1 00:00:00,330 --> 00:00:02,009 Gregg Marutzky: I don't know about you, but I've been feeling 2 00:00:02,009 --> 00:00:03,210 it a little bit this morning. 3 00:00:03,215 --> 00:00:03,405 All right. 4 00:00:04,019 --> 00:00:06,150 The spirit's starting to stir. 5 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,560 Let's really stir it. 6 00:00:07,590 --> 00:00:12,690 All right, let's stir it as the word of God has spoken to us. 7 00:00:12,750 --> 00:00:14,729 You know my approach. 8 00:00:14,729 --> 00:00:18,330 It's to read the word and let it speak to us. 9 00:00:18,630 --> 00:00:19,920 So open up your heart. 10 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,450 Now that's a decision. 11 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:25,920 I'm always longing for the Holy Spirit to touch me, to fill me, 12 00:00:26,070 --> 00:00:28,080 to change me, to transform me. 13 00:00:28,580 --> 00:00:33,740 The Bible says that at the end of my life, God wants me to be blameless. 14 00:00:33,740 --> 00:00:41,360 He wants to, to create in me his nature so much, his character, his virtues, to 15 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,850 the point that when I get to heaven, I can stand before God and Jesus can present 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,680 me and you to God without any blemish. 17 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:51,800 Amen. 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,630 Well, that's a lot of work for Jesus. 19 00:00:58,260 --> 00:01:05,039 Especially for me, as we heard even the, the Saint Mor Maurice, you know, I 20 00:01:05,039 --> 00:01:10,770 mean, I, I, I, that was, I wish I'd have heard that when I was a teenaged father. 21 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,590 You know, that it's tough to be a, a. 22 00:01:14,025 --> 00:01:17,325 Uh, a perfect, you know, there's a song, country song. 23 00:01:17,535 --> 00:01:18,735 Most of you don't know it. 24 00:01:18,735 --> 00:01:22,905 I won't refer to country songs that much, but this is from Lubbock, 25 00:01:22,905 --> 00:01:25,635 Texas where Kathy grew up at. 26 00:01:25,635 --> 00:01:31,335 Uh, it's hard to be humble and, uh, I think it's also hard to be Christian. 27 00:01:31,515 --> 00:01:32,115 Amen. 28 00:01:33,134 --> 00:01:36,015 'cause it's hard to be perfect and Jesus was perfect. 29 00:01:36,645 --> 00:01:37,664 Good morning church. 30 00:01:37,845 --> 00:01:39,345 I'm so glad you're here. 31 00:01:39,345 --> 00:01:41,265 Turn your Bibles over to Nehemiah. 32 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,009 Not the shortest man in the Bible. 33 00:01:44,009 --> 00:01:44,910 He was a kneehigh. 34 00:01:44,910 --> 00:01:45,750 It's a shoe height. 35 00:01:45,750 --> 00:01:46,890 That was the smallest. 36 00:01:47,070 --> 00:01:50,400 And so, uh, uh, he had a little bit going for him there. 37 00:01:50,460 --> 00:01:51,000 Amen. 38 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:51,150 Amen. 39 00:01:51,990 --> 00:01:54,090 You guys gotta lighten up. 40 00:01:55,259 --> 00:01:55,590 All right. 41 00:01:55,979 --> 00:01:57,960 See, sometimes I test you. 42 00:01:58,289 --> 00:01:58,920 All right. 43 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:01,950 To see if you're, uh, in a, in a happy mood. 44 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:08,460 But, uh, we're going to start this series today on Nehemiah, because this 45 00:02:08,460 --> 00:02:10,560 is really where we're at as a church. 46 00:02:11,038 --> 00:02:11,220 Let's go. 47 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,850 The people had come back from exile. 48 00:02:14,910 --> 00:02:18,299 A few of them, they had rebuilt the temple. 49 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:23,519 They had re rebuilt the opportunity to connect with God and to worship. 50 00:02:23,970 --> 00:02:27,660 And so people thought the discipline of God was over. 51 00:02:28,260 --> 00:02:34,380 That finally the burden of, of our, the generations before them 52 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:37,380 that had sinned was released. 53 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:39,420 And in some ways it was. 54 00:02:39,810 --> 00:02:43,380 But God hadn't poured out his full blessing on the people. 55 00:02:43,380 --> 00:02:47,880 He was still letting those exiles that were back in the Promised 56 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,519 Land ghost through some hard times. 57 00:02:51,089 --> 00:02:54,570 And sometimes we only think God's with us when things are 58 00:02:54,570 --> 00:02:57,720 great, but God is always with us. 59 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,549 He's with us when it's tough and when it's good, he's with us when we're 60 00:03:02,549 --> 00:03:05,100 prosperous and we're just squeaking by. 61 00:03:05,670 --> 00:03:05,730 Yeah. 62 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:10,140 And so the exiles feel like we're doing something wrong. 63 00:03:10,950 --> 00:03:15,359 I mean, the marauders are coming in and they're taking all our hard work. 64 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:17,820 They're, they're, they're, they're pillaging us. 65 00:03:18,119 --> 00:03:19,290 We're in danger. 66 00:03:19,290 --> 00:03:23,339 We're always having to look over our shoulder and they thought 67 00:03:23,459 --> 00:03:26,339 there's something wrong because if you read the Old Testament, 68 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:28,920 there's a very simplistic gospel. 69 00:03:29,339 --> 00:03:31,649 They, they missed a lot of the true gospel. 70 00:03:32,595 --> 00:03:36,704 The gospel was, if you're prosperous, then God's blessing you. 71 00:03:36,825 --> 00:03:39,135 If you're not prosperous, God's not blessing you. 72 00:03:39,135 --> 00:03:39,885 He's not with you. 73 00:03:40,095 --> 00:03:41,145 That's not true. 74 00:03:41,775 --> 00:03:43,875 That's not what David said in the Psalms. 75 00:03:43,875 --> 00:03:48,555 That's not what the scriptures say, but they really believed that it 76 00:03:48,555 --> 00:03:50,565 was just black and white like that. 77 00:03:51,345 --> 00:03:51,915 All right. 78 00:03:51,975 --> 00:03:53,019 That is just one or the other. 79 00:03:54,255 --> 00:03:58,364 And we've gotta have a more sophisticated and nuanced faith 80 00:03:58,665 --> 00:04:01,065 that God is always with us. 81 00:04:01,065 --> 00:04:02,055 Can I get Amen? 82 00:04:02,609 --> 00:04:02,899 Amen. 83 00:04:02,924 --> 00:04:03,524 Yes. 84 00:04:03,524 --> 00:04:04,935 God is always with us. 85 00:04:05,535 --> 00:04:08,084 He's been with us when we've been in this place. 86 00:04:08,084 --> 00:04:10,635 He's been with us when we've been in other places. 87 00:04:11,295 --> 00:04:13,005 And I don't know about you, I think. 88 00:04:13,005 --> 00:04:14,565 I think you're like me. 89 00:04:14,805 --> 00:04:17,414 You liked that other place too, didn't you? 90 00:04:17,490 --> 00:04:23,430 Yeah, there were advantages to the bigger and the smaller and to near 91 00:04:23,430 --> 00:04:26,100 the beach and now more inland. 92 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:30,330 I mean, there's all different advantages, all different ways of doing church, 93 00:04:30,630 --> 00:04:35,850 and we will do that and we'll be more sophisticated, but it's really good to 94 00:04:35,850 --> 00:04:38,790 come back together and get your strength. 95 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:45,450 Yeah, it's good to come back together and get fully united, so God can bless you. 96 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,860 But as I thought about this first chapter, I gave an introduction of it at 97 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:54,570 a midweek, but not everyone got to hear it, and I want to go into it more fully. 98 00:04:54,570 --> 00:04:58,409 I only did about five verses before because what's really struck 99 00:04:59,460 --> 00:05:04,230 me is God wants us to repaint. 100 00:05:05,310 --> 00:05:07,050 He wants us to rebuild. 101 00:05:08,219 --> 00:05:13,260 He wants us to put new AstroTurf where the grass is all dead out there. 102 00:05:13,260 --> 00:05:15,360 And we did all right. 103 00:05:15,390 --> 00:05:20,099 He wants us to fill up the dumpster with all the stuff that's been accumulating 104 00:05:20,099 --> 00:05:25,110 year after year after year, and all the closets and all the cubbies around here. 105 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,010 And boy did we throw a bunch of away, bunch of stuff away. 106 00:05:29,159 --> 00:05:31,020 I feel lighter just looking. 107 00:05:31,020 --> 00:05:34,650 I You gotta go up to the fellowship hall, look at that dumpster 108 00:05:34,650 --> 00:05:35,969 and all the stuff that's in it. 109 00:05:36,630 --> 00:05:36,780 All right. 110 00:05:37,034 --> 00:05:44,655 Yeah, but just as the book of Nehemiah doesn't start with rebuilding the wall, 111 00:05:45,015 --> 00:05:52,245 brick by brick, family by family, location by location, gate by gate, it starts 112 00:05:52,245 --> 00:05:55,695 with rebuilding the inside of the people. 113 00:05:55,695 --> 00:05:55,815 Amen. 114 00:05:57,195 --> 00:06:03,315 Rebuilding the heart and the spirit, because we can do all these things, 115 00:06:03,315 --> 00:06:04,680 but if our spirits aren't right. 116 00:06:05,730 --> 00:06:10,470 If we're not doing well on the inside spiritually, then 117 00:06:10,470 --> 00:06:12,030 all the other is in vain. 118 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:14,070 And so I wanna refocus this. 119 00:06:14,070 --> 00:06:15,270 I've been working hard. 120 00:06:15,570 --> 00:06:17,100 All the staff's been working hard. 121 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:18,720 A lot of people have been working hard. 122 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,100 Mike's been working hard. 123 00:06:20,310 --> 00:06:24,600 I mean, the, the, the, the, the sound guys have been working hard. 124 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:29,550 I mean, Stewart's been here, you know, I mean, Phil Bailey's been here 125 00:06:29,550 --> 00:06:30,960 trying to get new lights in here. 126 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,900 I mean, so many people working so hard. 127 00:06:34,260 --> 00:06:36,960 But we're doing it for the right reason. 128 00:06:37,950 --> 00:06:41,280 The reason is to bring glory to God. 129 00:06:42,180 --> 00:06:47,280 The reason is to get God's blessing, be in a position where 130 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:50,520 we get to watch God do his thing. 131 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:55,049 You know why I'm so glad I'm an older Christian? 132 00:06:56,955 --> 00:06:58,935 I'm not old, I'm just older. 133 00:07:00,825 --> 00:07:04,665 Somebody came up with a new term the other day instead of the elderly. 134 00:07:04,935 --> 00:07:06,345 It's the classic. 135 00:07:07,395 --> 00:07:08,475 It's the classic. 136 00:07:09,195 --> 00:07:11,385 Some of us are classic Christians. 137 00:07:11,415 --> 00:07:11,925 All right. 138 00:07:12,615 --> 00:07:16,995 And you know why I'm so glad I'm a classic Christian is because I've 139 00:07:16,995 --> 00:07:24,735 been able for the last 45, almost 50 years to see God do so many things. 140 00:07:24,740 --> 00:07:24,780 Yeah. 141 00:07:25,335 --> 00:07:25,424 Right. 142 00:07:27,104 --> 00:07:34,635 I have lived a charmed, blessed life that really few people have gotten to 143 00:07:35,474 --> 00:07:41,804 live, and we want everybody, everybody we know to be able to live that life. 144 00:07:42,255 --> 00:07:48,224 And so let's, uh, go for it here and get into this. 145 00:07:48,794 --> 00:07:50,895 The theme is rise up and Build. 146 00:07:51,674 --> 00:07:54,705 And that's from, uh, the next chapter. 147 00:07:55,125 --> 00:08:02,055 And, uh, uh, I wanna recommend, always gonna, gonna use my, my education. 148 00:08:02,055 --> 00:08:02,715 Okay? 149 00:08:03,015 --> 00:08:04,515 I'm not gonna dumb it down for you. 150 00:08:04,515 --> 00:08:05,685 This is Orange County. 151 00:08:05,685 --> 00:08:06,135 This is America. 152 00:08:07,125 --> 00:08:12,195 I mean, this is one of the most educated places in the whole world, all right? 153 00:08:12,435 --> 00:08:17,355 And if it goes over your head, there's things that will, you'll, you will get. 154 00:08:17,355 --> 00:08:17,955 All right? 155 00:08:18,015 --> 00:08:21,195 And, and so I don't dumb down my sermons, all right? 156 00:08:21,375 --> 00:08:25,785 I had one sister come up to me one, one Sunday after church sit. 157 00:08:26,025 --> 00:08:28,425 You know, you just give us too much. 158 00:08:29,295 --> 00:08:31,155 I just rather it be simple. 159 00:08:31,995 --> 00:08:36,495 I say, well, we get simple in quiet time every day, right? 160 00:08:36,539 --> 00:08:36,630 Right. 161 00:08:37,770 --> 00:08:42,299 I mean, I want to, I wanna speak to every level when I speak. 162 00:08:42,299 --> 00:08:42,900 All right? 163 00:08:42,929 --> 00:08:47,819 So some of it is gonna be educational, some of it's inspirational. 164 00:08:47,910 --> 00:08:50,699 It's all faith building and it's all God's word. 165 00:08:50,699 --> 00:08:51,569 All right? 166 00:08:51,630 --> 00:08:57,599 But if you wanna do some deeper reading, here's a, uh, some two books you can read. 167 00:08:57,870 --> 00:09:03,510 Edwin uh, Friedman wrote a book, failure of Nerve and Generation Generation. 168 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:09,240 First it's about systems theory and then it's about, uh, systems 169 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:10,920 theory applied to the church. 170 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,720 And a guy named Stanky took his work and has really, uh, done a lot of 171 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:21,600 research, but I introduced this fellow to you because he, uh, thinks that our 172 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,460 world is deteriorating, and he applied it just to the Western civilization. 173 00:09:26,460 --> 00:09:26,805 I think it's. 174 00:09:27,405 --> 00:09:28,755 The whole civilization. 175 00:09:28,785 --> 00:09:29,415 Alright. 176 00:09:29,505 --> 00:09:30,945 I think it's the whole world. 177 00:09:31,065 --> 00:09:35,895 But he said, especially characteristics of systems that fail, churches 178 00:09:35,895 --> 00:09:37,305 that fail, families that fail. 179 00:09:37,305 --> 00:09:40,395 Businesses that fail, it's reactivity. 180 00:09:41,865 --> 00:09:44,415 And so a lot of times people say, you gotta do something. 181 00:09:45,135 --> 00:09:46,275 We gotta fix this. 182 00:09:47,265 --> 00:09:47,985 No, we don't. 183 00:09:49,215 --> 00:09:49,750 No, we don't. 184 00:09:51,495 --> 00:09:53,955 I know as a parent of teenager, I was very reactive. 185 00:09:55,230 --> 00:09:57,810 You know, oh no, the sky just fell. 186 00:10:00,750 --> 00:10:01,860 Don't be reactive. 187 00:10:03,030 --> 00:10:06,750 When I'm reactive, usually I've sinned and usually I have to 188 00:10:06,930 --> 00:10:08,760 confess my sin and apologize. 189 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:12,720 I've been reactive a little bit this week 'cause we've been working hard 190 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,720 and we've, you know, when you get tired, you're not your best self. 191 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,000 I got tired long before I went home and Kathy wasn't here 192 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,980 to say, Greg, just go to bed. 193 00:10:25,079 --> 00:10:31,260 She, she knows when I'm at that point and, and, and now I've told the brothers. 194 00:10:31,260 --> 00:10:34,020 So they'll just say that, that's gonna become a joke around it. 195 00:10:34,020 --> 00:10:37,230 Greg, just go to bed now. 196 00:10:37,230 --> 00:10:38,040 I have an office. 197 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:39,300 I have a couch up there. 198 00:10:40,079 --> 00:10:41,310 Just say it differently. 199 00:10:41,430 --> 00:10:42,240 Go take a nap. 200 00:10:42,870 --> 00:10:43,199 All right. 201 00:10:43,709 --> 00:10:44,219 All right. 202 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:52,140 But reactivity anger, I've had people mad at me this week. 203 00:10:53,189 --> 00:10:54,360 I won't mention your names. 204 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:55,410 I won't even look at you. 205 00:10:55,439 --> 00:10:58,079 'cause when I look at you, you think I'm talking about you. 206 00:10:58,260 --> 00:11:01,260 And I had to tell one of the brothers, I can't see past the second row. 207 00:11:01,260 --> 00:11:02,790 Don't go where I'm not going. 208 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:03,689 All right, 209 00:11:05,699 --> 00:11:05,849 come on. 210 00:11:06,839 --> 00:11:11,760 And I've gotten mad at some people, you know, because we've 211 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,339 worked hard for a good reason. 212 00:11:14,819 --> 00:11:16,949 Low emotional resistance. 213 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:19,050 Does that remind you of yourself? 214 00:11:19,050 --> 00:11:20,189 I mean, of anybody. 215 00:11:20,819 --> 00:11:21,089 Okay. 216 00:11:22,305 --> 00:11:28,515 Blame shifting, instant gratification and the big one, anxiety. 217 00:11:30,104 --> 00:11:33,285 Let's not let these things be a part of our culture. 218 00:11:33,405 --> 00:11:33,854 Amen. 219 00:11:35,535 --> 00:11:39,314 Let's, let's give a lot of grace and let's extend a lot of mercy, 220 00:11:39,555 --> 00:11:41,265 and let's try to check ourselves. 221 00:11:41,609 --> 00:11:44,564 So these six things are not a part of our system. 222 00:11:45,765 --> 00:11:47,175 Now, getting to Nehemiah. 223 00:11:47,820 --> 00:11:51,900 I wanna give you a little bit of preview of all the, the chapters 224 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:54,000 that are coming in the weeks ahead. 225 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:57,840 But it talks about the remnant of God, the, the, the, the people 226 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,030 of God that are in the land. 227 00:12:00,090 --> 00:12:03,690 The few that have come back from, from exile, from Babylon, the few 228 00:12:03,690 --> 00:12:07,650 that stayed there, and it says the remnant rebuilds the wall. 229 00:12:07,710 --> 00:12:09,000 And how did they do it? 230 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,710 Side by side. 231 00:12:11,370 --> 00:12:11,965 Through family. 232 00:12:12,315 --> 00:12:12,605 Yeah. 233 00:12:14,475 --> 00:12:20,235 Nehemiah knew if you're fighting for your family, you'll fight harder. 234 00:12:22,065 --> 00:12:26,565 That if you're trying to build that section, you're gonna build 235 00:12:26,565 --> 00:12:29,055 it the very best way that you can. 236 00:12:29,145 --> 00:12:34,155 And so you know what portion of the wall God gave to each person? 237 00:12:34,455 --> 00:12:40,095 Their house was right next to the wall or even built into the wall, and so 238 00:12:40,125 --> 00:12:42,105 they didn't do shabby, shabby work. 239 00:12:43,125 --> 00:12:44,295 Shabby or shabby. 240 00:12:44,505 --> 00:12:44,985 Alright. 241 00:12:45,975 --> 00:12:50,625 They did great working excellent work because that was protecting 242 00:12:50,625 --> 00:12:52,785 them and their family. 243 00:12:52,935 --> 00:12:57,824 This church, we need to build it in a way that protects us and our family. 244 00:12:57,824 --> 00:12:59,175 Can it get amen there? 245 00:12:59,415 --> 00:13:00,645 All right, something else. 246 00:13:00,645 --> 00:13:06,765 We're gonna see the remnant rebuilds of the wall while they were being persecuted. 247 00:13:07,155 --> 00:13:12,210 The hardship came one curve after another, one challenge after another. 248 00:13:13,485 --> 00:13:17,925 And we faced that this week in a physical way, trying to get this building ready. 249 00:13:18,735 --> 00:13:21,345 But we're always gonna face it in a spiritual way. 250 00:13:21,675 --> 00:13:25,365 Nothing ever goes perfectly right. 251 00:13:25,455 --> 00:13:25,665 Never does. 252 00:13:26,565 --> 00:13:34,305 You know, my hair's never exactly the way I want it, you know? 253 00:13:35,115 --> 00:13:36,885 And you and I, you learned years ago. 254 00:13:36,885 --> 00:13:40,695 The older you get, there's about three things that keep growing. 255 00:13:41,670 --> 00:13:46,860 Your nose, your ears, and especially your eyebrows. 256 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,510 Now you're gonna stare at my nose and ear and eyebrows. 257 00:13:51,690 --> 00:13:51,930 Alright? 258 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,030 But I look in the mirror and I'm like, is that what I look like? 259 00:13:58,290 --> 00:13:59,820 I haven't always looked this way. 260 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,010 I looked better. 261 00:14:04,740 --> 00:14:07,500 I need a nose job now. 262 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:08,640 I'm not getting one. 263 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:09,360 You know? 264 00:14:10,305 --> 00:14:12,225 But you know how that goes. 265 00:14:13,155 --> 00:14:15,225 Nothing ever is perfect. 266 00:14:16,035 --> 00:14:21,135 I remember when I bought my first new car, they were all used, but when I 267 00:14:21,135 --> 00:14:25,035 went to the dealership, you know, they didn't have that exact one I wanted. 268 00:14:25,035 --> 00:14:29,745 With all the right options and the right color, the right interior, right exterior, 269 00:14:29,925 --> 00:14:31,665 the right chrome, the right wheels. 270 00:14:33,555 --> 00:14:35,535 Why didn't they make one just for me? 271 00:14:37,275 --> 00:14:37,845 They don't. 272 00:14:38,670 --> 00:14:40,350 I've never lived in a perfect house. 273 00:14:40,470 --> 00:14:42,390 I think we've owned 10 houses. 274 00:14:43,380 --> 00:14:46,230 There was something wrong with every one of 'em, and there was a 275 00:14:46,230 --> 00:14:48,060 lot right with every one of 'em. 276 00:14:48,660 --> 00:14:53,430 And you can focus on what's right or you can focus on that little defect. 277 00:14:53,490 --> 00:14:55,560 You know, this is the thing about marriage. 278 00:14:56,310 --> 00:14:58,350 You're not gonna find the perfect spouse. 279 00:14:58,350 --> 00:14:58,560 Now. 280 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,740 I have, but you are not going to All right. 281 00:15:01,890 --> 00:15:02,100 Right. 282 00:15:04,110 --> 00:15:05,819 She's taken all right. 283 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:07,350 She's off the market. 284 00:15:07,725 --> 00:15:08,475 Right. 285 00:15:10,935 --> 00:15:11,715 Let's keep going. 286 00:15:15,194 --> 00:15:19,665 The remnant rebuilds the wall while rebuilding their faith. 287 00:15:21,855 --> 00:15:27,525 The remnant rebuilds the wall and the nation of Jews, they'd been scattered. 288 00:15:28,485 --> 00:15:31,755 This, this, this book calls the people back together. 289 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:38,069 I want this to be a church where every one of our friends or family or or neighbors 290 00:15:38,219 --> 00:15:44,459 that have visited come back and, and guys, there's been so many more people come 291 00:15:44,459 --> 00:15:46,199 through this church than you realize. 292 00:15:46,890 --> 00:15:50,280 I worked for a guy who is my supervisor. 293 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,359 When I was getting trained as a counselor, he'd been to the, the church I was 294 00:15:54,359 --> 00:15:58,859 leading in Antelope Valley before, not before I was there, but he'd been to it. 295 00:15:59,685 --> 00:16:01,245 He said, what church do you lead? 296 00:16:01,245 --> 00:16:01,725 Greg? 297 00:16:02,564 --> 00:16:03,795 The Ammo Valley Church. 298 00:16:04,425 --> 00:16:05,355 Oh, I think I've been there. 299 00:16:05,355 --> 00:16:06,585 Tell me where it's at. 300 00:16:06,824 --> 00:16:07,845 And I gave him the address. 301 00:16:07,845 --> 00:16:10,395 He goes, oh, that's the one out in the desert, isn't it? 302 00:16:10,515 --> 00:16:13,245 I go, yeah, that's not very flattering, right? 303 00:16:14,535 --> 00:16:18,285 That's the one that when you go inside, looks like an airplane hangar, right? 304 00:16:19,689 --> 00:16:19,910 Go. 305 00:16:20,010 --> 00:16:20,230 No. 306 00:16:21,105 --> 00:16:21,585 Oh yeah. 307 00:16:21,585 --> 00:16:25,935 It's got really high ceilings and it's dark and Yeah, it looked like, to me 308 00:16:25,935 --> 00:16:27,195 it looked like an airplane hanger. 309 00:16:27,225 --> 00:16:29,985 Well, it doesn't look like an airplane hanger to me, Stan, 310 00:16:32,205 --> 00:16:34,335 but we make multipurpose rooms, right? 311 00:16:35,985 --> 00:16:37,905 We, we, we make a multifunctional. 312 00:16:37,905 --> 00:16:42,765 He was, wait, he wanted to see, see a stapel, a a steeple 313 00:16:42,765 --> 00:16:44,295 and, and stained glass. 314 00:16:44,295 --> 00:16:46,665 He, he didn't like this big open thing. 315 00:16:47,235 --> 00:16:47,805 I do. 316 00:16:48,915 --> 00:16:49,965 I think you do too. 317 00:16:49,965 --> 00:16:50,445 Amen. 318 00:16:51,210 --> 00:16:54,660 The remnant rebuilds the wall in record time. 319 00:16:54,990 --> 00:16:55,470 Why? 320 00:16:55,770 --> 00:16:57,060 Because they were unified. 321 00:16:57,810 --> 00:17:00,360 There was so much work done yesterday. 322 00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:05,460 When I got here in the morning, I just thought, we're never gonna get there. 323 00:17:07,108 --> 00:17:08,220 It's not gonna happen. 324 00:17:08,790 --> 00:17:12,329 I walked around and I tried to put on a happy face, 325 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,368 but I thought, we're not gonna get there. 326 00:17:17,848 --> 00:17:19,990 And then every once in a while, I came outside and I. 327 00:17:20,954 --> 00:17:22,753 Where did all this stuff come from? 328 00:17:24,044 --> 00:17:28,034 And then I go in the back and I guess we'd emptied the storage container. 329 00:17:28,034 --> 00:17:31,845 And I thought, we don't have anybody to do anything with all this. 330 00:17:32,715 --> 00:17:37,365 And last night when I drove away about six o'clock, I drove down there and I 331 00:17:37,365 --> 00:17:40,605 thought somebody did a lot of something. 332 00:17:41,715 --> 00:17:42,855 'cause all that's gone. 333 00:17:45,465 --> 00:17:49,125 I mean, you can do so much when you're unified. 334 00:17:49,125 --> 00:17:49,574 Amen. 335 00:17:49,650 --> 00:17:53,760 Yeah, the remnant rebuilds the wall, and this is the, a good 336 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,670 one with the funds of others, 337 00:17:59,910 --> 00:18:02,790 their captors paid for all this. 338 00:18:03,390 --> 00:18:04,080 All right. 339 00:18:04,860 --> 00:18:09,840 Now, why should we do an OC cleanup so that others would help? 340 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,310 Fun things. 341 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:14,100 I'm not as dumb as I look, right. 342 00:18:16,980 --> 00:18:20,820 The remnant rebuilds the wall to renew their dream. 343 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:24,990 I don't know about you, but a lot of dreams I've had and spiritually 344 00:18:24,990 --> 00:18:28,020 have come true, and a lot of dreams I've had have been shattered. 345 00:18:30,510 --> 00:18:33,149 And I'm, I'm in the business of reaming. 346 00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:38,760 I don't know about you, but it's good to ream and, and just 347 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,530 like Ron said at the beginning. 348 00:18:41,325 --> 00:18:44,175 God always takes us on a different course. 349 00:18:44,325 --> 00:18:46,815 We, we, we plan a straight line. 350 00:18:47,775 --> 00:18:49,965 If you look at a map, there's no straight lines. 351 00:18:50,985 --> 00:18:54,345 They go around hills and they go through valleys. 352 00:18:54,345 --> 00:18:55,665 There's no straight lines. 353 00:18:55,935 --> 00:18:57,465 We'd like straight lines. 354 00:18:58,425 --> 00:19:03,675 All right, but we've gotta go on the course that God wants us to go. 355 00:19:03,975 --> 00:19:04,845 Let's keep going. 356 00:19:05,685 --> 00:19:06,405 The remnant. 357 00:19:07,005 --> 00:19:07,425 Amen. 358 00:19:08,219 --> 00:19:11,159 Let's get into the verses, Nehemiah one, one, and two. 359 00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:12,899 The words of Nehemiah's. 360 00:19:12,899 --> 00:19:14,340 Son of Hala. 361 00:19:14,580 --> 00:19:18,419 In the month of Keli in the 20th year, when I was in the Citadel of 362 00:19:18,419 --> 00:19:22,290 Susan Hananiah, one of my brothers came from Judah with some other 363 00:19:22,290 --> 00:19:26,219 man, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant, that it survived 364 00:19:26,219 --> 00:19:28,709 the exile, and also about Jerusalem. 365 00:19:28,889 --> 00:19:34,110 Every Jew throughout the dispersion all around the world always wanted 366 00:19:34,110 --> 00:19:37,169 to do, have news about Jerusalem. 367 00:19:38,415 --> 00:19:39,705 How's Jerusalem doing? 368 00:19:39,764 --> 00:19:41,175 How's the church doing? 369 00:19:42,855 --> 00:19:47,324 How's the place that God meets his people doing? 370 00:19:49,274 --> 00:19:50,445 He wanted the news. 371 00:19:51,945 --> 00:19:53,715 Sometimes I like watching the news. 372 00:19:53,955 --> 00:19:57,645 Most of the time I don't want the news, you know? 373 00:19:57,705 --> 00:19:59,264 Especially before I go to sleep. 374 00:19:59,294 --> 00:20:00,855 'cause I don't want to have nightmares. 375 00:20:00,885 --> 00:20:01,245 Right? 376 00:20:02,504 --> 00:20:03,945 But he wanted the news. 377 00:20:06,435 --> 00:20:10,215 He asks about the remnant and I've, we've said some things 378 00:20:10,215 --> 00:20:11,355 already about the remnant. 379 00:20:11,355 --> 00:20:12,855 Let me just hit these things again. 380 00:20:12,855 --> 00:20:15,645 God builds through the faithful remnant. 381 00:20:15,765 --> 00:20:20,115 The remnant are the, continue those that continue to remain obedient, faithful. 382 00:20:20,685 --> 00:20:24,675 Keep on keeping on the remnants is righteous. 383 00:20:24,675 --> 00:20:26,775 Even in hardship, they confess their sin. 384 00:20:26,775 --> 00:20:28,335 We're gonna see that in this chapter. 385 00:20:28,545 --> 00:20:29,985 Claim the power of promises. 386 00:20:29,985 --> 00:20:31,605 God, we're gonna see that in this chapter. 387 00:20:31,605 --> 00:20:36,735 The remnant rise up and build in every generation the remnant will experience. 388 00:20:36,735 --> 00:20:40,665 Here it is the supernatural acts of God. 389 00:20:41,685 --> 00:20:42,795 That's what I'm talking about. 390 00:20:42,975 --> 00:20:44,715 The remnant survives. 391 00:20:45,060 --> 00:20:46,170 The challenges? 392 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:47,220 Yes, indeed. 393 00:20:47,730 --> 00:20:52,379 We who persevere are part of the remnant of God. 394 00:20:53,340 --> 00:20:56,430 When you read about the remnant, you always ask yourself, is it me? 395 00:20:59,070 --> 00:20:59,970 Am I a part of it? 396 00:21:00,510 --> 00:21:01,950 Let me just answer that for you. 397 00:21:02,460 --> 00:21:07,170 If you're obedient and you're faithful and you're just trying 398 00:21:07,290 --> 00:21:09,000 not, you don't have to be perfect. 399 00:21:09,615 --> 00:21:12,195 You don't even have to be necessarily going forward. 400 00:21:13,095 --> 00:21:14,985 You're just hanging in there. 401 00:21:14,985 --> 00:21:18,075 You can be crawling, you can even be stepping back, but you're 402 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:19,455 headed the right direction. 403 00:21:19,875 --> 00:21:21,075 You're part of the remnant. 404 00:21:21,075 --> 00:21:21,195 Amen. 405 00:21:22,395 --> 00:21:26,025 I, I'm just anointing all of you, a part of the remnant. 406 00:21:26,025 --> 00:21:29,685 So all this that we read about in Nehemiah applies to all of us. 407 00:21:29,685 --> 00:21:30,675 Can I get amen? 408 00:21:30,820 --> 00:21:31,110 Amen. 409 00:21:31,245 --> 00:21:32,535 All right, let's keep going. 410 00:21:32,535 --> 00:21:33,405 Verse three. 411 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,030 They said to me, those who survived the XL and are back in the province 412 00:21:39,030 --> 00:21:40,860 are in great trouble and disgrace. 413 00:21:41,070 --> 00:21:45,030 The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, the gates are burned with fire. 414 00:21:45,090 --> 00:21:48,330 And when I heard these things, I got mad. 415 00:21:49,980 --> 00:21:55,050 You know, according to Kubler Ross, that's the first response to change 416 00:21:55,110 --> 00:21:57,420 and to loss and to disappointment. 417 00:21:58,590 --> 00:21:59,460 We get mad. 418 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,730 But you know what Nehemiah did? 419 00:22:03,255 --> 00:22:04,155 He got sad. 420 00:22:05,655 --> 00:22:06,825 He got broken hearted. 421 00:22:07,755 --> 00:22:09,855 It says he sat down and he wept. 422 00:22:10,305 --> 00:22:16,065 For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. 423 00:22:17,085 --> 00:22:24,705 You know, he just jumped all the steps and he was at the fourth step. 424 00:22:25,515 --> 00:22:26,715 Sadness, depression. 425 00:22:27,645 --> 00:22:31,725 Most of us start with denial, and then anger's the second step. 426 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,220 And then we start bargaining with God and then it sinks in. 427 00:22:38,310 --> 00:22:43,080 This is the way it is, and we get depressed and then we accept 428 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,760 it and we gotta deal with it. 429 00:22:46,290 --> 00:22:49,770 So when he heard this bad news, he got sad. 430 00:22:50,670 --> 00:22:55,800 Some of us are at different stages in our spiritual life with some 431 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,570 of our disappointment with God. 432 00:22:58,530 --> 00:22:59,850 Some of us are mad. 433 00:23:00,735 --> 00:23:05,865 I hope you get glad, but I know that takes time and that's just one 434 00:23:05,865 --> 00:23:07,305 stage and you gotta go through it. 435 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:14,955 So we'll try to be patient with each other when we're mad and when we're in denial. 436 00:23:16,274 --> 00:23:19,274 I mean, others can usually see our problems before we see 'em. 437 00:23:19,274 --> 00:23:19,754 Right? 438 00:23:21,675 --> 00:23:23,895 You know, we talk about blind spots. 439 00:23:24,915 --> 00:23:27,555 Some of us have a little bit bigger blind spots. 440 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,240 But that's okay. 441 00:23:30,570 --> 00:23:31,440 We'll work with you. 442 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,760 And then some of us, we're in our, that this part of our 443 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:36,900 prayer life we're bargaining. 444 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:38,730 God, if you'll do this, I'll do that. 445 00:23:41,820 --> 00:23:45,780 Somebody that's gonna remain nameless, wanted to bargain doing 446 00:23:45,780 --> 00:23:47,340 some of the work around here. 447 00:23:48,750 --> 00:23:52,350 You know, I don't wanna be too specific 'cause they worked. 448 00:23:52,410 --> 00:23:55,200 So I don't, I, I don't wanna discourage 'em. 449 00:23:57,014 --> 00:24:02,955 They talked about maybe getting paid, and I wanted to say something, 450 00:24:02,955 --> 00:24:04,064 but I just kept my mouth shut. 451 00:24:04,095 --> 00:24:05,865 They're just in the bargaining phase. 452 00:24:05,925 --> 00:24:06,314 All right. 453 00:24:07,514 --> 00:24:08,625 I did say this. 454 00:24:08,685 --> 00:24:10,425 I wouldn't say that to God. 455 00:24:11,745 --> 00:24:13,605 God doesn't usually bargain with us. 456 00:24:14,294 --> 00:24:20,145 It's his way, and then we get sad, but here's how God's 457 00:24:20,145 --> 00:24:22,365 people respond to bad news. 458 00:24:22,905 --> 00:24:23,504 We weep. 459 00:24:25,275 --> 00:24:26,145 What, Greg? 460 00:24:26,205 --> 00:24:28,425 I'm not a crybaby. 461 00:24:29,325 --> 00:24:30,075 I'm a man. 462 00:24:31,065 --> 00:24:34,515 I mean, look at me big man. 463 00:24:37,305 --> 00:24:37,845 I day. 464 00:24:37,845 --> 00:24:40,750 Children are so straightforward. 465 00:24:42,250 --> 00:24:46,365 My little, my little granddaughter, four years old. 466 00:24:47,385 --> 00:24:51,945 Just this last week, she said, Papa, you're big. 467 00:24:55,395 --> 00:24:59,685 And then her dad jumped in, decided he wanted to change the subject, you 468 00:24:59,685 --> 00:25:02,564 know, well, well, well, daddy's big too. 469 00:25:02,625 --> 00:25:05,354 No, you're not big like papa's big. 470 00:25:06,739 --> 00:25:06,760 Okay. 471 00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:07,159 Okay. 472 00:25:07,395 --> 00:25:09,705 And he goes, well, I'm taller than Papa. 473 00:25:09,764 --> 00:25:11,925 I'm not talking about tall dad. 474 00:25:16,219 --> 00:25:17,715 And I don't know what else she said. 475 00:25:17,715 --> 00:25:19,455 I left the room right. 476 00:25:22,125 --> 00:25:23,835 We need to have broken hearts. 477 00:25:24,405 --> 00:25:25,725 We need to have soft hearts. 478 00:25:25,725 --> 00:25:30,765 We need to have good hearts and hearts that are touched and empathetic. 479 00:25:31,545 --> 00:25:32,955 The walls were broken down. 480 00:25:32,955 --> 00:25:34,065 There was no safety. 481 00:25:34,095 --> 00:25:36,975 The enemies could attack anytime the gates were burned. 482 00:25:36,975 --> 00:25:38,655 There was no security pe. 483 00:25:38,805 --> 00:25:42,435 The marauders could come in at night and do their thing. 484 00:25:42,465 --> 00:25:43,695 The remnant was in trouble. 485 00:25:43,695 --> 00:25:44,895 There was no protection. 486 00:25:45,075 --> 00:25:46,755 The exiles were in disgrace. 487 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:49,200 That's probably the worst thing that was going on in the land. 488 00:25:50,129 --> 00:25:52,770 And then what does it mean for us? 489 00:25:53,399 --> 00:25:55,860 We need to have a weeping soul. 490 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,910 Get over your madness, get over your sadness. 491 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:07,470 Just have a soft heart and weep over the loved ones whose faith are shaken. 492 00:26:10,590 --> 00:26:16,260 Boy, when our kids went on their spiritual journey and didn't just follow us in step. 493 00:26:16,755 --> 00:26:21,405 Have, has any children ever followed their parents in step? 494 00:26:22,755 --> 00:26:27,135 I mean, I think we had a little bit of unrealistic expectations. 495 00:26:28,425 --> 00:26:30,645 Come on, kids be just like us. 496 00:26:31,365 --> 00:26:34,695 Follow us, follow the things we believed. 497 00:26:35,415 --> 00:26:38,535 You know, everyone's gotta go on their own journey. 498 00:26:39,405 --> 00:26:44,955 And when our kids started going on our journey, oh, it hurt and we wept. 499 00:26:45,899 --> 00:26:47,520 And we wept for years. 500 00:26:48,810 --> 00:26:50,820 You know, there's things to weep about. 501 00:26:51,149 --> 00:26:57,330 When friends that you love so much, take a different path, it hurts. 502 00:26:59,160 --> 00:26:59,550 You know? 503 00:26:59,550 --> 00:27:03,540 I told one brother, I want you to be a best friend. 504 00:27:04,230 --> 00:27:05,520 That scared him to death. 505 00:27:05,550 --> 00:27:08,700 He never started initiating anymore. 506 00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:12,840 He became best friends with other people who wants to be 507 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,370 best friends with a minister. 508 00:27:17,625 --> 00:27:21,705 You know, I try not to be one of those guys that's self-righteous and people 509 00:27:21,705 --> 00:27:23,415 feel like they're judged around me. 510 00:27:23,415 --> 00:27:27,405 But boy, that was the worst thing I could have said to him, 511 00:27:28,155 --> 00:27:29,505 you wanna be your best friend. 512 00:27:30,165 --> 00:27:34,635 He'd have been a friend, but he won a little distance from the preacher. 513 00:27:34,815 --> 00:27:35,175 Right. 514 00:27:37,365 --> 00:27:41,115 Thank you friends that will get close to me. 515 00:27:41,115 --> 00:27:42,495 There's a few of you I've told you. 516 00:27:43,140 --> 00:27:46,080 But I haven't said best friend 'cause I don't wanna scare you off. 517 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:46,350 Right. 518 00:27:49,230 --> 00:27:51,180 The gates were burned with fire. 519 00:27:52,860 --> 00:27:56,640 We need to weep over the discipline that God dispenses. 520 00:27:59,070 --> 00:28:03,090 I mean, there's a lot of psalms that are, they're all about lament 521 00:28:03,090 --> 00:28:07,860 and weeping because the people are in exile and they're crying, says 522 00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:08,905 they will go down to the river. 523 00:28:09,615 --> 00:28:13,935 And that's where they would write these laments and these songs and sing these 524 00:28:13,935 --> 00:28:16,785 songs because they were being oppressed. 525 00:28:17,895 --> 00:28:20,655 You know, it hurts when God's disciplined, but he only does 526 00:28:20,655 --> 00:28:22,095 because you're a son or daughter. 527 00:28:24,135 --> 00:28:27,855 Just push through, we'll help you weep over the danger 528 00:28:27,855 --> 00:28:29,655 we face in a hostile world. 529 00:28:31,095 --> 00:28:35,325 You know, I'm glad we have World War III hasn't started. 530 00:28:36,570 --> 00:28:40,320 But think about our brothers and sisters during World War I and World War II 531 00:28:41,550 --> 00:28:45,810 and a lot's going on in the world right now, and it's always a little bit scary. 532 00:28:45,899 --> 00:28:51,659 There's a lot to just let go of, weep over the reputation 533 00:28:51,659 --> 00:28:53,100 of Christianity in the world. 534 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:58,115 This is one that breaks my heart, just broken my heart that when I was 535 00:28:58,169 --> 00:28:59,850 a college student, it was all right. 536 00:28:59,850 --> 00:29:01,860 It was cool to be a CA Christian. 537 00:29:01,860 --> 00:29:04,980 Now it's really not as cool. 538 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,950 There's things to whip about. 539 00:29:11,670 --> 00:29:18,060 Why do we need to weep the, because tears purge the soul and 540 00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:20,190 keep the hardness from happening. 541 00:29:23,370 --> 00:29:26,399 You've heard about cresty old men, haven't you? 542 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,340 They let themselves get hard. 543 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,040 Your body gets stiffer. 544 00:29:32,940 --> 00:29:33,990 Please do me a favor. 545 00:29:33,990 --> 00:29:35,160 This is a commercial. 546 00:29:36,390 --> 00:29:37,920 I can't bend over very well. 547 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,780 If you see any trash, pick it up. 548 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,760 I'll want to, but if I go down, I'm afraid I won't get back up. 549 00:29:45,750 --> 00:29:46,830 So do me a favor. 550 00:29:46,890 --> 00:29:47,220 All right. 551 00:29:47,430 --> 00:29:51,000 And even this morning, I went up and snuck up to see the Korean 552 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,390 service and the Spanish service, and I saw a few things on the ground 553 00:29:54,450 --> 00:29:56,550 and oh, I wanted to pick 'em up. 554 00:29:57,510 --> 00:29:58,170 Do it for me. 555 00:29:58,170 --> 00:30:01,770 Will you, Moses Is, is gone. 556 00:30:02,219 --> 00:30:04,409 His mother's ill. 557 00:30:04,409 --> 00:30:06,330 So he wasn't able to do all that. 558 00:30:06,389 --> 00:30:08,250 He keeps this place spotless. 559 00:30:08,250 --> 00:30:09,659 He works so hard. 560 00:30:09,780 --> 00:30:11,760 He's here at all hours. 561 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:12,629 He's awesome. 562 00:30:13,110 --> 00:30:13,740 Guys. 563 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:16,770 Let's treat this like the house of God. 564 00:30:16,770 --> 00:30:17,340 Amen. 565 00:30:17,969 --> 00:30:18,840 Going a little quicker. 566 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:25,290 Now we, the reason we need to just weep sometimes is because you can 567 00:30:25,290 --> 00:30:28,229 get moving too fast and miss it. 568 00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:30,690 You gotta stay in touch, you gotta stop. 569 00:30:30,690 --> 00:30:33,120 You gotta have a Sabbath, you gotta listen to God. 570 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:36,659 You gotta sit in Shiva with people that, that are hurting. 571 00:30:36,990 --> 00:30:38,940 Don't avoid those people that are hurting. 572 00:30:38,940 --> 00:30:40,560 They'll help soften your heart. 573 00:30:41,310 --> 00:30:45,930 You also need to stop and weep at times so you'll be more spiritual. 574 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,680 'cause that's sometimes when God speaks to us. 575 00:30:51,270 --> 00:30:54,600 I've learned the best lessons spiritually I've ever learned, when I've been 576 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,270 hurting, when everything's going well. 577 00:30:58,020 --> 00:30:59,700 Sometimes, what do you get? 578 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:00,300 Prideful. 579 00:31:01,710 --> 00:31:04,170 I get prideful when things are going well. 580 00:31:04,770 --> 00:31:07,440 It's when I need to change. 581 00:31:07,530 --> 00:31:10,740 That's when I really learned a lot prayer. 582 00:31:11,340 --> 00:31:14,760 This whole chapter's about prayer, Nehemiah's prayer. 583 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,830 And why did he start off with prayer? 584 00:31:16,830 --> 00:31:18,600 Because it renews our faith. 585 00:31:18,630 --> 00:31:22,800 It enlightens our minds, it soothes our hearts, and I could have just kept 586 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,670 going, and it helps you dream again. 587 00:31:26,910 --> 00:31:27,360 It just. 588 00:31:27,870 --> 00:31:29,160 Takes the weight off. 589 00:31:29,250 --> 00:31:29,910 On and on. 590 00:31:29,910 --> 00:31:31,500 Prayer is the thing to be doing. 591 00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:34,770 Verse five, then I said, Lord, the God of heaven, the great and 592 00:31:34,770 --> 00:31:39,270 awesome God who keeps his covenant of love and to those who love him 593 00:31:39,420 --> 00:31:42,300 and keep his command, do we love him? 594 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:42,840 Yes. 595 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,280 And guess what? 596 00:31:44,310 --> 00:31:46,695 If you love him, God loves you back. 597 00:31:49,165 --> 00:31:52,350 And I don't say that very often because God loves you first. 598 00:31:52,545 --> 00:31:57,795 Yeah, he's loved us first, and so we need to be the ones that love him back. 599 00:31:57,825 --> 00:32:01,815 But when we love him back, then he loves us back, and then we love him back and he 600 00:32:01,815 --> 00:32:07,515 loves us back, and it just keeps spiraling up and there's just love all at work. 601 00:32:07,515 --> 00:32:09,735 And it's just going and going and going and going. 602 00:32:10,815 --> 00:32:13,215 And then nothing seems as bad when you're in love. 603 00:32:14,625 --> 00:32:15,495 Right? 604 00:32:15,495 --> 00:32:15,505 Yeah. 605 00:32:17,025 --> 00:32:21,405 And when you're in love, whatever, you know. 606 00:32:22,605 --> 00:32:23,804 Greg, you got cancer. 607 00:32:23,865 --> 00:32:24,675 Whatever. 608 00:32:25,784 --> 00:32:26,715 I got Kathy. 609 00:32:27,915 --> 00:32:28,274 You know. 610 00:32:30,074 --> 00:32:32,445 Hey Greg, you got a bad heart. 611 00:32:33,495 --> 00:32:35,264 Not spiritually, but physically. 612 00:32:35,264 --> 00:32:37,754 Yes, but I also have Kathy. 613 00:32:40,004 --> 00:32:41,685 It's all the way you look at things. 614 00:32:41,685 --> 00:32:42,165 Amen. 615 00:32:42,435 --> 00:32:42,675 Amen. 616 00:32:43,845 --> 00:32:50,264 It is so good to be in love with God and you know the Ocean's Church. 617 00:32:51,090 --> 00:32:53,730 Showed us the potential of this building than me. 618 00:32:54,840 --> 00:33:00,330 They had three services on Sunday morning at eight o'clock, nine 30, and 11. 619 00:33:01,379 --> 00:33:02,610 That's one of my goals. 620 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,180 Now, don't run away from me like my friends do when I say these crazy things. 621 00:33:10,485 --> 00:33:16,800 But I look forward to three services here, maybe five in a weekend on 622 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,180 Saturday night and Sunday night too. 623 00:33:19,784 --> 00:33:20,985 Greg, slow down. 624 00:33:20,985 --> 00:33:21,825 Slow down. 625 00:33:23,145 --> 00:33:24,764 Why do I think this way though? 626 00:33:24,825 --> 00:33:28,274 Because we have a great and awesome and faithful God. 627 00:33:28,905 --> 00:33:31,875 A great God that's powerful with unlimited resources. 628 00:33:31,875 --> 00:33:35,504 An awesome, phenomenal God that deserves all the worship and recognition. 629 00:33:35,925 --> 00:33:40,275 That the whole world should be giving him in a faithful God that his covenant 630 00:33:40,275 --> 00:33:42,495 and his promises always come true. 631 00:33:42,705 --> 00:33:47,265 In verse six, let your be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer. 632 00:33:47,265 --> 00:33:51,705 Your servant is praying before you this day and night for all the other 633 00:33:51,705 --> 00:33:53,415 servants, for the people of God. 634 00:33:53,565 --> 00:33:58,725 I confess the sins of the Israelites, including myself and my family 635 00:33:59,115 --> 00:34:01,215 that I have committed against you. 636 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,750 Oh no, Greg. 637 00:34:04,020 --> 00:34:08,670 Are we going back to the old days where all the preacher would say is prevent? 638 00:34:10,380 --> 00:34:14,310 Are we going back to the old, old days when there was those gospel meetings 639 00:34:14,460 --> 00:34:19,469 and it was just hell, fire and brimstone coming from the pulpit, you know, and an 640 00:34:19,469 --> 00:34:24,540 altar called the end and everybody had to be weeping and crying and repenting 641 00:34:24,540 --> 00:34:26,880 and just throwing themselves down. 642 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:29,594 Every once in a while, we'll need that. 643 00:34:29,969 --> 00:34:30,029 Yeah. 644 00:34:30,745 --> 00:34:31,034 Yeah. 645 00:34:31,109 --> 00:34:35,279 I don't do it every Sunday because I don't want us to be guilt ridden, and I 646 00:34:35,279 --> 00:34:37,080 don't want us to be motivated by guilt. 647 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,069 But every once in a while, I want us to purge our souls of 648 00:34:41,069 --> 00:34:42,779 anything that needs to be purged. 649 00:34:43,739 --> 00:34:44,819 So I'll surprise you. 650 00:34:45,449 --> 00:34:46,770 It won't be on the calendar. 651 00:34:46,770 --> 00:34:49,259 I won't tell you when we're gonna have an altar call. 652 00:34:50,293 --> 00:34:54,239 You know, I'll just let the spirit move and sometimes I just make it 653 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,649 up at the end of the sermon and the singers have to improvise. 654 00:34:59,790 --> 00:35:06,000 Start singing a song, you know, because every once in a while it's good. 655 00:35:06,029 --> 00:35:12,209 And it's amazing when you do that spontaneously, how all a sudden people 656 00:35:12,779 --> 00:35:17,370 get to change spiritually, a broken heart. 657 00:35:17,714 --> 00:35:20,549 The people of God were endangered. 658 00:35:20,549 --> 00:35:24,180 The people of God were in disgrace and in dread and distress. 659 00:35:24,795 --> 00:35:25,424 So it's good. 660 00:35:25,424 --> 00:35:28,725 Everyone's swell to purge Verse seven and eight. 661 00:35:28,935 --> 00:35:31,154 We have acted very wickedly towards you. 662 00:35:31,154 --> 00:35:36,705 We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws that you gave your servant Moses. 663 00:35:36,765 --> 00:35:39,944 Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses saying, 664 00:35:40,245 --> 00:35:44,955 if you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations. 665 00:35:45,375 --> 00:35:51,795 Now has our movement or our church committed sins to the degree 666 00:35:51,795 --> 00:35:53,325 where God needs to just exiles. 667 00:35:55,275 --> 00:36:02,745 No, but God is always teaching and disciplining and transforming his people. 668 00:36:04,605 --> 00:36:07,935 I had a brother say, Greg, stop apologizing. 669 00:36:09,615 --> 00:36:11,175 Stop looking backwards. 670 00:36:12,075 --> 00:36:13,425 Let's just look forward. 671 00:36:14,985 --> 00:36:15,855 We'll do both. 672 00:36:16,455 --> 00:36:18,134 We can do both the same time, can't we? 673 00:36:18,945 --> 00:36:22,215 We can always be repenting 'cause and we can always be saying we're 674 00:36:22,215 --> 00:36:23,865 sorry 'cause we did do things. 675 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:25,020 Imperfectly. 676 00:36:27,270 --> 00:36:31,170 You know, every church has done things imperfectly. 677 00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:35,700 There's people making a living on the internet criticizing 678 00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:37,620 churches in our church. 679 00:36:38,340 --> 00:36:39,330 Oh, good for them. 680 00:36:40,290 --> 00:36:41,250 Oh my goodness. 681 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,850 The great insight they have that this isn't a perfect church. 682 00:36:45,540 --> 00:36:47,730 I'm just amazed at their insight. 683 00:36:48,870 --> 00:36:51,095 I mean, you people can do that the rest of their lives. 684 00:36:52,275 --> 00:36:54,375 We're all sinners, right? 685 00:36:54,375 --> 00:36:54,870 Yes, we're right. 686 00:36:55,694 --> 00:36:56,745 This isn't heaven. 687 00:36:58,154 --> 00:36:59,295 This is California. 688 00:37:03,045 --> 00:37:04,395 Some of you got that. 689 00:37:04,935 --> 00:37:05,895 Praise God. 690 00:37:05,924 --> 00:37:07,125 That's what prayer is. 691 00:37:07,455 --> 00:37:09,705 Repent and confess your sin to God. 692 00:37:10,125 --> 00:37:12,315 Ask God and yield to God. 693 00:37:12,345 --> 00:37:14,020 That's what prayer is all about. 694 00:37:14,350 --> 00:37:15,060 We're almost done. 695 00:37:16,379 --> 00:37:18,660 F Nehemiah one verse nine. 696 00:37:19,140 --> 00:37:23,250 But if you return to me, here's the good stuff and obey my commands. 697 00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:24,720 We've returned to our building. 698 00:37:24,839 --> 00:37:26,549 We want to obey God's commands. 699 00:37:26,669 --> 00:37:32,160 Then even in your, even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon. 700 00:37:32,685 --> 00:37:35,505 The people that have been hurt, the people that have been scattered, 701 00:37:35,595 --> 00:37:40,545 I will gather them from there and bring them to the place that I have 702 00:37:40,545 --> 00:37:42,585 chosen as a dwelling from my name. 703 00:37:42,795 --> 00:37:46,815 They are your servants and your people whom you redeemed by your 704 00:37:46,815 --> 00:37:49,154 great strength in your mighty hand. 705 00:37:49,755 --> 00:37:54,495 People have been scattered, and this is a promise that people will gather 706 00:37:54,555 --> 00:38:00,465 again if we'll claim God's power because God blesses the righteous prodigal. 707 00:38:01,965 --> 00:38:04,545 You know, I don't know when we'll do it, but sometimes 708 00:38:04,545 --> 00:38:06,315 we'll have a homecoming Sunday 709 00:38:08,955 --> 00:38:13,305 and we'll just invite everybody back that have ever been here. 710 00:38:14,385 --> 00:38:15,375 Wouldn't that be great? 711 00:38:16,905 --> 00:38:20,415 You know, I've never, uh, Kathy and I went to one reunion. 712 00:38:20,595 --> 00:38:23,985 There's a 50th this summer, uh, for my high school. 713 00:38:23,985 --> 00:38:27,345 I'm not going, but there's a, there's one for my, uh. 714 00:38:28,185 --> 00:38:30,825 Campus ministry this summer that we'll probably go to 715 00:38:31,904 --> 00:38:33,404 'cause that's my real family. 716 00:38:34,185 --> 00:38:37,815 You know the Boulder Forever, brothers and sisters. 717 00:38:37,815 --> 00:38:37,935 Amen. 718 00:38:39,420 --> 00:38:40,529 Claim God's power. 719 00:38:40,529 --> 00:38:44,610 Claim God's righteousness and claim God's purity. 720 00:38:44,790 --> 00:38:46,800 Keep yourself righteous. 721 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:53,130 And then verse 11, Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant 722 00:38:53,130 --> 00:38:57,420 and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revered your name. 723 00:38:57,420 --> 00:38:58,650 That's the church. 724 00:38:59,190 --> 00:39:03,690 Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the present. 725 00:39:04,170 --> 00:39:04,950 Of this man. 726 00:39:04,950 --> 00:39:06,150 He's talking about the king. 727 00:39:06,150 --> 00:39:09,000 He's about to ask for all the money to rebuild. 728 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:11,820 I was cup bearer to the king. 729 00:39:12,030 --> 00:39:14,220 So what do we learn from this first chapter? 730 00:39:14,370 --> 00:39:16,110 What are the morals of the story? 731 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,830 God gathers a faithful remnant to be rebuild his church. 732 00:39:19,830 --> 00:39:20,730 That's what we are. 733 00:39:21,210 --> 00:39:23,940 The remnant can be the Orange County Church. 734 00:39:24,795 --> 00:39:26,385 I'm not saying we are. 735 00:39:26,445 --> 00:39:29,385 We have to choose that and we have to become that, and I think 736 00:39:29,385 --> 00:39:32,625 we're becoming that more and more, but we have to choose it. 737 00:39:32,805 --> 00:39:34,820 The remnant are the righteous disciples. 738 00:39:35,535 --> 00:39:39,735 Who are a righteous above all else, the remnant, confesses and repents 739 00:39:39,885 --> 00:39:43,635 and takes responsibility, doesn't just half repent, takes it all. 740 00:39:44,025 --> 00:39:47,115 The remnant claims, the power and the promises of God. 741 00:39:47,115 --> 00:39:48,915 They're always looking forward and dreaming. 742 00:39:48,915 --> 00:39:51,645 The remnant rises up and builds. 743 00:39:51,885 --> 00:39:57,615 The remnant will experience the supernatural of God, and the remnant 744 00:39:58,005 --> 00:40:01,755 gathers the dispersed disciples back home. 745 00:40:01,755 --> 00:40:01,875 Amen. 746 00:40:02,805 --> 00:40:02,955 Amen. 747 00:40:03,495 --> 00:40:05,325 That's what one of our goals is, right? 748 00:40:05,325 --> 00:40:06,375 Brothers and sisters. 749 00:40:06,674 --> 00:40:09,015 So what lessons do we learn from this chapter? 750 00:40:09,345 --> 00:40:10,754 Christians don't complain. 751 00:40:11,774 --> 00:40:12,345 They cry. 752 00:40:15,134 --> 00:40:16,995 I want to change that about our church. 753 00:40:18,015 --> 00:40:21,345 Orange County is a lot of complaining people. 754 00:40:24,015 --> 00:40:25,544 I walk around, I listen. 755 00:40:27,015 --> 00:40:30,285 A lot of entitled people, a lot of rich people, a lot of 756 00:40:30,285 --> 00:40:31,785 people that have it their way. 757 00:40:33,750 --> 00:40:36,195 A lot of people that cut you off when you're driving, 758 00:40:38,295 --> 00:40:39,015 they want it there. 759 00:40:39,015 --> 00:40:41,085 You can get outta my way going too slow. 760 00:40:42,855 --> 00:40:44,865 But we as Christians, we're gonna be different. 761 00:40:46,335 --> 00:40:47,715 We're gonna keep soft hearted. 762 00:40:48,645 --> 00:40:51,555 God allows the walls of the church to be broken down. 763 00:40:51,705 --> 00:40:53,175 Some of us act surprised. 764 00:40:53,175 --> 00:40:54,885 The church goes through hard times. 765 00:40:56,415 --> 00:40:59,895 Some of us are just shocked that our church isn't perfect. 766 00:41:00,570 --> 00:41:01,650 Did we have a history? 767 00:41:01,710 --> 00:41:02,940 Did we have a past? 768 00:41:03,570 --> 00:41:04,110 Yeah. 769 00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:05,370 And so do you. 770 00:41:05,910 --> 00:41:09,390 I love these people that throw rocks outta glass houses. 771 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,260 Wow. 772 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,280 God allows the walls of the church to be broken down. 773 00:41:15,390 --> 00:41:19,080 But you know what my job is, and the elder's job and the other staff 774 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,310 members' job and the bible talk leader's job, I'm putting it on you too. 775 00:41:23,310 --> 00:41:24,720 It's not all up to me. 776 00:41:25,050 --> 00:41:26,565 I'm spreading this leadership out. 777 00:41:27,555 --> 00:41:31,215 Leadership rallies the people to rise up and rebuild. 778 00:41:32,475 --> 00:41:35,895 Leadership rallies the people to rise up and rebuild. 779 00:41:36,195 --> 00:41:40,245 God provides miracles to provide the resources we need. 780 00:41:40,545 --> 00:41:43,395 I don't know how we're gonna do it all, but it'll work out. 781 00:41:44,325 --> 00:41:45,705 It always has worked out. 782 00:41:47,020 --> 00:41:49,275 Persecutor kick you when you're down, 783 00:41:51,285 --> 00:41:52,395 but you're not out. 784 00:41:53,384 --> 00:41:55,755 We've had some people really jump on the ship. 785 00:41:56,115 --> 00:41:56,774 Yeah. 786 00:41:56,774 --> 00:41:59,234 That OCC church. 787 00:41:59,805 --> 00:42:06,555 That ICC church, you know, persecutor like to kick you when 788 00:42:06,555 --> 00:42:08,625 you're down, but guess what? 789 00:42:09,015 --> 00:42:11,174 We can take a beating and keep on ticking. 790 00:42:12,734 --> 00:42:14,145 Some of you get that one too. 791 00:42:15,075 --> 00:42:18,105 Christians will multitask to protect their family. 792 00:42:19,365 --> 00:42:23,174 God disciplines his people and also prospers his people. 793 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,870 Leadership finds a way to motivate the people. 794 00:42:27,870 --> 00:42:33,510 We're gonna find the part of the wall that you want to build to protect your family. 795 00:42:33,510 --> 00:42:33,990 Amen. 796 00:42:33,990 --> 00:42:34,140 Amen. 797 00:42:34,740 --> 00:42:35,970 That's what we're gonna do. 798 00:42:36,390 --> 00:42:40,770 The people of God rise up and build the kingdom of God. 799 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,810 You've been rising up church. 800 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,170 You've been so impressive the last few months especially. 801 00:42:46,770 --> 00:42:48,000 I mean, there's a spirit. 802 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,500 It's brewing, it's happening. 803 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,680 Things are starting to move the right direction. 804 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,009 We're coming together, we're unifying, and we need to just 805 00:42:56,009 --> 00:42:59,100 rebuild side by side in this church. 806 00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:03,089 We need to rebuild by being and making disciples. 807 00:43:03,359 --> 00:43:06,660 We need about $33,000 a a week. 808 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:08,700 That's my guess, you know? 809 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:12,180 I mean, our contribution goes up and down one month. 810 00:43:12,180 --> 00:43:15,630 It's this one month is another, you know, I've tried to do the math. 811 00:43:15,630 --> 00:43:19,500 I'm, I got a calculator, I can use it, you know, but this 812 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:20,730 is about where we need to be. 813 00:43:20,730 --> 00:43:24,630 If it's over 33, we're gonna really be good. 814 00:43:24,630 --> 00:43:25,140 Alright? 815 00:43:25,140 --> 00:43:26,280 But let's get there. 816 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,950 And that's what we've been doing most of the time. 817 00:43:29,220 --> 00:43:30,570 So it's not a stretch. 818 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:32,160 We need to rebuild our campus. 819 00:43:32,460 --> 00:43:36,330 Cus guys, we couldn't have unloaded all these chairs with all the out, 820 00:43:36,330 --> 00:43:38,220 all these young people, you know? 821 00:43:39,030 --> 00:43:42,240 I mean, the trash of those chairs took forever. 822 00:43:42,750 --> 00:43:46,235 I mean, thank you, thank you, thank you. 823 00:43:46,410 --> 00:43:48,750 And I mean that, I didn't mean to spit at you. 824 00:43:49,020 --> 00:43:53,970 All right guys, you worked so hard. 825 00:43:55,470 --> 00:43:56,670 You worked so hard. 826 00:43:57,299 --> 00:44:00,900 I went to bed last night just praising God for so many people. 827 00:44:00,930 --> 00:44:02,610 I tried to remember everybody's name. 828 00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:06,630 I just described, God, you de to God last night. 829 00:44:06,630 --> 00:44:09,960 Some of you, 'cause I don't know your name, but you just touched my heart. 830 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,330 You worked so hard and tirelessly. 831 00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:15,180 I mean, it's been amazing. 832 00:44:15,210 --> 00:44:15,810 Thank you. 833 00:44:16,770 --> 00:44:20,009 We need to keep pumping our campus ministry. 834 00:44:20,850 --> 00:44:24,150 I'm so glad this church wants to do bingo. 835 00:44:26,025 --> 00:44:27,585 We got our tables right there. 836 00:44:28,365 --> 00:44:31,365 We got our chairs here in March. 837 00:44:31,365 --> 00:44:35,145 Hopefully we can start, we gotta be really wise about how we start. 838 00:44:35,235 --> 00:44:37,755 'cause you can lose a lot of money with bingo too. 839 00:44:38,565 --> 00:44:41,865 'cause you gotta pay whether we have a lot of people or we 840 00:44:41,865 --> 00:44:45,750 don't have a lot of people, but I want to pay off this building. 841 00:44:46,815 --> 00:44:49,335 I want to give it as a gift to the next generation. 842 00:44:49,335 --> 00:44:51,045 I don't want them to have to pay for it. 843 00:44:51,345 --> 00:44:56,835 I want us, and I want to use the resources of the world like the Bible describes. 844 00:44:56,865 --> 00:44:57,285 Okay? 845 00:44:57,615 --> 00:44:58,545 Keep that secret. 846 00:44:58,605 --> 00:44:59,025 Alright? 847 00:45:01,155 --> 00:45:06,255 Rise up and build every ministry, rise up and our special will 848 00:45:06,255 --> 00:45:08,085 be about what it was last year. 849 00:45:09,105 --> 00:45:13,305 I'm going to end with a very personal song. 850 00:45:15,225 --> 00:45:18,675 I asked Brian Craig to write this song years ago. 851 00:45:20,115 --> 00:45:25,215 The campus ministry in Boulder that I was a part of was a amazing, we 852 00:45:25,215 --> 00:45:27,375 had a hundred baptisms one month. 853 00:45:28,395 --> 00:45:33,315 You know, Brian Ell and others, you know, were baptized that month. 854 00:45:33,315 --> 00:45:36,375 Andy, Andy, winge, Corina, others. 855 00:45:37,815 --> 00:45:41,745 But there was a time when the campus ministry wasn't doing well. 856 00:45:42,165 --> 00:45:46,995 We were gonna have a retreat and the Coach McCartney wrote us, wrote 857 00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:49,004 a book entitled Ashes to Glory. 858 00:45:49,395 --> 00:45:54,044 And it was about how the Colorado football, uh, program had just been 859 00:45:54,044 --> 00:45:56,565 terrible for decades after decades. 860 00:45:56,565 --> 00:46:00,015 And then it eventually won national championship. 861 00:46:00,794 --> 00:46:05,055 And so I asked Brian, I said, write us a song for our retreat, ashes to Glory. 862 00:46:05,055 --> 00:46:09,464 And he wrote this song and this is one of my favorite songs, and it means even 863 00:46:09,464 --> 00:46:11,115 more to me now 'cause Brian's gone. 864 00:46:12,225 --> 00:46:14,655 And it's amazing what he wrote in this song. 865 00:46:14,985 --> 00:46:22,485 Maybe even knowing he wouldn't always be with us, he says, oh, my eyes are 866 00:46:22,485 --> 00:46:25,725 turning from the past behind the wall. 867 00:46:26,415 --> 00:46:28,365 And oh, my world's been burning. 868 00:46:28,935 --> 00:46:31,815 So I run to the waterfall. 869 00:46:32,385 --> 00:46:36,135 I can see my life for what it is. 870 00:46:36,195 --> 00:46:38,325 A fragile paper doll. 871 00:46:38,895 --> 00:46:40,815 Oh, my heart's been yearning. 872 00:46:41,565 --> 00:46:43,965 So I answer heaven's call. 873 00:46:45,285 --> 00:46:50,595 I die and in made clean, I fly unbound and free. 874 00:46:51,135 --> 00:46:52,065 I cry. 875 00:46:52,515 --> 00:46:56,055 And you move me from ashes to glory. 876 00:46:57,015 --> 00:46:58,665 Oh, my heart was crying. 877 00:46:58,695 --> 00:47:02,925 My life was spinning round and round and oh, my soul was dying. 878 00:47:03,075 --> 00:47:06,105 Ashes, ashes all fall down. 879 00:47:06,945 --> 00:47:10,275 But then like the phoenix from the flame. 880 00:47:11,069 --> 00:47:13,710 I leave the ashes on the ground. 881 00:47:14,580 --> 00:47:16,710 Oh, for glory flying. 882 00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,980 I want to wear a golden crown. 883 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,859 I die and am made clean. 884 00:47:23,460 --> 00:47:25,770 I fly unbounded, free. 885 00:47:25,950 --> 00:47:26,940 I cry. 886 00:47:27,180 --> 00:47:28,020 And you move me 887 00:47:30,555 --> 00:47:32,490 from ashes to glory. 888 00:47:34,290 --> 00:47:35,879 Oh, I see forever. 889 00:47:36,180 --> 00:47:37,904 Here's Brian saying this from heaven now. 890 00:47:39,525 --> 00:47:46,845 I see forever and whatever comes my way, oh, we'll be together and forever. 891 00:47:46,845 --> 00:47:51,585 Yours, I'll stay A thousand years from now, perhaps. 892 00:47:52,154 --> 00:48:00,645 I'll think of what was yesterday and I won't remember if I ever felt afraid. 893 00:48:01,785 --> 00:48:03,825 I die and am made clean. 894 00:48:04,545 --> 00:48:06,825 I fly unbound and free. 895 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:12,540 I cry and you move me from ashes the glory. 896 00:48:13,710 --> 00:48:14,100 Amen. 897 00:48:14,310 --> 00:48:14,970 God bless.