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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.

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There is no sin that Christ did not pay for, and He says, come to me, heaven or hell,

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you decide but come to me, and I love you, come.

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

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you, here is Jack Hibbs.

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Psalm 46 verse 1, God is our refuge and strength, the very present help and trouble.

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Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed and though the mountains

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be carried into the midst of the sea, though its waters roar and be troubled, though the

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mountain shake with its swelling, look at that last word is say lah.

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The word means they're in Hebrew to wait, honder, think about this, slow down.

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The Bible warns us, we do not know how we ought to pray always.

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Listen to William Barkley wrote in his commentary and he's quoting by the way, someone else.

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So this is Barkley quoting Xenophon.

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He says from history, we learned that Xenophon of Athens wrote that Socrates taught his disciples

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simply to pray for good things and do not attempt to be so specified or specific, I would

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think he's saying.

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But leave God to decide what the best things are, isn't that wise?

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That's good.

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People, and I'm grateful, people will often ask me, Pastor, how can we pray for you?

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And they think I'm joking when I tell them.

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I simply say this, all you need to know is this prayer for me and my family and for this

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church is pray for God's favor.

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See, what sounds kind of, that's it?

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Are you kidding?

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That's all you need.

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God's favor takes care of my health.

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God's favor takes care of my marriage.

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God's favor takes care of you.

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God's favor takes care of my grandkids and my kids.

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Are you with me?

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You get that.

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God's favor is the greatest request you could ever ask.

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And I think that's an extravagant prayer to have the favor of God.

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And I listen, I so often pinch myself, I can't believe the things that happen in my life.

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And it's none other than your prayer is being answered by the favor of God.

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So remarkable, he's so good.

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And Matthew 6 verse 8, Jesus says, for your father knows the things that you have need

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of before you ask.

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Now, this is fun.

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See, Jack, you just said to ask because Heaven's listening and now you tell me that Jesus

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says, the father knows what I have need of before I ask, so why ask?

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He doesn't give anything unless you ask.

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He knows what you have need of before you ask, right?

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He knows what you should ask.

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For example, let's say God wants to do a deep work in your life regarding your faith.

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He needs to take you to the next level.

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Hope you know that your spiritual development upward is always preceded first by a trip

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downward.

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If you want to grow up, in Jesus, you're going to get cut off at the knees.

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That's how we go up.

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It's an opposite thing.

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You want to be in the front of the line, you've got to the back of the line.

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You want to be in the back of the line, you go to the front of the line.

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You want him to increase, we decrease.

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So watch this.

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If God knows what I have need of before I ask, then what's the purpose of me asking?

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And yet the Bible says you have not because you asked not.

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So what is this a game?

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Not at all.

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It's for your faith.

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And by the way, when you pray, I want to encourage all of you, pray specific.

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Start praying specific.

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And the more specific you pray, the more sensitive you'll be to when God answers your

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prayer.

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Well, listen, young ladies in here, are you looking for a man?

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You better pray.

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Ask God, Lord, I want a man who loves you.

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How about this?

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Be specific.

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I want a man who loves you more than he loves me.

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That will be the man for me.

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And show me a man whose spiritual leadership is something that I can applaud that I am impressed

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by.

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Young ladies, don't be satisfied with some guy, you're I believe in God.

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But his biceps are like 19 inches.

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So seriously, this goes both ways, don't listen, don't even get interested in people that

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you're not impressed by their spiritual maturity.

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And you don't have to be old, have spiritual maturity.

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That was free.

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It's not even in my notes.

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You can have that.

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But you know that sometimes we get everything jumbled up by our pursuits.

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And instead of calling out to God and praying and seeking His face, heaven is listening.

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And we don't take as much advantage of that as we ought.

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If you're a Christian today, church, if you're a Christian today, the Bible says in 1st

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John 1 9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of all of our sins and

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declenses from all unrighteousness.

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That's written to the Christian, not the non-Christian, only to the Christian.

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But the Bible says to the non-Christian that you need to repent of your sins and believe

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on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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So what do we have going on here?

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Number one, the non-believer who's becoming the believer must hear this first.

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Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.

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And the word repent means change your mind.

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Let him change into the mind needs to happen in our world today.

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Don't you agree?

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My goodness.

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Change your mind.

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Change the way you think.

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You've changed your mind on other things.

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Change your mind on this.

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That is who he says he is and you're alienated from God and you need his salvation.

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He died on the cross once, rose again from the dead once, and you need to run to him now

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while you still have a breath.

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That's to the non-believer because what Jesus did is he took away the power of sin and

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death at the cross and looked God died on the cross for your sins, God the Son, and

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it had to be him because he knew that when he just think about this, there have been billions

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and billions of people that have lived since Adam and Eve.

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And when Christ went to the cross, it had to be God.

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It couldn't have been a good man.

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God at the cross literally thought about every individual, he loved them and every one

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of their sins, he paid that price and you and I have no clue what that means.

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It's beyond our imagination, it's beyond our scope to comprehend.

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There's no sin that Christ did not pay for.

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And he says come to me, heaven or hell, you decide but come to me and I love you, come.

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But to the believer, we're already in the family.

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We're secured, we're in him.

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And when God says to us, you need to repent.

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When we go to watch, when the Christian goes to pray and it feels like you're hitting

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a block wall, don't be surprised when God says things like this.

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Listen, you're still at odds with your husband or you're still at odds with your kids.

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I don't want to hear from you.

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Go set it straight and you come back to me later.

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You know, he says that in the Scriptures.

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Go set it straight and then I'll talk, I'm not going to listen to you right now, did you

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know that?

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It shouldn't be a surprise to us, you know, if you have kids, think about it.

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Think about your kid.

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Your kid does something terribly wrong.

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You said, now just stay home, I'll be back in five minutes.

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You come home and they've painted the garage door pink or something.

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I said, what are you doing?

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Go to your room.

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Your kid goes to the room.

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When your kid is in his room, is he still your kid?

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He's still your kid.

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But you hear the door open up and he comes down the home and he says, why I've been in my

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room, I went online and I saw what I want for Christmas.

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What are you going to say to him?

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Back to the room.

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Get back to that.

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We're not talking about Christmas, we're talking about punishment, not blessings.

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Get back to the room.

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Our fellowship is, get back there.

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Our fellowship has been broken.

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But dad, do I belong to the family?

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Yes.

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Get back there.

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Are you going to throw me out?

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No.

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Get back there.

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Come to me when your heart is humble, when you've repented.

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And then when they come, I'm sorry that I did that.

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What happens?

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Fellowships restored.

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That's true in the Christian life.

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Many prayers are not being heard because you've had it out with your family, friend, neighbor,

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husband, wife, whatever it is.

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And God has saved you.

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I'm not talking to you right now, you've got to go fix that.

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They, your gift at the altar, go settle the score with your friend, with your enemy,

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with whoever it is.

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And you come to me.

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Our God is good.

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Isaiah 59 verse 1, Isaiah 59 once is behold, the Lord's hand is not short, that he cannot

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save.

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Neethers is eared, heavy, that he cannot hear, but your equities have separated you from

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your God and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear.

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And I cannot help but think, that lived out, friends, my mind jumps to a moment in time

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2,000 years ago, when I believe was the fulfillment of Habakkuk 113 when the Bible says, God's

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eyes are too pure to behold evil, he cannot look upon wickedness.

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2,000 years ago, the Bible tells us that Jesus Christ, Yeshua, Messiah, Jesus the Messiah

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went to the cross and died, fulfilling the Old Testament prophecies in our place on

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that Passover weekend.

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And when you think about that, you know as a Gentile believer that one of the things that

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Jesus cried out from the cross, are those funny words you have written in your New Testament

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that you can't quite make out, it's a foreign language of some sorts, but you have learned

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that it means, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?

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Eloi, Eloi, Lama, Shabbat, and I, Jesus Christ from the cross.

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me, which is a fascinating statement, because number

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1, Jesus had done nothing wrong, number 2, Jesus had shown everyone the way of the Father,

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number 3, Jesus had ministered under the power of the Holy Spirit and no one could bring

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an accusation against them.

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Everybody scrutinized him and came up with nothing.

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And he says, why have you forsaken me?

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Did you know that that was an incredible announcement to the Jews that were there?

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That's Psalm 22, people, and every Jew would have known it.

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They would have recognized the messianic Psalm of Psalm 22.

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Listen to this everyone, Psalm 22, verse 1, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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Why are you so far from helping me?

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Do you know what that is?

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That's Psalm 22.

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It's also Mark 1534.

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What about Psalm 22, verse 6?

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I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised by people.

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All those who see me ridicule me, they shoot out the lip, they shake their heads saying,

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he trusted in the Lord, let him rescue him.

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Let him deliver him since he delights in him, friends.

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It is Matthew 27, verse 42, and Isaiah 53, verse 3, because you can now be forgiven, heaven

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is listening, you can have your sins taken away if you recognize who was on the cross and

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what he was doing for you, what he was doing for me.

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The Holy Spirit dwells in you as a believer, Psalm 22, 31, they will come and declare his

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righteousness to a people yet unborn that he has done this.

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Well, that would be Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, and Mary, including you.

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That's the New Testament account.

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And then we'll end it this, heaven is speaking.

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I'm convinced of it, heaven is speaking.

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So, Jack, I'd love to hear the voice of God, answer, pick up his word.

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I don't understand it, church, I can't explain it to you.

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Those of you who know what I mean, you know what I mean.

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But how is it that you pick up the Bible and you read it?

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And how is it that the words that he wants to speak to you will somehow jump up, almost

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as though they are done by a graphic artist, they'll pop, they'll lift up off the page

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to announce to you, this is the answer.

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And you'll put it down and you'll fall to your knees and you say, God, thank you.

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Thank you for that answer.

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That makes perfect sense.

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And you can go in confidence, you can be rest assured and people will attack you and

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people will give you alternate ideas, you don't have to worry.

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You've got the answer from God.

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Because heaven is speaking, in Luke chapter 22, verse 31, you want to see how practical

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heaven can speak.

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The Bible says in Luke 22, 31, and the Lord said to Simon, Peter, Simon, Simon, indeed

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Satan has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat, but I have prayed for you.

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Notice, I, Jesus, have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith should not fail.

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Isn't that amazing?

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You guys, if you've heard me comment on this before, to me, this is absolutely fascinating.

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I can't see it happening any other way.

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In fact, if you read the context, all the guys are there, all the disciples, they're all

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hanging out, they're all talking.

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And Jesus just says, Peter, Satan has been asking me to have you.

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Can you imagine?

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He's been asking me, by name, Satan wants to rip you one.

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He wants to lay into you and destroy you, Peter.

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No, I don't know what was going on, but in my head, I'm thinking, if I'm Peter, I'm

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just like, I mean, I don't know what he was doing, was he mending the net at the moment?

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Was he doing his nails?

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What was he doing?

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So Jesus has said, Peter, Satan has asked me if he could have you to tear you to shreds.

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Wow, really?

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James, did you hear that?

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Satan's not asking for you.

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No, Peter, Satan's been asking you by name.

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Yeah, that's crazy, right?

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You told him, no, I'm sure, right?

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No, Peter, you're not hearing me.

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Satan has been asking for you by name.

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And I've prayed that your faith not fail.

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What does that mean?

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That means he asked for you and I'm going to allow it.

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So we'll wait a minute.

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We didn't, I don't know if we signed up for this.

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Friends, listen, are you okay with God using you anyway he wants to?

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Hmm, that was kind of weak.

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And it's so it should.

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Think about it.

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Christian, yeah, yeah, Jesus.

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I love Jesus, yes, I do.

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I love Jesus, how about you?

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Hey, how about this?

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How about Jesus saying, tell you what, Jack,

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Satan has been asking me for you by name.

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So here's a deal.

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When you return, strengthen your brothers and sisters.

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That's what he told Peter.

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What if the pink slip from your doctor means you have to go to the radiologist

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and they find a lump?

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What if the blood draw shows an incredibly high amount of white blood cells?

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What happens if the job that you are supposed to have tomorrow,

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by the time you pull up, there's somebody else's car in the spot?

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I prayed about it.

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Is it possible that all of these fiery trials of life,

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God is literally using you, his tool, his instruments

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to communicate the gospel of God has to speak to a radiologist

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or someone otherwise would never tune into a Billy Graham

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podcast or go to a church, but God will allow you to go through this

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to get the gospel to that nurse or to that co-pilot.

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Are you hearing me?

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Oh, Lord, I'll follow you anywhere.

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Listen, let's be honest.

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Lord, I'll follow you anywhere so long as you give me the grace

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and the ability to follow you because I can't follow you.

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I'll run so fast away from you if I get a chance

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because I don't trust me.

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So God, hook me up.

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Don't let me go.

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And so as long as you understand that, I'll follow you wherever you go

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because I don't trust me.

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And he says, I will not allow you to be tested beyond that which you were able.

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