Heaven is Bigger Than Your Pain - Heaven - Part 7

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Have you thought of what it
means to be through at all?

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Because there's probably some of
you guys that are in the middle

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of it all right in this very
moment.

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You've walked through these
doors and you didn't know where

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else to be.
I've heard some really some some

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really cool stories about horror
stories this week.

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It's getting a little emotional
because I think of where I think

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of where people are and even the
midst of that.

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I love that phrase that we've
just worshipped in it as well.

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If you are a child of God and
can say it as well, man, what a

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blessing.
What an awesome opportunity to

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worship.
If you're not here today and you

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can't say that, my prayer is at
the end of the day that you can

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say it as well.
So today, instead of a shout or

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a praise, and can we just say a
big Amen to it as well?

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Amen, man.
It is so awesome, man.

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I love worship with you guys.
Just to come in, in this moment

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of community, just as a family,
just to just to give some praise

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back to God and be able to sell
it as well.

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Man, what a great thing.
So I want to recognize some new

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people today, man, we have a lot
of new people in person or

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online.
Can we show those guys some love

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real life?
Give them a round of applause,

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man.
I'm so thankful you guys are

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here washing it with this at
this gathering at Kentucky Trail

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of real life.
Hey, take this opportunity.

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Take 30 seconds and greet
somebody around you, would you?

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All right, you guys can go ahead
and be seated, man.

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Hey, as you're sitting down, you
guys are getting ready to sit

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down on something awesome called
a connection card, man.

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This is for everybody in the
house today.

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If you're if you call real life
home, we love it when you fill

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us out, man.
Let us know what's going on in

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your life.
We love having conversations

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with you guys.
And one of the best ways that we

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get to know what's happening is
if you've got this connection

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card, maybe it's a praise, maybe
something you've been praying

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for for a long time.
God answered.

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Maybe it's a prayer request.
Maybe you're going through

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something in the middle of it.
You're through go trying to go

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through it all right now and we
would love to have it.

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Our leaders get this in and they
pray over these cars.

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They reach out to you guys.
So if you call real life home,

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please fill this out.
If you guys are new, I'm going

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to make a promise.
We're not going to ask anything

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else from you today except for
one simple thing.

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We would love for you to give us
an introduction and that

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introduction is just a way for
us to reach out to you.

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You can fill out the top of the
car to the level you're

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comfortable with.
We're not going to beat your

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house or anything weird, but we
want to know about who we are,

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real life, what we're doing.
And then we more importantly

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want you to know that God loves
you and we love you.

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And everything that we do kind
of filters out of this mission

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statement that we have.
And that mission is this is to

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see people far from God discover
their real life and their

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purpose in Jesus.
And when you're going through it

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all, people get wrecked, the
world throws them away.

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And maybe you've been there
where you, you, your friend

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group has disappeared because of
whatever reason.

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Maybe you're sick or you're not
as funny as you used to be or

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whatever.
And in the moment of our

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loneliness and our, our, our,
our isolation, you still have a

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creator that's looking for you.
So when we come in here, we get

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to introduce people to Jesus and
we gather not out of some other

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common interest or just
something belief other than

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Jesus.
And when we get to introduce

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people to Jesus, we fulfill that
mission.

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We feel that Commission.
So man, we are excited that

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you're here with us today and we
would invite you to be on that

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mission with us.
We're in the middle of an

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awesome message series.
For for.

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For a lot of us, we look at our
life and we look in the past.

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We think, man, everything that
is good and great has already

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happened.
Our best days are behind us.

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And that's not true, absolutely
not true.

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And there's good things about
having plans and goals and

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aspirations, but what if our
aspiration, really, if our goal

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is to have clarity about what
God has for us in our future,

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for our eternity, what heaven
looks like.

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And there's very few times that
you ever hear a sermon about

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heaven other than in passing.
And so it's been really an

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awesome pleasure to hear, you
know, Pastor Sean opened God's

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word and just share with us a
vision of what God has for us.

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It brings clarity to our life
and bring expectation, brings

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anticipation to know what what
God has for us.

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We've talked about what heaven
looks like, what we're going to

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be doing there.
And so today we're going to

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continue in that message series.
So real life, would you guys put

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your hands together, bring up
Pastor Sean as we continue.

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Heaven.
Good morning, guys.

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Man, I'm glad to be back among
the living.

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Amen.
I was sick a little bit last

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week, just a little bit.
We won't go in the details, but

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first of all, it is well, Amen.
I can just hear you guys

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singing, which is amazing.
This message today is going to

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lean right into that.
Before jump in, I'll say thank

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you guys.
They're a new or new to real

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life.
Can you guys give it up for

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everybody's newer newer Come on,
we just love you guys being

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here.
Last week we had our welcome

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party and we had 19 like newer
people to our to our church and

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dine had been out of town for
like a month.

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So I introduced her and I was
like, hey, just so you know, I

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do have a wife.
This is Diane.

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So you haven't been better yet.
But man, those guys just

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blessing to share a vision a
harder church.

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A lot of them have jumped on our
serve team today.

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So see people serving their
their new but give it to those

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guys went to the welcome party.
Amen.

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Let them know you love them.
There's one more group of people

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I want to thank that are just
making a tremendous difference

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in this season.
And it's those that are open up

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their house, they open up the
word of God.

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They're open really their soul
and their heart to you guys.

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It's our life group leaders.
And so give it up for our life

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group leaders.
Amen.

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It's been fun.
It's been 2 weeks in and to hear

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the stories of all the people
that have been going to groups,

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I like to ask people, hey, how's
it going and just people getting

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back in the word of God spouses,
there's a lot of ladies that are

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kind of dragging their spouse
along, which is kind of fun to

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watch and people are open the
Bibles and the way groups,

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people memorizing the scripture.
How many guys memorize your

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first scripture this year that
you may not memorize in years

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and years near a show of hands.
Some of you guys memorize some

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scripture that's pretty good.
Amen.

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Come on, somebody.
And it's amazing.

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We go most of our life we don't
read the Bible.

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We're not in the Bible.
And I'll encourage you guys to

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jump into a group.
We're not a group yet.

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And not all the groups are are
geared towards just going to the

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Bible.
But if you need to be cared for,

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you need to jump in a group.
And so I encourage you, if

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you're not in the group, you
come on Sunday, you sit, you go,

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you're probably not going to
receive the care you really need

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unless you get into a group.
Amen.

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We have people that love you,
they care for you, they'll pray

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for you.
That knows go on your life and

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really show you things of God
and that's how you grow.

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You take leaps around people.
So I encourage you guys, this is

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the beginning of the third week
got amazing groups and they're

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they're full.
There's a lot of people going to

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groups.
And so I encourage you guys to

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jump in even even stay not
behind the ball.

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Amen.
A few weeks in.

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So I want to share something
that's really cool and just

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celebrate this a few weeks ago.
We do not get to this very

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often, so it's kind of like once
in blue moon kind of thing, but

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we got to donate a car that
somebody done to us a few weeks

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ago to somebody in need and it
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There's a young man that's been
going to our church and it's one

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of those stories it's hard for
me to relate to because this

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person started out in kind of
the gang life and just has seen

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a lot of loss, a lot of pain, a
lot of things and has been

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struggling.
But it's like struggling

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forward.
And this person is like

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motivated and striving and
walking to work and, you know,

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rain, sleet, snow, whatever, and
just trying to make things work,

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reading books, all sorts of
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And so I talked to young man, I
said, hey, look, I got this car,

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but if you get a license, I'd
get this car to you because he's

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been between a license and he's
been working on his license.

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A few weeks ago, he showed up
and had some paperwork.

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He was super stoked.
He said, dude, I'm right there.

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That's OK, let's meet up this
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I've been holding this car for a
while and, and hold it for him.

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He knew that.
And so let's meet up.

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And I made him up at his job and
he had told me he's like, man, I

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called my mom before you got
here and it was just so excited

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because that's what you do when
you're excited, you call your

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mom.
Amen.

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You know what I mean?
And like mom, I got a car, you

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know, and this person's really
never received something to

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really that level or anything
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And it's my life.
He was so thankful and we drove

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around to drop the car and this
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And he just kept saying, I don't
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I don't know how to thank you.
And I said, you don't have to

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thank me, man.
Like you just thank God, Amen.

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Like this is a gift that
somebody passed to us.

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We're just passing on to you.
And I told him, I said, the only

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thing I'm going to ask you to do
is that one day when you have

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the opportunity and you will,
and you have the means when God

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puts in your heart to give
something away that's irrational

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to somebody else in need.
And maybe it's a car and maybe

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it's a home.
Maybe it's some somebody moving

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in.
Whatever it is, I ask you to do

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it because it's way more fun.
I was actually in the back seat

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at this point because somebody
else is chauffeuring us around,

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which is pretty cool.
I'm in the back seat and I'm

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like, hey look is so much more
fun and so much more full of joy

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to give than receive.
And it's way more fun to send

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the back seat this car and watch
you be excited because I've been

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in the front seat before.
Amen.

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I've had people give things to
me I'd never ask for.

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I'm not the kind of guy that's
going to do that, but I've had

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people bless my life.
And I'm just telling you it is

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way more fun to give than
receive.

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Amen.
So this man was completely

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humbled, you can tell.
And I'm excited for him.

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He can level up, get a different
job because he's been walking

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everywhere and there's excise
what God's going to do and just

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we get the opportunity to do
that to people.

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Amen.
It's irrational generosity.

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Like we we could have sold the
car like we're we're saving

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money for a building, right?
But you see him, you're like,

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man, I'm going to get behind
that.

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I'm going to plant some seeds in
that.

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I'm going to encourage that.
Real interesting kind of side

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note.
Now I'm just going to say this

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because I can, I'm the pastor,
so we'll do that.

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But last time I gave a car away,
I got some Flack from people,

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man, there was a few people like
I didn't get a car.

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Kind of heard that through the
wind of the church and I was

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like, so somebody's upset they
didn't get a car.

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That's interesting.
So I'm just going to let you

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know that somebody getting
blessed doesn't take away from

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your blessing.
Amen.

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God is not short on cars.
Just so you know, he was Oprah

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apparently too.
The guy's not short on cars, but

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he is short on people that he
can trust with the car.

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Like it's like the parable the,
the 10 lepers or really a store

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of 10 lepers and he heals all
these lepers, only one comes

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back.
And I'm looking for people and

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we're looking for people that
have the heart towards God and

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it it make it easy to get
blessed, Amen.

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But I will say this, and I've
yet to see this, and this is a

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rule of science, free maturity
is instead of complaining about

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not getting a car, you should be
complaining about not be able to

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give a car away.
That's the level you need to get

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to.
It's like, man, I wish I could

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be in the spot where I had the
means and opportunity and I

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could do that.
And one day you will because

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we're made to be conduits of
God's blessing.

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Amen.
So this is kind of proof for

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thought I'll put out there.
So if I still get some Flack,

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then you'll hear from me next
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But just want to put out there.
I'm, I'm excited to preach

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today.
We're we're back in the series

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on heaven.
We, we kind of had a little

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thing last week, but I just want
to encourage you guys, man, I'm

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excited to preach.
It's been a few weeks.

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Are you guys trying to receive
something today?

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Sad to hear from, from God's
word.

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As always, I'm thinking about
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I want the the things you see in
the scripture to move you and

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change the way you Live Today.
And today's going with those

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like deeper level kind of
conversations.

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Today's really dedicated those
of you that are struggling in

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your faith.
And it could look a lot of ways.

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It could be bad news at home
with your kids or something

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happened to family.
It could be relationship that

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blew up and you and you're
wondering like, man, where's God

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on this?
Like is God still good?

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Like you see pain and suffering
and I'll give you some things

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I've seen even this week.
I I've heard about a lady that

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went through a situation in
childhood trauma that just, it

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really ticks me off, you know,
and you see that kind of stuff

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and then you wonder like, OK,
God, what are you doing?

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And where are you at?
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Are you powerful?
What's going on, right?

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And you see these losses, maybe
like natural disasters where you

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see Camp Majestic, right?
And you see these young girls

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that are swept away to flood.
And you're wondering like, OK,

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God, like, I just don't
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Like, what are you doing?
Like you see his things, like

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there was a Marine that fell off
the USS Iwo Jima just this last

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couple days and they searched
for him for an hour or a day and

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they couldn't find him, right?
They're like, Lord, man, this

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guy's protecting our country and
he's lost at sea.

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And you see these things like
wondering like, God, are you

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real?
Are you good?

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And it today's just dedicate
those that are struggling with

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pain and loss and suffering.
That's all of us.

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And that's what was really
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You're saying it is well.
And like, Lord, help us to

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really meet it because that song
was actually written by a man

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who journeyed over the sea and
his wife and his kids were

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killed as a boat sank.
And so he didn't know about for

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months.
And he traveled over sea to go

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to the funeral for his family.
And he wrote those words over

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the very spot where their ship
sank.

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And you say, I do a Lord of the
winds and the waves.

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And you'd as well with my soul.
Like, that song is written

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complete, utter brokenness.
Amen.

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Now as you want to see today,
like how good God is and to

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leave with those kind of words.
And so we're going to jump into

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our Bibles.
We're going to be in Romans

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chapter 8.
I want you to give you a big

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view of the resurrection power
of Jesus and our vision of

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heaven.
What is that?

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I'm hearing something.
Maybe it's just me.

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I thought Siri was talking to
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Romans 8, verse 18.
This is Paul talking and it's

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going to seem a little try at
the beginning, but we're going

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to get there.
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I consider that our present
suffering that are earthly

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suffering, that all the pain we
walk through, he says, are not

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worth what comparing with the
glory that were revealed in US.

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And Paul, if we taught us
before, he'd actually been to

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heaven, as he was with Jesus,
Jesus brought him to heaven.

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And so Paul knew like what we're
going through now is like a

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light affliction and it's a
burden.

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And he's like, this isn't worth
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If you spent one minute in
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if you knew what that was really
like and the glory that's been

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revealed in us, we wouldn't be
so worried about the pain and

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suffering here on earth.
And this is where Paul comes

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from.
And my encouragement for you is

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to, to get this vision of heaven
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And so I've been reading this
book.

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There's a buddy of mine, he he
he mentioned it by John Burke,

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imagine heaven.
And he talks about near, near

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death experiences and people
have spent time who have passed

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away and come back and they're,
they're like, they're asking

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from their body.
They don't really know they're

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dead.
They see their body like whoa.

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They see this light.
And for those who come back,

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there's a voice that tells them
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And they go back in their body.
Is that crazy?

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Am I crazy?
I'm just telling you like this,

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this is y'all look at me like,
dude, what's going on?

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Dude, read the book.
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He's got all these stories of
Christians that have like lost

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their life and give them back to
them.

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And and what you see is the
overwhelming presence and joy of

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heaven that awaits us.
And we look at our temporary

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life and we think this is it.
And So what Paul is saying of

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all the courage that he can
muster, and I remember he's 8

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chapters in.
OK, so we're just picking this

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out.
But since I consider our present

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suffering are not worth
comparing with the glory that

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revealed in us that what's
happening right now is so minute

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compared to the glory you can
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Verse 19 says for the creation.
And he's going to make an

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argument here, OK, He says, for
the creation waits in what eager

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expectation for the children of
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So he's not talking about us.
He's talking about the creation

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itself, the stars, the nebula,
chromosomes, like every piece of

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the universe is waiting with
expectation for the resurrection

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power of Jesus, for the children
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And what he's talking about is
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So mountains and atoms and trees
and animals are waiting for

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this.
Verse 20 says for the creation

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was what subjected to
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Man, that sounds like a good
definition of life, right?

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Subjected to frustration.
You think about when when Adam

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fell, it's it's as Adam went,
creation went.

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And when humanity fell, God
cursed the ground that Adam came

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from.
Adam was made from dust, and so

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God cursed the dust and he
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And it wasn't its choice, right?
Like creation itself didn't sin,

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It was the creation of the
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It was us.
And so it's not but its own

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choice, but by the will of the
one who subjected it, that the

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earth or the creation itself was
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But listen in hope.
There's a reason that the

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creation itself will be what
liberated from its bondage to

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decay.
Like the creation knows that it

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is a slave and it's in bondage,
it's under curse and it's dying

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and it wants to be resurrected
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And the creation knows this is
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Creation is groaning and is
expecting the resurrection power

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to fix what is broken.
It says and brought into listen,

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this is pretty amazing, the
freedom and the glory of the

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children of God.
How many of you guys knew that

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the creation itself is actually
looking forward to the

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resurrection power of Jesus.
It is looking forward to being

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brought back to whole to to be
perfected where there's no dying

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and decay and it's looking to
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It knows a timeline is set with
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The creation and the animals and
the trees and the wind and the

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universe and the stars and the
Galaxy are looking to us for

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their freedom.
You're looking for us in our

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redemption to the glory of the
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And so when you think about the
gospel and you read the Bible,

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the gospel is not just good news
for us, it's good news for all

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creation.
It's not just freedom for us.

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It's freedom for all creation.
That's the same resurrection

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power that saves us is the same
resurrection power that's going

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to resurrect our bodies is the
same resurrection power that's

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going to resurrect the earth in
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Amen.
This is like a whole nother

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level.
How many guys are right now

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going, OK, where's this guy
doing?

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Because we don't think about
this very often.

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We don't understand like how
deep the gospel really goes.

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Verse 22 says this.
We know this is Paul talking

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that the whole creation, we talk
about every atom, every

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particle, every star, all the
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It has been groaning, as in the
pains of childbirth right up to

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the present time.
To think about creation actually

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in pain.
To think about hurricanes and

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tornadoes and floods and the
brokenness end up creationist

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crying out in pain as of
childbirth.

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Now you think about childbirth
pain, right?

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Like I can't speak on a whole
lot.

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I'm totally under qualified.
Amen.

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But I've never yet met a mom
that said it wasn't worth it.

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Like my kid was born but the
pain was too great.

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I wish I'd never had kids.
And I'm not trying to minimize

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the pain, Amen.
I'm just trying to maximize the

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prize.
Like there's something being

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born out of life.
Like life is birthing life.

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And there's an expectation that
there's something greater to

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come.
And so these pains are not

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without hope.
Amen.

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And so you see like the hardship
that happens to you and the it's

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just the stories are so crazy.
Like as a pastor, like I hear

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like.
Things you should never know, in

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the brokenness you should never
see.

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And I've got to give a hope and
an answer to reason.

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And all I can tell you is
there's a curse on the earth

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that has broken everything and
it's so deep and it's so

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entrenched, but we're longing
with great expectation for a

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hope of the resurrection power,
Christ, Amen.

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But if your hope is here and
now, you're going to be

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miserable.
Some of y'all posts like that,

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Amen.
Some of y'all like have posted

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as if heaven is even real.
Like we're, we're hope is like,

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well, the dream must happen now,
brother, you're under the curse.

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The dream happens later, Amen.
And so we look around at our

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family and the situations we
want to fix it.

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But here's the thing, if God is
so patient to let all this junk,

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and you can feel a lot of words
in there happen right now, how

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much must you truly love us to
be patiently enduring?

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Because He knows one day there's
a resurrection power coming and

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everything's going to be fixed.
Amen.

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That there's a plan behind the
pain and we miss it so often.

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And so when even the creation
groans, it doesn't groan in

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dreadful pain like in this
bitter jaded pain.

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It groans with expectation of
hope.

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Even creation knows that, and
you think about us as humans who

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should know scripture, who were
created in the image of God.

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When we grown, do we groan with
expectation or do grown as

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bitter as hell?
Because a lot of us just grown

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and we look out and we're so
jaded and so bitter.

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We stopped talking to people.
We stopped going to church

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because we've been hurt by
somebody, which I'm not

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minimizing because some people
have been hurt so bad.

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So I don't blame you, but we
should never blame God.

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And we have a really good night
giving up on people because

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that's what Satan wants us to
do.

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And we play right in the cards
because our hope is found here

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and now and not there and then.
And we got to set our

449
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,160
expectation and our hope in
heaven with great expectation,

450
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,640
with liberation and freedom,
that there's a far better world

451
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,480
being born and it's coming
through us.

452
00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:24,360
Even creation, though, is not
defeated.

453
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,400
Creation knows that the best
days are ahead of it.

454
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,360
We can't forget that either,
Amen.

455
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,280
Creation knows this is not as
good as it gets.

456
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,920
Creation knows this isn't fair
or fun.

457
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,920
Amen.
That there's real pain and real

458
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,880
hurt, but it's like a
childbirth.

459
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,480
Leave verse 23 so not only
mentions creation, Paul's

460
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,640
saying, hey, if this light
affliction or this momentary

461
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:56,080
pain is not to be compared with
the glory to come in heaven, he

462
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,160
says, look, even creation
understands this.

463
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,680
He makes a huge argument and he
turns the corner and he's going

464
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,320
to talk about us In verse 23.
He says not only so, not just

465
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,960
creation, but we ourselves, we
should know this.

466
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:14,600
We have the first fruits of the
spirit, and what Paul's talking

467
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,480
about is in that generation,
this is all first generation

468
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,040
Christians.
They're the first ones born by

469
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,200
the resurrection power of God.
And the way you know that is

470
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,040
because the Spirit of God has
come into us and has made us

471
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,960
alive to God.
Our spirit is resurrected.

472
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,080
There's a party that's already
made complete.

473
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,160
Amen.
That's the soul.

474
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,320
That's your spirit.
When you called on Jesus, that

475
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,200
party was made right with God.
But there's this body.

476
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,920
Come on, somebody that's broken
and decay is still under the

477
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,840
curse.
And so he says we're the first

478
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,320
of the Spirit and says the
spirit groans inwardly as we

479
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,360
wait.
How eagerly, man, are you guys

480
00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,840
excited for heaven?
You're excited for the

481
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,840
resurrection power Christ?
Are you excited for the day when

482
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,040
there's no sin, there's no pain,
there's no evil?

483
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,360
We don't have to lock a door,
look over your shoulder.

484
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,560
You don't have to vote for
somebody because we have a king

485
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,520
already.
You excited for that day?

486
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,600
Would all make sense.
Like we don't have to suffer and

487
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,880
have anxiety and worry about
medication.

488
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,440
We don't have to go to the
doctor.

489
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,040
Hallelujah.
Praise God.

490
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:19,920
No vascular surgeons.
Amen.

491
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,240
He's over there.
He's like, what am I going to do

492
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,480
in heaven?
Oh, man, I'm waiting to see what

493
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:35,040
God puts you.
Yeah, he's going to pour gold.

494
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,840
That's pretty good.
But we wait eagerly for our

495
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,800
adoption to sonship, the
redemption of our bodies.

496
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,080
We are sons of God now.
But think about this and and,

497
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,160
and there's, there's two parts
that we waiting for the adoption

498
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,360
of sonship.
What he's saying is it's not

499
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:57,560
complete yet.
OK, so like in the Roman

500
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,280
culture, you, you are legally
adopted because of paperwork.

501
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,080
So the paperwork's gone through
the the judge has taken the

502
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,080
gavel and said you're adopted as
Christians, we, we have what we

503
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,520
call justification.
It's just as if you'd ever

504
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,720
sinned.
It's a judicial term.

505
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,000
And when Christ died for you and
you believed in Jesus, he took

506
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,400
all those righteous and gave it
to you and took all of your

507
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,840
wrongs and took it on himself.
And he went to electric chair

508
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,240
for you and he paid your
penalty, he paid your hell, he

509
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,520
sets you free.
And because of that, they've,

510
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,120
you're declared righteous, Amen.
So you're adopted into the

511
00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,880
family of God, but you are not
complete yet.

512
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,640
You're not brought home, Amen.
There's a part of you when

513
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,160
you're baptized, and it's not
because you're baptized, but

514
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,480
it's a picture when you're
baptized.

515
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,080
Maybe you're resurrected and
newness of life out of the

516
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,360
water.
You don't, you know that That's

517
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,440
your soul and your spirit.
It's a picture what God did in

518
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,400
your soul and spirit.
That part is made right with

519
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,320
God, Amen.
But this body, as sexy as it

520
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,640
looks, come on somebody, right?
It's still under the curse.

521
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,560
It's a dust that came from a
dust that shall return, that

522
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,920
there's still evil and
brokenness that's in this body.

523
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,160
They say that Jesus lives in
your heart, but grandpa lives in

524
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,640
your bones, Amen.
I mean, it is true.

525
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,400
Like you just go back to like
your sin nature and you wonder

526
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,880
like, why am I keep messing up?
Why am I not good enough?

527
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,680
Why did this happen?
Why is evil things?

528
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,400
Because we're under the curse,
Amen.

529
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,360
And we're longing for the spirit
inside is longing for and

530
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:32,520
creation for us to be fully
adopted into the sonship under

531
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,120
God.
And it look and it happens when

532
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,880
the redemption of our bodies
happens.

533
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,800
So one day your soul is already
made whole, right when you came

534
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,200
to Christ.
But one day your body is getting

535
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,480
made whole tooth of the
resurrection power of Christ and

536
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,800
they're going to come together.
And that moment, that's when the

537
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,800
perfection happens.
Amen.

538
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,680
So we eagerly wait for that
moment because we're halfway

539
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,280
there.
It's feel like I'm singing a

540
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,640
song, right?
But we get so jaded and we get

541
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,480
so burned out.
We look around and our hope is

542
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,440
here and now.
Like what's wrong with these

543
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,640
people?
What's wrong with that church?

544
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,640
What's wrong with the world?
What's wrong with politics?

545
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,520
All this ice, all this Epstein
dude, I'm so tired of all you

546
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,160
guys losing your mind, Amen.
Like, where is your mind at?

547
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,320
Like, have you read the book?
Like heaven is our mind, Amen.

548
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,560
That's the mindset.
So we've got to change our

549
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,920
vocabulary.
We've got to change what we're

550
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,840
thinking about.
Like my dream to be fully

551
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,040
adopted in Christ.
Here's the amazing thing about

552
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,760
it, The very fact that you're
upset and you feel like there's

553
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,320
injustice because there real
isn't.

554
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,520
There's real injustice and
there's real pain and there's

555
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,480
real hurt.
The fact that you've grown

556
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,800
inside of you for a better life
and a better world is actually

557
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:48,040
proof that you know Jesus, Amen?
Like you should not be happy

558
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,960
when you turn on the news.
I don't care what channel you

559
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,480
listen to, Amen.
There's like good parts and bad

560
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,360
parts.
Like you like the Soup Bowl

561
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,280
halftime show, You like Charlie
Kirk's halftime show.

562
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:01,640
They're both got some good
things.

563
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,600
They both got some suck things.
Amen.

564
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,280
Like, my hope is in the world.
Like, I can look at and go, that

565
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,960
part's probably from God, but
that's crazy.

566
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,120
That's cool.
That's whatever.

567
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,280
But why am I getting bent out of
shape?

568
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,440
Like I didn't put my stake down
on the Capitol Hill?

569
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,440
Like, I'm not like, oh, make it
work for me.

570
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,760
Do I?
Do I trust the government to

571
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,960
save my soul?
Are you kidding me?

572
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,240
Like do I trust any other person
to save my soul?

573
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,600
Is my hope in like my close
friends or my buddies or my

574
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,240
workplace or my bank account?
The hope is in Jesus.

575
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,760
Amen.
It's on Calvary's Hill so you

576
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,160
can't get you lose sigh of that
and you lose your witness

577
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,360
because who wants to listen to
somebody that has no hope be a

578
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,520
burned out, bitter Christian
like me?

579
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,480
Come on, man, like we were salt
and light, which means we're

580
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,560
taking heaven and we're
preserving on earth.

581
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,960
We're saying there's something
better like man, pray for this.

582
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,640
Some of y'all so burned out
about ice you're posting all

583
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,440
this stuff.
It's like brother, like we we

584
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,240
have you got one vote.
Whether you use it this way or

585
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,320
that way, you got one vote.
What are we going to do about

586
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,160
it?
We pray, Amen.

587
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,960
We trust like our hope is not in
anything in the in in the world.

588
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,200
We're round it's in Jesus and if
we lose sight of that and if if

589
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,640
we do lose sight of that we're
miserable and people know it.

590
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,480
You don't have to even say
anything.

591
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:38,400
We just know verse 24 it says
for in this hope next very nice

592
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,600
word in this hope.
What's what's this hope the hope

593
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,320
and the resurrection power of
Christ, the adoption of sons

594
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:50,360
that the our bodily resurrection
for in this hope we what we're

595
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,600
saved.
It's it's not in US hope we are

596
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,600
saved like you don't have to
hope one day it's going to work

597
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,640
out like we were saved already
when you called on Jesus, you

598
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,840
already put your faith and trust
and the hope and the

599
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,640
resurrection power of Jesus
Amen.

600
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,640
It was already a done deal
signed, sealed and delivered the

601
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,160
finished work of Jesus on the
cross.

602
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,200
You put your hope on that he
resurrected your spirit and your

603
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,280
soul and now we're just eagerly
waiting.

604
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,600
Lord, I know you're not done
yet.

605
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,960
So all these problems that
happen, it's like, Lord, I know

606
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,720
you're patiently waiting.
I'm learning patience as I'm

607
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,160
waiting.
I'm just trusting you because

608
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,880
this is so Jack crazy.
Like I don't even know where I'm

609
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,400
at right now.
But Lord, I'm just trusting you.

610
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,360
Amen.
We eagerly await because we are

611
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,960
saved, it says.
But hope that is seen is no hope

612
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,880
at all.
I mean, if it's already done,

613
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,800
you don't need hope.
You don't need hope it works out

614
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,960
if the check cleared we what who
hopes or what they've already

615
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,240
have and so our hope is in the
resurrection of power of Jesus

616
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,480
and it's 100% guaranteed future
result as if it's already

617
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,880
arrived because that's the power
of Christ.

618
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,840
It's already done.
It tells us how to hope verse 25

619
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,600
but if we hope for what we do
not yet have this resurrection

620
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:13,120
of our body, we wait for it.
How what was that patiently?

621
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,000
How many of us have lost our
patience?

622
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,120
Amen.
Like we might know the most

623
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,160
impatient generations that ever
walked the face of the earth and

624
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,800
we have this patience that we're
waiting for God's plan to

625
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,520
unfold.
And I see this so often as a

626
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,560
pastor.
We're like, Hey, I'll just

627
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,240
buddy, but he won't go to church
because he got hurt a long time

628
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,440
ago.
And I'm like, well, how, how bad

629
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,400
what happened it it just OK,
Like I've seen 10,000 times

630
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,360
harder, right?
Like it's, it's real easy for us

631
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,000
to give up on people
relationships.

632
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,960
We we had our life group
launched like the the party we

633
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,920
did.
And to be honest, as a pastor, I

634
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,240
was like, man, I don't think I'm
really like feeling it with

635
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,040
their group.
Like I kind of felt like, well,

636
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,640
I kind of gave up on people a
while back, you know, just like

637
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,560
sense of like, I don't know
about relationships.

638
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,480
I've been down the road before
because you know, you're going

639
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,120
to get hurt.
Amen.

640
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,680
How many y'all been hurt before,
right?

641
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,680
I don't want any up again.
I've been hurt in the past, blah

642
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,960
blah.
It's like welcome to fall on

643
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,080
earth, Amen.
Like it's going to take some

644
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:23,840
maturity in your part to, to, to
to, to put up with sin to to to

645
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,280
like love covers a multitude of
sin.

646
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,320
Like to choose not to be given
even and to forgive and some

647
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,240
stuff like really small.
We like to make it really big.

648
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,440
It's like these Christians
weren't perfect.

649
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:40,920
I'm like, who told you we were?
We're just forgiven, Amen.

650
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,800
We're not better than anybody.
We're just forgiven by Christ.

651
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,240
But I see this all the time.
We're not we're not patient with

652
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,200
people because we've given up.
So we're not going to join a

653
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,080
group.
I'm not going to get involved.

654
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,040
I got involved in lap church.
So I'm not going to do that.

655
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,520
You know, like can't forgive
people.

656
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,680
I mean, politics, patience and
politics.

657
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,880
Come on, somebody, right.
I'm going to give you a big like

658
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,040
level how this works.
If you don't see me posting

659
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,960
about it, then you probably
shouldn't post about it.

660
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,640
Because if I'm in a spot as a
pastor where I'm going to hook

661
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,680
my wagon to a political party or
person or a thing or a policy,

662
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,600
then I'm selling the gospel
short.

663
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,760
And so if you're out there and
it's like, hey, I can't help

664
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,880
myself, we'll start helping
yourself because there are

665
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:32,240
people who need Jesus more than
be Republican or Democrat, Amen.

666
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,520
And so I hooked my wagon to
Jesus.

667
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,800
Now there are people on both
sides of the line that go to our

668
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,600
church and both people are going
to heaven.

669
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:44,360
Shock face, shocked, all
shocked, right?

670
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,440
And we don't have to agree.
Like we don't have to agree on

671
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,560
all those other issues.
Now there's parts of things that

672
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,320
we can be very passionate about.
There's parts of things seen in

673
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,160
Scripture.
But I'm not going to go online

674
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,800
and spout my mind off and say
agree with me about politics.

675
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,360
We're not even agreeing about
heaven.

676
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,000
Like, let's agree about what
really matters.

677
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,720
That's my call, that's my
action.

678
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,280
So here's the thing, don't rob
yourself by placing your hope on

679
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,199
fall on earth.
Don't rob your joy by putting

680
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,239
your roots down and acting like
this is your home.

681
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,880
Don't put your roots down and
say, well, it's got to be a

682
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,080
certain way.
It's got to work out.

683
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,159
Like I got to have my family
this way, this way, this way.

684
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,560
It just may not work out the way
you want it to because we're

685
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,639
still broken.
We're still under a curse.

686
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,600
There's endurance, there's
brokenness, there's pain.

687
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,880
You get you love and sometimes
you you don't get love back.

688
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,960
It just happens.
Here's the reality.

689
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,400
If your view of heaven is
smaller than your present

690
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,600
suffering on earth, Satan will
deconstruct your faith and he'll

691
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,639
put you in his toolbox and then
make the most jaded individual

692
00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,280
in history.
We have to get a way bigger view

693
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,600
of heaven.
Amen.

694
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,520
Because of our hope is here and
now, we missed the thing

695
00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:58,000
completely.
I think we need to change some

696
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,080
of our vocabulary.
Like, we need to have some

697
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,760
redemptive vocabulary.
Like, we say it this way.

698
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,000
Words make worlds.
OK.

699
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,720
So when you say like, oh,
there's a natural disaster.

700
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,080
I nodded to it earlier.
But the reality is it's really

701
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,960
not a natural disaster.
It's an unnatural disaster.

702
00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:17,800
It was actually never made to be
that way.

703
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,480
Amen.
There's a time and place before

704
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,280
there was tornadoes and there's
brokenness and tsunamis that

705
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,280
wipes out hundreds of thousands
of people.

706
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,560
There's times and places before
rivers flooded.

707
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,640
There was even no rain where
these kids weren't swept away

708
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,440
and can't majestic.
There were times where the world

709
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,400
was perfect.
Amen.

710
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,800
So when you start saying, well,
it's a natural, it just

711
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,760
happened.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

712
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,520
It's not like God is not there.
Don't you remember?

713
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,560
God cursed the earth.
We got to go back to that, Amen.

714
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,360
Or we say this a lot.
I heard this this morning even.

715
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,280
It's so great and we say it all
the time.

716
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,720
You say, how you doing, man?
Living the dream, living the

717
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:56,800
dream.
And what's the next line?

718
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:01,400
I don't know who's it is
somebody's dream, not my dream.

719
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,320
Who has said that?
Somehow your e-mail, your e-mail

720
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:11,480
line was Sean Petrie Ltd Live in
the dream, right?

721
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,560
Like we legit, it's just who we
are.

722
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,800
And it's kind of interesting
because it's almost like you

723
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,520
kind of expected this was the
dream.

724
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,560
And so it's kind of a bitter
statement like, well, live in

725
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,400
the dream.
You know how it is getting

726
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,360
rolled over, getting kicked in
the teeth.

727
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,000
Go and bury right the teeth, you
know, and it's like, did you

728
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,160
expect anything different?
So, so I would encourage you

729
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,240
instead of saying living the
dream as if the dream should

730
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:36,600
happen now.
That's the expectation that's

731
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,440
going to, that's not the right
expectation.

732
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,800
It should be dreaming of heaven,
dreaming of heaven.

733
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,120
What are you going through?
I'm dreaming of heaven.

734
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:46,800
Because what that's saying is,
hey, it's still real rough right

735
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,560
now.
Still kind of tough right now.

736
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,920
But guess what?
My hope's not in that.

737
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:51,720
My hope's in something else.
Amen.

738
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,840
And so my dream isn't in this
moment, in this affliction, in

739
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,080
this temporary world, my dream
is actually somewhere else.

740
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,800
My heart is even here.
My heart is already there.

741
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,400
Amen.
Words make worlds, words make

742
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:06,720
worlds.
And so when you have the

743
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:08,000
opportunity to say, hey, what's
going on?

744
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,560
How you doing today?
Dreaming to heaven?

745
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,760
What does that mean?
It means like right now it's

746
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,280
kind of kind of a suck ball
deal.

747
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,000
I found out some really crazy
stuff, my family.

748
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,240
But guess what?
My hopes in heaven.

749
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,760
Oh wow, that's crazy.
What's that all about?

750
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,000
You just change the world, Amen.
Just by changing the words, this

751
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,200
is how amazing it is.
This is how far the gospel

752
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,160
stretches.
You see this this hope of the

753
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,240
resurrection power even in John
316.

754
00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:35,120
How many guys have John 316
memorized by the way, show hands

755
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,200
all right about to blow your
minds.

756
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,680
You all know these I memorized
this long time ago, right?

757
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,200
For God so loved the the world
that he gave his only son that

758
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,240
whoever believes in him shall
not perish, but have everlasting

759
00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:49,720
life.
For he not send his son into the

760
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:55,360
world to condemn the but to save
the through him.

761
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,640
Right, 16 and 17 right?
We memorize this.

762
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,200
I was like, oh, cool.
So when you read this, the word

763
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,400
world is really cool.
It actually is the word cosmos.

764
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,200
So it it means like all
creation, but in the sense that

765
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,960
John's using it, we know it
means the habits of the earth

766
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,680
that are humans.
We know that when he says gods

767
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,160
of the world, he say he loves
all humans in the world.

768
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,040
First, John 22, he's not just
our perpetuation only like wrath

769
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,880
bearing sacrifice, but he
actually paid the wrath not just

770
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,400
for us, but also the whole
world.

771
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,800
Like we we know he's talking
about paying the sacrifice, but

772
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,840
we've always put that in the box
of humanity alone.

773
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,560
But what John is doing, he's
actually nodding, tipping his

774
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:41,120
hat to all creation.
He didn't just die for humans.

775
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,680
He died for every atom and every
chromosome and every particle

776
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,200
and every nebula and every black
hole.

777
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,160
Everything in creation, heaven
and earth, he's going to redeem.

778
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,040
Amen.
Have your mind went like this?

779
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,920
We all do the verse, but we
never thought about to that

780
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,880
level.
And John is nodding his hat to

781
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,680
this.
Glory and redemption extends to

782
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,600
cultures and nations and arts
and the good works that we make

783
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,280
with our hands that we actually
get to take to heaven, which

784
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,440
we'll talk about next week,
which is really, really cool.

785
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,160
Well, in with this, and this is
pretty mind blowing.

786
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,280
Did you know that Adam and Eve
don't actually have proper names

787
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,600
until after the fall?
Think about this.

788
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,000
This is crazy.
So Adam, his name before the

789
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,440
fall, it means humanity or
mankind.

790
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,960
Like you're just human.
That's what you are.

791
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,920
You're the creation.
You're you're, you're mankind.

792
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,160
And then the fall happens and
and Eve is beguiled by Satan and

793
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,680
and says, Hey, Adam, here's the
fruit.

794
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,760
And then he eats it, right?
And then sin happens.

795
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:45,880
I'll just read through the
curse.

796
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,160
I don't want you to give.
I'll show you some stuff here.

797
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:55,720
But Adam's name actually means
ground or dirt or dust.

798
00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:59,760
His his name Adam is actually
short for Adam I, which means

799
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,200
ground dirt.
Isn't that crazy to think about?

800
00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:04,080
Like God already knew that
mankind was already just going

801
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,520
to come.
It came from dirt and it's

802
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,840
cursed back to dirt.
That's Adam's name.

803
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,600
But think about this.
Here is the curse.

804
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,680
This is what happens after ate
the fruit of the tree.

805
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,400
Verse 14, Genesis 314.
So Lord said to the serpent,

806
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,960
this is Satan himself, right?
Because you have done this

807
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,800
cursed.
Are you above all livestock and

808
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,680
all wild animals.
If you'll crawl on your belly,

809
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,000
you eat dust all day of your
life.

810
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,680
We have no idea what what this
creature looked like, but now

811
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:29,680
he's going to crawl on his
belly.

812
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,760
Verse 15, This is the first
mention of hope.

813
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:42,120
And I will put enmity or strife
between you and The Who, The

814
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,840
woman, she didn't have a name
yet, just woman.

815
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,960
OK, so I'll put enemy between
you and the woman, in between

816
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,520
your offspring and hers, her
children.

817
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,920
And he being the offspring of
the woman, will what?

818
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,280
Crush your head.
At some point there's going to

819
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,520
be some offspring of this woman
who's going to, he's looking at

820
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,960
the serpent at this point and
he's going to crush your head,

821
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,040
Amen.
He's going to break you and kill

822
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,920
you.
It will strike and you will

823
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,520
strike his heel.
This is the first mention of

824
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,000
hope.
The Bible or scholars called us

825
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,640
the proto being first evangel,
which means gospel.

826
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,640
This is the first gospel, Amen.
And I'm thankful that Jesus,

827
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:25,240
when he is cursing humanity,
when God cursed humanity, that

828
00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:30,200
he gives us hope right here.
He's making a way.

829
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,240
And we know because we have the
whole Bible, right, that this is

830
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,080
actually talking about Jesus,
that Eve is going to have

831
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,920
offspring.
And you're going to Fast forward

832
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,320
16 generations to Moses and 16
or Abraham, 16 to Moses and 16

833
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,320
to David and 16 to Jesus.
And you're going to end up with

834
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,240
Jesus who's going to die on the
cross for our sins.

835
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,400
That's the one that crushes the
head of Satan.

836
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,960
Verse 16 to the woman.
This is God.

837
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,840
He says I will make your pains
in childbearing very severe.

838
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,760
Boo.
I wonder what was like before

839
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,320
this interesting conversation
with painful labor.

840
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,200
You'll give birth to children.
You'll desire will be for your

841
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,800
husband and he will rule over
you.

842
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,000
Interesting desire.
Before that was probably only

843
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,360
for God, but now it's for your
husband.

844
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,960
Verse 17 to Adam, he said
because you listen to your wife,

845
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,040
not the wife's fault and ate
fruit from the tree.

846
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,080
Look at this about which I
commanded you, who commanded

847
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:36,120
Adam, God commanded Adam, you
must not eat from it.

848
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,800
He quotes it.
You must not eat from this.

849
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,920
So here's the deal.
The woman never received a

850
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,320
command directly from God not to
eat the fruit.

851
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,800
The woman not knew not to eat
the fruit because Adam told her

852
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,120
not to, because God spoke to
Adam and Adam spoke to her.

853
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,320
So she was beguiled.
But Adam, no, no, no Adam.

854
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,000
Adam willfully disobeyed and
that's why the curse comes

855
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,440
through him of sin moved down
from the man for all generations

856
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,400
because he knew he saw the face
of God, listened to the words of

857
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,760
God and did complete obstacle
what God asked him to do.

858
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,160
That's accountability guys.
This responsibility is a man.

859
00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:18,920
So he, he commanded them you
must not eat from it because,

860
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,400
yeah, it says curse is the
ground.

861
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,720
Here it is.
Here's creation because of you.

862
00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:27,760
And at that moment all of
creation fell through.

863
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,360
Painful toil.
You'll eat the food from it all

864
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,560
days of your life, right?
How many y'all have to sweat

865
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,040
every day, right?
Painful toil.

866
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:38,840
You'll produce thorns and
thistles for you.

867
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,600
You'll eat from the plants of
the field by the sweat of your

868
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,320
brow.
You'll eat your food until you

869
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:50,400
return to the ground since from
it you were taken for dust you

870
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:57,680
are and dust you'll return.
Adam understood that he was

871
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,040
named after dust.
Now this is really cool.

872
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:07,280
Very next verse, the first thing
that humane does, the very first

873
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,560
thing after you're cursed by God
from breaking relationship with

874
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,320
him and following this in the
very first thing after hearing

875
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,560
this mention of the gospel and
this hope that's going to come

876
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:26,240
in the future, what happens?
Adam named his wife Eve because

877
00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:28,440
she would become the mother of
all the living.

878
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:30,960
Isn't that a weird time to name
somebody?

879
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,000
You just got chewed out, You
just got cursed and he's like,

880
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,640
OK, what?
What's going on?

881
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,320
And it may be the very first
thing he says because it says he

882
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,800
named his wife.
It's a narrative backwards,

883
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,760
right?
Like we don't know what he did.

884
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,760
He he may have looked right at
his wife because she'd have a

885
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,680
name yet interesting time to
name somebody because you

886
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,600
understand, there's no identity
before the fall.

887
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,120
There was no me, my selfishness.
There's no inward desire for

888
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,840
self.
So they don't really even need

889
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,920
names.
And so he looks at his wife.

890
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:08,400
He says Eve, which may be the
very first word spoken after the

891
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,120
fall from humanity, and her word
means her name.

892
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:17,200
Eve means life giver, not that
she's going to give birth to all

893
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:21,560
these children, but with the
expectation that one of these

894
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,800
children that they're going to
give birth to is going to

895
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,880
reverse the curse.
And so the very first word

896
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,880
spoken after the fall.
And Adam understood this was

897
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,280
pregnant with hope.
Amen.

898
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,480
But the very first name given
was, guess what?

899
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,160
There's a day coming where it's
going to reverse all that we

900
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,000
just broke.
It's a nod to the future.

901
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:48,000
It's a nod to the gospel.
It's saying this isn't my hope

902
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,720
isn't found here now.
It's found the promise to come

903
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:54,440
that you just gave to her and
that I'm going to live in the

904
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,280
very name Eve.
My Eve is solidified the fact

905
00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:00,640
that Adam was actually saved
because he's pointing to Jesus.

906
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,800
Amen.
It's incredible.

907
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,600
And so you think about this and
the most broke, broken moment of

908
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:13,000
mutiny and despair.
There was eager expectation with

909
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,640
a pregnant moment of hope.
And he utters out Eve.

910
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:21,640
You think about our lives.
I told you earlier, words make

911
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,200
worlds.
Words make worlds.

912
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,040
And when you get a chance to
speak, is it pregnant with hope?

913
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,520
Because what Paul was saying,
creation itself that has the

914
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,920
pains of childbirth with eager
expectation for the day of his

915
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,280
redemption.
And not only that, but that

916
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,400
Spirit of God, the first for the
spirit who lives in US, is

917
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,320
groaning for our resurrected
body, for our redemption.

918
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,440
And we should have eager hope on
our lips.

919
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,160
You think your family may be
different if your life was a

920
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,520
little full of hope, If the
world could see some real hope.

921
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:56,960
Hey, guess what?
Yeah, the world's going crazy.

922
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:02,080
But guess what, Eve?
I believe there's a day coming

923
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,720
where all that just happened,
all it is messed up, is going to

924
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,960
be fixed.
Amen.

925
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,280
How may y'all do that today?
New, isn't it?

926
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:20,040
It's new, but it's not new.
Humanity is built with the

927
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,520
relationship with God.
And I'll look at this world as

928
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,440
if it's our hope.
We look to God for our hope,

929
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,120
Amen?
And so that's what Adam has

930
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,800
done, and that's what we do.
It's not a coincidence that the

931
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,560
first two chapters of the Bible
are the creation of God and

932
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,360
perfection and God's promise to
us so strong.

933
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,040
It's not a coincidence that the
last two Bibles are the

934
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,920
recreation of the brokenness
with the resurrection power of

935
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,200
Jesus.
Our hope is sure, Amen.

936
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,880
When you put our lips, we need
to share it.

937
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,920
We need to be bold.
If we don't have our hearts

938
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,080
around heaven, brother, get your
heart around heaven, Amen.

939
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,120
Because we're so passionate
about things that come that this

940
00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,560
world cannot distract us and
pull us down and get us defeated

941
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,840
and deflated and burned out.
And we quit on people and we

942
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,160
quit on our country.
We quit on our friends, and we

943
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,120
quit on groups.
And it'll cause the whole no,

944
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,840
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, with eager expectation,

945
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,520
Amen.
With Hope even named his wife

946
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,800
Hope, right?
It's amazing.

947
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,920
Like one day Hope is coming and
Hope it come and it's coming

948
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:22,960
again.
And so, Father, we come before

949
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,920
you, God, help us to be a church
full of hope.

950
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,280
We see Romans 8 and we might be
distracted, God by things this

951
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,000
world.
Our heart may be tossed to and

952
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,160
fro because it's not built on
Jesus.

953
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,600
And our hope isn't sure because
we haven't locked in to the

954
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:44,160
gospel and its power.
And so help us God, we beg you

955
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,120
God, to give us this kind of
boldness and hope that our world

956
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,000
is desperate for.
They are dying for people are

957
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,680
trying to find out who they are.
They're changing identity and

958
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,040
sexuality and and gender and all
this stuff because they don't

959
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:02,040
know the hope.
So God make us people got full

960
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:07,360
of hope more than even the
creation got the we be eagerly

961
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,360
waiting.
How many today would say God is

962
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,360
just give me a passion today
like I need to grow in my hope,

963
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,200
like my words are creating
worlds that don't look like

964
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:16,840
Jesus.
I need to have more hope in my

965
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,400
life and my words and to point
people to Jesus.

966
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,520
If that's you and the spirit
just moving you, we just raise

967
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,920
your hand eyes, that's me like
I'm going to be full of hope

968
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,280
today.
Thank you Jesus for moving.

969
00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,200
Thank you, Spirit of God for
showing us, God that we need to

970
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,480
be full of you, not full of
ourselves in this world needs to

971
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:35,920
come to you.
God, We're desperately for you.

972
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:40,000
We're waiting patiently for you.
Lord, I want to pray for one

973
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,960
more group of people and that's
those of you that need the hope

974
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,560
of Jesus today.
Like we've talked a lot about

975
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,560
heaven, a lot about hope and
maybe you're that person that's

976
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,920
walked in.
You built your life on sand, you

977
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,240
built it on everything else
around you and you've been

978
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:54,640
trying to find the answer.
And today you realize it's

979
00:49:54,760 --> 00:50:00,360
Jesus.
That Jesus is hope that he came

980
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,440
and died on a cross for you and
exchanged all your rights for

981
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:04,640
all your wrongs.
And you've been made right

982
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,360
today, declared righteous
because you believe in the power

983
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,200
of Jesus.
The resurrection power of Jesus

984
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:16,120
still effects our lives today.
The Bible says if you call on

985
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,920
Jesus, he will raise you out of
your sin.

986
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,040
He will make you whole.
He will forgive you and set you

987
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,920
free.
He'll liberate you from the

988
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,760
curse and your soul and give you
the power of the Spirit of God

989
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,760
in your life.
And today if you need a humble

990
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,920
yourself, I'm calling Jesus.
I'm not going to make it weirder

991
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:32,560
anybody call you out or
anything.

992
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,560
But if you need Jesus, we just
raise your hand in hindsight.

993
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,440
I need Christ today and the
resurrection power of Jesus

994
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,560
today.
Want to be honest, I see some

995
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,160
hands across the room just need
Jesus.

996
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:43,800
If that's you, I'm gonna lead
through a prayer.

997
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,040
The prayer does not save you,
but it's just your heart towards

998
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:48,000
him.
Just say, Father God, thanks so

999
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,280
much for sending Jesus.
But this story is not made-up.

1000
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,280
Lord, I see it, I sense it, I
see the hope.

1001
00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:57,000
I hear the message of the gospel
today.

1002
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,680
And so God, I call on you.
God is the only one that can

1003
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:05,120
save me from this curse that set
me free to liberate me from my

1004
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,560
sin.
God, I trust you down the cross,

1005
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:08,720
and you rose again the third
day.

1006
00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:11,120
And I trust that you'll do the
same for me and my soul.

1007
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:12,600
And one day you'll do that for
my body.

1008
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,440
And so God give me your hope.
Today I prayed since Jesus name

1009
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,960
the church said hey man come on
give up.

1010
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,480
So give it up for Jesus.
Come on, it is well, Amen.