Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving.
Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3: When you give him a hug. Let him know we're
Speaker 3: in this together. Let him know God is good. Bring
Speaker 3: my screen out, would you? Let him know He's still
Speaker 3: on the throne. Let him know I've got a king
Speaker 3: named Jesus, and I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1: All right no matter what happens.
Speaker 3: He already showed me that the worst can happen, and
Speaker 3: He's still great. Somebody shall God is great, He's still great.
Speaker 4: Shall He's always great?
Speaker 3: Well, if your God is that great, give him a
Speaker 3: great shallt uf.
Speaker 1: Grey praise the Lord.
Speaker 3: Love you, Stacy, Love you, Timothy. I'm looking around for
Speaker 3: people I love.
Speaker 4: Love you, Brad, you do, she said, we love you.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you something. If we ever got
Speaker 1: to know each other, we would be best friends.
Speaker 3: I promise you, man, we would be texting each other
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 1: Silly stuff, stupid stuff.
Speaker 3: You feel a sense of love for those that you lead,
Speaker 3: even if you don't personally know them. It's a strange
Speaker 3: thing to describe. On Monday, I was praying for you now.
Speaker 3: I was half hungover from my sermon on Sunday. It's
Speaker 3: a holy hangover, and the Lord started showing me stuff.
Speaker 1: It was amazing.
Speaker 3: He gave me a phrase that I want to teach
Speaker 3: on for the next six weeks.
Speaker 1: And as different.
Speaker 3: Events were unfurling and whirling about our heads this week,
Speaker 3: I was so glad that God spoke to me and
Speaker 3: gave me this for us, because it's exactly what.
Speaker 1: We need for right now. I want you to stand
Speaker 1: to your feet and remain standing until I've read my scripture.
Speaker 1: We welcome our EPAM around the world.
Speaker 3: Although it has been an incredibly difficult week in our nation,
Speaker 3: we understand that in parts of the world there are
Speaker 3: tragedies that we never mentioned from this pulpit, But we
Speaker 3: want you to know that wherever you come from, whatever
Speaker 3: you're going through, we are here to bring Jesus into
Speaker 3: your situation, and we believe that if Jesus comes into
Speaker 3: your situation, anything is possible. The scripture that I want
Speaker 3: to set up this series with is in Lamentations Chapter three,
Speaker 3: Did you say, uh, oh, Lamentations is not the party
Speaker 3: book of the Bible.
Speaker 1: The name kind of gives it away.
Speaker 3: And I think that the Lord, in the way that
Speaker 3: he does, has something hidden in this for us today,
Speaker 3: for the questions that we've been asking inside of ourselves,
Speaker 3: for the isolation.
Speaker 1: That we've been dealing with and not knowing who to
Speaker 1: reach out to.
Speaker 3: And the prophet Jeremiah was writing from a difficult time
Speaker 3: in the history of the nation that he lived in
Speaker 3: called Israel. In fact, their temple had been destroyed, many
Speaker 3: of the people had been carried into exile in a
Speaker 3: place called Babylon by a king called Nebekinezer. He had
Speaker 3: the difficult task of preaching through his own tears into
Speaker 3: the tragedy of the people. In Lamentations chapter three, we
Speaker 3: received a poetic collection of some of his thoughts after
Speaker 3: he revised those prayers, and I want to share with
Speaker 3: you from verse seventeen, as he writes about his feelings
Speaker 3: from this place. Here's what he says, Lamentations three seventeen.
Speaker 3: I have been deprived of peace. I have forgotten what
Speaker 3: prosperity is. In one translation, he says, I have rejected peace.
Speaker 3: He says, I can't let peace in. I've got so
Speaker 3: much anxiety, so much fear. I can't let it in.
Speaker 3: I have rejected wholeness and peace.
Speaker 1: And in the ESV.
Speaker 3: He says, I have forgotten what happiness is. I've forgotten
Speaker 3: not only how to be happy, but I don't even
Speaker 3: really remember what it feels like. Now, after he says
Speaker 3: that he gives a little bit of his internal monologue,
Speaker 3: he says, so I say my splendor is gone, and
Speaker 3: all that I had hoped from the Lord. I remember
Speaker 3: my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the goal,
Speaker 3: I well remember them.
Speaker 1: And my soul is downcast within me.
Speaker 5: Yet this I call to mine, and therefore I have hope.
Speaker 3: Because of the Lord's great love. We are not consumed.
Speaker 3: For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
Speaker 3: Great is your faithfulness.
Speaker 1: One more verse, I say to myself, the Lord is
Speaker 1: my portion.
Speaker 3: God says, somebody needs to change what you say to yourself.
Speaker 3: You need to change what you say to yourself. Somebody shout,
Speaker 3: the Lord is my portion. Therefore I will wait for
Speaker 3: him now. The word God gave me for us over
Speaker 3: this season of our church, he said, to talk to
Speaker 3: you about same lies, new loops, Same lies, new loops.
Speaker 3: His mercies are new every morning, so are the devil's temptations.
Speaker 1: Same lies, new loops.
Speaker 3: Father helped me give it to them, just like you
Speaker 3: gave it to me. Don't water it down, don't weaken
Speaker 3: it with my opinion, but preach it like your word.
Speaker 1: Help me do that.
Speaker 3: I give you glory in Jesus' name. Amen, you may
Speaker 3: be seated. I have been waiting to worship with you.
Speaker 3: I can tell when a sermon really gets a hold
Speaker 3: of me because I start just drawing stuff and scribbling
Speaker 3: stuff everywhere. Whenever I start pulling out napkins and restaurants
Speaker 3: and as skin, the server, would you please bring me
Speaker 3: a napkin and a pen. The napkin they understand, but
Speaker 3: the pen they look at you kind of funny. And
Speaker 3: I've been writing all over the house, Same lies, new loops.
Speaker 1: Let me draw it for you.
Speaker 3: I even practiced my drawing, so cheer for me when
Speaker 3: I do this, because I'm insecure about it.
Speaker 1: Same lies, new loops.
Speaker 3: I've been praying for years and the Lord still hasn't
Speaker 3: healed my handwriting. So we're dealing with it.
Speaker 1: Same lives.
Speaker 3: You might say, same lies, new loops, thank you, thank you, appreciate.
Speaker 1: Like an infinity symbol. You know, yeah, same lies. Now.
Speaker 3: Holly is hosting Reflect on Friday, September the nineteenth. It's
Speaker 3: going to be an amazing time. Holly is an amazing preacher.
Speaker 3: She's an amazing teacher of the Word of God. You
Speaker 3: better be here.
Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3: She's an amazing wife, even better wife than she is
Speaker 3: a teacher of the Word of God. She's so good
Speaker 3: at so many things. She's my favorite cook. It's a
Speaker 3: great kisser, she's a great affirmer. She's a great mother,
Speaker 3: she's a great encourager. All of these things are true.
Speaker 3: There is one thing that she is not though. She
Speaker 3: is a horrible liar. Holly is a horrible liar. She
Speaker 3: is the worst liar. Therefore, you have to be very
Speaker 3: careful what you ask her about, because if I show
Speaker 3: Holly one of my songs that I just wrote and
Speaker 3: ask her how do you like it? I better really
Speaker 3: want to know because she is a terrible lie I mean,
Speaker 3: horrible liar. You know, how do you like it? And
Speaker 3: you know should do this thing? She'll go, what is it?
Speaker 1: Finished thought it was maybe not.
Speaker 3: She's just supposed to say, yeah, maybe that. I think
Speaker 3: that could be the next gyro. I think that could
Speaker 3: be the next grade. Just just lie to me long
Speaker 3: enough to give me the confidence to put it out.
Speaker 1: There in the world.
Speaker 3: No, she's a horrible liar, even when she tries to
Speaker 3: be polite, she's a horrible liar. You know, should I
Speaker 3: wear this? Does this look good? And you can always
Speaker 3: see it in her eyebrows. You can always see the
Speaker 3: lie in her eyebrows because she's gonna look at you
Speaker 3: so so distinctively before she tells you yeah, it looks
Speaker 3: great that you're not gonna believe it because she's a
Speaker 3: horrible liar. There's a game that our kids showed us
Speaker 3: called out of the Loop, and I think that's what
Speaker 3: it's called Out of the Loop. And the way the
Speaker 3: game works, you have to be a good liar to
Speaker 3: win it, and you pass the phone around the table, right,
Speaker 3: and everybody gets a category like animal, and then within
Speaker 3: the category there is a.
Speaker 1: Certain animal we say, like hippopotamus.
Speaker 3: And then one person doesn't get to see what the
Speaker 3: animal is, but they have to pretend like they know
Speaker 3: what it is. And then you go around the circle
Speaker 3: and ask questions and say this is it that could
Speaker 3: you have this animal as a pet? And then the
Speaker 3: person who doesn't know what the animal is they have
Speaker 3: to pretend like they do so nobody will know that
Speaker 3: they were out of the loop and didn't know it's
Speaker 3: a hippopotamus. And so when we play this game with Holly,
Speaker 3: it's the moment that we ask her can we have
Speaker 3: it as a pet?
Speaker 1: And she'll go, well, and everybody will go it's mom.
Speaker 1: Mom's out of the loop.
Speaker 3: She's such a bad liar. And I'm glad she's a
Speaker 3: bad liar. I'm glad for that. I don't want her
Speaker 3: to get any better at lying. But there's a problem.
Speaker 3: When you're not that good at inventing lies, sometimes you're
Speaker 3: not that good at identifying lies either, and so sometimes
Speaker 3: it's hard for you, if you have a hard time
Speaker 3: telling a lie, to tell when someone is lying to you.
Speaker 3: And the problem with this is that I think she
Speaker 3: needs to become a better liar. I don't want anybody
Speaker 3: in this room to become a better liar. That'd be
Speaker 3: a horrible thing to want for your church. But I
Speaker 3: do want you to become better at identifying the lies
Speaker 3: that the enemy has been telling you all your life
Speaker 3: that have kept you lost in a loop of his lies.
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter.
Speaker 3: Is, ladies and gentlemen, that God is the creator. He
Speaker 3: summoned light, said let it be, and light was. If
Speaker 3: he called light darkness, it would change and turn out.
Speaker 1: God cannot lie.
Speaker 3: If God said that blue shirt was read, you would
Speaker 3: watch a transformation and it would be washed in the
Speaker 3: blood real quick. God cannot tell a lie. It is
Speaker 3: impossible for him to lie. He is not a man
Speaker 3: that he should lie, nor the son of men that
Speaker 3: he should repent. As impossible as it is for God
Speaker 3: to lie, it is impossible for the devil to tell
Speaker 3: the truth. Because Jesus said in John chapter eight that
Speaker 3: when he speaks, he speaks his native language. He's a
Speaker 3: liar from the beginning. He's been lying a long time.
Speaker 3: He was lying before you got here. He was lying
Speaker 3: over your life when you.
Speaker 1: Were just a little baby.
Speaker 3: He has been planting lies in your mind before you
Speaker 3: had a conscious thought. He has been lying to you
Speaker 3: a long time, and it is difficult for you to
Speaker 3: identify those lies, because rather than tell a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of different lies, I have noticed that the enemy just
Speaker 3: hammers the same lies over and over again. Why because
Speaker 3: the enemy is not creative God is. He has no
Speaker 3: light to create, no stars to breathe forth, no sun
Speaker 3: to put in its place, no waters to cost to
Speaker 3: recede and bring forth fish in the sea.
Speaker 1: And he is not.
Speaker 3: Creative by nature. He is created and fallen. He is fallen.
Speaker 3: He's fallen. And because he's not created, he cannot be creative.
Speaker 3: And so since he can't make anything, he has to
Speaker 3: make something up. But since he's not creative, he has
Speaker 3: to be consistent.
Speaker 1: The devil is not very creative.
Speaker 3: If you look at your life, he says the same
Speaker 3: things to you over and over again.
Speaker 1: He's not creative, but he's consistent.
Speaker 3: He'll tell you the same thing over and over again
Speaker 3: until you can't tell the difference between his voice and
Speaker 3: your thoughts. And that's what makes it so diabolical. The
Speaker 3: lies come in disguise. If he said it with.
Speaker 1: A big, big voice up here, like.
Speaker 3: Holly, Oh, your song is great, I would know he
Speaker 3: was lying because his voice changed. But did you ever
Speaker 3: notice that the devil's voice doesn't change when he starts lying?
Speaker 1: In your mind?
Speaker 3: It sounds just like your own thoughts. And because you
Speaker 3: are an honest person, you have a very difficult time
Speaker 3: identifying the.
Speaker 1: Lies that he tells you.
Speaker 3: But if you can ever find the lie that he
Speaker 3: is telling you, you can flow in the truth that
Speaker 3: God has given you. And if you can ever find
Speaker 3: the lie he's telling you, you can begin to fill
Speaker 3: yourself with what God has spoken and receive the peace
Speaker 3: that is your birthright and inheritance as a child of God.
Speaker 3: And you can get your happy back, and you can
Speaker 3: get your home back, and you can get your heart back,
Speaker 3: because the devil has hijacked your mind your heart with
Speaker 3: lies long enough. And the reason that I know that
Speaker 3: it's him is he is not created. He only has
Speaker 3: two lies that he tells over and over again. And
Speaker 3: the prophet Jeremiah is believing both of those lies and
Speaker 3: lamentations chapter three, and he's going to a very deep
Speaker 3: dark place. See, there are really only two things the
Speaker 3: devil ever tells you, And you might want to write
Speaker 3: this down. So the next time he slithers up to you,
Speaker 3: that ancient snake. The next time he slithers up to you,
Speaker 3: he's under your feet. The next time he starts speaking
Speaker 3: to you. The next time he starts suggesting to you,
Speaker 3: the next time he starts tempting you, the next time
Speaker 3: he starts to make you move your feet off the
Speaker 3: solid rock of Jesus Christ and the Word.
Speaker 1: Of God, you can find the lie. There are really
Speaker 1: only two.
Speaker 3: One is it's not enough, and the second is you're
Speaker 3: not loved.
Speaker 1: Every lie you've.
Speaker 3: Ever believed from the enemy, and every pit of self
Speaker 3: pity you've ever dug for yourself, and every relationship you've
Speaker 3: ever reached to that wasn't good for you but it
Speaker 3: felt good to you was because of one of these
Speaker 3: two lies that the enemy told you so consistently and
Speaker 3: so convincingly. He told you it's not enough and you're
Speaker 3: not loved.
Speaker 1: Am I right about it? Now? I prayed on my
Speaker 1: knees this week. I said, I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: up in front of my church and tell them there's
Speaker 1: only two lies and just say a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3: You got to show me, Lord, what are the two
Speaker 3: things or three things or four things? He said, there's
Speaker 3: really only two. There's really only two things. From the
Speaker 3: time that your mind is conscious in choosing, the enemy
Speaker 3: is whispering to.
Speaker 1: You it's not enough, and you're not loved.
Speaker 3: So I began to search the Bible to see if
Speaker 3: that was correct, because I don't trust my impressions.
Speaker 1: The devil is a liar.
Speaker 3: And I went all the way back to the Book
Speaker 3: of Genesis and all the way forward to the Book
Speaker 3: of Revelation, and I found out that the snake only
Speaker 3: says one thing.
Speaker 1: Did God really say? Did God really.
Speaker 3: Say that's why he's a snake? He's shaped like that
Speaker 3: question mark? Did God really say to get you to
Speaker 3: question what God clearly said, to get you to step
Speaker 3: outside of how God identified you. He's a liar. And
Speaker 3: so they tell you it's not enough. They tell you
Speaker 3: that it's not enough for you to just believe in Jesus.
Speaker 3: You got to have a whole bunch of other beliefs.
Speaker 3: You got to have a whole bunch of other dependencies.
Speaker 3: It's not enough just to call on the name of
Speaker 3: Jesus and be saved. You got to work your way
Speaker 3: to God. Try to get you so trampled down with shame.
Speaker 3: And the devil is so so good at lying. He's
Speaker 3: nothing like Holly. Let me say that for the record,
Speaker 3: the devil is nothing like my wife. He's so good
Speaker 3: at lying that he'll do it like this. When you're
Speaker 3: tempted to sin, he'll say it's no big deal. He'll
Speaker 3: get you to believe that the power of God to
Speaker 3: resist temptation is not enough. Then, when you sin and
Speaker 3: you need to come to God and confess your sin
Speaker 3: so he can cleanse you from you and purify you
Speaker 3: from all unrighteousness.
Speaker 1: He'll try to tell you it's not enough.
Speaker 3: He'll try to get you to think that the blood
Speaker 3: of Jesus is not enough, that the grace of God
Speaker 3: is not enough.
Speaker 1: So, before you.
Speaker 3: Sin, he'll try to get you to think that the
Speaker 3: power of God inside of you is not enough to
Speaker 3: keep you from sin. After you sin, he'll try to
Speaker 3: get you to think that the price that Jesus paid
Speaker 3: for your sin is not enough to take that sin
Speaker 3: off of you, to teach you to roll your shame away,
Speaker 3: to bring you into a new beginning, to.
Speaker 1: Give you new mercies. With every sunrise, and every.
Speaker 3: Day the sun comes up, you're waking up in not enough,
Speaker 3: because the devil is very effective through repetition.
Speaker 1: It's not enough. Think about everything you have to do today.
Speaker 3: You start thinking this before the covers come off in
Speaker 3: the morning I know you do. It's not enough time
Speaker 3: to get it all done. It's not enough money to
Speaker 3: pay every bill, it's not enough sleep that I got
Speaker 3: last night.
Speaker 1: It's not enough.
Speaker 3: People that I want to see it to make me
Speaker 3: want to throw these covers off and get out of
Speaker 3: these comfortable pajamas with the footies on them, and put
Speaker 3: my uncomfortable shoes on and stand up for eight hours
Speaker 3: all day because when I get home after eight hours
Speaker 3: at work, there's not going to be enough of me
Speaker 3: to go around for all these people.
Speaker 1: And since it's not enough, I'm not loved.
Speaker 3: Because if I don't show up enough, then everybody in
Speaker 3: my life feels like a demand and nothing feels like
Speaker 3: a supply. So now the enemy has got me in
Speaker 3: an infinite loop of scarcity.
Speaker 1: Because it's not enough, and you are not loved.
Speaker 3: And now he's got you thinking that you are what
Speaker 3: you do, and so if what you do isn't enough,
Speaker 3: then you are not enough. Never mind that Christ is enough,
Speaker 3: never mind that he wouldn't have created you, planned you,
Speaker 3: brought you into this moment in your life, spoken you
Speaker 3: into the earth at this time, put you in that family, yes,
Speaker 3: that family, the weird family, the dysfunctional family. Every family
Speaker 3: is dysfunctional. Stop lying to yourself saying it. If my
Speaker 3: family wasn't dysfunctional, I wouldn't be If your family wasn't dysfunctional,
Speaker 3: you would be an angel. That's the only non dysfunctional
Speaker 3: family that God ever made. They're called angels. They live
Speaker 3: in heaven. We live on earth. It's called hell. Get
Speaker 3: used to it. Bring Heaven to earth and get on
Speaker 3: with it. The family of God is dysfunctional, but we
Speaker 3: are here.
Speaker 1: Do not be deceived.
Speaker 3: So I was scribbling this down on the napkin, and
Speaker 3: I was thinking, same lies, new loops.
Speaker 1: And what I want you to do.
Speaker 3: Is pull back up Jeremiah the prophet in Lamentations chapter three,
Speaker 3: And I want you to go all the way from
Speaker 3: verse eighteen.
Speaker 1: To verse twenty one. And this is what we're working
Speaker 1: on in our lesson today.
Speaker 3: Somebody say, same lies, new loops. Now, if a person
Speaker 3: lied to you as much as the devil does, how
Speaker 3: many times would you keep letting them in front door?
Speaker 3: If every time they came through they stole something, If
Speaker 3: every time they came through they tracked mud all over
Speaker 3: your beige carpet, how many times would it take, and
Speaker 3: yet we go through the same lies over and over again.
Speaker 3: Don't feel bad about it, Jeremiah did. And I am
Speaker 3: looking for lamentations.
Speaker 6: On the screen. There we go. Oh, I was stollen.
Speaker 6: I was stollen bad just now. But look at this
Speaker 6: in verse eighteen. I want you to circle this, he said.
Speaker 3: So I say, my splendor is gone, or my glory
Speaker 3: is gone, or it feels like God is gone, or
Speaker 3: it feels like my imagination is gone, or my happy
Speaker 3: is on hiatus and I can't find it.
Speaker 1: I forgot what it is to be happy, he said.
Speaker 3: So I say my splendor is gone and all that
Speaker 3: I had hoped from the Lord. Now I want you
Speaker 3: to circle those three words I had hoped. I had
Speaker 3: hoped put it in the comments. Please, if you're watching online,
Speaker 3: I had hoped. I remember my affliction and my wandering,
Speaker 3: the bitterness and the gall I well remember them. And
Speaker 3: my soul is downcast within me. And this is the
Speaker 3: verse we felt so excited about when we read it,
Speaker 3: because it gives us a new loop.
Speaker 1: I'll explain in a moment.
Speaker 3: Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope,
Speaker 3: and I want you to circle those three words. Now,
Speaker 3: I have hope, And the question is, Jonathan, how do
Speaker 3: we get from here where hope is in the past tense?
Speaker 1: I had hoped to hear where I got it back?
Speaker 3: I am preaching better than your saying, Amen, that's the truth?
Speaker 3: How do I get from I had hoped.
Speaker 7: To I have?
Speaker 1: It's not as easy of a journey as.
Speaker 3: You may think, because by the time you've been going
Speaker 3: around the same lies over and over again in your mind,
Speaker 3: and you've been looping. I've been teaching a lot on
Speaker 3: looping in church, and it's the number one thing that
Speaker 3: I've been having people send me text about. They said,
Speaker 3: it was so helpful. How you explained to us that
Speaker 3: sometimes we don't get in the loop of the Word
Speaker 3: of God, and because we don't continually meditate on it,
Speaker 3: we just consume it, and then we go out into
Speaker 3: the world and we get consumed.
Speaker 1: We get consumed and we get in a different loop.
Speaker 3: Now, the problem with the things that Jeremiah was saying
Speaker 3: in Lamentations chapter three is that none of them were
Speaker 3: outright lies. On the surface, they all sounded true. The
Speaker 3: temple had been destroyed, that was true. Many of his
Speaker 3: friends family had been taken away. That was true, it
Speaker 3: would never be the same again.
Speaker 1: That was true. And there may be some things.
Speaker 3: That are true of you today, but just because they're
Speaker 3: true of you does not mean that you have to
Speaker 3: be trapped in them for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3: This is where it's difficult, man, because the devil would
Speaker 3: talk to you so good.
Speaker 1: He's such a good liar.
Speaker 3: He'd be talking about hippopotamus and trying to describe a hippopotamus,
Speaker 3: you know, and he's not like Holly.
Speaker 1: He's a good liar. So he'll start talking to you
Speaker 1: and he'll say, you know what, you have been afflicted.
Speaker 3: You are lost. There have been a lot of people
Speaker 3: who have left your life. There is a lot of
Speaker 3: evil in the world. You ought to be scared to
Speaker 3: go out in public. Everybody is crazy. Everybody is against
Speaker 3: each other. Everybody is fighting against one another.
Speaker 1: And part of that is true. But you have got
Speaker 1: to be very.
Speaker 3: Careful what you say to yourself as you go through
Speaker 3: what we all go through. Because when he said I
Speaker 3: am afflicted, when he said my splendor is when he
Speaker 3: said verse nineteen, please on the lower thirds, I remember
Speaker 3: my affliction and my wandering, and the bitterness and the
Speaker 3: gall We begin to understand that you cannot be full
Speaker 3: of bitterness if you expect to be filled with peace.
Speaker 1: Let me teach you for a moment.
Speaker 3: If I am filled with bitterness, I am going to
Speaker 3: be empty of peace. Verse seventeen. He says, I have
Speaker 3: been deprived of peace. But it's not exactly that somebody
Speaker 3: took your piece away. Sometimes it's that you rejected it.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you reject the peace that God wants to give
Speaker 3: you about the situation because you believe the lie that
Speaker 3: the devil told you about the situation. And God really
Speaker 3: wants to give you a peace, but you push the
Speaker 3: peace away how by going around the same loop, the
Speaker 3: same loop. Many times. For me, I find myself replaying offenses,
Speaker 3: replaying movies in my mind that I didn't even like
Speaker 3: the first time I saw him. Why would you buy
Speaker 3: a ticket back to the movie when you hate it
Speaker 3: the first time.
Speaker 1: But Jeremiah is in a desperate place.
Speaker 3: Understand Not a flat tire, not a failed class, not
Speaker 3: a drop college offer, not a little ache in his
Speaker 3: pinky toe. He has lost everything I had hope, I
Speaker 3: don't have hope. And he goes around and around, and
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you what he's doing in this situation.
Speaker 3: I've done it before myself.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 3: Circling his hurt. How you been circling your hurt? How
Speaker 3: you been going around and around it and around it
Speaker 3: and around it. Now, God left this book in the
Speaker 3: Bible for a reason. I'm glad that God didn't edit
Speaker 3: it out, because then I would feel like that being
Speaker 3: an overcomer in Christ means that I feel no pain.
Speaker 3: I would think that being afraid was a lack of
Speaker 3: faith if he didn't leave it all in.
Speaker 1: He said, I've been afflicted.
Speaker 3: I've wandered, I've tasted bitterness and gaud I am so
Speaker 3: filled with it that I even began to wonder, not
Speaker 3: only am I not enough?
Speaker 1: But is God enough?
Speaker 3: The devil won't tell you God isn't enough. You know
Speaker 3: too many Bible verses for him to do that. He'll
Speaker 3: start to tell him that He's not enough.
Speaker 1: For you.
Speaker 3: And your situation, and how it's different with you, and
Speaker 3: you start circling how bad. It hurts, and it hurts,
Speaker 3: and it hurts, and it did hurt. It hurt for
Speaker 3: Jeremiah to lose everyone he loved. It hurt for them
Speaker 3: to walk out on you. It hurt for them to
Speaker 3: say that about you. It hurt for them to criticize you.
Speaker 3: It hurt in your body when you were diagnosed with
Speaker 3: the illness and then you found out.
Speaker 1: It was worse than you thought. It hurt, and it hurt,
Speaker 1: and it hurt.
Speaker 3: And if I were the devil, I would keep you
Speaker 3: circling your hurt, because as long as you remember it
Speaker 3: more than you recognize God in it, he can keep
Speaker 3: you going around and around and around and around and
Speaker 3: around and around and never get to verse twenty one. Now,
Speaker 3: what happens in verse twenty one of Lamentations.
Speaker 1: Chapter three is very powerful. I wrote down in my notes.
Speaker 3: When you say this point, walk down and make sure
Speaker 3: they're paying attention.
Speaker 1: That's what I'll do right now.
Speaker 3: You would expect that with Jeremiah, who is a prophet
Speaker 3: for God.
Speaker 1: What is Jeremiah not a bullfrog?
Speaker 8: He is a.
Speaker 1: For the old timers. I know you don't know about it.
Speaker 1: You don't need to know about it.
Speaker 3: It's the same stuff as the same stuff as you
Speaker 3: works every time. He's a prophet for God, which means
Speaker 3: he speaks for God to people. So you will think
Speaker 3: at this moment and you are understandably wrong that God
Speaker 3: is going to speak to him because he speaks for God.
Speaker 1: But what blew my mind?
Speaker 3: And I don't mean mind blow emoji, I mean cold
Speaker 3: chills up and down my body while I was praying
Speaker 3: about some of the hurts that I keep circling in
Speaker 3: my life, some of the abandonment that I keep reliving
Speaker 3: in my heart, some of the trauma, if I can
Speaker 3: use an overused word, that enters my body during high
Speaker 3: stress times. And I don't know what to do because
Speaker 3: I am expecting for God to.
Speaker 1: Speak to Jeremiah. But in Lamentations three, God doesn't speak
Speaker 1: Jeremiah does. That changed my life because I'm expecting him
Speaker 1: to say, my hope is gone. God is gone. And
Speaker 1: I'm expecting God to stand up and say, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not Jeremiah.
Speaker 4: I am here, and I am here.
Speaker 1: But God don't say a word Jeremiah does.
Speaker 3: And when Jeremiah speaks, God comes. God is waiting for
Speaker 3: you to change what you say, and you are going
Speaker 3: to see what he spoke. When you change what you
Speaker 3: say Shot three people tell him change what you say,
Speaker 3: and if you change what you say, you'll change what
Speaker 3: you see and God will walk in the room, and
Speaker 3: God will show up in the hospital, and God will
Speaker 3: show up in a broken heart, and God will show
Speaker 3: up at your job, and God will show up in
Speaker 3: your emptiness, and God will show up in your loneliness,
Speaker 3: and God will show up in your doubts. And Jesus
Speaker 3: will come into your storm, and Jesus will step into
Speaker 3: your folk, and Jesus will make a.
Speaker 1: Wind in a way.
Speaker 3: Die now when you see.
Speaker 4: Come on, call him right now.
Speaker 9: Somebody say, Jesus, I need to right now, not five
Speaker 9: years from now. I don't have five years for therapy.
Speaker 9: I need to right now.
Speaker 1: I need to right now, Jesus.
Speaker 3: So please believe me when I say that. I know
Speaker 3: it hurts, but you have to make a decision, don't you.
Speaker 3: Am I gonna keep circling my hurt or am I
Speaker 3: going to summon my help?
Speaker 1: Oh God?
Speaker 4: Because when you call Jesus, help is on the way.
Speaker 3: Because when you say come Lord, because when you say
Speaker 3: I'm MP and I need to be filled, Jesus shows up.
Speaker 3: Yes I have hurt. That's an old story. Yes I
Speaker 3: have hurt.
Speaker 1: It's human.
Speaker 3: Yes, some people suck, they're human, but some don't. And
Speaker 3: God said to remind you that The longer you circle
Speaker 3: your hurt, the less you can summon your help.
Speaker 1: Let me draw you this.
Speaker 3: I just pictured somebody in here today and I was like,
Speaker 3: you've been circling hurt, circling hurt, circling hurt, cir circling hurt.
Speaker 1: But the moment.
Speaker 10: Who I've been drawing on that because I'm trying to
Speaker 10: fight that devil.
Speaker 4: Get them beat you down.
Speaker 3: And let it know.
Speaker 10: Holt that to the hells?
Speaker 1: Where down my hell?
Speaker 11: Holler?
Speaker 12: Hell?
Speaker 10: Now how sid through hell?
Speaker 4: But I got how that hurts a long time.
Speaker 13: But I gotta down.
Speaker 14: You see that, Jeremiah, tell seven people, I got help,
Speaker 14: Tell them the world's a real crazy but I got
Speaker 14: hell tell him.
Speaker 15: The darkness does his best to try to keep us down,
Speaker 15: but we have help. Our God is a very present
Speaker 15: health in the time of trouble. The devil is a
Speaker 15: very present devil in the time of trouble.
Speaker 4: But for every lie the devil speaks, there is a
Speaker 4: new loop of the truth of the Word of God
Speaker 4: that is flowing to his people.
Speaker 1: And this rock is.
Speaker 4: Jesus, He's the word. This rock is Jesus. And the
Speaker 4: wind came and the storms.
Speaker 10: Blew from my house did not fall because it was hell.
Speaker 10: I have Hell.
Speaker 3: I'm not enough, but I have help. They don't love me,
Speaker 3: but he does not but I have help. They don't
Speaker 3: love me, but he does. Same lives say all you want, Devil,
Speaker 3: keep on talking, Devil, wear your voice out, Devil, get
Speaker 3: Laryngiti's Devil stuck to me in the night. Devil, tell
Speaker 3: me you're gonna kill me. Devil, tell me not to
Speaker 3: preach this devil And I.
Speaker 10: Just opened my mouth and help ten.
Speaker 3: People on the left side of the turf. Who am
Speaker 3: I preaching to? Who am I help? Is?
Speaker 16: Go?
Speaker 10: Lord send me to remind.
Speaker 11: You you he Hell, there's more with us then with them.
Speaker 10: There's more with us.
Speaker 1: Then with them.
Speaker 10: There's more with us then with them.
Speaker 1: There's more with us then with them. There's more with
Speaker 1: us then with them.
Speaker 3: There's more with us then with them.
Speaker 4: I got angels all around me.
Speaker 10: I got family all around me, I got Jesus all
Speaker 10: around me, I got help, I got hell.
Speaker 1: That's what the prophets said.
Speaker 3: Eliza said, there's more with us then with them.
Speaker 1: Same lives. The Devil's got you surrounded again. But whatever
Speaker 1: is surrounding you, God made a loop surrounding it, same lies.
Speaker 3: H How did the prophet Elijah end up hiding.
Speaker 1: In a cave from a woman named Jezebel.
Speaker 12: He forgot he had help, and he sat down on
Speaker 12: a broom tree and said, cant me God.
Speaker 16: And God wouldn't kill him. God wouldn't kill him because
Speaker 16: he had a new loop for him. God wouldn't even
Speaker 16: let you die. God wouldn't even let you abandon the faith.
Speaker 3: God wouldn't even let you not come to church today.
Speaker 3: You had a bad attitude when you walked in, and
Speaker 3: God dragged your bad attitude in with your worship in mouth.
Speaker 1: And now you found out I have hell. But you
Speaker 1: don't know that when you're in the valley.
Speaker 3: Bring me that Bible. In One Kings, chapter nineteen, I
Speaker 3: already sat down. I don't feel like getting back up
Speaker 3: to get mine. And this was mine before I gave
Speaker 3: it to you. Somebody helped me. Come on, help me
Speaker 3: preach all. I'm not up here by myself. I'm not
Speaker 3: in this by myself. And the Bible said that Elijah
Speaker 3: in forty days forty nights into the cave.
Speaker 1: And I want to show.
Speaker 3: You the loop that he was in because it might
Speaker 3: be very meaningful to you. The Lord came to him,
Speaker 3: and the Lord shows off man. When God comes, he
Speaker 3: comes and does all kinds of stuff. See the mountain
Speaker 3: that he's at is Mount Sinai. You remember when God gave.
Speaker 1: The Moses the law to Moses at Mount Sinai, and.
Speaker 3: The earthquake came and like the fire of God and
Speaker 3: the glory of God. So when Elijah goes to hide
Speaker 3: in the cave because he called down the fire from heaven.
Speaker 3: But sometimes the thing that makes you powerful on the
Speaker 3: mountain can make you crazy in the cave. And he
Speaker 3: begins to say this thing to himself over and over
Speaker 3: and over again. I mean it's written two times in
Speaker 3: One Kings nineteen. The Bible says that the word of
Speaker 3: the Lord came to him when he was in his cave,
Speaker 3: and they said, what are you doing.
Speaker 1: Here, Elijah? And he replied, I gotta get up now,
Speaker 1: I gotta draw it.
Speaker 3: I really want you to get this. I really want
Speaker 3: this to help you. I don't want you just to
Speaker 3: hear me. I want to help you. I know that
Speaker 3: the devil has been lying to you. I know he's
Speaker 3: been telling you that there is something incurably wrong with you.
Speaker 3: I know he's been telling you that it's your fault
Speaker 3: from what happened five years ago, that you can't apologize
Speaker 3: for again.
Speaker 1: But you can only move forward. I know what he's saying.
Speaker 17: But here is Elijah in the cave, and the Lord
Speaker 17: ask him, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: You're not happy either, he said.
Speaker 18: I am the only.
Speaker 3: One lie Sean First Kings nineteen, verse number seventeen.
Speaker 1: I think that's the right one. Verse eighteen. God say, yet,
Speaker 1: I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose needs have
Speaker 1: not bowed to bail. Elijah said, I'm the only one
Speaker 1: not serving the false God. I'm the only boy.
Speaker 3: He's got that song on a loop too. I'm the
Speaker 3: only one. I'm the only one. Say long enough it'll
Speaker 3: feel true. Treat people that way, long enough, it'll become true.
Speaker 1: Now it's not just a lie, it's a loop, and
Speaker 1: it's your life. And you say, I had hoped, but
Speaker 1: I lost it in the loop.
Speaker 3: Read the story Saints, First King, Chapter nineteen, verse ten.
Speaker 3: The Lord said, what are you doing here? Elijah? What
Speaker 3: are you doing here? He replied, I've been very zealous
Speaker 3: for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant.
Speaker 3: True they did. They did because humans hurt you. They
Speaker 3: torn down your altars. True, they did that. They put
Speaker 3: your prophets to death with the sword. That's true, they
Speaker 3: did that.
Speaker 1: And I am the only one left lie.
Speaker 3: But the devil had convinced him so much with stuff
Speaker 3: that was true that once he got him in the loop,
Speaker 3: it was easy to convince him of what wasn't true.
Speaker 3: And now Elijah is giving this speech to God. How
Speaker 3: are you going to start telling God how God's people
Speaker 3: abandon God? How do you think it hurt you more
Speaker 3: than it hurt God. But He's been circling this hurt
Speaker 3: for a long time. And when you circle your hurt
Speaker 3: long enough, you don't summon your help. You forget how
Speaker 3: to reach out to who you do have. You forget
Speaker 3: to pray, how you know how to pray. You forget
Speaker 3: to be grateful. Don't you You.
Speaker 1: Stop saying those gratitude things in the morning. You stop
Speaker 1: saying them.
Speaker 3: Because he got up on not enough and not loved,
Speaker 3: and that got on the loop.
Speaker 1: Now watch what the Lord does. He is so kind.
Speaker 3: Elijah says, now they are trying to kill me too.
Speaker 3: And the Lord said, go out and stand on the
Speaker 3: mountain in the presence of.
Speaker 1: The Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.
Speaker 3: Then a great and powerful wind toward the mountains apart
Speaker 3: and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord
Speaker 3: wasn't in the wind, and the wind came, and then
Speaker 3: after the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord
Speaker 3: was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake came
Speaker 3: a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
Speaker 3: The Lord came in all of those ways in Moses's time,
Speaker 3: but he's coming.
Speaker 1: A different way to Elijah.
Speaker 3: Can you let God come to you a different way
Speaker 3: and not think that he left you. I feel this
Speaker 3: thing going deep. If y'all have a lunch appointment, please
Speaker 3: feel free to leave. But I'm gonna finish this message
Speaker 3: for the hundred people that need to hear it today
Speaker 3: who had been on the loop.
Speaker 1: And after the fire came a gentle whisper. I've done
Speaker 1: a whole.
Speaker 12: Messages where I whispered for ten minutes to talk to
Speaker 12: you about how when the enemy.
Speaker 16: Is lying to you, he's loud because he can't get
Speaker 16: to you.
Speaker 1: When God tells the truth to you.
Speaker 12: He whispers because he's close.
Speaker 1: That's why the devil's so much louder.
Speaker 3: That's why you have to draw near to God to
Speaker 3: hear him. And the Bible says, when Elijah heard that
Speaker 3: whisper Verse thirteen.
Speaker 1: Boy, this font is so small.
Speaker 3: I can't believe I used to preach from this Bible.
Speaker 3: When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his
Speaker 3: face and went out and stood at the mouth of
Speaker 3: the cave. And that a crazy phrase. The mouth of
Speaker 3: the cave. The cave has been talking, just bouncing around.
Speaker 3: You're the only one the mouth. You ever heard, the
Speaker 3: mouth of the cave.
Speaker 1: But then comes the voice of the Lord.
Speaker 3: I cannot draw God, but I'm making bigger than Elijah.
Speaker 3: I'm making happy. I'm gonna give him a crown. That's
Speaker 3: the best I can do. Lord, But that represents you.
Speaker 3: And God says, watch this, God says, watch.
Speaker 8: This new loop, I say, I say, And.
Speaker 7: The Lord, God of Elijah, brought you here today to
Speaker 7: open a new loop over your life, a new way
Speaker 7: of thinking, a new way of being, a new way
Speaker 7: of handling adversity, a new.
Speaker 1: Way of processing pain.
Speaker 3: It's as small as a whisper, but it can change
Speaker 3: your world.
Speaker 1: It can bring you out of the cycle of thinking.
Speaker 3: That put you in this place all alone, that made
Speaker 3: you feel shut off and cut off, and forgot your
Speaker 3: health and circling your hurt. Jeremiah said it two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty years after Elijah learned it.
Speaker 1: He ministered in a different place. But it's the.
Speaker 3: Same lesson this I called to my mind. Therefore I
Speaker 3: have hope. It is because of the Lord's new loop.
Speaker 3: It is because of the Lord's voice. It is because
Speaker 3: of the Lord's love. It is because his compassions are infinite.
Speaker 3: It's a new loop. It's a loop of his love
Speaker 3: that never stops. It means he's got me in his hand,
Speaker 3: even when I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: In my mind.
Speaker 3: It means he's got me in his plan, even when
Speaker 3: I can't prove.
Speaker 1: It with my math.
Speaker 3: It means he's got me in his sovereign will, even
Speaker 3: when I rebelled and got off course.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says he asked him a second time, what.
Speaker 3: Are you doing here, Elijah? And Elijah replied verse fourteen,
Speaker 3: I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty.
Speaker 3: The Israelites have rejected your covenant and torn down your
Speaker 3: altars and put your prophets to death with the sword.
Speaker 3: I'm the only one left. He's still in the loop. Ah,
Speaker 3: but give me verse fifteen, where the Lord said to
Speaker 3: him new loop. The Lord said to him, new loop,
Speaker 3: go back the way you came. And when you get
Speaker 3: to the desert, I've got somebody in Damascus for you
Speaker 3: to anoint. His name is Hazel, and he will take
Speaker 3: care of the international affairs verse sixteen. After you get
Speaker 3: done annoying Hazel, go anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, king
Speaker 3: over Israel.
Speaker 1: He will handle the national affairs. And then, when you.
Speaker 3: Get done annoying those two government leaders, annoying Elisha, son
Speaker 3: of Sheifat from Abel Mahola to succeed you as prophet,
Speaker 3: Jayhu will put to death any who escaped the sword
Speaker 3: of hay y'all, and Elishah will put to deathty who.
Speaker 1: Escaped the sword of Jayhu.
Speaker 3: Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel, all whose.
Speaker 1: Knees have not bowed down to bail and whose mouths
Speaker 1: have not kissed him. And verse nineteen is the happiest.
Speaker 3: Verse I read you all day, because it says, so Elijah.
Speaker 1: Went from there new loop, new loop.
Speaker 3: Not I've been very zealous in the Lord abandon me
Speaker 3: and they It isn't about what they did. It's about
Speaker 3: what he said. It's not about what they didn't do.
Speaker 3: It's about what he still can do. It is not
Speaker 3: about circling your heart. It is about summoning your help.
Speaker 13: And if you go all the way to the Book
Speaker 13: of Revelation, not revelations, and it's not Walmarts either.
Speaker 1: It's just one mark that is wall and it's one
Speaker 1: revelation from.
Speaker 3: John on the Island of Patmos, many revelations. I was
Speaker 3: reading how it ended, and I realized something very powerful.
Speaker 3: In verse seven, he said that a great war broke
Speaker 3: out in heaven and Michael and his angels fought against
Speaker 3: the dragon.
Speaker 1: See, we say crazy stuff.
Speaker 3: When weird stuff happens in the world, and horrible things
Speaker 3: happened in the world, and we're like, it's never been
Speaker 3: like this before.
Speaker 1: Is in the first book and the last book of
Speaker 1: the Bible, all of it.
Speaker 3: He said, there was a war that broke out in heaven,
Speaker 3: and the angels started fighting for God against the dragon,
Speaker 3: and the dragon and his angels fought back, but he.
Speaker 1: Was not strong enough and they lost their place in heaven.
Speaker 3: Well, if y'all shouted over that verse you really like nine,
Speaker 3: and the great dragon was hurled down.
Speaker 1: Let me remind you who that.
Speaker 3: Dragon is that's fighting against you today, That ancient serpent.
Speaker 3: He's been lying a long time, and he's real good
Speaker 3: at his job. But God has been creating longer than
Speaker 3: he's been lying. And God is better at his job
Speaker 3: than the enemy is at his. So I came to
Speaker 3: remind you today the dragon was cast down. So the
Speaker 3: next time your soul gets down cast, call to your.
Speaker 1: Mind the victoria that Jesus already won for me.
Speaker 19: And verse eleven says, and verse eleven says, and verse
Speaker 19: eleven says they triumphed over him.
Speaker 4: Find the blood of the lamb and the word.
Speaker 10: Ah, there, Simony, if you gotta tempt Simony, stand up, stray,
Speaker 10: Let the devil know. Great is his faithfulness, Great is.
Speaker 1: His faithfulness.
Speaker 20: And morning by morning, I've got new mercies, new loose
Speaker 20: sing God, new loose same lies.
Speaker 1: New loops.
Speaker 3: We watched the movie A Beautiful Mind, and the man
Speaker 3: in the movie always heard voices.
Speaker 1: He always heard voices. He always heard voices.
Speaker 3: And he was explaining to somebody after he had recovered
Speaker 3: and gotten treatment He was played by Russell Crowe, the
Speaker 3: Great John Nash. He was playing this man who suffered
Speaker 3: from a terrible condition and he heard voices, and they
Speaker 3: asked him at the end of the movie, did the
Speaker 3: voices go away? And he said no, but you just
Speaker 3: learn not to listen to them. So we will journey
Speaker 3: together over these next weeks, not only for your sanity,
Speaker 3: but for your sanctification, so you can be set back
Speaker 3: apart from God, for God, from the enemy.
Speaker 1: We will labor together.
Speaker 3: We will find out how to get from Lamentations three eighteen,
Speaker 3: where the prophet said, man, I just I just kept
Speaker 3: going over and over in my mind everything that I've lost.
Speaker 3: And while I was going over everything I lost, I
Speaker 3: was in a loop. And then in verse twenty one,
Speaker 3: he says, yet I call this to my mind. Oh
Speaker 3: I didn't even get to preach that to you.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: You come back next week, right, You come back next week?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 3: I really need you to tune back in next week,
Speaker 3: because this word is going to be a reversal for
Speaker 3: some of you, a reversal. This season is going to
Speaker 3: be a season of reversal to where everything that the
Speaker 3: enemy has been speaking over you is going to give
Speaker 3: way to what God says about you. I have so
Speaker 3: many napkins around my house with these little loops. Don't
Speaker 3: make me waste one. Don't make me waste one the
Speaker 3: week that I might give the napkin that you need.
Speaker 3: Don't be sleeping because there are some things that God
Speaker 3: wants to show you that are really true. But today
Speaker 3: I feel like there's somebody that the Lord brought here
Speaker 3: who has never begun this journey of following Jesus. You
Speaker 3: never even took the first step to follow him, and
Speaker 3: maybe you thought that you weren't enough and he wouldn't
Speaker 3: love you, and maybe you thought.
Speaker 1: That you didn't need him.
Speaker 3: But you have found in the season of your life
Speaker 3: that you do need his grace and his strength. So
Speaker 3: right now we have a very special tradition at our
Speaker 3: church where we all bow our heads and close our
Speaker 3: eyes together. This is for you online too, and at
Speaker 3: every location. The Bible says that it is by grace
Speaker 3: you are saved through faith. This is the gift of God,
Speaker 3: not of work, so that no one can boast. The
Speaker 3: grace of God is enough to save you. All you
Speaker 3: have to do is place your faith in him. The
Speaker 3: Bible says that if you will confess with your mouth
Speaker 3: that Jesus is Lord, and live in your heart that
Speaker 3: God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Speaker 3: He'll come get you right now. He's already running your way,
Speaker 3: got his arms wide open.
Speaker 1: Just come to it. Just come to it with your
Speaker 1: head bowed and your eyes closed.
Speaker 3: Our entire church family is going to pray out loud
Speaker 3: for the benefit of those who are coming to God,
Speaker 3: or maybe you're coming back to God. This is going
Speaker 3: to be a new day, a new beginning for you
Speaker 3: right now. If you want to give your life to
Speaker 3: Jesus today, you don't have to wait another day.
Speaker 1: You could do it right now.
Speaker 3: Repeat this prayer out loud after me, everybody praying together,
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, Today is my day of salvation.
Speaker 1: I am a sinner in need of a savior. And
Speaker 1: I believe that.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the savior
Speaker 3: of the world. And today I make Jesus the Lord
Speaker 3: of my life. I believe he died for my sin
Speaker 3: and rose again to give me life. I receive this
Speaker 3: new life. This is my new beginning. I am a
Speaker 3: child of God. If you prayed that, shoot your hand
Speaker 3: up on the count of three, one coup three. I
Speaker 3: want to celebrate you all over the room, all over
Speaker 3: the church.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 4: We got a bible.
Speaker 1: Come in your way.
Speaker 4: This was all worth it if it was just for you.
Speaker 3: Come on, Welcome home, Welcome home, Welcome home, Welcome to
Speaker 3: your full circle moment, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: I like it, l Jay, Let's sing it a few guys.
Speaker 12: Jesus.
Speaker 4: See the name, say it, Jesus, the name.
Speaker 12: Jesus.
Speaker 21: Say Jesus, Jesus, Jess.
Speaker 4: Every location, say Jesus.
Speaker 21: Leaving day, Jesus, Jesus, Jess.
Speaker 1: Grab the hand of the person on either side.
Speaker 3: Of you, link up with somebody, get across the aisles
Speaker 3: and look them right in the.
Speaker 1: Eyes and say, I know it's hard, I know it hurts.
Speaker 1: I know it's heavy. But you have help. Squeeze their
Speaker 1: hand real hard so they'll know.
Speaker 3: How strong their help is. Come on, squeeze it till
Speaker 3: the circulation cuts off. Let them know how strong their
Speaker 3: help is. Squeeze it till they realize.
Speaker 8: That God won't let you go, that God won't let
Speaker 8: you down, that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above.
Speaker 10: All you ass thank Parmass it.
Speaker 4: It's Jesus' name.
Speaker 10: I miss you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.
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