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Living Proof with Beth Moore | Beth Moore - A Memorial In The Middle (Part 4) | November 26, 2024
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- (beth moore) "this is my beloved son,
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- In him i am well pleased."
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- In those waters, the son of god represents everything we need
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- To make it from the east to the west.
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- ♪♪♪
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- I want to say this to you
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- As we really get rolling on
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- These portions of scripture with that phrase in it,
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- You will not always be in the middle.
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- Some of you, i heard somebody just say,
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- "thank you, god."
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- Whatever you're in the middle of right now,
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- Praise god, you will not always be in the middle.
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- Somebody is going through what seems to be like
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- A 4-year-pregnancy, and i just want you to know
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- That baby is coming.
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- That baby really is coming,
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- And you will not be pregnant forever.
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- Whatever you're going through,
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- This season will come to a conclusion
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- And you will not be in the middle forever.
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- But let me tell you something,
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- That water will go right back over that place
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- Where you transitioned
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- From what was one season of your life
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- To another even if you didn't want it there.
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- The waters will come back over those rocks of remembrance,
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- But i want to tell you something,
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- And i don't want you to forget this.
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- If you have stored it up in your heart
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- And you have recorded it somewhere for you
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- To keep forever,
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- Nobody else will even know those stones were ever there,
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- But you will.
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- You will.
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- When the waters have come back over
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- And everybody else has forgotten
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- You even went through that.
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- Here's what you have.
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- Here's what you have.
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- The waters have come back together,
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- But there are stones beneath those waters
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- And they mean something to you
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- Because you made memories
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- With the living lord jesus christ himself.
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- You made memories not between you
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- And a whole lot of other folks and jesus.
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- That's a beautiful thing and i love that
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- And i have many of those memories,
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- But you and him standing in the middle
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- Because i suggest to you that nobody else had at stake
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- What joshua did in the middle of these waters.
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- He was the one; the rest of them did not hear the voice of god
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- Command joshua those words.
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- They were having to go over based on joshua saying,
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- "the lord has said."
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- Don't you know his heart was pounding
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- And how long was it until they all got across?
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- Just watching those waters heaved up,
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- Come on, come on, come on, come on,
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- I know you're going as fast as you can,
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- Run, run, run, run,
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- Those little stragglers at the end.
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- Maybe all the tiny little sheep, get, get, get, get, get.
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- I mean, just rushing them across, just that moment,
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- And then him going,
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- 'cause we know the lord told him to set up this.
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- We don't know whether the lord tell him set up this or not,
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- Or if he just did it,
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- But he runs back into that dry riverbed
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- Before those waters go back together.
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- And he, in effect, says,
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- "i will never, ever forget what you did in the middle
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- "when everything was at stake.
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- "when i've never, and the people have never been
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- "more vulnerable right there.
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- "we weren't close to that shore.
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- "we weren't close to that shore.
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- "we were right in the middle, and i will never forget
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- What you have done for us there."
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- Only you and god see it now.
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- Only you and he know it was even there.
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- You can't even prove it to anybody anymore.
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- Half the people you know now weren't in your life then.
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- Am i making sense to anybody?
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- There's this fascinating portion in 1 samuel 17 verse 36.
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- This is all when goliath is, you know,
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- He's the big giant of the philistines
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- And he's mocking the people of god.
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- I mean, just like mocking them.
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- And so, here comes little david and he's going like,
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- We can very well take this giant.
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- They're like, are you out of your mind?
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- There's no way anybody,
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- I mean, they're just like frozen.
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- Saul and all his army just frozen
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- On the other side of that valley
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- With that goliath giant standing right in the middle
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- Hurling all manner of insult to them
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- About the people of god, and so about their god.
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- And david's like,
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- "are we letting him get away with this?"
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- And so david goes up and he says, i can take it.
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- Let me do it, let me do it.
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- They're going,
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- You're out of your ever loving mind.
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- And he says the most interesting thing.
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- Remember his brothers are there.
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- And david says in 1 samuel 17:36,
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- He says to him, he says, "i fought a lion and a bear."
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- Because he's a keeper of sheep.
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- "i fought a lion and a bear."
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- Don't you know his brothers were going like, "when?"
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- Like now we take a selfie holding up the lion.
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- Well, we'd have to wait on the bear
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- Because we need to be able
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- To take our picture of ourselves.
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- And then we'll do this,
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- And then we'll do a dip tick so that we can post it
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- 'cause it'd be so effective of us with both of them,
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- One in one arm and one in the other,
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- But they're like, anybody would have just been like,
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- "when?"
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- Like, sure you did.
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- Somebody listen to me.
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- You know you did.
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- I'm going to tell you something.
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- I say this to you without one odour of arrogance.
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- I tell this to you out of the miracle
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- And the wonder working power and grace of jesus christ alone,
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- But i promise you where nobody saw me,
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- I have fought a lion and a bear.
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- I have fought, i have encountered--
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- When somebody--
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- I'm going to tell you what's happening in our day,
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- We're beginning to have this trend
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- Where we're less and less convinced of a devil
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- Because we're less and less convinced of a hell.
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- And i'm going to tell you something right now.
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- Jesus taught plainly and outspokenly
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- About a real live devil, about what he is after,
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- What he is capable of doing, how he can sift us like wheat
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- And how much he wants us,
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- And he very, very well taught about hell.
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- The reason why i bring that up to you is because
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- I'm going to tell you something,
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- Not only from the basis of scripture,
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- But also from my own experience.
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- I promise you there's a devil
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- Because i fought a lion and a bear
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- In the secret places where nobody could have seen me
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- When the enemy would have come and destroyed my whole life,
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- Destroyed every bit,
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- Every ounce of integrity i would ever have.
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- When he came for my marriage, when he came for my children,
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- When he came for my church, when he came for my ministry,
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- I promise you there is a devil and i promise you
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- In jesus's name, my god is mighty to save
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- And in those places where nobody else was looking.
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- Listen, if the only fighting you're doing is
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- Out in front of people, oh, you are as an exhibitionist.
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- You're not a warrior.
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- You want people to think you look mighty.
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- If you're out there like you're all strutting it
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- Around in front of your church
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- And you're all talking this warfare kind of talk
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- And you have not been back in your closet
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- Fighting it through with the darkness,
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- Then you know what?
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- Forgive me, i don't respect that.
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- Because you can't go out there and strut around
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- And expect to bring down goliath
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- Unless in the secret places where nobody was watching,
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- But god.
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- You fought a lion and a bear.
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- I need to know if anybody's with me today.
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- The power of god in the secret places.
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- Let me tell you something,
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- Don't you ever forget what god did in the middle.
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- You journal that, you record it somehow.
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- The waters will cover it soon enough
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- And miles are gonna separate you
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- From that hardship and from that time of transition,
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- But right there in the middle,
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- God shaped a daughter out of a rock,
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- And he took your rock-hard heart
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- And he made it soft and full of love
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- And full of holy passion.
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- He turned the temperature up instead of a stone cold rock.
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- There he shaped a mighty girl, a mighty woman,
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- A mighty boy, a mighty man of god,
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- And you came out a whole different person
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- On a whole different shore
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- You may not have ever wanted to be on,
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- But somebody else needed you there.
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- That's how it goes.
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- Oh, the middle may not be romantic,
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- Make no mistake, it is miraculous.
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- The middle is where the miracle is present tense.
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- It's where it's going on right now.
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- Don't wait.
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- I mean, if you waited, if you didn't write down,
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- This is the beauty of it.
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- Jesus told us the holy spirit is our reminder.
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- He'll remind you of everything i taught you
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- And everything i said.
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- So ask him, holy spirit, remind me.
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- I never recorded that.
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- It was one of the biggest things ever in my life.
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- I need somehow, i need to write it down.
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- I need to build a stone,
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- A memorial of remembrance through journaling,
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- Through writing it down, through coming to you and going,
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- Look at all you have done.
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- Because right there in the middle,
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- That miracle is present tense.
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- Take it down right then while you feel it,
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- While you feel it.
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- That's what god is teaching me to do.
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- Is to say, a lot of times i love this because i'll say,
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- You lord are not gonna believe
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- What you did yesterday.
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- And i'll just write it out like he didn't know any of it.
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- And there's, you know, i just,
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- You just sense that he's got anticipation
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- 'cause he already knows what happens,
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- But he wants to hear your version of it.
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- And you know what i think he's doing?
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- Wait till you hear my version of it.
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- My version is really,
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- Really good 'cause you did not know
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- There were demons that were breathing down your neck, girl.
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- Demons breathing down your neck.
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- (beth moore) i have never seen a day come that i thought
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- Called for more deep focus on studying the scriptures.
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- I have been enthralled for many, many months
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- And i've asked myself over and over again,
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- What took you so long to write a bible study
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- On this fascinating book?
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- But you know what i think?
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- I think god timed it for exactly this moment.
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- In a day of such lack of focus, would you be willing to come on
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- In the word of god and study it diligently, study it hard,
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- Meditate over every single word, every single phrase,
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- See concepts and phrases and sentences jump off that page
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- And into your present reality as if they were written yesterday?
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- We're not meant to be overwhelmed by this darkness.
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- We're meant to be lights right in it.
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- Grab your copy today and join me for bible study.
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- I'm gonna tell you this from a standpoint
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- Of having done this for 25 years.
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- I am more afraid of missing what god has for this group
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- Than i am of going out there to serve them.
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- One of my favorite things to hear from people
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- That have attended is, "he spoke straight into what i needed."
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- And i believe he can do that.
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- I think that if there are 800 people there or there are
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- 2,000 people there, he can do that with each one.
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- I love occasionally during our time of worship
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- To just glance around the room and i wonder to myself,
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- What's going on in that heart?
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- When we get away from our usual course of life
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- And we set ourselves to really listen and pay attention,
- 00:12:23.533 --> 00:12:27.670
- There is just no limit to what he would do.
- 00:12:27.670 --> 00:12:30.506
- And i believe god is so good that
- 00:12:30.506 --> 00:12:33.476
- If we will come attentively,
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- He will not pass us by.
- 00:12:36.345 --> 00:12:39.115
- Look with me there
- 00:12:42.585 --> 00:12:43.920
- To mark chapter 6, 45 through 51.
- 00:12:43.920 --> 00:12:46.055
- Listen, if this is all familiar to you,
- 00:12:46.055 --> 00:12:47.657
- Just ask god right now to just free you
- 00:12:47.657 --> 00:12:50.193
- From the bondage of over familiarity.
- 00:12:50.193 --> 00:12:52.962
- Let this fall as a fresh word on you of the holy spirit,
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- Fresh breath,
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- Because this is a gorgeous story.
- 00:12:57.533 --> 00:12:58.868
- Verse 45 of mark 6,
- 00:12:58.868 --> 00:13:01.270
- "immediately he made his disciples get into the boat
- 00:13:01.270 --> 00:13:04.473
- "and go before him to the other side,
- 00:13:04.473 --> 00:13:06.642
- "to bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.
- 00:13:06.642 --> 00:13:09.245
- "and after he had taken leave of them,
- 00:13:09.245 --> 00:13:10.713
- "he went up on the mountain to pray.
- 00:13:10.713 --> 00:13:12.782
- "and when evening came, the boat was out on the sea,
- 00:13:12.782 --> 00:13:16.018
- "and he was all alone on the land."
- 00:13:16.018 --> 00:13:19.021
- Now let me read that for you in the net,
- 00:13:19.088 --> 00:13:21.257
- That verse 47 which says this,
- 00:13:21.257 --> 00:13:23.259
- "when evening came, the boat was," guess where?
- 00:13:23.259 --> 00:13:28.097
- "in the middle of the sea and he," being jesus,
- 00:13:28.097 --> 00:13:31.067
- "was alone on the land.
- 00:13:31.067 --> 00:13:33.035
- "and he saw that they were making headway painfully,
- 00:13:33.035 --> 00:13:35.805
- "for the wind was against them.
- 00:13:35.805 --> 00:13:37.473
- "and about the fourth watch of the night he came to them,
- 00:13:37.473 --> 00:13:41.844
- Walking on the sea."
- 00:13:41.844 --> 00:13:43.646
- I just, i love this.
- 00:13:43.646 --> 00:13:46.015
- "he meant to just pass them by,
- 00:13:46.015 --> 00:13:48.217
- "but when they saw him walking on the sea,
- 00:13:48.217 --> 00:13:49.785
- "they thought it was a ghost, and they cried out,
- 00:13:49.785 --> 00:13:51.954
- "for they all saw him and were terrified.
- 00:13:51.954 --> 00:13:54.257
- "but immediately he spoke to them and said,
- 00:13:54.257 --> 00:13:55.925
- "'take heart; it is i.
- 00:13:55.925 --> 00:13:58.728
- "do not be afraid.'
- 00:13:58.728 --> 00:14:00.296
- "and he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased.
- 00:14:00.296 --> 00:14:02.565
- And they were utterly astounded."
- 00:14:02.565 --> 00:14:04.700
- Yes, i guess they were.
- 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:06.502
- And i really do think that it is a sure sign of his holiness
- 00:14:06.502 --> 00:14:11.807
- That not one time in scripture
- 00:14:11.807 --> 00:14:14.710
- Do we see jesus ever say to people,
- 00:14:14.710 --> 00:14:18.314
- "it is me, you idiot?"
- 00:14:18.314 --> 00:14:25.888
- He has to be the son of god.
- 00:14:29.525 --> 00:14:31.394
- Surely that is the son of god.
- 00:14:31.394 --> 00:14:35.031
- Okay, so here's what's happened to a lot of people in this room.
- 00:14:35.031 --> 00:14:38.901
- People scattered all over this room,
- 00:14:38.901 --> 00:14:41.671
- All over this place, listening to this message
- 00:14:41.671 --> 00:14:44.807
- Who feel like that jesus absolutely insisted
- 00:14:44.807 --> 00:14:49.512
- That you go somewhere.
- 00:14:49.512 --> 00:14:50.980
- He made them, check out the scriptures for yourself.
- 00:14:50.980 --> 00:14:53.983
- He made them get in the boat to head to the other side.
- 00:14:53.983 --> 00:14:57.987
- He goes up on a mountain.
- 00:14:57.987 --> 00:14:59.488
- You feel like he made me go here and then he left me here.
- 00:14:59.488 --> 00:15:03.859
- And you are so ticked.
- 00:15:06.862 --> 00:15:09.665
- 'cause i mean like, where is he?
- 00:15:09.665 --> 00:15:11.667
- He's up all on his mountain praying
- 00:15:11.667 --> 00:15:13.970
- And i'm like down here
- 00:15:13.970 --> 00:15:16.138
- Only the whole time he's watching and thinking,
- 00:15:16.138 --> 00:15:17.940
- "man those winds really are coming against 'em."
- 00:15:17.940 --> 00:15:20.843
- Sure does look like somebody would say, "jesus."
- 00:15:20.843 --> 00:15:24.046
- Sure does look like
- 00:15:24.046 --> 00:15:25.581
- I would not have to bring this up.
- 00:15:25.581 --> 00:15:28.050
- Sure does look like after all they've seen,
- 00:15:28.050 --> 00:15:30.987
- After all they've beheld, somebody just might go,
- 00:15:30.987 --> 00:15:34.490
- "jesus."
- 00:15:34.490 --> 00:15:35.825
- But oh no, no.
- 00:15:35.825 --> 00:15:39.362
- So here he is, here he is.
- 00:15:40.663 --> 00:15:43.399
- And you've just been left there,
- 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:44.767
- Just been left there in the storm,
- 00:15:44.767 --> 00:15:47.837
- And here he comes.
- 00:15:47.837 --> 00:15:49.271
- "jesus is adept at making an entrance
- 00:15:49.338 --> 00:15:53.442
- In the middle of an angry sea."
- 00:15:53.442 --> 00:15:56.012
- You know what?
- 00:15:56.012 --> 00:15:57.346
- You can say if you're right in the middle of a storm,
- 00:15:57.346 --> 00:16:00.449
- "you'd be right on time, jesus.
- 00:16:00.449 --> 00:16:03.219
- "you'd be right on time.
- 00:16:03.219 --> 00:16:05.154
- "and i'm not going to be like them.
- 00:16:05.154 --> 00:16:06.622
- "i'm just going to go ahead and say,
- 00:16:06.622 --> 00:16:08.024
- "jesus, jesus, i'll take it now.
- 00:16:08.024 --> 00:16:13.295
- "i'll take you now.
- 00:16:13.295 --> 00:16:14.730
- "come walking and if it feels like to me
- 00:16:14.730 --> 00:16:17.733
- "you have passed me by,
- 00:16:17.733 --> 00:16:19.201
- "it is only because you are making a pathway
- 00:16:19.201 --> 00:16:21.537
- "for me to follow you.
- 00:16:21.537 --> 00:16:23.239
- "you make sure i know where you're going.
- 00:16:23.239 --> 00:16:25.408
- "you clear the enemy out from the front of me
- 00:16:25.408 --> 00:16:27.643
- "because i'm gonna follow you wherever you cut a path
- 00:16:27.643 --> 00:16:31.380
- "through the storm to get me.
- 00:16:31.380 --> 00:16:34.116
- "oh yes, i am.
- 00:16:34.116 --> 00:16:37.586
- Yes, i am."
- 00:16:37.586 --> 00:16:39.088
- You, girlfriend, are prime for miracle.
- 00:16:39.088 --> 00:16:45.061
- Just go ahead with me to genesis chapter 2,
- 00:16:45.127 --> 00:16:46.662
- And i'm going to show you something.
- 00:16:46.662 --> 00:16:47.997
- You could have almost known,
- 00:16:47.997 --> 00:16:49.331
- As soon as i told you we were gonna be hunting down
- 00:16:49.331 --> 00:16:51.333
- Where there are phrases in the middle, some of you,
- 00:16:51.333 --> 00:16:53.669
- If you started doing a little,
- 00:16:53.669 --> 00:16:55.004
- If you've been around bible study a good long while,
- 00:16:55.004 --> 00:16:57.473
- You may have started doing a little bit of concordance
- 00:16:57.473 --> 00:16:59.909
- In your own head and maybe this struck you
- 00:16:59.909 --> 00:17:03.779
- That this could be coming up.
- 00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:05.414
- Genesis 2:9 and 3:3,
- 00:17:05.414 --> 00:17:08.617
- "and out of the ground the lord god made to spring up
- 00:17:08.617 --> 00:17:10.853
- "every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.
- 00:17:10.853 --> 00:17:15.391
- And the tree of life was in the midst of my" esv says,
- 00:17:15.391 --> 00:17:19.195
- "but in the middle of," the net would say,
- 00:17:19.195 --> 00:17:21.864
- "the tree of life was in the middle of the garden,
- 00:17:21.864 --> 00:17:24.366
- And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," 3:3 please.
- 00:17:24.366 --> 00:17:30.806
- "but god said, 'you shall not eat of the fruit
- 00:17:30.806 --> 00:17:32.675
- Of the tree that is in the midst of" net,
- 00:17:32.675 --> 00:17:35.778
- "in the middle of the garden,
- 00:17:35.778 --> 00:17:37.413
- Neither shall you touch it, or you will die."
- 00:17:37.413 --> 00:17:40.649
- I'm going to tell you something.
- 00:17:40.649 --> 00:17:42.384
- Never think for one moment the serpent is not going to try
- 00:17:42.384 --> 00:17:49.158
- To meet us in our middle.
- 00:17:49.158 --> 00:17:52.328
- Don't think it for a moment.
- 00:17:52.328 --> 00:17:54.063
- You know what's different about the middle of the garden?
- 00:17:54.063 --> 00:17:57.500
- 'cause it's different than this.
- 00:17:57.500 --> 00:17:59.201
- For some of us our middle is we're in the middle
- 00:17:59.201 --> 00:18:01.070
- Of something treacherous.
- 00:18:01.070 --> 00:18:02.404
- This just kills me.
- 00:18:02.404 --> 00:18:03.739
- I want you to just look at this afresh in genesis chapter 3
- 00:18:03.739 --> 00:18:05.941
- With the fall of man.
- 00:18:05.941 --> 00:18:07.276
- And we all know if it had been us,
- 00:18:07.276 --> 00:18:08.644
- If our names were there, it would happen the same way.
- 00:18:08.644 --> 00:18:10.813
- Might have happened quicker.
- 00:18:10.813 --> 00:18:13.782
- It would happen quicker for me.
- 00:18:13.782 --> 00:18:15.784
- And so, as we look at it,
- 00:18:15.784 --> 00:18:17.119
- I just want you to get it with me
- 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:18.487
- Because they're not in tribulation,
- 00:18:18.487 --> 00:18:19.822
- They're not in big fear, they've got everything.
- 00:18:19.822 --> 00:18:22.525
- They've got everything, absolutely everything.
- 00:18:22.525 --> 00:18:25.427
- And see, you may not realize that you are very poised
- 00:18:25.427 --> 00:18:29.565
- For a very foolish decision.
- 00:18:29.565 --> 00:18:31.800
- When you look around you,
- 00:18:31.800 --> 00:18:33.135
- You just basically got everything.
- 00:18:33.135 --> 00:18:35.171
- Because somehow that entitlement,
- 00:18:36.939 --> 00:18:39.308
- "why can't i have that?
- 00:18:39.308 --> 00:18:40.676
- "why can't i have that?
- 00:18:41.644 --> 00:18:44.180
- "i mean, he seems to bless everything i do.
- 00:18:44.180 --> 00:18:47.516
- "look how he's blessed my business, blessed my family.
- 00:18:47.516 --> 00:18:52.288
- "what would an affair hurt?
- 00:18:52.288 --> 00:18:53.989
- "i could eat at that garden.
- 00:18:53.989 --> 00:18:55.357
- "because i've got everything but one thing,
- 00:18:57.159 --> 00:19:00.563
- "and a man of everything,
- 00:19:00.563 --> 00:19:02.331
- "a woman of everything ought to have everything.
- 00:19:02.331 --> 00:19:06.368
- And he's right there going,
- 00:19:07.503 --> 00:19:10.539
- Taunting you with that thing you do not have.
- 00:19:10.539 --> 00:19:17.580
- Whether you are in prosperity or in adversity,
- 00:19:20.049 --> 00:19:25.454
- Expect the serpent to show up right in the middle.
- 00:19:25.454 --> 00:19:32.328
- I'm going to read you a portion of scripture,
- 00:19:32.328 --> 00:19:33.696
- I just want you to sit tight,
- 00:19:33.696 --> 00:19:35.030
- But if you want to take down where it is,
- 00:19:35.030 --> 00:19:36.532
- I'm going to be reading the portion to you out of luke 22.
- 00:19:36.532 --> 00:19:40.369
- "then they arrested jesus,
- 00:19:40.369 --> 00:19:41.870
- "led him away,
- 00:19:41.870 --> 00:19:43.205
- "and brought him into the high priest's house.
- 00:19:43.205 --> 00:19:45.774
- "but peter was following at a distance.
- 00:19:45.774 --> 00:19:48.544
- "when they made a fire in the middle of the courtyard
- 00:19:48.544 --> 00:19:53.115
- "and sat down together, peter sat down among them.
- 00:19:53.115 --> 00:19:57.253
- "then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight,
- 00:19:57.253 --> 00:19:59.955
- "stared at him and said, 'this man was with him too!'
- 00:19:59.955 --> 00:20:05.661
- "peter denied it, 'woman, i don't know him.'
- 00:20:05.661 --> 00:20:08.530
- "then a little later someone else saw him and said,
- 00:20:08.530 --> 00:20:10.432
- "'you are one of them too.'
- 00:20:10.432 --> 00:20:12.835
- "but peter said, 'man, i am not!'
- 00:20:12.835 --> 00:20:15.604
- "and after about an hour, still another insisted,
- 00:20:15.604 --> 00:20:17.539
- "'certainly this man was with him,
- 00:20:17.539 --> 00:20:19.708
- "because he, too, was a galilean.'
- 00:20:19.708 --> 00:20:22.077
- "but peter said,
- 00:20:22.077 --> 00:20:23.812
- "'man, i don't know what you're talking about.'
- 00:20:23.812 --> 00:20:26.148
- "and at that moment, while he was still speaking,
- 00:20:26.148 --> 00:20:27.983
- "a rooster crowed.
- 00:20:27.983 --> 00:20:30.986
- "then the lord turned and looked straight at peter,
- 00:20:30.986 --> 00:20:33.622
- "and peter remembered the word of the lord,
- 00:20:33.622 --> 00:20:35.557
- "how he had said to him, 'before the rooster crows today,
- 00:20:35.557 --> 00:20:38.927
- "you will deny me three times.'
- 00:20:38.927 --> 00:20:43.165
- And he went out and wept bitterly."
- 00:20:43.165 --> 00:20:45.367
- In the west, our culture has put us
- 00:20:46.535 --> 00:20:49.638
- In that same courtyard that we have an overwhelming tide
- 00:20:49.638 --> 00:20:54.510
- Of unpopularity that is being waged
- 00:20:54.510 --> 00:20:57.813
- And poured over our whole belief system.
- 00:20:57.813 --> 00:21:04.320
- Christianity in modern times has never been as unpopular
- 00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:08.824
- As it is now, and certainly not from the very top of our society
- 00:21:08.824 --> 00:21:15.831
- And of governments and authorities.
- 00:21:15.831 --> 00:21:19.134
- Nothing like this in modern history.
- 00:21:19.134 --> 00:21:21.804
- And here we are in this courtyard
- 00:21:21.804 --> 00:21:24.406
- And our culture, the powers that be,
- 00:21:24.406 --> 00:21:28.143
- And the big voices that are trying to undermine
- 00:21:28.143 --> 00:21:31.146
- Every single value we have through media
- 00:21:31.146 --> 00:21:34.650
- Of television programming, of movies,
- 00:21:34.650 --> 00:21:38.053
- Of everything else coming against us,
- 00:21:38.053 --> 00:21:40.689
- All sorts of media,
- 00:21:40.689 --> 00:21:42.191
- All sorts of images hitting us consistently.
- 00:21:42.191 --> 00:21:44.860
- What our culture is trying to do is kill jesus.
- 00:21:44.860 --> 00:21:49.365
- Let's just kill him and be done with him.
- 00:21:49.365 --> 00:21:52.067
- Only they're too late.
- 00:21:52.067 --> 00:21:54.303
- They are too late.
- 00:21:54.303 --> 00:21:56.105
- He has already been crucified for their sins and mine.
- 00:21:56.105 --> 00:22:02.277
- And once he has been raised from the dead,
- 00:22:02.344 --> 00:22:06.815
- There ain't no killing jesus.
- 00:22:06.815 --> 00:22:09.084
- There ain't no killing jesus.
- 00:22:09.151 --> 00:22:11.153
- But here's what happens
- 00:22:11.153 --> 00:22:12.488
- While their culture's trying to kill jesus,
- 00:22:12.488 --> 00:22:14.123
- Trying to kill jesus, trying to kill jesus,
- 00:22:14.123 --> 00:22:16.492
- And jesus is on trial,
- 00:22:16.492 --> 00:22:17.826
- And it's not going well from all the judges.
- 00:22:17.826 --> 00:22:19.928
- It's not going well, it's not going well,
- 00:22:19.928 --> 00:22:21.830
- And we're out here,
- 00:22:21.830 --> 00:22:23.165
- We're in the courtyard of our world,
- 00:22:23.165 --> 00:22:24.666
- And somebody looks at us and say,
- 00:22:24.666 --> 00:22:26.001
- "aren't you one of those weirdos?"
- 00:22:26.001 --> 00:22:28.036
- "no, i'm not one of them."
- 00:22:29.071 --> 00:22:31.340
- "no, i--"
- 00:22:31.340 --> 00:22:33.008
- "but aren't you-- don't you believe that same?"
- 00:22:33.008 --> 00:22:36.178
- "you know what?
- 00:22:36.178 --> 00:22:37.513
- No, i'm not really like them."
- 00:22:37.513 --> 00:22:39.348
- Does this speak anybody's language today?
- 00:22:39.348 --> 00:22:41.049
- It nearly killed me.
- 00:22:42.184 --> 00:22:47.156
- Because when the world says,
- 00:22:47.156 --> 00:22:49.458
- "aren't you thrown in with him and all this stuff?"
- 00:22:49.458 --> 00:22:52.628
- "no, no, not really."
- 00:22:52.628 --> 00:22:55.831
- And the rooster crows,
- 00:22:59.368 --> 00:23:02.037
- And the eyes of jesus turn toward us.
- 00:23:02.037 --> 00:23:06.141
- And we weep bitterly
- 00:23:06.141 --> 00:23:11.180
- Because we sold out the one who set us free,
- 00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:17.986
- Who purchased us from slavery.
- 00:23:17.986 --> 00:23:23.592
- I have a feeling somebody here is in the middle of something
- 00:23:25.861 --> 00:23:32.034
- Pretty huge that you really could get out of.
- 00:23:32.034 --> 00:23:38.307
- There are middles we can't get out of.
- 00:23:38.307 --> 00:23:40.008
- Going through a big time of transition,
- 00:23:40.008 --> 00:23:41.343
- We're just in it, we're just in it.
- 00:23:41.343 --> 00:23:44.279
- But somebody in this house, i say this without condemnation,
- 00:23:44.346 --> 00:23:47.983
- I say this is an invitation to be free,
- 00:23:47.983 --> 00:23:50.352
- Is right in the middle of an affair.
- 00:23:50.352 --> 00:23:53.222
- Somebody in this room is right in the middle
- 00:23:56.959 --> 00:24:00.863
- Of an embezzlement in your workplace,
- 00:24:00.863 --> 00:24:04.533
- Right in the middle of criminal activity,
- 00:24:04.533 --> 00:24:09.638
- Right in the middle of being abusive,
- 00:24:09.638 --> 00:24:15.110
- Abusive to another human being.
- 00:24:15.110 --> 00:24:19.314
- There is a middle we can get out of.
- 00:24:20.816 --> 00:24:25.654
- There is sin we can flee from.
- 00:24:25.654 --> 00:24:30.492
- I don't know how long god will leave
- 00:24:30.492 --> 00:24:32.327
- "living proof live".
- 00:24:32.327 --> 00:24:33.662
- I don't know.
- 00:24:33.662 --> 00:24:35.330
- We haven't borrowed on a single year.
- 00:24:35.330 --> 00:24:38.000
- We never knew if there'd be a second year,
- 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:39.468
- A third year, a fifth year, a tenth year,
- 00:24:39.468 --> 00:24:42.504
- A 15th year, an 18th year.
- 00:24:42.504 --> 00:24:45.507
- We certainly didn't know there'd be a 19th year.
- 00:24:45.507 --> 00:24:48.377
- But i make a commitment to you and i want you to hold me to it.
- 00:24:48.377 --> 00:24:51.046
- I mean, i want to hear from you about it.
- 00:24:51.046 --> 00:24:52.714
- I want you to write the ministry a letter and say,
- 00:24:52.714 --> 00:24:54.616
- You said to us, i want you to hold me to this,
- 00:24:54.616 --> 00:24:57.886
- That throughout the lifetime of "living proof live",
- 00:24:57.886 --> 00:25:04.159
- We will not avoid the word repentance,
- 00:25:04.159 --> 00:25:07.896
- Because let me tell you,
- 00:25:07.896 --> 00:25:09.331
- We have come to a time in our age
- 00:25:09.331 --> 00:25:14.036
- With many wonderful things going on globally in the church.
- 00:25:14.036 --> 00:25:18.040
- Such fiery hearts for jesus, such worship for jesus,
- 00:25:18.040 --> 00:25:22.010
- But if we are not careful,
- 00:25:22.010 --> 00:25:23.879
- We are going to lose from our church vocabulary
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- And our christian vocabulary the most transformative word
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- Besides the very name of jesus, and that is repentance.
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- Listen, you're thinking,
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- But i don't want someone to make me repent.
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- Then you've misunderstood the invitation of repentance.
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- He's not making you repent, he's saying you get to.
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- You have the invitation to repent.
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- Today, we get to repent of our sins.
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- That's not something that you grovel on the floor over.
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- That's something you get up and jump up and down and go,
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- What?
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- What?
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- Are you telling me i get to repent?
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- I just get to today go, i've really,
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- Really messed up.
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- I'm really in a heap of sin.
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- I've done things i would have sworn to you
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- I would never do
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- And i've had so much pride and arrogance.
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- I've treated people so mean.
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- I have been so, so ugly, and i get to repent?
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- If you're in the middle of an affair, you get to repent
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- As you leave here and you're out of it,
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- You never contact them again.
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- And no, you don't tell me, you know,
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- "i need to contact them one more time."
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- Oh, no, you don't.
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- The serpent will be waiting to rope you right back
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- Into that stair.
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- You are done as of today.
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- You are done with it.
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- ♪♪♪
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- "joseph, son of david, don't be afraid to take mary
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- "as your wife because what has been conceived in her
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- "is from the holy spirit.
- 00:27:03.645 --> 00:27:05.947
- "she will give birth to a son and you are to name him jesus
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- "because he will save his people from their sins.
- 00:27:09.217 --> 00:27:12.387
- "see, the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son
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- "and they will call him emmanuel,
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- "which is translated,
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- God is with us."
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- (beth) grab your copy today
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- And join me for bible study.
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