1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Let us pray, and he brought the letter to the 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: King of Israel, saying, now when this letter is come 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Nayman, my servant 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: to thee, and thou mayst recover him of his leprosy. 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: Second Kings five six. Lord, we all long to have 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: your healing touch, to have provisions for all our needs 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: to come from you. But too often, when I cannot 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: see you or think you take too long to answer 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: my needs, I turn to other ways or people to 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: find healing in answer to my needs. Lord, why do 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: you wait so long at times to respond my requests 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: for help? It's difficult when I have emergencies and seems 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: like you take your time to answer me. When I 14 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: wait on you, I think I may die or fall apart, 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: wander off to a god who will answer me more quickly. 16 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: As I continue to pray and try to be patient, 17 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: I hear your voice speak to my heart about what 18 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: you are doing in my waiting. When I read your word, 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: you say that your truth will set me free. Does 20 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: that mean you will heal my disease or solve my problems? 21 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: As I wait on you, I feel your presence and 22 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: my faith grows to trust you as you renew my 23 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: strength to face life's difficulties. Lord, I still long to 24 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: see your miraculous power. Move on, my behalf. I will 25 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: wait for you as you make me patient and I 26 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: gain internal strength. Bless you, Lord, my God, my King 27 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for listening to to 28 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: day's daily prayer for more inspiration and an incredible message 29 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: from our feature past. Stay tuned to pray dot COM's 30 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: Sunday service. 31 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 2: Welcome to Awakened DeGrace. I'm so glad you're listening today. 32 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: My name is Chad Roberts, and I believe God has 33 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: connected us for a great purpose. You're about to hear 34 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 2: a powerful sermon that I know is going to encourage you. 35 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 2: If you like what you hear, share it with a 36 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 2: friend and subscribe to our weekly devotions and get encouragement 37 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 2: right to your inbox at Chadroberts dot org. My prayer 38 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 2: for you is that this year is the best yet. 39 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: Today I want us to be in Second King's Chapter five. 40 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: What a word I have to share with you that 41 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: I'm excited about. And I want to share with you 42 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 2: a remarkable story out of the old Testament about a 43 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 2: man named Nayman. Naman is one of my favorite people 44 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 2: in the Bible. Naman is someone that I have given 45 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 2: an enormous amount of time just thinking and just putting 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: myself in his world and in his story and trying 47 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: to picture myself. How would I react if I were him? 48 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: And Oh, I can understand his feeling, and I can 49 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 2: understand why he acted this way. And when I think 50 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: about Naman, I see a lot of me and him, 51 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 2: and I think you will see a lot of you 52 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 2: as well. In verse number one of Second King's five. 53 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 2: I am fascinated with what the Bible tells us. It 54 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: gives us a little snapshot into Nayman's life. It tells 55 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 2: us a little bit about who he was. You know, 56 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 2: sometimes I think if God were to write one verse 57 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: about my life, what would he say? If he were 58 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 2: to write a verse about you? I mean everything that 59 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: encompasses your life, all the decades you've lived, all the 60 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: experiences you've had, all the things you've learned, all the 61 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 2: changing you've done. What would God say about you in 62 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 2: one verse and just a few phrases? But yet the 63 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit tells us what he wanted us to know. 64 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 2: About this man named Nayman. Look at verse one with me, 65 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 2: and let's learn a little bit about who he was. 66 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 2: He indeed was a commander of the army of Syria. So, 67 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 2: in other words, what the scripture is telling us he 68 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 2: is a man of very high position, a man of 69 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 2: very high influence. He's a man of great authority. That's 70 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: going to come into play in just a little bit. 71 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 2: Naman was the commander of the army. This man that 72 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: he was personal friend with the king. It meant that 73 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 2: he had an audience with the king, and because of 74 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 2: his great authority and his ability to command, he was 75 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: a very high status. It also tells us that he 76 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: won many great victories. He was a great man of war, 77 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: and it also says that he had favor upon his life. 78 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 2: So not only was he skilled, and not only was 79 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 2: he good at what he did. Not only did he 80 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 2: have the influence and he had the position and have 81 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 2: the authority, he had the favor to go with it. 82 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 2: I'm going to show you in verse thirteen what I 83 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 2: think about naming and what I think he was really 84 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 2: like as a leader and as a man. And then 85 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 2: it says that he was a man of valor. He 86 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: not only had the position, he not only had the authority, 87 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 2: he had the courage to go with it. Nayman was 88 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 2: aurious man in life. Nayman was an accomplished man. But 89 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 2: I want you to look at the end of verse one. 90 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 2: The scripture says something very remarkable. But I had to 91 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 2: stop there here. He was commander of the Armor Army, 92 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: a great man of war. He had high favor up 93 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: on his life. He was a man of valor. He 94 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 2: had an audience with the king. He had great influence 95 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 2: and great authority. But look what it says he was 96 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 2: a leper. Pray dot Com audience, I want to invite 97 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 2: you to take your device and follow us within the 98 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 2: prey dot com app. Under the leader profile, you can 99 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 2: just search Chad Roberts and join the hundreds of thousands 100 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,679 Speaker 2: who are already following us right now. And while you're there, 101 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 2: you can learn how I lost vision in twenty eighteen 102 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 2: and today I preach completely blind. Scroll through my leader 103 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,679 Speaker 2: profile and watch the blind Faith documentary on the pregue 104 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 2: dot com app. Leoprosy in the Bible is symbolic to sin. 105 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: We know a lot about leprosy today, and today there's 106 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 2: a lot that can be done about leprosy. I remember 107 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 2: many years ago my cousin Nick and I traveled to 108 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: Vietnam and we smuggled Bibles to pastors in Vietnam, and 109 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: as you know, Vietnam is a communist nation. While we 110 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 2: were there, we visited a leper colony, a group home 111 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 2: for many who suffered from the disease of leprosy, and 112 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 2: we were able to go and pray over them and 113 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 2: minister to them and extend God's grace to them. Leprosy 114 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 2: is a serious condition and in the Bible days, I 115 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 2: want you to understand this, there was absolutely no cure 116 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 2: for leprosy. It was a death sentence. Leprosy was a 117 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 2: condition where your flesh would turn snow white and over 118 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 2: time it would rot and it would fall off, it 119 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: would smell. It was a horrible disease. It could happen 120 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 2: anywhere on the body. The Bible doesn't tell us where 121 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 2: Nayman suffered leprosy, but just in my mind's eye, I 122 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 2: just picture it along his arm and hand, that's where 123 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 2: I picture it. And it was a death sentence. To 124 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 2: have leprosy meant that your flesh was rotting and decaying, 125 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 2: and in spirit terms. What the Bible always compares leprosy 126 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 2: to is the decaying of sin from within. It was 127 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 2: a picture. It was symbolic. The same filth, and the 128 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: same wretchedness, and the same rotting, and the same decay 129 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 2: that happened within was symbolic to what was happening without 130 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 2: in Israel at this time. It meant isolation. It meant 131 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 2: that you were separated from your loved ones and you 132 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: had to live alone, and it was a complete isolation. 133 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, it was Jewish law, even 134 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: in Jesus' day, if a leper were to come out 135 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 2: in the community among others, it was law that the 136 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 2: leper had to yell unclean, unclean, why so that no 137 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 2: one got near them. Can you imagine? Could you imagine 138 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 2: going the rest of your life without ever experiencing another 139 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 2: hug or a handshake or an embrace. Could you imagine 140 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 2: never touching another human again? Leprosy meant you were condemned 141 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 2: to a life of isolation, and it was a serious matter. 142 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: In verse number two, the story is going to unfold. 143 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 2: So here's this great man who can have anything he wants, 144 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 2: he can buy anything he wants. He's accomplished, he's successful, 145 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 2: he has life all figured out, but he has leprosy. 146 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 2: And then verse two it says that there was a 147 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 2: raid that happened in Israel, and they brought back a 148 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 2: little slave girl, a little captive girl. And the Bible 149 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 2: don't even tell us her name. But what this little 150 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 2: slave girl did. She overhears the conversations about this leprosy, 151 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 2: and she tells Nayman's wife. She gives them a glimmer 152 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 2: of hope. Here she is in captivity herself, but yet 153 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 2: she gives them a glimmer of hope. And she says, 154 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 2: if your husband were to go to Samyrna, there is 155 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: a prophet there and he would be healed. You know 156 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 2: what I think about when I read verse two, think 157 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 2: about why anti Semitism exists in the world. This past summer, 158 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 2: we watched such hatred toward the Jews rise up from 159 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 2: coast to coast. We watched it spread all over Europe. 160 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 2: This anti semitism, Friends, do you know what anti Semitism is? 161 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 2: It is a satanic spirit. It is demonic. And do 162 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 2: you know why it is demonic? Do you know why? 163 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 2: See the people don't understand today. They think that people 164 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: they think the world hates the Jews because they quote 165 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 2: unquote occupy the land. Friends, there wasn't even a state 166 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 2: of Israel in the land until May fourteenth, nineteen forty eight. 167 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 2: And look way before then, especially what World War II proves, 168 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 2: the Jews have always been hated and they've always been 169 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 2: hunted down. Before there was ever a state of Israel 170 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 2: in our modern world, the world still hated the Jews 171 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 2: and tried to kill them. Do you know why, because 172 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 2: exactly what this little unnamed girl did in verse number two. 173 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 2: She brought hope. Listen, she brought hope to foreigners. She 174 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 2: brought hope to her captives. And you know what. God 175 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 2: used the Jewish people to bring the Word of God 176 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 2: to the world, to bring the knowledge of the light 177 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 2: of the Gospel to the world. God used the Jewish 178 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 2: people to bring the Messiah, the Savior, the Lamb of 179 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 2: God to the world. And Satan hates them for it. 180 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: He always has and he always will. And you go 181 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 2: back to Pharaoh in Egypt trying to kill Moses, and 182 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,319 Speaker 2: you go to Hayman trying to kill Esther and Mordecai 183 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 2: and every Jew down to Adolf Hitler, who tried to 184 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 2: exterminate the Jewish people. Friend, Satan has always hated the Jews, 185 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: and verse two is a reason why, because they've brought 186 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 2: hope to the world. So Namon listens to this little 187 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 2: captive girl. You know, it's amazing what you'll listen to 188 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 2: when you become desperate. Right, he wouldn't even give her 189 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 2: the time of day before, but now he's listening. He 190 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 2: approaches the king and the king agrees, listen, if there's 191 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 2: hope for you in Israel, then go, I'll write a letter. 192 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 2: Let's go. Do you know how wealthy naming was? Look 193 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 2: at verse five. Look what he traveled from Syria down 194 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 2: to Israel with. You know today, as we make our 195 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 2: way to the airport, American Airlines will only let me 196 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 2: have fifty pounds in my bag. So I have all 197 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 2: the essentials, a few change of clothes, deodorant, snacks, beef jerky, 198 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, essentials, but I'm limited to fifty pounds. 199 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 2: Do you know what Naman carried it down to Israel? 200 00:14:54,720 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 2: Seven hundred and fifty pounds of gold. Could you imagine 201 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 2: those over bag fees? He wouldn't have cared. He could 202 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 2: be it one hundred and fifty pounds of silver and 203 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 2: ten changes of clothes. Friends, we're talking wealth. And he 204 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 2: comes ready to buy whatever he can buy from God. 205 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 2: He comes ready to work a deal. He comes ready 206 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 2: to negotiate, He comes ready to bribe. He comes ready 207 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 2: to do whatever is necessary to leave Israel clean. Look 208 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: at verse nine. So the king can't help him, but 209 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 2: the king sends him to the prophet Elisha. The rider 210 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 2: tries to give us the picture, and it says that 211 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 2: when he arrives at Elisha's house with all of his 212 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 2: horses and all of his chariots, can you imagine the 213 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 2: entourage that this big wig brought with him. Can you 214 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 2: imagine how many men it took to transport that much 215 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 2: gold and silver and keep it safe on a long 216 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 2: journey like that, He had an entourage with him. And 217 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: they pull up to the profits home, which I'm sure 218 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 2: was quite obscure, which I'm sure was quite im unimpressive. 219 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 2: And Naman pulls up, no doubt, thinking I'm getting the 220 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 2: run around. I went to the highest authority in Israel 221 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 2: and he couldn't help me. And now he sends me 222 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 2: to a prophet who his address is not even on 223 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 2: Google Maps. And Nayman's getting angry verse ten. Now he's 224 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 2: highly insulted. Did you know that Elisha won't even come 225 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 2: out of his house to meet him? Oh? I like it. 226 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 2: You ever have people in your life you just can't 227 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 2: buy on any Christmas gift because they don't want nothing. Well, 228 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 2: that would be Elisha. You have nothing he wants. He 229 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,719 Speaker 2: won't even come out to meet him. He sends his servant. 230 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 2: And look at verse ten. Look at the command go 231 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 2: down to the river Jordan, dip seven times and you'll 232 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 2: be cleansed. And here Naming is with all of his 233 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 2: gold and all of his silver and all his clothing. 234 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 2: And Elisha stiff arms it and says, no, thank you. 235 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 2: You can't buy god. Elisha was not for seal. This 236 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 2: makes Naming furious. Look at verse eleven. There's a key 237 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: I want you to see in this text, and I 238 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 2: want you to serve. Underline it, highlight it, do whatever, 239 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 2: but make this jump out at you. Verse eleven, Nayman says, 240 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 2: I thought the man of God would come out, wave 241 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 2: his arm and call upon God. Let me translate that 242 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 2: he thought he would have a magic wand and everything 243 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 2: would be better. See, Nayman thought that he could take 244 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 2: his political gold and his political silver. And he thought 245 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 2: he could bribe his way toward God. He thought he 246 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 2: could negotiate his way in. He thought he could work 247 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 2: an angle, but how don't even know? God doesn't work 248 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 2: like that. And now he's mad. He's traveled all this distance, 249 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 2: he got his hopes up. But you know what I 250 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 2: think really made him mad? Say amen, if you're with 251 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 2: me right now. See, Naman was a man of great authority. 252 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 2: Namon was a man who issued commands. Namon wasn't used 253 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 2: to getting a command. See, Naman thought his gold would 254 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 2: do the speaking for him. And now here's this obscure 255 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 2: prophet that nobody's ever heard of. Namon googled him and 256 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 2: he didn't even come up on Google, and no one's 257 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 2: ever heard of him. And he went to the king, 258 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,719 Speaker 2: and the king couldn't help him. And his money can't 259 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 2: buy it, and his clothing can't buy it. And now 260 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 2: instead of negotiating and cutting a deal, do you know 261 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 2: what the man of God does, he gives Oh, he 262 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 2: gives the commander a command. And Naman doesn't like that. 263 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 2: Those who run from God, do you know why they're 264 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 2: running from God? Because they want to come to God 265 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 2: on their terms. Naman teaches us, you can't come to 266 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 2: God on your own terms. He can't be balked, he 267 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 2: can't be negotiated with. He's the one who gives the commands. Amen. 268 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 2: Now Naming is angry. He thought it would go one way, 269 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 2: and it's nothing like what he thought. And now he's furious. 270 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the Scriptures verse twelve says 271 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 2: he was enraged. He went from being angry to being enraged. 272 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: Have you ever been enraged before? When I get enraged, 273 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 2: I say, I can't even see straight. But that don't 274 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 2: make sense for a blind man. So I just you know, 275 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 2: that don't even make sense. And here he is enraged. 276 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 2: But let me show you something about Nayman that I 277 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 2: find really interesting. I don't think Naman is as bad 278 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: as it seems right here. I think what you and 279 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 2: I are watching are the raw emotions of Naman coming 280 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 2: to the surface. I think Naman was a military man. 281 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 2: He was a disciplined man. He was a courageous man. 282 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 2: He was a man of valor. He had let me 283 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 2: tell you, Naman had his act together and he had 284 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 2: that military discipline about him. And now it's breaking down, 285 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 2: and I think we're watching all of his emotions rise 286 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 2: to the surface and he can't contain it, and he's 287 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 2: angry and he's enraged. Let me tell you what I 288 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 2: see in verse thirteen. His servants, his entarage, those who 289 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 2: be hired to come with him. You know, they could 290 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 2: have not they Well, first, let me say this. Look 291 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 2: what they said to him, my lord. They're saying, boss, listen, 292 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 2: had that profit asked you to do something complex, had 293 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 2: he asked you to do something difficult and hard, you 294 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 2: would have gladly done it. But why is it that 295 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 2: though he asked you to do something simple, you won't. 296 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 2: Should you not reconsider? Isn't that interesting? I think if 297 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 2: Naman had not really been a good man, I think 298 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 2: those higher des servants would have said, hey, boss, you 299 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 2: paid our way down here. We got to see some 300 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 2: cool stuff. Now let's go home. Shrug your shoulders. Who cares? 301 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 2: But no, I think they really cared for him. I 302 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 2: think Nayman was a good man, and I think I 303 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 2: think they cared for him, and so because of that, 304 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 2: they spoke up and they spoke the truth to him. 305 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 2: You know, some of you were just like naming today. 306 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 2: If God asked you to do something very complicated, you 307 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 2: would probably do it, But because the gospel is so simple, 308 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 2: you overlook it. Because life change is not about becoming 309 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 2: a better person. It's about yielding to the Lord. Because 310 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 2: being cleansed from sin isn't about this big checklist that 311 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 2: you can check off in all of your good intentions. 312 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 2: It's about laying down your life to Jesus. And just 313 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 2: like Naman's friends, I'm asking you today, why would you 314 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 2: do something so complicated? But yet the most simple thing 315 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 2: you won't do. And what Jesus asked of you today 316 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 2: is lay your life down and let him have it. 317 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,959 Speaker 2: So he's angry, and his servant says, you're looking at 318 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 2: it wrong. Why don't you do what he says? So 319 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,479 Speaker 2: verse fourteen go with me here, Oh my goodness, what 320 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 2: a verse. So Naman goes to Jordan, Muddy Jordan, little 321 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 2: river Jordan, and Naman's angry about it. Oh, Naman's emotions 322 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 2: are raw and he can't contain it, and his hopes 323 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 2: were up. It's nothing like what he thought. And Nymon 324 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 2: even said in the previous verse, he says, why do 325 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: I have to go to Jordan when the rivers of 326 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 2: Damascus are better. Oh he wasn't prejudice, was he? You know? 327 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 2: This week, I don't know if you saw on social media, 328 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 2: but there was quite a little stir about these banners 329 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 2: that says it here. Did you guys see some of that? 330 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 2: A lot of conversations weren't there. I asked Michole, my assistant, 331 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 2: I said, would you read me all the negative comments? 332 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 2: She said, Chad, why do you want to hear all 333 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 2: the negative I'll pop some popcorn, and you know, you 334 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 2: know why I wanted to hear the negatives is because 335 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 2: the Lord had already told me to preach on naming. 336 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 2: And I'm stunned at how the Lord orchestrates things. You 337 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: know what some of those negative comments were. They were 338 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: naming comments. What can church do for an addict? One 339 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 2: person said, that's the church praying on the week. I thought, 340 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 2: we have done a lot of praying. We did a 341 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 2: prayer meeting the other night. But I don't think that 342 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 2: was what they meant. But why God? One person even wrote, 343 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 2: look to science, not God. That's Naman saying the rivers 344 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 2: of Damascus are better than the river Jordan. And God's 345 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 2: given me a word to give to you. Today. The 346 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 2: Namans that I'm preaching to. Naman was hurt. Naman was angry. 347 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 2: Namon was frustrated, and he didn't understand God, and he 348 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 2: didn't understand. Namon didn't even have faith. He didn't even believe. 349 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 2: And you know what Namon said, Why Jordan? And some 350 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 2: of you are here today, and I know it by 351 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 2: the spirit of God within me. Some of you are 352 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: here today and you're listening online today and you're saying, yeah, 353 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: but I've done that. Why God? Why religion? Why Christianity? 354 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 2: Why Church? What is there there for me? There's healing 355 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 2: for you, and so name and look at it with me. 356 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: Verse fourteen. Naman enters the Jordan. Friends, he don't even 357 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 2: have faith. I picture naming. I picture him getting off 358 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 2: his big chariot, and I picture him taking is extremely 359 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 2: nice and fine linens, and I picture him taking them off, 360 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 2: and one foot goes into the Jordan, and I bet 361 00:27:54,640 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 2: he shook his head every step of the way. I 362 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 2: know how I am. I'm so prideful. I would have 363 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 2: told all my servants to go away, let me be alone. 364 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 2: And I bet he was alone. And the further down 365 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 2: into the Jordan he stepped, so it goes past his 366 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 2: waist and up to his chest. I pict your name 367 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 2: and saying, what am I doing here? Why wouldn't that 368 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 2: fool take the gold? All he had to do is 369 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 2: wave his arm. All he had to do is just 370 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 2: do his thing, and he could have had all that gold. 371 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 2: What a fool. Some of you today you're saying, why 372 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: don't God just change it? Why didn't God just fix me? 373 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 2: And I pictured Namon as bad as he hates it. 374 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 2: He dips once he comes up, and I don't know 375 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 2: where the leopardsy was, but I picture it on his arm, 376 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 2: and I think he looked at his arm and no change. 377 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 2: And he dips again, and nothing changes, and he dips 378 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 2: again and nothing has changed. There's not even been an improvement. Nothing. 379 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 2: At this point, I think Namon goes from calling Elisha 380 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 2: a fool to say, Namon, you're the fool. What are 381 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 2: you doing in these muddy waters? You're so stupid? There's 382 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 2: nothing here for you. But he dips a fourth, he 383 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 2: dips a fifth, he dips a sixth. God has a 384 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 2: word for some of you. Some of you have said, Chad, 385 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 2: I've tried the prayer theme and it didn't work. I 386 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 2: tried God, it didn't work. Some of you can say, 387 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 2: I've tried rehab and it didn't take. Friends, if Namond 388 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 2: had only dipped twice, he would have stayed the same. 389 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 2: Had he only dipped five times, he would have never changed. 390 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 2: Had he had dipped six times, nothing would have happened. 391 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 2: It took that seventh Say, Chad, why you say, Chad, why? 392 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 2: Because you don't do things on your terms, You do 393 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 2: them on gods. And do you know what unlocks God 394 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 2: in your life? Obedience? He obeyed the word of the Lord. 395 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 2: And my friends, when naming this foreign or this man 396 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 2: who didn't know God, this man who didn't care, this 397 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 2: man who had no faith, the man who was a 398 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 2: great man and had life all figured out, but he 399 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 2: was a leper. And when he dipped that seventh time 400 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 2: and he came up, friends, he was cleansed in the 401 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 2: name of the Lord. Amen. And do you know what 402 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 2: the scripture says verse fourteen. Listen, it says his flesh 403 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 2: was like the flesh of a child. Do you know why? 404 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,040 Speaker 2: Do you know why it says it was like the 405 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: flesh of a child is because there's so many namans 406 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 2: in our world today. And let me tell you what 407 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 2: Jesus said two thousand years later, let me tell you 408 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 2: what Jesus says. Remarkable. Jesus said, those who come to 409 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 2: God must come as a child. Your gold can't buy God. 410 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 2: Your intelligence doesn't impress them. Your popularity and your good 411 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 2: name and the fact that you figured life out doesn't 412 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 2: impress him. Obedience is what impresses And today, if you're 413 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 2: going to come to God, you got to come as 414 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 2: a child, as a child, childlike faith. Well, let me 415 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 2: close here, and I want to show you the most 416 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 2: beautiful part of this story to me, verse fifteen. Do 417 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 2: you remember what Namon said in verse eleven. I thought 418 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 2: it would happen this way a thought. See, Namon had 419 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 2: a lot of preconceived ideas. Namon had a lot of 420 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 2: crazy expectations. But I want you to look at verse fifteen. 421 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 2: Now look what he says. Now, I know that there 422 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 2: is a God in Israel, and he's the only God. 423 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 2: You know why. I love that You can take someone 424 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 2: who has all their arguments in all the world. You 425 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 2: can tell someone, Oh, someone wrote, maicole read me. Somebody said, 426 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 2: it's churches praying on the week like that. That's why 427 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 2: there's so many atheists. Let me tell you, you can 428 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 2: take your atheism, But let me tell you a Brian Allen. 429 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 2: You can't argue with a Brian Allen. You can't argue 430 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 2: with a man that's met Jesus. You can't argue with 431 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 2: somebody who's come out of darkness and knows the light. 432 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 2: Think whatever you want to think. But there's some of 433 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 2: us we know the grace of God, Amen, and we 434 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 2: know the power of God, and it will change your life. 435 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 2: And today, if you want to go from my fault 436 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 2: to I know, we welcome you, Namon, We welcome you 437 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 2: into the muddy Jordan. It's not as impressive as the world, 438 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,800 Speaker 2: it's not as pretty as the world. But there's healing 439 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 2: in our waters. Amen, there's healing in the Gospel of 440 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's all stand right now, and 441 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 2: I'm gonna invite you. I'm gonna invite you to the 442 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 2: waters of God. I'm gonna invite you to step out 443 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 2: of your old lifestyle. I'm gonna invite you to step 444 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 2: out of your way of doing life. And some of 445 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 2: you know what it is. You know what it is 446 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 2: that you've tried to do it on your terms and Today, 447 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 2: I'm going to invite you come do it on God's terms. 448 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 2: What did we say if it was something hard, you 449 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 2: would do, But no, it's something so simple. Give your 450 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 2: life to Jesus. Did you know that? I'm a pastor, 451 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,880 Speaker 2: husband and father of four who suddenly went blind in 452 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. Today I teach people how life is not random, 453 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 2: but it is actually orchestrated by God for a great purpose. 454 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 2: Learn more about my story and awaken to grace. At 455 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 2: Chad Roberts dot org. 456 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,280 Speaker 1: You will be like God. 457 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 2: Human unity with God was severed, and through it all 458 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 2: God's promise remain true. 459 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: Follow me, Apron, and I will make you great. 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