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Joshua Kehler: Hello everyone.

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Welcome to the Grace House Church podcast.

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I am Joshua Kaler, one of the pastors
at Grace House, and I wanted to take a

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second to introduce today's teaching.

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we are a group of house churches
and being a house church, we drum

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roll, meet in homes when we gather.

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We share a meal together.

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When we gather, we pray for one another.

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We celebrate God's work
in each other's lives.

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Read scripture together and
praise and worship together.

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And really the centerpiece of our
gathering together is remembering Jesus'

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death, burial, and resurrection, and soon
coming by partaking in communion together.

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We also participate in a time of
teaching and preaching from the Bible.

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Sometimes I get to teach, sometimes
it's somebody else and sometimes

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it's more straightforward and like
a classic sermon, although there's

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always dialogue and discussion.

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Sometimes it's less monologue though,
and more dialogue where everyone's

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participating from the get-go.

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And some of my favorite,
most edifying times together.

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Well, this is one such teaching we're.

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You have to put your notes to the side and
try to follow where the spirit's leading.

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I've actually cut out about 45
minutes of amazing discussion

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and insights from the Saints.

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First, you may ask, wow,
you're cutting out 45 minutes.

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How long do you guys go?

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Well, you know, when you're together in a
house,  time flies when you're having fun.

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Secondly  if they're
amazing, why cut that out?

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You may ask or be thinking, not
comfortable having their voice,

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their ideas, their opinions,
their struggles, their joys.

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Listen to on a publicly available podcast
and preserving the intimacy of the group

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so that that kind of vulnerability can
flourish as of utmost importance and our

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chief concern, and we'll protect that.

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So that being said, when, and if
you listen to this, it might sound

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a bit disjointed, uh, unorganized.

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The outline won't win any
awards, nor should it.

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but there is a lot of talk about
Jesus and the gospel of grace, which

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is always good and always edifying.

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I'm also following through on a commitment
to the beautiful people of Grace House

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who have requested these teachings.

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I pray if you listen, that Jesus has made
much of it in your heart, blessings and.

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Let's go to Ephesians chapter six

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where we find out that the Christian
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Just kidding, . It's not.

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it is a battle and, uh, but one that's
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us, and he wants us to live our lives
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where we're anxious or we're overwhelmed
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but from a place of peace, from a
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in who he is and what he's done.

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and so let's read in
verse 10, chapter six.

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Finally.

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Be strong in the Lord and in
the strength of his might.

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Put on the whole armor of God that
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the schemes of the devil for you.

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Do not wrestle, wrestle against flesh
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against the authorities, against
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darkness against the spiritual forces
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Therefore, take up the whole armor of.

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You may be able to withstand in the
evil day and having done all to stand

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firm stand therefore having fastened on
the belt of truth and having put on the

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breastplate of righteousness and as shoes
for your feet, having put on the readiness

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given by the gospel of peace and all
circumstances take up the shield of faith

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with which you can extinguish all the
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helmet of salvation and the sort of the.

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Which is the word of God, praying
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all prayer and supplication.

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To that end, keep alert with all
perseverance, making supp, supplication

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for all the saints and also for me,
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opening my mouth boldly to proclaim
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am an ambassador in chains, that I may
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This is the word of the.

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Thanks be to God, thanks to God.

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Amen.

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father, let the words of my
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be acceptable in your sight.

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Oh, Lord, Lord, again, we just want
what you have for us this morning.

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Save us from the opinions
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We need the wisdom.

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That's from God.

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That is you, Jesus.

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Amen.

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And Lord, we just pray.

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That you'd make much of Jesus in our
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situation, any anxiety, any fears,
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just the exhaustion of life.

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We just pray we'd wait on you during this
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you promised, we'd mount up with wings
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So restore unto us the
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And renew a right heart within us.

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In Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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so we're on to.

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The Belt of Truth.

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and we're gonna get into it today in
1864, a physician named Igna, SIM Simis.

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His name's crazy.

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You don't have to remember the
name, but remember his story.

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Okay, 1864.

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That's not that long ago.

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This doctor stumbled onto the theory.

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We now call germ theory.

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. In those days, everyone thought diseases
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because there was something wrong with
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That's why they had bleed you or
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Fever.

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That's where this would come from.

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And so doctors would go between patients
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They would go from working on a corpse,
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This was just general practice,
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would never wash their hands.

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It was believed in those days also
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washing because they were already clean.

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Crazy, right.

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That's a, that's wrong culture.

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Yeah, a cultural blind spot.

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So doc doctors would go from working
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delivering a baby, which is why death
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I mean, it was like at 40%.

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So this doctor began to suspect that they
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particles, invisible to the human eye.

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He didn't know what to call
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literally it's translated
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That's where the word comes from.

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It seems so obvious to us
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in those days thought that.

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He tested his theory by having just
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water and a little chlorine before
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mortality rates went down dramatically.

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But even then, the doctors wouldn't
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that all this destruction was caused
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just seemed unbelievable to them.

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We can't see it.

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It can't be, there's no point.

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it can't be that something we can't
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At a famous conference, this doctor
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For God's sake, please
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But nobody listened for about
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which we all know him, came along.

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Even his own wife didn't believe
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Thought to be a crazy man.

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Yeah, because he saw all the death
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and he was calling it out and
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We can't see it.

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It can't happen.

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We can't see it.

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It can't happen.

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Many Christians can be as equally naive
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it comes to what's happening in their.

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Because they're disbelieving
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That's where our wrestle,
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We wrestle not against flesh and blood.

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not in the physical, but in
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Mm-hmm.

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. 
Andy Stanley says that if you wanna
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realm, you won't find it by looking
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looking in the rear view mirror.

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The rear view mirror of your life, right?

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Can't you look back and see how certain
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You know, it's Joseph
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he's this young, strong man and
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out, and then she comes on to
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A set of circumstances perfectly timed
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It's way.

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Been merely coincidental, right?

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How the wrong person was put into
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I performed, that's actually how I met
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in Japanese because me and my brother
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And so, , uh, suicide is a crazy thing
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he doesn't get into the right school,
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on themselves and their suicide
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of that perf perfect standard
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the parents set for their kids.

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So anyways, we did a skit about suicide.

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We did it in Japanese and cuz
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trying to, show kids like, you
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to be used by God, and that,
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That was amazing.

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But a counselor came up to me and
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gonna increase a hundred percent.

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The Lord gave me a word for you.

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I was like, okay.

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Weird.

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And then there was this girl at the
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outta my league kind of thing and stuff.

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Well, then she became obsessed with
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stomach, burned it in with a lighter,
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movie Fatal Attraction or something.

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it was bad, but like a sheep to
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was like, oh wow, this is awesome.

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It can't be that word that God gave me,
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I remember, going to a park with her, I
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know, know, missionary dating, disciple of
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And I remember it was a bad situation.

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I was in and with her and we were
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And we are at this park and it's dark and
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and I was like, God, we rescued me.

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And, we ended the, and the relationship
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Nothing against her, like nothing.

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Huh?

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I said, maybe all right.

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amazing.

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but it was just like this so dialed
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told by God, you need to warn this kid.

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And  warned me.

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It was like too perfect of a situation
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like taking a stand, doing something.

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Hey, we can, we're not gonna
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We're gonna be used by Jesus.

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and, And that temptation comes.

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And, and there's other times where
God's tried to rescue, me in the

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midst of it and I've been too dumb.

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the wrong person was put into your
life at just the right time or the

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right question was planted into
your head to throw you off track.

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Did God really say, does
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Does he really value.

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Doesn't he want this for you?

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Or the suspicion in your heart
came at just the right time?

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Maybe God doesn't want what's best for me.

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Maybe God forgot.

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Maybe this is punishment,
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Or the perfect storm seemed to happen
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drive a wedge between you, like something
at work or something in a marriage.

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Something like this perfect
storm that just like.

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Your number right on it.

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The very thing you know to
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Paul concludes the Book of Ephesians
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of these spiritual forces, an
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away from trusting in themselves.

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And a trust in God.

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The whole point of Ephesians is to lean
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The divinity, the
holiness, the omnipotence.

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The omniscience of.

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Are good God.

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He's telling us to pray that we might see
it and taste it with spiritual taste buds.

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He's praying that we might expand our
capacity for his love, like over and over.

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He's saying this is the whole point.

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And so by presenting these spiritual
forces that are powerful and strong,

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he's saying once again, don't leave
this book going out into your own.

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Because that would be
the worst sermon ever.

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He's like, I don't want you to treat
this like a typical western religious

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sermon where it's like, cool, I
found out some cool facts about God.

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I understand the Greek word and the Aris
tense, and now I've got the knowledge.

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And now tell me the three things I
have to do to better my marriage,

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now I'm gonna go do it in my own
strength, and I'm gonna try really hard.

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Paula say, Guys, the whole point is that
you're not only facing the world, which

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he talked about in chapter two, the
flesh, and then now you're also facing the

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spiritual forces that want to destroy you.

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Do not move out from the presence of God.

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Stand firm in him.

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Do not move beyond the
gospel of what he's done.

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Stand in it firm.

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That's your foundation.

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That's the house that
is built on the rock.

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You taking the sermon upon
yourself to do it and to do the

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PowerPoints or the key things that's
building your house on the sand.

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That's man's might and man's strength.

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And he says, no, be strong in the
Lord and in the strength of his might.

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. You cannot be strong in
yourself and strong in God.

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And it is only when you sense your
weakness that you will be strong in God.

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So God beautifully, we're
all, we're like, why trials?

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Why trials?

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Why is it so hard?

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Why storms isn't it so often to
reveal your weakness and his strength

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aren't trials to undermine your self?

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the, I could do it.

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I, we just watched the shows this last
week and it's Peter walking on water.

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It's incredible.

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and Peter gets his eyes on the storm.

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He's I got this.

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and the whole point is like
Jesus says, no, I got you.

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I've got you.

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I'm the Lord of the storm.

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I'm the Lord of the storm.

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All through our lives, the storms that
come in are to show that he is faithful

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to rescue, that he is faithful to save,

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even when we feel like we're out in the
middle of nowhere, that we're vulnerable,

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that he is a mighty fortress, that
he is our shield, he is our strength.

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He is.

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Sustenance.

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he is everything.

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And so trials, God allows these things
when it talks about perfecting your

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faith, that over and over you see that
he's faithful even when we're not.

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Yeah.

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I think the desire for, the pill, the
spiritual pill, it, you could see it

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in like the whole weight loss industry,
which is find the right diet, this

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is the one, and people are promising
you, this is the one, the self-help

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industry is a billion dollar industry.

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the whole thing that they combat in
the first century is mysticism, which

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was like, Hey, Jesus is cool, but.

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, don't you really want to get spiritual?

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We'll take you, we'll give you
the five secret principles.

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We'll give you the deeper knowledge.

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more than, yeah, because
of Christ, you love him.

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Don't you really wanna learn live for him?

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And it's this, here's what you do.

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It's pushing religion into Christianity.

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The thing about Christianity is we gotta
remember, and what flies in the face

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of our Western culture is Christianity
is not about going from weakness to.

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. That's not maturity.

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It's going from strength to weakness.

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that's Christianity, that's the gospel.

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That's the upside down nature of it.

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it's increasing more my
dependence every day.

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What's crazy is the baby.

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Christian and the Christian
who's walked for 40 years.

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It's not so much about time is
what time does to cause dependence.

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And so maturity isn't, I've,
graduated seminary, I have x a

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number of years I've got this.

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It's those who linger long
in the presence of God.

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That's maturity.

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And for me early on I'm like had those
moments where I'm like abiding and I just.

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, the Lord and I'm there and he's talking
to me about Hey, I pass up that trash.

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he's I felt like God was
like pressing my conscience.

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oh yeah.

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Like little things like that.

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It was like every part of my life was
feel, but then I would run out ahead

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and I would go in my self-sufficiency.

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I would go, okay, I got it.

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Okay.

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Here's what you say about purity.

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Here's the verses.

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I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go out and
try my own, and I fall flat on my face.

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Why doesn't it work?

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because I've left my strength, I've
moved from abiding, depending on him as

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the source of my joy, the source of my
strength, that he's my greatest desire.

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to conquer a desire, you need
a greater desire, and that's

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just in every sphere of life.

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and when you sit in that, when you linger
in that, when the Holy Spirit's preaching

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to your heart daily, it was ch Persian.

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I did a biography on.

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And he said that over the past, like
40 years, he hadn't gone more than 10

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minutes out of fellowship with Jesus.

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That's mind blowing.

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So he would just, he'd catch himself.

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Wait a minute, something's weird,
and, like when you go over to

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somebody's home, you're so used to
the smell in your own home, right?

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And then you go over to somebody's
home and you're like, oh, that's what

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the zeto smell like, Or, you guys say,
oh, that's what the calor smell like.

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It's a mixture of pets and kids
and children and, all of it.

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It's like that he would go into
an environment and go, oh wait,

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this isn't where the Lord is.

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but just that knowledge,
that intimate relationship.

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But he said the way that he got
there was through drum roll.

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Suffering.

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Yeah.

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Suffering.

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So there's, because we didn't
wanna hear that . What suffering

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refines out of us is self.

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And our own attempt at Righteousness,
it reveals that we are weak.

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It reveals that we can't swim against
the storm no matter if we've, like Peter,

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been a fisherman and grew up on the lake,
that we cannot triumph over the storm.

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We need the Lord of the storm in our boat.

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that's maturity.

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Maturity recognizes Jesus is the
Lord of the storm and I'm not.

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And you learn the Lord's
heart like the Lord.

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Cause suffering, but he redeems it.

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He hates evil.

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He hates suffering.

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It's one of the reasons he came back.

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Yes, but he will use suffering
our lives to accomplish the exact

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opposite of what the enemy wants
to accomplish through suffering.

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The enemy thinks if they suffer,
they're gonna abandon you because

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they only love you because things
are good and cushy like he told Joe.

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Look at Job, and God said,
you can do this much.

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And he only allows the exact
opposite of what Satan is trying

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to accomplish, which is the defeat
of evil in Satan, which is amazing.

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And that it ultimately
serves our joy in the end.

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when he wipes every tear from our eyes,
to see him triumph, to see him glorious,

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to see him rescue us over and over.

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we'll get to it, but like
we need to see every day.

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The Lord is my.

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Like I shall not want
like he leads me, right?

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though I walked through the
valley of the shadow of death.

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Thou art with me.

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You're Rod and your
staff, they comfort me.

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Like you've prepared for me, a
table in the presence of my enemies.

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like we need the Lord all the way
through every step of the way.

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We don't go, okay, God, I'm trained.

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Launch me out.

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It's no.

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Everything's about being in him
abiding, being like he is our strength.

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and Paul reminds us of that
here, be strong in the Lord and

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in the strength of his mind.

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One of the ways that we know that if we're
strong in ourself, are strong in God.

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And this is just so undoing.

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So I'll move through this quickly
cuz I don't want this to be

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too convicting, for me, is.

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Prayer pulses in verse 18, praying
at all times in the spirit with

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all prayer and supplication.

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To that end, keep alert with
all perseverance, making

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supplication for all the saints.

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He says in every
situation, what is prayer?

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Prayer is that.

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Our communicating that we
need, God, we need his rescue.

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We're we're confused.

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We don't know what to do.

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Making supplication we're misaligned.

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We begin to think and we begin to
tell him how beautiful he is over

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the things that our hearts are
fondling currently at the moment.

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Paul Miller.

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Amazing book called The Praying Life.

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He said, according to Jesus,
acknowledging our neediness opens the

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door to genuine and lasting happiness.

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Religion usually talks about what
a person has to do, but Jesus

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talks about what we can't do.

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Very important how we read.

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When Jesus is talking, he says that
our weakness, not our power, or what

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we bring to God, enables us to know
God, our weakness, not our power.

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We have an allergic
reaction to dependency.

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But this is the state of the heart
most necessary for a praying life.

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A needy heart is a praying, heart
dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

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If you're not praying you are quietly
confident that time, money, and talent

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are all you need in life, you'll always
be a little too tired, a little too busy.

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But if like Jesus, you realize you
can't do life on your own, then no

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matter how busy, no matter how tired
you are, you will find time to pray up.

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And so he is just saying that shows
our neediness, our dependency.

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Lord, I don't know what
to do in this situation.

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Rolling up.

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God, I'm exhausted today,
but I know you say that I am.

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The be great in your kingdom
is to be the servant of all.

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Help me gimme strength to serve.

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Let me see how you've served me.

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Like just that continual prayer
life, that continual talking to

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the Lord, the tasting good food.

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Lord, that's amazing.

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Like talking to him all
the time about everything.

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That ongoing communication,  how do we
appropriate God's strengthen our lives.

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Armor and the belt of truth.

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The armor Paul tells us the
environment we do god's work in is

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not a playground, but a battleground.

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It's not vacation.

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it's, it's a battle.

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I remember, two missionaries were
coming home, from Africa and they

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happened to be on the same boat
that Teddy Roosevelt was coming home

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on a safari that he had just done.

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And so as they pull in, they
had spent their entire lives,

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they were retiring, their old.

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They had nothing to their name.

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And as they pull in on this ship, coming
back to America, there is a parade.

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There is, the band, the big brass
band plane, there's banners all

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celebrating Teddy Roosevelt, he's
come back, he's been victorious.

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he's killed lions, and stuffed them,

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wow.

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Look at our president.

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It's so cool.

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And everyth.

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And as everybody cleared, as he got
driven away, as everybody just dissipated,

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these missionaries had one suitcase to
their name and they were left alone.

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Nobody picked them up.

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They made their way with
what little changes they had,

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and they got a hotel room.

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and they were gonna try to figure
out where do we go from here?

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And the husband had just had enough.

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He'd been like, I can't believe
that we have given our lives to God.

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We have spin ourselves, for
his kingdom and his work.

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And, uh, not one single person
was there to welcome us home.

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What's up with that?

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He probably didn't say, what's up
with that ? He's so frustrated and his

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wife like, like wives are off to do.

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Corrected his vision and said,
but honey, we're not home yet.

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We're not home yet.

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That's good.

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We're pilgrims.

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We're not home yet.

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this isn't where we get that welcome.

469
00:24:59,850 --> 00:25:03,240
This isn't where we get that celebration,
where we get that parade that's

470
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,450
coming that and from God himself.

471
00:25:06,810 --> 00:25:11,470
It's a, the angels are a much greater
brass band  than the best brass band.

472
00:25:12,190 --> 00:25:15,259
And I like spa music, but
man, I like the super tones.

473
00:25:15,259 --> 00:25:18,507
But man, being welcomed into heaven
and having the King of Kings and

474
00:25:18,507 --> 00:25:21,027
the Lord of Lords himself look
at you and say, well done now.

475
00:25:21,027 --> 00:25:22,077
Good un faithful servant.

476
00:25:22,677 --> 00:25:23,967
Come enter into my joy.

477
00:25:23,967 --> 00:25:24,627
Let's celebrate.

478
00:25:24,627 --> 00:25:25,887
Let's feast, let party.

479
00:25:27,687 --> 00:25:29,817
It's gonna be,  everything.

480
00:25:29,847 --> 00:25:30,597
Yes.

481
00:25:31,427 --> 00:25:35,187
So it reminds us that's
coming and it Sure.

482
00:25:35,257 --> 00:25:38,500
The Holy Spirit is the guarantee  God
has has written our names in the Lambs

483
00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:41,650
book of life, not in a pencil where he is
gonna erase it depending on what you do.

484
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,340
But by his blood, he's engraved
you on the palms of his hands.

485
00:25:46,930 --> 00:25:48,730
You are ever before him.

486
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,230
It's no mistake after talking about what
the Christian life is to be, that he

487
00:25:53,350 --> 00:25:56,590
gets us to this spiritual battle imagery.

488
00:25:56,950 --> 00:26:00,058
Wherever God's people join God's work
of redeeming and renewing in every

489
00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:01,948
sphere of life, the enemy will oppose.

490
00:26:01,948 --> 00:26:02,668
No Saint is.

491
00:26:04,258 --> 00:26:07,468
Wherever marriages are built up,
families are made healthy places of

492
00:26:07,468 --> 00:26:11,758
work infiltrated with loving servants,
churches that love each other and

493
00:26:11,763 --> 00:26:15,928
demonstrate that through love, that
we are really Jesus' disciples to the

494
00:26:16,388 --> 00:26:20,248
watching world where cities are loved
and served and prayed for, where just

495
00:26:20,248 --> 00:26:26,878
injustices and fought and mercy wins
the day the enemy will oppose that work.

496
00:26:28,168 --> 00:26:31,498
He's okay with.

497
00:26:35,743 --> 00:26:38,293
Stasis static.

498
00:26:38,323 --> 00:26:39,223
He's okay.

499
00:26:39,223 --> 00:26:46,333
And he likes when we're just on coast, he
doesn't like the people who are taking a

500
00:26:46,333 --> 00:26:49,494
stand, standing in the Lord's strength.

501
00:26:49,914 --> 00:26:51,196
He doesn't, he, he'd rather it.

502
00:26:51,316 --> 00:26:55,430
Lukewarm,  you're neither hot or cold,
you're not causing all this and stuff.

503
00:26:55,430 --> 00:26:55,940
And Yeah.

504
00:26:55,968 --> 00:26:58,164
you don't get involved in
other people's business.

505
00:26:58,169 --> 00:26:59,420
You just mine your own business.

506
00:26:59,420 --> 00:27:01,079
You've got, eternal insurance.

507
00:27:01,103 --> 00:27:03,491
you're, you're just, yeah,
you're g He loves that.

508
00:27:04,051 --> 00:27:05,081
He loves that.

509
00:27:06,316 --> 00:27:09,436
The danger about the lukewarm
church is that Jesus is trying to

510
00:27:09,436 --> 00:27:10,676
get in and break bread with you.

511
00:27:10,676 --> 00:27:13,616
You know, he's like, Hey, the
whole Christianity thing is about

512
00:27:13,616 --> 00:27:17,816
us, me and you sharing and sitting
at the table in fellowship.

513
00:27:18,626 --> 00:27:19,076
, right?

514
00:27:19,766 --> 00:27:22,106
Therefore, take up the whole armor of God.

515
00:27:22,136 --> 00:27:24,986
Or we put on the whole armor of
God that you may be able to stand

516
00:27:24,986 --> 00:27:26,756
against the schemes of the devil.

517
00:27:26,786 --> 00:27:29,096
Verse 13, take up the whole
armor of God that you may be able

518
00:27:29,096 --> 00:27:30,416
to withstand in the evil day.

519
00:27:30,626 --> 00:27:35,392
And having done all to stand firm
and giving the spiritual armor,

520
00:27:35,392 --> 00:27:37,222
Paul is not introducing a new theme.

521
00:27:37,227 --> 00:27:37,772
He hasn't.

522
00:27:37,947 --> 00:27:39,957
Covered yet in Ephesians.

523
00:27:40,527 --> 00:27:45,290
Now, each of the pieces of armor is
simply a way of applying the gospel

524
00:27:45,290 --> 00:27:49,100
that he's been teaching for six chapters
through Ephesians to different per life.

525
00:27:49,460 --> 00:27:52,910
He, in essence, is saying, let the
gospel be all over you, your head.

526
00:27:53,490 --> 00:27:56,430
Your heart, your waist,
your hands, your feet.

527
00:27:56,850 --> 00:27:59,760
When we become a Christian, there's
a sense in which we have all the

528
00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:02,730
blessing and power and privileges
and benefits that are Christ.

529
00:28:03,150 --> 00:28:04,110
In another sense.

530
00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:05,991
We've been learning this
whole time in which we need to

531
00:28:05,991 --> 00:28:07,491
appropriate it to put it on.

532
00:28:07,881 --> 00:28:11,691
Their stories about people who've been
given an inheritance and their bank

533
00:28:11,691 --> 00:28:18,081
account is got millions of dollars in
it, and yet they're evicted because they.

534
00:28:19,011 --> 00:28:20,601
Draw on what they have.

535
00:28:20,901 --> 00:28:22,521
They live like poppers.

536
00:28:22,551 --> 00:28:25,191
They live like they're poor.

537
00:28:25,191 --> 00:28:27,408
They live in that old time kind of way.

538
00:28:27,414 --> 00:28:32,143
that they grew up in, scarcity
mindset, and and they won't literally

539
00:28:32,143 --> 00:28:34,453
draw on what belongs to them.

540
00:28:34,543 --> 00:28:39,522
They have the card running, it's
yours, and, And, and so Paul is

541
00:28:39,522 --> 00:28:41,532
saying, we need to put this on, right?

542
00:28:41,532 --> 00:28:44,052
It's yours, and this
armor's pretty amazing.

543
00:28:44,052 --> 00:28:46,422
Now just put it on and we're
gonna talk about what that means.

544
00:28:48,267 --> 00:28:51,237
We have it, we need to put it on
to bring what we have in Jesus

545
00:28:51,237 --> 00:28:52,827
into the core of who we are.

546
00:28:52,947 --> 00:28:55,705
The gospel is the power
of God, in your life.

547
00:28:55,705 --> 00:28:59,785
Romans one and the way God reverses
the corruption of sin and repels

548
00:28:59,790 --> 00:29:00,925
the power of Satan from you.

549
00:29:00,925 --> 00:29:04,435
So Paul's urging the Ephesians to take
the things he taught them about God

550
00:29:04,435 --> 00:29:06,925
and cover every part of them with it.

551
00:29:06,925 --> 00:29:08,635
Leave no part out.

552
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,580
. The way we keep the corrupting influences
the enemy out of our lives is by

553
00:29:13,580 --> 00:29:20,060
establishing every part of our life,
our hopes, our dreams, our failures, our

554
00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:23,960
worries, our fears, our relationships,
our pleasures, our disappointments.

555
00:29:25,090 --> 00:29:28,570
on the good news of Jesus on
the gospel of what he's done.

556
00:29:29,410 --> 00:29:33,400
The flip side of this is that whatever
part of you is not established in the

557
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,720
gospel, whether that's your marriage,
your job, your dreams, whatever part is

558
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:43,240
not saturated in that gospel, identity
is subject to manipulation of the enemy.

559
00:29:43,405 --> 00:29:44,245
Against you.

560
00:29:44,515 --> 00:29:45,865
I think we all know this, right?

561
00:29:46,075 --> 00:29:50,725
Let the gospel cover your head and your
feet and your waist and your chest.

562
00:29:50,995 --> 00:29:51,925
That's the armor.

563
00:29:51,930 --> 00:29:54,565
Because when something is
covered by fortified in the

564
00:29:54,565 --> 00:29:57,055
gospel, Satan can't touch it.

565
00:29:57,205 --> 00:30:00,475
You're strong in your identity,
you're putting it on you, you're

566
00:30:00,475 --> 00:30:03,025
thinking about it, and we're gonna
talk about how that works with truth.

567
00:30:03,265 --> 00:30:06,475
The armor of God puts stress
on the fact that this is not

568
00:30:06,475 --> 00:30:08,605
something we have naturally.

569
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,530
It's the armor of God.

570
00:30:11,530 --> 00:30:12,460
It's from God.

571
00:30:12,460 --> 00:30:13,510
It's his armor.

572
00:30:13,660 --> 00:30:18,340
It's something that has been
provided to us as a gift to us.

573
00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:20,020
It's not something we muster.

574
00:30:20,025 --> 00:30:22,889
It's not something that we
get after, going to seminary.

575
00:30:23,069 --> 00:30:27,229
Hey, you've got your, your degree
and now you can wear the armor.

576
00:30:27,287 --> 00:30:27,973
I don't know.

577
00:30:27,973 --> 00:30:31,153
I, growing up in youth ministry,
we'd always have youth pastors trying

578
00:30:31,153 --> 00:30:35,108
to explain the armor and I, it was
so abstract and I was like, okay.

579
00:30:35,108 --> 00:30:36,442
I I don't get it.

580
00:30:37,132 --> 00:30:38,122
What does it mean?

581
00:30:38,122 --> 00:30:41,685
Put it on, and so I'd be like, in my
room, I'm like, uh, my dad would always

582
00:30:41,685 --> 00:30:46,046
say, I dunno if you saw Batman in 1989
by Tim Burton, but, his car was so cool.

583
00:30:46,068 --> 00:30:47,413
he'd just say, shields up.

584
00:30:47,443 --> 00:30:50,027
And the shields,. So my dad would
always say that when he'd pray, he'd

585
00:30:50,032 --> 00:30:52,097
be like, Lord, we're going out today.

586
00:30:52,097 --> 00:30:57,663
Shields up,, and we'd all make the noise,
you know, what is this mean to put it on?

587
00:30:58,443 --> 00:30:59,703
But first of all, it's from the Lord.

588
00:30:59,703 --> 00:31:01,833
I told you guys, let's look at Isaiah 59.

589
00:31:01,833 --> 00:31:03,543
I'm just gonna read it in the message.

590
00:31:03,590 --> 00:31:05,742
and listen, look, listen.

591
00:31:06,547 --> 00:31:08,587
God's arm is not amputated.

592
00:31:08,587 --> 00:31:09,847
He can still save.

593
00:31:09,847 --> 00:31:11,707
God's ears are not stopped still.

594
00:31:12,787 --> 00:31:14,017
There's nothing wrong with God.

595
00:31:14,017 --> 00:31:15,067
The wrong is in you.

596
00:31:15,097 --> 00:31:18,247
Your wrong-headed lives cause the
split between you and your God.

597
00:31:18,607 --> 00:31:20,542
Your sins got between you
so that he doesn't hear.

598
00:31:21,397 --> 00:31:22,807
Your hands are drenched in blood.

599
00:31:22,807 --> 00:31:24,157
Your fingers dripping with guilt.

600
00:31:24,162 --> 00:31:25,987
Your lips smeared with lies.

601
00:31:26,287 --> 00:31:28,777
Your tongues swollen from
muttering obscenities.

602
00:31:28,777 --> 00:31:30,337
No one speaks up for the right.

603
00:31:30,487 --> 00:31:31,537
No one deals fairly.

604
00:31:31,897 --> 00:31:33,097
They trust an illusion.

605
00:31:33,097 --> 00:31:33,967
They tell lies.

606
00:31:33,967 --> 00:31:36,037
They get pregnant with
mischief and have sin.

607
00:31:37,432 --> 00:31:39,922
They hatch snake eggs
and weave spiderwebs.

608
00:31:40,072 --> 00:31:42,652
Eat an egg and die, break
an egg and get a snake.

609
00:31:42,952 --> 00:31:45,712
The spiderwebs are no
good for shirts or shawls.

610
00:31:45,982 --> 00:31:47,442
No one can wear these weavings.

611
00:31:48,487 --> 00:31:49,597
They weave wickedness.

612
00:31:49,597 --> 00:31:50,647
They hatch violence.

613
00:31:50,647 --> 00:31:55,207
They compete in the race to do
evil and run to be first to murder.

614
00:31:55,417 --> 00:31:58,567
They plan and plot evil,
think and breathe evil.

615
00:31:58,567 --> 00:32:01,028
They leave a trail of,
wrecked lives behind them.

616
00:32:01,208 --> 00:32:04,718
They know nothing about peace
unless than nothing about justice.

617
00:32:04,718 --> 00:32:11,228
They make torturously twisted roads,
no peace for the wretch who walks down

618
00:32:11,438 --> 00:32:14,968
these roads explaining a very dire situ.

619
00:32:15,998 --> 00:32:23,888
A very dire city, a very dire state, which
means that they far cry from fair dealing,

620
00:32:24,008 --> 00:32:25,988
and we're not even close to right living.

621
00:32:26,528 --> 00:32:29,108
We long for light, but sink into darkness.

622
00:32:29,258 --> 00:32:31,228
Long for brightness, but
stumble through the night.

623
00:32:31,958 --> 00:32:36,128
Like the blind, we inch along a
wall groping Islas in the dark.

624
00:32:36,278 --> 00:32:40,088
We shuffle our way in broad daylight
like the dead, but somehow walking,

625
00:32:40,688 --> 00:32:42,458
we're no better than the bears groaning.

626
00:32:42,458 --> 00:32:43,958
No worse than the doves moaning.

627
00:32:43,958 --> 00:32:45,038
We look for justice.

628
00:32:45,043 --> 00:32:46,928
Not a sign of it for salvation.

629
00:32:47,438 --> 00:32:53,498
Not so much as a hint looking at their
own people to save their own strength.

630
00:32:53,498 --> 00:32:53,918
To save.

631
00:32:54,713 --> 00:32:56,663
Our wrongdoings pile up before you.

632
00:32:57,053 --> 00:32:59,093
God, our sins stand up and accuse us.

633
00:32:59,153 --> 00:33:04,703
So not only are they in a dire way, no,
not only can their own strength not save

634
00:33:04,703 --> 00:33:08,003
them, but they're choosing the darkness.

635
00:33:08,003 --> 00:33:11,733
The crookedness of the God
is seeing that and he's.

636
00:33:12,203 --> 00:33:14,333
Going to give an answer to it.

637
00:33:14,333 --> 00:33:16,418
Our wrong di wrongdoings pilot before you.

638
00:33:16,418 --> 00:33:19,268
God, our sins stand up and accuse
us our wrongdoing stare us down.

639
00:33:19,508 --> 00:33:24,278
We know in detail what we've done, mocking
and denying God not following our God.

640
00:33:24,428 --> 00:33:27,008
Spreading false rumors,
whipping up, revolt, pregnant

641
00:33:27,008 --> 00:33:28,418
with lies, muttering, malice.

642
00:33:28,628 --> 00:33:30,128
Justice is beaten back.

643
00:33:30,458 --> 00:33:32,528
Righteousness is banished
to the sidelines.

644
00:33:32,528 --> 00:33:33,878
Truth staggers down the street.

645
00:33:33,908 --> 00:33:35,798
Honesty is nowhere to be found.

646
00:33:36,068 --> 00:33:38,288
God is missing an action.

647
00:33:38,648 --> 00:33:41,408
Anyone renouncing evil is beaten and Robb.

648
00:33:42,728 --> 00:33:44,858
And so that's the situation.

649
00:33:45,368 --> 00:33:48,518
This kind of is a biography
of all of our salvations.

650
00:33:49,088 --> 00:33:54,848
This is the, no one wants God, no one
seeks for him in Romans three, this is the

651
00:33:55,298 --> 00:34:01,148
realistic portrayal of a life separated
from God, a life who tries on its own to

652
00:34:01,148 --> 00:34:03,878
sustain itself, to be self-sufficient.

653
00:34:03,878 --> 00:34:05,468
To be self-righteous.

654
00:34:06,863 --> 00:34:07,793
That's out for its own.

655
00:34:07,793 --> 00:34:10,523
That's out to decide this is
where truth is coming from.

656
00:34:10,523 --> 00:34:11,683
This is where I get pleasure.

657
00:34:11,751 --> 00:34:13,371
this is right and this is wrong.

658
00:34:13,521 --> 00:34:16,641
And in the whole scheme of it,
God looks at it and all it's

659
00:34:16,641 --> 00:34:24,710
doing is piling up wrath for the
day of judgment, righteousness

660
00:34:24,710 --> 00:34:25,911
is banished to the sidelines.

661
00:34:25,969 --> 00:34:29,282
verse 15, God looked and saw
evil looming on the horizon.

662
00:34:29,312 --> 00:34:30,601
So much evil on no sign of.

663
00:34:31,952 --> 00:34:33,992
He couldn't believe what he
saw, not a soul around to

664
00:34:33,992 --> 00:34:35,792
correct this awful situation.

665
00:34:35,847 --> 00:34:36,927
And isn't that the state?

666
00:34:36,987 --> 00:34:38,937
Can't we all testify to that?

667
00:34:39,476 --> 00:34:43,907
Not as much as we wanted it, no
matter our strength, you know all the

668
00:34:43,907 --> 00:34:48,317
false messiahs in the past, all the
religious systems in history could

669
00:34:48,317 --> 00:34:53,177
never save, could never lift a finger,
could never change the human heart.

670
00:34:55,411 --> 00:34:56,641
So he did it himself.

671
00:34:58,742 --> 00:35:00,722
Took on the work of salvation.

672
00:35:00,882 --> 00:35:06,072
He dressed in righteousness, put
it on like a suit of armor with

673
00:35:06,077 --> 00:35:11,802
salvation on his head, like a helmet
put on judgment like an overcoat.

674
00:35:11,802 --> 00:35:15,642
And he threw a cloak of passion
across his shoulders, which is such

675
00:35:15,642 --> 00:35:20,622
a beautiful description of his zeal
for saving you, his desire to save.

676
00:35:21,882 --> 00:35:23,562
He'll make everyone pay for what they've.

677
00:35:24,702 --> 00:35:27,852
Fury for his foes, just
desserts for his enemies.

678
00:35:27,882 --> 00:35:31,122
Even the far off islands
will get paid off in full.

679
00:35:31,122 --> 00:35:35,129
Nothing escapes his eyes in the west,
they'll fear the name of God in the east.

680
00:35:35,129 --> 00:35:38,909
They'll fear the glory of God for he'll
arrive like a river in a fled stage,

681
00:35:38,914 --> 00:35:41,279
whipped to a torrent by the wind of God.

682
00:35:41,544 --> 00:35:46,104
I'll arrive in Zion as redeemer
to those in Jacob who leave their

683
00:35:46,104 --> 00:35:49,614
sins, God's decree as for me,
God says, this is my covenant.

684
00:35:49,614 --> 00:35:53,394
Within my spirit that I've placed upon
you and the words that I've given you to

685
00:35:53,399 --> 00:35:57,684
speak, they're not going to leave your
mouth and the mouths of your children

686
00:35:57,684 --> 00:35:59,424
nor the mouth of your grandchildren.

687
00:35:59,664 --> 00:36:03,594
You'll keep repeating these words
and won't ever stop God's orders.

688
00:36:03,774 --> 00:36:05,904
And so he says, I'm gonna go to battle.

689
00:36:05,904 --> 00:36:07,104
I'm going to clove.

690
00:36:07,629 --> 00:36:11,619
With righteousness as a breastplate,
the helmet on my head as salvation.

691
00:36:11,619 --> 00:36:16,209
I'm in ager myself up with armor
and not a single person who's done

692
00:36:16,209 --> 00:36:21,189
wrong will be able to stand against
the holy glory of almighty God.

693
00:36:22,989 --> 00:36:24,609
And Jesus comes onto the scene.

694
00:36:24,614 --> 00:36:25,069
Yeah.

695
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,599
And people ask him, where's your army?

696
00:36:30,669 --> 00:36:33,249
He tells Peter, when Peter
draws a sword, put it away.

697
00:36:34,179 --> 00:36:34,929
That's not how we.

698
00:36:36,254 --> 00:36:38,354
And he goes to the cross and he wins.

699
00:36:38,354 --> 00:36:45,264
By losing  his righteousness that he wore
became our righteousness, the salvation

700
00:36:45,269 --> 00:36:50,514
that he provided, that he went to
battle and he accomplished it so crazy.

701
00:36:50,514 --> 00:36:52,464
And then, We see it there.

702
00:36:52,464 --> 00:36:53,724
No one escapes.

703
00:36:53,904 --> 00:36:59,364
No one escapes God's righteous, holy
judgment upon sin because sin is evil,

704
00:36:59,364 --> 00:37:03,174
wicked, and twisted, and God is holy and
just, and there has to be an answer to it.

705
00:37:03,414 --> 00:37:06,654
And Jesus stepped in
and he bore that answer.

706
00:37:06,654 --> 00:37:07,914
He took the punishment, he.

707
00:37:08,069 --> 00:37:13,024
Took the legal wrath for what
I deserved from a Holy God

708
00:37:13,024 --> 00:37:17,794
I love that verse because it's like even
where you think God doesn't see, even when

709
00:37:17,794 --> 00:37:23,584
you've forgotten, he remembers and elated
on Jesus's shoulders so that you could

710
00:37:23,589 --> 00:37:27,364
be redeemed, so that you could be made
right, so that you could be forgiven, so

711
00:37:27,364 --> 00:37:32,074
that you could be brought back into Eden
walking with God in the cool of the day.

712
00:37:32,204 --> 00:37:33,824
Family restored.

713
00:37:33,884 --> 00:37:35,474
He bought us back.

714
00:37:35,474 --> 00:37:40,604
He redeemed us by the blood, by his blood
that he shed as he suffered in our place.

715
00:37:40,814 --> 00:37:42,854
Jesus won the victory that day.

716
00:37:43,004 --> 00:37:46,004
Yeah, he put that armor on, and so
when he is talking about the armor,

717
00:37:46,009 --> 00:37:48,914
he is not talking about an armor we
muster, but he's talking about the

718
00:37:48,974 --> 00:37:52,874
armor, that gospel armor that he wears.

719
00:37:53,519 --> 00:37:56,579
That it's a foreign righteousness
that's given to us to protect our

720
00:37:56,579 --> 00:37:58,559
heart, to protect our conscience.

721
00:37:58,559 --> 00:38:02,879
We'll talk about that next week, that the
helmet of salvation, that we are to have

722
00:38:02,879 --> 00:38:05,069
that, that we are new creations in Christ.

723
00:38:05,069 --> 00:38:07,409
The oldest pass away, behold
everything's become new.

724
00:38:07,649 --> 00:38:13,829
That faith in who he is, however small
it is, and however big the dart is,

725
00:38:14,009 --> 00:38:15,539
we'll quench the fiery darts of the.

726
00:38:16,349 --> 00:38:21,959
If it's faith in him and what
he's done and what he declares

727
00:38:21,959 --> 00:38:24,539
to be real, the belt of truth.

728
00:38:24,539 --> 00:38:27,448
get into and talk about these things,
but guys, this isn't something

729
00:38:27,448 --> 00:38:31,452
you must, or it's not okay, I'm
putting the, it is recognizing

730
00:38:31,452 --> 00:38:33,042
what he's already accomplished.

731
00:38:33,042 --> 00:38:37,253
The gospel is good news about what's been
done, not advice of what you have to do.

732
00:38:37,583 --> 00:38:40,313
The armor of God is not advice
about what you have to do.

733
00:38:40,493 --> 00:38:41,933
It's appropri.

734
00:38:42,108 --> 00:38:45,401
What has already been done and
what has already been, won for

735
00:38:45,401 --> 00:38:47,471
you at the cross of Jesus Christ.

736
00:38:47,471 --> 00:38:51,551
For fight in the resurrection,
in the empty tomb, it is

737
00:38:51,641 --> 00:38:56,741
appropriating the work of Jesus
Now as he intercedes on our behalf.

738
00:38:56,921 --> 00:39:01,281
Doesn't sleep, doesn't slumber, but
sees it intercedes as that faithful

739
00:39:01,286 --> 00:39:05,261
high priest that we can come to
boldly and find grace in the time of.

740
00:39:06,021 --> 00:39:10,071
That he is gentle and he's lowly of heart,
that he's drawn to our failures, that he's

741
00:39:10,071 --> 00:39:12,411
drawn to our weakness, that he's drawn to.

742
00:39:12,411 --> 00:39:16,952
Those times when we're so frustrated
at the brokenness of this world

743
00:39:16,952 --> 00:39:20,462
and the brokenness that we do to
others, that he's constantly moving

744
00:39:20,467 --> 00:39:22,106
towards us and not away from us.

745
00:39:22,155 --> 00:39:23,625
that's what we're.

746
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,200
Taking everything that he won for us.

747
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:27,400
We're putting that on.

748
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:28,990
And that's how you're protected.

749
00:39:28,990 --> 00:39:33,380
That's how you're strong is when
the gospel is ging your loins, when

750
00:39:33,426 --> 00:39:35,826
the gospel is protecting your heart.

751
00:39:35,846 --> 00:39:41,756
when your mind is saturated in your new
identity, when you believe what God says

752
00:39:41,756 --> 00:39:46,796
is true, when you believe that he's the
authority in this world, and you could

753
00:39:46,796 --> 00:39:51,956
say, yeah, this is what I want to do, or
this is what you say is true, but it is.

754
00:39:52,796 --> 00:39:53,366
It is written.

755
00:39:53,366 --> 00:39:56,516
It is written that this
is what God says is true.

756
00:39:56,516 --> 00:39:58,276
This is how he made the universe.

757
00:39:58,281 --> 00:40:01,016
And he is my authority.

758
00:40:01,016 --> 00:40:02,126
He is my king.

759
00:40:02,216 --> 00:40:03,506
He is my Lord.

760
00:40:03,506 --> 00:40:05,026
He is the captain of my salvation.

761
00:40:05,029 --> 00:40:09,962
so like it is putting these
things on and what God has done.

762
00:40:10,232 --> 00:40:12,997
So it's another way of him
saying, be who I made to.

763
00:40:14,367 --> 00:40:17,407
Yeah, live it lid outta who I made you.

764
00:40:17,412 --> 00:40:22,237
I, at the beginning of the study of
Ephesians, we talked about the kid who

765
00:40:22,537 --> 00:40:27,127
was never good in school and then he
took the SATs and he scored one of the

766
00:40:27,127 --> 00:40:28,847
highest scores you can get in the SATs.

767
00:40:28,847 --> 00:40:31,100
And he is geez, that's crazy.

768
00:40:31,105 --> 00:40:32,330
I actually get my life together.

769
00:40:32,390 --> 00:40:33,470
I didn't know I was the smart.

770
00:40:33,620 --> 00:40:37,070
And so then he became an entrepreneur
and he built a business and everything.

771
00:40:37,220 --> 00:40:39,680
20 years later, he got his real score.

772
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:40,520
They had mixed him up.

773
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:41,360
He got some other kids'.

774
00:40:42,770 --> 00:40:47,360
But just the idea that
this is who you are.

775
00:40:48,380 --> 00:40:52,052
You are not this, you are,
this transformed his life.

776
00:40:53,162 --> 00:40:55,442
Now, that's a goofy story about an S A T.

777
00:40:55,952 --> 00:40:57,782
This is Jesus Christ Saint.

778
00:40:57,842 --> 00:40:58,922
This is who I've made you.

779
00:40:58,927 --> 00:41:00,812
Now you are a child of God.

780
00:41:00,992 --> 00:41:05,342
You are not a human being
that I have made a little.

781
00:41:06,362 --> 00:41:08,102
You were dead and I've made you alive.

782
00:41:08,102 --> 00:41:09,182
You've been born again.

783
00:41:09,452 --> 00:41:11,012
You have a new nature.

784
00:41:11,162 --> 00:41:14,792
Not a reformed nature,
not a remodeled nature.

785
00:41:15,932 --> 00:41:16,922
A new nature.

786
00:41:17,082 --> 00:41:18,182
Yes, powerful.

787
00:41:18,272 --> 00:41:19,562
The oldest passed away.

788
00:41:19,952 --> 00:41:21,242
Everything's become new.

789
00:41:21,512 --> 00:41:23,042
You are a child of God.

790
00:41:23,192 --> 00:41:24,812
I'm no longer a slave to fear.

791
00:41:24,812 --> 00:41:25,832
I am a child of God.

792
00:41:25,837 --> 00:41:28,998
That is like what we need
to sing every day and.

793
00:41:29,004 --> 00:41:29,714
appropriating the gospel.

794
00:41:29,714 --> 00:41:32,354
We don't, the gospel's not
the ABCs, it's the A to Z.

795
00:41:32,954 --> 00:41:35,684
You don't move beyond the
gospel into deeper theology.

796
00:41:35,744 --> 00:41:37,574
The gospel is the deeper theology.

797
00:41:37,904 --> 00:41:47,137
Your life will be spli spent, meditating,
chewing, tasting, thinking, thinking

798
00:41:47,137 --> 00:41:52,147
out the implications like a accountant
Wayne, or as Paul uses reckoning.

799
00:41:52,249 --> 00:41:57,556
filling out the ledger, weighing it,
letting that reality of what God says is

800
00:41:57,556 --> 00:42:02,956
true the more we move out and that the
more we stand in, that we stand in it.

801
00:42:04,036 --> 00:42:07,696
That's where the victory is because the
Victory's already been won in the gospel.

802
00:42:08,596 --> 00:42:13,096
So Isaiah 1115 says, and also
righteousness will be the belt

803
00:42:13,246 --> 00:42:18,346
about his loins and faithfulness
the belt about his waste.

804
00:42:18,856 --> 00:42:21,991
So again, all this is something that
God does and something God gives.

805
00:42:21,996 --> 00:42:24,631
It's not something you dredge up
or you go to Bible school to earn.

806
00:42:24,631 --> 00:42:26,401
It doesn't come at the end
of four years after you.

807
00:42:27,351 --> 00:42:30,111
It will each in every Christian,
but you must appropriate it.

808
00:42:30,171 --> 00:42:33,051
Put on the gospel that's already yours.

809
00:42:33,291 --> 00:42:36,081
Take the various benefits and
resources you have in the gospel

810
00:42:36,261 --> 00:42:40,911
and not just believe in them
intellectually, but use them.

811
00:42:42,291 --> 00:42:42,951
But use them.

812
00:42:43,881 --> 00:42:47,571
Tim Keller says that if you
really believed for a day

813
00:42:51,621 --> 00:42:52,971
that God loved you, no matter what you.

814
00:42:56,716 --> 00:43:00,676
And you couldn't get more of his
love and you couldn't lose it.

815
00:43:01,606 --> 00:43:03,196
That he loves you fully and completely.

816
00:43:04,336 --> 00:43:05,836
That you would live a different life.

817
00:43:06,826 --> 00:43:07,666
A different life.

818
00:43:08,416 --> 00:43:08,626
Why?

819
00:43:08,626 --> 00:43:13,126
Because I don't have to
worry cuz God loves me.

820
00:43:13,816 --> 00:43:17,446
If we really leaned into that one little
fact, like I don't have to be anxious.

821
00:43:18,826 --> 00:43:20,761
because this is passed through
the nail scar hands of Jesus.

822
00:43:20,761 --> 00:43:21,241
He's sovereign.

823
00:43:21,241 --> 00:43:22,171
He sits on his throne.

824
00:43:22,411 --> 00:43:25,831
So like this, if he loves me,
then he knows what's best for me.

825
00:43:25,836 --> 00:43:26,641
He knows what's good.

826
00:43:26,851 --> 00:43:28,291
So I can just be at peace.

827
00:43:28,296 --> 00:43:30,497
I can like, see how
transformative that is.

828
00:43:30,518 --> 00:43:36,968
Even that little decision can come from
a place of our gospel identity because

829
00:43:36,973 --> 00:43:41,198
like I would, I often try to do so much
because I want to please everybody.

830
00:43:41,558 --> 00:43:41,858
Yeah.

831
00:43:41,918 --> 00:43:47,138
What happens is, And then I end up failing
everybody, which then I spiral and I

832
00:43:47,138 --> 00:43:48,686
go into this ah, man, I'm worthless.

833
00:43:48,714 --> 00:43:51,836
And this whole thing,
that's one of my struggles.

834
00:43:52,406 --> 00:43:53,606
So it's an identity issue.

835
00:43:53,606 --> 00:43:57,266
It's an identity issue because
if I believe that I am already,

836
00:43:57,336 --> 00:44:01,896
loved and adored that like I've
been approved, that whole part of

837
00:44:01,896 --> 00:44:03,726
the gospel being applied to the.

838
00:44:04,731 --> 00:44:08,127
the wrong, the, that which
was deficient in my heart.

839
00:44:08,127 --> 00:44:11,998
I think we all have something like at
the root of everything, that everything

840
00:44:11,998 --> 00:44:14,158
springs, we could look the same fruit.

841
00:44:14,202 --> 00:44:18,215
where it could be anxiety, maybe I've
got anxiety, but it's because I fear

842
00:44:18,215 --> 00:44:19,823
that, somebody's not gonna validate me.

843
00:44:20,273 --> 00:44:24,473
Where my wife, she could have anxiety cuz
she doesn't have control of the situation.

844
00:44:24,863 --> 00:44:28,193
So the root is different, the fruit
looks the same, but really it's the

845
00:44:28,198 --> 00:44:31,733
gospel that then applies to the root
that kills all the fruit, the bad

846
00:44:31,733 --> 00:44:33,809
fruit, And so for me, I remember.

847
00:44:35,669 --> 00:44:37,469
being rejected in a sense.

848
00:44:37,469 --> 00:44:39,936
And that's my, greatest fear is, so
this group of guys, they went on a

849
00:44:39,936 --> 00:44:43,756
trip, I was excluded and I remember
my heart was just like devastated

850
00:44:43,761 --> 00:44:47,903
and torn and I wanted to like, just,
oh, these were supposed to be family.

851
00:44:47,908 --> 00:44:51,614
All this stuff, I'm the redheaded
stepchild, although I don't have red hair.

852
00:44:51,649 --> 00:44:51,969
it.

853
00:44:52,679 --> 00:44:55,169
Just, all I could see is myself.

854
00:44:55,174 --> 00:44:55,259
Oh.

855
00:44:55,439 --> 00:44:57,899
And then I started
questioning my personality.

856
00:44:58,019 --> 00:44:59,699
Oh man, I'm flawed, I'm an outsider.

857
00:44:59,699 --> 00:45:02,609
I'm all the, I don't fit and all this.

858
00:45:03,029 --> 00:45:07,799
And it was like, I, it was one of
those moments where Lord was showing

859
00:45:07,799 --> 00:45:11,838
me this and all of a sudden I went,
why are you cast down on my soul?

860
00:45:13,158 --> 00:45:13,338
Yeah.

861
00:45:13,428 --> 00:45:15,558
And I started preaching to my
heart, and I think this is like

862
00:45:15,558 --> 00:45:19,878
putting the gospel armor on, and
I said, You quieted the opinion.

863
00:45:19,988 --> 00:45:25,978
I said the only circle that your desire
for validation and fear of rejection, the

864
00:45:25,978 --> 00:45:29,038
only circle  that really mattered matters.

865
00:45:29,087 --> 00:45:32,597
that other circle you want to be in is
just an echo that will never satisfy.

866
00:45:32,717 --> 00:45:32,957
Yep.

867
00:45:35,357 --> 00:45:37,097
You didn't deserve to be in that circle.

868
00:45:37,877 --> 00:45:39,617
You chose to remove yourself from it.

869
00:45:40,157 --> 00:45:41,387
You ran from it.

870
00:45:42,647 --> 00:45:45,017
But God left that circle and he.

871
00:45:45,722 --> 00:45:47,852
Died to bring you in.

872
00:45:47,852 --> 00:45:51,602
He validated you through his validation
and you'll never pull it away.

873
00:45:51,632 --> 00:45:53,422
I can't tell you like right then and.

874
00:45:54,512 --> 00:45:55,491
I just started worshiping.

875
00:45:55,491 --> 00:45:56,292
I was healed.

876
00:45:56,352 --> 00:46:01,075
Like I'm in the circle . I'm
never gonna be rejected, accepted.

877
00:46:01,105 --> 00:46:05,485
He will never leave us or
forsake us no matter what.

878
00:46:05,605 --> 00:46:08,815
All of a sudden now I don't have to worry
about my personality, my performance.

879
00:46:08,815 --> 00:46:09,535
Was I good enough?

880
00:46:09,715 --> 00:46:11,035
Did I bring in enough of this?

881
00:46:11,035 --> 00:46:12,265
Am I a good enough teacher?

882
00:46:12,265 --> 00:46:13,221
Or am I funny enough?

883
00:46:13,251 --> 00:46:18,441
Like all that analyzation
that's just destroys you.

884
00:46:18,711 --> 00:46:20,391
It was like, I'm accepted.

885
00:46:21,156 --> 00:46:25,986
I'm accepted in heaven above, and
that is invincible, and that's

886
00:46:25,986 --> 00:46:30,318
where my identity is, and that's
putting that gospel armor on.

887
00:46:30,318 --> 00:46:33,918
And now this area where the enemy
wanted to drive a wedge and he

888
00:46:33,918 --> 00:46:36,648
could have done it if I would've
stayed in myself in my own armor.

889
00:46:36,948 --> 00:46:37,368
Now.

890
00:46:37,368 --> 00:46:39,828
Now I would've pulled back
from those relationships.

891
00:46:39,828 --> 00:46:41,988
I would've been colder, indifferent,
or I would've tried to get

892
00:46:41,988 --> 00:46:43,188
back or passive aggressive.

893
00:46:43,398 --> 00:46:45,228
All of a sudden, division
starts to happen.

894
00:46:45,378 --> 00:46:48,918
Now I can just love my brothers because
I've been accepted, I've been loved,

895
00:46:48,923 --> 00:46:52,068
I've been brought in, and now I can
look for ways to bring them in cuz

896
00:46:52,068 --> 00:46:53,898
I know how it feels to be excluded.

897
00:46:54,078 --> 00:46:55,308
But that's not against them.

898
00:46:55,368 --> 00:46:58,098
Now I get to bring them in
and bring other people in.

899
00:46:58,128 --> 00:47:00,378
I get to go to the highways
and byways and expand the

900
00:47:00,378 --> 00:47:02,153
circle, and bring people before.

901
00:47:02,220 --> 00:47:03,411
that's the armor wear.

902
00:47:03,411 --> 00:47:05,211
That's like putting it on.

903
00:47:05,391 --> 00:47:10,791
And that all of a sudden, that arrow
was quenched, it was destroyed.

904
00:47:10,791 --> 00:47:13,341
The attack and the schemes of
the enemy was done away with.

905
00:47:13,551 --> 00:47:19,281
Now there's, I could tell you 10
other stories of where the lion

906
00:47:19,281 --> 00:47:22,745
ravaged me and pulled me out
of the circle, and had his way.

907
00:47:22,777 --> 00:47:26,883
but again, Christ rescues, he
redeems, we talked about prayer

908
00:47:27,483 --> 00:47:32,243
where Paul prays for the Ephesians
and he says, open the eyes of their.

909
00:47:32,948 --> 00:47:35,753
that they might see this expand
their capacity, give them power

910
00:47:35,753 --> 00:47:38,003
to comprehend with all the saints,
the height, the width, the depth,

911
00:47:38,003 --> 00:47:39,143
and the breadth of the love of God.

912
00:47:39,279 --> 00:47:40,539
, so like we can't just.

913
00:47:41,469 --> 00:47:43,389
Move out in our own strength
and go, God loves me.

914
00:47:43,405 --> 00:47:44,845
God loves me and tell ourselves 10 times.

915
00:47:44,965 --> 00:47:49,195
We literally need the Holy
Spirit himself to preach to us.

916
00:47:49,225 --> 00:47:53,845
Yes, and a heart to receive it, and
a dependence that even in that, he

917
00:47:53,845 --> 00:48:00,145
would be strong for us because we're
gonna bump up against the situation

918
00:48:00,145 --> 00:48:01,285
we're just telling ourselves.

919
00:48:02,605 --> 00:48:03,355
it's not enough.

920
00:48:03,355 --> 00:48:08,845
We need the Holy Spirit to take up the
word of God and to breathe the fire that

921
00:48:08,845 --> 00:48:12,633
it is into our hearts, So even in that,
we move out independence, it's crazy.

922
00:48:12,633 --> 00:48:14,315
It's Lord, I want to believe this.

923
00:48:14,315 --> 00:48:18,635
Help my unbelief Lord, when I don't
believe it, will you catch me?

924
00:48:18,935 --> 00:48:19,085
Yeah.

925
00:48:19,565 --> 00:48:22,635
And can we like get back to the,
can we get back to the race?

926
00:48:22,635 --> 00:48:26,718
Emotions are like musical instruments,
They, you need the notes, right?

927
00:48:26,718 --> 00:48:28,248
You need somebody to write the music.

928
00:48:28,253 --> 00:48:28,408
Yeah.

929
00:48:28,918 --> 00:48:31,018
But that's the expression of the notes.

930
00:48:31,378 --> 00:48:35,518
So emotions are given to us to express
ourselves like in worship and passion

931
00:48:35,518 --> 00:48:39,478
and zeal and these things like, like
God doesn't make us satton robots

932
00:48:39,478 --> 00:48:44,391
where we just, I will, I'll Barry, he
wants zeal, he wants like people who

933
00:48:44,391 --> 00:48:48,926
like, Love him because he loves us
in the same way and we're made in his

934
00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:52,399
image and we reflect that God isn't
a robot where he is like, I love you.

935
00:48:52,399 --> 00:48:54,436
I will send my son to die for you.

936
00:48:54,460 --> 00:48:56,500
we will spend a million years together.

937
00:48:56,530 --> 00:48:59,170
You know he is zealous for you.

938
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,270
He is zealous for your joy.

939
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:02,950
He is passionate.

940
00:49:02,950 --> 00:49:05,410
It says like it gave
them great pleasure to.

941
00:49:06,370 --> 00:49:08,476
To choose you before the
foundation of the world.

942
00:49:08,656 --> 00:49:10,392
God's yeah, let's get junior.

943
00:49:10,410 --> 00:49:10,752
Jesus.

944
00:49:10,841 --> 00:49:13,901
Junior, Christina, let's get, let's do it.

945
00:49:13,971 --> 00:49:15,741
Excited to save.

946
00:49:15,746 --> 00:49:16,071
Yeah.

947
00:49:16,221 --> 00:49:19,191
To choose you, to bring
you into his family.

948
00:49:19,267 --> 00:49:20,948
and yeah, but we need the notes.

949
00:49:21,003 --> 00:49:24,660
two points on that or is the
psalmist, he's constantly talking

950
00:49:24,660 --> 00:49:26,220
about, he delights in the law of.

951
00:49:26,990 --> 00:49:27,385
. Yeah.

952
00:49:27,405 --> 00:49:28,585
he meditate.

953
00:49:28,590 --> 00:49:30,735
It's on it day and night,
like it's sweet to him.

954
00:49:30,735 --> 00:49:36,105
Like honey, what he's saying there
is he saying, you're my authority.

955
00:49:36,675 --> 00:49:36,975
Yeah.

956
00:49:37,665 --> 00:49:41,205
And that's where I find my delight
is when you are in charge, God.

957
00:49:41,205 --> 00:49:41,265
Yeah.

958
00:49:41,775 --> 00:49:43,635
When what you says is say is true.

959
00:49:43,635 --> 00:49:47,385
There was a lady who Andrew's mom
actually was talking to in counseling who.

960
00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:51,253
He committed adultery and Andrew's mom was
trying to point out to her in scripture.

961
00:49:51,258 --> 00:49:53,735
You're like, this is what the Lord
says about this here and here.

962
00:49:53,735 --> 00:49:55,411
And she's oh, a sweetheart.

963
00:49:55,459 --> 00:49:56,174
those are for me.

964
00:49:57,164 --> 00:50:00,952
, not somebody who's picking and choosing,
not somebody who's I like this part.

965
00:50:01,012 --> 00:50:01,882
I don't like this part.

966
00:50:02,422 --> 00:50:07,099
, it would be like if I said, I love
Andrea, but not Nicole, Kayla.

967
00:50:08,464 --> 00:50:09,784
I can't take part of her.

968
00:50:09,844 --> 00:50:12,754
I, if I, Tom comes into my house,
Tom, you can come in, but leaves

969
00:50:12,754 --> 00:50:14,317
the noodle out there like it's red.

970
00:50:14,647 --> 00:50:15,397
Ridiculous.

971
00:50:15,397 --> 00:50:16,927
You can't separate the person.

972
00:50:16,927 --> 00:50:18,661
Like you can't pick and choose.

973
00:50:18,730 --> 00:50:21,808
it's, it's, he's everything.

974
00:50:21,808 --> 00:50:22,868
He's the king.

975
00:50:22,891 --> 00:50:23,906
like we.

976
00:50:23,971 --> 00:50:27,249
. And then finally, is, CS Lewis
and the Chronicles in Narnia.

977
00:50:27,489 --> 00:50:29,799
The kids are about, the beavers are
telling the kids, Hey, you're about

978
00:50:29,799 --> 00:50:33,437
to meet Aslan and, such and such,
getting him ready for the meeting.

979
00:50:33,437 --> 00:50:35,987
And then it comes out that he's a
lion, and they're like, wait a minute.

980
00:50:35,987 --> 00:50:36,927
Aslan's a lion.

981
00:50:36,965 --> 00:50:37,565
he's nice.

982
00:50:37,565 --> 00:50:38,225
He's gentle, right?

983
00:50:38,230 --> 00:50:39,440
And she's, and the beaver's what?

984
00:50:39,500 --> 00:50:40,250
No, he's a lion.

985
00:50:40,250 --> 00:50:41,480
He's terrifying.

986
00:50:42,230 --> 00:50:43,640
He's terrifying.

987
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:45,380
But he's.

988
00:50:47,235 --> 00:50:51,755
, and I love that because CS
Lewis captures God is powerful.

989
00:50:52,445 --> 00:50:55,505
He's not your, he's not like a bud.

990
00:50:56,015 --> 00:50:58,631
He's not even a man who's better than you.

991
00:50:59,711 --> 00:51:02,321
He is the un caused cause.

992
00:51:02,501 --> 00:51:06,521
He holds the atoms and the
molecules and the palms of his hand.

993
00:51:06,791 --> 00:51:10,241
He speaks and brings
about the laws of nature.

994
00:51:10,641 --> 00:51:15,221
He's on the ocean and then the
fury of the waves and the storm

995
00:51:15,221 --> 00:51:16,601
and the lightning of the thunder.

996
00:51:16,721 --> 00:51:18,011
He says, be quiet.

997
00:51:18,251 --> 00:51:19,331
And it obeys him.

998
00:51:19,331 --> 00:51:20,741
It bows to him.

999
00:51:21,821 --> 00:51:23,861
And so too, should we, but he's.

1000
00:51:25,286 --> 00:51:30,956
He's good and all that power is
used for your joy and his glory.

1001
00:51:31,006 --> 00:51:32,164
Not to punish.

1002
00:51:32,404 --> 00:51:39,064
Not to wrath you, not to manipulate the
situation to cause un purposed suffering.

1003
00:51:39,214 --> 00:51:40,594
It is for your good.

1004
00:51:40,774 --> 00:51:41,944
It is for your joy.

1005
00:51:42,154 --> 00:51:45,754
And we submit in his
goodness and his glory.

1006
00:51:46,604 --> 00:51:50,864
He is our authority and
our lives are right.

1007
00:51:50,924 --> 00:51:52,573
They fit, they're right.

1008
00:51:52,813 --> 00:51:58,873
When we live under that authority, that
what he says goes that he's our authority.

1009
00:51:58,873 --> 00:52:03,076
Not popular culture, not popular opinion,
not, the morality of the day, which

1010
00:52:03,081 --> 00:52:09,558
is constantly changing, but what he
says is true, even if it's unpopular.

1011
00:52:12,548 --> 00:52:13,764
So that's that idea.

1012
00:52:13,764 --> 00:52:17,334
He's ferocious, but he's good.

1013
00:52:17,418 --> 00:52:18,572
Let's end on that.

1014
00:52:18,572 --> 00:52:20,942
So we'll get to the
Belt of Truth next week.

1015
00:52:22,472 --> 00:52:29,942
But we want to take communion now, again,
just thinking about this armor that the

1016
00:52:29,942 --> 00:52:38,312
Lord gerd up and you wouldn't, again,
it would be crazy to go into battle

1017
00:52:39,332 --> 00:52:41,102
and to let that be stripped off of you.

1018
00:52:43,442 --> 00:52:49,802
But think about it, as second Corinthians
5 21 says, God made him sin to become sin.

1019
00:52:50,192 --> 00:52:50,672
Why?

1020
00:52:51,842 --> 00:52:55,172
That we might become the
righteousness of God and Him.

1021
00:52:55,177 --> 00:52:55,892
Yes, guys.

1022
00:52:55,892 --> 00:52:56,792
That's incredible.

1023
00:52:57,692 --> 00:52:58,622
That's incredible.

1024
00:52:59,222 --> 00:53:01,532
Like he took your place.

1025
00:53:02,702 --> 00:53:03,842
You can't ever get over that.

1026
00:53:03,869 --> 00:53:06,449
impeded it says, Hey,
we should be maturing.

1027
00:53:06,449 --> 00:53:08,009
These things should be
happening in our life.

1028
00:53:08,039 --> 00:53:12,884
If it's not, , then it's because we've
become shortsighted under blindness.

1029
00:53:12,884 --> 00:53:15,126
Forgetting that we've been
forgiven from our sins.

1030
00:53:15,276 --> 00:53:15,366
Yes.

1031
00:53:15,456 --> 00:53:19,476
Like part of our victory is standing
and that's why Jesus gave it to us.

1032
00:53:19,476 --> 00:53:19,956
Over and over.

1033
00:53:19,956 --> 00:53:22,146
Every time you're together,
you're eating or drinking.

1034
00:53:22,151 --> 00:53:26,496
Remember, my body broken for you so
you could become whole My bloodshed

1035
00:53:26,676 --> 00:53:28,146
so that you could be forgiven.

1036
00:53:28,656 --> 00:53:29,226
Why?

1037
00:53:29,586 --> 00:53:32,997
Because, as we learn in the
vagus, without the shedding of

1038
00:53:32,997 --> 00:53:34,017
blood, there's no remission.

1039
00:53:34,022 --> 00:53:38,127
A sense why Levis also tells
us, because the life is in the.

1040
00:53:38,937 --> 00:53:42,417
It was a visible symbol of a
life being exchanged for a life.

1041
00:53:42,777 --> 00:53:47,847
The cross is so bloody because it's
a visible symbol that the very son

1042
00:53:47,847 --> 00:53:49,917
of God had to die in your place.

1043
00:53:50,067 --> 00:53:54,807
For you to have peace today, yes,
for you to have a renewed heart,

1044
00:53:55,167 --> 00:53:57,327
for you to have eternal life.

1045
00:53:58,387 --> 00:54:00,807
. But the gospel also tells us
that he was glad to do it.

1046
00:54:01,197 --> 00:54:07,587
That he was the willing lamb, who was
perfect man, who was slain on our behalf.

1047
00:54:07,767 --> 00:54:11,067
So by his wounds, we're healed, right?

1048
00:54:11,637 --> 00:54:13,437
So Jesus loves you.

1049
00:54:13,677 --> 00:54:14,817
He's for you.

1050
00:54:14,967 --> 00:54:18,477
He's provided everything you
need for life and godliness, and.

1051
00:54:19,332 --> 00:54:24,042
Anticipates that we would lean
into him, that we would realize our

1052
00:54:24,042 --> 00:54:26,412
weakness even before we get out of bed.

1053
00:54:26,442 --> 00:54:26,952
Go.

1054
00:54:27,252 --> 00:54:30,426
I've probably blown it, I'm already
thinking, I'm already getting stressed.

1055
00:54:30,431 --> 00:54:32,016
Re oh, capture my heart.

1056
00:54:32,021 --> 00:54:33,276
Let me put that helmet on load.

1057
00:54:33,281 --> 00:54:35,166
Thank you for salvation.

1058
00:54:35,376 --> 00:54:38,766
The salvation that's invincible,
that Satan himself can't pluck

1059
00:54:38,766 --> 00:54:40,394
us out of the father's hand.

1060
00:54:40,394 --> 00:54:40,964
I'm safe.

1061
00:54:40,964 --> 00:54:41,444
I'm secure.

1062
00:54:41,444 --> 00:54:44,924
No matter what happens
today, heaven is my home.

1063
00:54:45,284 --> 00:54:48,464
That's my destiny to be with you forever.

1064
00:54:48,704 --> 00:54:49,664
Thank you.

1065
00:54:50,144 --> 00:54:50,504
Boom.

1066
00:54:50,509 --> 00:54:51,014
Get outta bed.

1067
00:54:51,014 --> 00:54:52,904
Better than a cup of coffee, right?

1068
00:54:52,904 --> 00:54:52,994
Oh yeah.

1069
00:54:53,024 --> 00:54:55,934
Plant your feet in the preparation
of the gospel of peace, right?

1070
00:54:55,934 --> 00:54:57,554
You're like, here we go.

1071
00:54:57,554 --> 00:54:58,784
We're gonna go minister.

1072
00:54:58,784 --> 00:54:59,324
The good news.

1073
00:54:59,324 --> 00:55:00,764
We get to tell people good news.

1074
00:55:00,914 --> 00:55:03,074
The prophets had to tell people bad news.

1075
00:55:03,714 --> 00:55:09,894
We get to be like the new prophets who
get to tell good news to a hungry and

1076
00:55:09,894 --> 00:55:12,504
thirsty and weary and broken world.

1077
00:55:12,534 --> 00:55:15,414
And no matter how much they look
on the outside when they hear the

1078
00:55:15,414 --> 00:55:18,654
gospel, because it's a power that
they're just like, oh, that's duh.

1079
00:55:18,924 --> 00:55:22,224
There's something reverberating
in their heart that says,

1080
00:55:22,344 --> 00:55:23,514
you've been made for that.

1081
00:55:24,384 --> 00:55:25,314
It's true.

1082
00:55:26,154 --> 00:55:26,784
It's true.

1083
00:55:26,791 --> 00:55:27,344
Let's remember.

1084
00:55:27,344 --> 00:55:28,754
Jesus, let's remember.

1085
00:55:28,770 --> 00:55:30,030
let's lean into him.

1086
00:55:30,030 --> 00:55:31,590
Let's be evermore dependent.

1087
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:36,972
Let's, make it the goal to
recognize our weakness this week.

1088
00:55:36,977 --> 00:55:39,342
Let him search us and know us.

1089
00:55:39,972 --> 00:55:40,122
Yeah.

1090
00:55:40,182 --> 00:55:42,562
So that we would be like little children.

1091
00:55:43,317 --> 00:55:47,937
And lean on to our Abba
who's provided everything.

1092
00:55:48,867 --> 00:55:49,197
Pray.

1093
00:55:49,238 --> 00:55:50,825
father, we thank you for this day.

1094
00:55:50,825 --> 00:55:51,995
We thank you for your word.

1095
00:55:51,995 --> 00:55:53,937
We thank you for just
this book of the Bible.

1096
00:55:53,937 --> 00:55:55,557
Lord, we thank you for your good news.

1097
00:55:55,587 --> 00:55:56,567
Thank you, man.

1098
00:56:05,997 --> 00:56:08,007
Set people free for religion.

1099
00:56:12,087 --> 00:56:13,947
set your own people free from religion.

1100
00:56:13,947 --> 00:56:14,157
Lord,

1101
00:56:19,887 --> 00:56:21,147
what Bad news,

1102
00:56:27,957 --> 00:56:31,647
God make us proclaimers of your grace.

1103
00:56:35,007 --> 00:56:35,877
You're so good.

1104
00:56:37,632 --> 00:56:38,502
There's none like you.

1105
00:56:38,502 --> 00:56:41,236
And Lord, we say thank you once again
and where our hearts have grown.

1106
00:56:41,236 --> 00:56:45,676
A little icy Lord to you for me,

1107
00:56:48,856 --> 00:56:57,316
for that substitution, Lord, even
as we ingest this bread and this

1108
00:56:57,316 --> 00:57:02,109
wine, we pray that, Lord, your good
news would, shape our hearts right.

1109
00:57:03,204 --> 00:57:09,294
That our souls would be nourished
on the lamb that was slain before

1110
00:57:09,294 --> 00:57:10,344
the foundation of the world.

1111
00:57:10,404 --> 00:57:11,124
So we praise you.

1112
00:57:11,124 --> 00:57:11,964
We thank you for today.

1113
00:57:11,969 --> 00:57:13,744
In Jesus' name, amen,