WEBVTT 00:00.400 --> 00:05.371 (MUSIC) 00:06.772 --> 00:11.144 LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH, ARE WE IN THE HOUSE THIS EVENING? 00:15.015 --> 00:22.254 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, BUT 00:24.490 --> 00:26.025 JESUS IS STILL ON THE THRONE. 00:28.294 --> 00:31.164 I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S NEWS TO ANYBODY, 00:32.664 --> 00:34.734 BUT WE'RE GONNA LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS 00:34.734 --> 00:37.337 BECAUSE HE IS THE UNDEFEATED CHAMPION. 00:37.337 --> 00:40.472 HE IS STILL ON THE THRONE, HE STILL REIGNS. 00:40.472 --> 00:43.810 SO NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, 00:43.810 --> 00:46.713 REMEMBER THAT JESUS IS STILL ON THE THRONE 00:46.713 --> 00:50.115 AND WE CAN LIFT UP A PRAISE TO HIM AND HE WILL 00:50.115 --> 00:54.253 ANSWER. HE IS THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING WE NEED, AMEN. 00:54.253 --> 00:54.820 LET'S GO, Y'ALL. 01:00.393 --> 01:05.932 (MUSIC) 01:28.587 --> 01:29.522 Y'ALL KNOW THIS, SING! 03:39.318 --> 03:40.753 I'M GONNA TEACH YOU GUYS A NEW ONE TONIGHT. 03:41.721 --> 03:42.389 IT'S REAL SIMPLE. 03:47.794 --> 03:49.962 YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO MOVE A LITTLE BIT, YOU CAN. 03:52.064 --> 03:54.933 HEY! ? SING TO THE LORD OF GLORY 03:54.933 --> 03:55.100 (MUSIC) 04:37.810 --> 04:38.978 THIS IS THE CHORUS RIGHT HERE. 04:39.345 --> 06:30.589 (MUSIC) 06:35.562 --> 06:37.430 IS HE WORTHY OF PRAISE? 06:39.132 --> 06:41.100 I SAID, IS HE WORTHY OF PRAISE? 06:42.769 --> 06:45.404 SEE, OUR GOD IS FOREVER ON THE THRONE, SO HE 06:45.404 --> 06:47.173 DESERVES ALL OUR PRAISE. 06:47.740 --> 06:51.677 EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE, EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN BE, WE 06:51.677 --> 06:53.947 GIVE GLORY AND HONOR TO GOD. 06:53.947 --> 06:56.516 AMEN. THIS PART SAYS, 06:56.516 --> 07:02.355 (MUSIC) 08:01.247 --> 08:03.817 NOW I KNOW SOME OF Y'ALL GOT A PRAISE IN YOUR FEET. 08:06.353 --> 08:09.689 AND I KNOW YOU HAVE A PRAISE THAT'S OUTSIDE YOUR SEAT. 08:12.125 --> 08:17.096 SO IF YOU HAVE THE VICTORY, MOVE WITH ME. 08:20.031 --> 08:29.041 (MUSIC) 08:29.175 --> 08:32.044 I SEE YOU, I SEE YOU. LETS GO, LETS GO. 08:36.649 --> 09:21.126 (MUSIC) 09:29.869 --> 09:31.804 OH, WHO'S WORTHY OF PRAISE. 09:34.072 --> 09:35.674 OH, WE HONOR YOU, LORD. 09:35.774 --> 09:40.613 OH, GOD, YOU'RE WORTHY. 09:41.780 --> 09:44.951 GOD, YOU'RE WORTHY. 09:45.051 --> 09:49.020 GOD, YOU'RE WORTHY OF ALL THE PRAISE. 09:50.822 --> 09:54.259 ALL THE PRAISE. 09:54.360 --> 09:58.197 GOD, YOU ARE WORTHY OF ALL THE PRAISE. 09:58.297 --> 10:03.336 GOD, YOU ARE WORTHY OF ALL THE PRAISE. 10:03.436 --> 10:07.907 GOD, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT YOUR GRACE? 10:08.006 --> 10:15.047 LORD, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT YOUR GRACE? 10:15.147 --> 10:16.448 OH, WE THANK YOU, LORD. 10:16.548 --> 10:17.549 WE THANK YOU, LORD. 10:20.285 --> 10:23.855 WE PRAISE THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. 10:25.091 --> 10:29.128 WE LIFT UP THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. 10:29.227 --> 10:32.798 OH GOD, WE PRAISE YOU. 10:32.898 --> 10:36.168 OH GOD, WE LIFT YOU UP. 10:36.268 --> 10:39.904 OH GOD, WE HONOR YOU. 10:40.005 --> 10:46.544 BE MAGNIFIED, OH LORD. 10:48.147 --> 10:50.015 COME ON, LET 'EM KNOW, LET 'EM KNOW, LET 'EM KNOW. 10:50.115 --> 10:54.086 HE'S BEEN GOOD, HE'S BEEN GOOD, HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL. 10:54.186 --> 10:58.823 HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL, HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL. 10:58.923 --> 11:02.628 EVEN WHEN WE HAVE NOT BEEN FAITHFUL, HE DOES NOT CHANGE. 11:02.727 --> 11:06.432 HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER. 11:06.532 --> 11:07.932 HE DOESN'T CHANGE. 11:08.033 --> 11:10.068 HIS LOVE NEVER CHANGES. 11:10.168 --> 11:13.139 THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN SEPARATE US 11:13.239 --> 11:14.807 FROM THE LOVE OF GOD. 11:14.907 --> 11:17.009 YOU DESERVE THE PRAISE. 11:17.109 --> 11:19.546 YOU DESERVE THE PRAISE. 11:26.452 --> 11:33.259 OH. PRAISE THE NAME OF JESUS. 11:33.359 --> 11:41.033 (MUSIC) 12:33.219 --> 12:38.091 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 12:46.166 --> 12:48.933 I BELIEVE IN THIS ATMOSPHERE THAT THERE ARE 12:49.033 --> 12:51.971 DOORS IN YOUR LIFE THAT ARE GOING TO BE BUSTED 12:52.071 --> 12:55.875 OPEN BECAUSE OF YOUR PRAISE, BECAUSE OF YOUR PRAISE. 12:57.408 --> 13:01.447 RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE. 13:01.547 --> 13:04.517 THERE IS NO REASON, NO REASON FOR US NOT TO 13:04.616 --> 13:10.456 GIVE HIM PRAISE AND GLORY BECAUSE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT. 13:10.556 --> 13:16.562 THE WORD SAYS HE INHABITS THE PRAISE OF HIS PEOPLE. 13:16.662 --> 13:21.033 TONIGHT, LET'S GIVE GOD A PLACE TO RESIDE. 13:21.133 --> 13:23.769 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 13:23.869 --> 13:33.879 WE PRAISE YOUR NAME 13:43.721 --> 13:45.857 WE HONOR YOU, O GOD 13:45.957 --> 13:48.394 WE BLESS YOUR NAME, O GOD 13:48.494 --> 13:50.895 WE PRAISE YOU, O LORD 13:50.995 --> 13:54.033 O LORD, O LORD 13:54.133 --> 14:01.573 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 14:03.543 --> 14:08.913 WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE 14:11.150 --> 14:15.019 LORD, WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE 14:16.956 --> 14:22.860 COME ON, SAY, LORD WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE 14:24.363 --> 14:30.235 YES, GOD, YES, GOD, WE RELEASE WE RELEASE OUR PRAISE 14:30.336 --> 14:35.206 OH, OH, WE RELEASE, HEY 14:35.307 --> 14:45.317 (MUSIC) 21:20.946 --> 21:22.848 COME ON, RELEASE IT! 21:34.693 --> 21:34.961 COME ON! 21:46.506 --> 21:49.541 COME ON, LET'S BEGIN TO SING IN OTHER TONGUES. 21:50.342 --> 21:52.144 BEGIN TO SING IN THE SPIRIT. 21:52.711 --> 21:55.681 PAUL SAID, "I SING WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN 21:55.780 --> 21:57.449 AND TONGUES OF ANGELS." 21:57.548 --> 22:02.153 COME ON, BEGIN TO RELEASE A NEW SONG IN OTHER TONGUES. 22:21.539 --> 22:25.844 YOU'RE RELEASING YOUR PRAISE OVER THAT AREA THAT 22:25.943 --> 22:28.313 YOU'VE BEEN BATTLING OVER. 22:28.413 --> 22:30.414 COME ON, RELEASE IT. 22:30.515 --> 22:34.553 YOU ONLINE, RELEASE YOUR PRAISE, RELEASE YOUR PRAISE. 22:34.653 --> 22:35.587 COME ON. 22:39.858 --> 22:41.027 RELEASE PRAISE. 22:51.470 --> 22:53.404 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 22:56.542 --> 22:57.210 WHOO! 23:02.248 --> 23:04.284 COME ON, DON'T STOP! 23:25.704 --> 23:28.141 COME ON, SOMETHING IS SHIFTING! 23:40.018 --> 23:50.028 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 24:11.417 --> 24:20.659 KEEP RELEASING YOUR PRAISE. 24:24.698 --> 24:25.096 COME ON. 24:31.135 --> 24:38.009 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 24:39.479 --> 24:40.880 SOMETHING IS HAPPENING! 24:45.049 --> 24:55.059 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 25:00.332 --> 25:01.365 OH, COME ON! 25:02.534 --> 25:06.371 COME ON, WE'RE GOING SOMEWHERE IN THE SPIRIT REALM! 25:08.707 --> 25:18.682 [MUSIC] 26:12.771 --> 26:19.443 WOW! I DON'T KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THAT KIND OF THING JUST 26:19.445 --> 26:22.948 MAKES THE DEVIL SO SCARED. 26:24.750 --> 26:26.518 AND YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO PUT 26:26.519 --> 26:27.551 WORDS TO YOUR PRAISE. 26:27.554 --> 26:31.388 SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA... 26:31.391 --> 26:34.526 THE BIBLE SAYS WITH GROANINGS THAT CAN'T BE UTTERED. 26:34.527 --> 26:38.028 YOU, COME ON JUDY, YOU CAN'T PUT A WORD TO IT. 26:38.030 --> 26:42.232 IT JUST MEANS THERE'S TIMES THAT YOU JUST GOTTA GET OVER THERE 26:42.234 --> 26:46.070 AND FLOW WITH THE SPIRIT, THE SOUND OF THE ANGELS. 26:46.071 --> 26:47.507 I THINK ANGELS ARE IN THE ROOM. 26:55.512 --> 26:57.182 JUST LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. 27:07.125 --> 27:08.894 WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU. 27:10.763 --> 27:12.632 OH, COME ON, JUST LOVE ON HIM. 27:14.132 --> 27:16.567 WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU. 27:16.667 --> 27:18.836 WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU. 27:20.105 --> 27:21.974 OH, JUST GIVE HIM YOUR LOVE. 27:23.609 --> 27:24.810 WE GIVE YOU OUR LOVE. 27:29.115 --> 27:31.718 OH, WE LOVE YOU. 27:32.851 --> 27:39.723 WE LOVE YOU, WE LOVE YOU. 27:39.824 --> 27:40.724 COME ON, JUST LOVE. 27:40.825 --> 27:43.894 SOMETHING HAPPENS WHEN YOU JUST LOVE ON HIM. 27:43.994 --> 27:44.929 TELL HIM YOU LOVE HIM. 27:45.029 --> 27:47.231 TELL HIM YOU'RE GRATEFUL. 27:47.332 --> 27:48.400 COME ON. 27:55.573 --> 27:57.875 WE LOVE YOU, JESUS. 27:57.976 --> 28:01.680 SOME OF YOU NEED TO JUST SAY THE NAME OF JESUS. 28:01.779 --> 28:06.317 WE LOVE THE NAME OF JESUS. 28:06.417 --> 28:08.653 OH, YOUR NAME, JESUS. 28:08.752 --> 28:10.922 THE NAME OF JESUS. 28:11.021 --> 28:12.390 THE NAME OF JESUS. 28:12.490 --> 28:14.425 COME ON, JUST SAY IT. 28:14.526 --> 28:16.728 SAY THE NAME JESUS. 28:16.827 --> 28:17.127 JESUS. 28:18.395 --> 28:20.664 JESUS. JESUS. 28:20.765 --> 28:24.501 OH. JESUS. 28:24.602 --> 28:27.704 SAY THE NAME OF JESUS. 28:29.773 --> 28:33.044 COME ON, PROPHESY THE NAME OF JESUS. 28:33.144 --> 28:37.015 COME ON, THE NAME, THE NAME THAT'S HIGHER, 28:37.115 --> 28:39.384 THE NAME THAT'S GREATER. 28:39.483 --> 28:41.885 COME ON, THE NAME OF JESUS. 28:47.726 --> 28:48.595 COME ON, YES. 28:49.493 --> 28:56.601 (MUSIC) 28:56.701 --> 28:58.068 COME ON. 28:58.169 --> 29:00.204 IT MAKES THE DEVIL TREMBLE. 29:00.305 --> 29:04.075 (MUSIC) 30:40.839 --> 30:41.607 COME ON, ONE MORE TIME. 30:50.683 --> 30:54.854 COME ON, GIVE HIM A GREAT BIG SHOUT OF PRAISE. 30:55.855 --> 30:56.823 WOO! WOO! 31:06.865 --> 31:12.038 GLORY, I THINK YOU WANT TO CELEBRATE THE NAME OF JESUS. 31:13.136 --> 31:17.541 WOO! 31:22.547 --> 31:24.749 HALLELUJAH! 31:27.884 --> 31:29.420 HALLELUJAH! 31:30.788 --> 31:32.222 HALLELUJAH! 31:32.323 --> 31:38.563 (MUSIC) 31:41.768 --> 31:47.845 SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, I THINK SOMETHING THAT WE 31:47.865 --> 31:54.045 NEED MORE MOMENTS IN THE CHURCH COMING BACK TO. YOU KNOW, I LOOK 31:54.045 --> 31:58.184 BACK, SOME OF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER, WE KNOW PASTOR DOUG 31:58.184 --> 32:04.635 IS. WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR YEARS. I CAN GIVE HIM A HARD 32:04.635 --> 32:09.736 TIME. YOU KNOW, YOU GO BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN PEOPLE WOULD GO TO 32:09.736 --> 32:13.335 A BIG CRUSADE, A BENNY HINN CRUSADE, AND SOME OF US 32:13.335 --> 32:20.085 REMEMBER, PEOPLE WOULD JUST MINISTER TO THE LORD. WE WEREN'T 32:20.085 --> 32:25.155 ASKING FOR ANYTHING. NOBODY WAS JUST BOOHOOING AND WORRYING 32:25.155 --> 32:28.786 ABOUT THEIR ISSUES. JUST MINISTERING TO THE LORD. AND I 32:28.786 --> 32:33.510 THINK THAT'S THE ENVIRONMENT, JANET, THAT RELEASES MIRACLES. 32:34.846 --> 32:39.226 AND WE'RE HIGH TIME FOR A NEW FLOW. CAN YOU AGREE WITH THAT? 32:40.846 --> 32:45.226 AMEN AND AMEN. WELL, I'M PROMISING I'M NOT GOING LATE 32:45.226 --> 32:49.155 TONIGHT. SO TURN AROUND, HUG SOMEBODY WHILE I SWITCH 32:49.155 --> 32:52.395 MICROPHONES. WANNA WELCOME EVERYBODY THAT'S JOINING US 32:52.395 --> 32:56.776 ONLINE TONIGHT. WE'RE GONNA GET IN THE WORD. SO LET SOMEBODY 32:56.776 --> 32:59.778 KNOW, HUG ON SOMEBODY IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. 33:00.779 --> 33:37.817 (MUSIC) 33:39.645 --> 33:48.000 AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD. I'M GOING TO GET RIGHT INTO IT. I'M GOING 33:48.000 --> 33:51.496 TO GIVE YOU ABOUT LIKE A HALF A SECOND TO CATCH YOUR BREATH. AND 33:51.496 --> 33:54.045 THEN THEY'RE GOING TO PUT UP THE OFFERING INFORMATION UP ON THE 33:54.045 --> 33:57.256 SCREEN. I'M NOT GOING TO SHARE A SCRIPTURE. YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT TO 33:57.256 --> 34:01.424 DO, RIGHT? I HAVE TO PREACH IT TO YOU EVERY TIME. AND SO PUT 34:01.424 --> 34:05.355 ALL THAT INFORMATION UP THERE. AND JUST A COUPLE THINGS WHILE 34:05.355 --> 34:10.606 THE USHERS ARE SERVING YOU. AND USHERS, YOU CAN GO RIGHT INTO 34:11.925 --> 34:14.985 COLLECTING ENVELOPES OR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE USING THEIR PHONE. 34:14.985 --> 34:17.835 BY THE WAY, I WANNA THANK ALL OF THE ONLINE GROUP FOR YOUR 34:17.835 --> 34:21.525 PARTICIPATION TONIGHT. AND I WANNA LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT WE 34:21.525 --> 34:24.856 HAVE OPENED THE GIVING FUND FOR OPENING THE HEAVENS 2026. ARE 34:24.856 --> 34:26.432 YOU GUYS EXCITED FOR THE CONFERENCE? 34:27.014 --> 34:28.534 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 34:28.534 --> 34:33.556 I'M PUMPED. I MEAN, I'LL BE HONEST. I'M REALLY EXCITED. I 34:33.556 --> 34:35.896 WAS IN THERE DOING SOMETHING IN THE BATHROOM THE OTHER DAY, 34:35.896 --> 34:39.976 CLEANING UP SOME COSMETIC ITEMS, AND I THOUGHT, I DON'T HAVE TO 34:39.976 --> 34:43.215 PACK YOU UP FOR OPENING THE HEAVENS AND PUT YOU IN A 34:43.215 --> 34:48.014 SUITCASE. SO I'M PRETTY PUMPED ABOUT THAT. BUT I'M JUST EXCITED 34:48.014 --> 34:54.826 TO HOST ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE TABERNACLE THIS YEAR. AND THERE 34:54.826 --> 34:57.916 ARE SO MANY PEOPLE, AND SO MANY OF US KNOW THIS IS TRUE. THEY 34:57.916 --> 35:01.545 COME ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE ARENA, AND THEN MAKE SURE THEY 35:01.545 --> 35:05.686 HAVE TIME TO COME DRIVE BY THE CAMPUS. WELL, NOW EVERYBODY GETS 35:05.686 --> 35:10.096 TO COME INSIDE, AND WE HAVE PLENTY OF ROOM FOR YOU. LOOKING 35:10.096 --> 35:12.945 AT REGISTRATION NUMBERS, AND WE ARE GONNA BE RIGHT ON TARGET. 35:12.945 --> 35:16.815 YOU'RE GONNA BE VERY PLEASED. AND JUST SO MANY GOOD THINGS. 35:16.815 --> 35:21.793 ALSO, THE PARTNER LUNCHEON'S OPEN, SO, WOW, GET OUT THERE AND 35:21.793 --> 35:24.494 REGISTER FOR THAT. WE'RE GONNA HAVE BOX LUNCH RIGHT HERE IN THE 35:24.494 --> 35:29.686 TABERNACLE AND IT'S GONNA BE AN AMAZING TIME. I REALLY BELIEVE 35:29.686 --> 35:33.675 THAT THERE'S JUST GONNA BE AN AMAZING TIME OF MINISTRY ALL 35:33.675 --> 35:37.994 THAT WEEKEND AND SO IF YOU DIDN'T REGISTER, GET OUT THERE, 35:37.994 --> 35:42.166 GO TO OPENINGTHEHEAVENS.ORG AND GET REGISTERED, AMEN? ALL RIGHT, 35:42.166 --> 35:46.365 COUPLE OTHER QUICK ANNOUNCEMENTS I WANNA GIVE TO EVERYBODY. SO 35:46.365 --> 35:51.675 OCTOBER 5TH, MARK IT IN YOUR CALENDAR. WE ARE DOING A SPECIAL 35:51.675 --> 35:56.416 EVENT CALLED VOTE YOUR VALUES. AND THIS IS ALL GONNA BE ABOUT 35:56.416 --> 36:01.215 ENCOURAGING PASTORS TO TALK TO THEIR CHURCHES ABOUT GETTING OUT 36:01.215 --> 36:06.315 TO VOTE THIS NOVEMBER. AND I THINK NEBRASKA NEEDS TO VOTE, 36:06.315 --> 36:10.365 AMEN. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE COME TO LEARN IS HOW LOW 36:10.365 --> 36:15.045 VOTER TURNOUT CAN BE FOR ELECTIONS. WE'RE GONNA BE DOING 36:15.045 --> 36:19.726 THAT OCTOBER THE 5TH, IT'S MONDAY NIGHT. WE HAVE RICK GREEN 36:19.726 --> 36:27.436 IS GONNA BE HERE. GIVE IT UP FOR RICK. WE'RE WORKING ON A COUPLE 36:27.436 --> 36:31.155 OTHER SPEAKERS AND WE HAVE SOME POLITICAL CANDIDATES THAT'LL BE 36:31.155 --> 36:34.275 HERE AND YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT FROM SOME OF THEM. WE'RE 36:34.275 --> 36:38.326 JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO 36:38.326 --> 36:42.255 CHRISTIANS, RIGHT? CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS IN NEBRASKA THAT CARE 36:42.255 --> 36:47.565 ABOUT NOT ALLOWING TRANSGENDER, THINGS LIKE TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY 36:47.565 --> 36:52.666 JUST HAVE FREE REIN. SO I DO ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS, PUT IT ON 36:52.666 --> 36:56.835 YOUR CALENDAR, BE HERE, LET'S JUST SHOW UP IN FORCE. AND THOSE 36:56.835 --> 36:59.865 OF YOU THAT ARE PART OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH THAT, AND WE WILL 36:59.865 --> 37:02.681 BE STREAMING IT BY THE WAY. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE PART OF 37:02.681 --> 37:07.965 LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH THAT LIVE IN THE AREA, IF YOU CAN MAKE A 37:07.965 --> 37:11.925 GOOD SHOWING THAT NIGHT, IT'LL BE AMAZING. AND WE JUST WANT TO 37:11.925 --> 37:17.172 JUST SHOW THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO VOTE. AND THIS IS 37:17.172 --> 37:19.726 A BIG MIDTERM, AND I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT WE'RE 37:19.726 --> 37:25.688 PRAYING FOR. AMEN? SO COME. IT'S COMPLETELY FREE, AND IT'S JUST 37:25.688 --> 37:27.585 GOING TO BE A GOOD TIME. SO YOU CAN GET OUT THERE AND FIND OUT 37:27.585 --> 37:32.956 ALL THE INFORMATION. AND THEN ALSO, ONE MORE ANNOUNCEMENT, FOR 37:32.956 --> 37:38.295 ALL OF YOU THAT ARE WONDERING, WE NEED A PROPHETIC PULSE. SO 37:38.295 --> 37:42.885 WE'VE BEEN COOKING UP SOMETHING FRESH. AND, OKAY, I'M JUST GOING 37:42.885 --> 37:46.994 TO LAY IT OUT. SO WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S FLASHPOINT HAD TO GO 37:46.994 --> 37:50.206 START WEDNESDAYS, RIGHT? AND THEN PUT YOUR PASTOR ON ON 37:50.206 --> 37:55.599 WEDNESDAYS. YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE LAUGHING. AND SO WE WERE LIKE, 37:55.599 --> 37:59.326 WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SO WE'VE DECIDED RATHER THAN DO 37:59.326 --> 38:01.994 LIVE PULSE, I KNOW YOU GUYS ENJOY THOSE, BUT THEY'RE HARDER 38:01.994 --> 38:06.255 TO CALENDAR FOR US. SO WE ARE GONNA START DOING THE LAST 38:06.255 --> 38:11.085 SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH. WE ARE GONNA AIR, OR THE FIRST, I'M 38:11.085 --> 38:14.865 SORRY. I SAID IT BACKWARDS. THE FIRST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH, 38:14.865 --> 38:18.916 SEVEN O'CLOCK WILL BE THE PROPHETIC PULSE. SO IT'S GONNA 38:18.916 --> 38:22.275 BE IN THE STUDIO, WE'LL BE GOING ON THERE, WE'LL BRING IT OUT TO 38:22.275 --> 38:25.876 YOU LIVE, YOU CAN COMMENT. AND WE'RE GONNA DO IT LIKE AN ACTUAL 38:25.876 --> 38:30.135 TV PROGRAM SO THAT WE CAN NETWORK IT. ONE OF THE THINGS 38:30.135 --> 38:34.335 WE'RE TRYING TO WORK ON NOW IS BRINGING OVTV TO A FULL NETWORK 38:34.335 --> 38:39.615 TRAFFIC, SO MEANING THAT IT'S A 24/7 NETWORK WITH PROGRAMMING. 38:39.615 --> 38:41.362 AND SO WE NEED TO BRING ALL OF OUR, 38:41.362 --> 38:42.722 YEAH, GIVE GOD A HAND FOR THAT. 38:42.764 --> 38:43.815 (APPLAUSE) 38:43.815 --> 38:47.775 IT IS WHY WE DO NEED PEOPLE TO SUPPORT OVTV SO WE CAN HAVE THE 38:47.775 --> 38:51.675 FINANCES TO DO IT. SO THAT'S GONNA BE EXCITING. SO THAT IS IN 38:51.675 --> 38:54.764 THE WORKS, BUT WE WANNA BRING THE PROPHETIC PULSE TO BE PART 38:54.764 --> 38:58.065 OF THAT. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK IT OUGHT TO BE A SHOW? AND SO 38:58.065 --> 39:01.846 PASTOR AND I ARE GONNA GET IN AND GO A LITTLE OLD SCHOOL. NOW, 39:01.846 --> 39:04.335 SOME OF YOU ARE HERE, HAVE BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE 39:04.335 --> 39:06.494 PROPHETIC PULSE STARTED WITH PASTOR HANK AND I ON THE 39:06.494 --> 39:11.536 TELEPHONE. JUST THE TWO OF US SITTING IN HIS OFFICE AT A DESK. 39:11.536 --> 39:15.166 ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THESE DAYS? AND SOMEBODY FINALLY TOLD US, 39:15.166 --> 39:20.115 THEY SAID, "COULD YOU PUT IT ON FACEBOOK?" THE FIRST NIGHT WE 39:20.115 --> 39:23.175 PUT IT ON FACEBOOK, IT GOT TROLLED SO BAD. I MEAN, THE 39:23.175 --> 39:27.916 DEVIL SHOWED UP IN FORCE. BUT WE DIDN'T GIVE UP. WE SAID, "WELL, 39:27.916 --> 39:30.436 WE'LL KEEP DOING IT." AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE DID MORE THINGS, 39:30.436 --> 39:32.985 AND YOU'VE SEEN WHERE THE PULSES SAY, "NOW WE'RE KIND OF WANTING 39:32.985 --> 39:38.115 TO GO TO A FULL-BLOWN PROGRAM." THE ONLY PROGRAM PASTOR HANK AND 39:38.115 --> 39:42.135 I DO TOGETHER HAS BEEN NEW LEVEL. AND I FEEL LIKE WE NEED 39:42.135 --> 39:46.635 TO GET ON TOGETHER AND JUST TALK THE PROPHETIC AND GO THROUGH, 39:46.635 --> 39:49.155 AND WE'LL STILL GO THROUGH ALL HIS PROPHECIES AND ALL OF THE 39:49.155 --> 39:53.115 THINGS, BUT WE JUST FELT LIKE IT WAS TIME FOR A GOOD CHANGE AND 39:53.115 --> 39:58.155 WE WON'T BE COMPETING WITH FLASHPOINT. SO SUNDAY NIGHT, 39:58.155 --> 40:01.425 COME ON BABY. IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME. SO BE LOOKING FOR THAT 40:01.425 --> 40:06.436 FIRST SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER BEFORE OTH. MARK THAT DATE DOWN. WHAT 40:06.436 --> 40:09.826 IS THAT DATE? IS IT THE 5TH? THE 5TH RIGHT BEFORE THE CONFERENCE. 40:09.826 --> 40:13.036 SO YOU'LL SEE THE FIRST AIRING OF THE PROPHETIC PULSE. SO IT'S 40:13.036 --> 40:16.275 GONNA BE AWESOME. SO BE LOOKING FOR ALL OF THAT GOOD STUFF AND 40:16.275 --> 40:19.456 PASTOR HAS SOME JUICY PROPHECIES TO SHARE. ALL RIGHT, WELL, LET'S 40:19.456 --> 40:25.170 GET INTO THE WORD TONIGHT. I'M GONNA GO TO JAMES, THE BOOK OF 40:25.170 --> 40:29.101 JAMES. I DIDN'T EVEN BRING ANY NOTES. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? I 40:29.101 --> 40:33.030 COULD GO DANGEROUS. WE COULD GO REALLY LATE OR WE CAN GET YOU 40:33.030 --> 40:35.280 OUT OF HERE EARLY NOW THE SCHOOL STARTED. SO WE'LL SEE WHAT 40:35.280 --> 40:39.061 HAPPENS, BUT I KNOW. I THOUGHT, LORD, IF I MAKE NOTES, THEY'LL 40:39.061 --> 40:42.601 STAY TILL NINE O'CLOCK. AND ALL THE PARENTS OUT THERE, HOW MANY 40:42.601 --> 40:45.300 OF YOUR KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL? ALL THE PARENTS BACK IN THERE, 40:45.300 --> 40:48.581 OR KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL, YOU WOULDN'T THANK ME IF I GET YOU 40:48.581 --> 40:51.630 OUT TOO LATE. SO, BUT I WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT. WE'RE 40:51.630 --> 40:56.670 GONNA GO THROUGH THE FIRST CHAPTER, WELL, NOT THE WHOLE 40:56.670 --> 40:59.731 FIRST CHAPTER, BUT PART OF IT. WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, YOU 40:59.731 --> 41:07.170 KNOW, HOW TO RESPOND AND REACT WHEN YOU GO THROUGH KIND OF A 41:07.170 --> 41:10.710 TRIAL OR A CHALLENGE OR SOMETHING ADVERSE. EVERYBODY 41:10.710 --> 41:14.340 GOES THROUGH IT. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR NATION 41:14.340 --> 41:17.911 RIGHT NOW. I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING. PEOPLE ONLINE, PASTOR WILL 41:17.911 --> 41:23.760 PROPHESY, PROPHESY, PROPHESY, AND SAY, "GOD HAS THESE THINGS 41:23.760 --> 41:27.090 PLANNED." AND PEOPLE WILL INVARIABLY IN THE SAME PROPHECY 41:27.090 --> 41:32.101 GO, "I'M TERRIFIED." THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE 41:32.101 --> 41:34.621 COUNTRY AND ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. AND SO IT JUST 41:34.621 --> 41:38.521 HAS SPARKED IN ME A REMINDER THAT THERE ARE THINGS WE HAVE TO 41:38.521 --> 41:44.731 DO TO NAVIGATE ADVERSE TIMES. AS CHRISTIANS ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, 41:44.731 --> 41:47.820 ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, ON A CORPORATE LEVEL, WE HAVE TO BE 41:47.820 --> 41:51.150 ABLE TO KNOW HOW TO GO THROUGH THINGS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN THE 41:51.150 --> 41:54.420 BODY OF CHRIST. HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD AGREE WITH THIS? THE BODY 41:54.420 --> 41:59.221 OF CHRIST HAS GONE THROUGH, WOW, JUST SOME DIFFERENT CHANGES. 41:59.221 --> 42:02.791 THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. WE'VE SEEN KIND OF SOME ROCKY ROAD WITH 42:02.791 --> 42:07.231 MINISTRIES OUT THERE. A LOT OF STUFF THE ENEMY HAS JUST THROWN 42:07.231 --> 42:12.510 AT THE CHURCH. AND WE HAVE TO, I WANT TO BE A MATURE BELIEVER 42:12.510 --> 42:16.170 THAT KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE ADVERSITY AND DO IT RIGHT. SO 42:16.170 --> 42:18.210 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT FROM, WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO 42:18.210 --> 42:22.110 TAKE THIS LITTLE PASSAGE IN JAMES AND SEE IF WE CAN SQUEEZE 42:22.110 --> 42:27.360 EVERY LITTLE BIT OF JUICE OUT OF THESE VERSES. LET'S DO IT, ARE 42:27.360 --> 42:33.240 YOU READY? JAMES, LOOK AT JAMES 1.1. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND 42:33.240 --> 42:37.440 OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE 12 TRIBES WHICH ARE SCATTERED 42:37.440 --> 42:41.880 ABROAD, GREETING, I SEND MY GREETING. MY BROTHERS, HE'S 42:41.880 --> 42:46.170 TALKING TO THE CHURCH NOW, RIGHT? COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU 42:46.170 --> 42:52.920 FALL INTO DIFFERENT, KING JAMES SAYS, DIVERSE TESTS, DIVERSE 42:52.920 --> 42:59.431 TRIALS. NOW, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF IF IT'LL HAPPEN, IT'S A 42:59.431 --> 43:03.331 MATTER OF WHEN, RIGHT? YOU'VE HEARD, YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID IT, 43:03.331 --> 43:08.311 HE SAID IN THIS LIFE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TRIALS. YOU'RE GONNA 43:08.311 --> 43:11.130 HAVE TRIBULATIONS, YOU'RE GONNA GO THROUGH STUFF, YOU'RE GONNA 43:11.130 --> 43:14.701 GO THROUGH THINGS THAT FEEL REALLY HARD AT TIMES. IT'LL FEEL 43:14.701 --> 43:17.641 LIKE YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN IMPOSSIBLE MOUNTAIN THAT'LL 43:17.641 --> 43:22.501 NEVER MOVE. AND SO I WANT YOU TO BE THINKING ABOUT AMERICA, BUT 43:22.501 --> 43:25.141 THINK ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE, THINGS THAT YOU HAVE LOOKED AT. 43:26.460 --> 43:28.860 AND HE SAID, YOU'LL GO THROUGH DIFFERENT ONES. NOW, I DON'T 43:28.860 --> 43:34.771 KNOW WHY THIS IS SO SHOCKING TO US BELIEVERS. IT'S LIKE THE 43:34.771 --> 43:38.070 BIBLE SAYS WE WILL GO THROUGH THINGS. WE WILL GO THROUGH 43:38.070 --> 43:41.490 ADVERSITIES. AND YET AN ADVERSITY HITS OUR HOUSE AND WE 43:41.490 --> 43:49.887 BE TRIPPING. LIKE, I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. YOU KNOW, 43:49.887 --> 43:56.311 PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND LIKE IN CIRCLES. AND YET, YOU KNOW, THE 43:56.311 --> 44:02.731 BIBLE'S CLEAR THAT YOU WILL GO THROUGH ADVERSE MOMENTS. NOW, 44:02.731 --> 44:05.431 ADVERSITY CAN COME MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, BUT FIRST OF 44:05.431 --> 44:09.811 ALL, I'LL JUST SAY IT SHOULD NOT BE A SHOCK THAT WE FACE HARD 44:09.811 --> 44:15.931 TIMES. IT COULD BE A SERIES OF THINGS, AND IT WON'T JUST BE A 44:15.931 --> 44:22.981 TRIAL, BUT IT COULD BE SEVERAL, RIGHT, THROUGHOUT OUR LIFETIME. 44:22.981 --> 44:25.771 AND SO FIRST OF ALL, I'LL JUST SAY THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD BE MORE 44:25.771 --> 44:30.601 SUPPORTIVE OF EACH OTHER. AMEN, THAT'S A GOOD PLACE FOR A REALLY 44:30.601 --> 44:37.110 GOOD AMEN. WE SHOULD UPLIFT EACH OTHER, OKAY, KNOWING THAT PEOPLE 44:37.110 --> 44:40.110 GO THROUGH THINGS. BUT I'M LOOKING AT THIS WORD DIVERSE. 44:40.110 --> 44:44.701 NOW, I'LL JUST SAY THIS, TRIALS CAN COME FROM SEVERAL SOURCES, 44:44.701 --> 44:49.800 AND WE'LL JUST KIND OF DIVERT HERE FOR A MINUTE. THERE ARE 44:49.800 --> 44:58.501 TRIALS THAT WE CAUSE OURSELF. WE DON'T LIKE THOSE. IT'S AMAZING, 44:58.501 --> 45:04.170 PEOPLE ACT SO SHOCKED. AND LIKE, YOU DUG YOUR OWN HOLE. AND SO 45:04.170 --> 45:07.590 THERE ARE TRIALS WE CAN CAUSE OURSELF. YOU HANG AROUND THE 45:07.590 --> 45:10.650 WRONG CROWD, DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU GO DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE 45:10.650 --> 45:17.400 WITH THOSE PEOPLE. YOU COMMIT ERROR OR SIN OR YOU AVOID DOING 45:17.400 --> 45:22.201 RIGHTEOUS THINGS. AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING SIN, BUT YOU SET UP 45:22.201 --> 45:26.550 YOUR OWN HURT, YOUR OWN TRIAL. SO THERE ARE, FIRST OF ALL, A 45:26.550 --> 45:30.030 LOT OF CHRISTIANS WHO ARE GOING THROUGH TRIALS THAT THEY 45:30.030 --> 45:35.251 THEMSELVES CREATED. NOW, I'LL JUST SAY IT LIKE THIS. USUALLY 45:35.251 --> 45:40.110 IN THAT SCENARIO, PEOPLE DO KNOW, RIGHT? YOU SHOULDN'T BE 45:40.110 --> 45:42.690 SHOCKED. IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE HANGING WITH THE WRONG CROWD, 45:42.690 --> 45:46.081 YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING NEGATIVE THINGS ALL THE TIME, 45:46.081 --> 45:54.360 YOU KNOW YOU KNOW YOU, YOU GO WITH YOU TO WORK. RIGHT? OKAY, 45:54.360 --> 46:00.960 YOU GO WITH YOU TO GET COFFEE IN THE MORNING. SO YOU YOURSELF 46:00.960 --> 46:08.311 KNOW WHAT YOU SAY, COME ON, WHAT YOU DO. YOU KNOW HOW YOU REACT 46:08.311 --> 46:14.460 WHEN SOMETHING DOESN'T GO YOUR WAY. YOU KNOW, RIGHT? YOU CAN 46:14.460 --> 46:17.550 PUT ON A SHOW ON A SUNDAY AND CUSS LIKE A SAILOR ON A TUESDAY. 46:17.550 --> 46:22.141 YOU KNOW, RIGHT? SO PEOPLE, LET'S JUST BE REAL, PEOPLE 46:22.141 --> 46:27.090 CREATE THEIR OWN TRIALS, OKAY? AND THEN ACT LIKE, "I DON'T KNOW 46:27.090 --> 46:30.601 WHY I'M GOING THROUGH THIS." NO, YOU DO KNOW, OKAY? WHAT HAVE YOU 46:30.601 --> 46:34.681 BEEN SOWING AND DOING, OKAY? IN WORD AND DEED, SO THAT'S ONE 46:34.681 --> 46:38.161 KIND OF TRIAL. AND THEN THERE'S THE KIND OF TRIALS, SO YEAH, A, 46:38.161 --> 46:42.001 THE ONES WE CREATE FOR OURSELF. AND WE DON'T LIKE THOSE, WE CAN 46:42.001 --> 46:44.460 AVOID THOSE. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT THE BIBLE TEACHES US 46:44.460 --> 46:50.043 ACTUALLY HOW TO AVOID THEM. AMEN. A SECOND KIND OF TRIAL 46:50.043 --> 46:52.650 THAT WE CAN GO THROUGH IS THE TRIALS THAT ARE CREATED BY 46:52.650 --> 46:56.940 PEOPLE AROUND US. YOU KNOW, FRIENDS AND FAMILY, THEY CAN 46:56.940 --> 47:00.721 CAUSE US TROUBLE. COME ON, DON'T RAISE YOUR HANDS. ANY PARENTS 47:00.721 --> 47:06.150 EVER RAISE TEENAGERS? YOU KNOW, OKAY, OR YOU KNOW, TRIALS THAT 47:06.150 --> 47:09.481 ARE CAUSED BY A SPOUSE, MAYBE THAT ISN'T SAVED. THEY'RE NOT 47:09.481 --> 47:13.260 BORN AGAIN AND THEY'RE GIVING YOU A DIFFICULT TIME. OKAY, 47:13.260 --> 47:18.061 SOMETIMES OUR TRIALS ARE THE CHOICES CREATED BY OTHER PEOPLE. 47:18.061 --> 47:21.510 AND WHAT THEY'RE CHOOSING TO DO, THAT WE ARE TIED SOMEHOW TO 47:21.510 --> 47:24.661 THEIR LIFE. IT COULD BE A BOSS AT WORK THAT'S GIVEN YOU A 47:24.661 --> 47:29.490 PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TIME, RIGHT? AND CAUSING YOU A TRIAL. 47:29.490 --> 47:35.280 SO OUR OWN CHOICES CAN CAUSE DIVERSE TRIBULATIONS. OTHER 47:35.280 --> 47:40.561 PEOPLE AROUND US CAN MAKE OUR LIFE UNPEACEFUL. AND SOMETIMES 47:40.561 --> 47:43.141 WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT 'CAUSE THEY'RE JUST GONNA CHOOSE 47:43.141 --> 47:46.260 POOR THINGS. AND THEN THERE'S THOSE KIND OF TRIALS I FEEL LIKE 47:46.260 --> 47:50.701 COME JUST FROM STRAIGHT FROM THE SPIRIT REALM. YOU KNOW, LIKE AN 47:50.701 --> 47:55.530 ATTACK ON YOUR BODY OR SOME SORT OF INCIDENT THAT TAKES PLACE. 47:55.530 --> 47:59.190 MAYBE IT'S A STORM AND THE TREE FELL DOWN AND TOTALED YOUR CAR. 47:59.190 --> 48:01.920 AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT ANYTHING. YOU CHOSE, ANYBODY 48:01.920 --> 48:05.940 ELSE CHOSE, IT WAS JUST DEMONIC. RIGHT, SO THESE ARE THE DIVERSE. 48:05.940 --> 48:11.880 BUT THE POINT IS WE SHOULD NOT BE AT ALL SURPRISED THAT WE GO 48:11.880 --> 48:15.960 THROUGH TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS IN THIS WORLD. NOW THE KEY IS, 48:15.960 --> 48:20.311 HERE'S WHAT JAMES SAYS. LET'S LOOK AT IT TOGETHER. MY BRETHREN 48:20.311 --> 48:24.451 COUNTED ALL JOY. NOW I LOOK AT THAT AND I'M THINKING, LORD, 48:24.451 --> 48:27.391 THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY MEAN THAT EVERY TIME WE'RE IN A TRIAL, 48:27.391 --> 48:34.981 WE'RE LIKE, YIPPEE! I'M SO EXCITED THIS IS HAPPENING. I'VE 48:34.981 --> 48:42.780 DONE THAT NEVER. NOBODY IS EXCITED TO GO THROUGH. SO I LOOK 48:42.780 --> 48:45.570 AT THIS AND I STARE AT IT AND STARE. SEE, THIS IS HOW I DO 48:45.570 --> 48:49.445 WITH THE WORD. I LOOK AT IT, I CHEW ON IT, I READ IT IN THREE 48:49.445 --> 48:52.860 OR FOUR DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, TAKE TIME 48:52.860 --> 48:56.490 TO DO THAT IN YOUR LIFE. THINK ABOUT WHAT IT'S SAYING TO YOU 48:56.490 --> 49:01.771 PERSONALLY. OKAY, COUNT IT ALL JOY. NOW, I LOOK AT THAT, WHEN I 49:01.771 --> 49:06.331 COUNT IT ALL JOY, I SEE IT MORE AS A BELIEVER. COME ON, WE'RE 49:06.331 --> 49:09.721 PEOPLE OF FAITH, RIGHT? AS A BELIEVER, WE SHOULD COUNT IT AS 49:09.721 --> 49:16.231 AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRAY, AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK RIGHT, AN 49:16.231 --> 49:21.271 OPPORTUNITY TO TRUST GOD. OKAY, TRUST DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU 49:21.271 --> 49:24.391 DON'T HAVE A REASON TO HAVE TO TRUST. I TALKED ABOUT THAT ON 49:24.391 --> 49:29.400 SUNDAY AT THE OFFERING. YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE TO TRUST WHEN THINGS 49:29.400 --> 49:34.501 ARE NOT GOING THE WAY YOU WANTED THEM TO GO. SO COUNT IT ALL JOY 49:34.501 --> 49:39.690 COULD ALSO MEAN THAT I MAKE A DECISION, RIGHT, TO SEE THIS AS 49:39.690 --> 49:43.260 AN OPPORTUNITY. NOW, EMOTIONALLY, YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE 49:43.260 --> 49:47.460 THAT. EVEN THAT, YOU THINK, MAN, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING THROUGH THIS 49:47.460 --> 49:50.431 HARDSHIP, I GOT THIS REPORT, THIS HAS HAPPENED, THAT PERSON'S 49:50.431 --> 49:54.240 ACTING UP, THIS IS GOING ON, THINGS ARE GOING DOWN STRANGE AT 49:54.240 --> 49:58.530 WORK. YOU KNOW, I'M NOT THINKING, MAN, I'M SUPER EXCITED 49:58.530 --> 50:02.911 FOR THAT. BUT I BELIEVE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT 50:02.911 --> 50:09.090 MATTERS HERE IN COUNTING IT ALL JOY IS THAT WE CHOOSE TO OPERATE 50:09.090 --> 50:14.161 IN THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT OF FIRST OF ALL, SELF-CONTROL. I 50:14.161 --> 50:17.971 THINK SELF-CONTROL IN NOT ONLY THE CHURCH, BUT IN THE WORLD, 50:17.971 --> 50:21.240 THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE LAST DAYS, PEOPLE WILL BE HEADY, THEY'LL BE 50:21.240 --> 50:25.021 RASH, THEY'LL DO STUPID THINGS THEY WON'T THINK BEFORE THEY 50:25.021 --> 50:30.871 LEAP. AND SO TO, WHEN I COUNT SOMETHING ALL JOY, I'M 50:30.871 --> 50:39.056 IMMEDIATELY PRESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO WALK IN A MEASURE OF 50:39.056 --> 50:46.016 SELF-CONTROL. THAT MEANS THAT WHEN SOMETHING GOES DOWN, THAT I 50:46.016 --> 50:51.536 DON'T FREAK OUT, RIGHT? I DON'T HAVE TO CALL THREE PEOPLE AND 50:51.536 --> 50:55.887 GO, "OH MY GOODNESS, LOOK AT THAT LADY." I DON'T HAVE TO RUN 50:55.887 --> 51:03.416 TO MAKE A POST. OKAY? IT'S ALL SIGNS OF A LACK, A LOT OF SOCIAL 51:03.416 --> 51:07.166 MEDIA. I KNOW, EVERY SERMON I PREACH, I HARP ON SOCIAL MEDIA. 51:07.166 --> 51:10.166 BUT HONESTLY, I FEEL LIKE IT'S ENCOURAGED A LOT OF LACK OF 51:10.166 --> 51:13.797 SELF-CONTROL. YOU KNOW, THEY HAD A THING ON FLASHPOINT LAST 51:13.797 --> 51:16.617 NIGHT. DID YOU SEE THAT LADY THAT'S SUING META? ANYBODY WATCH 51:16.617 --> 51:22.737 THAT? AND I'M NO FAN OF ZUCKERBUCK, BUT HONESTLY, IN MY 51:22.737 --> 51:26.126 HEART, I MEAN, I'M LIKE, OKAY, IT'S NOT JUST DANGEROUS FOR 51:26.126 --> 51:31.827 CHILDREN, IT'S RUINING ADULTS, OKAY? THE SCROLL IS A DEMONIC 51:31.827 --> 51:36.927 WHEEL THAT JUST GOES ON FOREVER AND THEY CAN FEED INTO OUR BRAIN 51:36.927 --> 51:40.916 JUST ABOUT ANYTHING THEY WANNA FEED IN THERE. AND SO IT'S 51:40.916 --> 51:44.697 ENCOURAGED A LOT OF LACK OF SELF-CONTROL. BUT I THINK 51:44.697 --> 51:49.166 COUNTING IT ALL JOY MEANS THAT I MAKE THE CHOICE WHEN I AM FACED 51:49.166 --> 51:55.766 WITH SOMETHING IN MY LIFE, COME ON, IN AMERICA, IN THE WORLD, 51:55.766 --> 52:00.086 WITH PEOPLE, WITH MY MONEY, MY FINANCE, WHEN I'M FACED WITH 52:00.086 --> 52:08.277 SOMETHING, I CHOOSE TO MAINTAIN MY COMPOSURE. OKAY, SOMETIMES 52:08.277 --> 52:11.487 THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU'RE IN A TRIAL IS TO SAY 52:11.487 --> 52:19.106 NOTHING TO ANYBODY. LET THAT SINK IN. OKAY, YOU CAN TELL FOUR 52:19.106 --> 52:21.266 PEOPLE, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE TELEPHONE. THEN THEY'LL TELL 52:21.266 --> 52:23.726 THREE PEOPLE AND FOUR OTHER PEOPLE, AND THE NEXT THING YOU 52:23.726 --> 52:29.097 KNOW, IT'S ON THE NEWS. IT'S CRAZY, AND THEN THEY DON'T HAVE 52:29.097 --> 52:35.007 THE TRUTH ANYWAY. SO THE KEY POINT IS, COUNT IT ALL JOY MEANS 52:35.007 --> 52:40.436 I HAVE TO FIRST MAINTAIN A PLACE OF COMPOSURE, SELF-CONTROL. YOU 52:40.436 --> 52:45.836 KNOW, YOU THINK THAT FRUIT OF SELF-CONTROL STARTS HERE, STARTS 52:45.836 --> 52:49.797 UP IN OUR MIND. OKAY? IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, SELF-CONTROL IS NOT 52:49.797 --> 52:53.367 THAT YOU RUN AROUND SCREAMING. MOST PEOPLE DON'T DO THAT. A 52:53.367 --> 52:57.507 LACK OF SELF-CONTROL MEANS WE ALLOW ALL KINDS OF SCENARIOS TO 52:57.507 --> 53:01.286 GO THROUGH THIS NOGGIN OF OURS AND WE MAKE UP ALL SORTS. YOU 53:01.286 --> 53:04.586 KNOW, AND THE DEVIL LOVES TO PLAY OFF OUR IMAGINATION. HE 53:04.586 --> 53:08.336 LOVES TO SIT ON YOUR SHOULDER AND FEED WHISPERS OF WORST-CASE 53:08.336 --> 53:13.706 SCENARIOS. OKAY. WELL, WHAT IF THAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DOCTOR 53:13.706 --> 53:18.777 GAVE YOU THAT REPORT ABOUT YOUR ARM OR YOUR LEG? WHAT IF, WHAT 53:18.777 --> 53:21.987 IF, YOU KNOW, AND SO THE ENEMY IS ALWAYS THERE TO TRY TO GIVE 53:21.987 --> 53:25.646 YOU A WORST-CASE SCENARIO AND WE HAVE TO TAKE CONTROL, COME ON, 53:25.646 --> 53:30.083 SELF-CONTROL ON OUR EMOTIONS, IT'S A BREEDING GROUND OF WHERE 53:30.083 --> 53:37.947 UNBELIEF BEGINS. AMEN. SO THIS IS WHERE, WHY THE APOSTLE JAMES 53:37.947 --> 53:41.427 IS TELLING THE CHURCH, "COUNT IT ALL JOY," IN OTHER WORDS, 53:41.427 --> 53:50.907 MAINTAIN A PLACE OF COMPOSURE, PAUSE, PAUSE, AND GO, "OKAY, I'M 53:50.907 --> 53:54.657 FACING THIS REPORT, THAT'S HAPPENING. I GOT THIS BILL." 53:54.657 --> 53:58.137 COME ON, ANYBODY GOT A BILL IN THE MAIL THEY DIDN'T EXPECT? AND 53:58.137 --> 54:00.297 YOU'RE THINKING, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST THING THAT'LL POP IN 54:00.297 --> 54:03.567 PEOPLE'S MINDS A LOT OF TIMES IS, "HOW AM I GONNA PAY THAT?" 54:03.567 --> 54:08.217 OKAY, AND THEN THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL WILL DO. HE'LL SAY, "HOW 54:08.217 --> 54:12.237 YOU GONNA PAY THAT? ARE YOU MAD THAT IT CAME?" I'M LIKE, "WELL, 54:12.237 --> 54:17.637 YOU PROBABLY SPENT THE MONEY. BUT MAYBE IT WAS A DOCTOR BILL 54:17.637 --> 54:19.856 THAT YOU DIDN'T PLAN. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALWAYS OUT FOR YOUR 54:19.856 --> 54:23.431 CASH. YOU KNOW, YOU WALK IN AND BLINK AND THEY'LL CHARGE YOU 54:23.431 --> 54:32.427 $500 JUST TO LOOK. SO, SO COUNT IT ALL JOY MEANS THAT I HAVE TO 54:32.427 --> 54:37.317 IMMEDIATELY BE HAD THE DISCIPLINE. COME ON SOMEBODY TO 54:37.317 --> 54:41.306 TAKE CONTROL OF WHAT IS ALLOWED TO PROCESS THROUGH MY THOUGHTS. 54:41.306 --> 54:46.137 OKAY, AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU IT WILL TAKE SOME DISCIPLINE, 54:46.137 --> 54:52.168 BUT IT IS THE THE EARMARK OF THE MOST MATURE OF SAINTS. I MEAN, 54:52.168 --> 54:54.597 HAVE YOU HEARD THE STORY? ANDREW WOMMACK TOLD A STORY ABOUT WHEN 54:54.597 --> 54:58.856 HIS SON HAD DIED. ANYBODY HEARD HIS STORY? AND HE GETS A CALL IN 54:58.856 --> 55:02.666 THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND HIS SON, I THINK, WAS IN A CAR 55:02.666 --> 55:07.706 ACCIDENT, AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, I, UH, IMMEDIATELY THEY SAID, 55:07.706 --> 55:10.737 "HE'S KILLED." NOT THE NEWS HE WANTED TO HEAR. IT WAS IN THE 55:10.737 --> 55:12.567 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND IF YOU'VE NOT HEARD THE STORY, YOU 55:12.567 --> 55:14.637 CAN GO LISTEN TO HIM. HE'LL PROBABLY TELL IT BETTER THAN I 55:14.637 --> 55:17.967 AM, BUT I'M JUST GONNA GIVE YOU THE RUNDOWN. AND HE SAID, "MY 55:17.967 --> 55:21.476 WIFE AND I IMMEDIATELY DECIDED, "IN THE CAR, GOING TO THE 55:21.476 --> 55:27.177 MORGUE, PEOPLE, TO PRAISE GOD." NOW HE SAID, "AT FIRST I HAD TO 55:27.177 --> 55:32.067 DO IT THROUGH GRITTED TEETH, "BUT AS I KEPT PRAISING, AND WE 55:32.067 --> 55:35.344 WERE DRIVING, "AND I KEPT PRAISING, THE JOY OF THE LORD 55:35.344 --> 55:38.907 CAME. "AND I GOT TO THAT HOSPITAL, AND THERE MY SON IS 55:38.907 --> 55:44.487 LAYING IN AN ICEBOX WITH A TOE TAG." AND END OF THE STORY IS, 55:44.487 --> 55:48.597 HE PRAISED GOD, AND HE WOKE UP AND STARTED TALKING. NOW I'M 55:48.597 --> 55:52.182 TELLING YOU, THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT, COME ON, GIVE GOD A 55:52.182 --> 55:58.077 PRAISE FOR THAT. I DON'T KNOW, I CAN'T SPEAK TO IT, IF THERE 55:58.077 --> 56:02.996 WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT DIFFERENT OUTCOME HAD HE STARTED 56:02.996 --> 56:05.876 WEEPING AND CRYING AND WENT THE ROUTE OF GRIEF. I DON'T KNOW. 56:05.876 --> 56:09.536 NOW, BUT THE NATURAL HUMAN RESPONSE, COME ON AND PEOPLE 56:09.536 --> 56:12.536 TELL YOU, "OH, THAT'S HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO RESPOND. "THAT'S 56:12.536 --> 56:16.257 WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO." OKAY, WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS, 56:16.257 --> 56:20.547 YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO REACT FEARFULLY 'CAUSE IT'S A SCARY 56:20.547 --> 56:25.737 THING. YET, COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL INTO DIFFERENT 56:25.737 --> 56:30.717 KINDS, ALL THE KINDS OF TESTS AND TRIALS THAT ONE CAN THINK UP 56:30.717 --> 56:34.407 IN THEIR MIND. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO MAINTAIN THE COMPOSURE 56:34.407 --> 56:42.507 EMOTIONALLY, AMEN, AND MAINTAIN A POSITION OF FAITH. NOW, I WILL 56:42.507 --> 56:46.226 TELL YOU THAT DISCIPLINE IS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS A 56:46.226 --> 56:51.297 CHRISTIAN WILL HAVE TO LEARN TO DO. IT'S ONE OF THE GREATEST, 56:51.297 --> 56:56.367 MOST MATURING THINGS THAT A BELIEVER CAN DO, IS MAINTAIN 56:56.367 --> 57:05.277 COMPOSURE AND SOMETIMES SHUT YOUR MOUTH. RIGHT? COUNT IT ALL 57:05.277 --> 57:10.286 JOY. WHEN YOU FALL INTO ALL THESE TESTS AND THESE TRIALS, 57:10.286 --> 57:14.726 OKAY, IT'S NOT A SURPRISE, FIRST OF ALL. YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, 57:14.726 --> 57:17.967 MAYBE THE ATTITUDE OUGHTA BE WHEN YOU GET HIT WITH SOMETHING 57:17.967 --> 57:21.206 OR THERE'S AN ATTACK, MAYBE THE ATTITUDE OUGHT TO BE, HERE WE 57:21.206 --> 57:25.916 GO, LET'S GO. COME ON, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GOD TO SHOW 57:25.916 --> 57:29.931 HIMSELF. I MEAN, AT LEAST IF ANYTHING, THE FIRST THING OUT OF 57:29.931 --> 57:34.226 OUR MOUTH OUGHT TO BE ONE OF FAITH. AND YOU DON'T ALWAYS KNOW 57:34.226 --> 57:38.157 WHAT YOU'RE FACING, BUT YOU FACE IT AND YOU FACE IT IN FAITH. 57:38.157 --> 57:40.976 COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL IN. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S ANOTHER 57:40.976 --> 57:46.257 OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO MAINTAIN MY DISCIPLINE. THE FRUIT OF THE 57:46.257 --> 57:52.286 SPIRIT OF SELF-CONTROL. LOVE. COME ON, IMAGINE IF WE JUST TOOK 57:52.286 --> 57:56.367 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND PUT THEM INTO PLAY WHEN WE'RE IN A 57:56.367 --> 58:05.114 TRIAL. WALK IN LOVE RATHER THAN EXPOSE SOMEBODY ONLINE. RIGHT? 58:06.657 --> 58:12.927 JOY. PEACE. MY NEW BOOK, COMMANDING PEACE, COMES OUT 58:12.927 --> 58:16.041 SEPTEMBER 1. I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT. I TALK ABOUT SOME OF THIS 58:16.041 --> 58:20.577 STUFF IN THERE. I'M VERY PUMPED. MAINTAIN LOVE, JOY, PEACE, COME 58:20.577 --> 58:27.056 ON. PATIENCE. OKAY, JAMES TALKS ABOUT THAT. ALL OF THE FRUITS OF 58:27.056 --> 58:32.847 THE SPIRIT, SELF-CONTROL, LONG-SUFFERING. OKAY, NONE OF 58:32.847 --> 58:37.106 THESE ARE THE EARMARKS OF THIS CURRENT CULTURE. AND I BELIEVE 58:37.106 --> 58:40.407 THEY KIND OF DID A NOSEDIVE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. PEOPLE HAVE 58:40.407 --> 58:43.916 NO PATIENCE WITH PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE READY TO CRUCIFY THEIR 58:43.916 --> 58:47.876 BROTHER AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY. PEOPLE GET UPSET 58:47.876 --> 58:52.856 EASILY. AND I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF, HOW AM I AS A BELIEVER 58:52.856 --> 58:56.757 DIFFERENT IN THESE THINGS THAN THE WAY THE WORLD RESPONDS TO 58:56.757 --> 59:01.586 ADVERSITY? WE SHOULD BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. WE SHOULD 59:01.586 --> 59:05.637 HAVE AN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENT RESPONSE. OKAY, THE BIBLE SAYS 59:05.637 --> 59:08.666 IN THE LAST DAYS, "MANY SHALL BE OFFENDED." WELL, THAT SHOULDN'T 59:08.666 --> 59:13.106 BE ME. OKAY, AND OFFENDED DOESN'T JUST MEAN MAD AT PEOPLE. 59:13.106 --> 59:17.126 OFFENDED ALSO MEANS TO, YOU KNOW, BE TRIPPED UP BY 59:17.126 --> 59:22.887 SOMETHING, TAKEN OFF COURSE. SO COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL 59:22.887 --> 59:27.056 INTO THESE THINGS. KNOWING THIS, IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE TO KNOW 59:27.056 --> 59:31.737 THAT WE KNOW, KNOW THIS. AND BY THE WAY, IT'S NOT A SHOCK. THE 59:31.737 --> 59:35.666 BIBLE SAYS THAT THE DEVIL, JUST TO UNDERSCORE THE POINT, THAT 59:35.666 --> 59:38.666 TRIALS SHOULDN'T BE A SHOCK. FIRST PETER 5 AND 8 SAYS THE 59:38.666 --> 59:43.077 DEVIL GOES ABOUT LIKE WHAT? A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR 59:43.077 --> 59:47.996 SOMEBODY TO DEVOUR. WELL, DON'T LET IT BE YOU. JUST DECIDE IT'S 59:47.996 --> 59:53.876 NOT GONNA BE ME. I'M NOT GONNA ALLOW HIM TO DEVOUR MY BRAIN 59:53.876 --> 59:57.416 WITH HIS LIES. BUT THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S 59:57.416 --> 01:00:00.177 AMAZING TO ME, WHEN WE GO THROUGH SOMETHING, WE THINK 01:00:00.177 --> 01:00:06.146 WE'RE THE ONLY ONE, OKAY, THAT HAS EVER BEEN THROUGH ANYTHING 01:00:06.146 --> 01:00:09.686 THIS HARD. I MEAN, AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT'S EVER HAD A PITY 01:00:09.686 --> 01:00:15.056 PARTY? AND WE THINK THAT THIS SITUATION, NOBODY UNDERSTANDS 01:00:15.056 --> 01:00:17.936 FULLY. AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I THINK IT'S THE REASON WE 01:00:17.936 --> 01:00:21.297 TALK TOO MUCH ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS. WE'RE LOOKING FOR 01:00:21.297 --> 01:00:26.036 SOMEBODY TO EMPATHIZE WITH WHERE WE ARE. OKAY, WE'RE LOOKING FOR 01:00:26.036 --> 01:00:29.516 SOMEBODY TO, OH YEAH, YOU KNOW, THAT HAPPENED WITH ME AT THE 01:00:29.516 --> 01:00:35.577 DOCTOR TOO. AND THEN PEOPLE COMPARE NOTES ON THEIR AILMENTS. 01:00:35.577 --> 01:00:38.606 AND YOU KNOW, ALL WE'RE DOING IS GIVING, POURING GASOLINE ON THE 01:00:38.606 --> 01:00:42.567 DEVIL'S FIRE. AND OH, YOU KNOW, AND THAT HAPPENED TO ME. YOU 01:00:42.567 --> 01:00:47.186 KNOW, WE WANT SOMEBODY TO RELATE TO IN THE PROBLEM. CAN I TELL 01:00:47.186 --> 01:00:50.186 YOU, THAT'S ANOTHER DISCIPLINE WE NEED TO HAVE. YES, ASK FOR 01:00:50.186 --> 01:00:52.331 PRAYER. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT. 01:00:52.331 --> 01:00:55.362 ASK PEOPLE FOR PRAYER. SAY, "PLEASE PRAY FOR ME. I GOT A BAD 01:00:55.362 --> 01:01:00.132 DOCTOR'S REPORT. IT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY." IMAGINE THAT. YOU 01:01:00.132 --> 01:01:03.911 KNOW, BUT PEOPLE DETAIL. I SEE IT ONLINE, ON THE COMMENTS. 01:01:03.911 --> 01:01:06.192 PEOPLE, "I WENT THROUGH THIS AND THE DOCTOR WROTE THAT AND I GOT 01:01:06.192 --> 01:01:09.251 TWO X-RAYS OF FOUR BROKEN FINGERS AND THEY BROKE MY LEG 01:01:09.251 --> 01:01:13.271 AND FELL OFF THE BIKE THREE TIMES AND THEY COULDN'T GET A 01:01:13.271 --> 01:01:14.382 CANE TO FIT ME. 01:01:14.382 --> 01:01:17.922 AND THEN I GOT THE CANE AND THEN IT DIDN'T WORK RIGHT. AND NOW, 01:01:17.922 --> 01:01:21.762 YOU KNOW, THEY WANT ME TO GET ON THE STATIONARY BIKE AND I CAN'T 01:01:21.762 --> 01:01:25.722 EVEN CLIMB UP THERE. AND I'M TELLING YOU, PRAY, PRAY FOR ME. 01:01:25.722 --> 01:01:30.101 I'M LIKE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THAT MESS. I DON'T 01:01:30.101 --> 01:01:32.532 EVEN KNOW WHAT TO PRAY. AM I PRAYING FOR YOU TO GET ON THE 01:01:32.532 --> 01:01:35.802 BIKE? AM I PRAYING FOR YOU TO GET A NEW CANE? WHAT ARE YOU 01:01:35.802 --> 01:01:38.253 ASKING? I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PRAY FOR. 01:01:38.253 --> 01:01:41.592 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:01:41.592 --> 01:01:45.072 BUT YOU KNOW, WE DO THESE THINGS BECAUSE WE WANT SOMEBODY TO COME 01:01:45.072 --> 01:01:49.362 INTO THE EMOTIONAL ABYSS WITH US. BECAUSE WE DON'T FEEL LIKE 01:01:49.362 --> 01:01:52.992 WE GOT ANYBODY. WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE BY OURSELF, COME ON. THE 01:01:52.992 --> 01:01:58.242 DEVIL LOVES TO ISOLATE EVERY CHRISTIAN IN THEIR TRIAL. EVERY 01:01:58.242 --> 01:02:02.351 PERSON. IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, SO, AND THEN THE BIBLE GOES ON 01:02:02.351 --> 01:02:06.072 WHERE IT SAYS THAT, I DON'T KNOW, THEY COULD MAYBE PUT IT UP 01:02:06.072 --> 01:02:11.382 THERE. IT SAYS THAT, GO BACK TO 1 PETER 5, IT SAYS THAT, "BE 01:02:11.382 --> 01:02:14.532 SOBER, BE VIGILANT, "YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT 01:02:14.532 --> 01:02:16.601 LIKE A ROARING LION," SEEKING SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. LOOK AT THE 01:02:16.601 --> 01:02:21.822 NEXT VERSE. "RESIST HIM STEADFAST." WELL, WHERE DOES THE 01:02:21.822 --> 01:02:26.592 RESISTANCE START? YOU DON'T GET A BROOM OUT AND SWING IT AROUND 01:02:26.592 --> 01:02:32.382 YOUR LIVING ROOM. AND DEVIL, I'M RESISTING YOU IN THE NAME OF 01:02:32.382 --> 01:02:34.512 JESUS. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I MIGHT'VE DONE THAT A TIME OR 01:02:34.512 --> 01:02:39.311 TWO. PASTOR HANK COULD TELL THE STORY WHEN WE WAS TRYING TO GROW 01:02:39.311 --> 01:02:42.612 THE CHURCH AND WE WERE JUST REAL NEW AND WE HAD MORE EMPTY CHAIRS 01:02:42.612 --> 01:02:45.012 THAN FULL ONES. HE SAID, "YEAH, I CAME IN HERE, I THREW SOME 01:02:45.012 --> 01:02:50.922 CHAIRS. "I THREW THEM." I SAID, "YOU'LL NOT MOCK ME." BUT THE 01:02:50.922 --> 01:02:55.452 KEY IS, YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN BE MAD AT LIFE 01:02:55.452 --> 01:02:59.382 AND PUNCH A HOLE IN YOUR DRYWALL. THAT IS NOT GONNA GET 01:02:59.382 --> 01:03:05.322 RID OF THE DEVIL. IT'S NOT GONNA HELP. IT'S NOT GONNA HELP YOU 01:03:05.322 --> 01:03:10.572 GET RID OF THE ENEMY BECAUSE YOU AIRED OUT YOUR COMPLAINT TO SIX 01:03:10.572 --> 01:03:17.621 FOLKS OR TO YOUR SPOUSE, RIGHT? YOUR SPOUSE IS JUST LIKE, BE 01:03:17.621 --> 01:03:26.862 NICE. RESIST HIM STEADFAST IN THE FAITH, KNOWING, WATCH THIS, 01:03:26.862 --> 01:03:29.052 THE SAME. EVERYBODY SAY SAME. 01:03:30.101 --> 01:03:33.702 SAME. IT'S THE SAME. IT'S THE SAME. IT MAY HAVE A DIFFERENT 01:03:33.702 --> 01:03:39.492 COLOR HAT. IT MAY DRESS UP IN A DIFFERENT SWEATER AND SHOES, BUT 01:03:39.492 --> 01:03:45.521 THE TRIALS OF LIFE ARE THE SAME. I THINK IT'S THE REASON THE 01:03:45.521 --> 01:03:49.931 BIBLE HAD THE BOOK OF JOB IN THERE. 'CAUSE WHEN YOU THINK 01:03:49.931 --> 01:03:55.032 YOUR STORY IS THE WORST OF THE WORST, OF THE WORST, RIGHT? 01:03:55.032 --> 01:03:58.512 YOU'VE GONE THROUGH THE WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT ANYBODY IN 01:03:58.512 --> 01:04:03.041 THE WORLD COULD GO THROUGH. LISTEN, AND I'M NOT UNDERCUTTING 01:04:03.041 --> 01:04:06.161 THAT. I'M NOT SAYING PEOPLE DON'T GO THROUGH REAL PAIN. 01:04:06.161 --> 01:04:09.762 YEAH, WE GO THROUGH REAL THINGS, OKAY? PEOPLE HAVE LOST LOVED 01:04:09.762 --> 01:04:13.692 ONES, THEY'RE GRIEVING. OKAY, BUT THE REASON I BELIEVE THE 01:04:13.692 --> 01:04:18.132 BOOK OF JOB IS IN THE BIBLE, 'CAUSE JOB, I DON'T KNOW THAT 01:04:18.132 --> 01:04:24.942 ANYBODY CAN MEASURE UP TO LOSING HIS FAMILY TWO TIMES. AND ALL 01:04:24.942 --> 01:04:28.211 HIS BELONGING IS IN HIS POSSESSIONS AND HIS HEALTH. I 01:04:28.211 --> 01:04:34.601 MEAN, EVERYTHING A CHRISTIAN CAN NAME, HE LOST AT ONE POINT. SO 01:04:34.601 --> 01:04:40.931 IT SAYS, "KNOW THAT THE SAME SUFFERINGS ARE EXPERIENCED BY 01:04:40.931 --> 01:04:44.981 YOUR BRETHREN THAT ARE IN THE WORLD." THE SAME THING. SO 01:04:44.981 --> 01:04:48.612 SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING THROUGH SOMETHING. SO YOU ARE NOT ALONE 01:04:48.612 --> 01:04:53.202 IN THE TRIAL. SO THE DISCIPLINE THEN THEREFORE, OKAY, 'CAUSE 01:04:53.202 --> 01:04:56.052 THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE, YOU THINK, "OH, WELL, I GOT THIS DOCTOR'S 01:04:56.052 --> 01:04:59.021 REPORT AND THE DOCTOR SAID THIS AND THIS AND IT WAS ALL NEGATIVE 01:04:59.021 --> 01:05:02.831 AND POOR." I PROMISE YOU THERE'S PROBABLY SOMEBODY IN SECTION C 01:05:02.831 --> 01:05:06.192 OF THE CHURCH THAT GOT A SIMILAR DOCTOR'S REPORT. YOU JUST DON'T 01:05:06.192 --> 01:05:12.461 KNOW ABOUT IT, OKAY? BECAUSE THE ENEMY IS THE SAME, OKAY? KNOWING 01:05:12.461 --> 01:05:16.541 THESE SAME THINGS ARE GOING ON WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. SO YOU'RE 01:05:16.541 --> 01:05:20.231 NOT ALONE AND THEY'RE EXPERIENCED BY YOUR BRETHREN 01:05:20.231 --> 01:05:24.552 THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. SO GO BACK TO JAMES KNOWING THIS, THAT 01:05:24.552 --> 01:05:30.342 THE SAME TESTING OF OUR FAITH, OF ALL OF THESE DIVERSE THINGS 01:05:30.342 --> 01:05:34.661 WE GO THROUGH. THIS IS WHY AS PASTOR, WE'RE GOING INTO THE 01:05:34.661 --> 01:05:38.532 MIDTERMS AND HE IS TALKING SO MUCH ABOUT, LISTEN, GOD'S BEEN 01:05:38.532 --> 01:05:41.351 SAYING, HOW MANY OF YOU HEAR IT EVERY SUNDAY? GOD'S BEEN SAYING, 01:05:41.351 --> 01:05:45.012 GOD'S BEEN SAYING, GOD'S BEEN REVEALING. AND THEN WE ALL LOVE 01:05:45.012 --> 01:05:48.402 IT WHEN HIS PROPHECIES COME TO PASS. OH, WE'RE SO EXCITED. LOOK 01:05:48.402 --> 01:05:51.791 AT THAT HAPPEN. IT'S IN THE NEWS, BUT GET IN FAITH OVER IT. 01:05:51.791 --> 01:05:58.632 IF GOD IS BRINGING IT TO PASS, RIGHT, THEN WE NEED TO COUNT IT 01:05:58.632 --> 01:06:02.831 ALL JOY. OKAY, THE LORD'S BEEN TALKING, THE LORD'S BEEN 01:06:02.831 --> 01:06:07.211 SPEAKING, AND THEN SOME LIBERAL LEFTIST GOES AND DOES SOME RASH. 01:06:07.211 --> 01:06:12.581 DON'T GET UPSET, OKAY? THE VICTORY IS THERE. KNOWING THIS, 01:06:12.581 --> 01:06:16.452 THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH WORKS. NOW THAT WORD PATIENCE IS 01:06:16.452 --> 01:06:20.501 THE WORD IN THE GREEK, I'M NOT AN EXPERT, BUT YOU KNOW, I'VE 01:06:20.501 --> 01:06:24.431 STUDIED A FEW OF THESE THINGS. IT MEANS TO HAVE CHEERFUL, BUT 01:06:24.431 --> 01:06:29.141 VERY COMMITTED ENDURANCE. SO THAT ALREADY TELLS ME THAT NOT 01:06:29.141 --> 01:06:34.661 EVERY TRIAL GOES AWAY AT ONCE, OKAY? SOME THINGS YOU MAY HAVE 01:06:34.661 --> 01:06:38.141 TO RESIST. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO GET UP AND RESIST AGAIN. YEAH, BUT 01:06:38.141 --> 01:06:41.862 PASTOR BRENDA, HANDS WERE LAID ON ME ON SUNDAY, AND I STILL HAD 01:06:41.862 --> 01:06:44.652 THIS SYMPTOM. THERE'S STILL SOMETHING GOING ON IN MY KNEE OR 01:06:44.652 --> 01:06:48.461 SOMETHING GOING ON IN MY, THERE'S STILL AN ISSUE. I GOT 01:06:48.461 --> 01:06:52.302 PRAYER FOR IT. WELL, THERE MAY BE ANOTHER STRATEGY OF 01:06:52.302 --> 01:06:55.871 RESISTANCE THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO 01:06:55.871 --> 01:07:02.501 UNDERTAKE. SO IT BRINGS FORTH COMMITTED, CHEERFUL ENDURANCE. 01:07:02.501 --> 01:07:04.811 YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THIS TODAY. I WAS READING THESE 01:07:04.811 --> 01:07:07.751 VERSES OVER AND OVER AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, I THOUGHT, 01:07:07.751 --> 01:07:10.391 YOU KNOW, LORD, IF WE DIDN'T GO THROUGH ANYTHING, WE WOULD BE 01:07:10.391 --> 01:07:18.311 SPINELESS WUSSES. A BUNCH OF SPOILED CHILDREN THAT NEVER HAD 01:07:18.311 --> 01:07:23.322 TO LEARN TO WALK ON OUR OWN. OKAY, IF ALL WE DO IS CRY AND 01:07:23.322 --> 01:07:28.152 WHINE WHEN WE GO THROUGH A HARD TIME, WE HAVEN'T LEARNED HOW TO 01:07:28.152 --> 01:07:32.981 DO ANYTHING WORTH ANYTHING FULL OF FAITH. I HEARD ONE PREACHER 01:07:32.981 --> 01:07:35.561 SAY A LONG TIME AGO, I LOVE THIS. HE SAID, YOU KNOW, 01:07:35.561 --> 01:07:39.282 SOMEWHERE WE'VE GOT TO GET STRONGER AND MORE POWERFUL IN 01:07:39.282 --> 01:07:42.882 OUR FAITH THAN BELIEVING GOD JUST FOR OUR POOR LITTLE SELF. 01:07:45.521 --> 01:07:51.552 AND THE TROUBLE IS MOST PEOPLE NEVER ATTAIN TO A GREATER LEVEL 01:07:51.552 --> 01:07:55.572 OF STANDING STRONG OVER THEIR OWN TRIALS, MUCH LESS A BROTHER 01:07:55.572 --> 01:07:59.150 OR SISTER. AND I, LISTEN, I DON'T WANT TO BE A PERSON THAT 01:07:59.150 --> 01:08:02.561 WHEN WE ALL COME TOGETHER ON A SUNDAY AND WE PRAY, WHERE WE 01:08:02.561 --> 01:08:07.422 PRAY EMPTY PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER. OKAY, I WANT TO GET TO A 01:08:07.422 --> 01:08:12.641 PLACE IN MY DISCIPLINE, MY MATURITY, MY WALK WITH THE LORD, 01:08:12.641 --> 01:08:16.481 WHERE I DISCIPLINE MYSELF TO RESPOND AND REACT TO THINGS IN 01:08:16.481 --> 01:08:21.372 FAITH SO THAT I CAN EXHIBIT THAT SAME FAITH FOR SOMEBODY ELSE. 01:08:21.372 --> 01:08:25.481 COME ON, THAT'S WHAT JESUS WAS. NOW, EVEN THOUGH HE, AND HE 01:08:25.481 --> 01:08:29.412 WOULDN'T EVEN LET PEOPLE DEPEND ON HIS FAITH. THINK ABOUT THAT. 01:08:29.412 --> 01:08:35.171 HE WAS FULL OF FAITH. I MEAN, I'M STILL, READ THE STORY OF THE 01:08:35.171 --> 01:08:39.176 STORM AND THE BOAT IN MARK 4, AND I'M LIKE, LORD, HERE ARE 01:08:39.176 --> 01:08:45.881 THESE PEOPLE, THEY ROCKED, THE BOAT WAS GOING. YOU SAID, WHERE 01:08:45.881 --> 01:08:50.863 WAS YOUR FAITH? I'M LIKE, THEY MIGHT'VE BEEN SEASICK. I DON'T 01:08:50.863 --> 01:08:54.282 KNOW IF BUBBA AND THE OTHER BOAT FELL OVER THE BOARD. WE DON'T 01:08:54.282 --> 01:08:59.381 KNOW. OKAY, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THEIR BOAT WAS FULL OF WATER AND 01:08:59.381 --> 01:09:03.994 JESUS EXPECTED THEM TO RESPOND WITH EMOTIONAL FAITH DISCIPLINE. 01:09:06.372 --> 01:09:09.521 KNOWING THIS, THAT THESE THINGS ARE MAKING YOU STRONG. THAT'S 01:09:09.521 --> 01:09:13.061 WHAT VERSE THREE IS SAYING. THESE THINGS ARE MAKING YOU 01:09:13.061 --> 01:09:17.771 TOUGHEN UP. COME ON, TOUGHEN UP AS A CHRISTIAN. IF I COULD SAY 01:09:17.771 --> 01:09:22.061 ANYTHING THAT WE ALL NEED IS, COME ON, TOUGHEN UP AS 01:09:22.061 --> 01:09:27.912 BELIEVERS. AND IF YOU THINK, WELL, THAT SOUNDS SO HARSH, 01:09:27.912 --> 01:09:31.092 PASTOR BRENDA, IF YOU ONLY KNEW. WELL, I'M LIKE, WELL, THINK FOR 01:09:31.092 --> 01:09:34.511 A MOMENT, AND I DON'T MEAN TO LIKE BE THE DEBBIE DOWNER ON A 01:09:34.511 --> 01:09:37.092 WEDNESDAY ON THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL, BUT I'M JUST GONNA SAY, 01:09:38.532 --> 01:09:42.042 IF YOU THINK THAT, THINK ABOUT THE CHRISTIANS OVERSEAS GETTING 01:09:42.042 --> 01:09:46.332 BEHEADED JUST FOR NAMING THE NAME OF JESUS. OKAY, COME ON, 01:09:46.332 --> 01:09:51.162 THINK ABOUT THAT. JUST TO EVEN PROFESS CHRIST, THEY ARE BEING 01:09:51.162 --> 01:09:58.992 TAKEN AND BEHEADED. SO COME ON, WE CAN BUCK UP. OKAY, KNOWING 01:09:58.992 --> 01:10:01.782 THIS, THESE THINGS ARE MAKING US STRONG. THAT'S WHAT VERSE THREE 01:10:01.782 --> 01:10:04.811 IS SAYING. THESE THINGS ARE MAKING US TOUGHER. THEY'RE 01:10:04.811 --> 01:10:10.452 HELPING US TO MATURE ON HOW TO RESPOND WHEN THE NOT SO 01:10:10.452 --> 01:10:16.332 SURPRISING DIVERSE CHALLENGES OF LIFE HAPPEN. OKAY, AND CAN I BE 01:10:16.332 --> 01:10:20.202 HONEST? ALL RIGHT, THE BODY OF CHRIST IS AMONG THE MOST 01:10:20.202 --> 01:10:23.798 COMPASSIONATE BUT NOBODY WANTS TO SIT WITH YOU IN THE FOYER 01:10:23.798 --> 01:10:28.122 WHILE YOU CRY YOUR EYES OUT. AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE THEY DON'T LOVE 01:10:28.122 --> 01:10:30.311 YOU. THEY JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT. THEY DON'T KNOW 01:10:30.311 --> 01:10:35.171 IF THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAND YOU A KLEENEX, GIVE YOU A HUG, GIVE 01:10:35.171 --> 01:10:39.971 YOU GOOD ADVICE, RIGHT? AND SO I'M NOT SAYING YOU DON'T REACH 01:10:39.971 --> 01:10:43.601 OUT TO PEOPLE, BUT WHAT I AM SAYING, WE HAVE TO DISCIPLINE 01:10:43.601 --> 01:10:48.521 OURSELVES TO BE BIBLICAL SAINTS, OKAY? IF JESUS WAS HERE, I DON'T 01:10:48.521 --> 01:10:50.952 KNOW. IT'S LIKE I HEARD PASTOR HANKS SAY ONE TIME, "I THINK 01:10:50.952 --> 01:10:55.948 JESUS IS GOING TO COME BACK WITH A SPANKING SPOON." MAYBE LIKE, 01:10:55.948 --> 01:10:58.497 YOU KNOW, AND I FEEL LIKE IT. I FEEL LIKE IF HE WOULD WALK 01:10:58.497 --> 01:11:00.837 THROUGH THE FOYER OF MOST CHURCHES, HE'D PROBABLY SAY TO 01:11:00.837 --> 01:11:04.078 PEOPLE, "WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? WHERE'S YOUR 01:11:04.078 --> 01:11:08.097 FAITH?" I MEAN, AND LISTEN, I'M HOLDING MYSELF ACCOUNTABLE. 01:11:08.097 --> 01:11:11.247 WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? WHERE'S YOUR FAITH? YOU KNOW, PASTOR HANK AND 01:11:11.247 --> 01:11:15.568 I, WE TRY TO BE EXTREMELY DISCIPLINED IN OUR HOUSE. YOU 01:11:15.568 --> 01:11:20.518 KNOW, THE MINUTE WE, ONE OF US, GETS OUT A LINE WITH OUR MOUTH, 01:11:20.518 --> 01:11:23.368 LIKE, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, AND IT'S REALLY ROUGH. YOU KNOW, WHEN 01:11:23.368 --> 01:11:31.677 YOUR SPOUSE CORRECTS YOUR FAITH, IT ALWAYS GOES OVER SO GOOD. BUT 01:11:31.677 --> 01:11:36.747 IF SOMEBODY, IF, I MEAN, APPARENTLY YOU'RE LAUGHING 01:11:36.747 --> 01:11:40.618 'CAUSE YOU'VE ALL TRIED IT. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE LEARNED WITH 01:11:40.618 --> 01:11:46.377 EACH OTHER TO SAY, IS THAT THE HARVEST YOU WANT? OKAY? PULL 01:11:46.377 --> 01:11:50.188 BACK YOUR MIND, OKAY? IN FACT, I THINK I'M GONNA DO A SERIES, 01:11:50.188 --> 01:11:53.247 MAYBE COMING UP ON SUNDAY, THE BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND, 'CAUSE 01:11:53.247 --> 01:11:56.637 I THINK IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO ADDRESS, SO 01:11:56.637 --> 01:12:00.448 MAYBE WE'LL TEACH ON THAT. BUT IT SAID, NOW, OKAY, LET'S GO TO 01:12:00.448 --> 01:12:04.167 VERSE FOUR. OKAY, SO PATIENCE, COME ON. IT'S TEACHING US SOME 01:12:04.167 --> 01:12:06.807 SPIRITUAL MUSCLE THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH, WHAT WE'RE 01:12:06.807 --> 01:12:11.284 FACING. AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE, BY THE WAY, I'M JUST GONNA SAY IT 01:12:11.284 --> 01:12:15.118 LIKE THIS, IT'S NOT BECAUSE GOD IS HARSH. IT'S NOT BECAUSE HE'S 01:12:15.118 --> 01:12:19.078 HARD AND HAS NO FEELINGS. THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WAS TOUCHED 01:12:19.078 --> 01:12:22.557 WITH THE FEELINGS OF OUR INFIRMITIES, OKAY? BUT HE'S 01:12:22.557 --> 01:12:27.207 GIVEN US THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A WAY OUT. THAT'S THE THING. THE 01:12:27.207 --> 01:12:30.927 BIBLE SAYS THAT HE THAT COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS AND 01:12:30.927 --> 01:12:33.688 THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM. BUT 01:12:33.688 --> 01:12:40.408 WITHOUT FAITH, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD. BUT LET PATIENCE 01:12:40.408 --> 01:12:44.698 HAVE HER COMPLETE WORK. THAT MEANS YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO, YOU 01:12:44.698 --> 01:12:49.318 MIGHT HAVE TO GET UP AND BOX AROUND, FEEL LIKE YOU GOT 01:12:49.318 --> 01:12:53.158 KNOCKED OUT AND GO AT IT AGAIN. SEE, YOU MAY HAVE TO GET UP AND 01:12:53.158 --> 01:12:57.537 GO BACK AT IT AGAIN. I DON'T KNOW, I DO NOT KNOW FROM 01:12:57.537 --> 01:13:00.387 ANYTHING THAT I FIND IN SCRIPTURE WHY SOME MIRACLES ARE 01:13:00.387 --> 01:13:04.438 INSTANT AND SOME TOOK TIME. I DON'T KNOW, AND WE SEE IT. WE 01:13:04.438 --> 01:13:09.207 SEE IT THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. GOD GAVE A SERIES OF MIRACLES TO THE 01:13:09.207 --> 01:13:11.997 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BUT SOME THINGS HE MADE THEM WALK THE 01:13:11.997 --> 01:13:17.518 PROCESS. OKAY. HE PURPOSELY DROVE THEM INTO THE WILDERNESS 01:13:17.518 --> 01:13:19.948 SO THEY COULD BE, THE BIBLE SAYS IN DEUTERONOMY, I THINK IT'S 01:13:19.948 --> 01:13:23.608 CHAPTER TWO, IT SAYS HE TOOK THEM INTO THE WILDERNESS TO TEST 01:13:23.608 --> 01:13:27.507 THEM AND TRY THEM AND FIND OUT WHAT WAS IN THEIR HEART. AND OF 01:13:27.507 --> 01:13:30.747 COURSE WE KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY. SO THE KEY IS, LET 01:13:30.747 --> 01:13:33.868 PATIENCE. SOMETIMES IT'S GONNA BE A PROCESS THAT WE HAVE TO GO 01:13:33.868 --> 01:13:39.268 THROUGH. AND THERE'S INTERCESSION INVOLVED, OKAY? OUR 01:13:39.268 --> 01:13:43.228 SPEAKING IS INVOLVED. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO, 01:13:43.228 --> 01:13:47.787 ESPECIALLY WHEN WE CAN'T CONTROL THE TRIAL, OKAY? WE CAN'T 01:13:47.787 --> 01:13:50.967 CONTROL THE FACT THAT MAYBE THE STORM HAPPENED AND OUR ROOF, WE 01:13:50.967 --> 01:13:54.778 LOST THE HOUSE, OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. SOME SITUATION, MAYBE 01:13:54.778 --> 01:13:58.228 YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. BUT NOW YOU'RE HAVING TO 01:13:58.228 --> 01:14:01.948 NAVIGATE THE CHALLENGE OF IT. AND YOU KNOW HOW INSURANCE 01:14:01.948 --> 01:14:05.518 COMPANIES ARE, THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, WE'LL PAY TWO THIRDS. AND 01:14:05.518 --> 01:14:07.677 YOU'VE GOTTA COME UP WITH ALL THE MONEY YOU DIDN'T EXPECT TO 01:14:07.677 --> 01:14:12.297 HAVE OR PUT A TRASH BAG ON YOUR ROOF. FUNNY STORY, PASTOR HANK 01:14:12.297 --> 01:14:16.167 AND I USED TO LIVE IN A HOUSE THAT HAD, WHAT DO THEY CALL 01:14:16.167 --> 01:14:20.787 THOSE? SKYLIGHTS, THE WINDOWS AT THE TOP AND THE ROOF. I DON'T 01:14:20.787 --> 01:14:23.158 THINK THEY MAKE THOSE AS MUCH ANYMORE FOR THIS REASON, 01:14:23.158 --> 01:14:26.637 ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE IN NEBRASKA. WE HAD A HAIL STORM. 01:14:26.637 --> 01:14:30.358 THE BOYS WERE REALLY LITTLE. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS STORM CAME. 01:14:30.358 --> 01:14:34.318 AND YOU KNOW, PASTOR JUST LOVES HEIGHTS. AND SURE ENOUGH, THE 01:14:34.318 --> 01:14:37.797 HAIL BROKE OUT BOTH SKYLIGHTS IN OUR BATHROOMS AND IT WAS IN THE 01:14:37.797 --> 01:14:41.068 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. SO SURELY ENOUGH, GUESS WHAT WE'RE DOING? 01:14:41.068 --> 01:14:45.658 WE GET OUT A LADDER. WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING. WE GET OUT A 01:14:45.658 --> 01:14:51.358 LADDER AND CLIMB THE ROOF AND TAPE DOWN TRASH BAGS. NOW, NEVER 01:14:51.358 --> 01:14:54.747 AGAIN. I'M CALLING PASTOR DOUG IF THAT EVER HAPPENS. I DON'T 01:14:54.747 --> 01:14:57.927 KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, BUT ANYWAY. I DON'T KNOW, WE'LL CALL 01:14:57.927 --> 01:15:04.978 SOMEBODY ELSE. BUT THE POINT BEING IS THINGS HAPPEN, OKAY? SO 01:15:04.978 --> 01:15:08.908 OUR REACTION, KNOW THAT SOMETIMES, AND I'LL BE HONEST 01:15:08.908 --> 01:15:11.217 WITH YOU, THERE MAY BE TIMES YOU'RE GOING THROUGH MULTIPLE 01:15:11.217 --> 01:15:15.118 TRIALS AT THE SAME TIME. ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE? AND ONE TIME 01:15:15.118 --> 01:15:18.417 WHEN WE WERE FIRST MARRIED AND OH MY GOODNESS, OUR LIFE FELT 01:15:18.417 --> 01:15:23.757 LIKE A TORNADO EVERY DAY. WE WERE BROKE, OKAY? WE HAD 01:15:23.757 --> 01:15:26.841 NOTHING. I MEAN, GETTING OUR FOOD AT THE GROCERY STORE. I 01:15:26.841 --> 01:15:30.358 REMEMBER ONE TIME I WALKED INTO BAKER'S SUPERMARKET OVER IN 01:15:30.358 --> 01:15:33.597 PAPILLION. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THAT'S STILL THERE. AND THIS WAS 01:15:33.597 --> 01:15:37.318 BACK WHEN WE KEPT THE CHECKBOOK REGISTERS, BOB, YOU KNOW, AND WE 01:15:37.318 --> 01:15:39.807 HAD TO WRITE DOWN WHAT OUR BALANCE WAS. AND I MEAN, I WOULD 01:15:39.807 --> 01:15:42.898 KEEP IT TO THE PENNY 'CAUSE I DID NOT WANNA SPEND THE $15 01:15:42.898 --> 01:15:47.578 OVERDRAFT CHARGE, I COULDN'T AFFORD IT. AND SO I WALKED IN 01:15:47.578 --> 01:15:51.118 THERE AND ONE TIME WE HAD $30 LEFT IN OUR CHECKBOOK TO GO GET 01:15:51.118 --> 01:15:54.328 GROCERIES AND I THOUGHT, IT'S A GREAT DAY, GOD. I MEAN, WE ARE 01:15:54.328 --> 01:15:57.747 GONNA EAT GOOD TONIGHT 'CAUSE YOU COULD BUY RICE FOR 50 CENTS 01:15:57.747 --> 01:16:01.287 AND A GOOD SIZE BAG OF IT AND YOU COULD EAT, WE BOUGHT 01:16:01.287 --> 01:16:03.118 EVERYTHING ON THE CHEAP, WENT THROUGH WITH OUR LITTLE 01:16:03.118 --> 01:16:05.488 CALCULATOR AND I THINK I SPENT 29.99. 01:16:06.688 --> 01:16:09.417 LEFT MYSELF 50 CENTS IN THE CHECKBOOK, AND I'M TELLING YOU 01:16:09.417 --> 01:16:14.578 RIGHT NOW. BUT YOU KNOW, WE WENT THROUGH THAT. WE WERE TRYING TO 01:16:14.578 --> 01:16:16.948 GET ON THE ROAD TO PREACH, AND WE GOT THE LEFT FOOT OF 01:16:16.948 --> 01:16:19.858 FELLOWSHIP OUT OF THE DENOMINATION THAT DIDN'T PREACH 01:16:19.858 --> 01:16:23.427 FAITH, SO WE GOT KICKED OUT OF THAT. OH MY GOODNESS, WE WERE 01:16:23.427 --> 01:16:26.307 FIRED FROM THE MINISTRY. WE DIDN'T KNOW, I MEAN, WE DIDN'T 01:16:26.307 --> 01:16:29.158 HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE. WE WERE GOING, WE ALMOST GOT EVICTED 01:16:29.158 --> 01:16:31.467 THREE TIMES FROM THE APARTMENT THAT WE LIVED IN. I'M LIKE, 01:16:31.467 --> 01:16:36.028 LORD, THIS IS NOT HOW I THOUGHT I'D START OUT MY LIFE. AND SO 01:16:36.028 --> 01:16:39.688 PASTOR HANK FINALLY WENT TO OUR PASTOR AT THE TIME AND HE SAYS, 01:16:39.688 --> 01:16:44.939 I JUST FEEL LIKE I'M IN THIS CONSTANT TORNADO. AND EVERY ONCE 01:16:44.939 --> 01:16:47.608 IN A WHILE I'LL GET A LITTLE REPRIEVE AND MY ARM WILL STICK 01:16:47.608 --> 01:16:51.837 OUT AND I'M LIKE, AH. AND THEN IT GETS YANKED BACK IN AND THE 01:16:51.837 --> 01:16:56.278 NEXT THING MY LEG WILL STICK OUT, AH. AND IT'LL YANK BACK IN 01:16:56.278 --> 01:17:01.858 AND, AND, "PASTOR, I'M TIRED OF IT." AND PASTOR, HE SAYS, HE WAS 01:17:01.858 --> 01:17:05.877 JUST REAL SIMPLE. HE GOES, HE WAS A REAL SWEET MAN. HE GOES, 01:17:05.877 --> 01:17:11.427 "YOU KNOW, ALL YOU HAVE TO KNOW IS IT'S ONE DEVIL." AND I 01:17:11.427 --> 01:17:14.427 THOUGHT, OKAY, SEE, SOMETIMES YOU WILL GO THROUGH MULTIPLE 01:17:14.427 --> 01:17:17.673 THINGS, BUT IT'S GONNA BUILD SOME SPIRITUAL MUSCLE IF YOU DO 01:17:17.673 --> 01:17:21.597 IT THE RIGHT WAY, OKAY? THAT'S THE KEY. HE SAID, "LET IT HAVE 01:17:21.597 --> 01:17:25.858 ITS COMPLETE WORK." NOW I LOOK BACK ON SOME OF THOSE EARLY 01:17:25.858 --> 01:17:28.917 YEARS AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT WERE SO AWFUL. I'M LIKE, WELL, 01:17:28.917 --> 01:17:34.377 FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE STILL ALIVE. SO GOD HAD IT, RIGHT? OKAY, GOD 01:17:34.377 --> 01:17:39.057 KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. BUT NOW I LOOK BACK AND I'M LIKE, OKAY, 01:17:39.057 --> 01:17:43.887 SEE, LORD, WE WOULDN'T BE NEAR THE PASTORAL LEADERS HAD WE NOT 01:17:43.887 --> 01:17:47.757 GONE THROUGH THOSE THINGS. THERE WERE TESTINGS THAT GOD HAD TO 01:17:47.757 --> 01:17:53.247 ALLOW AT THAT TIME. AND GOD DID THAT WITH ISRAEL. AND GOD'S UP 01:17:53.247 --> 01:17:58.497 THERE IN HEAVEN GOING, YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE. I GOT YOU. OKAY, 01:17:58.497 --> 01:18:02.427 I GOT THIS. BUT THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO. THEIR BABIES 01:18:02.427 --> 01:18:07.310 WERE SCREAMING BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE WATER. SO HE SAID, 01:18:07.310 --> 01:18:14.068 LET PATIENCE HAVE ITS COMPLETE WORK SO BY THE END OF IT, YOU 01:18:14.068 --> 01:18:18.898 WILL BE COMPLETE. COME ON, I DON'T WANNA BE A ARMLESS, 01:18:18.898 --> 01:18:25.528 SPINELESS CHRISTIAN. YOU WILL BE COMPLETE. YOU WILL BE MATURED. 01:18:27.568 --> 01:18:33.837 YOU WILL BE MATURE, COMPLETE AND FULL. COME ON, NOW YOU CAN TEACH 01:18:33.837 --> 01:18:39.807 OTHER PEOPLE. YOU KNOW HOW TO WALK AS A BELIEVER. OKAY, I 01:18:39.807 --> 01:18:42.118 MEAN, AND YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS AFTER YOU GO THROUGH THEM, 01:18:42.118 --> 01:18:44.243 YOU'RE LIKE, "AH, DEBBIE, YOU CAN'T USE THAT ONE ON ME, I'VE 01:18:44.243 --> 01:18:49.707 BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, WORE THE SHIRT AND OVERCAME." COMPLETE 01:18:50.787 --> 01:18:56.217 AND ENTIRE. PUT THAT ONE UP IN THE, PUT VERSE FOUR UP IN THE 01:18:56.217 --> 01:19:03.358 NEW LIVING. OH, 818, I GOT TO GET DONE. THERE YOU GO. SO LET 01:19:03.358 --> 01:19:07.467 IT GROW. IN OTHER WORDS, LET THE ENDURANCE GROW. FOR WHEN YOUR 01:19:07.467 --> 01:19:14.097 ENDURANCE IS FULLY DEVELOPED, OKAY, THAT'S WHY SOMETIMES YOU 01:19:14.097 --> 01:19:19.887 CAN'T WIG OUT AND CRY AND REACT AND RESPOND AND LET YOUR MOUTH 01:19:19.887 --> 01:19:24.568 JUST SAY ANYTHING. 'CAUSE WHEN YOUR ENDURANCE IS FULLY 01:19:24.568 --> 01:19:27.658 DEVELOPED, YOU WILL BE PERFECT. THAT WORD DOESN'T MEAN YOU NEVER 01:19:27.658 --> 01:19:33.927 MAKE MISTAKES. IT MEANS YOU ARE MATURED. YOU'VE GROWN UP. COME 01:19:33.927 --> 01:19:36.868 ON, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD GIVES US EPHESIANS THE FOURTH 01:19:36.868 --> 01:19:39.568 CHAPTER. HE GIVES APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, PASTORS, 01:19:39.568 --> 01:19:44.247 AND TEACHERS FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS TO DO THE WORK OF 01:19:44.247 --> 01:19:48.902 THE MINISTRY. THAT YOU MIGHT BE FULLY DEVELOPED, THAT YOU WILL 01:19:48.902 --> 01:19:55.018 BE MATURE AND COMPLETE. COME ON, MAN, IMAGINE IF THAT KIND OF 01:19:55.018 --> 01:19:59.247 MATURITY WOULD BE WHAT'S EXEMPLIFIED ON SOCIAL, OF THE 01:19:59.247 --> 01:20:07.347 CHURCH. AND I LOVE THIS PART, LACKING OR NEEDING NOTHING. NOW, 01:20:07.347 --> 01:20:11.908 ALL RIGHT, I THOUGHT ON THAT. I'M LIKE, LORD, DOES THAT MEAN 01:20:11.908 --> 01:20:18.057 WE DON'T EVER HAVE, LIKE THERE'S SOME UTOPIA WHERE WE LIVE WHERE 01:20:18.057 --> 01:20:22.198 WE DON'T NEED NO MONEY, OUR HEALTH IS PERFECT, WE NEVER HAVE 01:20:22.198 --> 01:20:26.518 A TOOTHACHE. I MEAN, I'M TELLING YOU, THERE'S SOME UTOPIA OF LIFE 01:20:26.518 --> 01:20:30.898 AND NONE OF THE FAMILY ACTS UP, NONE OF THE KIDS ACT UP, AND OUR 01:20:30.898 --> 01:20:35.908 MARRIAGE IS JUST PERFECT. EVERYTHING'S JUST PERFECT. THE 01:20:35.908 --> 01:20:41.278 CAR NEVER BREAKS. LACKING IN NOTHING. I MEAN, IT MEANS LIKE 01:20:41.278 --> 01:20:45.328 NO NEED, RIGHT? AND I THOUGHT, NO, WAIT A MINUTE THOUGH. 01:20:45.328 --> 01:20:49.978 LACKING OR COMPLETE WANTING NOTHING, MEANING THAT YOUR 01:20:49.978 --> 01:20:54.837 APPROACH IN LIFE, PAUL SAID IT LIKE THIS, HE SAID, I KNOW HOW 01:20:54.837 --> 01:20:58.927 TO LIVE IN ABUNDANCE, AND I KNOW HOW TO LIVE WHEN I DON'T HAVE 01:20:58.927 --> 01:21:03.637 STUFF. I KNOW HOW TO DO IT BOTH WAYS AND I'M STILL THE SAME. 01:21:03.637 --> 01:21:06.847 LACKING AND NOTHING SOMETIMES, I MEAN, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERY 01:21:06.847 --> 01:21:11.018 SHIP HAS COME TO THE HARBOR. WHAT IT'S SAYING IS YOU WON'T 01:21:11.018 --> 01:21:15.007 HAVE A NEED BECAUSE YOU'LL KNOW THAT GOD'S ALREADY FULFILLED IT. 01:21:15.007 --> 01:21:17.978 AND IT WILL BE FULFILLED. AND IF IT'S NOT FULFILLED YET, IT'S 01:21:17.978 --> 01:21:21.882 COMING. COME ON. IF IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, IT'S GOING TO 01:21:21.882 --> 01:21:28.087 HAPPEN. I NEED NOTHING BECAUSE GOD WILL SUPPLY EVERYTHING I 01:21:28.087 --> 01:21:35.377 NEED. NOW THAT IS A GROWTH POINT THAT EVERY CHRISTIAN MUST COME 01:21:35.377 --> 01:21:42.506 INTO. LOOK AT VERSE FIVE. NOW HERE'S THE THING. SOMETIMES WHEN 01:21:42.506 --> 01:21:46.658 WE GO THROUGH TRIALS, WE HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS, RIGHT? OKAY. THE 01:21:46.658 --> 01:21:49.445 DOCTOR'S TELLING YOU, YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS. YOU NEED TO HAVE 01:21:49.445 --> 01:21:54.427 THAT PROCEDURE. YOU GOT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT SO-AND-SO. YOU 01:21:54.427 --> 01:21:58.238 GOT TO FIGURE OUT, ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO MAKE A PHONE CALL? 01:21:58.238 --> 01:22:01.478 YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE DECISION THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO MAKE? 01:22:01.478 --> 01:22:04.478 'CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE'RE FACING SOMETHING, WE'RE FACED 01:22:04.478 --> 01:22:07.627 WITH DECISIONS. YOU KNOW, HAND OUT PINK SLIPS AT WORK, TELLING 01:22:07.627 --> 01:22:10.658 THEY'RE GONNA LAY OFF PEOPLE. THEN YOU'RE FACED WITH A 01:22:10.658 --> 01:22:14.528 DECISION. WHERE DO I GO START LOOKING FOR A JOB? OKAY, AND SO 01:22:14.528 --> 01:22:17.887 WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE RASH DECISIONS, DO WE? WE WANT TO 01:22:17.887 --> 01:22:22.417 MAKE SPIRIT-LED CHOICES. WE WANT TO DO THINGS ACCORDING TO THE 01:22:22.417 --> 01:22:24.757 WAY GOD WOULD WANT US TO DO IT. I THINK THAT'S THE HEART OF 01:22:24.757 --> 01:22:30.547 EVERY BELIEVER. HE SAID, SO WHEN YOU'RE IN A TRIAL, YOU'RE IN 01:22:30.547 --> 01:22:33.847 THESE DIVERSE THINGS WE GO THROUGH. AND BY THE WAY, THEY'RE 01:22:33.847 --> 01:22:38.557 NEVER ONE AND DONE. WE WILL FACE THE TRIALS OF LIFE FROM NOW 01:22:38.557 --> 01:22:43.688 UNTIL WE GO TO HEAVEN. AND AGAIN, NOT OUR CHOICE, RIGHT? 01:22:43.688 --> 01:22:46.358 SOME OF THEM ARE OUR CHOICES. OKAY. WE SPOKE THEM INTO 01:22:46.358 --> 01:22:49.597 EXISTENCE. SOME OF THEM ARE THE WAY OTHER PEOPLE BEHAVE, AND 01:22:49.597 --> 01:22:52.238 SOME ARE JUST BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A FALLEN WORLD. I'VE TAUGHT ON 01:22:52.238 --> 01:22:55.688 THAT BEFORE. BUT IF ANY OF YOU ARE IN A PLACE, YOU GOTTA MAKE A 01:22:55.688 --> 01:22:58.868 CHOICE. YOU GOTTA DECIDE SOME THINGS. IF ANY OF YOU LACK 01:22:58.868 --> 01:23:03.188 WISDOM, LET HIM ASK OF GOD. YOU KNOW, ONE THING I PRAY ON A 01:23:03.188 --> 01:23:06.457 REGULAR BASIS, AND I'M LEARNING THIS MORE AND MORE IN MY LIFE, 01:23:06.457 --> 01:23:09.398 WHEN WE'RE FACED WITH THINGS, WHEN WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE 01:23:09.398 --> 01:23:13.297 BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE, OR MAKING CHOICES, YOU KNOW, WE'RE 01:23:13.297 --> 01:23:16.358 HAVING TO BELIEVE FOR FINANCES, RIGHT? THIS HAS BEEN LIKE THE 01:23:16.358 --> 01:23:20.175 WHOLE OF OUR MINISTRY. AND WE'RE HAVING TO BELIEVE GOD. YOU KNOW, 01:23:20.175 --> 01:23:24.188 I DON'T LET FINANCIAL LACK KEEP ME UP AT NIGHT. I'M TELLING YOU. 01:23:24.188 --> 01:23:26.618 AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, THE FINANCES OF THE CHURCH HAVE BEEN 01:23:26.618 --> 01:23:29.438 LESS THAN THEY WERE WHEN WE BUILT THE TABERNACLE. AND PEOPLE 01:23:29.438 --> 01:23:32.108 THINK, WELL, YOU GET A BILL AND IT'S ALL GOOD. WE'RE THE 01:23:32.108 --> 01:23:35.768 ECONOMY, WHATEVER. LISTEN, I'VE BEEN HERE, DONE THAT, WORE THE 01:23:35.768 --> 01:23:40.297 SHIRT. I DON'T STAY UP AT NIGHT WONDERING HOW TO PAY THE BILLS. 01:23:40.297 --> 01:23:44.438 I'M TELLING YOU, OKAY? I DISCIPLINED THAT A LONG TIME 01:23:44.438 --> 01:23:47.618 AGO, OKAY? AND I FOUND THAT IT'S SO MUCH BETTER TO GO TO BED AND 01:23:47.618 --> 01:23:51.488 GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP, OKAY? EIGHT HOURS IS WAY BETTER THAN 01:23:51.488 --> 01:23:59.648 FOUR. BUT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, ASK GOD. I MAKE THE 01:23:59.648 --> 01:24:02.377 HABIT, LORD, NOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THAT. I'M 01:24:02.377 --> 01:24:07.447 ASKING YOU TO SHOW US AND GIVE US SOME DIRECTION. IT'S BEEN 01:24:07.447 --> 01:24:12.188 PROBABLY RARE THAT I'VE EVER HAD SOMETHING COME AT US AUDIBLE. 01:24:13.268 --> 01:24:15.427 IT'S NOT LIKE EVERY TIME I SAY, YOU KNOW, LORD, I JUST NEED THE 01:24:15.427 --> 01:24:18.787 WISDOM, THE GUY'S LIKE, GO DOWN THAT STREET, TURN ON THE LEFT, 01:24:18.787 --> 01:24:21.547 GO DOWN OVER THERE AND THERE'LL BE SOMEBODY THAT'LL GIVE YOU $5 01:24:21.547 --> 01:24:26.887 MILLION. I'VE NEVER HAD IT LIKE THAT, OKAY? BUT HE WILL GIVE YOU 01:24:26.887 --> 01:24:30.158 WISDOM IF YOU INCLUDE HIM IN THE CONVERSATION. ALL THY WAYS 01:24:30.158 --> 01:24:33.967 ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, HE'LL DIRECT YOUR PATH. ASK OF GOD WHO WILL 01:24:33.967 --> 01:24:39.068 GIVE TO ALL MEN FREELY. OKAY, NOW WISDOM, I FOUND OUT, DOES 01:24:39.068 --> 01:24:46.358 NOT COME SOMETIMES IN AN OBVIOUS WAY. MOST OF THE TIME YOU HAVE 01:24:46.358 --> 01:24:48.997 TO KIND OF LIKE STEP FORWARD. I MEAN, SOME THINGS ARE REALLY 01:24:48.997 --> 01:24:52.597 OBVIOUS. YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, YOU FIND SOMEBODY HURT 01:24:52.597 --> 01:24:54.757 AND THEY NEED AN AMBULANCE, OKAY, IT'S A NO-BRAINER, YOU 01:24:54.757 --> 01:24:58.057 CALL 911, IT'S NOT HARD. BUT THERE'S SOME THINGS WE DON'T 01:24:58.057 --> 01:25:02.528 KNOW THE ANSWER. SO WE MAKE A STEP IN THAT DIRECTION. AND AS 01:25:02.528 --> 01:25:06.007 LONG AS YOU'RE SAYING, GOD, GIVE ME WISDOM, AND YOU'RE NOT DOING 01:25:06.007 --> 01:25:11.347 IT OUT OF FEAR. THIS IS THE KEY. SOMETIMES WE CALL SO AND SO CUZ 01:25:11.347 --> 01:25:18.127 WE'RE SCARED, OKAY? WE FREAK OUT BECAUSE, AND SO WE REACT RATHER 01:25:18.127 --> 01:25:22.268 THAN RESPOND IN FAITH. IF YOU LACK WISDOM, PASTOR AND I, WE 01:25:22.268 --> 01:25:24.608 SIT DOWN AND WE SAY, NOW LORD, GIVE US WISDOM, HELP US TO MAKE 01:25:24.608 --> 01:25:28.507 THE RIGHT DECISIONS TODAY. I'M ASKING YOU TO SHOW US, WE'RE ON 01:25:28.507 --> 01:25:32.497 A PROGRAM OR WE HAVE TO GO TO, OR WE'RE WORKING ON A PROJECT 01:25:32.497 --> 01:25:35.797 FOR THE CHURCH, LORD. I'M ASKING YOU TO SHOW US, WHAT IS OUR NEXT 01:25:35.797 --> 01:25:38.618 STEP? WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? WE DON'T WANT TO STEP OUT IN 01:25:38.618 --> 01:25:42.967 THE FLESH. AND HE SAID, GOD WILL GIVE WISDOM TO ALL MEN 01:25:42.967 --> 01:25:45.877 LIBERALLY. MOST OF THE TIME, THE WISDOM THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED 01:25:45.877 --> 01:25:48.997 FROM GOD, I'M GONNA TELL YOU, WHEN WE FIRST BOUGHT THIS 01:25:48.997 --> 01:25:53.318 BUILDING, YOU COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP IF YOU TRIED. BUT I BELIEVE 01:25:53.318 --> 01:25:55.957 THIS PRAYER CAME TO PASS THIS WHOLE PROPERTY. WHEN WE FIRST 01:25:55.957 --> 01:26:01.238 STARTED THE CHURCH, PASTOR WAS OUT LOOKING FOR LAND. LIKE WE 01:26:01.238 --> 01:26:03.728 WANNA BUILD A BUILDING. SOME OF YOU GO BACK FAR ENOUGH TO 01:26:03.728 --> 01:26:06.608 REMEMBER ALL THOSE DAYS, LOOKING FOR PROPERTY. LIKE HE GOES, I 01:26:06.608 --> 01:26:09.578 HATE THIS PLAZA. IT'S THE UGLIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD. THE 01:26:09.578 --> 01:26:12.457 PARKING LOT'S FULL OF HOLES. THERE'S BIRDS NESTING IN THE 01:26:12.457 --> 01:26:17.047 ROOF. I DON'T WANNA BE IN HERE. AND HE SAID, NOBODY WANTS TO 01:26:17.047 --> 01:26:21.967 COME TO THIS CHURCH BECAUSE IT'S UGLY. AND SO WE WENT AROUND, WE 01:26:21.967 --> 01:26:25.087 DROVE ALL OVER THE PLACE, LOOKED IN FARM FIELDS, LOOKING FOR 01:26:25.087 --> 01:26:27.667 PLACES WE COULD BUILD A BUILDING. WE LOOKED FOR OTHER 01:26:27.667 --> 01:26:29.887 BUILDINGS. WE DID ALL THE THINGS. BUT ONE THING WE ALWAYS 01:26:29.887 --> 01:26:34.268 PRAYED WAS, LORD, GIVE US THE WISDOM. AND SO NOTHING WOULD 01:26:34.268 --> 01:26:37.658 EVER SHOW UP. AND SO THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD EVER COME UP IS 01:26:37.658 --> 01:26:40.207 THERE'D BE ANOTHER TENANT THAT WOULD MOVE OUT OF THIS BUILDING 01:26:40.207 --> 01:26:43.688 AND A SPACE WOULD GO UP FOR LEASE. SO WE'RE LIKE, WELL, WE 01:26:43.688 --> 01:26:47.287 NEED A SPACE FOR THE YOUTH, LORD. I GUESS IF IT'S A GOOD 01:26:47.287 --> 01:26:49.688 DEAL, WE'LL, WE'LL RENT THE SPACE FOR THE YOUTH. AND SO THEN 01:26:49.688 --> 01:26:53.257 WE'D ADD ANOTHER SPACE FOR THE YOUTH AND THEN ANOTHER SPACE 01:26:53.257 --> 01:26:56.018 WOULD COME UP AND WE BUST A HOLE IN THE WALL. PAUL BLACKBURN WAS 01:26:56.018 --> 01:26:58.868 A PART OF A LOT OF THOSE. I THINK YOU BUSTED HOLES FOR THIS 01:26:58.868 --> 01:27:02.738 CHURCH PROBABLY MORE THAN ANYBODY IN HERE. AND I MEAN, 01:27:02.738 --> 01:27:06.457 BACK THEN WE PAINTED IT OURSELF. WE BUILT IT OURSELF. WE PUT 01:27:06.457 --> 01:27:10.028 STUFF UP, TORE STUFF DOWN, CHANGED CEILING TILES. MARK, YOU 01:27:10.028 --> 01:27:13.898 WOULD HAVE SEEN THE DAY, I'M TELLING YOU. I 01:27:13.898 --> 01:27:18.578 MEAN, SO, AND ANOTHER SPACE WOULD COME OPEN, ANOTHER WOULD 01:27:18.578 --> 01:27:21.908 COME OPEN. AND FINALLY ONE DAY, THE LANDLORD OR THE OWNER AT 01:27:21.908 --> 01:27:25.537 THAT TIME, THEY CAME TO US AND THEY SAID, IF YOU LEAVE HERE, 01:27:25.537 --> 01:27:28.269 CUZ PASTOR WAS STILL LIKE, I MEAN, I THINK BY THEN WE HAD 20 01:27:28.269 --> 01:27:31.747 SOMETHING THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF THE WHOLE BUILDING. AND HE 01:27:31.747 --> 01:27:34.898 FINALLY SAID, "IF YOU LEAVE HERE, "YOU'RE GONNA LEAVE THIS 01:27:34.898 --> 01:27:39.068 HUGE HOLE." I MEAN, 'CAUSE IT WAS THE LEGO CHURCH. I MEAN, YOU 01:27:39.068 --> 01:27:41.648 GO TO THE SOUTH END OF THE BUILDING, I MEAN, IT GOES THIS 01:27:41.648 --> 01:27:44.197 WAY AND THIS WAY AND THAT, AND NOBODY COULD ROB IT. THEY WOULD 01:27:44.197 --> 01:27:48.278 NEVER KNOW HOW TO GET OUT. I MEAN, IT'S CRAZY, IT'S CRAZY. 01:27:48.278 --> 01:27:51.307 I'M LIKE, WE HAVE BUILT-IN SECURITY. IT'S LIKE A CORNFIELD 01:27:51.307 --> 01:27:54.667 GOING THROUGH HERE. YOU CAN'T FIND WHAT DOOR OPENS, AND THEN 01:27:54.667 --> 01:27:58.658 IF IT CLOSES, IT LOCKS. YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE IF YOU DIDN'T 01:27:58.658 --> 01:28:02.377 HAVE YOUR KEY THAT DAY. AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE DAYS OF THE FOBS, 01:28:02.377 --> 01:28:07.717 PASTOR MARK. WE HAD TO HAVE THE KEYS TO ALL THE DOOR. PASTOR 01:28:07.717 --> 01:28:11.167 TOM, WHO'S IN HEAVEN NOW, ALIVE AT THAT TIME, WENT AROUND WITH A 01:28:11.167 --> 01:28:16.685 RING OF KEYS. AND WE HAD A BIG RING, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. IT 01:28:16.685 --> 01:28:20.167 WAS LIKE A MIRACLE THE DAY WE FINALLY HAD A MASTER KEY. I 01:28:20.167 --> 01:28:23.828 MEAN, LIKE EVERY DOOR HAD A DIFFERENT LOCK. IT WAS A 01:28:23.828 --> 01:28:27.247 DISASTER. AND I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT EVEN WORRIED ABOUT 01:28:27.247 --> 01:28:30.037 A SECURITY SYSTEM. LES, WE DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. THE 01:28:30.037 --> 01:28:33.037 ROBBER COULDN'T GET IN AND HE COULDN'T DEFINITELY NOT FIND HIS 01:28:33.037 --> 01:28:38.114 WAY OUT. IT'S CRAZY. YOU KNOW, AND IF HE DID GET STUCK IN HERE, 01:28:38.114 --> 01:28:40.109 HE'D HEAR THE PIGEONS UP TOP. DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH, 01:28:40.109 --> 01:28:47.887 DUH, DUH, DUH. I MEAN, IT WAS LIKE HAUNTING. BUT YOU KNOW, 01:28:47.887 --> 01:28:50.078 LITTLE BY LITTLE, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, 01:28:50.078 --> 01:28:53.587 THEN THE OWNER SAID, "WILL YOU COME AND BUY THIS?" AND THEN WE 01:28:53.587 --> 01:28:55.688 THOUGHT, "WELL, IF WE'RE GOING TO BUY IT, WE SHOULD AT LEAST 01:28:55.688 --> 01:28:57.578 SEE IF WE CAN BUILD A BIGGER SANCTUARY BECAUSE THIS ONE'S 01:28:57.578 --> 01:29:01.028 SMALL." AND THAT WAS THE OLD SANCTUARY BACK THEN, WHICH 01:29:01.028 --> 01:29:04.807 HAS... THAT EVEN GREW A FEW TIMES. AND SO WE GOT AN INITIAL 01:29:04.807 --> 01:29:08.078 PLAN TO BUILD A TABERNACLE. IT WASN'T EVEN NEAR AS NICE AS THIS 01:29:08.078 --> 01:29:12.097 ONE. IT WAS MUCH MORE CUT BACK. AND THEN THE NEXT THING YOU 01:29:12.097 --> 01:29:14.167 KNOW, THE REST IS HISTORY. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE PIZZA 01:29:14.167 --> 01:29:16.778 BUILDING AND ALL THE THINGS THAT, WE COULDN'T HAVE MADE THAT 01:29:16.778 --> 01:29:19.688 UP IF WE TRIED. IF YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME, YOU'RE GONNA SIT 01:29:19.688 --> 01:29:23.587 DOWN HERE, THE FIRST TIME WE RENTED A SPACE IN THIS PROPERTY, 01:29:23.587 --> 01:29:26.408 AND FOR 500 A MONTH, IT WAS 3,800 SQUARE FEET. IF YOU'RE 01:29:26.408 --> 01:29:28.846 GONNA TELL ME ALL OF THIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN HERE, I 01:29:28.846 --> 01:29:32.947 WOULD SAY THAT'S AN IMPOSSIBLE. OKAY, BUT IF YOU ASK GOD FOR 01:29:32.947 --> 01:29:40.238 WISDOM, GOD, HELP ME KNOW WHAT TO DO. HELP ME. AND GOD IS UP 01:29:40.238 --> 01:29:43.087 THERE, AND IT'S NOT LIKE ONE, NOT ONE TIME DID WE HAVE A 01:29:43.087 --> 01:29:45.518 VISION, LIKE, "OH, YOU'RE GONNA BUST IN THAT, YOU SHOULD WALK 01:29:45.518 --> 01:29:48.547 OVER THERE AND RENT THAT EXTRA SPACE, AND GO OUT AND KNOCK OUT 01:29:48.547 --> 01:29:52.957 THE WALL AND CALL PAUL AND DO THE..." NONE OF THAT. WE HAD NO, 01:29:52.957 --> 01:29:57.457 LIKE, OPEN VISION OR AN ANGEL APPEARING. OKAY? 01:30:01.028 --> 01:30:05.047 AND LO AND BEHOLD, HERE WE STAND. IF THIS ISN'T A TESTAMENT 01:30:06.368 --> 01:30:10.520 TO WHAT GOD CAN DO IF YOU TRUST HIM. AND DON'T GET FREAKED OUT. 01:30:11.768 --> 01:30:14.377 GIVE TO ALL MEN, IN FACT, THE FIRST LOAN WE TRIED TO GET TO 01:30:14.377 --> 01:30:19.087 BUY THE BUILDING, WE GOT TURNED DOWN. I'M TELLING YOU, GOD KNOWS 01:30:19.087 --> 01:30:24.457 WHAT HE'S DOING. GIVE TO ALL MEN LIBERALLY AND ABRADE, HE'LL DO 01:30:24.457 --> 01:30:28.177 IT WITHOUT REBUKE. HE KNOWS YOU'RE TRYING TO TRUST. IF YOU 01:30:28.177 --> 01:30:33.847 STAY IN FAITH, USE SELF-CONTROL. AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN HIM. GOD 01:30:33.847 --> 01:30:37.507 WAS GIVING WISDOM AND WE DIDN'T KNOW IT. THAT'S THE THING, 01:30:37.507 --> 01:30:41.408 RIGHT? ALL RIGHT, LET ME READ THE LAST PART. I SAID WE'D GET 01:30:41.408 --> 01:30:47.677 OUT EARLY, BUT I JUST CAN'T BE QUIET. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:30:47.677 --> 01:30:52.467 "IT SHALL BE, BUT LET HIM ASK IN FAITH WITHOUT WAVERING." 01:30:53.677 --> 01:30:56.797 SOMEBODY ASKED US ONE TIME, THEY SAID, "WELL, WHAT DO YOU DO TO 01:30:56.797 --> 01:30:59.108 NAVIGATE "THESE 30 YEARS OF MINISTRY?" I SAID, "WELL, I 01:30:59.108 --> 01:31:01.268 DON'T EXACTLY KNOW. "I MEAN, WE MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES ALONG THE 01:31:01.268 --> 01:31:03.967 WAY, "BUT I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING PASTOR AND I "HAVE ALWAYS 01:31:03.967 --> 01:31:07.717 TRIED TO DO IS DO OUR BEST "TO KEEP OUR MOUTH STRAIGHT AND 01:31:07.717 --> 01:31:10.297 FILLED WITH FAITH." AND THERE WERE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY TO 01:31:10.297 --> 01:31:16.287 NOT HAVE THAT. SO, IT SAID, "LET HIM ASK IN FAITH, WITHOUT ANY 01:31:16.287 --> 01:31:20.608 WAVERING," I THINK THIS VERSE SHOULD SPEAK FOR ITSELF, "FOR HE 01:31:20.608 --> 01:31:24.807 THAT WAVERS IS LIKE THE WAVE OF THE SEA, DRIVEN WITH THE WIND 01:31:24.807 --> 01:31:27.478 AND TOSSED." I WONDER IF THAT'S WHY JESUS WAS ASLEEP ON THE 01:31:27.478 --> 01:31:30.717 PILLOW. HE'D BE LIKE, "LET THEM JUST ROCK BACK AND FORTH A 01:31:30.717 --> 01:31:36.898 LITTLE LONGER, 'CAUSE HE THAT WAVERS, THEIR BOAT'S GONNA GET 01:31:36.898 --> 01:31:41.967 FULL OF WATER. HE THAT WAVERS IS LIKE THE WAVE OF THE SEA DRIVEN 01:31:41.967 --> 01:31:44.967 BY THE WIND AND TOSSED ABOUT. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU END UP WITH NO 01:31:44.967 --> 01:31:47.578 DIRECTION. SO YOU KNOW, THE THING OF IT IS, THIS IS WHAT 01:31:47.578 --> 01:31:50.247 JAMES SAYS, IT SAYS YOU CAN'T HAVE BLESSING COMING OUT OF ONE 01:31:50.247 --> 01:31:54.688 SIDE OF YOUR MOUTH AND UNBELIEF OUT OF THE OTHER. OKAY? THEY 01:31:54.688 --> 01:31:58.018 DON'T MIX TOGETHER. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND I'VE DONE 01:31:58.018 --> 01:32:04.318 THIS TO MYSELF, COME ON, WE TORPEDO OUR OWN PRAYERS. OKAY? 01:32:04.318 --> 01:32:08.847 HOW MANY PEOPLE TORPEDO, THEY GET IN A PRAYER LINE AND TORPEDO 01:32:08.847 --> 01:32:11.938 IT BY WHAT GETS SAID WHEN THEY STEP OUTSIDE IN THE PARKING LOT. 01:32:13.948 --> 01:32:17.037 NOTHING WAVERING, HE THAT WAVERS IS TOSSED AROUND. HE HAS NO 01:32:17.037 --> 01:32:22.257 DIRECTION. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT'S WHY ISRAEL STAYED AT ZERO 01:32:22.257 --> 01:32:27.957 FOR 40 YEARS. LET NOT THAT MAN THINK, YOU CAN STAND TO YOUR 01:32:27.957 --> 01:32:33.988 FEET, THINK THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANYTHING. COME ON, IS 01:32:33.988 --> 01:32:41.637 ANYTHING ANYTHING? ANYTHING FROM THE LORD. AND I WROTE THIS IN MY 01:32:41.637 --> 01:32:45.118 LITTLE MARGIN HERE IN MY BIBLE. I MEAN, I'VE GOT SO MANY NOTES 01:32:45.118 --> 01:32:52.707 ON THIS PAGE, CHECK IT OUT. IT'S GONNA FALL OUT SOON. THERE'S SO 01:32:52.707 --> 01:32:57.898 MUCH GOOD STUFF IN HERE. LOOK, AND SO I WROTE IN HERE IN MY 01:32:57.898 --> 01:33:05.795 LITTLE SPACE, THAT MEANS YOU GET NO RESULTS. I THOUGHT, LORD, I 01:33:05.795 --> 01:33:11.337 DON'T WANT THAT TO BE ME. I WANT TO HAVE RESULTS, OKAY? I WANT TO 01:33:11.337 --> 01:33:15.717 WALK OUT THESE THINGS SO THAT I CAN LIVE IN THE RESULTS FOR A 01:33:15.717 --> 01:33:19.828 DOUBLE-MINDED PERSON. FAITH, FAITH, FAITH, UNBELIEF, 01:33:19.828 --> 01:33:26.337 UNBELIEF, UNBELIEF, OKAY? OKAY, WE COME IN, OH YES, LORD, YOU'RE 01:33:26.337 --> 01:33:30.717 GONNA HEAL ME. I THANK YOU FOR MY HEALING. AND BOOM, WE COME 01:33:30.717 --> 01:33:40.978 IN, OH, THESE KNEES. AND GOD'S LIKE, I'M NOT UNDOING IT. NOW, 01:33:40.978 --> 01:33:43.768 PASTOR BRENDA, WELL, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN IN FAITH. I'VE BEEN 01:33:43.768 --> 01:33:47.787 SPEAKING, I'VE BEEN DECLARING. WELL, ALL I'M SAYING, I DON'T 01:33:47.787 --> 01:33:52.167 FOLLOW YOU AROUND, BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS IF YOU PUT THE WORD TO 01:33:52.167 --> 01:33:57.238 WORK, THE WORD IS TRUE. I TOLD GOD A LONG TIME AGO, NOT ONE 01:33:57.238 --> 01:34:00.057 TIME WILL I LOOK AT ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN HEREIN. 01:34:00.057 --> 01:34:04.078 YOU SAID THE ANGELS OF THE LORD ARE ENCAMPED ROUND ABOUT ME THAT 01:34:04.078 --> 01:34:07.108 I CANNOT EVEN DASH MY FOOT AGAINST A STONE. WELL, PASTOR 01:34:07.108 --> 01:34:10.858 BRENDA, IN 2023, YOU WERE IN A SERIOUS CAR WRECK. I DON'T KNOW 01:34:10.858 --> 01:34:16.108 WHY THAT HAPPENED. I DON'T. GOD PRESERVED MY LIFE. THAT'S ALL I 01:34:16.108 --> 01:34:24.328 KNOW. AND THAT DOES NOT MAKE THE WORD OF GOD UNFAITHFUL. WE GOTTA 01:34:24.328 --> 01:34:27.148 GET THAT DOWN, 'CAUSE THAT WOULD BE LIKE TELLING THE DIVINE THAT 01:34:27.148 --> 01:34:35.097 HE LIED. SO, NO RESULTS. LET NOT THAT PERSON THAT'S MIXING FAITH, 01:34:35.097 --> 01:34:40.529 UNBELIEF, NEGATIVE WITH PRAYER, THINK THEY'LL RECEIVE ANYTHING 01:34:40.529 --> 01:34:46.100 OF THE LORD. FOR A DOUBLE-MINDED PERSON IS UNSTABLE. THIS IS THE 01:34:47.488 --> 01:34:51.328 LAST PART I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH. I'LL PUT IT UP, MAKE SURE THEY 01:34:51.328 --> 01:34:56.037 CAN SEE IT. A DOUBLE-MINDED PERSON OR MAN IS UNSTABLE IN A 01:34:56.037 --> 01:35:02.488 FEW OF HIS WAYS. THAT HIT ME. THAT MEANS IN EVERYTHING YOU 01:35:02.488 --> 01:35:06.898 WILL WALK IN SPIRITUAL INSTABILITY. THINK ABOUT THAT. 01:35:06.898 --> 01:35:12.118 AND I'M LIKE, NO, THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ME. COUNT IT ALL JOY 01:35:12.118 --> 01:35:16.648 WHEN YOU FALL INTO A TEST OR A TRIAL, 'CAUSE NOW YOU HAVE AN 01:35:16.648 --> 01:35:21.177 OPPORTUNITY TO DISCIPLINE YOUR HEAD AND USE IT AS ANOTHER 01:35:21.177 --> 01:35:25.557 STRIPE IN YOUR BELT TO WALK IN FAITH AND SEE A VICTORY IN JESUS 01:35:25.557 --> 01:35:28.618 NAME. AMEN, DID YOU GET SOMETHING OUT OF THAT TONIGHT? 01:35:28.618 --> 01:35:32.372 ALL RIGHT, GO HOME AND HAVE A FROZEN PIZZA. GOD BLESS YOU, 01:35:32.372 --> 01:35:34.625 THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOU THAT JOINED US. GOOD NIGHT.