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"It is Well" | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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Please meet me in the book of 2nd kings in the Old Testament
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and chapter 4. Today, I want to just take the
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time to briefly speak to you about a profound statement that
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is found in the scriptures made by an unnamed woman.
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That has incredible. Meaning for believers today.
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And in fact, it is an affirmation that innumerable
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Christians have made. And I've declared in song over
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decades but more than this statement being found in a well
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known him. What we are about to discover
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and skim over is in fact, a statement that has the
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expression of the security that every single one who has put
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their faith in Christ has because of his Mercy And because
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he is a good god. And the story where this
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precious declaration is found as found in Second Kings.
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But before we go to the particular verse, I want you to
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understand the background of the story, there is a man named
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Elijah. He was a prophet.
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He was a servant of God and Elijah was a traveling Minister.
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He would do what he had to do throughout Israel and he would
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pass by many towns and cities. And there was a particular place
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that he would he would travel by called shun.
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Mm. And there was a woman there, we
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don't have her name. All we are told is that she was
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a wealthy woman and she was obviously, Woman who had great
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generosity in her heart. She was a woman, had the gift of
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hospitality. So, she would see this man of
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God, walked by her home from time to time.
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And so it was impressed on her heart to, at least invite him in
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for a warm meal, a lunch or a dinner so that he can be fed and
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fueled as you serve the Lord. And what began as just a
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thoughtful lunch, grew into this desire for her to actually build
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a room for him in her house. So that this man could come and
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lodge and relax and just be replenished and refreshed again
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as he served the Lord. And so Elijah, here is
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experiencing this great Love From This Woman.
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This care, this attention, and it Dawns on him.
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I long to do something in return for this motherly st.
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And as he's there, he calls his assistant to call for her and
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there he is. Relaxing in that room and as
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he's relaxing that room, she comes for it.
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And he says, something of the sort of what can I do for you.
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You've done so much for me. So how can I return?
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What you have given to me? And because of her humility and
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because of her, her great sense of service to the Lord.
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She does not demand anything. She doesn't ask for anything.
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She doesn't request a thing. She just longs to serve without
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any interest in mind. And so, she stays quiet, but
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Elijah would not let her go empty-handed.
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And so, he looks at his servant, gehazi has Ghazi.
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What can we do for this woman? And gehazi made the observation?
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Well, she's childless. And her husband is old.
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Maybe it, maybe a son would be nice.
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So Elijah makes a prophetic declaration by this time in
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Spring. Next spring, you will hold a
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baby in your arms and her reaction is so great because
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it's almost as though, she can't believe what she's hearing.
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It's too good to be true. But sure enough, this man of God
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who spoke on behalf of God, made it happen and this barren woman.
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Now, not only has a son by has a legacy to continue.
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For a husband and his name and with that, understanding we come
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now to verse 18. And I'm sure I'm sure we can dig
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so much deeper than this. But with the time that we have
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left, let's just explore at least a few things.
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In verse 18 here of chapter 4, when the child had grown, he
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went out one day to his father among the Reapers and he said to
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his father, oh my head, my head, the father said to his servant,
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carry him to his mother. And we had lifted him and Autumn
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to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon and then he
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died. Right there in her arms, he gave
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his final breath, as she held that Miracle child for the final
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time. and we look at this, and we think, How did this happen?
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Some time has passed, obviously, since this child has been given
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because he was clearly old enough to walk with his dad into
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the fields and he was of age to express himself and communicate.
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But he was still young enough for somebody to carry him in
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their arms and bring him to his mother.
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We do not know the precise age but regardless, it's a tragedy
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to say the least for you. And I to hear of any child to
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pass on from this life as such a youth.
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And as such a young plant, not fully grown is.
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Gut-wrenching. It's almost difficult to imagine
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the pain and the distress and the bitterness that a parent
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would feel to see their own child slip away from life right
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before them. The same woman who was visited
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by Supernatural intervention was also visited by a tragedy.
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A calamity. It's worth noting when this
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happened notice in verse 18. When the child had grown, he
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went out one day to his father among the Reapers that is all
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that we need to know to get an idea of when this happened and
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how it applies to us for there. To be Reapers means that this
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unexpected disaster happened during the Harvest Time for the
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nation of Israel. And what that means exactly is
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first, it was a very busy time. This is when the men and the
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woman would bring themselves to much work in order to gather in
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all that they have showed and all that, they have watered and
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planted and protected and watched over four months.
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Harvest season was not Lex less taxing than sowing season it
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demanded so much energy to expel, to ensure nothing was
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missed, and nothing would go to waste.
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So this is a very tight time in terms of scheduling, the terms
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of planning, and in terms of efforts.
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But secondly, it was a joyous time.
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Whenever there is a harvest, it is often in the scriptures
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associated with great joy, both spiritually and obviously
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physically, this is when all the hard work paid off this is when
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Try. This is where profit was made.
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And so during the Harvest time for these ancient people, it was
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not just something personal. It was a communal thing.
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People would come over. There would be Feast, there
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would be celebration. There would be a sharing among
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one another. And it was in fact more than
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that. It was a it was a special time
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of worship where faithful Israelites would take the first
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fruits of their crops and they would come by faith into the
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presence of God and say, this belongs to you.
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You are The Giver of all things, you are the grower of all
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things. This is yours.
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The first we will not reserve it.
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We will say by faith, all comes from you and all comes back to
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you. What does that mean in light of
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this? It means this though there is
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never a favorable time for Calamity to visit.
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It seems especially inconvenient for this tragedy and this
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Misfortune to occur. During the Harvest.
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Be reminded through this story that trials, tend to interrupt
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our schedules. And oftentimes appear when they
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are least expected. They catch us by surprise and
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they don't wait for things to settle down before they seek to
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test. You and me trials, don't knock
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on the door of your life and say can I come in?
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And it's very rare where you and I are mentally prepared for, for
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a Calamity or even open to it. You know, I think this is a good
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time for a disaster to come in. And to ruffle my life, they
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arrived without warning, they barge in unannounced.
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And if we are not strengthened by consistent devotion and
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discipline in the Lord, then those the most tribulations can
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knock the wind out of you and cause your faith to be shaken
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for the worse. That is not what you see with
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this woman. It is not what you see with this
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woman as she caressed. This child and his final breath
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was was breathe out. We read here that once she lies
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him in a bed, the same bed that Elijah light.
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In, as a guest verse 21, she went up and laid him on the bed
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of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out and
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she called her husband and said, send me one of the servants.
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And one of the donkeys that I make quickly go to the man of
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God and come back again. And he said, why, why will you
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go to him today? It is neither new moon, or a
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Sabbath. She said all is well.
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All is. Well, that's the statement.
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That's the affirmation, that's the Declaration.
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She said, with total confidence would total composure.
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All is well. And then she goes on her way to
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find this man of God. The man of God, that promise,
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this child, that had special authority.
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To even give that that wonderful gift to her by the power of God,
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and she seeks him. And as she seeks him, Elijah,
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Caesar at a distance. So he sends gehazi again, run to
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her. And as you run to her, do not
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hesitate to ask is all well with you is all well, with your
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husband is all well, with the child.
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And what is her response as we come down here to verse 26. and
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she answered at the end of the verse, all is well, All is well.
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How can that be? How can you even utter such
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words when your only child the future of your, your husband's
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name, the one who introduced a joy that you've never known
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before and was suddenly snatched from you within a few hours?
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How can you even say With a straight face.
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All is well. Well, it's important to
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understand what that really means and I think it's good to
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see that for this woman to declare.
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All is well does not mean that she was insensitive to the
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severity of the situation. Nor does it mean that she was
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disconnected with the turmoil that she experienced as a human
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being look at verse 27 and when she came to the mountain to the
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man of God, she caught hold of his feet and gehazi came to push
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her away, but the man of God said, leave her alone. 14.
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She is in bitter distress. And the Lord has hidden it from
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me and has not told me. Do you see there is a genuine
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deep pain and none of us can blame her for it.
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But to have a faith that says, all is well, does not mean that
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you will not know an ache to your soul, doesn't mean that you
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won't cry, doesn't mean that you won't be broken.
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In the presence of God heard. This stress does not discredit
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the fact that she really meant it when she said all is well.
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Because it's a statement of faith.
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It's a statement coming from a truth that she was convinced by
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regardless of the turmoil. That was torturing her at this
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moment. You read earlier in this chapter
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that this woman is referred to as a wealthy woman.
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And it's so obvious that she used her prosperity and she used
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her property to bless the work of God and the Servants of God,
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including Elijah. But I don't see a wealthy woman
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just in the physical. I see a wealthy woman and Faith,
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rich. Rich in faith.
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And what's important to see here is that the richness of
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someone's Faith, the quality of faith that really matters is
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always discovered in affliction. It's always found in pressing X.
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Common Faith. Easy faith.
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Unbelieving faith. Can say all is well, when all is
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well. But you can be sure that someone
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possesses a trust in God. That is worth something when
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they can say all is, well, while they're smelling a little bit of
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Hell in their life. When you can say, all is well,
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and to a world that doesn't understand who you believe in.
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They would think that that's a contradiction to your
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circumstances. But she said it and she wasn't
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giving lip service. She wasn't trying to impress,
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her husband by being a spiritual woman that that quote certain
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things to seem as though, you are superior.
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She's not trying to impress this minister of God.
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She really means what she's saying.
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And all you have to do is take the time to realize her
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composure throughout this life, shaking event to see the
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strength that she has. By giving instructions, she
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didn't collapse, she didn't fall apart.
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She didn't raise her fist to the heavens.
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She's even in her humility submitting to the orchestration
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of all that is taking place because she really, really
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trusted in God and could say all is well she proved it and all I
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would love to say much more than this at this time.
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But all I want to say to you at this point is take this truth
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for yourself and leave this place today.
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By knowing because of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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You can say, at all times in all things, all is well.
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Again, you can say all is well, because no matter what happens
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in this flesh and in this world, your soul has been secured by
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the savior's blood and you're headed towards eternal life.
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You can say all is well, because the same God who times our
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blessings like he did for this woman also schedules are trials.
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And the duration of them. You can sing it is well as we
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will after this. Because we do not serve a God
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who plays sadistic games with our lives.
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But in all his giving and all his taking away, he has a
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glorious purpose to do a work in us that would sanctify us
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cleanse us mold us and purify us.
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In a way that would bring much glory to him and Gooden us.
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And you may be wondering, well, what's the purpose of this?
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Why would God grant this woman? A miracle child only to only to
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take him away and for her to experience a grief that she
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could have just avoided if he didn't give the child to begin
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with. What is this?
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Here's a child. Now I'm not let me take his
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life. This would be an example for the
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great skeptic or the hater of God to say, what kind of God is
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this? Is it merely to test her faith?
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Was it to produce in her even more Sanctified character?
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Those she seems so Godly to begin with.
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Was it so that she and others can bear witness to a greater
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power of God? Who not can just give life, but
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can raise the dead to life. I'm sure it includes all of
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those things. But there are purposes.
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Even in pain that God veils from our eyes, but at the same time,
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gives us examples in the scripture so that we can draw
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encouragement from as we endure things that are weighty and
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profound. And this is one of those stories
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where we get a just a little idea of the wisdom of God, as he
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becomes Lord of our lives and guides us even through
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suffering. because this is not the last time you hear of this
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woman, she's reintroduced to us in chapter 8 and verse one and I
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would like you to turn their briefly to see Second Kings 81.
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We read. Now, Elijah had said to the
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woman who son he had restored to life arise and depart with your
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household and sojourn wherever you can for the Lord has called
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for a famine and will come upon the land for seven years.
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So here's this woman. With her, with her child,
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raising the dead, and Elijah comes with with an Insight from
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the Lord, there's a famine that's going to hit our land.
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And it's going to last several years, you need to go wherever
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you need to go. She goes to the land of the
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Philistines, several years passed by, she comes back home.
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She abandoned her home, her land and remember she was a wealthy
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woman, she had much and something obviously happened
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during that time because she plans to go to the king of
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Israel, to appeal, for her land, for her property for her home.
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And as she is prepared to do that.
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We read later on in this chapter in The Following verses, that
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gehazi is actually in the presence of the king, the same
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servant who witnessed that child that wants was dead.
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Come to life and the king of Israel is there stroking.
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His beard curious, knowing that gehazi was a close associate to
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the prophet and asked tell me some of the things that Elijah
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has done. So gehazi without hesitation
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being an eyewitness begins to share about the story of how a
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woman, a rich woman son was given miraculously but also died
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and was raised to life. And in that precise moment, as
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he's explaining this, the woman, the mother of this child walks
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in And he looks at her while he's explaining it to him and he
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says that's the one. She's the mother.
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She's the one that actually had her child raised from the dead.
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And has the king, react. How does the king react?
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Well, verse 6 tells us? And when the king asked the
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woman, if the story was true, she told him.
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So the king appointed, an official for her saying, restore
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all, that was hers together with all the produce of the fields
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from the day that she left the land.
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Until now you have to understand that this woman, very likely was
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prepared for a difficult challenge through receive all
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that she had lost during those seven years.
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And I believe for the main reason that this king, the king
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of Israel during this time was not a righteous King.
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He was not a holy man, he was not a God-fearing man.
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I believe when he asked what Elijah done in the name of God,
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it was just out of curiosity. But God is going to show in this
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moment that because this woman was walking in obedience to him,
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he would and Providence, prepare her.
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So that what she had known would be preserved and what she had
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known would be protected. And so at the right time, The
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unbelieving would say this is luck.
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This is coincidence. This just happens for the
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universe to fall things into place, but the believer knows, I
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know, my God and I know that this is Providence, this is God,
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orchestrating and moving the people and the pieces to be in
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the right place at the right time for the sake of the good of
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one of his servants. And that's exactly what it is.
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This is not coincidence. But this teaches us much more
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than that, that as you choose to live under the lordship of Jesus
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Christ, he promises he promises his shepherding over your life,
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realize What's Happening Here? You read from verse 1 of chapter
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8, down to verse 6. And you'll see how many times
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the fact that this boy, This Woman's child was raised from
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the dead and it's calling us to make a connection.
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And here's the connection. Who would have known that
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several years before this moment?
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How the testimony of This Woman's child dying and being
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raised would contribute to her future being secure and kept for
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her and her family? in other words, it would be very
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difficult to believe that this woman from should mm when she
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was visited by this crisis. Thought to herself all is well
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because seven years from now, a king is going to hear the story
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of this miracle and it's going to so move his heart that he's
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going to actually Crown me with favor when I probably wouldn't
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receive it. There's no way she knew that
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because she's not omniscient, there's no way she knew that but
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there is Reason to believe that God knew that.
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That God knew that that if you want to see the multi-faceted
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purpose of God. Yes, he was doing a work in her.
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He was doing a work to glorify his name but this God Who Loved
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this servant because she loved him and served him for saw.
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There is going to be a famine in this land and my servant has
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much and she's going to have to relocate and she's going to have
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to come back and she's going to have to make an appeal to a King
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who's not righteous. And so I will prepare a The
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money that will be presented to this King and his heart will be
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moved and he will dispense Mercy to her.
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God knew. God knew how that miracle
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though. It didn't make sense in the
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moment and didn't seem to provide any benefit for that
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time would bring about a good many years from then. so that's
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why you and I can say all is well because we serve the same
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God that when we cannot reconcile, how this pain has a
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purpose, God has already had something determined before even
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came about That we can rest in that truth, that we can trust in
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that truth that we can as James says, now, only be stable.
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And steadfast and on shaken. But what is James say, count it
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all joy. Huh.
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Count it all joy. It's not just neutral.
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You can actually have reason to praise God.
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For the various sufferings that you may be enduring because
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there is a purpose behind that and this woman would know it for
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chapters later from when she experienced that inconvenient
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that inconvenient tragedy. Now many students of the Bible
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as I closed a now. Make the inspirational
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association between all is well with the woman from shown mm.
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But in my personal reading of this book in Second Kings, I've
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come to realize that she was not the only one that said all is
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well. Somebody use that same
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terminology something to use that same phraseology.
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But had a whole different circumstance.
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Ghazi gehazi in chapter five after he served Elijah for some
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time witnessed another miracle, and that was a man covered in
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leprosy from Syria. He was miraculously healed.
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And this man Naman came to Elijah and says, I'll give you
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whatever you want, you want gold, you want clothing and
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Elijah refused. He would not take payment from
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this Foreigner, less. You come under the idea that
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these Servants of the true God do things for God for profit and
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I should was a very wise man. But name rather gehazi saw name
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and walk away. And there was there was a
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disturbance in him to think we're going to just let this
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Rich this rich man walk away. This this man of profit and of
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prestige just leave when we can have more and so he conjures up
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a plan, he conjures up a plan to run towards naming without
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Elijah's knowledge. And what does he want to do?
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He wants to receive something for himself and so in chapter 5
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and verse 21, look what happens. So gehazi followed Amen.
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And when name and saw someone running after him, he got down
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from The Chariot to meet him and said is all well.
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Sound familiar. Is all well gehazi verse 22 and
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he said all is well. All is well.
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My master has sent me to say, they're just come now to me from
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the Hill Country of Ephraim two, young men of the sons of the
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prophets, please give him a talent of silver and two changes
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of clothing. Gehazi.
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Is everything? Okay?
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It is well. Same wording.
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Confident. Couldn't be more wrong.
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There are people today in this place.
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Who can say all is well, because Jesus Christ saved you and he's
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Lord of your life. And you have this assurance.
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As you heard from these testimonies that you have a
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relationship with the Living, God that he made possible
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because of what he's done on the cross, you can say all is well
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you can worship Him in tragedy and Triumph and it's very likely
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today that in this room, there are some people who are visiting
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that Jesus Christ is he's an idea.
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He's just another historical figure.
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You're just here. Soaring support to a friend or
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relative and you can say like a hazy.
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All is well your life is good, you're healthy.
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You're healthy, you have a good job, you have a stable home,
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your future is planned, and you're good.
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And so if somebody were to come to you and say how's life, you
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can say all is well. And it is my duty to say to you
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in love. How can all be well?
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When your soul is not saved. How can all be?
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Well, when like gehazi your soul is riddled with greed.
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And the cancer of lust is eating away at you day after day night
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after night, how can all be well?
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When you know, in the deepest corridors of your conscience
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that if you were to stand before a holy God, you would not have
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eternal life. And even if you were to offer
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him some good, it would be like, filthy rags in his side because
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he is just so brilliant, and holy and pure.
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How can you say all is well, how can gehazi say all is?
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Well, when he is in this moment, lying and coveting.
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And misrepresenting the God that he said he would serve at one
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point. if you say all is well, And Jesus Christ is not your
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lord and savior, then you were just as mistaken as gehazi was.
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All is not well. Because the author of life is
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not the Lord of your life. And your sins will give you a
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bill one day and you will have to pay for them for yourself.
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All might be well on the surface for the mere 60, 70, 80 years of
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your missed of an existence on this planet.
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But there is another world more real than this one.
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And it is eternal. And so, I invite you to sit all
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is well on a different premise on a different foundation and
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that is because Christ has entered in and he is washed you
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from your sin and he is filled you with his spirit and he is
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allowed you to know the joy of fellowship with him fellowship
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with the people of God, and a future fellowship with his
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presence that can never be taken from you because he is a savior
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that completes his saving work in you.
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And so if you're here today and you heard testimonies and you
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heard a brief message, I believe that this is God and His
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Providence just like this woman who came in at the right time in
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the right place to receive good for her future.
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This is God, bringing you at the right time at the right, place
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to hear the right words for you to know Salvation And it's free.
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And it's extended to you today as we heard from one of our
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sisters. Not because you're perfect, not
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because you impress God, nothing of the sort.
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But because you are a sinner, and because you are broken and
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because, you know, that you have violated God's law, you come, as
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you are to him, you come in your filth, you come in all your
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failed attempts to try to even impress, God, you come to me.
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Even though prior to this moment, you've ignored God and
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you've shunned him. You've probably even Walked him
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with all of that into consideration Christ, still bids
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you to come and he's ready to forgive you.
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This instant he's ready to change you and to transform you
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to make you his child, and the way in which that is experienced
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the access to that is laid out in the Bible, repent and
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believe. Realize what your sin has done
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to Christ on the cross, realize the great depth of the painting
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that was made something that we laugh about and we joke about
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something that might prick, our conscious from time to time it,
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put the sinless Savior on a cross.
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And he did it for you. And he did it for you.
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You turn from that sin and you put your faith and trust in the
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finished work of Jesus Christ. As you heard so many times
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today, I mean, you got an extraordinary service.
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You didn't just hear a preacher come up here with his Bible to
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preach you though. That is sufficient.
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The word of God is sufficient. The testimony of the Gospel is
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sufficient but on top of that you got real life stories of
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people saying, Christ changed me.
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How much more do you need? What is it that you require for
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him to get your attention? Know that he is with total
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confidence. He is in this moment.
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Calling you to be safe today and you can walk out of here, not
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just meeting nice people. Not just seeing somebody, do
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something with good moral conviction.
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Today, a friend or a family member.
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You can leave your today with the assurance that you are his
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And that you have the same hope that was declared by so many
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today. I invite you today, you don't
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have to go through a preacher, you don't have to go through any
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Booth. You don't have to sit in any
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session. We believe in a risen Christ.
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Who in this moment is more real than anybody else.
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And you can speak to him in your Contrition, in your Brokenness
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and confess that sin, and at the same time confessed that Christ
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did died. He was buried, he was raised and
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that he is the savior of the world including you.
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Why would you, why would you reserve yourself from such a
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gift? Why would you hold back?
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What do you have? What do you have?
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That is greater than this news. What do you have?
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That is greater than this life Christ that I've come to they
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might have life and have it more abundantly.
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Somebody asked me two days ago. Curious is making Jesus Christ,
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Lord. Something that only affects
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where I spend eternity or does it does as I do something for me
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now. What a question.
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I said, oh, he does so much more than you can imagine.
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He breaks the shackles of sin, he infuses you with a piece.
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There is something of a joy of knowing that you are in right
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standing with him. And then on top of that, he
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gives you a purpose on this planet broken shattered.
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Dark depraved to be a light among many lights to make an
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impact on other people for his glory.
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Why would you say no to that? Say yes.
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Today he is awaiting for you to give him your heart.
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Let's pray. Well, we thank you for this
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wonderful time together in your presence.
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And we ask Lord that as we sing, it Is Well with My Soul.
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That we can. All really mean what we say,
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Thank you that in that. In that statement, we can say it
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at all times. In all things.
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And we pray for those who cannot say it confidently, you cannot
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say it beyond the moment beyond the day-to-day, but even for
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eternal life, that today would be the day where they can say it
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with a total trust and joy and assurance that it is really well
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with them. So, Lord, we've done.
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What we can the testimonies have been declared.
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The word has been has been preached but Lord, only your
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Holy Spirit can change the human heart, please Lord.
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Have your way with those that you've called to be in this
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place for this purpose to hear of your love for them and lure.
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We glorify you for all these testimonies we pray for every
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person that was baptized that you would Empower them to be
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Faithful Servants. That Lord, they would continue
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on in a life of obedience that they would glorify you beyond
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the time that they did today, then you would protect their
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families that you protect their children, their spouses or God.
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And if they don't know you that what happened today, might
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affect Their hearts to realize that this is real.
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Crisis real be blessed. As we close this service,
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singing Because of You, it is well, in Jesus name, amen.