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We're actually in week number five of
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our Superersize Me series and we're
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taking a journey into the promised land.
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So today I'm going to define what is the
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promised land? What does it actually
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look like? How can I actually experience
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this promised land that God has given us
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by his grace? So Hebrews chapter 4 and
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verse 9
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it says, "So then a Sabbath rest
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[snorts]
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still remains for the people of God. For
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those who enter God's rest also cease
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from their labors as God did from his.
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Let us therefore make every effort."
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Someone say and type in make every
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effort
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to enter that rest so that no one fall
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through such disobedience. There are two
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anchors that I want to spend my time
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examining today. The first one is make
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every effort to enter that rest. The
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picture that the writer of Hebrews was
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placing before us is that of an Olympian
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that is sprinting a 100meter dash. How
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many of you all during the Olympics or
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during the trials you all have that's
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one of my favorite things to watch
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because it's not long and they going to
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give some of their best effort and they
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have been training they have been
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preparing they are making all effort
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possible to reach the goal that they've
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been working toward. So when it says to
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make every effort to enter that rest, it
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doesn't mean don't pass goal, don't
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collect $200, don't wait for another
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opportunity. Every day that you wake up
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as a person who is sprinting in the
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100meter dash, your goal is to enter
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into the rest of God.
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It says the purpose of you having this
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disposition, this intentionality toward
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this goal is for the second portion of
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verse 11 that says that no one may fall.
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So it says to give this hurry with
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intense zeal to give this breathless
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priority to give this maximum diligence
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toward the goal of finding rest so that
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you do not set yourself up for a
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position to fall. But what it means to
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fall is to burn out. So it says if I
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don't give all my effort to go to rest,
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I'm not only going to burn out before I
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reach my goal, but I'm going to lose my
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stability.
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And isn't it funny that the reason why
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we say we can't rest is because we're
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trying to keep our stability. But
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scripture here says without rest, you'll
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actually lose the the stability that
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you're working to get.
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And it says most importantly if if you
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don't work with all effort to rest
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that your foundation
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to your life will collapse under the
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pressure that you face.
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from what Hebrews 4:11 is communicating
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to us all is that if we're not making
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our first priority every day to enter a
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place of rest that we will lose the very
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stability that we're going for. I don't
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know about you, but that communicates a
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sense of urgency.
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And the title of this message today is
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this can't wait. Someone say and type in
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this can't wait.
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How oxymoronic
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is this title that I'm going to be
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teaching about rest, but it's titled
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this can't wait. We must understand that
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we have an awesome opportunity of being
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in the kingdom of God. It is a great and
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precious privilege to be accepted in
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into the beloved that's filled with
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righteousness, peace, and joy. That's in
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the realm of the spirit. We live in the
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realm of the earth.
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And so today I'm trying to make now the
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spiritual reality match up with the
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earthly reality that we experience on
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daily basis.
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However, in the light of this truth of
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being in the kingdom of God,
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we cannot ignore the urgency of not
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getting into a place of rest. Because
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typically when you hear someone say,
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"This can't wait.
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your mind automatically goes to
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something is in crisis.
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You might think of overdue bills
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or late emails that you need to respond
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to, medical diagnosis that you're
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dealing with and you need to take care
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of your family when they call and say,
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"Look, drop everything. I need you right
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now."
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We live in a world where it seems like
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everything is the most important thing
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at the time. And it causes us to live
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with the level of immediate frantic
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energy
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that present prevents us from
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experiencing the rest that we were told
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to immediately dwell in every day.
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Now, I know the temptation is when
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you're in a season where you're not
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resting, where you're frantic, where
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you're going, where your mind is
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constantly racing. You lie to yourself
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like I lie to myself and say in just a
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couple weeks it'll all get better. And
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then a couple weeks show up and you say
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just a couple more weeks [snorts] and I
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promise it's going to get better. When
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the kids get older, it's going to get
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better. And then I talk to parents who
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have grown kids and say it doesn't get
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better.
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[laughter]
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We have people who say, you know, when
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the battles of life stop, when this
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pressure at work stops, when the
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deadlines stop, then
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I'll rest.
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But you cannot wait for your
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circumstances to become peaceful before
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you choose to enter God's rest that
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produces his peace.
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Entering his rest is an urgent priority
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that requires patient endurance.
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So with everything that you have going
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on in your life right now, because I'm
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not going to act like everything is
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tulips and daisies and you have no
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problems and you don't have pressure and
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you don't have real decisions to make,
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I'm not even going to play like that.
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Your life has very real pressure
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associated with it. But the question
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that I ask whenever I stand up here
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behind this holy desk and I get the
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awesome opportunity to communicate God's
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word is how do I help God's people not
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only survive through what they have to
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deal with but how can we help them to
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thrive through what they're dealing
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with? And the answer is we must learn to
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practice rest.
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Your key to success is found in your
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ability to rest every day.
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Let's go back to our text you all and
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let's read this again. So then
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a Sabbath rest still remains for the
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people of God.
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For those who enter into God's rest,
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watch this you all, they also cease from
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their labors as God did his. The creator
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of the universe said that I am the one
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that everything hinges upon and he still
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was able to find time to take a break.
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Jesus [snorts]
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had three years in his earthly ministry
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to fulfill all of the prophecies of the
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Old Testament and the law and defeat
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death, hell, and the grave. And he took
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an off day in three years.
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While he was working those three years,
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I do not see him leaning over to his
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disciples and saying, "Verily, verily, I
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say unto thee, hustle hard, no days off.
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Sleep when we die and raise again." I
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don't see that
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he took time to step away
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and pray
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even
when he only had three years to do
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an entire lifetime of work.
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This is the key.
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It says, "So let us make every effort to
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enter that rest so that no one may fall
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through such disobedience."
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So to not rest means that you're a
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disobedient child and disobedient
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children don't experience the best from
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their parents.
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So, we're asking God to bless
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disobedience
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when he's saying, "I need you to obey so
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that I could do more." Because when we
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don't rest, what we're experiencing in
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life is based off what we can do in our
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own strength. Imagine what God can do
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when you take your hand off the matter.
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But until you take your hand off the
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matter, you're living in a state of
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disobedience.
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And we think about the big sins,
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but to violate trying to take control of
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what God told you to relinquish control
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on is just as worse of a sin as anything
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else you can name in the book.
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So let me define rest so that I give you
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a framework that this is your goal every
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day.
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So with this goal every day,
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it then allows you to work to a point
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where you have one 24-hour period of
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week where your only focus is what
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replenishes and what allows you to get
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recreation.
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Because without rest, you will kill
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yourself early
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and then you won't fulfill all that God
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put you on the earth to do.
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So we have to practice the habit of rest
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so that we can be here to be able to win
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our time comes say I fought the fight I
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finished my course
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not when we see the Lord I fought the
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fight and my body gave up I did my best
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on the course but Lord how you like me
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now
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the focus is to finish. Well,
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so let's define rest. Rest, number one,
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is proof of covenant.
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See, you're not doing what you're doing
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on your own. And the way that you prove
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to yourself that God is in a collaborer
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with you and you are a co-aborer with
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him is your ability to do good work. And
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when it's time to step away, you can
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step away. Now, I want you all to hear
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me when I say do good work because some
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folks do too much resting and not enough
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working.
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>> And then when you are supposed to be
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working, you not really working. You're
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distracted. And so that's why when it's
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time to quit, you can't quit because you
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squandered your time when it was time to
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work. But doing good work allows you to
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have great rest.
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And when you step back from what God has
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asked you to do and say, 'Lord, I place
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this into your hands,
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we're saying, I'm not working on my own.
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And it's proof and it helps you
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understand how much did the Lord tell
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you to do and how much extra did you
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take on because you felt like it was a
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good thing to do.
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Rest is not passive idleness. Rest, I'm
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not even talking about taking a vacation
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because some of us
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on vacation,
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take your work laptop and it's not a
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vacation. I'm raising my hand because my
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wife figured the only way that I'm going
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to get this man to let go of his
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devices, I got to put him on a boat and
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then say, "Are you going to pay for that
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internet package? She knows I'm frugal,
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so no."
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And so however long the cruise is is how
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many days she knows I'm not going to
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have this itch to pick up a device and
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read and do something and respond to
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something.
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So rest is not a vacation and rest is
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not emotional escapism.
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It is entering into a permanent
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spiritual reality
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of God's Sabbath where a child of God
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abides in the security,
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the peace,
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shalom,
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and the authority of God.
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Number two,
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rest is the end of self-reliance.
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So when I take moments to step away, I'm
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saying it's not me who is building this
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work.
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There's this false idea that that I and
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I'm only going to talk about me cuz I
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know God's talking to y'all about your
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life. So I'm going just make it nice and
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easy. I'm going to talk about myself and
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then you talk to God about your stuff
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and we'll all get better. So there's
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this idea that I have sometimes that if
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I if I'm not there then it's going to
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fall. So I have to show up. I have to be
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around. I have to do. And the reality is
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that when I am here, it's not 100%
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anyway.
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So when I step away, all I'm doing is
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saying, Lord, I'm not depending on me to
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get this done. I'm depending on you.
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And and and I want to speak to the
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economy that we live in because this
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economy in order to unfortunately afford
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to live, it requires people to work a
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little extra.
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So you're talking to a person who has I
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legitimately have three different jobs
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currently
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because I I well I love what I do, but I
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have a wife and a daughter.
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expensive.
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Ash says she wasn't expensive
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until I got a couple coins and I found
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out she was just waiting for the right
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time.
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But you're talking to someone with three
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different jobs simultaneously.
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Even in the midst of those three
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different jobs, my check is, can you
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still take 24 hours where you're doing
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nothing? If not, you're trying to
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provide
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beyond there. Cuz let me tell you
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fellas, it should be in your heart that
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there are certain things that we can get
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from our job. Like full transparency, if
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I did nothing but work at the church, I
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could take care of our basic
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necessities.
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We live a modest, simple [snorts]
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lifestyle.
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But I began to see the heart of God
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concerning my wife, my son, my daughter.
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There are things that I want for them
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that I'm not going to put on the church
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to provide for them.
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Amen.
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>> It's not the church's job to take care
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of my desires.
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When a person does good work, they're
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worthy of peer-reviewed pay. Meaning my
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pay is set on a scale based off of the
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neighborhood and the budget of the
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church. And that's all the church can
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do. I can afford a basic lifestyle on
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what the church can currently do today.
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But there are things that I want for my
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wife. There are things that I want for
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my son. There are things that I want for
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my daughter that I have to ask the Lord,
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how do you allow me to use my gifting to
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be able to meet those extra desires?
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But even with the Lord using gifting to
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meet those extra desires, at no time can
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I violate his principle of Sabbath
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because then I'm providing in my own
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strength. And that's not what God called
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us to do. So even in the midst of three
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jobs simultaneously, there's a 24-hour
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block of time where I do nothing but
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rest.
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And it shows me that even with all the
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demands, at the end of the day,
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everything belongs to God.
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And if he doesn't build the house, they
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labor in vain.
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Amen.
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So, it's the end of self-reliance.
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You're not striving to earn rest by your
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own works. you are sprinting away from
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self-reliance so that you can throw your
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full weight onto the finished works of
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Christ.
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Number three,
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rest is a paradoxical
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priority.
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Biblical rest is the active discipline
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of fleeing from anxiety and placing your
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full weight on the gift of grace to
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fight off doubt and unbelief.
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Because when you take a step back, let
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me tell you what your biggest fight is.
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How about now? How about now? Maybe I
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should look. Maybe I shouldn't. What's
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going on? What's happening? was and you
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have to fight to tell your mind no we
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are not responding now.
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No, it is not the time for that right
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now. But when it is time, I'm going to
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re-engage and get right back to it. If I
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had to distill the definitions that we
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just went over,
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rest could be defined as patient
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urgency.
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Every day we should enter a place of
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patient
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urgency. Meaning, I am only going to
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move at the pace that God has me to
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move. Not any faster, not any slower.
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I'm not laxidasical concerning what God
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is asking me to do. So, if he says
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something, you hop right on it.
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But if I'm in a season where it's just
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not clear, it doesn't seem like it's
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moving fast enough, I need to turn the
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corner, I'm patient for the perfect
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timing of his plan, and that's every
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day.
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So, we have to stay clear and open.
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So, let's look at this patient urgency
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and dissect it. Going back to
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Deuteronomy chapter 7 and verse one, go
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over there.
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I want to show you all
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in Deuteronomy, Old Testament,
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how patient urgency shows up.
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Deuteronomy 7. And I love hearing pages
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turning. You all are bringing your
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physical Bibles. Is making me so happy.
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Thank y'all.
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Deuteronomy chapter 7 and verse one.
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We've been reading this for the last
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three weeks, but there's going to be
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some more nuance that I want to bring
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out today. Verse one in Deuteronomy
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chapter 7, it says, "When the Lord your
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God," watch this, you all brings you
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into the land. So, who's going to bring
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you into the land?
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>> God's going to bring you to the land
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that you are about to enter and occupy.
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Two separate things. And then, watch
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this. And he clears away many nations.
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Who is clearing away many nations? God.
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The Hittites, the Gegosites, the
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Amorites, the Canaanites, the
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Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
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Jebusites. Seven nations more numerous
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and mightier than you. Verse two. And
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when the Lord your God gives them over
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to you, who's going to give those
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inhabitants over to you?
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And you defeat them. Who's to defeat
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them?
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you.
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Interesting. And then you must utterly
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destroy them. Who's supposed to utterly
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destroy them?
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>> You. Us. And we're to make no covenant
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with them and show no mercy. So for me,
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these last three weeks, what I've been
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kind of dancing around is the tension
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that is placed in the text where there
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are some things that God does and then
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there's some things that we do. So it
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says in verses 1 and two, if God brings
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them in, if God clears away the nations,
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if God gives them over, WHY DOES GOD'S
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people still have to defeat and utterly
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destroy what God has given? Well, the
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first phrase, God brings you into the
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land, is a simple phrase that that we're
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all used to. Where God
guides, he
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provides. You all ever heard that? Where
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God guides, he provides. So if God
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brought you to this opportunity, God is
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going to give you all of the resources,
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all of the skill, all of the insight,
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all of the wisdom necessary to
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facilitate the opportunity. But the next
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word where it says he clears away many
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nations, the word clears away means God
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dislodges and goes ahead to fight on
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your behalf. So, what it's saying is
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wherever God is leading you, whatever
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God is asking you to do in this moment,
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he not only is is guiding and providing
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for YOU, BUT HE'S GOING AND FIGHTING
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BATTLES THAT YOU HAVEN'T EVEN WENT UP
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AGAINST to yet. SO THAT WHEN YOU DO FACE
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IT, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S EFFORTLESS AND
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SWEATLESS. IT'S BECAUSE HIS GRACE HAS
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GONE BEFORE YOU in it.
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>> SO THAT'S WHY PEOPLE SAY IT JUST SEEMS
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LIKE I HAVE FAVOR over here and I HAVE
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FAVOR OVER THERE. I DON'T KNOW WHY. YOU
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DON'T HAVE TO KNOW HOW GOD IS GOING TO
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DO IT. JUST KNOW IF HE GUIDED, HE'S
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ALREADY DONE IT.
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SO THERE'S THIS CONFIDENCE THAT WE HAVE
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THAT GOD, IF YOU'RE LEADING ME THIS WAY,
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MY MIND MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND. WHY ARE
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YOU TELLING ME TO DO THIS? WHY ARE YOU
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TELLING ME TO DO THAT? IT'S BECAUSE HE'S
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GOING BEFORE YOU MAKING YOUR path
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straight.
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But let's keep going.
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The next word it says that uh when when
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he he calls us to a place where to enter
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and occupy, it ties into verse two where
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it said God gives them over to you. I
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love this give them over.
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The word gives them over is a legal
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transfer language.
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God as the supreme owner
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of the earth transfers
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the title deed to his people.
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Glory to God. Let me break this down.
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Y'all y'all don't mind
me coming down to
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the floor. I'mma break this down for
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y'all real quick.
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>> Glory to God.
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Someone go to Ephesians chapter 2.
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verses 8 and 9.
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Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 and N it
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says
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for by grace you have been saved the
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gift of God. Grace is God's gift. So
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tying that back into
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Deuteronomy chapter 7 and2
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where he gives them over, he graces to
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you the area, the opportunity that he's
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called you to in the form of a title
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deed.
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It's his gift. Let's keep reading in
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Ephesians 2:8:9. For for by grace you've
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been saved through faith. Watch this
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next line. And this
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is not your own doing.
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It is the gift of God. So God has given
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you a title deed to where he's called
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you in the kingdom and you couldn't earn
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it. Why? Verse nine,
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not the result of works
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so that no one can boast.
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So he gives us the title deed to
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whatever direction that he's called us
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to go, whatever opportunity he's called
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us to do. And we can't earn and nor do
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we ever earn the opportunities that
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we're afforded. It is his gift.
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It's it's it's his gift, his title D.
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But it said in verse two uh verse uh
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chapter 2 verse8 it's by his gift but
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it's through this other word faith. Now
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go with me to Hebrews 11 verse 1 in the
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amplified.
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Let me break this down for you.
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Hebrewsap 11 verse one in the amplified
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God has given the title deed as a gift
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and it says in Hebrews 11:1 now faith is
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the assurance
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but faith is what
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the title D the confirmation
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I'm holding the title deed to this
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property right here. To God be the
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glory. This property is broken up into
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three parcels.
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There's one parcel over here, one parcel
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right here, and there's one parcel due
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west of here. I have the one in this
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nice envelope. Thank y'all for giving me
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a nice envelope because I would have
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kept it in its original one.
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I'm holding
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the legal right
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to the property that's due west of where
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I'm standing right now. And doesn't
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matter how anybody feels. Doesn't matter
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what anybody says.
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I'm the owner.
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But I see Russ right here.
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Russ didn't have to work.
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He didn't have to sweat. He didn't have
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to strive.
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I'm telling Russ, Russ, I need you to go
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do west.
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And as you go do west, I am giving you
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gift the deed. I put your name on it
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because you're in my family now.
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Will you receive it?
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>> Yes, sir.
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>> That's called faith. Faith receives
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grace.
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He has the title deed,
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but faith alone,
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he is sitting
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outside
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of what he has legally.
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Now, if he were to say to me, "But I
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just feel so unworthy.
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I don't know, Lord, why you did it, but
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you did.
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How could you choose me after all the
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things that I've done before in my life?
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Oh, woe is me.
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He would seem foolish
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because as a family member of mine,
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it was my pleasure to give to him what I
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owned and now transferred to my family
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member.
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But for my family member, he has to make
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the decision by faith to accept what I
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have for him.
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But this is where most Christians stop
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by him holding that title deed. I have a
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question. Legally,
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if I deed it over to him, that property,
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that parcel due west of here, legally,
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does that belong to him?
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legally.
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Can anybody challenge his ownership?
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Grace,
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faith. Most believers stop right here
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holding
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the promises.
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What does he have to do?
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He has to what?
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HE HAS TO GO GET IT. HE HAS TO GO OCCUPY
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IT. BUT WHAT IF HE SAYS, "I don't know
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how I'm going to occupy it because there
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seems like there's walls in here. There
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seems like there's doors in here. Do
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west means I have to actually move
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myself.
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THERE'S CARS OUT THERE.
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There's rain out there.
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There's a street out there. Oh, heavens
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know. I just I'm just waiting for the
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Lord to do it.
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How crazy does that sound?
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So, I'm going to say something pretty
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strong. Faith alone
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doesn't mean that you're going to walk
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in the promises of God.
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It's faith and
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patient
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urgency, patient endurance that you
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experience was already yours. What am I
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telling you right now? God by his grace
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that you didn't earn has given you the
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keys to his kingdom by faith. You hear
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that? But the only reason why you're not
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experiencing to the fullness what God
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has placed inside of your spirit is
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because you have not fully leaned into
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what it means to rest in the fact that
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it's mine. No matter how long it takes
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to achieve it.
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So people get discouraged
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because it seems like it's taking
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forever. It's not happening. I need to
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work a little extra. I need to do it in
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my own strength.
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But a person that rests
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knowing that no matter how long it
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takes,
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I have the title deed.
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Therefore, it's mine.
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That's what it means to rest.
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Someone say, "It's already mine.
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What do you need? It's already yours. Is
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it healing? It's already yours. Is it
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provision? It's already yours. Is it
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opportunity? It's already yours. Is it
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peace? It's already yours by grace
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through faith. Now you have to walk it
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out
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with a patient urgency.
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Patient urgency doesn't mean frantic
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effort.
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It's not human striving to no end,
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allowing the anxiety of the moment to
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cause you to take matters into your own
00:32:39.760 --> 00:32:42.950
hands. Patient urgency is not on the
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other side of the spectrum where you
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have passive complacency,
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disobedience to the will and wisdom of
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God masked in procrastination and
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laziness.
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Patient urgency
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is the surrender of your own will and
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way for the plan and pace of God.
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God, I want your plan, but I want your
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:16.630
plan at your pace. So, this promised
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land that we all have been called to
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live in and walk in every day is a place
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of rest.
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And so this series that we've been going
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through shows you that when you are
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working toward this place of rest,
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you're going to have some giants that
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try to stop you from getting to this
00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:39.590
place of rest. When you finally get to a
00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:41.029
point where you're able to rest, you're
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going to have some inhabitants, some
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:44.710
habits that show up to try to push you
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:46.630
away from rest. But I have a question
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:51.269
for you. This promised land, real land,
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.310
was given as a gift of grace to you. You
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receive the title deed by faith. Is the
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place OF REST SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO
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A CHILD OF GOD? YES OR NO?
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SO THAT MEANS THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON
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THAT HAS ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR
00:34:10.240 --> 00:34:14.230
LORD AND SAVIOR HAS A SPIRITUALLY LEGAL
00:34:14.240 --> 00:34:17.589
RIGHT TO REST AND COME BY HOOK OR BY
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CROOK. NOTHING CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM
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YOU.
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SO, we need to now learn how to rest
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and have peace. Rest and peace. Go to
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Romans 5 as I close.
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Glory to God.
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So, for the duration of this series,
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I need to explain to the church what you
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:54.950
own and how to access it, not in your
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:57.430
own strength.
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Glory to God.
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Let let let me
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teach this for you.
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The realm of the spirit is more real
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:24.069
than the earth dimension we live in.
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:27.990
So when you need resources for earth,
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.390
you have to know where to locate them
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.630
from the spiritual realm and bring them
00:35:32.640 --> 00:35:35.349
here.
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But the long view of the kingdom of
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darkness is to make God's children so
00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:43.510
numb to the realm of the spirit that
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they try to depend on this temporal
00:35:45.359 --> 00:35:49.990
realm to produce eternal benefit.
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:55.510
So what we're doing is we are reclaiming
00:35:55.520 --> 00:35:58.630
the first disciplines of spending that
00:35:58.640 --> 00:36:00.390
time in the realm of the spirit so that
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:03.990
we can access what we need to effectuate
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:07.670
the kingdom in this realm. It is part of
00:36:07.680 --> 00:36:10.069
the prayer that the Lord gave his
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disciples. Thy kingdom come, thy will be
00:36:16.560 --> 00:36:19.829
done on earth. Why? That's where we're
00:36:19.839 --> 00:36:22.310
living. You need that here. But he said,
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:28.150
"Be done on earth as it already is in
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heaven."
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Some of you all are sitting on the title
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deed to the kingdom and not pressing on
00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:40.470
it and going without
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cause.
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That should make us want to hunger more.
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If I had a billionaire tell me, Vince,
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:59.670
I want you to meet me.
00:36:59.680 --> 00:37:00.950
Let me see. I don't want to offend
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.630
nobody cuz y'all live some bit of
00:37:02.640 --> 00:37:04.310
everywhere.
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Let me see where y'all don't live cuz
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.030
some of y'all live far out and drive.
00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:08.630
So, I don't want to do that. Let me just
00:37:08.640 -->
00:37:11.510
go somewhere. The big city, Columbus,
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Georgia. I want you to meet me
00:37:15.839 --> 00:37:20.630
in Columbus, Georgia every morning
00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:25.030
for the next 21 days. And by the end of
00:37:25.040 --> 00:37:29.349
those 21 days, you will have the mindset
00:37:29.359 --> 00:37:35.829
you need to live like I live.
00:37:35.839 --> 00:37:39.270
my little hour and 50 minute drive every
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day
00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:43.589
there and then an hour 50 back. So those
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:46.950
four hours after 21 days, it's an
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:50.230
effort, but that effort's worth it for
00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:52.390
what I will get on the other side of
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.069
that.
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:56.870
Some of us haven't gone in
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spiritually
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because we don't value what's on the
00:38:00.240 --> 00:38:04.470
other side of your obedience.
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Amen.
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I will say this. This church has matured
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:18.230
because to talk like this on a Sunday
00:38:18.240 --> 00:38:19.750
morning, this is typically something you
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:22.230
share on a Wednesday night.
00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:26.790
We're hungry. You're hungry. Your spirit
00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:30.390
is crying out for answers. And these are
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:32.310
the answers you need. There is no
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:36.390
get-rich quick scheme in the kingdom.
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.670
It's not. It's with faith and patience
00:38:41.680 --> 00:38:44.870
you will inherit or experience the
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.349
promised land.
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Amen. So here we go. Let me let me close
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with this. Romans chapter 5 and verse
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one.
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No, let me end right here. I'm I need to
00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:10.790
give this some time. Let me end. I don't
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:14.230
want to do it this week. Next Sunday, we
00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:17.349
will pick up in this. I I I want to take
00:39:17.359 --> 00:39:19.349
my time
00:39:19.359 --> 00:39:23.829
and explain and walk through how to
00:39:23.839 --> 00:39:27.430
access the kingdom of God.
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:29.190
and what that means. Amen. Stand to your
00:39:29.200 --> 00:39:34.470
feet today. Glory to God.
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:42.069
Glory to God.
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:44.870
Make it a priority.
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Make it a priority to every day remind
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:51.109
yourself by grace through faith I have
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:55.589
what I need for today. And so Lord, give
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:58.390
me your wisdom and how to act out and to
00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:01.109
do what you're asking me to do with the
00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:08.950
day that I have.
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:12.470
I want you to begin to look at your life
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:14.470
and see where you can take pockets each
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:15.990
day
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.870
to remind yourself
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:21.670
that I don't have any other choice. I I
00:40:21.680 --> 00:40:25.270
have it can't wait. I have to enter into
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:27.270
the rest of God. Where can you have that
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:28.790
time?
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:30.390
Then I want you to look at your calendar
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.550
every week.
00:40:32.560 --> 00:40:34.870
Find that block of time where you're not
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:37.990
doing anything but what puts life back
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.109
into you.
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:43.030
Where your mind is not, you know, taking
00:40:43.040 --> 00:40:44.870
care of an email or responding to a
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.190
call. And if you've got to work there,
00:40:47.200 --> 00:40:49.829
that means that you need his grace and
00:40:49.839 --> 00:40:53.910
his wisdom to help you build systems
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:55.750
so that you can rest and be around here
00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:59.109
a long time.
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:00.950
Amen.
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:04.470
With every bow and every eye closed in
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:09.270
prayer,
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:11.109
uh before you all do that, you can uh
00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:12.790
prepare your hearts to receive holy
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.190
communion today
00:41:15.200 --> 00:41:17.589
and receive and have the elements. And
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:19.670
if you need elements, someone will will
00:41:19.680 --> 00:41:23.589
assist you with them. If you're at home,
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:29.030
pull off a piece of one of them biscuits
00:41:29.040 --> 00:41:31.430
and that coffee
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:35.670
and participate with us today. Glory to
00:41:35.680 --> 00:41:37.670
God.
00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:39.990
Glory to God.
00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:47.510
Even in the midst of the economy that
00:41:47.520 --> 00:41:50.309
we're in, the people of God will learn
00:41:50.319 --> 00:41:53.510
how to rest in spite of. So when people
00:41:53.520 --> 00:41:56.550
see you thrive and elevate,
00:41:56.560 --> 00:41:59.670
you'll be able to say, "Not by my might,
00:41:59.680 --> 00:42:03.190
not by my power, but by his spirit, says
00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:05.430
the Lord."
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:08.470
Whose report will we believe?
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:11.829
We shall believe the report of the Lord.
00:42:11.839 --> 00:42:13.510
I've always said two things. Either
00:42:13.520 --> 00:42:15.030
God's going to raise my money to pay for
00:42:15.040 --> 00:42:16.550
it, is he going to bring the money the
00:42:16.560 --> 00:42:18.710
the price down where I can afford it?
00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:21.990
But either way, he's going to do it.
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.390
And you don't have
to wreck your brain
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:27.109
wondering how.
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.790
He's going to do it.
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:33.349
But as you're walking toward the
00:42:33.359 --> 00:42:35.750
promised land,
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:38.790
he needs your character to be refined so
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:40.630
that you're able to facilitate the
00:42:40.640 --> 00:42:43.670
promise to bless others.
00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:45.430
So there's lessons. There's there's
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:47.349
reasons why certain things are taking
00:42:47.359 --> 00:42:49.030
longer.
00:42:49.040 --> 00:42:51.910
There's a heart that you develop in that
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:54.870
season that you're in that you're able
00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:57.589
to witness with weight to others who are
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.589
waiting for your words.
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:03.990
Man, I know what it's like to be the
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:06.470
sole income provider and not have any
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:09.109
income coming in, yet God was still the
00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:11.270
provider. I can talk to someone like
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:12.950
that.
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:15.190
I could talk to someone about, you know,
00:43:15.200 --> 00:43:17.190
things that my wife and I were believing
00:43:17.200 --> 00:43:19.430
for. They just it seemed like dead in
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:22.630
after dead end after dead end
00:43:22.640 --> 00:43:26.230
and then it seemed like all of a sudden
00:43:26.240 --> 00:43:28.550
the windows of God opened up. I I I can
00:43:28.560 --> 00:43:30.390
talk to the person who is frustrated,
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:32.390
feeling like, why am I in this business?
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:34.470
What am I doing? How is this going to
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:36.870
work? And still sticking with it no
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:40.230
matter what. Because God put you in that
00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:42.390
place. Because there are people that
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:44.710
you're going to reach through your work,
00:43:44.720 --> 00:43:46.950
through your words, through your
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:49.510
character, through your life that will
00:43:49.520 --> 00:43:52.069
never dawn the doors of a church, but
00:43:52.079 --> 00:44:02.550
will hear the gospel by watching you.
00:44:02.560 --> 00:44:03.990
I've been there where you feel like
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.950
giving it up and just saying, "I tried.
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.030
It didn't work."
00:44:09.040 --> 00:44:12.069
But I've learned a pattern in life. When
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I'm closest to breakdown,
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that's when I'm closest to breakthrough.
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The darkest part of the night is right
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before the sun rises again. And if Satan
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can win with discouragement,
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then I will not be able to experience
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the fullness of joy that comes with the
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answer to all that I've been praying
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for.
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So for the person who just thought about
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just walking away, no, tap back in big
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dog
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and get after it. It's a new clock.
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Every day the score resets zero to zero.
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Stop stop thinking about, well, this
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didn't work and that didn't work and
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this didn't work. You woke up and
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there's brand new mercies today for this
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wake up. It's zero to zero. Get after
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it, big dog. Check back in.
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Glory to God.