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I love 45 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 5: you and we know God has great things in store. 46 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 5: If you're ever in our area, please stop buying be 47 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 5: a part of one of our services. I promise you 48 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 5: we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks so 49 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 5: much for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. 50 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny. I heard about 51 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 5: these passengers on an airplane that was about to take off. 52 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 5: The announcement came over the intercom saying, welcome to the 53 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 5: first totally automated commercial flight. 54 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 4: This plane has no pilots. 55 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 5: It's being completely controlled by the most advanced computers available today. 56 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 5: It's been tested and retested. You have nothing to worry about. 57 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 5: Just sit back and enjoy the flight. Enjoy the flight. 58 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 5: Enjoy the flight. 59 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 4: Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 60 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 61 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 62 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 63 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 64 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 65 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 66 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about how God will use 67 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 5: you with your limitations. Every person has weaknesses, faults, even 68 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 5: things that we would consider to be a handicap. If 69 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 5: I just wasn't so short, if I had a better personality, 70 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 5: if I was a different nationality, or maybe if I 71 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 5: controlled my temper better, if I was a little more patient. 72 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 5: So often we let our faults and weaknesses be excuses 73 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 5: to settle for mediocrity. We think I can't do anything great. 74 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 5: I've got these limitations. But the good news is God 75 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 5: doesn't just use perfect people. 76 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 4: If he did, none of us would have a chance. 77 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 5: God's calling on your life is not put on hold 78 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 5: until you overcome in every area and perform perfectly one 79 00:03:58,080 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 5: hundred percent of the time. 80 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 4: God. 81 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 5: God will use you while you're growing, while you're changing. 82 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 5: Don't let that weakness be an excuse to settle where 83 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 5: you are. In the scripture, Peter was far from perfect. 84 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 5: He was hot tempered, used bad language, cursed people out. 85 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 4: One time, he. 86 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 5: Got so upset he pulled out his sword and cut 87 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 5: off the ear of a soldier. Later, he was so 88 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 5: afraid he denied that he knew Christ. He had plenty 89 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 5: of areas to come up higher in yet he was 90 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 5: a chosen disciple. 91 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 4: One of jesus right hand men. 92 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 5: Not long after he cut the soldier's ear off, he 93 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 5: stood up to minister and three thousand people became believers 94 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 5: the most recorded in the scripture. 95 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 4: You would think. 96 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 5: God would use somebody more polished, more disciplined, more mature. No, 97 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 5: God doesn't just use people that have it altogether. 98 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 4: God is a god of hearts. He looks on the inside. 99 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 5: He doesn't just judge us based on our performance. When 100 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 5: you have a heart to please God, you may make mistakes. 101 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 5: You may have areas you need to come up higher in, 102 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 5: but that doesn't disqualify you from doing something great along 103 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 5: the way. In fact, the scripture says God's power shows 104 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 5: up greatest in our weakness. Peter wasn't perfect yet at 105 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 5: one point his shadow touched a crippled man and the 106 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 5: man was instantly healed. If God can use him in 107 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 5: such a great way with his weaknesses his shortcomings, surely 108 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 5: God can use you in me. I've learned some weaknesses 109 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 5: God will never remove. If he did, we wouldn't need him. 110 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 5: So if you're waiting to feel good about yourself until 111 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 5: you overcome in every area and perform perfectly one hundred 112 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 5: percent of the time, you're going to be waiting your 113 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 5: whole life. You have to give yourself permission to have 114 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 5: some flaw. You'll never be happy if you don't give 115 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 5: yourself the right to have some weaknesses. And I'm not 116 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 5: saying that we should take the easy way out and 117 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 5: just accept things. No, we should always be growing, improving, 118 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 5: striving to do better. But in the meantime we should 119 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 5: not beat ourselves up because we haven't arrived. 120 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 4: There will always be some area. 121 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 5: That God's dealing with you in about coming up higher. 122 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 5: The scripture says we are God's workmanship. It indicates it's 123 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 5: an ongoing process, and just because we haven't arrived doesn't 124 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 5: mean we're supposed to sit on the sidelines until. 125 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 4: We get it all together. 126 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 5: God wants to use us with our limitations, and all 127 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 5: through the scripture we see people just like Peter. They 128 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 5: didn't have it all together. They made mistakes, they weren't perfect, 129 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 5: they had handicaps. Yet God used them to do amazing things. 130 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 5: Jacob was a cheater, David had an affair, Noah got drunk, 131 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 5: Paul was a murderer. Jonah ran from God, Gideon was insecure, 132 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 5: Miriam was a gossip, Mary was a worrier, Thomas was 133 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 5: a doubter, Sarah was impatient, Elijah was moody, Moses stuttered, 134 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 5: Zach kids was short, Abraham was old, and Lazarus was dead. 135 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 5: Now my question is, what's your excuse? Why can't God 136 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 5: use you? Why can't you do something great? Why can't 137 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 5: you accomplish the dream God's placed in your heart? If 138 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 5: God used people that doubted and worried and cheated and 139 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 5: got drunk and were impatient and stuttered and had handicaps, 140 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 5: what makes you. 141 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 4: Think God can't use you? 142 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 5: Well, Joel, I don't come from an influential family. I 143 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 5: don't have all the connections. I don't know all the 144 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 5: right people. That's what Gideon said, But God called him 145 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 5: a mighty man of fearless courage. God stirred him out 146 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 5: of that inferiority. He went on to help save the 147 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 5: people of Israel. Well, i've got this problem with my temper. 148 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 5: That's why I'm on the sidelines. That's why I feel unqualified. 149 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 5: That's the same problem Peter had, Yet he was so anointed. 150 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 5: His shadow touched someone and they got healed. What makes 151 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 5: you think you're any different than Peter? If God didn't 152 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 5: write him off, why would God write you off? 153 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 4: Well, I've got this addiction. I've got a. 154 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 5: Problem with alcohol. I'm all washed up or so did Noah. 155 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 5: But he got free and he went on to do 156 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 5: something great. Well, I've had some moral failures. I haven't 157 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 5: been faithful in my relationships. Neither was David. 158 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 4: But he repented. 159 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 5: God forgave him, restored him, and he went on to 160 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 5: fulfill his destiny. Whatever it is you think is holding 161 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 5: you back, a limitation, a failure, a fault, a weakness, 162 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 5: I can tell you with confidence it has not disqualified 163 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 5: you from the amazing future God has in front of you. 164 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 5: But you got to do your part and get in 165 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 5: agreement with God. Get rid of the guilt, get rid 166 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 5: of the condemnation. Don't go around feeling bad about yourself. 167 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 5: As long as you feel wrong on the inside, it 168 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 5: will keep you from God's best. Many times, the enemy 169 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 5: doesn't have to condemn us. We condemn ourselves. 170 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 4: Well. 171 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 5: I blew my diet yesterday, lost my temper last week, 172 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 5: should have spent more time with my children. 173 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 4: I'm so undisciplined. 174 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 5: If you stay focused on your weaknesses, on your faults, 175 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 5: on how you didn't measure up, that's not going to 176 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 5: help you improve. That's just going to drag you down 177 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 5: and cause you to do worse. The scripture says, our 178 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 5: faith is made effective when we acknowledge everything good. If 179 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 5: you're acknowledging everything wrong with you, your faith is not going. 180 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 4: To be effective. 181 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 5: If your folk on your flaws and you're reliving every 182 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 5: mistake you've made for the last thirty years, and you're 183 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 5: down on yourself because you're not where you want to 184 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 5: be because you're acknowledging what's wrong, it'll keep you from 185 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 5: moving forward. One of the worst mistakes we could make 186 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 5: is to go through life being against ourselves. There's already 187 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 5: enough people against us, enough circumstances against us. Don't be 188 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 5: against yourself. Quit beating yourself up. Quit over analyzing your faults, 189 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 5: Quit taking inventory of everything you don't like about yourself. 190 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 4: So often we spend more time looking. 191 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 5: At what's wrong with us than we do looking at 192 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 5: what's right with us. 193 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 4: It should be just the opposite. 194 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 5: Start acknowledging everything good about you. Let me help you. 195 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 5: You came to church today, that was good. You turn 196 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 5: the television on. 197 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 4: That was good. You were on time at work this week. 198 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 4: That was good. 199 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 5: You overlooked an offense that was good. You stop by 200 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 5: your neighbors and encourage them. 201 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 4: That was good. Listen there is. 202 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 5: A lot right about you start focusing on the good. 203 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 5: That's what makes your faith affective. When you're for yourself 204 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 5: instead of against yourself, you're in agreement with God. 205 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 4: He'll breathe in your direction. 206 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 5: You'll be stronger, more focused, more disciplined, more determined. That 207 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 5: will help you overcome anything that's holding you back. 208 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 4: And the scripture says in Ephesian. 209 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 5: Six, put on the breastplate of God's approval. If we're 210 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 5: going to live in victory, instead of condemning ourselves, we 211 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 5: need to start approving ourselves. Something powerful happens when you say, 212 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 5: I like who I am. 213 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 4: I'm not perfect. 214 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 5: I've got some faults areas I need to improve in, 215 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 5: but I know i'm growing, I'm improving, and since God 216 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 5: approves me, then I approve myself. When you put on 217 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 5: the breastplate of God's approval like that, in the unseen realm, 218 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 5: chains are broken, chains of inferiority, chains of guilt, chains 219 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 5: of low self esteem. Those strongholds are broken and God's 220 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 5: favor is released. But some of you have never once 221 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 5: said I like myself. I like my personality, I like 222 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 5: my looks, I like my gifts. I'm happy with who 223 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 5: I am well, Hell, Joel, that's kind of far out. 224 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 4: I'm not going to say I like myself. 225 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 5: No, if you don't like yourself, then other people are 226 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 5: not going to like you. You project what you believe on 227 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 5: the inside. If you feel wrong about yourself, you'll project 228 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 5: low self esteem, inferiority, unhappiness, discontentment. 229 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 4: That'll drive people away. 230 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 5: If you don't respect yourself, other people will not respect you. Now, 231 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 5: I'm not saying to go around high minded, but I 232 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 5: am saying not to go around inferior like a weak 233 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 5: worm of the dust. I can't do anything right. I 234 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 5: got so much wrong with me. I wish I was 235 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 5: like those people. Those people that you think have it 236 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 5: all together. They don't have it all together. Nobody does. 237 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 5: They've just learned this principle to not beat themselves up 238 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 5: while they're in the process of changing. 239 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 4: Our attitude should be. 240 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 5: I'm no better than anybody else, but I'm no worse 241 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 5: than anybody else. I'm a child of the most high God, approved, accepted, redeemed, forgiven. 242 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 4: Listen, there's something special about you. 243 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 5: Don't go around feeling wrong on the inside, acknowledging every mistake, 244 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 5: every flaw, every weakness, every imperfection. Sure, you may have 245 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 5: areas you need to improve in we all do. You 246 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 5: may not be where you want to be, but you're 247 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 5: not where you used to be. Put your shoulders back, 248 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 5: hold your head up high. God calls you a masterpiece. 249 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 5: Now be proud of who God made you to be. 250 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 5: I saw a story about. 251 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 4: This man and his small son. 252 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 5: They were out taking a walk through the mountains, and 253 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 5: at one point the little boy slipped and slid about 254 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 5: thirty feet down the mountain side, and he was able 255 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 5: to grab on to a tree branch. He screamed out, 256 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 5: help me. This voice boom back, help me. He looked around, 257 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 5: kind of confused. He said, who are you? The voice 258 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 5: boom back? Who are you? He got aggravated. He said, 259 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 5: you're a fool. The voice boom back. You're a fool. 260 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 5: He said, you're a coward. It shouted back, you're a coward. 261 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 5: About that time, his father got down there, and the 262 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 5: little boy looked at him and said, Dad, who is that. 263 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 4: The dad kind of laughed. 264 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 5: He said, son, that's called an echo, but really it's 265 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 5: called life. 266 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 4: He said, son, let me show you something. 267 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 5: The dad shouted out, You're a winner, it shouted back, 268 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 5: You're a winner, he shouted out. 269 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 4: You've got what it takes. It boom back. You've got 270 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 4: what it takes. You're going to make it. It came back. 271 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 5: You're going to make it, he said, son, That's how 272 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 5: it is in life. Whatever you send out always comes 273 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 5: back to you. Let me ask you, what are you 274 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 5: sending out about yourself? Well, I'm clumsy, I can't do 275 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 5: anything right. Nobody wants to be around me. I got 276 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 5: all these faults. No start sending out I'm approved, I'm accepted, 277 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 5: I'm talented, I'm creative, I'm a masterpiece. 278 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 4: What you send out will come back, and some of. 279 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 5: You would go to a new level if you would 280 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 5: just start accepting and approving yourself. God made you like 281 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 5: you are on purpose. He knew what family you would 282 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 5: come from, what personality you would have, how tall or 283 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 5: short you would be. He even knew the areas that 284 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 5: we would struggle in. Don't be against yourself. Instead, start 285 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 5: accepting and approving yourself. So often, what we think is 286 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 5: our greatest liability, the thing we like about us the least. 287 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 5: Really it's our greatest asset. In the Scripture, there was 288 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 5: a man named zach Kius. His problem handicap. What he 289 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 5: didn't like was he was very short. While other people 290 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 5: could reach up on a shelf and grab something, he'd 291 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 5: have to get a ladder. Growing up, he heard all 292 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 5: the short jokes in school. Couldn't play on the ball teams, 293 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 5: he was too little, all these disadvantages because of his size. 294 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 5: I can imagine he said, God, it's not fair. Why 295 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 5: didn't you make me taller? Why didn't you make me 296 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 5: like everyone else. One day he heard that Jesus was 297 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 5: coming through his town. 298 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 4: He really wanted to see him. 299 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 5: He rushed out to the main road, but it was 300 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 5: already packed with people thirty or forty feet deep, and 301 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 5: everybody was on their tiptoes trying to catch a glimpse 302 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 5: of Jesus. Of course, Zachias was so small he'd have 303 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 5: to be on the front row. He could have gone 304 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 5: back home defeated. Thought, just my luck, never get any 305 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 5: good breaks. I've got this disadvantage. Now, zach Kius did 306 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 5: what he had always done. He climbed up in the 307 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 5: tree so he could look over the crowd. Wasn't anything 308 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 5: knew for him. He was used to doing that. Jesus 309 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 5: came through, thousands of people were calling Jesus' name, trying 310 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 5: to get his attention. But out of all those people, 311 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 5: Jesus looked up in the tree and said, Hey, that 312 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 5: kis come on down. 313 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 4: I want to go have dinner with you today. 314 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 5: What zach Keas thought was his greatest liability turned out 315 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 5: to be his greatest asset. Friends, God doesn't make any mistakes. 316 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 5: Your size, your personality, your gifts, your skin color. Nothing 317 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 5: about you is by accident. You have been fearfully and 318 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 5: wonderfully made. If you needed to be taller, God would 319 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 5: have made you taller. If you needed a different personality. 320 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 4: God would have given you one. 321 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 5: You have been equipped for the race that has been 322 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 5: specifically designed for you. I think about Moses. God told 323 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 5: him to go tell Pharaoh let my people go. Moses said, God, 324 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 5: I can't do that. 325 00:17:58,600 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 4: I stutter. 326 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 5: Let me take my brother and he can speak for me. 327 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 5: In other words, God, I've got this handicap. I don't 328 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 5: speak like other people. I could never do anything great. 329 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 5: Now God was saying, Moses, I can use you with 330 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 5: your limitations. Moses, I wouldn't have asked you to do 331 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 5: this if you were not already equipped and well able. 332 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 5: Moses finally got his confidence up. He went in there 333 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 5: and spoke to Pharaoh. See, Moses just needed somebody to 334 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 5: remind him that his weaknesses didn't have to hold him back. 335 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 4: God told Jeremiah that he was. 336 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 5: Going to be a prophet to the nations, that he 337 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 5: is going to do great things. Jeremiah said, God, I 338 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 5: can't do that. I'm too young. I wouldn't know what 339 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 5: to say. I've got these limitations. God answered back quickly, Jeremiah, 340 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 5: say not. 341 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 4: That you're too young. 342 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 5: In other words, Jeremiah, quit talking about your limitations. 343 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 4: Quit thinking you don't have what it takes. 344 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 5: Don't settle for mediocrity, Jeremiah, when I've called you to 345 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 5: do something great. On and on, God used imperfect people 346 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 5: that were felt unqualified, that made mistakes, that had weaknesses 347 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:13,239 Speaker 5: to accomplish amazing things like Jeremiah, like Moses. We can 348 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 5: all come up with excuses, Juel, I'm too tall or 349 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 5: I'm too short. I come from a dysfunctional family, I'm 350 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 5: a single parent. If I had a better personality, if 351 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 5: I just didn't stutter. Now we need to start seeing 352 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 5: ourselves the way God sees us. You may have made mistakes, 353 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 5: but God says you're redeemed and forgiven. You may feel weak, 354 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 5: but God says you're strong. You may not feel qualified, 355 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 5: but God says you're. 356 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 4: Equipped and empowered. 357 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,199 Speaker 5: You may not feel valuable, not feel very important, but 358 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 5: God says you're a masterpiece. 359 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 4: You're his prize possession. 360 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 5: Now quit focusing on what you're not and start focusing 361 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 5: on who God says you are. 362 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 4: Friends. 363 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 5: God doesn't choose the way people choose. He doesn't judge 364 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 5: the way people judge. God looks beyond the weakness, beyond 365 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 5: the dysfunction, beyond the failure, and he sees what we 366 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 5: can become. When Jesus chose the twelve Disciples, it's interesting 367 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 5: he didn't choose the most qualified men, the most talented, 368 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 5: the most educated. No, he chose ordinary people that had 369 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 5: weaknesses and flaws, people that had made mistakes. When he 370 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 5: chose Peter and Andrew, he didn't see rough fishermen. He 371 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 5: saw men who could change the world. When he chose Matthew, 372 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 5: he didn't see a despised tax collector. 373 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 4: He saw what he could become. 374 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 5: What if Jesus would have used a consulting firm to 375 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 5: help pick the twelve Disciples, I can imagine it would 376 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 5: have come back something like this. We've run the test 377 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 5: on the twelve men you've submitted, and we're sorry to 378 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 5: say none of them is qualified to be in management. 379 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 5: Peter is emotionally unstable and given to fits of rage. 380 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 5: Amas has a doubting spirit that undermines morale. Matthew is 381 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 5: known to be dishonest and has already been blacklisted by 382 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 5: the Greater Jerusalem Better Business Bureau. If God chose us 383 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 5: just based on our background, on our past performance, or 384 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 5: even our talent and our ability, none of us would 385 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 5: have a chance. He doesn't choose us because of what 386 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 5: we are. He chooses us because of what we can become. 387 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 5: Some of you are sitting on the sidelines of life, 388 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 5: not pursuing your dreams, your goals, because of mistakes in 389 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 5: the past, because of weaknesses. You feel unqualified. But God 390 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 5: is saying, I hand pitch you, not because you were perfect, 391 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 5: not because you had it all together. I chose you 392 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 5: because I can see the potential on the inside. 393 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 4: I know what you can become. 394 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 5: Now you've got to get back in the race, get 395 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 5: your fireback, get your dreams back. You're not supposed to 396 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 5: sit on the sidelines until you're perfect. God wants to 397 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 5: use you with your limitations. He wants to bless us 398 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 5: in spite of our weaknesses. That way, when we rise 399 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 5: to a new level, God will get all the credit. 400 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 5: We'll know that it's him and not us. I read 401 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 5: something interesting about a golf ball. It's designed on purpose 402 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 5: with dimples in it, with imperfections. 403 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 4: It seems like you would want a. 404 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 5: Perfectly smooth ball so it would roll better, be more accurate, 405 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 5: travel further, But it's just the opposite. Engineers say a 406 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 5: perfectly smooth golf ball will travel about half the distance 407 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 5: off the tee than a ball with dimples. The dimples 408 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 5: or the imperfections create less wind resistance, which allows the 409 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 5: ball to go much further. Same principle in life. God 410 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 5: is the master designer. 411 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 4: He's the engineer. 412 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,159 Speaker 5: Everything about you has been designed to help you go further. 413 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 5: We may see it as an imperfection, a weakness, this 414 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 5: mistake I made. 415 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 4: It's holding me back. 416 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 5: Now, if you'll keep your trust in Him with the 417 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 5: right attitude, every mistake, every imperfection, every hindicap will not 418 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 5: decrease you. It will increase you. That's the way God 419 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 5: designed it. That imperfection may be like Peter, a hot temper, 420 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 5: a bad habit, some area you need to improve in. 421 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,959 Speaker 5: Instead of seeing it as a liability, start seeing it 422 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 5: as a dimple. In other words, this hot temper is 423 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 5: not designed to hold me back. I know it's designed 424 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 5: to thrust me forward. So I'm going to work with 425 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 5: God and let him make me and mold me. 426 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 4: When you come up. 427 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 5: Higher and overcome that weakness, instead of defeating you, it 428 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 5: is going to promote you. 429 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 4: That mistake you made. It may look like a setback 430 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 4: that the truth is it's just a dimple. 431 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 5: It's designed to help you go further. That's what it says. 432 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 5: What was meant it for your harm? God will use 433 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 5: to your advantage. Instead of going around thinking, oh I 434 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 5: got so much wrong with me. 435 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 4: I don't know why I'm like this. 436 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 5: No, our attitude should be I've just got a bunch 437 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 5: of dimples. That means I'm gonna travel further. It's not 438 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 5: working against me, it's working for me. This article stated 439 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 5: the apparent flaw in the golf ball causes it to 440 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 5: go further. We all have things that we think are 441 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,239 Speaker 5: apparent flaws. And if I was taller, if I had 442 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 5: a better personality, if I was more outgoing. Now, what 443 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 5: we think are apparent flaws have been put there on 444 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 5: purpose so that we can increase. 445 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 4: You have been. 446 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 5: Specifically designed by the creator of the universe to reach 447 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 5: your highest potential. 448 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,400 Speaker 4: Nothing about you is by accident. 449 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 5: I heard about this lady, an elderly Chinese woman. She 450 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 5: had two large pots that hung on the end of 451 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 5: a pole that rested on her neck. Every day she 452 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 5: would from her house down to the stream to get 453 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 5: some fresh water. One of the pots had a small 454 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 5: crack in it. The other pot was perfect. When she'd 455 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 5: come back from the long walks from the stream, the 456 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 5: pot with the crack would only be about half full 457 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 5: of water because it leaked out. This went on week 458 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 5: after week, month after month. The perfect pot was very 459 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 5: proud of its accomplishments, always bringing a full pot of water. 460 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 5: But this pot with the crack, it felt a little 461 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 5: bit embarrassed, ashamed by its imperfection. One day, it said 462 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 5: to the elderly woman, I really feel bad that it 463 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 5: don't measure up. I'm only delivering about half of what 464 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 5: I'm supposed to. The woman said, have you noticed that 465 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 5: there are flowers on your side of the path from 466 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,959 Speaker 5: where the water has leaked out. That's because I've always 467 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 5: known about your flaw, so I have planted seeds on 468 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 5: your side. Every day we return from the stream, you 469 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 5: water those seeds. For the last two years, I've picked 470 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 5: flowers and. 471 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 4: Decorated my house. 472 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 5: Without you being just the way you are, there wouldn't 473 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 5: be this beauty in my house. Every one of us 474 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 5: has unique flaws and weaknesses. 475 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 4: We could easily be. 476 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 5: Down on ourselves and think why am I this way? 477 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 5: But the good news is, just like this lady, God 478 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 5: knows how to use cracked pots. He knows just where 479 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 5: to plant the seeds so that nothing we're dealing with 480 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 5: will ever be wasted. When you're tempted to be against 481 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 5: yourself and focused on your flaws, always remember God is 482 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 5: not finished with you. You may not realize it, but 483 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 5: while God is working, he's picking the flowers. He's using 484 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 5: that imperfection. It's a part of his design. God knows 485 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,479 Speaker 5: how to get good out of every situation. The truth is, 486 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 5: we're all a bunch of cracked pots. We've all got faults. 487 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 4: Weaknesses, things that we wish were different. But if we're 488 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 4: going to live it victory, here's the key. 489 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 5: You've got to be satisfied with your pot. Be the 490 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 5: best that you can be with what God has given you. 491 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 5: He didn't choose you because you're perfect. He chose you 492 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 5: because He knows what you can become. Don't go through 493 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 5: life being against yourself. Get up every morning, put on 494 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,439 Speaker 5: the breastplate of God's approval. Dare to say, I like 495 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 5: who I am. 496 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 4: Not perfect, but I'm growing. 497 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,959 Speaker 5: Start acknowledging everything good about you. That's what makes your 498 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 5: faith effective. If you will do this, like the golf ball, 499 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 5: those imperfections, those dimples won't cause you to go less. 500 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 4: They'll cause you to travel further. 501 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 5: And I believe and declare you will become everything God's 502 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 5: created you to be. You're gonna have everything God intended 503 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 5: for you to have. 504 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 4: Amen. 505 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 506 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make. 507 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 4: Jesus the lord of your life. 508 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, I 509 00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 5: repent of my sins. 510 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 4: Into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 511 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 512 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 5: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 513 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 5: Keep God first place. 514 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 4: He's going to take your places you've never dreamed of. 515 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the Joel Oustine podcast. Help 516 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 6: us continue to share the message of hope with those 517 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 6: all over the world. Visit joelostin dot com slash give 518 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 6: Hope to give a gift today. 519 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 4: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 520 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,360 Speaker 5: I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 521 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 5: podcast to keep you inspired all through the week. 522 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 4: We're praying for you. 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