How Did We Actually Get The Bible? - Theology for the Rest of Us Part 2

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I would say the worship team got
to the throne of the day.

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Amen.
Was that good?

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Today is going to be just a very
heartfelt, probably an emotional

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Sunday for many of us and and
just amazing.

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God's doing some great things
and I just want to celebrate

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God's goodness today if I can.
There's amazing passage in First

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Thessalonians chapter 5, verse
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And if you if you know this,
there's a couple pieces of it.

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You're going to see that some of
the two shortest verse in the

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Bible and my stage play is not
working.

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So I'm Steve is back here.
OK, we're good.

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So help me out here.
Rejoice when, always pray when

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and give thanks in what for this
in the will of God and for you

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in Christ Jesus, Amen.
And I think about these three

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things about joy and about
prayer and about giving thanks

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and gratitude.
And it's real interesting

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because you really can't have
one without the other two.

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If you're a person of prayer,
you, you have joy in your life,

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you have gratitude, life, you
have gratitude, you're a person

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of prayer and joy.
This all these just work

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together.
And this season, this is the

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verse of this season.
And if you can memorize this,

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some of this, by the way,
rejoice always come on somebody,

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you just memorize the verse,
Amen.

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Pray continually.
You mentioned that second verse,

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Amen.
Jesus wept is the shortest by

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letter count, but these two tie
it for word counts, Amen.

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So you guys can be like, I
memorize 2 scriptures a day just

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back-to-back, right?
I've been teaching this with my

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daughter.
She's going through it and I was

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like, oh, this is awesome.
So, but this virtually

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summarizes this season for us.
So a couple things we'll

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celebrate.
Number one, we had one person

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start relationship with Jesus
last week.

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Amen.
Never gets old.

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Paul says there's more rejoice
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repentance than 99 who do not
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And so heaviness erupts when
people come to Christ.

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And that's why we do this.
We've really never lost that

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mission and never forgot what
it's like to to be lost and to

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be found and that that prodigal
church that looks for people

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just fantastic.
I'd also say this is a crazy

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stat.
Stats are kind of whatever, but

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this was just crazy.
So if you look at last Sunday,

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the sun before, and you go back
a year to 2025, look the exact

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same Sunday, we are 40% larger
than last year, the same Sunday.

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Is that crazy?
This is like mind numbing.

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Like, yeah, 80% of churches are
plateaued or dying.

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OK, So we've got 40%.
It's like, OK, Lord, like

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something's happening.
And we're just like riding the

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coattails like a kite flying the
God's grace.

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Amen And so I'll say thank you
guys have been inviting and

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bringing and there's a lady on
our tear down team and she just

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started out and she's like, man,
I, I can't, I've been doing this

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for 8 weeks and I can't believe
you guys been doing this for

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eight years.
And I'm like, yeah, it, it's a

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grind, Amen.
Like it nothing dies easy, you

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know, I mean, we're chasing
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every every Sunday.
But God's good.

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Amen And it's kind of like these
things like tell the belt in

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cinema and all this stuff.
There's a sentence that a man

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told me he goes, you're like a
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I thought, man, what a great way
of saying it.

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Amen Because like we don't need
another church in this town.

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It's like we're we've been here,
we've been here, we've been

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grinding.
Amen.

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Like I didn't know who we were,
whatever, great.

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Like we've been behind the
scenes, we've been set up

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tearing down being portable
dinner thing and then as God

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just makes away.
Amen.

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And so it's been one of the
exciting seasons and I was

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thinking about what this bell
and semi 8 would mean for our

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church and what it looks like.
And our heart is really this it

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is that there'll be the number
of people that will come to

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Christ because that space, it's
just super exciting.

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Like I come in there and I like,
you know, I'm doing all those

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inspections and hang out people
and trust me, the place needs

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work, you know, but I'm in
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I'm like, oh man, wouldn't it be
crazy just to see people fill

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this place and come to know
Jesus and be sent out?

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So I'm looking at this worship
center, you know, it's like we

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keep the same seating by God's
grace, right?

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And like people sitting here and
I can just see the worship team.

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By the way, the worship today
was just another level, man.

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It was another level.
Like I'm just telling you, and

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maybe it's because I've been out
of the vineyard long enough like

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this, the fruits really sweet
because like you guys, me and

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Jared Diane, like the team, I
mean, dude, holy smokes.

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We, I don't know how long we've
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Jared started playing like
guitar when I was a youth pastor

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back in like 2007, you know, and
to see his heart.

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And I was like, dude, we got to
get this guy doing this more

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often.
Amen.

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Like what passion?
I mean, just unreal, but just

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amazing to see what God could do
in that space and the kids and I

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mean just walk in.
It's like it's our home.

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We're proud of it.
You walk in, it's set up.

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People are ready to receive and
do the work of God and have

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their sacred spaces and these
sacred moments all throughout

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that space.
So if you get a chance, just be

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praying, you know, drive around
that space 6 times, not 7 don't

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want to fall down, come on
somebody, but just be praying.

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Like I know a lot of you guys
have done that.

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It's just, it's just an amazing
opportunity and not just for the

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young people come to Christ, but
the number of people who will

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help other people come to
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Like it's not just about coming
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I, I hope our church never
become just like a magnet And

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it's like sucks up at all the
people and the you know, it's

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like we want to be ascending
church, like we want people to

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come, get healed and then get
grown their faith and then get

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sent out.
Amen.

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Like a launching type of church,
Like it's not come and sit.

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I know Barry said earlier, I
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the goal of, to be a Christian
is to know Jesus and tell the

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people about Jesus.
And so I just get really excited

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about how many people
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for overseas and for impacting
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like that.
And you know, our world, like

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Belden's like, oh, who's this
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But amazing to say who's the
name of Jesus to people who

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never know the name of Jesus
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Like that's what excites me.
Like I know there's a lot of

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like structure and things that
have to happen And there's a

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building.
I get it.

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Like I live in the world every
day right now, but man, my heart

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is way bigger than we could even
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And we we have this vision frame
and and maybe I just need to

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cast vision more often, but my
heart behind this, there's

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really three things is
multiplication.

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And I'll just read it because I
probably wrote it better than

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I'll ever say it.
But I see a church that reaches

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beyond our city by investing in
coaching, ministry, residence

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and internships.
See a church that multiplies new

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leaders, new gatherings, new
disciple makers, new churches

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and new campuses across Kansas
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Real life will be the church
that's proficient and

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professional at producing high
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Amen.
It's not just come and say this,

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let's produce, let's multiply,
and let's go for the Kingdom.

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I think transformations, not as
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transformation.
I see a church that perfects the

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art, which is a lost art by the
way of taking lost people and

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develop them into disciple
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Just that one thing changes
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Real life will be a Commission
based church with commissioning

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hundreds of South Makers from
our church into our city into

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the world to a Prince people to
Jesus.

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We'll add deep value in people's
lives month through Saturday.

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They can't wait to come and
gather on Sunday.

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Last thing is restoration.
Just a church full of freedom.

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Amen.
Like you can't have the gospel

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and have just head knowledge, it
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And so we think addiction
recovery, grief, share,

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financial legacy, divorce, care,
restoration, restoration,

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housing and mentorship, jail
ministry, just powerful

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ministries to restore people
into God's purpose, Amen.

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This is the heartbeat.
This is like, why do we do this

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building?
Like it's like, oh, it's about

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the, it's not about the
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Like as we all get excited about
the, the steel and the structure

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and the seeds, it's about Jesus
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Amen.
But here's what's really cool.

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We, we wrote this vision.
I have this vision frame.

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We, we adapted every year and,
and some goals stay on, some

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don't.
And so last year we had updated

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this goal and I'm going to read
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And I want you to see what God
did this kind of like a North

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Star document for us.
This vision frame.

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We had a mid range goal in 2025
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space and places here was to
raise 1,000,000 in capital for a

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permanent church facility.
And last year we had commitment

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Sunday and we committed.
We topped out right there at

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1,000,000.
Remember that guy's praise

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Jesus.
So we hit the goal.

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So you guys are doing that this
next year, this year, next year

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and to move into two to four
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A 20,000 square foot space off
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intersection of 49 and 58.
God is good, Amen.

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That's like I should have wrote
a bigger number.

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You know, it's like bringing a
bigger cooler when you go

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fishing, you know, just catch a
bigger fish.

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But it just got in his goodness,
Amen.

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And if you look at this, you're
like, we have been preparing and

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planning and praying and you
guys have been giving and

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stepping out of faith.
And then God brings an

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opportunity.
So thank you, Jesus, Amen.

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And so I just continue to ask
you guys to continue to pray for

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divine favor, divine
appointments.

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We have a lot of infrastructure
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Everything basically needs
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If if you've been there, you
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HVAC, there's going to be a lot
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But thank you, Jesus, it's for
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Amen.
So let's put a little equity

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back in and we'll just sweat it
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We'll get where God needs us to
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But I mean, we're excited for
what God's doing today.

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I want to give a little more
honor to some runners do this.

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Last week we had some help,
cleaned up some the Tornadoes,

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tornado I should say.
And we went to Tessa's house and

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she had the tree through her car
and all sorts of stuff.

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We gave you guys an amazing,
really huge on ramp of time of

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one hour.
Come on, somebody.

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And we texted you guys and was
like, all right, we're going to

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be there in an hour.
And we had 15 people show up and

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we cleaned up this tree and
logged some stuff out.

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And legit from when I got out of
my truck until I got back in my

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truck was 40 minutes.
Thank you, Jesus.

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Amen, because if you all didn't
show up, I'm back there for four

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or five hours, you know, but we
got it done.

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And so just that's just the
culture of real life.

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Like there's been so many times
where it's it's just like, Hey,

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this person needs to be out and
we got to help them move and

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just boom trucks and trucks to
people and just amazing.

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So thank you guys for being
church that loves on people and

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carries for people.
I want to give some big honor

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today.
There's a family church.

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We we said they're leaving, but
they're really launching and

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it's Scott and Dana, Jermaine
family.

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You got Jordan, Marissa, Ashton,
Lauren, the whole crew.

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They have built a house up north
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Liberty somewhere out there,
beautiful home.

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They're moving in this week.
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They got amazing ministers.
They're going to jump into

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between the school, closer to
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acreage.
Come on, somebody.

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But man, they have been a
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even if you don't know them.
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And I was like, man, we've been
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between Scott and Dan and I for
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out then youth ministry and
serving kids and they've opened

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up their home and we'd go over
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hundred plus kids, their house.
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Some of the some of the first
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way, have served faithfully ever
since and the whole ride between

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kids areas and setup and tear
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missing life groups open that
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I don't know, five years, I
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Amen.
So, so we've, we've been like

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standing on their shoulders
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the space we're in without them
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prayer and not just talk, but
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I think of this phrase that open

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handed people play star roles in
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extremely open handed and God
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roles, even if you don't know
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star, but God just has a way of
promoting the humble and they've

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done amazing.
And so I just want to give some

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honor.
They're right here in the 2nd

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I mean, did you guys give it up
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We love them today.
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You, you guys might be like,
where's where's, where's that

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Scott guy?
Where's Dana?

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up north.
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launching out and that's what
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not disappearing this in the
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Come on, somebody like didn't
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to heaven, but we're on the same
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Just refill for Christ.
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You'll see these guys around.
I know they're not just

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disappearing on face the map.
Scott still help out with real

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life men.
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But man, they I cannot tell you.
I just say thank you for letting

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me stand your shoulders.
There's some people where you

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grab their coattail and if they
believe in it, you're just going

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to get behind it and to, to
believe like they believed in us

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and we didn't have anything but
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Like we, we had nothing there
when the team there wasn't a

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facility, there wasn't, there
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And they believed in US.
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support us.
And it's just like does

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something for me with my faith
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discipled, cared for, loved on
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We've stood on your shoulders
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So thank you guys one more time,
give it up one more time for

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these guys.
I'm going to try to avoid crying

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this morning.
There's been tears already.

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I was even listening to worship
and the song that Jared LED this

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morning, heart abandoned that
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Some of you guys were there, but
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first Sunday, September 17th,
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I was still at exact same spot
and the God just burned

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something new and it was because
Jermaine's and many other people

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like you guys that allowed that
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And we're in the season of
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facility and it's like heart
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Man, what a what a song, you
know, but today I'm going to

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jump in the Bible.
I I know I've probably burned

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more time, but it was good.
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And I don't have a clock, so
somebody got to help me a little

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bit, but it's going to be good.
But how do we get the Bible so

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the out of the rest of us?
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intend the Bible to be
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It's not written to scholars.
It's written to everyday people

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really by everyday people, a lot
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But as a as a person, you want
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We want to how to get the Bible.
You're asking questions, right?

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Like if I'm gonna give my life
to this, is this book reliable?

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Like, like, where'd it come
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Like, like, was this by God?
Was this through people?

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Was was this edited?
Was this made-up?

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Is this a fable?
Can't I build my life on

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Scripture and also start with
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It does take faith to believe in
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But I will tell you, it's not
blind faith.

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It's not blind faith.
It does take faith though.

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Amen.
It does take a step, but I would

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consider this, if you believe in
Alexander the Great or if you

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believe in Abraham Lincoln, I
would encourage you to have the

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same kind of optic or same kind
of intellect or same kind of

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scrutiny of history for those
people as you do for the Bible,

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Amen.
Because some people will use the

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Bible and they'll say, well, it
it's possible this and this and

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it's possible to this and it's
possible this, but it's about

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probability, Amen.
You can't really repeat anything

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in history.
It's possible Abraham Lincoln

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didn't exist.
We can argue that it's actually

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more probable that the
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based on historical evidence
than Jesus existed, Amen?

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There's 5000 Greek manuscripts
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written by eyewitnesses.
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over, say, autography and
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But when you know what's going
on and you look at and you

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scrutinize and you have
questions, actually build your

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faith, Amen.
So, so I'd say my prayer request

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today for you guys is that you
would not be hypocritical,

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critical in your intellect.
You wouldn't be hypocritical in

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your approach to Scripture, that
you would give the same level of

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faith to the things you believe
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You look at the Bible and give
the same level of scrutiny and

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you can scrutinize the words and
God will still show you.

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And so if you study out, whether
it's manuscripts or historical

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things or, or inside evidence or
outside, whatever approach you

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go to, the more, you know, I've
always found that people, I know

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their faith always increases,
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But it's a lot of people I meet
a lot of people, they will just

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write off the Bible and say,
well, it's, it's not possible.

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It's just this.
And they'll make a bunch of

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excuses because they don't want
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living God.
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bat.
So I'd encourage you guys to

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come with a humble approach to
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You know, all things are
possible, but what is actually

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probable, Amen.
So I'll give you the foundation

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that there's a lot I could
probably preach, like a whole

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six weeks on this.
You're gonna get like 20

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minutes.
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foundation, like the very basic
footing of how we got Scripture.

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It's called inspiration that the
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God.
So if you got your Bible, we're

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going to second Timothy 3 verse
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This is Paul's letter to his
protege in the faith to Timothy.

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This is Paul's last letter he
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So this is like his sign off.
This is like his ending.

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This is his last words.
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He says, in fact, everyone who
wants to live a godly life in

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Christ Jesus will be what helped
me out will be what?

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Persecuted.
OK, so if you're getting

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persecuted and the world feels
against you, guess what?

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You're in God's will.
Amen.

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Because it it's going to be
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It's going to be difficult.
We're running uphill says while

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evil doers and imposters go from
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Does this sound like 2026 to you
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Right.
The world is full of this

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deceiving and being deceived.
Verse 14 but As for you talking

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to Timothy, continue in what you
have learned and become

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convinced of because of those
because you know those from who

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you have learned it and what
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saying the Bible is really not
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What what what he's saying is
it's not like for Timothy,

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you're going to see like it was
his mom's faith, his grandma's

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faith.
There was people in his life,

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dad, grandpa, whatever they're
pouring into him and he knows

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based upon their character that
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Amen.
Like the person that's sharing

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the Scripture with you or how
you live your life as a

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Christian, we talk about joy,
prayer and gratitude.

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Guess what, not depend on any of
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Amen.
Like the mark of the Christian,

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there's nothing to do about
what's happening around you has

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to happen what's in you.
And so you can choose those

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things no matter how hard it
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And what Paul's telling Timothy
is when you hear these words

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that are spoken to you, don't
forget who spoke them to you

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because you can bank on it.
If God is faithful to them,

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he'll be faithful to you.
Verse 15, he says how from

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remember how from infancy.
So when he was born, you have

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known the Holy Scriptures.
Who knows?

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That's a good family.
Amen, Amen.

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I didn't grow up in that not
saying my family is bad or evil

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or something crazy.
I did not grow up with the

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Bible.
I did not.

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I can't.
I can't say I knew from infancy.

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I knew when I was 15.
Come on with somebody because

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somebody shared Jesus with me.
But for Timothy, his mom, his

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dad, his parents, his
grandparents, the people around

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him, they model things to Christ
taught in the Scripture and look

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what it says about it, what
you're able to make you wise for

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salvation through faith in
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I always get nervous when people
tell me like how they met Jesus

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and it doesn't involve Scripture
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Now, I'm not saying God doesn't
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Come on somebody like I know he
speaks through dreams.

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I know he speaks especially the
Muslim nations through dreams.

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I'm not saying God doesn't give
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I'm not saying God doesn't do
certain things, but it's very

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hard for me to believe that the
Bible says that faith come

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through hearing and hearing
through the word of God.

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And so when you hear the Bible,
like when I heard the Bible very

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clearly for the first time in my
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neo savior.
It came through scripture.

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Amen And so for for Timothy, he
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Scripture.
And so if somebody tells me

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like, well, I've always known
Jesus, red alert, you know,

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nobody's born as a Christian,
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And and it's a personal choice.
We don't, we don't all become

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Christians because one person
can we, we make our own choice

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to humble ourselves and to call
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Amen.
And and so there's a moment in

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time.
So, but it goes with Scripture.

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That's one of the reasons we
know the Scripture is because it

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makes us wise for salvation.
It saves our soul and then Paul

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goes on to say verse 16.
He says all Scripture, how much

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scripture, all scripture is what
helped me out.

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God breathe.
We'll talk about in a second is

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as useful for four things.
And he's going to say teaching,

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which is sharing the word of
God, what your life should look

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like, what direction should go
and it navigates decisions for

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rebuking.
That's really calling somebody

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out.
This is the wrong path you're

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living life is in this is broken
in your life and correction is

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the path you should go on.
So rebuking is saying that's

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wrong and correction is saying,
here's the way to go and

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training in righteousness.
I love that.

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Like if you want your life to be
right with God, guess what?

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Know the scripture, Amen.
Like this is your compass.

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This is your road map, this is
your north star.

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This guides everything in your
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This is a filter through every
decision for every thought for

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00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,080
everything in your direction in
your life goes through

449
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,600
Scripture, Amen.
It's not just, well, I'll just

450
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,520
run the direction on a run.
It's like, is this match up with

451
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,680
the word of God?
Has the Holy Spirit lead me,

452
00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,800
which is going to lead directly
into the Word of God?

453
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,520
Verse 17, it says that the so
that the servant here's the

454
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,640
purpose of God mainly thoroughly
furnished or equipped for every

455
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,400
good work.
So if you know the word of God

456
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,160
and you put into your life, then
all of a sudden your life is

457
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,360
useful for the Kingdom.
The works of God go through you

458
00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:35,480
because you've been shaped and
tempered and obedient to God

459
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,360
himself.
So the word God breathed, that's

460
00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:38,920
pretty interesting.
Like God actually breathed the

461
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,120
Bible.
Do you guys believe God breathed

462
00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,080
the Bible?
It's a pretty interesting word.

463
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,560
It's Theo, so God, and you had
the word for nostril, nostris.

464
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,880
So Theo nostris, it means the
breath of God.

465
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,040
And what he's basically saying
is that Scripture comes from God

466
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,560
himself, Amen.
That every one of these words is

467
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,640
actually coming from the
heartbeat of God, from the

468
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,640
authority of God, from the voice
of God, from the intellect of

469
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,160
God, from the leadership of God.
This is coming from somewhere

470
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,800
else.
It's a sacred book, Amen.

471
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,080
Amen.
Like you're like, where do I go?

472
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,240
Go to Scripture and you can see
these words, like where they

473
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,240
come from.
Jesus tells us in John chapter

474
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,320
12, verse 44.
This is interesting.

475
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,160
These Pharisees and these
Sadducees, these leaders are

476
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,800
following Jesus, but they're too
afraid to openly follow Jesus.

477
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,880
And so they're called secret
disciples.

478
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,400
And I know for most people
there's probably a season where

479
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,880
you're a secret disciple.
Well, you don't your friends

480
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,240
know you're going to church or
you read the Bible in private.

481
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,480
Nobody knows you're following
God.

482
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,480
And this is what Jesus tells
these secret followers, people

483
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,320
like Nicodemus, right, Joseph,
Marathia, these are people that

484
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,080
are secret disciples until Jesus
died and they just mustered the

485
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,040
faith when they saw him being
crucified.

486
00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:52,000
But says this in John chapter 12
verse 44 says then Jesus cried

487
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,160
out.
He says whoever believes in me

488
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,280
does not believe in me only, but
the one who what?

489
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,560
The one who sent me.
And so if you believe in the

490
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,480
Son, you're actually also
believing in the Father.

491
00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:08,760
It's pretty amazing, Amen?
And you get right with Jesus,

492
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,080
you're actually right with the
Father himself.

493
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:17,400
Verse 45 says the one who looks
at me is seeing the one who sent

494
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,720
me and often times feel like,
man, I don't know what God looks

495
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,320
like, just look at Jesus, Amen.
Jesus is the perfect picture of

496
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,680
the Father, His, his character,
he what the words he speaks,

497
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,640
everything he does is a perfect
picture of the Father.

498
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,000
Verse 46 that says I've come
into the world as a light so

499
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that no one who believes in me
should stay in darkness.

500
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,160
Verse 47, it says if anyone
hears my words but does not keep

501
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,960
them, I do not judge that
person, for I did not come in to

502
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,040
judge the world.
So I did not come to judge the

503
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,720
world, but to save the world.
Amen.

504
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,240
Thank you Jesus, that you come
to save the world.

505
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,320
This is John 317.
I didn't come to condemn the

506
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,160
world, but to save the world
through myself, through Jesus.

507
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,520
And so that's the good news.
Amen.

508
00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:06,760
Got to go.
Next verse though, there is a

509
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:12,560
judge for the one who rejects me
and does not accept my words,

510
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,880
that there there is going to be
an account because this is the

511
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,160
standard by which we live.
He says the very words I've

512
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,800
spoken will condemn them at the
last day.

513
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,760
And so the words of Jesus,
obviously the words of God,

514
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,480
because Jesus, God, the book of
the Bible is breathed by God.

515
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,200
So it's the words of God.
And this is our standard.

516
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,480
We're accountable to this.
And So what he's saying is in

517
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,840
this lifetime we make a choice.
And the next time lifetime we

518
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,920
have to live with it.
Amen.

519
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,480
Because a lot of people just
dismissed the Bible like, oh,

520
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,760
that's an old book.
It's, it's a good teaching.

521
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,240
You know, Jesus is a good moral
teacher.

522
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,560
Nobody's going to argue that
Jesus didn't exist.

523
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,520
He's found an extra biblical
text all over the place.

524
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,080
You can see that.
But you're going to argue that

525
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,680
this is actually the word of God
and I can live my life on it.

526
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,680
All of a sudden people like,
yeah, I'm a little hesitant.

527
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,520
I just, I have a personal
relationship with God.

528
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,680
I don't really do anything that
looks like Jesus, but me and God

529
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,920
are cool.
It just does not work that way.

530
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,920
Amen.
You have to actually walk with

531
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,840
Jesus.
And so look at this verse 49 for

532
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,160
I did not speak on my own.
So every word of Jesus is not

533
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,400
his says, but the Father who
sent me commanded me to what

534
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,800
helped me out say all that I
have spoken.

535
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,360
I know that that his commands
leads to eternal life.

536
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:31,320
So whatever I say is just what
the Father has told me to say.

537
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,880
You know what's really cool?
When you read the scripture and

538
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,120
you see something that Jesus
says, you hear his words.

539
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,880
It's amazing to me.
It's so humbling to know that

540
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,920
those words were actually spoken
between Jesus and the Father

541
00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,400
around the throne of God and are
brought here for us.

542
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,640
Like, how much different would
we read the Scripture and humble

543
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,080
ourselves if we knew those are
conversations and past that

544
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,280
Jesus had in heaven that just
had an eternity past with the

545
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,600
Father and he's delivering the
Father's news to us.

546
00:24:58,960 --> 00:24:59,960
That's amazing.
Amen.

547
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,920
And so I read this book.
It's not just any book, it's a

548
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,280
living book of an insight into
the heart of the Father and the

549
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:11,000
heart of God himself.
And so Peter learned this quite

550
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,360
a while back and we're going to
talk to a little story, the

551
00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:14,360
Peter.
So going to be second Peter

552
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:16,680
chapter 1.
And Peter is writing to the

553
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,000
underground church in Rome.
He calls it Babylon in first and

554
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,520
second Peter.
This is where he's beginning to

555
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,440
encourage these Saints that are
being persecuted.

556
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,240
They're blamed for the burning
down of Rome, which we knew Nero

557
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,920
blamed the Christians.
He said his own city on fire

558
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,440
seeker rebuild.
They wanted to and he blamed the

559
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,920
Christians.
They're being persecuted, being

560
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,840
killed.
They're being ran from every

561
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,400
place.
And so they they didn't write

562
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,040
this to the Church of Rome.
They wrote it to the Babel to

563
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,200
Babylon so these people wouldn't
be persecuted anymore.

564
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,720
And this is what Peter says to
him.

565
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,240
He says, so I will always remind
you of these things even though

566
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,400
you know them and are firmly
establishing the truth.

567
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,320
You, you now have.
And so he's going to say it

568
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,440
again, like, I'm just going to
remind you like a lot of you

569
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,080
guys, you know what I'm saying
today.

570
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,280
Like you like, oh, yeah, I
totally believe this is the word

571
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,560
of God.
I know this for sure.

572
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,840
And what Peter's saying is I
want you to know again, like

573
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,160
I'm, I'm going to say it one
more time, just in case you have

574
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,200
any doubt in your mind.
I was going to clarify.

575
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,040
This is his last book.
Peter is not going to make it

576
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,000
much further after he finished
his writing.

577
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,160
Second Peter like he he he knows
he's going to die and so he says

578
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,880
this verse 13.
He says, I think it's right to

579
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,080
refresh your what Yeah, I want
to bring it back to mind.

580
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,640
He says as long as I live in the
tent of this body, as long as

581
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,240
I'm physically here on earth.
I'm just going to keep saying it

582
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,280
and saying it and saying it
because I know that I will soon

583
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,080
be put aside as the Lord Jesus
Christ has made clear to me,

584
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:42,000
he's rushed me back all the way.
John 21 it really he's, he's

585
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,760
being, you know, restored by
Jesus.

586
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,120
And Jesus tells him, your arms
will be stretched out.

587
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:47,560
They're going to take your
clothes.

588
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,120
You're going to go somewhere you
don't want to go.

589
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:50,320
You're going to LED somewhere
you don't go.

590
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,320
And he was talking about his
death.

591
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,280
He was talking about his
crucifixion.

592
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,800
And so Peter like knew like at
some point the gospel is going

593
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,040
to cost me my life.
And before I die, I just want to

594
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:07,320
remind you of what my passion is
and what my life is built on and

595
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,200
why I'm willing to die and what
my faith is built on.

596
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,040
And so I'm going to remind you
about this scripture.

597
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,400
So he says this is verse 15 and
I will make every effort,

598
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,440
somebody say effort.
I'll make every effort to see

599
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,720
that after my departure, you
will always be able to remember

600
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,160
these things.
This is Peter's legacy, Amen.

601
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,000
He he wanted like more than
anything when I die, I still

602
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,400
want you to remember that the
word of God is from him and it's

603
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,440
true and reliable is not
made-up.

604
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,280
That's what he wanted more than
anything like I'm going to

605
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,360
depart.
But you still here whether it's

606
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,240
our kids or the church or our
influence.

607
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,840
I want you to know that this
Bible is real and you could

608
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,240
build your life on it and God is
faithful and to trust him.

609
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,560
The most persecuted group
probably in history.

610
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,280
He is pulling them back to
Scripture.

611
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,200
Verse 16.
He summarizes like this and said

612
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:06,160
so well for we did not follow
cleverly devised stories.

613
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,680
Now think about this.
When somebody is crucified and

614
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,120
you still follow the person
crucified, it's almost like you

615
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,640
committed societal shame and
you're it's, it's societal

616
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,280
suicide because you're like
this, oh, yeah, I'm with that

617
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,120
guy you just crucified.
And they were like, oh, no,

618
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:29,320
you're not.
Get out of here.

619
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,080
What are you talking about?
You can never associate with

620
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,920
that guy.
But for those disciples and

621
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,120
everybody who knew Jesus, their
faith got bolder and the words

622
00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:39,560
got louder and they begin to
share even more.

623
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,000
Amen.
Most people somebody crucified

624
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,280
like I never met that guy in my
life.

625
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,520
I've never heard of Jesus.
Why would I follow Jesus but for

626
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,560
Jesus being crucified.
These men stood up with bold

627
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,480
faith and he's declaring they
did not make up a clever devised

628
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,680
story about this man that died
on the cross.

629
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,040
He was a man, a God man that
rose from the dead.

630
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,400
He says we have told you about
the coming of the Lord Jesus

631
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,960
Christ in power.
But we were what?

632
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,880
Help me out.
Eyewitnesses of his what?

633
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,280
His Majesty, what he's telling
this group of people is we

634
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,560
didn't make this up.
Amen.

635
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,960
I mean, Pete Peters at the very
beginning, people are doubting

636
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,400
and they're worrying.
He didn't write this because

637
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,800
people had bold faith.
He's writing it because their

638
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,640
faith is being tested and he's
telling them, hey, just do you

639
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,200
know, we didn't make this up.
Matter of fact, we were there.

640
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,120
I was an eyewitness to what
Jesus did on the cross.

641
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,400
I was eyewitness to seeing his
body resurrected.

642
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,000
I was eyewitness when I ate the
fish.

643
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,560
And he's going to talk about
some of these stories.

644
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,520
But it's important to understand
in the New Testament that every

645
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,800
single book of the New Testament
is actually directly linked to

646
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,400
an eyewitness account because a
lot of people say, oh, the Bible

647
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,280
was written over all these
centuries.

648
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,360
Yeah, OK, we can talk about the
Old Testament, but let's look at

649
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,360
the New Testament.
It's not written over all these

650
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,920
centuries, OK?
It's not made-up over 4 or 500

651
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,040
years.
This all this is written within

652
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,800
60 years after Jesus died.
Every single part of the New

653
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,320
Testament.
I want you to see that every

654
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,760
book in the Testament ties back
to an eyewitness account pretty

655
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,200
good.
You go to a courtroom, Amen.

656
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,440
You get an eyewitness testimony.
So Matthew, we'll start with

657
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,960
talk the New Testament scholars.
So Matthew was, who was the

658
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,360
disciple of Jesus, Amen.
He, he, he was a tax collector.

659
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,680
He, he lived with Jesus for 3
1/2 years.

660
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,920
He knew everything.
So he wrote this book of Matthew

661
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,480
to the, to the Jews, tell him to
understand who Jesus was, Who's

662
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,160
the eyewitness account.
So Mark, which is actually John

663
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,520
Mark, he traveled with a man
named Peter.

664
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,960
And so when you read the book of
Mark, it's actually through the

665
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,280
eyes of Peter.
And so when you read the book of

666
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,520
Mark, you're like, this is
really Peter's version of the

667
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,360
Gospel.
Amen.

668
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,400
It's pretty amazing to think
through like this is Peter's

669
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:48,720
account like, well, Peter only
wrote two books.

670
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,440
Well, really, he influenced Mark
heavily.

671
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,080
And so Mark knew eyewitness
because he traveled with Peter.

672
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,800
Luke, Luke was like meticulous,
right?

673
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,760
He's a doctor.
He's interviewing all these

674
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,000
people so he can put the most
excellent account together.

675
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,920
He even interviewed Mary
herself.

676
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,200
That's we have the song of Mary
and the story of Luke.

677
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,280
It's one of the it's was the
longest gospel.

678
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,200
That's why it's given the most
details possible.

679
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,760
So you know it to be true
eyewitness accounts they took,

680
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,560
took and wrote the book from.
How about the book of John?

681
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,360
The book of John is written by
John, the disciple of Jesus

682
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,040
loved, right?
And he wrote first John, second

683
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,360
John, third John Revelation.
And this was the disciple.

684
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,560
He's the eyewitness account of
everything he saw.

685
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,120
Amen.
Amen.

686
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,120
This isn't written by somebody 4
or 500 years later.

687
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,960
That's just trying to manipulate
the whole world.

688
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,680
How about Paul Now Paul didn't
come along until after Jesus

689
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,000
ascended into heaven but Jesus
something he actually came back

690
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,000
and he called him on the road
Damascus and scholars believe

691
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,520
that Jesus that Pete Paul man
would have spent 3 1/2 years

692
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,320
with Jesus in the wilderness.
That's why Paul's called the

693
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,960
last apostle cause to be an
apostle always get it's always

694
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,880
interesting to me.
But this church is like apostle

695
00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,440
this and that apostles are
people actually physically spent

696
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,880
time with Jesus.
Amen.

697
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:04,800
So somebody says they're an
apostle.

698
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,800
I'm like, OK, interesting
because Paul was the last

699
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,600
apostle and he spent time with
Jesus and he he went full on for

700
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,280
the gospel wrote.
We talked about last week so

701
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,920
many books in the Bible, but he
is an eyewitness, Amen.

702
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,920
He's not writing about something
he never heard of or somebody

703
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,080
told him 3 generations deep book
of Hebrews.

704
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,960
Interesting.
We don't really know who wrote

705
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,200
it.
We don't really think it's Paul.

706
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,960
There's a lot of scholars on it,
but it's obvious that they talk

707
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,800
to the apostles, the writing and
the scripture itself.

708
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,040
It lends the fact that they have
eyewitness testament of all

709
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,200
these things of the book of
James.

710
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:37,920
James is who?
Help me out.

711
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,480
Yeah.
He's a half brother of Jesus.

712
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,880
Amen.
You think he has some eyewitness

713
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,000
testimony?
I get tickled to death, man,

714
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,240
because like, as your siblings,
you don't usually prop up your

715
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,760
sibling too far.
You know what I'm saying?

716
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,280
You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, sure, man.

717
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,480
I know it's true, but I'm not
going to tell somebody.

718
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,760
And James, I mean James, those
guys, nobody stood for Jesus to

719
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,840
his hometown and they go throw
him off a Cliff and he walked

720
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,560
through the crowd.
But when Jesus resurrects James,

721
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,000
all of a sudden his faith is, is
extreme.

722
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,120
Matter of fact, James is the
first pastor of the Church of

723
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,440
Jerusalem.
James would be beheaded for his

724
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,640
faith and his brother.
That's pretty bold, isn't it?

725
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,680
And he writes this book about
putting your faith in action.

726
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,600
Do something about it.
Because I knew him.

727
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,360
I grew up with Jesus, matter of
fact.

728
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,120
Then you got Peter, which we
talked about obviously was an

729
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,320
eyewitness.
He traveled, he's a disciple

730
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,320
with Jesus.
And then you have Jude and Jude

731
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,720
is another half brother of
Jesus.

732
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,200
You might not have known that.
Now you read the book of Jude

733
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,080
and it's like, holy smokes.
And all these people I just

734
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,600
named that I named 8 people.
And we didn't know who wrote

735
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,320
Hebrews.
So there's nine New Testament

736
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,760
writers that all are based upon
eyewitness accounts of walking

737
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,200
with Jesus.
That's good news.

738
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,120
Amen.
So when somebody tells to tell

739
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,160
you like, oh, this is a cleverly
devised fable.

740
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,480
This book is just written.
It's just made out by this.

741
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,000
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no.

742
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,080
These, these are written by
people who all died for their

743
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,320
faith in Christ.
All these people died in Maher's

744
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,520
death besides John, and they
tried to kill him.

745
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,800
Every single people gave up
their life for a lie.

746
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,480
No, they gave their life because
they knew who Jesus was.

747
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,920
And it's amazing you go to
courtrooms today and eyewitness

748
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,840
accounts are not always like the
greatest, but they're better

749
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,840
than the second account.
All somebody told me that's

750
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,320
called hearsay, right?
But if you go to court and

751
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,880
you're an eyewitness, you could
go on the stand.

752
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,520
You can testify what you saw
that stands up in the court of

753
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,000
law.
Amen.

754
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,600
So it can be scrutinized, but
Peter, he goes on verse 17, he

755
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,280
says he being Jesus received
honor and glory from God the

756
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:35,480
Father when the voice came to
him from majestic glory saying

757
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:42,920
this is my son whom I love and
with him I am well pleased.

758
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,360
He's quoting.
If you saw that he put quotes.

759
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,080
So Peter is going back in time
and he's saying God received

760
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:54,040
glory and honor from on high and
he goes back to the bound

761
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,719
transfiguration.
Remember, Peter's like, I'll

762
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,960
never let you die.
And he Jesus says, get behind

763
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,440
me, Satan.
And then he restores him and he

764
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,960
takes Peter, James and John and
he goes up the mountain.

765
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,240
Transfiguration.
And the voice of the Father

766
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:09,040
speaks to them.
Behold, this is my son whom I

767
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,000
loved him.
Well, please.

768
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:14,120
He cut the part out that said
and listen to him because Peter

769
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,440
was too busy trying to build
altars, you know, and he just

770
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,920
forgot about the glory of God.
But that moment in time stuck

771
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:25,520
with him forever because he
heard God's voice in verse 18 he

772
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,640
says we ourselves, you talk
about James and John and him

773
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:33,000
heard this voice that came from
heaven when we were what with

774
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,760
him.
We were eyewitnesses that the

775
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,720
father broke through the clouds
and he spoke to the son.

776
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:42,600
We heard it with our own ears
and he says on the what the

777
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,720
sacred mountain.
Now this is real interesting.

778
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,560
This is really it's really good
because there's moments in time

779
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:50,920
of your life where God speaks to
you.

780
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,160
It's not just that moment is
sacred.

781
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,320
Actually the place becomes
sacred as well.

782
00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:58,600
There's moments in your life
where you'll never forget what

783
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,000
God did in that space.
We we we drove by last week.

784
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,800
The church that I can't came to
Christ in at blue is bad.

785
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,360
This simple and I was with Holly
and Diane.

786
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:08,960
We were dropping off supplied
the drapes some other church

787
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,000
doing some stuff.
So maybe just got to check it

788
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,480
out, you know, and man, it was
just like I remember there's

789
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,160
potholes everywhere.
Things fall down, come on

790
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,080
somewhere.
The youth, the flood.

791
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,280
I was a youth pastor down there
after I came to Christ when the

792
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,840
college came back.
So I know about it.

793
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,040
But I can look back and I'd be
like, hey, right behind this

794
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,360
door, you're going to walk 30
steps into this other room.

795
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,440
And I knelt my knees and that's
where I started relationship

796
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,440
with Jesus.
That's a sacred place for me,

797
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,720
Amen.
Because I heard from God in that

798
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,760
room, in that space.
And for Peter, like that was a

799
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,880
sacred mountain.
And those are mountaintop

800
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,520
moments, by the way, when you
when you when you never forget.

801
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,320
Like that tree.
I remember 2003.

802
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,280
There's a tree right outside
this Chapel of John Brown

803
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,640
University.
I went back there a few years

804
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,000
ago, Drew.
Drew took a youth group down

805
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,240
there and I went out there with
my son and I was probably 7, he

806
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:52,400
was probably 7 a couple years
ago.

807
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,320
And we walked out and said, see
this tree right here?

808
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,120
This is where Dad surrender his
life to whatever God won his

809
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,680
life.
This is the spot.

810
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:01,960
This is a sacred spot, Amen.
And I still talk to my son.

811
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,640
He'll say, yeah, Dad to that
tree.

812
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,240
I surrender my life too.
Like he's supposed to be just

813
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:09,880
like Dad because there's sacred
mounds and sacred spaces, Amen.

814
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,920
I was in a Chapel when I was in
college and heard the story of

815
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,680
Bob Hughes and this missionary
subbu in the Philippines and,

816
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,160
and just how God used his life.
Like God, man, just use my life

817
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,520
for that, God.
Just use my life for missions

818
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,240
and for your glory and just be
open forever.

819
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,520
You have Lord sacred spaces.
You guys got sacred spaces

820
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,440
because God spoke to you, Amen.
It's not sacred for any other

821
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:30,560
reason.
It's sacred because you heard

822
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:37,720
the voice of God and it lines up
with his word, verse 19.

823
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,920
We also have the prophetic
message, some with the Bible as

824
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,800
something.
How's he describe it?

825
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:53,400
Completely reliable.
That's good news, Amen.

826
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,760
Like I could build my life on
this, like these eyewitnesses,

827
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,760
this all this guy you crucified
and like I'm still with him.

828
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,800
You can put him to death, but
guess what?

829
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,760
He lives, brother, He lives.
He's more alive today than he's

830
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,760
ever been.
He's doing the work, work

831
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,000
together with him and he's
talking about the sacred mound,

832
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,800
heard the voice of the Father
talking to his son.

833
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,160
That's what he says.
You would do well to pay

834
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,200
attention to it.
Amen.

835
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,720
Your life would be totally
different if you did pay

836
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:20,840
attention to what this is
saying.

837
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,000
If you could just put your nose
to the Scripture as to a light

838
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,600
shining in a dark place, that's
amazing.

839
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,720
Like think about the Bible as a
light in the darkness.

840
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,280
It was a little dark in here
earlier under the house lights

841
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,920
went off or something, right?
And and you put one light in the

842
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,840
room and all of a sudden it's
just enough to get through,

843
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,600
right?
Like the emergency lighting in a

844
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,880
space and all of a sudden it
just the Bible.

845
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,640
It lights through the culture.
The culture is crazy, by the

846
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,720
way, just so you know, it kind
of looks like Jerry Springer.

847
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,520
Just so you know, it makes no
sense.

848
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,040
And I've, I'm not trying to make
sense of it and I'm not trying

849
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,400
to water anything down either.
I'm not trying to like

850
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,000
incorporate the world into the
church.

851
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:00,240
I'm just trying to follow Jesus,
Amen, and build it on his

852
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,400
scripture.
And so whatever he says, we're

853
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,480
going to go with because it's
reliable.

854
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,800
So the world's going right,
we're going left, the world's

855
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,400
going left, we're going right.
We're doing what God calls to

856
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,640
do.
And he says until the day dawns

857
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,720
and the morning star rises in
your hearts, you should follow

858
00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:19,760
the Scripture.
Until the day dawns, we talk

859
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,760
until the eastern sky splits and
Jesus comes back, you should

860
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,200
follow Scripture.
That's what he's saying.

861
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:27,760
Even how hard it gets in what
direction it goes.

862
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,760
Remember, he's talking to the
most persecuted church in

863
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,640
history and he's saying even the
darkest moments and everything

864
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,480
is falling apart that your life
needs to follow what the

865
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,560
Scripture says.
Build your life on what's

866
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,880
reliable.
When I leave and I die and

867
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,080
there's just a marker, if not
even a marker, just remember

868
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,720
that your life should build on
Scripture because eyewitnesses,

869
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,480
and he was one of them.
He says this above all, verse

870
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,640
20.
You must understand that no

871
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,800
prophecy of Scripture came about
by the prophet's own

872
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,120
interpretation of things.
Amen, Amen.

873
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,880
It just isn't just like
somebody's opinion, since for

874
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:11,120
prophecy never had its origin in
what human will.

875
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,480
If you try to make scripture
like just looking through all

876
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,960
the books, it is impossible.
For any human to have this much

877
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,080
wisdom and put anything remotely
close together of what's in this

878
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,400
scripture, even if they were to
try, but that's not happened.

879
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,240
That's not what happened.
Did not come from human.

880
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,680
Well, didn't come from men.
It wasn't a human system.

881
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,960
This isn't like when you go to
school and you study Greek

882
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,320
mythology and you started Roman
mythology and you hear about

883
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,840
these fables and you read The
Iliad and you read all these

884
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,480
works of literature from the
past.

885
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,720
It's not on the same level.
Amen.

886
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,280
It's a whole nother level and
there's so much evidence like I

887
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,480
can't even get into today.
The evidence for the manuscripts

888
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:54,000
of how many are there and
reliable that you look back to

889
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,800
and you'd be like man, why did I
question that there's so many.

890
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,960
He says for prophecy, not as
origin human will, but prophets

891
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:07,000
through though human spoke from
God as they were what carry

892
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,400
along by the Holy Spirit.
It's pretty cool.

893
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:16,680
God breathed that breath of God.
It's like the Holy Spirit like

894
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,520
moves a sail on a boat and just
moved on people.

895
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,720
And God breathed through people
that they moved the pen, but God

896
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,280
was writing the story.
Amen.

897
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,960
There's some guys where they
were in jail and Paul would talk

898
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,840
and somebody else would write
the pen, but the Holy Spirit was

899
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,040
moving through them for God to
write his perfect word to us.

900
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,240
And so my question for you guys
today is, is really simple.

901
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,880
We talked about this morning
earlier on joy, prayer and

902
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,240
gratitude.
And when you find that those

903
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:55,040
sacred moments in your life,
those are mountain top moments,

904
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,160
Amen.
But what Peter's talking to is a

905
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,120
group of people in the valley.
He's talking to people that are

906
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,760
being persecuted and they're up
against the wall and they don't

907
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:04,960
know where they get the next
meal.

908
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:06,600
They don't know what's going to
happen.

909
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,680
They're confused.
It doesn't like anything they'd

910
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:12,280
ever dreamed of or desired, but
God is in it.

911
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,320
And so I would encourage you
guys, if you've lost your joy,

912
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,800
if you've lost your gratitude,
if your prayer life is non

913
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:24,800
existent, I would encourage you
that you have to go back to the

914
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,800
sacred space and create a sacred
space in your life where God can

915
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,760
speak to you because those
mountaintop moments are what

916
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:37,480
carry you through the valley.
Amen and Peter in the valley, he

917
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,120
goes back to where God spoke to
him, which today he speaks

918
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,000
through his word, through his
Holy Spirit and he goes back to

919
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,360
that moment where God spoke to
on that ballot.

920
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,240
Top guys.
I'll never forget that moment

921
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:47,560
and that drives me every single
day.

922
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,080
And I want you to know when I
die and I'm gone, that's worthy

923
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:51,600
enough that you can leave life
on this as well.

924
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,360
And so if you don't have enough
gratitude, enough joy in your

925
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,720
life, I would encourage you.
You may not be spending enough

926
00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:59,880
time with Jesus.
You may not been opened the

927
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,720
Bible recently.
You have to create sacred spaces

928
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:04,000
and you create sacred space
anywhere.

929
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,720
This week there's a few men at a
church that are in the hospital

930
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,760
and guess what?
You can take the hospital room

931
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,080
and you can turn into a sacred
space.

932
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,080
Amen.
Like it was, it was interesting.

933
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,320
There's a man in our church.
He went to the hospital, he read

934
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,640
Psalm 23.
He, he read some other scripture

935
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,920
with some other people and then
like hours later he's in the

936
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,840
hospital himself.
And it went like roller coaster

937
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,960
like crazy, went home and then
like went back unconscious.

938
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,520
Like all this stuff's going on
and I show up and I meet this

939
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,640
guy and you know what's on his
lips?

940
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,000
The things of God.
He, he, he just, it's a sacred

941
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,960
space.
Like, and it was like, dude, the

942
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,280
enemy's trying to Take Me Out,
but guess what?

943
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,600
I'm still here.
Like God used my life.

944
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,960
This guy's a soul winner.
He's passionate for Christ.

945
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,080
He knows the scriptures.
It's like that's a sacred room

946
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,800
now that's been given to God.
There's been other people in the

947
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,320
hospital this week.
You can make these chairs.

948
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,080
They're not really pews, OK, but
you can make them into a sacred

949
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,480
space, Amen.
For some of you, you, this could

950
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,280
be the moment you start
relationship with Jesus and

951
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,840
you'll never forget like that
really dark room, right?

952
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,040
That school, because we'll move
on from here and you'll drive by

953
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,080
and you'll say, hey, I'll show
you no son or daughter or

954
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,800
whoever you're with.
I say, dude, I came to Christ in

955
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,200
that room right there.
I never forget it.

956
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,160
That Sunday morning, this weird
dude spoke, come on somebody,

957
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,760
right?
But I heard about the Gospel and

958
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,440
my life's been ever changed
because that room, because I

959
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:20,440
heard God's voice.
Amen.

960
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:22,480
And you get to create that for
other people.

961
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,840
It's not just you.
You get to help other people

962
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,760
have sacred moments.
You get to issue people into the

963
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,680
Word of God, like when you're
coaching or counseling or or in

964
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,200
influence or leadership or own a
company or whatever management

965
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,120
you're in.
Why don't you bring in Jesus in

966
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,840
that conversation?
Why don't you bring in more of

967
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,000
the scripture of the
conversation?

968
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,680
Why don't you give them some of
that joy and some of that

969
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,280
passion?
Who's going to fire you?

970
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,720
Come on, somebody, have they
fired you yet?

971
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:49,560
Give it a try.
Like we're so worried about it,

972
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,080
right?
And we're timid about the

973
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,360
scripture, but it's like, no, we
need to elevate the scripture.

974
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:56,080
We need to elevate things of God
and we need to show things, the

975
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,360
things of scripture in our
lives.

976
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,160
So create some sacred moments.
And as parents, you create

977
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,320
sacred moments with your
children.

978
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,960
You should, it should be an
obligation.

979
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,000
It should be and I'm a duty, but
like a joy for you.

980
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,280
So like I'm getting a scripture
every single day with my kids

981
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,000
like I'm going to make sure they
know about God.

982
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,720
We're praying we're asking
questions you leave here from

983
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,840
from Sunday morning.
Hey, what'd you learn the kids

984
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,880
program.
We didn't learn anything.

985
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,640
I'm sure you learned nothing.
What did you learn?

986
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,320
I will call Miss Christie right
now.

987
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,520
You better take this kid right.
We have the moments that you can

988
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,080
create for your children.
They'll forever change their

989
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,040
future.
So we're called to do Amen.

990
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,640
And it's a pretty amazing
because always seeing this with

991
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,360
so many people, the moment you
see God's glory for yourself,

992
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:36,920
you can never stop the rest of
your life from helping other

993
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,800
people see the same glory.
It can never change.

994
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,840
That's what drives these guys
and it drives our church.

995
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,240
It drives me.
I'm just so thankful for God's

996
00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:49,320
glory and His Majesty.
So thank you, Jesus.

997
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,520
God, thank you so much for your
word, for your truth that's been

998
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,040
passed down through eyewitness
accounts.

999
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:56,160
God, this is God.
Breathe.

1000
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,600
God, thank you for building,
allowing me to build my life on

1001
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,280
your scripture.
God, you've been so faithful.

1002
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,200
I know so many people in the
room would attest the same

1003
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,840
thing.
God pray for those Jesus

1004
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:04,960
followers today.
They say, you know what, I need

1005
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,240
to get back in the word of God.
I I need to spend time with

1006
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:08,960
Jesus.
I need to create some sacred

1007
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,480
spaces.
Maybe it's in my car ride.

1008
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,040
Maybe it's in my bedroom.
Maybe it's in the office.

1009
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,960
I need to spend time with you
and you're calling us to do

1010
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,320
that.
So we gotta pray.

1011
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,320
We just humble ourselves.
God, we just get in tune with

1012
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,560
your word and realize it's not
just any book.

1013
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,440
This is a living book, the book
that changed our soul, the book

1014
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,640
we build our life on this
reliable and we do well to be in

1015
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,520
it.
I'll pray for one group, people

1016
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,960
in the house specifically,
that's those your day that they

1017
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,800
have the greatest sacred moment
you could ever have.

1018
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,160
The moment you step into a
permanent lasting relationship

1019
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,000
with Jesus because you know
you're a Sinner and Navy Savior

1020
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:44,000
and you call on Jesus to be
saved by grace alone through

1021
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,320
faith alone in Christ.
Those you recognize that Jesus

1022
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,440
isn't somebody just in history.
He is a living God that chose to

1023
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,720
come and die for you on the
cross and Rosie on 3rd day that

1024
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:57,080
drove Peter to write these books
that die for him.

1025
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,120
And it'll drive you to be called
to to drive you home to the

1026
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:05,960
cross to remind you that you're
loved, to give you the grace of

1027
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,880
God, that you've been chosen by
God and forgiven by God.

1028
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:10,480
The Bible says we'll give you a
new name.

1029
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,720
He'll change from the inside out
and he'll transform your life,

1030
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,200
not just rebuild.
It may be transformed.

1031
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,160
And that sacred moment back in
2000 where I called on Christ.

1032
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,480
My life has never been the same.
God's been faithful.

1033
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,920
It's been a quarter century and
I'm a test in the fact that

1034
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:27,920
God's faithful.
So if you need Jesus in your

1035
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:28,880
life today, I'm not going to
call you.

1036
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,920
I make it weird, but if you need
Jesus in your life, we just

1037
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,800
raise your hand real high today
and say I need Jesus, a

1038
00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,160
relationship with Christ today.
New life in Jesus today.

1039
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,480
Well, that's you.
I'm going to leave your prayer.

1040
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,280
The prayer does not save you,
but your heart towards him.

1041
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,680
It's a faith in him.
It's a belief in him.

1042
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,200
Just call and say, Father God,
today is a sacred moment.

1043
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,960
I recognize that I'm a Sinner
new Savior God, I recognize that

1044
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,640
you down the cross that you're
wounded for my sins.

1045
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,200
God that you love me enough that
you choose to die for me.

1046
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,760
And so God, thank you God with a
heart full of joy and gratitude.

1047
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:08,160
My very first prayer is
submission and humility to the

1048
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,080
gospel that's going to save my
soul.

1049
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,240
So thank you God for the wisdom
from your word that led me to

1050
00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:17,000
this today.
And I pray this in Jesus name.

1051
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,960
And the church said, Amen.
Come on, give some glory to God

1052
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:20,800
today.
Amen.

1053
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:26,640
Thank you Jesus.
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1054
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,280
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1055
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