Faith When Life Is Murky - At The Movies Special Edition: The Chosen

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Hey, good morning, real life
church, excited to see you this

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morning.
I just want to invite you to

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stand to your feet as we get
ready to worship.

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And beyond that, I'm going to
invite you just to sing out

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today and just to clear these
words and sing directly to him

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today.
Does that sound good?

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Let's have some fun this.
Morning.

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I saw Satan.
Fall like lightning.

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I saw darkness.
Run for cover.

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But the miracle that I just
can't get over my name is

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registered in heaven.
I believe in signs and wonders.

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I have resurrection power still.
The miracle that I just can't

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get over.
My name is registered in heaven.

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My praise belongs to you
forever.

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Come on church and sing.
This is my testimony from death

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to life.
Because grace rewrote my story,

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I'll testify.
By Jesus Christ the righteous,

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I'm justified.
This is my testimony.

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This is my testimony.
Hey, man, is that your story

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today?
Let's keep singing.

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Come on, come together, sons and
daughters.

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Come together, Sons and
daughters bought with blood and

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washed in water.
Sing the praises of the Spirit,

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Son and Father.
Our God, we'll finish what he

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started.
Yes, our God, we'll finish what

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he started.
Oh, this is my testimony from

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death to life.
Because grace rewrote my story,

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I'll testify.
By Jesus Christ the righteous,

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I'm justified.
This is my testimony.

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This is my testimony.
All right, I invite you to

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declare this loud and proud
this.

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Morning.
If I'm not.

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Dead.
If I'm not dead, then you're not

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done.
Greater things are still to

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come.
Oh, I believe.

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If I'm not dead Then you're not
done.

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Greater things are still to
come.

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Oh, I believe.
Can't Sing.

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If I'm not dead, Then you're not
done.

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Greater things are still to
come.

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Oh, I believe.
If I'm not dead Then you're not

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done.
Greater things are still to

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come.
Oh, I believe I whip this up to

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him.
This is my testimony from death

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to life.
Because grace rewrote my story,

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I'll testify by Jesus Christ the
righteous, I'm justified.

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This is my testimony.
Oh, I'm alive.

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This is my testimony from.
Death to life.

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Because grace, we wrote my
story.

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I testify by Jesus Christ the
righteous.

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I'm just about This is my
testimony.

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This is my testimony.
Come on, real life, is that your

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story today?
Is that a testimony that you can

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declare?
Well, so I just invite you with

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your hands and with your voice
and with everything you got.

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Can you just give him all the
praise this morning, all the

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glory?
Come on, we've got a reason to

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sing.
Amen.

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Amen.
Give him some praises this

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morning.
And that is my story.

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I hope that is your story, that
God has a big story for your

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life and He came from death to
life for you and that work was

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finished on the cross, but it's
not finished in our life.

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He has an active and living work
in our life, so let's praise

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Him.
The cross is my beginning, the

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line drawn in the sand, the end
of all my striving.

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Now I am born again there.
Jesus was forsaken, so I will

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never be.
His grace is my salvation, the

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gift of God, the work of
Calvary.

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It is done, it is finished, and
Christ has won.

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He is risen.
Grace is here and love is

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triumphed.
All over, dead forever.

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The cross needs no addition.
His mercy is complete.

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His love is not in question.
The Son of God has spoken over

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me.
It is night, it is finished.

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Christ comes one, He is risen.
Grace is here and love is

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triumphed over day forever.
Over every circumstance His word

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stands final and forever.
It will not be shaken as He

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alone as one in all.
You believe it.

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The strongholds are bowing to
the Savior and resurrection

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power over every circle.
Sometimes in the world stands

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final in forever.
It will not be shaken.

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Is He alone as one it all?
It is done, it is finished, and

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Christ has won.
He is reason and grace is here.

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Love is triumphed over, dead
forever.

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Give his fingers the mercy
world.

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Not forgiven seeing his name.
He is worthy of our prayer.

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Jesus Mercy one, because we'll
sing your praise forever.

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Come on, let him know you love
him this morning.

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That's right.
We serve our God.

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He says it is finished, the
freedom that's found in now that

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it is finished because of the
work he did on the cross.

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And man, this morning, I believe
that God has something for you

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even right now.
It's amazing what happens when

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the atmosphere shifts, when you
just invite the Holy Spirit to

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be here with us.
And he always is.

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But just to say, God, we welcome
you here.

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And it doesn't just have to be
on a Sunday morning, but to

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invite him into your
relationship and to your car

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ride, to work and to your
friendships, but to say God,

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you're welcome here.
And just to see how he changes

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things when you invite him here.
We're going to do that this

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morning as we just continue to
worship Him.

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There's nothing worth more that
will ever come close.

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Nothing can compare.
You're.

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Our living home, your present
Lord, and I've tasted any seed

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of the sweetest of loves, where
my heart becomes free and my

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shame is on time.
In your presence, Lord Holy

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Spirit, you are welcome.
Come fly to this place and fill

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the atmosphere.
Your glory, God, is what our

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hearts old to be overcome by.
Your presence, Lord.

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Yes, here in your presence,
Lord, there's nothing worth more

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that will ever come close.
The thing can compare.

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You're our living hope.
Is your presence lose?

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I've tasted a scene of the
sweetest of the loves, where my

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heart becomes free and my shame
is on and done.

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Yes, it is in your presence,
Holy Spirit.

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Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, you
are well calm Confle to this

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place and fill the eyes
atmosphere Your glory God is put

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our hearts along to be overcome
by your presence alone.

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Holy Spirit, You are welcome
comfort in this place and fill

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the atmosphere.
Your glory God is what our

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hearts alone to be overcome by
your presence alone.

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Yes, it's your presence.
I want to know you, Jesus, want

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to be overwhelmed by you Jesus,
go

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away if your presence.
Let us experience the glory of

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your goodness.
Let us become more aware of your

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presence.
Let us experience the glory of

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your goodness.
Let us become.

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More aware of Your presence.
Let us experience the glory of

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Your goodness all day.
Let us be calm.

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You're aware of your presence,
Let us experience the glory of

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Your birthday.
Move what you want.

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To do you.
Come by you, Jesus.

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Fill this place with your
presence,

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the Holy Spirit.
You are welcome comfort of this

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place and fill the atmosphere.
Your glory card is what our

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hearts long to be overcome by.
Your praises Lord.

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It's your praises, Lord, Do it
only you.

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Let us become more aware of your
presence.

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Let us experience the glory of
Your goodness.

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Let us become more aware of your
presence.

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Let us experience the glory of
Your goodness.

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Holy Spirit, we're in all of you
today and we just, it's just

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insane that you would just
bestow your presence upon us,

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God.
We're just so unworthy and just

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make so many decisions and do so
many things that take us so far

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from you, God.
But you love us anyway.

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And you're here with us this
morning, God, and we're just in

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awe of that.
And we're grateful for that God.

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God just I pray your presence
just stays in this place today,

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God, and that we're just so
tuned in and locked into you,

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God, that your thoughts become
our thoughts and your words

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become our words, and your heart
becomes our heart.

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God, we just thank you for who
you are, who you've been, and

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who you will always be.
To the name of Jesus we pray A.

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Man.
Good morning real life church

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man, thank you so much for
worshiping with us today.

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Man, just love hearing your
voices just crying out to God

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and man what a great start to
our day.

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Help me real quick welcoming an
amazing group of people hanging

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out with us online, Real life
church online.

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Can they hear you today?
Will you make them feel super

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welcome?
Hey man, love you guys.

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Hey, before you sit 30 seconds,
greet someone around you.

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Maybe even learn a new name
today.

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Go for it. 30 seconds.
After the gathering, if you'll

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just line up orderly in the hub,
there will be a quiz on all the

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names you learned and people you
met.

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So please stick around.
And I'm just kidding, that's not

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true.
But hey, thanks for connecting,

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thanks for being here.
Awesome to see you today.

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Real quick shout out, real
heartfelt shout out to anybody

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who's brand new with us at Real
Life Church this week.

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I want you to know we've been
thinking about you.

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We've been praying for you.
We've been prepping for your

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visit and just planning on you
being here here.

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Everything that has happened to
turn this this school into a

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church is with you in mind and
we're honored to have you here.

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And so I'm just going to ask one
small thing from you.

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If you're brand new with us
today, if you've never done this

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before, fill out that card
that's on your seat.

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And I promise you, nothing
weird.

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Nobody shows up at your door,
calls you or spams your phone or

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anything like that.
We just really think of it like

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this.
We just want you to introduce

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yourself to us and we just want
you to know that we're here to

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answer any questions and would
love just to.

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Get to know you more at whatever
speed feels comfortable to you.

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Fill that out during the
gathering.

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You got plenty of time today.
And then just hold on to that

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and we'll tell you later in the
gathering about where that card

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will end up.
So just seriously welcome.

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Honored to have you here.
You're a very special guest.

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Thanks for hanging out with us
today, guys.

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Real life church is a church on
a mission.

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The reason that we set up and do
all the things and just really

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want to connect with you is
because we're church on a

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mission.
Real life church exists to see

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people far from God discover
their real life and purpose in

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Jesus.
And we believe that each and

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every week God is changing
lives, hearts are being changed,

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relationships restored.
Just so many cool things have

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happened throughout the life of
this church.

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And that's not on accidents
because we're we're so serious

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and heartfelt about our mission.
And so thanks for playing a part

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of that mission.
You play a part when you just

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tell people about how God's been
working in your life.

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You play a part in the mission
when you to invite friends and

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family, neighbors and coworkers
just to come hang out with you

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here real life on a Sunday
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So thanks for playing a part of
that.

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And if you haven't been, hey,
perfect time to start doing that

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right now.
Quick question, did you enjoy

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your summer life group?
Let's hear you loud.

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Come on, did you enjoy your life
group?

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Yeah, I did too.
It was awesome.

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And I'm excited because you know
that those wrapped up here not

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too long ago.
But man, be thinking about Fall

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Life Groups because they're
coming sooner than we think.

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In fact, I'm excited to announce
that August 24th sign ups for

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Fall Life Groups go live.
Does that sound cool?

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Yeah, you should be excited.
I'm excited too.

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Just a quick thought.
You probably heard it before,

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but I think it's one of those
things you can't hear too many

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times.
You know, life groups are not

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just an offering of real life
church, not just like a program

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or things we do.
Real life church is a church

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that's made-up of life groups.
Does that make sense?

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Like just the heart of that?
Life groups are where you really

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dive in and find that community.
It's where you really meet

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people heart to heart.
A lot of soul care in life

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groups, a lot of life's change,
a lot of healing found in life

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groups, a lot of fun, dare I
say, found in life groups.

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So I highly encourage you, if
you've never done it before,

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you've heard people talk about
it, you know, maybe, maybe it's

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been the 5th, 6th or 7th time
you've heard it.

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Can I just encourage you don't
make a decision today, but just

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pray and pray hard about what
God would have you do for fall

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life groups.
How, how, how you play a part in

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that.
Because I promise you it's going

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to change your life in a great
way, maybe a small way, but it's

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going to be a great way.
And I just really encourage you

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to be praying about that.
Start that now.

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I think it's a Sunday, August
24th, probably a Sunday, sign

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ups will go live.
So there you go.

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Look out for that man.
I got some bummer news, though.

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That was the exciting news.
Here's some bummer news, though,

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in a little way.
This is our last Sunday of at

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the movies.
Everybody say, oh, I know,

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right, But hey, you know what,
we're going to do it up big and

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we're going to have fun.
If you're brand new and you

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don't really know what at the
movies is it's church, which is

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done in a in a little bit of a
different way.

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You're going to see some really
cool people coming down the

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aisles here trying to make this
feel like the movies.

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You probably smelt it when you
came in that fresh pop popcorn.

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Amazing.
But I just want to encourage you

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with this.
Today's message is going to just

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light a fire in you.
It's going to be encouraging and

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uplifting and you're just going
to leave here on fire for Jesus.

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And so before we get in into it,
I want you to know, as our

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ushers come down, they've got
soda, they've got bottled water,

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and they've got popcorn, and it
is all yours for the taking.

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It's completely free.
It's completely on the House.

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No one's going to judge you for
whatever you pick, OK?

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So if you want the full flavor,
Doctor Pepper, you take it this

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morning, OK?
You have my permission.

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Eat the popcorn, have fun and
enjoy.

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And without further ado, you're
going to help me welcome the

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stage.
Pastor Sean Petri, give it up

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real life.
Come on.

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Good morning, real life.
How you doing?

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Good.
Good man.

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I'm excited for today.
First of all, if we jump in

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though, something special is
coming next month.

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You may not know this.
There's a birthday coming up.

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Real life turns 8 years old next
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Come on, somebody.
Is that crazy?

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Eight years.
That's awesome.

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So I want you to mark your
calendars.

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This is special for the Dream
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We're going to do something
really fun.

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We were going to do a Dream Team
birthday bonfire.

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So if you guys serve on the
team, you guys give you guys

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make the difference.
I want you guys come out.

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We're going to do something very
special.

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I'm not sure how we're going to
pull us off yet, but a full pig

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roast.
Come on, somebody.

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So I need some victims of some
volunteers to stay up the whole

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time to make this happen.
I'm just kidding.

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No really do so but it's gonna
be awesome so I'm excited it's

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gonna be hosted at Jerrys house,
Jerry and Lee and Kinman and

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it's going to be awesome.
So I can't believe it's been 8

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years already.
So many lives being changed and

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we'll get to shot in the arm the
stories and really the vision of

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what God is going to do in this
next season.

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So Week 5 at the movies, the
last week.

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Bummer, but it's gonna be a good
Sunday.

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So I love this series.
So today is dedicated to those

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of us that struggle knowing
God's will.

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What direction should I go?
If you're confused in the season

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of why God and where God and
what's got up to you, or maybe

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you asked by God to do something
and you don't know why God is

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asking you to do it.
That often happens and you

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follow God.
God asks us to do sometimes

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strange things, but this is good
news.

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You're gonna find out.
You're not alone.

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We have some awesome scripture
walk through the triumphal entry

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and this message really entitled
Faith When life is murky and it

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often gets murky.
Amen.

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Amen.
If it's not murky, you let me

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know.
You can come up here and preach.

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OK, This is always kind of
murky, but they were jumping.

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This is the chosen.
It's going to be season 5,

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episode 1 called Entry.
Check it out.

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Guitars.
I was like, this is awesome

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music, right?
Oh man, the triumphal entry.

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This is in scripture.
Matter of fact, this isn't just

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found in one piece of the Bible.
This is actually found in four

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places in the Bible, Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John.

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And this scripture is is so
powerful and often times we

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breeze by it and it's amazing.
This might be the only scripture

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actually fitting for a king you
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So we're going to jump into John
chapter 12 and it says this.

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The next day the great crowd
that had come for the festival

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is talking about the Sabbath,
heard that Jesus was on his way

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to Jerusalem.
They took palm branches and went

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out to meet him, shouting,
Hosanna.

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Blessed is he who comes the name
of the Lord.

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Blessed is the king of Israel,
the king of Israel.

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Jesus found a young donkey and
sat on it as it was ridden.

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Do not be afraid, daughter.
Zion, His name for Jerusalem.

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See, your king is coming seated
on a donkey's Colts.

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And at first his disciples did
not.

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What's it say?
Did not, I did not understand

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all this.
Only after Jesus glorified did

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they realize that these things
have been written about him,

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that these things have been done
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And here's the big idea, as you
look at this Scripture, is that

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Jesus wants us to choose
compliance over clarity.

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Jesus wants us to choose
obedience over times of

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obscurity.
Even we don't have the answers.

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He wants us to follow him.
And you see his disciples, they

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didn't understand what was
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God wants us to follow him when
life is murky, when it doesn't

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make sense, you don't know where
to go, you don't know exactly

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what's happening.
And maybe you're in that season

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right now.
I know for me, this last few

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weeks has been kind of a real
murky season with my family and

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and faith.
My, my oldest stepbrother Chad

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passed away 2 Wednesdays ago at
44 years old and I had a heart

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attack working at Walmart in the
backroom.

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And it's just one of those
seasons like, OK, God, like what

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are you?
What are you up to?

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Like it's just all the words
that come to mind.

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Just, it's just so young.
Who knows?

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44 is young, right?
I mean, he's like, wow, like

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man, it was confusion.
It's murky.

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I've got family members that
wake up all night, just go on

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walks and the Independence
Police Department stops and what

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are you doing?
And, and the quote, I'm just

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walking through some pain.
Like you just don't know what's

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happening, like you're confused.
And that's been this season.

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And one of the things that you
learn as you walk with Jesus is

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that we can trust the master and
not our own master plan.

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Amen.
That we don't have to hold the

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pin to everything now.
We like to have the master plan.

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Amen.
We like having all the details.

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We like to have it organized.
We want to want to know what's

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next.
We want to know the season

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that's coming and why we're in
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We often tell Jesus, I trust you
with the contract of my life as

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long as I can hold the pin.
Amen.

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This is usually how we operate.
Like we don't like Jesus

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necessarily being the architect,
but we like them being control.

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It's easy.
We're like we're desperate for

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clarity in the midst of
confusion, like in our faith.

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Can we follow Jesus in confusion
like this confusion play a part

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of faith?
What happens if we don't have

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the answers?
And so if you look at this

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episode, it's pretty unique
because there's so many things

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straight from Scripture.
You see, not the electric

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guitars come on somebody right,
but the palm leaves being put

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down, the clothes being put
down, him riding on a donkey.

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You have them shouting Hosanna,
which means save now all these

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things are found in scripture
and the chosen is really

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interesting because it does some
awesome things with some artwork

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with some imagination.
They they take some items and

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they they show off some things
of God.

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They do some things in this
scene you may not know about

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that nod to really Jesus being
king.

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There's a bridle that's on this
donkey that they believe

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historically has been passed
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So this is in the Jewish
culture, the Jewish people and

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end up with King David in the
past on all through generations

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and they put it on this donkey
in this scene and it's really

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amazing.
You think about King David

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because Jesus really comes out
lineage of King David.

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You have Joseph that really
comes from there that proves

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Jesus lineage as a king and then
Mary whose lineages proves that

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Jesus the right bloodline.
And so it's really cool the

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chosen this does this extra work
to put in these little pieces so

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we can really recognize who
Jesus is.

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Now you never know that without
researching it, but it's just

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amazing.
I give a nod to the Bible.

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What happens in the triumphal
entry?

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Jesus gets into the city and the
Pharisees that tell Jesus you

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need to tell your disciples and
the people following you and the

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children to stop praising you.
And what does Jesus tell those

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Pharisees?
You guys remember if they don't

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praise me, even the there you
go.

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I knew you guys knew it.
The rocks will cry out.

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If they don't worship me, even
the rocks will cry out.

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It's amazing.
This is a big moment.

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This is a massive moment.
Jesus sets up everything.

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He this exact time, the exact
place where it happens, when it

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happens.
It's not a mistake.

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There's a Old Testament or a New
Testament historian.

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He's really just a secular
Jewish historian in the 1st

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century named Josephus.
And he estimated that the time

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of the triumphal entry, when
Jesus goes in Jerusalem, there

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have been 2.7 million people
that Jesus was proclaiming that

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he was king too.
It's pretty amazing.

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It's not actually what Jesus
doing here.

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This is the first time he's
going public with who he is.

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He's telling the whole world, I
am a king, I am Messiah, I'm

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here, I have arrived.
A few weeks ago we talked about

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the woman at the well.
And remember, he was the first

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person that she, he revealed to
that he was the Messiah.

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He did in private.
And now Jesus is proclaiming to

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the entire world that he is the
King of kings and Lord of Lords,

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and he's telling everybody.
I think it's, I think the Holy

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Spirit's coming today.
They're pretty good.

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That's amazing.
He's telling the whole world

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that he is the King of kings and
the Lord of Lords.

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I mean, his popularity had
increased.

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He was a threat to really the
Pharisees and the system that

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have been set up that that
pretended to know who God was,

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but they really know who Jesus
was, who God was.

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And so he resurrected Lazarus
from the dead.

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We talked about that last week
about Martha, Mary and Lazarus.

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And his popularity is absolutely
huge.

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And he's allowing something to
happen here.

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That may be the most typical
thing ever to happen in Jesus's

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lifetime that pictured who he
truly was.

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He actually allowed himself to
have a royal parade.

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Think about that.
Like Jesus is this humble

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servant.
He owns no property, he never

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gets married, he doesn't have
kids, He's outcast from society.

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If people are trying to kill him
for what he stands for, his

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claims to be God and forgiving
sins and all these things is God

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is being mistreated by humanity.
But here in this moment, Jesus

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just gives a little nod.
I'd do who he is and say, yeah,

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put a parade on for me, get the
donkey, get the things and

456
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,199
worship who I am.
It's absolutely amazing.

457
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:51,960
But you think about this parade,
it's kind of weird because

458
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,920
everything makes sense except
for the donkey.

459
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,800
Like if you were a king of
kings, you wouldn't come right

460
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,440
in a donkey might be coming in
some rusted beat up truck down

461
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,280
the parade, right?
I'm you get the white stallion,

462
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,600
maybe an elephant or some ornate
camel decorated or something.

463
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,960
But who in the world to pick a
donkey?

464
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,640
This is what Jesus does.
And the disciples are confused.

465
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,280
And it said this in John 1216.
We read Abednego is at first his

466
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:21,440
disciples did not understand all
this.

467
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,480
That's good news, Amen.
That's good news for us because

468
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,560
often times we don't understand
what the guy's doing.

469
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,480
Oftentimes, like I don't know
why in the world I'm getting a

470
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,880
donkey and you're coming into
Jerusalem.

471
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,040
This makes no sense.
And it says they didn't know

472
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,280
until it was glorified.
Think about when Jesus

473
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,760
glorified.
You're talking about death,

474
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,800
burial, resurrection, sighting,
and then Jesus glorified.

475
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,640
Like they had no idea what the
plan of God was.

476
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,320
And oftentimes we want the
answers, but we don't have the

477
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,560
answers.
The key disciples was this.

478
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,880
Even though they didn't have
clarity, they still chose

479
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,720
obedience.
They still followed Jesus.

480
00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,520
Amen.
Even though they didn't have the

481
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,920
next step or the master plan,
they still chose Jesus.

482
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,720
Think about this, you can follow
the master without the master

483
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,120
plan.
Amen.

484
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,520
You know, often times you want
to have all those steps and

485
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,480
those things, but that's what
makes him God.

486
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,040
He holds the keys.
So what things did not did not

487
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,720
understand.
It's found in Matthew 21 says

488
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,920
this about disciples since as
they approached Jerusalem they

489
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,040
came to Bethpage on the Mount of
Olives and Jesus sent 2

490
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,920
disciples saying to them, go to
the village ahead of you and at

491
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:32,400
once you'll find a donkey tied
there in her colt by her.

492
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,600
Untie them, bring them to me and
if anyone says anything to you

493
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,840
this is amazing, Say that the
Lord needs them and he will send

494
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,400
them right away.
Think how crazy this request is.

495
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,560
This be like going down because
the Lord told you to to the the

496
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,120
next city, which let's call
peculiar.

497
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,520
That's an awesome name for this,
right.

498
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,920
And you go down to the Flying J.
There's interesting characters

499
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,000
of the Flying J, right?
And you're and you're gonna go

500
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,800
in and you're gonna look for two
cars, right?

501
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,960
And you're gonna say I need the
keys to the cars.

502
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,800
And maybe it like we're keeping
animals, right?

503
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,800
We'll do a Jaguar and a Mustang.
Come on somebody right?

504
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,360
And you just go tell them, don't
you?

505
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,800
I want you guys to try this
today.

506
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,960
And so I I need the keys to your
car.

507
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,720
And they say what in the world
you talking about?

508
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,560
The Lord needs them.
The Lord needs.

509
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,080
I want to see you guys try that,
Amen.

510
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:22,720
The Lord needs your nice new
Tesla, Amen.

511
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,120
That means a lot of things the
Lord needs, you know, maybe it's

512
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,400
the Lord, maybe it's us, I don't
know.

513
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,200
And I just want to see, I mean,
think of the boldness and the

514
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,920
act of faith for his disciples
to literally go borrow somebody

515
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,160
else's Burrow.
Like I'm going to take your

516
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,920
animal because the Lord needs
it.

517
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,760
The trust of the Lord had a
plan.

518
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,200
It make no sense what God is
doing, but they did it anyway.

519
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,520
Amen.
They didn't understand the plan,

520
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:50,000
but they followed in obedience
what God had and often falling

521
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,400
God makes absolute no sense.
We, we saw this with Peter when

522
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,840
Jesus talked about going to the
cross and Peter says no, no, no,

523
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,680
no, no Jesus, like I'm not gonna
let you go to the cross, like

524
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,880
you're not going to die.
And so it says in Matthew 1622.

525
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,160
It says Peter took him being
Jesus aside.

526
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,920
It began to what, what's it say?
Rebuke him?

527
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,400
We we've used this verse quite
often for the will of God, like

528
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,840
Peter had no idea what God's
doing.

529
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,200
It begins to rebuke Jesus.
No, you know a clue like I know

530
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,680
you have a master plan, but my
plan is so much different than

531
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,600
your plan and we're going to
follow my plan.

532
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,600
He says never, Lord, he said
this will never happen to you.

533
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,320
Never go to the cross.
We'll never let you die.

534
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,280
And look what Jesus says to
Peter.

535
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,320
He says get behind me who get
behind me, Satan.

536
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,400
Like, that's not the word you
want to hear from Jesus behind

537
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,400
me.
Satan, you are a stumbling block

538
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,600
to me.
What's it mean to be a stumbling

539
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,560
block?
You're in the way.

540
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,000
Like you're tripping up the plan
of God.

541
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,080
You're you're trying to drive
the plan of God off course.

542
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,280
You don't have in mind the
concerns of God, but merely what

543
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,640
what's it say?
Yeah, human concerns.

544
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,600
You're worried about your plan.
And I got a plan.

545
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,640
And often times we want to run
our own play.

546
00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,000
And Peter, he just puts his foot
in his mouth.

547
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:06,400
And this is amazing.
Jesus was offended by Peter's

548
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,000
disobedience and defiance of the
plan that God had.

549
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,560
Jesus was offended by it.
And oftentimes we have our

550
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,840
master plan.
It's us saying that we're in

551
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,280
control.
Like I trust you as the master,

552
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,920
but as long as I have my way, as
long as I get my direction, as

553
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,880
long as I get the answers now,
as long as it makes sense.

554
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,120
But Peter unknown, like he
didn't know what you're talking

555
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,720
about.
Like we don't even know what

556
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:30,840
we're talking about.
We tell God to do certain

557
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,960
things.
So Peter, what he's ultimately

558
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,920
telling Jesus is that he wants
everybody to go to hell.

559
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,000
Like, Peter had no idea that
what Jesus had to do on that

560
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,840
cross.
Amen.

561
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,840
He had no idea that Jesus had to
take himself as a perfect

562
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,480
sacrifice, as a Lamb of God, and
present himself to the Father

563
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,680
and pour out the wrath of our
sin on him and be the permanent

564
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,720
perfect sacrifice for our sins.
Peter had no clue that was going

565
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:57,280
on.
And we don't know what's

566
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,040
happened either, do we?
We like to think we do.

567
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,720
Like I like to think in the next
step, but I don't know the next

568
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,480
step.
And ultimately what Jesus is

569
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,560
telling Peter is you have no
business getting in my business.

570
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,120
You have no business getting my
business.

571
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,080
You ever stepped in somebody's
business and they're like, you

572
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,320
didn't stay in your own
business.

573
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,520
This is what Jesus is telling
Peter.

574
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,160
Mind your own business.
Just stay in your own lane.

575
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,520
You don't know what you're
talking about, but Jesus knows

576
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:25,440
what he's doing.
Amen.

577
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,680
Jesus knows exactly what he's
doing, and it's so easy to take

578
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:30,800
control.
It's human nature.

579
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,200
Every single time.
If you look at my own family and

580
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,720
Lord, what's going on?
And I just have to simply trust.

581
00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,400
Like I can't see the full
picture, but Lord, I trust

582
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,960
you're writing a story that
you're close to us, like you're

583
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,680
in the valley.
There's certain things that

584
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,360
happen in the darkness.
Certain things happen with God.

585
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,520
It feels absent when you don't
know what's happening next.

586
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,440
And so I only encourage you guys
with some 3 truths.

587
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,800
I think it'd be super powerful
for you guys today, but three

588
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,560
truths, they're going to help
you stay close to God in the

589
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,960
murky moments.
So #1 if you're taking notes,

590
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,800
you guys ready?
Muscle confusion.

591
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,520
Somebody say muscle confusion.
Any anybody like workout people.

592
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,520
I saw Dan, by the way, do you
see Dan come down here, pass

593
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,680
some popcorn.
You know what I'm talking about.

594
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:13,880
I told him, I said, where's the
calendar?

595
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,760
Shoot, it looks like a
lumberjack.

596
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,360
You know, I thought, dude, I
need to start working out so I

597
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,320
can use that joke next time on
myself, you know, but but it can

598
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,280
be a while.
But muscle confusion.

599
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,680
You go work out.
And if you get in the same

600
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,560
routine and you do the same
workouts, the same rhythms and

601
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,080
the same reps and the same
practices over and over again,

602
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,640
what happens to you?
What happens?

603
00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:39,080
You plateau.
Exactly.

604
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,320
You absolutely plateau.
There's things called hit and

605
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,160
you know, intervals, all these
different things.

606
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,920
You try to confuse your body.
If you get in the same routines,

607
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,320
your body gets used to it and it
doesn't react, it doesn't grow

608
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,200
and you plateau.
You flat line you, you, you

609
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,480
don't move up, you just get
stuck.

610
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,320
And if you work with a trainer,
you, you know about working out,

611
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,320
They, they introduce all sorts
of random stuff that they put

612
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,200
variations in.
They make it random.

613
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,440
They put in confusion.
That's what's called muscle

614
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,440
confusion.
They introduce instability into

615
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,920
of your life and the new pattern
of your workout is actually not

616
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,200
to have a pattern.
Amen.

617
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,440
And this is what happens
physically, but what happens

618
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,560
spiritually.
Jesus often does the same thing

619
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,120
like he's not going to put you
through the same trial and the

620
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,760
same test and you can just go up
ace the test been here before.

621
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,960
I've got it figured out.
He's going to use confusion to

622
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,040
strengthen your faith, says in
James 1-2 says, consider it pure

623
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,120
joy, my brothers and sisters,
when you face trials of what,

624
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,480
what's it say?
Many kinds.

625
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,520
You're ever going to face it
just that one simple trial.

626
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,400
Then who got that?
Pass the test on the greatness.

627
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,600
I'll know the plan from here on
out.

628
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:47,800
It's going to work out really
well.

629
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,800
There's going to be all sorts of
different trials as God is

630
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,720
trying to what, grow you, Amen.
He's trying to get you a little

631
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,560
spiritual buffness.
He's trying to get you to

632
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,040
improve your faith, to grow in
your faith and says this

633
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,800
because, you know, the testing
your faith produces

634
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,760
perseverance, that every trial
we face is a test.

635
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,600
Amen.
I mean, you guys are old enough

636
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,600
to remember when the TV's used
to do certain things, like it's

637
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,840
only a task.
Remember that this is a test of

638
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,400
the American broadcast system.
You guys remember that?

639
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:19,720
Am I just that old?
Right?

640
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,880
All the young people like, huh?
T VS turned off.

641
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,000
Remember that you used to play a
national anthem.

642
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,760
Then they go, Yep, at midnight.
There you go, Tim.

643
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,280
You're a night owl, aren't you,
buddy?

644
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:41,800
I know, right?
It's a test.

645
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,840
It's a test.
Think about Jesus.

646
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,760
He very rarely did a miracle the
same way twice.

647
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,880
The thing about how you healed
people, I mean, sometimes he, he

648
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,320
would spill on the ground and
rub in their eyes, right?

649
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,560
And heal somebody's blind.
Other times you say he'll wash

650
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,480
in the pool.
Sometimes you say go down the

651
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,280
river and dip 7 times.
Sometimes you say stand, stand

652
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,720
up, take your mat and walk.
Sometimes he would let somebody

653
00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:04,800
die and then he'd resurrect
them.

654
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,560
I mean, he just, it's just
unique.

655
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,960
And we, we think that life is
giving the same variables, the

656
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,560
same problems, but God is trying
to grow our faith.

657
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,480
And so if you're confused, guess
what?

658
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:15,640
You're right where Jesus wants
you to be.

659
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,320
Amen, Amen.
I mean, if you, if I would be

660
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,920
concerned, if you weren't
confused a little bit, like if

661
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,120
you told me I know God's will,
which sometimes people come to

662
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,200
me and say I have the will of
God for your church and I'm

663
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,840
like, OK, it's probably the
Chipotle burrito, but we'll have

664
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,160
a conversation.
Amen.

665
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,320
It's interesting.
So 1 is muscle confusion and two

666
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,640
is unorthodox methods.
Somebody say unorthodox methods.

667
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,520
God is going to use strange
things to grow us.

668
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,120
God uses strange things, Amen.
Very strange things, quite

669
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,240
frankly, they are very strange.
Isaiah 55, eight says this for

670
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:54,960
my thoughts are not your
thoughts.

671
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,160
Drew tried to work this in the
prayer.

672
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,880
I saw that, but thoughts are not
my thoughts, neither your ways,

673
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,720
my ways, declares Lord, as the
heavens are higher than the

674
00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:05,360
earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts

675
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,320
are higher than your thoughts.
Who knows?

676
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,840
God can do what we can't do,
Amen.

677
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,880
And he knows that we don't,
Amen.

678
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,560
And so sometimes we like to
insert ourselves into the

679
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,840
driver's seat, but the Lord
knows everything and can do

680
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,160
anything.
But we often forget that kind of

681
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,960
power.
And so when you follow Jesus,

682
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,520
you got to use the word
different.

683
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,640
It's just different.
There's a different perspective.

684
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,320
There's a different direction,
there's a different way of doing

685
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,320
things and we grew up, we're
always war against our

686
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,720
childhood.
Come on, somebody we grew up

687
00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:39,360
saying these things or this kind
of add to this certain way and

688
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,040
and Jesus has a different way of
doing it.

689
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,000
He does unorthodox things.
Just think about all the things

690
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,960
just just ran things that Jesus
didn't take long to look at the

691
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,240
miracles of God.
Think about Moses and Jesus.

692
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:54,720
God speaks through what a
burning Bush that's weird.

693
00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:56,760
Can you imagine going to talk to
your friends A burning Bush told

694
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,800
me I'm just play these scenarios
that it makes no sense.

695
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,880
You think about Abraham and
Sarah.

696
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:07,240
I mean she's passed the years to
bear a child and then she have a

697
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,680
son who's going to be to be at
the beginning of a great nation

698
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,280
and had the faith that God could
even do this and God does this

699
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,520
miracle Amen.
You think about marching around

700
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:21,040
the city of Jericho just March
around 7 times or screaming

701
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,680
walls going to come down.
Is that weird?

702
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,160
I mean, would you follow me if I
told you to walk around a

703
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,280
building 7 times and you yell
and it's going to you'd be like,

704
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,160
what a crazy fool, right?
You, you think of giddy and you

705
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,320
think of a, you think of this
army of a 30,000 people and then

706
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,640
God says, no, it's too many, too
many.

707
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,400
You're going to get the glory.
You're going to be too prideful.

708
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,040
Hey, take, go down the river,
have them lap those who don't

709
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,560
take those guys whittle down to
300 men.

710
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,160
And then I'm going to do
something great.

711
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,600
We're going to get clay jars and
then we're going to break them.

712
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,720
It's going to be crazy.
And then we're going to have the

713
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,320
torches.
We like, people are going to

714
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,520
freak out.
Trumpets are going to blow.

715
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,160
We're going to win the battle.
Is that crazy?

716
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,120
That is so unorthodox.
Like we would never think to win

717
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,920
the battle this way.
And there's so many times in the

718
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,440
Old Testament, there's one that
sticks out.

719
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,320
This guy's the guy's name is
Nam.

720
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,480
Have you heard of Nam before?
Got him Nam.

721
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,040
And God tells them he's actually
a commander of a foreign army.

722
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,280
He doesn't know Jesus.
He has no faith in and God, the

723
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,080
God of the Israelites.
But he hears about this, this

724
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,120
man that he can heal.
His name is Elijah.

725
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,160
And so he goes to Elijah and he
wants to be healed of his

726
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,120
leprosy.
And Elijah tells him to do

727
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,320
something.
He says go down to the the river

728
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:33,760
Jordan, the murky nasty waters
of the Jordan and go dip

729
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,080
yourself 7 times and the story
picks up and I'll read some of

730
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,160
it for you.
This is second Kings 511 but

731
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,240
Naem went away.
What's it say?

732
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,760
Angry.
He was so mad.

733
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,640
This is not the way you should
do it, he said.

734
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:54,440
I thought he would surely come
out to me and stand some by

735
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,080
Elijah and call the name of the
Lord his God, and look at this

736
00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:03,640
and wave his hand over me over
the spot of leprosy and cure me

737
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,320
of my leprosy.
They have thought that God

738
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,200
should do a different way.
They have had a specific

739
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,080
particular plan for God to heal
his life.

740
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,520
He thought there should be a
magic wand.

741
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,880
Come on, somebody.
And somebody would wave it and

742
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:21,440
he'd be healed.
How many?

743
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,400
How many would be?
How many think it'd be great if

744
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,720
Jesus had a magic wand?
Amen.

745
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:26,960
Come on, show of hands.
How many think it'd be great if

746
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:28,040
Jesus had a magic wand?
Right?

747
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,080
How many know that Jesus does
have a magic wand?

748
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,080
How many guys know that Jesus
does exactly what he wants to

749
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:36,680
do?
Amen.

750
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,440
Like he can heal you, he can do
this immediately.

751
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,240
He could the one word of God
everything can change.

752
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,200
He is in control Amen.
The the the question is, is can

753
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,520
he do it doesn't match one.
Are we willing to be obedient

754
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,360
even if he doesn't?
We don't like the way he heals.

755
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,080
We don't like the timing of when
he heals.

756
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,080
We want to happen now.
Names like can't you just heal

757
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,800
my hand now?
He is no go wash 7 times.

758
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,720
Look at the next verse.
He still complaints, says aren't

759
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,840
Abana and power for the rivers
of Damascus?

760
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,120
Look at this, better than all
the waters of Israel.

761
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,680
Like why can't I go to these
rivers?

762
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,520
They're way better than that.
Maybe they're even closer.

763
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,720
Why have to go past these other
rivers to go to that murky

764
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,880
water?
Can't I washing them to be

765
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,920
cleansed?
And so he turned around and he

766
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,520
went off and what?
Yeah, he went for rage.

767
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,840
He was mad that God didn't do it
his way.

768
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:35,560
If we're real honest, we can
relate to Nahum.

769
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,920
Amen.
We can, we can relate to this

770
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,440
story like, I want it now.
I want it my way.

771
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,720
That's too uncomfortable.
And honestly, he thought it was

772
00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:46,200
too cheap.
He, he, he thought that God

773
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,800
should do some greater thing or
do it instantly.

774
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,200
The rest of the story, it's not
going on the screen.

775
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,720
But one of Nahum's, like, chief
advisors goes up to him and

776
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:58,800
says, if God would have asked
you to do something great, like,

777
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,120
I don't know what, that might be
the situation, maybe climb Mount

778
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:05,080
Everest, like do some amazing
thing, would you have done it

779
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,600
and been healed?
Well, yeah, He replies,

780
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,400
absolutely.
Then why don't you do something

781
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,800
foolish?
Would that make more sense, just

782
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,280
to do something easy?
And so he actually went to the

783
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,560
Jordan River and dipped himself
7 times and was healed.

784
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,960
Amen.
It was just a simple obedience.

785
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,840
And here's the point.
God will use ordinary, messy,

786
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,720
undesirable things to do
miracles.

787
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,200
Amen.
He'll do the everyday thing, the

788
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:38,160
nasty, murky part of the Jordan.
He'll do an amazing miracle in

789
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,120
your life.
And we want to look out and say,

790
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,600
I want to see this amazing thing
of God's voices speak to me and

791
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,800
I get this tablet, but it's
going to happen inside your

792
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,080
family is going to happen in
just simple obedience.

793
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,480
You're going to see this in a
story later.

794
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,920
It's just God could use anything
to bring a miracle.

795
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,600
And often God will stack the
deck against himself so only he

796
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,600
can get the glory.
Like, who else could get the

797
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:57,960
glory by dipping the Jordan
River?

798
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,680
I mean, did you really get
healed in a nasty water?

799
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,000
I mean, the God heal you at the
Lake of the Ozarks.

800
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,840
You know, it's better if you're
upstream.

801
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:12,360
You know, we won't go there.
I have a lake house down there,

802
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,480
so I know, I guess.
But yeah.

803
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:15,640
Yeah.
E coli.

804
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,640
That was the word, right?
But the God can use these

805
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,200
waters.
Only God can get the glory.

806
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,680
Amen.
If God can use these waters,

807
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,040
only God can get the glory.
He wanted something where he

808
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,200
could do something.
He wanted to just praise

809
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,280
himself.
But God use uses even us to get

810
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,720
the glory.
Think about how God stacks the

811
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:35,360
deck by you even using US First
Corinthians 126 as this.

812
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,320
Brothers and sisters, think of
what you were when you were

813
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,600
called not many.
You were wise by human

814
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,400
standards.
I mean, Paul just calls us out.

815
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,080
He's not going to say we're
dumb, but he didn't say we're

816
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,000
smart.
You know, he says not many were

817
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,160
influential.
Not many were noble at birth,

818
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,520
but God chose the foolish
things, the world to shame the

819
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,280
wise, and God chose the weak
things, the world to shame the

820
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,040
strong.
God will use it unorthodox

821
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,400
things, including us.
Amen.

822
00:52:03,240 --> 00:52:05,560
That he will even use us.
You know, sometimes we get the

823
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,760
honor and privilege of being
used by God, that God would even

824
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,600
use us to see someone else's
life changed.

825
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,400
And we actually had this happen
last week.

826
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,200
I mean, we see it all the time.
But this is also a story from

827
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,480
last week.
We shared in a huddle.

828
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,040
Dine did a good job chasing this
down.

829
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,960
There is a custodian here.
If you met her name is Carol.

830
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,560
I don't know if is Carol in the
space right here?

831
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,120
I can't.
There's Carol.

832
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,720
Everybody say hi, Carol.
So Carol's going to be

833
00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:33,080
embarrassed a little bit, but
it's going to be good.

834
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,240
So she's going to run hide, but
it's awesome.

835
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,600
Yeah.
So Carol has been setting up.

836
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,040
She's our custodian.
I don't know.

837
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:45,040
This is probably 4-4 to six
months, something like that.

838
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,080
And sorry, I didn't see if
you're like not doing this

839
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,920
because it'd be weird, but I
can't see her from the lights.

840
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:53,800
But she's been setting up and
tearing down.

841
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:59,920
And last week we talked about
being in the same, same roof,

842
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:01,320
under the same roof, but not the
same room.

843
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,600
And she has been setting up and,
and all these things like

844
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,960
Martha, right?
And so Frank and Kathy, who's

845
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,480
sitting next to them, Kathy
said, Hey, Kurt, why don't you

846
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,920
come on in once you see what
God's up to?

847
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:14,880
And there's, you know, with the
custodians, it's interesting

848
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,440
with the school district because
they necessarily don't

849
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,280
necessarily come in and watch
church, but they should, Amen.

850
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,760
You can do that, right?
And so she came in for the first

851
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,520
time last week.
And guess what happened to Carl?

852
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,680
She started a relationship with
Jesus, Amen.

853
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,480
So give it up for Carol, give it
up for God.

854
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:37,320
Unorthodox ways.
God, God put us here and she's

855
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,720
the custodian and God works
away.

856
00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:42,280
And then somebody says, you
know, there's a lady right

857
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,800
outside these doors that comes
every week that should hear this

858
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,880
and just invites her in.
She comes to Christ, Amen.

859
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,280
It's just the simplicity of an
invite.

860
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,760
It's supposed to be seeing souls
and just why?

861
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:54,800
Why does God bring us to the
school?

862
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,000
Maybe it's for Carol, Amen.
You have no idea what God is

863
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,560
going to do, but unorthodox ways
and he uses us.

864
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:05,840
I bet, Kathy, you're like one
plan on going to use my life

865
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,760
this way.
But God did, Amen.

866
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,200
Least likely, but God chooses to
use us, Amen.

867
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,880
And so muscle confusion,
unorthodox ways.

868
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,440
Last thing is this.
You'll know more later.

869
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:17,800
Somebody say you'll know more
later.

870
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:20,840
Yeah, who knows?
Hindsight's 2020, Amen.

871
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,720
Like when you look back, you'll
see the fingerprints of God.

872
00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:25,880
When you look back, you'll see
how God's move.

873
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,880
You'll know why later on.
We talked about this in John

874
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:31,840
1216.
It says that first disciples did

875
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,440
not understand all this.
They didn't understand what was

876
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,280
going on.
And that's often times where

877
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,880
we're at.
We like the disciples.

878
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,840
These guys have walked with
Jesus for almost, both over

879
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,880
almost 3 1/2 years and they
still were a little confused on

880
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,640
what God's doing.
And if we're real honest, we're

881
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,320
going to be seizing this
confusion all the way through

882
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,760
our life until we pass away.
There's just going to be

883
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,040
confusion.
But you get OK with not knowing,

884
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:55,080
Amen.
You get OK with going.

885
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:56,880
You know, Lord, I don't have to
know the answer because I trust

886
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,160
You because you're faithful.
You never change.

887
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,240
But I don't have a clue what's
even happening right now.

888
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,120
But I trust your plan.
You're the author and you have a

889
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,120
master plan that I trust.
But they understood what the

890
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,720
triumphal intro is about.
When Jesus was glorified, they

891
00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:13,680
didn't realize those things have
been written about him and

892
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,200
things have been done to him.
They they figured it out when

893
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:19,840
Jesus death, burial,
resurrection, sighting, what

894
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,640
Jesus was really talking about
who he really was as a king and

895
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,160
really, really was the Messiah.
And here's the principle.

896
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:31,200
Obedience now, revelation later,
obedience now, revelation later.

897
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,640
Are you OK with obedience
without revelation?

898
00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:36,680
Are you OK with falling God,
with not knowing why?

899
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,840
You know, think about the
original call from Abraham.

900
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,200
Abraham, who was Abraham then?
Abraham.

901
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,520
But he was called to leave the
early counties to go to a land

902
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,040
they didn't know.
He, he, he left without knowing

903
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,440
the destination.
That's faith, Amen.

904
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,000
That's faith.
It's faith when you step out for

905
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,880
God, but you don't know how it's
going to work out, Amen.

906
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,880
That's faith.
It doesn't take any faith to if

907
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,400
you know how it's going to go.
They didn't take any faith to

908
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,040
have it planned out and say,
look, I ran my plan.

909
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,240
I ran the play Whoo faith.
That's not faith.

910
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,000
Faith is stepping out without
having the end written yet.

911
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,760
Faith is saying God, here's the
contract to my life and here's

912
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,360
the pen.
I signed the bond already and

913
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,200
you can write the terms of the
agreement.

914
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,520
You can tell me where to go,
what's next and what what to

915
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,360
give, where to serve, how to
live my life, what to say, who

916
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:27,880
to marry.
You can be in charge of

917
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,200
everything in my life.
Jesus, Amen.

918
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,040
And there's freedom that we can
trust Jesus for that because

919
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,520
he's a good God.
It says in Proverbs 3, five and

920
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,640
six, it says trust the Lord with
what?

921
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:41,720
What's it say?
Yeah, all your heart, not 99%,

922
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:44,360
not the comfortable pieces, but
every piece of your life you

923
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,800
trust the Lord says lean not on
your own understanding.

924
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:49,760
That means don't trust your
master plan.

925
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:54,440
I memorized this verse on the
way to Bible college and the

926
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,960
reason I memorized it because I
gave a full ride scholarship to

927
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,440
Baylor University and I was
trusting the Lord with all my

928
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,720
heart and leaning not on my
understanding because my

929
00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:04,400
understanding is going to take
me a totally different

930
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:05,280
direction.
Amen.

931
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,240
That was the moment of big
faith.

932
00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:08,680
Like, I don't know how it's
going to work out.

933
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,840
I've never even seen this
college before.

934
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,680
Like I'm driving into an unknown
place with unknown people and

935
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,240
let me tell you something, it
wasn't as cool as Baylor.

936
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:21,160
I'm going to be real.
The Baylor's parking garage was

937
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,720
cooler than my whole school.
I'm just telling you, it was

938
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,560
gold plated.
It was awesome, but I was where

939
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:28,720
God wanted me to be.
Amen.

940
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,440
I was in his plan and his will
and that is the safest, greatest

941
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,680
place you could ever be.
I think he's a Christian.

942
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,200
The most miserable place to be
in life is to be outside.

943
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,720
The center of God's will is
miserable.

944
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,520
The only way to get in the
center of God's will is a lean,

945
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,680
not understanding and always
submit to Him and He will make

946
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,280
your paths straight.
You have to hand God the keys.

947
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,240
You have to hand God the pen.
You have to say in the middle of

948
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,400
confusion, the cast.
It's not my story.

949
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,280
It's not my story.
I am just a soundtrack.

950
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,360
I'm a servant.
I'm the background music.

951
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,400
I'm a person putting down a palm
leaf, a person putting out a

952
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,080
piece of cloth.
This story is not about me.

953
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,360
It's all about you, Jesus.
Let me give you a story that

954
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,360
kind of wraps this all together.
It's found the Bible.

955
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,040
It's found Luke 22.
There's a picture of muscular

956
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,760
confusion, unorthodox ways.
If you're not listening

957
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,320
carefully, reading this
carefully, you're going to miss

958
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,480
the confusion.
So I want you to lean and I want

959
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,440
to see if you can find the
confusion in the scripture.

960
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:25,400
Luke 22/7 says this.
Then came the Day of Unleavened

961
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,840
Bread on which the Passover lamb
had to be sacrificed.

962
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:33,680
Jesus sent Peter and John
saying, go and make preparations

963
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,920
for us to eat the Passover.
This is the question, where do

964
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,880
you want us to prepare it?
They ask.

965
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,880
And he replied, As you enter the
city, a man carrying a jar of

966
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,560
water will meet you.
Follow him to the house that he

967
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,800
enters and say to the owner of
the house.

968
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:52,960
The teacher asked, where is the
guest room?

969
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,560
Where may I eat the Passover by
disciples?

970
00:58:55,560 --> 00:59:00,880
And it will show you a large
room upstairs, all furnished.

971
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:05,320
Make preparations there.
Did you guys see it?

972
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:08,920
Do you guys see the confusion in
the story?

973
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:13,920
It's so subtle, you miss it.
You just read right over it.

974
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,880
You have no idea what God is
doing in this story.

975
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,560
The confusion has taken place to
get to the place.

976
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,680
The confusion part of the story
is the man carrying a jar.

977
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,680
Men didn't carry jars in that
culture.

978
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,560
That was a woman's role.
She would carry the water jar.

979
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,440
It was how in the world would
the disciples have known to

980
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,400
follow a man carrying a jar if
every man carried a jar?

981
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:43,040
Amen.
Think about this, the location

982
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:47,640
of the Last Supper to a set in
place because the obedience of a

983
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:52,600
man to break their own culture
and do things differently than

984
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:57,640
everybody else, to be made fun
of, to stand out, to look weird

985
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,760
and different and live in
confusion.

986
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,320
I don't know why God's called
me, but I'm going to serve and

987
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:05,840
I'm going to carry this jar that
most men would never carry.

988
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,520
And when disciples get into
town, what happens?

989
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:10,840
Oh, follow the man, carry the
jar.

990
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,760
He's going to lead you there.
So the location of the Last

991
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,560
Supper actually is set by a man
that was simply obedient to

992
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:19,120
Jesus.
Amen.

993
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:24,240
This wasn't this wasn't like
whoa, mind blowing crazy, but it

994
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,240
was simple, wasn't it?
How many guys can carry a jar,

995
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,200
right?
And God's calling you to do

996
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:35,680
something weird, unorthodox.
Why in the world, God, would you

997
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,760
have me do this?
Why like all that you can

998
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,920
imagine, like if you're carrying
a jar and a culture didn't carry

999
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:42,680
a jar, how many all get made fun
of?

1000
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,200
How many how many your friends
you make fun of you to do

1001
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:46,920
something that's weird and
different that they would never

1002
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,640
do.
I know all you blue collar guys

1003
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,120
we made fun of immediately.
Amen.

1004
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,080
They would just tear you down in
pieces and he's like, well, I'm

1005
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,320
just being faithful to carry the
jar because the Lord told me to

1006
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,800
carry this jar.
The Lord told me to carry the

1007
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,520
jar.
I don't know why he he had no

1008
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:07,120
idea that God was going to use
him to pick the location of the

1009
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:10,040
Last Supper.
He'd imagine being in heaven and

1010
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,360
for all of eternity.
They read this scripture and you

1011
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:17,560
go, that was me.
I was the man carrying the jar.

1012
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,080
Isn't that cool?
Like that's what that's what was

1013
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,680
is put in for posterity's sake
is the faith of people.

1014
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,640
Amen.
Just to do something simple for

1015
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,480
God.
You know, often times like God

1016
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,720
will do this great thing.
I'll be this, I'll do that.

1017
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:35,800
And God just wants you to do
something simple today.

1018
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:37,360
He just wants you to be
faithful.

1019
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,120
What He's actually do next.
Maybe that's the first time I

1020
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:41,440
picked up a jar.
Maybe that's the hard time I

1021
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,240
picked the jar.
I have no idea, but God used it.

1022
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,000
Amen.
It's confusion.

1023
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,360
It makes no sense.
When's the last time that you

1024
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,880
did something that's confusing
to your normal rhythm?

1025
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,120
But when's, when's the last time
that you took a step of faith

1026
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,640
that made no sense?
When's the last time you stepped

1027
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,760
out and you didn't know if God
could do it because you can't

1028
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,960
plan out your own mind, but you
trust it anyway, Amen?

1029
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:09,600
I mean, you talk about giving or
serving, like when was the last

1030
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:11,440
time you gave you like, I don't
know how it's going to work out.

1031
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,160
That's faith, Amen?
Giving is an act of faith.

1032
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,040
Or you give up your time.
Like I don't know how it's going

1033
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:20,360
to work, but I'm going to help.
Like I'm going to give back.

1034
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,360
Like you spoke up and then
people came to Christ, Amen.

1035
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,840
You come, I mean, simple
invitation, come sit next to me.

1036
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:29,840
You know how God's going to use
it, Amen?

1037
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,800
Some of us, we set up chairs and
we tear down, we set up all

1038
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:34,440
these different things.
We don't know what God's going

1039
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:36,520
to do.
Know we're faithful doing, Amen.

1040
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,720
And so the invitation today is
in the midst of confusion.

1041
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,400
Will you still obey?
Will you still say yes, Lord?

1042
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,080
It takes no faith to walk away
when it's hard.

1043
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:49,520
It takes no faith to have all
the answers.

1044
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:51,840
It takes no faith.
And Jesus wants you to build

1045
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:53,560
your life on him.
He's the rock, Amen.

1046
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:57,120
He's a sure foundation.
And when the storms come and the

1047
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,360
wind blows, your life is built
on Jesus.

1048
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,040
It doesn't collapse.
I've seen a lot of lives

1049
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,320
collapse around me that build a
life on everything but Jesus.

1050
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:11,000
It's amazing that in my life I
get the ability to take no

1051
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,840
credit and say the only reason
my life is different, different

1052
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:16,480
is because it's built on a rock.
Amen.

1053
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,160
It's built on a rock.
And so Father, come before you

1054
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,960
got to ask for a church for
those of us that have been

1055
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,320
trusting their own and master a
plan that maybe there's people

1056
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:28,600
in the house today.
So you know what, I need to give

1057
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,680
up my plan and I simply need to
trust the Master today.

1058
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,480
Like I need just to be obedient
with what he's asked me to do,

1059
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,680
even though it makes no sense.
Maybe there's a specific thing

1060
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:41,000
that we've been holding off or a
part of our heart that we're

1061
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,960
holding on to or we're
controlling or upset.

1062
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,760
Like, damn God, I want it now
and I want it my way.

1063
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:48,120
We don't understand what's
happening.

1064
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,360
We seem to be obedient to step
into the murky water.

1065
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:56,600
And so today, if you just be so
humble to say Jesus, you are the

1066
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,800
master and I'm no longer going
to follow my plan.

1067
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,440
I'm following your master plan,
the master master plan.

1068
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:04,880
If that's you, just raise your
hand high this place and say

1069
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,720
that's me.
God's called me to have less

1070
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:09,760
faith in myself and more faith
in Jesus.

1071
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:16,200
The moment of vulnerability,
openness, say God, I'll give you

1072
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:22,040
the contract to my life.
You can hold all the keys.

1073
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:27,160
You can have the pin.
I'm tired of writing my story.

1074
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,440
I need you to write my story.
Jesus, it's a prayer of

1075
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:34,440
surrender.
Not all of me, God, You can have

1076
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,160
I laid it all down your feet.
God, use my life.

1077
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:38,880
And I don't have to know the
answers.

1078
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:40,880
I don't have to have all of it
now.

1079
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:45,960
Because one day I will.
One day I'll know why I carried

1080
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:48,960
what I carried.
One day I'll know why I walked

1081
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,840
through what I walked through.
But today I'm not going to know.

1082
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,320
But one day I will, I'll pray
for one more group of people in

1083
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,400
the house.
That's those you say I need

1084
01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:01,120
Jesus, like I've gone every
direction but to God.

1085
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:03,760
I've trusted in every plan but
God's plan.

1086
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:05,800
And what's God plan for your
life?

1087
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,480
That you would surrender
yourself and humble yourself and

1088
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,640
call the name of Jesus as Lord
and Savior.

1089
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:15,800
You'd say I'm a Sinner and need
a Savior.

1090
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:20,040
I'm broken.
I've built my life on myself and

1091
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,200
it's not worked out.
Lord, I need you.

1092
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,320
The Bible says that today is the
day of salvation that anybody

1093
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:29,720
calls the name of Lord be saved,
forgiven and made new that Jesus

1094
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:33,840
is a good God and you can trust
him to write your life.

1095
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:36,800
It's no longer about you writing
your story.

1096
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:40,240
It's about God writing your
story because he's the only one

1097
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,680
worthy to write your story.
And so they if you need us to

1098
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:47,280
run your life to Jesus, you
start a relationship with Jesus.

1099
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:49,600
If that's you, I'm not going to
make it weird or call you out,

1100
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:50,600
but if that's you, just raise
your hand.

1101
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:53,360
Hide this place.
I need Jesus today and it's our

1102
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,440
relationship with Christ for the
very first time.

1103
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,720
I'm going to humble myself and
call on Jesus.

1104
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:00,400
I see your hands across the
room.

1105
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:02,480
If that's you, I'm a lead you
through a prayer.

1106
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:05,280
The prayer does not save you,
but your heart towards him is

1107
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:08,280
the humility in yourself to call
on God.

1108
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,640
Just say this say follow God.
Thank you so much for loving me

1109
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:17,400
enough to send Jesus and I was I
was at my worst writing my own

1110
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,400
story.
Follow my own plan.

1111
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:23,480
God, you had such a greater plan
for me that your plan was to

1112
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:28,360
send your son Jesus to die on a
cross for my sins and I trust

1113
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,600
what he did on that cross.
God save me.

1114
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:36,920
God, you can have the pen to my
life, you can write the story.

1115
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,320
I'm no longer in charge.
God, I trust you.

1116
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,720
Thank you Jesus for saving me,
and I praise in Jesus name,

1117
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,040
Amen.
Give it up for God today.

1118
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,520
Come on people, come to Christ
today.

1119
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,280
Amen.
Amen.

1120
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,800
Man, what an encouraging word
this morning.

1121
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:58,000
Just to think that God can use
the messy, the ordinary, the

1122
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,840
mundane, even the murky things
in our life to do a miracle.

1123
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,440
And I love that challenge too,
to look at my own life.

1124
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And God, what act of obedience
are you calling me to?

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That just seems to make
absolutely no sense to me.

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01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:12,280
God, what are you asking me to
do?

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01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,680
So what a word today.
Thank you so much, Sean, for

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bringing that to us.
Well, hey, I want to talk to

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those of you who accepted Jesus
today.

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01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,920
You recognize that He is for
you, that he loves love you.

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01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:22,480
You committed your life to him
today.

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01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,680
We are so excited for you.
Congratulations.

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01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,120
We would love to help you on
your journey if you would just

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01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,920
grab that connection card that's
on your seat, fill out the

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01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:33,440
information on that, but check
that box that says I committed

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01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,520
my life to Jesus.
And you can drop it in the

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01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:37,160
giving buckets here in just a
few minutes.

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01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,360
But we would love to come
alongside you to get you a few

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01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,840
things this week.
And the first one is to drop a

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01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:43,920
free book in the mail.
It's called begin.

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01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,840
It's a short read, about 100
pages, but we know that it will

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01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:49,560
be a blessing to you on your
journey with Jesus as you take

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01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,800
those next steps.
And if you were here at Kentucky

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01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,800
Trail today and you prayed that
prayer, you made that decision.

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01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:57,480
As you leave the worship center,
there's a table with some red

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01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,920
bags inside those red bags.
It's a free Bible just for you

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01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:02,400
and a list of a few other
resources.

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01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,120
We would love to get that to you
today as well.

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01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,640
And hey, if you are newer in the
house with us today, thank you

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01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:10,920
so much for being here.
You really are honored guests.

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01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,600
We love that you chose to spend
your morning with us.

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01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,319
And hey, church is free.
We don't want anything from you

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01:08:16,319 --> 01:08:18,160
except for this.
And that is just for you to

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01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,840
introduce yourself to us.
And you can do that by grabbing

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01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,560
that same card.
Fill out your information, check

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01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:25,240
that box that says first time
here.

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01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,120
You can drop that at the new
here booth as you leave, as you

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01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:31,160
exit the worship center to your
right, there's a booth there.

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01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:32,840
You can turn that in there.
We have a free gift.

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01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:35,200
We would love to get to you and
we would love just to see you

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01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,319
back next time right here at
915-1045.

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01:08:38,319 --> 01:08:41,120
Thanks again for checking us out
for spending your morning right

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01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,840
here with us and here.
About a month ago, our missions

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01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:48,920
team served on a trip over in
Bogota, Colombia and South

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01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:53,120
America and they saw God move in
so many ways, but they had the

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01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:57,479
most beautiful opportunity to
help and to serve a ministry

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01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:00,240
family in need there, Jose and
Ingrid.

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01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:03,040
They are a husband and wife
couple that serve as ministry

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01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,040
leaders in a church called
Family Church up in in the

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mountains of Bogota.
I'm Jose and Ingrid.

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They are refugees from Venezuela
and they came to Colombia with

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just their son and the clothes
on their back.

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01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:19,040
So they essentially they live as
undocumented foreigners in

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Colombia.
And as you can imagine, that can

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01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,760
make a life and things just
difficult for them.

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01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,520
In about a week before our team
came, Jose's mom actually had

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passed away back home in
Venezuela.

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01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,680
And it was very difficult.
They had no way to get back home

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01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,600
to be with their family.
And our team, upon hearing that

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01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,680
story, when they arrived,
immediately came together and

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01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:44,319
gave $1500 of their own money to
Jose and Ingrid to help them get

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back home.
And what a blessing and

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01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,840
opportunity that was for them to
serve them in that way.

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01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:52,720
And Jose and Ingrid were so
touched and so moved, and they

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01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,640
shot this video for us just to
say thank you so much.

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01:09:55,800 --> 01:10:14,800
So check this out.
Gracias.

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01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,760
How awesome and what a blessing
it is to be a blessing.

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01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:44,600
And Jesus said it is more
blessed to give than to receive.

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01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:48,120
And I guarantee our team will
never forget that story and that

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01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,840
opportunity, but not just
because they gave of their

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01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,240
money, but because they played a
part in that story that they

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01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:58,760
impacted lives for Jesus.
I mean, we have the opportunity

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01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:02,520
to do that each and every day.
There's stories, there's faces

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01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,920
just like Jose and Ingrid that
we get to play a part of.

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01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:07,920
And when you give here, when
you're a blessing here, you play

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01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,840
a part in that story of helping
change people's lives and some

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01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,760
miraculous and amazing ways.
And so I want to encourage you,

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01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:17,320
I want to invite you to be a
blessing today.

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01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,560
You can do that if you call real
life church home.

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01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,320
There are so many ways you can
take part in that.

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01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:24,040
You can check out our website,
you can text to give, you can

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01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:27,200
scan the QR, all sorts of ways.
You can drop cash or check in

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01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,240
the bucket as I pass here in
just a few minutes.

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01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,960
There's also a giving box in the
back you can drop cash or check

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01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:33,360
in if that's more convenient for
you.

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01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:36,640
And if you or your family find
yourself in any kind of need,

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01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,440
whether it's food, it's
clothing, it's shelter, would

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01:11:39,440 --> 01:11:41,960
you please reach into those
buckets as I pass here in just a

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01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:44,400
few minutes?
Grab out any loose cash that you

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01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:46,560
see.
We truly do want to be a

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01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:49,320
blessing to you and your family
and your time of need.

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01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:54,520
Awesome.
Hey, who would say by a show of

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01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,200
hands that you really got
something out of today, that God

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01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,320
just working in your life and
doing something in this place?

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01:12:00,440 --> 01:12:04,360
Hey, man, I love seeing that.
And my encouragement to you is

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01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,000
just one quick thing.
Will you just share that with

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01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,320
somebody this week?
Just tell someone in your life,

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01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,840
you know, man, all that God's
doing, all that he's the work

1219
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:16,200
he's been doing in you and just
point him, point him to Jesus

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01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:17,960
number one.
And then just man, invite him to

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01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:21,520
come along and hang out with us
right here at Real Life Live

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01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:23,320
Church.
That'd be really cool, man.

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01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:26,160
I'm excited for next week.
And you should get excited too

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01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,760
because we're going to get to
hear the stories from this

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01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,840
summer from our youth camp and
our kids camp.

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01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:35,800
And so God obviously moves here
with us here in the worship

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01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,200
center.
And you know, we kind of think

1228
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:41,160
of, you know, how we experience
God as adults, but don't lose

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01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:44,280
sight of the fact that God and
the Holy Spirit is working in

1230
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,240
the lives of our kids, our teens
and our children.

1231
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,320
So some really cool things
happened this summer at both of

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01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:51,320
those events.
And we're going to get to hear

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01:12:51,480 --> 01:12:54,520
about that next week.
So bring a friend, come back and

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01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:57,720
just be ready to be blessed by
next week.

1235
01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,160
And if you need prayer this
morning, we'll have people down

1236
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:01,640
here in front that would love to
pray for you.

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01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,480
So don't be bashful.
Come on up and do that.

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01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:07,360
And other than that, we'll see
you next week at 9:15 or 10:45.

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01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:11,960
Remember, whoever finds Jesus
discovers real life and purpose.

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01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:16,000
Have a great week.
This is the end of this podcast.

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01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,640
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1242
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:21,080
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1243
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01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:25,960
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