1 00:00:14,139 --> 00:00:17,339 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast. 2 00:00:18,379 --> 00:00:24,100 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,059 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:35,380 --> 00:00:40,640 Okay, Joshua 10, 1 through 43. 5 00:00:43,259 --> 00:00:51,780 Here is a quick reference chapter outline which we'll go through just to give you a perspective 6 00:00:53,239 --> 00:00:55,539 in the first five verses. 7 00:00:56,119 --> 00:01:03,060 There is an attack against Gibeon, and the city of Gibeon deceptively made peace with Israel, 8 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:09,260 and I think we remember that story where they dressed up as beggars and long travelers from 9 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:16,200 afar, and here they were in a neighboring piece of real estate, and they asked that there 10 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,180 would be a covenant that would be given them. 11 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:27,120 And when they deceptively received the covenant, the surrounding kings saw this as betrayal, 12 00:01:27,659 --> 00:01:30,040 so Gibeon was targeted. 13 00:01:31,739 --> 00:01:38,239 Number two, Gibeon cries out for help, verses six and seven, Joshua responds immediately 14 00:01:38,940 --> 00:01:43,819 because Israel's covenant now required them to protect Gibeon. 15 00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:49,760 Number three, God gives the promise of victory before the battle. 16 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:51,819 Think about this in our own lives. 17 00:01:53,140 --> 00:02:00,620 The Lord tells Joshua, don't fear, I have given them into your hands. 18 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:06,319 Number four, Joshua obeys and advances nine through eleven. 19 00:02:07,519 --> 00:02:11,400 God threw the enemy into confusion and sent hail stones from heaven. 20 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:18,180 And as we go through the scriptures, we understand that more people in battle were killed by 21 00:02:18,180 --> 00:02:19,939 the hail stones than by the sword. 22 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:27,919 So in five it says that the sun stands still, and that's still an amazing thing in my mind. 23 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:36,120 How Joshua prays boldly and God answers miraculously and says that the Lord fought for Israel. 24 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,379 And number six, the five kings are defeated. 25 00:02:41,599 --> 00:02:44,000 Joshua finishes what God began. 26 00:02:44,539 --> 00:02:49,020 The kings were found hiding in a cave, and they were brought out and judged. 27 00:02:50,139 --> 00:02:56,439 And lastly, in verses 28 through 43, southern cities were conquered by Joshua. 28 00:02:56,819 --> 00:03:03,439 He continues the campaign to purge the land, and one city after another falls with 29 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:04,659 repeated success. 30 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,039 So here we have just a note. 31 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,659 If God gives promises, He keeps His promises. 32 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:14,139 Remember that. 33 00:03:14,539 --> 00:03:15,699 I yellow line them. 34 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,240 I have given them into your hands. 35 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:26,280 And we would hope that in some instances when we pray for things that we understand that 36 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,800 God has given the situation into our hands. 37 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,500 And He sent hail stones from heaven. 38 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:34,639 He worked miracles. 39 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:38,639 And then it says that the Lord fought for Israel. 40 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:47,659 So often we take the mantle of resistance and fight ourselves, and we already know the answer 41 00:03:47,659 --> 00:03:48,159 to that. 42 00:03:48,199 --> 00:03:50,080 That really doesn't work very well. 43 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:56,020 It's when we let God work through us to fight the battles before us. 44 00:03:56,699 --> 00:03:58,479 Okay, that's the background. 45 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:10,000 Now, the alignment with God's people brings opposition, and you can think about that in 46 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:10,840 your own life. 47 00:04:11,819 --> 00:04:19,740 Like Gibeon, our new loyalty, which we now have in Christ, sometimes becomes difficult 48 00:04:19,740 --> 00:04:27,480 in the sense that there may be loyalties that you have had in the past, and as you 49 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,680 begin to change those loyalties, they bring conflict in your life. 50 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:36,839 They may bring indecision because, gee, did I do the right thing? 51 00:04:37,379 --> 00:04:38,720 And sometimes doubt. 52 00:04:40,219 --> 00:04:47,600 However, changing sides and following Christ may make you, quote, unquote, odd. 53 00:04:48,579 --> 00:04:50,379 How many have ever had that thrown at them? 54 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:51,839 Gee, you're different. 55 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:52,839 Don't like you. 56 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:59,319 In the eyes of our old friends, our work associates, our social connections, and others. 57 00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:07,019 Before you were just another person talking the same stuff, trash, or whatever, doing the 58 00:05:07,019 --> 00:05:11,319 same thing, doing what they do, now you're different, and you're no fun. 59 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:13,879 But you know what? 60 00:05:15,379 --> 00:05:18,240 It's the best life, isn't it, when you're on this side of Calvary? 61 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:19,300 Oh my gosh. 62 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,379 What a contrast. 63 00:05:22,219 --> 00:05:23,839 Priorities become different. 64 00:05:25,420 --> 00:05:26,060 What are they? 65 00:05:27,019 --> 00:05:36,100 Well, chasing for the approval of others and living only for personal gain just doesn't 66 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:37,740 fit any more. 67 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:39,819 And that is an adjustment. 68 00:05:40,319 --> 00:05:42,540 That doesn't miraculously happen. 69 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,740 It becomes in those of you that have been following the Lord and you have ever worked 70 00:05:47,740 --> 00:05:48,379 with people. 71 00:05:48,879 --> 00:05:55,019 There is maybe some insecurities and some questions and maybe this and maybe that. 72 00:05:55,220 --> 00:06:00,259 But as you begin to build a life in God, you'll see that there's no going back 73 00:06:00,259 --> 00:06:06,180 because anything back there is what is empty compared to what we have. 74 00:06:06,899 --> 00:06:10,800 So what does the living like a Christian life look like? 75 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,279 Our desires begin to change. 76 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,519 The values begin to shift. 77 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:24,740 And the things that once were felt as normal no longer really makes a lot of 78 00:06:24,740 --> 00:06:25,199 sense. 79 00:06:26,019 --> 00:06:27,199 Anybody identify with that? 80 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:37,139 So what matters is now honoring God and walking in obedience to Him like the 81 00:06:37,139 --> 00:06:37,680 Gibeonites. 82 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,680 They considered themselves part of Israel. 83 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,100 They were the servants. 84 00:06:44,579 --> 00:06:45,939 They hauled bricks. 85 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:47,540 They brought water. 86 00:06:47,939 --> 00:06:48,920 They were the servants. 87 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,639 They assimilated in. 88 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:52,480 And so they made a life. 89 00:06:52,779 --> 00:06:59,980 So now my question to you, what circumstances may have made you realize that 90 00:06:59,980 --> 00:07:04,100 self-centered living was no longer satisfying? 91 00:07:04,879 --> 00:07:08,240 What comes up to mind when we ask this question? 92 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:15,560 What instance or what series of instances made you realize that this just wasn't 93 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,259 satisfying? 94 00:07:16,899 --> 00:07:17,879 What you were about? 95 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:19,620 Who you are? 96 00:07:20,060 --> 00:07:24,040 It's kind of now put on the side and now you're wanting to follow the Lord. 97 00:07:25,420 --> 00:07:29,699 What does that look like in your life or what did it look like? 98 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,360 Oh, good, good, good, good. 99 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:35,980 Yes, sir. 100 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:38,959 Having children. 101 00:07:39,779 --> 00:07:39,920 Okay. 102 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,139 When you have children, it kind of makes you realize that self-centered 103 00:07:44,139 --> 00:07:46,420 living is not going to do anything anymore. 104 00:07:47,139 --> 00:07:48,319 Tell me, isn't it? 105 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:48,519 Yeah. 106 00:07:49,180 --> 00:07:54,199 You know your peers, you know your peers, maybe you even work with them or 107 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:56,959 know friends, that they still don't give that up. 108 00:07:57,860 --> 00:08:01,220 They still want life for themselves and then the kids get drug along, 109 00:08:01,740 --> 00:08:02,180 secondary. 110 00:08:03,079 --> 00:08:07,819 So when it says that you give your life up for your family, that's what 111 00:08:07,819 --> 00:08:08,560 we're about, right? 112 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:09,019 Yes. 113 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:09,560 Okay. 114 00:08:09,980 --> 00:08:10,500 Good deal. 115 00:08:10,839 --> 00:08:11,319 What's your name? 116 00:08:11,899 --> 00:08:12,319 I'm Isaac. 117 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:13,819 My name is Isaac. 118 00:08:14,579 --> 00:08:14,819 Okay. 119 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:15,800 Isaac John here. 120 00:08:16,060 --> 00:08:16,500 Good to see you. 121 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,120 Nice to meet you. 122 00:08:17,579 --> 00:08:18,360 Anything else? 123 00:08:20,899 --> 00:08:22,120 What comes to mind? 124 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,160 It's been so long ago, you forgot. 125 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:27,660 You want to say something, Charlie? 126 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:30,060 Well, I will. 127 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:32,799 It's embarrassing, but... 128 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:32,879 No. 129 00:08:33,299 --> 00:08:34,639 Hey, we're all family here. 130 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:35,840 What are the reasons I'm here? 131 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:43,059 But about 20 years ago, well, I used to be kind of a drinker and 132 00:08:43,059 --> 00:08:46,620 that thing there were about friends, you know, making, having the 133 00:08:46,620 --> 00:08:50,860 wrong friends and trying to get ahead and impress people and stuff. 134 00:08:51,179 --> 00:08:51,379 Yes. 135 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,440 Well, I got dragged out from after work with a bunch of people, 136 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,379 like all the people I worked with, and they had heard me, you 137 00:09:01,379 --> 00:09:05,139 know, always talking about God and stuff to them, but I wasn't 138 00:09:05,139 --> 00:09:09,019 being a good witness doing that, but I went out with them anyway 139 00:09:09,579 --> 00:09:12,320 and they decided they were going to get me really drunk 140 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,539 because just to make me fall. 141 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:15,620 That was the challenge, right? 142 00:09:16,820 --> 00:09:23,100 And so I got so bad that they had to, some guy had to drive 143 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:25,000 me home and get a cab and take me home. 144 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,679 And I just remember being upstairs, hanging over the toilet, 145 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:33,779 throwing up with my family, looking in the door at me with like 146 00:09:33,779 --> 00:09:35,000 horror and shock. 147 00:09:35,940 --> 00:09:39,039 And I just remember looking at them and saying, what are you 148 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:39,620 looking at? 149 00:09:41,539 --> 00:09:46,039 And I decided just that morning when I woke up the next day 150 00:09:46,039 --> 00:09:47,120 that that was it. 151 00:09:47,220 --> 00:09:50,379 I was going to quit drinking and I stopped drinking after that. 152 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,019 So it's been like 20 years now, but I'm still paying the 153 00:09:53,019 --> 00:09:57,879 price for everything I did before that going out drinking. 154 00:09:58,299 --> 00:10:00,740 So and that's my story. 155 00:10:01,139 --> 00:10:04,940 Yeah, you know, hugging the porcelain Goddess isn't fun, 156 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:05,379 is it? 157 00:10:08,039 --> 00:10:08,700 Anything else? 158 00:10:10,039 --> 00:10:10,259 Yes. 159 00:10:11,639 --> 00:10:12,899 I think Ginny was first. 160 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:15,059 We'll let her go first. 161 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:22,179 I married the wrong person and I just wanted to be married in 162 00:10:22,179 --> 00:10:26,139 the worst way and I wanted to be like other women and have 163 00:10:26,139 --> 00:10:32,980 the respect and the social standing and got more confidence 164 00:10:32,980 --> 00:10:34,059 at my job. 165 00:10:34,299 --> 00:10:37,259 And of course at work, they're like, oh now she has a husband 166 00:10:37,259 --> 00:10:43,059 and that that pressure is real in the workplace and in life. 167 00:10:43,419 --> 00:10:47,720 You get more respect when you have a husband versus being 168 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:48,480 on your own. 169 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:54,360 It's it shouldn't be that way, but he turned out to be an alcoholic 170 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,759 and then he wanted me to drink with him. 171 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:02,659 And one night I had a margarita. 172 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,639 I just had one and I could only drink half of it. 173 00:11:05,860 --> 00:11:10,080 And I was like, whoa, once once Charles brought this up, 174 00:11:10,159 --> 00:11:16,980 this came to my mind and I was like and I could remember saying 175 00:11:16,980 --> 00:11:20,940 to my husband, I've got to lay down and I went upstairs and my 176 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:22,139 bedroom was spinning. 177 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,340 This never happened to me before. 178 00:11:25,580 --> 00:11:30,940 I was in my 30s at this point and I had to get up at 7 o'clock 179 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,659 the next morning to go to work. 180 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,860 But needless to say that marriage didn't work out because I 181 00:11:37,860 --> 00:11:40,620 married the wrong man and didn't follow God. 182 00:11:41,340 --> 00:11:44,299 God was telling me to get out of there and get rid of this 183 00:11:44,299 --> 00:11:46,159 guy and I didn't listen. 184 00:11:47,220 --> 00:11:52,759 And the consequences were grave a divorce putting a house up 185 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:53,860 on a short sale. 186 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,559 Disrupting everybody else's life and my kids turned out okay 187 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:01,519 despite that. 188 00:12:01,860 --> 00:12:04,980 But now that I'm on my own. 189 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:10,580 I just I get up in the morning and I'm doing my devotions 190 00:12:10,580 --> 00:12:12,559 and yes, Ryan after coffee. 191 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:22,399 But any yeah, well, we had a talk about that on Thursday 192 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:28,179 and Ryan said it was drugs, but anyhow, but you know, I just 193 00:12:28,179 --> 00:12:32,940 I'm fine getting up doing my devotions getting to know 194 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:33,419 the Lord. 195 00:12:33,860 --> 00:12:38,860 I am not concerned about what people think anymore and I 196 00:12:38,860 --> 00:12:40,279 don't need a man. 197 00:12:40,279 --> 00:12:44,379 I really want to get to know the Lord and just I'm good 198 00:12:44,379 --> 00:12:45,320 the way I am. 199 00:12:48,179 --> 00:12:52,940 Well, mine sounds like ditto compared to St. Jenny's. 200 00:12:53,879 --> 00:12:56,899 I was just saying sitting here thinking it's it doesn't 201 00:12:56,899 --> 00:13:00,580 pay to be unequally yoked to somebody and I thought that 202 00:13:00,580 --> 00:13:03,059 I thought this Steve was a Christian. 203 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:07,039 I went to marry him if he hadn't been but he turned 204 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,220 out to be just nominally Christian and the same thing. 205 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,299 He wanted me to go drinking with him and he was mad at 206 00:13:14,299 --> 00:13:17,059 me because I wouldn't go drinking with him and I'm like 207 00:13:17,740 --> 00:13:18,879 we have three kids. 208 00:13:18,980 --> 00:13:21,000 I'm not going to go drinking with you and leave the kids 209 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:21,340 alone. 210 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:26,019 What are you thinking and yeah, eventually the church 211 00:13:26,019 --> 00:13:30,399 came and kicked him out of my house and then here I 212 00:13:30,399 --> 00:13:31,700 was with three kids on my own. 213 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:38,379 So yeah, it's it pays to really know your relationship 214 00:13:38,379 --> 00:13:39,899 with the Lord and put that first. 215 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:47,200 Yeah, the thought of that utopian marriage the thought 216 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,100 of that wonderful house with the picket fence and 217 00:13:50,100 --> 00:13:50,639 the flowers. 218 00:13:50,820 --> 00:13:54,379 Those things are euphemisms when you come down to 219 00:13:54,379 --> 00:13:57,379 it when you get down to the practical aspects of 220 00:13:57,379 --> 00:13:57,580 it. 221 00:13:57,580 --> 00:14:00,820 If you don't have the Lord joining you together like 222 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:03,879 these two ladies have said, you know that that that 223 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:09,460 picture is quickly destroyed and fortunately whether 224 00:14:09,460 --> 00:14:12,440 or not it's later in life or in the middle of your 225 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,759 life learning that is such a plus to be able to offload 226 00:14:17,759 --> 00:14:22,340 those circumstances and that weight of sin and confusion 227 00:14:22,340 --> 00:14:26,659 and argument and chaos so that you can have peace 228 00:14:26,659 --> 00:14:27,419 in your heart. 229 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,000 You know, I mean that's that's that's what it is. 230 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:32,159 God brings peace. 231 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:33,000 Anyone else? 232 00:14:34,279 --> 00:14:34,799 Any thoughts? 233 00:14:35,580 --> 00:14:35,799 All right. 234 00:14:36,679 --> 00:14:37,559 Okay, good. 235 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:38,539 Thank you for sharing. 236 00:14:39,059 --> 00:14:42,240 So we have this. 237 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:47,820 Circumstance that we go through and let's look at 238 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:52,360 the progression of how we get to the abiding 239 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:53,360 peace of God. 240 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:58,399 Well, first of all, the self-life can be described as 241 00:14:58,399 --> 00:15:06,559 my goals, my comfort, my decisions, my control, my 242 00:15:06,559 --> 00:15:09,559 feelings, and you know, you can identify with this 243 00:15:09,559 --> 00:15:12,320 either personally or through other friends that you 244 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:17,940 have my approval, my success, and of course, it's 245 00:15:17,940 --> 00:15:19,779 all about me. 246 00:15:20,059 --> 00:15:22,059 So that's where you start. 247 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,580 So as you come to Christ, there is now an awareness 248 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,460 that something is really missing. 249 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:34,100 You can't quite put your finger on it, but 250 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,720 something's missing and that's the awareness of 251 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:37,580 sin in your life. 252 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,539 That's the awareness that you do have limits and 253 00:15:42,539 --> 00:15:44,700 it's an awareness that you really need God. 254 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:53,000 God begins now to draw you in your heart, your 255 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,759 mind, your will, and your life to himself as you 256 00:15:57,759 --> 00:15:58,860 open up to him. 257 00:15:59,899 --> 00:16:01,200 Seek me and I will be found. 258 00:16:01,379 --> 00:16:04,899 And as you do that, that awareness becomes then 259 00:16:04,899 --> 00:16:07,399 part of your life and you begin to surrender 260 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,179 what it is that you are. 261 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:16,799 Conscious decisions, not my will but yours, Lord, 262 00:16:17,860 --> 00:16:22,539 letting go of control and pride and self-rule, slow 263 00:16:22,539 --> 00:16:23,039 process. 264 00:16:23,299 --> 00:16:26,620 Sometimes it doesn't happen overnight, but trust 265 00:16:26,620 --> 00:16:29,659 then after you begin to get through some of these 266 00:16:29,659 --> 00:16:33,480 things begins to replace the striving and that's 267 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,059 when the peace of God really comes when you 268 00:16:37,059 --> 00:16:39,500 begin to offload these things. 269 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:41,559 So we have a self-life. 270 00:16:41,820 --> 00:16:42,620 We have an awareness. 271 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,059 We have surrender and the next thing is then the 272 00:16:46,059 --> 00:16:47,600 renewal process. 273 00:16:49,620 --> 00:16:52,080 Thinking begins to change through Scripture and 274 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,600 if you don't get your nose in the word, you 275 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,720 won't know that there's a comparative analysis that 276 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,960 the Holy Spirit brings to your conscience so 277 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,480 that you can feed into your life blood and 278 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,400 into your spirit those things which are righteous. 279 00:17:08,100 --> 00:17:11,859 So again, those desires come about through 280 00:17:11,859 --> 00:17:17,359 Scripture, reading, prayer, praise and new 281 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,359 desires begin to formulate in your life. 282 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,799 It's less about me, less about the self and 283 00:17:23,799 --> 00:17:24,700 more about God. 284 00:17:25,299 --> 00:17:28,240 So you see the transformation slowly change and 285 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,019 your identity now shifts. 286 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:31,180 This is important. 287 00:17:31,660 --> 00:17:33,759 It's from self-made to God-led. 288 00:17:34,439 --> 00:17:37,480 It's as simple as I can put it in easy forms 289 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,119 as you yield to that process and this may 290 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,259 may take months or years depending upon where 291 00:17:44,259 --> 00:17:46,000 you're at and what your willingness is. 292 00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:50,460 And then after that, there is obedience. 293 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,000 Okay, wait till I get the end. 294 00:17:54,140 --> 00:17:55,460 There's six of them across here. 295 00:17:55,539 --> 00:17:56,700 Then you can have them all. 296 00:17:57,819 --> 00:17:59,400 So you get the whole stuff. 297 00:18:00,059 --> 00:18:01,880 I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but 298 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,460 then in obedience, faith becomes now visible. 299 00:18:08,259 --> 00:18:11,440 Faith is something that is built within you 300 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,700 as you yield and as you walk with God and 301 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:17,839 sometimes you see the appearance of things 302 00:18:17,839 --> 00:18:19,059 that materialize. 303 00:18:19,319 --> 00:18:21,519 Other times you don't, you wait before the 304 00:18:21,519 --> 00:18:23,960 Lord, but faith begins to be built. 305 00:18:25,059 --> 00:18:29,940 Then there is a idea that choices align with 306 00:18:29,940 --> 00:18:34,019 what God says in his word and not feelings. 307 00:18:34,559 --> 00:18:37,220 Remember the other thing in self-life, my 308 00:18:37,220 --> 00:18:39,660 goals, my comfort, my decisions, my control. 309 00:18:40,460 --> 00:18:43,640 And now what is it that you want, Lord? 310 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,000 What are those feelings that you're giving 311 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:46,259 me? 312 00:18:46,319 --> 00:18:49,359 This is different and then growth happens 313 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:53,259 through daily discussions and decisions 314 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:56,500 with the Lord about who you are. 315 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,799 And then last, God-centered life. 316 00:19:01,019 --> 00:19:02,880 This is where you get the meat of what 317 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,500 you're being taught. 318 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,099 It's God's will. 319 00:19:07,539 --> 00:19:09,059 What is it, Lord, that you want? 320 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:10,519 What is your will? 321 00:19:11,279 --> 00:19:12,740 What do you want me to do? 322 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,740 God's glory, not my own, not for me, 323 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:18,279 but for him. 324 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,140 We are a lowly servant, 325 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:24,720 caring for those people that are coming 326 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:25,720 across our path. 327 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,319 As best we can to distribute the seed, 328 00:19:29,859 --> 00:19:33,000 the love of God and God's purposes. 329 00:19:33,759 --> 00:19:36,119 Lord, what is your purpose in this? 330 00:19:36,799 --> 00:19:38,200 Where can I find you? 331 00:19:38,339 --> 00:19:40,819 How can I get into understanding what 332 00:19:40,819 --> 00:19:41,920 your purpose is? 333 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,079 And one big thing in this area, peace 334 00:19:46,079 --> 00:19:47,519 abides in your heart. 335 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:52,720 How many realize that when the peace of 336 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,480 God comes, you just don't want to get rid 337 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:54,779 of it? 338 00:19:54,779 --> 00:19:56,160 I mean, it's so precious. 339 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,960 I mean the abiding of God's presence 340 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:00,920 in your life. 341 00:20:02,380 --> 00:20:04,980 And then purpose replaces the confusion, 342 00:20:05,599 --> 00:20:08,440 the chaos, and all those many things 343 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,359 that represent the self-life. 344 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:15,240 And then out of that, you influence 345 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,079 others by how you live, 346 00:20:18,059 --> 00:20:19,400 how you talk, 347 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,640 how you act, and how you do. 348 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,380 Not just the theoretical, but in the doing. 349 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:28,019 So that's the progression that we go 350 00:20:28,019 --> 00:20:30,720 through to be able to be servants 351 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:31,480 of the Lord. 352 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,779 And not that you're not servants 353 00:20:33,779 --> 00:20:35,759 in the surrendering to renewal, 354 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,119 the renewal to obedience, 355 00:20:37,599 --> 00:20:39,859 but ultimately the God-centered life 356 00:20:39,859 --> 00:20:41,579 is that you're just a lowly servant. 357 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,660 And I always say, my wife and I 358 00:20:43,660 --> 00:20:45,900 always, we declare to one another, 359 00:20:46,420 --> 00:20:48,900 Lord, it is better to be a door 360 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:50,920 servant in the house of God than 361 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:51,700 anything else. 362 00:20:52,299 --> 00:20:53,380 And that's simple as you know, 363 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,559 it's nothing but being a servant 364 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:56,180 at the door. 365 00:20:57,220 --> 00:20:57,759 So question, 366 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,119 what was or is the hardest thing 367 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,200 for you to release control over 368 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,880 coming from the past life into this life? 369 00:21:09,420 --> 00:21:10,599 What's that look like? 370 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,140 And as you think about that, 371 00:21:15,819 --> 00:21:18,180 some of you remember my litany 372 00:21:18,180 --> 00:21:20,279 of stories in the sense that 373 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:23,059 in following the Lord, being a pastor, 374 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,779 being an elder in different churches, 375 00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:33,720 I had to face in 2015 when I knew 376 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,400 that my wife needed to have 377 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:36,960 more care at some point in time. 378 00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:38,559 So we moved to retirement community. 379 00:21:39,180 --> 00:21:40,319 And one of the big things was 380 00:21:40,319 --> 00:21:41,680 giving up my car collection. 381 00:21:42,259 --> 00:21:44,180 Man, I had five beautiful gaggles, 382 00:21:44,779 --> 00:21:47,339 you know, wonderful, worked on 383 00:21:47,339 --> 00:21:48,019 them, loved them. 384 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,740 And that was a decision that 385 00:21:49,740 --> 00:21:51,619 I had to make over a year's period 386 00:21:51,619 --> 00:21:52,160 of time. 387 00:21:53,059 --> 00:21:54,039 And the Lord said, well, do you, 388 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:55,160 what do you want the five cars 389 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:55,619 your wife? 390 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,619 So that was an easy decision, 391 00:21:58,039 --> 00:22:00,920 but it took me time to relinquish 392 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,519 that I fought for that thing. 393 00:22:02,619 --> 00:22:03,720 I said, no, we can do this. 394 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:05,579 You know, all these beauties in 395 00:22:05,579 --> 00:22:07,000 the grave, it covers over and 396 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:07,599 take them out. 397 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,460 Oh, you know, all that stuff 398 00:22:10,199 --> 00:22:11,779 and now it's gone and you know 399 00:22:11,779 --> 00:22:13,039 what I don't even look back 400 00:22:13,039 --> 00:22:15,440 and I don't even would I don't 401 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,839 even want to go back to that 402 00:22:16,839 --> 00:22:17,660 arena anymore. 403 00:22:17,859 --> 00:22:19,619 It's just so pleasant to be 404 00:22:19,619 --> 00:22:20,799 where I am at in the Lord. 405 00:22:21,339 --> 00:22:23,339 So what was the some of the 406 00:22:23,339 --> 00:22:25,779 points in your life that turned 407 00:22:25,779 --> 00:22:26,259 you? 408 00:22:28,660 --> 00:22:30,140 It was when I, excuse me, was 409 00:22:30,140 --> 00:22:32,700 about between 50 and 60 years 410 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:33,019 old. 411 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:34,660 I'm a lot older than that now. 412 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:35,460 I'm not telling what. 413 00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:40,619 But anyway, I actually said to 414 00:22:40,619 --> 00:22:42,759 the Lord, I was annoyed with 415 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:45,859 George about something and God 416 00:22:45,859 --> 00:22:47,240 had put George in my life. 417 00:22:47,339 --> 00:22:48,440 I didn't choose if you have to 418 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:48,900 know that. 419 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:50,460 I mean, I'm glad he did that, 420 00:22:50,460 --> 00:22:53,000 but he was not my initial choice 421 00:22:54,219 --> 00:22:58,599 and so anyway, I said to the 422 00:22:58,599 --> 00:23:01,279 Lord one day, why isn't George 423 00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:01,660 perfect? 424 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,039 You picked him out for me. 425 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:04,119 So why isn't he perfect? 426 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,960 And God literally said to me, 427 00:23:07,140 --> 00:23:07,960 when are you going to realize 428 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,200 it's not about you? 429 00:23:10,059 --> 00:23:11,539 And I was like, what are you 430 00:23:11,539 --> 00:23:12,559 talking about? 431 00:23:13,039 --> 00:23:14,079 He said, you have to be 432 00:23:14,079 --> 00:23:16,119 willing to give me everything 433 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:17,960 Gail and just abandon yourself 434 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,539 to me and trust me completely 435 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,559 so that I can do anything with 436 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:23,500 you that I want and you have to 437 00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:25,359 trust me and you have to yield 438 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,460 yourself to me completely. 439 00:23:27,019 --> 00:23:28,460 And it was about a year that I 440 00:23:28,460 --> 00:23:29,839 struggled with him over that. 441 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,279 But once I did, I'm like, why 442 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:34,579 did I wait so long? 443 00:23:34,740 --> 00:23:35,700 This is amazing. 444 00:23:37,019 --> 00:23:39,259 So yeah, but it was a big 445 00:23:39,259 --> 00:23:39,819 thing. 446 00:23:42,740 --> 00:23:44,579 Anybody else have anything that 447 00:23:44,579 --> 00:23:46,940 was the big change in their 448 00:23:46,940 --> 00:23:47,359 life? 449 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,200 Anybody want to share? 450 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:51,839 All right, that's okay. 451 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,359 Oh, Roger. 452 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:55,480 Hello. 453 00:23:57,059 --> 00:23:57,359 Okay. 454 00:23:58,740 --> 00:24:01,079 I would say money would be a 455 00:24:01,079 --> 00:24:04,460 big thing, you know, you know, 456 00:24:04,539 --> 00:24:06,019 in the early days here on the 457 00:24:06,019 --> 00:24:08,099 edge of survival like all young 458 00:24:08,099 --> 00:24:10,559 couples are and I would not 459 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:12,200 want to give up control of, 460 00:24:12,299 --> 00:24:14,240 you know, feeling that I had 461 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,640 to, you know, I didn't mind 462 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,180 tithing but anything over that 463 00:24:19,980 --> 00:24:20,720 that's right. 464 00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:23,619 And so I'd say yeah, that was 465 00:24:23,619 --> 00:24:24,099 an issue. 466 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,000 Okay, you know, I think perhaps 467 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,779 maybe you were like my wife's 468 00:24:29,779 --> 00:24:30,119 mom. 469 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,259 They were they were preachers 470 00:24:32,259 --> 00:24:33,640 kids and they didn't have a 471 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:34,720 lot of money and every time 472 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,099 she would go to a bill and my 473 00:24:36,099 --> 00:24:37,859 wife would watch her mom, she'd 474 00:24:37,859 --> 00:24:38,880 open her purse and there would 475 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,119 be an envelope in there. 476 00:24:40,259 --> 00:24:41,759 Let's say for groceries, she'd 477 00:24:41,759 --> 00:24:43,359 bring the money out and as the 478 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,380 cash register person took it 479 00:24:45,380 --> 00:24:47,019 she would hold on to it. 480 00:24:47,140 --> 00:24:48,380 She just didn't want to let it 481 00:24:48,380 --> 00:24:50,640 go and then the man had to grab 482 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:50,960 it out. 483 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,140 So maybe you were the same way 484 00:24:52,140 --> 00:24:52,799 with your checks. 485 00:24:55,860 --> 00:24:59,200 Believe it or not a church. 486 00:25:01,059 --> 00:25:03,119 I had gone to my previous 487 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,980 church almost 12 years. 488 00:25:07,259 --> 00:25:09,900 I was known I had cleaned for a 489 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:12,740 lot a lot of the people and 490 00:25:13,539 --> 00:25:16,779 I was just it was like it was a 491 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,599 I was so familiar. 492 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:21,839 I could like no one would blink 493 00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:23,480 an eye when I would go downstairs 494 00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:27,319 and in the library or the gym 495 00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:27,940 or whatever. 496 00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:32,339 So I but I knew I had needed to 497 00:25:32,339 --> 00:25:33,859 lease some time and I'm like, 498 00:25:33,859 --> 00:25:35,940 no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not 499 00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:40,359 going to God and it actually had 500 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,299 to take a church splitting for 501 00:25:42,299 --> 00:25:44,400 me to leave and then when I 502 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,000 came here, I realized how the 503 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,940 church was more religious and 504 00:25:51,940 --> 00:25:56,079 more about things that I didn't 505 00:25:56,079 --> 00:25:58,720 see that were I think they 506 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,079 meant well, but I thought they 507 00:26:01,079 --> 00:26:02,740 were caught up in things that 508 00:26:02,740 --> 00:26:06,000 were not important and and I 509 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,859 was like, this is hard going 510 00:26:07,859 --> 00:26:10,279 to from a church that I'm kind 511 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:12,640 of everyone knows me to like I 512 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,779 barely know anyone. 513 00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:17,579 God bless you, honey. 514 00:26:18,819 --> 00:26:20,240 You know something in the in 515 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:28,059 the sense of life we we have we 516 00:26:28,059 --> 00:26:31,519 have hopes and dreams and when 517 00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:34,339 we relinquish that God I 518 00:26:34,339 --> 00:26:35,900 believe gives us better than 519 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:37,720 what we would even anticipate for 520 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,039 ourselves and that's wonderful 521 00:26:40,039 --> 00:26:44,339 that you relinquish that and to 522 00:26:44,339 --> 00:26:46,940 support what she has said. 523 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:48,660 That's why it's important when 524 00:26:48,660 --> 00:26:50,339 you see faces that you don't 525 00:26:50,339 --> 00:26:52,279 know is to introduce yourself, 526 00:26:52,619 --> 00:26:56,380 you know, be friend do and how 527 00:26:57,340 --> 00:26:59,200 you don't know what's God's 528 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,400 going to bring about from that 529 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,079 and I give a testimony when 530 00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:04,960 Jenny started to come here. 531 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,019 I don't know whether it was 532 00:27:06,019 --> 00:27:07,539 Gail or whether it was myself 533 00:27:08,380 --> 00:27:10,940 somebody invited you to a small 534 00:27:10,940 --> 00:27:11,200 group. 535 00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:12,559 Who was that? 536 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:13,579 Was that you or me? 537 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:14,240 I forget. 538 00:27:15,299 --> 00:27:17,180 Okay, so, you know, and and I 539 00:27:17,180 --> 00:27:18,200 could have gone down the aisle 540 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,859 that did whatever but she has 541 00:27:19,859 --> 00:27:21,680 become such a precious part of 542 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,740 our group and it was only 543 00:27:23,740 --> 00:27:25,160 because and I'm not using 544 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:26,140 myself as an example. 545 00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:30,000 Somebody stepped out and offered 546 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,480 and befriended and here we are 547 00:27:34,139 --> 00:27:36,180 good life in the in the sense 548 00:27:36,180 --> 00:27:37,079 of the body of Christ. 549 00:27:38,380 --> 00:27:40,619 I think one of the hardest things 550 00:27:40,619 --> 00:27:42,799 even after I became a Christian 551 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:46,900 was getting secular rock and 552 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:50,420 roll out of my life and you 553 00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:51,660 know, it didn't seem like a big 554 00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:53,720 deal because I know a lot of 555 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,099 born-again Christians that 556 00:27:55,099 --> 00:27:56,440 listen to rock and roll and 557 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,960 listen to secular pop music and 558 00:27:59,519 --> 00:28:02,099 I mean I was getting the lead 559 00:28:02,099 --> 00:28:04,779 out and you know at Calvary 560 00:28:04,779 --> 00:28:05,759 Church of Satterton. 561 00:28:05,759 --> 00:28:07,200 They just joked about it like 562 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,079 oh, yeah, you listen to Led Zeppelin 563 00:28:09,079 --> 00:28:12,400 and well during covid. 564 00:28:12,740 --> 00:28:15,039 I watched a YouTube channel 565 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:17,079 and God got rid of my television. 566 00:28:17,519 --> 00:28:20,900 My my Verizon went on the brink 567 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,660 and then I got rid of them and 568 00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:24,880 then I just realized I could 569 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,380 save money just by getting 570 00:28:26,380 --> 00:28:28,680 internet and not the television. 571 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,480 So then I was watching YouTube 572 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:32,960 and came across good fight 573 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,220 ministries and they had this 574 00:28:36,220 --> 00:28:36,960 whole segment. 575 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,500 They sold their souls to rock 576 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:41,240 and roll and I watched that 577 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,160 and I was appalled when I 578 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,039 realized what Led Zeppelin was 579 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:48,900 all about and you know when I 580 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:50,519 actually got the education 581 00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:55,140 there and stop listening to rock 582 00:28:55,140 --> 00:28:57,460 and roll secular rock. 583 00:28:57,619 --> 00:28:59,039 I listen to Christian music 584 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:01,559 but not yeah, well, you know, 585 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:02,420 you know what's funny? 586 00:29:02,579 --> 00:29:03,920 I made that progression. 587 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,539 I used to like 50s rock and roll 60s. 588 00:29:08,940 --> 00:29:11,180 I mean up until probably 10 years 589 00:29:11,180 --> 00:29:12,920 ago and now what's funny with 590 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,579 this new car I got that's part 591 00:29:14,579 --> 00:29:16,059 of the transportation issue for 592 00:29:16,059 --> 00:29:17,519 Joni and has a special gate in 593 00:29:17,519 --> 00:29:19,079 the back and it has a feature 594 00:29:19,079 --> 00:29:22,059 on the radio about sounds of 595 00:29:22,059 --> 00:29:23,779 nature sounds of the universe 596 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:25,400 soothing. 597 00:29:26,099 --> 00:29:27,359 So I made the transition from 598 00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:29,819 rock and roll to classical and 599 00:29:29,819 --> 00:29:30,940 it was nice but when I turn 600 00:29:30,940 --> 00:29:32,700 on the radio even classical to 601 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,079 me is and all I do is when I 602 00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:36,359 punch this thing it's birds 603 00:29:36,359 --> 00:29:38,519 singing water flowing and it's 604 00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:39,259 so soothing. 605 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:41,460 I can't get over it. 606 00:29:41,539 --> 00:29:43,519 I mean, you know, you change in 607 00:29:43,519 --> 00:29:44,720 the sense of what you listen 608 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,980 to not that there's anything 609 00:29:45,980 --> 00:29:48,180 with rock wrong with with 610 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:49,839 classical but it's just that 611 00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:51,640 your tastes begin to change. 612 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:52,960 Yes, Brian. 613 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,819 Specifically to that point 614 00:29:55,819 --> 00:30:00,400 because this past the past week 615 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,140 two weeks. 616 00:30:01,140 --> 00:30:02,799 I haven't listened to any music 617 00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:05,859 at all and I went through this 618 00:30:05,859 --> 00:30:07,880 cycle where the type of music 619 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,259 it's not it's not rock and 620 00:30:10,259 --> 00:30:12,839 roll but it's basically, you 621 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:16,140 know, very secular and it's you 622 00:30:16,140 --> 00:30:18,019 know, it's it's stuff that even 623 00:30:18,019 --> 00:30:18,880 a lot of the stuff that they 624 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,859 say it's it's you know, and I 625 00:30:21,859 --> 00:30:24,140 knew this and that was talking 626 00:30:24,140 --> 00:30:25,500 about a hard thing to release 627 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:26,180 control over this. 628 00:30:26,180 --> 00:30:26,960 So that was something that 629 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,039 especially going to the gym, 630 00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:28,940 you know, like the type of 631 00:30:28,940 --> 00:30:30,279 stuff like, you know, like it's 632 00:30:30,279 --> 00:30:31,180 kind of like the heavy metal, 633 00:30:31,339 --> 00:30:32,039 you know, stuff that's like 634 00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:33,700 pumping you up and you know, 635 00:30:33,779 --> 00:30:35,099 and it was just all it was it 636 00:30:35,099 --> 00:30:35,519 was filthy. 637 00:30:35,579 --> 00:30:35,779 Really. 638 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:36,480 If you really listen to the 639 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,980 words and like but then you 640 00:30:37,980 --> 00:30:38,980 go to the beat and you can 641 00:30:38,980 --> 00:30:40,440 like you can play off at all. 642 00:30:40,539 --> 00:30:41,279 I'm just listening to the beat 643 00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:43,079 but like you like pumping that 644 00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:46,319 in like constantly and so, 645 00:30:47,020 --> 00:30:48,180 you know, I went through a 646 00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:49,440 period of time in this in 647 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,980 the last nine years that I 648 00:30:50,980 --> 00:30:52,140 was you know that I didn't 649 00:30:52,140 --> 00:30:53,099 listen to any music at all. 650 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,079 I was like taking everything 651 00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:55,420 I couldn't like and I 652 00:30:55,820 --> 00:30:57,640 remember thinking back and 653 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,960 most recently I was like, 654 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,180 you know, this last few months 655 00:31:02,180 --> 00:31:03,099 I've been really getting on 656 00:31:03,099 --> 00:31:04,200 track and I've been like, 657 00:31:04,579 --> 00:31:05,859 you know, thinking back to 658 00:31:05,859 --> 00:31:07,579 when, you know, I was on 659 00:31:07,579 --> 00:31:08,579 point like long, you know, 660 00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:10,480 and and I remember I wasn't I 661 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:11,380 didn't listen to any music at 662 00:31:11,380 --> 00:31:13,400 all, you know, and once I 663 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,359 started listening to some music 664 00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:15,240 and then I went back to kind 665 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,319 of what I liked, you know, 666 00:31:16,380 --> 00:31:19,779 it was, you know, and so the 667 00:31:19,779 --> 00:31:21,220 last so just speaking on 668 00:31:21,220 --> 00:31:22,319 what she was saying in this 669 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:25,559 last question the last week 670 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:26,859 or two weeks and I almost I 671 00:31:26,859 --> 00:31:28,759 almost gave in today, you 672 00:31:28,759 --> 00:31:31,559 know, or or, yeah, on the 673 00:31:31,559 --> 00:31:32,420 way home. I almost gave in 674 00:31:32,420 --> 00:31:36,640 today and I put on the put 675 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,200 on Spotify, but advertisements 676 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,539 came on and I was like, I 677 00:31:41,539 --> 00:31:42,259 really want to listen to just 678 00:31:42,259 --> 00:31:43,980 one particular song and it's 679 00:31:43,980 --> 00:31:46,440 very worldly, you know, and 680 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,839 I've and I went around the 681 00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:50,140 block and I and another 682 00:31:50,140 --> 00:31:51,779 another advertisement and I 683 00:31:52,659 --> 00:31:53,720 couldn't, you know, to the 684 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:54,779 point where, you know, like 685 00:31:54,779 --> 00:31:56,099 eventually I was like, you 686 00:31:56,099 --> 00:31:57,480 know why and I just I just 687 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,519 turned it off. I'm like, you 688 00:31:58,519 --> 00:31:59,880 know what, like, yeah, I 689 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:00,599 shouldn't be listening to 690 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:02,099 that anyway. And and so, yeah, 691 00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:03,160 when you talk about the music 692 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,200 that so literally this last 693 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,700 week or two weeks and like 694 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:09,660 silence from that I feel 695 00:32:09,660 --> 00:32:12,420 has, you know, it is I feel 696 00:32:12,420 --> 00:32:14,460 has helped clear me out. 697 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:15,660 It's it's all that's your 698 00:32:15,660 --> 00:32:20,839 spirit. Yeah. Good. All 699 00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:23,200 right. Was that a hand for 700 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,160 something? Oh, you okay? 701 00:32:24,619 --> 00:32:26,920 No. Okay. All right. So 702 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,440 here's another question along 703 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,900 those lines. If God is truly 704 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,220 at the center of your life, 705 00:32:36,259 --> 00:32:40,559 what would others see differently 706 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:43,640 about you between B.C. and 707 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,859 A.D. not general things. What 708 00:32:46,859 --> 00:32:48,839 would they see different about 709 00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:51,500 you coming from the old life 710 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,619 to the new life? What would 711 00:32:54,619 --> 00:33:03,920 that look like? All right. How 712 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,500 are you? Good. How are you? 713 00:33:06,439 --> 00:33:08,839 Good. No problem. I would 714 00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:10,140 say like related to the first 715 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:12,059 question. I think what people 716 00:33:12,059 --> 00:33:13,400 would see differently about me 717 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,779 is that I'm not as self-centered 718 00:33:14,779 --> 00:33:16,839 not selfish, you know, not 719 00:33:16,839 --> 00:33:17,839 doing things just because 720 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:19,740 this is how I feel not 721 00:33:19,740 --> 00:33:20,859 leading on my own understanding 722 00:33:21,359 --> 00:33:22,539 and they would see that I'm 723 00:33:22,539 --> 00:33:24,779 keeping God first because that 724 00:33:24,779 --> 00:33:25,599 was my answer to the first 725 00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:26,339 question. Like one of the 726 00:33:26,339 --> 00:33:28,160 hardest things for me to release 727 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,960 control over is, you know, just 728 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,079 my life just in general, you 729 00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:33,980 know, because you want to trust 730 00:33:33,980 --> 00:33:35,700 God but things could go left 731 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:37,039 and you know, you want to you 732 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:37,900 always want to have a backup 733 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,619 plan just in case. So just 734 00:33:40,619 --> 00:33:41,940 releasing all that and just 735 00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:43,779 trusting God like kind of 736 00:33:43,779 --> 00:33:45,279 like that blind faith, you 737 00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:46,839 know, it's kind of it's hard. 738 00:33:47,339 --> 00:33:48,259 But yeah, I think that's 739 00:33:48,259 --> 00:33:51,339 what people would see. So you 740 00:33:51,339 --> 00:33:52,839 didn't burn all your bridges 741 00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:54,940 at first, right? Yeah. Okay. 742 00:33:55,259 --> 00:33:57,720 All right. Anything else? Yes, 743 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,700 Dottie. When I was first saved, 744 00:34:03,740 --> 00:34:06,119 my neighbor and my neighbor 745 00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:07,079 and I before we were saved, 746 00:34:07,339 --> 00:34:08,619 we used to sit and have coffee 747 00:34:08,619 --> 00:34:10,739 together and sort of 748 00:34:10,739 --> 00:34:12,179 philosophize over all the 749 00:34:12,179 --> 00:34:13,780 different religions and ideas 750 00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:15,380 and all that kind of stuff, 751 00:34:15,420 --> 00:34:16,280 you know, and everything and 752 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,559 we thought we had it all 753 00:34:17,559 --> 00:34:21,019 figured out. And then I 754 00:34:21,019 --> 00:34:23,320 got saved and I was so 755 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,920 excited to run down to her 756 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,679 house. Wrong. And I'm a friend 757 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:31,179 who is just a coffee drinker 758 00:34:31,179 --> 00:34:32,300 just having a good time, you 759 00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:35,440 know, together and she kicked 760 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,900 me out. She said you can 761 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:42,099 leave and big time. She said 762 00:34:42,099 --> 00:34:44,139 Dottie, you just can't say 763 00:34:44,139 --> 00:34:45,980 it's just Jesus is the way 764 00:34:45,980 --> 00:34:47,679 the truth in the light. I 765 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:49,840 said, well, I don't know. I 766 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,000 just found that out. That's 767 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,320 what we've been looking 768 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,519 for. Carol, you know, I found 769 00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:55,719 out that she was a Rocha 770 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,340 Crucian. So no wonder there 771 00:34:58,340 --> 00:34:59,579 were some things going on 772 00:34:59,579 --> 00:35:01,400 that was quite different. And 773 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,719 so, but you know, about three 774 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:04,900 months later, the Lord worked 775 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:06,460 on me because I think I was 776 00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:09,099 probably real preachy. And 777 00:35:09,099 --> 00:35:11,880 yeah, and and the Lord said 778 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:12,900 me, Dottie, I want you to go 779 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:14,380 back and I want you to 780 00:35:14,380 --> 00:35:16,239 apologize. Ask her forgiveness 781 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,280 for just not what I said, 782 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,380 but how I said it. And I 783 00:35:20,380 --> 00:35:23,320 did and and Carol said, come 784 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,400 on in, have a cup of tea. 785 00:35:25,519 --> 00:35:26,280 Did you get back to your 786 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,159 coffee? Yes, we did. Well, 787 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,079 yes and no. 788 00:35:29,659 --> 00:35:32,039 Yes. Sometimes when you 789 00:35:32,039 --> 00:35:33,300 have a difference now of 790 00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:35,500 persuasion, you sit around 791 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:37,960 and don't know what to talk 792 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,619 about. I have my sons. 793 00:37:04,319 --> 00:37:06,420 We'll turn it back on. So 794 00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:08,639 you can pray for me. Next 795 00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:10,039 Monday is our next time 796 00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:11,699 together. So, you know, it's 797 00:37:11,699 --> 00:37:12,800 not like an hour. I mean, 798 00:37:13,039 --> 00:37:14,860 you know, two and a half 799 00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:16,019 hours go by. We're still 800 00:37:16,019 --> 00:37:17,619 having coffee and you know 801 00:37:17,619 --> 00:37:18,559 in the restaurant and they 802 00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:19,719 just about kick us out the 803 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,280 door for somebody else to 804 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,159 sit in that booth. But it 805 00:37:23,159 --> 00:37:24,340 is what it is. But it is 806 00:37:24,340 --> 00:37:26,059 hard to find that common 807 00:37:26,059 --> 00:37:29,139 ground sometimes to to to 808 00:37:29,139 --> 00:37:30,619 befriend people, but God 809 00:37:30,619 --> 00:37:32,820 will give it to you. Okay. 810 00:37:33,579 --> 00:37:34,699 So we have a couple of 811 00:37:34,699 --> 00:37:36,820 questions we answered. Let's 812 00:37:36,820 --> 00:37:38,199 take a look at a statement. 813 00:37:39,260 --> 00:37:41,059 If Christ is living within 814 00:37:41,059 --> 00:37:44,179 us, the evidence that others 815 00:37:44,179 --> 00:37:47,099 will see is not what we 816 00:37:47,099 --> 00:37:49,880 say or how we live our life 817 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,920 for how we respond and how 818 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,780 we treat others. What's 819 00:37:53,780 --> 00:37:55,960 that look like? Well, first 820 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,420 of all, it's loving one 821 00:37:57,420 --> 00:37:59,659 another in 1st John 5 to if 822 00:37:59,659 --> 00:38:01,320 we love and obey God, we 823 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,820 will know that we will love 824 00:38:03,820 --> 00:38:07,079 his children. Serving is 825 00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:08,880 another aspect. 1st Peter 826 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,960 410. Each of you have been 827 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,059 blessed with some of God's 828 00:38:13,059 --> 00:38:14,800 wonderful gifts to be used 829 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,360 in the service of others 830 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,239 to use your gifts. Well, 831 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:21,940 another exhortations showing 832 00:38:21,940 --> 00:38:24,780 kindness to one another Ephesians 833 00:38:24,780 --> 00:38:27,780 432 and be kind to one 834 00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:30,480 another tender hearted 835 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,900 forgiving one another even 836 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:35,940 as God for Christ's sake has 837 00:38:35,940 --> 00:38:38,420 forgiven you another 838 00:38:38,420 --> 00:38:40,639 exhortations show hospitality 839 00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:43,860 1st Peter 4 9 be hospitable 840 00:38:43,860 --> 00:38:45,860 to one another without 841 00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:47,800 grudging. So maybe that's 842 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,019 my challenge this week. 843 00:38:50,859 --> 00:38:52,780 Forgiving one another 844 00:38:52,780 --> 00:38:55,699 Colossians 3 13 forgive 845 00:38:56,260 --> 00:38:58,159 anyone who does you wrong 846 00:38:58,159 --> 00:39:00,539 just as Christ has forgiven 847 00:39:00,539 --> 00:39:03,519 you and the last aspect here 848 00:39:03,519 --> 00:39:05,980 of what we look like is help 849 00:39:05,980 --> 00:39:07,500 the fallen and the needy 850 00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:10,039 Ecclesiastes 4 10 if you 851 00:39:10,039 --> 00:39:11,780 fall your friend can help 852 00:39:11,780 --> 00:39:13,400 you up. But if you fall 853 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,559 without having a friend 854 00:39:14,559 --> 00:39:16,440 nearby you are really in 855 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,659 trouble. So that is the 856 00:39:18,659 --> 00:39:20,500 exhortation that we should 857 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:24,440 have loving serving showing 858 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,719 kindness showing hospitality 859 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,920 forgiving and helping the 860 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,880 falling now. 861 00:39:33,099 --> 00:39:33,300 Yeah. 862 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:35,860 Showing hospitality 863 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:38,300 you have to understand that 864 00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:40,579 when he says hospitable to 865 00:39:40,579 --> 00:39:42,500 one another that means to 866 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:44,219 Christians it doesn't mean 867 00:39:44,219 --> 00:39:45,920 that you can't show love to 868 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,019 outsiders but at the same 869 00:39:48,019 --> 00:39:49,340 time you should not show the 870 00:39:49,340 --> 00:39:50,820 kind of hospitality that 871 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,559 brings a person who is not 872 00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:54,780 a Christian into your home 873 00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:55,820 because that's opening the 874 00:39:55,820 --> 00:39:56,420 door for seat. 875 00:39:56,940 --> 00:39:58,099 It really is it's in John 876 00:39:58,099 --> 00:39:58,519 3. 877 00:39:59,059 --> 00:40:00,860 I'm a brother and the 878 00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:02,980 in that exhortation. 879 00:40:03,019 --> 00:40:03,699 I just want to make that 880 00:40:03,699 --> 00:40:03,980 clear. 881 00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:05,340 That's good. 882 00:40:06,179 --> 00:40:08,199 It's saying in John 883 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:10,699 and I do. 884 00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:13,079 We know that 885 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:14,579 we love this show. 886 00:40:14,820 --> 00:40:15,000 Yeah. 887 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:17,920 Love everybody the same 888 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,139 love children or single 889 00:40:19,139 --> 00:40:20,420 of everybody because everybody 890 00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:21,579 is his children. 891 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,599 No, no, no, no, no, no, 892 00:40:27,460 --> 00:40:29,179 that's how they shall know. 893 00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:31,340 Yes, and not that we're 894 00:40:31,340 --> 00:40:34,079 supposed to not be kind to 895 00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:34,780 strangers. 896 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,739 It's not saying that it's 897 00:40:36,739 --> 00:40:38,039 just saying be careful 898 00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:39,519 who you're hospitable to 899 00:40:39,519 --> 00:40:40,880 and bring into your home. 900 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,199 Do not bring somebody who's 901 00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:44,559 not a person into your home 902 00:40:44,559 --> 00:40:46,079 and like invite them in 903 00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:47,659 and to stay for a while. 904 00:40:48,119 --> 00:40:51,360 Yeah, same with open arms 905 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,920 you embrace somebody now. 906 00:40:54,079 --> 00:40:55,079 I would embrace you as 907 00:40:55,079 --> 00:40:56,840 arms because you're a 908 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:57,519 fellow believer. 909 00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,420 I would still invite you 910 00:40:59,420 --> 00:41:00,739 into my house if you were 911 00:41:00,739 --> 00:41:02,019 not a believer, but I 912 00:41:02,019 --> 00:41:03,780 wouldn't open my arms. 913 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:04,980 I would be kind to you 914 00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:06,679 hospitable to you in order 915 00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:08,119 to win you. 916 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:09,980 Yes, in order to befriend 917 00:41:09,980 --> 00:41:11,019 you hope that you see 918 00:41:11,019 --> 00:41:12,139 something in our lives 919 00:41:12,139 --> 00:41:13,840 that you would want but 920 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,539 that's there's a differentiation 921 00:41:15,539 --> 00:41:17,800 between Christian and 922 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:18,920 non-Christian. 923 00:41:19,420 --> 00:41:19,940 Okay. 924 00:41:20,820 --> 00:41:22,519 Yes, yes, yes. 925 00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:25,500 I want to say I disagree 926 00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:27,000 with that, but I do have 927 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000 a question with that. 928 00:41:28,380 --> 00:41:30,500 So I get what you guys 929 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:31,440 are saying about that. 930 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:32,780 But what about when Jesus 931 00:41:32,780 --> 00:41:35,019 came down into the all the 932 00:41:35,019 --> 00:41:36,500 disciples like none 933 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:37,699 of them were Christians. 934 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,840 None of them were anywhere 935 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,300 near what we're supposed 936 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:43,420 to be but Jesus opened 937 00:41:43,420 --> 00:41:44,900 his arms to all of them 938 00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:47,179 full-heartedly and he was 939 00:41:47,179 --> 00:41:48,780 hospitable to all of them. 940 00:41:49,420 --> 00:41:50,820 Like I just feel like if 941 00:41:50,820 --> 00:41:51,840 we're supposed to be like 942 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,800 Jesus the culture kind of 943 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,739 says watch out for certain 944 00:41:55,739 --> 00:41:57,360 people, but I feel like 945 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,519 Jesus if you look at what 946 00:41:58,519 --> 00:41:59,539 he did in the Bible, it 947 00:41:59,539 --> 00:42:00,440 kind of says the opposite 948 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:01,800 of that says it doesn't 949 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,300 matter what you drag 950 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:04,519 along behind you. 951 00:42:04,519 --> 00:42:06,360 It's all is welcomed. 952 00:42:06,739 --> 00:42:07,039 You know what I mean? 953 00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:08,579 Like I feel like I kind 954 00:42:08,579 --> 00:42:09,400 of look for the people 955 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,059 who are shunned against 956 00:42:11,059 --> 00:42:12,719 the community Christians 957 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,179 have a home Christians 958 00:42:14,179 --> 00:42:15,300 have the church as their 959 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:16,599 home. It's the people 960 00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:17,800 outside the church who 961 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:18,880 don't have a place to 962 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:19,780 come and feel the 963 00:42:19,780 --> 00:42:21,599 hospital hospitality that 964 00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:22,960 Christians can provide. 965 00:42:23,159 --> 00:42:24,400 Well, no, that's true. 966 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:25,699 And and and let me 967 00:42:25,699 --> 00:42:26,699 differentiate a little 968 00:42:26,699 --> 00:42:27,960 bit and help you out in 969 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:29,880 that when Christ started 970 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,500 his ministry, he eased 971 00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:33,059 them into his understanding 972 00:42:33,739 --> 00:42:35,260 and he worked slowly 973 00:42:35,260 --> 00:42:37,000 with them and then he often 974 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:37,980 told them you do not 975 00:42:37,980 --> 00:42:39,199 understand these things. 976 00:42:39,699 --> 00:42:41,760 So he progressively opened 977 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,679 himself and his feelings 978 00:42:43,679 --> 00:42:45,019 and that last day that 979 00:42:45,019 --> 00:42:45,940 he was with them. 980 00:42:46,159 --> 00:42:47,420 I wish that this cup 981 00:42:47,420 --> 00:42:48,940 would pass from me and 982 00:42:48,940 --> 00:42:50,599 he shared and he cried 983 00:42:50,599 --> 00:42:51,880 with them. So you see 984 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,340 the relationship build 985 00:42:53,340 --> 00:42:54,739 in a stronger sense 986 00:42:54,739 --> 00:42:55,719 from when he started 987 00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:56,840 with them and then 988 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:57,699 when he ended up with 989 00:42:57,699 --> 00:42:58,559 them and that's basically 990 00:42:58,559 --> 00:42:59,460 the same that we're 991 00:42:59,460 --> 00:43:00,760 doing. Yes, we'll open 992 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,380 ourselves. Yes, we'll 993 00:43:02,380 --> 00:43:03,920 manjah with them, but 994 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,320 as as they become one 995 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,900 with us, we open ourselves 996 00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:11,159 totally without reservation. 997 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,920 Okay. All right. Good. 998 00:43:14,079 --> 00:43:14,699 Good point though. 999 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:18,039 All right. Yes, Charlie. 1000 00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:21,739 What what Gail said, 1001 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,900 it just reminded me of 1002 00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:23,780 something a long time 1003 00:43:23,780 --> 00:43:25,500 ago where I was going 1004 00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:26,179 to this church and 1005 00:43:26,179 --> 00:43:27,579 resist older woman and 1006 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:29,659 she kind of took this 1007 00:43:30,259 --> 00:43:31,519 young guy under her 1008 00:43:31,519 --> 00:43:33,119 wing kind of and 1009 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,699 you know, he was into 1010 00:43:35,699 --> 00:43:36,699 drugs and stuff and 1011 00:43:36,699 --> 00:43:37,639 she was trying to help 1012 00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:39,500 him and she would she 1013 00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:40,219 would do all kinds of 1014 00:43:40,219 --> 00:43:41,139 things for him and 1015 00:43:41,139 --> 00:43:42,280 take him to doctors 1016 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,099 appointments and you 1017 00:43:44,099 --> 00:43:45,199 know, try to show him 1018 00:43:45,199 --> 00:43:46,300 God's love and 1019 00:43:46,300 --> 00:43:47,860 everything and then 1020 00:43:47,860 --> 00:43:50,219 one day he killed her 1021 00:43:50,219 --> 00:43:52,159 and he took he stole 1022 00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:53,239 he stole things from 1023 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,480 her house that he so 1024 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:55,360 he could get drugs. 1025 00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:57,699 And I think that's 1026 00:43:57,699 --> 00:43:58,780 kind of what 1027 00:43:58,780 --> 00:44:00,260 Gail means you have 1028 00:44:00,260 --> 00:44:02,099 to be it's good to 1029 00:44:02,099 --> 00:44:03,260 be kind to people 1030 00:44:03,260 --> 00:44:04,860 wise and wise 1031 00:44:04,860 --> 00:44:05,539 his serpents. 1032 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:06,860 But you know the weeds 1033 00:44:06,860 --> 00:44:08,340 grow up with the with 1034 00:44:08,340 --> 00:44:09,579 the pears grow up with 1035 00:44:09,579 --> 00:44:09,900 the weeds. 1036 00:44:09,940 --> 00:44:11,360 So you have to you 1037 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:12,179 have to be careful. 1038 00:44:12,579 --> 00:44:15,239 That's all and so 1039 00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:16,639 I mean if you have open 1040 00:44:16,639 --> 00:44:17,820 eyes and you try it 1041 00:44:17,820 --> 00:44:18,500 you try to be the 1042 00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:19,719 best you can towards 1043 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:20,760 people and lead people 1044 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:21,500 and just just have 1045 00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:22,300 some discernment. 1046 00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:23,019 That's all. 1047 00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:25,840 Well, a lot of you 1048 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:26,760 never grew up with 1049 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,119 the Jesus movement as I 1050 00:44:28,119 --> 00:44:30,500 did it and I ended up 1051 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:31,699 with 40 kids in our 1052 00:44:31,699 --> 00:44:34,300 house in a home meeting 40 1053 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:35,559 kids home meeting can 1054 00:44:35,559 --> 00:44:36,900 get that and I want 1055 00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:38,579 to tell you the stuff 1056 00:44:38,579 --> 00:44:40,820 that was off the wall and 1057 00:44:40,820 --> 00:44:42,460 so okay Lord, it was just 1058 00:44:42,460 --> 00:44:43,900 like babysitting 40 1059 00:44:43,900 --> 00:44:44,440 children. 1060 00:44:44,780 --> 00:44:46,059 You know, well, you know, 1061 00:44:46,059 --> 00:44:47,139 I'm living with this, 1062 00:44:47,380 --> 00:44:48,519 you know my over here and 1063 00:44:48,519 --> 00:44:49,239 then we're reading the 1064 00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:50,079 Bible and we're doing 1065 00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:51,400 this and something over 1066 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:52,320 here and you know, 1067 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:53,300 and I said, oh my God, 1068 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:54,920 what you put me into but 1069 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,000 you know out of that and 1070 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,340 it fast forward about 1071 00:44:58,340 --> 00:45:00,099 four or five years as 1072 00:45:00,099 --> 00:45:02,260 some of the crowd thinned 1073 00:45:02,260 --> 00:45:03,920 out because we were preaching 1074 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,940 the word and showing 1075 00:45:05,940 --> 00:45:07,699 them the light as we all 1076 00:45:07,699 --> 00:45:11,920 do I ended up with a couple 1077 00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,559 that we have a deep 1078 00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:17,059 Christian relationship with 1079 00:45:17,059 --> 00:45:19,940 after 35 years and 1080 00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:21,219 they know the Lord they're 1081 00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:22,719 serving the Lord and 1082 00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:23,940 the fruit of that 1083 00:45:23,940 --> 00:45:25,239 relationship in the 1084 00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:26,940 beginning was yes, 1085 00:45:27,579 --> 00:45:28,679 we opened our home. 1086 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:30,900 Yes, we fed them. 1087 00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:32,440 But yes, now we have 1088 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:33,679 somebody that's truly and 1089 00:45:33,679 --> 00:45:34,820 I don't consider them 1090 00:45:34,820 --> 00:45:36,340 a disciple anymore than 1091 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,739 just a real dear friend 1092 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:40,900 both his he and his wife. 1093 00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:42,280 I mean and that was a 1094 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,400 progressive state, 1095 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:44,619 you know over a period 1096 00:45:44,619 --> 00:45:45,480 of time and I'm saying 1097 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:46,380 I'm not saying it takes 1098 00:45:46,380 --> 00:45:47,260 35 years. 1099 00:45:47,260 --> 00:45:48,519 But all I'm saying is 1100 00:45:48,519 --> 00:45:49,380 that there is a progression. 1101 00:45:49,739 --> 00:45:51,619 Yes, I'm not saying 1102 00:45:51,619 --> 00:45:52,300 that you shouldn't 1103 00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:53,159 be hospitable. 1104 00:45:54,119 --> 00:45:55,599 Georgia and I used to 1105 00:45:55,599 --> 00:45:56,539 participate in this 1106 00:45:56,539 --> 00:45:57,559 program called warm 1107 00:45:57,559 --> 00:45:59,320 showers where people 1108 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,800 who are cycling across 1109 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,619 the country could come 1110 00:46:02,619 --> 00:46:03,519 and stay at our house 1111 00:46:03,519 --> 00:46:05,820 overnight get a meal to 1112 00:46:05,820 --> 00:46:06,860 have a warm shower. 1113 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:08,159 No charge. 1114 00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:10,760 One time we had this 1115 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:11,860 young man who was 1116 00:46:11,860 --> 00:46:13,559 actually originally from 1117 00:46:13,559 --> 00:46:14,059 Taiwan. 1118 00:46:14,079 --> 00:46:15,699 He was studying in a 1119 00:46:15,699 --> 00:46:17,159 University in in 1120 00:46:17,759 --> 00:46:19,659 New York and we were 1121 00:46:19,659 --> 00:46:20,800 the first stop on his 1122 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,039 trip across the country 1123 00:46:22,639 --> 00:46:24,679 and we shared the gospel 1124 00:46:24,679 --> 00:46:25,559 with him in our dinner 1125 00:46:25,559 --> 00:46:27,219 table that night and 1126 00:46:27,219 --> 00:46:27,980 he was amazed. 1127 00:46:28,179 --> 00:46:29,179 He said I've never heard 1128 00:46:29,179 --> 00:46:30,300 anything like this before 1129 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,820 and so I mean opportunities 1130 00:46:32,820 --> 00:46:33,639 like that. 1131 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:34,699 I'm not saying you 1132 00:46:34,699 --> 00:46:36,500 shouldn't be hospitable 1133 00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:37,139 like that. 1134 00:46:37,420 --> 00:46:38,519 I'm just saying just be 1135 00:46:38,519 --> 00:46:40,119 careful and don't have 1136 00:46:40,119 --> 00:46:41,239 people like Charlie was 1137 00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:42,760 saying come live in your 1138 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,639 house for a while and 1139 00:46:44,639 --> 00:46:45,900 take over your life. 1140 00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:47,099 That's not proper. 1141 00:46:47,539 --> 00:46:48,659 Yeah, that's good. 1142 00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:49,679 Okay. 1143 00:46:50,019 --> 00:46:50,940 Yes, Brian. 1144 00:46:53,759 --> 00:46:55,159 You know, sometimes 1145 00:46:56,599 --> 00:46:57,960 I would feel that 1146 00:46:58,940 --> 00:47:00,280 that I was sort of called 1147 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,039 just to to reach those 1148 00:47:02,039 --> 00:47:03,079 types of people like the 1149 00:47:03,079 --> 00:47:04,079 people that are outside of 1150 00:47:04,079 --> 00:47:04,739 the church, you know, 1151 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:06,139 I've been quite the outcast 1152 00:47:06,139 --> 00:47:07,460 from the church from the 1153 00:47:07,460 --> 00:47:09,880 get-go growing up myself 1154 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:11,860 and then sometimes I think 1155 00:47:11,860 --> 00:47:13,320 that like our God protects 1156 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:13,599 me. 1157 00:47:13,699 --> 00:47:15,119 He allows me like and then 1158 00:47:15,119 --> 00:47:16,940 this you know, I was I 1159 00:47:16,940 --> 00:47:17,639 think about the verses 1160 00:47:17,639 --> 00:47:18,739 that talk about like 1161 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,719 how the spirit, you know, 1162 00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:22,599 you can't fight the spirit 1163 00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:23,639 because it's more powerful 1164 00:47:23,639 --> 00:47:24,960 than you like it tells 1165 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,079 us very clearly that 1166 00:47:27,679 --> 00:47:28,519 and so. 1167 00:47:30,860 --> 00:47:32,119 Basically, I used to 1168 00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,300 so I had to meditate on 1169 00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:35,559 on that because thinking 1170 00:47:35,559 --> 00:47:36,659 that like all right, 1171 00:47:36,659 --> 00:47:37,860 you know what I'm out 1172 00:47:37,860 --> 00:47:38,980 here and like, you know, 1173 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,219 going into some real dark 1174 00:47:40,219 --> 00:47:41,599 heavy heavy spiritual 1175 00:47:41,599 --> 00:47:42,599 type of thing trying to 1176 00:47:42,599 --> 00:47:43,500 reach people that are 1177 00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:48,440 like, you know and basically 1178 00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,340 I'm not sure if basically 1179 00:47:54,340 --> 00:47:55,780 I think that we are supposed 1180 00:47:55,780 --> 00:47:57,300 to reach out to the people 1181 00:47:57,300 --> 00:47:58,380 that are outside of the 1182 00:47:58,380 --> 00:48:00,059 church and and basically to 1183 00:48:00,620 --> 00:48:03,039 basically pray to our God 1184 00:48:03,039 --> 00:48:04,380 to protect us from those 1185 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,320 spiritual attacks and 1186 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,420 still, you know, one way 1187 00:48:08,420 --> 00:48:08,860 or another. 1188 00:48:09,420 --> 00:48:11,599 I feel that there's a 1189 00:48:11,599 --> 00:48:13,159 type of people that I'm 1190 00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:14,519 extending a knowledge 1191 00:48:14,519 --> 00:48:16,039 branch to, you know, 1192 00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:17,780 there's no pre-qualification 1193 00:48:17,780 --> 00:48:18,699 to be friend. 1194 00:48:19,380 --> 00:48:20,719 There's no pre-pre-qualification 1195 00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:21,699 to bring them in. 1196 00:48:22,019 --> 00:48:22,820 It's just a matter of how 1197 00:48:22,820 --> 00:48:23,940 much you give of yourself 1198 00:48:23,940 --> 00:48:25,539 to them, you know, 1199 00:48:25,619 --> 00:48:27,599 and how much you open, you 1200 00:48:27,599 --> 00:48:27,739 know. 1201 00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:37,800 That's right. 1202 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:42,340 You know, and this comes 1203 00:48:45,379 --> 00:48:46,519 and doesn't that bring 1204 00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:48,460 us full circle about when 1205 00:48:48,460 --> 00:48:52,139 we rely on God to direct 1206 00:48:52,139 --> 00:48:54,079 our paths, then he will 1207 00:48:54,079 --> 00:48:55,860 show us that individual 1208 00:48:55,860 --> 00:48:57,960 we should be going to that 1209 00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,079 group of people that we 1210 00:48:59,079 --> 00:49:00,880 should be going to, you 1211 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:02,539 know, and and fast 1212 00:49:02,539 --> 00:49:04,239 forward in the sense that 1213 00:49:05,579 --> 00:49:06,739 yeah, we can go out and 1214 00:49:06,739 --> 00:49:08,840 evangelize but at the end 1215 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:09,980 of the day, where did 1216 00:49:09,980 --> 00:49:11,039 God lead you in that 1217 00:49:11,039 --> 00:49:13,539 evangelistic out out flow 1218 00:49:13,539 --> 00:49:15,239 of your life, you know, 1219 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:16,440 was it that you maybe 1220 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:17,380 should have listened and 1221 00:49:17,380 --> 00:49:18,260 talked with this person 1222 00:49:18,460 --> 00:49:19,800 and so you didn't and 1223 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:20,360 whatever. 1224 00:49:20,639 --> 00:49:21,579 So things kind of get 1225 00:49:21,579 --> 00:49:22,880 murky and confused. 1226 00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:24,440 Whereas when we have 1227 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,699 God's leading the seed 1228 00:49:27,699 --> 00:49:28,280 is planted. 1229 00:49:28,519 --> 00:49:29,519 That's our responsibility 1230 00:49:30,019 --> 00:49:31,440 and whose responsibility 1231 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:32,860 it is to bring increase. 1232 00:49:33,699 --> 00:49:33,980 It's his. 1233 00:49:34,820 --> 00:49:35,699 Yeah, so we just leave 1234 00:49:35,699 --> 00:49:36,340 it with the Lord. 1235 00:49:37,179 --> 00:49:37,400 All right. 1236 00:49:38,159 --> 00:49:41,079 So we're we're looking 1237 00:49:41,079 --> 00:49:42,159 at a lot of interesting 1238 00:49:42,159 --> 00:49:46,900 things here and in 1239 00:49:47,859 --> 00:49:50,119 verses 6 to 7 those 1240 00:49:50,119 --> 00:49:51,579 like the Gibeonites in 1241 00:49:51,579 --> 00:49:53,440 covenant can call for help. 1242 00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:55,820 So what's that look like? 1243 00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:57,480 The Gibeonites were not 1244 00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,880 Israelites by birth, but 1245 00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:00,760 they had the right to 1246 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,800 call Joshua because they 1247 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,260 had entered into a covenant 1248 00:50:04,260 --> 00:50:05,800 with Israel and when 1249 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:06,920 they were threatened they 1250 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:08,739 urgently sent word to 1251 00:50:08,739 --> 00:50:10,340 Joshua come help. 1252 00:50:11,340 --> 00:50:13,820 Don't abandon your servants. 1253 00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,199 It says come up quickly 1254 00:50:16,199 --> 00:50:18,159 to us and save us. 1255 00:50:18,639 --> 00:50:20,980 So Joshua responded immediately 1256 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:23,900 and honored their covenant. 1257 00:50:25,260 --> 00:50:26,699 Here are some spiritual insights 1258 00:50:26,699 --> 00:50:28,340 into our covenant with God. 1259 00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:32,360 One covenant creates an 1260 00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,079 access to the Lord. 1261 00:50:34,739 --> 00:50:36,079 We are also in covenant 1262 00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:36,699 with God. 1263 00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:39,340 So prayer is again not 1264 00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:40,960 begging and some the 1265 00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:42,619 somebody that is distance to 1266 00:50:42,619 --> 00:50:42,860 us. 1267 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,119 He is our friend. 1268 00:50:44,179 --> 00:50:45,099 He is our God. 1269 00:50:45,420 --> 00:50:46,579 It is calling upon a 1270 00:50:46,579 --> 00:50:48,539 relationship now already 1271 00:50:48,539 --> 00:50:50,519 established like a father 1272 00:50:50,519 --> 00:50:52,139 and son or father and 1273 00:50:52,139 --> 00:50:52,679 daughter. 1274 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,800 So that gives us access to 1275 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,739 covenant removes us from 1276 00:50:57,739 --> 00:50:59,480 standing alone in isolation 1277 00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:01,599 when we are in covenant 1278 00:51:01,599 --> 00:51:02,260 with God. 1279 00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:04,139 We are near we are never 1280 00:51:04,139 --> 00:51:06,079 fighting our battles alone. 1281 00:51:06,079 --> 00:51:07,480 Now, sometimes we choose 1282 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,119 to until we understand 1283 00:51:09,119 --> 00:51:09,860 that relationship. 1284 00:51:10,099 --> 00:51:11,260 He wants all things brought 1285 00:51:11,260 --> 00:51:11,719 to him. 1286 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,500 He desires to be our friends 1287 00:51:13,500 --> 00:51:15,719 our father covenant brings 1288 00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:17,320 a faithful response. 1289 00:51:18,019 --> 00:51:20,380 Joshua did not delay. 1290 00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,059 He went up from Gilgal 1291 00:51:23,059 --> 00:51:24,099 with his whole army 1292 00:51:24,099 --> 00:51:25,820 marching through the night 1293 00:51:25,820 --> 00:51:27,800 instantaneous response. 1294 00:51:31,119 --> 00:51:32,559 God responds to his covenant 1295 00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:34,760 people not reluctantly 1296 00:51:35,619 --> 00:51:38,599 but faithfully and often 1297 00:51:38,599 --> 00:51:39,159 swiftly. 1298 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,340 And the last point is covenant 1299 00:51:43,340 --> 00:51:45,300 transforms our identity. 1300 00:51:46,079 --> 00:51:47,159 It's like the Gibeonites. 1301 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:48,420 We were once outsiders, 1302 00:51:48,639 --> 00:51:51,000 but now we can say we are 1303 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,820 your servants in Christ. 1304 00:51:54,420 --> 00:51:55,980 We move from outsiders to 1305 00:51:55,980 --> 00:51:58,400 belonging children who can 1306 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,920 call on their father for 1307 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,079 help when other one under 1308 00:52:03,079 --> 00:52:03,519 pressure. 1309 00:52:03,519 --> 00:52:05,099 We remember that we have 1310 00:52:05,099 --> 00:52:06,219 covenant backing. 1311 00:52:06,219 --> 00:52:09,199 He declared that to us when 1312 00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:10,139 we are overwhelmed. 1313 00:52:10,139 --> 00:52:11,420 We don't retreat. 1314 00:52:11,639 --> 00:52:13,679 We call for help and I 1315 00:52:13,679 --> 00:52:14,900 don't there's not enough 1316 00:52:14,900 --> 00:52:16,119 people in the church today 1317 00:52:16,119 --> 00:52:17,119 that call for help. 1318 00:52:17,619 --> 00:52:18,400 You come up to somebody 1319 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:19,219 in church service. 1320 00:52:19,260 --> 00:52:19,699 How are you? 1321 00:52:19,780 --> 00:52:20,420 Oh, I'm fine. 1322 00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:24,719 Okay, I accept that but if 1323 00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,000 I keep hearing that all the 1324 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,780 time and and and try this 1325 00:52:27,780 --> 00:52:29,260 on for size somebody comes 1326 00:52:29,260 --> 00:52:29,820 up to you and said, 1327 00:52:29,820 --> 00:52:31,480 how are you kind of give 1328 00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:33,059 it a give a rehearsed? 1329 00:52:33,099 --> 00:52:33,800 Well, you know, I had 1330 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,239 this situation in my life 1331 00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:36,019 and I need prayer. 1332 00:52:36,019 --> 00:52:37,480 It's over kind of lay it 1333 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:38,559 out there and see where it 1334 00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:39,000 goes. 1335 00:52:39,199 --> 00:52:40,480 I mean see how open people 1336 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:41,659 become to that. 1337 00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,480 I mean we need to transfer 1338 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,840 the help across the lines 1339 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:47,139 and not just well, 1340 00:52:47,179 --> 00:52:49,360 I'm okay and when we pray 1341 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:50,500 we approach God with 1342 00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:53,059 confidence not hesitation. 1343 00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,119 Okay, let's build on that 1344 00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:57,559 question. 1345 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,400 What would confident prayer 1346 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,179 look like in your life 1347 00:53:02,179 --> 00:53:02,920 right now? 1348 00:53:03,199 --> 00:53:05,579 What would you do with 1349 00:53:05,579 --> 00:53:07,280 confident prayer with the 1350 00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:08,860 confidence that you have? 1351 00:53:10,119 --> 00:53:12,780 My suggestion is this by 1352 00:53:12,780 --> 00:53:14,960 thanking him for answers 1353 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,099 to prayer even before 1354 00:53:17,099 --> 00:53:17,800 they happen. 1355 00:53:18,639 --> 00:53:21,920 Go the next mile claim 1356 00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:23,260 that victory. 1357 00:53:23,980 --> 00:53:25,260 You know, you can dance 1358 00:53:25,260 --> 00:53:26,559 around that thing all your 1359 00:53:26,559 --> 00:53:26,840 life. 1360 00:53:27,039 --> 00:53:27,940 Lord, please help. 1361 00:53:28,519 --> 00:53:29,360 I'm being patient. 1362 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:31,300 I've waited five years 1363 00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:31,840 for this. 1364 00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:32,980 Thank him. 1365 00:53:33,199 --> 00:53:34,460 I've gotten to the point 1366 00:53:34,460 --> 00:53:36,099 now where some of you know 1367 00:53:36,099 --> 00:53:37,619 that again, my wife is 1368 00:53:37,619 --> 00:53:38,039 disabled. 1369 00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,559 She has MS and naturally an 1370 00:53:40,559 --> 00:53:42,619 MS you die from complications. 1371 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:44,619 That's not a happy thought. 1372 00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:48,099 But I started once again 1373 00:53:48,099 --> 00:53:49,599 after years of letting 1374 00:53:49,599 --> 00:53:51,139 God do what he was either 1375 00:53:51,139 --> 00:53:52,179 going to do or not do, 1376 00:53:52,260 --> 00:53:53,239 started praying for her 1377 00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:54,280 about three years ago. 1378 00:53:55,079 --> 00:53:56,559 And recently I just started 1379 00:53:56,559 --> 00:53:58,440 thanking him for her healing. 1380 00:53:58,980 --> 00:54:00,179 Not praying for her 1381 00:54:00,179 --> 00:54:01,400 healing but thanking him 1382 00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:02,119 for her healing. 1383 00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:03,960 So again, I had taken 1384 00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:04,820 that step. 1385 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:06,480 All right. 1386 00:54:07,679 --> 00:54:09,019 God works through obedient 1387 00:54:09,019 --> 00:54:11,400 action verses 9 through 11. 1388 00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:14,360 Obedience then opens us 1389 00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,219 for God's power. 1390 00:54:17,219 --> 00:54:18,960 Joshua didn't wait for the 1391 00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:20,260 ideal conditions. 1392 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:21,860 The weather was right. 1393 00:54:22,019 --> 00:54:24,119 The moon was not in the sky 1394 00:54:24,119 --> 00:54:25,679 so he could sneak up on them. 1395 00:54:25,900 --> 00:54:27,019 He just did it. 1396 00:54:27,340 --> 00:54:28,760 He acted on what he knew 1397 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:29,280 was right. 1398 00:54:29,860 --> 00:54:31,599 God's intervention often meets 1399 00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:32,820 us in motion, 1400 00:54:32,820 --> 00:54:33,920 not in hesitation. 1401 00:54:34,519 --> 00:54:35,639 Well, I'm waiting for God. 1402 00:54:35,820 --> 00:54:36,099 Okay. 1403 00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:37,360 Well, you can wait for God. 1404 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,159 But what action can you do? 1405 00:54:39,980 --> 00:54:41,559 Again, our action demonstrates 1406 00:54:41,559 --> 00:54:44,139 trust that we trust in him. 1407 00:54:44,980 --> 00:54:46,199 Again, marching all night 1408 00:54:46,199 --> 00:54:47,260 requires faith. 1409 00:54:48,139 --> 00:54:50,059 Gosh, Joshua couldn't see 1410 00:54:50,059 --> 00:54:51,079 the outcome yet. 1411 00:54:51,780 --> 00:54:54,019 Yet true faith isn't passive. 1412 00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,360 It takes steps forward 1413 00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,420 even when the full picture 1414 00:54:58,420 --> 00:55:00,780 may not be clear to us. 1415 00:55:01,699 --> 00:55:02,400 And then three, 1416 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,360 God fights alongside our 1417 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:05,000 obedience. 1418 00:55:05,679 --> 00:55:07,519 As Joshua engaged the army, 1419 00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:11,519 God threw them into confusion 1420 00:55:11,519 --> 00:55:13,460 and even sent hail stones 1421 00:55:13,460 --> 00:55:15,119 from heaven to kill them. 1422 00:55:15,980 --> 00:55:17,480 And the victory was clearly 1423 00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:18,400 God's. 1424 00:55:18,679 --> 00:55:20,719 It became, it came while 1425 00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,880 Joshua was actively engaged 1426 00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,119 in the battle. 1427 00:55:24,599 --> 00:55:26,800 Are we engaged in that battle? 1428 00:55:27,780 --> 00:55:28,699 And then fourth, 1429 00:55:29,099 --> 00:55:30,820 God's power always exceeds 1430 00:55:30,820 --> 00:55:31,840 our human effort. 1431 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:33,980 I mean, I just can't say that enough. 1432 00:55:34,139 --> 00:55:35,460 I have enough mistakes in my life 1433 00:55:35,460 --> 00:55:36,500 to where I did something 1434 00:55:36,500 --> 00:55:37,960 and it was totally wrong 1435 00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:39,079 when I backed up and said, 1436 00:55:39,139 --> 00:55:40,440 okay, God, you take this 1437 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,079 and you control it. 1438 00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:42,940 You work in it. 1439 00:55:43,099 --> 00:55:44,519 God worked things out. 1440 00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,739 Scripture says more died 1441 00:55:47,739 --> 00:55:48,719 from the hail stones 1442 00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:50,219 than by Israel's sword. 1443 00:55:50,900 --> 00:55:53,219 Our role then is obedience. 1444 00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:55,780 God's role is the outcome. 1445 00:55:56,139 --> 00:55:57,400 Like we plant seeds, 1446 00:55:57,539 --> 00:55:58,400 he brings the increase. 1447 00:55:58,699 --> 00:55:59,440 We obey 1448 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,719 and he brings the outcome. 1449 00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:05,059 And he does far beyond 1450 00:56:05,059 --> 00:56:06,599 what we can do ourselves 1451 00:56:06,599 --> 00:56:08,059 when we stop sitting 1452 00:56:09,039 --> 00:56:10,219 and passively waiting 1453 00:56:10,219 --> 00:56:11,480 for God to show up. 1454 00:56:11,860 --> 00:56:13,239 And I've been in that situation 1455 00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:14,980 so I know those circumstances. 1456 00:56:15,739 --> 00:56:16,719 The question then, 1457 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,539 as he calls us to step forward 1458 00:56:20,539 --> 00:56:21,420 in obedience, 1459 00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,780 what impediments cause us 1460 00:56:24,780 --> 00:56:28,340 to hesitate and not move forward? 1461 00:56:28,340 --> 00:56:30,980 What does our hesitations look like? 1462 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:34,199 Why do we hesitate? 1463 00:56:36,860 --> 00:56:38,880 Fear? Fear of? 1464 00:56:39,199 --> 00:56:39,900 Fill in the blank. 1465 00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:41,360 Fear of? 1466 00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:42,960 Ah, boy. 1467 00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,739 A lot of the fears of... 1468 00:56:45,739 --> 00:56:46,140 Fear... 1469 00:56:46,659 --> 00:56:47,579 Being wrong? 1470 00:56:48,599 --> 00:56:50,659 Fear of not fitting in, maybe. 1471 00:56:50,980 --> 00:56:51,360 Okay. 1472 00:56:51,900 --> 00:56:53,059 Yeah, that's the fear of man, 1473 00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:53,780 that, isn't it? 1474 00:56:53,780 --> 00:56:55,260 That trumps the fear of God. 1475 00:56:55,599 --> 00:56:56,139 Yeah. 1476 00:56:56,380 --> 00:56:57,079 Okay, that's good. 1477 00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:00,480 Yes. 1478 00:57:01,519 --> 00:57:03,079 So, we are hesitating. 1479 00:57:03,300 --> 00:57:04,280 Why are we hesitating? 1480 00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,440 Well, related to the fear idea, 1481 00:57:07,739 --> 00:57:09,260 just like, well, in Joshua's case, 1482 00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:11,219 you know, they could be fearful of their life, 1483 00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:11,800 of dying. 1484 00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:13,019 That's one of the things 1485 00:57:13,019 --> 00:57:15,519 I think about when trusting God 1486 00:57:15,519 --> 00:57:16,219 is that, you know, 1487 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:18,699 the Bible talks about when you serve God, 1488 00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:20,619 all those who live in Christ Jesus 1489 00:57:20,619 --> 00:57:21,960 shall suffer persecution. 1490 00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,059 So, you could suffer martyrdom. 1491 00:57:24,199 --> 00:57:25,639 You're putting your physical health 1492 00:57:25,639 --> 00:57:27,139 at risk and everything else. 1493 00:57:27,139 --> 00:57:28,440 So, things like that, 1494 00:57:28,619 --> 00:57:30,480 you think about it as just like, you know, 1495 00:57:30,599 --> 00:57:31,579 you may want to pull a Peter, 1496 00:57:31,739 --> 00:57:32,579 maybe deny the Lord, 1497 00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:34,699 just to get out of the physical torment 1498 00:57:34,699 --> 00:57:35,380 and punishment. 1499 00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:37,380 But yeah, it's stuff like that fear. 1500 00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,159 Well, you know, I have 1501 00:57:40,799 --> 00:57:43,579 tuned in on what they call 2CTV. 1502 00:57:44,079 --> 00:57:45,639 It's an Iran-y 1503 00:57:47,299 --> 00:57:47,739 journalist 1504 00:57:48,559 --> 00:57:51,119 that his parents are living in Iran 1505 00:57:51,639 --> 00:57:54,000 and he lives in the English settlement 1506 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:54,900 outside London. 1507 00:57:55,599 --> 00:57:57,699 And every day he goes over what's happening. 1508 00:57:59,659 --> 00:58:01,119 And my heart bleeds for the, 1509 00:58:01,300 --> 00:58:02,280 and he shows videos 1510 00:58:03,079 --> 00:58:05,579 of the people and the martyrdom 1511 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,440 that goes on just by virtue of them 1512 00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:09,519 wanting to be free 1513 00:58:09,519 --> 00:58:12,800 and then secondarily the Christian enclaves 1514 00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:13,559 within that. 1515 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,539 And I've learned now through that, 1516 00:58:15,559 --> 00:58:17,639 that there is a tremendous outpouring 1517 00:58:17,639 --> 00:58:18,920 of the Holy Spirit 1518 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,880 and universal visions of God 1519 00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,840 that people in thousands are coming to the Lord. 1520 00:58:26,599 --> 00:58:26,659 Now, 1521 00:58:27,340 --> 00:58:29,500 what's that have to do with what we're talking about? 1522 00:58:29,659 --> 00:58:30,659 Well, without persecution, 1523 00:58:30,900 --> 00:58:33,519 there probably wouldn't be the visitation 1524 00:58:33,519 --> 00:58:35,000 that's coming about. 1525 00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:36,079 It's amazing. 1526 00:58:36,940 --> 00:58:37,719 But yeah, you're right. 1527 00:58:37,900 --> 00:58:39,139 There's the fear of, 1528 00:58:39,579 --> 00:58:40,780 and you can fill in the blank. 1529 00:58:41,739 --> 00:58:41,920 Gail? 1530 00:58:42,659 --> 00:58:43,179 What's your fear? 1531 00:58:44,260 --> 00:58:44,699 Well, 1532 00:58:45,639 --> 00:58:46,760 it used to be 1533 00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:47,239 okay, 1534 00:58:47,780 --> 00:58:50,519 that I didn't trust in the sovereignty of God. 1535 00:58:51,619 --> 00:58:53,420 Because once I realized 1536 00:58:53,420 --> 00:58:55,900 and accepted the fact that God was sovereign 1537 00:58:55,900 --> 00:58:56,619 over everything 1538 00:58:56,619 --> 00:58:58,659 and that I could trust Him 1539 00:58:58,659 --> 00:59:00,639 no matter what the situation was, 1540 00:59:01,039 --> 00:59:03,019 then my fear disappeared. 1541 00:59:03,679 --> 00:59:05,599 I might still have a little bit of anxiety 1542 00:59:05,599 --> 00:59:06,519 and curiosity, 1543 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:07,980 like how's this going to turn out? 1544 00:59:08,179 --> 00:59:09,880 But I don't have that same, 1545 00:59:10,559 --> 00:59:11,079 like, 1546 00:59:11,659 --> 00:59:13,199 I want to run away from this situation. 1547 00:59:13,519 --> 00:59:13,940 I can't, 1548 00:59:13,940 --> 00:59:14,880 I can't deal with this 1549 00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:16,500 because I'm just letting God just 1550 00:59:16,500 --> 00:59:17,760 play it through 1551 00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,480 and work in my heart to accept it 1552 00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,300 as His will being allowed 1553 00:59:23,060 --> 00:59:26,300 and that He is teaching me something through that. 1554 00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:27,739 Was that not a process? 1555 00:59:28,219 --> 00:59:28,719 It was a process, 1556 00:59:28,940 --> 00:59:29,820 a long process. 1557 00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:30,219 A to Z. 1558 00:59:30,599 --> 00:59:31,079 Yeah, I mean, 1559 00:59:31,239 --> 00:59:32,659 it's maybe sometimes a lifetime. 1560 00:59:34,139 --> 00:59:34,659 Ryan? 1561 00:59:35,179 --> 00:59:35,260 Yep? 1562 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,219 Fear of moving forward without a vision. 1563 00:59:38,559 --> 00:59:38,980 Okay. 1564 00:59:39,860 --> 00:59:40,139 You know, 1565 00:59:40,179 --> 00:59:40,599 and so 1566 00:59:40,599 --> 00:59:43,780 the solution to that is pray for the vision. 1567 00:59:44,159 --> 00:59:45,079 It seems to be. 1568 00:59:45,260 --> 00:59:47,340 Because the vision accomplishes where you're going. 1569 00:59:47,340 --> 00:59:50,320 It's not this way and that way and back and forth. 1570 00:59:50,739 --> 00:59:51,739 Two steps forward, back. 1571 00:59:51,860 --> 00:59:52,739 Once you have the vision, 1572 00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:55,039 God then fills in the detail. 1573 00:59:55,940 --> 00:59:56,840 The calling of God. 1574 00:59:57,719 --> 00:59:57,860 You know, 1575 00:59:57,980 --> 00:59:59,239 when God called me to the ministry, 1576 00:59:59,440 --> 00:59:59,539 I said, 1577 00:59:59,719 --> 01:00:00,099 what's that? 1578 01:00:00,239 --> 01:00:00,960 I don't want that. 1579 01:00:01,519 --> 01:00:01,760 I was, 1580 01:00:01,780 --> 01:00:03,019 I was going down to the, 1581 01:00:03,019 --> 01:00:05,360 the Florida Atlantic Ocean Science Institute 1582 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:05,880 to be a, 1583 01:00:05,980 --> 01:00:08,719 to be a naturalist 1584 01:00:08,719 --> 01:00:09,960 and explore the waters. 1585 01:00:10,219 --> 01:00:11,559 You had the calling before the vision. 1586 01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:14,900 Yeah, it was me. 1587 01:00:16,739 --> 01:00:18,500 Life turned around very quickly. 1588 01:00:20,539 --> 01:00:22,500 and that's a story for another day, 1589 01:00:22,500 --> 01:00:26,320 but it's the idea of what your vision is against what God wants for you. 1590 01:00:26,780 --> 01:00:26,980 You know, 1591 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,579 I will say on this side of life, 1592 01:00:29,099 --> 01:00:32,940 it's a lot more blessed to stand up here at my age, 1593 01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:37,780 share with you the goodness of the Lord than it would be to be a successful marine biologist. 1594 01:00:38,739 --> 01:00:39,099 So anyway, 1595 01:00:39,900 --> 01:00:40,079 Amen. 1596 01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:40,960 So, 1597 01:00:41,639 --> 01:00:42,420 now there's something else? 1598 01:00:42,539 --> 01:00:42,599 Well, 1599 01:00:42,780 --> 01:00:43,039 wasn't it, 1600 01:00:43,059 --> 01:00:43,639 wasn't Joshua? 1601 01:00:43,639 --> 01:00:45,059 So didn't he have, 1602 01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:45,900 you know, 1603 01:00:46,039 --> 01:00:47,480 he was shown basically, 1604 01:00:48,099 --> 01:00:48,539 you know, 1605 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:52,059 he was showing the vision that he couldn't be obedient without being shown something. 1606 01:00:52,219 --> 01:00:53,019 That's the whole point. 1607 01:00:53,239 --> 01:00:54,739 So without being shown something, 1608 01:00:55,039 --> 01:00:55,579 you know what I mean? 1609 01:00:55,619 --> 01:00:57,260 There's going to be fear because there's no vision. 1610 01:00:57,420 --> 01:00:57,579 There's no, 1611 01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:58,940 God didn't give him direction. 1612 01:00:59,280 --> 01:00:59,619 You know what I mean? 1613 01:00:59,719 --> 01:01:03,260 And being lost and being without purposes is where the fear comes from, 1614 01:01:03,940 --> 01:01:04,199 you know, 1615 01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:04,699 and so 1616 01:01:05,839 --> 01:01:10,679 I know I bounced around without a vision and I asked for prayer in this church 1617 01:01:10,679 --> 01:01:13,179 and I thank you guys for praying because you know, 1618 01:01:13,639 --> 01:01:15,820 I feel it's ready to move now. 1619 01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,019 So you were tethered out there pretty far. 1620 01:01:18,239 --> 01:01:18,639 Absolutely. 1621 01:01:19,019 --> 01:01:19,219 I was, 1622 01:01:19,219 --> 01:01:25,139 I was really trying to figure it out myself and I prayed for the vision and I see clearly now. 1623 01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:26,880 So I thought I'm not freaking out. 1624 01:01:27,199 --> 01:01:27,699 You know, 1625 01:01:27,820 --> 01:01:28,739 if it's in God's will, 1626 01:01:29,139 --> 01:01:29,739 you know, 1627 01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:31,460 I know it will be done. 1628 01:01:31,820 --> 01:01:32,900 But think about this. 1629 01:01:33,179 --> 01:01:40,139 Joshua had enough experiences with serving Moses and now he's the captain and all the miracles 1630 01:01:41,059 --> 01:01:43,280 that he probably didn't have fear. 1631 01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,300 But he didn't want to move without the Lord's blessing. 1632 01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:47,940 Think about that. 1633 01:01:48,159 --> 01:01:57,360 I mean that that's that's a mature statement of where I'm not completely there and that it wasn't necessarily fear in his part. 1634 01:01:57,719 --> 01:02:04,639 What he wanted to do is wait for God because he remembered what God did to the mountain when people didn't wait. 1635 01:02:04,820 --> 01:02:05,659 They built the calf. 1636 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:06,800 You know, 1637 01:02:06,820 --> 01:02:07,900 the people were slaughtered. 1638 01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:09,400 People didn't listen. 1639 01:02:09,659 --> 01:02:12,079 They died in the wilderness and here is Joshua. 1640 01:02:12,079 --> 01:02:16,719 He made the transition because he trusted God. 1641 01:02:18,039 --> 01:02:20,159 That's a that's a tough thing to think about. 1642 01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:20,940 You know, 1643 01:02:21,019 --> 01:02:22,639 out of all those millions of people, 1644 01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:23,980 one guy made it. 1645 01:02:26,900 --> 01:02:27,420 Gee, 1646 01:02:27,519 --> 01:02:31,380 I was just going to say two guys didn't Caleb make it. 1647 01:02:31,739 --> 01:02:32,480 but I mean, 1648 01:02:32,559 --> 01:02:32,699 yeah, 1649 01:02:32,820 --> 01:02:33,139 yeah. 1650 01:02:33,539 --> 01:02:34,039 So Joshua, 1651 01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:35,159 what did he wait for? 1652 01:02:35,420 --> 01:02:35,900 Because it was, 1653 01:02:35,900 --> 01:02:36,219 you know, 1654 01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:37,300 this elite emotion, 1655 01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:38,760 so like no hesitation. 1656 01:02:39,139 --> 01:02:40,780 So that's what I was saying with that. 1657 01:02:40,780 --> 01:02:40,900 Yeah. 1658 01:02:41,219 --> 01:02:41,380 Okay. 1659 01:02:43,780 --> 01:02:45,659 God can't steer a parked car. 1660 01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:46,619 right. 1661 01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:47,059 You know, 1662 01:02:47,059 --> 01:02:47,639 you move and you know, 1663 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:48,480 yeah, 1664 01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:49,440 so that resonated with me. 1665 01:02:49,579 --> 01:02:49,940 And so what, 1666 01:02:50,300 --> 01:02:51,519 what did he wait on? 1667 01:02:51,579 --> 01:02:52,159 So why? 1668 01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:52,920 He waited on the fishes. 1669 01:02:53,159 --> 01:02:53,440 Why? 1670 01:02:53,559 --> 01:02:53,699 Yeah. 1671 01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:54,820 Why did he wait? 1672 01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:56,219 Oh, 1673 01:02:56,300 --> 01:02:57,420 because he didn't hear from God. 1674 01:02:57,619 --> 01:02:58,059 Yeah, 1675 01:02:58,280 --> 01:02:58,659 he knew, 1676 01:02:58,679 --> 01:03:10,760 he knew what he had to do because there was a covenant established between the Gibeonites and them because he committed full force and measure to control and help the Gideonites for ward off. 1677 01:03:10,780 --> 01:03:14,780 The enemy which was they asked for help now. 1678 01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:17,920 Yes, 1679 01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:24,739 he did because they were now in covenant the covenant came after they deceived Joshua and the leaders. 1680 01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:27,940 Joshua and the leaders made a covenant. 1681 01:03:28,139 --> 01:03:28,239 Yes, 1682 01:03:28,340 --> 01:03:29,420 we'll take care of you. 1683 01:03:29,579 --> 01:03:34,460 You can be part of us and then they found out it wasn't a faraway land. 1684 01:03:34,639 --> 01:03:36,199 It was their neighbor next door. 1685 01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:38,659 But having made the covenant. 1686 01:03:39,659 --> 01:03:45,260 They were loyal to the covenant and then the act of obedience came when they were, 1687 01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,980 when he was asked to help for their protection. 1688 01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:50,139 Okay. 1689 01:03:50,860 --> 01:03:51,079 Yes, 1690 01:03:51,340 --> 01:03:51,519 study. 1691 01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:54,880 discussion tonight. 1692 01:03:56,059 --> 01:03:57,980 I was thinking of Joshua himself. 1693 01:03:58,699 --> 01:04:00,039 He believed God 1694 01:04:01,099 --> 01:04:02,860 and faith is really 1695 01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:08,480 the bottom line to all all this is really who God is and he was the one who 1696 01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:13,039 believed God with Caleb out of the 10 spies that went in in the first place. 1697 01:04:13,739 --> 01:04:16,500 So he waited all this time still in faith, 1698 01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:17,539 but he was learning. 1699 01:04:18,019 --> 01:04:22,199 He was building and understanding God's character understanding more of the covenant. 1700 01:04:22,780 --> 01:04:26,159 And so when he was ready to move take God was ready to move. 1701 01:04:26,159 --> 01:04:29,059 He knew his man and his man knew his God. 1702 01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:35,739 So he really had a relationship that that was fit for the battle. 1703 01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:38,559 There was no questions asked. 1704 01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:43,159 He am I doing the right thing because he already knew God was in back of him 1705 01:04:43,159 --> 01:04:47,199 because of covenant because of the obedience because of the promise that 1706 01:04:47,199 --> 01:04:49,739 God gave him and then he went forward now. 1707 01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,340 Excuse me a second here. 1708 01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:56,820 So I don't lose my voice. 1709 01:04:57,039 --> 01:04:59,840 Oh my gosh after eight o'clock now. 1710 01:05:10,740 --> 01:05:11,460 Yeah. 1711 01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:20,400 Okay, can God intervene 1712 01:05:22,140 --> 01:05:23,460 to accomplish his purposes? 1713 01:05:23,820 --> 01:05:24,579 We know the answer. 1714 01:05:24,739 --> 01:05:24,920 Yes. 1715 01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,739 Do we believe God can alter circumstances for his purposes? 1716 01:05:29,300 --> 01:05:30,599 Yes, we do. 1717 01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:33,019 So here are the 1718 01:05:33,899 --> 01:05:35,619 hailstones coming down. 1719 01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:39,699 Here is the sun and the moon stopping in their paths. 1720 01:05:40,340 --> 01:05:47,099 Oh, what a sight that was and these overt actions show God actively fighting 1721 01:05:47,099 --> 01:05:52,019 for the Gibeonites and completing the promise of covenant to them through 1722 01:05:52,019 --> 01:05:55,179 the Israelites about these wonderful miracles. 1723 01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,760 God is shown as Lord over all creation. 1724 01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:05,920 These miracles emphasize that the sun and the moon are created objects 1725 01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:09,579 under God's authority not deities. 1726 01:06:10,019 --> 01:06:14,619 This was especially significant in the ancient Near East where many 1727 01:06:14,619 --> 01:06:17,579 nations worship the sun and the moon Gods. 1728 01:06:18,059 --> 01:06:21,940 If you remember we talked much about this and the worship of all 1729 01:06:21,940 --> 01:06:26,159 these different things that were manifested in idols that the sun 1730 01:06:26,159 --> 01:06:30,780 and the moon the stars even some of the animals were worshipped and 1731 01:06:30,780 --> 01:06:32,239 we learned all that in Exodus. 1732 01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:37,000 These acts are a powerful criticism against pagan worship. 1733 01:06:37,679 --> 01:06:43,539 The Canaanites culture associated celestial bodies with divine powers 1734 01:06:44,060 --> 01:06:48,760 and Joshua 10 dramatically shows that what pagans revered really 1735 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:54,900 just obeyed God's spoken word and did what he wanted them to do. 1736 01:06:54,900 --> 01:06:57,280 Time itself is under God's control. 1737 01:06:59,340 --> 01:07:04,179 The length and day symbolizes that God rules not only matter and 1738 01:07:04,179 --> 01:07:10,179 weather but time and seasons the time that the matter and the 1739 01:07:10,179 --> 01:07:14,519 weather I can get it's hard for me to I mean I believe it that get 1740 01:07:14,519 --> 01:07:17,599 my mind around the fact that he stopped time and he stopped the 1741 01:07:17,599 --> 01:07:22,519 seasons because of this need and he can accelerate or delay or sustain 1742 01:07:22,519 --> 01:07:26,239 whatever he needs to do for his purposes for your purposes and my 1743 01:07:26,239 --> 01:07:32,340 purposes that the Christ Christiology is the study of Jesus Christ 1744 01:07:32,340 --> 01:07:36,960 which supports Joshua as a historical type. 1745 01:07:37,380 --> 01:07:41,420 You know we see in Joshua his name Yeshua is the same root name 1746 01:07:41,420 --> 01:07:46,599 as Jesus is a type pointing to Christ Joshua's victory with 1747 01:07:46,599 --> 01:07:51,480 extended light foreshadows Jesus bringing the ultimate light and 1748 01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:56,360 final victory to us and the question is in what ways have you 1749 01:07:56,360 --> 01:08:02,500 experienced God accelerate delay sustained circumstances for his 1750 01:08:02,500 --> 01:08:08,659 purpose today and I won't ask that that we have gone past our 1751 01:08:08,659 --> 01:08:13,519 time so we'll finish the next two pages when God fights for 1752 01:08:13,519 --> 01:08:19,560 his people strongholds fall believe that believe that Joshua 1753 01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:26,039 faced a coalition of powerful Kings fortified cities united 1754 01:08:26,039 --> 01:08:30,239 armies and overwhelming opposition yet he knew what he had 1755 01:08:30,239 --> 01:08:35,260 to do by every human measure these were strongholds in other 1756 01:08:35,260 --> 01:08:39,460 words they were deeply rooted well-defined and intimidating 1757 01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:44,840 strongholds are one of the strongest releases of the enemy 1758 01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:46,739 when we try to fight alone. 1759 01:08:46,739 --> 01:08:52,140 He has a stronghold it's for us to ask the Lord to fight for 1760 01:08:52,140 --> 01:08:56,800 us and take these strongholds down but when God steps in the 1761 01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:02,359 battle everything changes he fights in ways we cannot and we 1762 01:09:02,359 --> 01:09:06,520 gave examples of that tonight victory is decisive when God 1763 01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:10,880 is involved and his presence turns defense into breakthrough 1764 01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:15,460 as it says in second Corinthians 10 for the weapons of our 1765 01:09:15,460 --> 01:09:19,619 warfare are the weapons of our wherefore are mighty through 1766 01:09:19,619 --> 01:09:25,180 the God to the pulling down of strongholds Amen for that. 1767 01:09:25,779 --> 01:09:26,739 All right. 1768 01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:28,960 Let's see what we got here. 1769 01:09:32,899 --> 01:09:33,979 God's victories. 1770 01:09:35,079 --> 01:09:39,100 We can we can shortcut that I want to kind of get to the end 1771 01:09:39,100 --> 01:09:40,039 remember this. 1772 01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,039 I'll go back a little bit at the bottom. 1773 01:09:45,460 --> 01:09:53,479 Not this question here but look at these resistance is of 1774 01:09:54,659 --> 01:09:59,640 resist on unresolved pain in your life build your life in 1775 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:05,920 Christ confront reoccurring issues and stay faithful even 1776 01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:07,420 when progress feels slow. 1777 01:10:08,260 --> 01:10:14,140 Now what I'm giving you is a direct result of about three 1778 01:10:14,140 --> 01:10:18,380 and a half years of relationship and mentoring with 1779 01:10:18,380 --> 01:10:20,039 a man at Meadowood. 1780 01:10:20,539 --> 01:10:25,039 He started out a very successful individual think 1700 people 1781 01:10:25,039 --> 01:10:25,840 in the organization. 1782 01:10:26,239 --> 01:10:30,399 He was a an architect for he ran an architect firm. 1783 01:10:31,020 --> 01:10:32,260 He didn't know the Lord. 1784 01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:37,779 I met him in a when we had the Victory Garden at Meadowood 1785 01:10:37,779 --> 01:10:40,920 we were planning on who gets what plots to put vegetables 1786 01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,119 out and I won't mention his last name because I think 1787 01:10:44,119 --> 01:10:46,460 I don't want to embarrass him in this but we'll call him Bob 1788 01:10:47,900 --> 01:10:51,220 and he came to me and he said you know, he said we ought 1789 01:10:51,220 --> 01:10:53,560 to do this this and this and then I built a relationship 1790 01:10:54,220 --> 01:10:56,800 well all the time that we then when we start at the prayer 1791 01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:59,399 meeting on Wednesday his wife used to come and I said Bob 1792 01:10:59,399 --> 01:11:02,140 I said why don't you come you know, that's not for me. 1793 01:11:02,140 --> 01:11:03,800 So that was some years ago. 1794 01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:08,479 Well fast forward in our relationship of building him in 1795 01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:11,920 all those things that we talked about unresolved sin 1796 01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:13,500 doubt and so forth. 1797 01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:18,039 He now is presenting every fifth Wednesday. 1798 01:11:18,239 --> 01:11:22,060 That's his lot that he was willing to take an exhortation 1799 01:11:22,060 --> 01:11:24,800 about the Lord because now he knows the Lord. 1800 01:11:25,140 --> 01:11:27,500 He's asked me about the presence of God and we went 1801 01:11:27,500 --> 01:11:30,899 through that and this is what he says and this just blessed 1802 01:11:30,899 --> 01:11:31,380 me. 1803 01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:35,279 God is with us in a fresh new relationship every morning. 1804 01:11:36,180 --> 01:11:38,579 There's no tears that he doesn't notice. 1805 01:11:39,579 --> 01:11:42,140 God is never too busy to hear our prayers. 1806 01:11:43,119 --> 01:11:45,300 God is never perplexed or overwhelmed. 1807 01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:48,680 God is available to us at all times. 1808 01:11:49,460 --> 01:11:51,479 God is never taken by surprise. 1809 01:11:52,140 --> 01:11:54,420 God will not sleep and get drowsy. 1810 01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:57,060 God is never caught off guard. 1811 01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:02,100 God never gives us leftovers and God never comes up 1812 01:12:02,100 --> 01:12:02,600 short. 1813 01:12:04,039 --> 01:12:06,560 And God will not let you stumble. 1814 01:12:07,260 --> 01:12:11,140 I thought these things were again especially interesting 1815 01:12:11,140 --> 01:12:14,600 coming from a man that I knew that didn't know the Lord 1816 01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,939 to a man now that is serving and sharing in in a prayer 1817 01:12:18,939 --> 01:12:20,699 meeting and it just blessed me. 1818 01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:24,420 So I just want to give you those things as an example 1819 01:12:24,420 --> 01:12:27,239 of how God transforms people. 1820 01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,439 So Lord we thank you for your blessing tonight. 1821 01:12:30,579 --> 01:12:33,420 The good conversations that we have had. 1822 01:12:33,420 --> 01:12:37,000 Lord I trust that we walk away with a little bit more 1823 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,680 of your understanding in our spirits that we can walk 1824 01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:43,460 closer to you serve you better. 1825 01:12:44,079 --> 01:12:46,840 Lord we thank you so much for calling us into your 1826 01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:50,399 kingdom each person here as they know you in the 1827 01:12:50,399 --> 01:12:53,020 name of Jesus and everyone said amen. 1828 01:12:56,920 --> 01:13:00,239 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we 1829 01:13:00,239 --> 01:13:02,340 praise God and discuss his word. 1830 01:13:02,940 --> 01:13:05,680 Don't forget to join us for worship live Sunday 1831 01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:08,460 mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube. 1832 01:13:09,500 --> 01:13:11,560 Be blessed and have a great day.