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God Knows You Are Tired, So Leave It In God's Hands · Off The Kirb Ministries

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Why is nothing ever easy? Which of these describes you?
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You're at your job and you're trying so, so hard to work hard,
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and yet everything is so difficult.
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You start doing a task and then you have to redo it again
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because something goes wrong. It constantly feels like you're
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pushing water up a hill and nothing seems to be working
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anymore. You had success in the past, but
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right now you see nothing. Maybe your children, you just
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have this sense of guilt all the time.
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Mother's guilt or father's guilt or grandfather's guilt.
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You feel like you're just not good enough as a parent.
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You're not giving your children the right amount of time, or you
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lose your temper and you just think, I'm making a mess of
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this. And here my children are.
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They're growing up so quick. Life is going so fast.
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It's passing me by and I'm missing out on it.
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Maybe this is you. Your marriage is a mess.
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Your spouse and you. Every time you sit down to spend
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any time together, you end up falling out over the tiniest
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thing. You dread car journeys because
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they'll be arguments there. It's just, it's just not the
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same as it once was. And you wonder, will your
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marriage ever be the same again? Maybe this is you.
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Maybe you've recently got a a health issue and it's daunting
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you. Everywhere you go, in your mind,
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you're thinking about this. How much time have I got left?
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Will I ever get over this? Is this going to ruin the rest
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of my life? And you're just so scared.
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Maybe you're the person watching this video and you regret that
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you keep returning to the same sin over and over again.
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Every time you go there after you finish, you say I won't go
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there again. I will not return to this sin.
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I won't fall this way again. But here you are and you just
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feel like a a failure like everyone else has got it
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together, but you are being left behind, your cut off and even
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God himself has had enough of you.
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He's not with you anymore. He's left you and you're all
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alone. Well, if any of those that I've
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described is describing you, I want you to know something.
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It's not true that God has left you alone.
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In fact, the Lord God, he delights in you.
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Psalm 149 says he takes pleasure in you and He sees your pain and
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He's with you in this season, whether you can see it or not,
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He's here. So I want to share with you 3
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Bible verses that I think will encourage you during this very
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difficult time. But if it is your first time on
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the channel, you might be wondering what this is.
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Well, this is nothing more than coffee.
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I love drinking coffee. If you've never joined us
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before. And every week, every two weeks
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we try and have a coffee together on this channel.
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Me and you as a Christian and we look at the Bible.
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Nothing fancy, nothing over the top.
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I just try and share the Bible with you.
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Did did coffee come out again? I promise you I'm not.
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I'm genuinely not trying to do this to to make you check the
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video or to do anything for drama.
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I'm guessing more coffees come out because there's still some
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on, there's some that's spilled over there.
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So I'm obviously overfilling this this tin of coffee.
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So anyway, that's the worst things happen at sea, as they
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say, OK, the first verse I believe the Lord has laid on my
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heart to share with you. When you are feeling like you're
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all alone, when you are feeling like you're just tired out, this
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is the verse you need to go to. Psalm 61, verse 2
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from the ends of the earth I call to you.
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I call as my heart grows faint, lead me to the rock that is
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higher than I. My mum often shares that verse
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with me. Sometimes I'll sit with her and
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tell her, well, I see her a lot. But when I tell her, I might say
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I'm having a really tough time, mum, I am really stressed out
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for YouTube channels, young family preaching all around the
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north of England, just doing St. preaching often 2 * a week.
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I'm I'm I'm burnt out, I'm stressed out.
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And my mum says, remember that verse when I am overwhelmed lead
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me to the rock that is higher than I.
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So what can we learn from this verse?
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Well, first thing is do you notice how it says from the ends
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of the earth I call out to you. Here it is.
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David the writer is drawing this picture.
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He feels like he's at the very end of the earth.
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He's cut off, he's remote, he's alone, he's at a great distance.
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God is here and he is here, and he feels all alone.
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He feels like he's on the edge, living on the edge, and he's got
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no hope. I wonder if anyone feels like
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that today? He then says, I call as my heart
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grows faint. In other words, this feeling of
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being cut off, this feeling of being overwhelmed.
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He feels like it's affecting his heart.
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He feels that anxiety. I expect we'd all have that at
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times. Sometimes it hits us from
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nowhere again. The other day I was in the open
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air. I was St. preaching in
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Manchester and they had a Halloween parade on.
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There was these big Halloween kind of costumes and drums and
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all of this and there was literally about 3005 thousand
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people in front of me wanting to watch this this parade.
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And there was all these people and the first thing that hit me
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was all of these souls are going to a lost eternity without Jesus
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Christ. That first affects me.
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And then I don't know what it was.
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I don't know what it was just being crammed in.
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I felt sudden like I need to get out of here and that and that's
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never happened before. But we get that, don't we?
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We get hit by these different things, perhaps because we're
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we're so stressed, we're over stimulated in our minds that,
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you know, we can feel faint. We can feel a sense of our
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weakness. Well, this is what David felt
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like. He felt overwhelmed and he felt
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so weak. And then it says he said, lead
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me to the rock that is higher than I.
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You see, he realises he can do nothing in his time of distress.
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Did he go to an expert? Did he go to ChatGPT?
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Did he go to, you know, his friends?
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Or did he go to his wife? Not what he knew.
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The only one who could deliver him was the Lord.
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And he said, I call out to you. Only you can can take me.
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Only you can pull me out of this mess.
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And it's that beautiful picture of this rock that's higher.
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So here you and I are. We might feel in our situation,
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I don't know what situation you're going through right now,
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but you might feel like the waters are rising and you think
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if these waters keep going higher, I'm not going to
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survive. I'm not going to be able to cope
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out. And then they're in front of
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you, it's that beautiful big rock.
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And you climb up that rock and that rock is Christ and he keeps
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you firm. This summer I went on a beach
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mission to Saint Ives where I was telling children, I was
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telling adults, I was doing open air work, all about the Lord
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Jesus Christ on the beaches and also on the Harbour St.
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preaching at night. And we did manage to get a bit
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of family time as a family. And one night we decided we're
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going to have tea together. That's our evening meal, our
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dinner together. And there was this man who was
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selling paella, A prawn kind of shellfish paella.
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It was delicious. He was selling it on the on the
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side of the street. So we bought that and we settled
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down, started eating anywhere. Out of nowhere, a sort of
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riptide started to to take over the ocean.
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And the sea was coming in really, really fast.
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But we thought we're OK, we'll just keep eating anyway.
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A little bit later, you know, the kids are playing and we've
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sort of settled down a little bit more.
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And I, I was on the other side and suddenly out of nowhere,
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Emma's just walking with Lois on the sea and a big wave comes in
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and it takes Lois, pulls her out.
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Emma has to run and grab her and bring her out.
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I could see this on the other side, but the sea had, had had
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cut me off so I couldn't get to her.
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As soon as the tide went out, I ran to Lois.
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I picked her up. And then this is the interesting
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part. Just as you're getting up to
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Saint Ives, it's all built on a hill.
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There was a pathway that led up up to the side of a Cliff, a
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Cliff. So I, I got our stuff, our pram,
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I got Lois and I took it up there and there, if you like, we
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were safe there. We could see the waves and they
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literally crashed onto this Cliff.
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They just got worse and worse and it was quite a dangerous
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night. It was all in the newspapers,
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but here I was. I felt safe and I had my
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daughter, my family. We were safe on this rock.
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That's what Jesus is like. The the tides coming in, all
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these stresses of life are coming for us, but we're safe if
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we hide in Jesus. And that's what I'd say to you
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right now. Hide in Christ.
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Don't fight these things on your own.
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Take them into your closet. Take them to Christ and let him
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deal with it. Now this next verse you're going
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to say that's a little bit of an unusual one.
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I wasn't expecting you to share this verse with me, even though
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you'll know it very well. The next verse I want you to
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turn to is Genesis 3, verse 18. Genesis 3, verse 18.
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Genesis 3 verse 18, it says it will produce thorns and thistles
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for you and you will eat the plants of the field.
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Now you probably know that story very well, of course.
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It's the story of when Adam and Eve, they, they fell, they went
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their own way and they decided to eat if that forbidden fruit
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and what did God say would happen?
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The ground would be cursed and thorns and thistles would grow.
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That's quite a moving picture, isn't it?
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Really? You know, every time, you know,
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they were called to be gardeners.
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That was Adam's job. He was a gardener.
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But every time he laboured, there would be obstacles, there
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would be difficulties. And just think about this now.
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When Adam was a gardener, this was the time before gardening
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gloves. Now, some of you are avid
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gardeners. You, you love gardening, OK.
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But when you come towards a thorn Bush in front of you, what
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you, you put your gloves on. You, you have your, what are
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they called? Secateurs that they have, I'm
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not sure if I've pronounced that right, but you have those
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scissors to, to cut it. Adam didn't have that.
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How would he have got it down? You can imagine every time he
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went to the thorn Bush, he would feel that, wouldn't he?
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Ow. And that would remind him, I
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messed up. My sin caused this thorn Bush.
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My, my sin caused this to happen.
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And guys, that is something that I wanted to share with you
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because listen, when you and I labour and when we try and do
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things for the Lord, it is going to be difficult at times.
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Whether we're doing ministry, whether we're doing our secular
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job, whether we're trying to raise a family, we're always
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going to have obstacles, obstacles.
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We're always going to have trouble as we try to do these
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things. A couple of weeks ago, I was in
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a very, very beautiful church, very large, big Chapel, old
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English Chapel. And I was preaching that.
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And I know an evangelist very well who goes there.
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He's called Gusset. You can listen to his music
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online. He's got a beautiful singing
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voice. Well, his wife Wendy, is equally
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an amazingly gifted evangelist. And I was just sharing a little
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bit about the year we've had as she knew, and many of you know,
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we've had a difficult year. But you know, I was sharing
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something particular that happened that week where our
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daughter, our two year old daughter, Lois, I told you about
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who is at the sea before. Well, Lois during that week had
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been very unwell. She'd been in hospital on and
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off 3 three days, not well at all.
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And they didn't know what was wrong with her.
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She had this rash. And anyway, she's fine now that
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that's the main thing. But we were up at 3:00 AM, two
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AM. We're up really late and then I
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won't, I won't share my life story of you.
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But there just seems to be thing after thing, whether they're
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minor, whether they're little, whether, you know, whatever it
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is, where it's the car, Something just seems like, as I
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said, nothing ever seems easy. And I'm sharing all of this to
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Wendy. And she just looks at me but has
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a big smile on her face. And in a very sort of Lancashire
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way, he says, well, that's just life for you, Joe.
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And you know, something that blessed me more than a sermon
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that really blessed me because I just thought, of course, the
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ground is cursed. This life where we live in a
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fallen world. Of course we should remember
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these things. And it's, it's again, this idea
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that we watch these Disney films when we're children.
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And we think life is going to be like that.
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We think we're going to marry the Prince and some of us.
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So maybe you do, you've married your Prince or you're going to
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marry your Prince. Maybe that's happened.
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But we think we'll live happily ever after and we'll have
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beautiful children and there'll never be any trouble.
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And we'll have lots of money and we'll have a nice house and
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we'll grow our own vegetables. And maybe some of you listening,
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you've got all of that, but you haven't got peace in your heart.
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But the bottom line is for most of us, it's tough.
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It's tough, isn't it? And I just wanted to kind of
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remind you of that today, really, that guys, you might be
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sort of thinking, well, why is all this happening?
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Well, we do live in a thin curse world.
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But the next really beautiful thing, when you think of thorns,
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when you think of thorns in the garden as a consequence for sin,
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what else should come to your mind?
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Well, the answer is the Lord Jesus Christ here is the one
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who, if you like, he did have a happily ever after Jesus.
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He was in heaven. No pain, no suffering, just
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total bliss, totally happy. Spurgeon used to call God the
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happy God because he's always happy.
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He's always full of joy. And yet our Lord and Saviour
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Christ stepped into a body and came and lived amongst us, And
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what happened to him? He was put on a Roman cross and
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there he wore a crown of thorns there because Christ loves you,
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you so deeply. He loves you to pieces.
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As a friend of mine who's another evangelist would say, he
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loves the socks off you, but he does Christ, He loves you.
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He couldn't love you anymore. And yet he wore this crown of
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thorns. He took that curse, that sin,
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all the curse that's in this world, and he reversed it.
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He bore our sins in his body, and then he rose from the dead,
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defeating sin, his enemy's death, and reversing the curse.
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So that any of us who put our trust in him know that one day
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we'll have a new heaven and a new earth where there will be no
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thorns and thistles and curses and obstacles and difficulties,
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just total joy serving our Lord and Saviour.
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All right, on the very day that I'm filming this video, we're
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still kind of in harvest. So can I share with you a
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harvesty verse, if you like, a verse that's often preached out
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in harvest. And if you've watched my videos
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before, you know, I love this verse and I share it often.
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If you've got a Bible there still.
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Galatians 6, verse 9. Galatians 6, verse 9.
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Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we
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will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
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I just really, I really love that verse because it does bring
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that kind of imagery of a farmer, doesn't it?
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A farmer who's exhausted, a farmer who's who's just trying,
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just trying to get any kind of crop like you and I can.
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We're just trying to have just a little bit of hope, a little bit
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of something, and yet everything just keeps falling down on us.
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As you know, me and my wife, one of our our favorite pastimes,
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we've been doing this for a long time, is that we watch A Little
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House on the Prairie and we're finally up to the the final
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season. I think it's season 9.
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So we've watched all of them. Sometimes we were watching every
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night, sometimes it went to every week, every two weeks.
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But we're finally on season 9. But I'll tell you something, if
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there's any of the producers watching this, I very much doubt
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it. But I'll tell you something.
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I was very disappointed as we open season 9 because Michael
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Landon, who plays Charles Ingles, it just starts with him
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at the beginning of Laura Ingalls is narrating and she
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says daddy or dad had a really bad harvest.
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He didn't get any crops. So he just decided to move away
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to the city to look for other work and that's it.
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The main character, Charles Ingalls is gone and and we've
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been invested in all this time and they just, you know, they
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just take his character away like that just.
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But obviously back then that was a serious thing, wasn't it?
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Your whole livelihood was on the harvest.
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And if you didn't get a good harvest, it was game over.
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You had to find other work. And that is a theme all all the
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way through Little House on the Prairie that they're constantly,
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you know, one time he had to go and mine for rock or look for
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diamonds or gold because he just wasn't getting the the crop.
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It was going difficult for him. But I believe what the message
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here from Scripture is this, when it goes bad, when it goes
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pear shaped, when the pan boils over, what do we do then?
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Well, there is a temptation and this is what I believe the
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Scripture's warning against. There's a temptation isn't there
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to give up to just, you know, to to go and do our own thing to,
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to maybe go back into our old ways and find some kind of
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comfort there. And you might be thinking of I'm
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trying this Christianity. I'm new to this and I'm trying
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it, but I've just got this temptation that I want to go
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back. Well, the Bible would say, don't
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give up. You remember Peter, I shared
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this a few weeks ago on a video. You remember Peter, he was, you
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know, looking for comfort. He was scared.
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His Lord and Saviour had been taken off, been ambushed by a
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mob. And here he was.
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He's warming himself up on the fire, on a fire in the courtyard
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of the high priest, surrounded by, dare I say, evil people or
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people who had wrong intentions. And here he is.
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He's he's cold. So he comes before this fire and
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he just wants to get some warmth.
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And he gets that temporary warmth.
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And that's the thing. The world's fires, the fires
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that the men and women of this world, they light, whatever that
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might be, whether that is a sin, whether that is an excitement,
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whether that is a temporary relief, They do give us a
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temporary warmth. We, we can't hide from that.
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The Bible doesn't pretend that there is a pleasure in sin for a
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season. But as Peter found out, and as
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you will find out, it always, always, always leads to regret.
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So friends don't. Don't warm yourself up on these
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fires, don't look for this temporary relief, and don't give
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up. Stay with Christ, stand and be
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counted. Soldier on.
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As my mentor always says to me, keep soldiering on, Joe, even
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when it's tough. Keep going.
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Walk on the narrow way because it's narrow for a reason, but at
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the end you'll be rewarded greatly.
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Now just glance back at the verse again because you'll
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notice those words it says for in due time.
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Well, that leads us to another Bible verse, Ecclesiastes 3
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verse one. If you've just got your Bible
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there, please do turn to that Ecclesiastes 3 verse one.
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Bible says there is a time for everything.
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A season for every activity under the heavens.
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And then just look at verse 5 with me.
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A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them.
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A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.
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A time to search and a time to give up.
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A time to keep and a time to throw away.
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A time to tear and a time to mend.
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A time to be silent and a time to speak.
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A time to love and a time to hate.
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A time for war and a time for peace.
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Now, why did I share that with you?
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Because I'm it's very likely if you're watching this video now
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and you're still with me right now, you are in a season of
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difficulty and you're thinking, when will this end?
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Well, I do believe it will have an end.
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Can't say for sure. The Lord might return you, I
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don't know. But very often, as the scripture
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says, there is a time, isn't there?
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There's a time to to collect stones, to bring them together
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and a time to scatter them. There's a time to to tear and a
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time to mend. There's a time for all things
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under the sun and we've seen that.
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And that's been kind of what's been difficult in our life is
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we've had some really blessed years, 2022-2023, and I didn't
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realise it at the time. You take it for granted, but
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really blessed years and then the last few years have been
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difficult and yet the scripture says that that we can't always
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be on the mountain top forever. We can't always be riding high
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forever. We will have to go into those
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valleys, but often we can come back out and all of us if we're
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trusting in Christ the the reason I can say for certain it
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will end for all of us is this isn't our home.
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Our home is in heaven and one day it will all be finished
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where there is total peace and total joy.
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And that's why I think God allows these things to hit us,
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if you like to, to take a hold of us, because he wants to teach
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us not to get too comfortable, not to get too cushy, not to lie
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back and relax in this world, but to remember He is building
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that new heaven and new Kingdom. And that will be our home.
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That is what we fix our eyes on. Not on these earthly things
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where moth and rusk can corrupt them, but fix our eyes on the
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eternal things. But the final part of Galatians
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6 verse 9 that I want to share with you.
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And I'll be honest, when I read the comments from you guys, when
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I hear how you're struggling it, it upsets me.
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I truly do. I think you know this by now.
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I truly do love you guys so much.
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All of you turn up, all of you get your coffees and have your
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tea with me and, and when I meet you in person, I really do.
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I just, I love you guys so much. I hate how some of you are going
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through massive trials. So I want to try and encourage
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you of this. And here's here's the part I
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want to encourage you with. So here we've got this lesson.
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We've got this natural law of sowing and reaping.
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You all know you put a seed in the ground and it doesn't come
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back the next day with a beautiful big tree and an
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orchard. It takes time, doesn't it?
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You put it in, the seed has to die, you have to water it and it
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takes a while. And so here's the lesson for you
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and I, you and I, We need to just keep being faithful.
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We need to keep watering our soul with the Word of God.
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We need to keep feeding ourselves on the Word of God.
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We need to stay close to the Lord God in prayer.
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We need to be faithful. We need to be obedient to Him.
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Now, as you know, I often preach that heaven is a is a gift, not
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a reward. I got that from my friend Roger
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Carswell, who's another evangelist.
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But it's true, isn't it? We don't earn our way into
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heaven. It's a total gift.
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It's all on Christ's merit, not our own.
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But the same time, once we are saved, we want to obey our God
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and, and Jesus himself said, if you love me, keep my commands.
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So be faithful to him and be steadfast.
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Now you know, you know what the word steadfast means probably,
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don't you? It's for something to be
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steadfast, there has to be a, a pressure on it.
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There has to be a wait for, for it to be held together.
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And that's what it can feel like as Christians, it feels like
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we're, we've got this, this, this pressure, maybe the
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pressure of sin that keeps returning, that the pressure of
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life's troubles, the, the pressure of, of failure, the
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pressure of, of all these things of living as a Christian.
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And it feels like I can't hold it up.
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And yet then we need to remember beneath are the everlasting arms
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of the Lord God. Just like Moses, when he, when
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he couldn't hold his arms up anymore, he was told to hold his
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arms up and the battle would be won.
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What happens? I believe now don't quote me on
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this, but I believe it was Aaron and Miriam who held his arms up.
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But the point is this, someone held his arms up so he could
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hold them up. What is that a picture of?
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It's a picture of the Lord God holding us up when we can't
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stand anymore, He holds us up. He's there.
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He's always there. Just like that poem Footprints.
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I looked and I saw two sets of footprints and I don't
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understand where did this this, Where did the footprints
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disappear from? They were there at one point and
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now they've gone. Well, when you only saw one
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footprints in the sand, Jesus said that was the point when I
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carried you. Let me share a hymn that I used
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to love singing when I was a little child.
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I didn't understand the words, but I do understand them now and
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I think it's beautiful goes like this.
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We have an anchor that keeps the soul steadfast and sure, while
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the billows roll fastened to the rock that shall not move,
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grounded, firm and deep in the Saviours love.
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So what am I saying? Cling to that anchor, cling to
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the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ said if you abide
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in me, you will bear fruit and the fruits, the the blessing,
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the the reward. That's not what we need to
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concentrate on. That will come, but we have to
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1st abide in Him, abide in Christ, get near to Christ, stay
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close to Him. And then all these blessings,
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nearness to God, revelations in the Scripture, a peace in your
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heart, that joy, all of that, it will come.
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If we stay close to Christ, if we abide in Him, then the fruit
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will come. And something I always love to
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share with people who are struggling is this.
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Remember, even in the darkest of nights, mourning always comes.
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And some of you, you're in a dark point in your life.
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The night is black. You cannot see any hope.
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You can't see any hope at all. But I want to remind you that
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morning is on its way. Daylight is coming.
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There is light at the end of the at the end of the tunnel and
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he's near to you, so just call on his name.
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Guys, I've really, really enjoyed this.
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It's been maybe a little bit more difficult to think about,
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but do please share your prayer requests in the comments
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section. Let's pray for one another.
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Let's try and build one another up.
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very grateful for you guys. If you've still got plenty of
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