Opening Our Understanding

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Welcome back to our podcast where the conversation leads us.
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I'm Brad, and I'm here today with Greg, Brandon, Ace, AJ, and Adam.
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So today, guys, the conversation is simply opening our understanding to the scriptures, and what we ask is for everybody to bring to the podcast today a verse or verses that the Lord has used to minister to you in a special way.
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Now, I know if you're like me, whatever verse you happen to be reading at that time is your favorite verse in the Bible.
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So I had to switch on this a few times, but um that's the burden of the podcast today, so we're just going to go around and let um each of us share what God's given us.
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And that comes from the passage in Luke 24, verse 44.
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He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning me.
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Now those were the words of Christ speaking about how the Old Testament is a revelation of his person, who he is.
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Our text for this specific podcast is found in Luke 24, verse 45, where the Bible says, Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures.
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And we all agree on this without the ministry of the Holy Spirit, none of us would get anything at all of value from the scriptures.
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Because spiritual truths are spiritually discerned, and that's what we're here for.
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And we're all believers in Jesus Christ, so we have the Holy Spirit within us.
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And so with that, uh, let's see what the Lord's given us for our verses.
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Alright, well, my verse is Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 through 7.
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I did cheat, I put two verses.
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So it was Philippians 4, 6 and 7.
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So this verse is a verse that I've really used in the past couple months in my life.
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I was laying in bed one night, couldn't sleep, about one or two in the morning, and I just got my phone out, reading through the Bible, and I saw this verse, and of course, I screenshot.
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When I get a verse, I like it when I'm laying in bed, I screenshot it.
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And this is one verse that I wrote, I screenshot it down, and it's it's really helped me, and I'm gonna read it here.
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It's Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7.
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Bible says, Be careful for nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God.
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And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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So I'm assuming that you just had a lot of stuff on your mind.
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Right.
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I had a whole lot in my mind.
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Isn't that wonderful how the Holy Spirit comes to us and reveals something in his word at the time that we need it?
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Exactly when we needed it.
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You know, when you think about as Christians today in our society and the world we live in today at this moment, what's one of the when you think about what's one of the biggest things that we face as Christians?
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What's one of the biggest problems we have in our lives?
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Anxiety.
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Anxiety and worry.
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You know, we worry.
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That's what, I mean, that's what the world has trained us to do, is we worry.
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We worry about things that we can control in our lives, but we worry about things that we cannot control.
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I mean, we go as far as we make up things in our lives that could happen and we worry about it.
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We make up in situations that could never possibly happen and we worry about it.
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And I've always in my life have had a problem where I've I know the Lord is in control.
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I know the Lord is going to take care of me.
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But that worry creeps into my life.
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And it really causes trouble in my life, you know.
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But you read these verses here, and what's the first thing that this verse says?
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The very first thing.
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It says we're not to worry.
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Yeah.
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Be careful.
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I mean, it says, be careful for nothing.
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I mean, that's that's plain and simple.
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That's exactly what we needed to know.
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So why shouldn't we worry?
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Well, I also think about I find myself, if I'm watching the, if I turn on the news, I find myself getting really anxious.
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So I've gotten to the point where I I just don't watch it.
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And I probably should be watching it to kind of know what's going on, but I find myself really, really getting worked up.
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And so I think there's a lot of things in in the world that causes that, right?
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And you're right.
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I know in my mind, I always look, it's worst-case scenario.
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And then all of a sudden you just gotta take a deep breath and say, you know what, the Lord's in control.
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Exactly.
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Well, uh, I'm very laid back, things don't bother me very much.
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Well, we know.
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But but nobody's exempt, right?
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I still have those.
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And how many times do you tell us fret not?
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And in my altar, in my office at school, I've got a cross that hangs right above the altar.
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So you kneel on that altar and that word of God right in front of you, and that that cross says, let go and let God.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Oftentimes the way we worry things, they don't happen the way that the way we worry them anyway.
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No, we make up situations.
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Well, they say faith is uh we like to say what if, but faith is if then.
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Exactly.
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If it does happen, guess what?
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God's still there.
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Yeah.
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But at times like that, we just need to get in the word, I think, and replace that worry with with prayer a lot of times.
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And reading scripture.
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If you look at verse six, it says, but in everything by prayer and supplication.
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Right.
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With thanksgiving.
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That's right.
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Sure.
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You know, with thanksgiving and supplication, let your request be made known unto God.
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So he says, Don't worry.
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Yeah.
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He says, pray.
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Pray to me.
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Be thankful for our position in him, our position in Christ.
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He wants us to be thankful for the current events in our life, the blessings that that he has bestowed upon us that that we sometimes forget and sometimes overlook.
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But he wants us to be be thankful for those uh blessings that he's already given.
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We serve a God that's much bigger than anything we can worry about.
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Right, any problem we could have.
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I mean, it's it's a small thing for him to take care of our problems.
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And I like it says in everything by prayer and supplication.
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That's not that's not the major crisis in your life.
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Sure.
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That's everything.
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That's everything that we could ever face.
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We can take it to him.
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You know, I like this saying it says, worry about nothing, pray about everything.
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Think about what our other brethren might be dealing with at that certain time.
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We're dealing with something.
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Think about the the struggles that might be upon their hearts that we don't have no idea about that might be much greater than what we're in need of at the time or what we're worried about.
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We need to, we know that's why it's so important to pray for one another.
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Yeah.
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No song, Thy Burdens are greater than much.
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And everybody's faced, like you said, there's people facing things that we know nothing about.
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Even happy go lucky possum here.
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Yeah.
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I'm sure we all have problems in our lives and we're still worried.
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You know, as Christians, we're gonna have those problems.
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But it's yeah, you're right.
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We we worry about money, we worry about all kinds of stuff, you know, and but at the end of the day, I mean, God bless us, He He provides us with everything we need.
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Uh sometimes I always say, I I thank the good Lord that for unanswered prayers, things that I prayed for uh that I'm thankful today didn't come true, right?
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So thankful for that that God knows what's best for us.
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Where we fail is when we don't look to Him, right?
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When we don't go to Him in prayer and when we ask for things, but also be thankful is what we're sitting here saying.
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And sometimes we need to sit back and trust God.
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That's it.
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Just trust Him.
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We gotta sit and He even tells us here in verse 7 what happens when you have that trust.
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Peace of God.
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It says, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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I mean, you have that true peace.
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And that I'm talking about the true peace that only a Christian can have.
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Right.
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You know, the world knows nothing of the peace that we have.
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That's why it passes understanding, they can't explain it.
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Right.
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And I mean, how how does how do you get that peace?
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You trust in God.
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Well, if you think about what we've done, what we we have easily handed over the most precious thing we have, and it's our ever living soul, to Jesus in salvation and said, Okay, I'm I'm good.
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Never worry about it again because we know who we gave it to.
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Right.
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Why can't we give all of our problems to him as well?
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But yeah, and I'm gonna tell this real fast.
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I was in a mud run one time.
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And I was in and I was packing logs.
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All right.
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So I had to pack one log, been manling.
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I packed two logs, and I was gonna run.
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So I'm gonna take off a running, me and another guy, and we run down, and we realized we have to go a lot further than we thought we had to go.
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Then we started dropping the log a little bit, trying to rest our muscles.
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We still wouldn't drop that log.
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We rock them up here, rock them down here, trying to get through, got down the walking, barely made it, and all we had to do the whole time was drop the log.
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No penalties for dropping the log.
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We didn't lose the race.
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We didn't have to go an extra mile because we dropped the log.
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We just wanted to carry it.
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How many times do we take out all our anxieties, all of our fears, all of our worries, all of our financial issues, our health issues, whatever, and we we hoard them up like this and I'll pack them.
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But all God says just give it to me.
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Get in the oak with him.
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Get in the oak with him.
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I mean, this ski can, how much does that ski can weigh?
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If I hold it a minute, it don't matter, right?
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If I hold it all day, my arm starts to starts to give away.
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And all I have to do is set it down.
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That's it.
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You drank them too fast, Brandon.
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Right.
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Brandon, I know I know this isn't part of your text, but the very verse before that, verse five, I have underlined, let your moderation be known unto all men, the Lord is at hand.
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That's the key to the text.
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Yes.
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If we really believe the Lord could come at any moment, it will do some of the things we worry about.
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It'll bring a perspective to our life that nothing else will.
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I mean, if I really lived like he would come for me, whether in death or in the rapture in the next five minutes, I don't have time to worry about much that's going on tomorrow.
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Exactly right.
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But when the coming of the Lord becomes something abstract, I mean we all believe it, but we don't actually make it real today.
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Yeah.
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That's when everything comes, and I'll I'll I'll say this and I'll back out.
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But didn't the Lord say, take no thought for the morrow, for the evil thereof is sufficient unto the day.
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Right.
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Now, the BIV version, the Brad Inger version, what that says is tomorrow's going to be bad enough without you worrying about it.
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Yeah.
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Don't borrow from it because you may not be here tomorrow.
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Yeah.
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And I've taken comfort by that, those same passages many times, Brandon, and that's what the Lord's helped me with.
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Are we not supposed to be watchful each day?
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That's it.
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That's right.
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Yes, sir.
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But like Greg said, He gives it to you when you need it.
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Amen.
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He gives it to you when you need it.
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And I I will I will end with this.
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You know, we think about the creator of our universe, the one true and living God, the you know, the author and finisher of our faith says this, and this is in Matthew chapter 11, verses 28 and 30.
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It says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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It's like the logs you talked about.
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You know, and I will give you rest.
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Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest under your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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That's a good word.
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I like it.
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Good one.
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That kind of goes back to my verse, you all, in uh Hebrews chapter 4.
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It ties right in.
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The Lord just works things out.
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Hebrews chapter 4, verse 9, it says, There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
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For he that is entered into his rest, he also has seats from his own works, as God did from his.
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And absolutely we can look at it and say, Well, there is no other way to salvation unless you rest in what God's done for you.
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It's not a do salvation, it's a done salvation.
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We are told that.
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But for me personally here lately, and and for everybody listening, we didn't tell each other what our verses were, God just worked this thing out.
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And that's what God does He puts together.
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Because for me, when it says here, and it says He also hath ceased from His own works.
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There's in my life, I've so can I'm so guilty and I feel horrible about it that I've got so much going on, and it pulls me away from the ministry that God's given me.
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And it almost breaks my heart to think that God has given me this opportunity to preach and to study and to teach his word, but yet I have all this other stuff going on that pulls me away from it.
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Sure, I I witness to people, you know, along the way, at work and stuff.
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But it's almost like I've got all of this going like this, and I cannot focus on the one thing that matters most if Christ comes right now.
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It's me using my last breath to speak his name one more time.
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And that's where I'm at in my life right now.
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I've got to eliminate everything out of the way and focus back on where I'm supposed to be.
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That's right.
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Our priorities are wrong in our lives.
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Isn't that verse just a perfect representation of Christ's finished work at Calvary, though?
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That's right.
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Just watch it.
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What he's done there is a finished work.
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Yep.
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It was it was completed, and uh we we look at that and and we can base our security in that.
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Yeah, yeah, because it is finished.
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Yep.
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And the security of our salvation is is is not based in our ability to hold on to Christ.
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It's it's based in Christ's ability to hold on to us.
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That's right.
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He's all powerful, all-knowing, everlasting.
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It was finished.
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He says, Come unto me.
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I'll either have you like give you rest.
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That's the rest we're talking about.
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I we definitely, when the Lord ret returns, it'd be a wonderful thing if we're doing doing his work on that up on that return, wouldn't it?
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Wouldn't you hate to be somewhere that you shouldn't be when the Lord returns?
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Wouldn't you hate to be out of his will at that time?
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That's right.
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Yeah, just to just out of his will, wouldn't you wouldn't you feel uh uh just a grievance?
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Yeah, shamefulness.
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Yeah, not not that we're not covered or not that we can lose our salvation, but we could be out of fellowship and just just think how that would be.
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Absolutely.
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Just to be out of fellowship and and lift up our eyes and behold the Savior.
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There's a hundred percent chance we stand before him in j in with our works, sure.
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Right of what we've done.
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We're gonna do that.
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Sure, exactly.
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And boys, we may be here at the podcast when when the Lord comes back.
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That'd be like sky, they split wide open.
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Could be tonight.
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There could be.
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Yeah, leave these microphones behind me.
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Already gone out, boys.
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And one thing about it is we tend to think, well, I don't want to be found doing something that's wicked and evil.
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Of course not, but what if we're found not doing that which is good?
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Because to him that knoweth to do good to him, it is sin.
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So we can't even excuse ourselves by saying, Well, I don't I don't drink, I don't run around, I don't curse, I don't all but if we're not doing his business, then we're just as much wrong as if we were.
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We're under the commission of service right now.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Upon salvation, we were commissioned unto service.
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That's right.
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Yeah, we was we was we belong to him.
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Belong to him fully.
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Of course, God's called Brad and I to preach.
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Sure.
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He's called each one of us to be a servant.
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Sure, exactly.
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All of us, because we're all children of God.
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Under the Great Commission.
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That's right.
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Under the Great Commission.
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So if we're not doing that, then what are we doing, boys?
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Exactly.
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We're not serving God like we're supposed to, and He's given everything He has for us.
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Their very best.
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Jesus Christ left the ivory palace of heaven to die for us, and we've got to give him our life too.
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You know, there's so many that's bold and say, Oh, I'll die for Christ.
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He wants us to live for him.
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Not all we're called to preach for.
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We were all called to testify.
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That's right.
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To witness and testify.
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Yeah.
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Amen.
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Guys, I think we've been talking about how God lays this before us and puts things on our hearts to tie things together.
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And I thought of a verse, it's a Psalm of David, Psalm 32.8.
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I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go.
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I will guide thee with mine eye.
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Just think about the how how God guides us, how how uh He gives us guidance and wisdom to see things more clearly and to actually see things through His eyes and how He would look at people.
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And I I think more anything about this verse is how God sees the lost, and how sometimes we we we could not see the lost through the way Christ sees them and through His eyes, and we we can't have that compassion that Christ had for the lost and dying world, but we need to have that compassion.
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We need to have those tears for the lost.
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That that's one that's one thing we've lost uh through time is is tears for the lost.
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And uh it's uh it's about seeking the face of God and seeking his counsel and uh just seeing things more clearly.
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And I think that'll come with the reading of his word, and I think that'll come in our prayer life.
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And also uh fellowship with the believer, iron sharpeneth iron.
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What we're doing here tonight.
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Yeah, it's exactly what we're doing, and it's it's it's good for us.
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And talk about guiding us with his eye.
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Uh the secondary interpretation of that is if you're looking at somebody close enough to watch their eyes, if they shift, what are you gonna do?
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You're gonna shift your eyes and see whatever they're looking at.
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Yeah, and there's no way we can discern the will of God unless we're looking at him or in the face of Jesus Christ, which is what we looked at just the last podcast if I remember up.
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Exactly.
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Seeing him high and lifted up, sir.
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Seeing him high and lifted up, and uh like I said, all always seeking his face.
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Amen.
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Well, it should that should be a prayer that the Lord You know, burden us, show us how he cares for others.
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Sure, how the the compassion that he has.
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Or do we sometimes I mean, are we nervous to pray about that?
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Right because we're afraid he may actually do it.
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Right.
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What Christ said he didn't come to s to save the righteous.
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That's right.
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Well, and I mentioned this story, you boys, and I'm gonna I'll tell it really fast.
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But I I I listened to a missionary one time and he said he had to get his hair cut.
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He said he's got one particular barber that he goes to every time when he's in town.
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He had to he's fixing to leave.
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So he went to him and he got an appointment.
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So he's sitting there and he's thinking, Oh, I'm fixed to get my hair cut.
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And uh they come to him saying, sorry, your barber had a mercy, he's gotta go, but said, We got Judy.
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Sorry, Julie.
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And so he says, Well, I've got to get cut of leaving town.
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So he said, Julie will be fine.
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So he sat there and here comes Julie out around the corner, and she's got poke and other pants on and striped shirt, and she's got earrings and facial piercings and and tattoos all over.
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She's got spiked hair coming out like a train, every one of them's different color.
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And he says, Oh no.
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He says, She don't have nothing I want to hear, I don't have nothing she wants to hear.
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And said, I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna sit down and I'm gonna close my eyes and ain't gonna say a word.
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And they were they were sitting in a room about like us, and everybody's getting their hair cut.
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And he's sitting there and all of a sudden she says, So what do you do for a living?
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And he goes, alright.
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He says, Well, I'm a missionary down here at this, and you know, missionary center down here.
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He said, Oh yeah, I was there the other day.
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And she he said, You mean you were there the other day?
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He said, Yeah.
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I said, My mom's a heroin addict, and said, Somebody brought us one of those videos of Left Behind.
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I said, I know nothing about Jesus, but I don't want to be left behind.
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Right.
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And he said, by then he looked up and he looked, and everybody's tears rolling in their face.
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He said, Ma'am, I'm sorry.
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But he said, if you'll give me a minute, I'll go get my Bible and I'll tell you about Jesus.
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And he said one thing I'll never forget, and I said it in the last episode.
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We don't have the right to say who hears and who doesn't.
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No.
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We have that compassion for everybody.
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She was a whosoever.
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Whosoever.
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She was like usually, just like us.
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Just like us.
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And that whosoever means all, and that all means excluding none.
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That's right.
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Amen.
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So should but the Lord seen her heart.
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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And we'll get into that, but Brother Danny Weststone mentioned that about a lady that had all kinds of tattoos and piercings and all this stuff and got saved.
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Yeah.
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And he said, you look upon her, you think, Well, I don't know about her.
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But boy, if you just know what her heart is, you just listen to her, let her talk about the Lord.
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You know, so in that desire that that our eyes that the Lord will help us see through all that and just see that need of that person and that and see their heart like Christ did.
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Is not all our hearts blackened before Christ?
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Exactly.
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Amen.
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Each one of us is going to have a new name.
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We we receive it upon salvation, and one day we'll receive a glorified body, and that's that's that's all part of leaving this old body behind, and it's all part of leaving the the pride of life and behind.
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Well, you know, people like to like to put qualifications in in front of sinners, right?
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Sure.
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But it says he died for sinners.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that talks about the murders, the thieves, the worst of the worst.
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It also talks about the ones that attend church that doesn't know him in salvation, the moral sinners, the ones that's a pretty good person, you know, the good old boys.
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Yeah, sure.
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They're still sinners, and we were too.
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At eight-year-old, I got saved, and I was just as worse sinners as anybody else.
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Still needed Christ.
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Christ died for the soldier that crucified him.
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That's right.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah, we're we're all condemned.
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Amen.
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Which, you know, kind of leads in as brother Adam said, that, you know, the Lord put this together, and all things are very similar to what we're talking about.
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But one of the verses that for a while now, Habakkuk 2, 1, uh has been on my mind.
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I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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I you know, I think about that's my issue of not waiting on the Lord.
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I want to run ahead and make my plans to do that.
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And we know in chapter one, back of you know.
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He has this conversation with the Lord, you know, and he the Lord's told him, Look, I'm gonna send a nation in, and they're gonna overtake, you know, Israel.
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They're gonna, you know, uh, you know, capture them and do those things.
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And he's sitting there trying to reason.
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Matter of fact, he's he's even saying, you know, Lord, they're more evil than we are.
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So he's, you know, and I think about, you know, or sometimes as people try to justify their sin as not being as great as someone else's sin.
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And, you know, I don't really think that he was questioning God, but he was asking questions.
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And there is a different, the Lord does want us to communicate with him, and and I ask why, that's not asking why, but not question his his decision.
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Uh, and I think about that struggle that he's going through uh in those moments, but but we did see a shift uh from chapter one, there was a pause between chapter one and chapter two, and we see that he came to the Lord and he said, I will stand upon my watch.
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He had run all those things and he had felt all those anxieties that were talked about, all that nervousness and all that stuff, and finally he got to a place and he said, Alright, I'm gonna get, I'm gonna stand up on my watch and set up on the tower and watch to see what he will say unto me.
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So he got to the point where he said, you know what, I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna wait on the Lord here.
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He knows what's best.
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Um then I will I will see how I will answer.
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What will I do?
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Um you know, and I and I thought about once he realized that God, that he is the holy one, things starting to come into focus.
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And I think about myself, and I all those things that we're sitting here talking about, and whether it's work-related things or stuff, and you get to say, and then you just go, wait a minute, who do we serve?
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Yeah, we serve the holy one.
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That's right.
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And that's how he referred to him as the holy one.
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And if we put that in perspective, right, then we we we will see that.
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Um and and he said, Okay, Lord, what would you have me to do?
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And I think this verse, and uh I I want Brad to uh uh talk a little bit about it.
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And and the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and make it plain upon uh tables that he shall or that he may run that readeth it.
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Yeah.
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He was giving a commission to take the vision, I'm gonna give you Habakkuk, write it down, and we know that God always communicates his message in writing.
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Number one, that's safer for us because if you try to contribute or pass something down by word of mouth, what happens to the message after a while?
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It changes.
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But I think, Greg, when you shared with me a few months ago, that last line that he may run that reads, what gives us energy to keep running this race?
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It's reading what has been written.
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And if any man needed it, it was a back at that time.
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He saw judgment coming, the Chaldeans were on their way, and they knew that the Egyptian the Israelites were not a warring people.
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What could they do to defend themselves?
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Yeah, and I just thinking about that verse that the Lord has laid on my heart, you just break it down, you know, it says, Set me up on a tower, you know.
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Yeah, you know what's the difference in standing on watching a tower and seeking God and getting out of the, you know, in this particular case, getting off the ground, getting on a tower, getting out away from that chaos, all that stuff that was going on.
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Because he was witnessing, he knew what God was talking about.
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He's seen the sins of the people.
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He's seen the sins of the people, and he finally had to say, you know what, I gotta get off the ground, off of that, you know, and out of the off the ground and away from that chaos and get to a place, get to a place that I can set my watch and I can get where I can hear the Lord.
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And I I find myself I'm in the middle of that chaos.
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We talked about just this work.
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I I want to try to find at some point that I just get somewhere for 10 minutes and just take a deep breath and just meditate on the word of God or meditate on him.
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And he will reveal those things to us if we just got out of uh you know away from that.
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Uh you know, uh He wants us to get to that place where where He can talk to us, that that's for sure.
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Yeah.
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It makes me think about how we need to just patiently wait upon the Lord and how sometimes it it takes years for a prayer to be answered, but I think just just the patience, you know, of fervently and continuously praying for that thing or what or or what you're asking God to answer that prayer, that we wait upon that.
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And a lot of times we we we lose patience.
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We don't we don't wait like we should upon the Lord.
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You know, because he hears us.
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Yeah, that's right.
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He answers in his time.
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Yeah, that's right.
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His time is always perfect, isn't it?
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You know, when when when he was gonna split the Jordan River like he did the Red Sea, and then he's gonna go over and and you know in the Canaan land and start conquering it, he told them, he said, You wait.
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Sure.
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And for the Ark of the Covenant.
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So he's gonna bring it when they got the brink of the water, then you follow the ark.
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What's that?
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You follow in the presence of the Lord.
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It's one of the hardest things for us to do sometimes to sit back and wait on God.
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Yeah, his timing.
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It is but it's like you taught last night at the Bible Club.
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You gotta be in the right place.
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That's right.
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Because it's all about him.
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It ain't about it, it ain't about what we're wanting or on our time scale, it's about his time scale.
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That's right.
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I found God is more concerned with timing than he is with time.
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Sure.
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We're concerned with time, you gotta do it in this time.
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He's worried about the timing bringing up all the time.
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He abideth in time.
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He actually abideth time.
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Is not our whole society gearing toward us being like that?
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Sure.
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30-second videos, oh yeah, sure.
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Instant gratification.
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We post something and see how many people like it automatically.
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We don't have to wait.
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Uh you know the microwave culture.
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Yeah, that's right.
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And so everything is right here, right now.
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If it stalls for a second, we're like, I'm done with it.
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You know, they asked Elon Musk in an interview what the worst thing of technology was, and he said short form video was the worst technology we had.
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See, and that that goes right after the instant gratification we all want.
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So that goes also, you know, I thought about, you know, we need to step away from things that's obstructing our view.
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Yeah.
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So he also not only said I'm gonna wait on him and I'm gonna listen, but I'm gonna get to a place where I can see him clearly and get away from those obstructions that that that's in our life.
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Uh, you know, and and once he got to that place of faith, uh, complete faith, right?
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We can say that we have faith, but then we gotta practice that.
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We have to demonstrate that.
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We have to get to that place where we can say, Lord, I'm listening to you.
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I'm I'm I'm I'm seeking your guidance.
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Um you know in in 2, 4 or chapter 2, verse 4, it says, Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith.
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That's how we live is by by his faith.
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Right?
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We're we're we have faith, but we live by his faith because he if we show him we need his guidance, he'll be faithful to guide us.
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He'll be faithful to give us what we need.
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Uh and I and I'll end this uh, you know, in in chapter 3, verse 2, it says, Oh Lord, I have heard thy speech and was afraid.
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Oh Lord, revive thy work.
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Isn't that what we need today?
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We need a revival, we need to see his work.
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It says, uh, in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known in wrath, remember mercy.
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But are we truly going to be ready for that?
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When when he uh when he does, you know, we can be made usable, but when when he does answer those prayers or or or or puts us in his will, will we be ready?
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And we we need to be ready to be ready.
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Uh to see the touch of God on our lives, we've got to be walking, you know, in fellowship with God.
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And to see prayers answered, we've got to be in fellowship with him.
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But to be in fellowship and to see uh God move in our life and the touch of God upon our lives, we do need to see sin out of our lives.
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That's the main thing, and that's the first thing.
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Well, you you know when David was bringing the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem and he finally got the Levites to do it like God wanted, he told him to go sanctify yourself.
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Sure, sure.
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That's the first thing.
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That's the first thing.
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First thing.
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Before we can be made usable.
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That's right.
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That's the first thing.
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And that's what he was doing in chapter one.
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He's trying to do all these other things, and finally he said, All right, I can't do this.
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He's the holy one.
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And we see in chapter two, he comes to a realization of that and says, Okay, Lord, I need you.
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Greg, I'll say that before we move on to this last one.
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I found in my own life.
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God is not going to compete for my attention.
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If I choose to neglect him, he'll let me neglect him.
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Sure.
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He will not force his way into my fellowship.
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And so I think about how many times, twice at least I can think of, the Bible says Jesus made as if he would have gone farther.
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He may have just passed them right up in the boat or walked right past the house on the road to a mess, and you think, why would the Lord pass the believers up?
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He wanted them to invite him in.
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That's right.
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And if I don't take the time to get to my tower, Greg, every day and seek his face, he's not going to force me up there.
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He seeks our face.
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Exactly.
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Well, you that goes back to my verse as well.
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Yes.
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We're vessels of God, right?
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We have to empty ourselves of self to be filled with his work and to do what he wants us to do.
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Amen.
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Every day.
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So my verse, and it uh sort of puts a bow on all this, is 1 Corinthians 3 13, the Bible says, Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it.
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You know, that's talking about the day of the judgment seat of Christ, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
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Fellas, here's what the Lord showed me in this.
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This society we live in is numbers-oriented.
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When I was in evangelism for five years, and I would tell folks about the churches I preached at, you know, one of the first questions they would always ask, how many are they running down there now?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm not saying they were evil for asking that, but in our mind we think you judge something by the size it is.
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We hope God blesses this podcast, but I think I speak for all of us.
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Our concern is not in view count.
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Now, the only reason we desire a lot of views is because we want to help more people, but view count and listener numbers and subscribers, if that is our entire goal and that's our metric, what happens today when we don't get as many?
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Exactly.
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Are we going to say we failed?
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Right.
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So this verse ends by saying the fire shall try ever men's work, not what size it is, but what sort it is.
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So my challenge to me, to you fellas, to you folks watching this, examine what you do for Christ and ask yourself this Am I doing it for the right reason?
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Sure.
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Amen.
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Because I believe more than ever that the judgment seat of Christ is not going to be about the size of the ministry we have, it's about the reason why we do it.
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Jesus said about the Pharisees, they have their reward.
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Exactly.
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Now, what did they desire, brother?
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What did they desire from the work?
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Numbers.
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Numbers.
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The applause of men.
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And Jesus said, that's all right, that's what they want, because they've got it.
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Can you imagine anything worse than that, Greg?
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I don't we you know, we talked about Noah, right?
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I don't look at Noah being a failure.
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Absolutely.
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Because the scripture says he his he had righteousness in God's eyes.
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Yeah.
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But some would claim a failure today, though.
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Yeah, they would look out at that.
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Now, if you look at that, I I think when we get there, I hope we I assume the world's center around and see this.
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And you're going to see people that think, oh, I've done all this.
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I mean, people know their name, they're famous preachers, you know, they've done all this, and some of their works get burned up.
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Yeah.
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But then you'll see somebody that nobody knows their name.
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And they got so many crowns that cast Jesus.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Nobody ever knows they exist, but God knows He knows what He's they're doing for him because of the motive they're doing it with.
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We'll be surprised who gets the crowns.
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That's right.
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I don't want to get personal, but Greg, you shared with me about a couple that used to bring you to churches when you were a child.
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Yeah.
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Now I didn't know those people before you told me about them.
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I've never seen them, but I'd say they've got some crowns coming.
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Whatever fruit you get from this ministry, they're going to have a part in those crowns.
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Sure.
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And you, and you, and you, and you watching.
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And that that's what this verse says.
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Our works will be tried, not how big they are, but what sort they are.
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By our hearts.
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Yes, sir.
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By our hearts.
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Well, I think my little old mama, you know, I'm a mama's boy.
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Yeah.
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And she raised me, raised me and my twin sister, my other sister, by herself.
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Yeah.
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And I've told this story, and you all know it.
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But I was I was rowdy.
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Second worst in the church, apparently.
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Behind Greg.
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But I would come in and go right back out the door, and the preacher would hold even hold me at the door just to keep me in the church house.
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And she kept bringing me and kept bringing me and kept bringing me.
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And she kept telling me about God.
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I would not be where I am today if it had been not for her.
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You think about the crown she's going to have.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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Of course, you know, people say, well, I'm going to ask this or I'm going to ask that when I get to.
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I think we'll we'll we'll know upon being in heaven, we'll be Christ will make the word known to us and everything, but but we're immediately going to have all those archives just embedded into us.
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Everything we see in here will be the greatest thing we have.
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Just as if we were Him, we'd we'll have those archives and we'll know the why and the and the how and and but like but like you said, there that's going to be the truth, brother.
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Yeah.
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Everything we see in here said that's the greatest thing ever.
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What's the verse, Brad, about many will have much that what what's that verse?
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How's that verse go?
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You know what I'm trying the ver the verse I'm trying to give?
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I I I think I do.
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Um what is it possible?
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The one that's you're talking about the one that said we've done this in thy name and this in thy name?
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That no, that's uh that's a that's another one.
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Uh trying to think of where it's where it's even at.
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I can't think at the moment.
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But the key is the heart to it, the the the why we do what we do, even to the point of why do we show up here to do this part of the best.
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Sure.
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I once had a preacher tell me, he said, before he's a preacher, he said, I was working, I was doing everything.
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Work, work, work, work, work.
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He said, I have no peace and joy in my salvation at all.
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And then he talked to a preacher and he said he realized.
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He forgot who he's doing it for.
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That's it.
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That's putting Christ in his place.
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Amen.
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Well, fellas, I've enjoyed this.
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I thank the Lord speaking to us through his word.
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And um, we want to encourage you, uh, if you've got a favorite passage of scripture you'd like to share with us, send us an email.
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Tell us about the passage that God's spoken to you about, and uh, we'd like to be blessed from hearing about some of your favorite verses.
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And uh, as we try to do every week, I want to just remind you that this is all for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And if you don't know him as your Savior, you can know him today.
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Um, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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That's our prayer for you.
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Amen.
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We appreciate you being with us this week.
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Hope you'll tune next time.
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And as we conclude here, I'd like to ask Brother Adam Latham to close in a word of prayer.
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Let's pray.
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Father, we love you, and we just thank you, Lord, for this opportunity just to be in the fellowship with each other tonight, dear Lord, and just uh dive into your word, dear Lord, and I just pray that you just uh help to find lodging in our hearts, dear Lord, just speak to us through it in the days ahead.
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Just help us to be a better witness and Christian for you.
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I just pray that we'd be drawn to yourself in these days.
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Help us to seek your face, dear Lord, and just to see you high and lifted up.
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And that uh our main purpose here just be the preaching and teaching of the Lord Jesus and the exaltation of his name.
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I do pray for the ones that might have listened tonight, dear Lord, that need you.
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I pray, dear Lord, if they need to be saved, they'll just call upon you and receive you before it's everlasting too late.
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Thank you for your love and mercy upon us, Lord.
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Thank you for your faithfulness to us.
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Thank you for being our risen living Lord tonight.
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And we just want to tell you we love you, Lord.
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Just help us to be more obedient in the days ahead, Lord.
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Just have our lives to count for you in these days.
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In Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Brad, do you want to give the uh email address?
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Yes, you can reach us by email at leadus316 at gmail.com.
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That's L-E-A-D-U-S 316 at gmail.com.
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We'd love to hear from you.
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Thank you.