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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you, and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: great to be with you today, and I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast,

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Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit

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Speaker 1: us in person. We'd love to have you be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. But I'd like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny. And I heard about this young

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Speaker 1: man and one day he was talking to God and

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Speaker 1: he said, God, what's a million years like to you?

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Speaker 1: God said, a million years to me is like one

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Speaker 1: second to you. He said, well, God, what's a million

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Speaker 1: dollars like to you? God said, a million dollars to

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Speaker 1: me is like one penny to you. He thought about

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Speaker 1: it in a moment, said God, will you give me

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Speaker 1: a penny? God said sure, just a second. Say it

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Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 1: what it says, I am, I have what it says

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Speaker 1: I have, I can do what it says I can

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Speaker 1: do today. I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 1: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: your future is set. It's easy to worry about tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and how is everything going to work out. I'm concerned

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Speaker 1: about my children. I have this problem at work. The

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Speaker 1: uncertainty can bring anxiety where we live, stressed and uptight.

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Speaker 1: We look at things on the short term. But God's

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Speaker 1: been working on you for generations. He didn't just start

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Speaker 1: when you got here, long before you were born. He

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Speaker 1: was lining up what you need, arranging things to fall

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Speaker 1: into place so you can fulfill your purpose. God told Abraham,

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Speaker 1: your children will be in Egypt for four hundred years.

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Speaker 1: Then I will bring them out with greater as God

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Speaker 1: had a four hundred year strategy. We're praying about tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: believing for this week, hoping for next month. God's way

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Speaker 1: ahead of you. He was thinking about you hundreds of

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Speaker 1: years ago, before your father and mother even knew each other.

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Speaker 1: God was working on your behalf generations back, bringing everything

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Speaker 1: into alignment. The right people, good breaks solutions to problems,

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Speaker 1: mercy for mistakes. It's already planned out. When the Israelites

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Speaker 1: came out of slavery, loaded down with treasure, just like

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Speaker 1: God promised, it looked like that just suddenly happened. God

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Speaker 1: just decided to bless them. The truth is that blessing

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Speaker 1: had been lined up for four hundred years. God had

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Speaker 1: planned to let Phedro capture them. He'd already planned they

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Speaker 1: would go through things that weren't fair, have to endure

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Speaker 1: that suffering. But the plan didn't stop there. There was

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Speaker 1: a plan to bring them out, a plan to make

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Speaker 1: a plan to thrust them into their purpose. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: all go through disappointments and things we don't understand. We

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Speaker 1: see how we could accomplish our dreams. Now we feel

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Speaker 1: like we're in captivity. We've had these bad breaks. That's

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Speaker 1: not the end of the story. Like with the Israelites

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Speaker 1: generations back, God was working on your behalf. That bad

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Speaker 1: break can't stop you. How you were raised. Even the

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Speaker 1: mistake you made that didn't catch God off guard. He

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Speaker 1: knew about it. He's already taken it into account. That's

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Speaker 1: why we can stay in peace, That's why we can

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Speaker 1: sleep well at night. You're not doing life on your own.

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Speaker 1: You're a part of a much bigger plan that God

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Speaker 1: has purpose things for you that he started generations ago.

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Speaker 1: Now thoughts would whisper there's nothing special about you. You're

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Speaker 1: not important. You're just one of the seven billion people

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Speaker 1: He has an assignment for your life. You need to

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Speaker 1: feel this sense of destiny, this sense of purpose. Your

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Speaker 1: life matters. You are strategic. There's something significant for you

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Speaker 1: to accomplish. And at times it'll feel like you stop.

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Speaker 1: Obstacles too big, the sickness too great, the pressure too much.

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Speaker 1: You have to remind yourself that the creator of the

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Speaker 1: universe is not only with you right now, but he's

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Speaker 1: been orchestrating things in your favor for generations. God wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have given you breath to breathe if he didn't have

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Speaker 1: an amazing future for you. Sometimes you have to go

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Speaker 1: through the pain to get to the purpose, through the

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Speaker 1: You're going to come into houses that you didn't build,

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Speaker 1: when you should have received judgment. Think about Zachius. He

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Speaker 1: then I'd help you. But God doesn't judge the way

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Speaker 1: we judge. We look at people how they are, but

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Speaker 1: God sees the treasure. We see the mess. God sees

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Speaker 1: the miracle. Jesus was passing through the town, and when

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Speaker 1: Zachius heard about it, something came alive on the inside,

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Speaker 1: this desire to see Jesus, even though Zachius knew he

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Speaker 1: in his great mercy, begin to draw Zachias. He felt

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Speaker 1: this longing, I've got to see this man. God never

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Speaker 1: how many failures, how many times we've blown it. God

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Speaker 1: is full of mercy. He still has a purpose for

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Speaker 1: consults your past to determine your future. What you've done

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Speaker 1: in the past does not stop what God has planned

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Speaker 1: for you now. Sometimes religion will try to beat you down,

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Speaker 1: make you feel like you're not worthy. The enemy is

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Speaker 1: called the accuser. He'll try to convince you that nothing

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Speaker 1: good is in your future. Don't believe those lies. God's

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Speaker 1: calling is still on your life. You can still become

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Speaker 1: who you were created to be. When Zachius arrived, it

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Speaker 1: was so crowded and people had lined the street to

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Speaker 1: see Jesus. And Zachias were short. Were hundreds of people

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Speaker 1: and saw this sycamore tree. He had an idea, if

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Speaker 1: see Jesus. He went and climbed the tree, grabbed this branch,

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Speaker 1: everyone was waiting for. They're all trying to get Jesus attention, waving, shouting.

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Speaker 1: Zach Kius was taking it all in. About that time

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, Zach, he has nearly passed out. Now all

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Speaker 1: the eyes were on him. You could hear a pin drop.

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Speaker 1: me have it. He knows I'm a sinner. He knows

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Speaker 1: our cheap people. He was feeling so guilty. But Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: Zach he has thought, was how does he know my name?

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Speaker 1: I've never met him. I don't run in his circles.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a religious person. Can I tell you, God,

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Speaker 1: who's your name? You may have never spoken to him,

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Speaker 1: but he'll speak to you. He doesn't hold your faults

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Speaker 1: he's calling your name. What's significant is the name zachieas

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Speaker 1: means pure one. Jesus could have said, hey, mister up

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Speaker 1: called his name, Hey, Zachius. He was saying, hey, pure one.

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Speaker 1: He was calling him not who he was, but who

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Speaker 1: people called him scum, but Jesus called him pure one.

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Speaker 1: Don't go by what people call you, go by what

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Speaker 1: God calls you. Zichius came down out of the tree,

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Speaker 1: went to dinner. That was the turning point in his life.

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Speaker 1: He repented. Repent means to change your ways. Quit being dishonest,

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Speaker 1: he quit cheating. People started making decisions that honored God.

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Speaker 1: But none of this would have happened if Zachias hadn't

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Speaker 1: climbed that tree. There are sycamore trees that have lived

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Speaker 1: over two thousand years. Here's how strategic God is. Way

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Speaker 1: before Zachias was born, God knew I have to plant

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Speaker 1: man's going to come along named Zachias. That's of course

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Speaker 1: necessary to bring him into his purpose. That tree didn't

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Speaker 1: happen overnight. Generations back, God was thinking about Zychias. There

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Speaker 1: are blessings you're going to come into mercy, favor, opportunity

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Speaker 1: that God has been working on for you for generations.

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Speaker 1: how your child will get back on course, how you'll

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Speaker 1: overcome that heartache. God's already been working on it. You're

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Speaker 1: going to come into a tree, something that you couldn't

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Speaker 1: has it all lined up. Back in the eighteen hundreds,

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Speaker 1: saw this charity that took care of babies with no mothers.

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Speaker 1: Fast forward one hundred and fifty years. Friend of mine

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Speaker 1: pastors a successful church downtown Chicago, and they'd been seeing

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Speaker 1: Kept looking and looking. He finally found a one acre

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Speaker 1: the mayor city officials. Against all odds, they sold him

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