Dudley Rutherford - A Trust That's Needed

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Pastor Dudley Rutherford seeks to "lift up the name of Jesus across the country and the world through uncompromising biblical teaching."

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| Dudley Rutherford - A Trust That's Needed | May 15, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: you make decisions that shape
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Your future.
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You don't need another trend.
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You need truth from above.
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In pastor dudley's new series, "just don't survive; flourish,"
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He uncovers the bible's divine nuggets of truth,
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Guidance, and instruction.
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This year, don't just survive; open god's word and flourish.
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Join us next on "lift up jesus" for the series
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"don't just survive; flourish."
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Pastor dudley rutherford: friends, god has done that
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So many times in my life.
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He gives me a job, he gives me a task,
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He gives me assignment, and then he picks me up
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And carries me through, and he'll do the same
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For every one of you.
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Pastor dudley: i wanna welcome each of you
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To the "lift up jesus" television broadcast.
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I am pastor dudley rutherford and i'm so glad
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You've joined me here today.
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Do you know what really takes
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Your christian life to the next level?
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It's not just reading the bible or listening
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To christian teaching, it's doing it
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On a regular basis.
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That's why being here each and every week
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And hearing this message is so important.
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My sermon today will give you new insight
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Into god's word.
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So make sure you have your bible, a pen,
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And your notes handy, and let's begin.
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Pastor dudley: so i want you to take your bibles today
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And turn to proverbs chapter 3, proverbs chapter 3,
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And inside your bulletin, there are some sermon notes.
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There's an outline there.
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We certainly want to encourage you
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To follow along.
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We want to look at like the first 15 verses
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Or the first 16 verses today.
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I want you to say the word "cornerstone."
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And you know, a lot of chapters in the bible,
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They have one verse that's like the cornerstone
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Of the whole chapter.
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And i believe the cornerstone
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For the 3rd chapter of the book of proverbs
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Is found in verse 5 and 6.
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And i'm just gonna give you a heads up.
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We're gonna go through verse 5 and 6
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Three, four, five times today.
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So you're gonna say, "well, we just read that."
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I know, we're gonna keep reading it
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Because it's the cornerstone of this chapter.
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It reads, just as we introduce the outline,
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"trust in the lord with all of your heart
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And lean not on your own understanding;
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In all of your ways acknowledge him,
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And he will make your paths straight."
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Last weekend, i think the next to the last slide
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Is i showed you this graphic with two roads.
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And it's not difficult to understand,
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And god gives us a choice, and you either get to decide
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If you're gonna live a life of wisdom
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Or you're gonna live a life of foolishness.
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And it's like they're just there,
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The two roads.
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And if you're here today, and you say, "lord,
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I wanna grow like a palm, i wanna flourish
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Like a palm tree.
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I wanna walk in the way of wisdom,"
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Which is the way of god, then god will indeed bless you.
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You will flourish.
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It will be an amazing time in your life.
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But if you choose, and god created you
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With that ability to choose, the freedom of choice,
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If you say, "no, god, i don't want to follow
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The way of wisdom.
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I wanna follow, you know, the ways of this world,"
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Then your life will end up eventually a life of peril,
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A life of calamity.
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And today's message, how i see it,
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Proverbs chapter 3, is that we're going to look at things
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That help you stay on the right path.
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These are things-- these are the secrets
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To staying the course, definite measures
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To experience god's best in your life,
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Because that's what we want, amen?
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And what it comes down to is trust.
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Who do you trust?
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In whom do you trust?
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What does it mean to trust?
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And what happens when you fully trust
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In the lord?
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Proverbs 3 explains the kind of trust
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That we need in our lives to stay on that right path.
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And here's the first one right here.
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We need a trust that obeys, even, and here's the hard part,
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Even if you don't fully understand.
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We can obey when we understand everything.
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But faith requires an obedience, even if you
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Don't fully understand.
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What the proverbs writer says is that the priority--
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Making obedience a priority in your life is
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What sets the stage for you to live a long life well.
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Now the bible tells us that everything good
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Comes from above.
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How many of you believe that: everything good
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Comes from above?
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That's what the bible says.
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But true prosperity, true flourishing,
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True thriving is discovered when you read god's word
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And you read this wisdom right here, and then you
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Begin to follow god's principles.
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And when you begin to read, when you reach a point
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In your life where you're going to accept god's word,
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And you're gonna begin to follow god's word,
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And this is gonna be the blueprint of your life,
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That's what sets the stage for a long life lived well.
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He says to his son in verse 1, "my son,"
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Everybody say, "my son."
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Every father has said this.
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"do not forget my teaching."
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A father likes to pass his wisdom
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Down to his children, amen?
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But he says, "my son, do not forget my teaching.
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Keep my commands in your heart."
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Solomon doesn't begin with a thing called feelings.
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He starts more with a thing called formation.
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It's not a casual faith.
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It's an intentional obedience.
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And as you read through god's word,
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God's wisdom, you need to understand
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That every command that you read about
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In god's word is really an expression
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Of his love for us.
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Some of us read god's word and we think
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That god's trying to restrict us or god's trying to control us.
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No, it's just the opposite.
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God is trying to bless you.
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He's trying to protect you.
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He wants to provide for you, and these commandments
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Are really an expression of his love
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Because he knows what's best for us.
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And we have to trust him.
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Now some people say, "well, i trust god,
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But there are some things over here that god said
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That i'm just not so sure i believe."
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You see, you're negotiating with god.
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And if you're negotiating with god,
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You're not trusting god.
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Solomon then tells us why obedience matters.
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When he comes to verse 2, look what it says:
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"for they," those who keep the commands,
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"they will prolong your life many years
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And bring you prosperity."
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Now we talked about last week
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That these are not mechanical promises.
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These are principles that are carried out
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Over the course of your life.
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Generally speaking, these things prove themselves to be true.
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If i could somehow divide the church in half,
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And this half over here, just because
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You're sitting over here.
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If we could literally draw a line here
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And take this half, and half of the church decides
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That every single day of their life,
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They're going to read god's word
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And just simply follow god's word.
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And the other half, and it's just because
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You happen to sit on this side, you decide that
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You're not going to follow god's word.
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Which half of this room is going to be more blessed,
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More at peace, more content, more fulfilled,
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And live a longer, more blessed life?
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It's going to be the half that chooses to follow
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God's word.
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And that's what he's saying here.
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I want you to look at verse 3 and 4, he says,
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"let love and faithfulness," everybody say "love"
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And everybody say "faithfulness."
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He says to his son, "let those two things
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Never leave you; bind them around your neck,
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And write them on the tablet of your heart," which means
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Make these things permanent.
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This is something you're going to do all the time.
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This is not, i'm gonna serve god maybe, or i'm kind of committed.
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No, you're all in.
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"let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them
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Around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."
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Look at verse 4: "then you will receive," what?
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"favor and a good name in the sight of god
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And in the sight of man."
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Now those two words, love and faithfulness,
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Are words that we usually describe god,
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Because god is love and god is faithful.
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He's trustworthy.
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He's dependable is what that means, amen?
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If you got a call that there was a pipe
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In your house that had broke,
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And you rushed home, and there's water everywhere,
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And there's water coming out of this pipe,
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And you were to look up a plumber,
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And you call this plumber
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And he picks up on the first ring.
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And he says, "can i help you?"
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And you said, "my pipe broke and i got water everywhere."
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He goes, "i'll be right over."
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And he shows up ten minutes later,
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He's at your house.
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Comes in, it takes him ten minutes.
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He fixes the leak and then gives you a bill.
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And the bill is only $20.
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How many of you would think that's a good plumber?
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How many of you would go, "man, you're not gonna believe
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This plumber i met.
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He came over, he fixed this problem in ten minutes.
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He didn't charge me-- he charged me $20.
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He showed up on time."
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And did you know that god is like that
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A thousand times more, that god never leaves you,
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He always shows up on time,
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He will be with you in any problem,
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And if you think about it, he really doesn't charge you
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Anything.
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He gives you air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat.
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Did you get a bill from god for any of that?
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No, he just shows up and he does that for you.
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He's dependable.
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He's--what solomon says to his son is, "hey,
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Son, you need to take those two qualities of god,
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Love and faithfulness, and you need to tie that
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Around your neck.
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You need to write that on the tablet of your heart.
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You need to hold on to these characteristics of god.
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And if you'll do that, if you'll live every day
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Living a life of love, a life of faithfulness,
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Being trustworthy and dependable,
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You will prosper, you will live a prolonged life.
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You will win favor and grace and a good name
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In the sight of god and the sight of man."
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The difficulty, of course, is we can't see the future.
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When he says, "my son," he's referring to someone
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Who's younger.
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And usually we would think of a son
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As someone who's 5, 6, 7, 8 years old,
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Maybe 9, 10, 12, maybe 15, maybe 20-year-old,
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Maybe even a 25-year-old.
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And you go up to someone who's young,
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Like many of the people on the stage, and you say,
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"hey," to these young people, "if you'll just honor god
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Your entire life and bind love and faithfulness around you
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And obey god's commands, you will live a long life
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And a life lived well," amen.
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The problem is that they don't know what's gonna happen
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When they're in their 30s.
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They don't--they can't see the future
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Of what's gonna happen when they're in their 40s,
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And their 50s, and their 60s, and their 70s.
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You have to make a decision today
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That you're going to trust god even though you
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Don't understand everything.
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That's where faith comes in.
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And you either live every day trusting in god
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Or you live every day not trusting in god.
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I want you to write this down: "delayed obedience
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Is not trust, it's distrust."
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Those of you that have children,
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When you ask your children to do something,
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Do you want them to obey immediately,
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Or do you want them just to goof off?
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You want them to obey immediately.
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I always accuse my children of not taking shortcuts.
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You know how some people take shortcuts.
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They always took longcuts. i say, "you take longcuts."
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You know, you send your kid to bed, you know,
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Whatever it is, 9 o'clock, "hey, you need to go to bed."
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It takes 'em 45 minutes to get in the room.
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That's a longcut.
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And that's the way we are.
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You know that god in heaven is someone
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That you can trust in.
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When god asks you to do something,
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There is no reason, there is no reason
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Not to trust in god.
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Psalm 111, verse 7 says, "his words--
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His works are faithful and true."
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How often do we take longcuts?
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When god called abraham to offer up his son isaac,
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Abraham trusted god.
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When god called noah to build an ark,
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Noah trusted god.
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When god called gideon to go fight an army
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With only 300 men by his side, gideon trusted god.
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When god allowed the devil to take everything away
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From job, job continued to trust in god.
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When god called isaiah and ezekiel to preach
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God's word boldly, they trusted god.
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And when god called a young teenage girl
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By the name of mary to be the mother of jesus,
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She trusted in god.
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And so i say that whenever god leads you
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Or calls you or speaks to you, you need to always trust god,
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Even if you don't understand how this is all gonna turn out.
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Can someone say amen?
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It's okay to clap. it's okay to clap.
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Secondly, a trust, a trust that we need is a trust
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That is void of self-reliance.
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If god has to explain everything for you to do it,
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Then he's really not the lord of your life.
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He's just a consultant to you.
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You ought to say, "yes, lord," before he gets the question
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Out of his mouth because we know
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That he knows what's best for you.
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Go back to our text, verse 5 and 6:
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"trust in the lord with all your heart, lean not
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Upon your own understanding;
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In all your ways acknowledge him,
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And he will make your paths straight."
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Verse 7: "do not--" now, you remember we talked about
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There's two sides to every coin in proverbs.
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He says, "do not--" you can either trust in god,
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Verse 5 and 6; verse 7: "do not be wise
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In your own eyes; fear the lord, shun evil."
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And what's gonna happen if i do that?
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According to verse 8: "this will bring health
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To your body and nourishment to your bones."
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You don't need another infomercial
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On buying vitamins.
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You don't have to have a gym membership.
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You have to get back to seeing these two paths
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That you get to choose.
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And if you choose to live a life of wisdom,
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It means that you're trusting in the lord.
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If you're living a life of foolishness,
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All that means is you're trusting in yourself.
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If you rely upon god, that's wisdom.
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If you rely upon yourself, that's foolishness.
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So that's a great question.
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Are you trusting in the lord or are you trusting in yourself?
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Again, verse 5, he said to, "trust in the lord
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With all of your heart and lean not
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Upon your own understanding; in all your ways
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If you would acknowledge him, he, god, will make your paths,"
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What?
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"straight." now, what does that mean?
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Well, in the ancient world, there weren't really
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Straight roads.
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There were only winding paths
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With hidden ravines, sometimes bandits,
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Sometimes dead ends, sometimes drop offs.
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Very rarely was there ever a direct path.
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There certainly weren't any sidewalks
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Back in those days.
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What does it mean that god will make your path straight?
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Well, it does not mean that your life will be easy.
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It does not mean that there won't be
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Some hills and some valleys
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In your life, some delays or some detours.
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What it means, that he will make your path straight,
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Is that he will lead you, that he will guide you,
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That he will help you, that he will show you,
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That he'll be with you.
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It means that god will rev up his bulldozer
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And go before you.
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He'll put on his shoulder pads and block for you.
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He's gonna get out his chalkboard and teach you.
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He's gonna get out his badge and protect you.
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He's gonna bring out his gavel and defend you.
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God, as he holds the entire universe
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In the palm of his hand, he's gonna carry you
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Through any situation you face.
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There was an evangelist by the name of harry morehouse
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Years ago, he used to travel all over the world.
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And whenever he came home, he oftentimes
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Would bring presents for everyone in his family.
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And he had a little girl.
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And she had a crippling disease.
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And she could not walk without crutches.
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And one day he came home from a trip and he
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Had a really nice present for his wife.
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And the daughter said, "daddy, let me take it to mama."
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And the dad said, "darling, you can't carry the present."
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Because she couldn't hold the present
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And walk with crutches at the same time.
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And she--he simply said, "sweetheart, you can't."
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She said, "please, daddy, i want to do it.
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Let me carry it to mother."
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"sweetie, you can't." "daddy, i can, let me."
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And he saw something in her eye
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And heard something in her voice.
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And he said, "well, all right.
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I don't know how you're going to do it."
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And he handed her the gift and put it in her arms.
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And then she said, "now daddy, pick me up
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And take me to mama."
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Friends, god has done that so many times in my life.
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He gives me a job, he gives me a task,
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He gives me assignment, and then he picks me up
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And carries me through, and he'll do the same
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For every one of you.
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But you have to trust in him, not yourself.
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You know what our biggest problem is?
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That person in the mirror. you can write that down.
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What i mean by that is so often we only do
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That which we think is-- that we think is best for us
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Instead of believing and living out our lives,
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Knowing that the god of the universe
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Who gave us this word knows, as the creator,
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He knows what's best for us.
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It says in verse 5 to, "trust in the lord
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With all your heart, lean not upon your own understanding;
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In all of your ways acknowledge him."
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What does that mean, "to acknowledge him"?
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It's a word that means that in all the things
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That you do, you should be thinking of him.
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You should include him in on that decision.
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You need to know that he's there,
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That he's with you, that he has a plan
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And a goal and a will for your life.
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That little phrase "in all your ways,"
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It's a phrase that means, as best i can explain it,
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It's like a little goat path.
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Pastor dudley: oh, i hope you were blessed
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By today's message.
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As i told you earlier, it's listening
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To the teaching and preaching
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From god's word on a regular basis that makes
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Such a powerful difference in our lives.
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So let's plan on being here again next week,
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Same place, same time, what do you think about that?
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And if you're ever in the southern california area,
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We would love to meet you on a saturday night
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Or a sunday morning here at shepherd church.
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It's an amazing community that will have a powerful
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And positive impact on your life.
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You can find all the service times
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And locations on our website at liftupjesus.com.
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And in the meantime, i want to encourage you
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That whatever you're doing and wherever you're going,
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Don't forget to always, come on, do it with me,
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Lift up jesus.
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Ilene luteren: my name is ilene, and i live in the netherlands.
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♪♪♪
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Ilene: i was born and raised there.
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I was raised in a catholic church,
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And we always went there as a family.
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I was baptized in catholic church
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When i was three months old.
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I went on youtube and found shepherd.
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So, i started watching, and it was different
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Than i was used to, because catholic church
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Is a little different than shepherd is.
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I got used to it pretty quickly and started talking
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With a pastor, and we emailed back and forth
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For a couple of months.
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I decided to read the bible in a year,
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Because pastor dudley was quoting scripture too,
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And i didn't always know what he was talking about,
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Because they didn't read those parts in our church.
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Pastor dudley: and the moment, the moment you surrender to god,
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You get down on your knees, and you surrender to god,
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Jeremiah 31 says that those that come
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To the lord, the lord says, "i will forgive
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Their wickedness,
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And i will remember their sins no more."
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God can't even remember your sins.
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Ilene: so, i read the whole bible,
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And during that year in 2020, they also did a lot
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Of online meetings, like, after the message,
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Conversations with the pastor,
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And renew mental health ministry,
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And bloom, and anchor support groups.
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And i joined a lot of those,
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Because i felt like i wanted to know more.
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So, at one point a friend of mine told me
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That i should join a life group,
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But i first didn't know if that would work,
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Because i live so far away.
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But since they had a lot of online meetings,
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I thought i might as well give it a try.
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So i did.
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Female: and it reminds me of what both you,
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Jeff and derek, were saying, of being literally
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Where you are planted for a reason.
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Your specific calling, whatever that may be,
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Is here, and to bring more people
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Into the kingdom of god.
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Ilene: people shared personal stories,
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And felt good to be in that meeting.
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So, i joined again, and january 21,
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I started my own life group.
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Met a lot of people in there too.
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At once, i had people from toronto in there,
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Nigeria, india, california, virginia, the netherlands.
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I got to know more and more people
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Because people introduce you to more people,
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And i made great friends over time.
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And at one point i decided that i wanted
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To be at shepherd in person.
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So, for this summer i decided to come over here,
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And it's been amazing so far.
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I met everyone that i already met online,
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Even got the opportunity to be on a worship team,
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Which was amazing.
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♪ and i believe, i believe, i'll see you do it again ♪
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Ilene: i got baptized last sunday,
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And it's been amazing.
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Like, it started in october 2019
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And met so many wonderful people.
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I met a lot of new friends, and i felt god's presence
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In a way i never did before.
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That kind of started in april 21.
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I woke up one day and somehow
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Everything felt different.
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It's been really amazing,
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And i'm really grateful to be here,
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And i feel really blessed.
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♪♪♪
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Kayla francis: "godly goosebumps"
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Is a podcast hosted by pastor dudley rutherford.
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Each week we study a story from history, the bible,
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And even in our own community at shepherd church.
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These stories reveal god doing the extraordinary,
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Doing what only he could do.
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We hope you're encouraged and excited
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To share with others god's providence,
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Dudley Rutherford - A Trust That's Needed

May 15, 2026 | 27:29

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