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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. When you ingest the Bible it

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comes out and it becomes I don't even like to use the word second nature. I think

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for the believer God allows it to be our first nature. Why? Because we've been

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born again and so you think Bible you speak Bible and you do Bible and when

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God sees this he's blessed and the world sees it and they realize how is this

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even possible? This person's got no education. Oh, I know they've been with Jesus.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Hibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us

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that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to

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listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack

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Hibbs. I wrote this down. We'll put up on this screen. If it blesses you then God

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gave it to me. If it doesn't make any sense I made it up and it's this. If the

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observable universe displays the glory of God what we know that's true from the

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book of Psalms and it does then shouldn't a glorified life place the observable

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God on display for all to see. Can I read that again? If the observable

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universe displays the glory of God and it does then shouldn't a glorified life

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place the observable God on display for all to see. You see well Jack wait a minute

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God's invisible you can't see him. My point if you and I have been transformed and

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we're living for Jesus doesn't the world just like the observe the stars can't

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the world observe your life and conclude there must be a God. That's the life of

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the believer. That's how you get into lions dens and you have no fear. That's how

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you get onto ships that are tossed in the raging storm and you don't panic because

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our lives are secured in him and settled and as long as the universe is

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observable I know this that the God who made those things desire something

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greater and that is for him to be observable in our lives and I believe according

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the scripture he's so committed to that the witness of God is on display in our

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lives it's true of all of us followers it's true of his children in Acts

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chapter 4 verse 12 Acts 4 verse 12 says there is no salvation in any other for

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there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Now

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when they saw the boldness of Peter and John they just got done saying that and

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obviously those who heard that watched then they saw Peter and John they

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perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men I love that verse

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everybody you want to know why I don't mean to offend anyone but if you have a

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PhD or if you've got an MD or if you've got a doctorate in theology I don't

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it doesn't matter and it doesn't matter what your world experiences that's

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awesome that verse to me is this verse is so encouraging because it

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announces to me that no matter what you have in this world by degree or by

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experience it doesn't translate over into your spiritual world of being used by

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God in other words if you are a brilliant MD that's great and keep doing that but

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listen God in his kingdom might have you do something completely different

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whereby he does he didn't need your education to pull it off are you with me

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he does the supernatural now look I want your education when you apply your

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medicine to me but God doesn't need that for you to be used in his kingdom

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so when the Bible says that there are those observing and they saw Peter and

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John tremendously powerful by the hand of God they concluded immediately how

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can this be these guys are uneducated unlearned people why because they were

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approaching a supernatural phenomenon through human physical eyes and the

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greatest thing about being a Christian is that our lives are supernatural that's

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why so much that goes on in our world we can't explain it good bad and ugly we

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can't explain it God's at work but look they perceive that they're uneducated

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and untrained men they marveled and they realized oh we get it now we know of

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course that they had been with Jesus that's a that's a good tattoo right

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there I have been with Jesus if you want the whole verse it would be right

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about here right is that a great thing think of a statement think of a title

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take of our argument the world looks at us and they see your boldness because

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it's hidden in Christ it's anchored to him it's not your boldness it's your

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boldness because God gave it to you your argumentation because it's biblical

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you've been at this church for a while you've got Bible now flowing through your

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veins so that when you talk to people or when you look at something your

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decision is coming coming up out of you because the Bible says I have hidden

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your word in my heart when you ingest the Bible it comes out and it becomes I

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don't even like to use the word second nature I think for the believer God

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allows it to be our first nature why because we've been born again and so you

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think Bible you speak Bible and you do Bible and when God sees this he's blessed

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and the world sees it and they realize how is this even possible this person's

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got no education oh I know they've been with Jesus I'll submit to you that the

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more time we spend with Jesus privately the greater the manifestation will be

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publicly in the life that you live four things I want to run through this little

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checklist I have in my notes on page three if you're looking at the notes up

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until this point everything has been necessary to sweep things out to make

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things clear so that whatever foundation might be exposed only then can you

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begin to build that's what Paul's doing second thing is chapter four is where

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Paul brings us into the world of the Jewish mind and the origins of the both

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Hebrew people as well as what it means to be a real Jew we're going to learn

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about that third thing we'll see in the chapter is that he will do this by

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calling them to the two greatest examples calling them calling us of a true

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listen living and acceptable relationship with God that are founded upon in the

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lives of Israel's great patriarchs and it's very shocking church listen for

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you to best understand your own walk with God today in the 21st century you've

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got to go back and look at the lives of Abraham and David and in Romans 4 you're

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being introduced to Abraham and David why in the world would a New Testament

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book drive you back to the Old Testament patriarchs of Abraham and David and if

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you read about their lives in the Bible you find out that they have the same

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exact walk that you and I have today they say the thing that's why you love

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reading those songs

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resonates with your heart and when you look at Abraham and this situation's going

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on and taking place and you connect with that these two men had most unique

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relationship with God that is mirrored today in our 21st century I said it this

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way it sounds clumsy it's theologically you can't defend it theologically really

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but it's this it's as though Abraham and David had born again relationships with

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God now they were not born again nobody could be born again until John 20 in the

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Bible fourthly that this chapter holds for us is that these two men whose

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lives were Old Testament examples of what it looks like to be true a true

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believer today is in the 21st century believer now it's remarkable the

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Ephesians 13 is blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has

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blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places verse 4 just as

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he chose us in him now listen do you and Gentile listen just as he chose us in

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him before the world or the foundations of the world were ever laid were ever

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created before time was ever established that we should be holy and without

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blame before him in love having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ

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to himself according to the good pleasure of his will verse 6 to the praise of the

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glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in the beloved in him we have

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redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins according to the

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riches of his grace verse 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and

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prudence having made known to us the mystery of his will the mystery of his will

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is the New Testament the old had the message the new recorded it that

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mystery on that which has always been before time ever began was made known

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according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself verse 10 that in the

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dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in

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Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth in him verse 11 in him also

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we have obtained an inheritance being predestined according to the purpose of him

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who works all things according to the counsel of his will that means God's got

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a plan for your life and he's going to do it and I love that kind of talk I love

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when God comes up and takes me by the hand and says let's walk he didn't say

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would you like to take a walk Jack no listen I put my faith in him and so he comes

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up to me and he just grabs him and says let's walk let's walk and talk come on

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let's talk to you about something Genesis chapter 15 verse 6 and 7 says and Abraham

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believed in the Lord and he accounted it to him for righteousness Abraham believed

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in God and God says for that I'm going to declare you righteous then God said to

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him I am the Lord who brought you out of ear of the Caldys to give you this land

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to inherit God gave Abraham promises that was the banner over Abraham's life and

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then David we read a moment ago about David in this chapter David's example is

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this in Psalm 27 4 and I'm going to ask you do you recognize this verse in Psalm

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27 4 does this not describe you and dear church family listen you should know

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me by now I'm going to lay this out in a second in such a way that it will

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either cause you to get excited or cause you to probably never come back here

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again and I want you to know something that's not that's not that has nothing to

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do with me and and and I love you but I don't care no seriously we're not

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building a club here's the thing how do you know if you are a true believer David's

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going to tell you David's going to show you you judge yourself right now nobody

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else needs to judge you nobody's got the authority to judge you but we're

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commanded to judge ourselves aren't we so here we go let's judge ourselves can we

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agree with David three thousand years ago does he sound like us today one thing

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have I desired of the Lord that I will seek that I may dwell in the house of

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the Lord that's not here that's not this building okay that's not some temple

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that's heaven that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life

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to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple does that

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describe you what what pastor what do you mean are are you longing for heaven

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do you want to go there now look I know some of you are young and some of you

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are single and you're thinking yes but I just met a young woman or I just met a

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young man and we're getting pretty serious and I wanted to all in the house

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the Lord over the days of my life but can we do that later I understand that

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struggle but the reality is true nonetheless how beautiful is that struggle

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because you are a young individual who's got the Lord in your heart you have

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that struggle and that's a beautiful thing now those of us who are older I

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mean I don't know I mean some of us we hang out together and have you

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noticed our conversation especially the last couple of years has been more on

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heaven than in your the topic why because we're getting excited what did Abraham

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do church to be declared righteous by God he believed is that bother you I love

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it you know it bothers it bothers those of you who've come from denominations

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who all your life you were told by the ministry leaders you better do this you

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better do this and you better do this we better never find you doing this this

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or this and if you fill in the blanks and if you dot that eye and if you cross

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those teas will advance you to the next position and you'll be this thing and

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then you're gonna get this award and you're gonna be this super saint and

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you're gonna be this thing and then maybe then maybe you know and you grow up

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thinking like that this is American Christianity it's horrible that if you're

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just good enough you're acceptable look there's something called Yankee Know-How

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and we're famous for at least we used to be and I get that Yankee Know-How was

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the the Europeans said you know we can't fix this we don't you know what to do

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about this get an American over here they'll figure it out those crazy soldiers

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came from farmlands and they would take binding wire and make the airplane work

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again and we were famous for it this week site story this week my lawnmower

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wouldn't start actually the backstory was this it started perfectly fine just

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like it does every time I need it I pulled that thing and I made one two three

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four and a half passes on my grass right straight lines and the lawnmower went

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I just filled it up it can't be out of gas wouldn't start got a new spark plug

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put it in wouldn't start I pulled it go that's all I did and it's set there for

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two days and I would pull and I would say Lord please no I'm not joking God I'm

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not kidding you guys I'm dead sir gas Lisa Lord I just want to I don't know

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about you but I get a lot of therapy out of mind the lawn like Lord please it's

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all I want to do now Lord I want to remind you the tides are moving fine the

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moon is working Saturn still has it rings you can start this mower I know you can

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it's all I want to do just want to mow the lawn boom so do you know what you do

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in that situation no she said buy a new mower that's the American way no you do

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the Christian thing to do what's the Christian thing to do I went and got my

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granddaughter and I said now watch this she had she had just put a big scoop of

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food in her mouth I don't know what it was and I said I need you to come over

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here come here I need you to pray for my lawn mower to start and she goes I go

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just pray for my lawn mower listen for all of you listen all of you who struggle

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with the gift of tongues check this out she goes and I went and the thing just

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started right up if it doesn't work get a kid she prayed with food in her mouth God brought

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down the answer how that applies to our message I have no idea Abraham Abraham's faith

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Abraham's faith he didn't do anything he didn't do a thing he believed what God had said

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and that's where the walk of the believer begins the cultist and the legalist says do these things

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and you enter in God says nope enter in and you get to do these things there's a big difference

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