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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Look, I want to preach about joy

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Speaker 2: today and I want to get there from a story

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Speaker 2: and then share several scriptures with you can't tell your story.

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Speaker 2: I just got a new car last year. I drove

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Speaker 2: a Nissan Maxima for ten years before I bought this

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Speaker 2: new car.

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Speaker 1: I loved my Nissan Maxima.

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Speaker 2: My car before this Nissan Maxima was a Nissan Maxima.

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Speaker 2: That's how much I liked my Nissan Maxima. I maximized

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Speaker 2: the Maxima and it was very good to me.

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Speaker 1: Only thing that I ever.

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Speaker 2: Remember happening, other than the time it cut off in

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Speaker 2: an intersection, was that one day I was driving down

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Speaker 2: the road a few years ago and my stereo system

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Speaker 2: started doing strange things. It started skipping around to different

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Speaker 2: tracks without me telling it too, and the volume kept

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Speaker 2: increasing and decreasing, and so then.

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Speaker 1: I would put it back on the song. I wanted to.

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Speaker 2: Listen to, and I would turn down the volume or

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Speaker 2: turn up the volume, depending on it would go both

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Speaker 2: ways without me telling it too, without me turning the knob,

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Speaker 2: and it happened for about ten to fifteen minutes straight

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Speaker 2: one day that I was driving, and it seemed like

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Speaker 2: my speakers in my car had a mind of their own.

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Speaker 1: So I thought maybe my Maxima got a demon, and.

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Speaker 2: Then I looked in the backseat and.

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Speaker 1: Realized it wasn't a demon. It was my daughter.

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Speaker 2: That she had the center console down and I never

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Speaker 2: rode back there, so I didn't realize that all the

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Speaker 2: years that I've had this car, you can control the

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Speaker 2: volume and skip tracks.

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Speaker 1: From back there.

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Speaker 2: And she was laughing, and Graham was back there and

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Speaker 2: he would laughing, and they were controlling something from the

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Speaker 2: and they thought it was so funny, and I told

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Speaker 2: him to stop that it's annoying. When I figured out

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Speaker 2: what they were doing, two or three minutes later, there

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Speaker 2: goes the volume up and down again. There goes track two,

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Speaker 2: track three, track four. Again, it's on shuffle.

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Speaker 1: And I turned around and said, I'm telling y'all stop.

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Speaker 1: I don't like it.

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Speaker 2: It was maybe cute the first time for you, but

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Speaker 2: it's really driving me crazy up here. Stop and a

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Speaker 2: few minutes go by and it starts happening again. I

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Speaker 2: pulled the car over the third time. I pulled the

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Speaker 2: car over the third time. I'm Providence Road. I said,

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Speaker 2: let me explain something to you. I said, y'all are

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Speaker 2: passengers in this maximum I'm the driver.

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Speaker 1: That means I'm the DJ.

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Speaker 2: I get to choose what comes on this stereo and

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Speaker 2: how loud it is because the driver gets.

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Speaker 1: To be the DJ.

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Speaker 2: I want to appreach to you for about thirty seven

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Speaker 2: minutes today about back seat DJs, because I suspect that

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Speaker 2: there are some things in your life that are being

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Speaker 2: a level that you're not realizing that they're being controlled.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that today God is going to use

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Speaker 1: I study.

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Speaker 2: Joy has become more important to me every year that.

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Speaker 1: I've been alive.

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Speaker 2: I feel like in my twenties I just cared about

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Speaker 2: accomplishing things. In my thirties, I've been figuring out, what's

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Speaker 2: the point if you don't enjoy it? What's the point

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Speaker 2: position to appreciate the accomplishment because you constantly need more.

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Speaker 2: And I spent my twenties and maybe the beginning of

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Speaker 2: my thirties just trying to get more, more, more. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: that meant more popularity. Sometimes that meant more impact. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: that meant more influence. Sometimes that meant more money, more resources,

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Speaker 1: But lately I've been asking the.

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Speaker 1: And I want to bring you into it today.

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Speaker 2: Would it be all right if we talked for a

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Speaker 2: little while today about what's controlling your joy? Amen, I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel my enthusiasm? James Chapter one, verses two

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Speaker 2: And James is going to teach us how to develop joy.

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Speaker 2: Very different than discovering joy. Discovering joy means it's waiting

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Speaker 2: somewhere and you got to find it. It's waiting in

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Speaker 2: your next career move, it's waiting in your next relationship.

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Speaker 1: It's waiting somewhere. You're not right now.

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Speaker 2: But James is going to show us something that may

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Speaker 1: What he's actually saying. And I'm going to just read

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Speaker 2: You, he says, James, Chapter one, verus to consider it

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Speaker 2: pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials

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Speaker 2: of many kinds. That's not where I was looking for joy,

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Speaker 2: by the way, that's not what I was praying for,

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Speaker 2: hoping for, asking for, believing for. Anyway, he said, consider

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Speaker 2: it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face

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Speaker 2: trials of many kinds. Because you know that the testing

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Speaker 2: of your faith produces perseverance, Let perseverance finish its work

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Speaker 2: so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad he specified, because the first thing I want

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Speaker 2: to mention to you today, all of these points they

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Speaker 2: kind of followed the theme of DJ. So the first

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Speaker 2: knowing what it really is, understanding the nature of it.

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Speaker 2: And James helps us to do that first bite, helping

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Speaker 2: us to understand that there are trials of many kinds.

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Speaker 2: That's what verse two, said the old King James that

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Speaker 2: Pastor Mickey preached from said, diverse trials because I have

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Speaker 2: learned that we're not all going through the same thing,

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Speaker 2: but we are all going through something. And how many

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Speaker 2: know that there are as many different kinds of trials

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Speaker 2: that there are trials that are associated with plenty. There

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Speaker 2: are trials that are associated with poverty. I always understood

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Speaker 2: the first one because everybody understands that being broke is

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Speaker 2: a battle. But management of resources can, in its own way,

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Speaker 2: test a part of your character that if you're not

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Speaker 2: prepared to have it testing, it can create a lot

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Speaker 2: more problems than financial poverty. In fact, financial riches can

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Speaker 1: I'm appreaching today. If y'all come along with you, it's

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Speaker 2: There's single people trials, there's married people trials. There are

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Speaker 2: trials that are associated with loneliness, and there are trials

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Speaker 2: that are associated with companionship. There are many kinds of trials.

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Speaker 2: There are many different That's what James is saying. He's

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Speaker 2: making a distinction that there's different kinds of trials, and

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Speaker 2: some of us are like, well, can I try a

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Speaker 2: different kind of trial?

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Speaker 1: Like can I trade trials?

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Speaker 2: Like you're talking about rich people trials, I'd like to

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Speaker 2: for those trials. But we never again, after the year

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Speaker 2: status or success, because we have now seen that no

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Speaker 2: matter how great your name is in the eyes of people,

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Speaker 1: Joy is not.

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Speaker 2: in disregard. And so there's different kinds of trials. Added

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Speaker 2: allows for both. When he says trials of many kinds,

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Speaker 2: blaming the devil for your bad decisions. There are different

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Speaker 2: kinds of different warfare that we could study for weeks about.

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Speaker 2: Some of our trials are the results of things that

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Speaker 2: different kinds of trials, and if you don't know the

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Speaker 2: difference between a temptation and a trial, you will try

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Speaker 2: to use the wrong tool on the trial. Because when tempted,

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Speaker 2: the Bible teaches resistance. When you are tempted to step

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Speaker 2: the technique is resistance. A trial, however, not a temptation,

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Speaker 2: And this was important for me to see the distinction

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Speaker 2: of God to know the difference so that I can

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Speaker 2: approach my trials with wisdom.

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Speaker 1: Though I never thought it was.

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Speaker 2: It says, if any of you lacks wisdom, you should

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Speaker 2: ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,

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Speaker 2: and it will be given to you. Now, if you

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Speaker 2: want to flip the flow this year, just do.

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Speaker 1: James one to five.

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Speaker 2: Instead of asking everybody around you what you should do,

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Speaker 2: start with the source, start with the solution. We're talking

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Speaker 2: It's making you feel worse, it's making them feel worse,

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Speaker 2: and everybody's frustrated. So I need the wisdom to make

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Speaker 2: the distinction to know the trial that I'm in. God,

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Speaker 2: is this one that you want me to fight, or

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Speaker 2: do you want me to do what the Parables said

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Speaker 2: you deal with it.

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Speaker 1: There's a distinction. There's different kinds of trials.

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Speaker 2: Some of the stuff that I'm dealing with as a

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Speaker 1: Is just called puberty.

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Speaker 2: You can't cast it out, you can't annoy it, you

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Speaker 1: It's a different kind of trial. It's just life.

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Speaker 2: Some of the stuff I'm dealing with right now is

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Speaker 1: Some of it is actually, I believe, from the pit

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Speaker 2: Not that the devil is like personally a sign to me,

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Speaker 2: I think we should get one. How many vote we

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Speaker 2: It said no Jesus, no Joy, but it was felt,

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Speaker 1: No Jesus, no joy. There's a lot of things you

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Speaker 2: Okay, pleasure can be associated with joy, but joy is

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Speaker 1: And I promise I'll read the scripture in a minute.

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Speaker 2: I've found that out about myself early in life. I

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Speaker 2: Some of y'all appreciate the rain, appreciate the sunshine. The

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Speaker 2: You can find the joy in everything. I am not

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Speaker 2: And I'll break that down the best that I can.

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Speaker 2: And all we need to look at is that one

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's hurting my neck just to do it.

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Speaker 2: To illustrate to you, imagine what is doing to your soul.

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Speaker 2: You can't have joy that way. It is destroying your joy.

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Speaker 2: the joy God has given you, the joy of your salvation,

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Speaker 1: God give me more joy. Well, it's a decision not

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Speaker 2: To get joy, the decision of what I'm gonna focus on.

444
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Speaker 2: And I can't get it like this. And I definitely

445
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 2: can't get it like this looking.

446
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: At what's behind me. I can't. I can't look back.

447
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: Remember when God called Moses at the burning bush and

448
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: he said his name, he said, I am not I was.

449
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 2: Remember he said, I am not, I will be. There's

450
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Speaker 2: something to that. There's something to that. It's echoed by

451
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 2: David in Psalm sixteen. He says, in your presence is

452
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: the fullness of joy. Presence. Everybody say that word presence.

453
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 2: The gift of joy is found in presence. But that

454
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: doesn't mean in church, that's not what it means to say,

455
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 2: in God's presence is the fullness of joy, because God

456
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: would never limit his presence to a building. It doesn't

457
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 2: mean when you're doing everything right, then you're gonna feel happy,

458
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 2: because God is not going to reward you based on behavior.

459
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 2: That's not the good news of the Gospel. The gospel

460
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 2: is for sinners. The Gospel is for the weak. The

461
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 2: gospel is for the lame. The gospel is for the broken.

462
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 2: The Gospel is for those who feel ashamed. That's not

463
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 2: what it means. In your presence is fullness of joy.

464
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 2: That means joy can only really come to my life

465
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Speaker 2: when I am focused on what God is doing in

466
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Speaker 2: this moment. And I cannot focus on what God is

467
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: doing in this moment in my life if I'm consumed

468
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: with what He's doing in somebody else's or if I'm

469
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 2: still in regret and bitterness about what happened three years ago,

470
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 2: or three months ago, or even three minutes ago. A

471
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 2: lot of our lack of joy is really not about possession.

472
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: It's about position.

473
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Speaker 2: What I mean is this, He set joy before him.

474
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: It's not a question of God's presence. His presence is everywhere.

475
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 2: It's not a question of God's presence. You don't have

476
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: to ask him to be with you. He already is.

477
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: It's not about God's presence, It's about yours. Are you

478
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 2: present in this moment? Are you present in this trial?

479
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 2: Are you present in this worship service? Well, if you

480
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 2: are giving praise for a second, we need this lesson friends, family, brothers, sisters, brethren, sistern, mother's,

481
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 2: father's children. We can't go to a concert anymore without

482
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: trying to capture it, and I can't enjoy it because

483
00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 2: I'm too busy trying to post it. Kids do something cute,

484
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 2: capture it? Well, you can't, but you're also gonna kill it.

485
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 2: There is no quicker way to kill your kid's cuteness

486
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 2: than trying to capture it. I swear demons come out

487
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: when you start trying to capture stuff to post it.

488
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 2: God knows your heart and he sends something to your

489
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 2: iPhone I don't know, and it shoots beams into your

490
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: children and they start.

491
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Speaker 1: I can't show you a picture real quick.

492
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Speaker 2: I don't like to be too indulgent in these sermons,

493
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: but and show my family off. But this is just

494
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 2: a quick picture of us on vacation before Christmas. Look

495
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 2: at that. Here's another picture. I'll show you a couple

496
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 2: just so you can see. I'm gonna tell you something

497
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't see if I put those on Instagram.

498
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Speaker 2: Go back to the first one again. Please, That one

499
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 2: looks happy, right, and go to the other one. Can

500
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: go to the other one. That one looks sad. Let

501
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: me tell you something. That's not my sad face. M hm.

502
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: That's my RBF. That's my resting Bible face. That's my

503
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 2: really blessed face. That's my focus face. That's when I

504
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: was getting the sermon flip the flow at TGI Fridays

505
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 2: in the Miami International Airport in the d concourse.

506
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Speaker 1: I'm happy the other one put the other one out.

507
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: I was so mad at Abby.

508
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 2: That was the seventeenth time I tried to take a

509
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 2: selfie of us, and I wanted to throw her in

510
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: the ocean by the time it was over. Not in

511
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: a playful way.

512
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: Let's see.

513
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get us in this series to

514
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 2: start take it down, start looking beneath the surface and stuff,

515
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 2: to stop looking at the surface of stuff, and to stop,

516
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: you know, discerning. I found out that you can miss

517
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 2: joy because you're looking all around. You can miss joy

518
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: because you're looking behind you.

519
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, you can also miss.

520
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: Joy because you're trying to look too far ahead.

521
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: It's an equal danger.

522
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 2: And some of you, while I was preaching the part

523
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: about looking around, you're like, nah, I'm good, bro, I'm

524
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: like fifty three.

525
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: I don't do that anymore. And when I was tell

526
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: my looking back.

527
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, I already dealt with my stuff back there.

528
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: It's fine. But what you do is you look so

529
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: far forward.

530
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: Like I was doing the other day driving that new

531
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 2: car I told you about, and I can't get anywhere

532
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: without a GPS.

533
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: What did embarrass you for me?

534
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: If I told you I was going to my mom's

535
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: house in town and was following the GPS, that's how

536
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 2: bad my sense of direction is.

537
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: This true story. And I slammed into the.

538
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 2: Back of another car because I was looking three turns

539
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 2: ahead and not looking three feet ahead. And it might

540
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: be destroying your joy. Not that you're like comparing, or

541
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 2: not that you're regretting.

542
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: But maybe you're just trying to get.

543
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: So far out there, you know, like my retirement is down,

544
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 2: you're twenty four, it'll catch back up.

545
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: It's a lot of timing, you know. But for those

546
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: of us who.

547
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: Need to plan, he didn't say in your plans this

548
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: fullness of joy. And you can't even really affect the

549
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 2: future from anywhere but the present, and it's all wasted energy.

550
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: So this is my year of presence.

551
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out what it means to find

552
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 2: fullness of joy in God's presence. And in order to

553
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 2: find fullness of joy in His presence, I have to

554
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,959
Speaker 2: bring my presence to my real life.

555
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: Not my presence to.

556
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 2: Some imaginary scenario, but the real life that God has given.

557
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: Me right now. And you know what's great about it.

558
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: Let's go to Psalm sixteen for just a moment, and

559
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 2: I promise I'll start closing this.

560
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: Are you enjoying this teaching today? Is this blessing your life?

561
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: Touch somebody and say this is my happy face? Because

562
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: I was focused. I was happy because I was focused.

563
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: The other one, I was trying to show something to

564
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 2: the world that wasn't real. I was thinking maybe I

565
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 2: could get some likes on this, and so I wasn't

566
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: focused on what was right in front of me. But

567
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 2: Jesus for the joy set before him endured He didn't

568
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 2: enjoy the cross. He you're the cross because of joy

569
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 2: set before him. And now I want to give you

570
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 2: the whole sermon. Okay, here's the sermon in a sentence.

571
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: Hadn't you been preaching for thirty five minutes yet? But

572
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 2: I hadn't said anything yet. Here's the sermon in a sentence.

573
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 2: You cannot choose joy. You can only choose your priorities,

574
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: and your priorities control your joy. You can't choose joy

575
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 2: anymore than you can just can you think you can

576
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: choose joy.

577
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: It's like trying to choose the weather. What you can choose.

578
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 2: Is your priority, and your priorities will ultimately control your joy.

579
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: Psalm sixteen. Put it on the screen for me.

580
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 2: Verse when I start verse five, please, the Lord is

581
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 2: my chosen portion.

582
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: See the word chosen.

583
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 2: It means I have decided to make God the most

584
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 2: important thing in my life. I don't want to leave

585
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 2: that too abstract, because what does that mean? Read the

586
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: Bible first thing every morning? Maybe, but it means more

587
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 2: than that His will is what I want. His waves

588
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 2: are higher than my waves. So the Lord Yahweh, the Great,

589
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 2: I am the ever present help in time of trouble,

590
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 2: he is my chosen portion. I've looked at everything else

591
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 2: that this world offers me to enjoy, and yes, I

592
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 2: can enjoy things that aren't necessarily spiritual, but I do

593
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 2: not need them to survive. And I will not attach

594
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 2: my joy to a temporal pleasure anymore because I tried that.

595
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: I tried that.

596
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: I cheered for the Clemson Tigers when they were three

597
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 2: and eight, and when they won the second national championship

598
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 2: in the last few years, people were coming up to

599
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 2: me saying congratulations.

600
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: I was like, for what.

601
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the game. I watched the game. I liked it.

602
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the forty four to sixteen victory. But I

603
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: didn't need college boys in Spandex to give me a

604
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: reason to live.

605
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: That is not my priority. I can't invest my.

606
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 2: Joy in what people I don't know do with an

607
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 2: oblong object made out of pigskin converted into leather with

608
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 2: some stitches for four fifteen minute increments, it's the wrong priority.

609
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, but my joy is not in it.

610
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: Last week, I told you something very powerful about your heart.

611
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 2: I said, when you know where it comes from, you

612
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 2: know how it comes out. When you know where it

613
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: comes from you know how it comes out.

614
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: This is what I want to tell you this week.

615
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 2: Where it comes from determines when it runs out. This

616
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 2: is the source of your joy. The way you can

617
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: know that is what are my priorities. Psalma said, The

618
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: Lord is my chosen portion. And here's something Jesus said

619
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Speaker 2: that I've been thinking about all week. I've been meditating

620
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: on this. He said, Abide in me my words. Abide

621
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Speaker 2: in you. You bear much fruit. Sometimes you're going to

622
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 2: get cut on, but you'll never be cut off. If

623
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 2: you abide in me and my words, abide in you,

624
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 2: there will be a constant flow of joy.

625
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: Like the vine and the branches. You're going to have

626
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,959
Speaker 1: what you need. The joy is going to.

627
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 2: Flow from a place of your rest and trust in me,

628
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 2: not in your own effort, and not in just certain

629
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: things that happen. If they happen, is fine, but don't

630
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:50,479
Speaker 2: confuse the icing with the cake.

631
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Speaker 1: Abide in me my words. Abide in you.

632
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: Many says something in John fifteen eleven. Please I have

633
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: told you this so that my joy may be in you,

634
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 2: and that your joy may be complete. The Lord said,

635
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: A lot of us are settling for partial joy. Partial joy,

636
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 2: and we equate joy with the absence of sadness. Joy

637
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 2: is not the absence of sadness. If it was, Jesus

638
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 2: couldn't have had it on the cross. He said, I

639
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: want my joy to be in you, but you've got

640
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 2: to own it because to just say, well, Jesus is

641
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: my joy, it doesn't really get to the heart of

642
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 2: why we could know Jesus and still not no joy,

643
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,240
Speaker 2: because it's a decision. When I give the wrong things

644
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: too much priority in my life, then those priorities control

645
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 2: my joy. If my priority is recognition, then recognition controls

646
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 2: my joy. When people recognize me, I will feel happy

647
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: about it.

648
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: If my priority is recognition.

649
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 2: If my priority is convenience, then when something is inconvenient,

650
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 2: the inconvenience will steal my joy. But it really didn't

651
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 2: steal my joy, did it? Because I let it drive

652
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 2: and whatever is driving the car gets to DJ. So

653
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 2: the Lord told me in preparing this message that we've

654
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 2: got some back seat DJs that have been controlling our joy,

655
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 2: our feelings, our finances, our bank accounts, our status, our standing,

656
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 2: our situations. And today God wants you to tell some

657
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: of the things in your life that have been controlling

658
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 2: your joy from the back seat. You are not my God,

659
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 2: you are not my vine, you are not my source,

660
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 2: and you don't hold my joy. Joy is something deeper

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Speaker 2: than how I feel about it. Joy is something deeper

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Speaker 2: than what I post about. Joy is something deeper than

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Speaker 2: the way it feels. Right now, I am setting joy

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Speaker 2: before me.

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Speaker 1: I'm resetting my warnings.

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Speaker 2: Now. When I do that, my joy flows not from

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Speaker 2: what it is, but from who God is to me.

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Speaker 2: This is the duration of joy. And when my joy

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Speaker 2: is running out, give me my point, my last point.

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Speaker 2: The duration of joy is because it's coming from the

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Speaker 2: wrong place. Where it comes from determines when it runs out.

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Speaker 2: And I wonder, where's your joy today. I had to

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Speaker 2: study this hard because I struggle to enjoy my life.

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Speaker 2: I really love my family, I really love my church.

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Speaker 2: I love what I get to do. It's a blessing

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Speaker 2: and a privilege. But I have to admit to you

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Speaker 2: that sometimes I have been guilty of enduring something that

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Speaker 2: God has given me to enjoy, and every time it happened,

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Speaker 2: it was because of my priorities.

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Speaker 1: Your priorities control your joy.

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Speaker 2: You can try all you want to be happy, happy, happy,

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Speaker 2: and the quick hit stuff, the quick fixed stuff. It'll

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Speaker 2: get you through the next few hours, but where it

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Speaker 2: comes from determines when it runs out.

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Speaker 1: There is a well that never runs dry. There is

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Speaker 1: a joy.

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Speaker 2: There is a deep, abiding sense of joy that is

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Speaker 2: available to us that we have not been accessing. And

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Speaker 2: what we're praying for more off, God is waiting for

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Speaker 2: us to order our lives around. My joy is too

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Speaker 2: important for me to leave it up to whether or

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00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 2: not today goes well, or whether or not they speak

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00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 2: to me, or whether or not it turns out well.

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Speaker 2: Is too important. I can't afford. I'm getting older now.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a twenty five year old anymore. I'm a

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Speaker 2: distinguished thirty eight year old full of wisdom, and I

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Speaker 2: can't afford.

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Speaker 1: To just give my joy away just any time.

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Speaker 2: I can't afford to have these back seat DJs just

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Speaker 2: changing the temperature of my life.

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Speaker 1: I can't.

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Speaker 2: I can't afford to just let my emotions control my joy.

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Speaker 2: So I want to pray for people today. Play something

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Speaker 2: more interesting, that's boring. I want to pray for people

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Speaker 2: today is just one chord. Pray for people today who

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Speaker 2: have allowed your joy to be controlled by something other

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Speaker 2: than the priority of God's presence in your life, And

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Speaker 2: you want me to pray for you to experience a

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Speaker 2: vital connection to God in the coming six days until

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Speaker 2: we meet again.

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Speaker 1: Please stand if you want me to pray for you

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Speaker 1: about that.

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Speaker 2: I've been allowing my joy to be connected to things

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Speaker 2: that can't sustain me.

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Speaker 1: There's so much more that I wanted.

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Speaker 2: To share with you, but I feel like I was

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Speaker 2: able to present this word to you on a level

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Speaker 2: that if you can just receive that much of it,

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Speaker 2: So flip it instead of going, Lord, I need more joy,

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Speaker 2: like it's gonna come raining down in the form of

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Speaker 2: candy pellets. Instead of praying, God, give me the wisdom

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Speaker 2: to when things come in my life to count it joy,

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Speaker 2: to consider it joy, because I know that the testing

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Speaker 2: of my faith patience teach me God to set joy

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Speaker 2: before me, like Jesus did, like the Psalmists did. He said,

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00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 2: the Lord is ever before me. He is in my

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Speaker 2: right hand. I will not be shaken in your presence

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Speaker 2: is the fullness of joy. And watch this at your

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00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 2: right hand, pleasures forevermore, not the kind that come and go,

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Speaker 2: not the kind that leave you feeling worse afterwards. Not

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Speaker 2: the kind that leave you sick afterwards, not the kind

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Speaker 2: that make you feel bad about it, shameful about it afterwards,

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Speaker 2: perpetual pleasantness in the presence of God, Father. I thank

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Speaker 2: you for each person who you brought here today. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they've been in that season of mourning you are in.

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Speaker 1: I in mourning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you that your word says that weeping may endure

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Speaker 2: for a night, but joy comes with the morning. And

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Speaker 2: we bless you because what that means to us today

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Speaker 2: is that in everything that is happening in our life

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Speaker 2: right now, there is an opportunity for joy. I confess

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Speaker 2: to you before these people, God that I need this

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Speaker 2: message more than anybody who heard it. I'm preaching this

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Speaker 2: today God because sometimes in my life I have set

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Speaker 2: things before me that had no place being my priority,

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Speaker 2: and every time I did, I was disappointed.

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Speaker 1: And every time I.

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Speaker 2: Did, I got a hit, but it didn't fix anything.

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Speaker 2: So this week, would you show us what's truly important.

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Speaker 1: Would you help us to see.

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Speaker 2: Our lives with the wisdom that only you provide. Help

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Speaker 2: us to understand that joy does not come from better circumstances.

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Speaker 2: Joy does not come from human acclaim. Joy comes from

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Speaker 2: ordered priorities. We want to seek first your kingdom. We

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Speaker 2: want to know what matters to you, and we thank

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Speaker 2: you for it in Jesus' name, hey.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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