Thriving in our Choices Part 5
December 1, 2020
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Do you find yourself second guessing yourself? Learn to trust God's sovereignty.
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Thriving in our Choices Part 5
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- Hey, everybody,we wanted to invite you
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- into our homeat Living Proof Ministries,
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- because you have invited usinto yours so many times.
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- We live and breathe
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- for one primary thingat Living Proof,
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- and that is to see people cometo love the Lord Jesus Christ
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- with everything in themthrough the study of his Word.
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- To love God's Word,to live on God's Word,
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- that is the greatest joyon earth to us.
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- Every time I speak now,
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- I know that ultimatelythat particular message
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- is going to come aroundto our program,
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- and I can help people like you
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- on the other sideof that screen.
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- And so, I want you to know
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- I think about youevery single time I teach now,
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- and you are so important to us.
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- As we flip the calendarto a brand-new year,
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- I wonder if you
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- would consider comingalongside us at Living Proof
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- and partnering with usthrough a year-end gift.
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- We would pray to besuch good stewards of it,
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- and it would gosuch a long way
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- with eternal results,we pray,
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- that God would bring forthfruitfulness from it
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- in the lives of people
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- as they seek to know himand to do his will.
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- Listen,we could not possibly do it
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- without donors like you,
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- so we are so gratefulfor your help.
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- Thank you so much.
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- Jesus already decided
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- that you are completelyand wholly lovable.
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- He who is all-knowledge,all-brilliance,
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- he who is Creator, maker,potter to the clay,
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- cleanser to the leper,
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- redeemer to thosesold under slavery to sin,
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- has pronounced you lovable,
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- effectual, and beautiful.
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- Now, I mean either you can dealwith that or you can't,
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- but that is who you are in him.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- I want you to go with meto the book of James,
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- first of all, James chapter 1.
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- James chapter 1,I want you to go there,
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- and I'm also gonna grab onto Proverbs 3.
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- So, you head over to James 1
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- and I'm gonna meet you therein just a sec,
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- because I did memory workout of this book,
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- and I have to--if Idon't keep up with it during--
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- I can only go about ten daysbetween times
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- without beginning to lose it
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- and without beginningto really lose ground
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- on my memory work.
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- So, I have to say itreally, really often.
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- So, when I gothrough this portion,
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- it reminds me every single time
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- the condition he is puttingon this prayer.
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- Listen to thisin James chapter 1.
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- It says--I think I wanna go ahead--
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- I think I wanna start with 2.
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- "Count it all joy, my brothers,
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- "when you meettrials of various kinds,
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- "for you knowthat the testing of your faith
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- "produces steadfastness.
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- "And let steadfastness haveits full effect,
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- "so that you may beperfect and complete,
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- lacking in nothing."
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- Now, here's where we are, 5-8.
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- "If any of you lacks wisdom,let him ask God,
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- who gives generouslyto all without reproach,
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- and it will be."
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- If anybody lacks wisdom,
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- ask the one who gives itwithout reproach,
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- will never shame youfor asking,
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- will never shame me for asking,
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- "And it will be,"do you see that?
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- Anytime you see--I mean, that is a promise,
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- and it will be given to you.
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- But watch thisin verses 6 and 7.
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- "But let him ask in faith,with no doubting,
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- "for the one who doubts islike a wave of the sea
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- "that is drivenand tossed by the wind.
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- "For that personmust not suppose
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- "he will receive anythingfrom the Lord,
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- "because he isa double-minded man,
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- unstable in all his ways."
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- Now, let that sink inin context,
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- that God is sayingif you lack wisdom,
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- and how often is that true?
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- I mean, day to day,
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- just decisions that weneed to make
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- regarding our own path,our own work,
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- our own relational choices,a matter that we're involved in,
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- in the way we serve,in our families,
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- whatever it may be.
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- There's a host of choicesthat we need to make,
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- and we need a lot of wisdom.
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- We need wisdom,but did you notice with me
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- that, for whatever reason,this is--I mean, think
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- about all the things he tells uswe can ask him,
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- but this time he tags on,
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- "I don't wanna hearany doubt from you."
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- This is major,
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- because what it's taughtme to do,
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- ever since I really gotinto this book,
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- and I guess that would have beenabout seven years ago
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- when I startedjust going through it
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- verse by verseand phrase by phrase,
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- and then ended up writing"Mercy Triumphs."
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- It occurred to me
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- that when I asked himfor wisdom,
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- to go aheadand thank him in advance.
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- That it means something to himthat when I say,
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- Lord, I'mma tell yousomething.
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- "I need a ton of wisdomwhere this is concerned.
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- "I need to be smarterthan I am here.
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- I need to know morethan I know.
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- I'm asking you
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- for what James goes on to saylater in the letter
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- is wisdom from above,not from below.
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- Not carnal wisdomand natural wisdom
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- or demonic wisdom,
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- but wisdom from above,wisdom from on high.
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- And so, when I ask him,
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- I try to always follow it upwith, I can expect it, Lord.
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- I thank you in advance.I thank you.
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- I'm not gonna bedouble-minded about it.
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- I'm not gonna then stressabout it.
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- I'm not gonna ask you for wisdom
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- and then havea nervous breakdown
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- because I'm afraidyou're not gonna give it to me.
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- You have told meto ask for wisdom
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- and do it without doubting.
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- So, see what kind of impactit has on you
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- when you are seeking wisdom,when you make that petition,
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- "I desperately need you
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- to give me wisdomin this matter,"
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- and then you go, "I thank youin advance I'm gonna get it."
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- You're gonna bring it.You're gonna bring it.
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- Now, the companion Iwant you to see with it,
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- I'm gonna read it to you.
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- You have heard itmany, many times
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- if you've been raisedin the faith,
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- and if you haven't,you're gonna love it.
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- It's Proverbs 3, I wantto read verses 5 and 6.
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- It says this, "Trust in the Lordwith all your heart,
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- "and do not leanon your own understanding.
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- "In all your waysacknowledge him,
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- and he will make straightyour paths."
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- So, I'm telling you,put these two things together.
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- So, we're standing at a decisionwe need desperately to make,
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- we may not havea lot of time to make it,
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- and we're just, like,not really hearing an answer.
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- But when I look backover the course of my life
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- and decisions I made,
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- I see nowthat some of those decisions
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- were absolutely critical
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- to where hewas ultimately leading me,
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- that, at the time, feltlike I was going...?
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- Anybody knowwhat I'm talking about,
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- where you think, "I have no ideawhat I'm supposed to do here?"
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- I mean, sometimesit's, like, clear as a bell.
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- Well, I mean I knowthat's not it.
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- That's not even biblicallyin the will of God,
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- so, okay, that one's out.
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- Other times you just gottwo opportunities,
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- and you're going, "I haveno idea what to do here.
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- I have no idea."
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- And I look back on, at the time,his will seemed imperceptible.
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- Like, I wouldn't have known,
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- but I had to come to a placeand I finally went.
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- Anybody know what--somebody'sgot to be able to relate to me.
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- Does anybody knowwhat I'm talking about?
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- And I look back on that now,and I realize that even in that,
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- when it came right down to it,
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- and I said,"I need you to tell me.
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- I don't know what to do,I don't know what to do,"
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- but I'm not hearing any voice.
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- There's not, "Beth, choose B."
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- There's none,and I get down to it,
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- I gotta make a decision,and then it's just like.
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- "Oh, choose that one.
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- Choose that one."
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- And I look back now,and I think, "It was strategic."
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- There are times that weknow God's going,
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- "This is the one, this is--"
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- There's this gorgeous verse,
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- I know many of you love itthe same way that I do.
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- If you haven't heard it,you're gonna love it,
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- Isaiah 30:18-21.
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- "Therefore the Lord waitsto be gracious to you,
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- "and therefore he exalts himselfto show you mercy.
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- "For the Lord isa God of justice,
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- "blessed are all thosewho wait for him.
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- "For a peopleshall dwell in Zion,
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- "in Jerusalem youshall weep no more.
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- "He shall surely be graciousto you at the sound of your cry.
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- As soon as he hears it,he will answer you."
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- Verse 20, "And though the Lordgive you the bread of adversity
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- and the water of affliction,yet your Teacher,"
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- I love that, that teacheras a capital T, and so to me,
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- from a New Testamentperspective, that is Jesus,
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- "Will not hide himself anymore."
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- I think of thatbeing the incarnation,
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- "But your eyesshall see your Teacher,
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- "and your ears shall heara word behind you,
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- "saying,'This is the way, walk in it,'
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- when you turn to the rightor when you turn to the left."
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- I'm just wonderingif those times,
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- that somehow, some way,his voice behind me go,
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- "This is the way, walk in it."
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- And over time,the Word and the Holy Spirit
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- just kept drawing meand drawing me
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- and drawing meand drawing me,
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- and Jesus just won me over.
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- Travis has a son,he has the cutest kids.
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- Travis is like a--he's my flesh and blood.
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- I've said so many times,
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- in the beginning, 20 years ago,they named this Living Proof--
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- Living Proof is the nameof my ministry,
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- and they named itLiving Proof Seminar.
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- I've said so many timesI signed up for a seminar
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- and I got a sonbecause he's been in my life.
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- His family,they're like blood to us.
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- He's like a brotherto my daughters
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- and a son to me,
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- and I love his wifeand kids so much.
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- And his youngest kidis just about to turn 15,
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- and he is just--whatever you're picturing
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- as just the consummatehigh-school athlete,
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- that is Levi Cottrell,
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- and everything about him,and he just talks like a jock.
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- You know what I'm talking about?
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- And so, I looked at a text
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- that he senthis daddy yesterday,
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- and I wrote it downbecause I'd never heard
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- anything of this languagein my life.
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- It said, he just textedhis daddy,
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- "UNC and that thick dub."
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- I'm like...
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- I said,"Buddy, what is a thick dub?"
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- Well, does anybody know?
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- It's a big win,you know, dub is W,
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- so it's like that thick dub.
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- And I thought,you know, that, Lord,
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- it's the first time in my life
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- I've ever prayed that Godwould come to LPL
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- and bring that thick dub.
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- But somewhere along the way,that thick dub,
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- and he just won me,he just won me.
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- So, here's what we're gonna do.
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- We're gonna ask for wisdom,and we're gonna expect it,
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- and we're gonna acknowledgehim as Lord over all our paths.
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- Those are the two thingswe can do.
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- If we wanna boil it down,we're gonna be in the Word,
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- so we even knowwhat our direction would be,
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- but we're gonna cometo a decision,
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- and we're gonna think,"What choice should I make here?
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- "I don't know what to do.
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- "I'm not really gettingclear leadership.
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- "I'm asking you, Lord,for wisdom,
- 00:11:05.914 --> 00:11:07.782
- "and I'm acknowledging you.
- 00:11:07.816 --> 00:11:09.217
- You're Lord over my path,take it, take it."
- 00:11:09.250 --> 00:11:13.188
- But say we stilldon't really know clearly
- 00:11:13.221 --> 00:11:15.256
- what to do, then you knowwhat we're gonna do?
- 00:11:15.290 --> 00:11:16.758
- We're just gonna pick one.
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- Pick one--I mean, like,what are you leaning toward?
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- Go, go, and we're gonna haveto believe.
- 00:11:21.496 --> 00:11:23.998
- And listen, if we're wrong,welcome to the human race.
- 00:11:24.032 --> 00:11:29.404
- You know what I'm saying?
- 00:11:29.437 --> 00:11:30.739
- If you did due diligence,if I did due diligence,
- 00:11:30.772 --> 00:11:35.276
- and still later I think back,
- 00:11:35.310 --> 00:11:36.845
- "You know, really that wasn'tthe right choice,"
- 00:11:36.878 --> 00:11:39.514
- okay, so, God can still use it,
- 00:11:39.547 --> 00:11:45.019
- and we're still calledaccording to his purpose,
- 00:11:45.053 --> 00:11:47.055
- and he can still work itfor good.
- 00:11:47.088 --> 00:11:49.591
- I have to rememberover and over again
- 00:11:49.624 --> 00:11:52.026
- God's job where I'm concernedis not to make me look good.
- 00:11:52.060 --> 00:11:57.332
- It's not so everybodycan know how victorious she is.
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- That's not it.It's for us to do some good.
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- Anybody got this with me?
- 00:12:05.740 --> 00:12:07.275
- It's not our happinessthat is this huge goal,
- 00:12:07.308 --> 00:12:11.112
- it's our usefulness.
- 00:12:11.146 --> 00:12:13.047
- But in the usefulness,we find this peculiar happiness.
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- Can anybody go with me there?
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- That's what has been fulfillingto me,
- 00:12:18.319 --> 00:12:19.988
- he said in that usefulness,that he--that that usefulness,
- 00:12:20.021 --> 00:12:24.893
- over and over again,he was after doing some good.
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- That's what he's afterin your life.
- 00:12:28.830 --> 00:12:30.298
- He's got good works preparedin advance for you.
- 00:12:30.331 --> 00:12:33.301
- Good works that do some good,that do people good.
- 00:12:33.334 --> 00:12:38.873
- Hi, I'm Natalieand this is Selena.
- 00:12:40.441 --> 00:12:42.544
- I know we all need something newto look forward to.
- 00:12:42.577 --> 00:12:45.446
- Beth and her daughter, Melissa,have written a dynamic study
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- called "Now that Faith Has Come,A study of Galatians."
- 00:12:49.083 --> 00:12:52.954
- (Selena)This seven-week study
- 00:12:52.987 --> 00:12:54.289
- will walk youthrough Paul's letter
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- to the New Testament church.
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- The material iswildly interesting
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- in its original context,
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- and relevantto our present world.
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- We need our minds stayedon Christ like no other time.
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- Living Proof Ministriesis so excited
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- to present this study
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- that we hopewill fully engage you
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- in every word Paul wroteto the Galatians.
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- (Selena)Visit BethMoore.org
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- join us as we diveinto the study of Galatians.
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- ♪♪♪
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- (Beth Moore)I gotta tell you,
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- we have all been through a lotin the last years,
- 00:13:46.841 --> 00:13:50.111
- and I have never in my life,I say to you,
- 00:13:50.144 --> 00:13:53.915
- I have never had more confidence
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- in the pure gospelof our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 00:13:56.951 --> 00:14:01.789
- ♪ O my soul ♪
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- ♪ Lift up the nameof the one who saves ♪
- 00:14:03.157 --> 00:14:06.361
- ♪ He reigns forever ♪
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
- 00:14:08.029 --> 00:14:09.464
- ♪ Lift up your praise ♪
- 00:14:09.497 --> 00:14:11.199
- ♪ I will riseand bless the Lord ♪
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
- 00:14:20.475 --> 00:14:23.111
- ♪ O my soul ♪♪
- 00:14:23.745 --> 00:14:26.447
- Let me tell you something.
- 00:14:28.349 --> 00:14:29.651
- He's come to speak in powerto us this weekend,
- 00:14:29.684 --> 00:14:32.186
- because his Wordis fresh and alive.
- 00:14:32.220 --> 00:14:35.290
- That's the miracleof the Scriptures.
- 00:14:35.323 --> 00:14:38.126
- (announcer)Come join us in a city near you.
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- He was after doing some good.
- 00:14:43.564 --> 00:14:46.501
- That's what he's afterin your life.
- 00:14:46.534 --> 00:14:47.902
- He's got good works preparedin advance for you.
- 00:14:47.936 --> 00:14:50.972
- Good works that do some good,that do people good.
- 00:14:51.005 --> 00:14:56.277
- That's his priority.
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- But in that usefulness,
- 00:14:59.614 --> 00:15:01.816
- we so often findthis strange kind of happiness.
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- Number six, soit's not gonna make any sense.
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- Number sixis not gonna make sense
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- to anybodywho is not here with us,
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- but with what we've just said,
- 00:15:11.025 --> 00:15:12.460
- we're lookingat James chapter 1,
- 00:15:12.493 --> 00:15:15.263
- so that we can ask himfor wisdom.
- 00:15:15.296 --> 00:15:16.965
- We're lookingto Proverbs chapter 3,
- 00:15:16.998 --> 00:15:19.000
- acknowledge himin all our paths,
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- and so we come to number six,
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- think high, bow low
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- and choose to trustGod's sovereignty.
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- That at some point,you've got to surrender
- 00:15:26.574 --> 00:15:28.609
- your chronic second guessing,anybody?
- 00:15:28.643 --> 00:15:32.046
- Just all the second guessing--
- 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.282
- I bet I should have done thatinstead.
- 00:15:34.315 --> 00:15:36.417
- A little differentthan chronic regret.
- 00:15:36.451 --> 00:15:38.653
- There's chronic regret,
- 00:15:38.686 --> 00:15:39.988
- no, I'm talkingabout just second guessing,
- 00:15:40.021 --> 00:15:41.589
- second guessing,second guessing,
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- second guessing.
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- Listen,our compulsive second guessing
- 00:15:44.459 --> 00:15:47.228
- is getting in the wayof our first love.
- 00:15:47.261 --> 00:15:50.431
- At some point, we gotta go,okay, I'm not positive
- 00:15:50.465 --> 00:15:54.202
- if that was the right moveor not,
- 00:15:54.235 --> 00:15:56.137
- but I did the bestI knew how to do.
- 00:15:56.170 --> 00:15:58.473
- I sought wisdom,I said I bow to you,
- 00:15:58.506 --> 00:16:02.043
- this is yours,your authority over it,
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- and so what I'm gonna do is,
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- I'm just gonna bowto your sovereignty,
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- that's what I'm gonna choose,that's what I'm gonna choose,
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- 'cause you--what I know for sureis you can work it for good.
- 00:16:09.317 --> 00:16:12.320
- Would you repeatnumber six with me?
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- We're gonna do what?We're gonna think--
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- (audience)High, bow low
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- and choose to trustGod's sovereignty.
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- Hallelujah,you are right there in James,
- 00:16:20.828 --> 00:16:23.097
- what have you gotright across from you,
- 00:16:23.131 --> 00:16:24.632
- the book before it?
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- What do you see?
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- Hebrews, would you go with meto Hebrews chapter 11?
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- Remember, our whole themethis weekend
- 00:16:30.972 --> 00:16:34.342
- is about making choices,
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- and we're gonna hear Godchoosing something right here.
- 00:16:35.710 --> 00:16:39.247
- And so, it saysin Isaiah 58,
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- ah, let's seewhere I should start.
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- It says in verse 5,because it's talking about in 3
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- that the people of Israelhave said,
- 00:16:48.189 --> 00:16:49.524
- "Have not we fastedand you saw it not?
- 00:16:49.557 --> 00:16:52.593
- "And we humble ourselvesbefore you,
- 00:16:52.627 --> 00:16:54.228
- and it's like you haveno knowledge of it."
- 00:16:54.262 --> 00:16:56.364
- And they're saying all this,
- 00:16:56.397 --> 00:16:57.698
- and he's sayingthat they've said this to him,
- 00:16:57.732 --> 00:16:59.233
- and in verse 5,God says this.
- 00:16:59.267 --> 00:17:02.170
- "Is such the fast that I choose,
- 00:17:02.203 --> 00:17:05.740
- "a day for a personto humble himself?
- 00:17:05.773 --> 00:17:07.542
- "Is it to bow downhis head like a reed,
- 00:17:07.575 --> 00:17:09.410
- "and to spread sackclothand ashes under him?
- 00:17:09.444 --> 00:17:12.246
- "Will you call this a fast,
- 00:17:12.280 --> 00:17:13.981
- "and a day acceptableto the Lord?
- 00:17:14.015 --> 00:17:15.750
- "Is not this the fastthat I choose,
- 00:17:15.783 --> 00:17:19.320
- "to loose the bondsof wickedness,
- 00:17:19.353 --> 00:17:21.456
- to undo the straps of the yoke,to let the oppressed go free?"
- 00:17:21.489 --> 00:17:25.426
- Do you hear the powerof the gospel?
- 00:17:25.460 --> 00:17:28.029
- "To break every yoke?
- 00:17:28.062 --> 00:17:30.498
- "Is it not to share your breadwith the hungry
- 00:17:30.531 --> 00:17:32.767
- "and bring the homelessand poor into your house;
- 00:17:32.800 --> 00:17:35.570
- "and when you see the naked,to cover him,
- 00:17:35.603 --> 00:17:38.406
- "and not to hide yourselffrom your own flesh?
- 00:17:38.439 --> 00:17:40.908
- "Then shall your lightbreak forth like the dawn,
- 00:17:40.942 --> 00:17:44.312
- "and your healingshall spring up speedily,
- 00:17:44.345 --> 00:17:46.547
- "and your righteousnessshall go before you,
- 00:17:46.581 --> 00:17:49.083
- and the glory of the Lordshall be your rear guard."
- 00:17:49.117 --> 00:17:51.886
- Do you hear what he's saying?
- 00:17:51.919 --> 00:17:53.654
- I'll tell you the fastI've chosen.
- 00:17:53.688 --> 00:17:56.724
- I've chosen for you to fastfrom yourself and help somebody.
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- And so, our next point,which number are we on?
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- Number seven is choose others,choose others.
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- When you and Iare making choices,
- 00:18:11.072 --> 00:18:14.976
- there just comes a timewhen what will be our healing,
- 00:18:15.009 --> 00:18:19.480
- and what will be our joy,
- 00:18:19.514 --> 00:18:21.048
- and what will beour fruitfulness,
- 00:18:21.082 --> 00:18:24.085
- is that I'm just gonna fastfrom my own selfishness
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- and I'm gonna get in there
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- and I'm gonna seeif I can be a benefit to others.
- 00:18:32.727 --> 00:18:35.530
- Hebrews 11:24, "By faith Moses,when he was grown up,
- 00:18:35.563 --> 00:18:39.233
- refused to be calledthe son of Pharaoh's daughter."
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- Verse 25, "Choosingrather to be mistreated
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- "with the people of God
- 00:18:44.705 --> 00:18:46.007
- "than to enjoythe fleeing pleasures of sin.
- 00:18:46.040 --> 00:18:48.943
- He considered," verse 26,"The reproach of Christ
- 00:18:48.976 --> 00:18:52.280
- "greater wealththan the treasures of Egypt,
- 00:18:52.313 --> 00:18:54.549
- and he was lookingfor the reward."
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- Our world is mass producingnarcissists,
- 00:18:59.220 --> 00:19:03.658
- just mass production.
- 00:19:03.691 --> 00:19:07.295
- 2 Timothy 3said it would be so.
- 00:19:07.328 --> 00:19:10.831
- "In the last days,difficult times will come.
- 00:19:10.865 --> 00:19:12.466
- "For people will belovers of themselves,
- 00:19:12.500 --> 00:19:15.236
- "lovers of money,boastful, arrogant, blasphemers,
- 00:19:15.269 --> 00:19:17.505
- "disobedient to parents,
- 00:19:17.538 --> 00:19:19.774
- "ungrateful, unholy,irreconcilable,
- 00:19:19.807 --> 00:19:21.876
- "slanderers,without self-control,
- 00:19:21.909 --> 00:19:24.212
- "savage,opposed to what is good,
- 00:19:24.245 --> 00:19:25.546
- "treacherous,reckless, conceited,
- 00:19:25.580 --> 00:19:28.015
- loving pleasurerather than loving God."
- 00:19:28.049 --> 00:19:30.918
- Does that soundlike any world you live in?
- 00:19:30.952 --> 00:19:34.922
- And if you and I
- 00:19:34.956 --> 00:19:36.257
- are not gonna get suckedinto that,
- 00:19:36.290 --> 00:19:39.093
- which will be our misery,
- 00:19:39.126 --> 00:19:42.697
- to live our lives as narcissistswill make us miserable.
- 00:19:42.730 --> 00:19:49.003
- We were createdin the image of a God
- 00:19:49.036 --> 00:19:51.839
- who is a giver,
- 00:19:51.872 --> 00:19:53.641
- and it is in our livesbeing filled up
- 00:19:53.674 --> 00:19:56.210
- with what he came to give us,and poured out for others.
- 00:19:56.244 --> 00:20:01.949
- That, that is where meaningcomes to us.
- 00:20:01.983 --> 00:20:07.955
- That is where our joy breaks in.
- 00:20:07.989 --> 00:20:10.992
- That is where our healingcomes from, choose others.
- 00:20:11.025 --> 00:20:17.164
- I felt like, about a year ago,that God just brought
- 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.870
- such a revelation to my mindabout something.
- 00:20:22.903 --> 00:20:27.742
- Because I thought,you know one reason
- 00:20:27.775 --> 00:20:30.077
- why so many of us servants
- 00:20:30.111 --> 00:20:32.647
- are so terriblyand completely exhausted
- 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:36.450
- and depleted?
- 00:20:36.484 --> 00:20:38.085
- Can anybodyjust stay with me a sec?
- 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.821
- Because we are pouring outevery drop of energy we have
- 00:20:40.855 --> 00:20:47.495
- to empower the powerful.
- 00:20:47.528 --> 00:20:53.668
- I'll just wait.
- 00:20:53.701 --> 00:20:58.072
- People, so many peoplehurting out there,
- 00:20:58.105 --> 00:21:01.208
- and we just keep--listen,I'm all for serving whoever,
- 00:21:01.242 --> 00:21:04.512
- but my belief isthat what we're doing here
- 00:21:04.545 --> 00:21:09.417
- is that we go outfrom here and we
- 00:21:09.450 --> 00:21:11.319
- are just, like, multiplied
- 00:21:11.352 --> 00:21:12.720
- into the thousands of peopledoing the ministry,
- 00:21:12.753 --> 00:21:16.023
- serving people the way Godhas called them to.
- 00:21:16.057 --> 00:21:18.492
- Be the voice for the voiceless.
- 00:21:18.526 --> 00:21:20.361
- Anybody knowwhat I'm talking about?
- 00:21:20.394 --> 00:21:21.862
- And listen, we thinkwe're gonna be there,
- 00:21:21.896 --> 00:21:24.098
- so that we can help themfind healing.
- 00:21:24.131 --> 00:21:26.300
- He said then your healingshall come forth.
- 00:21:26.334 --> 00:21:31.939
- What a marvel,what a marvel,
- 00:21:31.972 --> 00:21:35.309
- that we've just gotthis long on this earth,
- 00:21:35.343 --> 00:21:37.511
- this long on this earth,
- 00:21:37.545 --> 00:21:40.281
- and to Moses,
- 00:21:40.314 --> 00:21:42.583
- it was not worth livingin his high privilege,
- 00:21:42.616 --> 00:21:46.387
- there was somethingworth more than that,
- 00:21:46.420 --> 00:21:48.756
- that was getting down in therewith those people
- 00:21:48.789 --> 00:21:50.891
- that were oppressedand treated unjustly,
- 00:21:50.925 --> 00:21:55.296
- coming alongside themand doing the thing with them,
- 00:21:55.329 --> 00:21:59.633
- and great, greatwould be his reward.
- 00:21:59.667 --> 00:22:05.406
- You ready to go to the last one?
- 00:22:05.439 --> 00:22:08.175
- You're right in it,you're in Hebrews,
- 00:22:08.209 --> 00:22:09.677
- I want you to stay there,
- 00:22:09.710 --> 00:22:12.313
- but I wanna show you--every timeI come to the last point,
- 00:22:12.346 --> 00:22:19.286
- I get a lump in my throat,almost every time.
- 00:22:19.320 --> 00:22:21.222
- You know, we lookso forward to y'all,
- 00:22:21.255 --> 00:22:24.091
- and then it's just, like, over.
- 00:22:24.125 --> 00:22:26.026
- And it's like, so webonded in the Spirit,
- 00:22:26.060 --> 00:22:29.597
- and it's like, "Bye."
- 00:22:29.630 --> 00:22:30.998
- I don't know,it's just like, what?
- 00:22:31.031 --> 00:22:33.834
- I mean, it just seemslike we ought to have,
- 00:22:33.868 --> 00:22:35.336
- like, Bible schoolfor the next week or something.
- 00:22:35.369 --> 00:22:37.738
- That we just wanna seethe fruit, you know,
- 00:22:37.772 --> 00:22:40.274
- we wanna see the fruitof what God's doing.
- 00:22:40.307 --> 00:22:43.210
- I think I'm gonna have you--would you just flip,
- 00:22:43.244 --> 00:22:45.446
- you're right close to it,Revelation 17:14.
- 00:22:45.479 --> 00:22:48.482
- I wanna show you a verse,17:14,
- 00:22:48.516 --> 00:22:50.618
- and remember,don't lose Hebrews 11.
- 00:22:50.651 --> 00:22:54.555
- When I study--
- 00:22:54.588 --> 00:22:56.323
- the last time I studiedRevelation with any depth,
- 00:22:56.357 --> 00:23:00.027
- one of my commentaries,
- 00:23:00.060 --> 00:23:01.362
- I wish I would have been readyto say this,
- 00:23:01.395 --> 00:23:03.464
- because what I owe himis to quote him by name,
- 00:23:03.497 --> 00:23:06.667
- but I wasn't prepared to say it,so I'm not able to do it.
- 00:23:06.700 --> 00:23:11.038
- But his feeling wasthat this one verse,
- 00:23:11.071 --> 00:23:14.909
- Revelation 17:14,
- 00:23:14.942 --> 00:23:17.011
- capsulizesthe entire book of Revelation.
- 00:23:17.044 --> 00:23:20.080
- So, you might star it,because it's
- 00:23:20.114 --> 00:23:21.982
- a really, really powerful verse,and it says this.
- 00:23:22.016 --> 00:23:24.218
- "They will make waron the Lamb,"
- 00:23:24.251 --> 00:23:26.253
- of course, the Lamb is Christ.
- 00:23:26.287 --> 00:23:27.588
- "They will make war on the Lamb,and the Lamb will conquer them,
- 00:23:27.621 --> 00:23:30.357
- "for he is Lord of lordsand King of kings,
- 00:23:30.391 --> 00:23:35.229
- and those with him are calledand chosen and faithful."
- 00:23:35.262 --> 00:23:41.735
- "Called andchosen and faithful."
- 00:23:43.070 --> 00:23:46.273
- Let me say it again.
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- "He who is the Lamb,who is King of all kings
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- "and Lord of all lords,and those who are with him,
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- who are called,chosen, and faithful."
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- Now listen, he's already done
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- all the callingand the choosing,
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- so I bet you knowwhat number eight is,
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- because it just, like,it brings it all to a finish.
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- Just choose faithfulness,choose faithfulness.
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- Sisters, let's committo this with one another.
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- There are so many times wecannot change our circumstances.
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- We can't necessarilyjust catapult ourselves
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- out of our present season
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- and get ourselvesinto another.
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- So many times, we would changewhat we were going through.
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- So many times,we would run for our lives
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- from whateverour present surroundings are,
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- but do you know what wecan always choose?
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- Never think to yourself,"I have absolutely no choices.
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- I am out of choices."
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- Nothing feels worse than that.
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- I have no choices, I--
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- We always have a choice.
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- I can choose to be faithful.
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- What I'd really chooseis to get out,
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- but I can always chooseto be faithful.
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- I'm gonna be faithful to my God,
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- knowing that he says,Romans 8:18,
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- "For the sufferingsof this present time
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- "aren't even readyto be compared
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- with the glory that heshall reveal in us."
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- Choose faithfulness.
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- Last verse, Hebrews chapter 11,verses 32 through 34.
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- "And what more shall I say?
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- "For time would fail meto tell you of Gideon,
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- "Barak, Samson, Jephthah,
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- of David and Samueland the prophets,"
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- verse 33, "Who through faithconquered kingdoms,
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- "enforced justice,obtained promises,
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- stopped the mouths of lions."
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- Verse 34, "Quenchedthe power of fire,
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- "escaped the edge of the sword,
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- "were made strongout of weakness,
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- "became mighty in war,put foreign armies to flight.
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- "Women received backtheir dead by resurrection.
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- "Some were tortured,refusing to accept release,
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- so that they might rise againto a better life."
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- Would you noticewhat he's describing here?
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- Did you see it where it said
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- that they were made strongout of weakness?
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- Do you know the one thing,
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- the one thing that put themin that chapter,
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- everyone he just mentioned?
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- Is that in their situation,in their weakness,
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- they chose faith.
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- They just chose faith.They just chose faith.
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- They chose to believe God.
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- They chose to go with him.
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- And because they did,he strengthened them
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- and they became someone
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- they could not possiblyhave become
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- had their lives depended on it.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Who gets you outof your prayer groove?
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- Who is it that can throw offall of that
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- and get you out of focus?
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- They were hoping itwould be them,
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- for Daniel that would show
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- that he would not be obedientto the edict.
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- (Selena)If you don't already have plans
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- for getting into the Scripturesthis new year,
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- join us as we diveinto the study of Galatians.
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- (Natalie)And we look forward
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- to seeing you next week.
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