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I like to start with something funny, 46 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 5: and I heard about this man that was very stingy 47 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 5: with his money, and just before his death, he made 48 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 5: his wife promise him that she would have him buried 49 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 5: with the fifty thousand dollars he had saved. The wife 50 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 5: reluctantly agreed, and at the funeral, before they closed the casket, 51 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 5: she snuck in this small wooden box. Her friend said, 52 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 5: surely you didn't just bury the money, did you. The 53 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 5: wife said, of course I did. I'm a Christian. I 54 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 5: can't lie. She said, you mean you just buried fifty 55 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 5: thousand dollars. The wife said, yes, I did. I wrote 56 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 5: a check. 57 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 6: Hold up your. 58 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 5: Bible, say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 59 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what 60 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says 61 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 62 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 63 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 64 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today about. 65 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:20,519 Speaker 3: Just do it. 66 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 5: Sometimes God asks us to do things that don't make sense, 67 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 5: doesn't seem logical, doesn't fit into our budget, doesn't line 68 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 5: up with our schedule. 69 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,119 Speaker 6: God, you want me to go back to college. 70 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 5: I'm forty years old. God, you want me to give 71 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 5: them a gift? I was saving those funds for my 72 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 5: own dreams. Or God, you want me to lead this 73 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 5: secure position that I've had for years and start my 74 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 5: own business. Too often we overanalyze it, we debate it, 75 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 5: look at it only in the natural. We end up 76 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 5: making excuses, talking ourselves out of it. That couldn't be God. 77 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 5: But if you're going to reach your highest potential, you 78 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 5: have to have bold obedience. That means you obey even 79 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 5: when you don't understand it. 80 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 6: You just do it, even when it doesn't make sense. 81 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 6: That's what faith is all about. 82 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 5: If you can understand everything, you have the time, the money, 83 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 5: it's all lined up. 84 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 6: That doesn't really take any faith. God will ask you 85 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 6: to do things that seem far out, unusual, not practical. 86 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 5: With every act of obedience, there is a blessing attached 87 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 5: to it. When you do what you know down and 88 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 5: here God wants you to do, a blessing will follow. 89 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 6: God rewards obedience. 90 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 5: One time Jesus made mud put it on a blind 91 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 5: man's eyes. He told him to go wash it off 92 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 5: in the pool of saloon. Jesus could have just as 93 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 5: easily healed. 94 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 6: The blind man on the spot. 95 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 5: He could have opened his eyes right then and there 96 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 5: and sent him on his way. Obedience activates God's power. 97 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 5: He put the ball back in the blind man's court. 98 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 5: He said, in effect, if you want to be healed, 99 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 5: you're going to have to do something that doesn't make sense, 100 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 5: something that's not logical. You're going to have to show 101 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 5: that you trust me and go wash this off in 102 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 5: the pool. The blind man could have wiped the mud 103 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 5: off with his own hands and thought, I'm not gonna 104 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 5: do that. 105 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 6: That doesn't make sense. That's going to be a waste 106 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 6: of time. He could have thought, I'm. 107 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 5: Blind, I have these disadvantages. I can't make it down 108 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 5: to the pool. But instead of making excuses, instead of 109 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 5: talking to himself out of it, he decided to just 110 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 5: do it, went to the pool, washed it off. Immediately. 111 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 5: He could see here's the key. The healing wasn't in 112 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 5: the water. The healing was in the obedience. When you obey, 113 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 5: dreams come to pass. When you obey, health is restored 114 00:05:58,920 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 5: when you obey. 115 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 6: Turn around. 116 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 5: I wonder how many miracles we would see if we 117 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 5: would simply do what we know we're supposed to do. 118 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 5: Are you talking yourself out of something because it's not practical? 119 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 5: Doesn't make sense. I know I should volunteer, but I'm 120 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 5: too busy. I know I shouldn't hang around these friends, 121 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 5: but I don't want to be lonely. I know I 122 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 5: should get out of this job where I'm not going 123 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 5: any place, but at least I'm comfortable. 124 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 6: No quit putting it off and just do it. 125 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 5: If you'll have bold obedience, you'll see God's favor in 126 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 5: a new way. When Joshua and the Israelites needed to 127 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 5: get across the Jordan River, God said he would open 128 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 5: it up, but they had to get their feet wet 129 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 5: before the water's parted. They could have sat back and thought, 130 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 5: as soon as God opens it. 131 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 6: Then we'll walk toward. 132 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense to go now. The river's still flowing. 133 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 5: Everything's normal, nothing's unusual. They took a step of faith 134 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 5: and started walking toward the water. I can imagine when 135 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 5: water got up to their ankles, they thought, what are 136 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,119 Speaker 5: we doing walking into a river? 137 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 6: We could drown. 138 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 5: Water got up to their knees and thought said you 139 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 5: better turn around. You're making a mistake. Water up to 140 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 5: their waste. They just kept walking. What is that bold obedience? 141 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 5: About that time the river supernaturally parted, they walked into 142 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 5: their promised land in the same way. If you're going 143 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 5: to make it to your promised land, it's going to take. 144 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 6: This bold obedience. 145 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 5: You're not always going to understand what God is doing. 146 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 5: God is not always logical. The scripture says His ways 147 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 5: are not our ways. 148 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 6: And take this in the right sense. Sometimes you have 149 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 6: to turn your mind off. 150 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 5: If you overanalyze it, look at it only in the natural. 151 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 6: You'll never get off a dead sinner. Faith is not 152 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 6: your head. Faith is in your heart. Down in here. 153 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 6: You'll know the right thing to do. Up here. 154 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 5: You'll have a thousand excuses, a thousand reasons why it's 155 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 5: not going to work out. You've got to turn your 156 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 5: mind off and listen to your heart. That's what I 157 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 5: did in nineteen ninety nine when my dad died. 158 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 6: I knew I was supposed to step up and pasture 159 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 6: the church. 160 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 5: I felt it so strongly down in here, but in 161 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 5: my mind it didn't make sense. I had never ministered before, 162 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 5: never been to seminary. I said, God, this doesn't make 163 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 5: sense to me. But I'm going to take a step 164 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 5: of faith, believing that you know what's best for my life. 165 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 5: And as I stepped into the water, as I got 166 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 5: my feet wet, so to speak, that's when the water's parted. 167 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 5: God's taken me places I've never dreamed of. But some 168 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 5: of you are waiting for the waters to part. Then 169 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 5: you're going to take a step of faith. But your 170 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 5: obedience is what the water to part. You're waiting on God, 171 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 5: but God's. 172 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 6: Waiting on you. 173 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 5: If you'll do what you know God's asking you to do, 174 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 5: your obedience will activate the favor, the increase the blessing. 175 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 5: Much of what happens along the way are simply tested. 176 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 5: God is seeing, Do you trust me? Will you obey 177 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 5: even when. 178 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 6: You don't understand it? 179 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 5: Will you take a step of faith even when it 180 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 5: doesn't make sense. 181 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 6: Back in the nineteen. 182 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 5: Sixties, Lakewood was still in its original building, a feed 183 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 5: store that held two hundred people. The church was really 184 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 5: growing and they needed a larger auditorium. My father told 185 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 5: the congregation that on a particular Sunday he was going 186 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 5: to receive a special offering for a new building. He 187 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 5: asked them to see what God would have them to 188 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 5: give and really pray about it, and he encouraged them 189 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 5: to stretch their faith, to believe big, and to do 190 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 5: their very best. He received the offering. It was a 191 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 5: little over six thousand dollars. 192 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 6: To them back then, that was like six hundred thousand dollars. 193 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 6: Daddy was so excited. 194 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 5: That was enough to pour the foundation and get the 195 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 5: building started. But one day, driving home from church, my 196 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,839 Speaker 5: father passed a small Spanish church about six blocks from Lakewood. 197 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 5: This Spanish church had been building on a little auditorium 198 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 5: for years. They would build and take time off, build 199 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 5: some more. 200 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 6: And on and on. 201 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 5: As my father passed, he heard a voice down in hearsay, 202 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 5: I want you to give that special offering to this 203 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 5: Spanish church so they can finish their building. 204 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 6: Daddy's first thought was get behind me, Satan. That could 205 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 6: not be God. He began to reason it out. God, 206 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,199 Speaker 6: you mean you. 207 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 5: Want me to give the money. I just raised the money. 208 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 5: We need the money. We've been dreaming about money, we've 209 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 5: been praying for it. You want me to give that 210 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 5: to a church down the street. Didn't make sense, didn't 211 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 5: seem logical. He needed the funds, Yet God said, sow 212 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 5: it as a seed. My father had this bold obedience. 213 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 5: He said, all right, God. 214 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 6: He wrote them a check and they nearly passed out. 215 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 6: Over the next few months. 216 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 5: People begin to come from nowhere giving money. 217 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 6: To the Lakewood New Sanctuary. 218 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 5: They not only had enough for the foundation, but enough 219 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 5: for the whole building. A year later, they moved into 220 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 5: a one thousand seat sanctuary, totally debt free. You can't 221 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 5: outgive God. When God asked you to do something, just 222 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 5: do it. If you talk yourself out of it, not 223 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 5: only is the other person not being blessed, but you're 224 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 5: missing the blessing God has for you. How many times 225 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 5: have I taught myself out of doing what I knew 226 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 5: God wanted me to do. I knew I was supposed 227 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 5: to call a friend and encourage them. I knew I 228 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 5: was supposed to help that family with their rent. But 229 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 5: I got busy, thought, God, they look like they're doing okay. 230 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 5: They got as much as I do. Maybe next time, 231 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 5: I wonder what I missed out on. I wonder what 232 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 5: God couldn't release. When you obey, a blessing is always 233 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 5: attached to it. Eight years ago, we moved out of 234 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 5: our old sanctuary from the other location we'd been at 235 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 5: that piece of property for over forty years before I 236 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 5: was born. On the last Sunday there after the final service, 237 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 5: I was driving away and just reflecting on all that 238 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 5: God had done out there through the years, and thinking 239 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 5: about where God was taking us. 240 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 6: My heart was filled with gratitude. 241 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 5: About that time I passed the small Spanish church six 242 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 5: blocks down the road. They had written on their little 243 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,479 Speaker 5: makeshift marquis, thank you Lakewood for giving us our first sanctuary. 244 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 5: They remembered it forty years later. I thought, how we 245 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 5: were headed to this place, a four hundred million dollar facility. 246 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 5: But it all started over four decades ago when my 247 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 5: father took that bold step of obedience, even when he 248 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 5: didn't understand it, even when Lakewood needed the funds, he 249 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 5: was willing to give it away. Now I realize I 250 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 5: am reaping a harvest from seeds that were sown many 251 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 5: years ago. And when you have bold obedience, you don't 252 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 5: know where God is going to take you. You don't 253 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 5: argue with God, you don't reason it out, you don't. 254 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 6: Make excuses, You just do it. 255 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 5: You can't imagine the doors God is going to open, 256 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 5: not only for you, but for your children. I'm sure 257 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 5: my father is looking down from heaven right now, thinking 258 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 5: I never dreamed Lakewood would be where it is today. 259 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 6: That's what happened. When you have bold obedience. 260 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 5: We can all obey when it's easy, when it makes sense, 261 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 5: when it's logical, when it doesn't take any extra effort. Yeah, Joel, 262 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 5: I'll go to church, I'll tithe my income, I'll be 263 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 5: kind to people. I have a good attitude that doesn't 264 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 5: really take much faith. But what about when it's out 265 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 5: of the ordinary, and God asks you to not only 266 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 5: go to church, but swing by and pick up that 267 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 5: couple that's struggling and bring them to church with you 268 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 5: each week. God, wait a minute, I got a full 269 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 5: time job. I'm raising these children. I'm very busy. And God, 270 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 5: they live twenty minutes out of the way. I'm gonna 271 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 5: have to get up earlier. That's gonna take extra gas money. 272 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 5: And God, they may want to come eat. 273 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 6: Lunch with me afterwards. God, I'll pick them up, but 274 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 6: I am not buying their lunch. 275 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 5: No, when God asks you to do something that takes sacrifice, 276 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 5: something that's out of their ordinary, it's because God wants 277 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 5: to release blessings in your life that are out of 278 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 5: the ordinary. 279 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 6: When you radically obey. 280 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 5: You will be radically blessed. You know what this building is, 281 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 5: It's a radical blessing. It's because my parents and that 282 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 5: first group of Lakewood members sowed a radical seed. That's 283 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 5: what happened to Isaac in the scripture. There was a 284 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 5: great famine in the land. There had been a drought 285 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 5: for many years, hardly any food, no water. People were 286 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 5: struggling to survive. God told Isaac to take a step 287 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 5: of faith and plant his crops. That didn't make sense. 288 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 5: There was no way to water the crops. Look like 289 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 5: it be a waste of time. Isaac could have said, God, 290 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 5: have you seen the conditions lately? Have you checked the 291 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 5: weather report? Do you realize it hadn't rained in years? 292 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 5: Nothing's going to grow. He could have looked at it 293 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 5: just in the natural logical way and talked himself out 294 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 5: of it. But Isaac had this bold obedience, says in 295 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 5: Genesis twenty six, in the midst of the famine, he 296 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 5: sowed a seed in the land. I can imagine his 297 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 5: friend saying, Isaac, what in the world are you doing? 298 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 5: Do you realize nothing is going to grow in a drought? 299 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 5: He didn't talk himself out of it. Didn't get discouraged. 300 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 5: He just kept planning. What was he doing? 301 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 6: So in a radical seed? What happened? He reaped a 302 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 6: radical harvest. The scripture says. 303 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 5: In the same year, in the famine, he received a 304 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 5: one hundredfold return. He could have held onto those seeds 305 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 5: for years, waiting for the conditions to be perfect, nothing 306 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 5: would have happened. Isaac understood this principle. The power was 307 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 5: not in the seed. The power is in the obedience. 308 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 5: That's when miracles happen. The conditions don't have to be perfect. 309 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 5: The economy doesn't have to be booming for you to 310 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 5: be blessed. You don't have to have the most education, 311 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 5: the most talent, live in a certain neighborhood. 312 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 6: All the odds can be against you. 313 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 5: But when God asks you to do something and you 314 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 5: don't argue, you don't make excuses, you just do it, 315 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 5: Like Isaac, God, I don't understand it, but I'm going 316 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 5: to sow a seede anyway like my father. 317 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 6: God. 318 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 5: We need the money, but I'm gonna bless that Spanish 319 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 5: church anyway like I did God. I don't feel qualified, 320 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 5: but I'm going to take a step of faith that's 321 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 5: when you'll see a horrvest in the midst of the famine. 322 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 5: You'll be blessed even though others are struggling. You'll be 323 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 5: promoted even though you weren't the most qualified. You'll see 324 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 5: dreams come to pass even though the odds were against you. Friends, 325 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 5: God is looking for people who will have this bold obedience. 326 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 5: If God has to talk you into it, send you 327 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 5: seven signs before you decide to believe God. If you'll 328 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 5: just have lightning strike across the sky, spell my name 329 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 5: out in smoke, I believe God. If you'll have Moses 330 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 5: show up at my front door tonight, or God, if 331 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 5: I see a camel walking down the freeway this week, 332 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 5: then I'll believe. Don't make a decision to just do it. Well, Joel, 333 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 5: what if it's not right? What if I miss God? 334 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 5: Like Joyce Meyer says, then God will find you. But 335 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 5: God would rather you take steps of faith and miss 336 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 5: it every once in a while than to play it 337 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 5: safe your whole life and never get off dead. Sinner, 338 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 5: the only way you're ever going to really know is 339 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 5: by taking a step of faith. A couple of years 340 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 5: after Victoria and I were married, we sold our town 341 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 5: home and we found this house that we really wanted 342 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 5: to buy. We made a great offer, we prayed over it, 343 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 5: we believed for it, but unfortunately they sold the property 344 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:53,679 Speaker 5: to someone else. 345 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 6: For the next several months, we kept looking and looking. 346 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 5: One day we found this old, run down house was 347 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 5: on a large piece of property in a nice neighborhood. 348 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 5: The house had been abandoned, doors were missing in the 349 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 5: kitchen for some reason. 350 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 6: They had a scarecrow. 351 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 5: There was a big garbage can, water was dripping from 352 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 5: the ceiling. It had major foundation problems. The floors will 353 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 5: all bode. Nothing about the house was nice. The lot 354 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 5: was very beautiful, but the house in the current condition 355 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 5: wasn't livable. I wasn't there ten minutes when I heard 356 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 5: something down in here saying, Joel, this is it. I 357 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 5: thought to myself, I don't know who you are, but 358 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 5: this is not it. 359 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 6: This is a piece of jump. I couldn't get away 360 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:45,640 Speaker 6: from it. 361 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 5: That feeling would not leave, and here we had just 362 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 5: moved out of a beautiful town home. I said, God, 363 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 5: we want to move up and not down. This is 364 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 5: the wrong direction. That still small voice kept saying, Joel, 365 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 5: trust me, I know what I doing about that. 366 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 6: Time, Victoria came up the big smile. 367 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 5: She said, Jeel, this is the place for us. Thought, 368 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 5: Dear God, we're both going crazy. Long story short, We 369 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 5: bought the property, fixed up the house. A year later, 370 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:20,159 Speaker 5: a builder knocked on the front door, unexpectedly, unannounced. 371 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:21,239 Speaker 6: I answered it. 372 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 5: He said, I'd like to buy this property and build 373 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,959 Speaker 5: two new houses here. And I said, well, thank you, 374 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 5: but the property is not for sale. He said, how 375 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 5: about I pay you this much? I said, like I said, 376 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 5: we'd love to sell it. God did exceedingly abundantly, above 377 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 5: and beyond. We felt like Isaac that one hundredfold return. 378 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 6: What am I saying? 379 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 5: God knows what he's doing. God has information that you 380 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 5: don't have. He can see what you can't see. He 381 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 5: knows the end from the beginning. Don't argue with God. 382 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,959 Speaker 5: You'll never win. God knows how to get his way, 383 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 5: and even when it seems far out, dare to have 384 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 5: radical obedience instead of reasoning it out, making excuses, talking 385 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 5: yourself out. 386 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 6: Of it, no making decision to just do it. 387 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 5: The quicker you obey, the quicker, God can release what 388 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 5: he has for you. In Acts chapter nine, there's the 389 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 5: story of Saul. Saul was the greatest enemy of the church. 390 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 5: He hated believers, and he was passionate about it. He 391 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 5: went around having them arrested and put into prison. 392 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 6: He was known for his persecution. 393 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 5: The scripture says Saul was breathing out threatenings and slaughters 394 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 5: against the disciples. One day, Saul was traveling to Damascus 395 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 5: on his way to arrest more believers when a bright 396 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 5: light shine down from heaven knocked him flat on his back. 397 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,479 Speaker 5: Saul became totally blind, couldn't see anything. The men with 398 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 5: Saul were speechless. They picked Saul up led him into Damascus, 399 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 5: totally blind. There was a man that lived there by 400 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 5: the name of Anonius, a believer. God spoke to him 401 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 5: in a dream and told him to go to the 402 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 5: house where Saul was staying and pray for him. 403 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 6: So that his sight would be restored. 404 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 5: You can imagine what Anonius must have fought. I can 405 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 5: hear him say, excuse me, God, you want me to 406 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 5: go pray for the man that's actively trying to kill us, 407 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 5: the one that's hunting us down, the one that's breathing 408 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 5: out threatening us. 409 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 6: I don't think, Saul. 410 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 5: How about I send somebody from the prison ministry, or 411 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 5: how about I give him a phone call instead? But God, 412 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 5: that's too dangerous. I'm not going to go. God said, no, Anonius. 413 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 6: Do what I say. He is a chosen instrument to 414 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 6: bear my name. 415 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 5: Verse seventeen says Anonius went and found Saul. He laid 416 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 5: hands on him and said, brother. Saw he not only 417 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 5: found him, but he called him brother. He could have 418 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 5: called him a lot of other things. You lousy, no good, loser, 419 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 5: trying to kill us. I hope you stay blind. 420 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 6: No. 421 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 5: Anonius prayed for Saul. His sight was restored. He became 422 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 5: the apostle Paul, who went on to write over half 423 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 5: of the New Testament. None of this would have happened 424 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 5: if Anonius had not had this bold obedience. Sometimes God 425 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 5: will ask you to do things that don't make sense. God, 426 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 5: you want me to do them a favor when they 427 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 5: left me out on purpose. God, you want me to 428 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 5: help them when they wouldn't help me. Like Anonius, your 429 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 5: first thought may be, no way, I'm not going to 430 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 5: do that. But if you listen again, you'll hear God saying, 431 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 5: just do it. Sow a radical seed, take a step 432 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 5: of faith. When you do, God will do something radical 433 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 5: in your life, and we can all make excuses. Joel 434 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 5: is too hard, it's too big a sacrifice, it's too inconvenient. 435 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 5: But if you keep putting it off, that's causing God 436 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 5: to put off what he has in store for you. 437 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 5: When you obey, a blessing is attached. You may not understand, 438 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 5: it may not make sense. That's okay, Be like Antonius 439 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 5: and just do it. My brother Paul was a surgeon 440 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 5: in Little Rock for seventeen years, had a very successful practice. 441 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 5: He was the chief of surgery. He and his partners 442 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 5: owned the new hospital. 443 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 6: Life was good. He was helping a lot of people. 444 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 5: But when my father went to be with the Lord, 445 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 5: Paul was driving home from the memorial service, going back 446 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,360 Speaker 5: to Little Rock, Arkansas, when he heard that still small 447 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 5: voice say go back to Houston and help them pastor 448 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 5: the church in the natural. 449 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 6: That didn't make sense. 450 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 5: He'd gone to school for twelve years to become a surgeon, 451 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 5: had all this training, all this expertise. His colleagues thought 452 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 5: he was making a big mistake. They told him he 453 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 5: was having a midlife crisis and tried to talk him 454 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 5: out of it. 455 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 6: But deep down, Paul knew that he was supposed to 456 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 6: lead his practice. 457 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 5: He had to turn his mind off and listen to 458 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 5: his heart. Even though he didn't understand it. It's not 459 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,199 Speaker 5: what he had planned for his life. He made a 460 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 5: decision to just do it. That was fourteen years ago. 461 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 5: Lakewood wouldn't be where we are today without my brother Paul. 462 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 5: Now Paul goes to the remote villages of Africa and 463 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 5: spends months every year operating on people that would normally. 464 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 6: Have no access to healthcare. 465 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,959 Speaker 5: He's still using his gifts. He thought he was walking 466 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 5: away from medicine, but God knew what he was doing. 467 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 6: God's plan is better than our plan. 468 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 5: Not only that, now he gets to work with me 469 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 5: every day. 470 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 6: How great is that. 471 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 5: When you have bold obedience, God will take you into 472 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny. God asked Abraham to do 473 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 5: something radical, to take his son Isaac, the one he 474 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 5: had prayed and believed to have his whole life, the 475 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 5: promised child, and put him on an altar and sacrifice him. 476 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 5: Abraham didn't understand it. It didn't make sense. But Abraham 477 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 5: had this bold obedience. Just as he was about to 478 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 5: go through with it, and Angel said, stop, Abraham, don't 479 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 5: do it. God just wanted to see if you would 480 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 5: be obedient. The scripture says the Angel called to Abraham 481 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 5: a second time. The blessing is not the first call. 482 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 5: The first call is obedience. If you'll obey, there will 483 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 5: be a second call. 484 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 6: Genesis twenty two. 485 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 5: Says the Angel called a second time and said, I 486 00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 5: swear by myself, says the Lord Abraham, I will bless 487 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 5: you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars. 488 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 6: You will conquer your enemies. 489 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 5: Your offspring will be blessed in every nation of. 490 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 6: The earth because you have obeyed me. 491 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 5: Notice when you radically obey, God promises he will radically 492 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 5: bless But here's the key. The first call is not 493 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 5: the blessing. The first call is the test. Will you 494 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 5: obey me? Will you buy that old house even though 495 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 5: it doesn't make sense. Will you give that Spanish church 496 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 5: the money you need? Will you leave a successful practice 497 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,360 Speaker 5: and come help your family pastor the church. If you obey, 498 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 5: you'll pass the test. Then you'll hear the second call. 499 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 5: That's when God will say, all right, now, I'm going 500 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 5: to bless you more than you can imagine. Some of 501 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 5: you today, there's something you know down deep you're supposed 502 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 5: to do you're debating it, you're analyzing, you're making excuses. 503 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 5: God is saying, just do it. Sow a radical seed. 504 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 5: Answer the first call, be obedient, and you'll come into 505 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,879 Speaker 5: the second call, the blessing. You may not understand it, 506 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 5: it may not make sense. 507 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 6: That's all right. Just turn your mind off and listen 508 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 6: to your heart. God knows what he's doing. 509 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,360 Speaker 5: If you'll make a decision to just do it, then 510 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 5: I believe and declare. Because you radically obey, You're about 511 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 5: to come into radical blessings. Because you have bold obedience, 512 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,120 Speaker 5: God's going to do something amazing in your life. 513 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 6: Like Isaac, the seeds you've sown are going to. 514 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 5: Be multiplied back to you, and like Abraham, God's going 515 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 5: to thrust you into the fullness of your destiny, taking 516 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 5: you further than you ever even dreamed of. In Jesus' name, 517 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 5: if you receive it today, can you say amen. We 518 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 5: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an 519 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 5: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 520 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 6: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 521 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 6: repeat of my sins. 522 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 5: Come into my heart. I make you my lord and savior. 523 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 5: If you prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got 524 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 5: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 525 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 5: God first place. 526 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 6: He's gonna take you places that you've never dreamed of. 527 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 8: Thank you for listening to the Joeloustine podcast. Help us 528 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 8: continue to share the message of hope with those all 529 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 8: over the world. 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