Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6
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Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6
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- - LEVI LUSKO: THIS IS
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- LEVI LUSKO,
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- AUTHOR OF "THROUGH THE
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- I WROTE THIS BOOK AFTER MY
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- DAUGHTER LENYA WAS SUDDENLY AND
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- NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF
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- DIFFICULTY YOU'VE HAD TO FACE
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- IN THIS LIFE -- LOSS OF A DREAM
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- OR A JOB OR ANY BROKENNESS IN
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- YOUR HEART -- GOD WANTS TO TURN
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- THAT JOURNEY INTO A ROAR STORY
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- AS YOU RISE UP AS BOLD AS A
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- LION, SEEING THE INVISIBLE AND
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- - MALE VOCALS: THE LION'S
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- ROAR
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- - FEMALE VOCALS: IT'S GONNA
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- BE ALL RIGHT
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- IT'S GONNA BE OKAY
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- - LEVI: I HAD TO GO TO THE
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- OPTOMETRIST LAST YEAR, AND, I
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- GOTTA CONFESS, IT WAS OUT OF
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- LAZINESS.
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- I HAD TRIED TO REORDER MY
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- CONTACT LENSES AND THEY TOLD
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- ME, "YOU CAN'T GET ANY MORE
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- CONTACTS."
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- NO CONTACTS FOR YOU.
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- TOTAL SOUP NAZI REFERENCE.
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- ANY OF MY YOUNGER VIEWERS RIGHT
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- NOW WILL HAVE TO GOOGLE THAT TO
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- GET THE SEINFELD JOKE.
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- BUT I REMEMBER BEING IRRITATED
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- THAT I COULDN'T GET CONTACTS.
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- BUT IT WAS BECAUSE I HADN'T
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- MADE MY ANNUAL APPOINTMENT.
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- SO, I HAD TO GO IN, GO THROUGH
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- THE WHOLE: "B" OR "A"?
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- "A" OR "C"?
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- I REMEMBER THEY HAD TO DILATE
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- MY PUPILS.
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- AND, ACTUALLY, WHEN THEY DO
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- THAT, IT MAKES YOUR EYES
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- FUNCTION LIKE A LION'S.
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- YOUR PUPILS ARE OPEN AND MORE
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- LIGHT CAN COME IN.
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- AND AS A RESULT, YOU CAN SEE
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- THINGS FAR AWAY CRYSTAL CLEAR.
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- BUT STUFF RIGHT HERE IN FRONT
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- OF YOU -- IT KIND OF BECOMES
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- STRANGELY DIM.
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- AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT GOD
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- WANTS TO HAPPEN ON THE INSIDE
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- OF OUR HEARTS -- FOR OUR
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- SPIRITUAL PUPILS TO BE DILATED.
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- IN THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS, PAUL
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- TALKS ABOUT HAVING THE SPIRIT
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- OF WISDOM AND REVELATION AND
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- THE EYES OF OUR UNDERSTANDING
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- BEING ENLIGHTENED.
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- AND AS THAT HAPPENS, YOUR
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- DESIRE FOR WHAT'S GOING TO
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- HAPPEN, WHAT SEEMS FAR AWAY --
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- HEAVEN AND GOD'S KINGDOM COMING
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- -- THAT, ALL THAT SEEMS SO FAR
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- AWAY, IT COMES CLOSER AND SEEMS
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- MORE CRISP.
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- IT SNAPS INTO SHARP DETAIL.
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- BUT THE THINGS THAT SEEM SO
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- URGENT NOW -- HOW MUCH MONEY
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- YOU HAVE, AND HOW MANY FRIENDS
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- YOU HAVE ON FACEBOOK, ALL OF
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- THESE THINGS THAT ARE FINE --
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- THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH
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- CLOTHES AND MONEY AND CARS AND
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- SOCIAL MEDIA -- BUT THESE
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- THINGS THAT SEEM SO IMPORTANT,
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- LIKE THEY'RE GONNA LAST
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- FOREVER, THEY BECOME LIKE THE
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- GREAT HYMN SAYS -- THEY GROW
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- STRANGELY DIM IN THE LIGHT OF
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- HIS GLORY AND GRACE.
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- LOOK AT HOW PAUL PUTS IT IN
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- ROMANS 8.
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- HE SAYS: FOR I CONSIDER THAT
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- THE SUFFERING OF THIS PRESENT
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- TIME IS NOT EVEN WORTHY TO BE
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- COMPARED TO THE GLORY THAT
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- SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.
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- FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF
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- THE CREATION EAGERLY WAITS FOR
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- THE REVEALING OF THE SONS OF
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- GOD.
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- FOR THE CREATION WAS SUBJECTED
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- TO FUTILITY, NOT WILLINGLY, BUT
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- BECAUSE OF HIM WHO SUBJECTED IT
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- IN HOPE.
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- BECAUSE THE CREATION ITSELF
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- WILL BE REVEALED AND DELIVERED
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- FROM THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION
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- INTO THE GLORIOUS LIBERTY OF
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- THE CHILDREN OF GOD.
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- FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE
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- CREATION GROANS AND LABORS WITH
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- BIRTH PANGS TOGETHER UNTIL NOW.
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- NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WE, ALSO,
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- WHO HAVE THE FIRST FRUITS OF
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- THE SPIRIT, EVEN WE OURSELVES
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- GROAN WITHIN OURSELVES, EAGERLY
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- WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION, THE
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- REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY.
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- THE SPIRIT, EVEN, HELPS IN OUR
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- WEAKNESSES 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW
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- WHAT TO PRAY FOR AS WE OUGHT.
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- BUT THE SPIRIT HIMSELF MAKES
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- INTERCESSION FOR US WITH
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- GROANINGS THAT CANNOT BE
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- UTTERED.
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- WHAT PAUL, HERE, IS TALKING
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- ABOUT IN THESE VERSES IS THE
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- IDEA THAT I THINK IS KIND OF
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- THE SOUNDTRACK TO SATURDAY, THE
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- SOUND OF GROANING.
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- IT'S A HEAVY-HEARTED SIGH.
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- IT'S A MOAN.
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- IT'S...
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- [SIGHS FORCEFULLY]
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- AND IT'S THE INVOLUNTARY
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- REACTION OF EVERY SINGLE
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- KINDHEARTED PERSON WHO HEARS
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- SOME DEVASTATING NEWS.
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- YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY
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- NOW WHERE EVERY TWO WEEKS
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- THERE'S SOME SORT OF A MASS
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- MURDER.
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- AND WHEN YOU READ A HEADLINE
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- THAT SAYS CHILDREN WERE GUNNED
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- DOWN IN A CLASSROOM, OR A
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- SUICIDE BOMBER TOOK OUT A WHOLE
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- BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN SOME PUBLIC
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- PLACE, THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN
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- REALLY DO IN RESPONSE TO THAT
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- EXCEPT...
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- [GROANS]
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- WE GROAN.
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- WE GROAN AND IT'S GOD GROANING
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- IN US.
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- AND THE TRUTH IS OUR GROANING
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- IS THE EVIDENCE OF A SEPARATION
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- ANXIETY, THAT WE'RE ALL
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- RECOGNIZING DEEP DOWN THAT HOW
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- THINGS ARE IN THIS WORLD ISN'T
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- HOW IT SHOULD BE.
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- OH, THIS GROANING IS OFTEN
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- MISDIAGNOSED, SO IT'S COMMONLY
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- MISTREATED.
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- AND WE LOOK TO THINGS LIKE
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- GETTING DRUNK AND GETTING PAID
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- AND GETTING LAID TO FILL THE
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- HOLE INSIDE OF OUR HEARTS.
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- BUT THE TRUTH IS OUR GROANING
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- IS FOR GOD.
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- JESUS IS THE DESIRE OF ALL
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- NATIONS.
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- IT'S HIM THAT WE'RE LOOKING
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- FOR.
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- IT'S HIM THAT WE'RE LONGING
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- FOR, EVEN WITHOUT KNOWING ABOUT
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- IT.
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- C.S. LEWIS SAID: IF I FIND IN
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- MYSELF A DESIRE FOR WHICH
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- NOTHING ON THIS EARTH CAN MEET
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- IT, THEN SURELY I WAS BORN FOR
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- ANOTHER WORLD AND THIS DESIRE
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- IS FOR SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN
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- KNOW ABOUT.
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- THAT'S A ROUGH PARAPHRASE.
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- BUT THE IDEA IS THE REASON WE
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- GROAN IS BECAUSE WE'RE LONGING
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- FOR GOD.
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- SO, HOW DO WE HAVE OUR SOUL'S
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- PUPIL DILATED?
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- HOW DO WE LEAN INTO THIS GROAN
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- AND EXPERIENCE AND FOSTER ALL
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- THAT GOD WANTS US FOR, NOT
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- MISTAKENLY LIVING JUST FOR THIS
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- WORLD BUT LIVING WITH OUR
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- HEARTS SET ON HEAVEN?
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- WELL, I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE TO
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- STAND ON TIPTOES AT THE EDGE OF
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- ETERNITY.
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- YOU SEE, LIONS -- THEY NEVER
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- WALK FLAT-FOOTED.
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- WHETHER WALKING OR STANDING,
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- THEY ARE ALWAYS UP ON TIPTOES.
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- THEY'RE ALWAYS READY TO POUNCE.
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- AND THAT'S HOW THEY CAN RUN
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- 50 MILES AN HOUR AND JUMP
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- 36 FEET IN A SINGLE BOUND.
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- THEY'RE ALWAYS UP ON THEIR
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- TOES.
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- AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAUGHT
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- IT, BUT RIGHT THERE IN THAT
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- TEXT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE
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- READ.
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- GOD, AS HE OPENS OUR SOUL UP
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- WIDE, WANTS TO GET US IN THE
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- SPIRITUAL TIPTOE POSITION.
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- THERE'S A PHRASE WE READ IN
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- ROMANS 8 AND THAT IS "THE
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- CREATION" WITH "EARNEST
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- EXPECTATION...WAITS FOR THE
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- REVEALING OF THE SONS OF GOD."
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- IN THE J.B. PHILLIPS
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- TRANSLATION, THAT EXACT PHRASE,
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- "EARNEST EXPECTATION" -- IT
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- LITERALLY IS TRANSLATED ALL
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- OF CREATION IS UP ON TIPTOES
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- WAITING TO SEE ALL OF GOD'S
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- EXTRAVAGANT PLANS.
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- TIPTOES, LIKE A LION.
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- TIPTOES, LIKE A KID EXCITED FOR
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- CHRISTMAS.
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- NOW, THAT I KNOW ALL TOO WELL.
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- MY LITTLE GIRLS ARE LITTLE
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- BALLERINAS.
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- LITERALLY, THEIR WHOLE LIVES,
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- THEY'VE BEEN UP ON TIPTOES,
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- PRANCING AND DANCING WITH
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- EXCITEMENT AND ENERGY.
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- AND WHEN YOU'RE A KID, YOU'RE
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- ON YOUR TIPTOES, LIKE, "I CAN'T
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- WAIT FOR IT, I CAN'T WAIT FOR
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- IT."
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- AND I BELIEVE THAT'S EXACTLY
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- WHAT PAUL IS SAYING IS
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- HAPPENING IN CREATION -- THE
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- SPIRIT GROANING IN US, OUR
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- HEARTS GROANING AT THE-- THE
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- DEATH THAT WE WERE NEVER MEANT
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- TO EXPERIENCE, AT THE SADNESS
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- THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE
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- OURS, AT THE LOSS OF ALL THAT
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- WE FORFEITED AT THE FALL.
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- ALL OF THE GROANING OF
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- CREATION, ALL OF THE GROANING
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- OF THE SPIRIT, ALL OF THE
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- GROANING OF THE WORLD IS US,
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- HOPEFULLY, GETTING ON TIPTOES
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- WITH EXCITEMENT THAT WE'RE
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- FOSTERING FOR WHAT GOD HAS
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- PROMISED.
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- NOW, WHAT HAS GOD PROMISED?
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- HE'S PROMISED US A NEW HEAVEN
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- AND A NEW EARTH WHERE
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- RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL DWELL
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- FOREVER, WHERE THERE WILL BE NO
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- MORE DEATH, NO MORE SAYING
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- GOODBYE, NO MORE SORROW AND
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- NIGHT OF THE SOUL.
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- YOU SEE, JESUS, WHO CAME THE
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- FIRST TIME AT CHRISTMAS, IS
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- GOING TO COME AGAIN AND RENEW
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- ALL THINGS, RESTORE ALL THINGS,
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- REVIVE ALL THINGS, AND WE WILL
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- GET TO LIVE IN A PERFECT PLACE
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- WITH OUR PERFECT GOD FOREVER.
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- AND WHEN WE ARE LIVING OUR
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- LIVES OUT ON TIPTOES, EACH DAY,
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- WE'RE PRAYING: GOD, MAY YOUR
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- KINGDOM COME, MAY YOUR WILL BE
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- DONE.
- 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:23.000
- WE HAVE WORK TO DO AND WE WANNA
- 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.130
- BE ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS, BUT
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- WE'RE NOT MISTAKING THIS HOME
- 00:08:25.230 --> 00:08:28.030
- AS OUR PERMANENT HOME.
- 00:08:28.210 --> 00:08:31.210
- WE'RE LOOKING FOR A CITY WHOSE
- 00:08:31.210 --> 00:08:32.120
- BUILDER AND MAKER IS GOD.
- 00:08:32.260 --> 00:08:35.260
- SO, WE'RE GONNA GET UP ON
- 00:08:35.260 --> 00:08:36.150
- TIPTOES AND I'M GONNA SHOW YOU
- 00:08:36.150 --> 00:08:38.030
- - MALE VOCALS: THE LION'S
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- ROAR
- 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.140
- - MALE ANNOUNCER: THOUGH DEATH
- 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:55.140
- BRINGS GRIEF, IT ALSO BRINGS
- 00:08:55.140 --> 00:08:56.040
- HOPE.
- 00:08:56.040 --> 00:08:57.150
- IN PASTOR LEVI LUSKO'S
- 00:08:57.150 --> 00:08:59.180
- BESTSELLING BOOK, "THROUGH THE
- 00:08:59.180 --> 00:09:01.040
- EYES OF A LION," HE SHARES THE
- 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:02.200
- STORY OF THE DAY HIS BEAUTIFUL
- 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.030
- AND SPIRITED LITTLE GIRL LENYA
- 00:09:04.030 --> 00:09:06.120
- UNEXPECTEDLY WENT TO BE WITH
- 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:07.040
- THE LORD.
- 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:08.260
- WITH A RAW LOOK AT THE
- 00:09:08.260 --> 00:09:10.000
- HEARTACHE AND DIFFICULT JOURNEY
- 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:10.290
- OF HEALING THAT TOOK PLACE
- 00:09:10.290 --> 00:09:12.100
- AFTER THAT LOSS, LEVI LUSKO,
- 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:14.070
- PASTOR OF FRESH LIFE CHURCH,
- 00:09:14.070 --> 00:09:16.140
- UNPACKS THE IMPORTANCE OF
- 00:09:16.140 --> 00:09:17.290
- SEEING THROUGH THE DARK PLACES
- 00:09:17.290 --> 00:09:19.240
- BY SETTING OUR FOCUS ON JESUS
- 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.260
- CHRIST, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
- 00:09:21.260 --> 00:09:24.050
- BY SEEING DEATH THROUGH JESUS'
- 00:09:24.050 --> 00:09:26.030
- EYES, YOU'LL DISCOVER HOW TO
- 00:09:26.030 --> 00:09:26.240
- GROW THROUGH GRIEF, PRESS INTO
- 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.240
- GOD IN THE MIDST OF UNDENIABLE
- 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.060
- PAIN, AND GAIN A CLEARER VIEW
- 00:09:30.060 --> 00:09:31.200
- OF ETERNITY.
- 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.100
- WHATEVER YOU'RE WALKING THROUGH
- 00:09:34.100 --> 00:09:35.020
- -- A DOCTOR'S REPORT, TRAGEDY,
- 00:09:35.020 --> 00:09:37.180
- OR LOSS OF A LOVED ONE -- AS
- 00:09:37.180 --> 00:09:38.270
- A THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT OF
- 00:09:38.270 --> 00:09:40.040
- ANY AMOUNT, WE'LL SEND YOU
- 00:09:40.040 --> 00:09:41.190
- "THROUGH THE EYES OF A LION"
- 00:09:41.190 --> 00:09:43.100
- TO HELP YOU FIND HOPE IN JESUS
- 00:09:43.100 --> 00:09:44.080
- - LEVI: I KNOW THAT IN MY LIFE
- 00:10:04.020 --> 00:10:05.040
- WHEN I TRAVEL AND PREACH AND
- 00:10:05.040 --> 00:10:07.170
- I'M GONE, I JUST MISS THE GIRLS
- 00:10:07.170 --> 00:10:08.090
- SO MUCH.
- 00:10:08.090 --> 00:10:09.160
- AND I LOVE COMIN' UP THE
- 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:11.070
- DRIVEWAY TO OUR HOUSE AND
- 00:10:11.070 --> 00:10:11.260
- RETURNING HOME.
- 00:10:11.260 --> 00:10:14.260
- YOU KNOW, THERE'S A SENSE IN
- 00:10:14.260 --> 00:10:15.290
- WHICH WE ALL GET THAT
- 00:10:15.290 --> 00:10:16.210
- HOMESICKNESS.
- 00:10:18.220 --> 00:10:21.220
- BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
- 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:22.120
- HERE IN THIS IDEA OF GOD
- 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:23.230
- GROANING IN US IS A DESIRE TO
- 00:10:23.230 --> 00:10:24.210
- RETURN TO OUR TRUE HOME --
- 00:10:24.210 --> 00:10:25.160
- HEAVEN.
- 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:28.080
- WHAT WE HAVE IS A CASE OF
- 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.060
- SPIRITUAL HOMESICKNESS FOR A
- 00:10:29.060 --> 00:10:31.280
- PLACE WE'VE NEVER BEEN TO.
- 00:10:31.280 --> 00:10:34.120
- AND AS WE GET UP ON OUR
- 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.230
- TIPTOES, WE'RE GONNA NOTICE A
- 00:10:36.230 --> 00:10:38.030
- FEW DIFFERENT THINGS.
- 00:10:38.030 --> 00:10:39.060
- NUMBER ONE: THIS IS GONNA
- 00:10:39.060 --> 00:10:41.070
- IMPACT OUR EVALUATION OF THE
- 00:10:41.070 --> 00:10:43.250
- DIFFICULTIES WE FACE.
- 00:10:43.250 --> 00:10:45.220
- WHETHER YOU REALIZE IT OR NOT,
- 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:46.130
- YOU'RE CONSTANTLY EVALUATING
- 00:10:46.130 --> 00:10:48.180
- STUFF AND YOU'RE CHOOSING TO
- 00:10:48.180 --> 00:10:49.240
- RANK IT.
- 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.040
- WE'RE EVALUATING SITUATIONS,
- 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:52.010
- WHERE WE WANNA GO, HOW HARD
- 00:10:52.010 --> 00:10:53.210
- SOMETHING WAS.
- 00:10:53.210 --> 00:10:54.230
- AND THAT WILL EITHER SAP US OF
- 00:10:54.230 --> 00:10:56.230
- STRENGTH OR IT'LL INJECT US
- 00:10:56.230 --> 00:10:58.030
- WITH A BIT OF SPIRITUAL
- 00:10:58.030 --> 00:10:59.120
- EPINEPHRINE.
- 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:00.250
- PAUL SAID: I EVALUATE THINGS
- 00:11:00.250 --> 00:11:03.150
- THIS WAY, THE SUFFERING OF THIS
- 00:11:03.150 --> 00:11:05.140
- LIFE...
- 00:11:05.140 --> 00:11:06.180
- WE READ IT JUST A MOMENT AGO IN
- 00:11:06.180 --> 00:11:07.150
- ROMANS 8.
- 00:11:07.150 --> 00:11:08.150
- ...THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS LIFE
- 00:11:08.150 --> 00:11:10.000
- ARE NOT EVEN WORTHY TO BE
- 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.230
- COMPARED TO THE GLORY THAT
- 00:11:11.230 --> 00:11:13.290
- SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.
- 00:11:13.290 --> 00:11:15.020
- THINK ABOUT IT.
- 00:11:15.020 --> 00:11:17.240
- HE'S SAYING: I HAVE A SCALE,
- 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:19.050
- AND I CHOOSE TO SET MY
- 00:11:19.050 --> 00:11:20.060
- HARDSHIPS I FACE ON A SCALE.
- 00:11:20.060 --> 00:11:21.110
- AND WHEN I DO, I DON'T EVEN
- 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:24.240
- THINK THAT THE HARD STUFF I'VE
- 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.000
- GONE THROUGH IS EVEN WORTHY OF
- 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:26.210
- TALKIN' ABOUT.
- 00:11:26.210 --> 00:11:27.190
- IT'S NOT EVEN A BIG DEAL AT
- 00:11:27.190 --> 00:11:28.200
- ALL.
- 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:29.070
- NOW, LET'S BACK UP HERE AND
- 00:11:29.070 --> 00:11:30.270
- SAY: PAUL, ARE YOU CRAZY?
- 00:11:30.270 --> 00:11:32.180
- ARE YOU JUST TOTALLY LOCO IN LA
- 00:11:32.180 --> 00:11:33.230
- CABEZA?
- 00:11:33.230 --> 00:11:35.270
- YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH ENORMOUS
- 00:11:35.270 --> 00:11:36.170
- HARDSHIPS.
- 00:11:36.170 --> 00:11:37.060
- YOU'VE HAD PEOPLE YOU LOVE DIE.
- 00:11:37.060 --> 00:11:38.140
- YOU'VE BEEN THROWN IN PRISON.
- 00:11:38.140 --> 00:11:40.020
- YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN.
- 00:11:40.020 --> 00:11:41.130
- YOU'VE BEEN LIED ABOUT.
- 00:11:41.130 --> 00:11:43.010
- YOU'VE BEEN-- OUR PETS' HEADS
- 00:11:43.010 --> 00:11:45.290
- ARE FALLIN' OFF, PEOPLE!
- 00:11:45.290 --> 00:11:47.030
- YOUR SUFFERINGS ARE HUGE!
- 00:11:47.030 --> 00:11:47.220
- BUT HOLD ON A SECOND.
- 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:48.090
- REMEMBER THAT PAUL'S ON
- 00:11:48.090 --> 00:11:48.270
- TIPTOES.
- 00:11:48.270 --> 00:11:49.250
- AND WHEN YOU'RE ON TIPTOES, IT
- 00:11:49.250 --> 00:11:50.290
- CHANGES THE EVALUATION.
- 00:11:50.290 --> 00:11:52.090
- WHY?
- 00:11:52.090 --> 00:11:53.040
- 'CAUSE YOU'RE STANDING ON
- 00:11:53.040 --> 00:11:54.020
- SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN JUST
- 00:11:54.020 --> 00:11:55.200
- THE SHIFTING SAND OF
- 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.050
- CIRCUMSTANCES.
- 00:11:57.050 --> 00:11:59.020
- YOU'RE STANDING ON THE SOLID
- 00:11:59.020 --> 00:11:59.220
- BEDROCK OF GOD'S PROMISES.
- 00:11:59.220 --> 00:12:02.050
- AND WEIGHT IS ALL ABOUT WHERE
- 00:12:02.050 --> 00:12:04.030
- YOU'RE STANDING.
- 00:12:04.030 --> 00:12:04.180
- FOR EXAMPLE, IF I WERE TO PICK
- 00:12:04.180 --> 00:12:06.240
- UP A ROCK AND THERE'S ROCKS OUT
- 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:08.090
- HERE TODAY, ONE OF THESE ROCKS
- 00:12:08.090 --> 00:12:10.220
- MIGHT WEIGH A HUNDRED POUNDS!
- 00:12:10.220 --> 00:12:12.110
- AND I MIGHT STRUGGLE WITH A
- 00:12:12.110 --> 00:12:13.140
- ROCK.
- 00:12:13.140 --> 00:12:14.030
- "AW, IT'S A HUNDRED POUNDS!
- 00:12:14.030 --> 00:12:15.030
- IT'S SO HEAVY!"
- 00:12:15.030 --> 00:12:15.180
- BUT, GUESS WHAT?
- 00:12:15.180 --> 00:12:16.170
- IF I WAS STANDING ON THE MOON,
- 00:12:16.170 --> 00:12:18.100
- THAT SAME 100-POUND STONE WOULD
- 00:12:18.110 --> 00:12:21.110
- ONLY SEEM TO WEIGH 16 POUNDS.
- 00:12:21.110 --> 00:12:22.270
- WHY?
- 00:12:22.270 --> 00:12:25.240
- BECAUSE WEIGHT IS ALL ABOUT
- 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.110
- ATTRACTION AND GRAVITY AND THAT
- 00:12:27.110 --> 00:12:29.030
- CHANGES, DEPENDING ON WHERE
- 00:12:29.030 --> 00:12:30.110
- YOU'RE STANDING.
- 00:12:30.110 --> 00:12:32.150
- SO, IF I'M STANDING IN
- 00:12:32.150 --> 00:12:33.220
- SITUATIONS, IT'S ALWAYS GONNA
- 00:12:33.220 --> 00:12:35.140
- SEEM SO HARD.
- 00:12:35.140 --> 00:12:36.110
- "OH, I CAN'T PAY THE RENT!"
- 00:12:36.110 --> 00:12:37.190
- "OH, MY KIDS DON'T BEHAVE!"
- 00:12:37.190 --> 00:12:39.020
- "OH, I'VE GOT THIS SICKNESS!"
- 00:12:39.020 --> 00:12:40.110
- BUT WHEN I STAND ON GOD'S
- 00:12:40.110 --> 00:12:41.240
- PROMISES AND WITH EARNEST
- 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:43.160
- EXPECTATION, LIVE MY LIFE ON
- 00:12:43.160 --> 00:12:45.080
- SPIRITUAL TIPTOES, LIKE THE
- 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:46.290
- BOLD LION THAT I AM, NOW, FROM
- 00:12:46.290 --> 00:12:49.070
- THIS VIEW, TROUBLES AREN'T SO
- 00:12:49.070 --> 00:12:51.190
- HEAVY.
- 00:12:51.190 --> 00:12:52.230
- AIN'T NO THANG.
- 00:12:52.230 --> 00:12:54.110
- BECAUSE GOD'S UP TO SOMETHING
- 00:12:54.110 --> 00:12:55.110
- MUCH BIGGER.
- 00:12:55.110 --> 00:12:56.180
- AND I'M LOOKING BEYOND JUST THE
- 00:12:56.180 --> 00:12:58.040
- BORDERS OF THIS WORLD TO MY
- 00:12:58.040 --> 00:13:00.130
- LIFE, WHICH IS HIDDEN WITH
- 00:13:00.130 --> 00:13:02.220
- CHRIST IN GOD.
- 00:13:02.220 --> 00:13:03.100
- AND I KNOW THAT WHEN CHRIST,
- 00:13:03.100 --> 00:13:05.030
- WHO IS MY LIFE, APPEARS THAT I
- 00:13:05.030 --> 00:13:06.040
- SHALL APPEAR WITH HIM ON GLORY.
- 00:13:06.040 --> 00:13:07.190
- AND NOW, I'M LOOKING BEYOND
- 00:13:07.190 --> 00:13:09.270
- WHAT I CAN SEE HERE TO ALL THAT
- 00:13:09.270 --> 00:13:11.090
- GOD HAS PROMISED AND ALL THAT
- 00:13:11.090 --> 00:13:12.190
- GOD'S DOING.
- 00:13:12.190 --> 00:13:13.130
- AND WHAT MIGHT HAVE SEEMED
- 00:13:13.130 --> 00:13:14.260
- HEAVY IS NOW JUST A PEBBLE.
- 00:13:14.260 --> 00:13:16.180
- SO, IT WILL ALTER YOUR
- 00:13:16.180 --> 00:13:17.230
- EVALUATION.
- 00:13:17.230 --> 00:13:20.200
- THE SECOND THING YOU'RE GONNA
- 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:22.000
- NOTICE IS THAT THIS IS ALSO
- 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:23.170
- GOING TO IMPACT YOUR...
- 00:13:23.170 --> 00:13:24.200
- TRACTION.
- 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:26.200
- YOUR TRACTION!
- 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:27.260
- YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT HOW--
- 00:13:27.260 --> 00:13:29.070
- I PLAYED SOCCER, I RAN CROSS
- 00:13:29.070 --> 00:13:30.240
- COUNTRY ONE YEAR.
- 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:32.040
- I KNOW THAT FOOTBALL PLAYERS
- 00:13:32.040 --> 00:13:33.110
- WEAR 'EM.
- 00:13:33.110 --> 00:13:34.210
- THEY'RE CALLED SPIKES.
- 00:13:34.210 --> 00:13:36.020
- AND SPIKES LITERALLY HAVE
- 00:13:36.020 --> 00:13:36.290
- SPIKES THAT STICK OUT OF THE
- 00:13:36.290 --> 00:13:37.230
- BOTTOM OF 'EM.
- 00:13:37.230 --> 00:13:40.230
- AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
- 00:13:40.230 --> 00:13:41.210
- THEY GIVE YOU TRACTION.
- 00:13:41.210 --> 00:13:43.040
- I BELIEVE AS YOU LEARN TO LIVE
- 00:13:43.040 --> 00:13:43.250
- YOUR LIFE WITH THE EYES OF A
- 00:13:43.250 --> 00:13:45.200
- LION LOOKING FORWARD TO ALL
- 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.080
- THAT GOD'S GONNA DO, NOT JUST
- 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:48.230
- AT WHAT'S RIGHT THERE ALL UP IN
- 00:13:48.230 --> 00:13:51.050
- YOUR FACE, YOU'RE GONNA BE
- 00:13:51.050 --> 00:13:52.070
- GIVEN TRACTION, A FIRM
- 00:13:52.070 --> 00:13:54.190
- FOUNDATION, SO YOU CAN'T GET
- 00:13:54.190 --> 00:13:56.280
- KNOCKED OVER.
- 00:13:56.280 --> 00:13:57.160
- NOW, IMAGINE IF I WAS STANDING
- 00:13:57.160 --> 00:13:59.000
- HERE, JUST FLAT-FOOTED, MAYBE
- 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:00.240
- KNEES LOCKED, AND YOU JUST GAVE
- 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.290
- ME THE SMALLEST SHOVE.
- 00:14:02.290 --> 00:14:03.220
- WELL, GUESS WHAT?
- 00:14:03.220 --> 00:14:05.000
- I'D GO OVER.
- 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.100
- BUT IF I GOT UP ON MY TOES,
- 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.240
- KINDA FLOATIN' LIKE A
- 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.010
- BUTTERFLY, STINGIN' LIKE A BEE,
- 00:14:11.010 --> 00:14:12.170
- MUHAMMAD ALI-STYLE, MAN, YOU
- 00:14:12.170 --> 00:14:14.040
- COULD SHOVE ME -- I'D BE LIMBO
- 00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:15.160
- LOWER NOW.
- 00:14:15.160 --> 00:14:17.050
- I'M NOT GOIN' OVER BECAUSE I'M
- 00:14:17.050 --> 00:14:17.260
- ON MY TOES.
- 00:14:17.260 --> 00:14:19.130
- I WOULD BE READY.
- 00:14:19.130 --> 00:14:20.070
- I WOULD HAVE TRACTION.
- 00:14:20.070 --> 00:14:22.110
- I WOULD HAVE A FIRM FOUNDATION.
- 00:14:22.110 --> 00:14:23.160
- I WONDER IF THE REASON SO MANY
- 00:14:23.160 --> 00:14:26.060
- YOUNG PEOPLE GO OFF TO COLLEGE
- 00:14:26.060 --> 00:14:27.150
- AND GET THEIR FIRST LIBERAL
- 00:14:27.150 --> 00:14:29.210
- PROFESSOR, WHO ALL OF A SUDDEN
- 00:14:29.210 --> 00:14:30.190
- IS SAYING, "THE BIBLE CAN'T BE
- 00:14:30.190 --> 00:14:31.270
- TRUSTED, EVERYTHING IS A HOAX,
- 00:14:31.270 --> 00:14:33.260
- CHRISTIANITY'S A CRUTCH," AND
- 00:14:33.260 --> 00:14:35.160
- THEY'RE JUST ROCKED, LIKE,
- 00:14:35.160 --> 00:14:36.270
- "OH, NO!" IF THAT'S NOT BECAUSE
- 00:14:36.270 --> 00:14:38.160
- THEY WEREN'T READY FOR IT,
- 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:40.080
- IF THEY WEREN'T ANTICIPATING
- 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.070
- IT.
- 00:14:43.070 --> 00:14:43.230
- BUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING BEYOND
- 00:14:43.230 --> 00:14:45.030
- JUST THIS LIFE, WE'RE LOOKING
- 00:14:45.030 --> 00:14:47.030
- TO HEAVEN, WE'RE FOCUSING ON
- 00:14:47.030 --> 00:14:48.250
- WHAT GOD IS DOING, IT'S GONNA
- 00:14:48.250 --> 00:14:50.100
- PUT US UP ON OUR TOES.
- 00:14:50.100 --> 00:14:51.040
- HARDSHIP COMES -- I'M READY FOR
- 00:14:51.040 --> 00:14:52.080
- IT.
- 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:53.100
- TEMPTATION COMES -- I'M READY
- 00:14:53.100 --> 00:14:54.010
- FOR IT.
- 00:14:54.010 --> 00:14:54.280
- SOMETHING DOESN'T PAN OUT IN A
- 00:14:54.280 --> 00:14:56.030
- PAYCHECK.
- 00:14:56.030 --> 00:14:57.000
- I'M NOT GONNA GO, "OH, GOD, I
- 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:58.180
- THOUGHT YOU WERE GOOD."
- 00:14:58.180 --> 00:14:59.130
- I'M GONNA SAY, "EH, GOD'S GOT A
- 00:14:59.130 --> 00:15:00.150
- PLAN."
- 00:15:00.150 --> 00:15:01.130
- 'CAUSE I'VE GOT SHOCK
- 00:15:01.130 --> 00:15:02.070
- ABSORBERS.
- 00:15:02.070 --> 00:15:03.150
- I'M READY TO ABSORB
- 00:15:03.150 --> 00:15:04.260
- IT...BECAUSE WHAT?
- 00:15:04.260 --> 00:15:05.270
- MY LIVING MY LIFE WITH EARNEST
- 00:15:05.270 --> 00:15:07.250
- EXPECTATION, UP ON TIPTOE, TO
- 00:15:07.250 --> 00:15:10.100
- SEE ALL THAT GOD'S GONNA DO IS
- 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:11.190
- NOT JUST GIVING ME A GREAT
- 00:15:11.190 --> 00:15:14.060
- SENSE OF EVALUATION, BUT IT'S
- 00:15:14.060 --> 00:15:15.280
- ALSO GIVING ME STRONG TRACTION.
- 00:15:15.280 --> 00:15:18.260
- SO, YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO DO THE
- 00:15:18.260 --> 00:15:21.040
- DOUBLE TAKE.
- 00:15:21.040 --> 00:15:23.030
- THE DOUBLE TAKE.
- 00:15:23.030 --> 00:15:24.090
- NOT LIKE AT THE BEACH AND YOU
- 00:15:24.090 --> 00:15:25.000
- SEE A BEAUTIFUL-- THAT'S A
- 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.010
- DIFFERENT SERMON.
- 00:15:26.010 --> 00:15:27.030
- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT THE
- 00:15:27.030 --> 00:15:27.260
- DOUBLE TAKE WHERE YOU LOOK
- 00:15:27.260 --> 00:15:29.170
- AT SOMETHING THAT WOULD CAUSE
- 00:15:29.170 --> 00:15:31.160
- YOU TO LOSE HEART.
- 00:15:31.160 --> 00:15:32.150
- YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING THAT
- 00:15:32.150 --> 00:15:33.120
- DISCOURAGES YOU.
- 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.090
- WHAT DO YOU DO?
- 00:15:34.090 --> 00:15:34.290
- YOU LOOK AWAY, YOU LOAD UP A
- 00:15:34.290 --> 00:15:37.090
- PROMISE FROM GOD'S WORD, AND
- 00:15:37.090 --> 00:15:38.240
- THEN YOU LOOK AGAIN.
- 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.160
- SO, YOU SEE LOSS IN YOUR LIFE.
- 00:15:40.160 --> 00:15:42.180
- BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AWAY AND YOU
- 00:15:42.180 --> 00:15:44.170
- HEAR A PROMISE FROM GOD'S WORD,
- 00:15:44.170 --> 00:15:45.260
- HE SAYS TO YOU: I'M YOUR
- 00:15:45.260 --> 00:15:47.100
- SHIELD, I'M YOUR EXCEEDING
- 00:15:47.100 --> 00:15:49.000
- GREAT REWARD.
- 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.220
- SO, NOW YOU LOOK BACK AT THE
- 00:15:50.220 --> 00:15:52.120
- THING THAT STRESSED YOU OUT,
- 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:53.040
- BUT YOU'RE ARMED WITH A PROMISE
- 00:15:53.040 --> 00:15:54.280
- FROM GOD'S WORD, AND YOU HAVE
- 00:15:54.280 --> 00:15:56.030
- THE TRACTION TO SAY: I SEE WHAT
- 00:15:56.030 --> 00:15:57.270
- GOD SAYS, NOT JUST WHAT I SEE.
- 00:15:57.270 --> 00:15:59.250
- YOU LOOK AT A DISCOURAGEMENT OR
- 00:15:59.250 --> 00:16:02.050
- LONELINESS OR-- YOU COULD FEEL
- 00:16:02.050 --> 00:16:04.090
- LONELY EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A
- 00:16:04.090 --> 00:16:05.180
- CROWDED ROOM.
- 00:16:05.180 --> 00:16:07.060
- BUT YOU LOOK AWAY AND YOU HEAR
- 00:16:07.060 --> 00:16:08.080
- GOD SAY, "I'M WITH YOU ALWAYS,
- 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.030
- EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE."
- 00:16:10.030 --> 00:16:12.030
- NOW, YOU LOOK BACK AGAIN -- AND
- 00:16:12.030 --> 00:16:13.220
- I DARE YOU TO SCARE ME,
- 00:16:13.220 --> 00:16:15.100
- LONELINESS, 'CAUSE I KNOW MY
- 00:16:15.100 --> 00:16:16.120
- GOD'S WITH ME.
- 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:17.050
- WHAT YOU GOT?
- 00:16:17.050 --> 00:16:18.150
- OR HOW 'BOUT FOR ME?
- 00:16:18.150 --> 00:16:20.000
- AT THE TIME OF THE PREACHING OF
- 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:21.080
- THIS MESSAGE HERE, AS I TALK TO
- 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.050
- YOU, I'M ABOUT 1300 DAYS OR SO
- 00:16:23.050 --> 00:16:24.090
- INTO THIS THING CALLED GRIEF.
- 00:16:24.170 --> 00:16:27.170
- MY DAUGHTER LENYA LEFT THIS
- 00:16:27.170 --> 00:16:29.140
- WORLD 1300 DAYS AGO.
- 00:16:29.140 --> 00:16:31.070
- AND IF I LOOK BACK TO WHEN I
- 00:16:31.070 --> 00:16:33.030
- WAS LAST WITH HER, IN 2012, AND
- 00:16:33.030 --> 00:16:35.220
- I LAST HUGGED HER, AND LAST GOT
- 00:16:35.220 --> 00:16:37.100
- TO KISS HER, THAT SEEMS LIKE IT
- 00:16:37.100 --> 00:16:40.020
- WAS A LONG TIME AGO -- 1300
- 00:16:40.020 --> 00:16:41.000
- DAYS.
- 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:42.200
- I FEEL LIKE SHE'S SLIPPING
- 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:43.270
- THROUGH MY FINGERS SOMETIMES.
- 00:16:43.270 --> 00:16:46.100
- BUT THEN, I LISTEN TO GOD
- 00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:47.240
- SAYING: LEVI, LENYA'S NOT WHERE
- 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.240
- YOU LAST SAW HER OVER HERE.
- 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:51.030
- SHE'S CERTAINLY NOT IN THAT
- 00:16:51.030 --> 00:16:51.290
- GRAVE.
- 00:16:51.290 --> 00:16:52.250
- SHE'S WITH ME OVER HERE.
- 00:16:52.250 --> 00:16:55.070
- NOW, I LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY.
- 00:16:55.070 --> 00:16:56.180
- I GET TRACTION BECAUSE I GO:
- 00:16:56.180 --> 00:16:58.130
- SHE'S NOT SLIPPING THROUGH MY
- 00:16:58.130 --> 00:17:00.070
- FINGERS AS I MOVE FORWARD IN MY
- 00:17:00.070 --> 00:17:01.140
- LIFE, SO I'M NOT BETRAYING HER
- 00:17:01.140 --> 00:17:02.290
- BY HAVING FUN, BETRAYING HER BY
- 00:17:02.290 --> 00:17:04.270
- ENJOYING MY DAUGHTERS,
- 00:17:04.270 --> 00:17:06.140
- BETRAYING HER BY LAUGHING AND
- 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:07.290
- DANCING IF I FEEL LIKE IT.
- 00:17:07.290 --> 00:17:09.010
- AS I GET UP EVERY DAY AND TAKE
- 00:17:09.010 --> 00:17:10.290
- ANOTHER STEP AND TAKE ANOTHER
- 00:17:10.290 --> 00:17:12.270
- STEP, I KNOW THAT I'M MOVIN' IN
- 00:17:12.270 --> 00:17:15.000
- THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
- 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.270
- I'M GETTIN' CLOSER TO HER EACH
- 00:17:16.270 --> 00:17:18.240
- DAY AND SHE'S MORE A PART OF MY
- 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.220
- FUTURE THAN SHE IS A PART OF MY
- 00:17:20.220 --> 00:17:22.070
- PAST.
- 00:17:22.070 --> 00:17:24.070
- AND AS YOU LEARN TO FOSTER YOUR
- 00:17:24.070 --> 00:17:26.210
- SENSE OF NOSTALGIA FOR A PLACE
- 00:17:26.210 --> 00:17:29.080
- YOU'VE NEVER BEEN, THE
- 00:17:29.080 --> 00:17:30.190
- HOMESICKNESS FOR HEAVEN THAT
- 00:17:30.190 --> 00:17:32.020
- YOU WERE CREATED FOR, LIVING
- 00:17:32.020 --> 00:17:33.250
- THROUGH THE EYES OF A LION, YOU
- 00:17:33.250 --> 00:17:36.240
- WILL BE ABLE TO COMBAT THE
- 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.280
- HYPNOTIZING INFLUENCE OF THIS
- 00:17:38.280 --> 00:17:41.180
- - MALE VOCALS: THE LION'S
- 00:17:44.120 --> 00:17:45.040
- ROAR
- 00:17:45.040 --> 00:17:46.070
- - MALE ANNOUNCER: THOUGH DEATH
- 00:17:57.260 --> 00:17:58.180
- BRINGS GRIEF, IT ALSO BRINGS
- 00:17:58.180 --> 00:17:59.080
- HOPE.
- 00:17:59.080 --> 00:17:59.170
- IN PASTOR LEVI LUSKO'S
- 00:17:59.170 --> 00:18:01.090
- BESTSELLING BOOK, "THROUGH THE
- 00:18:01.090 --> 00:18:02.000
- EYES OF A LION," HE SHARES THE
- 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:02.210
- STORY OF THE DAY HIS BEAUTIFUL
- 00:18:02.210 --> 00:18:04.130
- AND SPIRITED LITTLE GIRL LENYA
- 00:18:04.130 --> 00:18:05.040
- UNEXPECTEDLY WENT TO BE WITH
- 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:06.180
- THE LORD.
- 00:18:07.260 --> 00:18:10.260
- WITH A RAW LOOK AT THE
- 00:18:10.260 --> 00:18:11.130
- HEARTACHE AND DIFFICULT JOURNEY
- 00:18:11.130 --> 00:18:12.220
- OF HEALING THAT TOOK PLACE
- 00:18:12.220 --> 00:18:14.170
- AFTER THAT LOSS, LEVI LUSKO,
- 00:18:14.170 --> 00:18:16.010
- PASTOR OF FRESH LIFE CHURCH,
- 00:18:16.010 --> 00:18:18.020
- UNPACKS THE IMPORTANCE OF
- 00:18:18.020 --> 00:18:19.180
- SEEING THROUGH THE DARK PLACES
- 00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:20.280
- BY SETTING OUR FOCUS ON JESUS
- 00:18:20.280 --> 00:18:22.200
- CHRIST, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
- 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.130
- BY SEEING DEATH THROUGH JESUS'
- 00:18:25.130 --> 00:18:27.150
- EYES, YOU'LL DISCOVER HOW TO
- 00:18:27.150 --> 00:18:28.250
- GROW THROUGH GRIEF, PRESS INTO
- 00:18:28.250 --> 00:18:30.100
- GOD IN THE MIDST OF UNDENIABLE
- 00:18:30.100 --> 00:18:31.290
- PAIN, AND GAIN A CLEARER VIEW
- 00:18:31.290 --> 00:18:33.140
- OF ETERNITY.
- 00:18:33.140 --> 00:18:35.090
- WHATEVER YOU'RE WALKING THROUGH
- 00:18:35.090 --> 00:18:36.160
- -- A DOCTOR'S REPORT, TRAGEDY,
- 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:39.020
- OR LOSS OF A LOVED ONE -- AS
- 00:18:39.020 --> 00:18:41.050
- A THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT OF
- 00:18:41.050 --> 00:18:42.100
- ANY AMOUNT, WE'LL SEND YOU
- 00:18:42.100 --> 00:18:43.000
- "THROUGH THE EYES OF A LION"
- 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:44.180
- TO HELP YOU FIND HOPE IN JESUS
- 00:18:44.180 --> 00:18:46.110
- - LEVI: WHEN I WAS A LITTLE
- 00:19:03.270 --> 00:19:06.200
- KID, MY PARENTS MADE ME TAKE
- 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.020
- TENNIS LESSONS.
- 00:19:08.020 --> 00:19:09.010
- I HATED IT.
- 00:19:09.010 --> 00:19:10.090
- DIDN'T ENJOY IT AT ALL,
- 00:19:10.090 --> 00:19:11.210
- HONESTLY.
- 00:19:11.210 --> 00:19:13.130
- BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
- 00:19:13.130 --> 00:19:15.030
- STUCK WITH ME TO THIS PRESENT
- 00:19:15.030 --> 00:19:15.240
- DAY IS SOMETHING MY TENNIS
- 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:16.130
- COACH WOULD MAKE US DO.
- 00:19:16.130 --> 00:19:18.090
- AND THAT WAS TO HOP UP ON OUR
- 00:19:18.090 --> 00:19:20.070
- TIPTOES AND TO KIND OF SHUFFLE
- 00:19:20.070 --> 00:19:21.110
- BACK AND FORTH WITH A TENNIS
- 00:19:21.110 --> 00:19:23.120
- RACKET IN OUR HANDS DOING WHAT
- 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:24.130
- HE CALLED "READY POSITION."
- 00:19:24.130 --> 00:19:26.260
- AND READY POSITION WAS WHAT HE
- 00:19:26.260 --> 00:19:28.290
- ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE WHEN WE
- 00:19:28.290 --> 00:19:29.190
- WERE WAITING FOR A SERVE TO
- 00:19:29.190 --> 00:19:30.090
- COME OUR WAY.
- 00:19:30.090 --> 00:19:32.150
- MATTER OF FACT, IF WE EVER
- 00:19:32.150 --> 00:19:33.110
- STOOD FLAT-FOOTED, HE WOULD
- 00:19:33.110 --> 00:19:34.200
- ALWAYS MAKE US RUN SPRINTS OR
- 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:36.240
- RUN DRILLS.
- 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:37.160
- WE HAD TO BE PERPETUALLY IN
- 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:38.180
- THIS READY POSITION.
- 00:19:38.180 --> 00:19:40.230
- YOU SEE, HE WAS TELLING US THAT
- 00:19:40.230 --> 00:19:42.160
- WE WERE ONLY GONNA BE READY TO
- 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.150
- ANTICIPATE WHERE THE BALL WAS
- 00:19:44.150 --> 00:19:46.140
- GONNA GO AND GET THERE IN TIME
- 00:19:46.140 --> 00:19:48.220
- IF WE WERE NOT ON OUR HEELS BUT
- 00:19:48.220 --> 00:19:50.150
- WE WERE UP ON OUR TOES.
- 00:19:50.150 --> 00:19:52.050
- I THINK THAT PERFECTLY
- 00:19:52.050 --> 00:19:54.190
- ILLUSTRATES ONE OF THE BENEFITS
- 00:19:54.190 --> 00:19:56.210
- OF LEANING INTO THE GROANING
- 00:19:56.210 --> 00:19:58.250
- THAT IS FELT WITHIN OUR HEARTS,
- 00:19:58.250 --> 00:19:59.230
- FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT, IN
- 00:19:59.230 --> 00:20:01.180
- CREATION, IN OUR LIVES, AND
- 00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:03.100
- FROM JESUS HIMSELF.
- 00:20:03.100 --> 00:20:04.220
- WE WILL FIND ON OUR TIPTOES
- 00:20:04.220 --> 00:20:06.290
- WE'RE READY FOR...ACTION.
- 00:20:06.290 --> 00:20:09.020
- NOT JUST EVALUATION AND
- 00:20:09.020 --> 00:20:10.220
- TRACTION, BUT ALSO ACTION.
- 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:13.240
- YOU SEE, YOU'LL BE READY TO
- 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:14.250
- POUNCE, READY TO GET WHERE YOU
- 00:20:14.250 --> 00:20:16.080
- NEED TO GO IF YOU'RE NOT ON
- 00:20:16.080 --> 00:20:18.070
- YOUR HEELS, JUST DIR-DIR-DIR-
- 00:20:18.070 --> 00:20:20.070
- DIR-DIR, BUT ON YOUR TOES,
- 00:20:20.070 --> 00:20:22.040
- LIKE: I'M READY FOR WHAT'S
- 00:20:22.040 --> 00:20:23.140
- ABOUT TO COME.
- 00:20:23.140 --> 00:20:24.110
- I'M READY FOR WHAT'S ABOUT TO
- 00:20:24.110 --> 00:20:25.220
- HAPPEN.
- 00:20:25.220 --> 00:20:27.080
- WHAT COULD HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE
- 00:20:27.080 --> 00:20:30.030
- IF YOU WOKE UP TODAY BELIEVING
- 00:20:30.030 --> 00:20:32.030
- THAT YOU WERE ON AN ASSIGNMENT,
- 00:20:32.030 --> 00:20:32.290
- BELIEVING THAT YOU WERE ON A
- 00:20:32.290 --> 00:20:35.100
- MISSION?
- 00:20:35.100 --> 00:20:35.270
- AND YOU ALMOST SAID TO GOD,
- 00:20:35.270 --> 00:20:37.110
- "HERE AM I -- SEND ME."
- 00:20:37.110 --> 00:20:38.010
- THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST PRAYERS
- 00:20:38.010 --> 00:20:39.020
- IN THE BIBLE.
- 00:20:39.020 --> 00:20:40.000
- HERE AM I.
- 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:40.200
- SEND ME.
- 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.080
- I ENCOURAGE YOU TO WAKE UP THAT
- 00:20:42.080 --> 00:20:43.140
- WAY, TO LEAVE YOUR HOUSE THAT
- 00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:44.290
- WAY, TO GO INTO CLASSES YOU
- 00:20:44.290 --> 00:20:46.270
- DREAD AND A JOB THAT MAYBE
- 00:20:46.270 --> 00:20:49.030
- ISN'T THE JOB YOU WISH YOU HAD.
- 00:20:49.030 --> 00:20:52.000
- GO INTO IT SAYING, "HERE AM
- 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.040
- I -- SEND ME," ON YOUR TIPTOES,
- 00:20:54.040 --> 00:20:56.140
- BELIEVING AND READY FOR GOD TO
- 00:20:56.140 --> 00:20:59.100
- USE YOU TO TOUCH SOMEONE ELSE.
- 00:20:59.110 --> 00:21:02.130
- I FOUND THAT HOW I THINK ABOUT
- 00:21:02.130 --> 00:21:04.070
- THINGS AND HOW I TALK ABOUT
- 00:21:04.070 --> 00:21:06.100
- THINGS COMPLETELY CHANGES HOW I
- 00:21:06.100 --> 00:21:08.230
- GO INTO THEM.
- 00:21:08.230 --> 00:21:11.070
- IF I HAD A MEETING THAT I
- 00:21:11.070 --> 00:21:12.010
- DREADED AND I SPOKE ABOUT IT
- 00:21:12.010 --> 00:21:13.240
- LIKE, "AH, I HATE THIS MEETING,
- 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:15.240
- IT'S JUST A WASTE OF MY DAY,
- 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:16.260
- THERE'S SO MUCH MORE I COULD BE
- 00:21:16.260 --> 00:21:18.230
- DOING," THAT'S GONNA COMPLETELY
- 00:21:18.230 --> 00:21:19.150
- CHANGE HOW I AM IN THAT
- 00:21:19.150 --> 00:21:21.120
- MEETING.
- 00:21:21.120 --> 00:21:22.270
- I'M GONNA BE IN A BAD MOOD, I'M
- 00:21:22.270 --> 00:21:23.190
- GONNA BE SULLEN,
- 00:21:23.190 --> 00:21:24.030
- I'M GONNA BE WAITING FOR IT
- 00:21:24.030 --> 00:21:24.280
- TO GET OVER.
- 00:21:24.280 --> 00:21:26.090
- I'M NOT GONNA ENJOY IT AT ALL.
- 00:21:26.090 --> 00:21:27.170
- BUT I COULD WALK INTO THAT SAME
- 00:21:27.170 --> 00:21:29.140
- MEETING, WITH THE SAME
- 00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:31.130
- STRESSED-OUT CALENDAR, AND THE
- 00:21:31.130 --> 00:21:33.110
- SAME AMOUNT OF THINGS LOOMING
- 00:21:33.110 --> 00:21:34.280
- OVER ME, BUT INSTEAD, I COULD
- 00:21:34.280 --> 00:21:36.110
- STOP AND THINK: GOD, THANK YOU
- 00:21:36.110 --> 00:21:37.070
- THAT I GET TO GO TO THIS
- 00:21:37.070 --> 00:21:37.290
- MEETING.
- 00:21:37.290 --> 00:21:40.270
- THANK YOU THAT IN THIS MEETING
- 00:21:40.270 --> 00:21:41.180
- THERE'S PEOPLE, MAYBE, WHO ARE
- 00:21:41.180 --> 00:21:42.270
- HAVING TROUBLE IN THEIR
- 00:21:42.270 --> 00:21:43.150
- MARRIAGES OR ISSUE IN THEIR
- 00:21:43.150 --> 00:21:44.230
- LIVES.
- 00:21:44.230 --> 00:21:45.090
- AND, EVEN IF IT'S NOT RELATED
- 00:21:45.090 --> 00:21:46.110
- TO THE MEETING, MAY MY
- 00:21:46.110 --> 00:21:47.050
- INTERACTION WITH THEM LIFT THEM
- 00:21:47.050 --> 00:21:48.250
- UP A LITTLE BIT, ENCOURAGE THEM
- 00:21:48.250 --> 00:21:50.000
- A LITTLE BIT.
- 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:50.140
- AND THIS PROJECT THAT I'M A
- 00:21:50.140 --> 00:21:52.180
- PART OF -- YES, IT'S HARD RIGHT
- 00:21:52.180 --> 00:21:53.240
- NOW, AND, YES, THIS IS THE
- 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.010
- UNNECESSARY MIDDLE PORTION OF
- 00:21:55.010 --> 00:21:56.160
- THE PROJECT WHEN ALL THE ZEAL
- 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:58.000
- SEEMS TO BE SORT OF SLIPPING
- 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:00.170
- OUT.
- 00:22:00.170 --> 00:22:01.130
- AND THE ENERGY AND THE
- 00:22:01.130 --> 00:22:02.280
- BRIGHTNESS AND THE NEWNESS OF
- 00:22:02.280 --> 00:22:03.260
- IT ALL -- IT ISN'T THERE
- 00:22:03.260 --> 00:22:05.010
- ANYMORE.
- 00:22:05.010 --> 00:22:06.030
- BUT, THANK YOU THAT AT THE END
- 00:22:06.030 --> 00:22:06.240
- OF THE DAY, THIS PROJECT'S
- 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:07.240
- GONNA BE RAD.
- 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:08.190
- AND SO, THIS MEETING, THOUGH
- 00:22:08.190 --> 00:22:09.260
- NOT FUN, IS ESSENTIAL.
- 00:22:09.260 --> 00:22:11.290
- AND NOW, I'VE SHIFTED...
- 00:22:11.290 --> 00:22:13.070
- [SNAPS FINGERS]
- 00:22:13.070 --> 00:22:14.000
- ...INCREDIBLY SHIFTED HOW I'M
- 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:14.210
- GONNA ACT IN THAT MEETING.
- 00:22:14.210 --> 00:22:15.230
- AND NOW, I'M GONNA BE EXCITED
- 00:22:15.230 --> 00:22:17.190
- AND NOW I'MONA BE LOOKING FOR
- 00:22:17.190 --> 00:22:18.230
- SOMETHING GOOD TO HAPPEN.
- 00:22:18.230 --> 00:22:20.260
- AND I JUST WONDER, IF YOU'RE
- 00:22:20.260 --> 00:22:22.150
- NOT AWARE, OF HOW MUCH POWER IS
- 00:22:22.150 --> 00:22:23.290
- IN YOUR THOUGHT LIFE.
- 00:22:23.290 --> 00:22:25.260
- YOU CAN'T LIVE RIGHT IF YOU
- 00:22:25.260 --> 00:22:26.250
- WON'T THINK RIGHT.
- 00:22:26.250 --> 00:22:28.030
- AND SO, GET UP ON YOUR TIPTOES.
- 00:22:28.030 --> 00:22:28.280
- PREPARE YOURSELF FOR ACTION.
- 00:22:28.280 --> 00:22:31.070
- BE AT THE READY POSITION.
- 00:22:31.070 --> 00:22:32.270
- DON'T LET ANY BALLS GO FLYIN'
- 00:22:32.270 --> 00:22:35.050
- BY YOUR HEAD THAT YOU'RE NOT
- 00:22:35.050 --> 00:22:36.120
- GONNA GET TO WITH YOUR TENNIS
- 00:22:36.120 --> 00:22:38.070
- RACKET OF LOVE TO REACH AND TO
- 00:22:38.070 --> 00:22:39.290
- HIT AND TO GET TO.
- 00:22:39.290 --> 00:22:40.190
- DON'T LET THOSE OPPORTUNITIES
- 00:22:40.190 --> 00:22:41.140
- SAIL PAST YOU.
- 00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:44.100
- BUT IT'S NOT JUST ACTION.
- 00:22:44.100 --> 00:22:45.060
- I BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE'RE ON
- 00:22:46.040 --> 00:22:49.040
- OUR TIPTOES, WE'RE GONNA NOTICE
- 00:22:49.040 --> 00:22:50.280
- A WHOLE BRAND-NEW SENSE OF...
- 00:22:50.280 --> 00:22:51.220
- ELEVATION.
- 00:22:51.220 --> 00:22:53.230
- NOW, THE DEFINITION OF
- 00:22:53.230 --> 00:22:54.270
- ELEVATION IS HEIGHT ABOVE SEA
- 00:22:54.270 --> 00:22:56.130
- LEVEL, MEANING SOMETHING GETS
- 00:22:56.130 --> 00:22:57.100
- TALLER.
- 00:22:57.100 --> 00:22:58.040
- IF YOU WERE TO COME VISIT ME
- 00:22:58.040 --> 00:22:59.190
- WHERE I LIVE IN MONTANA, WE'RE
- 00:22:59.190 --> 00:23:00.270
- ABOUT 3.000 FEET ABOVE SEA
- 00:23:00.270 --> 00:23:03.090
- LEVEL, SO WE'RE HIGHER THAN,
- 00:23:03.090 --> 00:23:06.040
- LET'S SAY, CALIFORNIA ON THE
- 00:23:06.040 --> 00:23:07.290
- COAST, WHERE YOU'RE AT THE
- 00:23:07.290 --> 00:23:09.090
- HEIGHT OF THE OCEAN.
- 00:23:09.090 --> 00:23:09.270
- THAT WOULD BE LIKE ZERO ABOVE
- 00:23:09.270 --> 00:23:11.200
- SEA LEVEL, RIGHT?
- 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:12.260
- SO, YOU GET HIGHER AND HIGHER
- 00:23:12.260 --> 00:23:14.140
- AND YOU HAVE MORE ELEVATION.
- 00:23:14.140 --> 00:23:16.260
- FUNNY THING ABOUT BEING ON YOUR
- 00:23:16.260 --> 00:23:17.200
- TIPTOES IS YOU MIGHT BE 5 FOOT
- 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:19.210
- 6, 5 FOOT 7 BUT I GUARANTEE YOU
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- ON YOUR TIPTOES YOU'RE A LITTLE
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- BIT TALLER.
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- AND SO IT IS WHEN LIFE GETS
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- DIFFICULT.
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- SO IT IS WHEN LIFE GET
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- COMPLICATED.
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- SO IT IS WHEN PAIN COMES YOUR
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- WAY.
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- THE MOMENT YOU...
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- [SNAPS FINGERS]
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- ...HOP UP ON YOUR TIPTOES,
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- YOU'RE A LITTLE BIT TALLER AND
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- NOW YOU CAN SEE OVER BARRIERS.
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- YOU REMEMBER THAT CLASSIC SHOW
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- "HOME IMPROVEMENT" WHERE HIS
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- NEIGHBOR WAS AT THE FENCE AND
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- YOU NEVER SAW HIS FACE?
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- WILSON.
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- AND TIM "THE TOOL MAN" TAYLOR
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- WOULD ALWAYS HAVE THESE
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- CONVERSATIONS WITH THIS MAN'S
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- EYES.
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- WE NEVER KNEW WHAT HIS MOUTH
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- LOOKED LIKE.
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- WELL, IF WILSON WOULD HAVE
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- STEPPED UP ON HIS TIPTOES, HE
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- WOULD HAVE SEEN FURTHER OVER
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- THE FENCE AND WE WOULD HAVE
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- SEEN MORE OF HIS FACE.
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- I BELIEVE THAT AS YOU LEARN TO
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- LIVE LEANING INTO THE GROAN,
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- STANDING UP ON YOUR TIPTOES
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- WITH A HEIGHT-- A HEIGHTENED
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- SENSE OF EARNEST EXPECTATION
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- FOR ALL THAT GOD'S GONNA DO,
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- FOR ALL THAT GOD HAS PROMISED
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- TO DO, FOR ALL THAT EVEN IF YOU
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- CAN'T SEE IT HE'S DOING AROUND
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- YOU EVEN NOW, YOU WILL SEE OVER
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- SOME OF THESE BARRIERS THAT
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- MIGHT HAVE OTHERWISE CAUSED YOU
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- TO LOSE HEART.
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- WE ACTUALLY SEE THIS DESCRIBED
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- BY PAUL IN 2 CORINTHIANS 4.
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- HE SAID TO THOSE AT CORINTH:
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- THIS IS WHY WE NEVER GIVE UP.
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- WHY?
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- 'CAUSE HE DOESN'T LOOK AT WHAT
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- HE CAN SEE ONLY.
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- HE'S ON HIS TIPTOES LOOKIN'
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- OVER.
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- HE SAYS, CONTINUING: "THOUGH
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- OUR BODIES ARE DYING, OUR
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- SPIRITS ARE BEING RENEWED EVERY
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- DAY."
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- NOW, I WONDER IF MAYBE YOU ARE
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- GETTING A LITTLE BIT OLDER,
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- AND, LIKE ME, STARTING TO
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- NOTICE A FEW MORE CREAKS AND
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- GROANS WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE
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- MORNING.
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- AND, MAYBE YOU HAVE SOMETHING
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- THAT ISN'T FUNCTIONING QUITE
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- RIGHT -- A PANCREAS, OR YOUR
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- LIVER, OR MAYBE YOUR EYESIGHT'S
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- GOING.
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- OR, MAYBE LIKE ME, YOU'VE HAD
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- TO HAVE QUITE A FEW DENTAL
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- REPAIRS IN YOUR MOUTH.
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- AND, LIKE PAUL SAID HERE, YOU
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- FEEL THE EFFECTS OF A BODY
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- THAT'S AGING.
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- THE BUMMER IS THE LONGER WE
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- LIVE IN THESE BODIES, THE MORE
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- THEY BREAK DOWN.
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- NOW, THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO
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- DISCOURAGE SOMEONE.
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- THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO MAKE
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- SOMEONE DISTRESSED.
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- BUT PAUL SAID: I'M NOT WORRIED
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- ABOUT MY BODY BEING BROKEN
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- DOWN.
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- WHY?
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- HE'S ON HIS TIPTOES, LOOKING
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- OVER IT TO SEE SOMETHING ELSE.
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- WHAT ELSE?
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- HE SEES: MY SPIRIT'S GETTING
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- RENEWED EVERY DAY.
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- YOU KNOW, THE LONGER YOU LIVE
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- IN YOUR BODY, THE MORE BROKEN
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- DOWN IT GETS.
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- THE LONGER YOU LIVE IN YOUR NEW
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- SPIRIT WHEN YOU TRUST CHRIST
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- FOR SALVATION AND HE BREATHES
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- NEW LIFE INTO YOU, THE BETTER
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- YOU BECOME.
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- MORE GRACE, MORE GLORY, MORE
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- STRENGTH.
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- I'M SO THANKFUL THAT I'M NOT
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- WHO I USED TO BE.
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- NO, I'M NOT WHO I'M GONNA BE
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- ONE DAY, BUT I SEE SIGNS OF
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- IMPROVEMENT, I SEE SIGNS OF
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- GROWTH -- AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR
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- IT.
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- AND I CHOOSE ON TIPTOES TO LOOK
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- OVER WHAT IS IN FRONT OF ME TO
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- SEE SOMETHING THAT ONLY THE EYE
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- OF FAITH CAN SEE.
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- AND THAT WILL ENCOURAGE ME.
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- PAUL CONTINUES: SO, WE DON'T
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- LOOK AT THE TROUBLES WE CAN SEE
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- NOW.
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- WHY?
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- ON TIPTOES.
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- SO, WE FIX OUR GAZE ON THINGS
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- THAT CANNOT BE SEEN, FOR THE
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- THINGS WE SEE NOW WILL SOON BE
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- GONE.
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- BUT THE THINGS WE CANNOT SEE
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- WILL LAST FOREVER.
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- I'VE HEARD IT PUT THIS WAY: THE
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- CURE TO INVINCIBILITY IN THIS
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- LIFE IS TO GAZE AT GOD AND TO
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- GLANCE AT LIFE.
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- GAZE AT GOD.
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- GLANCE AT LIFE.
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- ALL TOO OFTEN, WE GAZE AT THIS
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- LIFE.
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- HOW MUCH MONEY DO I HAVE?
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- WHAT CAR DO I DRIVE?
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- HOW MANY FOLLOWERS DO I HAVE?
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- THAT'S FINE.
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- BUT GAZE AT GOD; GLANCE AT THIS
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- LIFE.
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- GET UP ON YOUR TIPTOES.
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- IT'LL GIVE YOU SOME ELEVATION
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- ABOVE SEA LEVEL, SOME ELEVATION
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- ABOUT PROBLEMS.
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- THERE'S NO ONE HIGHER THAN THE
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- MOST HIGH.
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- AND HE WANTS YOU TO BE LED TO
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- THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN
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- YOU ARE TO GIVE YOU THAT
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- STRENGTH, TO OPEN YOUR EYES TO
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- - MALE VOCALIST:
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- IN YOU, I HAVE STRENGTH FOR
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- TOMORROW
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- MADE NEW BY THE GRACE OF THE
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- FATHER...
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- IN YOU, I HAVE ALL I COULD
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- EVER NEED
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