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Speaker 4: our services. So I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 4: and I heard about these three men, a Baptist a

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Speaker 4: Catholic and a Charismatic. They died on the same day

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Speaker 4: and went to heaven. Saint Peter met him at the

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Speaker 4: pearly gates and said, I'm so sorry, men, but your

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Speaker 4: so he decided to call Satan and see if he

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Speaker 4: A few hours later, Satan called back said, Peter, you

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Speaker 4: have to come get these guys. The Baptist man is

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Speaker 4: saving everyone, Catholic man is forgiving everyone, and the Charismatic

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Speaker 4: has already raised enough money for air conditioning. Say it

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Speaker 4: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 4: what it says I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 4: I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 4: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about you're going

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Speaker 4: to laugh again. We all go through seasons of struggle

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Speaker 4: and seasons where we're dealing with an illness, the loss

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Speaker 4: doesn't seem fair. It's easy to think that the suffering,

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Speaker 4: the struggle, the weeping is the way it's always going

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Speaker 4: just been diagnosed with a very serious illness. As they

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Speaker 4: But God never promised that we wouldn't have seasons of weeping,

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Speaker 4: seasons of struggle. But Jesus said in Luke six, blessed

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Speaker 4: are those who weep now, for in due time you

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Speaker 4: will laugh. The promise God makes us is the suffering

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Speaker 4: He knows what wasn't fair, the lonely nights, the pain,

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Speaker 4: Peter says, after you have suffered a little while, not

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Speaker 4: season of struggle. You feel stuck in your health, your marriage,

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Speaker 4: God himself is about to step in and do what

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Speaker 4: weeping turn to laughter. Don't believe those lies that you'll

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Speaker 4: always be lonely. You'll always mourn that loss, always be

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Speaker 4: may means, it's not certain, it's questionable. But here's the promise.

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Speaker 4: accepted it. This suffering is our destiny, being mistreated, taking

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Speaker 4: about to turn some things in your life. Turn problems around,

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Speaker 4: The Israelites were weeping. It's not like they had this

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Speaker 4: You may be in a season of struggle. God is saying,

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Speaker 4: situation in your marriage resolved. How it may look like

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Speaker 4: the enemy has won, Like with the Israelites, he has

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Speaker 4: freedom will come, healing will show up, The good breaks

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Speaker 4: they're filled with laughter. Their joy is overflowing. That's the

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Speaker 4: the suffering, sadness, heartache. God's going to pay you back

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Speaker 4: the wrongs. He knows how to turn your sorrow into joy.

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