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Speaker 1: listening to to day's daily prayer. For more inspiration and

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Speaker 2: This week on Tim Hatch Live. Also Christian faced the

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Speaker 3: But here's the difference between you and the people.

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Speaker 2: In this world.

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Speaker 3: Deep down inside, there's a rock that's still holding on

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Speaker 3: to you. Down underneath what nobody else can see.

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Speaker 2: I got the foundation on which I stand.

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Speaker 3: All on the ground is thinking saying, that's what makes

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Speaker 2: Title the message why I Feel Empty? Why I Feel Empty?

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna start a journey today with a guy

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Speaker 2: this book Ecclesiastes. This book is actually out of order

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Speaker 2: So if the wisdom game plan for you young people, the education,

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Speaker 2: Solomon talks about his second option that he chased, number two.

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Speaker 2: You know what Solomon had? He had pornography before there

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Speaker 2: how many women this guy married? Seven hundred? This guy

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Speaker 2: did not get sleep agin having seven hundred wives telling

435
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Speaker 2: you to fix the sink, seven hundred wives telling you

436
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Speaker 2: to muld a lawn. I won't go any further because

437
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Speaker 2: we love the women of waters Church.

438
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 4: But you understand what I'm saying.

439
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 2: Sky was a lunatic chasing more and more and more pleasure.

440
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 2: You know what he had. He There is a show

441
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Speaker 2: on television. Cheryl and I.

442
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Speaker 4: I hate to say this, but we used to like it.

443
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: We don't like it anymore. It's called The Bachelor. Remember

444
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Speaker 2: that show.

445
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 4: It's still on.

446
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 2: I don't know who watched. Anybody watching? Anybody want confession

447
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 2: forgiveness of sins this morning? Amen?

448
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 4: All right, it's still very popular. I guess it's still going.

449
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 2: But this one dude is in this romantic environment with

450
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Speaker 2: twenty five other ladies or sometimes it's the flip and

451
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 2: it's the woman with the twenty five other losers and so,

452
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 2: and you know they're all like dating the one person,

453
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: and they go to these romantic ventures.

454
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Speaker 4: You know, they go to these.

455
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Speaker 2: Romantic like world class once in a lifetime romantic you know,

456
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 2: sleepovers and all this stuff, and they just kind of

457
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 2: grease the skins of sexual romans. And then then the

458
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 2: one guy gives the final one girl the rose and

459
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Speaker 2: they say, we're gonna get married.

460
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Speaker 6: It.

461
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 2: It's beautiful and two weeks later they're split up because

462
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Speaker 2: he can't live there. It's not reality. Marriage is a

463
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 2: great thing, but it can't be everything. Romance is a

464
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Speaker 2: great thing, but it can't be everything. And you know

465
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 2: that guy, Michael Lazaritis, Remember that guy I mentioned him,

466
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Speaker 2: the guy who founded the BlackBerry.

467
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Speaker 4: Well, four years.

468
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 2: Later, like I said, he was out of a job,

469
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: up and smoke his technology. Last year this time, guess.

470
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Speaker 4: What he did.

471
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 2: He bought this thing. You over compensating much. You know

472
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 2: what I'm saying about this? You know what this is?

473
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 2: This is well, I climbed the corporate ladder and fell off.

474
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 4: Let me chase the pleasure dream and see.

475
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 2: If that works. This is exactly what Solomon did, and

476
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 2: to some extent, this is exactly what all of us do.

477
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 2: And verse eleven of chapter two, Solomon says, then I

478
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 2: considered all that my hands had done and the toil

479
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 2: that I expended in doing it, and behold, all was what.

480
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 4: Or meaningless?

481
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: A striving after smoke? How many people gotta tell us this?

482
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 2: How many people gotta tell us this till we listen?

483
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,239
Speaker 2: Because some of you, that's where you are. You are

484
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: gonna ignore me right now? You are gonna walk out

485
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: those doors at all of our locations, and you're gonna

486
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 2: say that preacher doesn't know Jack. I'm gonna go get

487
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: some fun.

488
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go get some friends.

489
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go chase that job, and I will show

490
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 2: them that I can be happy. And I'm telling you,

491
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 2: at some point you gotta listen to somebody that is.

492
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 4: Not all that you think it is.

493
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: Solomon said it. How about Timothy Kim. Timothy Kim immigrated

494
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: to the United States about twelve years ago with five

495
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 2: hundred dollars in his pocket. He started investing in the

496
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Speaker 2: stock market and he had a mind for it, and

497
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Speaker 2: in a couple of years he had over one hundred

498
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Speaker 2: million dollars.

499
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Speaker 4: In his stock portfolio.

500
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 2: And he was interviewed on CNBC and you know what

501
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,719
Speaker 2: he said, I'm bored. Here's what he said. Quote. If

502
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 2: somebody gives you one hundred million dollars and you don't

503
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 2: have to work anymore, you're gonna quickly find out that

504
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 2: life feels a little meaningless and you have this hole

505
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 2: inside what. I don't think he's a Christian. I don't

506
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 2: think he read Ecclesiastes, but he lived.

507
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 4: It or New England and Tampa Bay people.

508
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 7: How about our buddy Tom Brady, oh, the chosen One,

509
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 7: after he won his third Super Bowl, interviewed on CBS

510
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 7: and said, why after all these championships, do I still

511
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 7: feel like something's missing?

512
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 4: Or Lady Gaga, who in her.

513
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 2: Documentary at Netflix, is weeping on the telephone to her

514
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: manager Brandon, saying, Brandon, I'm all alone every night, and

515
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 2: I go from every day all these people celebrating me

516
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 2: and touching me and loving me to my apartment all

517
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: by myself, tears coming down her face, celebrated by millions,

518
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: if not a billion, people, still empty. Here's my question

519
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: for you, when will you listen to the people who

520
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: have been there, done that, got the T shirt and

521
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: still don't have a sense of fullness inside because you can't.

522
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 6: Fill a spiritual hole with stuff, and all the approval

523
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 6: of all the people that you can try to please

524
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 6: in your life will not make you feel like you.

525
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 4: Have made it.

526
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: No matter what you think, no matter what you've been told,

527
00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: It's just never enough. Neither is this microphone that is

528
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 2: freaking out on me.

529
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 4: But can you hear me?

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00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 4: Here's the conclusion.

532
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: Here's the conclusion from Solomon Ready, chapter two seventeen, probably

533
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 2: the most incredible verse in the book. So I hated life.

534
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:29,719
Speaker 2: What you see the depression and anxiety and mental emotional

535
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 2: problems of our culture. This is what it is.

536
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 4: This is what it is. I know they want to

537
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 4: tell you it's.

538
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 2: A compound in your brain that you need a pill for.

539
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 2: I know they want to tell you that, but it's

540
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 2: not true. It's not true. Fact, it was a study couple.

541
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 2: I think last year this time came out. It's no

542
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: such thing. There's no such thing as an anxiety cell.

543
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 2: It's a spiritual issue. There's no such thing as a

544
00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 2: depression molecule. You understand that.

545
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,719
Speaker 4: Does anybody remember the periodic table.

546
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 2: There's no DEE that stands for depression. It's a spiritual

547
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: issue that you experience because you realize that you're more

548
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: than flesh and blood. You're more than flesh and bones.

549
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: You're more than just a clump of sells. No, you're

550
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 2: made for a relationship with the one who made you.

551
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 2: And I got good news for you. He wants to

552
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 2: know you.

553
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 4: Personally and intimately.

554
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: So here's where I think some of you think I'm going.

555
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: Here's where you think I'm going. You think, okay, faster,

556
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 2: I get it. You think we should just.

557
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 8: Pray more and read our Bibles and give up all

558
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 8: the possessions and come to your church and give this

559
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 8: money and then we'll be happy.

560
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 2: No, that's not what I'm saying, because that's not what

561
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: Solomon says. He actually turns in chapter two to what

562
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: we read before. In verse twenty four, says there is

563
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: nothing better for a person, So let me say there's

564
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: nothing better. Says there's nothing better for a person than

565
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 2: he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil.

566
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 2: And then he talks about how this is from the

567
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: hand of God and their next verse and here's what

568
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 2: I think.

569
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Speaker 4: Here's the conclusion that it comes to.

570
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: And I want you to write this down because this

571
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 2: is important. The key to happiness is finding limited enjoyment

572
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 2: in temporary experiences. Limited enjoyment, so you can chase the

573
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Speaker 2: career and by God's grace, he will give you a

574
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Speaker 2: wonderful job.

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Speaker 8: But look, look, look, look, look, look, look put.

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Speaker 2: It in perspective. Limited enjoyment, got it, Because someday, someday,

577
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 2: some Steve Jobs is gonna come out and just wipe

578
00:32:58,360 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 2: you out.

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00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 4: Maybe and then you can get married and you can say.

580
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 2: The vows, and you can have the beautiful, picturesque wedding

581
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 2: with your parents and grandparents everything, and you can I

582
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 2: love you and I'm they're gonna get over with you

583
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 2: and for better or for worse, and then and then

584
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: when worst shows up, you can say, oh, that's right,

585
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 2: that's right. Pastor Tim told me, limited enjoyment. And you

586
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 2: can have the kids and be so happy in the

587
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 2: hospital when the nurses are taking care of them and

588
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 2: you get home and they're screaming at three am, and

589
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, limited enjoyment. Because

590
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 2: the biggest mistake that everybody makes listen, listen, are you

591
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 2: ready is to sink everything into one thing, and it

592
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Speaker 2: doesn't work.

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594
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Speaker 5: many are searching for hope and truth. At Tim Hatchlie,

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Speaker 2: I gotta illustrate this with a picture, an image. So

601
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 2: thank you again, Rick. Everybody give Rick a hand. He's

602
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 2: doing a great job. He's putting out my fires. Here's

603
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 2: how Solomon chose to live. This is Solomon right here

604
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: on your right, my left. And he puts some good

605
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 2: stuff in like he put friends, the sister friends, he

606
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 2: puts success, he put family, he put children, he put

607
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Speaker 2: a job in there. Romance, a lot of romance. Now

608
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 2: for some of these things he probably didn't do, but

609
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 2: you can do. Exercise, a little bit of social media.

610
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 2: Smaller things, hobbies, shopping, vacations, those are good. I just

611
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 2: had one interests, things that I like to do. But

612
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 2: what he did, and this is maybe the mistake that

613
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 2: he made, was that he just said, okay, that's that

614
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: didn't do it, so.

615
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 4: Let me just fill my life up with pleasure.

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00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: And this guy went for it, man, I mean, he

617
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: just poured out the pleasure in his life.

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Speaker 4: I can't get enough.

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Speaker 2: I need more women, more wine, more song, and and

620
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: and he lived again like us because because we don't

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Speaker 2: just get offered in this country pleasure, we get offered

622
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Speaker 2: in this country even more pleasure. We can netflix our

623
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Speaker 2: brains out. I mean serially, TikTok scroll and our psychees

624
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 2: to death and just overload our life with pleasure. And

625
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, that's all you are.

626
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: You're just saying Jesus said something about that, didn't he.

627
00:35:54,280 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: It's just like grasping smoke. Here's what Solomon is saying

628
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 2: in verse twenty four, the second half of the verse,

629
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Speaker 2: he says, this is from the hand of God.

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00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 4: This is in other words, you with God.

631
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 2: Can find pleasure in life.

632
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 4: But here's the deal.

633
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 2: God has to be the center of the life. So

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Speaker 2: what Solomon was.

635
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Speaker 4: Missing was the rock, the big rock.

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Speaker 2: Some of you, this is you.

637
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 4: You're you're doing the Solomon thing.

638
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 2: And God can't get in without making a big mess.

639
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 2: But young people learn from solove mistake and put the

640
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 2: big rock in first. Now check this out, because I'm

641
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: not asking you to be nuns and monks. God will

642
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 2: then bless your life with family and with hobbies, and

643
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 2: with a job, and with interest. And you can even

644
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 2: dabble a little bit in social media, in the stock market.

645
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what happened.

646
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 2: And then you got all these other things that you

647
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: can put in your life. You know, you can have

648
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 2: some fun, some games. But Lotus, notice in this jar

649
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 2: that everything is connected to the main thing.

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Speaker 4: And this is the good news. Some of you thought

651
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 4: I was all about no fund no, no no.

652
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: You can have some pleasure, but the pleasure finds itself

653
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 2: connected to the one who made you to enjoy everything

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Speaker 2: that he's given you. And here's the other thing. Jesus says, Someday,

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Speaker 2: someday the rain's coming, Someday the storm's coming, and you're

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Speaker 2: gonna either have a money mess with no meaning, or

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Speaker 2: you're gonna, also Christian, face the storms of life. But

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Speaker 2: here's the difference between you and the people in this world.

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Speaker 3: Deep down inside, there's a rock that's still holding on

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Speaker 3: to you, down underneath what nobody else can see. I

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Speaker 3: got the foundation on which I stand. All of the

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Speaker 3: ground is thinking saying, that's.

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Speaker 2: What makes life meaningful, and it's good. Let me tell

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Speaker 2: you something. I have a nice life because I'm so

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Speaker 2: thankful and Jesus is the center of it. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not perfect, I'm a work in progress, but I got

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Speaker 2: something down inside that this world that democrats and Republicans,

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Speaker 2: that haters and fans cannot ever take away from me.

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Speaker 3: I got Christ Jesus the hope of glory inside of

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Speaker 3: my life, and he wants.

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Speaker 2: This for you. So what did he say in verse

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Speaker 2: twenty five? What did he say? At the end of

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Speaker 2: verse twenty four, he said, for a part from God,

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, without me, you can do nothing. You can't

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Speaker 2: really enjoy it because it's grasp in vapors. Then verse

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Speaker 2: twenty sixth to the one who underlined the word pleases,

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Speaker 2: the one who pleases God.

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Speaker 4: Now, somebody, you're gonna say, oh, here it comes there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Now you're gonna give me the sales pitch about

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Speaker 2: coming to church, getting all.

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Speaker 4: My money and then please God. Okay, wait wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 4: wait wait wait.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think God is pleased when we

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Speaker 2: come to church. I do. I think God is pleased

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Speaker 2: when we give money. I think God is pleased when

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Speaker 2: we do good works and service to other people. But

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Speaker 2: by how many know that you can do those things

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Speaker 2: and not really do it for the right reasons. A

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Speaker 2: lot of people go to church and they have no

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Speaker 2: connection to the God of heaven and earth. He says,

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Speaker 2: for the one who pleases him, how do I please God?

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Speaker 2: That's answered in the Bible is in Hebrews chapter eleven,

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Speaker 2: verse six.

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Speaker 4: Without faith, it is impossible.

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Speaker 2: To what please him. When we place our faith in

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Speaker 2: this God who made us, look what it says, He

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Speaker 2: exists and he rewards those who seek him. So my

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Speaker 2: question is, and this is where we're going to close.

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Speaker 2: Do you have the faith that leads to fullness of life,

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Speaker 2: the faith that pleases God, that leads to fullness of life?

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Speaker 4: All right, three points and then we're done. That was

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Speaker 4: my introduction.

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Speaker 2: Number one, faith that Jesus died for me.

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Speaker 4: This is where it begins.

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Speaker 2: Some of you are in church for the first time

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Speaker 2: in a long time, and you are under the impression

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Speaker 2: that all these people that you're surrounded by are good

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Speaker 2: people trying to become better people. Wrong. All the people

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Speaker 2: that you're surrounded by are bad people who are faking it.

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Speaker 2: For forty five minutes, myself included, we are bad people

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Speaker 2: who know that we need the one good person who

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Speaker 2: died for us so that we could be made right

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Speaker 2: with God.

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Speaker 4: That's the gospel message. The gospel message is.

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Speaker 2: Not try harder, be better. The gospel messages stop trying,

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Speaker 2: stop putting your efforts forward, and trust that Jesus did

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Speaker 2: for you what you could not do. For yourself. That's

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Speaker 2: why you went to the cross. He went to the

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Speaker 2: cross because your sins needed to be paid for. He

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Speaker 2: went to the cross because he knew you couldn't fix yourself.

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Speaker 2: You're crooked.

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Speaker 4: You can't fix yourself.

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Speaker 2: He can fix you.

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Speaker 4: Romans, chapter five. It says this.

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Speaker 2: Verse five six, while we were still weak, that while

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Speaker 2: we were still powerless, we couldn't fix ourself. Christ died

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Speaker 2: for who. Oh, you gotta say it like you see

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Speaker 2: it up on the screen. Christ died for the godly.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't say Christ died for the godly. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: say Christ died for the religious. It says Christ died

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Speaker 2: for the ungodly. So the qualification to receive Christ is

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Speaker 2: super super super super super low.

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Speaker 4: All you got to do is sin a few times.

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Speaker 2: Can anybody sin? You don't want to raise your hands,

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Speaker 2: but you know you're really good at it. And the

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Speaker 2: good news is that Jesus died for those who sin.

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Speaker 2: And he says someone will probably die for a good person,

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Speaker 2: somebody maybe, But God shows his love for us in

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Speaker 2: this that while we were still really really bad people,

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Speaker 2: Christ died for us.

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Speaker 4: If you're a bad person in waters church, can I just.

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Speaker 2: Say to you, welcome, Welcome to the place where healing happens.

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Speaker 2: Not because I'm smart, and not because we're good, but

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Speaker 2: because Jesus Christ is good. Second faith, write this down,

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Speaker 2: faith that God is for me, He is not against you, friend.

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Speaker 2: And this is what some Christians have to do. You

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Speaker 2: got to get out of the roller coaster rat race

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Speaker 2: of up and down Christianity. And here's what you do.

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Speaker 2: You are a functional Hindu because every bad thing that

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Speaker 2: happens in your life, you say, what did I do wrong?

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Speaker 2: What did God? And then you do this, why is

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Speaker 2: God out to get me? And understand what?

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Speaker 4: God's no, friend, That's not God.

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Speaker 2: That's just life. That's just like that.

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Speaker 4: That's why I love again.

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Speaker 2: I love the book of Ecclesiastes because there's no easy,

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Speaker 2: quick pad answers. It's not a manual to the good life.

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Speaker 2: It's wisdom for all of life, so that when bad

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Speaker 2: things happen to you, and when life goes terribly wrong,

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Speaker 2: you can say, okay, in this yes, God is still

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Speaker 2: for me. Not that we're all going to experience with

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Speaker 2: job experience. But when he lost everything, he sat on

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Speaker 2: the ground and he put ashes on his head, and

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Speaker 2: he said, the Lord has given, the Lord is taken away.

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Speaker 2: Blessed be the name of the Lord. My hope is

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Speaker 2: not in the things that I have. My hope is

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Speaker 2: the one who has me. And in Roman chapter eight,

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Speaker 2: verse thirty one, Paul says, what shall we say to

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Speaker 2: these things? If God is for us, who can be

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Speaker 2: against us?

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Speaker 4: He who did not spare his own son, but gave

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Speaker 4: him up for us.

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Speaker 2: All, how will he not also, with Jesus Christ, graciously

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Speaker 2: give us what all things. He will give you things

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Speaker 2: that you want. He will give you things that you need.

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Speaker 2: He will give you pleasures of life, but they can't

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Speaker 2: be everything. Limited enjoyment in temporal experiences, because God, not me,

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Speaker 2: is in charge of my life.

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Speaker 5: in your spiritual journey.

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Speaker 4: Third the faith to surrender more and more of me.

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Speaker 2: Now this one we're all in. See this is stages.

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Speaker 2: Stage one, surrender your life to Jesus Christ and say, yes,

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Speaker 2: I need him.

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Speaker 4: His death makes me write with God.

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Speaker 2: Stage two, I need to stop playing this game with

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Speaker 2: God and start believing that He is forming, not against me,

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Speaker 2: because I am made right by faith in him. But

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Speaker 2: stage three, we're all there, including the preacher today, to

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Speaker 2: surrender more and more.

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Speaker 4: Of my life to Jesus Christ. Because here's the other thing.

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Speaker 2: Even when you do the right thing and follow God

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Speaker 2: and read your Bible and do all the things that

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Speaker 2: Tricians should do, how many know things could still go

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Speaker 2: terribly for you. What's God asking you rere there in

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Speaker 2: those moments.

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Speaker 4: What is he asking? Here's what he's asking.

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Speaker 2: Give up, give up control, stop trying to hold on

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Speaker 2: to that. Maybe you've got that difficult relationship right now

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00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: because God is trying to chisel impatience out of your

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Speaker 2: heart and you need to surrender that.

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Speaker 4: Maybe God is letting all.

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Speaker 2: This heat boil up to the surface in this country

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Speaker 2: right now, maybe so that he could chisel away in

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Speaker 2: some of our hearts far too much attachment to political power.

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Speaker 2: And maybe God is using that sick, sickness, or that

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Speaker 2: long struggle with the same issue, because He's trying to

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Speaker 2: bring out of you superficial righteousness that people can see

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Speaker 2: right through. But you think everybody's fooled. Surrender, give it up,

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Speaker 2: let it go. This is God's life, not my life.

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Speaker 2: This is God's body, not my body. Here's how Paul

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Speaker 2: writes it. In a Roomans chapter eight, verse thirty five,

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Speaker 2: he says, who shall separate us from the love of God?

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Speaker 2: Shall tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, dangerous sword? And he says, look,

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Speaker 2: sometimes it looks like we are sheep being killed all

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Speaker 2: day long. But first thirty seventy he says, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: that's just what it looks like. In reality, I am

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Speaker 2: more than a conqueror through God who loved me, And

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Speaker 2: nothing in all creation can separate me from the God

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Speaker 2: who loved me and gave his life for me. Now

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Speaker 2: sermon in a sentence, and then I'm gonna tell the story,

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Speaker 2: and then we're done. In Christ alone, I have limited

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Speaker 2: enjoyment and temporal things because I'm made right with God,

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Speaker 2: who is overall things. In Christ alone, I have limited

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Speaker 2: enjoyment in temporal things because I'm made right with God,

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Speaker 2: who is over all things, and some of you, this

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Speaker 2: is that moment for you to say it's time for

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Speaker 2: me to say yes to Jesus. Okay, quick story, and

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Speaker 2: then I'm done. A couple of years ago, well more

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Speaker 2: than a couple a few years ago now, I signed

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Speaker 2: up our youngest child, Jake, for soccer, my wife and

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Speaker 2: I did, and the games were on Saturday morning. It

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Speaker 2: was the springtime, and the town we lived in, and

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Speaker 2: they had this beautiful program. All the kids were there,

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Speaker 2: a great community program.

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Speaker 4: We'd show up, we'd root him on.

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Speaker 2: He loved it.

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Speaker 4: It was, you know, young little soccer.

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Speaker 2: It was great. It's fantastic, and he was pretty good

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Speaker 2: and he said, Dad, I want to play more. So

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Speaker 2: I signed him up for fall soccer, and fall soccer

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Speaker 2: was far more expensive than spring soccer. And then I

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Speaker 2: also found out that the games were going to be

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Speaker 2: at seven am on Sunday morning. And I'm a preacher,

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Speaker 2: but I did the dad thing and I said, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take him. And I like to study,

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Speaker 2: so for those of you who know, I.

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Speaker 4: Like to study my message right up until.

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Speaker 2: I preach it, so that i'm as sharp as I

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Speaker 2: can be. So I would bring Jake to soccer at

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Speaker 2: seven am, put him on the field, and I would

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Speaker 2: go into the stands, open my laptop, and I would

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Speaker 2: work on my message to the final moment before I preached.

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Speaker 2: A couple of games go by and he's having a

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Speaker 2: conversation with my wife and he says, Mom, I hate soccer.

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Speaker 2: And she tells me and I'm like, what are you

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Speaker 2: talking about. First Off, I paid a lot of money

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Speaker 2: for fall soccer. Secondly, I'm getting up at six am

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Speaker 2: on Sunday morning to bring this kid to the soccer field.

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Speaker 4: So I said, well, Cheryl, let me explore, let me

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Speaker 4: examine this thing.

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Speaker 2: So I brought him to the next game, and I

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Speaker 2: didn't open my laptop and I watched him play. And

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Speaker 2: I saw that this kid was having the time of

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Speaker 4: This is the point of that story.

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