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Closed Doors, Open Doors │ Msg 1011 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Let's read from the scriptures Revelation chapter three, just two
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  Speaker 1: verses there, and then put your finger in Acts chapter sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: As we think today about closed doors, open doors, different plans,
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  Speaker 1: same God. First Revelation chapter three, verses seven, eight, and nine,
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  Speaker 1: and then over at Acts sixteen. And to the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Church in Philadelphia. Right, he who is holy,
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  Speaker 1: who is true, who has the key of David, who
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  Speaker 1: opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no
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  Speaker 1: one will open, says this, I know your deeds. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I have put before you and open door which no
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  Speaker 1: one can shut, because you have a little power and
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  Speaker 1: have kept my word and have not denied my name. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I will cause those of the Synagogue of Satan, who
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  Speaker 1: say they are Jews and are not but lie. Behold.
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  Speaker 1: I will make them to come and bow down at
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  Speaker 1: your feet and to know that I have loved you.
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  Speaker 1: And back in Acts chapter sixteen, let me drop down
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  Speaker 1: to verse five. So the churches were being strengthened in
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  Speaker 1: the faith and were increasing in number daily, and they
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  Speaker 1: passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden
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  Speaker 1: by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
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  Speaker 1: And when they had come to Missia. They were trying
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  Speaker 1: to go into Bithynia, and the spirit of Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: not permit them, And passing by Missia, they came down
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  Speaker 1: to Troaz, and a vision appeared to Paul in the night.
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  Speaker 1: A certain man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, saying,
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  Speaker 1: come over to Macedonia and help us. And when he
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  Speaker 1: had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia,
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  Speaker 1: concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel
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  Speaker 1: to them. Therefore, putting out to sea. From Troaz, we
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  Speaker 1: ran a straight course to Samathrace, and on the day
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  Speaker 1: following to Minneapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is
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  Speaker 1: a leading city of the district of Macedonia, a Roman colony.
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  Speaker 1: And we were staying in this city for some days.
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  Speaker 1: And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate
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  Speaker 1: to a riverside where we were supposing that there would
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  Speaker 1: be a place of prayer, and we sat down and
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  Speaker 1: began speaking to the women who had assembled, and a
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  Speaker 1: certain woman named Lydia from the city of thiah Tyra,
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  Speaker 1: a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the
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  Speaker 1: things spoken by Paul, And when she and her household
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  Speaker 1: had been baptized, she urged us, saying, if you have
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  Speaker 1: judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into
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  Speaker 1: my house and stay. And she prevailed upon us, just
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  Speaker 1: leave your bible, opening your lap there for a few moments,
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  Speaker 1: and bow with me in prayer. How very meaningful is
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  Speaker 1: your word, our father. Heaven and earth may pass away,
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  Speaker 1: but your word will never pass away. How valuable are
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  Speaker 1: the principle you teach us by application of your word.
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  Speaker 1: How grateful we are that you lead us into truth,
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  Speaker 1: and that from the truth we know a freedom that
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  Speaker 1: could not be known otherwise. Thank you. Today I speak
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  Speaker 1: to many men and women who are living with closed
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  Speaker 1: doors in their lives. It is easy to be disillusioned
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  Speaker 1: and discouraged, and to think we have missed your will,
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  Speaker 1: when in fact we are very likely in the nucleus
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  Speaker 1: of your will. Though the door closes, and you are
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  Speaker 1: moving us toward one that is open. It is hard
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  Speaker 1: to have dreams dashed, to have hopes unfulfilled, to face
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  Speaker 1: a future that is the mix of unknown and unfamiliar,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes if the truth were known, unwanted, but you
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  Speaker 1: have a way of guiding us unerringly into the path
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness. For your name's sake. You are the potter.
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  Speaker 1: Remind us today that we are still the clay. You
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  Speaker 1: are the vine. Remind us that we are the branches.
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  Speaker 1: You are the master. We're just the servants. Break within
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  Speaker 1: us the strong, sinewy will that's determined to get our
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  Speaker 1: own way, so that we might truly go wherever you
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  Speaker 1: lead us, whenever you please, however you wish us to
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  Speaker 1: get there. And Father, this work sustained by your people
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  Speaker 1: is a work of faith to the glory of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: from hearts full of joy, because we believe even what
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  Speaker 1: you were doing in this place of service and worship.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Father, may our hearts be softened as the
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  Speaker 1: soil is prepared for the sowing of the seed of
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God. We ask for Jesus' sake, And
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  Speaker 1: everybody said amen. A slammed door is not an easy
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  Speaker 1: thing to listen to, and it's an even harder thing
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  Speaker 1: to experience, especially if you have genuinely sought God's will.
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  Speaker 1: You prayed, you've sought the counsel of people you admire,
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  Speaker 1: You've studied sections of his word that might very well
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  Speaker 1: lead you into the way you ought to go. You've
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  Speaker 1: sung the right songs, your heart is willing, your spirit
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  Speaker 1: is ready. If you're married, your partner is all the way,
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  Speaker 1: all the way with you, ready to go into this
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  Speaker 1: new area that God's leading you. And about the time
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  Speaker 1: you get near it, bang the door slams shut. Can
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  Speaker 1: be very disillusioning. It can be, in fact, disappointing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying it closed because you were living in sin,
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  Speaker 1: or because your heart was turned against what God wanted,
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  Speaker 1: or you were selfish in some way. It just closed,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody explained why. And you sort of reel and
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  Speaker 1: you step back, and you talk to the Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: it's as though the heavens are brass. The door is closed.
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  Speaker 1: You hope very much for a great business, and so
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  Speaker 1: you moved from a familiar area to an unfamiliar area.
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  Speaker 1: There seemed all the reasons to make that move. And
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  Speaker 1: you step into the new work, and it isn't long
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  Speaker 1: before you realize it isn't working. You cultivate a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with this fine individual and you go together and you
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  Speaker 1: spend months, sometime more than a year, really getting to
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  Speaker 1: know one another. And you fall deeply in love with
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  Speaker 1: that person, and just before you get to the subject
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  Speaker 1: of marriage, Bang, the door stops. The door shuts, and
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  Speaker 1: the romance fades and the relationship ends. Closed door. You
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  Speaker 1: spend your time on your knees. You're thinking through the future.
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  Speaker 1: You've got your heart set on a particular school. You've
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  Speaker 1: got the grades, you've got a good resume, you've got
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  Speaker 1: the background to do the work at the school. But
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  Speaker 1: they can take just so many and it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the point where they limit the group and you're not
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  Speaker 1: in the final class that will be making its way
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  Speaker 1: to school. Another door slammed shut. Explanation, no reason your disillusion.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you that Cynthia and I, in
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  Speaker 1: our now forty four years of marriage, have encountered a
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  Speaker 1: few closed doors that to this day we still cannot
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  Speaker 1: explain why. Like you, with all our hearts, we sought
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  Speaker 1: to do what we believed to be the will of God.
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  Speaker 1: We asked for guidance, We laid ourselves before him. We
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  Speaker 1: held nothing tightly, willing to give up whatever needs to
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  Speaker 1: be given up to make it happen. Bang, closed door. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the Christian life, you and I know by now
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  Speaker 1: that it's not a cloud nine utopia. And if that
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  Speaker 1: had been your hope today, I'm going to burst that
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  Speaker 1: balloon because that's terribly unrealistic way to live. Thinking that
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  Speaker 1: Christ helps you live happily. Ever after, once we're in heaven,
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  Speaker 1: it kicks in. But until then, there are not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of days you could mark fantastic, unbelievable, incredible, remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: More of life is learning and growing, learning and growing, falling,
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  Speaker 1: getting back up, forgiving, moving on, accepting, going on. Bruce Walke,
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  Speaker 1: one of my mentors in the subject of Hebrew at seminary,
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  Speaker 1: would on occasion move into the realm of a devotional
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  Speaker 1: kind of presentation. And I'll never forget doctor Walkee saying,
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  Speaker 1: says the longer I live and the closer I walked
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  Speaker 1: with Christ, the more I believe He does not take
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  Speaker 1: the time to explain why, so we trust him through
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  Speaker 1: it without the why being answered. I find a lot
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  Speaker 1: of comfort when I get to this third chapter of
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  Speaker 1: the Revelation and I find something written here about who's
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  Speaker 1: in charge of closed doors. The reason I like this
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  Speaker 1: is because it puts the responsibility where it belongs on
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. He the potter has the sovereign right to
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  Speaker 1: do with the clay as he pleases. I've watched a
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  Speaker 1: few potters at work, and it's a funny thing. I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen them talk to the clay. I have seen
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  Speaker 1: them at times mash it down and start over again.
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  Speaker 1: And what it looked like earlier, it doesn't look at
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  Speaker 1: all like the next time. Especially those who were very
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  Speaker 1: gifted as potters, they can start over and over, and
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  Speaker 1: each time it's better, and it's better. He is the potter,
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  Speaker 1: We are the clay. He is the one who gives
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  Speaker 1: the commands. We are the ones who obey. He never
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  Speaker 1: has to explain himself. He never stops to ask permission,
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  Speaker 1: nor does he predict ahead of time that you're just
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  Speaker 1: about to encounter a closed door. It's all planned with
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  Speaker 1: our maturity in mind. He is shaping us into the
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  Speaker 1: image of his son, regardless of the pain and heartache
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  Speaker 1: that may require. John is writing under the direction of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit in Revelation three, verse seven, and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus has the floor, and he is telling John
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  Speaker 1: to write this to the messenger of the Church at Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: to the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia. Right then,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus defines himself as the one who is holy,
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  Speaker 1: that is sinless, the one who is true, and by
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  Speaker 1: that he means he hates evil, and he does not
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  Speaker 1: engage in error or erroneous activities. He is holy, he
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  Speaker 1: is true. He has the key of David, symbolic for authority.
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  Speaker 1: Someone who has the key to the safe has the
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  Speaker 1: authority to get in the safe. You have a key
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  Speaker 1: to your home. It gives you the authority to go
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  Speaker 1: into the home. Whoever doesn't have the key has no
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  Speaker 1: right to invade the home. He has the key of David.
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  Speaker 1: He has the authority. And look at the next definition.
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  Speaker 1: Who opens and no one will shut? Who shuts and
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  Speaker 1: no one opens? This is a description of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. He is the one who alone has the
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  Speaker 1: right to open a door of our opportunity and to
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  Speaker 1: escort you through it, and you enjoy the benefits, you take,
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  Speaker 1: the trials you endure, the tests you persevere through the
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  Speaker 1: open door. He also has the right to slam the
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  Speaker 1: door without explanation. And as we're going to see, often
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  Speaker 1: more times than not, when a door of opportunity is shut,
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  Speaker 1: it is to lead you to a better door that's open,
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  Speaker 1: with greater opportunities. He is the one who opens and
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  Speaker 1: no one shuts. Who shuts and no one opens. You
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  Speaker 1: don't live very long in the Christian life before you
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  Speaker 1: realize that both happen rather regularly. As profoundly as we
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  Speaker 1: may pray, and as consistently as we may make ourselves
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  Speaker 1: available to do the Lord's will, there are times his
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  Speaker 1: answer is no, no now. In the case of the
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  Speaker 1: Church at Philadelphia, God opened the door verse eight. I
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  Speaker 1: know your deeds. I have put before you an open
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  Speaker 1: door which no one can shut. There are some churches that,
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  Speaker 1: it seems almost from the inception, doors open marvelous opportunities
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  Speaker 1: from ministry, numerical growth, spiritual depth, the opportunity to soar.
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  Speaker 1: And along the way, something happens and a door shuts.
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  Speaker 1: That is a real test for a congregation, just as
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  Speaker 1: it's a test for a couple or a test for
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  Speaker 1: a community. But he has the sovereign right to open
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  Speaker 1: and no one can close it, to close it, and
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  Speaker 1: no one can open it now. But it's our tendency,
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  Speaker 1: being only human, for us to use a little force.
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  Speaker 1: After all, we worked pretty hard for this plan. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we gave up what we had over there, and we
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  Speaker 1: moved over here. And I'm not going to take a
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  Speaker 1: closed door sitting down. So we get out the crowbar
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  Speaker 1: of ingenuity, and we get a little stick of dynamite
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  Speaker 1: of carnality, and we start working on the door because
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get that door open. Stop. Stop. Take
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  Speaker 1: it from one who's done that too many times. I'll
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  Speaker 1: testify to you that anytime you force a door thinking
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get your way, ultimately you will regret it.
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  Speaker 1: Leave it closed, back away, accept it in acceptance lies peace.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you a classic example of this
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  Speaker 1: over here in Acts chapter sixteen. So turn from Revelation three,
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  Speaker 1: which tells us that he closes and no one opens,
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  Speaker 1: to Act sixteen, where we find a couple of missionaries,
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  Speaker 1: in fact three of them, on their way across the
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  Speaker 1: continent of Turkey, which is called Asia in this passage.
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  Speaker 1: And they go from the easternmost area to the westernmost area,
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  Speaker 1: and it is remarkable what they encounter. Understand, their hearts
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  Speaker 1: are right. They're veteran missionaries. They desire to make Christ known.
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  Speaker 1: There is no selfish motive. They are not in this
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. They have been launched by a good church
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  Speaker 1: in Antioch. They've already had one missionary journey, and it
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  Speaker 1: was successful. It had its trials, but what a success
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  Speaker 1: it was. And the Church has applauded them when they return.
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  Speaker 1: And now they send them back on their way to return,
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  Speaker 1: only this time, rather than across the G and C,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to go by land. So they came verse
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  Speaker 1: one to Derby and to Lystra, that's where they were before.
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  Speaker 1: While in Lystra, the Lord gives Timothy to the team.
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  Speaker 1: So Paul and Silas link are heart with young Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: and he begins to travel with them. Verse five. The
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  Speaker 1: churches were being strengthened in the faith and were increasing
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  Speaker 1: in number daily. This is remarkable. This is pagan country,
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  Speaker 1: this is godless country, and people are coming to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Churches are being founded, numbers are growing, the strength is intensifying.
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  Speaker 1: They must have thought, we are in for the time
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  Speaker 1: of our life. So they leave the familiar area and
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  Speaker 1: they go toward the Phrygian Galatian region. They passed through
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  Speaker 1: the Phrygian Galatian region forbidden by the Holy Spirit to
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  Speaker 1: speak the word in Asia. Wait wait a minute, they've
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  Speaker 1: had success, Open doors, green lights, it's working. But when
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  Speaker 1: they move into the more central southern regions. You can
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  Speaker 1: hear the break screeching. God closes the door. And there
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  Speaker 1: are people who don't know Christ. There are many who
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  Speaker 1: may never hear of Christ. But God closes that door.
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  Speaker 1: So they think, obviously the Lord is leading us more
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  Speaker 1: towards the central and northern regions. Verse seven. When they
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  Speaker 1: had come to Missia, they were trying to go into Mithnia.
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  Speaker 1: That's far north. Let's put it in our language. They
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  Speaker 1: start in South Carolina, they make their way about to Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a closed door. So they go down to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we didn't do it there. Nope, closed door. Well
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  Speaker 1: let's get up into Kansas and Nebraska. How about North Dakota.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go up that area. Closed door, closed door, no opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't speak of Christ. In fact, it says the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of Jesus did not permit them verse six. They
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  Speaker 1: were forbidden by the Holy Spirit. Verse seven. They were
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  Speaker 1: not permitted by the Lord. Jesus himself can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: So they came to troad. That's like coming all the
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  Speaker 1: way to San Francisco. I mean, the next step you
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  Speaker 1: get wet Okay, you step into the Ocean. You can't
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  Speaker 1: go further in San Francisco. You can't go further in
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  Speaker 1: Turkey the Trough, as it's the northwestern most a distant
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  Speaker 1: point in the continent of Turkey. They went all the
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  Speaker 1: way to Troas, and they looked at the at the
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  Speaker 1: Aegean as it was right there in front of him,
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  Speaker 1: and Paul must have thought, Lord, what is this about?
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  Speaker 1: He and Silas must have sought the Lord on many
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  Speaker 1: hours of time, well, asking God, what are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to do? What are you trying to tell us? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at the people we've left and haven't even spoken
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  Speaker 1: a word to them. We don't read anywhere how long
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  Speaker 1: they were in tro Az before the vision appeared. I've
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  Speaker 1: always had it taught me that the vision appeared the
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  Speaker 1: first night. But it doesn't say that verse nine, A
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  Speaker 1: vision appeared to Paul in the night. Maybe they had
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  Speaker 1: been there a week, maybe they had been there a month.
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  Speaker 1: You see, Uh, it's our tendency because we like action,
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  Speaker 1: car chases, we like movement. It's our tendency to jump
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  Speaker 1: to what happened but Paul's and entertain the emotion of
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  Speaker 1: the disappointment. They couldn't preach in Fridgie or Galicia, Missia
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  Speaker 1: or Bithynia. They came all the way to Troaz, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently they weren't going to do much preaching there. Though
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  Speaker 1: it was a it was a major city at that time.
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  Speaker 1: The harbor has silted up a number of miles now
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  Speaker 1: and Troaz is inland, but back then it was right
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  Speaker 1: on the sea, and some felt it would be the
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  Speaker 1: capital of the continent before too many more years. This
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  Speaker 1: is a major city, and Paul and Silas and Timothy
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  Speaker 1: are trying to figure out what God's saying. You've been
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  Speaker 1: haven't you? Haven't you been there? I mean, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like that's what you want to do, and you threw
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  Speaker 1: yourself into it, and you invested in it, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was time or money, or dream or effort, and it
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  Speaker 1: dropped sometime. It's to teach an invaluable lesson. I was
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  Speaker 1: speaking several months ago with a man who who went
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  Speaker 1: through the lean years in Dallas. He had made like
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  Speaker 1: many had made riches in the real estate market through
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  Speaker 1: the seventies and on into the early eighties, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: when it crashed, it's it's like you could have You
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  Speaker 1: could hear the doors slamming loans were called for. Banks
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  Speaker 1: were suddenly under investigation, and loan agencies were by then,
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  Speaker 1: and it dried up. This man said, at one particular time,
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  Speaker 1: I was driving a brand new Porsa. There was not
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  Speaker 1: any part of the North Dallas area I had looked
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  Speaker 1: at and worked on a deal. Sometime I'd make five
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars closing a deal on a cell phone
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  Speaker 1: and going to the next place, knowing I'd be facing
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  Speaker 1: a similar kind of prosperous moment. And he said, when
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  Speaker 1: it dropped, it was like the clapping of your hand.
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  Speaker 1: It stopped, dried up. He said. I remember in a
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  Speaker 1: few months, I was now driving a used borrowed Shivy,
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  Speaker 1: and I drove onto the tollway ramp and I realized
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even have a quarter to put in a
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  Speaker 1: toll way. From this enormous high to this closed door low.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I lived in a bathrobe in my home
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  Speaker 1: for two years. Thankfully my wife was able to work
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  Speaker 1: and get us through it. Depressed for two years. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how long Paul was in troass night. Things changed,
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  Speaker 1: And aren't we grateful when there's a breakthrough. Isn't that
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  Speaker 1: a great moment a vision appeared to Paul in the night. Now, wait,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, don't go any further, don't read any further.
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  Speaker 1: Stop right there. People read this and they think that's
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  Speaker 1: what I need. A night vision. You don't. If we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a Bible, you would if we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the completed Scriptures, you would certainly need some phenomenal spirit
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  Speaker 1: guided evidence that God wants you to do such and such.
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  Speaker 1: He has restrained his will to the pages of his Word.
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  Speaker 1: When you exhaust the scriptures, then you can start looking
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  Speaker 1: for visions. But no one can exhaust the inexhaustible word
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  Speaker 1: of God. We have prayer, we have the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: We have the Spirit of God dwelling within us. We
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  Speaker 1: have the counsel of wise friends. We have all we need.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need a vision in the night. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need night visions. But Paul did. And in the days
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  Speaker 1: of incompleted Scripture, when God conveyed his will through visions
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  Speaker 1: and dreams, Paul had a vision in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night. And what happened. A certain man of Macedonia
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  Speaker 1: was standing and appealing to him, saying, come over to
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  Speaker 1: Macedonia and help us. Now, if you don't know your geography.
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  Speaker 1: You can't appreciate what that requires. They are in Troaz,
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  Speaker 1: which is on the Asian side, Macedonia is on the
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  Speaker 1: europe side, and the man of Macedonia is saying, come
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  Speaker 1: across the seas. In other words, another culture, another language,
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  Speaker 1: another set of unfamiliar matters. They've got to deal with
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  Speaker 1: tests they're not ready for. Paul was ready. Look at
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  Speaker 1: what he does when he had seen the vision, and
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  Speaker 1: immediately we sought to go to Macedonia. Take a moment
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  Speaker 1: and look at the word we in verse eleven. Luke
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  Speaker 1: is the one who wrote this book, the Acts of
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  Speaker 1: the Apostles. This is the first time the pronoun Wei
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  Speaker 1: appears in what is known as the Wei section of
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Acts. Whenever Luke is a part of
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  Speaker 1: the group, he puts we or us. When Luke stays
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  Speaker 1: in an area and Paul goes on, he turns to
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  Speaker 1: them and they Luke is here. Apparently they met Luke
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  Speaker 1: at Troaz. Perhaps, coming near the coast, Paul came down
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  Speaker 1: with a fever needed the assistance of a medical doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps it was that that led Luke and Paul to meet.
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  Speaker 1: And it was true that set of events that caused
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  Speaker 1: Luke to become a part of the traveling group. So
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  Speaker 1: now there are four of them, Paul, Silas, Timothy, and
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  Speaker 1: doctor Luke, who would later be used of God to
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  Speaker 1: write the record that we know today as the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Luke, as well as the Book of Acts. So
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  Speaker 1: immediately we sought to go into Macedonia. Why we concluded
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord had called us see there. We us
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  Speaker 1: had called us to preach the gospel to them. How
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  Speaker 1: long they tried the other regions were not told, how
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  Speaker 1: they responded when the doors closed, were not told, how
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  Speaker 1: soon the vision came. We're not told. The identity of
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  Speaker 1: the man of Macedonia were not told. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: commentary's I counsel suggested that it was Luke who was
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  Speaker 1: the man from Macedonia. And I can't find that here.
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  Speaker 1: I looked all over. He just it's not there. How
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  Speaker 1: does he know it's Luke, says a man from Macedonia.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who the person was. It was a
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  Speaker 1: vision from God and the man said come over. They
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  Speaker 1: concluded God had called them to preach the gospel over there,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately they sought to go to Macedonia. That means
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  Speaker 1: they had to sail, and we're told the course putting
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  Speaker 1: out to sea. From Troaz we ran a straight course
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  Speaker 1: to samath Race and on the following day to Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: From there to Philippi, which is a leading city in
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  Speaker 1: the district of Macedonia. Thirteen on the Sabbath day, we
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  Speaker 1: went outside the gate to the riverside. That's where the
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  Speaker 1: old song comes from. Down by the riverside. They came
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  Speaker 1: to the riverside where we were supposing there would be
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  Speaker 1: a place a prayer. We sat down, began to speak
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  Speaker 1: to the women who had assembled. A certain woman named
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  Speaker 1: Lydia heard what we had to say. The Lord opened
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  Speaker 1: her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first experience in evangelism in Europe. This
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  Speaker 1: is the beginning of a church Philippi, another church Thessalonaika,
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  Speaker 1: another church in Corinth and God's at work. The doors opened.
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  Speaker 1: Now it has been closed, and now it's open. What
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful relief it must have been. Several years ago
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  Speaker 1: I was asked by an organization that I have loved
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  Speaker 1: for many years, the Navigators, to come to their reunion
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  Speaker 1: at Estes Park, Colorado, and to be one of the speakers.
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  Speaker 1: I was thrilled to be able to do that, and
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  Speaker 1: I travel there and I found out after I was
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  Speaker 1: there that they hadn't all gotten together for seventeen years.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a great reunion of this fine Christian organization.
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  Speaker 1: The camp was just full of people with stories and
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  Speaker 1: hugs and embraces and wonderful moments together, and it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of the sort of reliving the past for that
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  Speaker 1: whole week. Well, we finished our time there and a
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  Speaker 1: man was to drive me back to Denver to catch
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  Speaker 1: a plane back home. On the way back, he said,
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  Speaker 1: can I tell you my story? And I said sure.
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  Speaker 1: He said, actually, it's a story of closed doors. Great,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I've had a few of those, So tell
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  Speaker 1: me what years was he said. We could not find
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  Speaker 1: peace in any manner staying in the States, and while
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  Speaker 1: at a conference with a number of the leadership of
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  Speaker 1: the Navigators, it fell my opportunity to be the man
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  Speaker 1: who would open the work in Ganda. You Ganda, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I could hardly spell it. When they pointed to me
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  Speaker 1: and said, perhaps that's where the Lord would have you go.
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  Speaker 1: He said. I went home. I told my wife and
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  Speaker 1: told our children. I think they had three at the time,
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  Speaker 1: their oldest son was just about to go into school.
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  Speaker 1: Not quite so they're three little kiddos. And he said
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  Speaker 1: to his wife, honey, are you ready to take on
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  Speaker 1: the challenge of Uganda and all the holes? She said,
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  Speaker 1: if that's where God wants us, I want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So they flew to Nairobi, Kenya. Now couples for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Picture it. You got three kids. One I'm still in diapers,
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  Speaker 1: one of them should be. They're all little. You got
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  Speaker 1: him flying over to Nairobi. You land, you put your
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  Speaker 1: family up in a hotel. You've got limited amount of money.
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  Speaker 1: You rent a car, a land Rover, and you drive
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  Speaker 1: from Nairobi into the country of Uganda. Remember this was
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  Speaker 1: just after Edie I Meane's terror rain. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: one of the first things that caught my eye when
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  Speaker 1: I came into the little town, the village where I
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  Speaker 1: was going to spend my first night and it was dark,
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  Speaker 1: were eight nine year old kids with automatic weapons shooting
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  Speaker 1: them off in the sky. And I'd drive by. It
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  Speaker 1: was like that'd stare at me and pointed. I thought, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not now you know it took me enough to get
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  Speaker 1: here but it was that kind of context, It was
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  Speaker 1: that kind of volatile setting, and he thought, Lord, are
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  Speaker 1: you there. He pulled up in a little place, a
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  Speaker 1: dimly lit hotel, and he thought, well, I'll spend the
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  Speaker 1: night lonely, unable to connect with his wife at the
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  Speaker 1: hotel back in Nairobi. And he goes up to the
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  Speaker 1: counter and the man that's taking care of the registration
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  Speaker 1: is asleep. So he wakes him up, speaks a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of English, and he registers there's one room left,
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  Speaker 1: one bed available. So he goes up two flights of
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  Speaker 1: stairs and he gets to the room, opens, the door,
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  Speaker 1: turns on this little naked light bulb hanging over a table,
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  Speaker 1: and one bed is unmade and his bed is still
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  Speaker 1: made up. And he realized, I am sharing this room
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  Speaker 1: with somebody. He said. I dropped to my knees and
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  Speaker 1: I said, Lord, look, I'm afraid I'm in a country
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, in a culture that's totally unfamiliar. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea who sleeps in that bed. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: just as I was finishing my prayer, boom, the door opens,
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  Speaker 1: and here's this six foot five inch African saying, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing in my room, beautiful British English. And
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  Speaker 1: he stood up and he said, I stood there because
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  Speaker 1: this fella's kind of short. And he said, believe me,
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  Speaker 1: I got this bed and I won't be here but
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  Speaker 1: just one night. And the fellaw said, what are you
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  Speaker 1: doing in my country? He said, well, I'm with him
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  Speaker 1: little organization called the Navigators. And he broke into this
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  Speaker 1: enormous grin, put his arms around this guy and hugged him.
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  Speaker 1: He said, he lifted me up off the floor and
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  Speaker 1: just danced around with me. Is hugging me. Praise God,
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  Speaker 1: Praise God. This is African, and he's thinking, praise God,
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  Speaker 1: let me down, you know. And they sit down at
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  Speaker 1: the table and this brother in Christ, this fellow Christian,
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  Speaker 1: this African, said, for two years, I have prayed that
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  Speaker 1: God would send someone to me from this organization. And
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  Speaker 1: he pulls out a little verse pack and at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of each of the verses it says the Navigators
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  Speaker 1: Colorado Springs, Colorado. He said, are you from Colorado Springs, Colorado?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I was, but I'm coming to Uganda to
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  Speaker 1: begin a work for the Navigator. That man became his
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  Speaker 1: best friend. Member of his board, helped him find a
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  Speaker 1: place to live, helped him rebuild a section of his home,
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  Speaker 1: taught him about the culture, helped him with a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the language needs that he had, and he
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  Speaker 1: became his best friend for those fourteen years they were there.
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  Speaker 1: The story goes on, but I'm going to save the
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  Speaker 1: rest of it till the end. Paul is in tro
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  Speaker 1: Az wondering what this is all about. The vision appears.
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  Speaker 1: The door opens to Macedonia. He doesn't know a soul
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  Speaker 1: in Macedonia. I take it he's never been to the area,
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  Speaker 1: that area of Europe in his life. And he goes
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  Speaker 1: by boat. He and Silas and Timothy and Luke, and
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  Speaker 1: they get to Philippi and for the first time they
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  Speaker 1: see why the door has opened. Hearts are opened, lives
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  Speaker 1: are changed, and there is the beginning of a formation
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  Speaker 1: of a chain of churches right there. Because the door
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  Speaker 1: closed over there in Asia. Thanks to the door in
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  Speaker 1: Asia closing, Europe is now hearing. Thanks to the closed
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  Speaker 1: door in Asia, several churches are founded. Thanks to the
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  Speaker 1: closed door in Asia. We have a letter in our
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  Speaker 1: Bible called Philippians, another called Thessalonians first and second Thessalonians
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  Speaker 1: all related to the ministry two letters to Corinth, all
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  Speaker 1: part of the Macedonian Grecian area, because that man believed
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  Speaker 1: God accepted the closed doors, didn't require that he stay
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  Speaker 1: in Asia, and was willing to go across the seas
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  Speaker 1: to Europe to begin a brand new work. I want
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  Speaker 1: to speak directly to you in a very practical way
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  Speaker 1: as I conclude this talk. Some of you have a
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  Speaker 1: business deal that did not go through and you're living
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  Speaker 1: a little disillusion right now, or perhaps a ministry you
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  Speaker 1: would set your heart on and it hasn't cultivated. Your
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  Speaker 1: hopes are dashed, your dreams have died. Even a door
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  Speaker 1: of ministry you thought would be effective has not been effective.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't gotten in the school you thought you could
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  Speaker 1: get into, you haven't gotten what your colleagues are calling
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  Speaker 1: a break, and you're still sort of struggling with this
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  Speaker 1: closed door. I want to give you four statements of
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  Speaker 1: application that have helped me in the process of dealing
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  Speaker 1: with closed doors. Let me just kind of tick them
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  Speaker 1: off one after the other. Number one. Since God is sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: he is in full control. Since God is sovereign, he
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  Speaker 1: is in full control. Remember Revelation three. I am the
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  Speaker 1: one who opens and no one shuts. I am the
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  Speaker 1: one who shuts, and no one opens. Being in full control.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the second one. He takes full responsibility for the results.
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  Speaker 1: Being in full control, God takes complete responsibility for the results.
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  Speaker 1: Don't try to carry that burden. It's not up to
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  Speaker 1: you to make it work. It's up to God. Your
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  Speaker 1: job is to obey. It's God's job to make it work.
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  Speaker 1: If it doesn't work, don't force it. I say again,
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  Speaker 1: here's the third principle. The closing of a good opportunity
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  Speaker 1: occurs in order to lead you to a better one.
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  Speaker 1: The closing of a good opportunity occurs in order to
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  Speaker 1: lead you to a better one. I've heard stories like
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  Speaker 1: this through years of ministry. People have said, I hit
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  Speaker 1: the closed door, I got to the end of my rope,
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  Speaker 1: I tied a knot and hung on. I trusted the
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  Speaker 1: Lord through this, and he turned the corner for me.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't believe what happened as a result of
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  Speaker 1: my not pushing my way in the direction I thought
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  Speaker 1: I was supposed to go. Here's the fourth Not until
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  Speaker 1: we walk through the open door will we realize the
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  Speaker 1: necessity of the closed one. Not till we walk through
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  Speaker 1: the open door. Will we realize the necessity of the
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  Speaker 1: closed one as a result of obeying God, doing his will,
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  Speaker 1: accepting the closed doors, and walking through the open ones,
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  Speaker 1: God will honor you with a perspective you would never
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  Speaker 1: otherwise have. Then me go back to my story in Uganda,
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  Speaker 1: after twelve fourteen years, I forget the exact number of
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  Speaker 1: years they finished their work there, it was established. Others
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  Speaker 1: from the staff of the navigators came and picked up
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  Speaker 1: the work. And this dear little family came back. He
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  Speaker 1: had not been back quite a year. His son was
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  Speaker 1: finishing his high school and the high school class was
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  Speaker 1: to go to Washington, d c. For one of those
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  Speaker 1: field trips. You know what they often do with the
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  Speaker 1: high school kids. They take them there to look at
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  Speaker 1: the monuments and let them see the White House and
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  Speaker 1: these great scenes across the nation's capital. And he said
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  Speaker 1: to his boy before he left, put his arms around him,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, son, here's forty dollars. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to buy something that will be a great memory for you,
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  Speaker 1: so that you could put in your room and just
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  Speaker 1: call it all your own. This is your money, do
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  Speaker 1: with it as you please. So the kid goes to Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. They stay almost a week and he comes
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  Speaker 1: back with his package. He says, I want to surprise you, Dad.
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  Speaker 1: So he doesn't let him come in his room until
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  Speaker 1: he finishes. And they walk in his room and the
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  Speaker 1: kid had bought a huge Ugandan flag that he put
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  Speaker 1: over his bed. He said, those are the best years
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  Speaker 1: of my life. Dad, talk about perspective. He feared that
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  Speaker 1: by going to Uganda he would destroy or hurt or
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  Speaker 1: cripple his family, when in fact his son has a
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  Speaker 1: passion now for God's work outside the borders of these
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  Speaker 1: United States. He would have never had that if he
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  Speaker 1: had not obeyed and walked through the open door. God
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  Speaker 1: is full of surprises, And if you have come to
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  Speaker 1: a closed door, be very very sensitive. Stop, back, back up,
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  Speaker 1: Tell the Lord exactly how you feel. Describe to him
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  Speaker 1: what you had hoped. Ask him to guide you very clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Since this opportunity is closed to the one that's even
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  Speaker 1: better that you'd right now. Don't know what it is
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  Speaker 1: he will do that, he will do that. I want
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  Speaker 1: us to close our eyes, I want us to bow
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  Speaker 1: our heads. I want us to sit quietly. There's a
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  Speaker 1: great old gospel song that we happen to have sung
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  Speaker 1: in our service today, and we sang it more than
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  Speaker 1: we sang any other song, and we repeated the line
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  Speaker 1: more than any other song or him. Wherever he leads,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go. I looked around our congregation and noticed that
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  Speaker 1: virtually every one of us was singing those words. The
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  Speaker 1: proof of those words will occur in the days that follow.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever he leads I go. For some of you, he
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  Speaker 1: is leading you to, for the first time in your life,
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  Speaker 1: to the cross, where Jesus Christ paid the penalty for
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  Speaker 1: your sin, paid it in full, where he died his blood,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest detergent in the history of time, sufficient to
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  Speaker 1: wash away all of your sins, was poured out for you.
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  Speaker 1: Today he may be leading you to the cross. If so,
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  Speaker 1: right now, turn your life over to Christ. Please, right now,
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  Speaker 1: simple words. Lord, I don't know quite how to put this,
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  Speaker 1: but I know I'm a sinner and I know you're holy.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's a big distance between you and me,
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  Speaker 1: But today, for the first time in my life, I
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  Speaker 1: take your son as my savior, and Lord, I believe
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  Speaker 1: in him. Now I take the gift that you've offered me.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming into my life and forgiving me
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  Speaker 1: my sins. I think perhaps there may be more of
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  Speaker 1: you who have come to the closed door, and you've
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  Speaker 1: been resisting it. You've been pushing it, you've been fighting it.
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  Speaker 1: You look for someone to blame. You've determined that this
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  Speaker 1: is what you're supposed to be doing, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: hard thing for you to accept the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: door is closed. Today, accept it, give up the fight,
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  Speaker 1: let it be, Let it be. You've come to your
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  Speaker 1: own Bethenia or Phrygia or Galicia, Missia, the doors closed.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the Lord to meet with you at your own
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  Speaker 1: personal troas as you look out across that vast sea
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  Speaker 1: of possibilities, ask them to give you peace in a
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  Speaker 1: whole new direction. Be open, be willing. Lord. There are
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  Speaker 1: a dozen or more possibilities we could name, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not necessary. These are your people, and they're the sheep
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  Speaker 1: of your pasture. It's your desire to lead them in
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  Speaker 1: the path of righteousness for your name's sake. But Father,
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  Speaker 1: we are all human. We're strong willed by nature. We're
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  Speaker 1: self starters. We prefer our will to any others, and
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  Speaker 1: so today I ask you to break that will, to
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  Speaker 1: soften the soil of the heart that's hardened by bitterness,
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  Speaker 1: our sadness, our resentment or blame, that you'd find within
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  Speaker 1: us a spirit of willingness and availability. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the magnificent model that Paul and Silas and Timothy and
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  Speaker 1: Luke exemplify in the scriptures. Help us, Father, resist the
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  Speaker 1: carnal spirit within us. All show us how to quietly
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  Speaker 1: back away and let it be. And may your spirit
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  Speaker 1: bring great comfort in the midst of our human disappointment
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  Speaker 1: and disillusionment. In Christ's name we ask this amen.
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  Speaker 2: The preceding message, closed Doors, Open Doors was copyrighted in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine two thousand and twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 2: the sound recording was copyrighted in twenty twenty four by
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  Speaker 2: Charles R. Swindahl, Incorporated. All rights are reserved worldwide. Duplication
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  Speaker 2: of copyrighted material for commercial use is strictly prohibited.