WEBVTT - Have No Fear, God Is Here, Part 4 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.920 He wants us to know that whatever is bigger than us, 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.520 he's bigger than it. I'm so glad I've got a 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.280 God who's bigger than what's bigger than I am. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.759 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.680 junior senior pastor of Christ Bible Church in Chicago. I'm 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.480 Steve Heller. Glad you're with us as we continue a message. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.240 Have no fear. God is here. And pastor, sometimes life 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.680 throws something at us that does seem absolutely overwhelming. I mean, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.160 we feel like we're absolutely crushed. Destroyed? No way out 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.800 of this. But when we cling to the fact that 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.879 we have a God who is bigger than everything, it 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.760 makes all the difference in the world, doesn't it? 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:53.480 Amen. You know, Steve, here's here's how I assess my 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:58.160 problems and situations. I assess them in the light of 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.160 what God has to say about them. I think that's 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:01.760 very important. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:02.840 What do you mean by that? 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.920 Well, I go to the word, for example. Do you 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.520 know there are 365 fear nots in the Bible? Now, 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.160 I didn't count them, but I think it was David 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.800 Jeremiah that counted them. And that's one for every day 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.120 of the year. So whenever fear comes on me, then 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.800 I have to see what God says about fear. And 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.240 whenever I'm hit with worry or anxiety or any of 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:36.480 the tumultuous emotions of life. Now, I'm not saying that 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.720 every time, no. But most of the time, the Word 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.760 of God acts as a balm and calms. My heart 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:52.000 begins to get me to focus on what God has promised. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.160 As opposed to the pain I'm going through. Yeah. Now, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.080 that doesn't minimize the pain. It doesn't mean I like 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.559 what's going on. It doesn't mean that I'm accepting what's 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:05.800 going on. I could be fighting against it with every 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.280 part of my being. But there's something about the Word 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:14.040 of God. Faith comes by hearing. Hearing by the Word 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.640 of God. Now, that's not just the word Lagos there 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.800 in Romans ten. That's the word rhema. And so a 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:27.840 rhema is a specific word for a specific purpose or problem. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.280 So it literally means the word that fits. And so 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.160 that's what I do. I try to find a word 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.000 that fits. And then I begin to soak that word in. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.280 And most of the time it changes my outlook my 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:49.320 perspective changes. But then my perception changes because my perspective, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:54.399 how I see it now, begins to color my perception, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.120 how I understand it, and it changes the whole thing around. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.750 And I ask myself the question, you know, not God. 0:03:01.750 --> 0:03:06.830 Why me but God? Why not me and not why now? 0:03:06.870 --> 0:03:10.910 Why not now? And God is able to do whatever 0:03:11.190 --> 0:03:14.070 he's trying to do in your life. We just have 0:03:14.070 --> 0:03:15.750 to yield and let him do it. 0:03:16.150 --> 0:03:19.510 It's a powerful reminder as we begin today's broadcast, and 0:03:19.550 --> 0:03:22.230 we're going to continue to look at this topic from 0:03:22.230 --> 0:03:25.910 Isaiah chapter 43. So join us there as Pastor Ford 0:03:25.910 --> 0:03:29.630 continues the message. Have no fear. God is here. 0:03:30.510 --> 0:03:37.030 Forest fires are devastating, uh, in any nation. As a 0:03:37.030 --> 0:03:41.550 matter of fact, across the world, forest fires devastate and 0:03:41.550 --> 0:03:44.990 destroy everything that's in their path. As a matter of fact, 0:03:44.990 --> 0:03:48.470 if we took one state, just the state of California, uh, 0:03:48.470 --> 0:03:54.910 last year, uh, they had approximately 5000 wildfires, which led 0:03:54.910 --> 0:04:03.390 to the destruction of 164,000 Acres of land. Thousands of 0:04:03.390 --> 0:04:08.230 homes were destroyed and burned. Tens of thousands of God's 0:04:08.230 --> 0:04:13.390 creatures were burnt up and left without shelter. Uh, tons 0:04:13.390 --> 0:04:18.229 and tons of forests were burnt up. 32 people last 0:04:18.230 --> 0:04:22.909 year lost their lives in these wildfires. Yet there is 0:04:22.910 --> 0:04:28.070 one thing that was not adversely affected by the wildfire, 0:04:28.510 --> 0:04:34.190 but actually flourished and thrived. Not in spite of it, 0:04:34.190 --> 0:04:39.429 but because of it. It's called a lodgepole pine cone. 0:04:39.430 --> 0:04:43.710 Come on, say it with me. Lodgepole pine cone. This 0:04:43.710 --> 0:04:51.029 pine cone has within it seeds of life potential that 0:04:51.029 --> 0:04:51.789 has been put. 0:04:51.790 --> 0:04:53.150 In it by God. 0:04:53.510 --> 0:04:57.910 But there's, there's there's something that he also did. Because 0:04:57.910 --> 0:05:02.710 while everything is green and plush and lush in the forest. 0:05:02.750 --> 0:05:06.589 Those cones will remain the same, and the potential of 0:05:06.589 --> 0:05:09.589 the seed that's in it will never be released. You 0:05:09.589 --> 0:05:13.510 want to know why? Come on, ask me why. Because 0:05:13.910 --> 0:05:18.070 it's only released. They will only open up when they 0:05:18.070 --> 0:05:25.430 have gone through intense heat. So then what that means 0:05:25.790 --> 0:05:31.310 is that while everything is beautiful and peaceful, their potential 0:05:31.310 --> 0:05:35.429 stays locked up within them. But as soon as there 0:05:35.790 --> 0:05:40.230 there's a forest fire, they fall from the tree. They 0:05:40.230 --> 0:05:44.870 open up because the heat opens them up, releases the 0:05:44.910 --> 0:05:48.349 seed on the inside. And get this, you won't believe this. 0:05:48.910 --> 0:05:53.909 That the ashes that are left from the devastation are 0:05:53.950 --> 0:06:00.990 actually utilized by the seed to grow quicker Than it 0:06:00.990 --> 0:06:07.550 would in normal soil. So that Google told me that 0:06:07.550 --> 0:06:12.230 within 1 to 4 days it opens up and you 0:06:12.230 --> 0:06:19.310 see the blossom. Wow. Wait. Look at somebody and say, 0:06:19.350 --> 0:06:26.310 lodgepole pine cone. Yeah, because you gotta understand that God 0:06:26.310 --> 0:06:31.670 has invested in you great potential. You have Christ in you, 0:06:31.670 --> 0:06:34.909 the Holy Ghost in you. You have the gift of 0:06:34.910 --> 0:06:39.270 God in you. You have unlimited potential that is untapped. 0:06:39.270 --> 0:06:43.589 And as long as everything is going smoothly and everything 0:06:43.589 --> 0:06:47.950 is blossoming and beautiful, you will not release the seeds 0:06:47.950 --> 0:06:52.190 of possibility and potential that God has in you. But oh, 0:06:52.390 --> 0:06:57.230 he lets the fire come because the fire causes you 0:06:57.230 --> 0:07:00.910 to open up. It causes you to release the seeds 0:07:00.910 --> 0:07:04.230 of the possibilities that God has given to you, and 0:07:04.230 --> 0:07:08.310 you grow and bloom in the ashes of the devastation 0:07:08.310 --> 0:07:11.110 of your hurt, of the hate that was on you, 0:07:11.110 --> 0:07:14.309 of the things that tested you and tried you. Don't 0:07:14.310 --> 0:07:19.550 you understand that sometimes God allows you and I to 0:07:19.590 --> 0:07:24.750 go through the fire, because it's the only way that 0:07:24.750 --> 0:07:30.750 that potential is going to be released. And many of 0:07:30.750 --> 0:07:36.150 us don't understand God's taking us through the fire so 0:07:36.150 --> 0:07:42.989 that we can blossom. I can't tell somebody there's something 0:07:42.990 --> 0:07:46.990 inside of you that will never come out of you 0:07:47.350 --> 0:07:50.430 until you go through the fire. Oh, I know what 0:07:50.430 --> 0:07:53.590 I'm talking about. There's greatness in you. But it's going 0:07:53.590 --> 0:07:56.150 to take the fire to bring it out. There's a 0:07:56.150 --> 0:07:58.910 book inside of you, a bestseller, but it's not going 0:07:58.950 --> 0:08:01.710 to come out until you go through the fire. There's 0:08:01.710 --> 0:08:03.950 a degree inside of you, but it's going to take 0:08:03.950 --> 0:08:07.030 the fire to bring it out. There's a political career 0:08:07.030 --> 0:08:09.830 inside of you, but it's going to take the fire 0:08:09.830 --> 0:08:12.470 to bring it out. There's an invention inside of you, 0:08:12.470 --> 0:08:15.510 but it's going to take the fire to bring it 0:08:15.510 --> 0:08:18.550 out of you. There's faithfulness inside of you, but it's 0:08:18.550 --> 0:08:21.150 going to take the fire to bring it out. I'm 0:08:21.150 --> 0:08:25.270 preaching better than you. Amen. There's a powerful ministry inside 0:08:25.270 --> 0:08:28.110 of you. But it's going to take the fire to 0:08:28.150 --> 0:08:31.510 bring it out. There's integrity inside of you, but it's 0:08:31.510 --> 0:08:33.910 going to take the fire to bring it out. And 0:08:33.910 --> 0:08:35.910 I might as well tell the truth to some of 0:08:35.910 --> 0:08:39.189 y'all in here. There's demons in you, but it's going 0:08:39.190 --> 0:08:45.110 to take the fire. Come on. Let's have some who 0:08:45.110 --> 0:08:54.030 really believe God say, bring the fire. Mm. Yeah. You 0:08:54.030 --> 0:08:57.110 know what's wrong? You're not living up to who God 0:08:57.110 --> 0:09:00.740 made you. You're living beneath your privileges. Don't you know 0:09:00.740 --> 0:09:04.060 who you are? You're a king's kid. You're the head 0:09:04.100 --> 0:09:13.940 and not the tail. You are somebody. Stop living like 0:09:13.940 --> 0:09:21.620 you're a welfare person spiritually. You're a king's kid. God 0:09:21.620 --> 0:09:24.660 says I gotta bring it out of you. So I 0:09:24.660 --> 0:09:27.980 gotta let you go through the fire. Oh, not everybody, 0:09:27.980 --> 0:09:30.820 but some of you right now. Thing you're going through 0:09:30.820 --> 0:09:34.740 right now. God told me to come and encourage somebody. Yeah, 0:09:34.740 --> 0:09:40.780 it'll be over. Yeah, but not until he brings it out. Yeah, 0:09:40.780 --> 0:09:44.420 he gotta bring it out. Yeah, the fire is going 0:09:44.420 --> 0:09:47.540 to bring it out. We say. Yeah. You're not living 0:09:47.540 --> 0:09:50.980 up to who God made you. You got a GED. Focus. 0:09:50.980 --> 0:09:58.819 But you got PhD possibilities. Yeah, you got a hooptie actions, 0:09:58.820 --> 0:10:07.860 but you got Mercedes Benz. Faith. Yeah, you display low expectations, 0:10:07.860 --> 0:10:14.180 but God said he's giving you high hopes. I came 0:10:14.179 --> 0:10:16.860 to talk to a few folk today who are in 0:10:16.860 --> 0:10:22.220 a forest fire. And I want to tell you that 0:10:22.220 --> 0:10:27.500 God got something he's trying to bring out of you. 0:10:30.740 --> 0:10:33.380 Maybe you identify with that today. You're listening to a 0:10:33.380 --> 0:10:36.900 message called have no fear. God is here. It's from 0:10:36.900 --> 0:10:39.100 Pastor James Ford Jr, and we're glad you've tuned in 0:10:39.140 --> 0:10:41.420 to treasure truth. If you want to find out more 0:10:41.420 --> 0:10:44.179 about Pastor Ford or this program, I hope you'll come 0:10:44.179 --> 0:10:48.060 to our website. It's Treasure Truth radio.org. 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So join 0:11:19.740 --> 0:11:21.740 us there as we continue the message. 0:11:22.940 --> 0:11:27.020 Now, you know, uh, that they are in this fire 0:11:27.340 --> 0:11:32.860 because they struck the match and dropped it. And there 0:11:32.860 --> 0:11:37.260 was a conflagration. The children of Israel in Isaiah 43, uh, 0:11:37.260 --> 0:11:40.860 they're talking about the Babylonian captivity, and they're saying, oh, God, 0:11:40.860 --> 0:11:44.500 why us? And God saying, no, you did this. And 0:11:44.500 --> 0:11:46.219 there's some people in here, you're in a fire. You 0:11:46.220 --> 0:11:48.500 didn't start it, but there's some in here. Don't look 0:11:48.500 --> 0:11:53.460 around now, who the fire you're in is because you 0:11:53.460 --> 0:11:57.820 started it. Mhm. Yeah. You're the one who couldn't wait 0:11:57.820 --> 0:12:01.340 for Mr. right and settle for Mr.. Right now. Uh, yeah. 0:12:01.380 --> 0:12:04.540 You're the one who said, oh, I know she's Miss Right, 0:12:04.540 --> 0:12:07.660 but you didn't know her first name was always. Yeah. 0:12:07.700 --> 0:12:10.340 You're the your it was your hand that held the 0:12:10.340 --> 0:12:13.140 crack pipe. It was your hand that held the joint. 0:12:13.140 --> 0:12:16.020 It was your hand that had the 40. The blunt, 0:12:16.059 --> 0:12:20.940 the cavalier, the crystal. It was your hand, not God's. Yeah. 0:12:20.940 --> 0:12:25.220 You ran the credit cards up to the limit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:25.340 --> 0:12:27.900 I tell you all the time, God's name is not 0:12:27.980 --> 0:12:31.540 on one of those credit card slips that was signed. Yeah, 0:12:31.540 --> 0:12:35.060 you got baby mama drama, baby daddy drama. Because you're 0:12:35.100 --> 0:12:38.860 the one who did what you did. But yet God 0:12:38.860 --> 0:12:42.820 sent me to tell somebody today. If you had a 0:12:42.860 --> 0:12:47.180 setback and you took a step back, don't you dare 0:12:47.220 --> 0:12:53.380 turn back because God wants to give you a glorious comeback. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, 0:12:53.380 --> 0:12:56.500 I said something. I got to say that again. Uh, 0:12:56.780 --> 0:13:00.179 that was good, Pastor Ford. Yeah. I said if you 0:13:00.179 --> 0:13:03.939 had a setback, don't take a step back. Don't you 0:13:03.940 --> 0:13:07.780 turn back because God's about to give you a glorious comeback. 0:13:11.580 --> 0:13:15.459 The fire is going to bring out your potential. Now 0:13:15.460 --> 0:13:18.300 here's what he said. Here's what he said. Now, while 0:13:18.300 --> 0:13:22.340 you're going through this and the fire's raging, you're going 0:13:22.380 --> 0:13:25.860 to fall from the tree. You're going to open up 0:13:25.860 --> 0:13:28.300 because you can't do nothing else when the heat comes. 0:13:29.220 --> 0:13:32.140 But the seed is going to come out. And in 0:13:32.140 --> 0:13:37.380 the ashes of the destruction that lays all around you, 0:13:37.780 --> 0:13:41.420 you're going to see something green start to grow up 0:13:42.100 --> 0:13:49.100 and blossom and become something that you never were before 0:13:49.860 --> 0:13:57.140 and never could be until the fire came. Amen. Amen. 0:13:58.260 --> 0:14:02.020 So God told him. God told him. God told him. 0:14:02.660 --> 0:14:06.140 He said, listen, here's all I want you to do. 0:14:07.300 --> 0:14:12.620 Have no fear because I'm here. That's it. That's all 0:14:12.620 --> 0:14:15.220 he promises. He didn't say he's going to be over. 0:14:15.220 --> 0:14:18.179 He didn't say when. He didn't say how. He just said, 0:14:18.179 --> 0:14:24.060 hold on to God's unchanging hand. And I promise you, 0:14:24.460 --> 0:14:30.420 you're going to look totally different. The fire is not 0:14:30.420 --> 0:14:38.340 to burn you. It's to build you. Amen. Yeah. And 0:14:38.340 --> 0:14:42.420 so then we've already seen verse one tells us, God says, listen, 0:14:42.420 --> 0:14:45.380 here it is. Number one, you don't have to have 0:14:45.380 --> 0:14:48.980 any fear because you're the property of God. Verse one 0:14:48.980 --> 0:14:51.660 he says, you're my property. You're my property. I'm not 0:14:51.660 --> 0:14:53.740 going to go too far back. But I remember growing 0:14:53.740 --> 0:14:58.420 up in a small family of ten, nine boys, one tomboy, 0:14:58.900 --> 0:15:00.930 and I was the oldest. Now, let me tell you 0:15:00.930 --> 0:15:05.330 what that meant for me. That meant it was before Pampers. 0:15:06.810 --> 0:15:10.890 Which means there were cloth diapers. And so, since I 0:15:10.890 --> 0:15:13.650 was the oldest, my mama would say, get that diaper 0:15:13.690 --> 0:15:15.330 off of him and clean him. And mama used to 0:15:15.330 --> 0:15:16.970 have me doing all that kind of stuff, and I 0:15:16.970 --> 0:15:18.650 used to. I used to say to her, well, I 0:15:18.690 --> 0:15:20.810 gotta cook, why I gotta clean, why I gotta learn 0:15:20.810 --> 0:15:23.250 how to sew. I'm a man and she say you're 0:15:23.250 --> 0:15:25.130 a boy. But let me tell you something, boy. You 0:15:25.130 --> 0:15:27.090 don't know who you're going to marry. So you better 0:15:27.130 --> 0:15:29.770 know how to do everything for yourself. So when you 0:15:29.770 --> 0:15:31.570 leave this house, I'm going to teach you how to 0:15:31.570 --> 0:15:33.890 do everything. Because you don't know what kind of woman 0:15:33.890 --> 0:15:35.730 you going to get. Now, I got a good woman 0:15:35.730 --> 0:15:38.130 who does all that. But my woman got sick for 0:15:38.130 --> 0:15:41.010 23 years, and for 23 years. I said, thank God. 0:15:41.010 --> 0:15:43.130 Mama taught me how to cook. Thank God mama taught 0:15:43.130 --> 0:15:44.970 me how to sew. Thank God mama taught me how 0:15:44.970 --> 0:15:47.010 to take care of the house. Thank God mama taught 0:15:47.010 --> 0:15:49.210 me how to clean, how to do all thank God. 0:15:50.210 --> 0:15:53.450 But because I had to do that all the time, 0:15:53.770 --> 0:15:58.370 I used to feel like I was adopted. And I 0:15:58.370 --> 0:16:01.290 would say, I say to her, am I adopted? She said, 0:16:03.130 --> 0:16:06.330 who in their right mind would adopt somebody like you? 0:16:07.930 --> 0:16:10.770 And my nickname was she calls me is sunny and 0:16:10.770 --> 0:16:13.490 she would say this I don't call you sunny because 0:16:13.490 --> 0:16:18.330 you shine. I call you sunny because you're mine. Man, 0:16:18.330 --> 0:16:20.330 I love that. And whenever I would feel like I 0:16:20.330 --> 0:16:22.210 was adopted because of all the work I was doing 0:16:22.210 --> 0:16:24.490 as the oldest, I say, say that to me, mama. 0:16:24.490 --> 0:16:26.410 Say that to she. Say I don't call you sunny 0:16:26.410 --> 0:16:29.530 because you shine. I call you sunny because you're mine. 0:16:29.530 --> 0:16:32.410 You know what I learned? I learned that he's telling 0:16:32.410 --> 0:16:35.450 them in verse one I don't call you saint because 0:16:35.450 --> 0:16:38.650 you shine. I call you saint because you're mine. That 0:16:38.650 --> 0:16:40.890 there are some things that God is telling us that 0:16:40.890 --> 0:16:43.610 he wants us to know. I don't care how far 0:16:43.610 --> 0:16:46.730 you think you can go. You can never get away 0:16:46.730 --> 0:16:49.770 from me. Because the farther you go, every time you 0:16:49.770 --> 0:16:52.930 look down, you know what you're going to find. Underneath 0:16:52.970 --> 0:16:57.280 are the everlasting arms. Oh, I thought more than 3 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.050 or 4 people would shout about that. I thought somebody 0:17:00.050 --> 0:17:02.730 would stand to their feet and say, thank you, Jesus. 0:17:02.850 --> 0:17:06.850 I thought somebody would holler up and say, I love you, Lord. 0:17:06.890 --> 0:17:15.170 I thought somebody would say, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Okay, 0:17:15.170 --> 0:17:19.570 now I feel like I'm in a real church. Yeah. 0:17:19.810 --> 0:17:23.090 And so then he said, uh, you're my property. Then notice, secondly, 0:17:23.490 --> 0:17:26.330 not only because we're his property, but he said in 0:17:26.330 --> 0:17:30.250 verse two, he said, because of my protection of you, 0:17:30.850 --> 0:17:33.570 that that I look at verse two, when you pass 0:17:33.570 --> 0:17:35.610 through the fire, I will be there. When you when 0:17:35.609 --> 0:17:37.770 you pass through the waters, I will be with you. 0:17:37.810 --> 0:17:40.850 Notice what he says. You're going to go through it. 0:17:40.850 --> 0:17:45.730 Say when, not if. And notice what I said earlier. 0:17:45.730 --> 0:17:47.170 He don't promise you're going to get out. He don't 0:17:47.170 --> 0:17:49.050 promise it's going to be easy. He don't promise you're 0:17:49.050 --> 0:17:50.810 going to like it. He don't promise that it ain't 0:17:50.810 --> 0:17:53.690 going to be painful. He just promised one thing. You'll 0:17:53.690 --> 0:17:56.370 go into the water and you going to get wet, 0:17:56.369 --> 0:17:58.890 but you ain't going to drown. And you go into 0:17:58.890 --> 0:18:04.410 the fire and you will not be burned. Maybe you're 0:18:04.410 --> 0:18:08.850 going through the fire because God is trying to burn 0:18:08.890 --> 0:18:12.570 the earthly empire off of you, so that you'll focus 0:18:12.570 --> 0:18:16.490 on the heavenly empire. Maybe it's because you got the 0:18:16.490 --> 0:18:21.609 wrong power. Maybe you got the power on TV 32 0:18:21.730 --> 0:18:25.090 instead of the power of the Holy Spirit. Maybe it's 0:18:25.090 --> 0:18:29.810 because he's trying to keep you from a scandal. Come on, man. 0:18:34.890 --> 0:18:37.850 I thought I'd throw a little TV in there, get 0:18:37.850 --> 0:18:40.490 somebody mad at me. He talk about Empire scam? I 0:18:40.490 --> 0:18:43.530 don't know, he talking about. That's my show. Let's move on, 0:18:43.570 --> 0:18:45.369 he said. Because you're the property of God. Because you're 0:18:45.369 --> 0:18:48.530 the preservation of God. Number three, verse three. Listen to 0:18:48.530 --> 0:18:51.570 what it says. He says, for I am the Lord 0:18:51.570 --> 0:18:55.090 thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. Stop! 0:18:55.490 --> 0:18:58.250 He says, the third reason that you don't have to 0:18:58.250 --> 0:19:01.210 have any fear is because of the person of God. 0:19:01.490 --> 0:19:05.450 He identifies himself. Why? He wants us to know that 0:19:05.450 --> 0:19:10.490 whatever is bigger than us, he's bigger than it. I'm 0:19:10.490 --> 0:19:12.889 so glad I've got a God who's bigger than what's 0:19:12.890 --> 0:19:18.330 bigger than I am. And so what does he do? Hey, 0:19:18.330 --> 0:19:19.449 look at this, look at this, look at this, look 0:19:19.450 --> 0:19:23.010 at this. Verse one. God is able. Verse two God 0:19:23.010 --> 0:19:26.530 is available. Verse three God is awesome. You know what 0:19:26.530 --> 0:19:32.450 he's telling us? Verse one he's powerful. Verse two, he's present. 0:19:32.450 --> 0:19:37.609 Verse three, he's perfect. I told you this before, but 0:19:37.609 --> 0:19:39.969 Imma repeat it because I do use Google a lot. 0:19:40.010 --> 0:19:42.490 And and a couple days ago my Google went out 0:19:42.490 --> 0:19:44.570 and I was I was calling everybody I can't get 0:19:44.570 --> 0:19:47.010 my Google back on. I can't get my Google on 0:19:48.010 --> 0:19:50.130 because I get a lot of information from Google. I 0:19:50.130 --> 0:19:53.050 just call them my phone. They say, what about Google it? 0:19:53.570 --> 0:19:56.490 And so my administrative assistant said, okay, we're going to 0:19:56.490 --> 0:19:58.209 teach you how to do this computer thing and get 0:19:58.210 --> 0:20:00.010 it together. You got to start doing your own stuff. 0:20:00.010 --> 0:20:01.649 So I started doing my own stuff. I wish I 0:20:01.650 --> 0:20:04.370 was like Brother Garland. He does all his own stuff 0:20:04.369 --> 0:20:07.250 on the computer, puts his PowerPoint together, everything. I can't 0:20:07.250 --> 0:20:11.290 do none of that yet, doc. And so I'm trying it. 0:20:11.290 --> 0:20:14.090 So I wanted to do a series called God Is Able, 0:20:14.330 --> 0:20:16.090 and I knew there was about 8 or 9 of them, 0:20:16.090 --> 0:20:17.969 but I said, there's gotta be more than what I know. 0:20:18.210 --> 0:20:22.130 And so I put punched in God is able and 0:20:22.130 --> 0:20:24.489 it said no reference is found. I said, that's what 0:20:24.490 --> 0:20:26.850 I'm talking about. I called up my administrator. I said, 0:20:26.850 --> 0:20:29.170 this thing is stupid. I said, I know at least 0:20:29.170 --> 0:20:31.650 4 or 5 of them. You know, God is able, 0:20:31.690 --> 0:20:34.530 you know, uh, but God is able to do exceedingly, 0:20:34.530 --> 0:20:36.330 abundantly above all, you know, and it didn't even pull 0:20:36.330 --> 0:20:39.330 up anything she said to me without missing a beat. 0:20:39.850 --> 0:20:44.609 Did you capitalize the G? I looked and it was 0:20:44.609 --> 0:20:49.210 a small G, and lo and behold, the stupid computer 0:20:49.210 --> 0:20:53.050 became a smart one, and the smart pastor became stupid 0:20:53.050 --> 0:20:55.890 because the computer was saying to me, I do not 0:20:55.930 --> 0:21:00.760 recognize a God who is able with a small G. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:05.560 What you gotta do is capitalize God. And once you 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.880 capitalize God, then all the references came through. There were 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:15.159 30 something references, but God. And I said, oh, I wonder, 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:19.160 is the assembly like me walking around with a small G. 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.080 And you need to change from a lowercase g to 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.880 a uppercase G so that you can get some references, 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.119 because God won't answer when you make him too small. 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:39.840 I'm in Bible territory, and now unto him who is 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:49.000 able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you could 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:55.840 ask or think, according to the mighty working power in us. 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.000 A difficult place to pause in today's message from Pastor Ford. 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.560 He's really given us a lot to think about. 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