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Just Because...Doesn't Mean...(When You Are Let Down) - An Easter Message | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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  Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray that the
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  word of God today will challenge change and channel you into your God given destiny.
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  Now let's get started, and this morning, I have a message to
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  bring to you. I'm very excited about this, and if I can just
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  present to you right now the title of the message, and it sounds like
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  this is just because dot dot doesn't mean are you ready? Just because blank
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  doesn't mean blank will feel those blanks this morning. There's a subtitle. The
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  subtitle is when you are let down. I don't know why every ister I
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  bring the pressing messages. This last ister, I remember preaching about doubt,
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  but some doubted, what a what a message to prison resurrection Sunday? Some
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  doubt? But I just feel led this morning to speak about this when you
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  are let down? My mind. I tried to prepare other messages, but
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  my mind kept going back to the two disciples, Clopus and his friend I
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  don't know what his name is, on the road to in Maeus and this
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  messages, these few words keep coming back just because doesn't mean when you're let
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  down. So let's read this passage. Look twenty four, verse thirteen of
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  thirty five. You can turn to your bibles. Otherwise you can make a
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  book mark. You read it later. I put it on a slide for
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  convenience. This is from the esb version verse thirteen. That very day,
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  two of them were going to a village named Emmaeus, about seven miles from
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  Jerusalem. It's a long walk, and they were talking with each other about
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  all these things that had happened. What had happened. Jesus died, he
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  was buried, stuff like that. He's gone. Jesus is gone for them
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  verse fifteen. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself junior and
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  went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. They did
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  not recognize Jesus verse seventeen. But he said to them, what is this
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  comes that you are holding with each other as you walk? And they stood
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  still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Kloppus, answered him,
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  are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things have
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  happened there in these days? Strong? Would you? And he said to
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  them, Jesus said, he pretended what things blower? Sometimes leaders to blow?
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  Oh, And they said to him, concerning Jesus of nature a man
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  who was a prophet mighty indeed and word before God and all the people.
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  And how our chief prison and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death
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  and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem
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  Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day.
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  He's been gone for three days, third days since these things happened.
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  Moreover, some women of our company amazus. They were at the tomb early
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  in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came
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  back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels who said that he
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  was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and
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  found it just as the woman had said. But him they did not see.
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  And he said to them, oh, foolish ones, and slow of
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  hard to believe all that prophets have spoken. Was it not necessary that the
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  Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? And, beginning with
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  Moses and all the prophets he interpreted to them in all the scriptures, the
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  things concerning himself, Jesus preached the greatest message ever preached. Good Friday.
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  We heard this right, And so they drew near to the village to which
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  they were going. He, Jesus, acted as if he were going further
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  father, but they urged him strongly, saying, stay with us for eighties
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  towards evening in the day is not fast spent. So Jesus went into stay
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  with them. When he was at the table with them, he took the
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  bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them, And their eyes
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  were open, and they recognized him, and he vanished from their side.
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  They said to each other, they're not our hearts burn within us while he
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  talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures.
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  I mean, I prayed every time he opened the word of God, that
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  the fire points within us and man, that it comes alive who and it
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  rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found eleven and those
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  who were with them get it together, saying, the Lord has reason indeed,
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  and has appeared to Simon. Then they told what had happened on the
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  road and how he was known to them in the breaking of the breid Amen.
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  These two men, Clopos and his friend, they were let down.
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  They had hoped that expectation, they had once they had desires but they were
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  let down. Have you ever faced disappointments before? Anyone here? You must
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  be thinking, are you crazy? Of course, of course if I were.
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  If I were to interview one by one, everyone has one or more,
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  probably more disappointment stories. I was recently, very very disappointed. Crush
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  couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't live, couldn't live, couldn't live life,
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  Life has no meaning because Liverpool lost to Manchester United in the very last
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  moment. Disappointment. Did you feel my heartbreak? Come on Manchester at Evan.
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  You must be used to it by now. You don't know what I'm
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  talking about disappointment. Do you know what disappointment feels like? It feels like
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  four three? You know, every week Jaye and I have we have family
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  night already, at least we try to have one family night away and usually
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  watch a movie or Zarah likes to play who No. And yesterday went to
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  youth outing with the youth to a board games cafe. Zarah was there.
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  We each have to pay twenty two ring it for unlimited hours of playing and
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  many many different games there, very cool games. And all Zara wants to
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  play was oh, no, I'm like, no, no, go home
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  and play lot. Don't waste time here. So we have family and I
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  we play oh no, sometimes we play Nintendo Switch. Jay hayes it,
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  but Zion loves it. Sometimes before the frame night takes place and it's it's
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  a big thing forward to they're like, oh family nine yay. Sometimes they
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  go get the pop, come themselves and microwave it themselves. They all these
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  themselves. But sometimes J and I get into a fight before that, sometimes
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  sometimes like once in fifteen years or something. And then when we do get
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  into a fight, then I no more mood, no more mood for family
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  night. And then you know, usually either J or me or one of
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  us or go into room and then there's it, and our children will be
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  like, who's family and I what happened would be so disapportable. We feel
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  bad, but we're angry at each other. So like you already towards and
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  are like, oh disappointed. Have you ever felt this the moment before?
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  Maybe maybe not like what I said earlier, Maybe yours is I don't know.
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  Have you been let down by I don't know, maybe you lost a
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  business deal. You will promise you're going to get someone said I'm gonna get
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  your business deal and you you kind of plant everything around that, but you
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  lost it. It didn't happen, didn't materialize. Maybe, hey, singles,
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  you were rejected by someone who let you on. They were answering all
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  your messages went on, all the dates you paid for everyone, you know,
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  like all things are going well. Sadly to find out on Instagram did
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  there with another guy? M Have you ever, I don't know, been
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  hurt by the pastors, leaders, preachers, and they were supposed to be
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  the one that loved you, care for you, nurture you. But yet
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  maybe they manipulated you, abused you disappointed, Maybe be let down by your
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  husband who seems to care more about his work or his spot more than you.
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  Maybe, hey, students, you scored lower on the subject. Maybe
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  you even failed that you study, You studied very hard for you thought I'm
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  gonna get eighty time and then you can totally did very badly. Yeah,
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  something like this. You know, disappointment is caused by unmet expectations. Yes,
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  but is there anything wrong with the expectations? No? Really, I
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  just wanted my team to win. I just want to be happy. The
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  rest of the week say, anything wrong with my children wanting to play with
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  your parents? Yeah, nothing wrong, you know some some people just want
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  a strong business is that does well so they can put food on the table,
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  pay for all, pay the bills. Some people come to church to
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  really just worship God and be to love and to be loved, But yet
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  they've been hurt instead. Nothing wrong with expectations, right, Usually they're usually
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  innocent, good. Others just want a loving spouse. Someone and else just
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  wants promises to be honored. That's all, keep his word. The students
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  just want to pass the exams just to get through. So nothing wrong with
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  the expectations. Nothing wrong with these two guys who expected Jesus to do somethings
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  a certain way, but then they were disappointed because the expectations were not met.
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  Question, what do we do with disappointments? What do we do with
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  heartbreaks? The two friends, two disciples on the road to amirs. They
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  were heart broken, crushed, their hopes were dashed. You could feel it
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  in their words. Yeah, sometimes you read something, especially a text,
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  or its dangerous the text because you can you can read tone, you can
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  feel tone, right, so sometimes better than me face to face. But
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  this one. You can pretty much feel their despair, the disappointment. Look
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  twenty four to fourteen, and they were talking with each other, they were
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  processing basically seven months of process. Like, man, what happened? We
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  thought this? No? We oh man, how come like that one?
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  Why did the people turn against Jesus? Jesus, you know, such a
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  good man. Why did you turn against him? He could have come down
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  from the cross. Why didn't he What you mean, he just let pilot
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  and the regers push him around? Come on, what do we do now
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  he's gone? You could hear it. And then look twenty four fifteen to
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  sixteen. While they were talking and discussing together, while they were processing their
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  pain and the disappointment, Jesus himself drew near and when with them, he
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  walked beside them. He were walking with them, but their eyes were kept
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  from recognizing. Came my first point. Just because you don't recognize him doesn't
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  mean God doesn't see you. Just because you don't see him doesn't mean he
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  doesn't see you. Sometimes you think, because we don't see him, we
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  don't see him. In the situation, we don't see him. The pain
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  with thing, Ah, God must have forgot to me. No, He
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  sees you. He saw these two guys, He saw through their facades,
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  saw the pain, saw the condition of the heart. God sees your disappointment.
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  God sees your despair. God sees the discouragement. He sees you in
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  the crowd. He'll pick you out and man in some of you. During
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  the course of this message. It's gonna feel like I'm talking to you.
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  You're gonna feel like, oh, he's talking about me. He's talking to
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  me. It's not me, it's the Holy Spirit God who sees you.
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  I know you came in your smiles, and you came in your Eastern dress,
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  and today seems to be white and black. I think that I didn't
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  get the memo. I was trying to blend in Ah. But he sees
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  you, you know, behind a smile or behind the tear of whatever it
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  is to put on, he sees you. Just because you don't recognize him
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  doesn't mean God doesn't see you. Not alone, this guy is that To
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  the suppos, they must be thinking, oh, as if it's not bad
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  enough that Jesus was killed, now they stole his body and treats everyone there
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  is God. Those grave robbers, you think they were gonna believe the women.
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  He's alive. He's alive. They were like, come on, delusion,
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  like your please lie they We're not gonna believe them if they're done taking
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  risk. They follow a man that promised them freedom and he's gone, so
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  they're gonna take risks. They don't want to be hurt again. That's the
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  common reaction. Right you feel you felt it hurt by love, don't love,
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  promise broken, don't trust heartbroken, Never give your heart away again,
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  blame hearten your heart, protect yourself, save me the church hurt before.
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  I'm never serving again. I'm never signing up again. I'm just gonna sit
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  there. There's a common reaction, and I can mention these guys trust believe
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  Nah, not for me once. Shame on you, for me twice,
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  same on me. So nah. Now, guys, there's a there's a
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  line. It's a fine line. It's a and if you cross this line,
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  it could be fatal. It's the line, that fine line between disappointment
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  and anger, hurt and hate, so very fine line. Hurt can very
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  turn, can very soon turn to hate very quickly, bitterness and blame.
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  Very fine line. If you're nearing that line today, don't cross it.
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  Let me urge you don't cross it, step back. Ask yourself this,
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  how long am I going to pay for my disappointment? How many more days
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  A'm gonna let pass by wasted because of my disappointment? How long am I
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  going to be nursing this hurt? Because friends, at some point you have
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  to move on, there's no way to live. At some point you have
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  to heal. At some point you have to let Jesus do for you what
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  he did for these two guys. And what did Jesus do He came,
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  Amen, Jesus drew near, he came, He didn't complain. Jesus said,
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  are you Why won't they believe? Why so hard to please these people,
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  these Christians, this children of mine? Why it is so difficult to
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  please? God met them at the point of their pain. He will do
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  the same for you. Amen. Disappointment will do that to you. They
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  couldn't recognize Jesus, you know why. And just like us, sometimes Jesus
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  is right there beside us, he's around us. We don't feel him,
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  you know why, because of disappointment. Disappointment will do that to you.
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  You will blind you to the very presence of God. Discouragement will turn your
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  eyes inward. Felt that before. It's all about you? What about my
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  o? Pain? What about mind? Joy? What about it? Comes?
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  This discouragement will turn your eyes inward. God could be walking next to
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  us, but display despair will cloud our vision. We can't see him,
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  we can't see it. Despair will do something else. Not only does it
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  cloud our vision, it will harden our hearts. And that's why you could
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  be in the most holy place and still can't receive. Discouragement. Disappointment we
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  we all feel, and it may be experiencing right now, can do that
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  to us. We become cynical. Even when good news come. Hey,
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  the to me is empty. He's alive. When good news come, we
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  don't want to accept it. We don't dare. We don't dare join in
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  the celebration because I don't want to be disappointed again. I feel disappointment.
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  So no, Na, you can keep your good news to yourself. I'm
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  I'm just I'm just gonna walk on. So just because you don't recognize God
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  doesn't mean he doesn't see you. He sees you, he sees your pain.
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  Amen. And that's what happened to these two. They were so disappointed
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  despair hardened. Look twenty four, twenty four. More Over, some women
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  of our company, amazes, they were the tomb early in the morning,
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  and when they did not find his body, they came back saying they had
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  even seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive. And some
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  of those who were with us went to the two and found it just as
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  the women said, but they did not see him. They did not see
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  It's always circling back to the disappointment. Here's my second point first, and
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  was what just because you don't recognize God doesn't mean he's doesn't see you.
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  He sees you. He sees you, He knows your name right here.
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  He might be hiding in the dark, but he sees you. Secondly,
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  just because you're stuck doesn't mean God he isn't on the move. We're saying
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  this now. He's on the move. Amen. We are stuck, but
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  he's on the move. He's doing something in your life right now as we
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  speak, right now, in your stuckness, right now, in your I
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  can't go forward, I can't go backward back what I die for, what
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  I died while you're stuck. God is on the move, amen. Like
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  I said, earlier. There is a fine line between hurt and hate,
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  and so at some point you've got to move on. You're stuck, someone
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  says God, it's so used to the pain. We don't want to move.
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  We don't know how to live without it. Who will pity us?
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  Then? Who will pity party with me? Stuck? But God is on
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  the move. Amen? Amen, So we cannot hurt forever. We have
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  to heal. Let Jesus do what he did for the two of them.
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  What did he do? Like I said, he came to them. He
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  didn't complain, he didn't scold them, he didn't say, you use the
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  sun atter you. He came. He came to us like the father when
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  he saw the prodigal son come back, he ran towards the son. God
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  is a very present help in time of me. He will meet you at
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  the point of your hurt, pain, disappointment, despair, discouragement. God
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  is on the move, and he's moving towards you. You're stuck, but
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  he's coming to you. He's coming to you. Whoever feels stuck today,
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  Hey, it's resurrection Sunday. God is moving towards you. Even then,
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  even though Jesus walking next to them Jesus came to them, these two.
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  They were hurt, and so they had lost hope. Look twenty four,
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  nineteen twenty one. And he said to them, what things? And they
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  said to him, considering Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet
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  mighty indeed and word before God and all the people, And how our chief
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  prison rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death and crucified him. But
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  we had hoped that he was the one to Rea deemed Israel. Yes,
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  and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.
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  There it is there, it is we had hope. That's the disappointment.
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  They thought Jesus was soon to be some political hero that will drive out
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  this, this invaders, this, these colonists. They thought Jesus was gonna
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  be this warrior, this new prime minister that was saved the nation, this
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  this person. But he died. No hero dies, but he died.
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  He had hope. How many of you had hope dashed before these two?
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  He had hope. So here's my third point. Just because you've been hurt
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  doesn't mean there's no hope in God. Sometimes because you're so hurt. We
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  can't see the hope. Hey, but just because you're hurting doesn't mean there
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  is no hope. Unfield expectations. God didn't do what they wanted him to
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  do. Oh, they were good disciples, they had good hearts, sincere
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  prayers, sincere intentions, but maybe wrong expectations, just like many of us.
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  Nothing wrong with what we want, pure intentions. We just want life
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  to be better God. We just just want healing. I just want this
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  most of the time. It's not bad. But Jesus didn't do what they
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  expected him to do. Hey, question, are you glad that God didn't
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  do what you wanted him to do? Not a true question? Real?
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  Are you glad God didn't adjust his agenda to fulfill your requests? Think about
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  it? Quite have to answer because like, in a way I wish he
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  did what I wanted him to do, But in a way, if he
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  did it the way I wanted it, it may not be. Imagine Jesus
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  came and like rescue himself from the cross, and I'm powerful, you romans,
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  So just you think you wt hey today we're go. No, it's
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  no forgiven, no scenes, no salvation, nothing, Okay, okay,
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  assuming if you want me to do this, say, okay, I'll come
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  in a white hose one hand, I will wipe everybody out. Okay,
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  Pilot and all the whole Roman empuyer. You know, sometime my kids expect
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  different from me. Like last night, whole day out, Zion was holding
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  out. His favorite thing to do is play games on the iPad. It's
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  got roadblocks into this game. Now we have to collect diamonds and stuff and
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  keep going back to it, you know, And this is how to get
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  you, right, They have to get the children coming back. And so
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  we had promised him that now when we get home around it's something after dinner,
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  we'll play for half an hour. So I promised him. He played
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  for half an hour, went downstairs to watch a movie, came back up
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  again at ten thirty eleven almost and I haven't prepared my message yet, So
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  I took I play with you for half an hour and then I'm gonna prepare
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  my message. Right. He comes back eleven and wants to play again.
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  There he please, can we play some more? And I had to say
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  no. I had to say no because he's crushed. Look at his face
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  on Maybe I'll say yes so so, but hey, sometimes parents do know
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  better. You need to sleep, you need to rest, and I need
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  to prepare message. So sometimes God disappoints us, says no to us.
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  God may hear your requests. He does, but he may not heed it.
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  Hear my son say you want to play hour? Yeah, sure,
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  but I'm not hitting it. It's not good for you. God may hear
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  requests, but he may not heed it. Why because he knows better.
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  God knows better. In fact, he knows better and better he knows best.
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  God may allow temporary pain in order that we may have eaten a pleasure.
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  God may allow little delays so we may have greater delights. God may
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  allow us to lose some bettles so that in the end we may win the
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  war. Aren't we glad that God sometimes say no to our ones and yes
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  to our needs. Hey, we may not be happy. My son wasn't
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  happy. We may not be happy, We may be hurt, but God
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  does not harm us. Every parent here you notice there is no freaking way
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  you will never hurt your children. You always hurt your children when you say
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  no them, But no parent he will want to harm them. It's too
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  different thing. Hurt and harm is to different things. We have to understand.
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  Hurt is inevitable. Harm is something altogether. Harm is intentionally hurting,
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  damaging somebody. God doesn't do that. But I come promise you God won't
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  hurt you. Even the doctor who wants to heal you hurts you, pricks
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  you, cuts you, grabs you. Your bad doctor. Liah make God
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  such thing. So just because you've been hurt doesn't mean there's no hope in
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  God. God has hope for you. There is hope, amen. And
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  our hope in God is to know that God knows best, loves you lots,
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  and does great things. This is how God hope. And faith is
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  the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will
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  get us through it. Somebody say, man, disappointment is caused by unmad
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  expectations. Therefore disappointment is cured by revamped expectations. Can I tell you a
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  story about a fellow who went to the pet store in search of a singing
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  parakeet, you know, one of those hold looking sing one. It seems
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  he was a bachelor and his house was too quiet, so he wanted to
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  find us singing bird. The store owner had just the bird for him.
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  Ah, I know which one I have? You you need singing bird?
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  Right? I have? I have so the man, but the bird.
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  The next day, the bachelor came home from work to a house full of
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  music. No no, no, no, no no. He went through
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  a cage to feed the bird and notice, for the first time the bird
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  had only one leg. He felt cheated. I paid for his bird only
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  one leg. He'd be sol a one ligued bird. So he called and
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  complained, and the sto said, what do you want? You want a
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  bird who can sing, a bird who can dance? Good question, in
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  times of disappointment, what do we want? If you're honest, we want
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  we want God to do what we want. That's what Jesus asked the disciples,
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  What do you want? What are you talking about? What do you
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  really want? Do you want temporary freedom, temporary relieve or do you want
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  eternal salvation? Freedom, liberty? And then Jesus sets about to do this,
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  revamped the expectation. He went into his mode of God and began to
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  change the expectation. So he told them the story, his story. He
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  shed with them the gospel. He started with Moses, and he ended up
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  with himself. Jesus is cure for a broken heart is the story of God.
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  So can I say this to you? Change the narrative. Jesus changed
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  the narrative. You will hear this in your counseling station. Two. Your
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  terrors will tell you. Okay, change narative. I give, I give
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  you for free. Change the narrative. Jesus is oh wow, yeah,
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  oh so painful. Oh yeah, okay. Let me tell you a story.
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  Let me tell you my story from Moses all the way to himself,
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  the Gospel, the good News. Turn your neighbor and say, change the
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  narrative. So here's the next. Just because just because you are lost doesn't
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  mean God is not in control. When we are disappointed, change the narrative.
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  Because the narrative is about you. You always feel in the dumbs.
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  Jesus changed the narrative because its not about It is about you kind of,
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  but it's not about you you. It's about giving you Amen. When we
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  are disappointed, change the narrative. I'm not just asking you to be delusional.
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  I'm not in pain, la, Nola, I'm not in pain,
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  lah. Change the narrative means, Hey, this pain has a purpose,
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  This reign has a reason. Amen. You may have lost control, but
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  God is still in control. We need to hear a narrative that tells us
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  that life's mishaps and tragedies are not a reason to build out, but they
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  may simply be a reason to sit tight, hang on, believe, and
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  trust. Amen. Corey Tanboom said this, When the train gets through a
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  tunnel and the world gets dark, do you jump out? Of course not?
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  You see still and trust the engineer to get you through. Amen.
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  So, just because your loss doesn't mean God is not in control. God
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  is still in control and He's got you. Listen to the next part.
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  I would say, a man who died and raised himself from the dead is
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  in complete control. Wouldn't you like? Dude? Seriously, he died and
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  raised himsel, He's in control. This is the same guy in a storm.
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  They both about to sink. Everyone's panicking. What's he doing? Taking
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  a nambro? I always try when I read the Bible? I sort to
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  you mentioned opposite, I sort you mentioned Jesus panicking? Oh stormer, Hey
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  Peter, what are you doing? Come on, scoop. If that's your
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  God, changed God? Seriously, if he's panicking, you better change board.
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  Change God. Not just in narrative just see see if God can sleep
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  in the storm. You two legs. Let me see's in control. It's
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  a storm he can sleep in, so we chill. I love that story.
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  Take the map and look at see your galley? I know the name
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  is your galley? Do you know what? This is? A lake?
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  It's a contained body of water you drown on, so easy to find,
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  no open sea, but so classical human being. Ah, this is the
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  worst exam ever. What the girl rejected me? A gone case like many
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  fishes in the ceila coffee and bagel, tinder, whatever you choose, a
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  generation shirts huh ah. And gods up there looking you're in a lake,
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  not hard to finally, who are not dying? Dying? And a saving
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  sleeping taking a nap. This is why sometimes it feels that God's not there
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  because your problem is not big enough to wake him up. He's chilling me,
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  like, oh what fifty million ring? That sleepers? What cancer?
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  I really pieces going branker. Come on, okay, I'm not saying those
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  those things are not scary. I'm just saying when you feel like God is
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  sleeping, are you God sleeping at you? You better thank God he's sleeping.
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  If he's panicking what you lost one, Oh, I don't know what
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  to do. As Buddha, No, he goes, He's got no reference.
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  He's God all by himself, you know, as Google, as GPT,
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  God has no reference. He's God all by himself. Amen. So
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  I'll say, a man who died and raised himself on the day, he's
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  in complete control. Amen. So, friends, this morning, as I
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  am remember the story, remembered the narrative. Christ died and rose again.
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  We have hope. God sees you. He's moving towards you. He has
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  hope for you, and he's in control, and he's got you. If
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  life has changed the narrative, you change it back. Because the gospel is
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  good news. We're not disacknowledging the pain. We're not saying what you're going
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  through is it is real. It is very real. The fear is very
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  real. All those are real. So is our God. He sees from
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  a different perspective. Hemen, we are down here in the lake. All
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  we see is what He is up there saying, Hey, I've got this.
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