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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through a

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, and you

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Speaker 1: can come visit us in person. We'd love to have

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Speaker 1: you be a part of one of our services. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny, and someone sent me

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Speaker 1: this interesting observation from the Book of Genesis goes like this.

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Speaker 1: In the beginning, God created the earth, then rested. Then

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Speaker 1: God created man and rested. Next God created women, and

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Speaker 1: since then neither God nor Man has rested. All right,

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Speaker 1: y'all say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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

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

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus' name,

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

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Speaker 1: about dare to believe. There are times in life when

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Speaker 1: our faith is high and we're filled with great expectation.

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Speaker 1: We're pursuing dreams, seeing doors open, making progress, and then

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Speaker 1: life happens. A person walks away, contract falls through, the

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Speaker 1: medical report isn't good. We were so close, it's like

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Speaker 1: we could grasp it, but now it doesn't seem possible.

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Speaker 1: All of us face these moments when life doesn't make sense,

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Speaker 1: or what we were hoping for didn't happen, our prayers

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Speaker 1: weren't answered. It's easy to get discouraged. That's when doubt comes,

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Speaker 1: whispers you must have heard God wrong. You'll never get well,

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Speaker 1: never see your family restored. It's too late to accomplish

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Speaker 1: your dreams. God wouldn't have put that dream in your heart.

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't have given you that promise if he wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to fulfill it. You're not going to understand the

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Speaker 1: plan of God in real time. We look at what's

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Speaker 1: happening now, but God knows what's coming later on. His

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Speaker 1: ways are not our ways. His plans are better and

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Speaker 1: bigger than our plans. If you try to understand everything

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Speaker 1: that's happening in that one season. You're going to be

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Speaker 1: frustrated because God is doing things now that are setting

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Speaker 1: you up for something much better later on. He may

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Speaker 1: have to close a door, move a person out of

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Speaker 1: the way, or take you through this detour, this difficulty.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand this. God, where are you? Why did

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Speaker 1: this happen? Faith is all about trusting when you don't understand,

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Speaker 1: doing the right thing, when you have unanswered questions, when

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. All your emotions will say, be disappointed,

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Speaker 1: live in self pity, give up on your dream. No,

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Speaker 1: come back to that place of peace, that place of trust.

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Speaker 1: God is ordering your steps. He is the author of

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Speaker 1: your story in He has planned your days for good

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Speaker 1: and not for harm. And yes, there may be some

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Speaker 1: seasons you don't understand, and seasons of struggle where what

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Speaker 1: was working is not working anymore. Seasons of silence you're

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Speaker 1: praying doing the right thing, nothing's changing, Seasons of closed doors,

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Speaker 1: disappointments where it looks like it's canceled your dream. God

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have allowed it if it was going to stop

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Speaker 1: your purpose. It looks like a setback. The truth is

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Speaker 1: it's setting you up for something you've never seen. Dare

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Speaker 1: to believe, Dare to trust him when it doesn't make sense,

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Speaker 1: when you don't understand, when doubt comes bombarding your mind

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Speaker 1: telling you it's too late, it's over, it's never gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: You know what God started, He's going to finish what

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Speaker 1: he promised you is still on the schedule. No disappointment

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Speaker 1: can stop him, no sickness, no bad break. God has

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Speaker 1: the final says, he has you in the palm of

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Speaker 1: it's hard. He sees you're praising when you could be complaining,

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Speaker 1: and staying in faith when all the circumstances say you

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Speaker 1: should be discouraged. Your time is coming. You're going to

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Speaker 1: see God show out in your life. Jesus told Peter,

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Speaker 1: you don't realize what I'm doing now, but later on

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Speaker 1: you will understand. We get frustrated because we're trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out, now, why did that door close, why'd they

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Speaker 1: do me wrong? Why I'm in this trouble. We stay

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Speaker 1: in faith. You're later on is coming. You're going to

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Speaker 1: see it was all a part of God's plan. What

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Speaker 1: you thought was a disappointment was necessary for you to

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Speaker 1: step in to who you were created to be. This

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Speaker 1: is what Thomas had to do deal with. He left

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Speaker 1: For three years, he saw Jesus walking in power favor,

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Speaker 1: But the Jewish people in that day believed the Messiah

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Speaker 1: to reign and to defeat the enemies. Things didn't turn

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Speaker 1: out the way they thought. Instead of overthrowing Rome, Jesus

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Speaker 1: was crucified by the Romans. Instead of sitting on a throne,

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Speaker 1: he hung on across. Instead of this huge victory, they

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Speaker 1: saw this great defeat. Their world was shattered. They were confused.

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Speaker 1: They had questioned Thomas thought, man, did I waste my time?

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Speaker 1: Did I spend three years believing a lie was a fooled.

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Speaker 1: Was he not who he said he was? You can

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Speaker 1: imagine how heartbroken and disappointed. But what Thomas couldn't see

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Speaker 1: It had to happen. If it had worked out the

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Speaker 1: way Thomas wanted, we wouldn't have salvation, we wouldn't have redemption,

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Speaker 1: eternal life. Thomas wanted Jesus to change the government. God

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Speaker 1: wanted Jesus to change the world. Thomas wanted freedom from Rome.

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Speaker 1: God wanted freedom from sin. Thomas wanted a temporary kingdom.

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Speaker 1: God wanted an eternal kingdom. Thomas wanted a throne in Jerusalem.

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Speaker 1: God wanted a throne on our hearts. What looked like

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Speaker 1: a set back them crucifying Jesus was really a set

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Speaker 1: up for us to have an abundant, victorious life. What

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Speaker 1: am I saying? You can't always see the plan of

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Speaker 1: God in the present. It's not always gonna make sense.

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Speaker 1: God is doing things we can't comprehend that are much

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Speaker 1: better than we can imagine. We get this courage and think, man, Joel,

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Speaker 1: this is not what I thought would happen. This company

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Speaker 1: didn't treat me right After all these years, this friend

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Speaker 1: betrayed me. My loved one didn't make it. You don't

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Speaker 1: know what God is up to. Things are happening behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes that you can't see right now. And they

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Speaker 1: crucified Jesus on that Friday and put him in the tomb.

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Speaker 1: They thought it was over all. The forces of darkness

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Speaker 1: were celebrating, having a big party. But on Sunday morning,

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Speaker 1: it was a different story. They got the surprise of

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Speaker 1: their life. Jesus came up out of the grave and

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Speaker 1: he said, I am he that lives. I was dead,

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Speaker 1: but I'm alive forevermoorning by the way. I have the

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Speaker 1: keys of death and hell. He rose in great victory.

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Speaker 1: But the truth is Jesus didn't like going through that

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Speaker 1: suffering season. When he was mocked, betrayed, and beaten. He

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Speaker 1: swept great drops of blood. He said, Father, if you

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Speaker 1: will take this cup from me. He knew he was

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Speaker 1: going to be painful, but he trusted the plan of God.

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Speaker 1: He understood that it had to happen. There are some

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Speaker 1: levels you can only get to by going through difficult seasons.

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Speaker 1: The key is don't focus on your crucifixion, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: You have to believe that your resurrection is coming. It

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Speaker 1: may be Friday in your life today and things you

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Speaker 1: don't understand. You could be discouraged. Why is this happening?

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Speaker 1: God is up to something. Your Sunday is coming, something

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Speaker 1: that you can't see right now. It's going to launch

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Speaker 1: you into a new level of your destiny. When my

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Speaker 1: father went to be with the Lord seventy seven years old,

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Speaker 1: he had a heart attack and suddenly passed, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't understand that. I thought Daddy would live another twenty years.

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Speaker 1: We were best friends, and now he was gone, like

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Speaker 1: everything was upside down, like this was the end. But

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Speaker 1: I soon realized it was all a part of God's plan.

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Speaker 1: I never had ministered before. I'd been behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: for seventeen years. My father tried to get me up

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Speaker 1: here again and again. I always told him no. But

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Speaker 1: when he passed, I suddenly had the desire to step

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Speaker 1: up and past to the church. I didn't know any

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Speaker 1: of this was in me. I didn't think I could minister.

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Speaker 1: But there are gifts and talents God has put in you,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes He has to push you into your destiny.

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Speaker 1: The struggle, the disappointment, things you don't understand. It's going

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Speaker 1: We see the moment, but God sees the whole story.

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Speaker 1: We don't like Friday, but say in faith, Sunday is coming,

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Speaker 1: and the Scripture says to lean not to your own understanding.

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Speaker 1: Things are going to happen that we don't understand. It's

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Speaker 1: because our our understanding is limited. We are natural. God

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Speaker 1: is supernatural, he said. We haven't seen, heard, or imagined

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Speaker 1: what he has in store, what he's planning. You can't

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Speaker 1: see right now where he's taking you. It may not

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Speaker 1: happen by traditional, ordinary ways. He's going to do things

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Speaker 1: uncommon that you haven't thought of, bigger than you had planned.

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Speaker 1: Had Jesus done what the disciples wanted, become that political

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Speaker 1: messiah overthrown the government, we wouldn't have a savior. His

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Speaker 1: ways are better than our ways. Trust him when it

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. On that Sunday evening, after they crucified Jesus,

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Speaker 1: the Disciples were in a room locked behind closed doors.

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Speaker 1: They were afraid of the Jewish leaders and what would

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Speaker 1: happen after the crucifixion would they be next? When Jesus

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Speaker 1: suddenly appeared to them, standing right in the middle and

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Speaker 1: Thomas wasn't there that night. They rushed out to find him.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't wait to tell him the good news. They said, Thomas,

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Speaker 1: we've seen the Lord. He's alive. They thought, of course

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Speaker 1: he'd be excited. But Thomas was a little more analytical.

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Speaker 1: He was logical, practical. He had questions. This didn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to believe. It wasn't so much that

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Speaker 1: Thomas was lacking faith or he wasn't committed enough. It's

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Speaker 1: that he didn't want to be hurt again. That disappointment,

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Speaker 1: that loss was so painful he couldn't deal with anything more.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes when we've been through hurts and plans haven't

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Speaker 1: worked out, it's tempting to lower our expectations, don't get

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Speaker 1: our hopes up. It's easier to not believe and just

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Speaker 1: accept it. Joel, I doubt that I can get well now,

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Speaker 1: but man, I can live with this sickness, or I

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Speaker 1: doubt I'll ever be free from this addiction. This' be

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Speaker 1: so long, but I can handle it. I doubt that

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Speaker 1: abundance the open windows of heaven. That's right where Thomas was.

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Speaker 1: He thought, Man, I've grieved this loss. I've accepted it's

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen, and I'm okay with the disappointment. You

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Speaker 1: may be okay, but God's not okay. He loves you

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Speaker 1: too much to let you miss your destiny. You may

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Speaker 1: have given up on a dream, but God has not

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Speaker 1: given up. When you won't go to him, he'll come

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Speaker 1: to you. A week later, the disciples were in a

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Speaker 1: room again. This time Thomas was there. The door was locked,

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Speaker 1: dead bolted. All of a sudden, Jesus came walking through

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Speaker 1: the door. They were standing there in astonishment. Jesus walked

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Speaker 1: right past Peter, past John, few James, and he went

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