Put your hands together for Pastor Shelly.

01;14;28;13 – 01;14;33;26
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She’s going to bring us the word.

01;14;33;29 – 01;14;55;22
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Hello? Hello. I know we had we had a few technical difficulties here, so I wanted to give you a piece of information. If you want to sign up for Spirit School of Ministry, you can go to Spirit School of Ministry. It’s pretty simple. Oh, you can talk to any one of us here by any of the spirit team, Pastor Jonathan, myself.

01;14;55;24 – 01;15;20;06
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So I just wanted to give you a piece of information. It’s helpful. Also, I’ve gotten a few other instructions that we can’t forget to give you guys about camp. There is a parent meeting and all adults attending camp, but it’s not one or the other. It’s not like if you’re coming to camp, you have to come. But if you’re a parent that’s not coming to camp, you don’t have to come.

01;15;20;07 – 01;15;41;21
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You all have to come. So if you have kids or you’re attending, it’s next Sunday, the 19th at 2:00 in the lower junior church. So please make sure you’re there. It’s really important that we connect. And then today is the absolute last day to turn in snack bar money. So it’s really important you guys your kids think this is really important.

01;15;41;21 – 01;16;01;27
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So I cannot miss that announcement because well we’ll be dealing with it. There is really the reality of it. Awesome. I’m just going to pray. It’s all right. It’s going to pray before we get started here.

01;16;02;00 – 01;16;09;02
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Lord, we thank you that your presence is here.

01;16;09;04 – 01;16;41;19
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Lord, we thank you that you are a God who sees. You are God who speaks still today. You are a God who brings us and draws us into deep relationship with you. And so today, Lord, we just come and we put everything else aside. And Lord, I pray that you open our ears and our hearts to what you are speaking to us today, in this time, in this season where we’re at.

01;16;41;21 – 01;16;49;08
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Lord, I pray that you would use me, that I would speak your words, not my own.

01;16;49;10 – 01;17;14;07
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And that we would be hearers of the Word of God, that we would be doers of the Word of God, and that we would allow your word. We would allow your presence to change us, to transform us. So we give you this time today.

01;17;14;09 – 01;17;18;29
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We give you this time today. Amen.

01;17;19;02 – 01;17;32;25
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Amen. So I am going to be continuing. You’re going to probably hear a little bit more of me this summer than you’re used to. So thank you. You’re so sweet.

01;17;32;28 – 01;17;37;18
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So just get used to it. Sorry.

01;17;37;20 – 01;18;05;19
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Because we’re going to be diving into this series unhindered. And I’m going to I’m going to recap a little bit from last week because we’re really in a building, a building place in these messages, not just a standalone message today. It really is a building message on what the Lord began to unfold to us last week. And this whole series has been launched out of a set of prophetic words that were released to this House.

01;18;05;21 – 01;18;26;29
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We have a group of prophets in this house. We actually have a strong prophetic culture in this House, and we believe that the gifts of God did not end. The gifts of the spirit did not end in the book of acts. Amen. That he has spoken through generations and generations, and we are not the exception. He still speaks today.

01;18;27;02 – 01;18;53;06
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He still speaks through his prophets, through us, through his people who are submitted and yielded to Holy Spirit. And so we have a team of prophets. And at the beginning of most years, pastor Bob or and usually alongside Pastor Liz and Jeremy, usually gather a team of profits to pray into what God is saying to this house, what God is saying in this next season.

01;18;53;06 – 01;19;23;14
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Sometimes it’s for that year. Sometimes it’s just for the season that might be coming. And they released many words. And like I said last week, some we’ve already released in services, we will release some more as we as we go throughout the year. Several will release to our leadership team for direction. And then there was two prophetic words that were given that were very specifically given with prophetic direction of the prophets, that they needed to be released with teaching.

01;19;23;16 – 01;19;56;26
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And so that’s what we’re doing this summer. We are teaching and gleaning from what the Lord is giving us and sharing through his profits to this church for this season. What I love about the prophetic word is it’s such a now word. It always comes in such a now moment, in a moment where it is so important that we hear something, and more important that we respond to what we hear.

01;19;56;29 – 01;20;20;15
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So the two I’m not going to read both prophecies again. Pastor Jonathan sent them out this morning via email. So you guys have them. Thank you, Pastor Jonathan. I’ve had a lot of text messages this week. If you did not get it, come see one of us or see Amber. We’ll get you on our our email list and we’ll get you that prophetic word.

01;20;20;17 – 01;20;30;08
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But just to kind of like I said, sum up. So we kind of know where we’ve been, so we know where we are so we can know where we’re going.

01;20;30;11 – 01;20;48;07
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There were several words spoken, two words specifically spoken that we’re going to be breaking down over these this summer. One word was concerning the coming pressure against our faith.

01;20;48;09 – 01;21;18;06
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That there was coming a season that was going to challenge and press our faith individually and corporately. And the other word spoke about things that would hinder the flow of God’s life in us, individually and corporately. And at first these seemed like separate words. And I was diving in. I was like, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to teach these things and begin to pray, pray about them.

01;21;18;06 – 01;21;29;11
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And the Lord began to reveal that these weren’t actually separate words, but they were describing the same journey that he has us on.

01;21;29;13 – 01;21;48;01
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Because the enemy wants to create obstacles that hinder our relationship with God. But God wants a people who remain unhindered in their relationship with him.

01;21;48;03 – 01;22;23;28
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God wants a people who remain unhindered in their relationship with him. So last week we started this short series and began to unpack these prophetic words about being unhindered, remaining unhindered in our relationship with God. And over the next several weeks, we’re going to explore what hinders that life and what helps us remain open to God. God’s instruction to us in these prophetic words was, do not fear this time, my people.

01;22;24;01 – 01;22;57;26
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So yes, there’s something coming that’s going to cause strain, going to cause pressure. But his instruction was not to fear it, but to be prepared for it. That is the beauty. Every time God speaks to us, it’s not to bring fear. It is to bring awareness so that we can bring be prepared. Be prepared for it by establishing yourself in a relationship with me.

01;22;57;28 – 01;23;25;16
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That’s what the Lord said by just spoke about it. He’s challenging us to go deeper into our relationship with him, to make the time to focus on knowing him deeply. Some of us, this is a first time thing.

01;23;25;19 – 01;24;03;02
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That God is inviting you into a place of actual relationship with him. That is not about attending church on a Sunday, but it’s about going deep into knowing him. Others of us have been in relationship with God, some for a few years, some for many decades, and God is still challenging us to go deeper into relationship with him, that the only way that we are going to be able to stand and not be swayed in the season that comes is not going to be because we had a relationship with him.

01;24;03;03 – 01;24;09;04
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It’s because we have a relationship with him.

01;24;09;06 – 01;24;21;26
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What was in our life cannot sustain us now unless it’s a continual growing, a continual walking.

01;24;21;29 – 01;24;42;12
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My husband can’t have my relationship with God, although he has a great relationship with God. If I am going to withstand the pressures that the Lord has is saying very clearly, there are pressures coming.

01;24;42;15 – 01;24;54;00
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This isn’t like a well, if pressures come your way, this is pressures are coming your way.

01;24;54;02 – 01;24;59;27
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It’s not an if, it’s a when.

01;25;00;02 – 01;25;06;16
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Will we be established in relationship.

01;25;06;18 – 01;25;18;18
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So we’re going to focus on preparing ourselves for whatever might come. We’re not going to focus on the what might come.

01;25;18;20 – 01;25;37;28
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We could assume all day long will probably be wrong. We will focus on preparing ourselves for whatever may come, and we’re going to wrestle with some questions. I’m going to put the ones I introduced last week up, and these are going to be the things that we’re talking about over these next six weeks. What causes people to doubt what they know?

01;25;38;00 – 01;26;10;10
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We talked about that last week at length. Today we’re going to be talking about what causes people to doubt who they have known. We’re going to go into how does face survive when understanding doesn’t. We’re going to talk about what hinders the flow of God, the anointing of God, the presence of God. We’re going to talk about how does God restore when it has been hindered and blocked.

01;26;10;13 – 01;26;17;28
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And why does God restore what has been hindered?

01;26;18;00 – 01;26;27;28
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He’s got a purpose for you in this season, and he is going to unveil it.

01;26;28;00 – 01;27;03;14
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So one line from one of the prophecies is our launching point for last week and this week. And that line says the season, 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. So last week we asked the question what causes people to doubt what they know?

01;27;03;17 – 01;27;40;03
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And we looked at Psalm 73, where Asaph was looking entirely at his circumstances and experiences, and how those experiences challenged what he knew about God. You see, he knew God was good, but tension appeared as contradictions arose between what he knew and what he saw. The wicked are pass spring and the righteous or not. Over and over again, he was faced with real facts and circumstances that didn’t align with what he knew about God.

01;27;40;06 – 01;27;54;25
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But here’s the key thing we took away last week. Faith is often tested at the intersection of what God has revealed and what we currently experience.

01;27;54;27 – 01;28;11;15
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I’m going to say that again, faith is often tested at the intersection of what God has revealed and what we currently experience.

01;28;11;18 – 01;28;26;23
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You see, the danger isn’t about what we see. The danger is the story that we tell ourselves about what we see. The issue isn’t the facts that are out there.

01;28;26;26 – 01;28;32;05
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The issue is how we interpret them.

01;28;32;07 – 01;28;41;00
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And what we found with Asaph was when he entered the presence of God.

01;28;41;02 – 01;28;44;26
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His perspective changed.

01;28;44;29 – 01;29;06;29
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You see, a faith was not restored because he got answers. God didn’t answer any of his questions. Actually, his faith was restored when he entered into the presence of the Lord. He said, now I understand.

01;29;07;01 – 01;29;20;09
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The answer to doubt is not always more explanation. Sometimes the answer is a deeper encounter.

01;29;20;12 – 01;29;30;04
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So this week we’re going to go deeper.

01;29;30;07 – 01;29;44;05
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Because God is giving us a warning that there is a press against our faith.

01;29;44;07 – 01;30;15;04
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So coming back to this prophecy I started a minute ago. It says there’s a season we’re beginning to enter that will bring with it a great press against your faith, both individually and corporately. This will come through news of discoveries and uncovering of new facts in natural realms, 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.

01;30;15;10 – 01;30;39;01
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The season will be marked by the slow closing of a door in the spirit that will cause many to doubt even what they have known, and even some who they have known. But do not fear this time, my people, be prepared for it by establishing yourself in relationship with me and what I believe is this warning. Is it merely about the facts?

01;30;39;01 – 01;31;04;24
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It really isn’t about the things that are going to present it self to us. But the warning is about relationship. So last week we explored the first half of this warning about many will doubt what they have known. And this week we’re going to explore the second half of that warning, which is for some, they will doubt even who they have known.

01;31;04;26 – 01;31;14;16
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Unhindered. Many will doubt who they have known.

01;31;14;19 – 01;31;28;17
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You see, the real danger isn’t simply doubting what we know about God. The greater danger is drifting from the God that we have come to know.

01;31;28;19 – 01;32;00;04
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And that’s what this prophetic word speaks to. Not just what we know, but who we have known. So now our questions are getting deeper. We’re not just asking, how do I understand my circumstances? Why is this happening? But now the questions are what happens when my struggle begins to affect my trust in God?

01;32;00;06 – 01;32;03;24
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Never.

01;32;03;26 – 01;32;11;14
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It’s not the church. Answer. No.

01;32;11;17 – 01;32;25;23
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The question is, can I still trust him when the circumstances don’t match my expectation?

01;32;25;26 – 01;32;38;29
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That’s a deeper question, and I think if we’re actually honest with ourselves, one that we’ve all faced.

01;32;39;01 – 01;32;49;25
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And if we haven’t faced it, we’re gonna face it.

01;32;49;27 – 01;33;35;16
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Last week our obstacle that we were talking about was understanding. But this week the obstacle is trust. But the destination remains the same, remaining unhindered in our relationship with God and into the presence of God is still the destination. Now, I say destination specifically because I don’t say answer because sometimes that doesn’t answer anything, doesn’t answer our question, but it does bring us to a place where that’s okay.

01;33;35;18 – 01;34;04;23
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The prophecy is not warning us. The questions are coming. Questions have always come. Asaph had questions we saw last week. Jobe had questions. David had questions. Jeremiah had questions. The disciples had questions. The danger isn’t the presence of questions. Hear me. We cannot be afraid of questions.

01;34;04;26 – 01;34;19;23
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That is not the danger. The danger is when those questions begin creating distance between us and God.

01;34;19;25 – 01;34;32;17
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Few people wrestled with this more than job. So I’m sorry, but yes, we’re going to talk a little bit about job today.

01;34;32;20 – 01;34;39;21
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And about trust under pressure.

01;34;39;23 – 01;35;14;19
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To understand this warning, we need to look at a man whose faith came under extraordinary pressure. You see, Jobe was a righteous man. And many of us are familiar with his account in the Bible. But he was a righteous man. Yet over a very, very short period of time, like a day, he lost his wealth, he lost his children, and eventually he lost his health.

01;35;14;22 – 01;35;47;18
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And as if that wasn’t enough, Heaven seemed silent. His friends spent chapter after chapter trying to explain what God was doing. They were convinced that they had the answers, but the deeper issue wasn’t jobs suffering. The deeper issue was trust. What do you do when the God you’ve loved, the God you’ve served, and the God you’ve trusted no longer seems to make sense?

01;35;47;21 – 01;35;56;16
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What happens when God’s actions appear inconsistent with his character?

01;35;56;18 – 01;36;03;20
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God is love. God is good.

01;36;03;22 – 01;36;17;18
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So what happens when what I’m seeing is inconsistent with who I’ve known?

01;36;17;21 – 01;36;40;07
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Is it consistent with the character of God? So let’s listen to jobs response in chapter 13, verse 15, he says, Though he slay me, I will hope in him, yet I will argue my ways to his face.

01;36;40;09 – 01;37;00;23
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I love that translation. I feel that inside me. I feel that I am full of a family, that feels that kind of is that kind of personality that I will argue my way.

01;37;00;25 – 01;37;06;19
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To his face.

01;37;06;21 – 01;37;12;26
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I believe this is one of the most remarkable statements in this whole book.

01;37;12;28 – 01;37;34;11
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You notice that job is not saying I’m done with God. He’s not saying I quit, I. No longer believe. Instead, job holds two things together that most of us struggle with. I will hope in him, and I will argue with him.

01;37;34;13 – 01;37;41;11
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Yes, that can be the case.

01;37;41;13 – 01;37;54;04
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Job trusts Andy questions. He hopes, and he struggles all at the same time.

01;37;54;07 – 01;38;03;18
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I will hope in him and I will argue my way to his face.

01;38;03;20 – 01;38;37;01
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You see, job argues, complains, questions and pursues, but he keeps bringing his struggles to God, not away from God. Okay, here’s the key. He had questions. He didn’t get it. Nothing was making sense. But what did he do with those questions? Is the key to our stability in our faith and our trust in him. He did not allow the questions to create distance.

01;38;37;03 – 01;38;48;29
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He allowed the questions to push him towards God. God is not afraid of your questions.

01;38;49;01 – 01;38;58;29
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So what do we do when we don’t get it? What do we do when it doesn’t align and one of them makes sense?

01;38;59;02 – 01;39;26;27
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Job I’m going to argue with you. I’m going to bring it to you. I’m going to be at the foot of my bed and crying because I don’t get it. I don’t know why this happened. I don’t know why that happened. I don’t know why you had to take this person from me. I don’t know why this person has to struggle.

01;39;26;29 – 01;39;45;19
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But I’m going to bring it to the feet of Jesus. Because I refuse to let my questions create distance between the only one who holds the universe in his hands.

01;39;45;22 – 01;39;57;29
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Don’t let your questions. Don’t let your struggles become distance with the father.

01;39;58;01 – 01;40;13;17
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Jobs trust was shaken. His whole world was shaken. He didn’t lose one thing. He lost everything. Do you understand that? Everything.

01;40;13;20 – 01;40;44;27
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Jobs understanding was shaken, but he refused to allow his struggles to sever his relationship with God. And that is the challenge before us today. I wish I could stand up here and answer all the questions, but I can’t. And anybody who says they can, cannot.

01;40;45;00 – 01;41;01;09
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But this, this is where it’s at. Remaining unhindered in our relationship with God.

01;41;01;12 – 01;41;20;12
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As Gregory the Great, one of the our ancient fathers church fathers, observed in his commentary called the Morals of the Book of Job. We see jobs. Complaints are actual evidence of relationship.

01;41;20;15 – 01;41;28;21
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He says indifference would have been far more dangerous.

01;41;28;23 – 01;41;39;15
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Job keeps speaking to God because he still believes God is there.

01;41;39;18 – 01;42;06;29
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From here, job keeps wrestling. His friends keep pressing him with explanations, and job keeps insisting that something is not right, and the conversation circles through accusation and defense and confusion and grief. And by the time we reach chapter 23, job is no longer arguing his case before people. But his cry has narrowed into something deeper. He wants to find God himself.

01;42;07;01 – 01;42;16;27
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So in verse three of job 23, it says, oh, that I knew where I might find him.

01;42;17;00 – 01;42;44;17
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Do you hear what job is searching for? He’s not even searching for an explanation. He’s not searching for a reason. He’s not searching for the theology behind it. He is searching for God himself. Now jobs struggles begin emerging because it was not merely just what is happening, but. God, where are you?

01;42;44;19 – 01;42;50;24
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Everything’s upside down, but you feel silent.

01;42;50;26 – 01;42;56;12
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No one’s ever felt that.

01;42;56;14 – 01;43;22;07
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Christopher Ash is a more contemporary commentary, and he says in his book Job The Wisdom of the cross emphasizes that jobs greatest agony was not the suffering itself, but the apparent absence of God.

01;43;22;09 – 01;43;28;29
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God? I’m suffering. Where the heck are you?

01;43;29;02 – 01;43;42;24
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These are hard things, you guys. These are hard things.

01;43;42;27 – 01;44;04;14
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And in verse eight, job says, look, I go forward, but he’s not there. I go backwards, but I can’t perceive him. When he works on the left, I can’t behold him when he turned. When he turns to the right, I cannot see him.

01;44;04;16 – 01;44;33;25
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You see, this isn’t unbelief. This is wish job can’t find God. But here’s the key. He refuses to turn away from him. How many of us, in the middle of anguish and uncertainty and life, turning upside down, and then on top of it, we can’t seem to find God in it. How many of us still push and pursue God?

01;44;33;27 – 01;44;44;08
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Or do we say, oh, see, God must not be there.

01;44;44;10 – 01;45;21;23
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He refused to stop pursuing God. He kept bringing his struggles towards God, though he couldn’t perceive him. And in then in verse ten he says, but he knows where I am going. So we have this statement. I don’t know where he’s at. I have no idea. But one thing I do know, and this is really important, because it was the the anchor that held him in the middle of everything.

01;45;21;23 – 01;45;33;07
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But I know that he knows where I am. I can’t see him, but I know that he knows me.

01;45;33;09 – 01;45;42;10
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And even though I don’t feel him, I know that he knows me. And I know he will not abandon me.

01;45;42;13 – 01;46;04;04
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He goes on and says, and when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold. For I have stayed on God’s path. I have followed his ways at not turned aside. I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than daily food.

01;46;04;07 – 01;46;26;19
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So even when job can’t see God’s face, he keeps walking in God’s ways, even when he cannot understand God’s hand. He still treasures his words.

01;46;26;22 – 01;46;49;27
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Job can’t find God, but job still believes that God knows where he is, and until he can see what God is doing, he keeps walking in what God has already spoken.

01;46;50;00 – 01;46;59;28
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Until he can see what God is doing. He continues to walk in what God has already spoken.

01;47;00;02 – 01;47;03;27
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This is trust.

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It’s trust that’s been shaken. It’s wounded trust. It’s questioning trust.

01;47;13;20 – 01;47;31;11
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But it’s trust. This is trust under pressure. This is what being pressed by faith looked like for job.

01;47;31;13 – 01;47;53;13
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And if this is what pressed faith looks like in one person, and it can be shaken and wounded and questioning, but still reaching for God, still walking in what he’s spoken. Then I believe the church has to learn how to recognize it and not be afraid of it.

01;47;53;15 – 01;48;29;03
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We need as a church, not as a pastor, as a church. We need to help people keep moving towards God. This is the corporate sense of the prophetic word that was given. It’s important because this prophecy was not just given to a person, it was not just given for individuals, but that specifically the words in this prophetic word said the great press against your faith, both individually and corporately.

01;48;29;03 – 01;48;40;01
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This means part of preparing for this season is learning how we respond to one another when faith is being pressed.

01;48;40;04 – 01;48;46;26
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Are we going to be like jobs, friends?

01;48;46;29 – 01;48;58;04
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Jobs, friends thought their job was to explain God.

01;48;58;07 – 01;49;06;13
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But really, what job needed was him sitting with him.

01;49;06;16 – 01;49;15;03
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Not trying to solve a problem, find answers, but sitting with them.

01;49;15;06 – 01;49;23;00
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The church does not need to become a community of explanations.

01;49;23;02 – 01;49;42;18
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The church must become a community that helps people move towards God. It’s not about having all the answers. It’s about helping one another remain unhindered in their relationship with God.

01;49;42;21 – 01;50;03;03
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Once again, the danger is not the questions. You guys, the danger is the drifting away from God. And if the church is really going to help people resist that drift, we have to understand why struggles create distance.

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So why in some people do struggles create distance, and in others they create a deeper pursuit?

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But I believe the struggles don’t have to become distance guys. They do not have to become distance.

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You see, this question takes us beneath circumstances, beneath explanations, and it takes us to the heart. Because struggle doesn’t only reveal what we believe, it reveals what we love.

01;50;48;01 – 01;51;07;28
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Augustine suggested that our hearts are always attaching themselves to something. He calls them our loves or our affections. And the question isn’t whether we love. The question is what we love most.

01;51;08;01 – 01;51;21;24
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And sufferings and disappointment and confusion and pressure have a way of exposing where our affections have really been resting.

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What do we really love? What do we really trust? These things have a way of bringing that to the surface.

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People don’t survive the press unless their heart is anchored.

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Somewhere else.

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Maybe that’s why Paul tells us to set your affections on things above in Colossians three. Because if my heart is anchored entirely in outcomes, if it’s anchored in circumstances, success, comfort, answers, expectations, then every disappointment is a threat. But if my heart is anchored in Christ, then even when I struggle, I still know where I am.

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And this matters so much because whatever captures our heart, hear me will ultimately determine whether we move towards God or drift away from God. This is so important. What captures our heart determines whether we move towards or away from God. Where’s our affections?

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The goal is to remain unhindered in our relationship with God. To not interpret God apart from his character.

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To not let struggle become distant, but to bring our struggles to God, not away from him.

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See relation isn’t. Relationship isn’t proven when God makes sense. Relationship is revealed by what we do when he doesn’t.

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The reality is that this prophetic warning is going to touch all of us. No one is exempt. Questions are going to come. Confusion is going to come. Disappointment is going to come. Pressure is going to come. For some of us, we’re going to face challenges that totally fly in the face of what we know about God. For some of us, we’re going to face things that challenge our trust in God.

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And that is why the Lord is instructing us not to try to figure it out. I know that’s really hard for me. I’m just going to say, because I’m like a solution person. If somebody talks to me, my my brain’s automatically finding solutions. Let’s find let’s find our way through it. Right. I’ve even had to tell my kids, if you need to vent, you just need to tell me.

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I don’t need a solution, mom.

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Because I’m just going to naturally try to find solutions. It’s how I’m wired.

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But that’s not going to work here. Not all the time. God’s instruction to us isn’t to try to figure it out. He’s reaching out to us with an invitation.

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Will we make room?

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For him? Will we establish ourselves in relationship?

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Will we remain unhindered in our relationship? Even if we don’t understand his actions? Even if we don’t understand his timing. Even if we don’t understand his hand.

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Faith is not ultimately trusting that God will do what I expect.

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Faith is trusting God’s character when I can’t understand his actions.

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It’s the gospel gives us our landing place today.

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We’re not trying harder to find him. Jaden, can I get you to come?

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We’re not trying harder to find him.

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Jesus came to you.

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Jesus came to you.

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Today we’re going to do communion.

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I hope you all got your cups. If not, there’s some in the back. Go ahead. It’s all right. Take a minute, because I’m going to get mine. Because I left it down here.

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Thanks.

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I want to bring this back as we’re coming in. Back in and finding our seats.

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You see, Jobe wondered where God was.

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But the gospel said that God and humanity.

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God drew near.

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Jesus came to fill that gap. To fill that space.

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John one says, The Word was became flesh and dwelt among us. Romans five But God shows his love for us, that while we were sinners, he died for us. Galatians says, The Son of God, who loved me, and he gave himself for me.

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And Matthew and behold, Jesus says, I am with you always to the end of the age. This is our promise. Jesus says, I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

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Hebrews. It says that he’s never going to leave us or forsake us.

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God did not remain distant.

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He is right here.

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He gave us every opportunity to know him, to receive him.

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He’s made himself known.

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So I want to ask us some questions before we take communion.

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As we prepare our hearts to remember what Jesus did for us.

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Where are my affections? Anchored.

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What has become the object of my trust?

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What is hindering my relationship? Have I have I allowed disappointments to distort my view of God?

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Am I interpreting God through my circumstances?

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Are you angry at God?

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Is my heart still moving towards God or is it moving away?

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See here today God’s asking us to bring our struggles to him.

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Not try to hide them. Cover them.

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To put it right out there. To bring them to him. What do we need to place at the foot of the cross?

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Communion isn’t going to bring us all the answers to all the questions, but it will bring us closer to him because we put back in proper order what he did for us on the cross.

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He says, this is my body and this is my blood, and it is enough.

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It is enough. I love the end of job. Everything was restored because God is good.

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You see, in the middle. Sometimes we don’t see it, but God is still good. He reveals things to us in ways that maybe you’re uncomfortable and maybe we don’t understand.

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But he’s bringing us to a place of surrender to him, to a place where he is enough. And in that place there is fullness of love. There’s fullness of peace, there’s fullness of joy, because those things are not dependent on what is going on around me. They are not dependent on whether I’m wealthy and have children or whether I have nothing.

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They are dependent on him. They are dependent on him alone. Who holds all things.

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And he’s inviting us.

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You guys, this world is full of chaos. We cannot escape it. It’s not going to happen. But we can walk in the fullness of him. We can walk in peace. We can walk in every. When everything is upside down and inside out. He is still good.

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And his character is love, and his character is restoration and his character is fullness. And even if I’m not experiencing it right now, I know it’s who he is.

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And just like Peter said to Jesus, when nobody else understood, when everybody else was walking away. Whom will I go? To whom will I go?

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Because you have life. You have the words of life. And that’s all that matters. I don’t have to understand, but I need you.

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Lord forgive us.

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Lord forgive me.

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For not setting my affections on you.

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Paul writes to the Corinthians, and he says, for I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the same night that he was betrayed, he took bread.

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And when he had given thanks, he broke it. And he said, take, eat. This is my body which is broken for you.

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Do this in remembrance of me. Let’s take the bread.

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And in the same manner he took the cup also after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do as often as you drink and remembrance of me, for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

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We long for more of you. We long for more of you. Not just a part of you, but all of you. Lord, we long for more of you. We long for more of you. Not just a part of you, but all of you. Know.

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We long for more of you. We long for more of you. Not just a part of you, but all you, Lord. We are the more of you. We long for more you. Not just a part of you, but all you. So we pour it out.

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We pour it out.

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We put it out.

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At the feet of Jesus reported our.

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Record. And.

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Before it out.

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At the feet of Jesus.

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I am nothing, I am nothing without you.

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I am nothing. I am nothing without you. I am not being. I am nothing without you I love thee. I love you, without you. You make me something. You’d make me something. When I surrender, you make me something. You make me something. When I surrender, you make me something. You make me something when I surrender. You make me something.

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You make me something that I surrender. Make you make me something. You make me sorry. When I surrender, you make me something. You make me something. When I shall be poor and I.

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Will.

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Before it I.

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See dreams of the real.

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Before it.

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Falling out.

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At the feet of Jesus.

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God, we thank you.

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That your mercy has been flowing freely.

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And that your love is unconditional.

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And God, that the work you accomplished was sovereign. Thank you. Today for this prod in our hearts to draw close to you.

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Lord, to be face to face not only with our love but our frustrations. God, may we draw closer.

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May your sovereign work bring restoration and healing, wholeness and joy.

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That your kingdom come, God, that your will be done in our lives.

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In the name of Jesus.

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We’re going to be breaking off here. We have a place called the Fellowship Hall across the way where we do life together. We hear each other’s stories, we eat food with each other. And if this is your first time, we would like you to be courageous enough to join us over there. But if the message you heard today is not something you understand, or you’ve said yes to by saying, Jesus, I don’t know you, but I need you.

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This sounds like what I’ve been looking for. Stay after. Come up here. Please ask more about it. So grateful to be here with everyone. A good friend from the military is here. I’m so grateful for the vets that serve. Tristan, it’s good to see you. Yeah.

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Other great friends are here that I’m so blessed by.

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I love you all. God bless. We’ll see you cross the way.