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Praise | April 3, 2017

Praise

April 3, 2017

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Matt & Laurie Crouch hosts Hillsong Conference 2017 with Judah Smith and music from Hillsong Worship.

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Praise | April 3, 2017

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Oh, we look to the Son.
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Set our eyes on our Savior.
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See the image of love.
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Sing his praises forever.
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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- Matt Crouch: The "Praise
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the Lord" program comes to you
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today from Barclays Center
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right here, Hillsong.
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The Son.
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- Jonathon Douglass: C'mon,
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church, praise God tonight.
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- Matt: We welcome you wherever
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you're watching.
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We're right here in Brooklyn,
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New York.
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Through the dead of night.
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- Judah Smith: And there is
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something in you and there's
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something in me that was wired
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and designed not for the road
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that's always traveled.
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- Laurie Crouch: So many
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good speakers.
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Judah Smith.
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Judah Smith's gonna be
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sitting right here with us.
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- Judah: No, I will not
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make God in my own image.
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I am made in his image.
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- Matt: If you wanna go deep
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into the grace message and
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the gospel of grace, stay tuned
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to this "Praise the Lord"
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program with Judah Smith.
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- Judah: And what's holding you
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back is an illusion
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called safety.
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I'm over safety.
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It's not real anyways.
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Only God is sure
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and only God is secure.
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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See the image of love.
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Sing his praises forever.
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[m
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[mus
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[music
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And creation,
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waking up to kingdom come.
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See the hope of heaven
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shining like the rising sun.
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Now forever lifted up
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from death to life.
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There's no fear in love
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and no darkness
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in his endless light.
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Jesus!
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Beyond the skies above,
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love reaching out for us.
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The Everlasting One,
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Jesus our God.
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- Jonathon: Everybody!
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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Set our eyes on our Savior.
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See the image of love.
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Sing his praises forever.
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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Oh, we look to the Son,
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yeah.
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Beyond the skies above,
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love reaching out for us.
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The Everlasting One,
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Jesus our God.
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- Jonathon: C'mon.
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Beyond the skies above,
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love reaching out for us.
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The Everlasting One,
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Jesus our God.
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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Oh, we look to the Son,
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hey, yeah.
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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Set our eyes on our Savior.
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See the image of love.
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Sing his praises forever.
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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Oh, we look to the Son.
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- Jonathon: C'mon,
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- Jonathon: C'mon,
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- Judah: Thank you so much.
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You can be seated.
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I wanna share just a few
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thoughts with you around
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the idea of safety.
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Just this big idea of safety.
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a paramount topic these days.
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Like you, I was searched, I was
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carefully looked over before
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entering this facility.
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I'm grateful for that.
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our country for obvious reasons.
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And I wanna talk about safety in
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relationship to our mission and
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our journey with Jesus because
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I think you might be surprised
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in how those two are to relate.
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And so, I'm gonna title this
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talk, "Living Safe,"
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and it's just something that
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I've been thinking about.
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And you have to work with me
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because I'm gonna be working
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from one simple premise and
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I hope this is not insulting and
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I hope this is not beneath you
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intellectually and I hope this
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is not too negative, but here's
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the premise I am working from.
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Full disclosure right out
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the gate, safety,
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safety as western civilization
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defines it, I actually believe
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is an illusion.
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Okay, so don't--don't shoot
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the messenger, okay?
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I actually believe it is
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an illusion.
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And I think if we're not
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careful, that illusion or that
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sensation of safety that we have
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come to adore and admire and
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desire as people living in a
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western civilization, if we're
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not careful that desire for
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safety can actually enter into
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the dynamics of our relationship
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with God and actually cost us
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dearly in following him,
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knowing him, and living the life
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he's called us to.
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So, I'm gonna title this talk,
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"Living Safe," so turn to
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your neighbor and say, this is
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so--why would we say this?
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Turn to your neighbor and say,
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"You're not as safe as you think
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you are," you know, like,
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who does that?
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This is not--this
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isn't going well.
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Okay, John chapter 20
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and verse 19.
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I'm gonna read John chapter
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20 and verse 19.
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Little context, background,
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okay, we're jumping in
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mid-story.
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Of course, Jesus has died on
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the cross, hung for 6 hours,
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suffocated in his own blood.
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He was buried
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in a rich man's tomb.
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He's been there for 3 days.
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He promised his 12 young men,
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these disciples that were always
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there, that I will rise again on
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the 3rd day, and sure enough,
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John chapter 20 records for us
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that, in fact, he does rise
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again and now he begins
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his appearance tour, okay?
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And there's a very strategic
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appearance tour.
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He's got scheduled appearances
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with strategic people who will
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carry on his mission empowered
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by his Spirit on the inside.
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So it's an important moments
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now in the final minutes
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and hours of Jesus' earthly
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physical presence.
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So, he appears to a woman at the
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tomb, but now we're jumping in.
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He's about to appear three times
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to his disciples.
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Now, again, these are strategic.
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These are very important.
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These are imperative to the
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mission, the global mission,
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that you and I find ourselves as
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a part of, because now Jesus has
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to say, "Ta-da!
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Remember, I did it.
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Hello?
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Okay, now go, go, go, go because
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I'm here and now, here, here's
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my Spirit and so go take this
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story to the world."
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So these appearances
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are not accidents.
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They're very strategic.
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But I want us to look at
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the circumstances surrounding
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the appearance tour, okay?
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John chapter 20, verse 19: "On
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the evening of that day, the
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first day of the week, the doors
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being locked where the disciples
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were for fear of the Jews, Jesus
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came and stood among them and
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said to them,
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'Peace be with you.'
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When he had said this, he
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showed them his hands and his
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side.
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And the disciples were glad when
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they saw the Lord."
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And this is really bad
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translation of the Greek word.
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"Glad" carries no--like, if I
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asked you, you just recently got
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married, "How's marriage?"
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You were, like, "I'm so glad.
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It's great."
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Okay, that's--there's no gusto.
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There it is again.
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There's no gusto to "glad."
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Glad is a flat word.
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Doesn't work in our western
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culture anymore.
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Say--so this word "glad" would
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be better translated "exuberant,
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gawking, gasping, beside
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themselves," okay?
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They are, like, "Ohhh!"
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I'm trying.
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Some of you, notify your face
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that you're enjoying this, okay?
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All right, so he says, "And they
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were glad.
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Jesus said to them, 'Peace be
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with you.
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As the Father has sent me, even
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so I am sending you.'
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And when
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he had said this, he breathed on
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them and said to them, 'Receive
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my Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
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Now, if you forgive the sins of
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any, they're forgiven them; if
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you withhold forgiveness from
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any, it is withheld.'"
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This--he's not telling the
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disciples they now have the
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power to forgive or not to
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forgive.
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What he's saying is, "I want you
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to go and preach a message of
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forgiveness.
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Tell my story of forgiveness,"
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and by the way, if sins aren't
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forgiven, what happens to them?
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Nothing happens to them and
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judgment happens.
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So he says, "Go tell my story of
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forgiveness.
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I am sending you to tell a story
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of forgiveness."
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"Now Thomas was not with 'em
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so the other disciples said,
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'We have seen the Lord,
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Thomas.'
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And he says,
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'Well, unless I see his hands
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and the mark of nails, and to
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place a finger in the mark of
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the nails, and place my hand in
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his side, I will never
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believe.'"
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Well, here you go, Thomas.
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"Eight days later, his disciples
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were inside again, and Thomas
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was with them.
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And although the doors were
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locked, Jesus came and stood
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among them, 'Peace be with
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you.'"
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And he said,
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"Hey, Thomas."
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He says, "Come on over, buddy."
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How horrible was this scene?
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He's, like, "Here I am, Thomas."
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And Thomas is, like,
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"Oh, shoot."
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It gets worse, though.
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Jesus is, like, "C'mon,
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put your hands in there."
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I think Thomas
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is, like, "Ah, that's not
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necessary, just to be honest.
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I think--I think we're good.
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You guys good?
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I'm good.
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I think it's you, yeah.
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Yeah, look at that side, wow.
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Agh, love you."
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"No, no.
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No, no, c'mon, Thomas."
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"Okay."
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Can you imagine Thomas is, like,
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"Yeah, okay, thanks."
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"No, no, side too."
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"Really?
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Okay, yeah."
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Oh, man, must have been crazy.
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So Thomas says,
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"My Lord, my God!"
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Then Jesus talks about you
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and me.
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He says, "Have you believed
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because you've seen me, Thomas?
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Blessed are those who have not
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seen, yet have believed."
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That's you and me.
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We're gonna leapfrog now
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to chapter 21.
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It says, "Now, after this Jesus
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revealed himself again to the
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disciples by the Sea of
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Tiberias, and he revealed
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himself in this way.
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Simon Peter, Thomas (called the
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Twin), Nathanael of Cana in
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Galilee, the sons of Zebedee,
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and the two other disciples were
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together," so about seven
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disciples, "and Simon Peter said
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to them, 'I am going fishing.'
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They said, 'We're gonna go
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with you.'
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So they went out, got in
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the boat, and they fished all
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night and caught nothing.
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Just as day was breaking, Jesus
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stood on the shore; yet the
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disciples did not know it was
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him.
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And he said, 'Children, do you
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have any fish?'
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They said, 'No.'
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He said, 'Cast
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the net on the right side of the
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boat, and you'll find some.'"
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Now, what I love about Jesus is
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this is an identical scene to
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what he's already done for them
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but what I love about God is if
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you didn't get it the first
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time, he'll do it another time.
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That's what's so awesome about
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God.
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Like, I would be, like, "You
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should have got it the first
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time, player.á"
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Jesus is, like,
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"You didn't get it?
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Okay, let's do it again.
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Here we go.
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Cast your net on
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the other side."
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"Wait, I've heard that
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somewhere."
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"Exactly, here we go," okay?
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So they catch 153 fish, it's
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amazing.
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Jesus says--I love this part.
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It says that they came to the
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shore and Jesus already was
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cooking breakfast.
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He's--first time and only time
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he's a chef.
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And I love this 'cause he's
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already got fish and bread
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cooking and he says, "Bring me
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some of what you caught," which
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is so indicative of God.
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Like, he doesn't need anything
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from you but he just wants it.
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Like, he already has fish, but
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if you got some, he's, like,
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"Oh, I'm gonna include you in my
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story, you're so cute.
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Give me some, okay?
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Yeah, yeah, I don't need
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anything but c'mon, yeah, bring
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it in here.
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Well, okay.
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Not nearly as good as my fish,
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but that's cool.
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I love you, you're cute."
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I love that about God.
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He just includes us in his
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story.
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Not out of necessity or need but
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out of desire and want.
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He says, "Bring me some fish,"
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and so they do and I love this
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part.
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And it says, verse 12: "Jesus
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said to them, 'Come and have
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breakfast.'
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Now none of the
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disciples dared asked him,
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'Who you are.'
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They knew it was the Lord."
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So it was a silent breakfast.
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How awkward was this?
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They're, like, "Hmm, hmm, hmm."
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Everyone just like, "It's him.
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We know it's him but I totally
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know but I do kind of wonder,
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but I think it's--oh my gosh,
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he's cooking us breakfast."
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And they just ate in awkward
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awe.
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Amazing, okay.
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So that's what we're gonna do
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our best to unpack in the next
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26 minutes.
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So I've been married for 16
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years.
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My wife is sitting right over
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here.
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We're working on year 17.
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There she is, the love of my
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life.
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Been married for 16 years and we
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set up some rules in our family.
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I don't know if you have rules
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and I kinda hesitate to tell you
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some of our rules of engagement
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in our marriage but, like, one
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of 'em and I hope you don't
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judge me for this, is you can't
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actually cuss for real when
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you're mad.
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Like, there's no cussing
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allowed.
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Some of you right now are
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deducing, like, wait, so you do
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cuss for fun?
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C'mon, I didn't say that.
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But anyways, no cussing when
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you're mad, right?
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You can't use the "D" word,
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"divorce," right?
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You can't, not even use--no,
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it's never okay.
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Rules of engagement.
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Now, one of the rules is
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financially related.
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And this rule is you can only
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spend up to a certain particular
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amount unless you engage your
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spouse and confirm that this
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purchase is okay.
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But recently, I don't know,
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midlife crisis, I thought to
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myself, "I'm a grown man.
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I'm a grown man with a great
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body," and I'm thinking to
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myself, like, I didn't--it's
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weird.
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Who says that?
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So--but I was, like, "I'm a
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grown man."
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And I'm thinking to
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myself, "You know, I wanna buy
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myself a little something.
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A little toy, you know?
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So I'm gonna, I'm gonna just
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gonna--I'm gonna buy it."
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It was Memorial Day weekend.
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I go online.
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There's a great sale and I'm
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thinking, "I'm gonna buy this
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thing.
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I'm gonna do it.
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And you know what?
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I'm not even gonna check with
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her because I'm the head of the
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home.
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That's Scripture," yeah, that's
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right.
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And all the men do not say,
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"Amen," dear God, not if you're
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married.
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Good Lord.
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So I'm a grown man so I go
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online and I push "Pay."
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And they sent me an e-mail and
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they said, "Look, if you send us
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a check today, we'll give you
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a 1-year warranty, 1-year
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warranty," because what I was
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buying was an ATV.
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Have you ever heard of an ATV?
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It's an all-terrain vehicle.
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I know I don't look like an
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outdoorsman because I'm not.
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But I was, like, "I want an ATV.
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I'm gonna drive my kids around."
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It's like a golf cart
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on steroids, right?
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So I bought this ATV,
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right here, on the screen.
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And look at the license plate,
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holler at your boy, you see it?
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"Blessed."
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Everybody say, "Blessed," okay?
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So, you know what it is.
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So, 4 days after I purchased it,
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my conscience started working
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overtime and now I was, like,
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"Oh, man, shoot.
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What have I done?
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Like, we had an agreement.
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I love this lady.
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She's gonna kill me."
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And so, we had friends over to
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the house and I thought, "This
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is a perfect time to tell her,
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when the friends are here."
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This is real life,
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ladies and gentlemen.
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And so I was, like, "Babe,
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I bought something."
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And she was, like, "Okay, cool.
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You have freedom to purchase
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within limits."
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I stand before
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you as a 37-year-old man.
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I have no idea what I make
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annually.
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I have no idea,
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the money that I make.
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She keeps it all a secret.
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She likes it that way.
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Know what I make, right?
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I said, "I bought something,"
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and I'm trying to, like, be cool
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with it.
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I'm, like, "I bought something.
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It is what it is.
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I'm a man."
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She said, "What did
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you buy, sweetie?"
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I said, "Well, it's a little bit
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more money than I usually spend
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but I felt it was okay.
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I felt good about it."
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I said,
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"I bought one of those ATVs."
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She said, "Excuse me?"
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I said, "You heard me."
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Our friends are looking at us,
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like, "Why are you doing--"
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'cause I already told them.
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You know, this is--this
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is straight dysfunction.
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I already told them.
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They're, like, "Why are you..."
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She said, "That's fine.
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I'm calling the credit card
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company this morning and I'm
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She goes, "I don't even
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wanna talk to you."
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So I'm panicking a little bit
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and I was, like,
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"Well, guess what?
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I paid with check in the mail."
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And she said, "You're an idiot
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and I hope it's a scam."
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I'm, like, "Where is Jesus?
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Where's forgiveness, Chel?"
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I thought she crossed the line,
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you know?
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So the ATV comes.
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The truth is Chelsea won't even
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look at it in the garage, okay?
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It actually came, it wasn't
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a scam, and I got a great
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deal, saved thousands.
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It's not that expensive.
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But she won't look at it.
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To this day,
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she will not look at it, okay?
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But I get this ATV and I don't
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know, like, and she finally
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forgives me and we work
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it out and we made up,
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if you know what I mean.
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And so, come on, calm down.
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So we--so I get the ATV
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and I'm so excited, right?
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First of all, it won't start.
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I realize, you've
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gotta put gas in it.
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So I put gas in it and then
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I can't, like, it just doesn't--
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it doesn't drive right.
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So in this particular photo, I
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have three staff pastors from
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our church who are looking
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through this because I told 'em,
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"Guys," and Chelsea's thrilled
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that it's broken.
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She's, like,
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"You bought a lemon.
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Serves you right.
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The Lord's trying
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to teach you a lesson."
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I said, "It's broken, guys.
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That's why it didn't work."
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And they said,
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"Can we ask you a question?"
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I said, "Yeah." They said,
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"Where do you drive this thing?"
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I said, "What do you--what do
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you mean, where do I drive?
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I drive it on the road.
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I'm a modern man.
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What are you talking about, huh?
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I drove on the road."
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They're like, "Judah, this--you
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bought a ATV to drive around
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your neighborhood?"
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I was, like, "Yeah.
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That's where we're supposed
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to drive."
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They're, like, "This machine is
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made for dirt and mud.
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It's not broken.
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You just have it in the wrong
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context."
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And I'm, like, "Well,
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hold on a second.
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I have to drive this in the dirt
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and stuff?"
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So I tried it.
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I took my son out and I'm,
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like--I was, like, well, we're
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driving and it goes, like, 30
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miles an hour.
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I'm, like, "Do you hate this?
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Bogs and dust."
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And I'm, like,
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"I hate this experience.
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Can we get back on the asphalt?
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Like, this is horrible."
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But that's what it's made for.
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I'm so silly.
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Raised in the urban jungles of
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America, like, I had no idea
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that this thing is made for
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off-road.
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Now, I likened that to a
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sensation that you and I have
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probably felt as Jesus followers
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and that is that something is
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terribly wrong with our journey
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with Jesus.
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Something's wrong in our walk
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with the living God.
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Something's wrong with my belief
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system.
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It just--it doesn't feel right.
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It doesn't feel like it's
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clicking.
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All of my T's are evidently not
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crossed and my I's are not
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dotted and I'm just--I'm
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generally frustrated.
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I feel like there's no progress
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and I felt like God used this
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ATV, of course it was his will
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that I purchased it.
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He used this ATV to tell me
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something.
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Some of you actually think, if I
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could say it this way,
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your--something's wrong with
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your Christianity.
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It could be nothing's wrong with
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your Christianity.
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Your Christianity was just not
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designed to live a "safe" life.
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Can I even get cheesier?
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Like, your Christianity was made
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for the off-road.
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I don't even know what that
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means.
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It's made for
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off the beaten path.
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Safety?
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Living safe?
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You know, nowhere in Scripture
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did God ever promise safety.
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Eternal security?
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Absolutely, fundamentally,
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categorically, eternally.
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But safe?
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Who said anything about safe?
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Do you remember C.S. Lewis,
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his metaphor, "Lion,
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Witch, and the Wardrobe"?
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Remember who God is?
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God is Aslan, a lion.
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C.S. Lewis was on to something.
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Do you remember the scene where
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the two little Mr. and
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Mrs. Animal, they say to Susan,
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remember Susan?
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And they say, "Oh, oh, Aslan is
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not--he's a lion."
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And Susan goes, "A lion?
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I quite for sure thought he was
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a man.
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Is he--is he quite safe?"
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And the little animal said,
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"Who said anything about safe?
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He's a lion, but he's king
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and he's good."
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I got locks on my doors.
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I'm glad somebody searched my
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bag this morning.
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But be careful, don't let our
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cultural safety mechanisms and
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mentalities seep into a mission
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with Jesus because Jesus never
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invited us into a safe life.
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But the problem is just give me
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a little bit of time and that's
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what I want again.
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"I just--God, this is
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uncomfortable.
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Yeah, I feel like I'm, I don't
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know, like, following you places
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I don't wanna go.
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What is this, God?
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Oh, this is Christianity?
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Oh!"
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Look how quickly the disciples
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settle into the safe life.
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Give 'em 3 days.
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Jesus dies on a cross.
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Three days later, look at 'em.
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Look at 'em, look at 'em, look
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at 'em.
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We got a whole crew huddled
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behind locked doors.
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I love locks.
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How great is that?
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I wanna get in the lock
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business.
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What a great--we just, we
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deadbolt, we're,
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like, "We're good."
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That is amazing, right?
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"Did you lock the front door,
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sweetie?"
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"I did."
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"Okay, we're safe."
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Like, what?
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We're smarter than this, guys.
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But look at the disciples.
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Three days later, "No word from
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our Messiah, what are we gonna
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do?"
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"I don't know.
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You think they recognize us?
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You think they know that we were
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with him?"
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"I don't know.
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C'mon, everybody in.
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Deadbolt lock it, okay.
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Right, what are we gonna do?"
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"I don't know.
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Let's hold each other."
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Three days, look at the
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human condition.
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Just 3 days God doesn't deliver
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on his promise.
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Three days of ambiguity.
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Three days of unsettledness and
00:24:03.110 --> 00:24:05.020
uneasiness and what do we do?
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We, for fear, we set our
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deadbolt and we hope that maybe
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something will keep us safe.
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Next, guys, one of the disciples
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who wasn't there and he's so
00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:19.260
hurt, here's his safety
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mechanism.
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It's not a deadbolt, a lock, and
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a door.
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His new safety mechanism is, "I
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will only believe what I see.
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That's my new rule."
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What is this?
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It's a desire to be safe.
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It's inherent within the human
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condition, in the human psyche
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and the human soul.
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There's something within us that
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says, "I need to be safe.
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Who's gonna--I need to protect
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me.
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I need to protect myself."
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Well, what happened to Thomas?
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Thomas was hurt, wasn't he?
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Thomas was hurt.
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Thomas was hurt.
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Thomas was, like, "Well, I
00:24:49.020 --> 00:24:50.020
didn't see it.
00:24:50.020 --> 00:24:50.240
He left me out.
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He hasn't delivered.
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He hasn't been there.
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So, you know what, I'm done
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believing beyond my five senses.
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I'm done believing.
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Faith is the substance of things
00:24:59.050 --> 00:25:00.070
hoped for, the evidence of
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things not seen.
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I'm not going to believe in the
00:25:02.100 --> 00:25:03.240
unseen anymore.
00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:04.280
I'm only gonna deal with what I
00:25:04.280 --> 00:25:06.130
can smell and touch and taste
00:25:06.130 --> 00:25:08.250
and see and feel.
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That's how I'm gonna live my
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life.
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Why?
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Because I must protect myself."
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Three days, Thomas.
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And I quote, Thomas says,
00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.120
"Or I will never believe."
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Look at what we're capable
00:25:23.220 --> 00:25:24.220
as human beings.
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Three days post conference and
00:25:26.130 --> 00:25:28.250
we're back, locking doors and
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setting up emotional mechanisms
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to protect us.
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I'm only going to believe what
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I can see.
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And then, of course, Peter and
00:25:38.030 --> 00:25:39.070
the crew of seven disciples,
00:25:39.070 --> 00:25:41.030
their safety mechanism, their
00:25:41.030 --> 00:25:42.180
illusion that they bought into
00:25:42.180 --> 00:25:44.010
is that Jesus isn't here.
00:25:44.010 --> 00:25:46.080
He hasn't delivered.
00:25:46.080 --> 00:25:47.080
I let him down.
00:25:47.080 --> 00:25:48.260
I'm discouraged, right?
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The first group is fearful.
00:25:50.110 --> 00:25:51.160
Thomas is hurt.
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Peter is discouraged.
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By the way, those emotions lead
00:25:55.080 --> 00:25:56.140
us to different safety
00:25:56.140 --> 00:25:57.130
mechanisms that were--that we
00:25:57.130 --> 00:25:59.020
have a propensity for.
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And so what does Peter do?
00:26:00.050 --> 00:26:01.180
He goes back to his old life.
00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:04.000
So many scholars--there's much
00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.000
conjecture made of this passage
00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.040
but I think it's a safe
00:26:07.040 --> 00:26:08.080
application to say Peter is
00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:09.160
going back to what he knows.
00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:11.250
And guess who's going with him?
00:26:11.250 --> 00:26:13.150
A whole slew of guys.
00:26:13.150 --> 00:26:15.030
They're, like, "Yeah, me too,
00:26:15.030 --> 00:26:16.020
man.
00:26:16.020 --> 00:26:16.290
I'm out."
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Here's the reality.
00:26:18.090 --> 00:26:19.230
Which group do you most relate
00:26:19.230 --> 00:26:21.090
with today, right now?
00:26:21.090 --> 00:26:23.010
When you leave this auditorium
00:26:23.010 --> 00:26:24.270
after an extraordinary
00:26:24.270 --> 00:26:27.060
experience with God, understand
00:26:27.060 --> 00:26:30.020
your propensity and my
00:26:30.020 --> 00:26:31.280
propensity to again go searching
00:26:31.280 --> 00:26:34.050
for safety, which I believe is
00:26:34.050 --> 00:26:35.280
an illusion.
00:26:35.280 --> 00:26:37.190
There's only one can make your
00:26:37.190 --> 00:26:39.190
soul secure and that's God.
00:26:40.090 --> 00:26:43.090
You leave this place, are you
00:26:43.090 --> 00:26:44.220
gonna be tempted to lock
00:26:44.220 --> 00:26:45.200
yourself in for fear?
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Are you one that's been hurt
00:26:48.070 --> 00:26:49.280
or let down by God?
00:26:49.280 --> 00:26:51.140
If you have never been let down
00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:52.110
by God, you've only been
00:26:52.110 --> 00:26:53.170
For the rest of us, what happens
00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:59.220
when you feel hurt by God?
00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:01.180
Do you start to conclude,
00:27:01.180 --> 00:27:02.270
"I'm only gonna deal with what
00:27:02.270 --> 00:27:04.020
is real now, and what is real
00:27:04.020 --> 00:27:05.140
is what I can see"?
00:27:05.140 --> 00:27:08.100
Or are you gonna say, "You know,
00:27:08.100 --> 00:27:09.210
this isn't working out for me.
00:27:09.210 --> 00:27:10.260
I'm gonna go back
00:27:10.260 --> 00:27:12.130
So what does Jesus do in
00:27:16.080 --> 00:27:17.060
all of this?
00:27:17.060 --> 00:27:18.180
Is he not amazing?
00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:20.200
You know what he does?
00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:22.020
He walks through walls, which is
00:27:22.020 --> 00:27:24.230
just a cool way to come in too.
00:27:24.230 --> 00:27:26.280
It's a cool way to make an
00:27:26.280 --> 00:27:27.280
entrance, isn't it?
00:27:27.280 --> 00:27:28.270
I mean, he could have just
00:27:28.270 --> 00:27:29.200
unlocked the door and walked in.
00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:31.040
But why do that when you can
00:27:31.040 --> 00:27:32.250
walk through walls?
00:27:32.250 --> 00:27:35.120
Now, I want you to think about
00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:37.200
this.
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:38.280
Jesus walked through the wall,
00:27:38.280 --> 00:27:41.040
not to leave them behind the
00:27:41.040 --> 00:27:42.130
wall.
00:27:42.130 --> 00:27:43.040
We could go on and on about 8
00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:44.130
days later they're still locked
00:27:44.130 --> 00:27:46.180
in the walls.
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They're still locked in.
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.240
Jesus walks through the walls
00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:51.000
and he says, "Hey,"
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.040
and everyone goes, "Ah, ahh!"
00:27:54.080 --> 00:27:57.080
And he's, like, "Okay, everyone
00:27:57.080 --> 00:27:58.000
just calm down for a second,
00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:58.230
please.
00:27:58.230 --> 00:27:59.240
It's me.
00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:01.270
Check it out, it's me."
00:28:01.270 --> 00:28:03.190
"It is you,"
00:28:03.190 --> 00:28:05.020
and they're overwhelmed
00:28:05.020 --> 00:28:06.110
but what does he say?
00:28:06.110 --> 00:28:07.000
He says, "So, I'm actually in
00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:08.110
the room so you don't stay
00:28:08.110 --> 00:28:09.100
in the room.
00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:10.260
So, guys, I didn't die and rise
00:28:10.260 --> 00:28:13.080
again so that you could deadbolt
00:28:13.080 --> 00:28:15.080
your life.
00:28:15.080 --> 00:28:16.210
- Matt: The message of grace
00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:23.130
and the message of Jesus
00:28:23.130 --> 00:28:25.000
is going around the world.
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:26.290
Is an awesome thing.
00:28:26.290 --> 00:28:28.020
- Laurie: Come here, Judah.
00:28:30.090 --> 00:28:31.010
- Matt: We're gonna--we're
00:28:31.010 --> 00:28:31.250
right in the middle of it.
00:28:31.250 --> 00:28:32.190
Just kinda slide right in there.
00:28:34.110 --> 00:28:37.110
First of all, hi.
00:28:37.110 --> 00:28:38.110
- Judah: How are you?
00:28:38.110 --> 00:28:39.060
- Matt: You know, I don't know
00:28:39.060 --> 00:28:40.270
that--I don't know that anyone's
00:28:40.270 --> 00:28:42.250
going to believe this ultimately
00:28:42.270 --> 00:28:45.270
but we're meeting for the first
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time right here on camera.
00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:50.000
- Judah: Live.
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:50.180
This is surreal.
00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:51.240
- Matt: So okay.
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:52.180
- Judah: It's an honor.
00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:53.090
- Matt: Judah Smith, we were
00:28:53.090 --> 00:28:54.160
introduced by Joseph Prince.
00:28:54.280 --> 00:28:57.280
Do you remember that?
00:28:57.280 --> 00:28:58.280
Darren, you know, one of
00:28:58.280 --> 00:29:00.070
Pastor's guys, put us on
00:29:00.070 --> 00:29:03.040
a text group.
00:29:03.040 --> 00:29:04.050
We'd been trying to get
00:29:04.050 --> 00:29:04.280
together.
00:29:04.280 --> 00:29:05.210
We fly all the way across
00:29:05.210 --> 00:29:07.150
the world here to--
00:29:07.150 --> 00:29:08.230
- Judah: Here we are.
00:29:08.230 --> 00:29:09.200
- Matt: You know, and we're
00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:10.110
here in Brooklyn, New York.
00:29:10.110 --> 00:29:11.110
Okay, we were just sitting right
00:29:11.110 --> 00:29:13.260
here just a few minutes ago, we
00:29:13.260 --> 00:29:16.020
were sitting right here with
00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:18.080
Joel Houston.
00:29:18.080 --> 00:29:19.220
And I asked him, first of all,
00:29:19.220 --> 00:29:21.270
"Joel, do you ever refer to
00:29:21.270 --> 00:29:23.240
yourself as pastor?"
00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:25.010
And he goes, "Well, yeah,
00:29:25.010 --> 00:29:27.260
occasionally.
00:29:27.260 --> 00:29:29.000
I try not to but yeah, okay,
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:29.290
I'm a pastor."
00:29:29.290 --> 00:29:31.110
I go, "Okay, well then,
00:29:31.110 --> 00:29:32.050
I wanna ask you
00:29:32.050 --> 00:29:33.060
a hard question."
00:29:33.060 --> 00:29:34.030
So I'm gonna do
00:29:34.030 --> 00:29:34.220
the same thing with you.
00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:35.230
First of all, what I wanna
00:29:35.230 --> 00:29:36.270
unpack a little bit is a touch
00:29:36.270 --> 00:29:38.280
of your story and then I wanna
00:29:38.280 --> 00:29:41.160
ask you kind of a deeper
00:29:41.190 --> 00:29:44.190
question about grace.
00:29:44.190 --> 00:29:46.130
It seems as if my journey,
00:29:46.230 --> 00:29:49.230
my personal journey with the
00:29:49.230 --> 00:29:51.240
message of grace, the gospel of
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.050
grace, was that I read "Destined
00:29:53.050 --> 00:29:55.270
to Reign," by Joseph Prince.
00:29:55.270 --> 00:29:58.180
And I don't remember exactly
00:29:58.180 --> 00:29:59.260
when that was,
00:29:59.260 --> 00:30:00.190
mid-2000-somewhere, you know.
00:30:00.190 --> 00:30:02.020
And it felt like he was putting
00:30:02.050 --> 00:30:05.050
words on paper that I already
00:30:05.050 --> 00:30:07.290
owned on the inside, but I had
00:30:07.290 --> 00:30:09.180
just never articulated.
00:30:09.180 --> 00:30:11.090
So it really felt like we
00:30:11.090 --> 00:30:13.250
connected and that that book
00:30:13.250 --> 00:30:15.290
connected to me.
00:30:15.290 --> 00:30:17.050
It's funny, my mom, my crazy
00:30:17.050 --> 00:30:19.070
pink-haired mama, who's in
00:30:19.070 --> 00:30:21.260
heaven now, but she found
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.000
Joseph.
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.070
Somebody had given her a DVD and
00:30:26.070 --> 00:30:28.030
she ran the oxide off the tape
00:30:28.030 --> 00:30:30.130
of a Joseph Prince tape.
00:30:30.130 --> 00:30:32.180
You know, back in the early
00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:34.070
2000s, we were introduced--the
00:30:34.070 --> 00:30:35.290
TBN audience was introduced to
00:30:35.290 --> 00:30:37.130
Joseph.
00:30:37.130 --> 00:30:38.110
Here's the hard question to a
00:30:38.110 --> 00:30:39.290
pastor.
00:30:39.290 --> 00:30:41.010
You're a pastor, you refer to
00:30:41.010 --> 00:30:41.280
yourself as pastor, right?
00:30:41.280 --> 00:30:43.100
- Judah: Probably about as much
00:30:43.100 --> 00:30:44.240
as Joel.
00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:45.270
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:30:45.270 --> 00:30:47.030
- Matt: Okay, so here's the
00:30:47.030 --> 00:30:47.290
thing.
00:30:47.290 --> 00:30:50.070
If your generation is having to
00:30:50.150 --> 00:30:53.150
redefine grace, what did my
00:30:53.150 --> 00:30:55.150
generation or what did my
00:30:55.150 --> 00:30:57.130
parents' generation do to make
00:30:57.130 --> 00:30:59.130
it too complex or what happened
00:30:59.130 --> 00:31:01.170
that it feels like the gospel
00:31:01.170 --> 00:31:04.110
of grace is something new?
00:31:04.110 --> 00:31:06.020
- Judah: That's a phenomenal
00:31:06.020 --> 00:31:07.130
question.
00:31:07.130 --> 00:31:08.200
First of all, I feel incredibly
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:09.210
under-qualified to even approach
00:31:09.210 --> 00:31:11.210
the subject and talk about
00:31:11.210 --> 00:31:13.080
is--there is a discovery.
00:31:17.020 --> 00:31:18.030
For me, even personally in my
00:31:18.030 --> 00:31:19.180
own Bible reading, it's like a
00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:21.010
treasure hunt and I just look
00:31:21.010 --> 00:31:22.040
for Jesus.
00:31:22.040 --> 00:31:22.270
And I see him like I've never
00:31:22.270 --> 00:31:24.090
seen him before.
00:31:24.090 --> 00:31:25.080
I think it's a sovereign thing,
00:31:25.080 --> 00:31:26.080
first of all.
00:31:26.080 --> 00:31:27.010
I think it's a very sovereign
00:31:27.010 --> 00:31:28.000
thing.
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:28.180
It's an act of God.
00:31:28.180 --> 00:31:29.150
My dad, maybe like your parents,
00:31:29.150 --> 00:31:31.020
emphasis.
00:31:33.040 --> 00:31:33.270
I had the collision with, you
00:31:33.270 --> 00:31:36.120
know, we're saved by grace
00:31:36.120 --> 00:31:38.110
through faith and then God has
00:31:38.110 --> 00:31:40.240
set us to--into living a life of
00:31:41.060 --> 00:31:44.060
good works.
00:31:44.060 --> 00:31:45.220
And I realize there's a divine
00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:46.130
order.
00:31:46.130 --> 00:31:47.010
And I think something's
00:31:47.010 --> 00:31:47.250
happening in the kingdom of God
00:31:47.250 --> 00:31:49.080
and in the world.
00:31:49.080 --> 00:31:50.050
The divine order is being
00:31:50.050 --> 00:31:51.240
established.
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:52.150
Again, it's always grace first.
00:31:52.150 --> 00:31:54.040
Always grace, then faith, then
00:31:54.040 --> 00:31:56.130
good works, which creates a
00:31:56.130 --> 00:31:57.290
community that instead of you
00:31:57.290 --> 00:31:59.220
belong when you behave or
00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:01.170
believe, you just belong.
00:32:01.170 --> 00:32:03.160
'Cause grace is always first.
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:05.000
It's this gift, an invitation.
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:06.070
And maybe it's--maybe we're
00:32:06.070 --> 00:32:08.050
getting nearer to the grand
00:32:08.050 --> 00:32:09.270
finale of the earth.
00:32:09.270 --> 00:32:12.120
I mean, who knows?
00:32:12.120 --> 00:32:13.090
And the message of Jesus is
00:32:13.090 --> 00:32:14.150
just, it's so paramount.
00:32:14.150 --> 00:32:16.150
Everywhere I go, preachers seem
00:32:16.150 --> 00:32:18.070
to be this Holy Spirit-motivated
00:32:18.070 --> 00:32:21.070
emphasis on Jesus and,
00:32:21.070 --> 00:32:23.080
obviously, hopefully you can
00:32:23.080 --> 00:32:24.190
tell, I'm pumped about it.
00:32:24.190 --> 00:32:25.190
I'm excited.
00:32:25.190 --> 00:32:26.140
It is--I feel like a kid in a
00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:27.270
candy store.
00:32:27.270 --> 00:32:28.210
I'm so in love with Jesus.
00:32:28.210 --> 00:32:30.020
I'm so in love with my community
00:32:30.020 --> 00:32:32.040
and people and friends, and
00:32:32.040 --> 00:32:33.100
it's--we've got the best message
00:32:33.100 --> 00:32:35.270
to tell.
00:32:35.270 --> 00:32:36.230
We've just been telling it kind
00:32:36.230 --> 00:32:39.030
of mean and, I don't know,
00:32:39.030 --> 00:32:41.110
just weird.
00:32:41.110 --> 00:32:42.180
And so, we got a shot to really
00:32:42.180 --> 00:32:43.270
change the narrative.
00:32:43.270 --> 00:32:45.070
- Matt: Okay, can I offer my
00:32:45.070 --> 00:32:47.070
suggestion that--
00:32:47.070 --> 00:32:49.010
- Judah: Please, I need it.
00:32:49.010 --> 00:32:49.260
I need all the help I can get.
00:32:49.260 --> 00:32:50.220
- Matt: Well, I'm totally
00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:51.220
unqualified also and I--but I
00:32:51.220 --> 00:32:54.130
feel like maybe, okay, when--if
00:32:55.010 --> 00:32:58.010
you wind the hands of time back
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:01.260
a bit and go back to 1948,
00:33:01.260 --> 00:33:03.210
Israel became a nation.
00:33:03.210 --> 00:33:04.270
That was a big deal and anybody
00:33:04.270 --> 00:33:07.040
that was my dad's age, okay, my
00:33:07.040 --> 00:33:09.100
dad was, you know, if he was
00:33:09.100 --> 00:33:11.280
still alive he'd be about 80,
00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:13.210
81 years old or so, maybe 82.
00:33:13.230 --> 00:33:16.230
So he was 14 when Israel became
00:33:18.020 --> 00:33:21.020
a nation, so he's a young
00:33:21.020 --> 00:33:22.240
impressionable teenager.
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:24.020
Well, he told me that every
00:33:24.020 --> 00:33:25.270
sermon, Sunday night in his
00:33:25.270 --> 00:33:27.290
Assembly of God church was,
00:33:27.290 --> 00:33:30.040
"This is the last generation.
00:33:30.040 --> 00:33:32.270
And so, we're done."
00:33:32.270 --> 00:33:34.260
Now, here's what my dad
00:33:34.260 --> 00:33:37.110
and Hal Lindsey and,
00:33:37.110 --> 00:33:39.130
you know, all of the other great
00:33:39.130 --> 00:33:41.150
dispensational teachers,
00:33:41.150 --> 00:33:44.130
Tim LaHaye, who's in heaven just
00:33:44.130 --> 00:33:46.260
recently, and others, they
00:33:46.280 --> 00:33:49.280
really believed that you--that
00:33:49.280 --> 00:33:52.180
God just hit a stopwatch, boom,
00:33:53.140 --> 00:33:56.140
and in 40 years, we're gone.
00:33:56.140 --> 00:33:59.050
We're out.
00:33:59.050 --> 00:34:00.080
- Judah: I didn't know any of
00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:01.050
this, you know?
00:34:01.050 --> 00:34:01.270
It's just good to grow and love
00:34:01.270 --> 00:34:03.240
Jesus in Seattle, I dunno.
00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:05.080
- Matt: I'm offering a
00:34:05.080 --> 00:34:06.070
possibility.
00:34:06.070 --> 00:34:07.240
So my dad, that's why even the
00:34:08.290 --> 00:34:11.290
founders of, like, the Calvary
00:34:11.290 --> 00:34:14.110
Chapel Church, that, you know,
00:34:14.110 --> 00:34:16.240
1988, is it.
00:34:17.050 --> 00:34:20.050
1948, the greatest, you know,
00:34:20.050 --> 00:34:22.250
biblical prophesied event in the
00:34:22.250 --> 00:34:25.130
history of the 2000-year church
00:34:25.130 --> 00:34:27.210
happened in 1948.
00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:29.010
Can a nation be born in a day?
00:34:29.050 --> 00:34:32.050
Israel became a nation.
00:34:32.050 --> 00:34:34.130
God brought the Jews back.
00:34:34.130 --> 00:34:35.290
Okay, so my suggest--I don't
00:34:35.290 --> 00:34:38.130
know.
00:34:38.130 --> 00:34:39.030
I'm not--I may not be right.
00:34:39.030 --> 00:34:40.220
I love it that you haven't heard
00:34:40.220 --> 00:34:42.020
this story.
00:34:42.020 --> 00:34:42.190
- Judah: Are you gonna give me
00:34:42.190 --> 00:34:43.110
a year?
00:34:43.110 --> 00:34:43.230
Like, I'm--I'm, like, am I
00:34:43.230 --> 00:34:44.120
getting a year?
00:34:44.120 --> 00:34:45.010
Are you gonna--this is unreal.
00:34:45.010 --> 00:34:46.140
- Matt: Yes!
00:34:46.140 --> 00:34:47.070
No, no, wait, no.
00:34:47.070 --> 00:34:48.100
So, basically, ultimately, what
00:34:48.190 --> 00:34:51.190
happened, I think, is we went
00:34:52.180 --> 00:34:55.180
through a 1950s era and what was
00:34:56.040 --> 00:34:59.040
that about?
00:34:59.040 --> 00:35:00.100
Hellfire-brimstone preaching.
00:35:00.100 --> 00:35:02.030
So I think altar calls became
00:35:02.240 --> 00:35:05.240
about not going to hell and not
00:35:05.240 --> 00:35:08.240
about following Jesus.
00:35:08.240 --> 00:35:10.180
And that bred an entire
00:35:10.180 --> 00:35:12.150
generation of believers where
00:35:12.150 --> 00:35:14.190
Jesus was super-important when
00:35:14.190 --> 00:35:16.230
you're dying on the roadside in
00:35:16.230 --> 00:35:19.050
that car wreck but nothing to do
00:35:19.050 --> 00:35:21.220
with your daily life.
00:35:21.220 --> 00:35:23.140
And that God's sovereign act is
00:35:23.140 --> 00:35:25.230
undoing some of that, and my
00:35:25.230 --> 00:35:28.180
generation got hit, Joseph and I
00:35:28.180 --> 00:35:31.010
and Joel Osteen, some of these
00:35:31.010 --> 00:35:33.100
guys that are roughly my age,
00:35:33.100 --> 00:35:35.060
and then all of a sudden, you
00:35:35.060 --> 00:35:36.160
guys are, like, on fire with it.
00:35:36.160 --> 00:35:39.000
And it feels like your
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:40.020
generation is really redefining
00:35:40.020 --> 00:35:41.250
what should have never had to be
00:35:41.250 --> 00:35:44.020
redefined.
00:35:44.020 --> 00:35:44.290
- Judah: Yeah, and I think,
00:35:44.290 --> 00:35:46.180
first of all, had a phenomenal
00:35:46.180 --> 00:35:48.020
history lesson here.
00:35:48.020 --> 00:35:49.100
This is amazing.
00:35:49.100 --> 00:35:50.250
It's, like, why didn't my dad
00:35:50.250 --> 00:35:52.010
tell me this?
00:35:52.010 --> 00:35:52.270
It's, honestly, my head is full
00:35:52.270 --> 00:35:55.070
of all swirling ideas.
00:35:55.070 --> 00:35:56.170
It's just is very insightful to
00:35:56.170 --> 00:35:58.130
consider Israel and then wars
00:35:58.130 --> 00:36:00.120
and the presentation of the
00:36:00.120 --> 00:36:01.230
gospel.
00:36:01.230 --> 00:36:03.000
On an interesting note, quick
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:04.050
side note, recently I did--I
00:36:04.050 --> 00:36:06.030
gave an opportunity to be--to
00:36:06.030 --> 00:36:08.210
receive the gift of Jesus and
00:36:08.210 --> 00:36:10.110
his forgiveness.
00:36:10.110 --> 00:36:11.100
And I said, "Just raise your
00:36:11.100 --> 00:36:12.230
hand on the count of three," and
00:36:12.230 --> 00:36:13.200
then I prayed.
00:36:13.200 --> 00:36:14.250
I didn't have anybody, you know,
00:36:14.250 --> 00:36:15.220
pray with me.
00:36:15.220 --> 00:36:16.230
And people in our church were,
00:36:16.230 --> 00:36:18.030
like, "Hey, look, you know,
00:36:18.030 --> 00:36:18.230
Pastor, you didn't do
00:36:18.230 --> 00:36:20.030
the sinner's prayer."
00:36:20.030 --> 00:36:21.160
And I said,
00:36:21.160 --> 00:36:22.090
"Well, just so you know, that's
00:36:22.090 --> 00:36:23.230
not actually in the Bible.
00:36:23.230 --> 00:36:25.060
Billy Sunday popularized that,"
00:36:25.060 --> 00:36:26.290
but, now, you know, Jesus
00:36:26.290 --> 00:36:28.160
followers believe that if you
00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:29.210
don't--to believe in your heart
00:36:29.210 --> 00:36:31.080
and confess with your mouth, by
00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:32.100
the way, that's supposed to be
00:36:32.100 --> 00:36:33.210
this outlived lifestyle.
00:36:33.210 --> 00:36:35.100
It doesn't mean one time you
00:36:35.100 --> 00:36:36.060
have to say, "Dear Lord Jesus,
00:36:36.060 --> 00:36:37.090
dear Lord Jesus,
00:36:37.090 --> 00:36:38.050
come into my heart."
00:36:38.050 --> 00:36:38.240
I think that's a fine
00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:39.180
way to do it.
00:36:39.180 --> 00:36:40.120
But I actually believe that
00:36:40.120 --> 00:36:41.240
people make a decision in the
00:36:41.240 --> 00:36:43.020
deepest part of their being and
00:36:43.020 --> 00:36:44.140
then they confess daily
00:36:44.140 --> 00:36:46.070
for the rest of their life,
00:36:46.070 --> 00:36:47.020
"I love Jesus, I love Jesus."
00:36:47.020 --> 00:36:48.260
So we're even doing altar
00:36:48.260 --> 00:36:50.100
calls different now.
00:36:50.100 --> 00:36:51.010
- Matt: You just went deep too.
00:36:51.010 --> 00:36:52.140
That was cool.
00:36:52.140 --> 00:36:53.050
- Judah: Well, because you're
00:36:53.050 --> 00:36:53.280
talking about altar calls, and
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:54.200
I'm, like, that's crazy, 'cause
00:36:54.200 --> 00:36:55.160
I've been thinking a lot about
00:36:55.160 --> 00:36:56.140
how altar calls are given
00:36:56.140 --> 00:36:58.040
because I think it's indicative
00:36:58.040 --> 00:36:59.200
of the generation you're trying
00:36:59.200 --> 00:37:00.260
to engage and reach.
00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:02.020
But I think Billy Sunday had a
00:37:02.020 --> 00:37:03.060
window and God gave him insight,
00:37:03.060 --> 00:37:05.020
but I think maybe there's a
00:37:05.020 --> 00:37:06.070
different way to invite people
00:37:06.070 --> 00:37:07.120
into this journey with Jesus
00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:09.070
that's beyond just a one-time
00:37:09.070 --> 00:37:10.220
prayer.
00:37:10.220 --> 00:37:11.160
So I dunno.
00:37:11.160 --> 00:37:12.110
It's just stuff we're thinking
00:37:12.110 --> 00:37:13.090
about and--in our community.
00:37:13.090 --> 00:37:14.170
I do think that the world is in
00:37:14.270 --> 00:37:17.270
a painful place but it's in
00:37:17.270 --> 00:37:19.160
a perfect place for our story
00:37:19.160 --> 00:37:21.250
to be told.
00:37:21.250 --> 00:37:23.030
'Cause our story's the story of
00:37:23.030 --> 00:37:24.040
the gift, and it's a free gift.
00:37:24.040 --> 00:37:26.080
And it's the greatest gift,
00:37:26.080 --> 00:37:27.270
and you can be forgiven.
00:37:27.270 --> 00:37:29.060
Are you in pain?
00:37:29.060 --> 00:37:29.230
Are you hurting?
00:37:29.230 --> 00:37:30.100
Are you broken?
00:37:30.100 --> 00:37:31.050
Come to Jesus.
00:37:31.050 --> 00:37:32.090
He specializes in damaged goods.
00:37:32.090 --> 00:37:34.200
By the way, telling people about
00:37:34.200 --> 00:37:35.270
Jesus is the easiest thing
00:37:35.270 --> 00:37:36.280
in the whole wide world.
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:37.290
I mean, I'm in Seattle and every
00:37:37.290 --> 00:37:39.000
single person I invite to church
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:40.170
turns up.
00:37:40.170 --> 00:37:41.170
I mean, we're--it's the easiest
00:37:41.170 --> 00:37:42.160
thing.
00:37:42.160 --> 00:37:43.200
Every night in Los Angeles, on
00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:44.230
Wednesday nights, I don't know,
00:37:44.230 --> 00:37:46.070
70 people a night raise their
00:37:46.070 --> 00:37:48.050
hand, "I wanna follow Jesus."
00:37:48.050 --> 00:37:49.150
People are--they want our story.
00:37:49.150 --> 00:37:51.150
We just gotta get the story out
00:37:51.150 --> 00:37:53.060
for what it is.
00:37:53.060 --> 00:37:54.050
It's not fire insurance.
00:37:54.050 --> 00:37:55.120
It's a romantic relationship
00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:57.130
with the creator of heaven and
00:37:57.130 --> 00:37:58.120
earth who loves us
00:37:58.120 --> 00:37:59.100
unconditionally.
00:37:59.100 --> 00:38:00.120
Where can you find that
00:38:00.120 --> 00:38:01.050
anywhere?
00:38:01.050 --> 00:38:02.010
Nowhere but Jesus.
00:38:02.010 --> 00:38:04.050
So I'm just, I'm pumped to tell
00:38:04.050 --> 00:38:06.100
people our story.
00:38:06.100 --> 00:38:07.200
It's God's story.
00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:08.200
It's a story of love and grace
00:38:08.200 --> 00:38:09.220
and mercy and belonging and
00:38:09.220 --> 00:38:11.270
invitation and welcome.
00:38:11.270 --> 00:38:13.080
And how did we make it negative?
00:38:13.080 --> 00:38:15.140
How did that happen?
00:38:15.140 --> 00:38:16.070
My word!
00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:17.200
- Matt: I don't know.
00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:18.110
Okay, let me reset.
00:38:18.110 --> 00:38:20.080
We are in Brooklyn, New York.
00:38:20.080 --> 00:38:22.010
"Praise" is coming to you.
00:38:22.010 --> 00:38:24.030
This is Judah Smith.
00:38:24.030 --> 00:38:25.150
Judah, we might be introducing
00:38:25.150 --> 00:38:27.090
you to a few people.
00:38:27.090 --> 00:38:28.240
You're a main speaker in a lot
00:38:28.240 --> 00:38:30.110
of things, a lot of Hillsong
00:38:30.110 --> 00:38:31.180
Conferences.
00:38:31.180 --> 00:38:32.100
Amazing church in Seattle.
00:38:32.100 --> 00:38:33.250
Amazing work happening in
00:38:33.250 --> 00:38:35.140
Hollywood, California.
00:38:35.140 --> 00:38:36.280
Okay, what is your--give us a
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:39.000
couple of minutes of your story,
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.250
though.
00:38:40.250 --> 00:38:41.150
Where did you come from?
00:38:41.150 --> 00:38:43.020
- Judah: So I've been a pastor
00:38:43.020 --> 00:38:44.060
for 17 years, married 16 years,
00:38:44.060 --> 00:38:46.270
have 3 kids.
00:38:46.270 --> 00:38:48.120
Live in Seattle and in L.A.
00:38:48.120 --> 00:38:50.080
I'm a man of two cities.
00:38:50.080 --> 00:38:51.180
And yeah, that's life.
00:38:51.180 --> 00:38:53.230
I love life.
00:38:53.230 --> 00:38:54.150
I love the Seahawks.
00:38:54.150 --> 00:38:56.030
That's God's favorite sports
00:38:56.030 --> 00:38:57.100
team in the whole wide world, in
00:38:57.100 --> 00:38:58.150
case you didn't know that.
00:38:58.150 --> 00:38:59.170
I get to be the Chaplain of the
00:38:59.170 --> 00:39:00.220
Seahawks.
00:39:00.220 --> 00:39:01.200
We're gonna win the Super Bowl
00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:02.180
this year.
00:39:02.180 --> 00:39:03.130
I don't know if you--I'd like to
00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:04.140
announce publicly on TBN we're
00:39:04.140 --> 00:39:05.130
winning the Super Bowl.
00:39:05.130 --> 00:39:06.230
But, yeah, and I love golf.
00:39:07.050 --> 00:39:10.050
Yeah, that's right.
00:39:10.050 --> 00:39:11.220
- Matt: The Legion of Boom is
00:39:11.220 --> 00:39:13.040
back.
00:39:13.040 --> 00:39:14.000
- Judah: He is.
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:15.060
- Matt: Hey, by the way, we've
00:39:15.060 --> 00:39:16.240
never met so we're meeting for
00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:19.170
the first time, which is very
00:39:19.170 --> 00:39:20.260
unusual.
00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:21.200
Not often, not often with the
00:39:21.260 --> 00:39:24.260
cameras rolling, not often, I'm
00:39:24.260 --> 00:39:26.080
not sure, I'm not sure this ever
00:39:26.080 --> 00:39:28.120
happened to me.
00:39:28.120 --> 00:39:30.020
As much as we've been on--I'm
00:39:30.020 --> 00:39:31.180
not sure this has ever happened
00:39:31.180 --> 00:39:32.270
to me, but it's cool.
00:39:32.270 --> 00:39:34.000
Behind us, in just a moment,
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:36.120
just in case you just tuned in,
00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:37.280
we want you to know that this is
00:39:38.010 --> 00:39:41.010
Hillsong Conference
00:39:41.010 --> 00:39:42.240
right behind us.
00:39:42.240 --> 00:39:43.250
Judah Smith, one of the main
00:39:43.250 --> 00:39:44.230
speakers.
00:39:44.230 --> 00:39:45.220
Would you just lead people to
00:39:45.220 --> 00:39:47.010
Jesus in a way that your
00:39:47.010 --> 00:39:49.170
generation is totally into it.
00:39:49.170 --> 00:39:51.120
And there they are,
00:39:51.120 --> 00:39:53.260
they're watching.
00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:54.270
And they think you're different
00:39:54.270 --> 00:39:56.090
and they're about to know that
00:39:56.090 --> 00:39:58.240
you're--
00:39:58.240 --> 00:39:59.180
- Judah: Well, mentally, maybe,
00:39:59.180 --> 00:40:00.110
I dunno.
00:40:00.110 --> 00:40:01.000
- Matt: There they are, right
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:02.020
there.
00:40:02.020 --> 00:40:02.170
- Judah: Yeah, it's my favorite
00:40:02.170 --> 00:40:03.220
thing to do in the whole wide
00:40:03.220 --> 00:40:04.230
world and I think what's life
00:40:04.230 --> 00:40:06.230
without relationship?
00:40:06.230 --> 00:40:07.220
We just started a relationship
00:40:07.220 --> 00:40:09.170
and a friendship and, if you
00:40:09.170 --> 00:40:12.110
could, think of the most amazing
00:40:12.110 --> 00:40:13.280
person in the world that you
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:15.070
could meet and what if you could
00:40:15.070 --> 00:40:16.220
meet 'em and then actually have
00:40:16.220 --> 00:40:17.230
a friendship with 'em?
00:40:17.230 --> 00:40:18.240
Some maybe well-known person
00:40:18.240 --> 00:40:20.130
that you love or you look up to
00:40:20.130 --> 00:40:21.180
or someone who's, you know,
00:40:21.180 --> 00:40:22.200
passed and gone in history
00:40:22.200 --> 00:40:24.050
and to think, "Wow,
00:40:24.050 --> 00:40:25.090
I could meet 'em.
00:40:25.090 --> 00:40:26.170
That would be incredible."
00:40:26.170 --> 00:40:27.170
But what if, what if there was a
00:40:27.170 --> 00:40:29.220
creator, a creator of heaven and
00:40:29.220 --> 00:40:31.100
earth, of everything we can see?
00:40:31.100 --> 00:40:32.140
All of our five senses tell us
00:40:32.140 --> 00:40:33.140
that we've been designed by this
00:40:33.140 --> 00:40:35.280
intelligent being.
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.050
What if this almighty,
00:40:37.050 --> 00:40:38.040
all-powerful being wanted to be
00:40:38.040 --> 00:40:40.240
our closest friend?
00:40:40.240 --> 00:40:42.070
Wanted to have the most
00:40:42.070 --> 00:40:43.210
intimate, fun, exciting,
00:40:43.210 --> 00:40:46.210
thrilling, challenging, wild
00:40:46.210 --> 00:40:49.010
adventure with us for the rest
00:40:49.010 --> 00:40:50.190
of our days on earth and into
00:40:50.190 --> 00:40:51.270
eternity forever?
00:40:51.270 --> 00:40:53.260
What if we had that option?
00:40:53.260 --> 00:40:54.290
What if you could know him?
00:40:54.290 --> 00:40:56.070
What if you could talk to him
00:40:56.070 --> 00:40:57.040
anytime you wanted to?
00:40:57.040 --> 00:40:58.020
What if you could laugh with
00:40:58.020 --> 00:40:58.280
him, cry with him,
00:40:58.280 --> 00:40:59.240
go to eat with him?
00:40:59.240 --> 00:41:00.290
What if you could take him to
00:41:00.290 --> 00:41:01.210
the movies?
00:41:01.210 --> 00:41:02.130
What if you could have a
00:41:02.130 --> 00:41:03.100
relationship with a perfect
00:41:03.100 --> 00:41:04.180
being?
00:41:04.180 --> 00:41:05.270
Who would love you endlessly,
00:41:05.270 --> 00:41:07.130
relentlessly, unconditionally, a
00:41:07.130 --> 00:41:09.080
being who would never let you
00:41:09.080 --> 00:41:11.010
down, who would always be there,
00:41:11.010 --> 00:41:12.180
never leave you nor forsake you?
00:41:12.180 --> 00:41:13.290
What if you could have a
00:41:13.290 --> 00:41:14.270
friendship like that?
00:41:14.270 --> 00:41:16.120
I mean, who in the world doesn't
00:41:16.120 --> 00:41:18.020
want a relationship like that?
00:41:18.020 --> 00:41:19.190
I love my wife but she's not
00:41:19.190 --> 00:41:21.090
that.
00:41:21.090 --> 00:41:22.050
I've got some great friends.
00:41:22.050 --> 00:41:23.250
Carl Lentz is one of them,
00:41:23.250 --> 00:41:24.260
but he's not that.
00:41:24.260 --> 00:41:26.190
The Bible actually tells us that
00:41:26.190 --> 00:41:28.230
God is a relational being, that
00:41:28.230 --> 00:41:31.120
we've actually been designed by
00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:32.290
him for him.
00:41:32.290 --> 00:41:34.210
That we are actually designed to
00:41:34.210 --> 00:41:36.150
be his friends.
00:41:36.150 --> 00:41:37.160
That is the primary purpose for
00:41:37.160 --> 00:41:38.160
which we breathe and exist, is
00:41:38.160 --> 00:41:39.270
to be friends with God.
00:41:39.270 --> 00:41:42.140
I mean, when you've got
00:41:42.140 --> 00:41:43.210
a friendship with God, you got
00:41:43.210 --> 00:41:45.100
all the connections you'll ever
00:41:45.100 --> 00:41:46.180
need.
00:41:46.180 --> 00:41:47.180
And that friendship has been
00:41:47.180 --> 00:41:49.060
revealed to us and demonstrated
00:41:49.060 --> 00:41:50.200
to us in the person of Jesus.
00:41:50.200 --> 00:41:52.290
He came and put on skin and
00:41:52.290 --> 00:41:54.130
bone.
00:41:54.130 --> 00:41:55.100
He literally took the lowly
00:41:55.100 --> 00:41:56.160
state of a human being and he
00:41:56.160 --> 00:41:58.110
walked amongst us and he talked
00:41:58.110 --> 00:42:00.140
with us and he felt our plight
00:42:00.140 --> 00:42:02.010
and our pain and our fragility
00:42:02.010 --> 00:42:03.150
and our challenges and our
00:42:03.150 --> 00:42:04.290
difficulties.
00:42:04.290 --> 00:42:05.280
And he's the only one, by the
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:08.100
way, that can help me with my
00:42:08.100 --> 00:42:09.120
sin.
00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:10.050
You can't help me with my sin
00:42:10.050 --> 00:42:11.070
because you have sin.
00:42:11.070 --> 00:42:12.140
I can't help you with your sin
00:42:12.140 --> 00:42:13.070
'cause I got sin.
00:42:13.070 --> 00:42:14.070
I'm trying to deal with my own
00:42:14.070 --> 00:42:14.290
stuff.
00:42:14.290 --> 00:42:15.270
And yet, Jesus, who knew no sin
00:42:15.270 --> 00:42:17.170
became sin so that I might
00:42:17.170 --> 00:42:18.270
become right in my relationship
00:42:18.270 --> 00:42:21.070
with God forever and ever
00:42:21.070 --> 00:42:22.140
without end.
00:42:22.140 --> 00:42:23.150
And you know, by simply
00:42:23.150 --> 00:42:24.130
believing in Jesus, who is God,
00:42:24.130 --> 00:42:27.030
by simply believing in him,
00:42:27.030 --> 00:42:28.280
you're forgiven forever.
00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:31.090
Forever!
00:42:31.090 --> 00:42:32.030
We know there's people question,
00:42:32.030 --> 00:42:33.010
"Am I forgiven into the future?"
00:42:33.010 --> 00:42:34.110
Well, of course, you are.
00:42:34.110 --> 00:42:35.240
Jesus passed away 2.000 years
00:42:35.240 --> 00:42:37.180
ago and was resurrected
00:42:37.180 --> 00:42:38.220
2.000 years ago.
00:42:38.220 --> 00:42:39.280
So we know it's retroactive, but
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:42.060
we also know it's futuristic.
00:42:42.060 --> 00:42:43.130
So his forgiveness works into
00:42:43.130 --> 00:42:45.000
the future, which means I am
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:46.070
forgiven forever, past, present,
00:42:46.070 --> 00:42:47.180
future.
00:42:47.180 --> 00:42:48.140
I am in right relationship
00:42:48.140 --> 00:42:49.180
with God forever and ever
00:42:49.180 --> 00:42:51.000
without end.
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:51.180
He loves me, he's for me, and
00:42:51.180 --> 00:42:53.210
right now he's smiling at me.
00:42:53.210 --> 00:42:56.010
And I pray over my kids every
00:42:56.010 --> 00:42:57.180
night when I pray with my 12-
00:42:57.180 --> 00:42:58.160
and my 9- and my
00:42:58.160 --> 00:43:00.110
7-year-old, I said,
00:43:00.110 --> 00:43:01.060
"God's smiling at you right now.
00:43:01.060 --> 00:43:02.170
He's so proud of you and he
00:43:02.170 --> 00:43:03.120
loves you so much."
00:43:03.120 --> 00:43:04.140
And so I just wanna
00:43:04.140 --> 00:43:05.270
encourage you today,
00:43:05.270 --> 00:43:07.020
if you wanna know this Jesus and
00:43:07.020 --> 00:43:09.000
I promise you the institution of
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:10.290
Christianity, that's not
00:43:10.290 --> 00:43:12.290
what changes the world.
00:43:12.290 --> 00:43:14.180
It's the person of Jesus
00:43:14.180 --> 00:43:16.090
that changes us and changes
00:43:16.090 --> 00:43:17.220
the world.
00:43:17.220 --> 00:43:18.220
And all I am is a witness.
00:43:18.220 --> 00:43:20.000
I'm just here today to tell you
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:21.020
I've seen something, I've
00:43:21.020 --> 00:43:21.290
experienced something.
00:43:21.290 --> 00:43:23.050
It's encountered me and it's
00:43:23.050 --> 00:43:25.020
not an "it," it's a person.
00:43:25.020 --> 00:43:26.090
His name is Jesus and he's
00:43:26.090 --> 00:43:27.110
changed my life.
00:43:27.110 --> 00:43:28.060
And he's the most important
00:43:28.060 --> 00:43:29.110
relationship that I have.
00:43:29.110 --> 00:43:30.150
And you can have that same
00:43:30.150 --> 00:43:31.280
relationship.
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:32.240
How?
00:43:32.240 --> 00:43:33.170
The Bible says, "For God so
00:43:33.170 --> 00:43:34.190
loved the world that he gave his
00:43:34.190 --> 00:43:35.150
only begotten Son that
00:43:35.150 --> 00:43:36.130
whosoever," I can't believe
00:43:36.130 --> 00:43:38.110
that, "whosoever would simply
00:43:38.110 --> 00:43:40.110
believe in him, would not perish
00:43:40.110 --> 00:43:41.280
but have everlasting life."
00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:43.180
You simply believe.
00:43:43.180 --> 00:43:45.060
You actually just go, "Okay, I
00:43:45.060 --> 00:43:47.180
believe," and just like that,
00:43:47.180 --> 00:43:49.070
you're his forever without end
00:43:49.070 --> 00:43:51.010
and you have relationship
00:43:51.010 --> 00:43:52.280
with him forever.
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:55.000
And it's just--I just can't
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:56.080
believe we get to do this and
00:43:56.080 --> 00:43:58.150
we get to tell people about
00:43:58.150 --> 00:43:59.140
this gift.
00:43:59.140 --> 00:44:00.240
It's amazing, it's amazing.
00:44:00.240 --> 00:44:02.270
- Matt: All you do is just
00:44:02.270 --> 00:44:04.240
simply believe.
00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:06.270
- Judah: Believe.
00:44:06.270 --> 00:44:08.020
- Matt: That's it?
00:44:08.020 --> 00:44:08.180
- Judah: Believe.
00:44:08.180 --> 00:44:09.170
- Matt: We are right here in
00:44:09.170 --> 00:44:10.080
Brooklyn, New York.
00:44:10.080 --> 00:44:12.160
It is happening.
00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:14.240
- Judah: As the Father sent me,
00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:16.170
as God put on skin and bone and
00:44:16.170 --> 00:44:19.040
became man, so now I am sending
00:44:20.220 --> 00:44:23.220
you.
00:44:23.220 --> 00:44:25.100
That sending is not safe.
00:44:26.100 --> 00:44:29.100
Can we just agree on that?
00:44:29.100 --> 00:44:30.120
It's not safe.
00:44:30.120 --> 00:44:31.220
If you're looking for safety,
00:44:31.220 --> 00:44:33.210
might I recommend another
00:44:33.210 --> 00:44:36.170
Seriously, they're all manmade
00:44:39.290 --> 00:44:41.090
but some of them do a much
00:44:41.090 --> 00:44:43.210
better job appealing to
00:44:43.210 --> 00:44:46.110
your soul's inherent desire
00:44:46.110 --> 00:44:48.250
Jesus never--and I
00:44:52.060 --> 00:44:53.250
wrestle with this as much as you
00:44:53.250 --> 00:44:54.260
might be wrestling with this
00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:55.240
right now.
00:44:55.240 --> 00:44:56.150
You're, like, "Wow, I was really
00:44:56.150 --> 00:44:57.070
looking forward to a really
00:44:57.070 --> 00:44:58.060
great, funny, encouraging
00:44:58.060 --> 00:44:59.080
message from Judah.
00:45:00.220 --> 00:45:03.220
Can we have more jokes,
00:45:03.220 --> 00:45:04.220
And then I love
00:45:16.030 --> 00:45:17.150
the Thomas scene, don't you?
00:45:17.150 --> 00:45:19.140
Because I could understand in
00:45:19.140 --> 00:45:20.160
Jesus' appearance tour, like, he
00:45:20.160 --> 00:45:22.190
set up schedules where you get
00:45:22.190 --> 00:45:24.040
the most bang for your buck, you
00:45:24.040 --> 00:45:25.050
get the most effective,
00:45:25.050 --> 00:45:27.050
efficient appearance, right?
00:45:27.050 --> 00:45:29.010
Like, if you're gonna appear,
00:45:29.010 --> 00:45:29.250
appear to groups, groups, so we
00:45:29.250 --> 00:45:31.250
can get groups moving in the
00:45:31.250 --> 00:45:33.010
right direction to tell the
00:45:33.010 --> 00:45:33.280
story of God.
00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:34.210
But Jesus in his appearance
00:45:34.210 --> 00:45:35.210
tour, which his time is limited,
00:45:35.210 --> 00:45:37.010
he decides to appear to one hurt
00:45:38.030 --> 00:45:41.030
disciple.
00:45:41.030 --> 00:45:42.200
He walks through the walls and
00:45:42.200 --> 00:45:44.000
he says--he's not here for
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:45.230
anybody else.
00:45:45.230 --> 00:45:46.180
He's, like, "Thomas, I'm here."
00:45:46.180 --> 00:45:48.270
And Thomas' explanation is
00:45:48.270 --> 00:45:50.160
really interesting.
00:45:50.160 --> 00:45:51.140
He says something like,
00:45:51.140 --> 00:45:53.030
"God, my God.
00:45:53.030 --> 00:45:54.200
My Lord my God."
00:45:54.200 --> 00:45:56.140
Okay, that was
00:45:56.140 --> 00:45:57.030
not, "My Lord, my God!
00:45:57.030 --> 00:45:58.130
Ho, ho, it's so good to see you.
00:45:58.130 --> 00:46:00.090
I've missed you so much.
00:46:00.090 --> 00:46:02.110
Forget what I said previously."
00:46:02.110 --> 00:46:04.030
No, it was, "Oh my God.
00:46:04.030 --> 00:46:06.250
My Lord, I'm--I lost my way."
00:46:07.190 --> 00:46:10.190
"I know, I love you.
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:13.280
Came to show myself to you
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:16.030
so that you too would believe
00:46:16.030 --> 00:46:18.210
because we've got a mission
00:46:18.210 --> 00:46:20.080
to be on."
00:46:20.080 --> 00:46:22.030
And then, and then,
00:46:22.030 --> 00:46:23.020
look how loving Jesus is.
00:46:23.020 --> 00:46:24.120
He walks through walls, he--and
00:46:24.120 --> 00:46:26.070
then he walks through
00:46:26.070 --> 00:46:26.290
another wall for one person.
00:46:26.290 --> 00:46:28.080
And then he makes breakfast.
00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:29.170
Like, if I'm Jesus, I would come
00:46:29.170 --> 00:46:30.290
at it from a totally different
00:46:30.290 --> 00:46:32.070
angle, you know what I mean?
00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:36.040
Like, I would--there would be
00:46:36.040 --> 00:46:37.090
a lot more, like, just like
00:46:37.090 --> 00:46:38.160
demonstration of how dumb
00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:40.210
the disciples are, right?
00:46:41.290 --> 00:46:44.290
But Jesus cooks food
00:46:47.110 --> 00:46:50.110
to be there for his guys.
00:46:50.110 --> 00:46:51.250
And he says, "Hey, it's--I
00:46:51.250 --> 00:46:53.220
actually did what I said I was
00:46:53.220 --> 00:46:54.170
gonna do."
00:46:54.170 --> 00:46:55.120
And, interesting, the
00:46:55.120 --> 00:46:58.080
three scenes that we're given,
00:46:58.080 --> 00:47:00.060
every single one, there's a
00:47:00.060 --> 00:47:02.030
consistent response.
00:47:02.030 --> 00:47:04.230
Did you see it?
00:47:04.230 --> 00:47:05.270
The first is glad, which means
00:47:05.270 --> 00:47:07.020
they were gawking and gasping.
00:47:07.020 --> 00:47:08.250
It literally means everyone in
00:47:08.250 --> 00:47:10.050
the room sucked air at the
00:47:10.050 --> 00:47:11.120
majesty and the beauty and the
00:47:11.120 --> 00:47:13.070
fulfillment of the Messiah's
00:47:13.070 --> 00:47:14.270
words.
00:47:14.270 --> 00:47:15.280
They all went, "He's here.
00:47:16.170 --> 00:47:19.170
Whoa."
00:47:19.170 --> 00:47:20.280
Thomas went, "My Lord, my God."
00:47:23.020 --> 00:47:26.020
And Peter and
00:47:26.020 --> 00:47:27.010
the guys ate breakfast in
00:47:27.010 --> 00:47:28.150
awkward awe and holy hush as
00:47:28.150 --> 00:47:31.050
they ate and looked at him.
00:47:31.050 --> 00:47:33.120
Over and over they just looked
00:47:33.120 --> 00:47:34.160
at him and thought, "It's real.
00:47:34.160 --> 00:47:36.140
This is real.
00:47:36.140 --> 00:47:37.130
He's this amazing."
00:47:38.050 --> 00:47:41.050
And I look at this,
00:47:41.050 --> 00:47:42.070
and I think to myself,
00:47:42.070 --> 00:47:43.130
"So what's gonna be the answer
00:47:43.130 --> 00:47:45.070
and the antidote for you and I
00:47:45.070 --> 00:47:46.200
not to leave here and look for
00:47:46.270 --> 00:47:49.270
the 'safe' life?"
00:47:49.270 --> 00:47:51.200
The problem with looking for the
00:47:51.200 --> 00:47:53.020
safe life with Jesus is, as you
00:47:53.020 --> 00:47:54.150
do, as you do, you're gonna be
00:47:54.150 --> 00:47:56.250
perpetually frustrated.
00:47:56.250 --> 00:47:58.270
Well, just, can I warn you?
00:47:58.270 --> 00:48:01.160
You're gonna have your moments
00:48:01.160 --> 00:48:03.010
going forward.
00:48:03.010 --> 00:48:04.200
You're gonna wrestle with this.
00:48:04.200 --> 00:48:05.120
We're so inundated with the
00:48:05.120 --> 00:48:06.110
concepts of safety and
00:48:06.110 --> 00:48:07.250
protection.
00:48:07.250 --> 00:48:09.040
I had an amazing pastor
00:48:09.040 --> 00:48:10.120
recently, or yesterday, who told
00:48:10.120 --> 00:48:12.100
me she got in a bicycle accident
00:48:12.100 --> 00:48:13.100
and so she was pleading with me
00:48:13.100 --> 00:48:14.210
to wear my bike helmet and I'm,
00:48:14.210 --> 00:48:15.290
like, "I probably should.
00:48:15.290 --> 00:48:17.250
Like, it's just this whole
00:48:17.250 --> 00:48:18.270
movement with seatbelts and
00:48:18.270 --> 00:48:21.030
helmets and I applaud all of it.
00:48:21.030 --> 00:48:24.000
But it is sometimes kind of has
00:48:24.160 --> 00:48:27.160
a humor to it, doesn't it?
00:48:27.160 --> 00:48:30.060
We're fickle little creatures.
00:48:30.060 --> 00:48:32.010
Strap on our helmets, buckle in.
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"I'm good.
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Deadbolt.
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Everything's gonna be fine."
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:40.280
We're smarter than that.
00:48:41.090 --> 00:48:44.090
The safe life's overrated,
00:48:44.090 --> 00:48:45.210
you know?
00:48:45.210 --> 00:48:47.290
But look how easy it is to
00:48:47.290 --> 00:48:49.090
settle back in behind
00:48:49.090 --> 00:48:50.210
locked doors.
00:48:50.210 --> 00:48:52.030
Safety mechanisms,
00:48:52.030 --> 00:48:53.200
I only see what I believe.
00:48:53.200 --> 00:48:55.070
and what's safe.
00:48:57.270 --> 00:49:00.140
Which one do you relate to and
00:49:00.140 --> 00:49:02.000
what's gonna be the antidote
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.020
so you don't fall prey
00:49:04.020 --> 00:49:04.250
I think we need to recover
00:49:07.180 --> 00:49:10.180
something about our God.
00:49:11.200 --> 00:49:14.200
I think we've got to
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continually, perpetually
00:49:17.030 --> 00:49:19.190
recover awe.
00:49:19.190 --> 00:49:22.060
I think awe is underrated in our
00:49:22.120 --> 00:49:25.120
relationship with God.
00:49:25.120 --> 00:49:27.180
Look at the awe all three groups
00:49:28.020 --> 00:49:31.020
had--Thomas, in his case, one
00:49:31.020 --> 00:49:33.060
man, they all--there was this
00:49:33.060 --> 00:49:35.170
holy fear and that word "fear"
00:49:35.170 --> 00:49:37.280
in the Hebrew, in the Greek,
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.230
it communicates not terror and
00:49:39.230 --> 00:49:42.200
worry of pain or lack of safety,
00:49:42.200 --> 00:49:43.280
but it's this overwhelming
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.230
majestic essence of God that
00:49:45.230 --> 00:49:48.100
comes to the forefront of our
00:49:48.100 --> 00:49:50.010
attention in our sight, in our
00:49:50.010 --> 00:49:52.080
senses, and it dawns on us
00:49:52.080 --> 00:49:54.140
that he is without peer.
00:49:55.150 --> 00:49:58.150
That he is God.
00:49:59.160 --> 00:50:02.160
And beside him, there is no one
00:50:02.160 --> 00:50:05.000
even close, that he speaks and
00:50:06.070 --> 00:50:09.070
galaxies and solar systems and
00:50:09.070 --> 00:50:11.170
planets and milky ways
00:50:11.170 --> 00:50:13.270
respond to his declaration.
00:50:13.270 --> 00:50:16.240
He's not safe.
00:50:16.240 --> 00:50:19.140
Listen to me, church.
00:50:19.140 --> 00:50:21.160
He's not safe.
00:50:21.160 --> 00:50:23.080
If you're looking for a safe
00:50:23.080 --> 00:50:24.140
God, that's kind of ironic,
00:50:24.230 --> 00:50:27.230
isn't it?
00:50:27.230 --> 00:50:29.000
You're looking for a safe God as
00:50:30.100 --> 00:50:33.100
we, in our western civilization,
00:50:33.100 --> 00:50:36.080
define safety,
00:50:36.080 --> 00:50:37.200
how fickle is that?
00:50:37.200 --> 00:50:39.040
No, I will not make God
00:50:39.040 --> 00:50:40.160
in my own image.
00:50:40.160 --> 00:50:41.210
I am made in his image.
00:50:43.090 --> 00:50:46.090
And there is something in you
00:50:46.090 --> 00:50:48.160
and there's something in me that
00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:50.060
was that was wired and designed
00:50:50.060 --> 00:50:52.090
not for the road
00:50:52.090 --> 00:50:54.020
that's always traveled.
00:50:54.020 --> 00:50:55.210
There's something inside of you,
00:50:55.210 --> 00:50:56.260
sir.
00:50:56.260 --> 00:50:57.260
God is asking you to step out
00:50:57.260 --> 00:50:59.110
and start that church.
00:50:59.110 --> 00:51:01.130
He's asking you to step out,
00:51:01.130 --> 00:51:03.080
young lady, and start
00:51:03.080 --> 00:51:04.200
that business.
00:51:04.200 --> 00:51:06.030
And what's holding you back
00:51:06.030 --> 00:51:07.210
is an illusion called safety.
00:51:07.210 --> 00:51:10.160
I'm over safety.
00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:12.030
It's not real anyways.
00:51:12.030 --> 00:51:13.280
Only God is sure and only God
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:16.060
is secure.
00:51:18.190 --> 00:51:21.190
Ha-ha!
00:51:21.190 --> 00:51:23.290
If any man desires to come after
00:51:23.290 --> 00:51:26.210
me, let him let go of his life
00:51:27.040 --> 00:51:30.040
and all the trinkets and toys
00:51:30.040 --> 00:51:31.190
he thinks he needs and the
00:51:31.190 --> 00:51:33.090
illusions of safety and grandeur
00:51:33.090 --> 00:51:35.240
and opulence and fame and
00:51:35.240 --> 00:51:38.020
fortune.
00:51:38.020 --> 00:51:39.000
Let it go.
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Let it go.
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:41.020
And follow after me, Jesus says.
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I end with this.
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:48.000
As a little boy, I'll never
00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:49.130
forget the first day I heard
00:51:49.130 --> 00:51:51.170
the ocean.
00:51:51.170 --> 00:51:53.180
I was a little boy.
00:51:53.180 --> 00:51:54.160
I think I was 4 or 5 years old
00:51:54.160 --> 00:51:56.010
but I remember it vividly.
00:51:56.010 --> 00:51:57.110
I had a stuttering problem.
00:51:57.110 --> 00:51:59.010
I've gotten over that and
00:51:59.010 --> 00:52:00.060
haven't stopped talking since.
00:52:00.060 --> 00:52:02.180
When I was a little boy, we were
00:52:02.180 --> 00:52:04.010
staying in an RV.
00:52:04.010 --> 00:52:05.040
We had no money.
00:52:05.040 --> 00:52:06.170
My grandma was there, my dad's
00:52:06.170 --> 00:52:08.140
mom, and I'm there.
00:52:08.140 --> 00:52:10.050
And we got in late to the Oregon
00:52:10.050 --> 00:52:11.220
coast on the West Coast
00:52:11.220 --> 00:52:13.070
United States of America.
00:52:13.070 --> 00:52:14.140
We got in late in the RV and we
00:52:14.140 --> 00:52:16.120
all went to bed.
00:52:16.120 --> 00:52:17.230
Dad was exhausted from driving
00:52:17.230 --> 00:52:19.080
and said, "Kids, go to bed."
00:52:19.080 --> 00:52:20.170
And I'm laying there and all of
00:52:20.170 --> 00:52:22.100
a sudden I hear something deep.
00:52:23.070 --> 00:52:26.070
I hear something with incredible
00:52:26.070 --> 00:52:28.170
bass.
00:52:28.170 --> 00:52:29.110
And it roars and it rumbles and
00:52:29.110 --> 00:52:31.100
it rolls.
00:52:31.100 --> 00:52:32.170
And I'm thinking,
00:52:32.170 --> 00:52:33.060
"What is that?"
00:52:33.060 --> 00:52:35.140
Whooo, whooo.
00:52:35.210 --> 00:52:38.210
And I--we're all in the RV.
00:52:38.210 --> 00:52:40.250
I said, "Dad!
00:52:40.250 --> 00:52:41.270
Dad, w-what is that, Daddy?"
00:52:44.100 --> 00:52:47.100
He said, "It's the ocean, son.
00:52:47.100 --> 00:52:48.090
Go to sleep."
00:52:48.090 --> 00:52:49.230
He's exhausted, you know.
00:52:49.230 --> 00:52:51.010
"It's the ocean.
00:52:57.130 --> 00:52:58.080
That's why it does it.
00:52:58.080 --> 00:52:59.000
Go to sleep."
00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:00.140
Grandma steps in.
00:53:00.140 --> 00:53:02.070
She's, like, "Wendell, just go
00:53:02.070 --> 00:53:03.100
to bed, I got this."
00:53:03.100 --> 00:53:04.170
She says, "Sweetie,
00:53:04.170 --> 00:53:05.200
that's the ocean.
00:53:05.200 --> 00:53:07.120
We've told you about that."
00:53:07.120 --> 00:53:08.170
I said, "Is it mad?
00:53:08.270 --> 00:53:11.270
I'm scared, Grandma."
00:53:11.270 --> 00:53:14.080
She says,
00:53:14.080 --> 00:53:14.230
"You don't have to be scared.
00:53:14.230 --> 00:53:16.130
It's big, it's beautiful,
00:53:18.150 --> 00:53:20.140
and tomorrow I can't wait
00:53:20.140 --> 00:53:22.070
to take you--" I said,
00:53:22.070 --> 00:53:23.140
"I don't wanna go out there."
00:53:23.140 --> 00:53:26.120
"No, we're gonna go get in
00:53:26.120 --> 00:53:27.060
there."
00:53:27.060 --> 00:53:27.270
"No, no, no, no, no."
00:53:27.270 --> 00:53:29.170
For the first time, that--
00:53:29.170 --> 00:53:31.090
my brain was trying to process
00:53:31.090 --> 00:53:34.020
simply the power of his
00:53:34.020 --> 00:53:35.270
creation, let alone the power
00:53:36.220 --> 00:53:39.220
of the one who speaks words and
00:53:39.220 --> 00:53:41.150
oceans come into existence.
00:53:41.150 --> 00:53:44.090
Safety, who said anything
00:53:44.090 --> 00:53:46.140
about safe?
00:53:46.140 --> 00:53:47.200
But he's King and he's God and
00:53:47.200 --> 00:53:50.140
he's Lord, and he's my Savior
00:53:50.200 --> 00:53:53.200
and he's my Deliverer
00:53:53.200 --> 00:53:55.010
and he's my Messiah and he's
00:53:55.010 --> 00:53:56.290
everything I've ever wanted.
00:53:56.290 --> 00:53:59.030
He is the love of my life.
00:53:59.030 --> 00:54:00.250
He's the relationship
00:54:00.250 --> 00:54:02.000
you've always dreamed of.
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:03.270
So as far as I'm concerned,
00:54:03.270 --> 00:54:05.230
for me and my house, Lord,
00:54:05.230 --> 00:54:07.260
I'm gonna follow you wherever
00:54:07.260 --> 00:54:09.090
you want me to go.
00:54:09.090 --> 00:54:10.210
Your kingdom come and your
00:54:10.210 --> 00:54:12.180
will be done on earth
00:54:12.180 --> 00:54:14.270
as it is heaven.
00:54:14.270 --> 00:54:16.170
This life is short so, God,
00:54:16.170 --> 00:54:18.220
we commit, Lord, to follow you,
00:54:18.220 --> 00:54:21.020
Lord, wherever you want us to
00:54:21.020 --> 00:54:22.130
go, to say whatever you want
00:54:22.130 --> 00:54:24.030
us to say, to do whatever
00:54:24.030 --> 00:54:25.290
you want us to do.
00:54:25.290 --> 00:54:27.120
We love you, Jesus.
00:54:27.120 --> 00:54:28.230
C'mon, you begin to open
00:54:28.230 --> 00:54:29.190
up your mouth and tell him
00:54:29.190 --> 00:54:31.070
that you're gonna follow him.
00:54:31.070 --> 00:54:32.100
C'mon, your kingdom come
00:54:32.100 --> 00:54:33.180
and your will be done.
00:54:33.180 --> 00:54:35.010
and your will be done.
00:54:35.010 --> 00:54:37.290
[m
00:54:37.290 --> 00:54:38.000
[mus
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[music
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[music]
00:54:38.020 --> 00:54:44.060
[m
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[mus
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[music
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[music]
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[m
00:54:52.090 --> 00:54:52.100
[mus
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[music
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I stand upon the solid
00:55:01.250 --> 00:55:04.250
This steadfast hope
00:55:08.010 --> 00:55:09.200
shall not break apart
00:55:09.200 --> 00:55:12.040
within the trial.
00:55:12.040 --> 00:55:14.290
I am assured his promises
00:55:15.110 --> 00:55:18.110
will never fail.
00:55:18.160 --> 00:55:21.160
As long as life remains
00:55:21.190 --> 00:55:24.190
he is faithful.
00:55:25.150 --> 00:55:28.150
God is patient.
00:55:28.240 --> 00:55:31.240
God is kind.
00:55:32.040 --> 00:55:35.040
He does not envy.
00:55:35.230 --> 00:55:38.230
He does not boast.
00:55:39.040 --> 00:55:42.040
His ways are higher
00:55:42.040 --> 00:55:44.130
than my own.
00:55:44.130 --> 00:55:45.250
His thoughts consume
00:55:45.250 --> 00:55:47.120
the great unknown.
00:55:47.120 --> 00:55:50.100
Of this alone I am sure,
00:55:50.210 --> 00:55:53.210
Of this alone I am sure,
00:55:53.210 --> 00:55:58.280
[m
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[mus
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[music
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[music]
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[m
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[mus
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[music
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I draw my breath under
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:15.000
his created windswept sky.
00:56:15.270 --> 00:56:18.270
I know my hope shall last
00:56:19.050 --> 00:56:22.050
long after my flesh retires.
00:56:22.250 --> 00:56:25.250
From dusk until the dawn
00:56:25.250 --> 00:56:28.180
he calls his children home.
00:56:30.040 --> 00:56:33.040
His righteous love
00:56:33.040 --> 00:56:34.160
outlasts generations.
00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:39.160
God is patient.
00:56:40.030 --> 00:56:43.030
God is kind.
00:56:43.140 --> 00:56:46.140
He does not envy.
00:56:46.290 --> 00:56:49.290
He does not boast.
00:56:50.090 --> 00:56:53.090
His ways are higher
00:56:53.090 --> 00:56:55.230
than my own.
00:56:55.230 --> 00:56:57.020
His thoughts consume
00:56:57.020 --> 00:56:58.290
the great unknown.
00:56:58.290 --> 00:57:01.190
Of this alone I am sure,
00:57:02.010 --> 00:57:05.010
my God is love.
00:57:08.220 --> 00:57:11.220
[music]
00:57:16.270 --> 00:57:19.270
He is Almighty God, Elohim.
00:57:21.260 --> 00:57:24.260
Maker of the earth.
00:57:24.260 --> 00:57:27.080
He is the Lord of hosts,
00:57:27.080 --> 00:57:30.070
heaven's King,
00:57:30.070 --> 00:57:32.010
God of endless worth.
00:57:32.010 --> 00:57:34.080
His kingdom stands
00:57:34.080 --> 00:57:36.030
above every power,
00:57:36.030 --> 00:57:38.250
every living soul.
00:57:38.250 --> 00:57:41.130
His love is like the sun,
00:57:41.130 --> 00:57:44.110
ever true, shining over all.
00:57:45.190 --> 00:57:48.190
He is Almighty God, Elohim.
00:57:50.120 --> 00:57:53.120
Maker of the earth.
00:57:53.120 --> 00:57:55.200
He is the Lord of hosts,
00:57:55.200 --> 00:57:58.180
heaven's King,
00:57:58.180 --> 00:58:00.140
God of endless worth.
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His kingdom stands
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above every power,
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every living soul.
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His love is like the sun,
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ever true, shining over all.
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[music]
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[music]
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God is patient.
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God is kind.
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He does not envy.
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He does not boast.
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His ways are higher
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than my own.
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His thoughts consume
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the great unknown.
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Of this alone I am sure,
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Praise | April 3, 2017

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