Donate

Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6

July 25, 2017

27:31

Levi Lusko: Through the Eyes of a Lion

Closed captions

Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6

Show timecode

Hide timecode

- LEVI LUSKO: THIS IS
00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:07.010
LEVI LUSKO,
00:00:07.010 --> 00:00:07.230
AUTHOR OF "THROUGH THE
00:00:07.230 --> 00:00:08.100
I WROTE THIS BOOK AFTER MY
00:00:09.230 --> 00:00:10.120
DAUGHTER LENYA WAS SUDDENLY AND
00:00:10.120 --> 00:00:12.000
NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF
00:00:14.170 --> 00:00:15.040
DIFFICULTY YOU'VE HAD TO FACE
00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:16.080
IN THIS LIFE -- LOSS OF A DREAM
00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:18.100
OR A JOB OR ANY BROKENNESS IN
00:00:18.100 --> 00:00:20.010
YOUR HEART -- GOD WANTS TO TURN
00:00:20.010 --> 00:00:21.250
THAT JOURNEY INTO A ROAR STORY
00:00:21.250 --> 00:00:23.140
AS YOU RISE UP AS BOLD AS A
00:00:23.140 --> 00:00:25.210
LION, SEEING THE INVISIBLE AND
00:00:25.210 --> 00:00:27.100
- MALE VOCALS: THE LION'S
00:00:31.130 --> 00:00:32.050
ROAR
00:00:32.050 --> 00:00:32.210
- FEMALE VOCALS: IT'S GONNA
00:00:43.260 --> 00:00:44.190
BE ALL RIGHT
00:00:44.190 --> 00:00:46.060
IT'S GONNA BE OKAY
00:00:46.060 --> 00:00:47.120
- LEVI: I HAD TO GO TO THE
00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:48.020
OPTOMETRIST LAST YEAR, AND, I
00:00:48.020 --> 00:00:48.250
GOTTA CONFESS, IT WAS OUT OF
00:00:48.250 --> 00:00:50.070
LAZINESS.
00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:52.050
I HAD TRIED TO REORDER MY
00:00:52.050 --> 00:00:53.000
CONTACT LENSES AND THEY TOLD
00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:54.060
ME, "YOU CAN'T GET ANY MORE
00:00:54.060 --> 00:00:55.010
CONTACTS."
00:00:55.010 --> 00:00:57.140
NO CONTACTS FOR YOU.
00:00:57.140 --> 00:00:58.200
TOTAL SOUP NAZI REFERENCE.
00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.190
ANY OF MY YOUNGER VIEWERS RIGHT
00:01:01.190 --> 00:01:02.240
NOW WILL HAVE TO GOOGLE THAT TO
00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:03.260
GET THE SEINFELD JOKE.
00:01:03.260 --> 00:01:06.040
BUT I REMEMBER BEING IRRITATED
00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:07.180
THAT I COULDN'T GET CONTACTS.
00:01:07.180 --> 00:01:09.070
BUT IT WAS BECAUSE I HADN'T
00:01:09.070 --> 00:01:09.270
MADE MY ANNUAL APPOINTMENT.
00:01:09.270 --> 00:01:12.110
SO, I HAD TO GO IN, GO THROUGH
00:01:12.110 --> 00:01:13.100
THE WHOLE: "B" OR "A"?
00:01:13.100 --> 00:01:15.190
"A" OR "C"?
00:01:15.190 --> 00:01:17.080
I REMEMBER THEY HAD TO DILATE
00:01:17.080 --> 00:01:19.090
MY PUPILS.
00:01:19.090 --> 00:01:21.180
AND, ACTUALLY, WHEN THEY DO
00:01:21.180 --> 00:01:22.170
THAT, IT MAKES YOUR EYES
00:01:22.170 --> 00:01:23.120
FUNCTION LIKE A LION'S.
00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:24.280
YOUR PUPILS ARE OPEN AND MORE
00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.160
LIGHT CAN COME IN.
00:01:27.160 --> 00:01:28.250
AND AS A RESULT, YOU CAN SEE
00:01:28.250 --> 00:01:30.160
THINGS FAR AWAY CRYSTAL CLEAR.
00:01:30.160 --> 00:01:32.200
BUT STUFF RIGHT HERE IN FRONT
00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.000
OF YOU -- IT KIND OF BECOMES
00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:34.270
STRANGELY DIM.
00:01:34.270 --> 00:01:37.160
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT GOD
00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:39.190
WANTS TO HAPPEN ON THE INSIDE
00:01:39.190 --> 00:01:40.100
OF OUR HEARTS -- FOR OUR
00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.120
SPIRITUAL PUPILS TO BE DILATED.
00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:44.130
IN THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS, PAUL
00:01:44.130 --> 00:01:46.160
TALKS ABOUT HAVING THE SPIRIT
00:01:46.160 --> 00:01:49.030
OF WISDOM AND REVELATION AND
00:01:49.030 --> 00:01:51.180
THE EYES OF OUR UNDERSTANDING
00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:53.060
BEING ENLIGHTENED.
00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:55.160
AND AS THAT HAPPENS, YOUR
00:01:55.160 --> 00:01:57.130
DESIRE FOR WHAT'S GOING TO
00:01:57.130 --> 00:01:58.230
HAPPEN, WHAT SEEMS FAR AWAY --
00:01:58.230 --> 00:02:00.120
HEAVEN AND GOD'S KINGDOM COMING
00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.140
-- THAT, ALL THAT SEEMS SO FAR
00:02:02.140 --> 00:02:05.110
AWAY, IT COMES CLOSER AND SEEMS
00:02:05.110 --> 00:02:06.240
MORE CRISP.
00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:08.200
IT SNAPS INTO SHARP DETAIL.
00:02:08.200 --> 00:02:10.150
BUT THE THINGS THAT SEEM SO
00:02:10.150 --> 00:02:12.140
URGENT NOW -- HOW MUCH MONEY
00:02:12.140 --> 00:02:14.070
YOU HAVE, AND HOW MANY FRIENDS
00:02:14.070 --> 00:02:16.050
YOU HAVE ON FACEBOOK, ALL OF
00:02:16.050 --> 00:02:16.250
THESE THINGS THAT ARE FINE --
00:02:16.250 --> 00:02:19.010
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH
00:02:19.010 --> 00:02:19.210
CLOTHES AND MONEY AND CARS AND
00:02:19.210 --> 00:02:21.010
SOCIAL MEDIA -- BUT THESE
00:02:21.010 --> 00:02:22.200
THINGS THAT SEEM SO IMPORTANT,
00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:24.260
LIKE THEY'RE GONNA LAST
00:02:24.260 --> 00:02:25.250
FOREVER, THEY BECOME LIKE THE
00:02:25.250 --> 00:02:27.120
GREAT HYMN SAYS -- THEY GROW
00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:29.030
STRANGELY DIM IN THE LIGHT OF
00:02:29.030 --> 00:02:31.160
HIS GLORY AND GRACE.
00:02:31.160 --> 00:02:34.060
LOOK AT HOW PAUL PUTS IT IN
00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:35.140
ROMANS 8.
00:02:35.140 --> 00:02:37.230
HE SAYS: FOR I CONSIDER THAT
00:02:37.230 --> 00:02:40.180
THE SUFFERING OF THIS PRESENT
00:02:40.180 --> 00:02:42.090
TIME IS NOT EVEN WORTHY TO BE
00:02:42.090 --> 00:02:43.230
COMPARED TO THE GLORY THAT
00:02:43.230 --> 00:02:45.150
SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.
00:02:45.150 --> 00:02:47.240
FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF
00:02:47.270 --> 00:02:50.270
THE CREATION EAGERLY WAITS FOR
00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:53.130
THE REVEALING OF THE SONS OF
00:02:53.130 --> 00:02:54.110
GOD.
00:02:54.110 --> 00:02:56.040
FOR THE CREATION WAS SUBJECTED
00:02:56.040 --> 00:02:58.100
TO FUTILITY, NOT WILLINGLY, BUT
00:02:58.100 --> 00:03:00.120
BECAUSE OF HIM WHO SUBJECTED IT
00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.100
IN HOPE.
00:03:02.100 --> 00:03:04.030
BECAUSE THE CREATION ITSELF
00:03:04.030 --> 00:03:06.100
WILL BE REVEALED AND DELIVERED
00:03:06.100 --> 00:03:08.230
FROM THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION
00:03:08.230 --> 00:03:10.250
INTO THE GLORIOUS LIBERTY OF
00:03:10.250 --> 00:03:11.170
THE CHILDREN OF GOD.
00:03:12.010 --> 00:03:15.010
FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE
00:03:15.010 --> 00:03:16.120
CREATION GROANS AND LABORS WITH
00:03:17.110 --> 00:03:20.110
BIRTH PANGS TOGETHER UNTIL NOW.
00:03:20.110 --> 00:03:22.160
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WE, ALSO,
00:03:22.160 --> 00:03:24.100
WHO HAVE THE FIRST FRUITS OF
00:03:24.100 --> 00:03:27.040
THE SPIRIT, EVEN WE OURSELVES
00:03:27.160 --> 00:03:30.160
GROAN WITHIN OURSELVES, EAGERLY
00:03:30.160 --> 00:03:31.210
WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION, THE
00:03:31.210 --> 00:03:33.240
REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY.
00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.120
THE SPIRIT, EVEN, HELPS IN OUR
00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.130
WEAKNESSES 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW
00:03:38.130 --> 00:03:40.020
WHAT TO PRAY FOR AS WE OUGHT.
00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:42.080
BUT THE SPIRIT HIMSELF MAKES
00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:43.140
INTERCESSION FOR US WITH
00:03:43.140 --> 00:03:45.090
GROANINGS THAT CANNOT BE
00:03:47.130 --> 00:03:50.130
UTTERED.
00:03:50.130 --> 00:03:52.140
WHAT PAUL, HERE, IS TALKING
00:03:52.140 --> 00:03:53.070
ABOUT IN THESE VERSES IS THE
00:03:53.070 --> 00:03:55.020
IDEA THAT I THINK IS KIND OF
00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:55.220
THE SOUNDTRACK TO SATURDAY, THE
00:03:55.220 --> 00:03:56.140
SOUND OF GROANING.
00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.000
IT'S A HEAVY-HEARTED SIGH.
00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:02.080
IT'S A MOAN.
00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:03.080
IT'S...
00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:04.110
[SIGHS FORCEFULLY]
00:04:04.110 --> 00:04:05.160
AND IT'S THE INVOLUNTARY
00:04:05.160 --> 00:04:07.290
REACTION OF EVERY SINGLE
00:04:07.290 --> 00:04:10.090
KINDHEARTED PERSON WHO HEARS
00:04:10.090 --> 00:04:12.070
SOME DEVASTATING NEWS.
00:04:12.070 --> 00:04:14.140
YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY
00:04:14.140 --> 00:04:15.120
NOW WHERE EVERY TWO WEEKS
00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.080
THERE'S SOME SORT OF A MASS
00:04:17.080 --> 00:04:18.070
MURDER.
00:04:18.070 --> 00:04:20.090
AND WHEN YOU READ A HEADLINE
00:04:20.090 --> 00:04:21.140
THAT SAYS CHILDREN WERE GUNNED
00:04:21.140 --> 00:04:23.140
DOWN IN A CLASSROOM, OR A
00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:24.280
SUICIDE BOMBER TOOK OUT A WHOLE
00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:27.270
BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN SOME PUBLIC
00:04:27.270 --> 00:04:29.100
PLACE, THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN
00:04:29.100 --> 00:04:31.110
REALLY DO IN RESPONSE TO THAT
00:04:31.110 --> 00:04:32.240
EXCEPT...
00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:33.120
[GROANS]
00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.040
WE GROAN.
00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.040
WE GROAN AND IT'S GOD GROANING
00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:38.140
IN US.
00:04:38.140 --> 00:04:39.070
AND THE TRUTH IS OUR GROANING
00:04:39.070 --> 00:04:41.130
IS THE EVIDENCE OF A SEPARATION
00:04:41.130 --> 00:04:43.250
ANXIETY, THAT WE'RE ALL
00:04:44.010 --> 00:04:47.010
RECOGNIZING DEEP DOWN THAT HOW
00:04:47.010 --> 00:04:48.280
THINGS ARE IN THIS WORLD ISN'T
00:04:48.280 --> 00:04:49.190
HOW IT SHOULD BE.
00:04:49.210 --> 00:04:52.210
OH, THIS GROANING IS OFTEN
00:04:52.210 --> 00:04:54.090
MISDIAGNOSED, SO IT'S COMMONLY
00:04:54.090 --> 00:04:55.190
MISTREATED.
00:04:55.190 --> 00:04:58.170
AND WE LOOK TO THINGS LIKE
00:04:58.170 --> 00:04:59.280
GETTING DRUNK AND GETTING PAID
00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:02.150
AND GETTING LAID TO FILL THE
00:05:02.150 --> 00:05:03.260
HOLE INSIDE OF OUR HEARTS.
00:05:03.260 --> 00:05:06.000
BUT THE TRUTH IS OUR GROANING
00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:06.290
IS FOR GOD.
00:05:06.290 --> 00:05:08.200
JESUS IS THE DESIRE OF ALL
00:05:08.200 --> 00:05:10.290
NATIONS.
00:05:10.290 --> 00:05:12.130
IT'S HIM THAT WE'RE LOOKING
00:05:12.130 --> 00:05:13.040
FOR.
00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:14.050
IT'S HIM THAT WE'RE LONGING
00:05:14.050 --> 00:05:15.030
FOR, EVEN WITHOUT KNOWING ABOUT
00:05:15.030 --> 00:05:16.080
IT.
00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:18.280
C.S. LEWIS SAID: IF I FIND IN
00:05:18.280 --> 00:05:21.020
MYSELF A DESIRE FOR WHICH
00:05:21.020 --> 00:05:23.270
NOTHING ON THIS EARTH CAN MEET
00:05:23.270 --> 00:05:24.290
IT, THEN SURELY I WAS BORN FOR
00:05:24.290 --> 00:05:27.200
ANOTHER WORLD AND THIS DESIRE
00:05:27.200 --> 00:05:29.070
IS FOR SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN
00:05:29.070 --> 00:05:30.030
KNOW ABOUT.
00:05:30.030 --> 00:05:31.120
THAT'S A ROUGH PARAPHRASE.
00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.110
BUT THE IDEA IS THE REASON WE
00:05:33.110 --> 00:05:35.250
GROAN IS BECAUSE WE'RE LONGING
00:05:35.250 --> 00:05:36.220
FOR GOD.
00:05:36.220 --> 00:05:38.120
SO, HOW DO WE HAVE OUR SOUL'S
00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:40.160
PUPIL DILATED?
00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.220
HOW DO WE LEAN INTO THIS GROAN
00:05:42.220 --> 00:05:45.000
AND EXPERIENCE AND FOSTER ALL
00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.160
THAT GOD WANTS US FOR, NOT
00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.170
MISTAKENLY LIVING JUST FOR THIS
00:05:49.170 --> 00:05:50.130
WORLD BUT LIVING WITH OUR
00:05:50.130 --> 00:05:52.240
HEARTS SET ON HEAVEN?
00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:54.220
WELL, I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE TO
00:05:55.180 --> 00:05:58.180
STAND ON TIPTOES AT THE EDGE OF
00:05:58.180 --> 00:05:59.160
ETERNITY.
00:05:59.190 --> 00:06:02.210
YOU SEE, LIONS -- THEY NEVER
00:06:02.210 --> 00:06:04.150
WALK FLAT-FOOTED.
00:06:04.150 --> 00:06:06.050
WHETHER WALKING OR STANDING,
00:06:06.050 --> 00:06:08.150
THEY ARE ALWAYS UP ON TIPTOES.
00:06:08.150 --> 00:06:10.020
THEY'RE ALWAYS READY TO POUNCE.
00:06:10.020 --> 00:06:12.220
AND THAT'S HOW THEY CAN RUN
00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:14.120
50 MILES AN HOUR AND JUMP
00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:16.000
36 FEET IN A SINGLE BOUND.
00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.050
THEY'RE ALWAYS UP ON THEIR
00:06:17.050 --> 00:06:18.030
TOES.
00:06:18.030 --> 00:06:19.160
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAUGHT
00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.100
IT, BUT RIGHT THERE IN THAT
00:06:21.100 --> 00:06:22.080
TEXT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE
00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:23.050
READ.
00:06:23.050 --> 00:06:25.080
GOD, AS HE OPENS OUR SOUL UP
00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:27.130
WIDE, WANTS TO GET US IN THE
00:06:27.130 --> 00:06:28.180
SPIRITUAL TIPTOE POSITION.
00:06:28.180 --> 00:06:30.170
THERE'S A PHRASE WE READ IN
00:06:30.170 --> 00:06:32.150
ROMANS 8 AND THAT IS "THE
00:06:32.150 --> 00:06:34.160
CREATION" WITH "EARNEST
00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.290
EXPECTATION...WAITS FOR THE
00:06:35.290 --> 00:06:37.140
REVEALING OF THE SONS OF GOD."
00:06:37.140 --> 00:06:39.030
IN THE J.B. PHILLIPS
00:06:39.030 --> 00:06:40.290
TRANSLATION, THAT EXACT PHRASE,
00:06:40.290 --> 00:06:43.000
"EARNEST EXPECTATION" -- IT
00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.110
LITERALLY IS TRANSLATED ALL
00:06:45.110 --> 00:06:47.210
OF CREATION IS UP ON TIPTOES
00:06:47.210 --> 00:06:49.150
WAITING TO SEE ALL OF GOD'S
00:06:49.150 --> 00:06:51.150
EXTRAVAGANT PLANS.
00:06:51.150 --> 00:06:53.070
TIPTOES, LIKE A LION.
00:06:53.070 --> 00:06:54.260
TIPTOES, LIKE A KID EXCITED FOR
00:06:54.260 --> 00:06:56.250
CHRISTMAS.
00:06:56.250 --> 00:06:59.100
NOW, THAT I KNOW ALL TOO WELL.
00:06:59.100 --> 00:07:01.050
MY LITTLE GIRLS ARE LITTLE
00:07:01.050 --> 00:07:02.210
BALLERINAS.
00:07:02.210 --> 00:07:03.120
LITERALLY, THEIR WHOLE LIVES,
00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.120
THEY'VE BEEN UP ON TIPTOES,
00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:07.060
PRANCING AND DANCING WITH
00:07:07.060 --> 00:07:08.010
EXCITEMENT AND ENERGY.
00:07:08.010 --> 00:07:10.080
AND WHEN YOU'RE A KID, YOU'RE
00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:10.290
ON YOUR TIPTOES, LIKE, "I CAN'T
00:07:10.290 --> 00:07:11.270
WAIT FOR IT, I CAN'T WAIT FOR
00:07:11.270 --> 00:07:12.190
IT."
00:07:12.190 --> 00:07:13.040
AND I BELIEVE THAT'S EXACTLY
00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:13.250
WHAT PAUL IS SAYING IS
00:07:13.250 --> 00:07:16.010
HAPPENING IN CREATION -- THE
00:07:16.010 --> 00:07:17.080
SPIRIT GROANING IN US, OUR
00:07:17.080 --> 00:07:18.190
HEARTS GROANING AT THE-- THE
00:07:19.010 --> 00:07:22.010
DEATH THAT WE WERE NEVER MEANT
00:07:22.010 --> 00:07:23.080
TO EXPERIENCE, AT THE SADNESS
00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:24.230
THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE
00:07:24.230 --> 00:07:25.200
OURS, AT THE LOSS OF ALL THAT
00:07:25.200 --> 00:07:28.030
WE FORFEITED AT THE FALL.
00:07:28.030 --> 00:07:30.170
ALL OF THE GROANING OF
00:07:30.170 --> 00:07:32.190
CREATION, ALL OF THE GROANING
00:07:32.190 --> 00:07:34.050
OF THE SPIRIT, ALL OF THE
00:07:34.050 --> 00:07:35.200
GROANING OF THE WORLD IS US,
00:07:35.200 --> 00:07:37.150
HOPEFULLY, GETTING ON TIPTOES
00:07:37.150 --> 00:07:38.240
WITH EXCITEMENT THAT WE'RE
00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.160
FOSTERING FOR WHAT GOD HAS
00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.030
PROMISED.
00:07:42.030 --> 00:07:43.080
NOW, WHAT HAS GOD PROMISED?
00:07:43.080 --> 00:07:44.190
HE'S PROMISED US A NEW HEAVEN
00:07:44.190 --> 00:07:47.110
AND A NEW EARTH WHERE
00:07:47.110 --> 00:07:49.200
RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL DWELL
00:07:49.200 --> 00:07:51.020
FOREVER, WHERE THERE WILL BE NO
00:07:51.020 --> 00:07:52.180
MORE DEATH, NO MORE SAYING
00:07:52.180 --> 00:07:54.250
GOODBYE, NO MORE SORROW AND
00:07:54.250 --> 00:07:56.040
NIGHT OF THE SOUL.
00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.240
YOU SEE, JESUS, WHO CAME THE
00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:00.050
FIRST TIME AT CHRISTMAS, IS
00:08:00.050 --> 00:08:02.010
GOING TO COME AGAIN AND RENEW
00:08:02.010 --> 00:08:03.250
ALL THINGS, RESTORE ALL THINGS,
00:08:03.250 --> 00:08:05.170
REVIVE ALL THINGS, AND WE WILL
00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:08.200
GET TO LIVE IN A PERFECT PLACE
00:08:08.200 --> 00:08:10.270
WITH OUR PERFECT GOD FOREVER.
00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:14.120
AND WHEN WE ARE LIVING OUR
00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:15.230
LIVES OUT ON TIPTOES, EACH DAY,
00:08:15.230 --> 00:08:18.010
WE'RE PRAYING: GOD, MAY YOUR
00:08:18.010 --> 00:08:19.280
KINGDOM COME, MAY YOUR WILL BE
00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:21.080
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
00:08:24.130 --> 00:08:25.230
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
00:08:40.020 --> 00:08:41.000
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
00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:22.010
ON YOUR TIPTOES YOU'RE A LITTLE
00:23:22.010 --> 00:23:24.000
BIT TALLER.
00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.130
AND SO IT IS WHEN LIFE GETS
00:23:26.130 --> 00:23:27.130
DIFFICULT.
00:23:27.130 --> 00:23:28.040
SO IT IS WHEN LIFE GET
00:23:28.040 --> 00:23:29.000
COMPLICATED.
00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:30.050
SO IT IS WHEN PAIN COMES YOUR
00:23:30.050 --> 00:23:31.130
WAY.
00:23:31.130 --> 00:23:33.030
THE MOMENT YOU...
00:23:33.030 --> 00:23:33.290
[SNAPS FINGERS]
00:23:33.290 --> 00:23:34.140
...HOP UP ON YOUR TIPTOES,
00:23:34.140 --> 00:23:35.040
YOU'RE A LITTLE BIT TALLER AND
00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:36.180
NOW YOU CAN SEE OVER BARRIERS.
00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:38.090
YOU REMEMBER THAT CLASSIC SHOW
00:23:38.090 --> 00:23:39.290
"HOME IMPROVEMENT" WHERE HIS
00:23:39.290 --> 00:23:41.180
NEIGHBOR WAS AT THE FENCE AND
00:23:41.180 --> 00:23:42.270
YOU NEVER SAW HIS FACE?
00:23:43.190 --> 00:23:46.190
WILSON.
00:23:46.190 --> 00:23:47.110
AND TIM "THE TOOL MAN" TAYLOR
00:23:47.110 --> 00:23:48.020
WOULD ALWAYS HAVE THESE
00:23:48.020 --> 00:23:48.200
CONVERSATIONS WITH THIS MAN'S
00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:49.150
EYES.
00:23:49.150 --> 00:23:50.010
WE NEVER KNEW WHAT HIS MOUTH
00:23:50.010 --> 00:23:50.210
LOOKED LIKE.
00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:51.120
WELL, IF WILSON WOULD HAVE
00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:52.250
STEPPED UP ON HIS TIPTOES, HE
00:23:52.250 --> 00:23:54.110
WOULD HAVE SEEN FURTHER OVER
00:23:54.110 --> 00:23:55.160
THE FENCE AND WE WOULD HAVE
00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:56.230
SEEN MORE OF HIS FACE.
00:23:56.230 --> 00:23:58.100
I BELIEVE THAT AS YOU LEARN TO
00:23:58.100 --> 00:24:00.030
LIVE LEANING INTO THE GROAN,
00:24:00.030 --> 00:24:02.100
STANDING UP ON YOUR TIPTOES
00:24:02.100 --> 00:24:04.060
WITH A HEIGHT-- A HEIGHTENED
00:24:04.060 --> 00:24:05.230
SENSE OF EARNEST EXPECTATION
00:24:05.230 --> 00:24:08.120
FOR ALL THAT GOD'S GONNA DO,
00:24:08.120 --> 00:24:09.210
FOR ALL THAT GOD HAS PROMISED
00:24:09.210 --> 00:24:11.020
TO DO, FOR ALL THAT EVEN IF YOU
00:24:11.020 --> 00:24:12.170
CAN'T SEE IT HE'S DOING AROUND
00:24:12.170 --> 00:24:14.120
YOU EVEN NOW, YOU WILL SEE OVER
00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:17.030
SOME OF THESE BARRIERS THAT
00:24:17.030 --> 00:24:19.000
MIGHT HAVE OTHERWISE CAUSED YOU
00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:19.250
TO LOSE HEART.
00:24:19.250 --> 00:24:21.010
WE ACTUALLY SEE THIS DESCRIBED
00:24:21.010 --> 00:24:23.110
BY PAUL IN 2 CORINTHIANS 4.
00:24:23.110 --> 00:24:25.150
HE SAID TO THOSE AT CORINTH:
00:24:25.150 --> 00:24:27.220
THIS IS WHY WE NEVER GIVE UP.
00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:29.060
WHY?
00:24:29.060 --> 00:24:30.160
'CAUSE HE DOESN'T LOOK AT WHAT
00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:31.230
HE CAN SEE ONLY.
00:24:31.230 --> 00:24:32.280
HE'S ON HIS TIPTOES LOOKIN'
00:24:32.280 --> 00:24:33.240
OVER.
00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:34.190
HE SAYS, CONTINUING: "THOUGH
00:24:34.190 --> 00:24:35.250
OUR BODIES ARE DYING, OUR
00:24:35.250 --> 00:24:37.130
SPIRITS ARE BEING RENEWED EVERY
00:24:37.130 --> 00:24:39.040
DAY."
00:24:39.040 --> 00:24:40.060
NOW, I WONDER IF MAYBE YOU ARE
00:24:40.060 --> 00:24:41.270
GETTING A LITTLE BIT OLDER,
00:24:41.270 --> 00:24:43.190
AND, LIKE ME, STARTING TO
00:24:43.190 --> 00:24:44.190
NOTICE A FEW MORE CREAKS AND
00:24:44.190 --> 00:24:46.040
GROANS WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE
00:24:46.040 --> 00:24:47.030
MORNING.
00:24:47.030 --> 00:24:47.220
AND, MAYBE YOU HAVE SOMETHING
00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:49.120
THAT ISN'T FUNCTIONING QUITE
00:24:49.120 --> 00:24:51.110
RIGHT -- A PANCREAS, OR YOUR
00:24:51.110 --> 00:24:53.270
LIVER, OR MAYBE YOUR EYESIGHT'S
00:24:53.270 --> 00:24:56.010
GOING.
00:24:56.010 --> 00:24:58.070
OR, MAYBE LIKE ME, YOU'VE HAD
00:24:58.070 --> 00:24:58.280
TO HAVE QUITE A FEW DENTAL
00:24:58.280 --> 00:24:59.200
REPAIRS IN YOUR MOUTH.
00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:01.070
AND, LIKE PAUL SAID HERE, YOU
00:25:01.070 --> 00:25:02.110
FEEL THE EFFECTS OF A BODY
00:25:02.110 --> 00:25:03.210
THAT'S AGING.
00:25:03.210 --> 00:25:05.130
THE BUMMER IS THE LONGER WE
00:25:05.130 --> 00:25:06.240
LIVE IN THESE BODIES, THE MORE
00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.020
THEY BREAK DOWN.
00:25:08.020 --> 00:25:09.080
NOW, THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO
00:25:09.080 --> 00:25:10.150
DISCOURAGE SOMEONE.
00:25:10.150 --> 00:25:11.170
THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO MAKE
00:25:11.170 --> 00:25:12.230
SOMEONE DISTRESSED.
00:25:12.230 --> 00:25:13.260
BUT PAUL SAID: I'M NOT WORRIED
00:25:13.260 --> 00:25:15.060
ABOUT MY BODY BEING BROKEN
00:25:15.060 --> 00:25:16.110
DOWN.
00:25:16.110 --> 00:25:16.280
WHY?
00:25:16.280 --> 00:25:17.220
HE'S ON HIS TIPTOES, LOOKING
00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:18.120
OVER IT TO SEE SOMETHING ELSE.
00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:19.270
WHAT ELSE?
00:25:19.270 --> 00:25:21.120
HE SEES: MY SPIRIT'S GETTING
00:25:21.120 --> 00:25:23.010
RENEWED EVERY DAY.
00:25:23.010 --> 00:25:24.140
YOU KNOW, THE LONGER YOU LIVE
00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:25.280
IN YOUR BODY, THE MORE BROKEN
00:25:25.280 --> 00:25:26.190
DOWN IT GETS.
00:25:26.190 --> 00:25:27.110
THE LONGER YOU LIVE IN YOUR NEW
00:25:27.110 --> 00:25:28.240
SPIRIT WHEN YOU TRUST CHRIST
00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:30.140
FOR SALVATION AND HE BREATHES
00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:32.160
NEW LIFE INTO YOU, THE BETTER
00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:34.290
YOU BECOME.
00:25:34.290 --> 00:25:35.170
MORE GRACE, MORE GLORY, MORE
00:25:35.170 --> 00:25:37.070
STRENGTH.
00:25:37.070 --> 00:25:39.060
I'M SO THANKFUL THAT I'M NOT
00:25:39.060 --> 00:25:40.190
WHO I USED TO BE.
00:25:40.190 --> 00:25:42.260
NO, I'M NOT WHO I'M GONNA BE
00:25:42.260 --> 00:25:44.180
ONE DAY, BUT I SEE SIGNS OF
00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:45.280
IMPROVEMENT, I SEE SIGNS OF
00:25:45.280 --> 00:25:47.140
GROWTH -- AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR
00:25:47.140 --> 00:25:48.250
IT.
00:25:48.250 --> 00:25:50.050
AND I CHOOSE ON TIPTOES TO LOOK
00:25:50.050 --> 00:25:51.240
OVER WHAT IS IN FRONT OF ME TO
00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:53.210
SEE SOMETHING THAT ONLY THE EYE
00:25:53.210 --> 00:25:56.020
OF FAITH CAN SEE.
00:25:56.020 --> 00:25:57.060
AND THAT WILL ENCOURAGE ME.
00:25:57.060 --> 00:25:58.070
PAUL CONTINUES: SO, WE DON'T
00:25:58.070 --> 00:25:59.220
LOOK AT THE TROUBLES WE CAN SEE
00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:01.230
NOW.
00:26:01.230 --> 00:26:02.190
WHY?
00:26:02.190 --> 00:26:03.150
ON TIPTOES.
00:26:03.150 --> 00:26:04.220
SO, WE FIX OUR GAZE ON THINGS
00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:05.280
THAT CANNOT BE SEEN, FOR THE
00:26:05.280 --> 00:26:07.070
THINGS WE SEE NOW WILL SOON BE
00:26:07.070 --> 00:26:09.010
GONE.
00:26:09.010 --> 00:26:09.210
BUT THE THINGS WE CANNOT SEE
00:26:09.210 --> 00:26:11.070
WILL LAST FOREVER.
00:26:11.070 --> 00:26:13.010
I'VE HEARD IT PUT THIS WAY: THE
00:26:13.010 --> 00:26:15.040
CURE TO INVINCIBILITY IN THIS
00:26:15.040 --> 00:26:18.030
LIFE IS TO GAZE AT GOD AND TO
00:26:18.030 --> 00:26:19.260
GLANCE AT LIFE.
00:26:19.260 --> 00:26:22.110
GAZE AT GOD.
00:26:22.110 --> 00:26:24.010
GLANCE AT LIFE.
00:26:24.010 --> 00:26:25.230
ALL TOO OFTEN, WE GAZE AT THIS
00:26:25.230 --> 00:26:26.210
LIFE.
00:26:26.210 --> 00:26:28.120
HOW MUCH MONEY DO I HAVE?
00:26:28.120 --> 00:26:29.080
WHAT CAR DO I DRIVE?
00:26:29.080 --> 00:26:30.130
HOW MANY FOLLOWERS DO I HAVE?
00:26:30.130 --> 00:26:32.230
THAT'S FINE.
00:26:32.230 --> 00:26:33.180
BUT GAZE AT GOD; GLANCE AT THIS
00:26:33.210 --> 00:26:36.210
LIFE.
00:26:36.210 --> 00:26:38.080
GET UP ON YOUR TIPTOES.
00:26:38.080 --> 00:26:39.210
IT'LL GIVE YOU SOME ELEVATION
00:26:39.210 --> 00:26:42.140
ABOVE SEA LEVEL, SOME ELEVATION
00:26:42.140 --> 00:26:43.130
ABOUT PROBLEMS.
00:26:43.130 --> 00:26:44.240
THERE'S NO ONE HIGHER THAN THE
00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:47.180
MOST HIGH.
00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:49.010
AND HE WANTS YOU TO BE LED TO
00:26:49.010 --> 00:26:49.220
THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN
00:26:49.220 --> 00:26:51.010
YOU ARE TO GIVE YOU THAT
00:26:51.010 --> 00:26:52.080
STRENGTH, TO OPEN YOUR EYES TO
00:26:52.080 --> 00:26:53.200
- MALE VOCALIST:
00:26:58.220 --> 00:26:59.150
IN YOU, I HAVE STRENGTH FOR
00:26:59.150 --> 00:27:00.200
TOMORROW
00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:03.180
MADE NEW BY THE GRACE OF THE
00:27:05.190 --> 00:27:08.190
FATHER...
00:27:08.190 --> 00:27:11.150
IN YOU, I HAVE ALL I COULD
00:27:11.150 --> 00:27:14.120
EVER NEED
00:27:15.110 --> 00:27:18.110

Menu Top

Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6

Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6

Video Keywords

Menu Top

Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6

Through the Eyes of a Lion | Episode 6

Video Keywords

Stay Up to Date With Our Newsletter