I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and welcome
to another 3ABN Today
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Family Worship and
happy Sabbath to you.
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I'm Jason Bradley,
and I'm excited about
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this evening's topic.
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But I'll introduce
that to you in a moment.
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I want to introduce
my brothers in Christ.
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So we've got
Brother Ryan Day here.
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Great to have you...
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Blessing to be
here, Brother Yes, sir.
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We've got the Dakota Day.
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That's right. Uh-huh.
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We call you guys
the Sons of Thunder.
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Oh, okay.
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It's great to have you here.
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And we've got Ricky Carter.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Yes, happy Sabbath to you.
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Happy Sabbath,
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You know, we're
going to be talking about
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going from hopeless to hope for.
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You know, a lot of times
we enter into these situations
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where they're
seemingly hopeless.
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But then, we learn about Jesus.
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And we end up on
the hopeful side.
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So have you guys ever
experienced hopelessness?
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And then what led
to that hopefulness?
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Anybody can jump in?
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I think I'll go ahead. Go ahead.
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I think back when I
was first getting started
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with my family
had a young family,
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just got out of college.
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And I was looking for work.
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It's been about
two months looking
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doing all the
things you need to do,
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get your resumes
prepared and send out
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to different
locations, and no prospects.
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And I felt that two
months had been a while
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and I want to be able
to provide for my family,
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just hadn't had
anything coming through yet.
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Was feeling very discouraged.
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And I finally decided
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to start
talking to God about it.
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And He reminded me
that I hadn't asked Him yet.
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Asked Him for any help
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and so I said, okay,
yes, I haven't done that.
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Let me ask for help.
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So we're having, I'm
having my prayer time with Him
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and had already
requested for help
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with getting out finding a job.
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Then the phone
rang, in the midst,
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near the end of the prayer time,
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and I sensed I need
to go answer the phone.
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So I went out to the phone.
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It was a prospective employer,
who had gotten my resume.
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We had a conversation
about having an interview,
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the next day, this
is a Tuesday morning
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when I had this prayer.
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The next day,
went for the interview.
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And everything went
well with the interview.
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And then got the job and
Friday, I started working.
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So I was very
discouraged, hopeless feeling,
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but turned out to be
quite hopeful at the end.
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So I praise God for that,
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Amen. Amen.
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What about you, Ryan?
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Well, mine's a little
unconventional or not,
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not as a traditional story,
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I guess you would use
in a situation like this.
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But for me, I
think it was during
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the whole trial
of my mom's suffering
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in the hospital
and her ultimately
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dying in the hospital.
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Yeah, I remember
in those moments,
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there was, it was
kind of a roller coaster,
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where you have
these human feelings of,
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you know, hopelessness,
you know, like, it seems like,
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you know,
nothing's looking good and,
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but yet, then you
have these surges of,
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oh, you know, God's
gonna come through, right?
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And I think what kind
of made me feel great,
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before it actually
happened before her passing,
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is I have this, I actually
have this hopeful feeling
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that God's gonna pull,
that's God's gonna pull her
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through this
because there's thousands
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of brethren across the country
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and across the
world that are praying,
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is praying for my mom.
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And so, but then, of
course, when that moment came.
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It's a very, very
difficult situation,
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you for a moment, at
least from my situation,
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no matter how much
faith you think you have,
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no matter how much
you know of God's Word,
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the enemy just knows
how to come and touch
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that that right
part of your human mind,
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your human part of you
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and start to cast a little
bit of doubt and hopelessness
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in you and
you're like, you know,
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you just kind of feel
like you know it's over,
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it's done with, you
know our family's broken up
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or it's never gonna be the same.
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It's just this kind
of dark, gloomy feeling.
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Yeah. But God
always comes through.
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His Word is sure.
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And I just remember in
the days and weeks after that,
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the Lord pulled
me out of that mire,
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I guess you could say.
And He helped me through that.
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And helped me to see
the wonderful promises,
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many of which I
had read many times.
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But He helped reassure those
in my mind that you know what?
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Even though it seemed hopeless,
and even though it seems like
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you'll never be with her again.
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I have promised you
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that there will
be a resurrection day
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and that this is just a
blink in comparison to eternity.
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And so, I have felt
that shifting back and forth
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from hopeless to
hopeful many times in my life.
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But at the end of the day,
the Lord always comes through.
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Amen. Amen.
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Dakota, what about you?
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Well, my specific
experience was interesting.
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One that came to
my mind was my mother.
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Yes.
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And the situation we
went through with that.
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But another one that
was a big issue in my life
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was back in like, I
don't know, five years ago
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or so is kind of when I
was really starting to become
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wanna become full
time in the ministry.
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I had been a Bible worker,
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working several
years in Bible work.
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And I really had a
desire to be an evangelist,
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and to do something, you know,
big on that skill for the Lord.
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But I just didn't
know how to do it.
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And it seemed
like it was hopeless.
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Like, I'm a young
guy, nobody's gonna,
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you know, believe that God
could use me and all these,
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you know, things that the devil
was really putting in my mind.
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And long story short,
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I remember praying
a prayer and saying,
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Lord, I want to
be in the ministry,
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I want to, you
know, really do something.
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And you said,
if we ask anything,
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according to your
will, it will be done.
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But you know, God's timing
is different than our timing.
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And I remember feeling so like,
hopeless there for a long time
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like this, you know, I'm
never going to have my foot
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get in the door, somewhere
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where I can do
something big for the Lord.
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Straight out of high school,
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you know, I was wanting
to be a history teacher,
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I loved history,
and then God was like,
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"No, no, no, I don't want
you to be a history teacher,
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I want you to be a minister."
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And I'm like, "Well, Lord,
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I don't even
know how to do that,
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you know, I don't
even know where to begin."
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And so, what
eventually happened was,
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I had that deep conviction that
I didn't want to slay for man,
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you know, I remembered
the scripture, Mark 8:36,
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"What shall
profit a man if he gained
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the whole world
lose his own soul."
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And I just, I felt so
hopeless of how to do it,
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how to get into
full time ministry.
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And...
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after going to Amazing
Facts Center of Evangelism,
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and kind of starting with that.
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I didn't know
where to go from there.
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So I just prayed
and sought the Lord.
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And before I knew it,
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God has started
answering my prayers in time.
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I think He was
really building my faith.
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And it's sometimes it's
like, God will wait until like,
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you're about to run out
of the last piece of bread,
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you know.
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And then He like,
he wants to test you
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and He did that with me.
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And it seemed
like, all these doors
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and opportunities
started opening all of a sudden,
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and I was just so grateful.
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So yeah, and now I see
where God's brought me today.
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Here I am, like
five years later,
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and I'm just praising His name
that I'm able to do His work
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and share His Word with others.
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Amen. Amen.
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My situation was where
when I was out of the church,
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my stomach was
giving me a lot of problems.
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Like I was in a lot of pain,
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it was getting
bigger and bigger,
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and all of that stuff.
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And I didn't know
what was going on.
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I went to the doctor.
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They gave me
medicine, they sent me home.
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I went back to a doctor
again for a second time.
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They gave me more
medicine. They sent me home.
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I went to the
doctor for a third time.
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Now the doctor
that I was seeing,
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he was supposed
to be on vacation,
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but he happened to be
in the office that day.
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And I use that happen.
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It was providence. Yeah.
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Boy, he happened to be
in that office that day,
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he ran another
test and he told my dad
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to take me to the ER right away.
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See what had
happened was my appendix
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had ruptured inside of
me, sealed off my intestines
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and they were
about to rupture next,
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like I was close to death.
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And so they operated right then
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and I wasn't a
Christian at the time.
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Like I believed
there was, you know, God,
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I was raised in the
church and all of that stuff,
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but I had left for a
long time and was living
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the wrong lifestyle
and stuff like that.
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And I remember lying in that
hospital bed feeling helpless,
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because, you know,
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my white blood
cell count went up.
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So signaling like
infection type of thing.
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Yeah.
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And then, I
remember my mom helping me
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to the sink to brush my
teeth and she began to cry
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because I was
losing so much weight,
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I was skin and bones.
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And I didn't know if I
was gonna die then or what,
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but if I would have died then,
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I would have been
in a world of trouble.
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And so I was laying
there feeling hopeless,
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not even able to do
the basic necessities,
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you know, like, walk myself
to the sink to brush my teeth.
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But God delivered me from that
and brought me through that.
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And I'm just so
thankful to Him for that.
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We're gonna look at
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some situations
in the Bible today,
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where there's some
seemingly hopeless situations,
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but then Christ
steps in and you know,
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the people get that hope
that they've been looking for.
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But before we
open the Word of God,
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why don't we
have a word of prayer.
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And, Dakota, I'm
gonna ask you to pray.
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All right, Brother.
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Our Father in heaven, we
just want to thank You so much
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for Your love, Your
grace and Your mercy
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for Your Son Jesus
in Calvary's cross.
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And we ask that the Holy
Spirit would be with us now
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as we talk about, Lord,
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going from the
hopeless to the hopeful.
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And as we study,
Lord, these stories
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that Your Word talks about,
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I pray that You will
help us to have wisdom,
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knowledge and understanding
of Your Word and that everyone
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that's watching this at
home or wherever they may be,
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if they too will be
encouraged and be hopeful
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after we do this study,
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we ask this in
Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Ryan, I'm gonna ask you
to look up Matthew 9:20-22.
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Yeah. Absolutely,
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And, Dakota,
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if you would take Mark 5:25-34.
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And I will take Luke 8:43- 48.
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And, Ricky, if you'll
take Leviticus 15:25-27.
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All right. Let's make it happen.
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Matthew Chapter 9,
starting in verse 20 to 22.
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The Bible says,
"And behold a woman
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which was deceased with an issue
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a disease with an
issue of blood twelve years,
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came behind him and
touched the hem of his garment.
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For she said within herself,
If I may but touch his garment,
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I shall be whole.
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But Jesus turned him
about, and when he saw her,
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he said, Daughter,
be of good comfort,
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thy faith hath made thee whole.'
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And the woman was
made whole from that hour.
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" Yeah, now, you know,
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with the way
things currently are,
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with having to be quarantined,
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in this isolation,
and all of these things.
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Well, I don't
want to jump ahead,
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but just keep that in mind
and how we feel today isolated
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and in quarantine,
and all of these things
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as we go through this story.
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And the reason why
we're looking at it
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in these multiple different
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you know, in
Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
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is because...
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there's something a little
bit different in each of these,
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you know, some
of them get longer,
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some of them are shorter,
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and then there's a
little something extra.
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So if you would go ahead
and read your verses there.
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All right. This is Mark 5:25-34.
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"This is a certain woman,
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which had an issue
of blood twelve years,
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and had suffered many
things of many physicians,
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and had spent all that she
had, and was nothing bettered,
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but rather grew worse.
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When she had heard of
Jesus, came in the press behind,
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and touched his garment.
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For she said, If I
may touch but his clothes,
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I shall be whole.
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And straightway the fountain
of her blood was dried up,
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and she felt in her body that
she was healed of the plague.
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And Jesus,
immediately knowing in himself
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that virtue had gone out of him,
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turned him about in
the press, and said,
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Who touched my clothes?
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And his disciples said unto him,
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Thou seest the
multitude thronging thee,
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and sayest thou, Who touched me?
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And he looked
round about to see her
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that had done this thing.
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But the woman
fearing and trembling,
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knowing what was done in her,
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came and fell down before
him, and told him all the truth.
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And he said unto her, Daughter,
thy faith hath made thee whole,
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go in peace, and be
whole of thy plague."
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Amen. Amen.
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Wow.
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Now we'll hear
from Luke the physician,
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as we look at Luke 8:43-48.
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And beginning in
verse 43, "Now a woman,
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having a flow of
blood for twelve years,
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who had spent
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all her livelihood on physicians
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and could not be healed by any,
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came from behind and touched
the border of His garment.
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And immediately her
flow of blood stopped.
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And Jesus said,
'Who touched Me?'
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When all denied it,
Peter and those with him said,
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'Master, the
multitudes throng and press You,
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and You say, 'Who touched Me?'
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But Jesus said,
'Somebody touched Me,
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for I perceived
power going out from Me.'
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Now when the woman saw
that she was not hidden,
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she came trembling, and
falling down before Him,
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she declared to Him
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in the presence
of all the people
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the reason she had touched Him
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and how she was
healed immediately.'"
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Notice right there where it says
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she declared to Him
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in the presence
of all the people,
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that's not in
the other accounts,
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you don't see that so in
front of all the other people,
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she declared why
she had touched Him.
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And then I love how Luke brings
out the fact that for 12 years,
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she spent, like
all her livelihood
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on trying to get healed on
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by these physicians
and all of this stuff.
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You know, when I think
about this particular story,
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I think about the
fact that she went
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to all of these other
places prior to going to Christ.
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How often do we see that today?
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I know, in my own life, I went,
I searched everywhere else,
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prior to going to Christ.
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How often do we see that today?
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And what stands out to
you guys in this passage?
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Well, I think it
shows to a certain extent,
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a lack of faith.
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Even though when we
think of this story,
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we think, oh, what faith?
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Right? Yeah.
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But, you know,
to a certain extent,
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I think it shows
that all of us are capable
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in a moment of thinking
that we can do something
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that we can
somehow find a solution.
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And that's certainly not that
I'm certainly not saying that
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we should not try to.
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We certainly
should not do our best
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in practicing and making choices
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that would be good for us.
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Absolutely.
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But at the end of the
day, in her situation,
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I mean, this was a, I mean,
this was a terminal illness.
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I mean, this is something that
would have claimed her life.
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And so it kind of
shows, I think her human side
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that she did exhaust
all of these other options,
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you know, I'm going to go
here, I'm going to try this,
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I'm going to do this,
kind of like what we would do,
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you know, with all
this new medication,
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I read about this, and oh this,
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you know, this
natural supplement,
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I'm gonna try this.
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But at the end of the day,
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she should have
just like we should
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go first to Christ, right?
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Eventually, we see that
be the beauty of her faith,
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that most of us
probably would have been like,
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you know, what Jesus needs
to actually physically touch me
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for me to be healed.
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But this lady just said,
if I could just reach out
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and touch a
little bit of the hem
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of His garment, right?
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I can be made whole.
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And so that's
what I pulled from that
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that I see in the story.
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Yeah. Amen.
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Dakota, you have
anything you want to add?
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Yeah.
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You know, it set out to be
a story where it talks about
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she had an issue of blood.
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Well, that was her issue.
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But we all got
our own issues, right?
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That's right.
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And I was thinking
about that in relation to...
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her issue was solved
when she came to Christ.
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And as you said, too oftentimes
we go to all of these other
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means to solve our own issues
and solve our own problems,
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when really Jesus
is the only answer.
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And I think that
when we give Jesus a try,
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we reach out to Him
first as this story is,
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our issues too
will be solved by faith.
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Amen. Amen.
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I think that...
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her situation is
similar to me in regards that,
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I'm wanting to
solve that on my own.
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And I think a lot of times,
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God will allow me
to come into situations
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to where I can
see, this is my issue,
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you're trying to
do it on your own.
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And when I finally see that,
and that it's not working out.
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Then I go to Him
and ask for help.
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And then He resolves it easily.
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But then He
reminds me, okay, okay.
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You went through
all that whole process.
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Now think of it
in a different way.
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All right.
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When that problem comes to you,
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what I want you to
do is come to Me first.
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Come to Me first, and
I'll solve it for you.
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So that's kind of
what I get out of that.
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Absolutely. Amen.
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Amen Will you read
Leviticus 15:25-27?
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Were you going to
say something, Ryan?
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No, I was just...
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What came to my mind
as he was speaking then.
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You know a lot of
times and this is,
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I don't know why
this popped into my head,
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but a lot of times, you know,
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some people do
right the opposite.
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They will come to Christ first,
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which is a
wonderful concept in general.
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But a lot of times when
it comes to health practices,
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I'm thinking of myself,
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you know God has
given us health practices.
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He has given us certain
health principles in His Word
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some of which we're aware of.
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And in this case,
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sometimes we'll go to
the Lord first and ask Him
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for healing when
sometimes He won't heal,
00:20:01.66\00:20:04.13
because we're
not practicing that.
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And that just
popped into my mind.
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But in this case, she
had done the opposite.
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She had done
everything that she knew to do.
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And she was at her wit's end,
and her only hope was Christ.
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And so she
finally goes to Jesus.
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And Jesus is like,
all right, you know,
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and she's made well
because of her faith.
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And that's awesome. Amen.
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Amen.
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Leviticus 15:25-27,
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"If a woman has a discharge
of blood for many days,
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other than at the time
of her customary impurity,
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or if it runs beyond
her usual time of impurity,
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all the days of
her unclean discharge
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shall be as the days
of her customary impurity.
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She shall be unclean.
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Every bed on which she lies
all the days of her discharge
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shall be to her as
the bed of her impurity,
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and whatever she
sits on shall be unclean,
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as the
uncleanness of her impurity.
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Whoever touches those
things shall be unclean,
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he shall wash his
clothes and bathe in water,
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and be unclean until evening."
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Now, when you hear that,
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and you think about
the present circumstances,
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where there's quarantine,
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where there's this isolation,
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where this, there's
all of these things,
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this feeling of loneliness,
00:21:33.76\00:21:35.86
you know,
families, kind of, you know,
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separated and all of that stuff,
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people in the
hospital and by themselves
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and families
can't go visit them.
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When you think about that,
imagine this 12 year period,
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a 12 years, 12 years
of quarantine, basically.
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Yeah. That's a long time.
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That's intense.
That's a hopeless situation.
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That is. That is.
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But it was made
hopeful through Christ.
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That's right. Amen.
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Yeah, yeah.
00:22:05.75\00:22:07.09
I mean, that that
just blows me away.
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Would somebody like
to read Matthew 8:23-27
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as we look at the storm?
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Absolutely.
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You said Matthew 8? Yes, sir.
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And we have verses 23 to 27.
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Let's go there now.
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This is one of
my favorite stories.
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Man, I love this story.
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The wind and the
waves obey Jesus.
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That's what the title says here.
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It says, "Now when
He got into a boat,
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His disciples followed Him.
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And suddenly a great
tempest arose on the sea,
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so that the boat was
covered with the waves.
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But He was asleep."
00:22:39.19\00:22:42.36
So these brothers,
00:22:42.39\00:22:43.73
who know they're probably
out there floating around,
00:22:43.76\00:22:45.23
you know, fishing,
and who knows Jesus
00:22:45.26\00:22:46.86
is just sound
asleep in the back, right?
00:22:46.90\00:22:49.63
And then verse 25, "Then
His disciples came to Him
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and awoke Him,
saying, 'Lord, save us!
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We are perishing!'
00:22:54.60\00:22:56.04
But He said to them,
'Why are you fearful,
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O you of little faith?'
00:22:59.47\00:23:01.61
Then He arose and
rebuked the winds and the sea,
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and there was a great calm.
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So the men marveled,
saying, 'Who can this be,
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that even the winds
and the sea obey Him?' "
00:23:11.02\00:23:15.52
This particular
story sticks out to me.
00:23:15.56\00:23:19.29
And I've never
been on the ocean.
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But there was, well
actually, I have been on the...
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I've never
actually sailed the ocean,
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.94
like in my own boat or anything,
00:23:26.97\00:23:28.30
but I have been on
a cruise ship before.
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And I remember while
we were out in the middle,
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I think it was the Caribbean.
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This was many, many years ago.
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And, of course, we're
on this massive boat ride
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and you think, you
know, nothing's gonna happen.
00:23:38.15\00:23:39.85
Nothing can happen,
it's huge boat, right?
00:23:39.88\00:23:42.72
Not that I had,
you know, that Titanic,
00:23:42.75\00:23:44.95
you know, image in my
mind, like it's unsinkable.
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But I remember we were out in
the middle of the ocean there.
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I mean, ever, as far as the
eye can see for miles and miles,
00:23:51.89\00:23:55.90
nothing but water.
00:23:55.93\00:23:57.40
And I remember
00:23:57.43\00:23:59.00
they had made an announcement
that there might be some,
00:23:59.03\00:24:02.04
you know,
tougher waves and waters
00:24:02.07\00:24:03.91
and I just remember
00:24:03.94\00:24:06.11
being on this huge boat
and all I could feel just...
00:24:06.14\00:24:10.38
And it was kind of
this unsettling feeling,
00:24:10.41\00:24:13.11
but it didn't really come
real to me until I went out
00:24:13.15\00:24:15.85
and I looked outside
like over the boat dock there,
00:24:15.88\00:24:20.89
over the boat
edge there of the boat.
00:24:20.92\00:24:23.09
And you can see how
big these waves were.
00:24:23.12\00:24:25.99
And I could imagine if I
was in a little jump boat
00:24:26.03\00:24:29.10
or in one of these boats which,
00:24:29.13\00:24:30.47
you know, they were big go boats
00:24:30.50\00:24:32.07
but they weren't like
really big, big boats.
00:24:32.10\00:24:33.87
I mean, it was big enough
to hold 12 guys and not sink.
00:24:33.90\00:24:36.97
But they were still
concretively smaller boats.
00:24:37.01\00:24:39.31
Could you imagine being out?
00:24:39.34\00:24:40.68
I mean, these
waves were like six foot,
00:24:40.71\00:24:42.28
seven foot, eight foot tall.
00:24:42.31\00:24:44.21
And it had been lightly
raining and you could just tell,
00:24:44.25\00:24:46.88
just the waters were unsettled.
00:24:46.92\00:24:48.55
This story came to my
mind and I could imagine
00:24:48.58\00:24:51.65
it was much worse
than their situation.
00:24:51.69\00:24:54.36
And so, all they can
think of in that moment
00:24:54.39\00:24:56.32
is we're gonna die.
00:24:56.36\00:24:57.89
Hopelessness, right?
00:24:57.93\00:24:59.29
Completely just
our lives are over.
00:24:59.33\00:25:01.43
We're gonna get out of here
in the middle of this ocean,
00:25:01.46\00:25:03.80
we're in the middle of the sea,
00:25:03.83\00:25:05.20
here's this storm that comes up,
00:25:05.23\00:25:07.07
and all of us is
about to go down and drown.
00:25:07.10\00:25:09.37
This is gonna be our end.
00:25:09.40\00:25:10.74
So they go back and
they wake Jesus up because I,
00:25:10.77\00:25:13.17
first of all, think about that.
00:25:13.21\00:25:14.54
Who in the world
is going to sleep
00:25:14.58\00:25:15.91
in the middle of
something like that?
00:25:15.94\00:25:17.28
Right, yeah.
00:25:17.31\00:25:18.65
Only the Son of
God, only the Son of God.
00:25:18.68\00:25:20.25
For me that's, I
don't even understand that,
00:25:20.28\00:25:22.65
like, how can somebody
sleep in something like that,
00:25:22.68\00:25:24.49
through something like that.
00:25:24.52\00:25:25.85
But Jesus was asleep.
00:25:25.89\00:25:27.62
But His response to
them is what catches my eye.
00:25:27.66\00:25:31.63
Because I put
myself in their situation,
00:25:31.66\00:25:33.40
And I would
probably react the same way
00:25:33.43\00:25:35.53
like Jesus how can You sleep,
00:25:35.56\00:25:37.33
we're are about to,
this boat about to capsize.
00:25:37.37\00:25:41.14
You know, we're
gonna about to die.
00:25:41.17\00:25:42.90
And I could just imagine,
00:25:42.94\00:25:44.44
I don't think Jesus
probably yelled at them
00:25:44.47\00:25:46.14
or screamed at them.
00:25:46.17\00:25:47.51
But I could just imagine this,
00:25:47.54\00:25:48.88
this kind of concern look
come over His face like guys,
00:25:48.91\00:25:53.82
come on, you know who I am.
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.02
It's Me.
00:25:56.05\00:25:57.39
You of little faith.
00:25:57.42\00:25:58.95
And He just stands
up, I could just imagine,
00:25:58.99\00:26:01.22
I don't think it
was like peace be still.
00:26:01.26\00:26:02.89
You know, I think
He's just like, hey, shew,
00:26:02.92\00:26:05.26
stop.
00:26:05.29\00:26:08.63
And in seconds, in a
millisecond, perhaps,
00:26:08.66\00:26:12.90
they go from a
hopeless situation,
00:26:12.93\00:26:15.50
to a hopeful
situation, like after that,
00:26:15.54\00:26:19.34
it would be hard for me
to believe anyone could doubt
00:26:19.37\00:26:22.81
who Christ was.
00:26:22.84\00:26:24.18
Powerful.
00:26:24.21\00:26:25.55
That is powerful.
00:26:25.58\00:26:27.35
Here, like you
said, in the storm.
00:26:27.38\00:26:30.49
Jesus is definitely at peace
00:26:30.52\00:26:33.25
because He's sleeping.
00:26:33.29\00:26:35.62
And this is the type
of trusting in God peace
00:26:35.66\00:26:39.63
that I want, that
I want in my life.
00:26:39.66\00:26:43.57
What a witness that I
could be in a trying time
00:26:43.60\00:26:50.11
that could be
turbulent in my life
00:26:50.14\00:26:52.04
that I could
share with someone else.
00:26:52.07\00:26:56.75
A lot of people they wonder,
00:26:56.78\00:26:59.98
where is God in
the challenging times
00:27:00.02\00:27:03.89
of their life when
it's raining despair?
00:27:03.92\00:27:08.42
Well, in that example, we
can see God was right there.
00:27:08.46\00:27:14.93
And the same
situation can be for that person
00:27:14.96\00:27:18.13
who's going through
that challenging time.
00:27:18.17\00:27:19.83
God is right there.
00:27:19.87\00:27:21.47
He says in Psalms 46:1,
00:27:21.50\00:27:25.57
"God is our refuge and strength,
00:27:25.61\00:27:28.11
a very present help in trouble."
00:27:28.14\00:27:33.52
So just like how Jesus was
next to disciples in the storm,
00:27:33.55\00:27:39.45
He is right there with us
during the storms of our life.
00:27:39.49\00:27:43.36
Jesus, He calmed the raging sea,
00:27:43.39\00:27:47.10
He can calm
those turbulent waves
00:27:47.13\00:27:49.46
that's going on in our lives.
00:27:49.50\00:27:51.00
And we can be, we can be hopeful
00:27:51.03\00:27:55.34
when we're going
through an experience like that,
00:27:55.37\00:27:58.17
we can be hopeful
because knowing that
00:27:58.21\00:28:00.28
He can handle whatever
problem that we're facing.
00:28:00.31\00:28:05.01
Yeah, I really like that.
00:28:05.05\00:28:06.38
I mean, you have to know
who you have in your boat.
00:28:06.41\00:28:09.05
You know, and I think that's,
00:28:09.08\00:28:11.15
that's something that
gets missed oftentimes,
00:28:11.19\00:28:13.39
it's like, do we not
know who stands with us
00:28:13.42\00:28:15.99
in the midst of these trials?
00:28:16.02\00:28:17.36
Like, can't have
anybody better standing with you
00:28:17.39\00:28:20.80
in the midst of this trial?
00:28:20.83\00:28:22.16
Amen. But yet...
00:28:22.20\00:28:23.70
Oh, no, it's over.
00:28:23.73\00:28:25.27
And you know, and panicking.
00:28:25.30\00:28:26.90
So, yeah, I
love that story, too.
00:28:26.94\00:28:29.57
And I really love what
you brought out there too,
00:28:29.60\00:28:32.81
Ryan and Ricky, you know,
00:28:32.84\00:28:36.24
another person that I think
about that has gone through
00:28:36.28\00:28:40.98
some tremendous trials, okay,
00:28:41.02\00:28:46.12
is Joseph.
00:28:46.15\00:28:48.02
Joseph had this
wonderful life as a child,
00:28:48.06\00:28:51.93
you know, he was getting,
he got the coat of many colors,
00:28:51.96\00:28:55.23
and all of these
things like, wonderful life,
00:28:55.26\00:28:58.40
obedient to his parents.
00:28:58.43\00:29:00.67
And then things got rough,
00:29:00.70\00:29:05.01
you know, got sold into
slavery by his brothers,
00:29:05.04\00:29:08.81
all of that stuff, but
speak to the life of Joseph,
00:29:08.84\00:29:12.08
you know, just what stands
out to you about Joseph's life.
00:29:12.11\00:29:16.38
Let's start with you, Dakota.
00:29:16.42\00:29:18.65
Well, Joseph, you know,
00:29:18.69\00:29:20.92
I think he's a
perfect situation of going
00:29:20.96\00:29:23.49
from hopeful to helpless
and then to hopeful again.
00:29:23.53\00:29:28.36
And I think many of us
probably start out that way.
00:29:28.40\00:29:30.47
You know, we start
living our lives in school,
00:29:30.50\00:29:32.93
and I think I'm appealing
to the young people now,
00:29:32.97\00:29:35.04
especially, you know,
you start living your life
00:29:35.07\00:29:37.21
and you got all this hope.
00:29:37.24\00:29:38.57
You know, I'm
going to go to college
00:29:38.61\00:29:39.94
and I'm going to get a
job or whatever you know,
00:29:39.97\00:29:41.58
and get a really great degree
00:29:41.61\00:29:42.98
or whatever your
hopeful experience may be.
00:29:43.01\00:29:46.68
And then things
just might plummet
00:29:46.72\00:29:48.12
and you start
realizing I got bills.
00:29:48.15\00:29:52.12
You know, Mom and Dad's
00:29:52.15\00:29:53.49
not paying
everything for me again,
00:29:53.52\00:29:55.52
and you start realizing
all this responsibility
00:29:55.56\00:29:58.29
just kind of seems to swallow
you like the whale that Jonah,
00:29:58.33\00:30:01.83
you know, and you
don't know what to do.
00:30:01.86\00:30:03.87
And I think Joseph, his
whole life is a testimony
00:30:03.90\00:30:07.44
of really a perfect experience
00:30:07.47\00:30:09.50
that not only
typifies the life of Christ,
00:30:09.54\00:30:12.81
but is a testimony to all of
us that when we study His life,
00:30:12.84\00:30:16.48
we can see in His life,
00:30:16.51\00:30:18.65
there was a dramatic
experience that happened to Him.
00:30:18.68\00:30:22.68
I mean, years in prison.
00:30:22.72\00:30:25.12
I mean, he went from...
00:30:25.15\00:30:26.52
he went from not only
the pit to the palace,
00:30:26.55\00:30:28.79
but he went from, you
know, the heavenly land,
00:30:28.82\00:30:31.99
or the Canaan land, so to speak,
00:30:32.03\00:30:33.40
you know, Canaan land,
00:30:33.43\00:30:34.76
that the promised land
to just absolute persecution
00:30:34.80\00:30:38.77
and prison,
00:30:38.80\00:30:41.30
only then to keep his
faith the whole time in prison.
00:30:41.34\00:30:45.01
You know, and I
just, I think about that,
00:30:45.04\00:30:46.68
and I think, you know,
wow, what an awesome example
00:30:46.71\00:30:48.91
of what I want to be in my life.
00:30:48.94\00:30:50.91
And as we look at I mean,
there's just so many things,
00:30:50.95\00:30:52.98
I don't want to
take all the experiences
00:30:53.01\00:30:54.48
from Joseph's life.
00:30:54.52\00:30:55.85
I know a lot of people's
gonna have things to say.
00:30:55.88\00:30:57.22
But yeah, his life
is just really amazing,
00:30:57.25\00:30:58.99
really blows me away,
00:30:59.02\00:31:00.36
And he was wrongfully convicted.
00:31:00.39\00:31:01.82
Yeah. That's right.
00:31:01.86\00:31:03.19
But I think sometimes we
think of the story of Joseph.
00:31:03.22\00:31:06.46
We don't really fully
grasp perhaps how Joseph felt.
00:31:06.49\00:31:11.87
This brother...
00:31:11.90\00:31:14.94
Let's put it in modern
terms, prophetic terms,
00:31:14.97\00:31:17.47
where we would say,
this brother, he was a saint,
00:31:17.51\00:31:21.54
okay, in the sense that
he was one of God's children.
00:31:21.58\00:31:24.55
He kept the commandments of God
00:31:24.58\00:31:26.58
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
00:31:26.61\00:31:28.95
He was faithful.
00:31:28.98\00:31:30.32
Joseph was faithful to God,
00:31:30.35\00:31:32.09
doesn't mean necessarily that
00:31:32.12\00:31:33.46
he was perfect in a human sense,
00:31:33.49\00:31:35.39
but he was
faithful in God's eyes.
00:31:35.42\00:31:38.89
But yet his reward,
00:31:38.93\00:31:40.60
it seemed probably from
a human perspective is man,
00:31:40.63\00:31:44.90
I serve God, and
this is what happens.
00:31:44.93\00:31:47.70
You know, because
you've talked about going
00:31:47.74\00:31:49.07
from the pit to the
palace, this brother went from
00:31:49.10\00:31:50.44
the pit to an even
deeper pit, then to the palace.
00:31:50.47\00:31:52.91
I mean, he went
from his brothers,
00:31:52.94\00:31:55.74
you know,
completely abandoning him,
00:31:55.78\00:31:57.55
and, you know, betraying
him to a slave situation,
00:31:57.58\00:32:03.18
from a slave
situation to prison for years.
00:32:03.22\00:32:07.59
And then from prison,
finally, he was delivered.
00:32:07.62\00:32:10.66
But could you
imagine all that hopelessness
00:32:10.69\00:32:13.50
he felt during
that time, like, Lord,
00:32:13.53\00:32:15.56
you know what I served
You, I kept Your commandments,
00:32:15.60\00:32:17.57
and I honored You.
00:32:17.60\00:32:18.93
And this is what You
allow happen to Your servant.
00:32:18.97\00:32:21.37
I can imagine that that's
what went through his mind,
00:32:21.40\00:32:23.77
because that's what probably
would go through our mind.
00:32:23.81\00:32:25.97
Lord, I'm serving
You, I'm doing all that.
00:32:26.01\00:32:27.84
And You allow
this to happen to me.
00:32:27.88\00:32:29.81
But Joseph was a
faithful servant.
00:32:29.84\00:32:32.35
He did not give up the faith.
00:32:32.38\00:32:33.92
He kept pressing
forward in God's grace.
00:32:33.95\00:32:36.18
And that hopeless
situation was turned into
00:32:36.22\00:32:38.45
a hopeful situation in the end.
00:32:38.49\00:32:40.86
Amen.
00:32:40.89\00:32:42.22
But look at...
00:32:42.26\00:32:43.96
So he has, I put
down 10 struggles
00:32:43.99\00:32:47.83
that Joseph experienced
from childhood to adult,
00:32:47.86\00:32:51.23
one, he was
hated by his brothers.
00:32:51.27\00:32:53.34
Two, he was
stripped of all his clothes.
00:32:53.37\00:32:56.14
His father and his father
had made that coat for him.
00:32:56.17\00:32:58.84
Yeah. Cast into a pit, three.
00:32:58.87\00:33:01.74
Four, sold as a slave.
00:33:01.78\00:33:03.45
Five, taken from his
home never to return,
00:33:03.48\00:33:08.35
then sold to Potiphar.
00:33:08.38\00:33:11.05
And that brings us to Genesis.
00:33:11.09\00:33:15.06
Can we read that, 39:2-3? Sure.
00:33:15.09\00:33:18.16
So just pause for a moment.
00:33:18.19\00:33:19.53
I had it open to that,
actually that's really good.
00:33:19.56\00:33:21.83
Just pause for a moment out
of those 10 that I got here.
00:33:21.86\00:33:24.07
So Genesis 39:2-3 says,
00:33:24.10\00:33:27.94
"The Lord was with Joseph.
00:33:27.97\00:33:32.74
And he was a successful man.
00:33:32.77\00:33:34.94
And he was in the house
of his master the Egyptian.
00:33:34.98\00:33:38.28
And his master saw
that the Lord was with him,
00:33:38.31\00:33:42.75
and that the Lord made all
he did to prosper in his hand."
00:33:42.78\00:33:47.89
So Joseph goes
through all these trials.
00:33:47.92\00:33:51.56
Now he could have been
wondering, where's God?
00:33:51.59\00:33:54.26
Okay?
00:33:54.30\00:33:55.63
Now, in the case of the
reader who's reading this,
00:33:55.66\00:34:00.24
someone's reading
this and they're wondering
00:34:00.27\00:34:01.60
the same thing,
00:34:01.64\00:34:02.97
God make sure to say
right there at the beginning
00:34:03.00\00:34:07.04
in chapter in verse 2,
the Lord was with Joseph.
00:34:07.08\00:34:12.31
Okay, saying that again.
00:34:12.35\00:34:15.05
Here this is the same lesson
00:34:15.08\00:34:16.75
that we learned just previously,
00:34:16.79\00:34:18.39
we're talking about Jesus
in the boat with disciples.
00:34:18.42\00:34:21.92
And another lesson that
we can learn from this text
00:34:21.96\00:34:24.93
is that during the trials,
00:34:24.96\00:34:27.83
we have the opportunity
to be witnesses for Christ.
00:34:27.86\00:34:31.27
Amen.
00:34:31.30\00:34:32.63
It says right there in verse 3,
00:34:32.67\00:34:34.27
"And his master saw
that the Lord was with him
00:34:34.30\00:34:38.44
and the Lord made all he
did to prosper in his hand."
00:34:38.47\00:34:43.78
Amen.
00:34:43.81\00:34:45.15
So we can be witnesses for
the Lord in times of trouble.
00:34:45.18\00:34:48.02
That's right. So
glad that you said that.
00:34:48.05\00:34:49.88
That is so true.
00:34:49.92\00:34:51.39
You know, people are watching
00:34:51.42\00:34:53.29
how we respond in
the face of adversity.
00:34:53.32\00:34:57.43
You know, character is not
made in the eyes of adversity
00:34:57.46\00:35:02.93
or in the face of
adversity, but it's revealed.
00:35:02.96\00:35:06.03
And so, you know, we're seeing
you see different situations
00:35:06.07\00:35:09.94
that may take place
and different responses,
00:35:09.97\00:35:13.24
you know, a lot
of times emotional,
00:35:13.27\00:35:15.58
immediate emotional responses
00:35:15.61\00:35:18.11
as opposed to Christ like...
00:35:18.15\00:35:22.25
dealing with things
in a Christ like manner.
00:35:22.28\00:35:23.75
Yeah.
00:35:23.79\00:35:25.12
And so, you know, I
love the fact that Joseph
00:35:25.15\00:35:27.72
no matter what
circumstance he was in,
00:35:27.76\00:35:30.03
no matter what
situation he was in,
00:35:30.06\00:35:32.99
he remained faithful.
00:35:33.03\00:35:34.46
And he showed that
Christ like attitude,
00:35:34.50\00:35:39.00
even in the midst of adversity.
00:35:39.03\00:35:40.60
He was dealt a messed up hand.
00:35:40.64\00:35:42.70
Yeah. Oh, really messed up hand.
00:35:42.74\00:35:44.77
And it wasn't because of
God. We got to make that clear.
00:35:44.81\00:35:48.74
You know, a lot of people would
want to shake the fist at God,
00:35:48.78\00:35:50.98
Oh, God, you know,
You allow this to happen,
00:35:51.01\00:35:53.82
therefore, it's Your fault.
00:35:53.85\00:35:55.18
You know, God will
allow things to happen,
00:35:55.22\00:35:56.95
but it's not necessarily
00:35:56.99\00:35:58.32
His plan or His
will, or His fault.
00:35:58.35\00:36:00.69
Sometimes He
allows things to happen.
00:36:00.72\00:36:03.66
It's very...
00:36:03.69\00:36:06.90
it's one of those things
that's just unconventional,
00:36:06.93\00:36:09.13
it's not one of, you
know, it's not necessarily
00:36:09.16\00:36:10.53
what he wants, but He
will allow it to happen
00:36:10.57\00:36:12.60
for His glory, because
He knows He's got a plan,
00:36:12.63\00:36:14.67
you know, He's gonna show up,
00:36:14.70\00:36:16.04
and He's gonna not
show out in a selfish way,
00:36:16.07\00:36:18.14
but He's gonna show
His glory and who He is.
00:36:18.17\00:36:20.41
Powerful. That's right.
00:36:20.44\00:36:21.98
That's answered
00:36:22.01\00:36:24.38
in the same story.
00:36:24.41\00:36:26.15
Why don't you read that for us?
00:36:26.18\00:36:28.05
Genesis 50:20, let
me go there real quick.
00:36:28.08\00:36:32.65
Yeah, there's so many lessons
00:36:32.69\00:36:34.02
that you can get
from the life of Joseph
00:36:34.06\00:36:37.36
and how he endured those trials.
00:36:37.39\00:36:39.39
So in this
situation, what's happening is,
00:36:39.43\00:36:42.60
Joseph, he's talking
to his brothers, his,
00:36:42.63\00:36:46.13
their father just recently died.
00:36:46.17\00:36:48.44
And so they're scared
of his brother thinking
00:36:48.47\00:36:51.41
he's going to get revenge.
00:36:51.44\00:36:53.07
But here's what Joseph says.
00:36:53.11\00:36:55.21
But as for you, you
meant evil against me,
00:36:55.24\00:36:59.41
but God meant it for good.
00:36:59.45\00:37:02.68
God meant it for good.
00:37:02.72\00:37:04.05
So you may have put
yourself in the trial.
00:37:04.09\00:37:09.06
We talk to folks at home,
00:37:09.09\00:37:10.43
you may have put yourself
into the trial that you're in.
00:37:10.46\00:37:14.46
Or maybe you just are all
out attacked by the devil,
00:37:14.50\00:37:19.67
no matter what the situation
is, God can mean it unto good.
00:37:19.70\00:37:24.41
Amen.
00:37:24.44\00:37:25.91
That's good
point, Brother. Yeah.
00:37:25.94\00:37:27.28
And I...
00:37:27.31\00:37:28.64
Man, there's so much
we can go into with this.
00:37:28.68\00:37:31.81
I just, I gotta
say something on this,
00:37:31.85\00:37:33.31
because I was just
talking to you guys about
00:37:33.35\00:37:34.68
and it came to my mind again,
right before we came on set
00:37:34.72\00:37:37.99
was that you know
that, it's during...
00:37:38.02\00:37:40.42
You said it Jason,
during our most tried times,
00:37:40.46\00:37:44.89
that's when people
look at us the most.
00:37:44.93\00:37:46.26
Yes.
00:37:46.29\00:37:47.63
When they know you're
going through a tough time,
00:37:47.66\00:37:49.36
you know, people start talking
00:37:49.40\00:37:50.77
and start calling their friends.
00:37:50.80\00:37:52.13
Hey, pray for Jason.
00:37:52.17\00:37:53.64
He's going through
a hard time right now,
00:37:53.67\00:37:55.00
you know, pray for Dakota.
00:37:55.04\00:37:56.37
He's really
struggling right now.
00:37:56.40\00:37:57.74
And then people
are watching you,
00:37:57.77\00:37:59.11
watching what you do.
00:37:59.14\00:38:00.48
And to see that the
decisions that Joseph made
00:38:00.51\00:38:02.14
was really powerful and it was
a testimony of the love of God
00:38:02.18\00:38:04.08
in his own heart.
00:38:04.11\00:38:05.45
Yes.
00:38:05.48\00:38:06.82
And it revealed the
character of God to the whole,
00:38:06.85\00:38:08.42
all of Egypt.
00:38:08.45\00:38:10.09
And this is
like a hostile empire
00:38:10.12\00:38:11.79
that is not God's people.
00:38:11.82\00:38:13.19
Yes. Keep that in mind.
00:38:13.22\00:38:15.19
And so Joseph is
like the only one
00:38:15.22\00:38:17.39
that is there that the
Bible records at the time
00:38:17.43\00:38:20.10
who actually
worships the true God.
00:38:20.13\00:38:22.20
All these other people
worshipping Ra and, you know,
00:38:22.23\00:38:24.27
Baal and all
these other false gods,
00:38:24.30\00:38:26.37
and Joseph's making it clear.
00:38:26.40\00:38:27.94
You know, I thought of a story
00:38:27.97\00:38:29.30
that I just told you guys about,
00:38:29.34\00:38:30.81
I just want to share
it with everyone else.
00:38:30.84\00:38:33.21
So some of my friends at
the Ouachita Hills College,
00:38:33.24\00:38:35.78
I don't know if you guys,
00:38:35.81\00:38:37.15
some of the people here watching
00:38:37.18\00:38:38.51
might know about that college,
but they were out canvassing
00:38:38.55\00:38:41.32
and while they
were out canvassing,
00:38:41.35\00:38:42.68
they pull up in
this neighborhood.
00:38:42.72\00:38:44.29
I'm not really
sure where it was,
00:38:44.32\00:38:45.65
I think down south somewhere.
00:38:45.69\00:38:47.46
They pull up in
this neighborhood,
00:38:47.49\00:38:48.82
and they're going door to door
canvassing and spreading out
00:38:48.86\00:38:51.29
literature material.
00:38:51.33\00:38:53.26
Well, there had been some kind
of fist in the neighborhood,
00:38:53.29\00:38:55.80
and they pull up in the
van, you know, because like,
00:38:55.83\00:38:57.50
they all go in groups,
00:38:57.53\00:38:58.93
and someone
thought that they were,
00:38:58.97\00:39:00.90
you know, there to steal stuff,
00:39:00.94\00:39:02.27
you know, because
they're walking up
00:39:02.30\00:39:03.64
into people's garages
and knocking on the door,
00:39:03.67\00:39:05.11
you know, and trying
to access people's door
00:39:05.14\00:39:06.74
and, you know,
ring their doorbell.
00:39:06.78\00:39:08.48
Well, the cops were
called, long story short,
00:39:08.51\00:39:11.25
the cops come out there
and they basically said,
00:39:11.28\00:39:13.28
"What are you guys doing?"
00:39:13.31\00:39:14.65
And they arrest them.
00:39:14.68\00:39:16.02
Well, the cops didn't
really believe their story
00:39:16.05\00:39:17.79
that they're out
there, you know, to witness
00:39:17.82\00:39:19.32
because who goes door to
door witnessing for Jesus,
00:39:19.35\00:39:21.22
right, in groups?
00:39:21.26\00:39:23.02
And so the cops
just arrest them.
00:39:23.06\00:39:24.79
I mean, they take
their clothes off of them,
00:39:24.83\00:39:26.23
they put them in, you know,
jumpsuits, whole nine yards,
00:39:26.26\00:39:29.50
and put them in there with like,
00:39:29.53\00:39:30.93
hard convicts in prison.
00:39:30.97\00:39:33.44
And they're just sitting
there thinking to themselves,
00:39:33.47\00:39:35.77
Lord,
00:39:35.80\00:39:37.14
we don't know why this
is, you know, happened to us.
00:39:37.17\00:39:38.64
But they have smiles on
their faces the whole time.
00:39:38.67\00:39:40.31
The cops, the
cops were so upset.
00:39:40.34\00:39:42.28
They're like, "Where
are you guys smiling?"
00:39:42.31\00:39:44.65
There's like, "Stop smiling."
And they just kept smiling.
00:39:44.68\00:39:49.12
And before they knew it,
00:39:49.15\00:39:51.79
before they knew
it, they get in prison.
00:39:51.82\00:39:53.36
And they asked him for a Bible.
00:39:53.39\00:39:55.09
And, you know, I was
talking to Ricky about this
00:39:55.12\00:39:56.46
because he does
scripture songs and stuff,
00:39:56.49\00:39:57.99
you know, with his ministry.
00:39:58.03\00:39:59.89
They asked him for a Bible.
00:39:59.93\00:40:01.26
They said, "No, we're
not giving you a Bible."
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.60
Well, this is
where David said, Lord,
00:40:03.63\00:40:05.23
I've hid thy word in my heart
00:40:05.27\00:40:06.74
that I may not sin
against thee, right?
00:40:06.77\00:40:09.30
And so they just
said, well praise the Lord
00:40:09.34\00:40:10.67
for scripture songs.
00:40:10.71\00:40:12.04
And they say, well, they
can keep a Bible from me,
00:40:12.07\00:40:13.78
but they can't keep it
out of my mind and heart.
00:40:13.81\00:40:15.84
And so they just started singing
00:40:15.88\00:40:17.21
all these scripture songs.
00:40:17.25\00:40:19.15
And all these
convicts and all these people
00:40:19.18\00:40:22.08
in the prison,
00:40:22.12\00:40:23.45
all these like
hardened prisoners
00:40:23.49\00:40:24.82
start singing
these songs with them.
00:40:24.85\00:40:27.06
Before they know
it, they got it like...
00:40:27.09\00:40:28.46
prisoners' choir going on,
00:40:28.49\00:40:30.79
singing all
these scripture songs.
00:40:30.83\00:40:32.23
And it was just so encouraging.
00:40:32.26\00:40:33.60
And then by the time they
left and got out of there,
00:40:33.63\00:40:37.47
the cops, they were in
there for several days.
00:40:37.50\00:40:39.67
The cops in
there were just like,
00:40:39.70\00:40:41.14
we cannot believe you guys.
00:40:41.17\00:40:43.51
We're sorry that we did it.
00:40:43.54\00:40:44.87
They're like, we
just can't believe that.
00:40:44.91\00:40:46.74
You guys have like, got out
prisoners singing Jesus song.
00:40:46.78\00:40:52.75
And the whole time
they were in there,
00:40:52.78\00:40:54.55
they just had
such a great attitude.
00:40:54.58\00:40:56.12
And they didn't look at it as
a burden per se, or as a trial.
00:40:56.15\00:41:00.92
They looked at it as a blessing
00:41:00.96\00:41:02.29
and an
opportunity to share Jesus.
00:41:02.32\00:41:04.76
And I think, you know,
we should be more like that,
00:41:04.79\00:41:07.63
just like Joseph, you know,
you look at that prison time
00:41:07.66\00:41:09.80
as an
opportunity to share Jesus.
00:41:09.83\00:41:11.17
Amen.
00:41:11.20\00:41:12.53
Bless the Lord.
That is powerful.
00:41:12.57\00:41:14.50
Ricky, I want to go back to
a point that you made earlier,
00:41:14.54\00:41:17.01
sometimes we set
ourselves up for a trial.
00:41:17.04\00:41:19.97
So like, self
inflicted trials Yeah,
00:41:20.01\00:41:24.05
I've had a couple
of those in my day,
00:41:24.08\00:41:27.32
so self inflicted trial.
00:41:27.35\00:41:29.98
But you know,
sometimes we set ourselves up.
00:41:30.02\00:41:33.05
And it's
important that, you know,
00:41:33.09\00:41:34.76
when you think about
like Adam and Eve, right?
00:41:34.79\00:41:37.09
Adam and Eve set themselves
up for a self inflicted trial,
00:41:37.13\00:41:41.93
because they listened to
the serpent and you know,
00:41:41.96\00:41:45.27
Eve ate the fruit,
then Adam ate the fruit.
00:41:45.30\00:41:48.57
And then they, you know,
they proceeded to blame others,
00:41:48.60\00:41:51.24
you know, Adam
essentially blaming God
00:41:51.27\00:41:54.04
and blaming Eve and Eve saying,
00:41:54.08\00:41:57.11
she was deceived by the
serpent and all that stuff.
00:41:57.15\00:42:00.35
And that's oftentimes
what happens is when we enter
00:42:00.38\00:42:03.39
into the self
inflicted trials, it's like,
00:42:03.42\00:42:06.59
well, you know,
you try and it's like,
00:42:06.62\00:42:08.86
trying to justify it, you
know, as opposed to just saying,
00:42:08.89\00:42:12.36
God, I'm sorry, I messed up.
00:42:12.39\00:42:14.93
I made a mistake.
00:42:14.96\00:42:16.30
You know, 1 John 1:9,
"If we confess our sins,
00:42:16.33\00:42:20.07
He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins
00:42:20.10\00:42:23.54
and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness."
00:42:23.57\00:42:25.31
Amen. Absolutely.
00:42:25.34\00:42:26.68
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:26.71\00:42:28.34
You know, I think
about somebody else
00:42:28.38\00:42:29.84
who went through some trials.
00:42:29.88\00:42:32.81
Daniel and his friend.
00:42:32.85\00:42:34.75
Oh man. Daniel and his friends.
00:42:34.78\00:42:36.79
Why don't we turn
to Daniel Chapter 1.
00:42:36.82\00:42:39.45
Let's start in Daniel Chapter 1.
00:42:39.49\00:42:42.76
And let's look at
verses 3 through 7.
00:42:42.79\00:42:46.86
Who wants to read that for us,
00:42:46.90\00:42:48.66
Daniel 1:3-7?
00:42:48.70\00:42:54.30
I can get it. All right.
00:42:54.34\00:42:57.04
"And the king
spake unto Ashpenaz
00:42:57.07\00:42:59.37
the master of his eunuchs,
00:42:59.41\00:43:01.38
that he should bring certain
of the children of Israel,
00:43:01.41\00:43:04.05
and of the king's
seed, of the princes.
00:43:04.08\00:43:07.02
Children in whom was no blemish,
00:43:07.05\00:43:09.58
but well favored, and
skilful in all wisdom,
00:43:09.62\00:43:12.32
and cunning in knowledge,
00:43:12.35\00:43:13.69
and understanding science,
00:43:13.72\00:43:15.06
and such as had ability in them
to stand in the king's palace,
00:43:15.09\00:43:19.39
and whom they
might teach the learning
00:43:19.43\00:43:21.66
and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
00:43:21.70\00:43:23.97
And the king appointed them
00:43:24.00\00:43:25.50
a daily provision
of the king's meat,
00:43:25.53\00:43:27.17
and of the wine which he drank:
so nourishing them three years,
00:43:27.20\00:43:30.71
that at the end thereof
00:43:30.74\00:43:32.07
they might stand
before the king."
00:43:32.11\00:43:33.61
You said till
verse 7, right? Yes.
00:43:33.64\00:43:35.78
"Now among these were
of the children of Judah,
00:43:35.81\00:43:38.28
Daniel, Hananiah,
Mishael, and Azariah:
00:43:38.31\00:43:40.58
Unto whom the prince
of the eunuchs gave names:
00:43:40.62\00:43:43.05
for he gave unto Daniel
the name of Belteshazzar,
00:43:43.08\00:43:46.45
and to Hananiah, of
Shadrach, and to Mishael,
00:43:46.49\00:43:50.39
Meshach, and to
Azariah, Abednego."
00:43:50.43\00:43:54.73
Now, as you look at that,
you can see that basically
00:43:54.76\00:43:58.17
what you have going on
here is a reprogramming.
00:43:58.20\00:44:01.40
They're
introducing them to literature,
00:44:01.44\00:44:03.84
and they're
introducing them to the wine
00:44:03.87\00:44:05.77
and the king's delicacies,
and all of that stuff.
00:44:05.81\00:44:08.08
They're even
changing their names,
00:44:08.11\00:44:10.78
you know, names
back in the Bible times
00:44:10.81\00:44:13.25
held great meaning.
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.62
Yes.
00:44:14.65\00:44:15.98
And so now they're
changing their names,
00:44:16.02\00:44:17.59
they're programming their minds,
00:44:17.62\00:44:19.15
all of these things.
00:44:19.19\00:44:21.09
But go ahead and read verse 8.
00:44:21.12\00:44:22.92
And let's look at what
Daniel, what Daniel did?
00:44:22.96\00:44:25.89
"But Daniel
purposed in his heart
00:44:25.93\00:44:27.36
that he would not defile himself
00:44:27.40\00:44:28.80
with the portion
of the king's meat,
00:44:28.83\00:44:30.40
nor with the
wine which he drank:
00:44:30.43\00:44:32.10
therefore he requested
of the prince of the eunuchs
00:44:32.13\00:44:34.34
that he might
not defile himself."
00:44:34.37\00:44:37.54
Amen. Amen.
00:44:37.57\00:44:39.97
Daniel was in a
tough political climate.
00:44:40.01\00:44:41.61
That's right.
00:44:41.64\00:44:42.98
And he was determined
to stay faithful to God.
00:44:43.01\00:44:46.48
You look like you
wanted to say something?
00:44:46.51\00:44:47.85
No, I was just, I was
just listening to you.
00:44:47.88\00:44:49.22
Go ahead. Okay.
00:44:49.25\00:44:50.59
Well, let's go to
Daniel Chapter 3 then.
00:44:50.62\00:44:51.95
Well, if we're
going to Daniel 3,
00:44:51.99\00:44:53.32
I'll take this
there if you don't mind?
00:44:53.36\00:44:54.69
Please do. I love this story.
00:44:54.72\00:44:56.06
When I think of,
from hopeless to hopeful,
00:44:56.09\00:45:00.90
this is one of those
stories that come to my mind.
00:45:00.93\00:45:03.53
I mean, these brothers.
00:45:03.57\00:45:05.57
And just, it's just,
it's just an awesome story.
00:45:05.60\00:45:09.34
They obviously are,
00:45:09.37\00:45:10.77
they're already
brought to this pagan country,
00:45:10.81\00:45:15.61
the culture of Judaism, Israel,
00:45:15.64\00:45:19.31
in comparison to
the culture of Babylon,
00:45:19.35\00:45:21.52
you couldn't get more opposite.
00:45:21.55\00:45:23.62
But Daniel and his
friends and many other
00:45:23.65\00:45:25.89
young men and women from
Israel are taken to Babylon.
00:45:25.92\00:45:29.59
So they find themselves
in this impossible situation.
00:45:29.62\00:45:32.13
But by this time, by the
time we get to Daniel Chapter 3,
00:45:32.16\00:45:36.33
because of what had
happened in Daniel 1
00:45:36.36\00:45:38.77
and in Daniel
Chapter 2 with the vision,
00:45:38.80\00:45:41.67
or the dream that
Daniel had, and all that.
00:45:41.70\00:45:43.57
So Daniel, Hananiah,
Mishael and Azariah have now,
00:45:43.61\00:45:47.51
they've been elevated to,
00:45:47.54\00:45:50.01
you know, a close
favor with the king,
00:45:50.05\00:45:51.38
the king respects them.
00:45:51.41\00:45:52.81
He's been through some
stuff with them by this time.
00:45:52.85\00:45:55.15
So you would think, you
know, King Nebuchadnezzar
00:45:55.18\00:45:57.39
based on those
previous couple of situations,
00:45:57.42\00:45:59.89
he would have in his
mind, okay, these are,
00:45:59.92\00:46:01.79
these brothers are legit, right?
00:46:01.82\00:46:04.13
But yet, he's also based
on that dream in Daniel 2,
00:46:04.16\00:46:08.40
he's now, he's grown the
selfish heart within him,
00:46:08.43\00:46:11.47
because he's determined,
00:46:11.50\00:46:13.10
that had a goal that Daniel saw,
00:46:13.13\00:46:15.20
I'm gonna, I'm gonna
build a whole image out of gold,
00:46:15.24\00:46:17.64
I'm going to
send a message to God,
00:46:17.67\00:46:19.17
and everybody in the
world that my kingdom
00:46:19.21\00:46:21.91
Babylon is going
to reign forever,
00:46:21.94\00:46:23.28
we're never going to fall.
00:46:23.31\00:46:24.65
And so, we see the story there,
you know, the story of how,
00:46:24.68\00:46:27.45
you know, the 90
foot image is there.
00:46:27.48\00:46:29.95
He tells everyone, you know,
00:46:29.98\00:46:32.05
everyone who's on the plain
of Dura all of the wise men,
00:46:32.09\00:46:34.19
it doesn't mention that Daniel
was there in the situation.
00:46:34.22\00:46:37.26
So Daniel's not mentioned there,
00:46:37.29\00:46:38.63
but I'm sure
Daniel was aware of it.
00:46:38.66\00:46:40.33
But Hananiah,
Mishael and Azariah
00:46:40.36\00:46:42.63
are there on the plain of Dura.
00:46:42.66\00:46:44.30
The king gives the command.
00:46:44.33\00:46:46.63
Soon as the
music starts playing,
00:46:46.67\00:46:48.97
you know, bow down
and worship this image.
00:46:49.00\00:46:51.47
These brothers are now
faced with the situation because
00:46:51.51\00:46:55.01
there were consequences
00:46:55.04\00:46:56.75
if you didn't bow
down to the image.
00:46:56.78\00:46:58.28
What were the consequences?
00:46:58.31\00:47:00.08
Well, the king had a fiery
hot furnace over to the side
00:47:00.12\00:47:04.95
for anyone who didn't want to,
00:47:04.99\00:47:06.76
you know, go
along with his plan.
00:47:06.79\00:47:08.82
And so I said all of that,
00:47:08.86\00:47:10.83
because now the
music is playing,
00:47:10.86\00:47:14.23
you could just imagine
all of these people prostrate
00:47:14.26\00:47:16.93
flat on their faces
00:47:16.97\00:47:18.40
out on the plain of
Dura and these three brothers
00:47:18.43\00:47:20.30
just like
standing there just like,
00:47:20.34\00:47:22.14
you know, looking around,
00:47:22.17\00:47:23.51
so they stick out
like a sore thumb, right?
00:47:23.54\00:47:25.94
And so the message
gets back to the king, hey,
00:47:25.97\00:47:28.31
these three brothers out here.
00:47:28.34\00:47:30.35
They're not, you know,
going along with what you said.
00:47:30.38\00:47:32.75
They're disobeying you.
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.25
So now the king
has them brought to him
00:47:34.28\00:47:35.92
and he tells them, this
is what's going to happen.
00:47:35.95\00:47:38.72
I'm going to give
you one more chance
00:47:38.75\00:47:40.62
and listen to what
they said to the king.
00:47:40.66\00:47:43.09
This is some of
my favorite verses.
00:47:43.12\00:47:45.36
Daniel 3:16-18,
00:47:45.39\00:47:48.56
"Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
00:47:48.60\00:47:51.00
answered and said to the
king, 'O King Nebuchadnezzar,
00:47:51.03\00:47:55.17
we have no need to
answer you in this matter."
00:47:55.20\00:47:58.54
You know, some people
would read that as almost like
00:47:58.57\00:48:02.24
them being sarcastic,
00:48:02.28\00:48:04.31
maybe there was a little bit of,
00:48:04.35\00:48:06.21
you know, a sarcastic tone
to them like, King, we don't.
00:48:06.25\00:48:08.98
But at the same
time, I believe that
00:48:09.02\00:48:10.39
they were being
very sincere for the fact
00:48:10.42\00:48:12.89
that they knew their
lives were on the line.
00:48:12.92\00:48:14.52
So I could just
imagine them saying, look king,
00:48:14.56\00:48:16.66
there's really no need for
us to get into this with you.
00:48:16.69\00:48:19.66
Let me spell it out for you.
00:48:19.69\00:48:21.03
And this is what they say.
00:48:21.06\00:48:22.86
Verse 17, "If that is the case,
00:48:22.90\00:48:27.17
our God whom we serve is able
00:48:27.20\00:48:29.90
to deliver us from
the burning fiery furnace,
00:48:29.94\00:48:32.51
and He will deliver us
from your hand, O king."
00:48:32.54\00:48:36.95
But notice verse 18,
00:48:36.98\00:48:38.61
"But if not, let it
be known to you, O king,
00:48:38.65\00:48:43.45
that we do not serve your gods,
00:48:43.49\00:48:47.02
nor will we
worship the golden image
00:48:47.06\00:48:49.52
which you have set up."
00:48:49.56\00:48:51.59
I love this, because
what they're saying is, look,
00:48:51.63\00:48:54.43
we're not going to
bow down to your image,
00:48:54.46\00:48:56.46
you've threatened
our lives, so be it.
00:48:56.50\00:48:59.33
But let us tell you
about the God that we serve.
00:48:59.37\00:49:01.50
So we're not going to
bow down to this false god,
00:49:01.54\00:49:03.44
because we serve the
one and true mighty God.
00:49:03.47\00:49:05.64
And if you throw us
into this fiery furnace,
00:49:05.67\00:49:07.68
praise the Lord, if
He decides to deliver us,
00:49:07.71\00:49:09.91
He's able to do that.
00:49:09.94\00:49:11.28
Praise God.
00:49:11.31\00:49:12.65
But if He doesn't,
00:49:12.68\00:49:14.02
we're still not gonna
bow down to your image.
00:49:14.05\00:49:15.98
We're still not
gonna disobey our God,
00:49:16.02\00:49:17.75
we're still not gonna
break the Ten Commandments.
00:49:17.79\00:49:20.39
We're gonna obey God,
00:49:20.42\00:49:21.76
even if it means us
giving up our lives.
00:49:21.79\00:49:24.59
Talk about a hopeless situation,
00:49:24.63\00:49:26.63
but yet in the
face of that adversity,
00:49:26.66\00:49:28.86
and in that hopeless situation,
00:49:28.90\00:49:31.67
they were still able
to say, you know what?
00:49:31.70\00:49:33.77
There's a chance
we're gonna die today.
00:49:33.80\00:49:35.90
But if that's the case,
00:49:35.94\00:49:37.27
I think of what Jesus
said in the garden, "Lord,
00:49:37.31\00:49:39.51
take, let this cup pass
before me if it's possible,
00:49:39.54\00:49:41.98
but if not, Your will be done."
00:49:42.01\00:49:45.11
Right. Amen.
00:49:45.15\00:49:46.48
Powerful man. Powerful.
00:49:46.51\00:49:47.85
And I want to add
to what you're saying.
00:49:47.88\00:49:49.92
So they get thrown in the fire.
00:49:49.95\00:49:51.89
Right.
00:49:51.92\00:49:54.76
While in the
fire, they see Jesus.
00:49:54.79\00:49:57.73
Right.
00:49:57.76\00:49:59.29
So, out of that...
00:49:59.33\00:50:02.60
if you're in the fire right now,
00:50:02.63\00:50:05.33
you're gonna see Jesus.
00:50:05.37\00:50:08.20
Lot of times we get
into situations that are,
00:50:08.24\00:50:14.44
it's tough to handle.
00:50:14.48\00:50:16.54
But it's in those situations
where we can see Jesus,
00:50:16.58\00:50:21.65
where we can get that
closer connection with Him.
00:50:21.68\00:50:23.28
That's right.
00:50:23.32\00:50:24.65
I believe Lord allows
situation like that to happen,
00:50:24.69\00:50:27.16
so we can have
that walk with Him,
00:50:27.19\00:50:29.66
that close walk
with the face to face
00:50:29.69\00:50:31.96
commune with Him which we need.
00:50:31.99\00:50:33.33
That's right.
00:50:33.36\00:50:34.70
Sometimes we got
to go into the fire
00:50:34.73\00:50:36.30
before God's
gonna reveal Himself.
00:50:36.33\00:50:37.73
That's powerful, powerful.
00:50:37.77\00:50:39.37
Yeah.
00:50:39.40\00:50:40.74
You know, we mentioned
00:50:40.77\00:50:42.30
that while this
was mentioned earlier,
00:50:42.34\00:50:43.87
where it was like
how we respond to trials,
00:50:43.91\00:50:46.74
people pay attention to it.
00:50:46.78\00:50:48.38
And it has, we either
have an influence for good
00:50:48.41\00:50:52.18
or an influence
for bad and, you know,
00:50:52.21\00:50:54.88
as we look at Daniel 3:26-28.
00:50:54.92\00:51:00.56
Who wants to
read Daniel 3:26-28?
00:51:00.59\00:51:04.93
Let's look at how basically
Nebuchadnezzar responded.
00:51:04.96\00:51:10.43
I can read that.
00:51:10.47\00:51:11.80
Daniel 3:26-28.
00:51:11.83\00:51:13.87
Yes.
00:51:13.90\00:51:15.44
"Then Nebuchadnezzar went near
00:51:15.47\00:51:17.14
the mouth of the
burning fiery furnace and spoke,
00:51:17.17\00:51:20.08
saying, 'Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego,
00:51:20.11\00:51:24.01
servants of the Most High
God, come out, and come here.'
00:51:24.05\00:51:28.32
Then Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego
00:51:28.35\00:51:30.72
came from the midst of the fire.
00:51:30.75\00:51:33.29
And the satraps,
administrators, governors,
00:51:33.32\00:51:37.06
and the king's
counselors gathered together,
00:51:37.09\00:51:40.60
and they saw these
men on whose bodies
00:51:40.63\00:51:43.53
the fire had no power,
00:51:43.57\00:51:46.50
the hair of their
head was not singed
00:51:46.53\00:51:49.94
nor were their
garments affected,
00:51:49.97\00:51:52.97
and the smell of
fire was not on them.
00:51:53.01\00:51:57.28
Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying,
00:51:57.31\00:51:59.75
'Blessed be the God of Shadrach,
00:51:59.78\00:52:02.08
Meshach, and Abednego,
00:52:02.12\00:52:04.19
who sent His Angel
and delivered His servants
00:52:04.22\00:52:09.36
who trusted in Him,
00:52:09.39\00:52:11.43
and they have
frustrated the king's word,
00:52:11.46\00:52:14.03
and yielded their bodies,
that they should not serve
00:52:14.06\00:52:17.87
nor worship any god
except their own God!' "
00:52:17.90\00:52:24.31
It's powerful,
00:52:24.34\00:52:25.67
So they stood in the fire.
00:52:25.71\00:52:28.24
First off, it's
miraculous in the sense
00:52:28.28\00:52:31.38
that they came out of that fire
00:52:31.41\00:52:32.75
not even smelling like the fire,
00:52:32.78\00:52:36.85
not even smelling like the fire.
00:52:36.89\00:52:38.35
Now, I don't know if
you've been to a barbecue,
00:52:38.39\00:52:42.02
maybe threw some veggie burgers
or something on the grill,
00:52:42.06\00:52:44.86
and you know, you have this,
00:52:44.89\00:52:47.53
the smoke that's
coming off the grill.
00:52:47.56\00:52:51.20
You're gonna smell like
that when you go inside.
00:52:51.23\00:52:53.87
That's right.
00:52:53.90\00:52:55.24
Or perhaps
you've been to a bonfire
00:52:55.27\00:52:57.37
or something like that.
00:52:57.41\00:52:59.31
You're gonna
smell like that fire
00:52:59.34\00:53:02.81
wherever you go until you know,
00:53:02.84\00:53:04.65
take a shower and change clothes
00:53:04.68\00:53:06.01
and all that stuff.
00:53:06.05\00:53:08.55
They didn't even
smell like the fire.
00:53:08.58\00:53:12.49
I think of God's people
and the trials and tribulations
00:53:12.52\00:53:16.73
that they've been through.
00:53:16.76\00:53:18.09
And when they come out on
the other side of those trials
00:53:18.13\00:53:20.43
and those tribulations,
00:53:20.46\00:53:22.30
they don't even look like
the trials and the tribulations
00:53:22.33\00:53:25.47
that they went through.
00:53:25.50\00:53:28.24
And it just blows my mind,
what a faithful God we serve
00:53:28.27\00:53:33.17
and how He stands with us
00:53:33.21\00:53:35.04
in the midst of
our fiery trials.
00:53:35.08\00:53:38.41
I was thinking
real quickly, like,
00:53:38.45\00:53:40.62
other Bible characters
00:53:40.65\00:53:42.45
that went through
these hopeless situations
00:53:42.48\00:53:44.72
but yet God brought
about a hopeful outcome.
00:53:44.75\00:53:48.72
You know, I think
of Mary and Martha.
00:53:48.76\00:53:51.29
When their brother was sick,
00:53:51.33\00:53:52.83
they sent Jesus, sent for Jesus.
00:53:52.86\00:53:55.13
You know, Lazarus is
sick, come on back and heal him.
00:53:55.16\00:53:58.33
What did Jesus do?
00:53:58.37\00:53:59.70
What was His response?
00:53:59.73\00:54:01.70
He was silent.
00:54:01.74\00:54:03.07
He didn't come
back. He let him die.
00:54:03.10\00:54:04.74
Of course, we know
00:54:04.77\00:54:06.11
it was gonna be for
His glory to resurrect him.
00:54:06.14\00:54:08.14
But Mary, Martha
didn't know that.
00:54:08.18\00:54:10.31
Mary, Martha didn't get some.
00:54:10.35\00:54:11.68
It's not like Jesus
sent a note back like,
00:54:11.71\00:54:13.15
hey, look, let him die.
00:54:13.18\00:54:14.62
I'll come back
and resurrect him,
00:54:14.65\00:54:15.98
they didn't know that.
00:54:16.02\00:54:17.65
But that was a
hopeless situation
00:54:17.69\00:54:19.55
that ended up
becoming a hopeful situation.
00:54:19.59\00:54:22.36
I think of John the
Baptist that his sin,
00:54:22.39\00:54:24.63
his was hopeless, it seemed
all the way to the end, right?
00:54:24.66\00:54:27.00
Because he was
ultimately beheaded.
00:54:27.03\00:54:28.36
Some people say,
there's no hopefulness
00:54:28.40\00:54:29.73
that come out of that story.
00:54:29.76\00:54:31.10
But yet Jesus still declared him
00:54:31.13\00:54:32.87
even in a, in a prison
00:54:32.90\00:54:35.30
that Jesus knew he was going to,
00:54:35.34\00:54:36.87
you know, not make it out of,
00:54:36.91\00:54:38.24
that he was
going to end his life,
00:54:38.27\00:54:39.61
Jesus declared him the
greatest of the prophets.
00:54:39.64\00:54:42.21
And I expect to
see John the Baptist
00:54:42.24\00:54:44.08
in the kingdom of God, because
of his hopeless situation here,
00:54:44.11\00:54:48.15
there's going to
be an even great,
00:54:48.18\00:54:49.68
great hopeful situation
on the other side, right?
00:54:49.72\00:54:52.45
A great, a
great, a great moment.
00:54:52.49\00:54:54.29
And, of course,
more than anybody, Jesus,
00:54:54.32\00:54:56.19
Jesus, there's
nobody that went through
00:54:56.22\00:54:57.93
more of helpless
00:54:57.96\00:54:59.29
and hopeless
situations than Jesus.
00:54:59.33\00:55:01.53
But out on the other
side, Jesus was victorious.
00:55:01.56\00:55:04.43
And so those are great
examples that come to my mind,
00:55:04.47\00:55:05.80
I just want to share.
00:55:05.83\00:55:07.17
Amen.
00:55:07.20\00:55:08.54
I mean, when you think
about the history of mankind,
00:55:08.57\00:55:10.77
we were on death row.
00:55:10.81\00:55:13.24
Like we were
facing the death penalty.
00:55:13.27\00:55:15.81
Adam and Eve
facing the death penalty.
00:55:15.84\00:55:19.18
But Christ paid it all.
00:55:19.21\00:55:22.45
That's right. He paid it all.
00:55:22.48\00:55:24.49
What are some things that,
you know, let's share some tips
00:55:24.52\00:55:27.96
or some strategies that
00:55:27.99\00:55:29.39
if someone's
going through a trial,
00:55:29.42\00:55:30.76
what are some
things that they can do
00:55:30.79\00:55:34.56
that will bring God
the honor and the glory?
00:55:34.60\00:55:38.20
I think that one
of the first things
00:55:38.23\00:55:40.97
that we should do is to
hide God's Word in your heart.
00:55:41.00\00:55:46.54
That's where you got
to be right off the bat.
00:55:46.57\00:55:48.74
Because when
you're in that situation,
00:55:48.78\00:55:51.21
that's challenging,
00:55:51.25\00:55:52.58
If you can remember
those encouraging words
00:55:52.61\00:55:55.32
that can help you
through those trials.
00:55:55.35\00:55:56.69
I think about Joshua 1:9,
00:55:56.72\00:55:59.75
"Be strong and of good courage,
00:55:59.79\00:56:01.89
and do not be
afraid nor be dismayed.
00:56:01.92\00:56:06.86
For the Lord
your God is with you,
00:56:06.90\00:56:09.03
wherever you go."
00:56:09.06\00:56:10.80
Joshua 1:9, so things like that,
00:56:10.83\00:56:13.97
verses like that, that can
help you through challenges.
00:56:14.00\00:56:16.60
When you feel hopeless,
00:56:16.64\00:56:18.41
call those
scriptures back to mind.
00:56:18.44\00:56:20.71
Hope it would be helpful.
00:56:20.74\00:56:22.08
Amen. Amen.
00:56:22.11\00:56:23.71
Proverbs 3:5-6,
that's my go to passage.
00:56:23.75\00:56:26.85
Yeah.
00:56:26.88\00:56:28.22
"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart
00:56:28.25\00:56:29.65
and lean not on
your own understanding.
00:56:29.68\00:56:31.82
In all your
ways acknowledge Him,
00:56:31.85\00:56:34.36
and He shall direct your path."
00:56:34.39\00:56:35.72
It really is all
about trusting in the Lord
00:56:35.76\00:56:37.33
even when that
adversity is there.
00:56:37.36\00:56:39.06
When it seems like you having
to go into that fiery furnace.
00:56:39.09\00:56:41.86
No matter the
outcome, you say, Lord,
00:56:41.90\00:56:43.40
whether You
save me or You don't,
00:56:43.43\00:56:45.13
I'm still gonna trust in You.
00:56:45.17\00:56:46.90
Absolutely Amen.
00:56:46.94\00:56:48.67
You have anything
you'd like to add, Dakota?
00:56:48.70\00:56:50.64
Well, I honestly was
just gonna say, you know,
00:56:50.67\00:56:54.08
in John 3:16,
00:56:54.11\00:56:55.44
where it talks
about believing in God,
00:56:55.48\00:56:57.11
that word means
pisteuo in the Greek
00:56:57.15\00:56:58.81
which means to trust in God,
00:56:58.85\00:57:00.78
but I was thinking one
day in my private studies,
00:57:00.82\00:57:02.68
and I thought, you
know, you can't trust someone
00:57:02.72\00:57:04.32
you don't know.
00:57:04.35\00:57:06.69
So I got to really
thinking about that, like, Lord,
00:57:06.72\00:57:08.72
the only way I can overcome
anything is to get to know You,
00:57:08.76\00:57:11.86
then I trust
You, and I overcome.
00:57:11.89\00:57:14.46
Amen. That's a good word.
00:57:14.50\00:57:15.90
That's a good word.
00:57:15.93\00:57:17.27
Thank you guys for
sharing that insight in the Word
00:57:17.30\00:57:19.63
and study in the
Word with us today.
00:57:19.67\00:57:22.64
And we thank you for
joining us and happy Sabbath,
00:57:22.67\00:57:26.34
and we want you to know that
whatever trial you're facing,
00:57:26.37\00:57:29.94
Jesus is standing with
you in the midst of it.
00:57:29.98\00:57:32.48
Till next time, God bless.
00:57:32.51\00:57:34.08