I don't understand
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why did this
have to happen to me?
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I feel like I just
can't make sense of things.
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I need answers.
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Where is God?
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Where is God?
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It's a huge question.
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It's a question that has
led to people rejecting God,
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adopting atheism
because they didn't believe
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that God was there
when they needed Him.
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We're going to look
at that question today.
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Welcome to Raw
Questions Relevant Answers.
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In this program,
we address questions
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that young people have sent in.
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People like yourself
are asking these questions,
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and we're going to
take a look at that today.
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My name is Michelle Doucoumes.
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I'm your host, and I
have my co-hosts with me,
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Dee Casper and Mark Paden.
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We have some big
questions here today, guys.
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And we're going to
jump right into this
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because I believe these
are super important questions
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for our life and for our faith.
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First question comes
from a 15-year-old female
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in Tennessee who's saying,
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"I don't understand
the meaning of my life.
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I feel alone.
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God doesn't give any
evidence that He is here.
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I know He hates me
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because He's
never seemed to care.
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Why am I such a failure?
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I gave up such a long time ago.
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When will God
become real in my life?"
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Wow.
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You know, I have to say
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there is a lot of
beauty in this question
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because it's raw.
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You know, it's
something that it's...
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I think we sometimes hold
back on some of these questions
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because we feel like,
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you know, somebody
is going to judge us
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for or think less
of us because of it,
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but I just want
to commend the person
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who's asked this question
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because, you
know, praise the Lord
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that they're
willing to be honest
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with what they're feeling.
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You know, the first
thing I want to say to is that,
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you know, we live in the reality
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of a great controversy, a
battle between good and evil
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where Satan is
constantly trying to hurt us
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and make us feel bad.
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Satan wants to discourage us.
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That's the
plain and simple thing
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because if he can discourage us
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and get us to think
that God is against us,
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then he can get
us into temptation,
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he can get us to
sin and leave God.
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So the first thing that...
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I think the first
part of this answer
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that I would give is, you know,
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just for us to realize that
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God is not as bad as
Satan portrays Him to be.
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God is actually a lot better
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than how Satan
portrays Him to be.
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And the picture we see of God
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is throughout
Scripture is God pursuing people
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who don't appreciate,
who don't understand,
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who will question Him,
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the text that comes to
my mind immediately is...
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Go to Isaiah 49. Okay.
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Isaiah 49, that all
throughout the Old Testament
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and the New Testament,
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we see this, God
pursuing His people,
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they reject Him, they
don't want to hear from Him.
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They want
nothing to do with Him.
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And yet He keeps pursuing.
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And then there's this
situation in verse 14,
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Isaiah 49:14 says,
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"But Zion said..."
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This is the people
whom God has blessed,
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whom God has
sustained with life,
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who's opened doors for them
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and brought them
lands and other things.
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And then it says, "But Zion..."
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Isaiah 49:14, Zion has
said, "The Lord has forsaken me,
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and my Lord has forgotten me."
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And this resonates
with the listener here,
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the person who has
asked this question
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that seems like God
isn't here, He doesn't care.
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But listen to the
response of God in verse 15,
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"Can a woman
forget her nursing child
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and not have compassion
on the son of her womb?"
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He's using the most
powerful, emotional language
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He can find as far
as that bond, right?
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A closeness.
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And He says,
"Certainly, they may forget,
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yet I will not forget you."
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And then He says,
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"See, I have inscribed
you on the palms of My hands,
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your walls are
continually before Me."
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This is explicit
Calvary language.
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If there's anything
that shows that God cares,
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that God has not
forgotten us, it's Calvary.
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And He's
foretelling what will happen,
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but the point is it's
still this is true now,
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so we feel like God
isn't there, God doesn't care,
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He just wants to
give us a reminder
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in the same way he
dealt with the Israelites,
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He'll say to us.
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"Maybe your
mother could forget you,
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but I can't
because I've paid for you,
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I've bought you,
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and your name is inscribed
on the palms of My hands."
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It's really
interesting to me in that verse
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that it talks
about how your walls
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are continually before Me.
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We have walls in our lives,
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sometimes it's
because difficult things
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have happened in our
lives, and thus it's made it
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that we protect ourselves
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from other
people by putting walls.
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And even subconsciously,
this can happen with God,
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we can know
intellectually, Jesus loves me,
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He died for me,
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but because of
either things we've done
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or other people have done to us,
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the results of our
sinful world that we live in,
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it's like a wall
goes around our heart.
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And it's difficult
because God may be there,
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but we can't see
Him through that wall.
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We may not even
realize that we have that wall.
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And I love the fact
that God is still there.
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He's in the business of
trying to break through,
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to find cracks to get in,
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and I invite
whoever asked this question
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to maybe think about the fact
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that just because
we can't sense God,
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could it be that
He's still there,
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and we just can't see it.
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Yes. And this is a
picture throughout Scripture.
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I mean, the chiefest example
is Jesus Himself on the cross,
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when He literally feels
forsaken by God Himself.
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He says, "My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me?"
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But we are told in Romans
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that God was in
Christ reconciling
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the world to Himself.
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You know, if
there's these dark clouds
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all around the
cross when Jesus is dying,
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one is tempted to
ask the question like,
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"What if God
Himself was actually there
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beside Jesus at the cross?"
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You know, there's many instances
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where I think that we see
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this evidence of
God being present,
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and we don't
sense it at the time,
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but He has been.
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And I think
it's a good reminder.
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You know, one other
point that I'd like to make
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in regards to this
person feeling like a failure
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and like God isn't
interested in them,
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doesn't care about
them because they failed.
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One of the most
beautifully redemptive stories
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in the Old Testament
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is the story of
Jonah in Nineveh, right?
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So at the
beginning in Jonah 1:2,
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God comes to Jonah and
says, "Arise, go to Nineveh,
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that great city,
and cry against it,
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for their wickedness
has come up before Me."
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Like this city is so bad
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that God has to tell
prophet to go and talk to them
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because they're that wicked,
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like this is an
exceptionally wicked city.
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I mean, more wicked
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than a lot of the other
nations around them, right?
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This is how bad it's getting,
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and yet God tells
Jonah to go there.
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And as the story progresses,
Jonah doesn't want to go.
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He's terrified of it.
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So he runs from God,
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he gets
eventually in this bad storm,
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he gets thrown into the ocean,
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and then God sends a
whale to come and grab him
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and take him back to Nineveh.
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And then once he's repented,
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he's willing to go and
speak to the Ninevites.
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And then God originally said,
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"Look, if you guys don't repent,
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there's going to be
some bad stuff happening."
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And then they repent,
and then God doesn't do it.
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He saves them, He spares them.
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Now this is the story of a
city that was incredibly wicked,
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totally against God,
had no desire for God.
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They were just straight
up rebellious and wicked.
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And yet, look at the tenderness
that God is dealing with them.
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He did so much to get them
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to be willing to
come back to Him.
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And that's what He's
going to do for somebody
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that's totally rebellious,
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what about if we keep
failing and we're struggling,
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and we're hurting?
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Like a parent
wouldn't reprimand a child
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when they keep
failing and failing
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if they're trying.
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It's like God even made it...
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He cared so much, He
sent a fish to swallow a man
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just to give him a chance.
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Pretty crazy, and, you know,
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not cutting this
conversation off,
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the second question
really relates to this as well.
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And I want to read this.
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It says, this is
from a 16-year-old female
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from Maryland, "How
do I know God exist?
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Whenever I ask Him to
help me, He is never there.
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Like I've lived
the Christian life,
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done all the right things,
yet He is not there for me.
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It's like praying to a wall."
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And so I want to flip
that question a little bit.
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We know that, like you said,
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God is compassionate
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even when we are doing
maybe the wrong things,
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but what about when we're doing
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what we think
are the right things?
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Trying to live
the Christian life,
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we're still not maybe
experiencing God how we would.
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One of the examples
that comes to my mind
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immediately is John the Baptist,
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like this is a guy
who is called by Jesus
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and given a
commendation by Jesus.
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He's the greatest
prophet that ever has lived
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and ever will live.
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And yet this guy,
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as soon as Jesus'
ministry comes on the scene,
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when Jesus...
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You would think that
He's going to be there
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to see all the
miracles that Jesus performs,
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he ends up in prison.
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And it's not
because he ends up in prison
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'cause he did something wrong,
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he's incarcerated for
only doing what was right.
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And yet, even in this
moment, there is a God in heaven
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who loved him, who
ministered to his needs
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while he was in that prison cell
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and reminded him of the
precious promises of Scripture.
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And even Jesus
send the message to him,
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telling him, "I am
who you thought I was
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and don't lose sight of that."
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And so I think that there's
pictures throughout Scripture
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of people who
stood for the right
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and ended up
dealing up with difficulty.
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Daniel's another,
Mary, Martha and Lazarus,
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people who were
good friends of Jesus,
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who went
through a great tragedy,
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and yet God brought
great glory out of the tragedy
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and the difficultly in a
way that they didn't expect.
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They thought He
would bring glory out of it
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by healing Lazarus,
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but Jesus bought even more glory
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by raising him from the dead.
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So I hear you
saying that sometimes
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God's deliverance comes
like Daniel or Shadrach,
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Meshach, and Abednego,
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and He takes them
out of the trouble
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or maybe sometimes
like John the Baptist,
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God doesn't deliver that way,
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but it doesn't mean
that God wasn't there
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or that they
did something wrong.
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You know, I want to
put in an analogy on this.
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You know, one of
the biggest things
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that interferes
in interpersonal,
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especially
romantic relationships
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is failed expectations, right?
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People will think
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that their significant
other doesn't love them
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or doesn't care about them
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when they fail to
meet a certain expectation,
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but that isn't
necessarily always
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your partner's problem.
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It's sometimes are
unreasonable expectations.
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And I think sometimes
we kind of come to God,
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can I say with unreasonable
expectation sometimes.
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We want God to do
certain things for us,
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and we hinge His love of us
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on doing that
particular thing for us.
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This is totally true.
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There's actually a
commentary on the life of Christ
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called Desire of Ages.
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It has this amazing line,
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I believe it was in the
context of John the Baptist,
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but it could be
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus,
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but it's
relevant in either case,
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where it literally says that
they were looking for a Messiah
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who had not been promised,
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and they were discouraged
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because their
expectations are based upon
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what they thought Jesus would do
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and when Jesus
didn't do those things,
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they thought, "He doesn't
love me, He doesn't care."
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But the problem wasn't
that Jesus had overpromised
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and underdelivered.
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It's that Jesus didn't
meet their expectations
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as opposed to what
He said He would do.
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The amazing thing is
even in spite of that,
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He got glory out
of those situations
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in amazing and powerful ways.
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For sure.
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The story of John the Baptist
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has been an
inspiration to many souls
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who die in lonely prison cells,
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who were martyrs
on behalf of Christ
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in Dark Ages or other times.
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And his story did that for
them because God never left him,
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and God knew
that he could stand.
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So you're staying that
God was doing something.
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He was meeting, maybe
even bigger expectations,
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but it wasn't what we
expected and that happens.
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We have one more question,
and it's pretty big here.
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It says, "Why should
I keep trying something
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that does not work?
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The very definition of an idiot
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is someone trying the same thing
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over and over again
expecting different results.
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It seems hopeless."
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What would you say to someone
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who's maybe
been trying with God,
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but it's been a bit
discouraged like that?
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You know, I think honestly,
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I think a lot of it does
get back to expectations,
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and also the
soil of our own heart.
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It's here in Hebrews 11,
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"But without faith it is
impossible to please Him,
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for he that cometh
to God must believe
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that He is and
that He is a rewarder
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of them that
diligently seek Him."
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You know, when we come to God,
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one of the most
important things is
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that we come in a
submissive contrite way
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and in a way that is
believing His promises,
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claiming them,
and truly seeking Him.
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And the promise is, if
we diligently seek Him,
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we will find Him, and
we can claim that promise
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when we're seeking Him
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when He doesn't
seem to be there.
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We can claim that promise.
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Jesus says, "If
any man come unto Me,
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I will no wise cast him out."
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And I remember
reading this touching letter
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that's written by one of
the founders of our church
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to someone who is struggling.
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And they told them that,
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you know, "If you bring
this one promise to Jesus,"
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and it may seem like
it's the only one you have,
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"But if you come unto Me,
you will no wise be cast out."
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They said, "If you
claim this promise,
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and that's all you got,
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you are safe as though
inside of the city of God."
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Whoa!
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And so no matter how you
feel, what else is going on,
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if you trust that He
says, "If you come to Me,
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I'm not going to cast you out."
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Those are the words of
Jesus, take them to the bank.
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Yeah. Wow!
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So for those of
you out here watching
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who may also be
asking these questions,
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where is God, what is happening,
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I just really
encourage you don't give up.
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We have a God
who is pursuing us,
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who wants to have a
relationship with us,
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and is waiting for that.
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Please continue to watch,
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and we will continue
to do to have answers.
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