1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey everyone, welcome back to How to Study 2 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 1: the Bible. I'm your host, Nicole Unis, and I am 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: so glad to be with you today as we wrap 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: up our twenty twenty five It has been a fantastic 5 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 1: year on the podcast. It maybe has not been a 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: fantastic year in your life, and we're going to talk 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: about that in just a moment. We're going to talk 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: about how we process the ins and outs of life together. 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: But here on the podcast, it's been an incredible year. 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: We are coming close right now. We probably have hit 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: it by now, but we were coming close to half 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: a million downloads this year. We had a great forty 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: eight episodes new episodes that we recorded this year. I'm 14 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,319 Speaker 1: so grateful for your reviews and your comments and your 15 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: likes and all the ways that you shared the podcast. 16 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: We definitely have a growing audience, which has been really cool, 17 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: and I think it was an amazing challenge that we 18 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: took on together when we studied the Book of Daniel 19 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: in the Fall, which is obviously still available to you, 20 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: and you can go to my website to get the 21 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: full study guide. More than a thousand of you actually 22 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: use the study guide as we went through week to 23 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: week and that will continue to be a resource that 24 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: you can grab on my website. And then we did 25 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: this Advent series and now we're in this in between 26 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: space between Christmas and New Year's and was reflecting on 27 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: where we're going next in twenty twenty six, which I'll 28 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: share with you, but also reflecting on what we've learned 29 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five in your own life. And I 30 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: wanted to invite you into an experience that I believe 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: God's called us too as believers, where we remember and 32 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: we look back, we reflect on what we've learned and 33 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: what we've experienced, and we actually look for the fingerprints 34 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: of God's faithfulness in our life. Sometimes God is always faithful, 35 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: we know that, but sometimes oftentimes it is very easy 36 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: to miss what God is doing in our lives. It 37 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: is easy to miss that he's been active. It's easy, 38 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: and he missed the places where maybe he opened and 39 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: closed doors, places where he encouraged you right when you 40 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: needed it. And one of the things that we can 41 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: do as believers is really pause and ask the question, 42 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: what would God tell? What story would God tell about 43 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 1: my twenty twenty five And we can do that through scripture. 44 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: So we're going to be in Psalm one oh seven today. 45 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: So if you've got your Bible, if you want to 46 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: open your Bible and join me in Psalm one oh seven, 47 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: I'm going to read it through for us, and then 48 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about four redemptive storylines that I 49 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: believe God offers to us. These storylines could be sort 50 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: of like the storyline of your life, but it also 51 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: could be an element of this year. It could be 52 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: an element of something that's going on in your life. 53 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: And what I want to invite you to do is 54 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: to believe and to have the faith to believe that 55 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: the Bible is written for you. It may take some 56 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: work to understand the original context translated into every day, 57 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: but the Bible is God speaking to you each and 58 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: every day when you open your Bible, God is speaking. 59 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: So many of us are so interested in spiritual things, 60 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: and maybe you're not sure about what you believe about 61 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: faith fully, or you're just like confused about who God is, 62 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: and maybe things about what you believe God says about 63 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: the rules of life have hung you up, or you've 64 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: had church, heard or had experienced with church where you're 65 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: just like, I don't think I belong all of those 66 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: things can be these obstacles. But yet at the end 67 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: of the day, I believe that our hearts really desire 68 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: to hear from God. Like if we could, if many 69 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: of us would say, man, if God would just speak 70 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: to me, if you would just speak to me clearly, 71 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: like I would do whatever God said. You know, here's 72 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: the thing. God is speaking to us. He's speaking to 73 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: us clearly through his word. This is what we have 74 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: in Scripture is like a pretty big book of God 75 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: speaking to us. And I get it. I know. I mean, 76 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: obviously we spend time here talking through and working through 77 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: and learning how to study because all of it is 78 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: not immediately applicable to our lives. It takes a little 79 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: bit of work, like we talked about. But if you 80 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: can have like just enough faith, like a little bit 81 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: of faith to believe that God does want to speak 82 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: to you, and that when you feel that little stirring 83 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: in you as you read scripture or are you read 84 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: and you think of an image or you hear a word, 85 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: it's for you, Like this is our God, who loves us, 86 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,559 Speaker 1: who cares about us, who's intentional with us. He does 87 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: want you to experience him. So let's look at what 88 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: Psalm Wino seven says. And I'm actually going to start 89 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: at the end before we get into the beginning. So 90 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: here is the end of Psalm Wino seven. This is 91 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: the last verse. It says this, let the one who 92 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: is wise heed these things. So we're gonna talk about 93 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: what these things are. Heed these things and ponder the 94 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: loving deeds of the Lord. So we are invited if 95 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: we want to be wise, And to me, wisdom means 96 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: the ability to rightly interpret our own lives and the world. 97 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: It is the ability to not just have knowledge that 98 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: builds us puffs us up, but actual love and understanding 99 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: that allows us to rightly interpret our own lives and 100 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: the world with the love and compassion of Christ. Right. 101 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: So we've got this opportunity, and it's like, hey, do 102 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: you want to be wise? If you want to be wise, 103 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: you want to heed the things that are talked about 104 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: in some one of seven, and you want to ponder 105 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: the love and deeds of the Lord. There may be 106 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: room for lament in your life. There may be grief 107 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: in your life. There may be lost in your life. 108 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: There may be a lot of unanswered questions in your life. 109 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: That to me seems to be just the reality of 110 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: the human experience. But you can actually also discipline your 111 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: mind to ponder the love of God as well, not 112 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: just to sit in reflection on lament or grief or 113 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: anything that feels hard right now, but also to think 114 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: about the things that feel good. So we're going to 115 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: do that in some one o seven sole who let 116 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: the one who is wise heed these things and ponder 117 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: the loving deeds of the Word. All right, so let's 118 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: go back to the beginning of Some one oh seven. 119 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 1: Here we go into Scripture seven, Verse one, give thanks 120 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. 121 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story, those 122 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: he redeemed from the hand of the foe, those he 123 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north 124 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: and south. Okay, so the first thing we have is 125 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: an invitation. The invitation is, let the redeemed of the 126 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: Lord tell their story. That's you, that's me. We are 127 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: invited to consider how has God worked in my story, 128 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: and how can I praise Him and live a life 129 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: that shows gratitude and gratefulness for what God has done 130 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 1: in my life? And then what we have in this 131 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,679 Speaker 1: psalm is really four different and there's more than four, 132 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: but there's an invitation to find yourself in one of 133 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: these four storylines that are here in this scripture. The 134 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: very first storyline that we're going to see, I call 135 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: from longing to Belonging. This next storyline, this first one, 136 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: is about people who are lost, but they're lost on 137 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: two levels. On the one hands, they're isolated from community, 138 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: they're exhausted from wandering, they're looking for a place to belong. 139 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: Am I speaking to anyone right now. On the other hand, 140 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: this storyline is also about a deep need for Jesus, 141 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: the one who can actually heal our spiritual lostness, the 142 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: one who can satisfy this hunger and thirst to be known, 143 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: to belong, to be validated, to be known and understood 144 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: all of that. Jesus is the one who actually can 145 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: satisfy that, and he gives us rest for spiritual exhaustion. 146 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: Here's the storyline. It says, some wandered in desert wastelands, 147 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: this is verse four, finding no way to a city 148 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty, and 149 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: their lives ebbed away. Then they cried out to the 150 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. 151 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,119 Speaker 1: He led them by a straight way to a city 152 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: where they could settle. Let them give thanks to the 153 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind. 154 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with 155 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: good things. I wonder if your twenty twenty five storyline 156 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: is anywhere in your life that you felt lost, and 157 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: that maybe now you feel found. Any place in your 158 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: storyline where you have felt like you haven't had a home, 159 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: a place to belong. But God has given you a 160 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: spiritual home in Christ. And even when there are still 161 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: things that maybe you are undone or unknown, you can 162 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: still celebrate that you have a home in Christ. That 163 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: in Christ we are always safe when we belong in 164 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, or identity is secure. Nobody can 165 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: unseal that sealed identity that God has given us in Christ. 166 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 1: That you are a cherished son and a cherished daughter 167 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: of God, and that that means that you inherently belong 168 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: in the deep place of your soul, even in the 169 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: midst of what you might experience here in the world. 170 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: So storyline one from longing to belonging. He satisfies the 171 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: longing soul and the hungry soul. He fills with good things. Okay, 172 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: second storyline that we're going to see here, I title 173 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: from Broken to Free. Let me read you this scripture. 174 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: Second line. Some sat in darkness, and now we're in 175 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: verse ten. Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness. Prisoners 176 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: suffering in iron chains because they rebelled against God's commands 177 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: and despised the plans of the most High. So he 178 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: subjected them to bitter labor. They stumbled, and there was 179 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: no one to help. Then they cried out to the 180 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. 181 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: He brought them out of darkness, out of utter darkness, 182 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: and broke away their chains. In this storyline, people are guilty. 183 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: They're experiencing the consequences of their own sin. The chains 184 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: and the gay and the bars here for so many 185 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: of us represent the weight of our shame and regret 186 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: that accompany rebellion. I've always found that positive psychology, sort 187 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: of standard psychology, which is what I studied in school 188 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 1: and graduate school, really comes up short in the area 189 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: of shame and regret. Positive psychology humanistic psychology tries to 190 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: tell us, don't feel guilty, don't feel shame, You just 191 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: don't need to feel those things. But we still feel them. 192 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: We existentially feel them. It is a part of life. 193 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: And oftentimes we hear that shame is a construct that's 194 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: been brought on by your parents, your family, or your 195 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: religion or your culture. But in reality, shame has a 196 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: weight to it that is not easily relieved. And yet 197 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: we know that in Christ. It says in Romans chapter ten, 198 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: anyone who believes in Christ will never be put to shame. 199 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: We can be rescued from our shame through Christ. To see, 200 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: what Jesus did on the Cross was not forgive us 201 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: of our sin, but relieve us from the consequences of 202 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: guilt and shame. So not only does he take away 203 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:09,839 Speaker 1: the sin, the thing that we did, but he also 204 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: takes away the oppressive nature of carrying around regret and remorse, 205 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: carrying around unforgiveness for other people or ourselves. All of 206 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: that is relieved in Christ. We can know what it 207 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: feels like to move from bondage to freedom because of Christ. 208 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: Psalmono seven fourteen says Christ or God brought them out 209 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: of darkness and out of the shadow of death, and 210 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: he burst their bonds apart. Friends, I don't know if 211 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: you've had a year where you just know you've wandered 212 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: far from home in your heart, You're just you've wandered 213 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: away from God in your heart. It might be in 214 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: a thinking pattern, it might be in actions, it might 215 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: be just in an attitude where you know that something 216 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: in you has become bitter or hard, you're cynical, you're apathetic, 217 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: you just you're discouraged, and you find yourself living in 218 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: that pattern over and over again, and that thought pattern 219 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: continues where you just you don't feel like enough, you're 220 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: insecure in your identity. Those kinds of things, those are 221 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:17,119 Speaker 1: patterns that require a rescue. We need to be rescued 222 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: from that place. Actually says in scripture that we can 223 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: be renewed in our mind. That in our mind is 224 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: where transformation begins to happen. And so stick around. If 225 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: you're asking the question how do I do that? Stick 226 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,719 Speaker 1: around this podcast we will talk about that quite a 227 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: bit in twenty twenty six. I want to help you 228 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: in that area. You can be set free from oppressive 229 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: patterns of thinking that hold you back because we know 230 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: in Christ we have full freedom. So it is possible. 231 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: It takes work sometimes, it takes a while to work 232 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: through really believing that Christ to set you free and 233 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: that you're confident in Christ and that you have everything 234 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: that you need. But it is possible to know that, okay. 235 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: Third story third storyline in Psalm one O seven is 236 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: from foolish to healt, from foolish to healed, And this 237 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: is sort of our next part of this passage, and 238 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: it says this starts in verse seventeen. It says, some 239 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because 240 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: of their iniquities. They loathed all food and drew near 241 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: the gates of death. And they cried out to the 242 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. 243 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: He sent out his word and healed them. He rescued 244 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: them from the grave. Let them give thanks to the 245 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind. 246 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works 247 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: with songs of joy. This kind of storyline is about 248 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: self damage. This is about ways that we have destructive 249 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,479 Speaker 1: patterns within ourselves. Where we can actually kind of ruin ourselves. 250 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: We've turned against our own needs and our own selves, 251 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: and we can make ourselves sick in that way. We 252 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: can be spiritually sick, emotionally sick, physically even sick because 253 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: of the ways that we have damaged ourselves, the way 254 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: we are ruining ourselves in foolishness. It doesn't mean that 255 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: everyone who's sick has done this. This is just one 256 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: storyline which is true. If you've ever experienced self destructive 257 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: patterns in your life where you look back and you think, wow, 258 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: I was like not loving myself, not caring for myself. 259 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: I was living so far outside of my own boundaries. 260 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: And you know that that happened in your life, and 261 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: you can see that it caused illness in your spirit. 262 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: You just you were sick inside, you were sick outside. 263 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: Perhaps even I love that Tim Keller actually says fools 264 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,359 Speaker 1: in the Bible are not just people who make mistakes, 265 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: but those who are destructively self absorbed and self deceived. 266 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: This is like our man's desire to hurt themselves, like 267 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: it just goes on and on right, And we know 268 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: that there is the sense that we can have a 269 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: behavior inside of us that is causing problems in us 270 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,119 Speaker 1: where we just are not growing up emotionally or spiritually, 271 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: and we're so far behind. We're sort of foolish in 272 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: the way that we manage relationships, conflict, the way we eat, 273 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: the way that we take care of our bodies, the 274 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: way that we take care of our minds or our hearts. 275 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: This can happen to all of us, and this storyline 276 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: is truly about how Christ can heal that place inside 277 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: of us. So on one oh seven twenty says he 278 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: sent out his word and healed them. He delivered them 279 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: from their destruction. This is not just about a rescue, 280 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: but this is a storyline about a renovation in your heart. 281 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: Experiencing a renovation in your heart might be one of 282 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: the most amazing miracles that God can do for us. 283 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: So often we talk about miracles and healings, and those 284 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: are beautiful, wonderful things, and obviously I love to glorify 285 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: God in the way that He might do a physical 286 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: healing or a really miraculous experience that we can kind 287 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: of see with our eyes. But do you know that 288 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: God has a miracle for you, and that miracle for 289 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: you generally is going to happen in the interior of 290 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: your heart, in the place where you felt like you 291 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: could never feel different, in a place where you thought, 292 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: I have so much anger, I could never feel love 293 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: for this person, in a place where you thought I 294 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: have so much hurt because of what this person has 295 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: done for me, I can never experience forgiveness. When God 296 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: does a miracle inside of your heart where a place 297 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: where you felt so sure that you could never be 298 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: set free from a thought pattern, from a sin, from 299 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: a way of feeling about a person. If there's a 300 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: place in you where you thought, I can never feel 301 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: love for myself or for this aggressor or this person 302 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: who's hurt me, and then you experience what forgiveness really 303 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: feels like. And God does a renovating work in your 304 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: heart that is a miracle. That is the kind of 305 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: miracle that will really change your life. So you don't 306 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: have to wait for God to do something spectacular, because 307 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: the spectacular thing that He wants to do is actually 308 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: inside of your heart. That is the third storyline that 309 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: we have here. And then we have one more to go, 310 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: one more to choose from. And this one is really 311 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: fascinating to me that it's thrown in here. We've talked 312 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: a lot about sort of internal issues that we may experience, 313 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: places where we feel sick, places where we feel in bondage. 314 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: But this last one is a little bit different. And 315 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: I call this storyline from Pride to Peace. And here's 316 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: what happens here. In verse twenty three, we hear about this. 317 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: Some went out on the sea in ships. They were 318 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: merchants on the mighty waters. And you may not be 319 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: out on the sea or in a ship, you might 320 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: not be a merchant. But really, to me, this is 321 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: the storyline about going after big things in life. You 322 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: head out to the big city, you take that big career, 323 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: you take that leadership step, you start an organization, you 324 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: start a church. You're out there. You're like, I'm going 325 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: to go out and do the thing. It says in 326 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 1: verse twenty four, they saw the works of the Lord, 327 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: his wonderful deeds in the deep, and he spoke and 328 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 1: stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves. They 329 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths. 330 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: In their peril, their courage melted away. So this is 331 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: a storyline about heading out in your own strength, which 332 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: is what we really all do. In our humanity. We 333 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: always kind of start there and we're like, I've got 334 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: what it takes. I'm educated, I'm skilled, I'm ready. God's 335 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: opened a door for me, and I'm gonna go do 336 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: this thing. And this storyline is about that place where 337 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: you inevitably hit a storm in your leadership or organizational 338 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 1: or business life. You hit a storm, whether that's a 339 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: conflict in relationships, a conflict within the organization. Something creates 340 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: a storm that comes up against everything that you believe 341 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: about yourself, and you are terrified, and your courage melts away. 342 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: And it says that they, in their peril, their courage 343 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: melted away, it says in verse twenty eight. So they 344 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he 345 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm 346 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: to a whisper. The waves of the sea were hushed. 347 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: They were glad when it grew calm, and he guided 348 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: them to their desired haven. Let them give thanks to 349 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds 350 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: for mankind. Let them exalt him in the assembly of 351 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: the people, and praise him in the Council of the elders. 352 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: From Pride to Peace is about the way that God 353 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: sometimes places us out of our depth. Maybe the ways 354 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: of working that you're used to just aren't working anymore 355 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: in the storm you're in. Maybe it's God's create mercy 356 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: that wants to expose you to more so that you 357 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: can grow beyond your own strength. So often, friends, when 358 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: we hit storms like this in our journey, we often 359 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,479 Speaker 1: think I must have gone the wrong way, because if 360 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: I'm hitting a storm like this, I must have missed 361 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: a signpost earlier where God wanted me to go a 362 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: different direction, because He wants to leave me beside still waters. However, 363 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 1: we also have the reality of this psalm that says 364 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: that sometimes God will stir up a storm, and he 365 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: stirs at that storm, so you know exactly who you 366 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: are in the kingdom, and you know what you have, 367 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: which is honestly very little. We are weak, right we have, 368 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: it says in scripture Tewond Corinthians. We have this treasure 369 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: in jars of clay, so that we might know that 370 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: this all surpassing power is not from us, but from God. 371 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: We also know in scripture it says that in our 372 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: weakness He is strong, So sometimes a storm will come 373 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: in to your leadership, to your family, to your organization, 374 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,199 Speaker 1: to something that you maybe feel really confident and comfortable in, 375 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: and you've got this thing happening, and the tendency is 376 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: to believe I must have missed a signpost, I probably 377 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: am going the wrong way, or I've done something terribly wrong. 378 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: Neither of those is true in this storyline, and soal 379 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: one O seven Here is that people went out in 380 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: their own strength to do a thing. And when they 381 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: got out there and they hit that first storm, they 382 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 1: remembered that it's God who's actually captaining the ship. It's 383 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: God who is actually the captain of your life. And 384 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: they remember to cry out to God to say like, 385 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: oh God, please help me here in this place. And 386 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: then God brought them out and through that storm. Friends, 387 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: I don't know who here on this podcast today is 388 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: experiencing a storm like that in your family or in 389 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: your leadership, in your life, your business. But I want 390 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 1: you to know, come to some one O seven, read 391 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: this passage. Know that this is for you that God says, 392 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: I will meet you there. I am in the storm, 393 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 1: I will be with you, I will lead you through it. 394 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: And then look at the response that's given here for 395 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: this particular group of people, for this storyline, what God 396 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: says is, make sure you exalt Him in the assembly 397 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: of the people and praise Him in the Council of elders. 398 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: It's like, if you have the gifting to be out 399 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: there leading creating building, God says, I'm going to rescue 400 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: you from that storm, and you're going to give glory 401 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: to me. You're going to be forthright with your faith. 402 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 1: You're going to actually ascribe glory to who I am 403 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: because you know that I am with you and that 404 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: I am the lord of your life, that I am 405 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: the captain of the ship. So we've got four storylines 406 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: to pick from, and I want you to think about 407 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: as you kind of close your twenty twenty five and 408 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: as you think about what has God done in my 409 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: life in this year? Where might you find yourself in 410 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: this story? In Psalm one oh seven, the same things 411 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: are true across the board in all of these storylines. 412 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: And here's what's true in all of these storylines. The 413 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: people in them are weak. The people in them realize 414 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: that they're out of control, and they and they get 415 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: to a place in their lives where they truly with 416 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: their whole heart call on the Lord, and their whole 417 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: heart is asking God to rescue them. Oftentimes we can 418 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: half heartedly ask God for help, but we're still kind 419 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: of relying on ourselves. We're still relying on our circumstances 420 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: or our own strength. And yet what God says is 421 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 1: that when we call on Him with our whole heart, 422 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: he will answer. I love this, I've quoted it so 423 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: many times in Matthew chapter five. I love the message 424 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: version of the very opening line of Jesus' sermon on 425 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: the Mount, And this is how it's translated by Eugene Peterson. 426 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. 427 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: With less of you, there is more of God and 428 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: his rule. So, friends, as we wrap up twenty twenty five, 429 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: I want to ask you, how is God inviting you 430 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: to a little less of you and a little more 431 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: of him? And where do you find yourself in this storyline? 432 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: Where is God inviting you and so on one oh 433 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: seven to find yourself? Let me just rewind and tell 434 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: you again those lines from longing to belonging, from broken 435 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: to free, from sick to healed, from foolish to healed, 436 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: and from pride to peace. Where's God working in your 437 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: story in twenty five and what might He do in 438 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? Friends, as we get ready for the 439 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: next year, I want you to know that we're going 440 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: to be opening twenty twenty six with a really popular 441 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: series that we did a couple years ago called Your 442 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: One Word. I will be praying for our community and 443 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: over us and what God's doing in this year and 444 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: the Lord, asking the Lord to give me the words 445 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: that he wants us to be looking to this year. 446 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 1: So I'll be offering you four or five words that 447 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: maybe you can invite into an intention for your own 448 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: life this year. We'll do that through January. I always 449 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,360 Speaker 1: tell people like take all of January to ask God 450 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: to set an intention for the year. You don't have 451 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 1: to set an intention for the year on January first. 452 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: Sometimes we need to just be in a reflective space, 453 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: which I believe January gives us that longer, darker, quiet 454 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: month where we can ask and reflect God, what do 455 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: you have for me this year? And I'm going to 456 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: offer you some options for that and a little bit 457 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: of scripture to support each of those words that God's 458 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: going to give us for this year, and then in February, 459 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 1: we are going to start the Book of Hebrews and 460 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: I'm going to provide you a study guide like we 461 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: did for Daniel. So if you want to gather a 462 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: few friends, if you want to think ahead, starting in 463 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: February all the way until Easter, we are going to 464 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: study the Book of Hebrews together. I can't wait. I 465 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: have wanted to study Hebrews with you guys for several years, 466 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: and this is just the right opportunity. Cannot wait to 467 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: explore the sufficiency of Christ and really make all these 468 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: connections to the Old Testament. It is going to be awesome. 469 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to that. Thank you friends for 470 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: being here today. Thank you again for all of your support, 471 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 1: for your likes, for your reviews, for your comments, for 472 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: the way that you share the podcast with others. Appreciate 473 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: you so much and so excited about what God wants 474 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: to do in us and through us in twenty twenty six. 475 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: So let me give you a benediction as we close. 476 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,239 Speaker 1: I don't always do this, but I want to just 477 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: provide you a blessing as we close this year to 478 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: get together. So may the Lord bless you and keep you. 479 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: May the Lord make his face to shine upon you. 480 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: May the Lord lift up his countenance to you, and 481 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: give you his peace, both now and forever. Amen. Amen, 482 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: Everyone see you in twenty twenty six. 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