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Foreign.

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We're going to be in the Book
of Mark.

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I want to read you a story
about Jesus from the Book of Mark,

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chapter four.

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If you brought a Bible with
you, you can open it up and follow

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along.

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Starting in verse 35, it says,
on that day when evening had come,

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he said to them, let us go
across to the other side.

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And leaving the crowd, they
took him with them in the boat just

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as he was, and other boats
were with him.

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And a great windstorm arose
and the waves were breaking into

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the boat so that the boat was
already filling.

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But he was in the stern,
asleep on a cushion.

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And they woke him and said to
him, teacher, do you not care that

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we're perishing?

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And he awoke and rebuked the
wind and said to the sea, peace,

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be still.

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And the wind ceased, and there
was a great calm.

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But he said to them, why are
you so afraid?

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Have you still no faith?

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And they were filled with
great fear and said to one another,

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who then is this that even the
wind and the sea obey him?

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Now, many of you, you feel
like you've received a direction

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from Jesus.

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You feel like he's given you a
purpose, a mission, a message, maybe

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even a destination that he's
calling you to.

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You feel like he's called you
to cross over to the other side of

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something in your life, called
you to cross over to the other side

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of abuse and dysfunction that
you were raised in, called to cross

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over to the other side of
financial lack and poverty, to leave

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an inheritance for your children.

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But right now, you find
yourself in a storm.

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You find yourself in the
middle of something that feels like.

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And it's beginning to feel like.

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It might not even just be the
end of the promise, but it may very

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well be the end of you.

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And you're looking around and
you know what God said.

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You know the promise.

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But the wind starts to rage.

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The wind is blowing, the
water's coming over the boat, and

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it feels like Jesus is asleep
in the boat.

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And you're asking God, where's
the rest of the promise?

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I know what you said, but
where's the rest?

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Look at your neighbor and say,
where's the rest?

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Oh, come on, look at your
other neighbor.

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Say, where's the rest?

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If you need a title for this
sermon in your notes, that can be

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it.

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Where's the rest?

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It says in verse 35, let us go
across to the other side.

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Now, it's important to know in
this story that this was not just

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a win on Jesus part.

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Saying like, yeah, let's just
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sea.

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It was actually Jesus setting
the stage for freedom and revival.

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Because if you read a little
bit further on in the Book of Mark,

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what you'll see is that when
they get to the other side of this

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storm, they arrive to a place
called Gerasenes.

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And when they arrive, Jesus is
approached by a demonized man.

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And needless to say, Jesus, he
delivers this man from the demon.

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But why do I tell you this?

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I tell you this to say that
whenever Jesus calls you to cross

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over to the other side of
something, it's never random.

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It's never without meaning.

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And it's very often not just
about you, but it's actually about

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the people that God called you
to reach.

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Fathers.

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God's calling you to cross
over to the other side, not just

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for you, but for your sons.

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Who said that they have to
fight the same battles that you did,

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who said that they have to be
bound by lust and pornography in

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the same way that you'd been
for so many years?

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He's calling you to cross over.

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Mothers who said that your
daughters have to battle the same

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insecurity that you did.

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Who said that they have to be
crushed by comparison and bound by

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shame and carry the same
weight that you did for your whole

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life.

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God's calling you to cross
over so that they don't have to carry

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that weight you carried.

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See, Jesus is saying, let us
cross over to the other side.

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Don't you love that?

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We serve a God who doesn't
point and say you, but rather grabs

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us by the hand and says, let
us cross over.

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And that's the good news for
those of you today that feel like

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you're in the middle of a
storm is that you don't have to go

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through it alone if you don't
want to.

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But hear me, you will only
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of your storm if you will
place the cross over your situation.

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Come on, church, you don't
hear me?

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It's time to put the cross
over your fear.

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It's time to put the cross
over your marriage.

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It's time to put the cross
over your finances.

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Come on, somebody say, I'm
about to cross over.

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And here's the thing as we go
back to this.

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This story in the Bible is
that for many of Jesus disciples,

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they were fishermen.

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That was their background.

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And so for them, getting into
the boat probably felt about as normal

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to them as us getting into the
car and going on our daily commute

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feels to us there's no reason
to believe in scripture that they

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thought that this was going to
be anything other than routine and

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ordinary.

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But right now I want to talk
to the person who's grieving the

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fact that they feel that God
has called them to a season of stewarding

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the mundane.

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You feel like Jesus has given
you a direction so unremarkable and

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ordinary.

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But you look around and you
see people doing the thing that you

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want to do, that are doing the
thing that you even feel called to

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do, that's been prophesied
over you, that you're going to do.

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And you feel like right now
you're in between destinations, you're

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in between miracles, you're in
between testimonies.

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Anybody know what I'm talking about?

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You're standing in the gap
between what God has done and what

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you believe he's gonna do.

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And you start to feel the wind
blow and the water starts to go uneasy

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and you're starting to wonder,
God, did I even hear from you in

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the first place?

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And you're beginning to ask,
where's the rest of the promise?

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And what felt like a stall has
turned into a storm.

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And what maybe began as a
promise has now become panic.

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You know, my, my wife Caitlin
and I, we've been learning lately

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as the parents of a two year
old boy, you got to be really careful

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what you promise a two year old.

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The parents are laughing
because they know more than that.

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You got to be careful what you
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that's his favorite snack,
which right now is waffles.

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Some of you, that's your
favorite too, you'd have a lot in

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common.

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Or his favorite place to go,
which right now is the beach.

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We've learned what words we
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fear of him thinking that us
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he's going to get that thing.

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And so if you were hanging out
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we're studying for a surprise
spelling bee with how much we've

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started spelling words in the
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what we're talking about.

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But something real interesting
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And parents, you know already
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has started to associate even
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with the things so I might
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go to the store and get some waffles?

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And Easton, he goes, waffles,
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It's game over.

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And I don't know where to go
from here.

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More seasoned Parents maybe
find me after service.

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And we haven't tried Morse
code yet.

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I don't know.

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But see Easton, our son, in
his immaturity, he thinks that hearing

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the word waffles is the same
as getting promised that he's going

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to get them in about five seconds.

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Oh, come on.

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And then when he doesn't get
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regardless of the time or the
place, he does what two and a half

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year olds are really good at,
which is he starts to panic.

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When the disciples began to
fear that the storm was going to

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cancel the promise that they
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side, they did what many of us
do very well, which is they began

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to panic.

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Verse 37 says, and a great
windstorm arose and the waves were

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breaking into the boat, so
that the boat was already filling.

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But he was in the stern,
asleep on the cushion, and they woke

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him and said to him, teacher,
do you not care that we are perishing?

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Jesus, do you not care that I
received a word from a prophet at

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a conference that I was going to.

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Get married this year, but
it's already September and I'm still

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single?

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Jesus, do you even care that I
posted every day this month on Instagram,

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but I have yet to go viral and
be able to quit my day job?

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Jesus, do you even care that I
pray for my kids every single day,

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but they're still a little bit crazy?

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See, sometimes it feels like
God doesn't.

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Care.

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Because what may feel very
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an emergency on heaven's timeline.

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You know, I'm reminded of a
story in Scripture where a woman

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in a state of panic tells
Jesus about a man named Lazarus,

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her brother.

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And she says, lazarus is sick
and he's dying.

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And Jesus, he doesn't go to
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In fact, he actually delays.

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But he says something.

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He says, this illness will not
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But for those of you that are
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that actually, yes, Lazarus dies.

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And Jesus, he arrives late,
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actually days late.

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And he arrives to a grieving family.

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And what might have felt like
indifference or lack of urgency or

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even apathy from Jesus was
actually him setting the stage for

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a miracle.

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Because notice, hear me, church.

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Notice that he did not say that.

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Lazarus would not die.

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He said that it would not end
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Oh, come on, somebody hear me
right now.

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Some of you have been losing
faith because God actually let your

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dreams die.

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Some of you have been losing
faith because he actually let your

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marriage end.

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And he actually let your kids
go wayward.

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But I came on mission from
heaven today to tell somebody it

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will not end in death.

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Whether it's Lazarus in a tomb
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Is always on time.

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And he's never too far to
resurrect the dead or to rescue the

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drowning.

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Because just like Lazarus,
death set the stage for a resurrection.

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This storm, the storm you're in.

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Setting the stage for a
Revelation, verse 39, it says, and

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he awoke and rebuked the wind
and said to the sea, peace, be still.

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And the wind ceased, and there
was a great calm.

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And he said to them, why are
you so afraid?

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Have you still no faith?

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And they were filled with
great fear and said to one another,

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who then is this that even the
wind and the sea obey him?

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Now, this is a side note, but
I felt led to say this, and I'll

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be a little sassy about it.

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One thing I love about Jesus
is that, and this is something I

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think a lot of Christians
could stand to learn from him.

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He protects before he corrects.

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Some of y' all didn't hear me
at the other campuses.

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Jesus protects before he corrects.

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Notice how when he and the
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the wind and the sea before he
rebukes them.

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Notice how when the Pharisees
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the woman caught in adultery,
he protects her before he tells her

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to go and sin no more.

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And I think a lot of
Christians make a habit of rebuking

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somebody who's already
drowning and convicting somebody

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that's already being condemned.

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But could we be like Jesus who
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correct?

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But anyways, Jesus said, why
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Have you still no faith?

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And they went and they were
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to one another, who then is
this that even the wind and the sea

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obey him?

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Now, how is it that in one
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so afraid?

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Is it because you don't have faith?

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But then in the verse right
after that, it says they were then

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filled.

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With a great fear because of
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So.

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So how can you be so afraid.

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That you lack faith, but then one.

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Verse later, be filled with
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I'm gonna tell you, the shift
that actually happened is they went

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from fearing the storm to
fearing the one with the power to

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calm it.

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And so some of you, you feared
the balance in your bank account

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more than your provider.

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You feared divorce more than
your Reconciler, you feared death

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more than the one.

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Who took its power.

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And sometimes fear it'll cause
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from God in the first place.

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And fear says, I know the
promise, but I'm starting to wonder

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and worry if he's going to
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And so you're asking God,
where's the rest?

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Where's the rest of my healing?

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Where's the rest of my deliverance?

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Where's the rest of my provision?

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God, where's the rest of the promise?

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But what if while you're
asking God, where's the rest of the

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promise, he's asking you,
where's your rest in the promise?

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Where's your rest in the promise?

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Verse 38 says, But he was in
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See, while the disciples were
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And not because he didn't care about.

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Their safety, but it's because
he knew that it was never actually

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in jeopardy in the first place.

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And so the disciples, they had
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Were they going to interpret
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But when the wind and the rain
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But my question for you today,
for those of you that feel like you're

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in the middle of something
that might take you out, is are you

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taking your cues from your
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So we get ready to step into
the next thing God wants to do.

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We're talking about finding
rest in the Promise.

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We're starting this series
from Rest to revival.

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But I would be remiss if we
didn't take a little bit of time

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to talk about what rest is and
what rest does.

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Because I would venture a
guess to say that there's many of

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you in this room, many of you
online and across our other campuses,

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that you've never actually
experienced true biblical rest before.

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You've taken vacations, you've
had long weekends, you've taken a

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nap, and you've escaped your hustle.

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But you've never truly tasted
of the rest that Jesus has to offer.

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Because some of you, it shows in.

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Your life and you feel it
every single day as the weeks roll

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over.

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The weekends aren't long enough.

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The vacation doesn't satisfy.

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We're talking about rest, and
I want to give you an acronym, a

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note Takers Dream right now.

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Because I think it might help
you remember when the world and hustle

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culture and all these things
try to make you forget.

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These are four things that
rest does.

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We're gonna spell out R E S T
number one.

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Rest reminds Rest reminds.

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It reminds us that God's on
the throne and that one day trusting

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fully in him, in our rest, is
better than seven, trusting fully

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in the strength of our striving.

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But see, a lot of us, we have
this perspective that rest actually

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comes to rob us.

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I'm going to talk to the
workaholics right now, as a recovering

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workaholic myself.

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A lot of time we think that
rest comes to rob us of our momentum,

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of our success, of our
finances, of getting ahead.

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It robs us of our significance.

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Anybody ever felt guilty for
taking a day off, thinking you're

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going to get behind?

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That's not God's plan for your existence.

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Because rest reminds you.

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It reminds you that as a
believer, you have the right to say,

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there's more where that came from.

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You have the right to say,
God, you can do more in my rest than

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I can do in my overtime.

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Amen.

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Psalm 127, verse 2.

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It says, it is in vain that
you rise up early and go late to

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rest, eating the bread of
anxious toil that sound like your

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life, for he gives to his
beloved sleep.

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I want to ask you, when was
the last time you truly rested, knowing

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that God is ordering your steps?

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He's making a way, he's going
before you.

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Second letter letter E. Rest
exposes some of you.

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You've never actually slowed
down ever long enough to see what

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your heart naturally
gravitates towards when life gets

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quiet enough where you can
actually hear innermost thoughts

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in the busyness of life.

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You know, there's a term in
psychology called productive avoidance.

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Have you ever had a really
long, important to do list?

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Something that you're really
stressed out about doing?

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You know you have to do it,
but it's been looming over your head.

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And thinking about it just
stresses you out.

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But you know, you got to get
it done.

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So you go to do it, and then
this thought enters your mind that

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says, you know, what you
haven't done in a long time?

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Scrubbed all the baseboards in
your house.

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And I think that's what you
need to do right now.

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Push all that other stuff aside.

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And so, so often we'll
actually delay what's most important.

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We'll delay what matters most
for the thing that is good but not

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urgent.

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And we get this feeling of
being productive and successful,

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but in reality, we've just put
off what God wants us to step into.

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And that's why rest exposes.

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It exposes what matters most.

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And some of you, you've been
struggling to even discern the will

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of God for your life because
you've been operating in a productive

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avoidance, staying so busy
that you actually miss your blessing.

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And we see this in the story
of two sisters named Martha and Mary.

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And you could say that one was
so concerned with being busy while

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the other was concerned with
resting at the feet of Jesus.

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Luke 10:41, 42.

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It says, but the Lord answered
her, martha, Martha.

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You are anxious and troubled
about many things.

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Who can relate to Martha?

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But one thing is necessary,
and Mary has chosen the good portion,

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which will not be taken away
from her.

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See, rest exposes if you're
living like Martha, busy but burdened,

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or like Mary, resting in what
matters most.

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The third letter, letter S, R,
E, S, talking about four things that

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rest does.

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Rest surrenders.

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Matthew 11, 28, 29.

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It says, Come to me all who
labor and are heavy laden, and I

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will give you rest.

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Take my yoke upon you and
learn from me, for I am gentle and

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lowly in heart, and you will
find rest for your souls.

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You know, I think sometimes
because we have this idea of rest

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being sleeping on a beach,
doing nothing, that we actually think

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that rest is passive.

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But when we read this verse,
we see phrases like, come to me,

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take my yoke, learn from me.

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See, rest isn't about doing nothing.

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It's about doing the thing
that matters most, and that's surrendering

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to Jesus.

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And so there are actually
things that you have to do to step

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into true rest.

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Some of you, you might think
that rest comes from inaction, but

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it comes from the action of surrendering.

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You gotta surrender.

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You know, the kids now have
this phrase called bedrotting.

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Now, you're just bedrotting today.

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And it's kind of exactly what
it sounds like.

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It's when you are laying in
bed all day and really doing nothing,

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essentially, other than maybe
scrolling on your phone on social

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media.

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And we wonder why Gen Z is
such a suicidal generation.

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I would.

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I would maybe guess that it's
because we have a generation that's

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trying to find rest in an
algorithm instead of God's rhythm.

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And I don't know about you,
but I don't want my source to be

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an algorithm.

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I want to step in and tap into
God's rhythm.

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Come on, somebody say I'm
crossing over to God's rhythm.

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The passage that we just read,
I want to read again in the message.

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Translation says, are you
tired, worn out, burned out on religion?

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Come to me, get away with me,
and you'll recover your life.

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I'll show you how to take A
real rest.

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Walk with me and work with me.

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Watch how I do it.

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Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.

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I won't lay anything heavy or
ill fitting on you.

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Keep company with me and
you'll learn how to live freely and

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lightly.

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Come on.

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Somebody who wants some of
that in their life today.

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Come on.

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As we get ready to close Rest,
we're talking about the four things

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rest, does and worship.

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Team, y' all can come help me out.

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Rest.

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Rest.

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Trusts.

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Rest.

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Trusts.

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Now, some of you, and I want
to speak prophetically now, some

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of you, you have never
actually stepped fully into rest.

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Or maybe it's been a long time
since you've been able to rest.

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Because the last time that you
did, the people that were supposed

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to take care of you didn't.

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The people that were supposed
to provide for you and cover for

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you came up short.

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The person that was supposed
to guard your heart threw it away.

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And so for you, your inability to.

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Step into rest, it's not about rebellion.

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It's been about survival.

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The bills are coming.

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The abuse is knocking at the door.

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And you've had to learn how to
keep watch and not rest and not sleep.

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Because you're so worried that
if you take a step back and you actually

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rest and you're still that
then everything's gonna fall apart,

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maybe like it did last time.

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But can I tell you, Church,
God wants to take you from survival

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to revival.

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And the bridge that he wants
to use to get you there is called

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rest.

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Because rest produces trust.

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Trust that while you rest,
even while other people may let you

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down, the mighty hand of God's
favor and provision will remain on

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you.

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Proverbs 3.

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24.

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It says, if you lie down, you
will not be afraid.

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When you lie down, your sleep
will be sweet.

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For the Lord will be your confidence.

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Come on, Church.

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When you find yourself in the
middle of your storm, like many of

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you are right now, and you see
Jesus asleep in the boat, don't be

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like his disciples and mistake
his confidence for indifference.

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But let his confidence become
your confidence and learn to rest

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in the rain.

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Come on.

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Somebody say, I'm going to
rest in the rain.

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And here's why this is so important.

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We're gonna bring this home.

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Because Jesus may have slept
on a cushion, but then he stepped

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into a commission.

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Because on the other side, we
read in Mark, chapter five, that

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when Jesus had stepped out of
the boat, immediately.

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Come on.

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Somebody say, immediately,
there met him out of the tombs, a

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man with an unclean spirit.

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Spirit.

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Now you can go and you can
read the rest of that this week.

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But needless to say, Jesus, he delivers.

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The man from the unclean
spirit and he goes on to continue

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his ministry in the region.

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But I wonder, church, what
immediately is on the other side

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of you crossing over to the
other side of this storm?

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What kind of revival,
breakthrough and revelation is on

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00:29:14,432 --> 00:29:17,632
the other side of you saying,
jesus, I'm going to learn how to

479
00:29:17,632 --> 00:29:18,552
rest in the rain?

480
00:29:21,162 --> 00:29:24,922
What unsaved family members
are going to see the peace in your

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00:29:24,922 --> 00:29:26,522
life and wonder where you got it?

482
00:29:27,002 --> 00:29:30,082
What kind of intimacy can be
birthed in your marriage when you

483
00:29:30,082 --> 00:29:33,642
both learn to slow down enough
to actually minister to each other

484
00:29:33,642 --> 00:29:34,362
and be still?

485
00:29:34,522 --> 00:29:35,121
Come on.

486
00:29:35,121 --> 00:29:38,642
What kind of revival does God
want to bring forth through your

487
00:29:38,642 --> 00:29:43,082
life in your schools and your
universities, when you stop pursuing

488
00:29:43,082 --> 00:29:46,562
a relationship out of season
and you start learning to rest in

489
00:29:46,562 --> 00:29:47,402
your singleness?

490
00:29:47,482 --> 00:29:48,602
Come on, somebody.

491
00:29:48,602 --> 00:29:48,862
God.

492
00:29:49,012 --> 00:29:51,012
God's getting ready to cross
you over today.

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And so I believe there's a
special outpouring of peace, supernatural

494
00:29:57,892 --> 00:29:59,332
peace and rest right now.

495
00:29:59,332 --> 00:30:02,452
And so if you want it, I want
you to jump up on your feet right

496
00:30:02,452 --> 00:30:04,692
now across all of our campuses.

497
00:30:04,771 --> 00:30:05,292
Come on.

498
00:30:05,292 --> 00:30:06,612
This is countercultural.

499
00:30:06,772 --> 00:30:08,612
The world doesn't talk like this.

500
00:30:08,612 --> 00:30:10,772
The world says, oh, you're
gonna get behind.

501
00:30:10,932 --> 00:30:15,092
But like a slingshot, God is
gonna actually pull you back in this

502
00:30:15,092 --> 00:30:16,852
season to launch you forward.

503
00:30:17,092 --> 00:30:18,212
Come on, somebody.

504
00:30:18,212 --> 00:30:19,972
We're gonna press in right now.

505
00:30:19,972 --> 00:30:20,182
If you.

506
00:30:20,252 --> 00:30:23,452
If you've been wondering, God,
where's the rest of the promise?

507
00:30:23,452 --> 00:30:25,852
But you want to learn to rest
in the promise.

508
00:30:25,932 --> 00:30:26,412
Come on.

509
00:30:26,412 --> 00:30:27,692
Declare this with me.

510
00:30:27,772 --> 00:30:32,452
Lord Jesus, I thank you right
now for a deposit of supernatural

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00:30:32,452 --> 00:30:33,932
peace and provision.

512
00:30:34,172 --> 00:30:38,052
God, that we would not take
our cues from our circumstance, but

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00:30:38,052 --> 00:30:39,612
we would look at our Savior.

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00:30:39,772 --> 00:30:41,292
Father, we trust you.

515
00:30:41,452 --> 00:30:42,972
We trust your timeline.

516
00:30:43,052 --> 00:30:44,412
We trust your provision.

517
00:30:44,572 --> 00:30:46,892
We're going to rest in the
promise, God.

518
00:30:46,892 --> 00:30:50,252
We're not going to wonder
where you are because we know that

519
00:30:50,252 --> 00:30:53,752
you're in the boat with us,
Father, and we receive it right now

520
00:30:53,992 --> 00:30:55,072
in Jesus name.

521
00:30:55,072 --> 00:30:55,512
Come on.

522
00:30:55,512 --> 00:30:58,752
Can somebody shout amen and
give God a hand clap and a shout

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00:30:58,752 --> 00:30:59,832
of praise right now?

524
00:31:03,832 --> 00:31:04,952
Come on, somebody.