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But before we get started, I just wanted to say a couple of words about our 4th of July weekend. This is a big one, you guys. America’s 250th birthday.

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And you know, this weekend as we were celebrating and I was also studying a lot for today, I was really reflecting on on something that Jonathan wrote when we were on our vacation a month or month and a half ago, and we were spending a lot of time in Europe and admiring all these kingdoms and these crazy things that happened over there, over thousands and thousands of years.

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You know, we have 250 years and there’s thousands of years over there, right? But one of the things he wrote really stuck out to me, and it was brought back to me this weekend as we were celebrating and watching things online about everything going on. And he said this. He said every generation inherits a foundation and must choose whether to preserve it, build upon it all, neglect it.

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Every generation inherits a foundation and must choose whether to preserve it, build upon it all, neglect it. And I believe that’s a challenge to us today. As Americans, we have been given something that we take for granted. So often. We have been given a nation who we have freedom to do this, to step into this room as often as we want and to lift our hands and to declare and praise and preach and worship Jesus without fear, without worry.

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We’ve been given a foundation of a country whose founding principles were built on the Word of God. It’s all over our Declaration of Independence. It’s all over. The monument in Washington, D.C. is all over. The principles of the Word of God established this country and us as a generation. We have to choose and get to choose if we will build on the foundation that has been laid and continue, or if we will neglect it, if we will take it for granted.

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And that was just a challenge, I believe, as for us as a nation, but for us as a church, I know we’re in a small place in Eddie Bitty Town in the middle of California.

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But great things can come out of small places. Great things have come out of small places all throughout history. It doesn’t matter where we are, it matters how we respond to the call of God on our lives. It matters how we respond. Are we going to build and preserve, or will we let it fall away? What God has given us.

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Sometimes we can have even more impact in our communities in a small place.

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When what separates a vote is 100 votes between candidates in a small place, that makes a big difference.

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So I want to challenge us to be grateful for what God has given us as a nation, but not take it for granted. Our nation isn’t perfect. I’m not saying it is, but history reminds us that every earthly kingdom has strengths and weaknesses, victories and failures. But gratitude doesn’t require perfection. We don’t have to agree with everything to be grateful for what God has given us, and to stand in the freedoms that we have been secured.

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By the men and the women who died for us so that we could be here today worshiping in Jesus. So we have the freedoms that we can enjoy today. We thank God for the blessings that he has given our nation. You know we are first citizens of Jesus, yes, but that should make us better earthly citizens.

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People that pray for our nation, who serve our communities, and who faithfully steward the blessings that God has entrusted in us. May America continue to be a people who recognize the very good gift that comes from the Lord. And may we leave a stronger legacy of faith for the generations that follow.

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We are thankful to God for his faithfulness, for the freedoms that we enjoy, and we will continue to pray for our nation under God. Amen. Amen. Lord, we thank you for this nation that we are blessed to live in. Lord, we don’t take it for granted. And we celebrate today and this weekend, along with the rest of our countrymen, of the good things that you have done.

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And Lord, we pray that you would continue to lead and guide. But Lord, we pray for our nation’s leaders today. Lord, we pray that you, oh God, would lead them and guide them, that you would encounter them with your presence. Oh God, that you would be their counselor. Lord, we pray for each person in this nation. Oh God, that your wind of Holy Spirit would blow through this land and bring revival, oh God, across this land, that if we turn back to you, you would be faithful to heal our land.

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So Lord blow. Oh God, that you would heal the people. Oh God, that we would turn to you again fully. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen, everybody.

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So today. Well, I’m actually going to embark on a new short series. We’re going to take on for the summer because earlier this year, our community of prophets gathered, and they released several words that the Lord gave them, and they were submitted to our leadership team here. Some of them have been released over in services throughout the year.

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Others will still be released in our service times as we go through the year. There were some that were given as direction to our house and to the leadership, and those have been received and prayed into by our leadership team. But there were also two words that were given with direction from our lead prophets in this community of prophets, that they needed to be released with some teaching.

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And one of those words spoke concerning pressure against our faith. And the other word spoke about blockages that hinder the flow of God’s life. And I’ll read them to you in just a minute. But although they kind of seemed unrelated at first, the more I began to pray into them, and especially this week, dive into how we wanted to tackle teaching these words, the more it became clear that they were really both describing the same spiritual journey, being unhindered.

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Unhindered. You see, God is preparing a people through whom his life can flow freely. People whose faith remain steadfast, whose hearts remain open, and who bring life. His life wherever they go. So I’m going to read to you guys the two prophecies that we’re going to dive into this summer. The first prophecy says for so long. Bitterness, resentment, fear and depression and anxiety have been building up within the church, clogging the pathways for the transformative, life giving, healing blood of Jesus to flow into the heart and the body of God’s people.

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God is shaking his church awake. The masterful surgeon is coming to remove what was clogged has clogged the flow of Jesus’s blood. But this is not something he is doing alone. It is something he is inviting us. He is inviting us to do with him. We must choose to let go of the things that cause bitterness and resentment, and change what we are allowing into our lives.

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Then I saw a heart and a body healed. Blood flow restored. The life giving blood of Jesus released. And the glory of God revealed. If we step into this, we will once again begin to see miracles, signs and wonders. Then this came with a warning. There is coming like arrows in the night. The things that I have mentioned.

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Their names are bitterness, resentment, depression, anxiety and fear. They come with this purpose to isolate and devour. But this is not God’s purpose. Repent and reject the tactics of the devourer and see the life giving power of the Most High God flow. Amen. The second prophetic word given started with a scripture, Psalm 18 one through three. I love you, O Lord, my strength.

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The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer. My God, my strength, and whom I will trust. My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from my enemies. There is a season we are beginning to enter into that will bring with it a great press against your faith, both individually and corporately.

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This will come through news of discoveries and the uncovering of new facts in the natural realm, and will cause doubt and fear in the hearts of my people, and a strange pride and haughtiness in the lives of those who do not know me. The season will be marked with the slow closing of a door in the spirit that will cause many to doubt.

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Even what they have known, and for some, even who they have known. Do not fear this time, my people. Be prepared for it by establishing yourself in relationship with me that is based on me providing and you receiving. Understand this that my grace and power is continually being provided from me, your heavenly father. Enter into the mode of being a receptor, a son and a daughter that does not have to earn from me.

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I work for my anointing or for that matter, do anything that would place you in a position that justifies your entitlement. As you position your heart during this next season, you will see an unending flow of my miracle working power flow in and through my body, my church, and each individual who yields themselves to me will begin to understand and live in a place of not by your might, not by your power, but by my spirit, declares the Lord.

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So even as the world and some of my people begin to drift away because they have been shaken by the facts and discoveries of men, I will have a remnant people who will not be shaken or their faith rattled by these events. And then you will see these people who have been persuaded and dissuaded by these forms of knowledge, beginning to turn to my church, my people, my anointed, for their healing and salvation, and care for their souls, that they have been left shipwrecked by the empty promises of the world.

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And you will heal them, and you will bring peace to their souls and direction for the balance of their lives, because you will have positioned your lives as a full receptor of my grace. And in and through you I will bring my life into the lives of a dead and dying world. Be alert to this, because you will be strategically positioned when they bring their broken bodies, injured souls and dead spirits into my house, and I will use you to pour into them my voice that will break the yokes of bondage to the death of this world committed to memory.

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It is my life, my anointing, my provision, my healing, my love that is compelling you and flowing in and through you, says the Lord. Amen.

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These are big words.

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These prophetic words. Just want to take a second. We had a lot of prophecy today, and I’m reading some prophecy and we might have some new people in the house here. We believe that God did not stop speaking in the book of acts. The Bible is a whole book of prophetic word which is just God speaking to his people.

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He has spoken for generations and generations, and he is still speaking today. And he uses men and women just like he did in the Bible, to speak the Word of God to his people here and now, so that we can be prepared so we can be transformed. This is what prophecy is about, and this is what the Word of God to this house is for this season.

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This word had these words touched a lot of different themes faith, doubt, fear, bitterness, re resentment. Healing.

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Grace, miracles, purpose, mission. You see, God wants a people who will remain unhindered in their relationship with him and in the flow of his life through them. I’m going to say that again. I think it might be a slide. I don’t know for sure. I think I put it up there uncertain. It was pretty late. God wants a people who remain unhindered in their relationship with him and in the flow of his life through them.

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Over the next several weeks, we’re going to explore what hinders that life and what helps us remain open to it.

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God’s instructions were do not fear this time that is coming, but be prepared for it by establishing yourself in a relationship with me. So that’s what we’re going to focus on.

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Preparing ourselves for whatever might come.

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We’re not going to focus on exactly what might come. My experience is that my assumptions are very wrong.

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But we need to be prepared for the journey, not try to figure out what it is that might be coming. We’re going to wrestle with some questions, like what causes people to doubt what they know?

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These are some real questions, right? What causes people to doubt who they’ve known? Both of these were in that prophetic word. How does faith survive when understanding doesn’t?

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Come on? What hinders the flow of God?

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How does God restore the flow of his presence? Right? Why does God restore the flow? These are some of the things that we are going to tackle over the next weeks this summer, because I believe that he is preparing us for a season. And in warning us there are things coming. That are could shake us if we are unaware.

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But if we are willing to ask the real questions and not shy away from things that we don’t know, we will actually be ready to stand firm when things get shaky around us. And that is what he’s challenging us right now, is to be unhindered by every wind of doctrine, to be stable when things around us are unstable.

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To have peace when things around us are in chaos and crumbling around. To have joy even in tribulation. That is what he’s calling us to now, to be unhindered. So today, I’d like to begin with the first question. I’m going to try to get us out of here on time. But what causes people to doubt what they know?

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What causes people to doubt what they know? You see, both prophetic words recognized that our faith is going to be challenged.

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So before we dive into fear and bitterness and repentance and flow. I believe that we need to wrestle with some of these foundational questions, because whether or not. We’ve been walking with the Lord for two weeks or 55 years. These questions still arise. What causes people to doubt what they know? One line from this prophecy really stuck out to me.

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It said that this season will be marked with the slow closing of a door in the spirit that will cause many to doubt even what they have known. And for some, even who they have known. This isn’t talking to even maybe new believers I don’t believe.

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To doubt what they know.

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Who they’ve known.

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So in me this asks the question how does this happen? What happens to make someone who knows something? All of a sudden not know?

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Most people don’t wake up one morning and decide to abandon their faith.

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It’s not how it happens.

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Something happens, a disappointment, a prolonged struggle, a contradiction, an unanswered prayer, an experience that doesn’t fit what they thought they knew about God. And slowly, they begin to feel less certain about what they know.

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One of the clearest examples of this in Scripture is found in Psalm 73, which is going to be our text for today. Starting in verse one, truly God is good to Israel. To those whose hearts are pure. But as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping and I was almost gone. No, wait a second.

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There seems to be a pretty, pretty big disconnection between verse one and verse two. So how do we go from. Surely God is good.

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To. I’m almost gone.

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Maybe. Surely God is good. But wait a second, I have slept. I am falling. I’m almost gone. Brings us to our first point to today. When experience challenges what we know about God.

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When our experiences. But up against my belief system, all of a sudden we go from God is good. I don’t think I’m going to survive.

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Yes. Been there.

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Psalm 73 one and two again. ASAP starts with something he knows. You know, this might be one of the the clearest statements of conviction and truth. Truly, God is good. Ha! This is his foundation, his theology, his conviction. But immediately there’s tension that appears and the question becomes, how do you move from surety to being almost gone? How do we move from certainty to instability?

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It’s not because God changed. It’s not because truth changed. It’s because experiences seem to tell a different story.

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When the facts don’t appear to support your theology.

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Anybody else been in this boat with Asaph?

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When there is an apparent contradiction between what we believe and what we experience, and this is what Asaph is going through, the issue isn’t the facts are wrong, but the issue is the facts appear to tell a different story than God’s promises.

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We see another example of this John the Baptist in Matthew 11 verse two says, John the Baptist, who was in prison, heard about all the things the Messiah was doing. So he sent his disciples to ask Jesus, are you the Messiah we’ve expecting, been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else? Okay, this is John the Baptist saying this.

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Okay, let’s go back a few years. And John the Baptist, who declared the Messiah walking down the street, baptized him, saw the dove to send her the father speak. This is my son, in whom I am well pleased. He’s announcing the Messiah to Israel. And fast forward, his circumstances no longer line up with his theology, and he is in prison.

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And he is saying, are you even the Messiah?

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Are you the one?

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Because I don’t feel it. I don’t feel free. I’m in a jail cell.

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He wasn’t questioning because he lacked revelation. He had revelation of the Messiah.

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He questioned because experiences and what he was going through no longer matched his expectations of that Messiah.

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It didn’t match what he assumed his life would be like with the coming Messiah.

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And he questioned what he knew and who he knew. Are you even the one? Did I get it wrong?

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Israel is another example. God delivered them. He parted a sea. For heaven’s sakes. He gave them food every day on the ground. They have do anything for it. But every new problem arose a new crisis. They were angry. They questioned God at every turn. Did God bring us out here to die?

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I know he did some pretty cool stuff, but just so we die.

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It wasn’t a memory problem, you guys. They didn’t forget. The issue was interpretation.

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They viewed and interpreted their journey from a lens of pain and loss, not liberation. They viewed in the lens of slavery, not freedom.

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Which caused them to question even what they knew.

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Faith is often tested at the intersection of what God has revealed and what we currently experience.

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Faith is often tested at the intersection of what God has revealed and what we currently experience. This brings us to our point two. Doubt begins when we interpret reality without God’s perspective.

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Back to Psalm 73.

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Moving on. Verse three. For I was envious of the boastful when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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They seemed to live such painless lives. Their bodies were healthy and strong. They didn’t have troubles like other people. They. They aren’t plagued with problems like everyone else. They were pride, like a jeweled necklace and closed themselves with cruelty. These fat cats have everything in their heart they could ever wish for. They scoff and speak evil in their pride.

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They seek to crush others. They boast against every with, against the very heavens. And their words strut through the world. And so the people are dismayed and confused, drinking in all their words. What does God know, they ask? Does the Most High even know what is happening out here? Look at these wicked people enjoying life, enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply.

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Then verse 13. Did I keep my heart pure for nothing?

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Did I keep myself innocent for no reason?

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I get nothing but trouble all day long. Every morning it brings me pain. If I had really spoken this way to others, I would have been a traitor to your people. So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper. But what a difficult task it is.

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Sounds a little bit like today.

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You see, what Asaph is seeing are true things. They’re factual things. He was watching wicked people prosper and their wealth multiply as they just blatantly disregarded God. He watched arrogance thrive. The ungodly seemed so secure in themselves and he saw the righteous struggling. Life just seemed so unfair.

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And to be clear, I don’t think Asaph was tempted towards atheism here, but he was tempted towards cynicism.

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And he begins to draw these conclusions. Like in verse 13 when he says, did I keep my heart pure for nothing?

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All this time of giving my life to you, what is it benefiting me? What am I getting out of this? He wasn’t just questioning doctrine or theology, even. He was questioning whether faithfulness was even worth it.

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We see here people don’t wake up one day and suddenly deny God. They slowly question whether walking with God is worthwhile.

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We see something, we experience something, and then we fill in the blanks. God must not care.

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God must not see me. God must not be working. God must not be just.

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The danger isn’t always in what we see.

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The danger is the story we begin to tell ourselves about what we see.

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Hear me. The danger is not in what we see. The facts don’t matter. The danger is the story we tell ourselves about what we see.

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Asahi’s problem wasn’t observation. His problem was interpretation. And this connects directly back to the prophetic word that talks about the discovery and the facts and the things that are going to arise and present itself to us, that will cause people to doubt. The issue isn’t whether the facts are true. The issue is how we interpret them.

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So we jump down to verse 17 in Psalm 73 and he says, then I went into your sanctuary, O God. And I finally understood the destiny of the wicked.

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Then I went into your sanctuary, and I got it.

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That brings us to our third point. God’s presence restores what our perspective lost.

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God’s presence restored. What our perspective lost.

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Notice that nothing else changed. The circumstances didn’t change. The wicked didn’t disappear. They didn’t all of a sudden become poor.

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The problems weren’t gone. The questions still existed. The things he understood, he still didn’t understand entirely. What changed was his perspective.

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You see, faith was not restored because he got more answers.

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Answers to his questions did not bring restoration into his life. Do you know what did? Walking into the presence of God. His faith was restored because he encountered God. His understanding was restored through proximity to God. He entered into the sanctuary where God dwelled.

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He entered into his presence. Or God dwelled. You see John six, we see a similar moment with Jesus teaching some very difficult and offensive things to the crowd. And I will say, the crowd left very confused, and many of his disciples left him. And in verse 67, Jesus turns to the 12 and asks, are you also going to leave?

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Simon Peter replied, Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. Peter didn’t sound say, oh, now, now I understand all this very confusing, very offensive thing. You just spent the last however many hours saying Jesus gave no additional explanation to what was happening. Peter didn’t say you answered all of my questions. In fact, he was probably just as confused as the rest of them.

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The difference is Peter. Peter essentially said, I don’t know that I understand anything, actually, that you just said, but I do know you.

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I got more questions, and I got answers now. But I know you, and I know that you have the words that give eternal life. I don’t understand what those words mean, but I know that I know you, and that is enough.

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You see, both ASAP and Peter arrived at the same place until I entered the sanctuary. Lord, who else would I go? You see, both men find stability. Not because questions were resolved, but because they returned to the presence and proximity of God.

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Now hear me. It is not that explanations and understanding is bad. It’s not. There are plenty of times where God absolutely gives clarity and understanding. And often in my experiences, those understandings come after obedience and after faith and after surrender. That’s my own experience, guys. But there are moments when explanations alone are not enough.

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There are moments that what we need most is not an answer to our question, but a renewed encounter with God Himself.

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Now this prophecy is making sense. The warnings that many will doubt what they’ve known, and even some who they’ve known.

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You see, the real danger isn’t simply doubting what we know about God.

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The greater danger is drifting from the God we have come to know.

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It was okay that Peter didn’t understand it.

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The danger comes in drifting away because we don’t understand it.

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That’s exactly what this prophetic word speaks to.

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That’s why Peter’s response wasn’t now I understand.

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But where else am I going to go? That’s why Asaph finds his footing again in God’s presence.

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You see, most of us expect faith to be important when life gets difficult, but we don’t always expect as how many different ways our faith can be challenged.

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Sometimes through hardship, disappointments. Sometimes it’s questions that we can’t answer or circumstances we just can’t explain. But through the Scripture, God has never promised a life without pressure.

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What he has promised as that he can make us steadfast in the middle of it.

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The questions may not immediately disappear. Understanding may not come right away, but Psalm 73 reminds us that faith is restored when we bring those questions back into the presence of God. And John six reminds us that even when we don’t understand everything God is doing. We can still remain anchored in who he is. The questions may remain, but in his presence we find stability.

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Amen. Amen.

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All right. We got some clarity. Let’s pray. Let’s go eat and talk more about the clarity. Alright. Father, we thank you for this word. We thank you for where you’re leading us. God continue to build in our hearts that confidence in you. And may we not drift, but draw close. God, thank you for this. We ask your blessing upon this time, this service, and we pray for the food we’re about to eat.

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We ask that you bless our bodies with it, nourish us, and we thank you for it. And thank you for this amazing country that we get to live out our faith. God. May we bring greater favor and anointing to this world in all that we do. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Happy Sunday everybody. We’ll see you across the way.

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If this is your first time here again, we have food and opportunity to meet you. So do join us. It’s a great day.