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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 have we not been coming through

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storms of seeking God and trying to find out the answer to why and then God

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answers this is the answer now I've been doing a work in you that's what's

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going on all the way through I've been doing a work he's promised to never

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abandon his work but don't stop asking the question until you get the answer

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from him you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Hibbs.com

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others to listen now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you

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here is Jack Hibbs we're looking at the question why and it is this number one

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why why the question why is something that I firmly believe and I hope you

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do too that God has placed within you as one who has been created in the

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image of God we ask the question why and I want you to think about where that

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comes from why it demands an answer the question why when someone asks why we

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need to start by the way when we hear someone's claim we need to ask them why

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can I say this carefully I mean nothing other than love by it we need to

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stop being so polite when we are sharing with others about Jesus what I mean

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by that is this with respect yes with proper tone of course kindness

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absolutely but when somebody says oh I believe in God I'm good you don't have

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to talk to me about Jesus we need to get to that place to say well wait a minute

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before I move on why can I can I ask you this why do you say why do you say that

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you're right with Jesus let them explain themselves because it is so

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important that you and I see people including ourselves think again to think

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again the question why makes you think when Moses was standing at the edge of

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the red sea and the Egyptian forces and Pharaoh were in route to destroy the

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children of Israel having just been delivered out of Egypt by God they get

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right to the edge of the red sea and it's it's it's the Egyptian army or it's

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they're gonna drown and Moses must have it doesn't say that he had doubts at

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that moment it doesn't say that he grew weak and faith or doubted at that

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moment it doesn't say it but it kind of implies that that's what's happening

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they get right to the water and Moses gets up and he starts shouting to the people

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that God has brought us out here and we've come this far and Pharaoh's coming and

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and and and and and and stand still and see the salvation of the Lord I wonder

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what he sounded like when he did it he's like he's looking at the people he's

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got the ocean behind him and he can probably see a cloud of dust coming and and

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stand still and see the salvation of the Lord and God said Moses why stand ye

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here talking to me go it's great it's God he got they're going you can see God

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watching them on GPS he's got in it's like they're they're going look at that

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little blue dot move look at all of them all right watch this Gabriel Michael watch

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they're getting so close to the red sea it's watch this and they stop I think

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God's intent was I want to see Moses in the in the whole group of kids just

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keep going right out on the water I'm wondering I don't know I'm just wondering

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if Moses wouldn't have stopped would they have ran across the red sea I don't

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know it would have been that would have been great now both are great he

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parts the Red Sea that's fantastic but it would have been awesome too because you

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know there's there's precedent for this our God walks on water that they would

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have just walked across the Red Sea and then when Pharaoh got there all that

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dust would just turn to mud they would just go under like a submarine and of

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course they got that anyway but God said stand he said stand till and God said why

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go now move many times you and I were asking the question why when God's

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already given the answer why it's great to ask the question why keep asking God

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why God why this I don't think listen I had a man tell me yesterday he said

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Pastor Joe I God hurt my feelings years ago and I walked out on God it's been

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20 years 17 years 17 years he said I walked out on God and he said I came to the

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men's conference on Saturday and he said God crushed me he crushed me because he

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said God spoke to my heart and he said why are you been treating me this way what

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have I done to you when you're the one that made the decision to do what you did

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17 years ago you did what you did to you God said I didn't do that to you why

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and it crushed them but a powerful truth you can ask the question why that's

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fine do what God expects I think he put that in you but when God gives the answer

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respond that's your faith comes in many times you say why that's okay God can

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take it but when you calm down let him answer you this is terrible before we

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move on to the second thing don't tell anybody my mom was 4 11 maybe 5 feet

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pure Portuguese born and raised in the wine islands never were shoes even

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moved to San Diego she didn't wear shoes but my brother and I would provoke her to

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no end that's what sons do and she would come it was great now I say it's great

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now she when she get mad at us you can hear the kitchen drawer open up and you

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can hear the silverware rattling and she would grab a knife and she would come

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chasing us in the house it was a great home oh it's fantastic look it's fine it

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didn't damage me in any way and I could you not ask Lisa if you doubt me but my

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window my window in my bedroom had no screen on it because we could go my

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brother could go out of his room and I could go out of my room when my mom was

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after us but if she if she couldn't get a knife we would hold she would come

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after us and we would hold her forehead and she would be swinging at us and it

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just made her all the more and we we knew all of those Portuguese and Hawaiian

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words that you're not allowed to repeat and it just drove her it just drove

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her crazy but I remember when my mom when my mom had finally succumbed to

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cancer and she was on her deathbed she told my aunt Betty she asked my

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aunt Betty making a statement she said where's Jesus what's taking him so

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long listen why why is he taking so long to come get me that was her last words

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why she had the question he answered God is gonna answer your questions even

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if it takes 17 years or my mom my mom's case in her 60s but don't stop

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asking the question until you get the answer from him that's very important

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Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 30 says when you are distressed we when you are

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in distress and all things come upon you in the latter days when you turn to

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the Lord your God obey his voice you got that everybody all right number two is

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this why why not why now in life that's another thing why and then why now have

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you noticed friends that would never you and I are going through a time of

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testing stretching difficulty it's never the right time like we can order it

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like to make an appointment next Tuesday for learn some patience it's never

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gonna happen you can count on it but you don't know when it's gonna happen why

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now we ask Job chapter 23 verse 10 the Bible there tells us but he knows the

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way that I take when he has tested me I shall come forth as gold everyone's

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been tested you've been hearing that for almost a year now what's interesting is

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not not everyone's made it through but what's interesting is that those who

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have made it through are shining like gold beam purified shines and that has

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led others who were no who were never walking with Jesus to get on board the

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Jesus train have you watched that happen I watched that happen in almost every

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area of my life that I can put my finger the shaking hit life was challenged and

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people ask the question why God gave the answer and they didn't like it and you

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come now to this issue of testing in my life it's now upon me it's now

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happening or it's gonna happen and the Bible tells us God is telling us don't

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worry about it this is how gold is purified gold is made shiny by fire you

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gotta heat it up weird thing about gold is that when you heat it up it it's so

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fluid and it's kind of mesmerizing when you see it it's moving around it's

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liquid and and then up through the gold will pop up some something black and

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you'll see the artisan scrape that draw us off the top of the gold and when

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it's heated at just the right temperature it goes remember if you've seen

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gold in museums and stuff it's not shiny it's just gold but when it's heated

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up it becomes brilliant you know why you're wetting ring or you're you're

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ring your classroom whatever it is or whatever if it's gold for real if it's

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real gold it's gonna it's gonna reflect it's gonna be very very shiny and the

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interesting about gold is that it's very soft it can be imprinted upon is that

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not us have we not been been coming through storms of seeking God and trying to

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find out the answer to why and then God answers this is the answer now I've

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been doing a work in you that's what's been going on all the way through I've been

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doing a work he's promised to never abandon his work I think it's Psalm 138

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somewhere around verses six seven or eight I'm going by memory now which is

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dangerous at my age but he says somewhere there that I will not forsake the work

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of my hands I will perfect that which I have started in you it's the Old Testament

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answer to Philippians 1 6 that says there that I will finish that which I'd

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begun in you I will finish that good work and complete it into the day of Christ

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so when you might be in a in the time of crushing and difficulty we don't

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understand why but we know this that the now of it is in the hands of

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sovereign Almighty God and the proof is it's never the right time for us to go

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through something that stretches our faith to God's perspective it's it's

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perfectly appointed it's ordered by God well I think we might have made a mistake

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now did you pray did you seek his face did you consult him yes and from the best

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data possible that God gave you did you step out yeah well then here's the

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answer to where you're at right now is don't mismanage the direction God has

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given you because if you mismanage it and second guess it then you have a

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tendency to pull back and recoil and begin to have second thoughts about it then

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you begin to second guess God that's a bad path right now friend in your life

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and that issue let him be God okay now number three why know not N O K N O W

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no why no because we have to know this and growing up there used to be this

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crazy Nucleid Hollywood magazine the the inquire and it said inquiring

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minds have to know well you know what they didn't invent that there's something

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within us about knowing we have to know in fact we get this thing sometimes

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wanting to know so out of out ahead of us that we wind up getting in trouble

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because again we try to fabricate something I need to know this I need to

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know this friends listen we need to take a deep breath and relax and understand

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something we don't need to know everything and I'm not too sure how good we're

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doing with Wikipedia Google or whatever else you might use I just have to know

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some of the stuff maybe most of it who knows is it true we don't know you do

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know right I mentioned this a couple weeks ago because they're in the headlines

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fact finder you can take your fact finder app or or dot common and throw it away

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because those guys were found out to be frauds are you kidding me that's right

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and all the information that explains the decisions you've been making no

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listen if you and I can let's be on it control freaks have to know I'm just not

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gonna stop until I know well then keep going right look because here's the

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thing God says to all of us at some moment in time quite often I think for most

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of us is I want you to do this and I'm not gonna tell you why I want you to do

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your step of faith in this God is good you know when you hear God is good why

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do we say that well because you're supposed to you're you're Christian now

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that would be wrong to say God is good and mean it is because he's come

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through and he's proven himself good our God is not some weird a fickled

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deity he's not some capricious God in the universe playing marbles with

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universes he's good and he reveals his goodness to us in this thing called

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faith and so God will bring you so far and then he'll tell you he won't abuse

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you he'll tell you the next steps by faith the next step you gotta go well

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can't you show me more I'm not gonna show you more speak to me already have show

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me a sign not gonna do that God if I just had a word I gave you a

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gazillion of them just step but what if I fall silence no have you

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noticed silence from heaven what if I fail and hear crickets did you know when

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you're following God and you're pursuing him by the way he's so cool if you

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fail at what you're doing you know he does he picks you up and he says and you

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did that with all of your heart there's a lot of passion you poured into that

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and you sincerely thought you're following me but that was that's not what I

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said I said this oh no no that's very valuable because now you know number one

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he's very merciful and now you know how to hear his voice in the noise and now

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you know to never do that again right he's amazing he never he never looks

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he says what why are you here that's it I'm done talking to you remember

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Elijah's whining oh there's no more prophets they're all gone I'm the only one

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left and God goes why are you here I've got seven thousand other prophets

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just like you stand up Joshua falls on his face crying because they lost the

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battle at AI and you can sense it that Joshua was about to say God what's up

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with you and John he's crying he's flat on his face and God says to Joshua stop

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crying and stand up like a man can you imagine God seeing that he took a job

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like that a lot a man in the crucible man listen you don't need to know that's

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where faith comes in God will take you to the point you have to have it you're

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gonna have to step out in faith it's not blind it's not silly he'll give you

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enough intel on it and then you got to step and you got to put it out there and

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and you know many times we'll say I don't know I don't know if God's working in

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my life listen walk with him like that and you'll see him move and then you'll

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have really your doubts this spell they'll the vibrate we need to be reckless

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more for God listen we don't take risk in our faith anymore right we are so

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terrified that we don't take risk with our faith we should in life we used to

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I don't know if we'll ever do it again because of all the fear factor but we

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used to be a people who said things like let's storm that beach we can liberate

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Europe apparently now all Europe if listen if it was all over again all Hitler

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would have to do is put up a big balloon that looks like COVID on the beach and

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we never would have liberated Europe would we have liberated Europe if there

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was a chance of getting a virus no did I'll be speaking German tonight not

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true those guys to liberate people took a chance in the face of death and did

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something radical Christians tip till around afraid we're gonna offend

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somebody Jesus died for the sins of the world because the world is lost in

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its sin and it's on its way to hell it's like it it's going down can you

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imagine the plane is going down and people are serving dinner watch it a movie

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in the planes like that and somebody jumped up and says we're gonna hit unless we

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do something repent and turn this plane around right but we don't want to do

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that because we can make something to feel uncomfortable

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