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Sometimes what you see, destroys what you thought you had
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Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
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You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
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We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
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cross. Now let's join the service.
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Good to be here tonight. Would y'all turn?
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Somebody turn the lights on in the nursery please, in case the
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visitor there need it and get to have them tonight.
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Heavy Bibles going to be in John chapter 16.
John 16 chapter mention
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Galatians 3 and Galatians 4 had this thought a while back and
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you know, I'm getting to the age if I don't write them down or
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put them in my notes on my phone or forget the thought.
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You ever do that? I was like, man, I thought
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something good the other day and now I just got to remember it so
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I can preach on it. But I was looking through some
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notes and I found this and I begin to recall the setting that
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I received it in. And I titled this tonight.
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Sometimes what you see destroys what you thought you had.
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Can I say that again that that let that sink in.
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Sometimes what you see with these eyes, it can destroy what
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you thought you had anybody ever been there in a relationship and
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a job and career, whatever it is.
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But you know, I was looking around when the Lord give me
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this thought and I was looking at some calves.
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Cattle prices are really good. And I was looking at some calves
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and thinking about how thankful I was for what they was going to
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bring when I sold them because I've, I've sold some.
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It didn't do very well in past years.
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But I begin to looking at the caves and thinking about how
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they were going to do good at market and bringing over 5-6
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dollars a pound. And then I begin to look around
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at the rest of them. I thought, you know, I had some
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of these cows a while. Some of them is getting old and
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they wear out. Tay man.
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And while I was looking at this, I just begin to think about that
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sometimes what you see can destroy what you thought you
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had. We know it's so true in this
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life. But you know, when we look at
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that, when I looked at that cow, I thought, you know, without
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that cow, I don't have that calf because it wouldn't be here.
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She wouldn't nurture it. She wouldn't raise it.
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It just it wouldn't be possible. So in the near future, I got to
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start replacing some of those things or what I thought I had
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can begin to crumble. God give me that thought.
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And then I did. And then I turned it right to
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the spiritual. What we see destroys what we
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thought we had. You know, I know when I was in
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the drilling business for a lot of years and doing those things,
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I look around, I'd have some new equipment, new things, and all
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of a sudden, three years later, you're looking at, man, where
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did it go? It's wore out.
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I got to replace it. I got to, I got to get new to
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keep rolling. And that's the way it is
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spiritually. Because see, when trials of
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sickness come and financial struggles, job problems, anybody
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got those broken relationships, friends that's betrayed you,
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anybody got those? A contract that's gone bad in a
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business deal, The list goes on and on.
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Vehicles breaking down that are out of warranty that cost
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thousands to fix today and for many it's the addiction that
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they thought they had under control a man and it begins to
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creep back up and I want to share some things tonight.
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This, this message is really real to me because sometimes
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what you see can destroy what you thought you had.
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I come in the other day and I told my wife, I said, I can't
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find this heifer and I went to look for and she's coming two
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years old. I've raised her up two years,
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got several of them I have. And she's about to have a calf
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in the near future and go down there and can't find her only to
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find her dead $3000 loss. And you know, my wife's going
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through those things that she's going through now with cancer
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and things. And she said, she said sometimes
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you feel like job, don't you? And I said we do in life, but we
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always know that we have a God that's working on the other end.
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And see this thought hit me. Sometimes what you see destroys
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what you thought you had. It can happen that way.
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In John chapter 16 and verse 25, Jesus said he was talking about
John 16 chapter mention
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overcoming the world. And in John 16 and 25, he says
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that these things I have spoken to you in figurative language,
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but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in
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figurative language. He had just got through telling
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the disciples that he was going to go away.
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And you know, I was reading that today and he said I'm going to
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go away. I've been with you for a little
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while, but I'm going to go away for a little while.
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It doesn't seem like a little while, but yet his time frame is
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different than ours. His day is 1000 years and he
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says I'm no longer going to speak to you like this.
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But I tell you plainly about the Father, in that day you will ask
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in my name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father
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for you. For the Father himself loves
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you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came
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forth from God. I came forth from the Father,
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and have come into the world again.
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And I leave the world, and I go to the Father.
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And his disciples said to him, See, now you're speaking plainly
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and using no figure of speech. Now we are sure that you know
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all things and have no need that anyone should question you.
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By this we believe that you come forth from God and Jesus
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answered them and he said, do you now believe verse 32 and the
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hour is coming and yes has now come, that you will be
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scattered. Each one of you, His own will
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leave me alone. And yet I am not alone because
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the Father is with me. You're not alone tonight.
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And in verse 33, he said these things.
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I have spoken to you. And this is a very powerful
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passage of Scripture because it is just as the promises of God.
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It is a truth of Scripture that Jesus said these things.
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I have spoken to you that I'm with you is what he was saying,
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and that you may have peace, but he automatically changes.
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And he said in the world which we live in today, in the world,
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you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer.
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I have overcome the world. What a promise.
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Say man, in this world, we will face trials, we will face
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tribulations, but we have overcome the world.
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I preached a message one time. The storm's blowing.
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What happens? Our faith walk must continue.
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We can't stop, we can't lay down, we can't quit.
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We will have tribulation, but be of good cheer because I have
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overcome the world. Let's go to Galatians chapter 3.
Galatians 3 chapter mention
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We're going to read some more about this Galatians chapter 3
Galatians 3 chapter mention
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and verse 26. Apostle Paul here was preaching
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on some things to the church. He was telling us some things.
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Galatians chapter 3 and verse 26, he says for you are all sons
Galatians 3 chapter mention
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of God, how? Through faith in Christ Jesus,
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for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on
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Christ. That's what water baptism is, is
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putting on Christ. Everything about it.
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There's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither slave nor free,
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there's neither male nor female boy.
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That rocks some people's world about women preachers, doesn't
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it? He said.
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When we put on Christ, we don't see those things.
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For you are all one in Christ. I like that we're all one in
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Christ. And if you are Christ, then
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you're Abraham's seed boy. This gets really good right
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here. And your heirs according to the
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promise, go read what he promised Abraham.
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I don't have time tonight, but it's a lot of blessings.
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It's a lot of it's a lot of great things.
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And in chapter 4 here, in verse 1, he says, now I say that the
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heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ from a slave,
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though he is master of all, he owns everything, but he's a
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child, right? He's a heir.
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He's referring to us here, but is under guardians and stewards
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until the time appointed by the father.
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What is that time until we grow, right?
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We're an heir of a lot of promises.
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We're a heir of a lot of things. Over 7000 promises in this Bible
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that we've been promised. And in verse 3 it says Even so
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we when we were children, we're in bondage under the elements of
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the world. Anybody remember when you was in
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your little Christian walk and you first started and and you
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were a you were a babe in Christ and you were still wondering how
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the thing work. But when the fullness of time
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had come. And what he's really referring
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to here is the babes that in Christ that were walking around
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under the law, right? And all the things that they
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could not keep. He said when the fullness of
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time, when you read that in the Bible, the fullness of time, it
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was the IT was the completed time designated by God, God that
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should elapsed before Jesus came, before the Son of God
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would come to the world and see God sent forth his son.
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It was God who acted. When we were under the law, we
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could not keep the law. Aren't you glad God acted?
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See, the law required. What did the law require us to
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do? It required man to act.
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It required us to do something. If we were still under the law
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today, a lot of Christians wouldn't make it.
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Amen. They wouldn't make it if we
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because they don't really want to do anything.
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But man could not keep the law, so Jesus came.
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Now we just have to have confidence in what he did at the
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cross. And so many people don't have
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confidence in what he did at the cross or they would have more
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faith in God. See we have to.
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I like the word confidence. To me it means confide in to
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walk in the newness of life what Jesus did at the cross, paying
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the penalty and freeing us. What an awesome God we serve.
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And in verse 6 here he goes on to say or read the rest of this.
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It says let's go to verse 4 Galatians 4 when the fullness of
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time had come, God sent forth his son born of a woman, born
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under the law to redeem those who were under the law that we
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might receive the adoption as sons.
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And because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his
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son where into our hearts. The Spirit of the Son lives
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within our hearts crying out ABBA Father.
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Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son and if a son
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and heir of God through Jesus Christ.
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We have many privileges as I preached Sunday about the Spirit
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and the gifts of the Spirit because see, we're his sons.
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And, you know, sometimes I think I get some looks on Sunday
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morning about, you know, the people that that does the way
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that I make some churches out to be ignorant of the things of
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God. I preach that y'all gather that
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sometimes that I, that I, that I feel like some churches are
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ignorant of the things of God. I, I had a call with a guy that
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a guy that I know a friend of mine and, and I was simply being
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truthful about what I preached on Sunday morning and got to
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talking about the gifts of the spirit and about people that
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have not heard that. And it's a huge charge.
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They go to way bigger than we are and do a lot of great
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things. And he said, I don't know that
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I've heard that mainstream denomination church doesn't
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preach on the gifts of the Spirit.
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And it's just, it's astounding to me that that, that that
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happens. But see when, when you realize
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that you are his Son, that God has sent forth his Spirit and
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it's been placed in our hearts because as we as we preach
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Sunday morning, no one can even say that Jesus is Lord, except
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how by the Holy Spirit being within us, a portion of it.
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And as we realize that the Holy Spirit's in us, he says we can
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cry out ABBA Father, because we are his sons and the Holy Spirit
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has been sent to take up permanent residence within our
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hearts. Aren't you glad of that tonight?
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See, in the Aramaic, when they cried out ABBA Father, it was a
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close, trusting, intimate relationship with God.
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It was more than, you know, when your kid says, hey, dad, as I've
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said many times, and then they come up and they say, daddy, you
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know, they're in them. You know, they're wanting
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something more. They're wanting your time,
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probably your money, right? They're probably wanting some of
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those things. When they say, hey, daddy, and
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you know, we're like, I just want to be dad for a while.
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Let's forget about daddy. But God never does that, thank
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God, right? But we cry out ABBA Father.
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What happened when it becomes a close and trusting and intimate
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relationship with God and see what this means is that the Holy
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Spirit, because it's within us, it says we can't even cry out
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that Jesus is Lord without the Holy Spirit being within us.
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So that tells me we have a portion of the Holy Spirit and
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we begin to cry out ABBA Father, and we long for that trusting
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and intimate relationship with our heavenly Father.
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What happens? The Spirit is actually doing the
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crying, right? It's crying within us.
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The Bible talks about that. There's something within us.
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There's a hole how many tried to fill in the world.
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There was a hole that you could not feel.
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No matter how deep you win or what you did.
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You could not feel that hole with the worldly things until
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you found Jesus Christ. You were empty and alone.
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Why? Because the Spirit does the
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crying to the Father on our behalf.
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You know, I begin to think about this so many people that that
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that pray and don't enter into a prayer language of the Holy
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Spirit. It's there.
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You just got to learn to walk in it.
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Praying in tongues is evidence of this crying to have a father
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because there's something in you that's crying out repeatedly.
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And we cry out to the Father in Romans 8 and 26 says that when
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we know what, not what we ought to pray, the Spirit intercedes
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for us and makes intercession with groanings that we can't
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even express. So don't grieve it, just receive
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it. Don't worry about or pay
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attention to the sound. Just cry out to God.
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Just cry out, ABBA. Father, let the Holy Spirit cry
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out. If there's anything that's
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lacking in our churches today and in our homes today, and we
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need fixes today in every area of our life, it's because of our
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lack of simply crying out. Amen.
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You're the problems we have. God can fix them, but it's on
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his time frame, right? We just have to cry out to God
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on a daily basis. And when we do, it says that
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we're no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir of
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God through Jesus Christ. But what I see and what you see
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and what many people see, it only destroys what we thought we
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had. You know, I was reading this
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today and the Holy Spirit just flooded my heart with this
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because there's so many people that get saved and they've
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they're told they're saved. They pray the sinner's prayer
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and then they walk out into a cruel world.
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And, and many of the churches are just watching on our many
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Christians. Let me not say churches are
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watching on for them to fail. Anybody ever felt like that when
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you was a young Christian? Many of us have to think back a
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long time ago. And then when you do fail, you
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had condemnation. Everything that you wanted to do
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was fun, fun. And everything that was fun, the
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church said you couldn't do. So you begin to battle in your
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mind, right? And you begin to to weigh those
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options and what you could see destroyed what you thought you
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had. And then you would step out and
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you couldn't do what you heard being preached.
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You couldn't do what was being read in the Bible and what you
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were reading. And it destroys what we think we
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have many times. And Satan has become the master
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of this. He destroys everything that we
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think we have because we're looking with the fleshly eyes.
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Ever heard anybody say, well, when I see it, I'll believe how
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many found out? That does not work spiritually.
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You got to believe it before you see it.
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But many take that as a truth. Well, if God would just do it
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and I could see it, I would believe it.
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Keep watching because you're probably not going to see it.
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Amen. Because God is a faith God, and
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He does not change the principle of faith for anyone.
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But see, when you realize that you're a heir to things that you
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can't see, we just read that we're heirs and joint heirs with
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Christ, but we can't see heaven, right?
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But yet we're an heir to it. We can't see the promise of the
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Holy Spirit until we receive it and hear the mighty rushing wind
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coming through the through our life.
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But I'm an heir and a joint heir with Christ.
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Let's go to 2nd Corinthians 5 and 7, 2nd Corinthians chapter 5
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and and verse 6. I'm going to start in six.
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It says so we are always confident knowing that while we
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are at home in the body, you know, a lot of people are at
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home in the body. They think it's their home
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forever. We're absent from the Lord while
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we're at home in the body. You ever had that that just that
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just hit me today. While I'm in this body, I'm
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absent from the Lord, but yeah, we spend it in our entire life
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trying to stay in this body right.
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I envy the old people that didn't have doctors back then.
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I really do. I envy him.
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You lived your days out When God got ready, he called you home.
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You didn't You know we go through a lot of pain today.
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I believe because we don't just live our lifeout.
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We've changed a lot of things. Landry could bout she when my
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wife the other day to the reconstructive surgeon and my
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wife said about made her sick to see a lady's face that come in
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there and her lips were all pooched out and there.
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I guess that was the deal and she was worried about when she
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could put her lipstick back on. I don't know about you all but a
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busted lip hurts me. I'm not going to go get my lips
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cut on to affect the way that I look.
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You can go up there. You see some crazy things.
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You know, I, I fear for a lot of those folks because when they
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get to heaven, God may not recognize them.
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That's not what I created. Who are you?
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Just a thought. I know He can recognize this.
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I know. But you know, we do things that
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God never meant for us to do, right?
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So while we're in this body said, we are always confident
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knowing that while we are at home in this body, we are absent
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from the Lord. What's the truth?
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Isn't it in verse 7 what I really want to preach to you
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tonight? When what you see to draw
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destroys what you thought you had?
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The problem's not with God. It's with us because we're
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seeing with the wrong eyes. Because right here at the
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apostle Paul says what he says. For we walk by faith.
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What is faith? The substance of what we're
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hoping for described in Hebrews, the evidence of what we cannot
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see. So we're walking somewhere we
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cannot see, right, Right. A lot of people have a lot of
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problem with this kind of walk because they want to see where
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they're going. But it says for we walk by, say
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it with me faith and not by sight.
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We are confident, yes, well, please, rather to be absent from
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the body is to be present with the Lord.
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What a promise. We walk by faith and not by
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sight. But sometimes what you see
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destroys what you thought you had.
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That's why I got to walk by faith and not by sight what I'm
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hoping for, but with that which I cannot see.
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And that gets confusing for a lot of people.
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But when what you see destroys what you thought you had, I want
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to give you a few points here. What to do #1 We must trust God,
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oversight. We must trust God, though we
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cannot see. And rely on God's Word instead
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of what we see, what we feel, what we think, and many times
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what we hear. Because a lot of people aren't
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hearing the voice of God. Because God will never
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contradict His word #2 we must learn to take action without
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full understanding. And we live in a world of
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understanding. Today we all are quiet, I said.
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We live in a world of understanding.
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If you don't understand something, what do you do?
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What? I'll say I'm in a different
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situation. Because if I got to understand
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what I preach to you and I Google it, could it be false?
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Can I preach Google and be a truthful preacher?
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So what I got to do? I got to pray what to preach and
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when I pray and God gives it to me, I can't Google it.
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I got to fast over it and I got to realize if what I heard was
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from God because I'm going to be judged on a higher level because
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I'm delivering it to more people a few times a week.
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I can't Google what I preach, but yet some of my friends are
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getting sermons Googled to them and it's a lot easier.
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It's not very stressful for though.
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They just that you can get them set up, you can get them Googled
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and and, but I do Google some things and usually the things I
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Google, they don't understand. We Googled about the coin that
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was in the fish's mouth one time, you know, Jerry said.
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I Googled that because I was preaching about the tithe is not
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about the 10th as much as it is about the coin in the fish's
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mouth, right? About obedience.
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And you need it when it's there and God's supplying your needs,
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right? And he said, Google said that
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it's not possible to go catch a fish out of a brook or a pond
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and there'll be a coin in his mouth.
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That's what it said, right? Jerry?
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I didn't Google what he did, but I just thought, I'm going to
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see. I'm going to see what this said
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when what you see, I want y'all to get this tonight.
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When what you see destroys what you thought you had because it's
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happened to me many times in my life going through some things
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Now you know when you when you know when you're when you're
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going through a trial and and you're preaching the gospel
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every week. Sister Linda said she battled
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every time she got up here and got this mic, somebody in her
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family got sick. And she said, I'm just going to
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wait a little while past her, you know, and you go to hearing
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these things about what's going to happen if you keep preaching
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the God, the devil just keeps poking.
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But see, I know that voice. I know that's not God.
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But when what you see destroys what you thought you had, Google
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says you're experiencing A profound, traumatic and often
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sudden dismantling, dismantling of your reality, a phenomenon
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sometimes called reality fragmentation.
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You know what I got out of that? You messed up.
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It's intense. It's traumatic.
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See, they're right. When what you see destroys what
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you thought you had, it's going to get intense.
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It's going to get traumatic in your life and it's isolating
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experience where your brain struggles to to reconcile boy
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like this. This will preach because many
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Christians are in this right here.
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Let me back up and read it again.
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When what you see destroys what you thought you had, Google says
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you're experiencing A profound, traumatic and often sudden
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dismantling of your reality that happened at salvation.
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Salvation isn't reality. Hey man, it's the truth.
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It's not a reality, your reality and trying to live real and to
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whatever you're trying to live real and to say you got to throw
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all that out when you are believing in something and a man
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that died 2000 years ago that made a blood covenant that can
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wipe away every sin you ever committed and cast it as far as
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E is from the West and bring peace to your life.
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Hey man, that's not reality. That was a sacrifice.
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But you're experiencing A profound, traumatic and often
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sudden dismantling of your reality, a phenomenon called, I
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can't say some of these words, reality fragmentation.
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It's intense, it's traumatic and an isolating experience where
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your brain struggles to reconcile past trust with
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present contradictory evidence. Can I explain that?
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What it's saying is you get so caught up in the traumatic and
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the sudden dismantling of your reality, and the enemy gets you
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to look at what you see and think that it's destroying what
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you had. And you got to back up and say,
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wait a minute, just like David did.
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He said, I killed a lion and a bear that was threatening my
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life. I can face this giant, I can
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whoop. I recall all the past victory.
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But see, the enemy wants to get your eye off of the past
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victories that God has done and make you think that God can't
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pull you through where you're at right now and it messes.
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You'll trust up. But when you begin to trust a
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God that's never failed, it shouldn't be hard.
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He's never failed. He's come through every time.
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But see, he reconciles the past trust our brain becomes unable
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to do that. I believe that's true for a lot
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of people. Grief for the future you thought
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you had, wasn't that true? Grief for the future you thought
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you had. We see this in marriages a lot.
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You know, the little petite lady that marries old great headed
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man that's got a fat wallet and they go to the funeral and they
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cry like they really loved him. Hello, I watched the show 1 time
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and you know what he did? He didn't leave her nothing.
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He had it all to his kids. She was grieving for the future
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that she thought she had, right? A lot of people are like that.
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They come to Jesus Christ because some preacher told him
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how he's going to make them rich and bless them, you know?
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And then they have grief for the future because it wasn't
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thought. It wasn't what they thought they
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had imagined, right? The safety you felt and the time
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you invested lost. That's what Google says.
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When what do you see destroys what you thought you had?
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Be careful on Google. You must learn to take action
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without full understanding, was the second point I made.
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Like walking in the dark. Anybody ever do that?
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I don't know why I'd do it. My kids are grown.
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I think I got in the habit of when these little babies try not
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to wake them up. And you know I try not to.
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I just don't like to be woke up when I do get to sleep.
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Hey man, do y'all. But some people don't care.
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They'll just walk in there. I think it's really rude, you
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know, cuz sleep is a special time for me cuz I don't get to
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do it a lot. But some people just walk in
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there. My wife's good at it.
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And I tell her, I tell us I respect when I come in at night
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and, you know, should we go to bed a different time?
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I said, I'll be really quiet. I walk around in the dark.
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I said in the morning you need something.
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You'll just flip the light on if you're up before me and just
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wake me all up. And I said, I said, let's have a
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little respect. You know what she said You
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should have went to bed earlier, but walking around in the dark,
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you ever done that? I do it all the time.
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I mean, I'll go in there, she's asleep, her bathroom doing I
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won't turn the lights on, brush my teeth in the dark.
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I might have a little night light on, but then when I leave
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there, I turn everything off and I don't like the light shining.
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And I'm I'm, I know where that counter is and I can follow that
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counter. See, I can follow that counter.
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It's dark, but I know where I'm going because I've been there
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before. I know where the door is at now.
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Sometime I may go because the door is shut.
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I may hit my head because the door is shut, but I know the
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door is there and I got to back up.
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That's the way I got it. I might have to back up and open
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the door and say, all right, Lord, what I need to do
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different. That door is shut.
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But I read a scripture that said just keep on knocking.
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Hey man. And as I keep on knocking, he
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said, the door can be open. But see, that's kind of like
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walking in the dark. You're holding on to the wall or
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the balance. You know that the doors there,
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you don't been through it many times.
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See, we must learn to take action without understanding.
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I may not know where I'm going, but I know he's leading the way,
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right? You don't have to know that.
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You don't have to know the future.
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You just have to know who holds the future.
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And, you know, sometimes they're stumbling blocks.
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You know, I was walking through there one night and I've been
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through that door many times, But my wife sitting this little
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chest out there, it's about that tall and it's got a corner like
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a razor blade, and it loves to catch little toes.
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You want to test where you're at spiritually?
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My son-in-law Ty, I thought he'd come a long way and he would
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stay at her house one night and he caught that thing.
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He said I had to repent. I said, brother, I caught it one
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time too. And I said, oh, thank you Jesus.
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It didn't break it. See, I never, I never knew.
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I never figured out what doing any good would to cuss
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something. It never did anything.
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But when I said thank you, Jesus said it didn't cut it off and it
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it felt like it just broke it in half.
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But see, it felt better when I said thank you Jesus instead of
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had I called it a blah, blah, blah, blah.
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That didn't do nothing. I ain't curt.
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You know, do you ever see anybody's have a custom fit
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today? And you think, man, I used to
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look like that, I used to act like that, but now the Holy
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Spirit's in me and I've learned to take action without full
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understanding and I don't have to do that no more.
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The third thing, focus on God's plan.
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People looking everywhere for God's plan.
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You know what His plan is to get you to heaven.
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That's God's ultimate plan. And the sad part, I ain't going
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to say it's the sad part. It is kind of sad because I want
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to go in the rapture. I want to see what the rapture's
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like. Hey, man, I want to go in the
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rapture. I don't want to go by the grave.
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But we don't get to choose. We don't get to set the way that
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we go, but focus on God's plan long term spiritual, his
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spiritual reality see is over our temporarily earthly
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challenges. He's much more focused on the
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future Scriptures full of examples of faith in God's word
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over rather than visible evidence.
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We love the evidence. What would have happened if Noah
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would have just simply said it never rained here?
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What would have happened? What would have happened?
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The fourth thing there would well, there would never been an
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ark. That creation might have been
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destroyed. We don't know what would have
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happened because Noah obeyed even in the midst of a place
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that had never reigned. Isn't that awesome?
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God spoke to him. What's God speaking to you
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tonight? Though it's never happened
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doesn't mean it can't happen to you #4 have confidence in God's
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promises even when the outcomes are not yet visible.
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We have to have confidence in God's outcome even when we don't
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see a way out. I'm going to recap these and see
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some of your writing. But when what you see destroys
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what you thought you had, you must trust oversight.
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Trust God oversight. Rely on God's Word instead of
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what you see, what you feel, or what you think.
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We must learn to take action without full understanding.
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We must focus #3 on God's plan, which is getting us to heaven,
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instead of our plans and what we can see.
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And #4 as you stand tonight, have confidence confiding God's
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promises even when the outcomes are not yet what visible.
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Trusting in the dark, knowing that God has a plan.
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I want to read the rest of that Second Corinthians as we close.
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I meant not Corinthians, Galatians and four and eight, it
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says, but then indeed, when you did not know God, anybody
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remember that time? It's been a long time for some
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of us. We did not know God.
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You serve those which by nature are not gods.
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But now after you have known God, or rather this got me today
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when I read this, or known by God.
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Isn't that awesome? After you have known God or
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rather or known by God. So he says it's the same thing
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there to know God. And when you know God, you're
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known by God. And then he asked this question.
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He says, Paul says, how is it that you turn again to the weak
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beggarly elements? But we're good at doing it time
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and again. When we begin to walk, when we
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begin to walk by what we see, when we begin to walk by sight
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and not by faith, we'll become weak and beggarly.
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To which you desire again to be in bondage.
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You observe days and months and seasons and years.
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Look what he said right here. He said I'm afraid for you, lest
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I have labored in vain. Thanks for listening to the
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Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true hope,
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peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus.
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