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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Running with Horses - Part 3
Publishing Date: 2024-06-30T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/running-with-horses-part-3/

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So, let's sing Happy Birthday to Caleb.

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So if Caleb can stand because we don't know who Caleb is.

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Ah!

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday dear Caleb.

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Yay!

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Happy birthday to you.

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Cool.

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How old?

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Really?

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Gosh.

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I was 20 in 1985.

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Okay.

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Moving on.

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Jeremiah 12-5.

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Jeremiah 12-5.

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Jeremiah 12-5.

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We've been...

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Was Derek's preaching okay last week?

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Yeah, sounds pretty bad, eh?

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Okay, moving on.

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Jeremiah 12-5.

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It says...

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So this is part three.

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Jeremiah 12-5.

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If you have raised with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with

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horses or how can you run with horses?

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If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage when the Jordan is flooded?

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If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the tickets of the Jordan or when

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the Jordan is flooded?

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So that was Jeremiah 12-5.

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And so the question being, and we said this before, that running with horses is not natural.

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Running with horses is not natural.

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Everything about it is supernatural.

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Running with horses is not natural.

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Everything about it is supernatural.

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What is unnatural is that...

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Is when Christians or when you and I do not have an appetite for the impossible, that's

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unnatural.

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Why?

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Because your God is supernatural.

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Just remember that equation.

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It's important that we remember that equation.

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Running with horses is not natural.

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Everything about it is supernatural.

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What is unnatural is when you and I do not have an appetite for the impossible.

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Why?

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Because our God is supernatural and not to have an appetite for the impossible shows

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you the gap between me and God.

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And we said when we started that most of us don't live with an appetite for the impossible.

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If anything, the impossible becomes a challenge and it's like, ah shucks, not again.

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And everybody in Hebrews 11 went, ah shucks, praise God again.

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Very odd the way they reacted and the way we react.

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And so that's where we started.

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And so here it talks about how if you have raced with men on foot and they have worn

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you out, how are you going to run with the horses?

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As in if the natural and the demands of the natural are beginning to wear you out, how

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are you going to handle the supernatural?

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How are you going to run with the horses?

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Or the other part says, if you have gotten weary running on plain ground, as in in natural

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circumstances, how are you going to handle it when the Jordan is flooded?

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Because once it gets flooded, how are you going to cross over?

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And strangely enough, there was a bunch of guys in the Old Testament who actually fit

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this bill.

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They were called the Gadites.

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If you go to 1 Chronicles 12, you'll read about them.

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You'll read about guys who actually fit Jeremiah 12.5, the Jeremiah 12.5 description.

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So if you go to 1 Chronicles 12, 1 Chronicles 12, Chronicles is before Nehemiah, after Kings.

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1 Chronicles 12, and you go to verse 15, 14 and 8.

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15, 14 and 8, you'll find out about the Gadites.

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So 1 Chronicles 12, 15, here's what it says, starting at verse 15, and then I'll go to

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14 and then to 8.

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The Gadites were the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing

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all its banks.

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Remember what Jeremiah said?

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And now here are the Gadites who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing

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all its banks.

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And they put to flight everyone living in the valleys to the east and to the west.

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Then go to verse 14.

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These Gadites were army commanders.

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The least was a match for a hundred and the greatest for a thousand.

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Now remember, this is not, while the Bible does indulge in hyperbole, in situations like

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this, it's not saying that they could not.

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It was that there were times when one man would stand in the middle of a lentil field

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with a sword in his hand and he would actually slay 300 people.

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So these are not exaggerations.

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We know that when we look at the mighty three or the mighty 30, that they actually did that.

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So this isn't some kind of exaggerated version that 1 Chronicles is coming up with.

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But these guys were warriors who had the ability to sometimes, one man could take care of a

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hundred and ten could take care of a thousand.

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These were those kind of men.

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That's how God raised them.

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And so they do qualify for the Jeremiah 12.5 kind of people.

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And then go to verse 8.

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And in verse 8 it says,

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And so what does it take to run with the horses?

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I'd suggest that we look at some of the ways the Gaddaids behaved and figure out what it

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takes to run with the horses because they seem to qualify.

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So the first thing we need to look at is that this idea of the majority of one, the majority

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As in, how is it that a people are able to match a hundred?

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The least of them, the least of them could battle a hundred.

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And the greatest of them could take on a thousand.

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How?

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It's because of this idea called the majority of one.

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Samson did that.

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What would he do?

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He'd go pick up a jawbone.

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And with a jawbone he'd slay 300 Philistines.

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How's that possible?

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Very simple.

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Proceeding all these verses, you'll hear the simple verse saying,

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The idea of running with horses is almost impossible if I'm not able or do not have

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the capacity to receive into my life the Spirit of God to the point that he gets to do whatever

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he wants through me.

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Whatever he wants.

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This is what we talked about yesterday when we said double portion is not twice the Spirit.

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It is twice the capacity to increase or become twice as much you are in terms of being able

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to receive the Spirit.

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That's how this works.

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Every time Samson did it, every time one of David's men did it.

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Every time anybody in the Bible did something it was because suddenly the Holy Spirit would

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come and dwell upon them.

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He was in present then 24-7.

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Now he is.

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And we should actually be in a position to at command jump into this.

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That's how in this present date people are able to go and open doors.

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To dig up ancient wells.

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That's how it works.

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And it's absolutely possible.

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I assure you, you will.

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And I say you, it's both a corporate view and an individual view for anyone who is willing.

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I assure you, we will.

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Any questions on that before we go on?

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Okay.

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So if you go to Isaiah 60 verse 22, you see that again.

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Isaiah 60 verse 22.

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If you read it from the message, it calls the least of them the runt.

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Isaiah 60 verse 22.

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It says, the runt will become a great tribe.

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The weakling become a strong nation.

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I am God.

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At the right time, I'll make it happen.

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I love statements like that.

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The runt will become a great tribe.

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The weakling become a strong nation.

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And then, how do you know this will happen?

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Because I am God and I'll make it happen at the right time.

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Let's look at the NIV.

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The least of you will become a thousand.

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The smallest a mighty nation.

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I am the Lord.

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In its time, I will do this swiftly.

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And if you think this is going to happen with somebody else, then that's an absurd way to leave.

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Every promise that is given in the scriptures should be something you desire, that you long for, that you see it in your days.

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Lord, I have seen, I've heard of your...

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Don't remember the song?

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I have heard of your deeds, I stand in awe of your...

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Nope, okay, moving on.

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So, where there is a desire to see again what happened in the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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Because remember guys, as the river begins to flow further from the throne, what happens? It increases in depth.

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And so we are not supposed to be stuck in the New Testament church, we are supposed to be stuck in the church that waits for us tomorrow.

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Greater than what happened in the New Testament.

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We can look back at that as a reference point, but that is not the limit.

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We go further than that.

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So, when it comes to the majority of one, you'll find that whenever a people took upon themselves

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the task of accomplishing anything

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through natural means

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striving, help

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they at best did better than most humans.

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So if you go to Isaiah 30 verse 15, you'll see this working out.

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Isaiah 30 verse 15.

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Isaiah 30 verse 15.

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I was talking to somebody about this earlier today.

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Isaiah 30 verse 15.

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Oh, let's go to verse 16.

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Isaiah 30 verse 16.

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You said, no we will flee on horses, therefore you will flee.

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You said, we will ride off on swift horses, therefore your pursuers will be swift.

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Go back to verse 12.

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Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says.

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Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression, depended on deceit,

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sin will become for you like a high wall cracked and bulging.

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He goes on to say before that, that when Israel needed help, go to verse two, or verse one.

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War to the obstinate children declares the Lord, to those who carry out plans that are not mine,

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forming an alliance but not by my spirit, heaping sin upon sin,

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who go down to Egypt without consulting me, who look for help to Pharaoh's protection,

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to Egypt's shade for refuge.

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Every time I begin to depend on any other primary source other than God first,

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it's a recipe for at best doing better than average or at worst making huge mistakes that will cost me.

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It doesn't matter in which area, is it your job, is it sickness, is it finances.

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Any area where my primary source is not God or He's not the first person I turn to,

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it doesn't matter whether it's preaching, whether it's worship, whether it's church,

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whether it's putting things together, any area where my first call or cry is not to God

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and my primary source is not to God, it's a recipe for two things.

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Either I'll average out or do slightly better than average or two, it'll be disastrous.

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The opposite of faith is not doubt, the opposite of faith is self-reliance.

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The opposite of faith is not doubt, the opposite of faith is self-reliance.

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Every time I'm self-reliant or reliant on someone else before I turn to Him and cry out to Him,

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it's a recipe for either disaster or for doing just above average.

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And therefore in Isaiah 30 verse 15, here's what God says.

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God says, in returning and rest is your salvation.

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In quietness and strength you will find relief.

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And so at the end of the day, when you are confused,

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go from wrestling and confusion to this place of rest, to a place of resolution.

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Three stages, eh?

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Every time you're confused and we have confusion every day,

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every time I'm confused, I go wrestling, confusion,

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to a place of rest,

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to a place of resolution, where God resolves things.

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This is the progression.

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What we do is we go from wrestling, confusion to two places.

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Help from natural resources or prayer.

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While this seems good, the place we need to go to is this place called rest.

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And what is rest? Rest is seizing from striving.

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How do we, what does rest look like in the Bible?

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Rest is seizing from striving.

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Self-effort.

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Sweating it out.

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Machinations.

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Exertion.

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Warring thoughts.

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It's to seize or desist from all striving

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and instead get into a place

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where I only do exactly what I am directed by God.

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Which is why you can't enter into rest

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without, one, hearing, and two, obeying the word

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because you actually believe it.

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It's in Hebrews 4.

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Yep?

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Because that's where we normally go.

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What do children do when they are in trouble?

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They immediately call out to their parents, help.

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And that's nice when they are children.

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But as children grow up, you expect them not to go that route.

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You expect them to have learned how to find other ways

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to deal with the situation they are in.

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So while help is a nice thing,

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let that be as you grow older,

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something that happens after you have tried everything else

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the Lord has taught you.

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Rest is a place where you come into this place

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where there's no striving, there's no self-effort.

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On one hand, you are childlike.

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On the other hand, you're not childish.

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You're childlike in resting in the goodness of the Father

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and knowing that I am not going to do a thing more

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than what I am being directed to do.

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Not a thing more.

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Not one iota more.

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Even if it means that I am not able to provide for myself

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not one iota more,

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because that's what he has asked me to do

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and I will not do anything else.

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If the brook dries up, I'll have to wait

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till he tells me to go to the woman

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who has very little oil and flour.

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If the ravens stop, I'll have to wait.

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That is the very definition of rest.

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When you are in trouble,

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you go for rest.

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While prayer will immediately cry,

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I need food, please help me, I'm hungry.

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That's good, but that's not the best.

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Go for rest before you go for

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this thing called help.

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No, I'm saying our usual tendency is to cry out to God for help

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and not find the help that God has already taught us to practice.

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Yeah.

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But the point is

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instead of crying out for help, learn how to walk in.

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Rest.

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Rest is the solution, guys.

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Rest allows you to walk in the supernatural

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because now you refuse to do anything natural.

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You refuse to provide for yourself

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any other way.

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Rest is so supernatural that you don't even use

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the power you have from God.

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What do you think Jesus is doing in Luke chapter 4

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when he goes into this place called rest

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when he refuses to turn

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stone into bread.

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He had the power to, which is why the devil is saying

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you can turn stone into bread.

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But he is into such deep rest

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as in such leaning back

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on only what the father commands.

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He won't even use

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legitimate power

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to change things to his advantage.

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How crazy is that?

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He isn't even using the power he has

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legitimately, divinely

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to take care of his needs.

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That's just nuts.

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People would say he should have used his common sense.

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He didn't.

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His common sense would have dictated

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you're hungry, 40 days is a lot,

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eat something, turn the stones into bread.

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Refuses to.

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This is why Hebrews chapter 4 says

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labor to enter into rest.

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It's not natural. Labor.

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You have to strive to stop striving.

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Crazy, eh?

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But these are the people that end up doing

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supernatural things. These are the people

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that end up building an ark for ages

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not having seen rain ever. These are the people

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that go around the city till the walls

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fall.

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I'm not a believer. I'm just right.

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God, that's why he's God.

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And I'm not.

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I actually agree with you.

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It's counterintuitive.

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Let me give you an example.

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The question was

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Jacob, what does that look like?

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I was going to talk about this at the end

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but as usual, Dilna makes me talk things.

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I just like doing this to you, Dilna.

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It's unfortunate you're in the same age bracket

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as I am. There I go and do it again.

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So this was, so I had this opportunity

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to practice rest when I was

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away in India visiting my mom.

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So I go in there and she's got

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a catheter and then a tube up her nose

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and then a tube in her hands and

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has a tube in her hand.

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So I go in there and she's got a catheter

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in her hands and had a stroke and she's lying there.

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And I've seen this happen to my dad

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and it wasn't a pleasant experience

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and I'm seeing her right now. I'm thinking

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what do I do? So even before I get there

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my question to God, and I wrote this down

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that's why I'm reading it, I'll tell you.

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My question was

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I've got it in my notes.

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My question was, Father

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what's your take on Amma?

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What is your take on Amma, Lord?

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That I may walk rightly.

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Look at the question. The question isn't

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Oh God heal her, oh God help.

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It's what's your take on Amma, oh God?

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So that I may walk rightly.

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Rightly where? Rightly for whom?

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For whom? For Him.

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How do I walk this rightly? Because if I walk

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rightly for Him, I'll walk rightly for everybody.

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So the question I'm asking

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as I'm flying in is

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what's your take, oh God?

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What's your take on Amma, Lord, that I may walk rightly?

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What's my expectation?

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And then that was my only question

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and the first thing I hear is, listen.

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Keep dreaming forward.

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Every day I'll tell you what to do

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and when I tell you to do it, pray that

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establish that as a baseline and dream forward.

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So

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given that

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I almost failed zoology in my undergrad

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I had nothing to do with medicine.

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So the first day I'm asking the Lord, Father

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so what do you want to do today?

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And the first thing

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he says is

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I want you to pray for her

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swallowing and this is day two.

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I want you to pray that she begins to swallow

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and I want you to pray that her left arm

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that is immobile because of the stroke

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starts moving. And so

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I go tell my brother-in-law who's a doctor

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that this is what God is saying

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so you're willing to pray this

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and he says, yep, let's do that.

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So he and I begin to pray this.

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That evening

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they do a swallow test on her.

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So in the morning she can't swallow, she's being fed through tubes.

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Because if she swallows water

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or swallows anything that's solid

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it goes down the wrong gullet and then you'll have to aspirate her

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because it goes into the lungs.

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And so this is what we pray. In the evening the doctors come to do a swallow test.

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And they test it.

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And her swallowing begins to come back.

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And her left arm

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I've got pictures, eh?

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Because I would take video shots of this.

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Her left arm begins to move.

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This is just seven days old.

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I go to the window

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because I didn't want anyone to see me cry.

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I'm thinking to myself

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how do you do this? How do you say something in the morning?

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How do you just do this?

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How?

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Understanding their weeping. I remember texting a few people saying

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I must have started swallowing.

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The next day I thought okay so now we

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perhaps have to deal with

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bladder movement and bowel movement.

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Instead I'm asking God and God is saying

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just pray, this is day three

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just pray for core strengthening.

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I don't even know what core strengthening.

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I didn't know I had a core.

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So I begin to pray for core strengthening.

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And I didn't realize that

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when one suffers a stroke and has

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the left side not working well

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that even getting out of a chair is difficult.

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You sit on the chair, it's impossible to get up.

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The next day the physio comes

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and they have her get out of the chair

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and she's using her arms and pulling herself up.

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What do I know about this?

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The fourth day was

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pray for the bowel and the bladder movement

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to now become natural.

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And that is when we started. It took two days

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but the catheter got removed.

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We started going to the washroom on our own.

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Why am I getting so personal about this story?

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Because this is how we know these things work

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even though it's counterintuitive.

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The fifth day was

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can the palsy that had affected her left side

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and the face was drooping

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begin to disappear?

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And it began to disappear.

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The problem now is her tongue muscles

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have almost lost muscle memory

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and she's not able to still

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use her tongue the way she wants to.

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And so I left on the sixth day

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and every day I asked the Lord, Father what do you want to do today?

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This is how rest works.

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You only do what you're asked to.

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You don't go with expert opinion.

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Expert opinion comes in second.

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It's not that you don't care for it

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but it comes in second.

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First is the one who created all things

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and has all power.

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The core strength thing

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she had a stroke.

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The blood clot disappeared.

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I'm not kidding you.

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These are not suppositions of a pastor who's imagining.

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Because my brother-in-law is a doc

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he showed me the things that needed to be seen.

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The clot disappeared so that was taken care of.

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Then she starts getting up, walking with help

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and the physio says she's walking on her own strength

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but they needed two people beside them.

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By the fourth day she's holding the table

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and walking around the table.

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By the fifth day she doesn't need the table

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and she wants to walk towards the gate of her house.

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The sixth day she got discharged

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from the hospital.

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The sixth day she was home.

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This has nothing to do with you and I.

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This is God at work.

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None of us.

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I definitely can't claim anything.

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It was not my faith, it was nothing.

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It was just a simple prayer based on what he said.

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It wasn't even faith guys.

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There was no exertion of faith.

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It was let us pray this because

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this is what he's saying.

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I wish I could say it was great faith.

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It wasn't.

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And so we'd establish a baseline every day

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and say now let's move on.

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So what's her present situation?

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Over the last two days my brother in-law told me

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that she's getting a little lazy

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and she's not working as hard.

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But praise God my sister landed there today

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and she is a drill sergeant.

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Things will be back on track.

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It's not because of her involvement

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or my involvement but at the end of the day

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may the grace of God carry her

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as many days that she needs to be carried.

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And it is

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I think one of the most important things that you can take from this story

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is the first question.

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Father,

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how do you want me to approach this

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so that I can walk with you rightly?

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That is the best part of this story.

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That is the best part of the story

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because you want to walk with him rightly.

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The rest will take care of it.

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And you can only ask that question

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if you actually believe he's a good father.

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Pardon?

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He's still good.

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That's a crazy thing.

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His goodness doesn't change because of me.

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Because he's a good father

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I can now begin to have an interaction with a good father.

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But if I don't interact with a good father

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a good father doesn't become bad.

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He still is good.

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We all as kids realize that.

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Some days our parents were really good.

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Other days they were really sucky.

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But

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that was your perception of him.

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That was your perception.

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They were still good.

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Rest is the antidote guys.

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Nothing like rest to reverse a situation.

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Nothing like rest to reverse a situation.

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And when you're scared

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when you don't do anything

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and when you're scared

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God will send help your way to encourage your heart

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saying hey you're on the right track.

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Gideon was scared.

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He asked to go into rest.

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And his rest was worse than ours.

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He's got 30,000 people and God says whittle it down to 300.

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Now he's got 300 people.

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And he's supposed to go out with them.

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He was scared.

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What did God do?

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Send him down near the enemy's camp and he hears people whispering saying

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you know we're really scared of these Israelites

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because they're going to come and they're going to treat us like bread.

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They're going to eat us up.

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He gets so thrilled with it that he comes back and says

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we'll go with 300.

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Practice rest and God will encourage you

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when your heart is afraid.

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It's a very cool way to live.

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Why? Because God shows up like crazy.

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In everything, hey?

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Please don't think this is to do with finances or healing.

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It's a way of life.

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That's why we have this thing called Sabbath.

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To seize from exertion.

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To desist from exertion.

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And what's a Sabbath like today?

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27.

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24-7.

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It says thereafter

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that David

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let's look at 1 Chronicles 12-8.

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1 Chronicles 12-8.

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It says some Gadites

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defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness.

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They were brave warriors ready for battle

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able to handle shield and spear.

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Their faces were the face of lions

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and they were swift as gazelles in the mountain.

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So, one, they defected to David.

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Just so you remember, don't forget this part.

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We can only seize from exertion

00:31:48.300 --> 00:31:50.300
warring thoughts or desist from

00:31:50.300 --> 00:31:52.300
striving if we are in a place

00:31:52.300 --> 00:31:54.300
where we do exactly

00:31:54.300 --> 00:31:56.300
what we are directed by God.

00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:59.000
But to do what we are directed by God

00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:01.000
we can't go there unless

00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.000
we

00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.000
learn how to hear

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.000
and it's a continuous process

00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000
and we learn how to obey the word

00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:11.000
and actually believe it.

00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:15.000
Faith in what is written.

00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.000
This is why we must continue

00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.000
to press into

00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.000
hearing both the written word

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:25.000
and hearing the Father in conversation.

00:32:25.700 --> 00:32:27.700
Both.

00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:29.700
It's an essential.

00:32:29.700 --> 00:32:31.700
You cannot do Christian life without this.

00:32:31.700 --> 00:32:33.700
You cannot do Christian life without this.

00:32:33.700 --> 00:32:35.700
And don't go into that funk

00:32:35.700 --> 00:32:37.700
where you say, but I tried and I don't hear God.

00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:39.700
That's exactly how you started learning languages.

00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:41.700
You didn't quit.

00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:46.700
So don't go into that funk.

00:32:46.700 --> 00:32:48.700
It's a continuous process.

00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:50.700
Ten years from now you'll be so much better

00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:52.700
than you are today.

00:32:52.700 --> 00:32:54.700
One year from now you'll be so much better than you are today.

00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.400
So we continually hear and believe.

00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:59.400
Hear and believe.

00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:01.400
In fact in Hebrews chapter 4 it says,

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they did not enter into my rest because they heard

00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:05.400
but they did not believe.

00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:09.400
So hearing the voice of the Father

00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:11.400
and hearing the word of God

00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:13.400
and believing it is the way into rest

00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:15.400
and it's impossible to enter into rest without these two things.

00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.400
So what choice do we have?

00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:19.400
These are the essentials of Christianity.

00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.400
And that's how we became believers.

00:33:25.100 --> 00:33:27.100
How does one become a believer?

00:33:27.100 --> 00:33:29.100
By hearing that Jesus Christ

00:33:29.100 --> 00:33:31.100
came down to the earth

00:33:33.100 --> 00:33:35.100
so that he could remove the hostility

00:33:35.100 --> 00:33:37.100
between God and man

00:33:37.100 --> 00:33:39.100
by taking upon him

00:33:39.100 --> 00:33:41.100
every wrong thing that you and I

00:33:41.100 --> 00:33:43.100
have done will do.

00:33:43.100 --> 00:33:45.100
So that you don't have to pay

00:33:45.100 --> 00:33:47.100
the penalty for it.

00:33:47.100 --> 00:33:49.100
He takes it upon himself and he says

00:33:49.100 --> 00:33:51.100
now that I have paid the price

00:33:51.100 --> 00:33:53.100
if you choose to

00:33:53.100 --> 00:33:55.100
you can be mine.

00:33:55.100 --> 00:33:57.100
And what is required for that?

00:33:57.100 --> 00:33:59.100
First an acknowledgement that I have wronged

00:33:59.100 --> 00:34:01.100
God and man.

00:34:01.100 --> 00:34:03.100
Or I have wronged God

00:34:03.100 --> 00:34:05.100
because God is perfect.

00:34:05.100 --> 00:34:07.100
That I am not

00:34:07.100 --> 00:34:09.100
and I have wronged God.

00:34:09.100 --> 00:34:11.100
That's step one.

00:34:11.100 --> 00:34:13.100
Because if you don't acknowledge sin

00:34:13.100 --> 00:34:15.100
you don't need a savior.

00:34:15.100 --> 00:34:17.100
One of the hardest things for humans to do

00:34:17.100 --> 00:34:19.100
is to acknowledge that we

00:34:19.100 --> 00:34:21.100
have sinned.

00:34:21.100 --> 00:34:23.100
That's the hardest thing to do, eh?

00:34:23.100 --> 00:34:25.100
Because to say that

00:34:25.100 --> 00:34:27.100
is to really come to a place

00:34:27.100 --> 00:34:29.100
where you admit your bankruptcy.

00:34:31.100 --> 00:34:33.100
Admitting bankruptcy

00:34:33.100 --> 00:34:35.100
is one of the hardest things for humans to do.

00:34:37.100 --> 00:34:39.100
Because we can't admit

00:34:39.100 --> 00:34:41.100
our bankruptcy that we

00:34:41.100 --> 00:34:43.100
are not good people as the world

00:34:43.100 --> 00:34:45.100
says. We have thoughts

00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:47.100
ways and actions that are continuously

00:34:47.100 --> 00:34:49.100
against a holy God.

00:34:51.100 --> 00:34:53.100
Once I admit my bankruptcy

00:34:53.100 --> 00:34:55.100
I need a savior.

00:34:55.100 --> 00:34:57.100
Once I need a savior

00:34:57.100 --> 00:34:59.100
he comes into my life.

00:34:59.100 --> 00:35:01.100
Once he comes into my life

00:35:01.100 --> 00:35:03.100
I get saved. Once I get saved

00:35:03.100 --> 00:35:05.100
I re-enter the relationship

00:35:05.100 --> 00:35:07.100
that one should have with God

00:35:07.100 --> 00:35:09.100
which is that of a father and a son

00:35:09.100 --> 00:35:11.100
and a father and a daughter. Who makes it possible?

00:35:11.100 --> 00:35:13.100
Christ. By doing what?

00:35:13.100 --> 00:35:15.100
By removing the hostility and the sin

00:35:15.100 --> 00:35:17.100
that we have to pay a price for.

00:35:17.100 --> 00:35:19.100
Crazy.

00:35:21.100 --> 00:35:23.100
So

00:35:23.100 --> 00:35:25.100
they defected to David.

00:35:25.100 --> 00:35:27.100
One of the things

00:35:27.100 --> 00:35:29.100
if you want to run with horses

00:35:31.100 --> 00:35:33.100
run with horses

00:35:33.100 --> 00:35:35.100
one of the things required

00:35:35.100 --> 00:35:37.100
is to

00:35:37.100 --> 00:35:39.100
shed

00:35:39.100 --> 00:35:41.100
misplaced loyalties

00:35:45.100 --> 00:35:47.100
allegiances

00:35:47.100 --> 00:35:49.100
to

00:35:49.100 --> 00:35:51.100
to

00:35:51.100 --> 00:35:53.100
to clan

00:35:53.100 --> 00:35:55.100
culture

00:35:55.100 --> 00:35:57.100
laban

00:35:57.100 --> 00:35:59.100
remember the

00:35:59.100 --> 00:36:01.100
Abraham story, Jacob story

00:36:01.100 --> 00:36:03.100
to

00:36:03.100 --> 00:36:05.100
marry

00:36:05.100 --> 00:36:07.100
as Jesus did when he said who is my mother

00:36:07.100 --> 00:36:09.100
who is my brother. To Saul

00:36:09.100 --> 00:36:11.100
Jonathan and Michael couldn't

00:36:11.100 --> 00:36:13.100
but sometimes we get stuck.

00:36:13.100 --> 00:36:15.100
So to shed

00:36:15.100 --> 00:36:17.100
misplaced loyalties and allegiances

00:36:17.100 --> 00:36:19.100
that's the first step to running with horses

00:36:19.100 --> 00:36:21.100
because it will require

00:36:21.100 --> 00:36:23.100
that we break free

00:36:23.100 --> 00:36:25.100
from

00:36:27.100 --> 00:36:29.100
loyalties

00:36:29.100 --> 00:36:31.100
that

00:36:33.100 --> 00:36:35.100
are old

00:36:35.100 --> 00:36:37.100
stale

00:36:37.100 --> 00:36:39.100
or affect

00:36:41.100 --> 00:36:43.100
progress.

00:36:45.100 --> 00:36:47.100
People do this

00:36:47.100 --> 00:36:49.100
every day in the world.

00:36:49.100 --> 00:36:51.100
You start

00:36:51.100 --> 00:36:53.100
learning piano from me

00:36:53.100 --> 00:36:55.100
and then you realize that he doesn't know much piano

00:36:55.100 --> 00:36:57.100
so you move on to Sheldon.

00:36:57.100 --> 00:36:59.100
You don't say

00:36:59.100 --> 00:37:01.100
ah but Jacob's such a sweet guy

00:37:01.100 --> 00:37:03.100
he gives me coffee every time I come

00:37:03.100 --> 00:37:05.100
and play piano. I won't help you

00:37:05.100 --> 00:37:07.100
with piano playing. It will just get you hyper.

00:37:07.100 --> 00:37:09.100
So you move on to Sheldon.

00:37:09.100 --> 00:37:11.100
We've got no problems

00:37:11.100 --> 00:37:13.100
doing that. But when it comes to

00:37:13.100 --> 00:37:15.100
moving with God we have misplaced loyalties

00:37:15.100 --> 00:37:17.100
and allegiances. So they defected to David.

00:37:17.100 --> 00:37:19.100
Where did they defect to?

00:37:19.100 --> 00:37:21.100
They defected into the stronghold

00:37:21.100 --> 00:37:23.100
in the wilderness.

00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:25.100
Stronghold in the wilderness.

00:37:29.100 --> 00:37:31.100
David had this ability

00:37:31.100 --> 00:37:33.100
to find places in the wilderness

00:37:33.100 --> 00:37:35.100
and he did this for years together

00:37:35.100 --> 00:37:37.100
when Saul was after him.

00:37:37.100 --> 00:37:39.100
Where he'd find this formation of caves

00:37:39.100 --> 00:37:41.100
and he'd go in there and it would almost be like a fortress

00:37:41.100 --> 00:37:43.100
that would be hard to access

00:37:43.100 --> 00:37:45.100
but he'd always find

00:37:45.100 --> 00:37:47.100
in that formation

00:37:47.100 --> 00:37:49.100
a spring that brought in living water

00:37:49.100 --> 00:37:51.100
or water that would give life.

00:37:51.100 --> 00:37:53.100
He'd get into these strongholds

00:37:53.100 --> 00:37:55.100
and he'd begin to operate from there.

00:37:55.100 --> 00:37:57.100
That's where he goes eh?

00:37:57.100 --> 00:37:59.100
And that's why Saul

00:37:59.100 --> 00:38:01.100
found it so difficult to follow him

00:38:01.100 --> 00:38:03.100
and ends up in one of those caves

00:38:03.100 --> 00:38:05.100
where David could almost have had him.

00:38:05.100 --> 00:38:07.100
And David spares his life.

00:38:07.100 --> 00:38:09.100
So he would find these

00:38:09.100 --> 00:38:11.100
rock fortresses

00:38:11.100 --> 00:38:13.100
that were supplied by a spring.

00:38:13.100 --> 00:38:15.100
Water was plenty.

00:38:17.100 --> 00:38:19.100
I do that every time you find yourself

00:38:19.100 --> 00:38:21.100
in a wilderness eh?

00:38:21.100 --> 00:38:23.100
Every time you find yourself in a dry place

00:38:23.100 --> 00:38:25.100
find your spot

00:38:25.100 --> 00:38:27.100
find your spot with God

00:38:27.100 --> 00:38:29.100
where in the midst of everything

00:38:29.100 --> 00:38:31.100
that's turning upside down

00:38:31.100 --> 00:38:33.100
you have this safe place where

00:38:33.100 --> 00:38:35.100
there's a continuous source

00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:37.100
of living water.

00:38:37.100 --> 00:38:39.100
Practice it, create it

00:38:39.100 --> 00:38:41.100
form it, it'll keep you safe.

00:38:49.100 --> 00:38:51.100
Guys, always learn to nip things in the bud.

00:38:51.100 --> 00:38:53.100
Whenever you see trouble beginning to brew

00:38:53.100 --> 00:38:55.100
don't wait for it to get bigger.

00:38:55.100 --> 00:38:57.100
As soon as it begins to brew

00:38:57.100 --> 00:38:59.100
find your spot.

00:38:59.100 --> 00:39:01.100
Don't let it grow bigger

00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:03.100
because then it gets out of hand.

00:39:03.100 --> 00:39:05.100
Find it early.

00:39:05.100 --> 00:39:07.100
Find it early.

00:39:07.100 --> 00:39:09.100
You see trouble coming?

00:39:09.100 --> 00:39:11.100
They don't wait for the cyclone to hit

00:39:11.100 --> 00:39:13.100
before they nail boards

00:39:13.100 --> 00:39:15.100
to their windows, man.

00:39:15.100 --> 00:39:17.100
The warning comes in early.

00:39:27.100 --> 00:39:29.100
They were brave warriors.

00:39:29.100 --> 00:39:31.100
They defected to David's

00:39:31.100 --> 00:39:33.100
in his stronghold in the wilderness.

00:39:33.100 --> 00:39:35.100
And they were brave warriors.

00:39:35.100 --> 00:39:37.100
How did they get to be brave warriors?

00:39:37.100 --> 00:39:39.100
This is so cool.

00:39:39.100 --> 00:39:41.100
Who are they? They're the Gadites.

00:39:41.100 --> 00:39:43.100
Where did the Gadites get land

00:39:43.100 --> 00:39:45.100
on the eastern end

00:39:45.100 --> 00:39:47.100
of the Jordan?

00:39:47.100 --> 00:39:49.100
Why?

00:39:49.100 --> 00:39:51.100
Because they said, can we have this land

00:39:51.100 --> 00:39:53.100
because we have a lot of cattle.

00:39:53.100 --> 00:39:55.100
Can we settle here?

00:39:55.100 --> 00:39:57.100
So they get land on the eastern side of the Jordan.

00:39:57.100 --> 00:39:59.100
They were a frontier town.

00:39:59.100 --> 00:40:01.100
Who were their neighbors?

00:40:01.100 --> 00:40:03.100
The brutal Ammonites.

00:40:03.100 --> 00:40:05.100
Amorites.

00:40:05.100 --> 00:40:07.100
Sorry, Ammonites.

00:40:07.100 --> 00:40:09.100
So what did they have to do?

00:40:09.100 --> 00:40:11.100
They had to learn

00:40:11.100 --> 00:40:13.100
to fight.

00:40:13.100 --> 00:40:15.100
So much so

00:40:15.100 --> 00:40:17.100
that in Genesis 49

00:40:17.100 --> 00:40:19.100
verse 19

00:40:19.100 --> 00:40:21.100
Jacob prophesies on them

00:40:21.100 --> 00:40:23.100
and says,

00:40:23.100 --> 00:40:25.100
God will be

00:40:25.100 --> 00:40:27.100
the great warrior

00:40:27.100 --> 00:40:29.100
and the great warrior.

00:40:29.100 --> 00:40:31.100
And they say,

00:40:31.100 --> 00:40:33.100
God will be

00:40:33.100 --> 00:40:35.100
raided

00:40:35.100 --> 00:40:37.100
but they

00:40:37.100 --> 00:40:39.100
will

00:40:39.100 --> 00:40:41.100
raid

00:40:41.100 --> 00:40:43.100
their raider's

00:40:43.100 --> 00:40:45.100
heels.

00:40:45.100 --> 00:40:47.100
As in, they'll attack them

00:40:47.100 --> 00:40:49.100
even as the enemy is retreating.

00:40:49.100 --> 00:40:51.100
They learned how to fight

00:40:51.100 --> 00:40:53.100
because of where they lived.

00:40:53.100 --> 00:40:55.100
And Jacob prophesies that.

00:40:55.100 --> 00:40:57.100
It's almost 400 years before it happens.

00:40:57.100 --> 00:40:59.100
That God

00:40:59.100 --> 00:41:01.100
will be attacked, will be raided,

00:41:01.100 --> 00:41:03.100
but they in turn will raid

00:41:03.100 --> 00:41:05.100
their raider's heels. As in, they'll

00:41:05.100 --> 00:41:07.100
destroy them on their retreat.

00:41:11.100 --> 00:41:13.100
The only time we learn to fight is

00:41:13.100 --> 00:41:15.100
when we have circumstances that are negative.

00:41:15.100 --> 00:41:17.100
Otherwise, we don't need to fight.

00:41:17.100 --> 00:41:19.100
Go to Judges chapter 3, verse 1-5,

00:41:19.100 --> 00:41:21.100
you see it there. Judges chapter 3.

00:41:21.100 --> 00:41:23.100
I know you've read this before,

00:41:23.100 --> 00:41:25.100
look how brilliant it is. Judges chapter 3,

00:41:25.100 --> 00:41:27.100
verse 1-5.

00:41:31.100 --> 00:41:33.100
Judges 3.

00:41:37.100 --> 00:41:39.100
Let me read an IV

00:41:39.100 --> 00:41:41.100
and then I'll see if the message says anything different.

00:41:41.100 --> 00:41:43.100
These are the nations the Lord left

00:41:43.100 --> 00:41:45.100
to do what? To test all those

00:41:45.100 --> 00:41:47.100
Israelites. What kind of Israelites?

00:41:47.100 --> 00:41:49.100
Who had not experienced

00:41:49.100 --> 00:41:51.100
any of the wars in Canaan.

00:41:51.100 --> 00:41:53.100
Why did he do this?

00:41:53.100 --> 00:41:55.100
Verse 2. He did this only

00:41:55.100 --> 00:41:57.100
to teach warfare to the descendants

00:41:57.100 --> 00:41:59.100
of the Israelites who had no

00:41:59.100 --> 00:42:01.100
previous battle experience. How

00:42:01.100 --> 00:42:03.100
nuts is that?

00:42:03.100 --> 00:42:05.100
What kind of God is this?

00:42:05.100 --> 00:42:07.100
Who wants you

00:42:07.100 --> 00:42:09.100
to be able to war.

00:42:09.100 --> 00:42:11.100
Why? Because in his nature, he is

00:42:11.100 --> 00:42:13.100
a divine warrior too.

00:42:17.100 --> 00:42:19.100
The only opportunity we have

00:42:19.100 --> 00:42:21.100
to learn these skills

00:42:21.100 --> 00:42:23.100
is when things are not

00:42:23.100 --> 00:42:25.100
going well.

00:42:25.100 --> 00:42:27.100
Am I asking you to invite

00:42:27.100 --> 00:42:29.100
bad things into your life? No. But am I asking

00:42:29.100 --> 00:42:31.100
you to look at every negative situation

00:42:31.100 --> 00:42:33.100
in your life as an opportunity

00:42:33.100 --> 00:42:35.100
for God to show muscle? Yes.

00:42:35.100 --> 00:42:37.100
It's the only

00:42:37.100 --> 00:42:39.100
way we learn how

00:42:39.100 --> 00:42:41.100
to respond like him

00:42:41.100 --> 00:42:43.100
and war like him. It's odd.

00:42:43.100 --> 00:42:45.100
Our battle is not against flesh

00:42:45.100 --> 00:42:47.100
and blood.

00:42:47.100 --> 00:42:49.100
That's a part of the war.

00:42:49.100 --> 00:42:51.100
How do we respond like him?

00:42:51.100 --> 00:42:53.100
By showing kindness, by being

00:42:53.100 --> 00:42:55.100
compassionate.

00:42:55.100 --> 00:42:57.100
These are the only opportunities

00:42:57.100 --> 00:42:59.100
we have. We will not get these opportunities in

00:42:59.100 --> 00:43:01.100
heaven. It's

00:43:01.100 --> 00:43:03.100
only here on earth that you get to become like Christ.

00:43:03.100 --> 00:43:05.100
There you instantly become like him.

00:43:09.100 --> 00:43:11.100
And he sometimes

00:43:11.100 --> 00:43:13.100
does not

00:43:13.100 --> 00:43:15.100
create situations for you where you

00:43:15.100 --> 00:43:17.100
are not going to be able to do this.

00:43:17.100 --> 00:43:19.100
But he looks at every situation that's happening

00:43:19.100 --> 00:43:21.100
and says, Jacob,

00:43:21.100 --> 00:43:23.100
how do you want to deal with this?

00:43:23.100 --> 00:43:25.100
Can I come into this

00:43:25.100 --> 00:43:27.100
as comforter? Can I come into this

00:43:27.100 --> 00:43:29.100
as rescuer? Can I come into this

00:43:29.100 --> 00:43:31.100
as fighter?

00:43:31.100 --> 00:43:33.100
He will tell you how he wants to enter

00:43:33.100 --> 00:43:35.100
a situation. And once he does,

00:43:35.100 --> 00:43:37.100
you begin to change into who he is.

00:43:37.100 --> 00:43:39.100
In your present situation,

00:43:39.100 --> 00:43:41.100
whatever it is,

00:43:41.100 --> 00:43:43.100
loneliness,

00:43:43.100 --> 00:43:45.100
ickness,

00:43:45.100 --> 00:43:47.100
videoconcurrencies, sickness,

00:43:47.100 --> 00:43:49.100
confusion. The first question you ask him is,

00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:51.100
Father, how do you want to enter this

00:43:51.100 --> 00:43:53.100
situation? What form are you entering

00:43:53.100 --> 00:43:55.100
the situation as?

00:43:55.100 --> 00:43:57.100
What we always want is please rescue.

00:43:57.100 --> 00:43:59.100
Please provide.

00:43:59.100 --> 00:44:01.100
But why not ask him,

00:44:01.100 --> 00:44:03.100
how do you want to enter this situation?

00:44:03.100 --> 00:44:05.100
What form are you taking?

00:44:07.100 --> 00:44:09.100
It's notgesthasura,

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it's not whatever will be will be.

00:44:11.100 --> 00:44:17.980
I'll get out if I die so I'll die no I'm not being job what I'm saying is oh God

00:44:17.980 --> 00:44:23.900
how do you want to enter this situation it's an active seeking of his nature his

00:44:23.900 --> 00:44:30.900
will his form into that situation so that you can measure up accordingly it

00:44:30.900 --> 00:44:36.340
involves work involves searching the mind of God once you know that you are

00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:40.460
now able to shape yourself and your response based on how he wants to be

00:44:41.020 --> 00:44:47.300
yes it's work but that's how you know the mind of Christ there's no other way to

00:44:47.300 --> 00:44:59.340
know the mind of God and if you're married my god you got such an advantage

00:44:59.340 --> 00:45:03.980
two of you seeking it if you're not married you've got even a bigger

00:45:03.980 --> 00:45:12.140
advantage because you got the rest of us they just have to each other all the

00:45:12.140 --> 00:45:18.300
single people sorry that just came out by mistake we'll forget that we'll just

00:45:18.300 --> 00:45:31.940
go back to see over generations out of necessity got Gad transformed into a

00:45:31.940 --> 00:45:36.420
tribe that was killed in the art of war that was killed in the art of war and

00:45:36.420 --> 00:45:39.540
God will sometimes place you in situations where you're doing everything

00:45:39.540 --> 00:45:42.820
godly and he sends you a situation because he knows that in the future

00:45:42.820 --> 00:45:46.140
you'll have to deal with something that will set a whole lot of people free hear

00:45:46.140 --> 00:45:51.820
me again please this is this is so cool God while you're doing things that you

00:45:51.820 --> 00:45:58.100
he has asked you to do like he says to David hey David can you shepherd your

00:45:58.220 --> 00:46:03.940
father's sheep so David says yep and he takes his sheep out with his guitar and

00:46:03.940 --> 00:46:07.780
he sings and writes songs and takes care of the sheep he's a good shepherd and

00:46:07.780 --> 00:46:15.020
then knowing what awaits David while he's taking care of sheep along comes a

00:46:15.020 --> 00:46:22.540
lion what does David do catches the lion which tries to take a sheep smites it

00:46:22.540 --> 00:46:26.940
pulls the lamb out of the lion's mouth rescues it he does the same thing to the

00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:32.060
bear he knows how to handle lion and bear now that he knows how to handle

00:46:32.060 --> 00:46:40.680
lion and bear along comes Goliath but this is a battle he is ready for he

00:46:40.680 --> 00:46:45.020
doesn't say oh lord have you noticed he never wrote a psalm saying why did thou

00:46:45.020 --> 00:46:54.700
send it me a lion no his psalms say I smote the lion and the bear what can

00:46:54.700 --> 00:47:00.140
this uncircumcised Philistine do to me sometimes the things that God sends our

00:47:00.140 --> 00:47:04.540
ways is not to destroy us but to prepare us to set a whole lot of other people

00:47:04.540 --> 00:47:11.340
who would be destroyed if you were not ready these are opportunities guys it's

00:47:11.340 --> 00:47:15.580
it's like a complete change of perspective a based on the one fact that

00:47:15.580 --> 00:47:23.300
he is good and so he deals with the lion he deals with the bear and now he's able

00:47:23.340 --> 00:47:27.580
to deal with Goliath and because he deals with a group with Goliath an entire

00:47:27.580 --> 00:47:35.420
nation benefits but the boy learned it shepherding God's sheep enjoy this

00:47:35.420 --> 00:47:44.860
process he wants people a metal METTLE caliber but you have to train with the

00:47:44.860 --> 00:47:48.860
lion and the sheep now you can see why a lion and the bear you now you can see

00:47:48.860 --> 00:47:54.260
why he was so skilled with using two things well the rod and the staff the

00:47:54.260 --> 00:48:00.060
rod to beat away predatory animals the staff to keep the sheep safe this is who

00:48:00.060 --> 00:48:05.100
God is the divine warrior on one hand has the ability to provoke hostilities

00:48:05.100 --> 00:48:09.860
against predators and then he has the ability to hook and bring sheep closer

00:48:09.860 --> 00:48:14.560
himself with the staff the rod and the staff everyone here is supposed to be

00:48:14.560 --> 00:48:19.600
like that if you believe in Christ because if we are supposed to be ones

00:48:19.600 --> 00:48:27.000
that take after his image the rod and the stuff it's not one or the other you

00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:30.480
take one or the other you'll have sheep that are pampered that get eaten after

00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:37.840
being pampered or you'll have sheep that are protected they'll die starving

00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:40.760
because you don't feed them

00:48:44.560 --> 00:48:53.520
brave warriors ready for battle a ready for battle and you can't be neutral in

00:48:53.520 --> 00:48:59.680
this you be neutral in this you'll suffocate what will suffocate you

00:48:59.680 --> 00:49:13.800
dullness if you go gung-ho and are an untrained enthusiastic warrior you'll

00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:24.960
get strangled and if you're going it alone you'll get crippled so what's the

00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:34.200
best way learn how to fight with others together so that we learn how to wield

00:49:34.200 --> 00:49:42.200
rod and stuff their faces were like faces of lions they had faces that were

00:49:42.240 --> 00:49:49.080
faces of lions all day that that someone should describe a people can you imagine

00:49:49.080 --> 00:49:53.920
someone coming to this church and saying I came here on Sunday June the 30th and

00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.640
I looked around and all of them had faces of lions the only one that I can

00:49:58.640 --> 00:50:08.160
see like that is Jobin like you got a main dawn is trying but it's not getting

00:50:08.200 --> 00:50:15.840
there but but the thing is how does one describe someone like that faces of

00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:21.840
lions but these guys actually looked like that like they had a fierceness

00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:27.680
about them and which brings in this idea that if you want to run with the horses

00:50:27.680 --> 00:50:39.760
you have to learn how to cultivate the Matthew 11 12 kind of violence it's a

00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:49.720
what kind of violence is this initially it's a violence that'll elbow others to

00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:58.480
God you know if you see these documentaries or news reports where

00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:02.880
people have been starving for longer there it's in a war-thorn area and you

00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:06.400
see food coming down through parachutes and stuff like that what happens people

00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:12.160
elbow people out of the way to get to that life-giving food why would someone

00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:19.600
call a whole tribe ones that have a face like a lion it talks about an aggression

00:51:19.600 --> 00:51:24.800
a violence we need this violence at different levels the first level is when

00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:29.740
God is about to distribute something can you have the same violence that will

00:51:29.740 --> 00:51:34.880
cause you to elbow people out of the way because it is something he has for you

00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:39.540
and you want to get to it at that time you don't choose politeness thing you

00:51:40.100 --> 00:51:51.860
first it is yours it is yours for the taking run for it a hungry a hungry

00:51:51.860 --> 00:51:59.300
desire for those things sometimes when you know that an invitation that is

00:51:59.860 --> 00:52:07.420
is is resonating with your spirit then don't stay run

00:52:13.020 --> 00:52:19.820
it only displays your firstbornness they only increases your capacity

00:52:22.900 --> 00:52:27.540
Matthew 11 12 the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by

00:52:27.540 --> 00:52:47.860
force how else are we supposed to be violent furious love in prayer have you

00:52:47.860 --> 00:52:54.140
seen the movie hacks or ridge that is furious love that is violence that is

00:52:54.140 --> 00:53:00.940
loving furious love that rescues the guy keeps going back he knows his life is

00:53:00.940 --> 00:53:05.940
in jeopardy but he will not quit quit one after the other 25 people 30 people

00:53:05.940 --> 00:53:10.860
35 people the whole place is exploding but he says one more oh god one more oh

00:53:10.860 --> 00:53:17.460
god and he keeps going back he rescues 38 of them what is he he's he he works

00:53:17.460 --> 00:53:23.780
for the medical core what is he in real life he's a pacifist he doesn't believe

00:53:23.780 --> 00:53:30.700
in war but he keeps going back I highly recommend that movie hacks or ridge

00:53:30.700 --> 00:53:35.940
hacks or ridge yeah I hope that's not the only thing you take from this

00:53:35.940 --> 00:53:45.780
teaching but it's a great movie it's furious love there's a there's a it

00:53:45.780 --> 00:53:51.820
refuses to settle down we are talking about a violence that the Spirit of God

00:53:51.860 --> 00:53:57.340
gives you which which makes it impossible for you to stop short you

00:53:57.340 --> 00:54:09.220
would rather die trying than not try it's a violence because of the violence

00:54:09.220 --> 00:54:24.500
because of the adversary you face Satan who is evil who is evil and just great

00:54:24.500 --> 00:54:40.580
evil it's a violence that then keeps you safe from lukewarmness if you don't have

00:54:40.580 --> 00:54:44.900
this kind of aggression that begins to build into your life and it's not the

00:54:44.900 --> 00:54:49.940
aggression that you think of in terms of the world but the another word that God

00:54:49.940 --> 00:54:55.340
uses for it is zeal the zeal that possesses you to begin to do what God

00:54:55.340 --> 00:54:58.860
wants you to do where he cloaks himself he robs himself in zeal the Bible says

00:54:58.860 --> 00:55:04.260
if you don't have that lukewarmness is usually a few days away

00:55:11.100 --> 00:55:19.500
in first Samuel 11 verse 6 talks about that that it talks about how the Spirit

00:55:19.500 --> 00:55:24.300
of God came upon Saul and Saul became angry that's what the words say John

00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:29.060
chapter 2 after Jesus begins to clear the temple it says the zeal of the Lord

00:55:29.060 --> 00:55:35.660
shall accomplish it and the last bit last point I want to make is it says

00:55:35.660 --> 00:55:53.540
the Gadites were swift as gazelles on the mountain in Habakkuk 3 19 it says he

00:55:53.540 --> 00:56:13.180
makes my feet like deer's feet and I tread on the heights in Psalm 18 34 it

00:56:13.180 --> 00:56:32.700
says we were designed like deer to scale high places when the going gets tough

00:56:32.700 --> 00:56:45.780
so what am I supposed to do I need to consider my circumstances and the

00:56:45.780 --> 00:56:50.020
difficult circumstances that I'm undergoing and then discover the

00:56:50.020 --> 00:56:56.660
sure-footedness that I have in the word and in the goodness of the Father so

00:56:56.660 --> 00:57:01.620
that he can help me scale new heights guys I was reading up on like sometimes

00:57:01.620 --> 00:57:06.940
when you drive to Banff you see these mountain goat I mean they got this much

00:57:06.940 --> 00:57:13.620
space to stand on it but they have this amazing ability to use their two toes

00:57:13.620 --> 00:57:20.940
and back they're called dew claws to have all four legs in one spot that's how

00:57:20.940 --> 00:57:25.980
they manage they don't need they don't need space for two legs and two front

00:57:25.980 --> 00:57:29.580
and two back legs they they have the ability to put all four legs in one spot

00:57:29.580 --> 00:57:35.900
and they begin to climb one of the things God gives us especially in

00:57:35.900 --> 00:57:39.980
difficult situations is hey Jacob I know you're in a difficult situation but can

00:57:39.980 --> 00:57:45.380
you get sure-footedness in two things one do you really believe I'm your

00:57:45.380 --> 00:57:51.140
father and I'm good good so we got that sorted out now do you really are you

00:57:51.140 --> 00:57:54.300
really able to believe the promise I'm gonna give you either from the written

00:57:54.300 --> 00:57:59.220
word or from what I say to you or both can you really believe that good

00:57:59.260 --> 00:58:05.980
now you got all four feet on places that no man has any business walking on and

00:58:05.980 --> 00:58:13.820
I'll take you to new heights these are the ones that end up then doing things

00:58:13.820 --> 00:58:23.380
that are supernatural it's not normal not normal I've got a video of a of a

00:58:23.540 --> 00:58:30.820
that's scaling a damn it's a fascinating video you begin to scale vertical cliffs

00:58:30.820 --> 00:58:36.220
unafraid undeterred by seemingly impassable terrain you begin to scale

00:58:36.220 --> 00:58:41.420
vertical cliffs unafraid undeterred by seemingly impassable terrain

00:58:41.420 --> 00:58:46.020
supernatural unto supernatural strength supernatural strength how do you

00:58:46.020 --> 00:58:49.100
cultivate this and after that we can watch the video how do you cultivate

00:58:49.300 --> 00:58:55.300
this three things guys how do you cultivate the ability to be sure-footed

00:58:55.300 --> 00:59:02.660
when the cliff that you are facing is literally vertical how do you cultivate

00:59:02.660 --> 00:59:07.980
the ability to supernaturally scale vertical cliffs unafraid undeterred one

00:59:07.980 --> 00:59:20.940
intense attentiveness in the midst of what you're going through second instant

00:59:20.940 --> 00:59:32.540
commitment to whatever is asked of you by God

00:59:38.060 --> 00:59:44.500
and third an awareness of your impossible circumstances you're not an

00:59:44.500 --> 00:59:48.300
ostrich you're not denying what's happening

00:59:48.300 --> 01:00:14.300
intense attentiveness it's a I think the first step is the most important some of

01:00:14.300 --> 01:00:19.500
you may not have fees to pay for the next course or the next semester or the

01:00:19.500 --> 01:00:24.860
next rent some of you may have struggled with a physical condition some of you

01:00:24.860 --> 01:00:27.820
may have struggled with relationships some of you may have struggled with

01:00:27.820 --> 01:00:33.940
confusion whatever it be the first thing I try and if I'm not able to do it get

01:00:33.940 --> 01:00:39.700
two others that you trust intense attentiveness father before this sours

01:00:39.700 --> 01:00:45.060
or decays more hi if I'm not able we'll get two others who'll help me but I'll

01:00:45.060 --> 01:00:48.540
go into this place called intense attentiveness where my attention is

01:00:48.540 --> 01:00:52.780
drawn not by the things that are swirling around me because I'm drowning

01:00:52.780 --> 01:00:58.540
anyways but I begin to intensely pay attention to you and every time it wavers

01:00:58.540 --> 01:01:02.900
I'll come back to you doesn't matter how many times it'll happen I'll keep coming

01:01:02.900 --> 01:01:08.060
back to you intense attentiveness second now that I'm paying attention Oh God I

01:01:08.540 --> 01:01:12.700
know because you are the father that you say you and because you're good and you

01:01:12.700 --> 01:01:18.260
love me like crazy as much as you love Jesus I know that you will reply when

01:01:18.260 --> 01:01:23.820
you respond I'll instantly commit to whatever you ask I'll instantly commit I

01:01:23.820 --> 01:01:28.500
won't delay I won't try to reason it out I won't try to doubt I'll do nothing of

01:01:28.500 --> 01:01:33.860
that I'll instantly commit meanwhile Oh God I also am aware of my impossible

01:01:34.420 --> 01:01:38.700
circumstances I'm not an ostrich I know this is going on I know that is going

01:01:38.700 --> 01:01:43.620
wrong but I'll keep asking you and every time I fail I get up again and start

01:01:43.620 --> 01:01:50.500
again every time I feel what happens one day Emmanuel comes through that door and

01:01:50.500 --> 01:01:55.060
he walks in like Samson takes the gates on his back and walks away one day

01:01:55.060 --> 01:01:59.940
Rachel comes through that door and she turns things around because she has gone

01:01:59.940 --> 01:02:03.580
through this enough times to know that she can now rescue 20 or 30 other people

01:02:03.580 --> 01:02:07.540
at the end of the day guys every circumstance that you go through is for

01:02:07.540 --> 01:02:12.580
the benefit of someone else one year down the line just remember that every

01:02:12.580 --> 01:02:17.420
circumstance that you go through be it from the devil be through our own

01:02:17.420 --> 01:02:23.340
mistakes be through the nature of the fallen world be through persecution be

01:02:23.340 --> 01:02:28.460
in a trial be the testing I've given you five different scenarios be from the

01:02:28.460 --> 01:02:34.180
devil be from your own failure or mistake or sin be because of a trial

01:02:34.180 --> 01:02:38.380
imposed on you because of someone else's mistake be it's satanic weights and

01:02:38.380 --> 01:02:42.180
adversary attacking you be the fallen nature of the world or be it

01:02:42.180 --> 01:02:48.980
persecution every circumstance is this magnificent opportunity for you to see

01:02:48.980 --> 01:02:55.700
how God enters it and begin to work with him why so that you learn today what can

01:02:55.700 --> 01:03:03.620
help 20 other people tomorrow we are being prepared for others this is the

01:03:03.620 --> 01:03:07.620
only organization in the world that exists for the benefit of others this

01:03:07.620 --> 01:03:16.060
club called Christianity exists for the benefit of others and so when you're

01:03:16.060 --> 01:03:19.460
getting prepared today it is so that tomorrow you can help someone in

01:03:19.460 --> 01:03:32.260
in Abu Dhabi yeah on that note we'll end you want to play the video we started

01:03:32.260 --> 01:03:40.300
with Abu Dhabi and we landed we ended with Abu Dhabi what's this say it's I

01:03:40.300 --> 01:03:49.180
took the sound off but you get the hang of it and then we'll break bread

01:04:19.460 --> 01:04:33.860
love it without these minerals the bones won't grow muscles won't function

01:04:33.860 --> 01:04:38.260
movement and coordination can falter

01:04:50.260 --> 01:04:56.060
that's crazy it's not just the mother that goes up now the kid follows that's

01:04:56.060 --> 01:05:00.660
a training party where we learn from others that have gone this route before

01:05:00.660 --> 01:05:01.660
us

01:05:19.460 --> 01:05:22.500
you

01:05:49.460 --> 01:05:51.540
you

01:06:22.540 --> 01:06:28.540
salt that helps them grow makes their bones strong

01:06:40.540 --> 01:06:50.900
look at that a can we have a few of us do this I want to show you this because we

01:06:50.900 --> 01:06:57.020
were designed for this you were designed for this please believe it

01:06:57.020 --> 01:07:01.140
because this is what he's saying you were designed for this

01:07:03.620 --> 01:07:11.100
people who finally begin to run with horses because they know how to work

01:07:11.300 --> 01:07:22.860
with a God who's supernatural let's break bread that's where we usually live

01:07:24.460 --> 01:07:29.940
we'll get there guys we'll get there

01:07:29.940 --> 01:07:40.860
we break bread because we want to remember Christ's sacrifice for us

01:07:40.860 --> 01:07:49.260
before he went to the cross he sat with his disciples and he said that my body

01:07:49.260 --> 01:07:56.540
is going to be broken as payment for your sins for the sins of the world my

01:07:56.580 --> 01:08:01.900
body is going to be broken as you break this bread remember that my body was

01:08:01.900 --> 01:08:09.180
broken for your forgiveness and then he took the cup and he said I'm gonna

01:08:09.180 --> 01:08:15.540
write a new agreement with you the agreement before was God is holy you are

01:08:15.540 --> 01:08:25.900
not the new agreement is I'm paying for your sins you can come to me I will not

01:08:25.900 --> 01:08:30.100
abandon you I'll introduce you to my father so you can be his son and

01:08:30.100 --> 01:08:35.140
daughter I'll live in you that's a new agreement and he signs that agreement

01:08:35.140 --> 01:08:37.660
with his blood

01:08:49.420 --> 01:08:52.620
everyone got it

01:08:55.900 --> 01:08:58.420
thanks

01:09:09.060 --> 01:09:13.100
so in eating and drinking we are remembering what he did for us say and

01:09:13.100 --> 01:09:19.020
it's not a somber occasion it's actually an occasion where we do smile and talk

01:09:19.020 --> 01:09:24.460
and are happy that he did this for us it's not a funeral because he ain't dead

01:09:24.500 --> 01:09:28.500
yeah so

01:09:40.540 --> 01:09:44.020
once everyone's gotten it

01:09:55.460 --> 01:10:01.500
hey so what are the benefits of his death you occasionally shout it out so

01:10:01.500 --> 01:10:10.300
what are the benefits of his death to you you'll have to shout it out

01:10:10.300 --> 01:10:14.140
righteousness benefit of his death anyone else what are the benefits of

01:10:14.140 --> 01:10:22.740
his death access yeah access to God himself that's just nuts healing

01:10:24.540 --> 01:10:33.820
relationship what else eternal life doesn't end here sorry presence yeah

01:10:33.820 --> 01:10:40.380
presence is restored that which was lost in Eden has now been restored what else

01:10:40.380 --> 01:10:48.700
forgiveness of my sins yesterday today tomorrow which is nuts what else sorry

01:10:48.780 --> 01:10:56.420
adventure you get to go on adventures with God what else I have a father what

01:10:56.420 --> 01:11:08.860
else sorry exuberant Wow what else family deliverance my god I needed to

01:11:08.860 --> 01:11:14.260
be delivered from things probably still do from a few more what else

01:11:14.300 --> 01:11:24.060
yeah the end to my sinful self what else there's still tons to go guys peace

01:11:24.060 --> 01:11:34.060
peace that surpasses all understanding more healing fullness joy don't care

01:11:34.060 --> 01:11:37.820
about me repeating it shout these are the benefits of his death we are not

01:11:37.820 --> 01:11:41.580
talking about a dead man we are talking about a man who is alive who is in this

01:11:41.580 --> 01:11:46.300
room who is Christ who is King who is God who is Lord of heaven and earth who

01:11:46.300 --> 01:11:51.180
is present in our lives and in our midst right now are we saying this to him a

01:11:51.180 --> 01:11:56.620
acknowledging the benefits of his death anything else making things new I love

01:11:56.620 --> 01:12:07.420
that receiving the Spirit of God himself sonship rest hope people like Caleb get

01:12:07.740 --> 01:12:19.980
born he was born 20 years ago saved the guy behind you who else anything else

01:12:19.980 --> 01:12:23.940
participation in his life he's given us divine promises so that we may

01:12:23.940 --> 01:12:32.700
participate in his life the word victory in different circumstances climbing up

01:12:32.740 --> 01:12:37.420
Steve walls like this because he makes it possible living with the supernatural

01:12:37.420 --> 01:12:47.020
God beyond natural means sorry go at John John protection pardon the body of

01:12:47.020 --> 01:12:49.540
Christ

01:12:50.540 --> 01:13:06.380
inheritance victory over the gates of hell relationship sorry sorry freedom

01:13:06.860 --> 01:13:21.940
okay grace my god tons of it a justice sorry boldness wholeness and boldness

01:13:21.940 --> 01:13:36.260
anymore abundant provision new spirit absolutely strong strong arms of God

01:13:36.260 --> 01:13:49.020
victory what rest sorry stories yeah written by God this is nuts we could go

01:13:49.020 --> 01:13:55.820
on and on it's still not exhausted crazy a this is the God we serve this is the

01:13:55.820 --> 01:14:00.980
God we sing to so on the night he was betrayed he took bread he broke it he

01:14:01.140 --> 01:14:08.100
thanks and he said this is my body which I'm breaking for you sacrifice he

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sacrificed and so as you eat it remember what he did a and remember the benefits

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of his death that we just shouted out every day we get to enjoy this every day

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eat well he can run at a funeral no in the same way after supper and now the

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because he drank the cup already freedom from guilt so true don't beat yourself

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up yeah could someone give that with another cup if you have one you're okay

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okay so in this in the same way after supper he took the cup and he said guys

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this is my blood with which I sign a new agreement a new covenant with you that's

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what he said yeah that I will never leave you I will never forsake you I

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will never leave you I will never forsake you my father and your father is

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good yeah so let's raise our glasses to him who is magnificent Christ the Lord

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and King we thank you father for your son we raise the glasses to him we honor

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him we bless him and we remember what he did for us as we drink now in Jesus name

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then if you need prayer there'll be people up front here to pray for you if

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you need prayer for anything otherwise Judah do you want to lead us in a

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closing song no okay no closing song see you next Sunday or whenever the church

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meets I don't think quest and pursuit are meeting tomorrow and day after so

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you