Getting Off The Ground - At The Movies Special Edition: The Chosen

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Well, hey, good morning and
welcome to Real Life Church.

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We are so excited to worship God
with you this morning.

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I know he has something for you
in store today.

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So go ahead and stand to your
feet, whether you're with us in

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person or you're joining.
Us online.

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Get those hands going.
We're going to worship him.

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I'll call you Maker, you give
life an eternal spark.

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I'll call you Heather 'cause you
can mend any broken.

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Heart and I.
Call you faithful Father, 'cause

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you finish everything you start.
My soul was made to respond.

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I'll respond.
I know you'll buy 1000 days and

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you deserve every single word.
You've given me a million ways

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to be amazed at what you've done
and I am.

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I've lost in one day had all you
do know you'll buy 1000 days and

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I'll sing.
I'm back to you because you

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deserve the highest order.
Your love is boundless beyond

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what I could dream.
Your grace is patient and it's

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never given up on me.
I call you bondage breaker

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'cause you're handing out the
prison keys and my soul was made

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to be free, to be free.
Come on, I know you'll buy 1000

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days and you deserve every
single one.

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You've given me a million.
Ways to?

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Be amazed the way you've done
and I am lost in wonder.

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Had all you do.
I know you'll buy 1000 days and

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I'll sing em back to you.
Yes.

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Sing em all back.
Sing em all back.

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Sing em all back.
Sing em all back.

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Sing em all back.
Sing em all back.

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Sing em all back.
Sing em all, You're the great I

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am walking forever.
The beginning and the end.

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You are Lord and servant.
You're the sign of man.

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You're the lion at Judah.
You're the reason Lamb.

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You're the second.
To.

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Lead us whole You are always
blurry now revealed in flesh and

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bone you are ocean harder you
will make a way you are.

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Test.
Defeated you are.

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Prison from the Cray.
You are full of mercy.

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You are rich and alive.
You are Jesus Messiah.

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Go on true God, I know you'll
buy 1000 days and you deserve

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every single one.
You've given me a million ways

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to be amazed.
Do what you die.

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I know you buy 1000 days and you
deserve every single word you've

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given.
Me a million ways.

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To be amazed the way you've done
and I am a lost in wonder.

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Had all you do know you buy 1000
days.

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Sing them back to you, yes, sing
them all back.

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Sing them all back, Sing them
all back.

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Sing them all back.
Sing them all back.

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Sing em all back.
Sing em all back.

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I'll sing em all back.
Sing em all back.

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Sing em all back.
Sing em all back.

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I'll sing em all back.
Sing em all back.

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We'll sing em all back.
We'll sing em back to you.

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We'll sing em back to you.
Jesus, I know you buy 1000

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names.
You deserve every single one.

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You've given me a million ways
to be amazed where you've done

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and I am forced in wonder.
Had all you too.

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I know you buy 1000 names and
I'll say I'm back to you.

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Yes, you deserve the highest
order.

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Say I'm back to you, Jesus,
You're worthy, You're worthy.

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Jesus give you all the praise
today.

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Yes, we love to sing out your
name, Jesus.

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Come on, give it up for God in
the house today.

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He is worthy of all names.
Let's continue to worship Him.

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Come on,
Rumors are the Son of Man,

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Stories of the Savior, Holiness
with human hands, treasure for

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the traitor.
No, we had heard.

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No, I had seen the image of the
Father to heaven claim to live

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with me, who rest you like no
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Let him here at you.
Are worthy you are.

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Worthy of your name, you are.
Worthy You are the worldly of

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your name.
My Jesus, you did not speak, you

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made no sound.
You died for your accusers.

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That's your me.
And as you Mullard fell to the

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ground.
You.

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To find my future every step and
on the day that you.

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Arose torn.
This ring for cover for the King

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of Kings has claimed his throne
now until forever.

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You.
You are.

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Worthy.
You are worthy of your dream.

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You are worthy.
You are worthy of your name,

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Jesus.
We trust you.

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We believe who you say you are.
You're my author, my maker, my

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ransom, my Savior, my refuge, my
hiding place.

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You're my helper, my healing, my
blessing, Redeemer, my answer,

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my saving grace.
We're not done yet.

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You're my hope in the shadows,
my strength in the battle, my

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anchor for all my days.
You are.

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And you stand.
By my.

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Side And you stood in my place.
Jesus, no other name, only

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Jesus, no other name.
You are worthy.

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You are worthy of your name.
You are worthy.

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You.
How worthy of your name, Singer.

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How worthy?
So worthy.

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God you are.
Worthy of your name.

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You are worthy.
Oh, you are worthy of your name.

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Who is my glory?
God Almighty want on water, the

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wind and the waves.
They know your.

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Name.
Brought my heart out of the

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ground.
Let them hear it.

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You are worthy.
Worthy of your name.

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You are worthy.
So worthy.

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You are worthy of your name.
Jesus, you were the Word at the

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beginning.
Now revealed in you our Christ,

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what a beautiful name it is.
What a beautiful name it is.

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The name of Jesus Christ my
King.

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What a beautiful name it is.
Nothing compares to this.

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What a beautiful name it is.
The name of Jesus.

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Did it want heaven without us?
So Jesus I'll bright heaven down

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sin was great, your love was
creator.

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What could I say?
Bury us and now what a

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wonderful.
Name it is.

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What a wonderful name it is.
The name of Jesus Christ my

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King.
What a wonderful name it is.

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Nothing compacts to his What a
wonderful name it is the name of

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Jesus.
What a wonderful name it is.

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The name of Jesus.
What a wonderful name.

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How sweet is when the moon.
How good you are.

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Love to sing all you need in the
night.

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Love to save who you are.
Say goodnight, hold a little bit

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boy.
Silence.

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The most I've seen in you
Heavens our Roy, the praise of

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your new read for you.
I raise your life, OK?

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You have no arrival.
You have no equal.

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Now and forever.
Choice is the Kingdom, choice is

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the Lord.
Yours is the name of purple

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names.
Come on, what a powerful.

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Name it is.
What a powerful name it is the

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name of Jesus Christ.
My, what a powerful name it is.

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Nothing can stand the kids.
What a powerful name it is.

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The name of Jesus.
You have no rival.

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You.
Have no equal.

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Now.
And for the time you read.

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What a.
Powerful name it is what a

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powerful name it is the good
name of Jesus Christ.

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My King, what a powerful name it
is.

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Nothing can't stand against What
a.

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Powerful name it is.
Coming up, Jesus, what?

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A powerful means coming up
Jesus.

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What a powerful name is coming
up, Jesus.

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Come on, give me some praise
this way.

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That's right.
So, so good, so good worshipping

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with all of you today.
What a powerful name.

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It is the name of Jesus.
We're so thankful for him.

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We're thankful for you too.
So glad that you're spending

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your morning with us right here
at REAL Life Church.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Well, hey, before you guys take

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a seat, take about 30 seconds,
say hey to somebody around you

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and then you can take a seat.
Thanks again for being with us

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this morning here at Real Life
church.

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I just want to take a second and
say welcome to all of those of

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you who are here for the first
time or maybe the first time in

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a long time.
We're so glad that you chose to

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spend your morning right here
with us.

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We really don't want anything
from you this morning, but just

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to let you know that we've been
praying for you. all right,

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well, you can take a seat.
The We've been planning for you.

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We believe you're not here on
accident and that God has

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something for you today.
So thank you so much.

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The only thing that we would ask
is just that you would let us

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know.
We'd love just to introduce

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ourselves to you, to get to know
you, to answer any questions.

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If you would grab that card
that's on your seat, just fill

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out the top part of that card
and we'll talk about what to do

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with that later.
But we would love just to

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welcome you here at Real Life
Church.

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And here in Real Life, we have a
mission.

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And that mission is to see
people far from God discover

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their real life and purpose in
Jesus.

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And in each and every week we
see people come and commit their

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lives to him.
And that's why we do it, to see

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soul saved, to take the gospel
further and just here to take it

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out to our community, to our
county, to our state and around

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the world so that people can
know the freedom that is only

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found in Jesus.
And hey, I am so excited for

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this morning.
We are continuing our At the

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Movies series.
If this is your first time or

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the first time in a long time,
church might look a little bit

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different.
Smells like popcorn out in the

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hub.
You see all the lighted up

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signs, the red carpet just for
you guys.

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But that is because we're doing
an exciting series.

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We're in the second week of it.
It's called At the Movies.

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And here in a minute, once we
get started here, you're going

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to see people come down the
aisles with popcorn and soda and

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water.
It's all free, all on the House

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just for you as we dive into
this week's series about the

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movie.
So help me welcome Barry Hardy

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to the stage.
He's going to bring us to word

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today.
What's up real life you guys

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ready for at the movies?
Man, did you guys love last

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week, man?
Yeah, it was so cool just to see

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just in picture and film just to
just the presentation of of

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story.
We've all known woman at the

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well and today we're going to do
hit another story that you may

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or may not know.
So if you have your Bibles in a

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bit, we're going to be in John
chapter 5.

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But if you want to start turning
there, we're going to be looking

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at a story of Jesus healing a
man at the pool of Bethesda.

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So today's theme is is getting
off the ground.

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You guys ever been stuck?
You guys ever get pinned to the

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ground?
Yes.

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No, maybe.
I remember, you know, so I

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wasn't always this, this size
growing up.

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I think I graduated 6 foot and
about 150 lbs.

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Christie's fed me well since
then, right?

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I remember being in gym class
and my sports were like

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baseball, football, the
basketball.

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I never did anything else and I
never ever wrestled.

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But I grew up doing
construction.

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So for my size, I was really,
really strong.

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And so I remember we had gym
class one time and we had we had

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wrestling and they did it by
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So I wasn't wrestling any
heavyweights, but for the guys

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that I was wrestling and going
against that were my weight.

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I just ragged all these guys
because I was used to throwing

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concrete around.
And so I was having fun in the

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middle of this gym class.
I was just launching guys I'd

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never had the opportunity to do
and I was throwing them left and

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right all over.
I didn't know what I was doing,

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but I was just hammering them
right until I met a wrestler.

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And if you guys don't know this,
there's two people you don't

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mess with, and that's preachers
and wrestlers, because they're

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going to get you in the end,
right?

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Man, I ragged all this guy for
the first couple minutes, and

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then something happened.
He got me on the ground and no

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matter my strength, no matter
what I had, there was nothing I

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could do.
He put me in moves that I had

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never heard of.
I think I got crucifixed and I

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don't know what else happened to
me, but I was stuck.

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And we've all get there
sometimes and, and and and

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that's physically, but but in in
real life, what happens to us as

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the world beats us down?
Sometimes we get stuck to the

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ground emotionally, spiritually.
You know, I know I'm talking to

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somebody today that is, is going
through a situation where they

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don't know what to do.
And they thought they had all

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the answers.
They thought they were strong

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enough, they thought they were
smart enough, they thought they

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could had it all figured out.
But right now you're pinned to

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the ground.
And can I let you know you don't

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have to stay there.
So Our Calling today is to get

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off the ground.
And so I want you guys to keep

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this in mind as we watch this
clip.

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Jesus isn't only talking to a
character in the gospels.

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Jesus has a question for you.
So welcome to at the movies.

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Shalom me.
Yes, Shalom, I have a question

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for you.
For me, I don't have many

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answers, but I'm listening.
Do you want to be healed?

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Who are you?
We'll get to that later.

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But my question remains, will
you take me to the water?

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Look, I'm having a really bad
day.

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You've been having a bad day for
a long time.

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So, Sir, I have no one to help
me into the water when it's

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stared up, and when I do get
close, the others stepped down

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in front of me.
And so look at me.

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Look at me.
That's not what I asked.

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I'm not asking you about who's
helping you, who's not helping,

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who's getting in your way.
I'm asking about you.

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I've tried for a long time, I
know, and you don't want false

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hope.
Again, I understand.

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But this pool, it has nothing
for you.

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It means nothing and you know
it.

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But you're still here.
Why?

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I don't know.
I don't need this pool.

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You only need me.
So do you want will be healed?

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So let's go get up, pick up your
mat and walk.

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I'm.
Free to walk.

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Like he said, don't forget your
bed.

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Why does this matter?
Because you're not coming back

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here.
That life is over.

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Everything changes now.
Man, it's so good, isn't it?

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You know, we're going to we're
going to dive into this passage

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that that that this this clip is
based off of.

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Here's what I love about the
chosen in shows like this in in

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the creators of this series have
have made this statement.

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Watching a show like the Chosen
is meant to do one thing.

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It's meant to drive you to the
word of God.

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And they take some liberties and
they acknowledge that.

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So like later on it talks about
the name of the guy that Jesus

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healed.
We don't know.

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That doesn't come from church
tradition, definitely doesn't

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come from the Bible.
But the point here is this is

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the goal for the chosen and for
why we do at the movies is to

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drive.
So you too search the scriptures

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for what God has you in it.
And so as we talk about getting

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off the ground, I want to start
with going to John chapter 5,

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which is what this clip's based
off.

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And I want you guys just to read
this with me and we're going to

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get the context of what John
chapter 5 says.

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So here we are.
It says some time later, Jesus

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went up to Jerusalem for one of
the Jewish festivals.

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Now there is in Jerusalem near
the sheep Gate, a pool which is

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an Aramaic called Bethesda,
which is surrounded by 5 covered

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colonnades.
And here a great number of

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people of disabled people used
to lie, the blind, the lame, the

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paralyzed, one of whom had been
an invalid for 38 years.

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And when Jesus saw him lying
there and learned that he had

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been in this condition for a
long time, he asked him, do you

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want to get well?
You guys saw that, Sir, the

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invalid replied, I have no one
to help me into the pool.

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And when the water stirred, when
while I'm trying to get in,

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someone else goes down and ahead
of me.

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And then Jesus said to him, get
up, pick up your mat and walk.

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And at once the man was cured.
He picked up his mat and walked.

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And the day which this took
place was a Sabbath.

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And so the Jewish leaders said
to the man that who had been

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healed, it is the Sabbath, the
law forbids you to carry your

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mat.
But he replied, the man who made

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me well said, pick up your mat
and walk.

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And so they asked him, who is
this fellow who told you to pick

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up and walk?
And the man who, who was healed,

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had no idea who it was.
For Jesus had slipped away into

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the crowd that was there.
And later Jesus found him at the

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temple and said to him, see, you
are well again, stop sinning or

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something worse may happen to
you.

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And the man went away and told
the Jewish leaders that it was

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Jesus who made him well.
So we read, we read through

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this, this, this passage of
Scripture, the clip and the

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video that we just saw.
And what I love about the video,

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it just brings to life that the
words that we read, you know,

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sometimes our imaginations are,
are are very good at filling in

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some of the gaps.
But sometimes, you know, having

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it shown to us is just a great
way.

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Like even even seen the
Pharisees in the background,

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right?
You know, that's something I

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hadn't even really thought
about.

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You know, the obviously there
was probably Pharisees.

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So what we're going to talk
about today is getting off the

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ground.
So I don't care if you've been

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stuck for 38 days or maybe
you're like this invalid, you've

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been stuck for 38 years and it
seems like forever, right?

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I'm going to give you 5
different ways to get off the

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ground.
And these are going to kind of

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mirror the five columns or the
column aids that were here at

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this pool of Bethesda.
And so number one, the first way

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to get off the ground is this is
to identify false assumptions.

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Identify false assumptions.
What was this invalid false

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assumption?
What what was he putting hope in

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that he shouldn't have the pool,
right?

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The water.
You guys know the story of what

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was, was going on here.
So what what happened is, is

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that the superstition or the
reality, whatever it was, is

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that the angels would come down
periodically and they would stir

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the water and then the first
person that would come in and

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get into the water would be
healed.

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And so the man was lame.
He was an invalid.

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He had a hope in the water,
right?

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That was why he was there.
But what happened?

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Everybody else got in front of
him, right?

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So he was looking to the pool
for his redemption.

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He was looking to the pool for
his salvation.

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And so when he asked Jesus in
this clip, are you going to take

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me to the water?
What was Jesus's answer?

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It wasn't.
He's like, no, that's not what

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I'm here for.
And for us, we may not be

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sitting like the invalid at the
edge of a pool waiting for the

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Angel to destroy the water, but
we've all got a pool in our life

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that we're looking for salvation
from, right?

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And that could be a lot of
different things.

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Our pool might be a relationship
we're waiting for because if we

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have that relationship, man,
everything's going to be good.

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Maybe it's a dollar amount that
we, that if our salary attains

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to, then we've got security.
Maybe, maybe our pool is, is, is

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a position.
Maybe if you're in social media,

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maybe it's your, your, your
influence, your, your, your

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account on Instagram or, or
Facebook or TikTok or whatever.

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There are a lot of things that
we all look to for security for,

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for status, things that we think
are going to bring us hope,

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satisfaction, security, freedom,
right?

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But what was Jesus's answer?
His answer to the invalid was

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no, I'm not going to take you to
the water.

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There is no hope in that pool.
Last week when we we were

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looking at the the woman with
the wealth, what did Jesus

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identify himself as?
What kind of water was he?

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He was the living water, right?
And I love you go from John

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chapter 4 to John chapter 5.
He tells you if you ask of me in

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John chapter 4, if you knew who
I was, you would ask me of the

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water that I'll give you the
living water and you'll never be

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thirsty again.
And here in John chapter 5, we

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have a guy staring into a pool
that he thinks is going to solve

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all his problems, but it just
won't.

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And the pools that we look to
will never solve our problems.

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It will never bring us the
satisfaction, the hope that

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we're longing for because Jesus
is the answer.

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Jesus is the living water.
And that's what he wanted him to

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lean into.
That was the hope that he was

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bringing this invalid.
And the, the, the, the very fact

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that Jesus is the answer.
It kind of Harkins back to when

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I, when I was, was, was talking
to you guys a few weeks ago.

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I love this thing and I repeat
it off often.

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Jesus plus what do you guys
remember?

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Nothing.
It's Jesus plus nothing.

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It's not Jesus plus my job
that's going to bring me

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happiness.
Happiness.

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It's not Jesus plus my position.
It's not Jesus plus this stage.

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It's not Jesus plus money.
It's just Jesus in the moment

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that I add anything else,
whether it's a pool physically

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that I think is going to heal me
or anything else that I'm going

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to put along with Jesus to make
me happy.

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We've lost the point and we've
lost the solution.

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We've lost the claim that Jesus
has on our lives.

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So identifying those false
assumptions, the things that we

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think are going to bring us
happiness, that's step one of

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getting off the ground.
So Step 2 is this is, is asking

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a hard question.
You guys ever had somebody ask

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you a hard question that
they're, they can be hard for a

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lot of different reasons, right?
They're hard sometimes because

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we don't want to consider it,
but sometimes they're

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insensitive.
If, if if I'm sitting there and

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you see it in this guy's face.
So you see the other guys.

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Did you notice the other
people's faces that that were

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that were there waiting for the
pool?

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And Jesus goes up to this guy
and you ask him a question.

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What was it?
Do you want to be?

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Well, that's kind of an
insensitive question, isn't it?

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If I'm that guy and you can see
in those other people's faces

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are like, why are you asking him
this question?

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Of course he wants to be well,
that's why he's here.

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But Jesus asked that for a
reason, and I think it's this

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simple reason.
Whenever we get down and we're

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stuck to the ground and Jesus
comes in our life and asks us

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this question, do you want to be
well?

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Everybody thinks the answer is
always yes, but is that the

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truth?
Sometimes we don't want to be

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well, right?
Sometimes we get comfortable in

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our affliction.
And I like this idea.

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You guys ever have this idea
that sometimes you can get

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addicted to your affliction?
Man, that's harsh, right?

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I'm sorry, but I've been there.
Maybe you've been there because

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the thing that I, that I find
security in is the thing that's

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held me down to the ground for
so long.

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And at that moment that Jesus
comes into my life and says, do

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you want to be well?
I want to say yes, but sometimes

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I say no, right?
And so I think it's a legitimate

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question when he comes to the
invalid and says, do you want to

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be well?
And what does he do

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automatically?
He starts coming up, well,

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nobody wants to help me.
You know, everybody goes in

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front of me and Jesus says,
that's not what I'm asking you.

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I'm not asking about about what
other people are or aren't doing

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in your life.
I asked you, do you want to be

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well?
So if we want to get off the

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ground, we have to ask ourselves
some hard questions.

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Do I really want to get up off
this ground or am I good

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struggling in in just living in
the situation that I'm in?

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I had conversations with people
all the time and they'll say,

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hey, here's what's going on,
here's what I'm dealing with.

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And I see this Sean.
Sean does this so much better

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than me, Sean.
Sean is.

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And if you ever have an issue,
I'm more than willing to talk to

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you.
But Sean is a great resource

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because he has an ability to
look into somebody's life.

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00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,000
And I tease him.
I call him the Prophet.

454
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,760
So if you want to call him the
Prophet, you go ahead.

455
00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:15,280
When a prophet isn't look into a
crystal ball, a prophet is

456
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,000
looking into somebody's life.
And that's what that's what

457
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,440
that's how God gifts so many
lead pastors and head pastors.

458
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,040
And he's done that with our
pastor.

459
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:28,120
But I see situations where
Pastor Sean or me have have

460
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,480
walked into a situation and they
brought all the problems.

461
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,200
And then you start walking them
through the scriptures or maybe

462
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,960
a principle from God that that
would be very, very applicable

463
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,800
to their life.
What happens, man, sometimes

464
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,600
there's so much pushback and I
don't get it.

465
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,200
I don't understand until I think
about the things that I've

466
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,520
pushed back in my life Because
even though I recognize the

467
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,280
problem, I'm not ready to make
that next step.

468
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,640
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready to ask that hard

469
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,440
question of myself.
I'm not, I'm not ready for God

470
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,200
to ask that hard question of me.
Do I want to be well?

471
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,720
And so it's a great question.
We have to allow God to speak

472
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:08,520
that truth into our life and,
and, and ask those hard

473
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,920
questions because then the third
step happens.

474
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,480
So we get, we, we get rid of the
false assumptions.

475
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,280
We ask the hard questions and
sometimes hard questions lead to

476
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,800
scary things.
And so the third way to get off

477
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,240
the ground is to be ready to do
something scary for God, right?

478
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:27,480
You're like, Barry, what are you
talking about?

479
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,240
What do you mean by scary?
Can you imagine being stuck on

480
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:33,280
the ground for 38 years and we
don't know how this guy got

481
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,680
here.
If you watch the, if you watch

482
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,400
the, the episode, he fell out of
a tree, but the Bible doesn't

483
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,840
tell us what happened to him.
But I've, he's anybody ever been

484
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,680
hurt and haven't been able to
get out of bed for a week,

485
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,120
right?
It's not good, right?

486
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,400
You get depressed.
If you get anxious, you're like,

487
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,640
am I ever going to get better?
Can I get up and walk?

488
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,120
I remember several years ago, I,
I thought I sprained my ankle.

489
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,520
I had some of the nurses here
and then a doctor later told me

490
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,320
that I shattered my ankle.
I'm a little slow.

491
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,800
I'm a little stupid, but I
wasn't going to let that hold me

492
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,120
down.
But I was hurting for a couple

493
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,840
days and I just, you know, I, I
couldn't move forward, but I

494
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,560
can't imagine being stuck on the
ground for 38 years.

495
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,680
And then the moment that Jesus
heals this man, what do you

496
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:19,680
think he felt?
He felt joy, but what else did

497
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:20,960
he feel?
He felt something physically

498
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,440
because God, this wasn't just a
spiritual healing.

499
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,640
This was a physical feeling.
And if he's lame, he has no

500
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,640
feeling in his leg.
Did you see what he did?

501
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,320
He hid himself.
That's something I had never

502
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,480
thought of.
When you when you're around

503
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,320
somebody that's a paraplegic or
quadriplegic, they have no

504
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:42,120
feeling and in the moment that
God healed his body, healed his

505
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,720
legs.
He had feeling in his in his

506
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,360
extremities.
He had he had feeling in his

507
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,800
legs, but but Jesus was asking
him to do something scary.

508
00:39:53,480 --> 00:40:02,000
What was it and get up and walk.
He hadn't walked in 38 years, 38

509
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,280
years.
I'm 48 years old.

510
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,800
I can't imagine having.
The last every 38 years, it

511
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,400
might just from when I was 10
years old and just being stuck

512
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,680
and not remembering how to do
that.

513
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,120
If I, if I put my weight on my
leg, am I going to collapse?

514
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,520
Am I going to crash to the
ground?

515
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,960
Am I going to fall on my face?
That had to be a scary first

516
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,000
step.
So for us is, is God walks into

517
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,440
our lives.
What is the scary thing that

518
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,680
God's asking you to do?
And I don't know what that is.

519
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,720
It's different for everybody in
here, right?

520
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:38,000
I love this.
I love this verse.

521
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,200
In Ephesians chapter 4, verse 7,
it says this, But to each one of

522
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,840
us, grace has been given as
Christ has apportioned it.

523
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,160
May God has given you some grace
in your life to do the scary

524
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,560
thing that only he's called you
to do.

525
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,040
And the scary thing, maybe
taking that first step and maybe

526
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,640
getting up, getting out of that
situation that you don't think

527
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,920
that you can get out of.
Getting out, getting out of

528
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,400
debt, getting back into church,
leading your family in a way

529
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,760
that you've never let them,
serving when you've never served

530
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,680
before.
Going back to church when you've

531
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,560
been burned.
Maybe that's a scary first step.

532
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,240
Going back into a church when
the last time you were with

533
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,680
people that claim to love God
and they threw you out, they

534
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,400
rolled you down that hill.
That is a scary first step.

535
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,760
But the scary first step that so
many of us ignore is the calling

536
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,480
on our life.
We talk about it all the time

537
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,520
here in real life is to connect
God or connect people far from

538
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,600
God back to their real life and
purpose, right?

539
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,680
Maybe that scary thing is
knowing that you have a purpose,

540
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,320
knowing that you have something
that God wants for you in your

541
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:51,840
life, and knowing that you're
not just a throwaway piece of,

542
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,640
of human garbage that the whole
world has passed by and walked

543
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:59,320
over and ignored and like the
invalid.

544
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,880
Can you imagine all the
important people week in and

545
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,360
week out walked by this guy,
didn't ever acknowledge him.

546
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,840
You saw the five guys, the five
Pharisees in the background.

547
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,680
How many of them knew his name,
do you think?

548
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,360
How many of you think prayed for
him?

549
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:18,000
How many of those guys asked how
he was doing, took him home,

550
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,720
helps him out?
It doesn't look like anyone

551
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:22,960
because he was still at the
pool.

552
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,760
Why didn't those Pharisees help
him go into the water?

553
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,720
So a scary first step sometime
is doing the thing that God's

554
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:36,280
called us to do and walking back
into a home, even if it is

555
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,760
scary, walking back into a place
where you can be in community,

556
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,960
in a life group with a group of
people that care about you and

557
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,640
love you and want better for
you.

558
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,040
And I get it, it's a scary
thing.

559
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,800
But man, God has called us to do
scary hard things.

560
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,360
Because in the midst of the hard
thing is where God's grace shows

561
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,360
up.
So that's the third thing.

562
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,080
Do scary things #4 and we're
almost there.

563
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,520
So hold on with me #4 listen to
the right voices.

564
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:07,920
Listen to the right voices,
right?

565
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,640
So this is the part of the
sermon that I was heard growing

566
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,480
up.
When you get saved, when you

567
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,040
commit your life to God, what
are you supposed to do with all

568
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,720
your friends and family?
Walk away, right?

569
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:23,800
Get rid of them, abandoned them
because yeah, hey, that's not

570
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,640
the church that I went to, John.
That's not where I grew up

571
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:32,640
because I grew up in a church
where they were allowed, but

572
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,960
they weren't welcome, right.
And we had a, we had a bus

573
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,240
ministry and, and, and Christy
and I, we got to serve on this

574
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:42,880
bus ministry and in the hearts
of the leaders in that, in that

575
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,440
ministry, men, they bled for
those kids.

576
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,720
We were a cloverleaf.
We were at the Blue Ridge

577
00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:49,680
Apartments.
We were over on on Duck Rd. in

578
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:56,320
Grandview, but when we showed up
at church, they were the others.

579
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,080
They were the second class
citizens.

580
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,200
They were the ones that are
like, I don't want the bus kids

581
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:02,680
sitting with my kids in Sunday
school.

582
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,000
And that's what I heard a lot of
ways.

583
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,640
And a lot of the teachers
struggled because man, they love

584
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,000
those kids so much.
But there was other people in

585
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,040
the church.
They're like, I don't know why

586
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,280
we do this, why we do we allow
them in.

587
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,520
So we have to listen to the
right voices and here's what I'm

588
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,480
going to lean into you guys, and
here's what I'm going to

589
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,040
challenge you with.
What are the voices in this

590
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,680
invalids life that were holding
him back?

591
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,880
We read it here in John chapter
5.

592
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,160
When he gets up and he's walking
and he's carrying his mat, what

593
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,480
were the voices of religion of
his day doing?

594
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,320
They were accusing him.
They were accosting him.

595
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,000
They were judging him.
They're like, what are you

596
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,000
doing?
You were breaking the Sabbath.

597
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,480
You were doing the thing that
you're not allowed to do.

598
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,440
You were working because they
forgot what Jesus knew.

599
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,040
And you'll see Jesus in the
Gospel so many times challenged

600
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,920
the the leaders and the
religious leaders of that day by

601
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:59,560
doing healings on the Sabbath
because he knew for a fact,

602
00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:03,680
because he was there in the
beginning that man, it wasn't

603
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,160
made for the Sabbath.
Sabbath was made for men.

604
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,640
It was a time of rest.
It was a time of restoration.

605
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,120
It was a time of healing.
And that's what Jesus was doing

606
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:13,600
on the Sabbath.
And so when he healed the

607
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,000
invalid and told him to get up
and walk, and Jesus was the

608
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,160
right voice, but the Pharisees
and the people who are around

609
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,880
him, they were the wrong voices.
So what does that mean for you?

610
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,480
What does that mean for me?
And sometimes it does mean that

611
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,400
we need a new tribe.
Sometimes we need, we need some

612
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,640
new influences in our life.
We need some new people speaking

613
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,800
truth in our life.
And here's how I look at it.

614
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,560
Is that because I get this
question and people get saved

615
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:40,560
and they commit their lives to
Christ and they walk in these

616
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,000
doors and, and they start
becoming family with you.

617
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:46,240
But here's their question for
me, like what do I do with this

618
00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:49,680
group of people that I've just
done life with for the last X

619
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,160
number of years?
Do I kick them to the curb?

620
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:55,640
Or do I do what John says,
invite him to church even though

621
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,400
they're not going to come?
I mean, here's here's here would

622
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,600
be my advice for you.
I think it's a both end.

623
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,360
You can be a witness to the
people that you've done life

624
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,280
with forever.
But what you can't do is allow

625
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,920
them to influence you in a way
that they don't understand what

626
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,640
God's called for you in your
life.

627
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,360
Right?
Because here's the thing,

628
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,480
they're still stuck around the
pool.

629
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,560
They're still looking into the
pool for their salvation, for

630
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,840
their identity, for their
meaning, for their purpose.

631
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,640
And when you get up and walk,
they don't understand it.

632
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,000
When you change your habits,
your lifestyle, what you live

633
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,760
for, what you bleed for, what
you give to, what you serve, a

634
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,440
lot of them don't understand.
They don't know.

635
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,080
Why do you get up on a Sunday
morning, Come set up?

636
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,160
Why do you come to a life group?
Why do you lead a life group?

637
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,240
Why do you open your home to
people that you're not related

638
00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:52,720
to?
They don't understand that.

639
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,880
Now, does that mean we kick them
out of our lives?

640
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,360
Absolutely not, because you are
the light in their lives that

641
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,120
maybe God's going to use to
bring them people that are far

642
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,880
from God back to him.
But you have to realize that the

643
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,360
right voices in your life are
the ones that are going to

644
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,200
challenge you, going to push
you, going to help you find some

645
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,720
wisdom.
And it's probably not the old

646
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:19,080
crew.
It's not the people that you've

647
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,600
sat for the last 38 years with
around the pool.

648
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,680
And God loves them.
And I'm not telling you not to

649
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,760
love them.
You have to ask yourself who is

650
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,760
influencing you?
Who is has your ear?

651
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:32,920
If you've got a problem, who do
you go to?

652
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:37,800
Who has your best in mind?
Because in the times where I'm

653
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,440
going to tell you the Christian
life, it's not always on the

654
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,960
mountaintop.
It's a roller coaster.

655
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:45,240
Sometimes it's up and down.
Ask anybody that has walked with

656
00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:47,080
Jesus for years and years and
years and they'll tell you the

657
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,680
same thing, that they they love
Jesus more than they did when

658
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,520
they first met him.
But life hasn't always been

659
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,960
easy.
And what happens in a community

660
00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:00,320
like this is that when you are
in the in in the times of of

661
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,520
hard and you've gotten kicked.
And I know so many people that I

662
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,640
can go to and talk to in this
church right now when I get in

663
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,760
that spot.
But the people that even some of

664
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,560
my own family, people that I
work with, people that I've been

665
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,160
friends with for years, I can't
ask him those same questions

666
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,960
because they don't have the same
values that I have.

667
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,480
They don't have the same
perspective that I have is

668
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,560
because because they haven't
found and met Jesus yet.

669
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,480
It doesn't mean that God doesn't
love them, like I said, but

670
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,600
they're not going to believe for
the same things that I care

671
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,320
about.
So you have to have the right

672
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:42,160
voices #5 #5 you have to make
different choices.

673
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:44,440
You have to make different
choices.

674
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,520
Proverbs 2611.
Man, I love the Bible.

675
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:51,600
If anybody ever says the Bible
is boring, it's not real, man.

676
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,840
They just haven't read it.
I love this verse.

677
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,000
I've always loved it.
And maybe you've heard it and

678
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,480
you don't realize what it was
talking about, but here's what

679
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,520
it is.
Proverbs 2611.

680
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,640
As a dog returns to its vomit,
so fools repeat their folly.

681
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,680
Anybody got dogs?
It was so good the first time

682
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,160
that I wanted the second time,
right?

683
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,720
What a picture.
And when you're in the midst of

684
00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:20,520
it and you see your dog do it,
it's not just a picture.

685
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:25,560
You get the whole gambit, right?
The sights, the smells, and I

686
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,400
love, well, I don't know if my
wife's in here.

687
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:28,560
I just love listening to her
gag.

688
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:33,200
She's like, what does that have
to do with us?

689
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,880
Jesus?
Jesus comes and this is this is

690
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,280
this is the, this, this is the
thing that comes after the

691
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,560
miracle, right?
And we didn't see it in this

692
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,040
clip, but Jesus comes and finds
the guy in the temple after the

693
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,880
healing, after the Pharisees are
like, who did this?

694
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,280
Who, who, who told you to get up
and carry your mat?

695
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,960
Jesus finds this guy in the
temple and says, Hey, I want to

696
00:49:54,960 --> 00:50:00,320
tell you one more thing.
Don't sin anymore or something

697
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,320
worse could happen to you.
Now, I don't know what Jesus

698
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,280
meant by that in the sense of
like what particularly meant for

699
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,040
this guy.
Maybe there's something this guy

700
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:11,600
had done.
Maybe there's, there's a,

701
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,600
there's, there's a sin that this
guy had committed that, you

702
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,720
know, he became an envelope that
I don't know.

703
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,040
And here's the thing in church,
oftentimes we look to the things

704
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,560
and we preach about the things
that are done to us and we don't

705
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,000
have any control over.
And man, God redeems all of

706
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,360
those things as well.
But let's just be honest, a lot

707
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:35,360
of the situations that we find
ourselves in, we put ourselves

708
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,000
there right in a moment of
honesty.

709
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,800
We could all think of something
that is going on in our lives or

710
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,320
has happened to us in the past
where we did that.

711
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,000
That was our sin, and we have to
own it.

712
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,840
And so when Jesus comes and
confronts him, a lot of people

713
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,160
see that confrontation as an act
of like, you know, putting his

714
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,200
finger in his chest.
You know, that warning is just

715
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:00,680
like, don't do this, don't screw
up.

716
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,680
But here's what I see it as.
I see it as an act of

717
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,640
compassion.
I think Jesus was doing an act

718
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,880
of love, saying, hey, man, don't
sin anymore.

719
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:20,800
Change, choose a different way
and God's not calling us to not

720
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:23,160
sin because that makes us
perfect before God.

721
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:27,840
I'm not standing up.
I'm the last person up here that

722
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,160
is perfect.
That's why I love the

723
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,880
opportunity to get up here
because in, in in the reality I

724
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,920
see what God does in my life and
how I screw up every day.

725
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:43,120
And the grace that God shows is,
is so powerful that I know that

726
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,640
it's there for every person.
And so when God calls us not to

727
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,560
sin, it's not to establish a
relationship as being a perfect

728
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,040
person and having it all figured
out.

729
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,680
And now I'm acceptable to God.
But it's the same thing as is,

730
00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:59,120
is, is is any great
relationship, whether it's a

731
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,040
parent, child, or whether it's a
husband and wife.

732
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:03,840
Those relationships aren't
perfect, are they?

733
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,160
But can I tell you, like when I
see my kids willfully

734
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,600
disobedient and do the wrong
thing, then it hurts.

735
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,120
And I think that's what happens
with us and God.

736
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,640
It's not that God stops loving
us, but God wants something

737
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:22,040
better for us.
And so when when Jesus is asking

738
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,040
this invalid in warning him and
saying, hey, don't sin anymore

739
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,480
and it's an act of love, it's an
act of compassion.

740
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,200
And that same warning applies to
each one of us.

741
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:35,560
We can't go run back to the pool
because for us it's sin.

742
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:40,320
And we can all think of
situations where a man, God

743
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:44,080
redeemed us, but we could have
been lost so easy.

744
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,560
Maybe you were in a maybe you
were in the streets.

745
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,280
Maybe you were in drugs.
Maybe you were running the

746
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,680
running a life that was going to
destroy you.

747
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,320
And then God found you while you
were an enemy, while you were a

748
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,280
blasphemer, while you had
nothing to do for God.

749
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,160
And now that you've come back to
God and you're not far anymore,

750
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,120
why would you be the dog that
runs back to the vomit?

751
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,920
Why do we run back as human
beings, even as Christians to

752
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,080
the things that we know don't
bring peace, security, love,

753
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:18,040
hope, freedom or identity or
meaning, but we do Jesus

754
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:22,360
warnings don't do that because
there's nothing in that for you.

755
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,480
You are a new creature of
creation, man.

756
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,760
I've created you to do something
bigger, better.

757
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,600
And that's is the first step of
getting off the ground.

758
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,640
And I want to wrap this up with
with one last thought.

759
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,480
Here's where I want to put AI
want to put a package on this, a

760
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,920
bow on that package.
And there's there's a verse from

761
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,160
from Revelation.
It's it's Revelation 12, verse

762
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:44,640
11.
And I think this is going to sum

763
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,720
up everything for us is we have
the idea of getting off the

764
00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:50,960
ground because we're not meant
to live and stay stuck.

765
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,880
And this verse is this, and this
is talking about the enemy.

766
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,160
It's talking about Satan.
It's talking about a war in

767
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:01,560
heaven in in verse 11, it says
this is talking about the

768
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,480
Saints.
They triumphed over him talking

769
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,120
about you talking about me
trying triumphing over our

770
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,680
enemy.
And how do we do that?

771
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:15,000
We triumphed over him by the
blood of the Lamb and by the

772
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,840
word of their testimony.
I was talking about social media

773
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:21,920
and and some of you guys are
savvy.

774
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,360
Some of you guys are are just
like experts in it.

775
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:30,480
And I'm a partaker.
You know, I don't have a TikTok.

776
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:32,840
You don't see me influencing.
You won't see me put posting

777
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,160
anything on Facebook.
So if you're looking for that,

778
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,160
don't.
But as I peruse and I find

779
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,840
stuff, there's a pastor that
I've come across.

780
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:42,160
Maybe you've heard of, maybe you
haven't.

781
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,120
He's a, he's a, he's a pastor, a
preacher out of a landing named

782
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,560
Philip Anthony Mitchell.
And I see some of these clips

783
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:52,120
that I listen to his sermons and
I'm going to steal, I'm not

784
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,400
going to borrow, I'm going to
steal one of his clips here in a

785
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,600
second.
But man, he challenges his

786
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:02,280
church man to live for the
holiness of God, to be people

787
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,280
that, that, that are living for,
for a passion and a power of the

788
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,040
Holy Spirit in their lives.
And there's a clip that that I

789
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,240
came across and, and when I was
preparing for this, this message

790
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,920
and this verse came to mind.
I mean, it is so powerful and it

791
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:21,000
ties into it and it has the idea
of getting off the ground,

792
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:22,680
right?
Because what holds us on the

793
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,640
ground so many times are the
things that that not only have

794
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,720
been done to us, but more
importantly, what we've done.

795
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,440
And so we, we look back at our
past and you're like, Sean, you

796
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:32,280
don't know what happened.
You don't know what I did,

797
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,160
Barry.
You didn't see how I reacted in

798
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,320
that situation, how I treated
somebody, how I've lived, how

799
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,480
I've wasted, how I've thrown
things away.

800
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,360
You look back at your past, you
don't think you're worthy.

801
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,520
And that's what this guy's
testimony is.

802
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,040
But I love what he said in this,
in this idea is this.

803
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:57,160
And it's simply if it's under
the blood, it's a weapon for

804
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,920
God.
You guys feel me.

805
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:05,800
Your past, no matter what you've
done, if you've come to God, is

806
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:10,160
no longer your past.
It is a weapon formed underneath

807
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,320
the blood of the Christ.
Because what it shows is, is no

808
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,640
matter what you've done, what
you've been through, where

809
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:19,640
you've gone, who you've been,
the blood covers it.

810
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:24,000
And man, when the grace of God
shows up and the blood covers

811
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,920
it, then it's the power of the
blood.

812
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,920
It's the power of the cross.
And if it's under the blood,

813
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,280
it's, it's, it's the power of
the Great Commission.

814
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:39,160
It's the power of the Christ.
So our battle is this.

815
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,680
The reason that we stay stuck on
the ground is we look at our

816
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:45,320
past.
We look at our brokenness and we

817
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,280
don't see it through the blood.
We don't see how Jesus sees our

818
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,200
lives because we see the pain
and the hurt that we've done to

819
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,800
other people.
And that's all we see it for.

820
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,400
But we don't see it as a
testimony like in Revelations

821
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,720
chapter 12.
That weapon has taken our past

822
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:07,720
and turned it into a testimony
that God uses as a weapon to

823
00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:10,520
break down the gates of hell.
But what does our enemy do?

824
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,400
He takes it and he throws it and
he puts it in your face and says

825
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,920
get back on the ground.
But that's not what God's called

826
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,200
us to.
That's not what God's called us

827
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,520
from.
So today, if you're stuck on the

828
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:27,320
ground, I want you to think of
it in this, in this context,

829
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,600
what is the last thing that you
just told this guy to do?

830
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,160
Pick up what?
Pick up that mat, right?

831
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:39,800
What did that Matt symbolize?
It symbolized several different

832
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:41,000
things.
If he would have stayed there,

833
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,520
it would have symbolized his
space to stay around the pool.

834
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,680
But in this context, his Matt
was his past.

835
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:54,280
When he picked up that Matt,
Jesus says you take that because

836
00:57:54,280 --> 00:58:01,080
this is your testimony of the
grace, the love, the power of

837
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:05,240
Jesus in your life.
So today God is calling you to

838
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,160
pick up your get off the ground,
pick up your mat and walk out of

839
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:12,720
here because your testimony to
your friends, to your family, to

840
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:16,280
this church isn't forgetting
about everything that's

841
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,880
happened.
It's about the redemption of

842
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:24,320
your past man.
It is the power, it is the love,

843
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:28,600
it is the security, it's the
freedom, it's the identity of

844
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:33,840
Jesus in your life.
When you walk out of here today

845
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,520
with your mat, walk with your
head high.

846
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:41,000
You're like, I'm not perfect,
but I can point you to the one

847
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:44,560
that told me to get up off the
ground and that's why I'm

848
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,280
carrying my mat today and I'm
going to point to him.

849
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:51,920
Would you guys pray with me?
God, we come before you.

850
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,320
God, what a reminder as we as we
look at the man that you healed

851
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:00,880
in John chapter 5 and as the
picture of every last one of us

852
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,880
in this room.
God, we came before you and met

853
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,000
you in a spot where we couldn't
do anything different.

854
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:10,960
We were broken, we were we were
lame, we had no hope, and then

855
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:15,680
we were stuck and we were pinned
to the ground until you showed

856
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,680
up.
So I want to pray for two

857
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:21,920
different groups of people today
and we do this all the time.

858
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,920
But today, first group, I want
to pray for Christians, man,

859
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,000
maybe you've been you've, you've
gone back to the vomit.

860
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,800
You've picked up that sin that
you thought you were done with,

861
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:38,840
an attitude, an addiction, an
identity, one that God doesn't

862
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,440
have for you anymore, and got
something called you out of

863
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,480
something bigger.
But man, you ran back to it.

864
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,320
Man, you don't have to be stuck
to the ground anymore.

865
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,560
And if you're a Christian today,
in this moment, in this silence,

866
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:56,600
and God's called you to
something awesome, but it's

867
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,680
going to cost you something.
It's going to it's going to

868
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,920
require you to do something
scary because he's not going to

869
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,400
force you.
He's not going to do anything

870
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,440
against your will.
And if you want to be well, God

871
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:08,600
asks you that question, Do you
want to be well?

872
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,480
It will never be against your
will.

873
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,880
So if if you're here as a
Christian day man, take this

874
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:20,080
moment and pray to God and just
give him back your heart because

875
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,520
he never left.
He's been waiting here this

876
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:27,320
whole time.
God, you see your people, God

877
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,520
you see the people that that
serve, that give that love you.

878
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:36,880
God I pray as they pray that you
align their hearts with what you

879
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:38,520
call them to do and what they
know.

880
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,200
God, I pray you give them the
strength to take that next step,

881
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:45,600
to do that scary thing, to ask
that hard question, to look at

882
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:49,320
that pool that they've looked at
for hope and security and man

883
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,080
get up and walk away from that
and walk to Jesus plus nothing.

884
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:55,800
I want to pray for one last
group.

885
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,120
Maybe you're online, maybe
you're in person, maybe you've

886
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:01,240
never met God.
You don't know the hope and the

887
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,600
power of the gospel.
You don't have anything under

888
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,240
the blood and you're stuck
hoping that somebody drags you

889
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,120
to that pool because that's your
salvation.

890
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:14,120
That's your hope.
But maybe in this moment you've

891
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,360
come to a realization that you
were created for something

892
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,800
bigger than that.
That you know that that

893
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,800
temporary water isn't your hope,
it's not your security, whether

894
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:28,280
that's a relationship, a job and
influence, a car, whatever that

895
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:31,080
might be, that security never
lasts.

896
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,200
And today you're ready to come
home to the family of God the

897
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,280
Father, the creator of the
universe.

898
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,240
And Jesus is calling me, asking
you a question.

899
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:44,200
Do you want to be well?
And if your answer is yes, man,

900
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:47,400
it is so easy, man.
It's going to cost you

901
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,560
everything, but it's the easiest
thing that you can do because

902
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,920
you can't earn it.
You can only accept it.

903
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:02,080
Do you want to be?
Well, if you do, and I'm going

904
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,480
to give you a prayer, this
prayer doesn't save you.

905
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,000
It's not magic, it's not a
ritual.

906
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:08,960
There's nothing special about
it.

907
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,680
But what it does is going to
reveal your heart that you have

908
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,640
before God.
So if you're ready to say yes to

909
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:18,280
God today and you're ready to be
accepted into God's family and

910
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:19,440
pray something along these
lines.

911
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:23,000
God, man, I'm tired of being
broken.

912
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,880
God tired.
I'm tired of being pinned down

913
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:29,040
to the ground.
God, I want the power of Christ

914
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:33,160
in my life.
God, come in, heal me.

915
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:37,160
Take this lameness away.
God, take this insecurity of the

916
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:38,200
things that I've been looking
to.

917
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,160
God, help me to walk away from
my sin.

918
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:41,920
God, help me to give my life to
you.

919
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:44,320
God, I call you Father.
I call you ABBA.

920
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:49,360
God, I want to be in the family.
God, I give you my today.

921
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:54,440
I give you my forever God.
I pray this in Jesus name, Amen.

922
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,080
Can we give it a round of
applause for everybody that

923
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,160
prayed that prayer?
Man, I love hanging without with

924
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,160
you guys at the movie.
Man, get off the ground today.

925
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:08,120
And what a powerful reminder to
get up off the ground and put

926
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:11,240
our faith in Jesus.
And maybe today, today is the

927
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,400
day you decided to put your
faith in Jesus for the very

928
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:14,960
first time.
I just want to say

929
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:17,080
congratulations on behalf of
Real Life Church.

930
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:20,040
We're so excited for you.
This is a big step and we want

931
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:21,480
to make sure that you're not
going to do it alone.

932
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:23,400
We want to be there with you
every step of the way.

933
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,480
That's why we have some
resources for you.

934
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,040
So please make sure you guys
mark that connection card that

935
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,000
you made a decision for Jesus.
Drop it in the box.

936
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,720
We want to make sure that we can
mail a book to you.

937
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:34,400
It's just a really short read.
If you're not a reader, it's

938
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,000
about 100 your pages.
It's called begin, but it's just

939
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,760
a really good book to help you
to get started on your

940
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,800
relationship with God.
We also have a Bible for you and

941
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:44,360
some other resources back in the
back.

942
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:47,800
So make sure as you're walking
out, grab a red by a red bag.

943
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:51,200
I'm sorry, that has a Bible in
it for you just from us and so

944
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:55,080
we can be just be there for you.
If you are new here today, we

945
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:56,800
want to say welcome.
Would you guys join me in

946
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:58,840
welcoming everybody who's brand
new in the building?

947
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,160
We are so glad that you chose to
spend your Sunday here with us

948
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:03,960
at Real Life Church.
We are honored.

949
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:06,680
We are our guest.
We hope that you felt welcomed.

950
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,040
We hope that you feel
encouraged.

951
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:10,240
We also hope you stop by our new
here booth on the way out.

952
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,680
If you haven't yet grabbed your
free gift from us, it should be

953
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,040
right on the way outside the
door.

954
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,600
And we also just hope that you
come back next week, bring

955
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:19,200
somebody with you, come back and
visit us.

956
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:21,720
We would love an opportunity to
love on you a little bit more

957
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:23,320
and to get to know you and your
family.

958
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,960
So make sure to come back and
join us next week.

959
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,440
But I want to talk to those of
you that are here each and every

960
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:33,640
week at Real Life Church about
why we give here at Real Life

961
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,080
and and what your money does
here.

962
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:41,440
We today are taking 35 teenagers
and leaders to youth camp.

963
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:45,280
Isn't that exciting?
So be praying for our leaders,

964
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,200
be praying for the campers that
go.

965
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,720
But I also specifically want to
talk to you about your

966
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,720
generosity and how it makes a
difference in ministries just

967
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:54,360
like this.
When you give here at real Life

968
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:56,120
Church, it's not just for Sunday
morning.

969
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,240
It's for all of the ministries
specifically for ministries like

970
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,280
real life youth that are
impacting teenagers.

971
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:03,800
And I can tell you for me
personally, this makes such a

972
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,440
huge difference.
I have two of my very own girls

973
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,880
that are going to this youth
camp that are invested in this

974
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:11,560
ministry.
And it's so important for us to

975
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:14,280
be able to give back and best in
our kids here.

976
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,200
Amen.
And for us to be able to be a

977
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:18,680
part of helping to impact that
next generation.

978
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,400
So when you guys give here at
real life church or giving to

979
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:24,160
things like camp and we have a
ton of teenagers that are

980
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,120
leaving and they're they're
leaving all of the world behind

981
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,960
here, their technology, all of
the things so they can go get

982
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,040
impacted by God, right?
We have some teens that are

983
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:33,720
gonna go they're gonna, they're
gonna start a relationship with

984
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:36,200
Jesus for the very first time.
We have teens that are gonna go

985
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,880
that maybe are gonna let go of
some stuff, that maybe have some

986
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,120
addictions, maybe have some
attitudes and things that are

987
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,440
really, really hard for them
that they're gonna be able to

988
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,440
let go.
Maybe this camp is going to be

989
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,240
the first opportunity for them
to really go all in for God.

990
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,400
Maybe they've been holding back.
And when you guys give here at

991
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:53,720
Real Life Church, you're giving
to ministries like this.

992
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:56,400
And when the kids from camp come
back and they're celebrating

993
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,280
with their families, they're not
just celebrating with mom and

994
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,280
dad.
You guys get to celebrate with

995
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,280
them as well because you took a
part in investing in them.

996
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:05,960
So if you're not yet giving to
our church, I just want to

997
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:07,880
encourage you.
This is a great opportunity for

998
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,240
you to start.
There's going to be plenty of

999
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,720
opportunities and ways on the
screen for you to give.

1000
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:15,480
So today's the day for you to go
all in.

1001
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,080
If you guys are more like a
check, writing a check person or

1002
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:21,480
cash, we have a box in the back
if you guys want to drop

1003
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:23,560
something back there.
We also have some buckets

1004
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,040
they're going to pass by in just
a second.

1005
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:26,360
You guys can drop money in
there.

1006
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:28,840
And I just want to say if you
guys are here and you're going

1007
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,880
through some tough stuff, real
life churches for you and we

1008
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:33,640
want to make sure that we're
supporting your family.

1009
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,240
If you're going through a time
of need, maybe you need food or

1010
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:38,200
clothing or shelter.
Please reach in those buckets as

1011
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,840
they pass by and grab any loose
cash that you see in there so we

1012
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:43,120
can bless your family in this
time.

1013
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:46,880
Need.
All right, one quick thing

1014
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,680
before you go on your seat.
There is a little invite card.

1015
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:52,840
We call those bring invitations
around here, but grab those

1016
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:54,440
cards and take them with you
this week.

1017
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,720
I know if you're like me, you're
leaving encouraged, maybe a

1018
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:01,680
little bit challenged in a good
way to get up and take your mat

1019
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,080
and live differently.
But we can't have Jesus be the

1020
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:07,200
best kept secret in town.
So grab those cards, take them

1021
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:10,240
with you, invite somebody who's
maybe close to you but far from

1022
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,120
God, maybe their neighbor,
family, a friend, but invite.

1023
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:17,200
We'd love to see you guys back
here next week at 9:15 and

1024
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,280
10:45.
If you or your family need

1025
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,920
prayer this morning, we would
love to pray with you for you

1026
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,600
over you and your family today.
You can head on up to the front

1027
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,080
of the stage at the end of the
gathering.

1028
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:27,480
We would love to do that with
you.

1029
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:31,440
And remember, whoever finds
Jesus discovers real life and

1030
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:32,400
purpose.
Love.

1031
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:38,720
You guys have a great week.
This is the end of this podcast.

1032
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:41,360
We hope you've enjoyed it.
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1033
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:43,800
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1034
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:45,800
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1035
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,280
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1036
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:48,680
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