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Music.
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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your son.
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Father God, we thank you for the victory that comes through the cross of Jesus
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Christ, Lord God, and through your faithfulness to lay down your life for us. Thank you, Jesus.
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And Father, we thank you that your will be done, O God, on earth,
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in and through us this day.
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As it's being done and declared forever and always in heaven,
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And I thank you, Lord, for giving us courage, wisdom, understanding,
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and to understand what it is that you would have us to do, that we can walk
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in the plan, the perfect plan, the purposes to which you have called us.
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And I bind the powers of darkness that would come against us this day and in
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the days ahead, the days behind, that the works of darkness would be brought
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into the light and that they would be crushed by the head crusher.
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We thank you, Jesus, that you came as the head crusher and you're about to finish
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the job that you started over 2,000 years ago.
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And I thank you, Lord Jesus, for giving us wisdom.
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I thank you for giving us an encouragement in our hearts, joy in our heart,
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faith, breakthroughs in our faith, breakthroughs in our prayers,
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Father, breakthroughs to bring us to the place of rich fulfillment.
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And I thank you, Lord Jesus, for the coming of the revelations today,
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for you said you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.
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So thank you for wisdom, divine wisdom, revelation, instruction,
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and by the power of your Holy Spirit, you do this day for us,
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Father God, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Amen. Well, the word fulfillment has been coming to mind, and in the context
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of Luke, Can I just say about fulfillment, it's a perfect time for the end of
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the year to talk about fulfillment and the fulfillment.
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Something seems to be fulfilled, something's not fulfilled. Or things yet to
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be fulfilled, and so we're right at that precipice right now where we're into the next year.
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And so we want to see what God has done, is saying, and will do.
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Well, let's look at Luke 1, verse 39.
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Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste to a
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city of Judah and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth,
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because they were husband and wife, Zacharias and Elizabeth.
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And it happened when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped
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in her womb, which was John the Baptist, right?
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And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she spoke out with a loud
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voice and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
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But why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
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For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears,
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the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
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And then verse 45, blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment
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of those things which were told her from the Lord.
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I'm reading from the New King James Version. In the King James Version,
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it says, for there will be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
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In other words, what the Lord has told you, that exactly is what he's going to do.
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Right. And I think this becomes an interesting situation. It's called faith. What did God say?
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What did God promise? What did Mary understand of what the angel was saying to her?
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And Elizabeth, too, she was prophetic at that moment, saying God is going to
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fulfill it. I remember when the angel Gabriel came to Mary, and she was kind
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of stunned, I suppose, shocked.
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And then she says, well, how is this going to be?
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And the angel Gabriel said, nothing shall be impossible with God.
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And so I think this is where we go when God gives us a promise.
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We look at the promises. We look at the problems, the obstacles,
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and we say, what? How can this be?
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And then he says, nothing is impossible. Well, let's look for a bit at what
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the word from God came through Gabriel to Mary in Luke 1.28.
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There's so many things that he said here and promised.
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And having come in, the angel said to her, rejoice.
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So he tells her, rejoice, your highly favored one. The Lord is with you.
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Blessed are you among women.
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So he's pronouncing a blessing. He said, rejoice.
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But when she saw him, she was troubled at this saying and considered what manner
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of greeting this was. And the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary.
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So he said, don't give in to fear. Right, right. For you have found favor with
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God. You're in God's favor.
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This is what he is saying specifically to her.
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And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son and she'll
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call his name Jesus. It's like, whoa.
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Lots of information here right now. Oh, my, oh, my. Think of it,
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two minutes before that, she had nothing of this on her mind. No, no.
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The mother of the Son of God. An angel bursts in on her.
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And, I mean, it's amazing she just didn't freak out and not able to talk at all. Right.
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But she, you know, anyway. Yeah, conversation with an angel. That's kind of up there.
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Yeah, and verse 32, he will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest.
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The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. Wow.
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And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there will be no end. It's like.
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This is, I mean, how do you grasp all this stuff?
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This is the word of the Lord to Mary. It's a promise.
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It hasn't happened yet, but he's telling her what's God's plan and what's going
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to happen. And is she willing?
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That's basically why the angel is sent there. Are you willing to go along with this plan?
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Verse 34, then Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I do not know a man?
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And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you,
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and the power of the highest will overshadow you.
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Therefore also that holy one who is born will be called the son of God.
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It's like my, oh my, oh my. Verse 36, now Elizabeth, your relative,
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or as King James would say, cousin, has also conceived a son in her old age.
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This would be John the Baptist.
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And this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.
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For with God, nothing will be impossible.
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And then you mentioned, Marjorie, just a moment ago, the cooperation of Mary to go along with this.
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Verse 38, Mary said, Behold, the maidservant of the Lord, let it be to me according
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to your word. And the angel departed from her.
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So it's like, whoa, this is just an amazing word, a powerful word. It is amazing.
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And yet the angel gave her a clue.
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He said, here's how you're going to know. The first verification of that word
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was, your cousin is pregnant.
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And this woman, Elizabeth, very, very old. So Mary immediately wanted to go
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and see if that was correct. I mean, not to say that she doubted the angel because
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she had already agreed with the angel and yielded her will to him, thy will be done.
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But so when God gives us a word, he also gives us, this was a word of knowledge
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because there's no telephones and there's no, so she had to go see.
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And when she found out it was true, it confirmed the rest of what the angel had said to her.
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Well, it's an encouragement to her faith too because he said, okay, I'm not.
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Your cousin, your relative Elizabeth, she's past childbearing stage,
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and now she's going to have a child.
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And so if he can do it for a woman past childbearing, way past childbearing
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age, he can do it for someone who is a virgin. Yeah, that's exactly right.
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So the first thing now, so applying this to us, and I love that promise, the fulfillment,
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the rich fulfillment, the promise of what God is saying to us,
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to you, and going on a journey with God to that place of completion, whatever that is.
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And our lives are very, sometimes we're on these white rafted,
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white rapids water rides, and we don't know how we're going to get to the end
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of this thing because by the time we get through half of the torture,
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like Paul was talking about in Corinthians, we're perplexed.
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I think I'm going to read it. Persecuted but not cast down.
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In despair but not, you know, all those. Right. I love those.
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Anyway, this is our journey, and Paul was there too. He said, 1 Corinthians 4.
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For this present hour we both hunger, we thirst, we're poorly clothed,
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we're homeless, beaten, we labor with our hands being reviled,
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we bless, being persecuted, we endure, being defamed, we entreat.
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We haven't made the filth of this world.
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And so the thing is, these persecutions come.
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These trials come. When God gives a word for fulfillment, the promise,
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like with Abraham too, he was given the promise, and then all hell breaks loose, basically.
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Well, when Paul received that call from God, he said, you know,
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I'm going to show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.
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So there was a promise that it's going to be a rough ride for you.
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Rough ride, yeah. It's not going to be easy.
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You're going to turn people from darkness to light.
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You're going to go to the Gentile world, bring in the gospel.
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But it's going to be a very, very rough ride. Yeah.
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And well, at least heâ That was part of the promise. And I think Mary was warned,
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too, when they went to the temple. They brought baby Jesus in.
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Simeon said to her, a sort of sorrow is going to pierce your heart.
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And so that was foretelling so that the thoughts of many could be revealed.
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In other words, Jesus Christ, her own son, was going to have to die a bloody, gruesome death.
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That she's going to have to watch on the cross so that he can complete his task
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of bringing many to salvation.
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So she's highly favored by God.
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The angel tells her to rejoice and that, you know, you're going to be the mother of the Messiah.
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You're going to be the mother of the Son of God, but you're going to go through
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a lot of pain along with it. Well, that's a high calling.
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There's a high calling. Whenever there's a high calling, there are obstacles.
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And one of the first obstacles, I think, is the reasoning.
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Like, Mary, how can this be? Or who am I? Or why do I think this?
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I mean, am I sure I heard from God?
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I think that's one of our problems is, did I really hear from God?
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And that is an area that we, maybe we're jumping ahead a little bit here, but.
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So there's some people that really think they've heard from God on something,
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and they really haven't.
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Well, yeah. And sometimes we expect God to fulfill something that he really hasn't told us.
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It's something we've imagined and hoped for. And this is the problem.
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And this is where we get into some serious issues.
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And also, you know, like even with Abraham, I'm just using him as an example.
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There were many examples, but God tells people to do some pretty strange,
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crazy things. Like when he said, offer your son, Isaac, or when he said,
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I'm going to make a covenant with you.
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And I want you to cut these animals in half. And then the fiery torch went through
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them as God was setting up the covenant with Abraham.
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And Abraham is there all night trying to keep the birds from attacking these pieces of meat.
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And then he falls asleep and God creates the covenant, makes the covenant,
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even fulfills the covenant with himself, and he promises Abraham all these things.
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So you could look at that and say, God, Abraham's crazy. Did you see that guy
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did last night, up all night with the sleeping and torches and fire?
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And sometimes when God makes a promise to us, it looks crazy to everybody else.
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And then Satan comes to begin to say to you, well, who do you think you are?
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I mean, this is crazy. You are nuts. You've lost it.
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In Romans 4.21, it says about Abraham that he believed he was strong in faith.
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He was giving glory to God.
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He believed that what God had promised, he was able to perform.
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And sometimes, too, this is something
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that we wrestle with. We know God is able, but will he do it? Yeah.
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And there's a leper. Early in the ministry of Jesus, there was a leper that
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came to Christ and said, And if you're willing to make me clean, if you are willing.
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And he said, I am willing, be clean. And so sometimes we pray.
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We pray for something and we say, Lord, if you're willing. And sometimes we
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know that he's willing and some, you know, it gets to be confusing sometimes.
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Well, it can be. But I think the first thing we need to go back to is the word
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of God itself. And what does his word say about whatever it is we're believing him for?
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And does it line up? For example, a lot of people, I think the biggest issue
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with people receiving answers to prayer that kind of like don't happen a lot
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or when you're asking for something very critical, whether it's your health
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or the redemption of someone,
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salvation, you know, whatever it is.
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And so when we think we've heard from God and we all have stories on this subject
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where someone has believed God, we've believed God for them and they believe
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they're going to live and not die and they didn't live.
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And so we go back to the drawing board and say, well, what did we do wrong?
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I don't think we do anything wrong. I think the enemy is just,
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the battle is always between fear versus faith.
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And, you know, you did not fail if you believed God. And though you didn't receive
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the physical healing, for example.
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That doesn't mean you didn't have faith. That doesn't mean you failed it.
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You know, we think, like in Hebrews chapter 11, going back to the faith chapter,
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that the strength of our faith is determined by the outcome.
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So if I get what I prayed for, then I got faith.
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And if I don't get what I prayed for, then I don't have faith or enough faith.
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And this is a really bad problem because people are always being challenged
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on, did I have enough faith? Do I have enough faith?
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The reason I didn't get this is because... But if you have to work with your
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faith and faith has to be enough, then faith becomes works.
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It becomes works because then if I don't have enough, then it's my fault that it didn't work.
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Or the other part of it, yeah, it didn't work or because, you know,
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if you've got some sin in your life, therefore it didn't happen.
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Well, you know what? We all have sin in our life, things we don't realize,
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things God is still working on us to perfect, bring us to deeper revelation.
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So all of that stuff is God's Holy Spirit working in us both the will and do of his good pleasure.
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And God doesn't wait till we're perfect in order to use us. Obviously,
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that's the case with the disciples and with us as well.
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God, but as you follow him, he perfects that which concerns us.
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So it's not like, oh, I can't do this yet. But going back to the faith thing,
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the real challenge to faith is when it appears that your faith doesn't work.
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Then are you going to keep, like Job says, even though he slay me, yet will I trust him.
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So even though it gets to be that critical and that crazy and that whatever,
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unexplainable, we're still going to trust God.
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And that's the bottom line of faith is I'm going to trust God no matter what,
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because I know he's good. I know he keeps his word. He doesn't lie.
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He's got another plan. He's got the right plan. And I want to be in sync with
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his plan. So if you take Mark 16 and 18, for example...
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The last part of that verse, they
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will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. That's the word of God.
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That's the word of God. So we stand on that promise and there's times we lay
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hands on the sick and they die.
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Then what do we do? But we did what we were told to do. Right.
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And the outcome, and a problem with praying for other people,
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you know, it's, you know, really the issue becomes almost exponentially difficult
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when you start to pray for other people.
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When you pray for yourself and you're standing in the Word of God and you're
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letting the Lord, the Holy Spirit, help you and you're rebuking the spirit of
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fear or whatever it is, that's one thing.
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But when you have to run into or run up against the will of another person to
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get this, say you're praying for them and they want their back healed,
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but they have doubt, unbelief, they feel guilty, they have sin,
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they have generational curses, they have all kinds of stuff going on,
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and they don't have the faith.
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In other words, they don't have the peace, the revelation to know that they
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are being heard and that it's going to go through, the request is going to go through.
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So when we're up against other people's wills, that makes things a lot more complicated.
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What about other people, too, that are in a situation, there's generational
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curses that are still operating in them that haven't been dealt with?
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Well, they all have been dealt with technically at the cross.
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Right. We're all free through the blood of Jesus Christ. But most people do
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not go back and claim or demand their rights.
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They don't demand their rights, the freedom that Jesus gave for us.
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We stand on experiences and emotions rather than on the truth that Jesus Christ
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justified the law and whom the Son sits for is free indeed.
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And as we confess our iniquities and do those things God has promised and told
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us to do, He brings the promises to pass so you can stand with confidence,
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knowing that you don't have to be perfect, because then again,
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that goes back to the works rather than grace.
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And so we're receiving the word of God as he spoke to us by faith,
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believing it's God's work in us. We are God's workmanship.
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He's working in us, both the will and do of his good pleasure.
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And just going back to looking for a minute in Mark, I'm sorry,
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Matthew, chapter 3 and chapter 4,
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the very last verse of chapter 3, where Jesus is being baptized.
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By John the Baptist in the Jordan. And the word comes over him,
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the oversight of the Holy Spirit comes upon him, and he says,
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and suddenly a voice from heaven came saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
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That's the last verse of chapter three. Then the first verse of chapter four. Okay.
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Then Jesus was led by the Spirit, capital S, into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, afterwards he was hungry.
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And so what was the test, the fiery trial?
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He was God's son, identified by the word of God over him as he was being baptized.
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But Jesus's identity was forged in the fiery trials in the wilderness,
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the fire of the wilderness.
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Jesus Christ had to know that he knew who he was.
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He had heard it from the Father, but now he had to know that he knew that he
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was the Son of God, because this is a pretty big revelation.
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Not everybody comes up with the idea that I'm the Son of God,
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and those who do, we usually think of them as crazy and need to be put in straitjackets.
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But Jesus Christ, his identity was forged in this fire where there were.
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No distractions. The wilderness, there's no way to fill your time. There's no escapes.
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There's no common comforts. There's not even food to comfort you.
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Everything for him was stripped away. Then he was approached by Satan.
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He had nothing in which he could comfort himself. And he was going to have to
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believe that he was the beloved son of God, well-pleased of the Father,
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just simply by the fact that it's the word of God and what God said.
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So when we go through these fiery trials. You get the promise.
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You get the word of God. He's my beloved son. You get the word of God.
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You know, we're going to do this, this, and this. And then all of a sudden,
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you go into the crucible.
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And that's where the dross is burned off and the silver is refined,
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the gold is refined by that heat, by that pressure.
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And so Jesus Christ was refined, his forged strength. You know,
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when you put something into the fire, you forge it. It's made strong.
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And so his identity his call, his being was forged in that wilderness fire with
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the devil attacking, if you're the son of God, if you're the son of God, identity, identity.
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Well, then jump down off the top, tempt God if he's good, or worship me,
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all these things that Satan did to him.
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Well, the two things that are so important for us is we need to know who God
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is. And who we are. And who we are.
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And so our true identity is not determined by our feelings or how we brought
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up or how we were brought up or the nicknames we were given or how we were cursed by other people.
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It's we are cursed or even blessed by other people. Our identity comes from
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who we are in the Lord. Right.
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And so, yeah. The Word of God tells us. And the journey, excuse me, go ahead.
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Yeah, and the journey. And the journey, I've got to scrub something.
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Yeah, and the journey is, it's hard many times because it looks like God will say something to us.
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It's like, okay, it looks like the Word of God has come to us,
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and then it comes to the place where it looks like it's totally impossible to be fulfilled.
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With Abraham, right? He's getting older and older. He waits, what, 25 years?
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25 years to wait. He's getting older and older. And he said,
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well, you're going to have a son. You're going to have a son.
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And Sarah gives him the wrong advice. Let's shortcut this and get an Ishmael.
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So sometimes we just want to make it happen. We want to do something to speed this process up.
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Or sometimes we come to the place where we just kind of give up.
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Yeah, exactly. Because we don't realize that God has called us.
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God will complete what he's begun in us. It's his word, his fulfillment of prophecy.
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And we are on a journey.
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And the journey can become the place where the enemy, of course, attacks us.
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Doubt, questioning, our identity, the call, the truth of God,
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the word of God. So everything about,
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our journey, our stay down here in the plant is a test to test us.
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Satan wants to test us to see if we're really going to believe God and go forward
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with what God said, no matter what it looks like, no matter what it feels like,
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no matter what people say.
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And so the journey can be that we can
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become discouraged or you can become encouraged because of the journey.
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Because, you know, God's allowing Satan to beat on me, so to speak.
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But if you go to the wonderful revelation in some of the Psalms,
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Psalm 66, for example, we have verses 10 and 11, for you, O God, have proved us.
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So part of the journey is to prove us. You have refined us as silver is refined.
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You brought us into the net. You laid affliction on our back.
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You've caused meant to ride over our heads.
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We went through the fire and through the water.
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Okay, so what he's saying, this is the journey.
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This is the purging. This is the purification. This is the forging of the character
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and the image of Jesus Christ in us.
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The journey is as important to God as the outcome.
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You know, you and I are after results.
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Okay, we want the healing. We want the breakthrough. We want this.
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But we forget that it is the actual journey that is the most important thing.
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How are you going to handle this? Are you going to believe God?
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Are you going to trust God?
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Are you going to be like, like Peter, you know, he had to be converted into
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being trusting in God, no matter what he felt like, what it looked like.
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And then it says, and we went through the fire and through the water and,
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and you brought us out into rich fulfillment.
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So endurance in chapter Hebrews chapter 12 talks about endurance.
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Jesus endured the cross, the shame, the despising.
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We, You know, the journey is the point, is really the point.
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And the rich fulfillment is the end of the journey. So we're on a journey,
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so we're not going to give up.
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We're not going to make it all about failure.
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Yeah, and it seems like there's failure because there's waiting and there's
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wondering and there's wandering that goes along with this. and so here's the deal is that.
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But we have the written word of God, right?
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And God has a plan and a purpose, and it sounds almost like totally trite to say that,
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but it's true that there is a plan that's being worked out in the midst of all
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the things that seem very chaotic and demonic that are coming against us.
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There's a sovereign plan. And the thing is, too, is that there's people,
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sometimes we just, people just miss it and just think, you know,
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well, I think I've heard from God.
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We've met a lot of people that think they've heard from God and go off in a
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certain direction. It's totally not from the Lord at all.
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Well, even that, even that confusion, even that demonic confusion.
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You know, false Jesuses and all that stuff, God works all things together for
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good. So that is part of the journey. That is part of discerning what God is saying.
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And so again, the Holy Spirit is faithful to do the work he's begun in us.
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And if we finish reading Psalm 66, the psalmist says, Come and hear all you
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who fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.
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I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
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If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear, but certainly God has heard me.
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He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned
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away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
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So, you know, going back to Mary, she did not know all that was going to be,
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she would have to go through, but she already had committed herself to the journey
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and to the one who was walking with her on the journey.
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And even as we see, this is the truth for all of us.
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It is the journey that makes us who we are, that makes us more like Jesus.
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And in Isaiah, God is comforting his people again in chapter 41,
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where he says, let's see, verse 9.
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Let's see. I'm sorry, verse 10. Fear not, for I am with you.
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Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
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I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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Behold, all those who were incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced.
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They shall be as nothing, and those who strive with you shall perish.
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And you shall seek them and not find them. Those who contended with you,
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those who warred against you, shall be as nothing as a non-existent thing.
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For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying,
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fear not, for I will help you. Now, we have to realize that on this journey.
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God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, they're walking right with us through this journey.
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They're actually carrying us, if we could even imagine that.
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Jesus is the way he's walking with us. So we're not alone on this journey.
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It's not up to me to try to figure out this circumstance or this obstacle or
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this impediment or this issue.
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It's up to God. And so he says again in Isaiah 43, verse 1, But now,
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thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and he formed you,
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O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you.
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I have called you by your name. You are mine.
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When you pass through the fire, I will be with you. And through the rivers,
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they shall not overflow you.
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When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.
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For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
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He says, you are precious in my sight.
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You have been honored and I have loved you. Therefore, I have given men for
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you and people for your life.
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Fear not, for I am with you. I will bring your descendants from the east and
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gather them from the west.
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I will say to the north, give them up. This is a good one for parents who are
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crying out for your children to be restored, whether they're in the prodigal
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or they're lost or whatever.
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This is where he says, I'm going to bring them back. It's my job to bring them
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back because I gave them to you in the first place.
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You say, well, I'm such a terrible parent. I did so many things wrong.
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Did you want to do those things wrong? No, you did not.
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But God, knew that the enemy was going to, part of your journey was going to be to have these.
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Battles to believe him. So remember, in every one of these tests, we're on a journey.
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The wilderness is forging the image of Jesus Christ.
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He's forging your identity, the entity of who you are, the son or daughter of
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the Most High God, through these trials.
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And the journey is the prize. It's what God is using.
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And not only that, but remember, it is God who is the one taking the test.
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It is God who is faithful to complete the work that's beginning.
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He's the one who's faithful to carry you through this so that there's really
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no time or no reason to faint or give up.
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So fear says, give up, give up, go away. God doesn't got you.
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This is all on you. It's all your fault. You're to blame, blah, blah, blah.
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And God says, no, no, I've got this. I knew from the foundation of the world
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every moment, every step of this journey that you would be on.
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And I am with you. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you.
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I will not leave you orphans. And if we get this kind of an attitude that God
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is with me, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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And without him, I can't do anything.
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You know, if you get this kind of a powerful, you know, way to approach your
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situation, well, God, here's a problem.
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What are you going to do about it? You know, here, I need this.
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What are we going to solve it with? You know, even if it's a health issue,
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if it's something where you're feeling like, in so many of us,
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we get into that mode where I've got to do something. I've got to do something.
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I've got to do something.
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I've got to try to get to sleep. I've got to try to get better.
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I've got to try to make these people hear me. I've got to try to take control. I got to try.
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All this is lies that is getting you off the track that.
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The truth is God's got this. It's his problem.
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I'm his child. His word, which you can't go wrong on, says, I will never leave you or forsake you.
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So use God's word, go back to him and say, okay, this, you know,
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Mary had to do the same thing.
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Mary had a tough road to hold because she was going to be considered,
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you know, all these rumors about her, about her, her integrity,
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her honesty, her purity,
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all these things she had to suffer watching Jesus be beaten and mocked and scourged and hated.
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I mean, she took a lot of flack herself with all of that.
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And yet she made her commitment in the beginning, as have you.
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Now stay there. Just stay there and let God do the work.
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Keep walking. You know, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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He's the way. He's the road. Jesus is the road, right?
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And so if we keep our focus on him and recognizing too that God has a sovereign
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plan, that means it's been established since before the foundation of the world.
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There's a plan and a purpose for this world, for the human race,
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and for you and I. It's a beautiful plan.
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It's rich fulfillment. And it's unfolding, believe it or not,
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it's unfolding perfectly, but that unfolding is beyond our understanding.
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It's beyond our expectations.
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And so sometimes we expect something and it turns out totally different,
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but it's okay when we realize, when we see it as God. This was God's way.
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We expect God to work with us and for us.
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We expect that, but the way he does it is different many times than what we expect.
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Yeah, we always think, well, we've got to be justified by the results,
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and it worked, and it was successful, and all things came together.
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We think we've got it figured out.
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But the thing is, Jeremiah 29, we all know this verse, for I know the thoughts
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that I think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil,
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to give you a future and a hope.
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Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you,
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and you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
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Isn't that kind of the most important thing to have to know that God listens to us?
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God hears us. God loves it when we cry out and pray and praise him and thank
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him and rejoice and appreciate what he's done.
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So again, again, relax, rest.
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The two things you really are, we're really instructed to do basically are to
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be thankful and rejoice.
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Yeah, and that's part of trust. That is the evidence of trusting actually.
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And so, and that God carry you through this time. we pray a blessing upon each
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one of you, even as we're going into the new year, that this will be a year of rich fulfillment.
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It will be a year of seeing answers to prayer,
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of seeing God develop the image of Jesus Christ in you, forging the image of
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Jesus Christ, that our identity is in Him, and that we will live in the peace
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of God, peace and goodwill.
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Thank you, Jesus. And Lord, don't let us be faked out by how things appear to
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be, how we feel about things or what our expectations are.
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Lord, don't let us be faked out by those things. Help us to realize,
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though, that there's so much going on in us, in our walk with you,
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that you give us understanding.
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You give us wisdom. But there are so many things that are beyond our understanding,
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and there's a purpose that's being worked out,
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by you, by your Spirit. It's a perfect plan. It's a perfect purpose.
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And Lord, even though it's beyond our understanding, we just trust.
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When we don't understand, we trust.
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And basically, you said the just shall live by faith, not by understanding,
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not by figuring everything out, but by trusting.
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And Lord, in due time, in due time, you make it clear to us.
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And we see there's a purpose unfolding.
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We're on the backside of the tangled side of the tapestry, but you're doing a beautiful picture.
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And one day we'll see the picture. Right now we're kind of in the tangled threads,
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the backside of the tapestry, but one day we're going to see. And you see it.
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You see the picture that you're weaving, and it's beautiful. Thank you, Lord.
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