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Speaker 1: something refreshing about a new year, a new beginning, a

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Speaker 1: of your love. As I wait upon you for wisdom

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Speaker 1: already conquered this last year. I realize what you have

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Speaker 1: life's difficulties in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to today's daily Prayer for more inspiration and an incredible

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Speaker 2: Hi. I'm doctor Aberdon Shaw and I'm the pastor of

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Speaker 2: Clear Research and this is our Sermons podcast. I hope

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Speaker 2: these sermons are a blessing to you and your family.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. Now let's hear God's work together.

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Speaker 2: There's an old folk tale titled the Appointment in Samoraw.

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Speaker 2: It was retold by Somerset Mongam, and it's told from

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Speaker 2: the viewpoint of death. But I'm not going to do that.

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Speaker 2: He said, what is prose. It's simple narrative. There's no

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Speaker 2: On and on we go to chapter two. It's plain narrative.

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Speaker 2: They're ready now to get angry. In many counseling settings,

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Speaker 2: Why because we've never been here before? And so what

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Speaker 2: poetry sometimes comes out in cuss words. All right, By

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Speaker 2: What happened. Well, poetry is happening. Why because I cannot

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Speaker 2: Job chapter three, when Job launch into poetry, he even

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Speaker 2: like how are you feeling? Man, a lot of tears?

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Speaker 2: That's why we say things like, man, I feel like

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Speaker 2: mean by a bad dream? What they're saying is I

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Speaker 2: Any moment, please wake me up. I feel like I'm

428
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Speaker 2: in a bad or The most famous one the world

429
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: over uses my heart is breaking now any doctors and

430
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 2: nurses and medical people here, you cannot break a heart.

431
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 2: What are they saying? They're saying it's hurts so much

432
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 2: right now that I'm broken inside? Are you all connecting?

433
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: So guess what? All of you all are poets? Because

434
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 2: you ever said that that's what we do. Why are

435
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: we saying that? Because it's hard to explain how I'm

436
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: really feeling at this moment. So my heart is breaking.

437
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 2: You broke my heart? How amazing it is the world

438
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: of God? Oh my goodness. By the way, let me

439
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 2: explain it a little bit more about poetry. My favorite

440
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 2: literary critic is Samuel Johnson. In fact, when we were

441
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: in England last year, I made sure I went by

442
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: his home. He wasn't there, because I mean he lived

443
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 2: back in the seventeen hundreds. Thank goodness, he wasn't there.

444
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: But he was a great man. He was believer everything.

445
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 2: But he said, when it comes to describing or defining poetry,

446
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 2: if anybody tries, it only shows the narrowness of the definer.

447
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 2: It's very hard to describe and define what poetry is.

448
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 2: But some people have tried. So I'm going to give

449
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 2: you some statements of what great poets have said about poetry.

450
00:33:52,520 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: William Wordsworth said, poetry is the spontaneous outflow of powerful feelings.

451
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Speaker 2: You know what he's doing right now, How would you

452
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: like it? In a matter of minutes, your possessions are gone,

453
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 2: your servants are killed, and your children all of them dead.

454
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 2: How would you like it? Just a day later, you

455
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 2: are covered in sickness. You've gone from being the man

456
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 2: everybody wants to be. Man if I could be your

457
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 2: life job, you have an amazing life, you have the

458
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 2: happiest family. How do you do this to all of

459
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 2: a sudden? He's sitting outside the city gates and he

460
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 2: is completely lost. Seven days of silence, But when he

461
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 2: speaks is poetry? Why? Because spontaneous outflow of over a

462
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 2: powerful feeling. Christopher Fry said poetry is the language in

463
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 2: which man explores his own amazement. He said, why are

464
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 2: you talking about poetry? You know I'm here to hear

465
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 2: a message. I want you to understand the word of God.

466
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 2: Sometimes people read the bibble and say, I don't get it,

467
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 2: I don't understand this. I don't know what's happening here

468
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 2: between job speaking and laphat speaking and job speaking and

469
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: build out speak I mean, what are they doing. It's

470
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 2: poetry because they're expressing emotions that are hard to express.

471
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 2: Robert Frost said, a poem begins with a lump in

472
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 2: the throat, a homesickness or a love sickness. It is

473
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 2: a reaching out toward expression and effort to find fulfillment.

474
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 2: A complete poem is one where the emotion has found

475
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Speaker 2: its thought, and the thought has found the words. T. S.

476
00:35:55,160 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 2: Eliot said, poetry is not turning loose of emotion and

477
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: escape from emotion. Wouldn't you want to escape from emotion

478
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 2: if you had gone through what this man went through?

479
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 2: Wuon't you for a moment say I just want for

480
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: just a few moments to stop hurting. Ts Eliott says

481
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: that it is not the expression of personality, but an

482
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 2: escape from personality. But of course only those who have

483
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 2: personality and emotions know what it means to want to

484
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 2: escape from these things. Is it any wonder that our

485
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 2: world is turning to drugs and addiction and drinking and

486
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: all that why they're trying to escape, And none of

487
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: those things help. Please, please listen to me. None of

488
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 2: those things help. They are simply Satan's tools to keep

489
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 2: you chained and bound even more, and the world keeps

490
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 2: saying you're hurting. Try this, you feel all bound up,

491
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 2: Try this, and they don't help. Lord Byron, who was

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00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 2: not known for his impeccable character, he said, poetry is

493
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 2: the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

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00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: Wow.

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00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 2: Percy Shelley said, poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful

496
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: that which is distorted. The psalms, they just keep going

497
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 2: on and on and on. Why did God give you

498
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 2: that so that it will keep you from losing your mind?

499
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: Take the time to read it. Nophalis, who was a

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00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 2: German poet writer, he said, poetry he heals the wounds

501
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 2: inflicted by reason. Ae Housman, who was an English classical scholar.

502
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: He was asked the question to define poetry, and he

503
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 2: said he could no more define poetry than a terrier

504
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 2: can define a rat. Whatever that means. But that he said,

505
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 2: But he said, we both recognize the object what is

506
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 2: poetry by the symptoms which it provokes in us. One

507
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 2: of these symptoms was described in connection with another object.

508
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 2: Guess guess where he finds an example. The Book of

509
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 2: Joe and his Job, Chapter four fifteen, when Ella Fast

510
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 2: the Temanite says this, He says, in Joe, for we're

511
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 2: gonna come to that next weekend. He said, a spirit

512
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 2: passed before my face, and the hair of my flesh

513
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 2: it up. He said, there you go. That's I can

514
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: tell you what it looks like. He says, experience has

515
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: taught me, when I am shaving off a morning, not shaving,

516
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: but shaving off a mourning, to keep watch over my thoughts,

517
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 2: because if a line of poetry strays into my memory,

518
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 2: my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

519
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 2: And then he goes on and on. He says, this

520
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: particular symptom is accompanied by a shiver down the spine.

521
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: He's telling you. When you truly get this, this is

522
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 2: what it invokes you, your hair stands up, or your

523
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 2: there's a man, there's a cold chill down my spine.

524
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: So our time is sure. Let's go to Job chapter

525
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 2: three and see what Job is saying. Is it really suicidal? No,

526
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: but he is tired, he is exhausted. And the first

527
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 2: thing he says is and Job chatter three, starting in

528
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Speaker 2: verse one, is that he wishes that he had not

529
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Speaker 2: been born. Listen to Job three. Verse three, he said,

530
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Speaker 2: may the day perish on which I was born, and

531
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Speaker 2: the night in which it was said a male child

532
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 2: is conceived. You know, back in those days, is a

533
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,959
Speaker 2: family has a male child, man, that's a big deal,

534
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: because now we have someone who can carry the line

535
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Speaker 2: on and on. He said, may that day perish. In

536
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 2: verse four, May that day be darkness. May God above

537
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 2: not seek it, nor the light shine upon it. May

538
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: darkness and the shadow of death claim it. May a

539
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 2: cloud settle on it. May the blackness of the day

540
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 2: terrify it. As for that night. May darkness sees it.

541
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Speaker 2: May it not rejoice among the days of the year.

542
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 2: May it not come into the number of the months.

543
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 2: By the way, what what what Job is saying here?

544
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 2: In poetry we often say in cuss words when we

545
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 2: use the word j g D. What we're saying is

546
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 2: just God just condemn it, Send that thing to hell.

547
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,439
Speaker 2: By the way, That's why I encourage if you cuss

548
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 2: a lot, read some poetry. Be far better. He goes

549
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 2: on to say this. Listen to verse seven. Oh, may

550
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 2: that night be barren. May may no joyful shout come

551
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 2: into it. May those curse it who curse the day.

552
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 2: Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan means those who

553
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 2: are fighting Leviathan. Oh, my goodness, let let him come

554
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 2: and eat up this day. May the stars of his

555
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 2: morning be dark, May it look for light but have none,

556
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 2: and not seeing the dawning of the day because it

557
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: did not show up the doors of my mother's womb.

558
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 2: Let that day be curse, because it could not stop

559
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 2: my mother from having me. So Joe wishes that he

560
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 2: had not been born, because if he had not been born,

561
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 2: he would not be hurting so much. Secondly, he wishes

562
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Speaker 2: that he had died at birth. Listen to verse eleven.

563
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: Why did I not die at birth? Why did I

564
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 2: not perish when I came from the womb? Why did

565
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 2: the knees receive me? Now you know, come on, y'all

566
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 2: know what that means. The midwives would be right there

567
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: to receive the child, he said, Why did they receive me?

568
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 2: Why didn't they just drop me? Or why the breast

569
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 2: that I should nurse? Or for now? I would have

570
00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 2: lane still and been quiet. If I was still born,

571
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 2: I would be in a grave somewhere sleeping. Then I

572
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 2: would have been at rest with kings and counselors of

573
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 2: the earth who built ruins for themselves, or with princes

574
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 2: who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. Or

575
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 2: why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, who

576
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 2: like infants who never saw light. There the wicked sees

577
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There

578
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 2: the prisoners rest together. They do not hear the voice

579
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 2: of the oppressor. The small and great are there, and

580
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 2: the servant is free from his master. Because right now

581
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 2: Job is a slave to his suffering. If only I

582
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 2: could be a still born child, he said, Well, wait

583
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 2: a minute, Job, he cannot be that. It's not possible

584
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 2: right now. It's poetry that is happening. It doesn't make sense,

585
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 2: but it's because it's poetry. And the third thing is

586
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: Job again wishes that he would die. Listen to Job

587
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 2: chapter three and verse twenty. Why is light given to

588
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 2: him who is in misery? Means why do I keep living?

589
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 2: Why do I Why do I wake up every morning?

590
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 2: Because I'm miserable. I just want to end and life

591
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: to the bitter of soul who long for death but

592
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 2: it does not come, and search for it more than

593
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 2: hidden treasures, who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they

594
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 2: can find the grave. Why is light given to a

595
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 2: man whose way is hidden? I don't know which way

596
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I've lost everything. Why do I keep existing?

597
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 2: And whom God has hedged in for? My sighing comes

598
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 2: before I eat, and my groanings pour out like water.

599
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 2: That's why people who are going through a grieving process

600
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 2: for a while, they stop eating. They say things like

601
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: I've lost my appetite. You see. All these are poetic

602
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 2: ways of saying I just don't have any joy in

603
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 2: chewing and tasting food. And then he ends that chapter

604
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 2: with for the thing I greatly feared has come upon me.

605
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 2: By the way, what do you think JOB greatly feared?

606
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 2: You know? Every morning he got up and he offered

607
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 2: sacrifices for his children. His children were his life, not

608
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 2: his wealth, his possessions, his servants, not his kingdom. His

609
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 2: life were his children. And he says in what I

610
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 2: dreaded has happened to me, not his sickness. He loved

611
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: his children. The Bible even says that he spent some

612
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 2: time talking about how much he cared for them, that

613
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 2: they would not sin before God. And they're gone. Why

614
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 2: do I need to exist because the thing I feared

615
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 2: has already happened. You know, some of you are in

616
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: that place that the thing you feared happened to you.

617
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 2: You feared that sickness and it happened. You feared that,

618
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 2: that divorce and it happened. You feared that disloyalty and

619
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 2: it happened. You feared that job loss, that financial problem,

620
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 2: your children turning on you and saying the thing you fear.

621
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 2: He said, as long as that is okay, we're okay.

622
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 2: And then it happens. Listen to verse twenty says he says,

623
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 2: I am not at ease, nor am I quiet. I

624
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 2: have no rest, for trouble comes means my mind. I

625
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 2: just can't make it stop. It keeps pounding, it keeps hurting.

626
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 2: Every time I wake up. That's all I think about.

627
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 2: Every time I go to sleep, That's all I think about.

628
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 2: I need some rest, if I could only sleep, And

629
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 2: that amazing. That's what the world is suffering with and

630
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 2: struggling with. And guess what we have the answers. The

631
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 2: Word of God has the answers. Remember the passage I

632
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 2: read in the opening in Matthew chapter eleven, What did

633
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 2: Jesus said, come to me, all you who labor and

634
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 2: are heavy lating, and I will give you rest. How

635
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 2: amazing we have the answer. No religion in the world

636
00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 2: knows even where to begin. How powerful that the God

637
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 2: of the Bible has given us the answer when we

638
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 2: need it the most. I have no rest, and Jesus says,

639
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 2: come to me, and I will give you rest. Take

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Speaker 2: my yoke upon you and learn from me. For I

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Speaker 2: am gentle, not judgmental, and I am lowly not arrogant,

642
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 2: and you will find rest for your souls. Please listen,

643
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 2: don't miss this. The rest is not found in pushing

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00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 2: even harder. The rest is not found in quenching your emotions.

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00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 2: The rest is not found in trying to distract yourself.

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00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: The rest is not found that might as well do

647
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: this too. If I'm messing around, let me go all

648
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 2: in and completely destroy the rest of my life and

649
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 2: everybody else is around me. No, the rest is found

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Speaker 2: in Jesus. But the condition here is take my yoke

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Speaker 2: upon you and learn from me, and you will find

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Speaker 2: rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and

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Speaker 2: my burden is light. You see, his yoke is to

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Speaker 2: do his father's business, His yoke is to share the

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Speaker 2: gospel with the lost world. But he says, is come exchange.

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Speaker 2: What are you worried about? What is consuming you? Job?

657
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Speaker 2: What's consuming me is all my servants are gone. They

658
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 2: served me very well. I loved every single one of them.

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00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: I took care of their families, their children, and they

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00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 2: were killed, they were burned with fire. Give it to me, job.

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Speaker 2: What is burdening you. What is burdening me is my children.

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00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 2: I know I checked all the boxes, but God, they're gone.

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Speaker 2: Job there with me. Give it to me. You see.

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Speaker 2: The exchange is where we take God's burden, Jesus's burden,

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Speaker 2: and we give him ours. And in that process there

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Speaker 2: is rest. He said, well, I mean, where is Jesus coming?

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Speaker 2: Can you show me? Is in another room? Is he

668
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Speaker 2: in your office? I mean, where do I find it?

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Speaker 2: Because I want to give it to him. It happens

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Speaker 2: when we just came here a few moments ago and

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Speaker 2: be prayed. Is in that praying when you say Jesus,

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Speaker 2: through the eyes of faith. I can't see you in person,

673
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Speaker 2: but through the eyes of faith I know you're here

674
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Speaker 2: because you tell us where two or three are gathered together.

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Speaker 2: There I am in the midst of them. More than

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Speaker 2: two or three are here. You are here. I'm giving

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Speaker 2: you my burden, this sickness, I give it to you, Lord,

678
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 2: whatever happens, I trust you with it. This marriage, Lord,

679
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 2: I give it to you, this heurd that I went through,

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Speaker 2: this betrayal. Lord, I give it to you. Fear, this

681
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 2: fear of not being successful, this fear of being a failure. God,

682
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 2: I give it to you, because Satan constantly uses that

683
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 2: plague my mind, that you're not good enough, that you

684
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 2: will never be good. Lord, I give it to you.

685
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 2: I give it to you, and I take from you

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Speaker 2: your yoke. You know that rest is found when you

687
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,280
Speaker 2: hear the word of God. As I'm preaching to you, listen,

688
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 2: faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

689
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 2: Sometimes people run away from church, and I'm thinking, this

690
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: is where the Word of God happens. Sometimes people come

691
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Speaker 2: to church and say, well, I'm here for this ministry

692
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 2: or I'm here from my friends, and I'm like, the

693
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 2: word of God is what incites and builds faith. As

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Speaker 2: I'm preaching. Listen, as I'm preaching to you, the person

695
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 2: of Jesus is being manifested in this place. Not me,

696
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 2: but Jesus, so you can see him through the eyes

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00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 2: of faith, and you can trust him, and you can

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00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 2: hold on to him through the most difficult times in

699
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 2: your life and know that it will be okay because

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00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 2: the Lord of the universe is with me. That rest

701
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 2: comes when you are with the other people in the

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00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 2: body of Christ. That's why I tell people, don't come

703
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 2: to church angry. If he come to church angry, just

704
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 2: leave it somewhere and say, God, I'm going in here

705
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 2: because there's somebody in here who needs to see Jesus

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00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 2: and I'm walking here mad I have a chip on

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Speaker 2: my shoulder. Don't do that, because they need to see

708
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 2: Jesus and not your anger. Sometimes people come to church

709
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 2: and they're all very dismissive and laughing about this and

710
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 2: making jokes about that. And that's fine. You want to

711
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 2: be a comedian, let us know where you're going to

712
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 2: be performing. We'll come see you. It's all right to joke,

713
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 2: but don't make light of what is happening here, because

714
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 2: here people are making an exchange. They're exchanging their burden

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00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 2: with His yoke. And you are that embrace, you are

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00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 2: that handshake, you are that smile. They need to see

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00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 2: this morning. I don't know where you are, but if

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00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 2: you do, not know Jesus, a lady said on the

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Speaker 2: way out, She said, you know, we often say how

720
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Speaker 2: do lost people make it without Jesus? And the answer

721
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Speaker 2: is who says they're making it without Jesus? Do you

722
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,280
Speaker 2: believe everything people put on Facebook? Do you believe everything

723
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 2: people say on the outside? No, they're not making it.

724
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Speaker 2: Without Christ. Life is nothing. It's just a series of

725
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 2: traumas with no resolution, no purpose, no end. Come to Christ.

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Speaker 2: He not only forgives you of your sin, but he

727
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 2: also takes that heavy load on your shoulder and he

728
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 2: makes an exchange. Maybe you're here and you know somebody

729
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 2: who has that heavy burden on their heart. Maybe it's

730
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 2: for their child, maybe it's for their granddaughter or grandson

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Speaker 2: who is going off or questioning God, or just in

732
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 2: a different place than how you raise them. It's a burden, folks,

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Speaker 2: that's a trauma. Come pray for them and say, God,

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Speaker 2: let them leave that burden here. So sometimes when people

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Speaker 2: come with all kinds of agendas, my heart is broken.

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Speaker 2: I'm raising poetry because I'm thinking, you don't realize this

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Speaker 2: is a place where people need healing. This is a

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Speaker 2: place where an exchange needs to be made, and you're

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Speaker 2: doing this. Come on, they're walking out with a heavier

740
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Speaker 2: burden and a lack of faith now because they don't

741
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Speaker 2: know if this whole Christianity business, this whole Bible business works.

742
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Speaker 2: So let's get our act together and say, God, use me,

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Speaker 2: get me out of my own head so I can

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Speaker 2: become a can't do it a channel of your rest

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00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 2: in someone's life. And if you do not know Jesus,

746
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Speaker 2: come to him. If you know somebody who does not

747
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Speaker 2: know Christ, come pray for them that they may be saved.

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