the praises to

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you. 
Today 

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I cast. 
My mind. 

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To Calvary, where Jesus bled and
died for me, and I see his 

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wounds, his hands, his feet. 
My Saviour on that cursed. 

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Tree. 
His body bound and drenched in 

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tears, they laid him down in 
Joseph's tomb, the entrance by 

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heavy stone. 
Messiah stand and all alone, and

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all raise the name of the Lord 
our God, or praise His name 

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forevermore, for in these days 
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Sing your praise. 
Alone, alone our God. 

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Then on the 3rd had break a 
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Again, oh, tremble down, Where 
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Thee. 
Thy child's. 

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Roar for Christ thy King. 
Some praises this morning. 

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Lift him up. 
The more, for in this case we 

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will see our praise. 
Oh Lord, oh Lord our God, shall 

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we turn? 
The blazing sun shall Pierce 

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sunlight, and I will rise among 
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My gaze transfers on Jesus face.
And all the pain and the sorrow 

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of this life will be passed 
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will become brand new in Jesus 
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who loved us, who healed us. 
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So let's lift him up and praise 
us, and sing to him the grace of

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the name. 
Of the Lord our God. 

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Oh praise his name forever and 
Lord forever. 

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And listen, we will sing our 
praise, oh Lord, oh Lord our 

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God, oh praise our name of the 
Lord our God. 

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The praise is again forever 
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Forever we will see our praise, 
oh Lord, oh Lord our God, oh 

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Lord, oh Lord our God. 
Give him a shout of praise this 

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morning. 
Man, what a powerful moment just

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to come and just give praise 
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Would you guys just go with me 
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let's pray God, we just come 
before you. 

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God, what a moment just to just 
to sing the praises of our God 

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and the God that came, the God 
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God, we know that what you did 
then you continue to do today. 

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My prayer today for everybody in
this room is that we're moved, 

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that we're convicted, that we're
comforted, that we're lifted up.

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God, I know that you'll meet us 
wherever we're at today and God 

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that that we'll receive the 
thing that you've got for us in 

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this moment, in this gathering. 
God, again, we take this moment 

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just to just to praise your 
awesome name. 

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God, we give you all the honor, 
all the glory. 

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We pray this all in Jesus name, 
Amen. 

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Can we give it up for God one 
more time man, Welcome to 

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another awesome at the movies 
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Man. 
I hope you guys are encouraged 

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today. 
I know we have a lot of new 

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people online and in person. 
Can we make them feel welcome? 

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Let's just let them know we love
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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Hey, why don't you guys take 30 
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Just welcome somebody around 
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All right, you guys can go ahead
and be seated and what you guys 

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know you got something awesome 
on your chair and that's 

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something awesome is a 
connection card. 

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If you call real life home and 
we love it when you guys fill 

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these out, let us know what's 
going on in your life. 

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Maybe it's a praise, maybe it's 
a prayer request. 

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Our team re sees a praise over 
these week in and week out. 

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If you guys are new with this, 
here's my promise to you. 

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We were not going to ask 
anything else, but we would ask 

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this one thing. 
We would love for you to 

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introduce yourself to us this 
week and the connection cards. 

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The the best way to do that. 
If you fill that out to the 

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level that you're comfortable 
with, we're not going to do 

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anything crazy. 
We won't show up at your door, 

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but man, we want you to do that.
That we that we would love you 

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guys that we want you to feel 
welcome here in real life. 

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We'd love to send you out 
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So if you would do that for us, 
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love that. 
And we do. 

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We do all this is because we're 
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We like to say that we're a 
church on a mission, and that 

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mission is to see people far 
from God discover their real 

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life and purpose of Jesus. 
Hey, man, I just know by talking

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to people, there's people that 
have walked in here today and 

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they're giving God their last 
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Or maybe they're walking here in
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don't know anybody here. 
They don't know what's going on.

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But we believe that God has you 
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God wants to speak some truth in
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And I don't know what's happened
to you this week, this, this, 

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this month or even this year, 
but man, God doesn't want you to

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stay in the valley. 
God wants you to give you 

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purpose, meaning. 
And maybe hopefully that's in 

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this community here of, of 
disciples here at real life. 

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So man, we are so excited that 
you chose to worship with us. 

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And again, you're in the middle 
of an awesome series. 

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So maybe you've never been to at
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So I want to give you a little, 
a little warning. 

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This is something a little 
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If you've never been here, 
you've never experienced church 

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this way. 
And that's cool. 

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We like to do something a little
different, but we're in the 

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middle of a movie or a series 
called the chosen. 

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And what we're doing is we're 
really driving in to the themes 

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of of this show. 
We're taking the clip and man, 

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there's some soul searching 
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And our prayer is, is that as we
take that clip and then we drive

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into the gospel after that, man,
that your guys's lives are 

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changed, that you're encouraged,
that you leave different today 

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than when you walked in. 
So you guys just relax. 

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You're going to have a great 
time here in a minute. 

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We're going to have some soda 
water, popcorn coming up. 

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So it's free, It's on the House.
Take whatever you guys want. 

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I want you guys to take this 
opportunity to welcome up Pastor

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Sean as we start our next series
at the movies. 

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Nice. 
Good morning, guys. 

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Good morning. 
We're gonna get there. 

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It's gonna be a good day. 
Before I jump in, I want to 

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celebrate what God did a little 
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Just a little bit. 
It's not the whole thing at our 

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summer youth camp. 
So it's those first picture up. 

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You guys gonna love this? 
A little bit of shaving cream or

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come on. 
Somebody always fun. 

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I don't know how many water 
balloons. 

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There's way too many. 
They were killing each other and

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they try to kill me. 
But I was agile and quick at 40,

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you know? 
But my favorite part of camp was

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what God did. 
And but this picture, though, 

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check out this picture. 
There's something out of place 

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here. 
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Come on, somebody. 
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She's the one that's clean in 
the picture. 

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She wasn't feeling very good 
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And this is actually a video. 
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I said everybody hug each other 
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lightning from the picture. 
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So but we had awesome camp. 
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teenagers, like 10 adults, like 
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the worship. 
So check this out all youth kids

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getting together just singing 
praises to God real crane in the

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living room. 
It is sweaty come on somebody 

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who needs AC when you have JC 
come on somebody right and it 

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just AC was not keeping up but 
man they're just working the 

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Lord and it was really cool. 
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Cajon. 
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you kind of like, you know, you 
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bass, whatever. 
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group that tried out named 
Julian did a great job by the 

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way, gift for Julian and if he's
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So I was like, Hey, that's your 
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Awesome. 
I give it up. 

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I took the Cajon and put it 
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I hear this voice say I keep 
stay on beat and like challenge,

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right. 
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who said this? 
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looks at me goes dad, I can stay
on beat. 

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And he sat down that Cajon and 
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days every song and he was on 
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Amen. 
It was just cool. 

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I was like, man, so I'm like, 
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killing a man. 
So it was it was just fun, you 

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know, so you got got to do that.
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relationships and having 
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And I got a picture of one of 
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He's one of the youth leaders 
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His name's Lucas Odell, and he 
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Come on, give it a hug for 
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He just did a great job. 
He's shared stories through his 

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CDs and his life map and all 
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he really stepped up some big 
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But it's all this conversation. 
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about forgiveness, just talk 
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And it was just so powerful to 
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And so I want you to give it up 
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served and helped out the 
fantastic. 

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entire time, led the way, really
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It was very, very good. 
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scenes just he was plowing 
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We guys get up for Logan Hardy. 
I think he's back on the sound. 

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It's fantastic. 
I think he's on a sound board. 

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I don't know what you guys did 
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The Spirit of God. 
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fire today. 
It sounds like there's been like

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5000 people here. 
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filled it out at Logan, God was 
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something fantastic. 
You guys are fantastic today, 

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but camp and it's amazing. 
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and you just get enough time 
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the world a little bit. 
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layers, like the onion, the all 
the walls of the paint and all 

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the things. 
And you can just see, look 

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behind the scenes and there was 
some heavy stuff. 

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This camp. 
I, I kind of came home a little 

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conflicted. 
Like there was, there's stories 

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of forgiveness or people asking 
forgiveness from their dad, from

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dads having met, don't know 
their names, stories of 

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brokenness. 
So things have happened, young 

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lady's lives that somebody 
taking advantage of them and 

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their bodies. 
I mean, it was just one of those

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camps that I left kind of kind 
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Like it was like watching a 
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talked about like sheep without 
a shepherd, like the people are 

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completely broken and isolated 
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And out of that, there's this 
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What do you do with all this 
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Like we, we do with all this 
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Like what do you do when there's
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Like I listen, I listen to kids 
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They pray their dad will walk 
through the door, but he never 

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showed up. 
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you're like, man, how do you 
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suffering? 
Like how you do with loss and, 

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and what do you do when you have
the faith to move a mountain, 

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but the mountain doesn't move? 
Like what do you do when you 

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trust God and, and nothing 
changes and you, you believe God

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for a miracle. 
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And so today we're going to dive
into this amazing clip from the 

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chosen. 
This is going to be from season 

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2, episode 3. 
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it's holidays message is waiting
for God to have a miracle. 

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And so you're going to see the 
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So check it out. 
Master. 

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It's of James. 
May I have a moment? 

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Of course I. 
Have forgive me, I'm not always 

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confident to speak. 
Slow to speak, it's a very good 

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quality. 
Wanted to ask you a question. 

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Please. 
So you're sending us out with 

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the ability to heal the 2nd 
lane? 

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Yes, that, that is what you 
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Yes. 
So you're telling me that I have

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the ability to heal? 
Look at me. 

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I just find that difficult to 
imagine with my condition, which

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you haven't healed do. 
You want to be healed. 

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Yes, of course, if if that's 
possible. 

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I think you've seen enough to 
know it's possible. 

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Why haven't you? 
Because I trust you. 

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What? 
Little James, precious little 

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James. 
I need you to listen to me very 

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carefully because what I'm going
to say, it defines your whole 

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life to this point and will 
define the rest of your life. 

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Do you understand? 
In the Father's will, I could 

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heal you right now and you'd 
have a good story to tell. 

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Yes, yes. 
That you do miracles. 

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And that's a good story. 
But there are already dozens you

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can tell that story, and there 
will be hundreds more, even 

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thousands. 
But think of the story that you 

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have, especially in this journey
to come if I don't hear you, to 

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know how to proclaim that you 
still praise God in spite of 

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this. 
To know how to focus on all that

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matters so much more than the 
body. 

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To show people that you can be 
patient with your suffering here

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on earth because you know you'll
spend eternity with no 

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suffering. 
Not everyone can understand 

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that. 
How many people do you think the

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Father and I trust this with? 
Not many. 

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But the others, there's so much 
more. 

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So much more What? 
I don't know stronger, better 

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whether it is. 
James, I love you, but I don't 

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want to hear that ever again. 
I know how easy it is to say the

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song of David that I fearfully 
and wonderfully made, but it 

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doesn't make this any easier 
that this group. 

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It doesn't make me feel like any
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A burden. 
First of all, it is far easier 

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to deal with your slow walking 
than it is to deal with Simon's 

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temper. 
Trust me. 

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Are you fast? 
Do you look impressive when you 

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walk? 
Maybe not, but these are things 

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the Father doesn't care about. 
You are going to do more for me,

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and most people ever dream. 
So many people need healing in 

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order to believe in Me, or they 
need healing because their 

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hearts are so sick. 
That doesn't apply to you. 

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And many are healed or not 
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Heaven has a plan for them, 
which may be a mystery. 

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And we remember what Job said, 
the Lord gives and the Lord 

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takes away. 
Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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When you pass from this earth 
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heaven, where Isaiah promises 
you will leap like a deer, your 

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reward will be great. 
So hold on a little longer, and 

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when you discover yourself 
finding true strength because of

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your weakness, and when you do 
great things in my name in spite

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of this, the impact will last 
for generations. 

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Do you understand? 
Thank you bastard. 

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The man like you healing others.
Oh at the sight. 

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I can't wait to hear your 
stories when you return. 

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James, remember you will be 
here. 

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It's only a matter of time. 
Powerful scene, you may know 

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this, may not know this. 
That scene is not found in the 

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Bible at all. 
Some of y'all like I'm going to 

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go read that today and it's not 
there. 

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But I will say that the 
conversation is highly biblical.

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The truth that Jesus said and 
the things that happened in 

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little James life is highly 
biblical and I just love how the

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chosen actually created this 
scene to bring up some heavy 

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topics that we need to walk 
through today. 

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There's some things you can 
learn in this from the Bible. 

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There's actually, there's James,
he's one of the apostles. 

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There's actually two of them. 
And so I'm gonna have a lot of 

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verses today, so just kind of 
follow along on the screen. 

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But in Luke 613, it says this 
when morning came, Jesus called 

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his disciples to him and he 
chose 12 of them whom he had 

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this designated apostles. 
Simon, whom he named Peter, his 

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brother Andrew, James. 
This would be James the son of 

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Zebedee, John Phillip 
Bartholomew. 

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If you're trying to count 12 
disciples, this is also known as

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Nathaniel. 
Just if you're just food for 

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thought there. 
Matthew, Thomas and James the 

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son of who? 
Alpheus, this is the James that 

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he talks about little James and 
Simon, who's also called the 

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Zealot. 
And so he picks them as a 12. 

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And during the crucifixion, 
you'll see his name come up 

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again. 
It's this is Mark 1540. 

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It says someone were watching 
from a distance. 

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Among them were Mary Magdalene, 
Mary the Mother, Mother of James

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The Who? 
Yeah, James the younger and of 

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Joseph and Salome. 
And so James the younger, this 

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is opposed to James the son of 
Zebedee, the sons of Thunder. 

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The James is an inner circle. 
That's the Peter, James and John

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with the to the mount 
Transfiguration. 

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This is James the younger. 
And that name younger actually 

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can translate to less or little.
And so when Jesus talks to 

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little James, it's actually 
highly biblical for the chosen 

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to pick that name. 
Now, I've never read the name 

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little James in the Bible, so I 
saw the clip. 

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I'm like who's this dude who is 
of little James, but this is an 

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accurate picture of what could 
have happened. 

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Now was James actually 
handicapped Most likely not, but

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most likely in the Bible he is 
not handicapped. 

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Now it's possible, but it's very
improbable that he was but the 

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artwork in the in the in the 
truth that that they're going to

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show from the story that they 
fabricated from the Bible is so 

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powerful for our lives today. 
I think it's beautiful to the 

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chosen picked out this story to 
create this this really 

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conversation. 
These take place of what just 

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like to be marginalized. 
What does it look like to to 

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have a wait or a trial that is 
ongoing in your life? 

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What's it like to to wish for a 
miracle and have it not happen 

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to you? 
What's it like to carry a burden

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in a season and continue to 
carry that burden? 

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Maybe it's not just a season. 
Maybe it's a space in your life.

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Maybe it's a burden since you're
a kid. 

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Maybe it's a burden that 
happened in a relationship that 

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broke. 
Maybe it's a loss around you. 

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And that pain, that suffering, 
that agony, that brokenness, 

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that hardship, that weakness, 
those things that we don't go 

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into an Aaron to. 
We've created a space for in our

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lives as love. 
How they created this 

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conversation to take place and 
So what you have in this story 

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is Jesus is actually sending out
his disciples 2 by two. 

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That's the name of the episode 
he sends disciples out as 12 to 

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really find people of peace to 
go into villages to towns and to

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00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,800
just move in with people take up
residence and to share the 

454
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,239
gospel to share the good news of
Jesus. 

455
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,040
That gives them some power and 
it says this in Matthew 10 verse

456
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,639
one. 
It says Jesus called us 12 

457
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:18,280
disciples to him and gave them 
authority to drive on impure 

458
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:25,840
spirits into what and to and to 
heal every disease and sickness.

459
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,679
Now the way they portrayed this,
which I thought was just a great

460
00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:32,800
job you have little James would 
have had the ability to heal 

461
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,199
someone else, but he was not 
healed himself. 

462
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,239
He had the ability to cast out 
demons, the ability to to 

463
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,480
cleanse and to get rid of 
disease, to heal all sickness, 

464
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,360
but he was still broken himself.
He had the ability for others to

465
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,520
experience things about God that
he had not experienced himself. 

466
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,639
He was going to give things away
that God would work through him 

467
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,520
in areas that God had not yet 
worked for him. 

468
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,280
If you've been a Christian for 
an amount of time, you're going 

469
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,640
to see other people's lives, 
maybe take turns and maybe be 

470
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,480
healed and changed, and there's 
some work that God does in them 

471
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,360
that has not yet happened in 
you. 

472
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,920
Amen. 
And you can look out and say, 

473
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,480
man, I'm broken and I'm, I'm 
weak and why God am I stuck in 

474
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,560
this situation? 
And it brings up some 

475
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,840
spiritually significant 
questions that we need to dive 

476
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,840
through today. 
What what does it mean for us as

477
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,000
Christians to actually walk with
a limp? 

478
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,280
Like is God still good if we're 
not healed? 

479
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,240
Is God still good in our 
infirmity and, and our burden 

480
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,920
and, and our weakness and our 
pain and, and the burdens of 

481
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,640
life? 
It can God be trusted if I'm in 

482
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,280
a season or a space of a long 
term trial or hurt and this is 

483
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,120
just an amazing concept that 
they brought up. 

484
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,800
This actually is in the Bible, 
but it's not under little James.

485
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,280
There's actually another 
apostle. 

486
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:53,120
He's the last apostle. 
He is by his own saying is the 

487
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,840
least of the apostles. 
His name is Paul and Paul had a 

488
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,480
thorn in the what thorn in the 
flesh. 

489
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,040
And so I want you to turn your 
Bible saying Corinthians 12, and

490
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,880
it says this. 
This is Paul talking about his 

491
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,520
own thorn in the flesh. 
We don't know what it exactly 

492
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,120
is. 
It could've been his eyesight. 

493
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,560
It could have been a physical 
ailment or infirmity. 

494
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:13,440
It could've been a demonic 
force. 

495
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,680
It could've been the persecution
all around him which all these 

496
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,800
things took place. 
The Second Corinthians 12/6 says

497
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,000
this. 
Even if I should choose to 

498
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,280
boast, I would not be. 
What? 

499
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,200
Yeah. 
I wouldn't be a fool Paul's I'm 

500
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,320
not I'm going to be foolish 
enough to boast and how great my

501
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,720
life is because I would be 
speaking the truth even though I

502
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:35,120
would be saying the truth that I
refrain so no one think me more 

503
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,360
of me. 
So no one would think more of me

504
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,400
that is warranted by what I do 
or say. 

505
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,520
He doesn't want people to think 
much of himself. 

506
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,760
He wants them to see Jesus or 
because of the surpassing great 

507
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,040
revelations, even though he's 
writing these books and the 

508
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,520
revelation of God's coming on 
him. 

509
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,320
He doesn't want people to think 
of him and to boast themselves. 

510
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,360
He says therefore, in order to 
keep me from becoming what 

511
00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:02,120
what's it says being becoming 
conceited because I want to be 

512
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:03,320
arrogant. 
I only prideful. 

513
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,600
I don't I don't be full of Paul 
and full of myself. 

514
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:11,160
I was given a thorn in my flesh.
I was given some kind of 

515
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,080
affliction, a messenger of 
saying to torment me, and I love

516
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,920
verse 8. 
He says 3 times I pleaded with 

517
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,520
the Lord to take it away from me
three times. 

518
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,280
I ask God, please take this 
burden, take this weakness, take

519
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,120
this affliction from my life. 
This is what the Lord says in 

520
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,560
verse 9. 
But the Lord said to me, my 

521
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:33,920
grace is sufficient for you. 
My grace is enough for you, 

522
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,800
Paul, for my power is made 
perfect in weakness. 

523
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,360
I love this, that it's not our 
power that's made perfect 

524
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,480
weakness, it's God's power 
that's made perfect in weakness.

525
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,280
It's God's power that's going to
show forth when we're not 

526
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:49,480
enough. 
He is. 

527
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,520
Amen. 
And Paul, he, he's going to 

528
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,200
understand this throughout his 
journey. 

529
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,840
Just therefore, I'll boast all 
the more gladly about my 

530
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,680
weaknesses. 
So I'm not going to boast about 

531
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,240
my strength, about my ability, 
my intellect, my knowledge, my 

532
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,840
my my man driven power. 
I'm going to boast my weaknesses

533
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,160
so that Christ's power who is 
made perfect my weakness may 

534
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,760
rest on me. 
Verse 10. 

535
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,880
This is why for Christ's sake, 
look what he says, for Christ's 

536
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:19,000
sake, I, what I, I delight, 
James says, I find joy, I 

537
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,640
delight in my weakness, I 
delight in insults, I delight in

538
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,160
hardship, I delight in 
persecutions, I delight in 

539
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,480
difficulties. 
For when I am weak, then I am, 

540
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,400
I'm strong. 
So it's Christ's power that 

541
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,360
becomes perfect and our 
weakness, and then we're weak 

542
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,480
that we become strong in Christ.
Amen. 

543
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,640
And this is what Paul is 
learning from the thorn to 

544
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,040
flesh. 
But big picture, Paul prayed 3 

545
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,880
times. 
I mean, who is more spiritual 

546
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,120
than Paul, right? 
And he prays the Lord to take 

547
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,320
away this affliction, this pain.
And yet the Lord didn't. 

548
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,440
And Paul would go on to author 
over 30% of the New Testament. 

549
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,400
He would go out on three 
missionary journeys and he plant

550
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,560
churches across the world. 
But he carried a burden and he 

551
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,400
walked with a limp For Jesus, 
you know, all of us to some 

552
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,400
degree have a limp, Amen. 
All of us have a burden. 

553
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,800
We carry, all of us have a space
in our life. 

554
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,240
We carry all these keys to our 
heart. 

555
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,320
And there's like that one key, 
maybe a handful of keys or say 

556
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,320
Lord, those, those are mine. 
And you can have all these keys,

557
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,560
but this, this is my area. 
This is the burden I carry. 

558
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,840
There's places sometimes you 
want the Lord to go into. 

559
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,880
There's places we don't 
understand what the Lord is 

560
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,600
doing. 
We maybe even trust the Lord, 

561
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,040
but we don't know what he's 
doing. 

562
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,160
And we have to come up peace and
wrestle with what are these 

563
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,240
burns and these, this pain, this
affliction. 

564
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,840
Paul actually said life was the 
burden of life. 

565
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:38,280
David said that life every day 
has sorrow and trouble. 

566
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,480
James said there's trouble every
single day and talks about the 

567
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,440
brevity of life. 
There's a space between a 

568
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,320
promise and a promise fulfilled.
Like we have the announcement of

569
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,280
a king, but we do not yet have 
the inauguration of a king, 

570
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,080
Amen. 
We live in this silent Saturday,

571
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,320
this space between Jesus being 
crucified. 

572
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,520
He had a resurrection, but yet 
we have a resurrection to come, 

573
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,480
which each of us going to have 
our Easter Sunday. 

574
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,480
Amen. 
There's a day when Jesus parts 

575
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,600
the eastern sky. 
The dead in Christ rise first. 

576
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,800
And then those who are live 
remain, are caught up in the air

577
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,920
together with them, and meet 
Jesus in the air. 

578
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,320
There's a day when our tears are
wiped away. 

579
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,760
We experience the resurrection 
power of Jesus to his fullest. 

580
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,560
But in this season, for a lot of
us, we're in that silent 

581
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,440
Saturday season. 
Amen. 

582
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,760
Where there's things in our 
lives that are broken and you're

583
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,720
waiting for God to give you an 
answer that there's questions 

584
00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:30,280
that you are asking God, you're 
not getting the results you 

585
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,000
want. 
There's miracles, there's 

586
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,480
children waiting to come home, 
there's brokenness. 

587
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,800
There's people who leave this 
earth prematurely in your mind 

588
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,480
and it should be here today. 
There's all this around us who 

589
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,240
wonder, God, what are you doing?
And today I want to give you 

590
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,600
some truth, some things to help 
you as you walk through the 

591
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,560
seasons of this burdens. 
And we carry heavy things that 

592
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,680
we may not even share with 
people closest to us, but the 

593
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,480
Lord wants to work in it. 
So I'm going to give you 3 

594
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,360
points of how to walk through 
the trials of life, how you work

595
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,000
through hard burdens, the things
you carry maybe on the inside 

596
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,280
that you never share with 
anybody. 

597
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,680
And maybe the Lord, you just 
question his goodness or his 

598
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,200
power. 
And so then we give you 3 

599
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,120
things. 
You're taking those three 

600
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,360
things. 
Number one is this pain is a 

601
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,880
problem. 
Everybody say it, pain is a 

602
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,680
pain's a problem. 
We're all going to experience 

603
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,080
pain. 
I don't have to preach on this 

604
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,520
point very long, right? 
We live, we live in a fallen and

605
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,680
broken world. 
The Bible says this in Matthew 

606
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,800
545. 
It says he causes the sun to 

607
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,720
rise on evil and good. 
He sends rain, which is a lot of

608
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:28,520
rain. 
Come on somebody on the 

609
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,600
righteous and the unrighteous. 
It rains on the just and the 

610
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,840
unjust. 
We live in a broken, fallen 

611
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,400
world. 
Even the earth groans with 

612
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,600
redemption for God. 
There's tornadoes, there's 

613
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,160
hurricanes, there's 
thunderstorms, there's rain, 

614
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,320
there's affliction, there's 
pain. 

615
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:42,760
We all have those moments in 
life. 

616
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,040
We pick the phone up, it takes 
your breath away. 

617
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,800
We get tragic news. 
We're broken, as happens around 

618
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,920
us or to us. 
Sometimes we would do things we 

619
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,840
wish we couldn't, we wouldn't 
have done ourselves, and we live

620
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,320
in a broken world. 
Some of the pain just comes from

621
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,160
falling Jesus. 
Second Timothy 312 says this 

622
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,080
says in fact, everyone who wants
to live a godly life in Christ 

623
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,800
Jesus will be what will be what 
this is. 

624
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,760
This is like the least favorite 
verse of the Testament, right? 

625
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,480
I mean, we, we thought some of 
you y'all come to church and 

626
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,280
thought, man, my life's gonna be
a lot easier because I follow 

627
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:15,800
Christ. 
In a lot of ways it actually 

628
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,360
becomes more difficult because 
we're a light in a Dark World 

629
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,720
and we persecute. 
Look at first thing 13. 

630
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,720
It says while evil doers and 
imposters, we'll go from what, 

631
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:31,240
bad to bad to worse, deceiving 
and being deceived, that there's

632
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:35,280
evil that's getting worse and 
that imposters are getting worse

633
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,640
and that they're being deceived 
and they're actually deceiving 

634
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,160
others. 
There's a lot of deception in 

635
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,960
our culture. 
There's a lot of false idols, 

636
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,520
There's a lot of false gods. 
There's a lot of things that 

637
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,640
claim to give you hope or claim 
that there is no hope. 

638
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,000
There's a there's a lot of 
things that we put our life 

639
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,040
into, our hope into, our passion
into, and we replace God 

640
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,680
himself, Amen. 
And it's easy to choose those 

641
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,640
things, but the Bible says in 
the last days as Jesus fault, 

642
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,320
it's actually going to get 
harder. 

643
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,000
And so the first thing is this, 
that pain is a problem. 

644
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,760
The same thing is this pain has 
a problem. 

645
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,160
Pain has a problem. 
His name is Jesus, Amen. 

646
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,920
We often don't think about pain 
having a shelf life. 

647
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,160
Like oftentimes you think, oh 
man, this life is so hard. 

648
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,800
My mom had a saying, I can't 
repeat, I'm from the stage. 

649
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,200
It's very difficult. 
And then you die and then just 

650
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,480
all life is full of pain. 
But pain does not have the 

651
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,320
victory, Amen. 
Pain is defeated by Jesus. 

652
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,280
A matter of fact, Jesus could do
something very special with your

653
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,400
pain. 
It says in Romans 828. 

654
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,600
It says we know that all things 
God works for the good of those 

655
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:42,200
who love him and who have been 
called according to his purpose.

656
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,960
What that means is that God has 
made pain as a short shelf life 

657
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,600
so that you would transform you,
that he'd use it for a greater 

658
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,480
good, that it would go out and 
be weaponized for his glory. 

659
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,040
And so pain is a momentary 
affliction. 

660
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,360
Pain isn't going to last 
forever. 

661
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,440
It's going to be it's going to 
be a stronghold turned down by 

662
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,040
Jesus and Jesus going to redeem 
our pain. 

663
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,360
The other thing we OFT times you
think that pain is running 

664
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,280
rampant, it's unchecked that 
we're helpless to pain, but pain

665
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,720
is actually not going to last 
forever. 

666
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:15,560
Amen. 
This is good news. 

667
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:17,680
Matter of fact, it's what Paul 
says about our pain. 

668
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,520
Matter of fact, he goes on to 
say what God does through a pain

669
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,480
will last forever. 
This is what it says in 2nd 

670
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,680
Corinthians 4. 
It says for our what's it say 

671
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,960
for our light? 
He's almost saying it's like 

672
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,240
it's it's our it's our small, 
maybe necessarily easy, but it's

673
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:37,080
our it's our small and momentary
troubles like the this, the 

674
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,440
fleeting of this life are 
achieving for us an eternal 

675
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:44,400
glory that far. 
What outweighs them all? 

676
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,720
That the weight of our pain is 
actually smaller than the weight

677
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,280
of the product it produces. 
That there is something greater 

678
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:55,440
coming from our pain like that 
pain is shaping us and it's 

679
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,040
moving us and it's moving things
in us to create something of 

680
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,560
eternal value. 
And so he says, so he fixed her 

681
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,800
eyes not on what's seen. 
Don't fix your eyes on the pain.

682
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,840
We fix your eyes on what's 
unseen. 

683
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,000
Since what's seen is temporary, 
the pain is temporary, but what 

684
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,320
is unseen is eternal. 
And so we see through our pain. 

685
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:13,960
And we asked Jesus, what are you
going to teach me? 

686
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,360
What are you showing me? 
That God is going to write one 

687
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,600
day a story where he redeems 
every broken thing, every owl 

688
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,160
word, everything spoken against 
you, you, everything done to 

689
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,720
you, all of the, the, the 
trials, the tribulations, the 

690
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:31,120
heartbreak, the weakness, all 
the suffering you walk through, 

691
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,920
God is going to turn it into 
something good for himself. 

692
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,720
Amen. 
We got to realize that's what 

693
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,280
pains going to have. 
But Joseph said this. 

694
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,880
He saw a man meant for evil, God
used for good God. 

695
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,920
God took the worst thing and 
turned into the grayest thing. 

696
00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:49,200
Here's a New Testament standard 
for pain and suffering, and it's

697
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,480
that we're in Christ. 
There is a great truth that we 

698
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,880
are baptized in the Christ, that
we are one with Christ, that 

699
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,840
we're positionally in him. 
And what that really means is 

700
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,040
this is that anything that 
happens to you had to go through

701
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:07,640
him first in any, any 
circumstance, any situation had 

702
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,120
to be authorized by the Father. 
Amen. 

703
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,640
Amen. 
Like you, you're surrounded by 

704
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,120
him. 
His hand is strong, he's in 

705
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,440
charge of everything, his 
sovereignty, his power that 

706
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,760
you're actually in Christ and so
everything belongs to him. 

707
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,400
Jesus said this way he was being
crucified his right force 

708
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,440
crucifixion. 
He's in the trial and he's had a

709
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,960
false trial on the all night and
he got sent to to the Romans, 

710
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,800
the pilot because they had the 
ones authorized him being put to

711
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,880
death and John 1910 it says this
do you refuse to speak to me. 

712
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,440
This is what Pilot said. 
Do you refuse to speak to me? 

713
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:45,880
Don't you realize I have what I 
have power either to free you or

714
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,480
to crucify you. 
Look what Jesus said to him. 

715
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:53,480
Jesus answered. 
You have no power over me if 

716
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,520
we're not given to you. 
From where? 

717
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,440
From above. 
You have no power over me except

718
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:06,160
the one that my Father has given
you, like the world does not 

719
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,920
have power over you, Amen. 
You're not downhill, You're not 

720
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:14,680
subject to the world, you're not
a victim of life, Amen. 

721
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,560
Like you are in God's hand, 
you're in his power. 

722
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,880
And what this means, we have the
same confidence that what 

723
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,200
happens to us actually came 
through God himself. 

724
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,880
And maybe give you some reasons 
of what maybe God trying to 

725
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,280
teach you through, through the 
pain, through the suffering, 

726
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,960
through that hardship, through 
those hard nights as long 

727
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:32,520
seasons. 
Here's some reason. 

728
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,000
I'll list quite a few of them. 
Maybe God's trying to give you 

729
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,720
clarity for what matters most. 
You know, if we often don't 

730
00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:42,640
change as adults until we have 
to, right? 

731
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,800
We, we, we don't like, we, we 
like to be very comfortable. 

732
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,320
But maybe God has give you some 
pain to give you some clarity. 

733
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,080
Maybe he wants you to, to think 
about your life deep enough to 

734
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,880
say this is what matters most. 
I've been living for the 

735
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,040
weekend. 
I've been living for myself. 

736
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,840
I've been living for everything 
else, but I'm not living for 

737
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,720
Jesus. 
And so God gives you some pain 

738
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:01,800
to get your eyes focused back on
him. 

739
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,120
Maybe he's trying to give you 
some awareness of his presence 

740
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,440
and we can often go through life
and we don't pray, but we don't 

741
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,920
thank God. 
We were not aware that he's next

742
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:12,240
to us. 
We were trying to build our own 

743
00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:14,960
Kingdom, our own sand castles, 
right? 

744
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,120
We we try to build our own 
direction, our own way and have 

745
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,120
her have it comfortable as 
possible. 

746
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,440
And God maybe just trying to 
remind us that you need me. 

747
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,680
Amen. 
That you do walk with me that 

748
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,120
that near that the shepherd in 
Psalm 23, he actually brings in 

749
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,600
the right path. 
That right path immediately 

750
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,480
brings me into the valley of 
darkness. 

751
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,480
Like oftentimes we have to get 
the space in our life where all 

752
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,280
we need is a Lord and all we 
have is the Lord. 

753
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,680
We got to trust Him. 
Maybe God's preparing you. 

754
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:42,800
Maybe He's preparing you for the
next season. 

755
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,240
Do you think the honestly, the 
next season is going to be 

756
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:47,920
easier than last season was? 
Was that ever? 

757
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:49,920
I don't know. 
I've yet to find one. 

758
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,080
I'm still looking for that easy 
season. 

759
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,600
Come up somebody, right? 
I feel like every season is just

760
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,240
another level and it's just 
uphill and we want to run to 

761
00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:02,560
comfort, but but Jesus is always
preparing us for the next 

762
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,600
season. 
We had seasons of hardship with 

763
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,520
foster kids. 
We had seasons of hardship of 

764
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,680
loss. 
We've had seasons of stripping 

765
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,400
away where I had so many enemies
around me. 

766
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,000
And through all those things, I 
just chased the Lord and trust 

767
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,760
him through it. 
And now that we planted a 

768
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:21,600
church, which has been super 
easy, right? 

769
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:27,120
No difficulties, no problems, no
one's ever left or said anything

770
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,760
critical. 
It's been great the whole time, 

771
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,240
right? 
No one had opinions. 

772
00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:32,640
It was perfect. 
It was every guy along perfectly

773
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,360
well, right? 
I mean, he's preparing you for 

774
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,920
the next season. 
So often times we walk through 

775
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,840
the the problems and the pain 
and we think we're underneath 

776
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,200
it, but we're actually above it.
And so we have to start asking 

777
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:44,920
the question, Lord, what are you
teaching me? 

778
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:46,880
What what are you preparing me 
for? 

779
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,200
What I should be more aware of? 
What clarity do I need? 

780
00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:51,960
What do I need? 
For some of us, God's using our 

781
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,560
pain, our suffering, so we can 
realize the deep seated idols in

782
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,720
our life. 
Then we can just realize that 

783
00:49:57,720 --> 00:49:59,520
this is just a lot about Sean 
right now. 

784
00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:01,920
Like you need, you need that 
kind of validation. 

785
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,120
I'm going to show you what's 
looked like not to have it. 

786
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:05,760
You need to have your name in 
light. 

787
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,360
You need to be a force. 
You need to make something of 

788
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,600
yourself. 
No, you don't like you need to 

789
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,160
get really good at slipping into
obscurity. 

790
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,080
You're like John the Baptist, 
like these other disciples. 

791
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:15,840
All you're just going to just 
disappear, brother. 

792
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:18,360
Like it's not about Sean, it's 
about Jesus. 

793
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,320
And sometimes we were just given
that kind of pain to remind us 

794
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,840
that we need Jesus. 
We're going to walk with a limp 

795
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,240
in these seasons. 
For a lot of us, we did increase

796
00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:28,880
our gratitude. 
He didn't heal little James in 

797
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:30,640
the story. 
And he said, well, you know what

798
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,400
kind of stories? 
If I were to heal you, there's a

799
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,480
lot of people being healed. 
And be real honest, it's really 

800
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,000
easy to worship Jesus on the 
mountain top. 

801
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,640
It's easy to get there. 
So thank you, Lord, these are so

802
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,480
beautiful. 
Like it's we want those 

803
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,520
experiences, but to truly 
worship Jesus in the valley. 

804
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,160
It's a different type of worship
that that's true worship. 

805
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,840
That's how you know your heart's
really lined up with Jesus is 

806
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,400
when it's really hard and you 
can just open it and say, God, 

807
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,160
you're a good, I trust you. 
I have no idea what you're 

808
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,040
doing, but no, you're teaching 
me something and you said this 

809
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,920
heart of a gratitude. 
Maybe God wants some deeper 

810
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,360
worship from you so he doesn't 
give you everything you want. 

811
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,760
Maybe maybe he's just stripping 
away some of the secret sins of 

812
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,400
self as Tozer would say. 
There's this deep rooted sins 

813
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,360
that only you really know about.
Maybe he's just a wake up call. 

814
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,360
The brevity of life, like you 
talked about little to little 

815
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:15,600
James. 
He said, hey, one day you're 

816
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,000
going to be healed and it's 
coming quickly, but it's not 

817
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,920
going to happen now and life is 
short and your story's going to 

818
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:21,960
be used. 
Remember Paul? 

819
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,480
What? 
Why did Paul the thorn split you

820
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,640
guys? 
Remember to stop him from being 

821
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,320
conceited. 
Paul was going to be arrogant. 

822
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,040
He's looking at how great I am. 
He was a Pharisee of Pharisees, 

823
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,120
a Hebrew Hebrews. 
He he knew all the law. 

824
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:35,680
He's got memorized most little 
Testament. 

825
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,920
He he, he could have just done 
anything you want to do and just

826
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,480
man, look at me and said no, no,
no, no, no, you can't do this 

827
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,240
without me. 
Paul, I'm gonna remind you every

828
00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:45,760
single day. 
Sometimes we seem to remind that

829
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,560
the Lord is with us. 
That's what the Paul had to 

830
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,440
have. 
He could not do it on his own 

831
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,040
except with Jesus. 
And the temptation is he 

832
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,640
probably would have. 
And so CS Lewis, he said this. 

833
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,920
He says God whispers to us in 
our pleasures. 

834
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,520
He speaks to us in our 
conscience and he shouts to us 

835
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,760
in our pain. 
He shouts in our pain. 

836
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:05,560
That's when the Lord has our 
attention. 

837
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,240
Amen. 
It's he's like wake up. 

838
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:13,000
And CS Lewis said it's a 
megaphone to a lost and dying 

839
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:18,080
world to arouse them to God so 
they will see Jesus. 

840
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,520
So pain's a problem. 
Pain has a problem. 

841
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,920
Third thing is this is pain is 
truly not your problem. 

842
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:26,680
This is very interesting. 
First Corinthians chapter 6, 

843
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,480
verse 19. 
Who says this? 

844
00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:32,720
Do you not know that your bodies
are temples of the Holy Spirit 

845
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,480
who is in you, whom you've 
received from God? 

846
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,960
You are not your own. 
You are what? 

847
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:43,840
You're bought with a price. 
Therefore honor God with your 

848
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:45,760
bodies. 
So you're bought with a price. 

849
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:49,840
What was the price? 
You were bought with Jesus. 

850
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:51,560
What about Jesus? 
What? 

851
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,880
What about Jesus? 
What was actually given for you?

852
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,400
It wasn't a trite gift and 
matter of fact, it wasn't a 

853
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,560
cheap gift. 
I'm not a big fan of cheap 

854
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,800
grace. 
Like it requires something of 

855
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,440
us. 
Like the the price that Jesus 

856
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:12,480
paid was that he spilled every 
ounce of his blood on that cross

857
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:17,720
and it was the final permanent, 
perfect sacrifice for our sin. 

858
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,600
Behold the Lamb of God who died 
for our sins in the perfect Lamb

859
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,640
of God. 
Jesus, the Son of God was our 

860
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,120
sacrifice. 
It was the highest cost. 

861
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,400
Amen. 
There was no greater price to 

862
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,280
get every pay than the Son of 
God, Jesus himself, Amen. 

863
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,080
And we're bought with the Son of
God. 

864
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:38,120
And so it's not cheap, Amen. 
As we don't tread on it, we 

865
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:39,720
don't go, well, that was great. 
Thank you, Jesus. 

866
00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:42,520
I'm gonna go back to my life. 
I got big plans. 

867
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,240
I got things I want to do. 
I've got dreams and ambitions. 

868
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:46,640
What? 
Jesus saying no, you ask, 

869
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,880
Something is required of you and
you're bought. 

870
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:52,160
To think you're actually bought 
by Jesus, that means you're 

871
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:56,960
actually owned by Jesus, Amen. 
That he owns your life. 

872
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:01,560
It's no longer yours, it's his 
because you come under his name 

873
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:04,800
and that saves his name, that 
casts out demons, His name that 

874
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,960
every niche about, it's all 
about Jesus, Amen. 

875
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:08,400
But here's the thing about your 
life. 

876
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,560
If your life's been bought by 
Jesus, what else is bought by 

877
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,360
Jesus? 
Your pain's been bought by 

878
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,920
Jesus, Amen. 
We, we, we, we think that we're 

879
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,640
like often time possessed by our
pain. 

880
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,160
We're driven by our pain. 
You know, I listen to guys that 

881
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,560
are kind of that motivation kind
of style and they go to people 

882
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,800
and say, Hey, I can help you. 
I know your dream in 2 minutes 

883
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:28,560
or less. 
And they always go back to this 

884
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,080
question, Hey, what's the moment
you're most hurt in life and 

885
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,760
your purpose is found in that 
pain and that the world is kind 

886
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:36,760
of figured out that that God has
been shaping you through your 

887
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,360
pain for a purpose. 
And so you listen to this, but 

888
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:40,920
it's like you, you're not under 
your pain. 

889
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:42,600
You're not controlled by your 
pain. 

890
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,320
We matter of fact, we don't even
possess our pain. 

891
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,720
We don't just step above it. 
We don't even own our pain. 

892
00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:48,640
Jesus owns our pain. 
Amen. 

893
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,880
Oftentimes we're trying to get 
even, like we're underneath it 

894
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,360
and we're victim, we're above it
and we're bitter and jaded, 

895
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:56,200
right? 
And we're unforgiving. 

896
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,160
Or we give it to Jesus and he 
owns it. 

897
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,200
Amen. 
It's nice to have Jesus as a 

898
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,320
landlord. 
Amen. 

899
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,720
You know, if you have a bad 
landlord, it's terrible, right? 

900
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:05,920
We've got Jesus. 
Landlord. 

901
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:07,840
Just nice. 
Hey, Jesus, the sewer backed up.

902
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,960
Hey, Jesus, the roof is leaking.
Amen. 

903
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,160
Hey, Jesus, this lawn, it is 
falling apart. 

904
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:17,160
Hey, there's termites. 
Jesus, the sink is called Jesus.

905
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:18,760
Do you think Jesus can take care
of it? 

906
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:21,800
Amen. 
Like, do you think Jesus know 

907
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,120
he's doing with the house? 
Do you think Jesus knows how to 

908
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,160
run a home? 
Do you think Jesus know how to 

909
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:27,760
run your body? 
You think Jesus knows what it's 

910
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,240
like to walk in your shoes? 
He knows all these pieces, Amen?

911
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,400
And so we just trust him that we
this pain is not ours. 

912
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,360
It's one of the benefits of 
being a Christian, being in 

913
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,560
Christ. 
And So what is the miracle you 

914
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,120
never saw coming? 
What's the miracle that little 

915
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,600
James never saw coming? 
Like He wanted to be healed, 

916
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,080
that He wasn't healed, but 
there's still a miracle, and the

917
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:50,960
miracle was something that 
happened inside of him. 

918
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,360
It wasn't the mountain that God 
moved out there. 

919
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,240
He didn't move the 
circumstances, but He changed 

920
00:55:56,240 --> 00:55:59,520
the posture of his heart. 
Amen. 

921
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:04,240
There's a mountain inside of us 
that God is trying to move. 

922
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,480
There's a mountain that God 
wants to grow a faith. 

923
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,680
There's a mountain of our will. 
Like I got, I just have to have 

924
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,680
it my way like we got. 
We like God's sovereignties and 

925
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,440
control, but we don't like Him 
being the architect, right? 

926
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,640
Like I would have built it this 
way, Lord. 

927
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,360
Like I want my plan still. 
I want my direction still. 

928
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,920
But maybe God just stripping you
away or it's like, Lord, I don't

929
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,520
know what you're up to and I 
wish I did, but I still trust 

930
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,760
you and there's gonna days come.
You will be healed. 

931
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:31,840
Now think about the devil. 
The devil's a lot of strongholds

932
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,680
in this area. 
There's a lot of people that 

933
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,200
that deconstruct their faith 
because they're disillusioned in

934
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,320
what God's trying to do. 
The disillusion that pain should

935
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,680
not be a part of the equation of
Christianity, that somehow 

936
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,840
because you know God, that 
you'll be, you won't have a 

937
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,960
painful life, your life won't 
suffer at all. 

938
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,160
That it will always be a 
mountaintop and you prayed a 

939
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,320
prayer of perfection and 
holiness and everything that's 

940
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,560
going to work out great and you 
always be happy all the time. 

941
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,680
And that type of Christianity 
does not exist. 

942
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:00,480
That's not biblical 
Christianity, Amen. 

943
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,040
And Jesus is actually teaching 
us so much different in this 

944
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,080
text. 
Is that simply this? 

945
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:07,400
And it it maybe is not even 
simple. 

946
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,520
This is actually very loaded, 
very deep plot. 

947
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:14,200
But what what if God chose not 
to do things in his sovereignty 

948
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,320
because he wanted to do it about
sovereignty is in his control. 

949
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,120
So maybe God decided not to do 
things in his sovereignty 

950
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:25,200
because he wanted to redeem it 
alongside of us in Christ, in 

951
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,800
our humanity. 
Maybe he didn't like prevent it 

952
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,880
from happening because we're 
like, oh, God's not good or 

953
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,240
God's not all powerful. 
You can't be trusted. 

954
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,000
But maybe God allows it to 
happen our lives as Christians 

955
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:40,400
because he wants to overcome it 
alongside us and still get 

956
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,880
worship even though we're still 
walking in pain. 

957
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,360
So we connect with the rest of 
the world and he redeems it and 

958
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,280
his time along us. 
Amen. 

959
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,160
OK that was like 15 levels deep.
Like some of y'all like I don't 

960
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:54,120
know what this dude's talking 
about. 

961
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,040
Re watch it and here's just 
something to say about why does 

962
00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:59,840
God allow us to happen. 
I don't have all the puzzle 

963
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,800
pieces but I do trust God with 
everyone he puts down. 

964
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,000
I've walked to Jesus long to 
know that he is a way better 

965
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:09,240
person to paint the picture of 
my life and I don't know why the

966
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,800
pieces are cut the way they are 
and why this happens. 

967
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:15,320
I don't see bass eternity but 
there will be a day I will have 

968
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,280
every answer to all my 
questions. 

969
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,760
Amen. 
I will know, like that's why 

970
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:24,600
Lord, like I suffered for that 
because somebody saw that 

971
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:26,680
somebody need that. 
I needed that. 

972
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,440
If I would have had a life of 
comfort, I never would have gone

973
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,760
to church. 
I never would read the Bible. 

974
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,240
I would never do stuff because I
had everything I wanted. 

975
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,560
Amen. 
I wouldn't need Jesus, but God 

976
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,720
takes some things. 
He strips some things and he 

977
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,280
wants us to walk with him in 
those seasons. 

978
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,120
Think about Paul praying three 
times. 

979
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,080
I mean, just Lord, take it, take
it, take it, take it. 

980
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,960
The Lord says, no, no, no, my 
grace is sufficient. 

981
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,240
Is God's grace sufficient for 
you today? 

982
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:57,080
Like is he good enough for you 
in those hard seasons like 

983
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:58,440
little James? 
You can say, you know, Lord, 

984
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:00,120
there is a day coming where I 
will be healed. 

985
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,440
It's not today, but Lord, I 
trust you like I'm going to use 

986
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:07,160
my life to just share the gospel
even through my pain. 

987
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,800
The thing about this, your 
strength doesn't come from you. 

988
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:15,000
The strength comes from God in 
you that his, his, his power is 

989
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,080
made perfect in our weakness. 
It's not your power. 

990
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:21,600
And so when you're walking along
with Jesus and you're like, 

991
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:22,800
well, I'm not enough. 
Well, you're right. 

992
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,400
That's, that's half the, that's,
that's the lie part of it, 

993
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,400
right? 
But the truth of it is you're 

994
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,760
not enough. 
But he is Amen. 

995
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:32,440
And when something hard happens 
in your life, it, it really 

996
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,320
breaks the heart when people run
from God because you're actually

997
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,400
running exactly the play that 
Satan just set up for you. 

998
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,560
You're running the exact 
direction that Satan wants you 

999
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,560
to go. 
We're supposed to run to God, 

1000
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,680
and God will heal you and God 
will show you over time that he 

1001
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,640
can be trusted. 
This is why James, one of the 

1002
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,520
most persecuted churches in the 
New Testament, James will be 

1003
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:54,040
beheaded in his life. 
But he said this, he wrote this.

1004
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:55,680
And James 1-2 said consider it 
pure. 

1005
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,280
What? 
Yeah, consider it pure joy. 

1006
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,120
Actually, Scott quote this 
earlier is pretty good. 

1007
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:03,000
Consider it pure joy. 
Pure joy. 

1008
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:05,240
Pure joy. 
I don't know. 

1009
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:07,080
I don't know a lot of people 
that get a lot of joy out of 

1010
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,400
this, what he's about to say, 
but he said, consider it pure 

1011
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:10,920
joy. 
My brothers and sisters, 

1012
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:16,920
whenever you face trials of many
kinds, multi colored trials, any

1013
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,920
variation of trials, because you
know that the testing, that's 

1014
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,720
what it is, the testing of your 
faith produces what 

1015
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:26,280
perseverance. 
You're going to need that in the

1016
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,000
race. 
You're going to need that. 

1017
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,960
I got a lot of guys that like to
start out and they Sprint and 

1018
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,280
don't have any perseverance. 
And then something happens and 

1019
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:36,520
they drop off and they stop 
coming. 

1020
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,240
They stop falling, Lord, they 
stop reading the Bible, they 

1021
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,120
walk away from their family. 
They were started strong, but 

1022
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,040
they don't finish. 
And one of the things that I've 

1023
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,480
just focused on my life through 
trials and hard things is Lord, 

1024
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:48,920
I want to finish the race 
strong. 

1025
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:52,040
There's a lot of guys who make 
it 10 years, three years, two 

1026
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,400
years, 15 years, 20 years, 40 
years. 

1027
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:56,320
Lord, I want to finish all my 
years strong. 

1028
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,480
Amen. 
And that requires perseverance, 

1029
01:00:59,960 --> 01:01:02,480
the perseverance to walk with 
God through trial. 

1030
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,000
So let perseverance finish its 
work so that may so you may be 

1031
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:10,080
what? 
Mature and complete, lacking 

1032
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,200
nothing there. 
There are things that God wants 

1033
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,040
to do in your life that you 
don't have the faith to ask for 

1034
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,560
right now. 
There are things that got, there

1035
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,000
are places that God wants to 
take you that you don't have the

1036
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,000
faith to ask Jesus to do. 
But God is putting pain and 

1037
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:29,080
pressure and allowing burdens in
this testing to pull that out of

1038
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:33,440
you to grow your faith, Amen. 
To be mature in Christ. 

1039
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:35,720
Some of the greatest things 
happen in your life under 

1040
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:37,840
pressure. 
Some of the greatest things 

1041
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,440
unanswered prayers. 
There's some great things that 

1042
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:42,320
happen when the Lord doesn't 
show up the way you want them 

1043
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:43,640
to. 
That's where the Lord's going to

1044
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:44,640
do some great work. 
Amen. 

1045
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:46,720
You know what Diamond takes 
pressure to make. 

1046
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,080
It takes immense amount of 
pressure to make a diamond. 

1047
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:52,920
You know, to get gold to purify 
it takes a Crucible. 

1048
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,200
This is all biblical principles 
here. 

1049
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:58,400
You have to walk through the 
trials in the fire. 

1050
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,000
And God strips away those 
impurities like refining of 

1051
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:03,520
silver and gold. 
And Spurgeon said this, Charles 

1052
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:05,840
Spurgeon said this. 
If God does not pay you in 

1053
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:09,680
silver, he'll pay you in gold. 
If he does not pay you in gold, 

1054
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,560
he'll pay you with diamonds. 
I don't think for one second 

1055
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,920
that God has not taken away your
pain and your burden and your 

1056
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:20,160
hardship, that He's not 
exchanging it for something far 

1057
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:23,760
greater, Amen. 
There's something greater that 

1058
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:26,800
God has given you than that 
pain, something that lasts for 

1059
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:30,200
eternity, something that is from
Him, something that's of great 

1060
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:32,800
value in your life. 
And there will be a day, make no

1061
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,120
mistake about it, where God 
wipes away every tear, Amen. 

1062
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,080
There's no more suffering. 
There's no more burdens. 

1063
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:39,760
Wherever you're wrong is made 
right. 

1064
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,760
Wherever where there's no sin, 
we're finally makes sense. 

1065
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,640
Why God did not answer those 
prayers, why God left you in 

1066
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:50,320
some affliction and some pain, 
why that thing happened and all 

1067
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:52,000
this all that's going to make 
sense one day. 

1068
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:53,800
But there's that space in the 
middle, Amen. 

1069
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:58,400
The silent Saturday, like the 
promise, the space between the 

1070
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,400
promise and the promise 
fulfilled, the space between an 

1071
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,760
announcement and inauguration, 
like that's the space we live 

1072
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,160
in. 
And so the question is, are you 

1073
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:11,520
at peace with this season? 
Are you at peace being between 

1074
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:13,840
the promise and the promise 
fulfilled? 

1075
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:16,440
Is there an area of your life 
you say, God, I need to trust 

1076
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,120
you with? 
Like I don't have all the 

1077
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:20,520
answers and know what? 
I don't need all the answers 

1078
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,360
because I know I'm under the one
who does. 

1079
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:24,320
There's so many people that 
walk. 

1080
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,160
Every great Christian walks the 
limp. 

1081
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,760
There's not a mature person in 
Christ that doesn't walk with a 

1082
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,840
thorn in the flesh, doesn't walk
with some kind of burden, some 

1083
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,200
kind of pain. 
And you say, Lord, are you good?

1084
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:36,520
Yes, he's good. 
Amen. 

1085
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,160
He can't be trusted. 
I follow him. 

1086
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:42,320
There's gets the point. 
You say God, your grace is 

1087
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:45,920
sufficient for me. 
It's good enough for me Lord, 

1088
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:47,720
it's good enough for me. 
I trust you. 

1089
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:50,480
I don't need to know the whole 
picture Lord, I I I I don't need

1090
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:52,440
to be selfish. 
It's less than me. 

1091
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:58,040
It's more of you and in my 
weakness I made strong because 

1092
01:03:58,040 --> 01:03:59,760
of Christ. 
Amen. 

1093
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:02,400
Remember we told little James 
the very last part of the scene.

1094
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:05,800
I loved it. 
He said, remember, you will be 

1095
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:09,360
healed, it's only a matter of 
time. 

1096
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,760
Amen. 
Sometimes healing doesn't happen

1097
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,520
on this side of eternity. 
Sometimes we don't get it our 

1098
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:17,360
way. 
Are we OK with that? 

1099
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:21,000
Can we persevere that? 
And then you know what, that 

1100
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,640
kind of worship is greater than 
any other type of worship 

1101
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,640
because that's true worship. 
Lord, you're enough. 

1102
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,360
So Father, come before you. 
God, we thank you so much for 

1103
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:33,440
just showing yourself to us. 
God that you're faithful. 

1104
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,000
God, for some people today you 
were shouting to them, you're 

1105
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,640
shouting in their pain, you're 
waving them down, you're 

1106
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,400
flagging them down, that the 
bridge is out, that there's a 

1107
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:47,600
better way that this in of 
themselves, that the road is 

1108
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,640
hard and you're pulling them to 
a better way. 

1109
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,680
God, today I want to pray for 
those that Jesus followers that 

1110
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:56,120
say that God is speaking to me, 
that there's some work that be 

1111
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:59,280
done in my soul, that I'm 
trusting God, that he's moving a

1112
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:03,040
mountain inside of me, that I 
want to worship in my affliction

1113
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,160
because I'm trusting God to 
redeem what is broken, that He'd

1114
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:09,600
make something beautiful from 
the ashes of my life. 

1115
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,120
Today I just recognize I need to
trust him in these areas. 

1116
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:16,200
He's speaking to me. 
He's not, He's had not removed 

1117
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:17,120
this. 
I don't know why, but I'm 

1118
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:20,520
trusting him today and that's 
you. 

1119
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:22,840
As Jesus followers, we just lift
your hand high in this place and

1120
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,240
say, yes, that's me. 
Jesus, there's a mound being 

1121
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:27,080
moved in my life. 
It's just in me. 

1122
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,080
God, I'm being changed, I'm 
being shaped. 

1123
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:33,600
It's not my circumstances that 
you just put your in high Lord 

1124
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,760
and say, Lord, I need you more 
than ever. 

1125
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:37,680
Lord, I need you. 
I know you're near to me and 

1126
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:39,920
you're teaching me. 
You're living things inside of 

1127
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,600
me that I don't want to go to, 
but you have pushed me into. 

1128
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,120
There's some work to be done. 
I don't have the faith to ask 

1129
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:46,520
for, but God, you're calling me 
up. 

1130
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:49,120
So God, you see the hands, you 
know the hearts. 

1131
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:52,640
God strengthen us. 
God, you'd never give us more 

1132
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:56,000
than we can handle God, because 
you're with us are in our 

1133
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,760
humanness. 
We're broken, God, but in you we

1134
01:05:57,760 --> 01:05:59,800
can handle all. 
And so God show us that our 

1135
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:04,240
flesh is weak, but you are 
strong that your power in US is 

1136
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:07,760
made perfect in our weakness. 
Help us not think too much of 

1137
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:12,080
ourselves to boast in ourselves 
to dream of ourselves without 

1138
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:13,520
you. 
Lord, help us to go in those 

1139
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:18,320
spaces that may be locked off 
and broken and sealed is we're 

1140
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:22,480
hard hearted. 
God help us to remove a foothold

1141
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:25,920
that may be Satan is done in 
some of our lives and surrender 

1142
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:27,880
to you. 
God that we give our pain to 

1143
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:29,920
you. 
We trust it doesn't belong to 

1144
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:32,040
us. 
It belongs to you, Lord that 

1145
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:36,520
you're using it to shape us, to 
guide us, to teach us, to humble

1146
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:41,920
us, to remind us of how good you
are that we can trust you in a 

1147
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:46,080
watching world can relate to a 
broken group of people that have

1148
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:50,080
the power of Christ in 
redemption through brokenness 

1149
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:53,840
more than perfect people have no
pain God. 

1150
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:56,280
You use our pain, God. 
We don't wish away our 

1151
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,960
affliction, God, we just trust 
it to you. 

1152
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:01,560
I'll pray for a group of people 
in the house that say, you know 

1153
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,640
what? 
It's making really good sense 

1154
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:06,960
today because I've not followed 
Jesus, because I've walked 

1155
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:08,120
through some really hard 
seasons. 

1156
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:11,320
I've seen a lot of brokenness, 
I've seen a lot of hurt, and 

1157
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:13,560
I've done anything but trust God
because of what I've seen. 

1158
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:16,960
But today's making sense what 
God is actually trying to do 

1159
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,760
through pain and suffering. 
Today, for the very first time, 

1160
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:24,400
I recognize that Jesus loves me 
even though my life is painful 

1161
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,120
and they're suffering and 
there's hurt. 

1162
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:30,160
I recognize I'm bought with the 
price of Jesus and He wants to 

1163
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:33,160
show off some miracles and some 
work in US. 

1164
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:36,840
And even if it doesn't happen to
me, I can give to somebody else 

1165
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,440
and be a voice piece of God's 
faithfulness. 

1166
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,680
And so today, if you need Jesus,
the Bible says that Jesus came 

1167
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:45,800
2000 years ago. 
He was the perfect Lamb of God. 

1168
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:50,720
He was the final sacrifice for 
us, like the permanent perfect 

1169
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:52,920
Lamb of God. 
And he took where his sins as 

1170
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:54,400
far as the east is from the 
West. 

1171
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:55,600
They'd never run into each 
other. 

1172
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:58,080
And he, he doesn't count our 
sins against us. 

1173
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:01,360
For those who believe that Jesus
died on the cross for our sins. 

1174
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,800
And so they may be the very 
first time you put your faith in

1175
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:06,040
Jesus that you don't want to 
walk through this pain and 

1176
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:07,960
suffering. 
These burns are afflictions of 

1177
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:10,640
life on your own. 
You need the power of God to be 

1178
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:13,400
perfect in your weakness, and 
you're calling on God and your 

1179
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,120
brokenness at your low point in 
your weakness and your mess, 

1180
01:08:17,279 --> 01:08:19,040
you're not promising God to 
clean your life up. 

1181
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,760
You're promising to God that He 
will forgive you and make you 

1182
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:23,520
whole. 
It's not a prayer of perfection.

1183
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,080
It's a prayer of confession and 
you're just confessing your life

1184
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:29,319
that Jesus, that you need him 
now more than ever, and you want

1185
01:08:29,319 --> 01:08:32,399
his forgiveness and his grace to
come into your life. 

1186
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,479
And so if you need Jesus today, 
thou said he'll forgive you all 

1187
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:38,479
your sins, He'll make you right 
with him, He'll take away all 

1188
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:40,760
your wrongs, has changed for all
his rights, and he'll be in a 

1189
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:42,920
relationship with him you found 
in Christ today. 

1190
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:45,800
And so to the day is a day of 
salvation. 

1191
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:49,240
God has asked you to step 
towards him to humble yourself 

1192
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:51,720
in faith and that God will come 
in and change your life. 

1193
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,240
So if you need Jesus today and 
be looking around, I can make it

1194
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:55,760
weird to call you out, but if 
you need Jesus, we just raise 

1195
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:57,880
your hand high. 
This place say Jesus the Holy 

1196
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:00,279
Spirit is speaking to me. 
I need Christ today. 

1197
01:09:00,279 --> 01:09:04,120
I need I need to be forgiven 
today any relationship with God 

1198
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:07,000
today I relate to the story of 
little James. 

1199
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:11,840
Today I come to end of myself 
the beginning of God. 

1200
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:13,600
That's you just pray this 
prayer. 

1201
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:16,160
The prayer does not save you. 
It's your heart towards him. 

1202
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:20,160
It's your humility, it's your 
confession to say, Father God, 

1203
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:23,399
thanks so much for sending Jesus
to Donna Cross for me. 

1204
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:27,120
I'm so undeserving now. 
There's nothing in me that's 

1205
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:29,319
good. 
Thank you for loving me, God, 

1206
01:09:29,359 --> 01:09:33,680
enough to Donna Cross to pay 
with the most high payment you 

1207
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:35,760
could ever pay. 
God, with your own blood, your 

1208
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,040
own sacrifice for me. 
You love me enough to die for 

1209
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:39,920
me. 
It's not that I loved you, Lord,

1210
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:41,920
so you love me. 
It's that kindness. 

1211
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:43,680
It's that goodness, the Lord, 
that's all me to you today. 

1212
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:45,840
So God, I ask for my 
forgiveness. 

1213
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:49,479
You can have my life. 
You can have my pain, you can 

1214
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:51,359
have my past, you can have my 
future. 

1215
01:09:51,359 --> 01:09:54,320
God I want to walk with you and 
be a mouthpiece of you got to 

1216
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,320
worship you God. 
I serve my life. 

1217
01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:59,200
I praise in Jesus name. 
The church said Amen. 

1218
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:00,480
Come on, give some glory to God 
today. 

1219
01:10:00,480 --> 01:10:02,520
Let me know you love him. 
Praise God. 

1220
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:08,760
It's such a powerful reminder 
today, but how God uses our pain

1221
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:12,120
and our suffering to draw us 
closer to him, how he can use 

1222
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:16,080
our story for his glory. 
And some of you today recognize 

1223
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:18,280
that for the first time that 
God's using the pain and the 

1224
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:21,480
trials in your life to pull you 
closer to him, to draw you to 

1225
01:10:21,480 --> 01:10:23,560
him. 
And you accepted Jesus today. 

1226
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:26,640
We are so excited for you. 
If that is you, we would love 

1227
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,000
just to celebrate with you, to 
know your decision, if you would

1228
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,720
grab that connection card that's
on your seat, fill out the 

1229
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,000
information on the top there, 
but check that box that says I 

1230
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:36,200
committed my life to Jesus. 
And you can drop that in the 

1231
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:37,520
giving buckets here in a little 
bit. 

1232
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,400
But we would love just to get a 
free resource to you this week 

1233
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:42,640
when you let us know that you 
made that decision. 

1234
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:44,080
Man, we'd love to get you a book
in the mail. 

1235
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:45,800
It's called Begin. 
It's a short read, but it's a 

1236
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:47,960
great read. 
Really will bless you this week 

1237
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,640
as you start that journey with 
Jesus. 

1238
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:51,600
And that journey does start 
today. 

1239
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:53,840
So as you leave the worship 
center, there's a table with 

1240
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,360
some red bags. 
Please grab one of those bags. 

1241
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:59,760
Inside is a free Bible for you, 
a list of some other resources. 

1242
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:01,600
We really do want to be a 
blessing to you. 

1243
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,680
This. 
Week and hey, if you are new 

1244
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:07,480
with us today, thank you so much
for being here. 

1245
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,040
We really are for you. 
We love you chose to spend your 

1246
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,280
morning with us. 
We do ask one thing and that's 

1247
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:13,920
just that you would introduce 
yourselves to us. 

1248
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,840
We'd love to get to know you, to
connect with you, to answer any 

1249
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:18,960
questions you have. 
So if you could fill out the top

1250
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:20,560
of that connection card there as
well. 

1251
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:23,320
Check first time here. 
You can take that to the new 

1252
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:25,040
here booth as you exit the 
worship center. 

1253
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,440
We have a free gift for you. 
You can also just drop in the 

1254
01:11:27,440 --> 01:11:29,160
giving bucket. 
But we would love to know you to

1255
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:32,840
introduce ourselves to you and 
help you feel at home right here

1256
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:35,120
at Real Life Church. 
And hey, I want to share with 

1257
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:37,680
you as well why we give here at 
Real Life Church. 

1258
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:40,160
There's a couple of really 
awesome things I want to share 

1259
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:42,360
with you in the first is this. 
You can see that picture there 

1260
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,280
of Logan at Youth Camp. 
We had youth campus last week 

1261
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,320
and Logan really brought the 
word to these teenagers, shared 

1262
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:52,880
his own story. 
We had teens open up and forgive

1263
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:54,520
people in their past that have 
hurt them. 

1264
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,520
They really worked through some 
of that with our leaders and 

1265
01:11:57,520 --> 01:11:59,600
were able to open up and think 
through what that looks like for

1266
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,920
them. 
We have teens really nail down 

1267
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,160
and solidify their relationship 
with Jesus. 

1268
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:08,400
We have teens just recognize 
some of the truths in the Bible 

1269
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:10,440
and the things that Jesus is 
calling them to. 

1270
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:13,000
And this week we have another 
awesome opportunity for some 

1271
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,760
kiddos to head to camp. 
We've got about 20 kids heading 

1272
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:19,520
to Connect Camp this next week, 
which is so awesome. 

1273
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:23,240
And when you give here, a 20% of
everything you give goes right 

1274
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:26,360
back to support and to fund 
these ministries. 

1275
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,040
Kids camp this week. 
We, like I said, we have 20 

1276
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:30,400
going. 
We have kids that need to know 

1277
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:32,800
Jesus. 
We have kids that need to know 

1278
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,880
that he loves them, that he is 
for them, maybe that he's 

1279
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,760
calling them to surrender, to do
more for him in his life. 

1280
01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:41,680
And so when you give here, it 
really is a Kingdom investment. 

1281
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:45,440
We like to call it an EROI, 
that's an eternal return on 

1282
01:12:45,440 --> 01:12:47,680
investment. 
And when these teens come back 

1283
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:49,840
from camp here in a few weeks 
and you hear their stories and 

1284
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:52,760
these kids share their stories 
from camp about how Jesus 

1285
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:56,400
changed their life, about how he
opened their eyes to the truth 

1286
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:59,360
of who he is, you get to say I 
played a part in that. 

1287
01:12:59,960 --> 01:13:04,080
When you give here, you get to 
say, hey, I played a part in 

1288
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:07,680
moving the Kingdom work forward.
If you haven't given, or maybe 

1289
01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:10,840
you haven't given yet, you're 
missing one of the biggest 

1290
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:14,640
blessings in your life to be 
able to trust Jesus and say, 

1291
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,120
hey, I'm just going to give back
a little bit of what you've 

1292
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:20,040
given in me back to you. 
I want to play a part in all 

1293
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,600
that you're doing through real 
life Church and through these 

1294
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:24,320
kids and investing in their 
lives. 

1295
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:26,880
And so if you call Real Life 
Church home, there are a lot of 

1296
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:28,400
ways you can take part in 
generosity. 

1297
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:30,320
And to do that, you can see them
on the screen. 

1298
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:32,120
You can text to give, head to 
our website. 

1299
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,880
You can drop cash or check in 
the giving buckets as they pass 

1300
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:38,520
here in just a few minutes. 
And as always, if you or your 

1301
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,880
family members are in any kind 
of immediate need, be it food or

1302
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,920
clothing or shelter, as these 
buckets pass here in just a 

1303
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:48,240
minute, please, please reach in 
and grab any loose cash. 

1304
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,560
We really do want to bless you 
and your family this week. 

1305
01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:58,320
Man, I hope you guys had another
great time at the movies, man. 

1306
01:13:58,320 --> 01:13:59,720
You guys are leaving here 
encouraged. 

1307
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:01,760
Blessed man. 
Can you guys give a shout to God

1308
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:06,920
if that's you today, man, Amen. 
So if that's you, I want you 

1309
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:08,680
guys to do something for me on 
your chair. 

1310
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,840
There's an invitation card. 
This is something that we do and

1311
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:13,800
it's not just print just to 
print. 

1312
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:16,600
What we want to do is give you 
guys the ability to share with 

1313
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:19,800
somebody else in an easy way 
what you've received today. 

1314
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,400
And maybe God uses you. 
Maybe God uses a little card in 

1315
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:26,680
a conversation just to allow 
somebody to come in and find 

1316
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:28,920
their person, their, their, 
their passion and their and 

1317
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:31,040
their meaning in God. 
So take these, pass them out 

1318
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:32,520
somebody, man, just pray to God 
today. 

1319
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,760
Like who can I give this to? 
And I know if you make that 

1320
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:36,560
prayer, man, God will give you 
an answer. 

1321
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:38,840
Hey, if you need prayer for any 
reason, we would love to pray 

1322
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:40,680
with you up here as individuals 
or as families. 

1323
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:41,920
Can't wait. 
See you guys again next week at 

1324
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:44,640
9:15 or 10:40. 
And as always, remember, whoever

1325
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:47,120
finds uses discovers real life 
and purpose. 

1326
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,880
This is the end of this podcast.
We hope you've enjoyed it. 

1327
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,720
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1328
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:58,600
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1329
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:01,560
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1330
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:02,400
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