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Welcome To The River. 
City Church podcast and a 

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message by our lead. 
Pastor Jason Powers our prayer 

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is that this message would 
Inspire and encourage you, build

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your faith. 
And point you to the 

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life-changing love of Jesus, may
you enjoy the goodness of God as

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you follow him today, Hi 
everybody. 

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I am glad that you are. 
Here. 

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It is. 
Good to be back. 

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I'm really grateful for Nick, 
Fox, who spoke last week, you'll

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be hearing again from him again,
during this series. 

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But I'm here today to talk about
peace and I just want to check 

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in. 
How are you doing? 

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Peace is one of those things, 
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It's kind of nebulous, it's a 
little bit, kind of 

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touchy-feely, right? 
It's why. 

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I like it's one of those things 
when we pray for it. 

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Lord, give me peace. 
And I never Really know, like I 

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look back and go. 
Well, I'm less angry than I was 

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then, so maybe it's going and 
maybe it's working, but it's 

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going to hold to the same kind 
of idea that Nick introduced us 

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last week when he was talking 
about Hope and it made this 

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wonderful point and it kind of 
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He said last week, that hope in 
Jesus has to replace hoping 

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everything else. 
And it's such an important idea 

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and that's wrapped up in a 
theological, okay? 

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So sometimes if there's a word 
that's that's heavy and it's 

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kind of hard and it's been cast,
a great way to kind of Take it 

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in to look at it again and just 
make sure that we're talking 

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about the same thing that the 
definition, the same. 

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There's a word that in kind of 
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I think it gets thrown around 
and it gets heavy. 

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And when Nick says, you know, 
that hope in Jesus has replacing

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everything else. 
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there's this theological word 
that the word is repent. 

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And that's what he's talking 
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Jesus has to replace of 
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What he's talking about is this 
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Of our track of hope to find. 
Another hope the idea is imagine

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if you will that you have a job 
and I hope for most of you that 

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you don't have to just imagine 
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I hope you actually can have 
that, right? 

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But want you to imagine that you
have a job and your job is fine,

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it's okay, it's good, right? 
It's like any other job but then

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one day somebody comes to you 
and says, I want to give you a 

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job and I want you to write what
what it what you are good at, 

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what you are, excellent at, what
you put brings you life and joy 

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and Wholeness, I want you to do 
just that that is your job that 

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you can write your job 
description around those things.

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And not only that but we will 
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love that you were created for 
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You want to do we will pay you 
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What you are paying well with 
your boss right now is paying 

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you. 
The only thing about it is for 

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you to have this job that is 
just what you want to do and the

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pays more than going to. 
The only thing is for you to 

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take that job, you have to leave
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That's not a decision. 
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You mean, like, it's going to be
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Yes, okay, I will take that. 
That's the picture of repentance

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when it talks about. 
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step back and look at all the 
things that bring us hope and 

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like, and listen, this can be 
heavy, right? 

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Like when we talk about Hope and
peace and we talked about, you 

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know, replacing and repentance 
and on this, it can kind of 

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start to fear at. 
Like I think we sometimes are 

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hard wired for guilty. 
Anyway sometimes, right. 

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And so, We can step back and we 
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I like I do I get you know what 
are the fear? 

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You have a lot of fear, have you
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last month? 
No, condemnation. 

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I really don't want to say in 
the question. 

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Behind all of this is is that 
indicative is your level of hope

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your level of peace is that 
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only the omnipotent creator of 
all things could give you Do you

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hear what I'm saying? 
Is your piece is it peace that 

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has kind of the fragrance and 
the aroma of Eternity about it? 

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Or is it the kind of the 
peaceful that most people have 

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in some degree or another to a 
greater degree or to a lesser 

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if our peace and our joy is not 
consummate, that there's more 

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and so here's a little insight 
into kind of my job. 

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You didn't ask for it but here 
it is. 

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Anyway, sometimes I look at my 
job, I feel like my job is to 

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teach, right? 
Just go. 

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Hey this is how that is what 
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What that looks like in this is 
how all of this goes together. 

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Like and I like that and that's 
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Sometimes I feel like my job is 
just to show to hold up a mirror

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and to hold up an example and 
that's kind of what I want to do

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today. 
So just like if you'll look like

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this is my Bible, how I prepare 
like you can see these little 

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pink tabs, maybe you can't see 
him. 

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There's a lot of In full 
disclosure, if you have your 

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Bible like your paper Bible. 
That's awesome. 

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If you have your electronic 
Bible, you can go ahead and get 

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it out because I just want to 
let you know. 

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I'm going to wear you out with 
scripture today for a very 

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important reason we talk about 
peace today. 

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Don't you think we could use 
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Generally in the world. 
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And so what I want to show today
is that this piece that I think 

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we really hunger for and really 
search for this piece that that 

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our hearts cry out for that. 
We know. 

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Even if we can't put a finger on
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We know when it's not, we know 
what anxiety. 

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We know what anxiousness, we 
know, what lack, we know what 

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loss feels like. 
My hope is what I want you to 

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see today, is that piece that 
you long for and search for Or 

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so hard for your whole life is 
really God's desire for you 

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since the beginning. 
God's desire, isn't that we 

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would toil and futility, and 
obscurity. 

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And then someday when we die, 
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Oh, that's what that is. 
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And he said the Kingdom of 
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Eternity is present here and now
and so if there's any peace and 

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that there should be peace Here.
And Now, how does that sound to 

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you? 
And so I want to say especially 

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if you're here and piece is a 
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Diminished piece is a little bit
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your marriage isn't going, 
right? 

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Your relationships at work 
aren't going well, maybe the Oz,

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have you freaking out, maybe, 
you're you're bothered and 

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you're, you're not at peace 
because what's going on in the 

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world or in the country or in 
your neighborhood or in your 

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school or in your kid's life, 
and whatever it is just 

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acknowledging. 
I don't have the piece that I 

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think God could give me is a 
great start and it's a great 

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beginning. 
So what could we see in 

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scripture, we start in the 
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and I do want to say in the New 
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the new year with looking at 
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Look at Genesis. 
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We're going to call this series 
blueprint because in Genesis 12 

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and 3 really is god's picture 
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and humanity and life in the 
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like. 
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specifically look at chapter 3 
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1. 
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calling it, good. 
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the world and created God looked
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God said, yep, I did that. 
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Can you imagine how happy how 
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thoroughly good world? 
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Can you imagine how it piece 
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So in Genesis 1 we had this big 
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get in Genesis chapter 2 and it 
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creation or God created Mankind 
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purpose. 
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about his work and we find that 
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God. 
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really find where the whole 
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It says, in Genesis chapter 3 
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So when the woman saw that the 
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and even that God said, Hey, in 
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have to acknowledge and keep the
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God said, I am God and you, Adam
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You're not God, you're my 
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You're supposed to be in 
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goodness in the world, but I'm 
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And in order for that to be 
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acknowledge, I get to say, God 
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and what he says is just don't 
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And it's not, is it an apple 
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Who cares? 
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And what we said, is look when 
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was good for food, that's 
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Are we supposed to eat most have
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One thing that causes stress and
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world, in our life, is a lack of
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don't have enough when we feel 
like we're without and what 

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happened is Eve. 
So now you Got to notice is he 

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was in the Garden of Eden, where
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blooming at God's desire in his 
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God made all the trees and she 
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Yeah but really I want that she 
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and it was a delight to the 
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It looked good. 
It was the perfect shiny red and

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that the tree and this is really
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The tree was to be desired to 
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You know, what's significant 
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If I'm wise and I'm the able to 
no good and evil just by eating 

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a fruit. 
You know what, I don't need. 

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A boss, a god, a Lord. 
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just came out of a series on 
James, right? 

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We saw about how our desires. 
Go will Eve saw and her desires 

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are inflamed. 
I want what tastes good and I 

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want what looks good. 
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to be dependent on that. 
God guy all the time for what 

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tastes good and what looks good.
And so it says she took it, and 

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she ate it and she gave some to 
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her and she, and he ate it and 
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It says, the eyes of the both 
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I want to real quick. 
Just acknowledge, it doesn't say

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anything changed. 
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changed was they saw. 
And they saw things as they are,

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they saw things that were real, 
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Their eyes were opened and they 
knew that they were naked notice

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where they naked before they 
were. now they knew it and you 

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know what they noticed they're 
not like God They really wanted 

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to be like God and they wanted 
to have their desires met and 

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they wanted to have all that and
what they missed was and all of 

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creation, all of their desires 
have been met, all their 

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desires, everything that they 
wanted for food and for is all 

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available is all readily right 
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But what they wanted was not 
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They wanted to be God and so we 
find that in what happens is he 

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sends them out? 
He says, well if you don't, you 

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don't get the garden without God
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Grow God did who planted the 
garden? 

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God did who planted Adam and Eve
their God. 

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Did they were there on God's 
plan and God's purpose for his 

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purpose? 
And so when they threw that out,

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when they said, no, we don't 
want to be where God makes 

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things grow, we want to be God. 
Well, that's a whole different 

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world entirely and so they walk 
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And for hundreds of years, 
things go from bad to worse. 

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And so, one day out of nowhere, 
God shows up in a guy's 

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backyard. 
And he says this, the Lord God 

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said to Abram in Genesis 12, Go 
from your country and your kin 

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did Kindred and your father's 
house to a land that I will show

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you. 
This is the Old Testament way of

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You're going with me. 
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You'll end up where I end up, 
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You should take me. 
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God, you need to go that I'm 
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That's the invitation. 
That's it. 

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That's how God calls a notice 
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But what else he says, and if 
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make of you a great nation. 
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It means people. 
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goes in. 
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I will make you a nation and all
of these things and I will bless

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you and make your name great, so
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And I will bless those who bless
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you, I will curse and in you all
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be blessed. 
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make you a giant cup. 
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you get that little surface 
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right? 
So you can look at it, he's 

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gone. 
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get and then God says and as 
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going to do is I'm going to turn
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to shut it. 
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the world and everybody gets 
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to give to you. 
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for blessing is, are the 
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close are you to the one who's 
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You see what God is saying is 
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a community and so now you go a 
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Genesis chapter 15. 
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promised errands that Abram 
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something with you. 
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S always going to make us a 
blessing. 

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That sounds good, right? 
Don't you want to be blessed? 

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Don't you want to be a blessing?
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the Lord came to Abram again and
a vision fear, not Abram, I am 

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your shield and your reward 
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So there's a couple things. 
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not afraid? 
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Don't Be Afraid Abram, why? 
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shield. 
Now, what does a shield to do 

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it? 
Protects us, right? 

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You better. 
Go get tough. 

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You say Abram, you need to have 
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a good attorney to make sure 
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the nation Nations around you. 
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Listen, you got to listen, you 
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our, you got to go, you got to 
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What God Said to Abraham is I 
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Now, what does Abram have to do?
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Did God say everything you got 
to do all this right since phone

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keeps going on, go down to verse
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he says look towards heaven and 
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He literally is like okay Abram 
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I want you to just count all 
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I remember this was like a long 
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pollution, he could see all of 
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Like I'll wait. 
Captain, right? 

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And if you can count them, if 
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number them, then he said, so 
shall your off brings Offspring 

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being and he believed the Lord 
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righteousness. 
He believed in. 

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And so what God told amer's 
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bless you. 
I'm gonna bless you so much that

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you can't even contain it. 
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Abram, I'm going to take you and
I'm going to make you so 

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fruitful. 
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what God is up to. 
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When Jesus said in John, chapter
10 says the thief comes to steal

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and destroy and kill you. 
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abundance, we need to think of 
the order of magnitude when God 

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describes abundance, the order 
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about is the stars and the sky. 
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the beach and he says Abram, I'm
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And now we go down to verse 15. 
As for you, you shall go to your

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father's is a great way of 
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Listen, and there's a great word
right here and you shall go to 

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your father's in. 
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The word for peace, the Hebrew 
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it Shalom. 
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means peace. 
Yes, but it means peace from 

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being completely full from being
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is to say to have Shalom, has to
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I have all the food, all the 
provision, all the protection, 

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all the company, all that, 
everything that I want. 

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I have, I need now. 
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world. 
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am at rest. 
It is to be at peace. 

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It is to look around and just 
go, I have that. 

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And what God says is you're 
going to follow me and I'm going

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to make you so complete. 
It's going to Define you and 

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it's going to be the kind of 
thing that everybody who gets in

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the same room with you is going 
to see and notice and experience

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that fullness and then when you 
die because you're going to die.

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full and complete. 

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You will go to your father's in 
peace and you shall be buried at

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a good ripe. 
Old age. 

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See what God told, Abraham, what
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call a covenant of peace and 
Covenant, Covenant is an 

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agreement. 
If I make a covenant with you, 

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we don't I don't know that in 
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anything anything equivalent 
maybe a banknote right where the

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bank says hey if you don't give 
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come get everything right and 
it's an agreement with terms 

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that everybody has to agree on 
and everybody has to but what 

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God did is made An agreement 
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his commitment. 
His promise was Abram, if you 

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follow me, I will drench and 
shroud your life in the 

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abundance of Peace. 
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Christmas time, how's it going? 
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This is the time where all of 
those things that destroy our 

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peace, come up, our 
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failures, our insignificance, 
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We want to see just at the 
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involved, when God looks at our 
lives, when God looks at our are

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lost in this his desire he 
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one to follow him and number two
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Peace. 
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of years and there's a prophet 
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And the when profits show up, 
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people have gone away and ideas 
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Abraham, they've gone, they went

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in. 
Avery and Egypt. 

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God, delivered them from 
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He taught him how to be the 
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They conquered everybody. 
Lots of Conquest, lots of 

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military and God. 
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a temple for you and God said, 
you can't build a temple for my 

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people because you're a man of 
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So, real quick, right, when we 
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man. 
God sure is angry, and God, sure

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is mean and God sure does like 
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It's important to know. 
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we find in the scripture is a 
God who goes to Abraham and says

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I want to make with you. 
Even in a piece I want to bless 

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you and I want to be a bun. 
You so what's going on in the 

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rest of the Old Testament with 
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I think God a little bit knows 
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And he knows what we're like and
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that works. 
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Israel had a nation, didn't 
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They had borders. 
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Do they ever have peace? 
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Solomon. 
After King date, right? 

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And not only that, but David, 
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budget. 
God didn't let him build the 

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temple. 
Listen if that's what we're 

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hooking our saddle to that's 
fine. 

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Just no just no Solomon. 
The probably the wealthiest 

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person who's ever lived the 
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and it's on his Reign, his watch
that the entire nation of Israel

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goes into go starts to go down 
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They end up with in just a few 
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The kingdom is divided, they're 
all in Exile and all that and 

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what happens then the prophets 
come and they start talking 

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about God. 
Has God made a promise This 

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Promise real, right? 
Like if it's promise is just 

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for, like, 20 minutes, what, 
what good is that, but these 

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profits are coming, and they 
started talking about his 

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promise to the people. 
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chapter, 34 starting in verse 
22. 

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God says, to the people of 
Israel, and real quick, you're 

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like, well, we're not the people
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The people of Israel are God's 
people. 

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The people that God chose that 
he's saving that he has made a 

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covenant with who are the people
in the New Testament that are 

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God's people that are under his 
Covenant. 

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Remember what Johnny said? 
Jesus said this is the new 

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Covenant, in my blood, we are 
God's people as Believers as 

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follows him, right? 
So what does he say? 

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He says, I will rescue my flock.
God begins to build a metaphor 

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for his people, A Flock. 
He's talking about sheep, you 

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know, the great thing about 
sheep when he makes this 

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metaphor, they are dumb. 
I don't I don't particularly 

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like that analogy but I am that 
analogy, right? 

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Like they don't feed themselves.
They'll walk. 

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You seen the videos of that 
sheep right in the crack and 

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they pull him out and he jumps 
down and falls in the crack 

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again. 
That's cheap. 

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That's us. 
That's right. 

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This is why God says, I will 
rescue my flock because we're 

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always jumping and crevices, 
right? 

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I will rescue my flock. 
They shall no longer be a prey. 

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And I will judge between sheep 
and sheep and I will set up over

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them one. 
Shepherd. 

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Now here's the metaphor, right? 
So the idea of Shepherd is God's

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chosen person to take care of 
the sheep. 

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And so, what a Shepherd does is 
pulls sheep out of the crevices.

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Make sure they have food, make 
sure they don't walk off the 

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cliff. 
Make sure that they have that 

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they're not sick, make sure that
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I will set over them a Shepherd,
my servant David now, listen, 

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David was already dead. 
This isn't like zombies, right? 

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He's not raising that David 
upright, like this. 

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What he's saying is from that, 
wine it. 

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When you talk about David, 
they're talking about royalty, 

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they're talking about God's 
people about their identity. 

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He said, I will raise up my 
servant David and he shall feed 

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them. 
He shall feed them and be their 

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Shepherd. 
And I the Lord will be their 

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God. 
And my servant, David shall be 

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Prince. 
Okay. 

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When he's talking about that 
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talking about is Messiah and 
Messiah what he's talking about.

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With Abraham, right? 
Erin, I'm gonna raise my sight. 

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The word Messiah, it's a Hebrew 
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It means Royal it's the Greek 
word Christ. 

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Okay, so he says, I will send a 
prince my royalty and he will do

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that and I Am Lord but he's the 
one that's going to come to 

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trees. 
And now what is this Prince 

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going to be? 
Like I will make with them. 

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A covenant of Peace. 
Remember what I did with 

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Abraham, on the individual 
level, I'm now going to do with 

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everybody. 
So how does God's water? 

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God's his covenants like peace. 
When God makes a deal. 

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It's a deal of Peace. 
God makes peace, do people make 

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peace people, make war people, 
make the cross people. 

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Make armies people make war, god
makes peace and I will banish 

448
00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:50,900
the wild beasts from the land so
that they may dwell securely in 

449
00:22:50,908 --> 00:22:54,000
the wilderness and the and sleep
in the woods and I will make 

450
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,200
them and the place is all around
my Hill. 

451
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,600
A blessing, that's what he said.
Listen, God hasn't changed 

452
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:06,400
Genesis 3, Genesis 12, Genesis 
15, Ezekiel 34. 

453
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,400
God's heart hasn't changed his 
desire for his people. 

454
00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:12,500
His peace. 
So when we talk about 

455
00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:15,200
repentance, when we talk about 
turning away, when we talk 

456
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,900
about, not our way, but God's 
way, when we talk about this, 

457
00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:21,200
radical reversal of who we are, 
when Jesus stood on the beach 

458
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,900
and Matthew chapter 4 and said, 
repent, because the Kingdom of 

459
00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:26,300
Heaven is here, this is what 
he's talking about. 

460
00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:28,900
God has made a covenant with his
people of Peace. 

461
00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:31,400
Listen, are you listening God's 
desire for you? 

462
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,800
Not someday when you Diane are 
sitting on a cloud, God's desire

463
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,300
for you today is that you would 
know, deeply and thoroughly and 

464
00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:44,000
exhaustively his piece. 
How's that sound? 

465
00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:49,300
How does that feel? 
God makes a covenant with his 

466
00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:51,400
people of peace. 
And now we go back a couple 

467
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,600
books of the book of Isaiah and 
we already read this today. 

468
00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:58,500
Isaiah chapter 9, again, a 
prophet hearing from God talking

469
00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:01,300
to the people of Israel. 
He says this he describes now 

470
00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:02,400
we're talking about Messiah, 
right? 

471
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,800
That Prince of Peace. 
The one who comes for unto us, a

472
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,700
child is born. 
Here's the thing, right? 

473
00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:10,400
Like, like babies scream, and 
they yell and do all that right.

474
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,600
But is there even in all of the 
screaming, right? 

475
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,400
We just love them. 
Just love them, right? 

476
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:22,000
But the question is is there 
anything in the world less 

477
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:29,100
strong and scary than a baby? 
No, when I see a baby, I turn 

478
00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:32,600
into an idiot, right? 
I want to pick up your child and

479
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,700
I want to nibble on it. 
I want to hold it and squeeze 

480
00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:36,500
and all this, right? 
Like this is the thing because 

481
00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:39,300
this is what babies do. 
And what God said is there's 

482
00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,200
going to be a child and listen 
to what the child says. 

483
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,500
Are you listening? 
Listen and the government will 

484
00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:49,300
be on his shoulders. 
We know that that brings up 

485
00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:50,800
images in your mind. 
What does that mean? 

486
00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:52,800
The government will be on his 
shoulders. 

487
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,800
And his name will be called 
wonderful counselor, Mighty God 

488
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,700
Everlasting father. 
And here it is, Prince of Peace.

489
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,700
The ruler, who rules and Reigns 
over piece. 

490
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,700
And of the increased. 
Now here's here's this metaphor 

491
00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:10,400
right of the increase of his 
government. 

492
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,500
So I wanted to ask you, right? 
If we look at history, if we 

493
00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:13,900
look at The Human Experience, 
right? 

494
00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:18,000
If what we do, how do 
government's increase taxes? 

495
00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:23,200
Bureaucracy War battles, right? 
But what we're told is there's 

496
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,900
this baby and it describes his 
government, right of his 

497
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:29,200
government, it will increase 
with the increase of his 

498
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,100
government. 
There will be no end. 

499
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,000
That's what the Roman Empire was
trying to do, right? 

500
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,200
The increase of the government 
spread that Went all the way 

501
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,900
around the whole world. 
We call it imperialism. 

502
00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:40,400
Right. 
The Roman Empire spreading 

503
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,900
spring break, but we're told is 
there's a baby and his 

504
00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:46,600
government, this Prince of Peace
that is going to expand and 

505
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,800
expand expensive. 
There will be no end upon the 

506
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,600
throne of David and over his 
kingdom to establish it and to 

507
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,300
it. 
Uphold it with Justice and 

508
00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,500
righteousness from this time 
forth and forevermore and the 

509
00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:00,300
Zeal of the Lord of hosts will 
do this Isaiah saying, a baby's 

510
00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:02,900
going to come and establish a 
government and it's going to 

511
00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:04,700
keep growing and it's going to 
keep doing that. 

512
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,600
And some of us in here and go, 
Yeah, but we keep electing 

513
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,400
Democrats. 
So how's it going to happen? 

514
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:10,900
That's not what he's talking 
about. 

515
00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:14,200
Not at all, not even a little 
bit. 

516
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,200
Because that's the question, 
right? 

517
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,600
Like, how do you grow 
government? 

518
00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:21,400
How do you expand government? 
And the question I would have is

519
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,700
again. 
How's it going for us? 

520
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,800
Has our government brought us. 
Peace. 

521
00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:30,100
And here's the deal, right? 
Whatever side you're on. 

522
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,500
Good news, is, we've had both 
sides in office and the last 

523
00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:37,800
eight years, right? 
So, if any side in the political

524
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,600
game could bring peace, we would
surely have it now. 

525
00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:47,500
How's it going for you? 
Are you at greater peace? 

526
00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:50,200
This year than you were last 
year than the year before and 

527
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,300
less? 
And I know it's not all about 

528
00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:53,700
politics. 
I know it's about relationships,

529
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,100
it's about money, it's about 
sex, it's about fear. 

530
00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:03,700
It's about identity followers. 
Hints about all kinds of things 

531
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:08,400
that cause turmoil, that stir us
up to get us agitated to get us.

532
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,400
Frustrated and all of that we're
going to find in just a second 

533
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,500
where that comes from. 
But the idea that I just want to

534
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:18,200
reiterate and rehome has that 
gods desire for you is peace. 

535
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,000
God's desire for you is that you
would live in this world. 

536
00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:29,600
Peace and listen to how Micah 
another Prophet said, Micah 5:2.

537
00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,500
But you o Bethlehem Bethlehem 
sound familiar, right? 

538
00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:33,900
Sounds relevant to the Christmas
story. 

539
00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:37,100
You o, Bethlehem ephrathah, who 
are too little to be among the 

540
00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:40,100
clans of Judah. 
From you shall come forth, one, 

541
00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:43,600
who has to be a ruler in Israel.
You could call him a prince, 

542
00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:47,300
even a prince of peace. 
A ruler in Israel whose coming 

543
00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:49,400
forth It's told from ancient 
days. 

544
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,800
You know, when it was told it 
was told in Genesis 3 and I was 

545
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,100
told in Exodus and Leviticus and
numbers and Deuteronomy and 

546
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,300
Joshua and judges and all the 
way through because this has 

547
00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:58,400
been God's plan his desire the 
whole time. 

548
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,300
So now we go down to verse 4 and
he this ruler that's coming. 

549
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:04,000
He shall stand and Shepherd, 
right? 

550
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,900
Does that sound familiar? 
God's person? 

551
00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:07,300
God's leader. 
His Messiah. 

552
00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:10,100
He shall Shepherd. 
His flock in the strength of the

553
00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:11,900
Lord. 
See, the problem is, the reason 

554
00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,400
we don't have pieces because we 
try to Shepherd our lives in the

555
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,700
strength of me. 
And so I run around and I got to

556
00:28:17,708 --> 00:28:19,700
figure out how many did the 
shopping done and how am I going

557
00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,000
to make the money going on? 
My gonna raise the kids and do 

558
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,200
all this. 
Listen I'm not going to be able 

559
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,600
to do any of those things. 
Well and when he says is you 

560
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,200
want to know how a child, his 
government grows the child grows

561
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:35,600
because the child operates in a 
strength that isn't his I think 

562
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,800
maybe our lack of peace is 
because we're not so comfortable

563
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,500
with that and that's 
understandable. 

564
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,500
I understand that, right? 
You start talking about a power 

565
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:46,400
that that's not it's not yours. 
A power that we don't understand

566
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,300
and it can be big and it can be 
scary but it goes on. 

567
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:54,300
Verse 50 rats and they shall 
dwell insecure and they shall 

568
00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:56,500
dwell secure for now. 
He shall be great. 

569
00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:59,700
To the ends of the Earth and 
listen in verse 5, and he shall 

570
00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:03,800
be their peace. 
This Messiah. 

571
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,400
It says, it doesn't say that 
that he will come in and bring a

572
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,400
feeding program that leads to 
peace. 

573
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,700
Doesn't say that he'll come in 
and rule in peace. 

574
00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,800
It says that he will be there 
peace. 

575
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,200
There's this crazy verse in 
first John four that says that 

576
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,600
God is love and that's so 
comforting right? 

577
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,400
Because when I hear that God is 
love, it doesn't mean that God 

578
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,500
loves me as if someday he could 
stop loving me. 

579
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:30,500
What it means is that his very 
nature is to love to be in the 

580
00:29:30,508 --> 00:29:34,100
presence of God is to be loved. 
Loved to be in the presence of 

581
00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:36,000
Jesus. 
Are you listening to be in the 

582
00:29:36,008 --> 00:29:38,400
presence of Jesus, is to be at 
peace? 

583
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:46,000
God told, Micah, and he told 
Ezekiel, and he told Isaiah. 

584
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:52,200
And he told Eve, and he told all
of them that his plan, his 

585
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,300
coming was to bring peace. 
So we go back now, to Luke, Luke

586
00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:57,900
Chapter 2, right? 
You've heard the story. 

587
00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:00,600
This is what Linus reads every 
Sunday or every Christmas. 

588
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,700
Right? 
Luke Chapter 2 starting in verse

589
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:05,400
10. 
Right? 

590
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,600
The angel shows up their 
Shepherds shepherds are just 

591
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,600
blue collar guys. 
They're Outsiders, they weren't 

592
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,700
invited to the party because 
they dirty and they smell right 

593
00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,400
but you know where the shepherds
are there with the sheep that 

594
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,800
seems to be a metaphor that 
seems to be significant to the 

595
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:18,400
Lord. 
Right? 

596
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,000
So the Angels show up to the 
Shepherds and an angel said to 

597
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,800
them fear not what's another way
you could, what's another word 

598
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,500
that you could use for fear, not
peace. 

599
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:33,400
Shalom at rest. 
He says fear not For behold I 

600
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,000
bring you good news of great joy
that will be for all the people 

601
00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:39,400
for unto. 
You is Born This Day in the city

602
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,600
of David. 
You know what the city of David 

603
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:48,900
is Bethlehem Remember what Micah
said in Bethlehem a ruler was 

604
00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:51,100
coming. 
And so now the Angels go to 

605
00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:53,700
these Shepherds and they say hey
and that now listen, these 

606
00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:55,200
Shepherds, they were not 
theologically trained. 

607
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,500
They did not know. 
All the Messianic prophecies, 

608
00:30:57,500 --> 00:30:59,500
they didn't know they're dealing
with sheep poop all the time, 

609
00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:01,100
right? 
So an angel has to come in and 

610
00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:03,300
this is good news. 
He comes, he goes hey, in 

611
00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:05,300
Bethlehem and guess I gotta, I 
know you don't know. 

612
00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:08,500
This means that listen today in 
Bethlehem, there's a savior, who

613
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:10,800
is Christ the lord? 
And this will be a sign for you.

614
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,500
You'll find a baby wrapped in 
swaddling cloth and lying in. 

615
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,100
A manger. 
And suddenly, it says, there was

616
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,700
with the angel, a multitude of 
the Heavenly Host, praising God,

617
00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:20,000
and saying, and what did they 
say? 

618
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:26,200
We got the biggest guns. 
We are strong, we can control 

619
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,500
and room and Haley. 
Did he come and say hey, we're 

620
00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:31,200
about to get Rome out. 
He said, hey, I'm going to lower

621
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,900
interest rates. 
Know what he says is glory to 

622
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:37,000
God in the highest and on Earth.
Peace. 

623
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,500
Peace among those with whom he 
is pleased. 

624
00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:51,100
Jesus is the Fulfillment of 
God's promise of Peace when he 

625
00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:56,800
promised peace in Genesis and in
Ezekiel and Isaiah and in Micah 

626
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,500
and all the way through, when he
promised peace, he was talking 

627
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:04,100
about Jesus. 
Remember what Simian said last 

628
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:07,500
time? 
Luke chapter 22 verse 29 now. 

629
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:11,100
Lord, you are letting your 
servant depart in peace. 

630
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:13,800
According to your word, for my 
eyes have seen your salvation. 

631
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:14,700
They've seen it. 
Salvation. 

632
00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:15,400
What did it? 
Simeon. 

633
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,200
See a baby. 
He saw Jesus and he knew. 

634
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,300
That's it. 
That's my piece. 

635
00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:23,600
So now let's be real honest, 
let's acknowledge this, right? 

636
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,000
Jesus is our peace. 
Can we be honest person? 

637
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,100
As I would have, there doesn't 
seem like he's doing a very good

638
00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:29,000
job. 
Does it? 

639
00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,200
Billion people in the world, 
probably, right now. 

640
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,900
Professing Christians. 
Believers. 

641
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,500
How you doing? 
What a piece for piece today 

642
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:42,400
than there was for peace and 
there was a year ago, two years 

643
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,600
ago, five years ago, 100 years 
ago win When was yeah, we have 

644
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,400
probably more piece less war now
than you know. 

645
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,600
Genghis Khan. 
I don't, I don't know. 

646
00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:53,600
Just doesn't seem like he's 
doing a very good job. 

647
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,900
I would say, even for myself, I 
don't often live in that sense 

648
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:00,800
of just like this and I'm not 
what you see on the inside a lot

649
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,800
is happening. 
On the, on the outside is a lot 

650
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,800
happened on the inside to write.
This is 1. 

651
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:10,800
This is hard for me. 
But what I know is I can't draw 

652
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,200
close to the story of scripture,
the story of Christmas and 

653
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,000
Escape From This Promise of 
Peace escape from this promise 

654
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,300
that God is working and that God
is moving. 

655
00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:25,800
And so what do we do with that? 
Is it okay to tell Jesus Jesus, 

656
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,300
you're not doing a very good job
at this. 

657
00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:28,500
I think like you should listen 
to me. 

658
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:31,300
I think we should do that. 
We'll listen, I would say it's 

659
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,400
hey, you got to say that you got
to tell him, right? 

660
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,800
The worst thing you can do is 
just go. 

661
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,800
Yes this is the peace. 
That Jesus came to establish. 

662
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,700
Let me just tell you if I'm 
outside the church. 

663
00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:43,700
I look at us. 
I hear us talking about peace. 

664
00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:45,000
I look at this and we don't have
an answer. 

665
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,100
I would tell you the same thing,
it's not working. 

666
00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:50,500
You need to tell your God to fix
it because this is terrible. 

667
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:55,200
What I would say is that God 
knows, and what I would say is 

668
00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:00,200
that Jesus knew to, are you 
listening, Luke chapter 19, Luke

669
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,500
chapter, 19 is the story, The 
triumphal entry, which we 

670
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:04,300
usually tell at Easter time, 
right? 

671
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,200
When we hear that Jesus was the 
Messiah will Triumph the 

672
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,600
triumphant entry is when all the
people of Israel acknowledge it 

673
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,500
and Jesus rides in on a donkey 
and all the all the prophecies 

674
00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:16,699
are fulfilled and what they say 
is these great Messianic Hosanna

675
00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:18,800
blessed. 
Is he who comes in the name of 

676
00:34:18,808 --> 00:34:20,900
the Lord. 
There they're celebrating. 

677
00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:24,100
Jesus as Messiah. 
And what they thought that meant

678
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:27,300
was that Jesus was going to come
in and Rome was going to go out.

679
00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,300
And so they were so happy 
because what they expect was 

680
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:33,500
there already to take up arms. 
They're ready to throw off for. 

681
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:37,400
Why are you listening? 
Because peace, they wanted peace

682
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,300
and they thought Rome was the 
problem. 

683
00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:41,600
So the question for you is 
what's the problem in your life.

684
00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:45,300
Is it a person? 
Is it a system? 

685
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,600
Is it a structure? 
What causes you to not have 

686
00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:53,600
peace because we find Jesus 
still a little bit bowlegged 

687
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,300
from the donkey, right? 
Like, you can hear the shouts of

688
00:34:56,308 --> 00:34:58,500
the crowd behind him. 
Hosanna blessed. 

689
00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:00,100
Is he who comes in the name of 
the Lord? 

690
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,800
And Jesus Walks over to the edge
of the mountain and he looks 

691
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,900
over Jerusalem. 
This ancient city where the 

692
00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:07,900
temple was? 
It's the equivalent of walking 

693
00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:10,500
and standing on a hill, 
overlooking Washington DC and we

694
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,100
see the Capitol and we and we 
see that You know, the 

695
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:16,200
Washington Memorial and Jesus 
stands over Jerusalem and the 

696
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000
graves of the prophets and all 
the places where God promised 

697
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:25,800
and said when he drew near and 
he saw the city, he wept over 

698
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,600
it. 
And why did he weep? 

699
00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:35,600
Sang would that you even you had
known in this day. 

700
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:41,300
The things that make for peace 
Jesus acknowledged and 

701
00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:45,000
understood that the world had 
not yet arrived and achieved the

702
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,800
kind of peace that he desired, 
but what Jesus did his Jesus 

703
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,700
didn't take responsibility for 
that. 

704
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,700
He said, the problem is, we 
don't understand what peace 

705
00:35:54,700 --> 00:36:00,800
looks like and then Jesus spoke 
directly and immediately to 

706
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,400
Common and popular concepts of 
what is and brings peace, right?

707
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,100
So he says, if you had only 
known what piece was and then he

708
00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:11,600
says, for the day will come upon
you when your enemies will set 

709
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,500
up a barricade around you, and 
Surround, you and hem you in on 

710
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:17,000
every side and will tear you 
down to the ground and your 

711
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,800
children with you. 
And they will not leave one 

712
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,600
stone upon another because you 
did not know the time of your 

713
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,400
visitation. 
And in 70 AD, the entire Roman 

714
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,700
army, surrounded the city of 
Jerusalem, and they be built 

715
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:29,600
sees. 
Work Siege works and they cut 

716
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,100
off the river going inside. 
So there was no And they waited 

717
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,700
it out. 
And, and the City of Jerusalem 

718
00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:37,900
fell, the walls came down the 
emperor. 

719
00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:40,900
Walked into the temple in 
Jerusalem and sacrificed an 

720
00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:46,300
unclean Pig on the altar of God.
And the idea, when he says, if 

721
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:49,600
you had only known, they were 
betting on a political solution 

722
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,100
to the ROM problem in Jesus 
said, as long as you follow 

723
00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:57,700
that, all you're going to get 
our sieges and destruction and 

724
00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:01,600
opposition power coming to take 
what you thought. 

725
00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:07,800
Was yours and Jesus. 
Understood that won't lead. 

726
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,600
So the question for us at 
Christmas is, what are you 

727
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,100
counting on for peace? 
Because you may just say, man, I

728
00:37:15,108 --> 00:37:18,700
bet it all on crypto baby. 
I knew I'd if I'm going to have 

729
00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:22,200
my business, if you did that, if
your bed is on the economy for 

730
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:29,300
your piece, oops. 
If you if your hope for your 

731
00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:32,300
pieces in your economy, or in 
your provision, you're subject 

732
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:34,400
to all kinds of crazy 
volatility. 

733
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,900
If your piece is in winning 
winning at work, winning in the 

734
00:37:38,908 --> 00:37:41,700
economy, winning politically 
winning with your spouse, 

735
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:48,300
winning with your kids. 
If your piece is in winning than

736
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:51,000
everybody else in the world is a
threat to you. 

737
00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:54,600
Because at any time, somebody 
else could rise up. 

738
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,000
If your pieces and appearances 
having the most followers, the 

739
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,700
best picture, the most curated 
lifestyle than everybody else is

740
00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:04,000
a threat to you. 
If your pieces in your strength,

741
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000
listen, if you bought into the 
American lie, the mythology that

742
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,900
the whole Go West Young Man, the
whole Marlboro, mad your man, 

743
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:11,900
you're a rugged, individualist 
if that's you. 

744
00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:14,200
Do you know what the greatest 
fear in the world is for you. 

745
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,700
Age. 
Because you're not as strong 

746
00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:21,500
today as you were yesterday, I'm
46 years old. 

747
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,500
I'll be 46 years old in a couple
of weeks. 

748
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:25,800
I just want to tell you. 
Some of you are like how you 

749
00:38:25,808 --> 00:38:28,200
just a kid, right in some of you
are like dang, bro, how are you 

750
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:29,600
even walking? 
I know, listen. 

751
00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:33,500
For those of you who are 
younger, let me just tell you. 

752
00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:37,800
You may be surprised and shocked
at how much closer the end 

753
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,900
themes when you're 46. 
Then when you're 30. 

754
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,300
You may be shocked at how quick 
those last couple of years with 

755
00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:48,600
your kids goes, when you're 46 
and not 30. 

756
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,300
And some of you are like, I wish
I could get rid of some of my 

757
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:52,800
kids. 
I understand, I remember those 

758
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,700
days. but again, so even in that
if we step back and we look at 

759
00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:02,200
it, aren't we trading one unrest
for another because what if our 

760
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,300
peace isn't in our kids, What if
our peace isn't in our family? 

761
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,100
What if our piece isn't in our 
job or income or home? 

762
00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:15,700
Or if any of those things, 
that's what Jesus knew. 

763
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:17,800
He said, you put your hope and 
all of these other things and 

764
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,900
you end up left and lost moved 
out and the message of 

765
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:23,300
Christmas, the message of God's 
promise message, going all the 

766
00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:25,900
way back to Genesis and through 
all the prophets is that you 

767
00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:28,600
don't get the Peace of Jesus 
without living the way of Jesus.

768
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,000
You don't have Christmas without
the cross. 

769
00:39:33,900 --> 00:39:35,900
Jesus doesn't die. 
And come back and isn't 

770
00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:38,100
resurrected. 
Then Jesus is just another baby 

771
00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:41,200
born in another town and a 
Backwater of the Roman Empire 

772
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,100
and it really doesn't matter to 
us. 

773
00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:46,700
But if Jesus died so that we 
could be forgiven and in Jesus 

774
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:49,900
was resurrected so that we could
have eternal life in him. 

775
00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:53,300
I hope you hear me and I hope 
your I say this with all the 

776
00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:56,900
generals, if Jesus is who he 
said he is and if Jesus did what

777
00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:00,600
he said, he would do, then the 
life we live apart from him is 

778
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,100
fun. 
Into mentally incompatible with 

779
00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:05,100
the eternity that he wants to 
give us. 

780
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,900
The piece that we seek and 
scratch out for ourselves is 

781
00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:14,500
fundamentally incompatible with 
the peace that he wants to give 

782
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:16,800
us. 
Jesus said it this way and it's 

783
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,200
interesting. 
He said it in John, chapter 14. 

784
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,200
Hours before his death at the 
time. 

785
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,000
When most of us would be the 
most freaked out. 

786
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,800
Most of us would be the least at
peace. 

787
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,200
We beasts Krantz you know 
scurrying around trying to 

788
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,400
figure it out and try to do 
whatever and what Jesus said 

789
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,600
he's talking to his friends, 
John 14:26, but the helper the 

790
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,100
Holy Spirit whom the father will
send in my name. 

791
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:42,000
He will teach you all things and
bring to your remembrance all 

792
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,200
that I have said to you. 
Peace. 

793
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,200
I leave you who like stop 
yelling at me about peace, I get

794
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:53,600
it. 
Peace, I'm leaving you. 

795
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Geez, are you leaving us rules 
know? 

796
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,900
Jesus. 
Are you leaving us law? 

797
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,600
No, I'm leaving you. 
Peace. 

798
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,900
Not as the world gives do. 
I give to you let your hearts. 

799
00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:13,200
Not be troubled. 
Neither let them be afraid. 

800
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,700
God's desire, his plan. 
His purpose for your life is 

801
00:41:17,700 --> 00:41:25,300
that you would live in peace. 
And I know that's hard. 

802
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,900
And I know that for many of us, 
even this Christmas season 

803
00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:33,600
doesn't bring the peace. 
I want you to know that he has 

804
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,900
made provision for peace first. 
The first piece that he offers 

805
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:39,000
you. 
His peace with God, right? 

806
00:41:39,100 --> 00:41:41,100
It's true. 
It has to start with there 

807
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:43,500
because our piece started with 
got the piece started with God 

808
00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:46,300
and Adam and Eve and God and 
with Abram, right? 

809
00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:49,000
So our piece starts with god. 
Listen to what he says, what 

810
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,000
Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 
chapter. 

811
00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:57,200
Where is that 5 verse 17? 
Eventine if anyone is in Christ,

812
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,400
he is a new creation. 
I just want you to say that old 

813
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:04,100
part fighting scrapping digging 
kicking calling manipulating all

814
00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:06,800
of those things, for the piece, 
trying to control other people, 

815
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,500
trying to force them, trying to 
get them, that's gone. 

816
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,300
The old has gone. 
The new has come. 

817
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:14,700
Now, if anyone is in Christ, he 
is a new creation. 

818
00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:16,800
The old has passed away, behold.
The new has come all. 

819
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,700
This is from God who through 
Christ reconciled us to himself.

820
00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:22,700
The word reconcile means made 
peace. 

821
00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:29,300
He made peace with God. 
And he gave us the ministry of 

822
00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:31,000
reconciliation. 
I can't say this enough. 

823
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,800
Are Mysteries to make peace with
people who are far from God. 

824
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,600
If we create a Ministry context 
where people who are far from 

825
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:47,700
God are not welcome or addressed
here, we're not doing what we're

826
00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:51,600
supposed to be doing. 
If people don't come to know and

827
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:56,100
make peace with Jesus because of
what we're doing here, we're not

828
00:42:56,100 --> 00:42:57,900
doing our job. 
However, nice. 

829
00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:01,300
It feels to us, however, good. 
It feels for us, right? 

830
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,900
Right. 
That is, that is Renaissance, is

831
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,000
in Christ. 
God was reconciling the world to

832
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,200
himself. 
How did he do that? 

833
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,700
Not counting their trespasses 
against them and entrusting to 

834
00:43:12,700 --> 00:43:14,400
us. 
The message neck message of 

835
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,800
reconciliation. 
He didn't say saying there's no 

836
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,700
sin. 
He said not counting it against 

837
00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:20,500
them. 
The problem is we look at the 

838
00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:23,300
other people in the world and we
go you have sinned. 

839
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:31,200
And then we hold it against them
and we want them to pay us 

840
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,300
rather than leaning in and 
digging in. 

841
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:37,700
And going, you know, there's a 
God who loves you very much. 

842
00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:39,900
He really wants to have a 
relationship with you. 

843
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,300
Yeah. 
But I am fill in the blank. 

844
00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:43,500
Yeah. 
But there's a God who loves you 

845
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:45,800
and wants to have a relationship
with you. 

846
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,500
He has made provision for peace 
and so listen. 

847
00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:50,400
I don't know everybody in here. 
I don't know where you're coming

848
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,100
from and I just want you to know
that's God's desire for you when

849
00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:55,000
we talk about Commandments, 
right? 

850
00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:57,500
When we talk about rules, when 
don't reach don't start in, 

851
00:43:57,500 --> 00:44:00,500
Leviticus start here. 
Starting John 14. 

852
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,200
He went he came to make peace to
give you his peace and you know 

853
00:44:03,208 --> 00:44:06,400
what? 
His peace is eternal life and so

854
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,400
he shows you what that life is 
like and what it looks like and 

855
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,500
he invites you into that so that
you can walk into that so that 

856
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:15,400
you can be free. 
That's his desire for you. 

857
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,600
And if you're in here and you're
not following him, if you never 

858
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,800
followed him and you thought he 
just wanted your money or he 

859
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:24,000
wanted something like that. 
Today, I want you to say Jesus, 

860
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,600
I want peace. 
I want the peace. 

861
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,100
That only you can give and you 
just confess. 

862
00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:34,400
I'm not at peace, that's 10. 
And I want your piece, I turn 

863
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,100
away from all the things that 
don't cause peace and I turn to 

864
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:38,600
you, if that's you will you do 
me a favor? 

865
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,400
Will you just say, God, I want 
that. 

866
00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:43,000
And it for the first time do you
will you send a text message? 

867
00:44:43,100 --> 00:44:46,600
Text the word follower 29. 4000,
if you've never done that 

868
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,800
before, just say I want peace 
with God and I've never had that

869
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:51,400
before. 
What we're told that you're not 

870
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:53,500
saved by sending in a text 
message. 

871
00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:57,100
You're saved by Jesus by the 
piece. 

872
00:44:57,100 --> 00:44:59,400
That he brings your saved by the
peace. 

873
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,000
That only he can give the second
thing that you have to do is let

874
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,000
the Holy Spirit, teach us the 
way of Peace. 

875
00:45:05,100 --> 00:45:07,700
Jesus talked and John chapter 
fourteen twenty six. 

876
00:45:07,700 --> 00:45:09,600
The first thing he talks about 
is the Holy Spirit and you 

877
00:45:09,608 --> 00:45:11,700
remember what he said, the Holy 
Spirit was going to do, it was 

878
00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:15,500
going to remind him of all the 
things that Jesus had said, here

879
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:17,700
are some things that Jesus said,
are you ready? 

880
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:19,800
If you're offering your gift to 
The Altar and there remember 

881
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,300
that your brother has something 
against you? 

882
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,600
Leave your gift there before the
Altar and go first. 

883
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,500
Be reconciled to your brother 
first. 

884
00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:31,000
Make peace with your brother and
then come and offer your gift. 

885
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,300
Jesus said that and if you want 
peace, the holy spirit will 

886
00:45:34,300 --> 00:45:36,300
remind you of that. 
And it doesn't say if anybody 

887
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:39,900
has hurt your feeling, I think 
what the Holy Spirit would say 

888
00:45:39,900 --> 00:45:47,200
is humbly lovingly, graciously 
to you Church stop being such 

889
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,400
babies Stop getting your 
feelings hurt. 

890
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:56,000
The world is not going to 
protect your right to worship. 

891
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,400
The one true God. 
The world is not going to 

892
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:05,500
celebrate your right to speak 
about a bar that they're not 

893
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:08,500
trying to reach. 
Stop expecting them to do that 

894
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:12,700
because they won't if you want 
peace go make peace and what 

895
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:17,400
that means is if you have caused
trouble, you go make it right. 

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That's the beginning of peace. 
And the Holy Spirit Will remind 

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us that he says at the end, 
going on verse chapter, 5 also 

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verse 23. 
So if you are off, we already 

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read that. 
What's the other thing that he 

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said? 
Let's go. 

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He said this at the end verse 
40, something you have heard 

902
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that it was said, You shall love
your neighbor and hate your 

903
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enemy but I say to you love your
enemies and pray for those who 

904
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persecute you so that you may be
sons of your father who is in 

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heaven for. 
He makes his sun to rise on the 

906
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evil and on the good and sends 
rain on the just and on the 

907
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:50,500
unjust we want. 
Like goddamn withhold rain from 

908
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:53,900
the people who hurt us on the 
people who disagree with us from

909
00:46:53,900 --> 00:46:58,200
the people who don't value us 
like we need like we should be 

910
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,900
value and so the holy word, the 
Holy Spirit teaches us the way 

911
00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:04,900
of Peace but listen the way of 
peace is the way of Jesus. 

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And you know what, the way of 
Jesus is going to be, he calls 

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to all of us die to those things
in you that make you take the 

914
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Apple from the tree. trust God's
way, trust his life and his 

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light even if it doesn't seem to
make sense, walk in it and see 

916
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if peace is an attendant and 
finally Repent of the way of 

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anger and retribution. 
Do not be angry at other people.

918
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Nick Fox preached last week. 
Did he do a great job? 

919
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,100
Nick is like, Nick is, my is my 
best friend. 

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Nick is a brother and I know 
that Nick told the story of the 

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time of the other church when 
Nick and I work together to 

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00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,300
remember that remember what Nick
talked about and we had a big 

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00:47:46,300 --> 00:47:47,900
blowup. 
I'm going to tell the story a 

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little bit differently and some 
of you are like whoo, whoo, 

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whoo. 
Good stuff right now. 

926
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Listen. 
Every single thing that Nick 

927
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said about that encounter was 
absolutely true. 

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Here's what I want to add. 
We would not be here today. 

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If Nick had not chosen the path 
of Grace. 

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He told the story about us going
to his house, right? 

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In his living room and we had a 
talk out on the deck. 

932
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He told that story, right? 
Remember him telling that story.

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Do you know why we were at 
Nick's house because Nick 

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invited us in Nick didn't, he 
didn't make me answer for the 

935
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pain that I caused. 
He forgave me, and he brought me

936
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in and I want you to know that 
kind of Grace has a impact. 

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It changes us. 
It changes everything. 

938
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My concern is because that way 
is harder because it is more 

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costly to us. 
We don't choose that way. 

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00:48:46,100 --> 00:48:49,200
We choose to fight we choose to 
stand. 

941
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And we choose to hunker down and
to dig in and what we're left is

942
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war-torn battlefields of 
humanity crying out for peace. 

943
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That Jesus says, if only you 
knew If only you knew I'm 

944
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grateful that Nick chose the way
of peace. 

945
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I'm grateful that Nick chose to 
forgive and to extend love. 

946
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I needed it. 
More than I knew. 

947
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I needed it. 
That's what Jesus has for us. 

948
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And so wherever you are, if you 
need peace, what I want to 

949
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invite you to do is lean into 
Jesus, fill your life with this 

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word. 
Fill your days with his 

951
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:28,900
presence. 
And every moment, remind 

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00:49:28,900 --> 00:49:30,900
yourself, God, you're here with 
me. 

953
00:49:30,900 --> 00:49:32,500
What do you want to say? 
What do you want to do? 

954
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What do you want to show me? 
And then obey radically, 

955
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especially if it goes against 
your seemingly. 

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Best instant. 
Let's pray Lord, I pray that you

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would make us peacemakers You 
came to fulfill all the promises

958
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you came to give us hope and a 
future. 

959
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You came to give us abundance 
Jesus. 

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And I pray that we would I pray 
for anyone in here today, who 

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doesn't know you, who hasn't 
been following you and they need

962
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:00,200
your peace. 
I pray that they would know. 

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that has they confess you don't 
count their sins against them 

964
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that you forgive them and I pray
that you would make us in your 

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church as we live in a divided 
peaceless society and culture I 

966
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pray that we would take our 
position in the Gap and we would

967
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bring People to you, and it 
would be models of 

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reconciliation and redemption in
peace. 

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I pray father, that your church 
as we trust, you would be a 

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glory and an honor to you. 
We ask Jesus these things in 

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your name and for your glory, 
amen, this is Harry and Karen, 

972
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and this is Jaime and Megan 
Martinez. 

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And they would just love to pray
with you if you need prayer. 

974
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If you need peace today, we stop
by and talk to them. 

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If you're new here and I haven't
met you before. 

976
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I'm going to be right here and I
would love to talk to you and 

977
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say hello. 
Low and just welcome you to 

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River City. 
May the Lord bless you and keep 

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you and make his face shine upon
you and be gracious to you. 

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Hey, let's count and see. 
Peace. 

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Have a great week. 
We'll see you next time. 

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Thank you for joining us today. 
River City Church is all about 

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experiencing and expressing 
God's love in our lives and 

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community. 
And we hope that you've been 

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able to experience that today as
grateful. 

986
00:51:11,700 --> 00:51:14,300
As I am, that you've spent this 
time, listening in this morning,

987
00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:18,000
this podcast is no substitute 
for full participation in a 

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00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,700
local church. 
I love it when River City people

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00:51:20,700 --> 00:51:24,000
listen to other pastors, but it 
is those who show up week after 

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00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,900
week Faithfully, giving their 
support and time and resources, 

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that make all of this possible. 
If we can help you get connected

992
00:51:30,300 --> 00:51:33,200
to a Cool church. 
Pray for you or support you in 

993
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:34,800
any way. 
Click the link in the 

994
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,600
description and let us know if 
you'd like to financially 

995
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,000
support the ministry of River 
City. 

996
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,600
Click the give link on our 
website in the description. 

997
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,700
Don't forget to subscribe, and 
don't forget to share this with 

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your friends. 
Thanks so much for listening. 

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May the Lord bless, and keep you
in all Grace and peace. 

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00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:33,200
Cool church. 
Pray for you or support you in 

1001
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:34,800
any way. 
Click the link in the 

1002
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,600
description and let us know if 
you'd like to financially 

1003
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,000
support the ministry of River 
City. 

1004
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,600
Click the give link on our 
website in the description. 

1005
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,700
Don't forget to subscribe, and 
don't forget to share this with 

1006
00:51:44,700 --> 00:51:46,800
your friends. 
Thanks so much for listening. 

1007
00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:49,900
May the Lord bless, and keep you
in all Grace and peace.