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Jesus loves the drama. He stays in your drama. He encourages you through your drama.

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In the height of your drama, he is for you and with you. Nothing can stop him from being with you.

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He is Emmanuel, God with us. He's in your boat and in your drama. He's in your storm.

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There's not one thing that you can go through today that you can't say that Jesus is not on your side.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today,

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as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

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That's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the

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Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by his grace,

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and that he has a real hope and a future for you.

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We have a great treat because Pastor Moe is going to bring the Word today. Yes.

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You know Pastor Moe as our community pastor. He loves on you. He is a fantastic leader in our

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church and he has a great word that he wants to share with you. So you gave a little preview,

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but let's put our hands together and give a thunderous applause as we welcome Pastor Moe to the stage.

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We're blessed the Lord. I mean, was it really thunderous though?

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Good morning, church. How you guys feeling?

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Good. Good. By show of hands, how many people were here last week? Raise your hand.

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Gotta love the good retention rate, praise God.

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Well, for those of you who weren't here, Pastor James actually did the preaching and he gave

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a tremendous word. If you haven't heard it yet, even those that are watching online,

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if you haven't heard it, stream it. Watch it. It's on YouTube. All of our streaming platforms,

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online, social media, go and listen to this message. It will bless, strengthen, and encourage your life.

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It will challenge you, but in a good way. I'm not like a challenging, like you go to the gym

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and then you hate your personal train of type of thing. I don't mean like that. Like,

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it'll literally make you want to be better. You know, he preached on going big.

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The, you know, B-I-G, like B-I-G, go big. You know, the B is for being present.

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Don't just be a religious person who goes to church, actually be present, but then go a step

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further even from that and get involved. And then finally, you would give. He actually shares

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something with us often within our staff meetings. He speaks about these concentric circles of

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fellowship. So literally, you can start on the periphery and the outside and the more you get

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acclimated and comfortable in your faith, you continue to take these steps forward

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into the inner circle where you're not just an attender, somebody who's coming a little bit after

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worship, just started and then leaving a little bit before the service ends so you don't have to

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talk to anybody. Listen, if that's you, just say amen and move on. We're growing, we're growing.

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But, you know, you get to take these steps inward and upward, amen? So for me, all of that,

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when I heard the message, what I really heard was a boil down invitation to surrender,

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total life surrender to Jesus and his kingship and his lordship. You know, I've learned that over my

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extensive Christian history and really that that would be where my daughter would just call me old.

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I was telling people in the 10 AM, sometimes I want to punch my daughter in the throat.

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Only the parents understand that, all the singles are like,

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oh, past your moh. I mean, if you have kids, you understand like, I really, really love my kids

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and guess what, I like them. They're like really fun to hang out with, but every now and again,

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I just want to punch you in the throat. And not like a, I don't want to like pull back,

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I just do it real quick just to just to move it out.

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You know, she has this way of like not being rude because she's actually telling the truth,

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but it's staying so bad because it's the truth. So like I said, she would say that I'm old,

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but I've learned in my extensive Christian history. I literally hear her in the back of my head

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pretty old that if Jesus, this one I've learned, that if Jesus is not Lord of all,

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then he's not Lord at all. Meaning that you can't compartmentalize and put these different areas

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to say, well, this one is fully devoted to Jesus, this one I'm working on, this one,

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it's either you give yourself totally to the fact that you're not yours anymore and you were

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bought with the price and you actually belong to him or you're going through the motions of

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some form of religion and posturing and preening of getting God's approval unnecessarily.

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Because really what the Lord is calling us to and what Pastor James was challenging us into

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is surrender. And I think the most perfect follow-up to that message is to equip the saints with

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the proper perspective on surrender. The proper perspective of the surrender, I should say,

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you know, we're in for a treat. Oh, and how about this? I've learned that mis-expectation

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gives birth to disappointment. And the reason that I'm saying that is because again, I want to

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equip you and I want to arm you with the proper perspective. How many of you have ever believed

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and hoped for something only to see it not line up exactly the way you thought it was and you

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were disappointed? Nobody. This is amazing. Thank you, James. Listen, I'll give you some help right

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now. For all the married folk, you can lie right now because your spouse is next to you. If you're

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married, you've experienced this before, where you have had an expectation of one thing and that

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thing did not happen the way you thought it was and it gave birth to disappointment. And because

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there was disappointment and repeated disappointment, it actually furthered itself into resentment

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and that grew into bitterness. See, people say that the number one reason that people fail marriages

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and get divorced is because of money. I would say right up there 50-50 with it is uncommunicated

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expectations. Where now you're believing and desiring the person to do A, but you've not actually

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taken the time to articulate that desire, but you're expecting them to do it and when they don't

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do it, you feel away and it births this horrible vicious cycle. I know you won't say N, A man,

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but you will say Apple. Okay. So we need this perspective.

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If we're going to go big, we have to have the right perspective and make sure that we have proper

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expectations so we're not caught unaware. You know, the other day, I had a financial advisor in my

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home and it's not that I was like eliciting all this and maybe works like one of the big banks.

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I didn't really have him over to elicit financial. We were just talking basketball, eating chicken

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wings. That's what we do. It's a man of God, he's a friend. And we were talking a little bit about

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this particular topic and he chimed and he said, you know, I often tell people who come to me wanting

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to make investments that you have to give them a preview of the climate of what it will look like.

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Because some people tell you right off the bat, like, okay, I want to get, you know, maybe

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minimal gains that involve low risk. So maybe two to five percent, five to seven or something

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like that. And he gives them, like, listen, he gives them the full update of, you can do that,

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but understand in the course of time, there will be some highs, there will be some lows,

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there will be some dips. And I just want to prepare you for it so you don't freak out when it comes

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in and take all your money and run. He said, now, and there are some people who go, no, I want five

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to eight sometimes ten. And he's like, listen, we can do that. But again, you need to prepare yourself,

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there will be some highs, there will be some lows. And there's the potential for risk and loss.

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We need to prepare ourselves in the same way. You ready to take the ride with me? Okay, okay.

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Mark 435. On the same day when evening had come, he said to them, let us cross over to the other side.

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Now, when they had left the multitude, they took him along in the boat as he was. And other little

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boats also with him. And I got a note right there when it says that he took him as he was.

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They're speaking about Jesus, but the context of this is that Jesus has been ministering from

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sun up to sundown. He is now, this is where he is, positionally, he is on a boat a little bit

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off the shore. And because of the geography of that area, there were cliffs and mountains. And it

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almost created a natural amphitheater where his voice was pushed off of the wind. And it was

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able to be amplified. And here he is ministering to thousands for the entire day.

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How about this to give you a little insight sometimes into what preacher's experience?

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Everything that tried to stop you from getting here today, everything that tried to

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discourage you and make you not want to engage in the things of God and comfort community,

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I now have to wrestle with every one of them that followed you because it's my job today to

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deliver the word of God. And there's only like a hundred or something people in here. He was doing

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it with thousands ministering and coming against all the spiritual opposition and resistance.

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And it's not a thing ever to be afraid of because we are more than conquerors through him who

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loved us. Amen. But it is something to take note of because the Bible is very specific and clear

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and not one period, not one tea. Nothing is in there for no reason. And it says that they took him

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as he was. The man was tired. So let's continue.

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Let's start with verse 36. Now when they had left the multitude, they took him along in the boat

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as he was and other little boats also with him and a great windstorm arose and the waves beat

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into the boat so that it was already filling. But he was in the stern in the back of the boat, a

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sleep on a pillow and they awoke him and said to him, teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?

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Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the sea and said, peace. Be still. And the wind ceased and

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there was a great calm, but he said to them, why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no

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faith? And they feared exceedingly and said to one another, who can this be that even the wind

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and the seas obey him? So what do we see here? Another classic example of the disciples freaking out.

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But I think it's funny, though, because it's not just them freaking out. It's specifically why

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they're freaking out. Have you ever looked at this in thoughts yourself? What exactly is the problem?

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When I look at this, what the Lord is highlighting to me, they were freaking out because Jesus was in the

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boat. Jesus wasn't outside the boat. He wasn't on the shore. He wasn't in another country. He was

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in their boat. And they thought they were going to die with Jesus in their boat.

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Some of you might not be able to identify. OG Christians, they'll let you know, man, listen.

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I've been through some rough roads, but Jesus was with me because when you're new and you don't have

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the proper perspective and things start going awry, you don't exactly know what to think, but when

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you look and see Jesus in your boat and you still are facing circumstances that you wouldn't choose

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for yourself. Hello. See, the disciples were in this place where they were thinking,

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we've got the son of God. We've got Jesus. It's all roses, baby!

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Jesus said, let's go to the other side. Let's go. Everything was all gravy when it was all good.

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They thought it was all roses, but come in, come in, come in.

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Roses smell amazing and they look beautiful, but they've also got thorns. See, I told my wife

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when she walked in, I said, you don't have to pray my strength because it always just happens

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that the Lord always wants to give me the messages that are not raw, raw happy. Hey, man, brother, go

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forward. I want to invite you today to have the proper perspective on the fact that trouble is coming.

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Tribulation is coming. Woo! Man, I love problems. So amazing. Nobody ever says that,

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but here these disciples are experiencing this first hand, an unfortunate truth that every one of

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us is going to have to come the grips with, that even after getting saved, you are not exempt from

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the human experience. Because if you're going through something and you're unaware of what's about

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to happen next, you are blindsided thereby. I almost feel like I want to do the object lesson,

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but again, as I said in the first service, nobody wants to get punched in the face on a Sunday morning.

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Keith, could you stand up? Keith is a large, nice, healthy man. I feel like with enough force and

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enough strength, I might be able to push Keith over. But if he has his eyes open, it gets harder

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and harder to do that because he's prepared and he can brace himself and go, not to day past him.

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But if he closed his eyes and he didn't know what direction I was coming from or how fast

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I might can get him. Thank you, brother. So we know that sometimes these things that, again, we would never pick for ourselves.

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These unsavory circumstances and situations, if we're not looking for them and we don't think that it's

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possible that they can come, we have our eyes closed like the Emu bird of the ostriches, put our

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head in the sand. When these things do come, you will get caught unaware. And that is not what the

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Lord has called you to be. He called you to be circumspent and sober to have your wits about you and

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to be ready. When he calls you to go big and to take this next step to go in, you didn't realize this,

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he wasn't just calling you to be a Christian, he was enlisting you to be mobilized in an army.

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Two people got excited today. I literally just heard of my spurs and people like, listen, I was just

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trying to get out of hell. What? It's real. But let me tell you what Jesus says.

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John 1633 says this. This is Jesus speaking. These things I've spoken to you that in me you may have

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peace. In the world you will have tribulation. It's another word for trouble. It's another word for

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unchosen circumstance. Problem, issues, drama. Nobody likes drama.

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But I love what he says. Be of good cheer. He says, you're in the world and the world is

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going to give you stuff that you don't want. But I have overcome the world and in me you have peace.

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Hallelujah. And just to prove this point further, just to show you, because really all of this is

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today is me equipping you with the fact that trouble is coming. Yay. But I just want you to have

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the perspective so that you're not shaken. I don't want you like this and somebody pushes you over.

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I want you standing ready so that even before they come you want you really want to do this?

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Listen, that's a whole nother preaching where you can look at trouble even before it comes and you

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can go out day. Let me share a little bit about. I'm going to go with it just for the sake of

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realness so that people can understand this. There are normal people and then there are African

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Americans. I'm going to say this. Don't be offended. I've been African American long time. I know

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this. This is real. We have a wish spirit sometimes. My wife will tell you this. I'm one of the

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most holy men on this planet. I'm a lover of Jesus but sometimes my fuse is real short and the

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Lord is working with me every day to make it better. And I also too have a wish spirit because

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sometimes when I'm driving and people cut me off, I go, I wish you would. When I'm waiting in

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line and things are not going right and I go, I wish you would. But like I said, the Lord

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is working with me. I don't need you to judge me. They all judge me already. Where were we?

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These issues they come, right? I need you guys to be prepared. I need you to be strengthened. I

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need you to look at your issues as they come and go, I wish you would. I have access to the name

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of Jesus. The Bible says that all things are subject to the name of Jesus, the very weather,

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elements and circumstances of all of creation is subject to the name of Jesus and all authority

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under heaven and earth has been given unto Jesus who is the head of the church and I am his body.

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I wish you would. So it's not all bad to be a wish person.

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So let's look at Paul for a minute. We can all identify Paul as somebody who's going big.

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There's a real Christian. He's showing up. He's volunteering. He's going to Pastor Moe's Life Group.

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His attendance is, he gives. He serves. He is a committed Christian in the kingdom, amen?

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But let's read about some of the circumstances of his life. And just for context, even before we

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start reading, he's in this situation because he has been falsely imprisoned,

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shipwrecked and awaiting trial before Caesar. That's just some of the context. Let's read.

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This is a man who wrote about two-thirds of the New Testament, a man that God chose who he knew

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God, a man who went to the third heaven and heard things that it was not legal for him to say when

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he got back to earth. This is a man who knew Jesus. But yet this was his life.

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Acts 28, verses 2 to 6, it says, the people of the island were very kind to us. It was cold and

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rainy, so they built a fire on the shore to welcome us. As Paul gathered in an armful of sticks

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and was laying them on the fire, a poisonous snake driven out by the heat, bit him on the hand.

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The people of the island saw it hanging from his hand and said to each other, a murderer no doubt.

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Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live. But Paul shook off the snake

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into the fire and was unharmed. The people waited for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead.

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But they had waited a long time and saw that he wasn't harmed. They changed their minds and decided

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he was a God. I could literally see some of us in that circumstance.

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I have seen Christians lose their salvation, start cursing God because they stub their toe.

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So, here this man is imprisoned for the sake of the gospel and he is just the happy,

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go lucky one trying to encourage everybody. They just been shipwrecked, almost lost their life

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and he's gathering sticks to be helpful. Like, the Lord is good, the joy, the Lord is with me.

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Get these sticks right here, throw them on the floor.

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Notice that the Bible doesn't say after the snake bit him that he cursed God.

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The Bible doesn't say that he started screaming.

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The Bible doesn't say that he started complaining. The Bible says that he did what?

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See, when you have the proper perspective, when circumstances come, you will actually learn from

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Jesus' example. Because Jesus handles storms differently than you do. Remember, Jesus was in the

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boat and anything and anywhere that he is, he does for an example to us. He showed us what we

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need to do to our storms. That's how you should be treating the trouble in your life.

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Now I'm good. I know who's with me. I know where I'm going. But we don't do that. We freak out.

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Oh my God, they just see that bill. Man, the IRS is calling me, Pastor James.

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Oh, man, I don't know what I'm going to do about this and we worry and we do the thing.

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We circle, circle, circle, circle, problem. We call people to circle the problem with us.

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And we're not exactly looking for prayer or solution. We just look to talk about it or complain

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about it and go, who are I? Me. I don't understand. I'll be praying. I go to church.

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What? What? What? Yo, a couple of months back on a Wednesday. We have two cars in our family

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just because, you know, Sundays become hard because we got to go different directions. My wife

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doesn't work for the church so she shouldn't be here at seven in the morning when we start setting up.

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Amen. I get a call. My car has been wrecked in a hit and run on the highway. This is Wednesday.

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Thursday. I get a call that the second car has been hit and run on the highway.

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Now, there's the temptation to go and complain and moan and begrudge God and say,

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I don't understand you, God. I shake my fist in frustration.

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The temptation is there. But I serve a bigger God who just like the disciples in the boat.

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And this is the part that we miss sometimes. He has prepared us how to handle these circumstances.

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They don't just come because what did he tell the disciples on the boat even before they hit the

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waters? Let's go to the other side. See, that's a small detail but some of us have been missing

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that in our life. When God gives you a word, that is the encouragement and the direction and the

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power meant to face anything. Because I don't have to worry about the in between if God told me

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the end result already. He said, let's go to the other side. That's important because it's one

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thing. If I tell you, hey, maybe down at the jerk shack or shake shack, whatever they call this

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place, okay, maybe he might show up, maybe he not. But when God says something, do you know that

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the God that we serve, he cannot lie? No, no, no, I'm serious. He can't. It's not that he's just

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morally upright and chooses never. He can't lie. There's too much power at play.

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When he said, let there be light. History and science has told us that from the moment light

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has existed, it has gone for us. So really that moment looks more like this. Let there be light

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and light said, light, light, light, light, light, light, light, light, light, light, light, light, light, light,

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to this day, science has confirmed that our universe is ever-expanding because

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he said it and it has no choice but to be. So when you get God Almighty, who sits on the throne,

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who died in your place for you and asked you and redeemed you and he tells you go to the other.

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The problem I have sometimes is we don't actually believe. We take a cursory believing because

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it sounds nice but we don't internalize that thing so that it affects all of our decision-making

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because again if we would truly get this what it really means is that when God says that he's

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not a man that he should lie or the son of man that he should repent what he's trying to say is

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I can't lie meaning if God said today that this microphone was black all of creation would have to

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conform itself because he said that it was white so the reason he can't lie is because there's

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too much power and when he says that you are going to make it you've got to stop giving into your

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feelings because your feelings that have you up one day and then down another you'll eat a little

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bit of pizza and you'll wake up thinking like this going to end when really all you have to do is

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go back three steps to the anchor point and the cheat code that he gave you to which says

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let's go to the other side see Jesus asked them very pointed and specifically

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what's up oh that's the past of Muhammad paraphrased Bible by the way

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he said what's up number one you messed up my nap but uh I like why you worried I oh I already said

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go to the other side meaning there's not anything in the created world that can stop you from

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oh God I wish we could get that we would be so empowered for victory if we would take him at his

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word the first time I can't tell you how many times I have seen circumstance in situation that I

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would never choose for myself and it comes but I remember what he said initially and I'm not

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listen I wish that I could tell you that I've gone through these circumstances like a proud

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Christian soldier I have been dragged by the will of God kicking and screaming and complaining

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only to end up at the other side and go man I knew you had it all along Jesus

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it's only a 21 day fast bro relax

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is it then I call you to the back I know you call me to the fast Jesus but the burgers be calling

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oh God and you know you you go through these things

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but I've learned having come on the other side of so many times God's faithfulness coming through

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that when I get to the valley I remember the mountain top of answered prayer the mountain top

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of God's faithfulness you know I asked my wife the other day because she's believing in some things I

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said you know do you do you remember the feeling for the last time he answered the prayer

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and you might say well what does feeling have to do with that because feeling will encourage you

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and remind you back to that point of faith when you said no I trust God to do that and regardless

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of what happened on the end between the end result was he did it sometimes you got to go back to

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that moment and that's your monument stone that that is your shepherd's stick like David where

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you write the testimonies of God and you go I remember when I was in need and the Lord came through

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and he did it and he did it contrary to everything that was around me because how many know that

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sometimes when the Lord gives you that that word of direction and confirmation that prophetic word

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that encourages you that word of instruction that commands you to go forward that sometimes not

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sometimes pretty much all the time after he says that that what's going to be presented to you is

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the exact opposite of what he said come on single people listen I haven't been married that long

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that I don't remember I'm going to bless you with a wife and then it got real cold it got real

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lonely it's like Lord have you forgotten me Jesus I feel like I'm a Siberia over here with the love

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to one day she just showed up you cannot make this stuff up like when I look you some of your

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don't and I hate this as a pastor because we we we we don't like to encourage people with these

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supernatural stories of how you met your spouse and sometimes it's super normal and it's not super

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natural I just happen to have one that kind of is but but I encourage the normal have some coffee

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with your friends and look this is taking a left turn but I feel it I got to encourage the single

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people like listen because we're waiting for this magic moment between people and really all

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you really need to be doing right now as a single person is doing your best living your Christian

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life in community when you start running for the Lord I don't need you to now be evaluating and

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praying 21 days Lord San the one you just do your part and you run for the Lord and you run

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after him and you seek his face and you go big and while you're going big and you're running

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I want you to look to the left and I want you to look to the right and I want you to look at who's

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keeping pace listen don't you be looking back to the club where they don't even notice a race

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that's not it look at who's like they might not even notice you they running so well

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they don't know how to look left or right so you might have to lovingly encourage them to go hey

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I've been running this race and I kind of noticed that you kind of keep in pace

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listen if it ain't bars don't say amen amen

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Mark 438 but he was in the stern asleep on a pillow and they awoke him and said to him

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teacher do you not care that we are perishing the disciples were not prepared for storms and

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they thus erroneously believed that what they were facing was due to the lack of God's love

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do not be confused by the circumstances you face into believing that God is not for you

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he is unequivocally for you there is nothing that you can do not a performance not good bad ugly

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or indifferent that can make him love you any less than you are loved and I say even to the

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religious folk there is nothing that you can say do or perform that will make him love you any more

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you have the zenith of God's love right where you are so that you do not have to religiously

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perform and get on a hamster wheel you need to simply just believe but in believing and going big

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and going deeper you need to have your eyes open and be prepared because it's not the question of

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if these troubles will come it's when and when they come I want you to stand lock step with Jesus

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so you can knock that sucker on its butt I'm all over the fringe area I'm using words like

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butt and sermon like it is

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praise God

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Hallelujah

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we are not exempt from the full human experience neither was Jesus

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here's a fact that many people don't acknowledge do you know Jesus had to poop

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nobody thinks about this he was a hundred percent human he had to deal with walking

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like if you're the divine don't you just want to float

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he had to walk he got tired he had to preach and eat and then like oh

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I don't know about your homies but this oh gosh

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he dealt with the human experience we are not exempt from it

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some of us have been lied to and told that because we are now Christians it is all perfect

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you think it's the Mary J. Blasow no more drama like no there is drama

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but thankfully oh god hallelujah Jesus loves the drama

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he stays in your drama he encourages you through your drama in the height of your drama

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he is for you and with you

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nothing can stop him from being with you he is Emmanuel God with us despite Jesus is in the drama

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oh aren't you so glad he's in your boat and in your drama he's in your storm

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there's not one thing that you can go through today that you can't say that Jesus is not on your side

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even the things that come as a consequence for your

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haphazard behavior

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oh nobody gave it amen it at when I'm gonna say amen there's some things in my life right now

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they happen all because of me it wasn't the devil it wasn't Jesus it wasn't God that was me

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I love that Jesus gets in the drama he's not scared of the drama he dispels the drama he speaks

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prophetically before the drama even starts he battles your issues during the drama and I do stress

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your issues because he gave us an example of what he does with drama versus what we do with drama

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drama arose and he addressed it

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unconcerned oh think about your life and think about what it would look like the next time

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something happened and instead of freaking out you trusted that God was going to take care of it

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somebody gets sick all we need to go to the hospital

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yep we're gonna pray they're gonna get healed

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well that bill needs to get paid yep because he meets all my needs according to his riches and glory

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what is it that you can go through that the God of heaven won't be there for you

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there's no circumstance that I've seen on this earth that he is not able to tackle

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I've seen people brought out from the deepest and lowest depression of wanting to take their lives

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and I've seen God give them joy and wake up every day happy

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again we don't get to escape this human experience I'm gonna prophesy to you right now

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tomorrow is Monday

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bars that's mind blowing and the reason I say that is because this earth is still spinning

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you know I think back to David we all like to identify with David David is the man a man after

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God's own heart you know David was anointed to be king just radically powerful moment anointed by God

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literally like the Hebrew tradition is that there was a seal of wax over a ram's horn

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and the prophet sami would hold it and it would only dispel or melt out and then the oil would come

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out upon the lords anointed and he did it with all seven of his brothers now I don't think he

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to one you don't got them all kids

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till finally David is anointed king over all Israel

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and guess what happened because he like us he's been called to this amazing privileged

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position because we are the children of the most high God we are Christians we are them that

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have been given the secrets of the kingdom of God and guess what he had to do after this

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immense and glorious privilege of being the next king of Israel back to the shake

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he experienced that prophetic word tomorrow is monday

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and you too after being called to this illustrious life

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I'm sorry to inform you but tomorrow is still monday but and here's the part and I actually don't

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like to preach too much on this passage James don't mean to talk about this all the time I don't

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really like to preach like this on a Sunday morning because there are tremendous benefits to having

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Jesus in your boat there are so many glorious benefits and the reason why I don't like to

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preach like this on a Sunday is because there are a lot of non-Christians here there are a lot of

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future Christians here they're unbelievers and people that are going to be believers and

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the benefits package is so crazy that I don't want people just coming to Jesus just for his stuff

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and his hand I need people to come to the end of themselves and recognize their need for a savior

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and there is no way to the Father except through Jesus it's not in any of the religion not in

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performance and not in religion it's only in you trusting and knowing that Jesus is the only way to

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save you so it's hard for me but I can't get away from the fact that it is delicious to be a Christian

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it is magnificent when I get sick he heals my body when I have a need he meets it every time I

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need him there he's with me when I'm down he gives me joy when I'm depressed he picks me up

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when I was lonely he gave me the greatest creation the world has ever seen

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and yes I'm talking about my wife if y'all don't know her that's your loss

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what can he do

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when he's in your boat he literally makes everything better

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so that even when circumstances come sometimes I invite them because I'm a low key I like to see

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him move I used to get frustrated at circumstances because again I didn't choose them why is this here

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did you call this in?

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Quack was this you?

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who at who ordered the sickness?

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who ordered the untimely death that I got to now go perform this funeral

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was that you all these things that we wouldn't pick for ourselves

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uncurable diseases

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Jesus he comes in and he destroys every one of them and I find it so glorious

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I get to see him as he is as a deliver as a savior his name literally means salvation

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yes sure salvation

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and worship team you can come up I'll close with this

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because again the benefits are there and they're strong and I do want you to come the Jesus

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just on the merits of him being your savior but I can't act like it's not a real thing that when

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Jesus enters your life he protects you from the very things that I'm telling you are on their way

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let me read you the scripture

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therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take him by force to make him

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king he departed again to the mountain by himself alone now when evening came his disciples went

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down to the sea and got into the boat and went over the sea toward cavernum and it was already

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dark and Jesus had not come to them then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing

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so when they had rode about three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near

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the boat and they were afraid but he said to them it is I do not be afraid now take notice of

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verse 21 then they willingly received him into the boat and immediately somebody say immediately

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the boat was at the land where they were going have you ever read this and caught this

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something happens when you willingly invite Jesus into the boat which is your life

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because again I don't I don't want to just sell you on this Jesus but there is a benefit to having

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Jesus in your boat not only does he give you the example of how to respond to the storm not only

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does he give you the reassurance that you will get to the other side because when he gives you a

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word you can take it to the bank because he is God and he cannot lie but did you see the supernatural

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miracle that takes place here they were rowing and rowing and rowing for three to four miles and they

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weren't making any headway and all of a sudden Jesus too stepping on the water

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you're like yeah it was Jesus not as not Jesus as it goes I'm afraid he's like nice me all right I'm

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not afraid the Bible is very intentional they willingly received him into the boat

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and after they willingly received him because there's two words that are important here willingly

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and immediately the Bible says that they they toiled they were getting nowhere and then immediately

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after Jesus is in the boat they end up on land am I the only one who's seeing this in the scriptures

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I dare you to invite Jesus into your boat I dare you to believe that any circumstance that comes

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your way he is gonna knock that thing out of the water and he is going to empower you and enable

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you to get to the other side and sometimes it's going to be in supernatural fashion I am not

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afraid to remind you that the God that we serve is mystical and powerful he's not a he's not a

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Western God of intellect he's a mystical Eastern God of miracle and power

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sign and wonder I've seen people seen with my own eyes not heard stories people heal from HIV

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people heal from cancer and blood disorder and disease I see it on a regular

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you know the healing rooms are coming up July 8th you sticking your body come and let so that you

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can see it too we see God heal move deliver supernaturally God will enter your life and the things that

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enter your life that you didn't choose he will battle them for you he will be there with you

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so we're gonna sing soon but before we do we're gonna take communion and you can hand out the elements

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and I think it's important and I'm glad that it falls on today because what communion does is

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the Bible says that in taking communion we are proclaiming the Lord's death till he comes

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what does that mean proclaiming the Lord's death is us proclaiming all of what he did and the

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benefits that come from what he did when you take communion what you're doing is you're shouting

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out loud saying I am forgiven of all my sins I am divinely healed from all sickness disease and

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this ease you are saying that I am perfectly provided for financially emotionally spiritually

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and physically again I told you I don't like to sell Jesus but the truth is the truth

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you can proclaim the Lord's death you can in the midst of your valley of going through life

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and circumstances you can believe to get to the other side because he already did it he died

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for you and as you in your place every one of us deserve death the Bible says that the

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wage of sin is death and all have fallen short of the glory of God

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but Jesus in this divine exchange he takes our sin gives us his righteousness gives us his

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perfect position in God and he says you belong to me now any storm that comes against you has to

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face me so think about the things in your life that are not lining up whether it be your finances

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whether it be your health whether it be your relationships and yes that means that there might

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be a discrepancy there where the Lord needs to work out some things in you because you seem to

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be the common denominator of all your bad relationships but he can do it listen I'm a horrible

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person without Jesus I'm gonna tell you right now I'm really sweet right now because I have him

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but without him I suck but thanks be to God that he's with me and every day he's making me better

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and that can be your testimony too if you're in this room today and you don't know Jesus as your

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personal Lord and Savior I want to invite you to receive him as Lord remember I spoke at the top

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of this message if Jesus is not the Lord of all all areas of your life then he's not Lord at all

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do not put him in his little play oh that's my Sunday thing he's not a supplement that you

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just add to your life he is your life so as we take this we're taking communion by faith we're

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taking it believing that the forgiveness of sins now belongs to us by faith we're taking that to

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mean that we are now sons and daughters of the most high God we are acknowledging that Jesus

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Christ is Lord and we do not belong to ourselves for we have been bought with the price by the blood of

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Jesus his sacrifice enables us to be the children of God if that's for you today and you desire

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that eat and drink with us and remember the benefits that come with it proclaim his death

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go big don't be afraid of the storms because he's with you but know that they're coming

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but you don't have to be afraid of them let's eat and drink and sing to the Lord

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this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message

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