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The Peace We All Need- Minister Max Lucado Daily Sermons · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: The day is soon coming when you will live a
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  Speaker 1: life that is marked by more peace and less panic,
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  Speaker 1: marked by tranquility and less trouble. Anxiety does come with life,
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  Speaker 1: but it just doesn't have to run our lives. God
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  Speaker 1: has a prescription for anxiety, and it's found in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Philippians, and we're working our way through it,
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  Speaker 1: phrase by phrase. As the words appear on the screen,
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  Speaker 1: I invite you to say the verse aloud, Say it
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  Speaker 1: like you mean it, Sit up straight, fill your lungs
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  Speaker 1: with air and your hearts with hope. Here it is
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  Speaker 1: Philippians chapter four. Rejoice in the Lord always Again, I
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  Speaker 1: will say, rejoice.
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  Speaker 2: Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord
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  Speaker 2: is at hand.
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  Speaker 1: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication,
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  Speaker 1: with thanksgiving, requests be made known to God. And the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your
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  Speaker 1: hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, Brethren, whatever things
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  Speaker 1: are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just,
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  Speaker 1: whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things
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  Speaker 1: are of good report, if there is any virtue, and
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  Speaker 1: if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. Grant o,
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  Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, a fresh understanding of these words. Forgive our
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  Speaker 1: speaker his sins are many. Help us to see Christ,
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  Speaker 1: just Christ, and through Christ we pray Amen. When mariners
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  Speaker 1: describe a tempest that no one can escape, they call
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  Speaker 1: it a perfect storm. Not perfect in the sense of ideal,
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  Speaker 1: but perfect in the sense of combining factors. Everything seems
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  Speaker 1: to work together to create the insurmountable tempest. Hurricane force
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  Speaker 1: winds plus a drop in temperature plus a downpour of rain.
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  Speaker 1: Each element alone would be a challenge, but the winds
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  Speaker 1: plus the cold plus the rain the perfect recipe for disaster.
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  Speaker 1: But you know you don't have to be a fisherman
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  Speaker 1: to experience a perfect storm.
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  Speaker 2: All you need is a layoff plus a.
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  Speaker 1: Recession or a disease, plus a job transfer or a
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend breakup plus a college rejection. We can handle one thing,
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  Speaker 1: but then one thing takes on two, and then when
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  Speaker 1: two things become three, one wave after another, gale forces
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  Speaker 1: followed by thunderstorms. It's enough to make you wonder, will
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  Speaker 1: I make it through this storm? Paul's answer to that
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  Speaker 1: question is is profound and concise. He says, the peace
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  Speaker 1: of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts
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  Speaker 1: and minds through Christ Jesus. As we do our part,
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  Speaker 1: as we rejoice in the Lord, Yes, rejoice in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We pause to celebrate what God has done. As we
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  Speaker 1: then pursue the tranquil mind, let your gentleness be made
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  Speaker 1: evident to all. And then as we get active and
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  Speaker 1: ask the Lord for specific help and stand on specific problems,
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  Speaker 1: then we can do this. We can leave our situation
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  Speaker 1: with God, and He in exchange for our prayers, grants
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  Speaker 1: to us a peace, a tranquility that is beyond our
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  Speaker 1: capacity to understand or explain it. It's a supernaw natural peace,
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  Speaker 1: and it really does transcend all logic. It transcends all
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  Speaker 1: efforts to explain it. It's a divine calm within a storm.
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  Speaker 1: You've experienced it those days in which you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: I should be worried, but I'm not, or I should
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  Speaker 1: be grief stricken, but I'm okay. I should be upset,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel comforted. This is a peace that becomes
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  Speaker 1: a garrison. It guards our hearts and minds, It wraps
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  Speaker 1: itself around us. Now in the Hebrew understanding, the center
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  Speaker 1: of one's being is.
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  Speaker 2: The heart the heart.
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  Speaker 1: All actions flow out of this core, and the mind
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  Speaker 1: is the ground control for all thoughts, those impulses that
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  Speaker 1: race through our mind that can bring us either anxiety
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  Speaker 1: or peace. This incredible promise is God will take responsibility
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  Speaker 1: for our heart and our mind. As we celebrate Him
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  Speaker 1: and as we pray to him, he ensur like a
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  Speaker 1: mighty fortress. He protects us from the attacks of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: This verse from the ancient Hymn comes to mind. A
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  Speaker 1: mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark, never failing, our helper,
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  Speaker 1: he amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. Martin Luther
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  Speaker 1: wrote those words long after the Apostle Paul had gone
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  Speaker 1: on to heaven. But had the Apostle Paul heard those words,
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  Speaker 1: he would have sung them with a hearty conviction, because
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  Speaker 1: he knew firsthand the promise of God's protection. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he had just experienced it in the last major event
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  Speaker 1: of his life. The twenty seventh chapter of Acts documents
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  Speaker 1: one of the great storm narratives in the Bible, and
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  Speaker 1: this is a storm narrative that tells us what happened
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  Speaker 1: to the Apostle Paul on his way to the Roman imprisonment. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the very Roman imprisonment. When he was in the prison
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  Speaker 1: and wrote the Epistle to the Philippians, when he said
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  Speaker 1: be anxious for nothing, he had just come through a storm. Consequently,
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  Speaker 1: he could speak from experience. He was well acquainted with storms.
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  Speaker 1: Let's begin by looking at Paul's perfect storm. Again, we're
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  Speaker 1: right to consider the context of the Philippian jail when
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  Speaker 1: we study the Philippian letter, but we are also right
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  Speaker 1: to realize that the Apostle Paul was just weeks removed
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  Speaker 1: from experiencing a storm on the Mediterranean Sea that could
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  Speaker 1: very well have taken his life were it not for
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  Speaker 1: the protection of Almighty God. It was the final voyage
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  Speaker 1: of Paul's life, and Paul was placed on a ship
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  Speaker 1: in Cesarea that was destined for Italy. Luke was traveling
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  Speaker 1: with him. Aristarchus, a Christian brother from Thessalonika, was traveling
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  Speaker 1: with him. Some of the prisoners on the ship were
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  Speaker 1: presumably condemned men who were bound for the Roman Arena.
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  Speaker 1: The ship began and enjoyed smooth sailing until they reached Seidon.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they changed ships and they were loaded onto
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  Speaker 1: this Egyptian grain ship about one hundred and thirty feet
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  Speaker 1: long and thirty six feet wide. It was a sturdy vessel,
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  Speaker 1: but it was engineered in such a way that it
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  Speaker 1: could not sail into the wind. They reached nearby Sinaidas
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  Speaker 1: with great difficulty, the scripture says, and from there they
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  Speaker 1: sailed south under the shelter of crete until they reached
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  Speaker 1: fair Havens, about halfway along the island. Now fair Havens
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  Speaker 1: was not fair on the ice. It received this name
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  Speaker 1: from their Chamber of Commerce. I guess in hopes of
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  Speaker 1: attracting more business. The sailors did not want to stay
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  Speaker 1: in fair Havens. They knew, however, they couldn't reach Rome
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  Speaker 1: before winter, but they preferred to reach the port of Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: and when a south wind began to blow, they decided
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  Speaker 1: to take their chances. The apostle Paul tried to convince
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  Speaker 1: them not to go, and they had reason to listen
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  Speaker 1: to him. Paul was a seasoned sea farer. This was
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  Speaker 1: his twelfth Macedonian trip. Incredibly, he had logged over three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred miles at sea, so he knew the danger
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  Speaker 1: of a winter voyage, and he issued a strong caution,
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  Speaker 1: but they dismissed him. He was nothing but a Jewish preacher,
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  Speaker 1: And so they weighed anchor and set sail for better
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  Speaker 1: harbor now Acts twenty seven to fourteen. But not long
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  Speaker 1: after that, a tempestuous wind arose, called euroclyding. What a
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  Speaker 1: great word, euros the east wind, aquillo, the north wind euroaquillos,
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  Speaker 1: or euro clydeen. Some of your translations call this wind
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  Speaker 1: what it was a northeaster. The temperature dropped, the sails whipped,
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  Speaker 1: the waves fraled. The sailors searched for land.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: They searched for the end of the storm, and they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see it.
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  Speaker 2: All they could see was the storm.
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  Speaker 1: The components of the perfect storm were beginning to stack up.
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  Speaker 1: There was a winter sea, a ferocious wind. They were
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  Speaker 1: sailing on a cumbersome boat. The crew was impatient. Individually, individually,
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  Speaker 1: these elements were manageable, but collectively they were formidable.
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  Speaker 2: So the crew did what they could.
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  Speaker 1: They hoisted the lifeboat aboard, They frapped the vessel with cables.
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  Speaker 1: They lowered the sea anchor, They jettisoned cargo. They threw
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  Speaker 1: equipment overboard, but nothing worked. Verse twenty reads like a
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  Speaker 1: death sentence. Now, when neither sun nor stars appeared for
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  Speaker 1: many days, and no small tempests beat on us, all
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  Speaker 1: hope that we would be saved was finally given up.
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  Speaker 1: They had no hope. The perfect storm took its toll.
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  Speaker 1: We'll read later that this storm lasted for fourteen days.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine fourteen minutes would shake me? Fourteen hours
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  Speaker 1: would disturb.
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  Speaker 2: Most of us.
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  Speaker 1: But two weeks of sunless days and starless nights, just
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  Speaker 1: bouncing and raining, two weeks of climbing toward the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and then plunging toward the sea. Or they lost all
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  Speaker 1: appetite for food, they lost hope for life.
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  Speaker 2: They gave up. And when they gave up, the apostle
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  Speaker 2: Paul spoke up. Look at his words.
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  Speaker 1: But after long abstinence from food, then Paul stood in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of them, and he said, men, you should
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  Speaker 1: have listened to me and have not sailed from crete
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  Speaker 1: and incurred this disaster and loss. And now I urge
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  Speaker 1: you to take heart, for there will be no loss
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  Speaker 1: of life among you, but only of the ship. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what a contrast this is. The sailors who are experienced
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  Speaker 1: in the sea are the ones afraid, and Paul who
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  Speaker 1: supposedly has no experience, is the one who gives courage.
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  Speaker 1: What did Paul know that they did not know? Or
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  Speaker 1: better asked, what did Paul all know that you need
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  Speaker 1: to know. Maybe you're bouncing in a northeastern Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: feels like it's just one challenge after another. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: feels like it's been more than fourteen days since you
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  Speaker 1: have seen the sun. Maybe it seems like all of
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  Speaker 1: your life you're just up and down, bouncing from one
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  Speaker 1: wave to the next.
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  Speaker 2: And you've tried everything.
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  Speaker 1: You've called the lawyer, you've gone for counseling, you've checked
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  Speaker 1: into rehab or therapy. Yet the waves still bounce and
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  Speaker 1: the winds still blow. I wonder if the words of
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  Speaker 1: Paul to those storm tossed sailors might be words that
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  Speaker 1: could bring you some hope. Let's look now at Paul's
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  Speaker 1: perfect piece. His perfect peace came, but only after this
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  Speaker 1: there was a rebuke, a rebuke Paul said, men, you
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  Speaker 1: should have listened to me. Inn't that interesting? Right there
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  Speaker 1: in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Of the storm.
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  Speaker 1: Paul gives them a firm rebuke. You should have listened
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  Speaker 1: to me, You should have paid attention.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we don't like to be rebuked.
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  Speaker 1: We don't like to be corrected, well, we don't like
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  Speaker 1: to be chastened. But when we ignore God's warnings, there
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  Speaker 1: are consequences. And when we ignore God's warnings, a rebuke
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  Speaker 1: is in order, and it seems appropriate in this discussion
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  Speaker 1: on anxiety that we do pause and acknowledge sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: bring anxiety on ourselves by our own foolish choices, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe your anxiety. The stress that you're facing is not
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  Speaker 1: due just to a change in events in the world,
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  Speaker 1: but it's due to some decisions that you know you
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  Speaker 1: should not have made. Part of your healing and part
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  Speaker 1: of the restoration of your peace will include the reception
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  Speaker 1: of a rebuke. You just need to hear your heavenly
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  Speaker 1: father say, now, I told you not to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I warned you.
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  Speaker 1: He told you that sex outside of marriage would result
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  Speaker 1: in chaos, but you didn't listen. He told you that
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  Speaker 1: the borrower is a slave to the lender, but you
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  Speaker 1: took on the dangerous debt. He told you to cherish
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  Speaker 1: your spouse and nourish your kids, but you cherished your
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  Speaker 1: career and you nourished your vices. He cautioned you about
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  Speaker 1: the strong drink and the wrong crowd and the long hours.
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  Speaker 1: But you did not listen, and now you are in
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  Speaker 1: a storm of your own making. Well, God's rescue always
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  Speaker 1: involves a rebuke. He rebukes those whom he loves, and
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  Speaker 1: he loves you. So, my friend, stand corrected, receive the rebuke,
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  Speaker 1: Confess your sin, repent, acknowledge you took the wrong path.
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  Speaker 1: Learn from your mistake, learn from your rebellion, learn from
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  Speaker 1: your poor choice. But don't despair. God is quick to
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  Speaker 1: write a new chapter. In fact, I think it's interesting
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  Speaker 1: that while this story contains one rebuke, it then follows
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  Speaker 1: that single rebuke with three promises. Promise number one, you
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  Speaker 1: aren't alone. You aren't alone, Paul said, There stood by
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  Speaker 1: me this night, an angel.
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  Speaker 2: What an image on the.
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  Speaker 1: Deck of a sinking ship and a raging storm in
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  Speaker 1: which no stars could be seen the apostle Paul saw
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  Speaker 1: an angel. An angel came and stood next to him
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  Speaker 1: that sloshy nine. And when the rain was coming down
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  Speaker 1: and the wind was blowing somewhere on that ship, Paul
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  Speaker 1: received an angelic visitor. The angel came to talk to
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  Speaker 1: him and encourage him. Angels still come, They still come
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  Speaker 1: to encourage God's people. Just last week, in the reception
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  Speaker 1: line after one of our services, one of our members
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  Speaker 1: waited a long time in line, and then she stepped
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  Speaker 1: up to me. Her face was awash with tears, and
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  Speaker 1: she had a big smile on her face, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: while you were preaching, I saw your angel. I said
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  Speaker 1: you did, She said, yes, he stood over you, protecting you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you do with stories like that,
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  Speaker 1: but I know what I do. I take great comfort
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  Speaker 1: in them, and I find great biblical support for them.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says all angels are spirits who serve God
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  Speaker 1: and are sent to help those who will receive salvation.
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  Speaker 1: One of the ideas that I love most about our
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  Speaker 1: gatherings as a church is that when you come and
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  Speaker 1: I come, we all come together. Our angels come with us,
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  Speaker 1: and there is created a wonderful angelic place of worship
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  Speaker 1: and yes protection, in which no evil can enter. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that God sends his angels to watch over us.
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  Speaker 1: We do not walk this road alone. Angels walked and protected,
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  Speaker 1: walked with and protected. Shadrack Mishek and Abindigo in the
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  Speaker 1: fiery furnace. And some of you are feeling the heat
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  Speaker 1: right now, But You're not.
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  Speaker 2: In the furnace alone.
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  Speaker 1: A angel was sent to walk Peter out of the
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem jail. And some of you feel in bondage right now,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not alone. The angel will walk you through this.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says that God has put his angels in
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  Speaker 1: charge of you to watch over you wherever you go.
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  Speaker 1: Angels surround you right now. Angels are assigned the task
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  Speaker 1: of watching over you. God's spirit indwells you. A cloud
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  Speaker 1: of heavenly witnesses are pulling for you. You are never alone.
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  Speaker 1: You will survive this storm because the angels are with you.
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  Speaker 1: And you will survive this storm because you belong to God.
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  Speaker 1: You belong to God. This again was the response of
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul.
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  Speaker 2: He said, for there.
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  Speaker 1: Stood by me this night an angel. Look at his
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  Speaker 1: phrase of the God to whom I belong. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when parents send their kids to summer camp, they have
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  Speaker 1: to sign a certain document, and one of the documents
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  Speaker 1: asked the question, who is responsible for this child? If
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  Speaker 1: Johnny breaks an arm or Susie breaks out with measles,
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  Speaker 1: who will be responsible? Well, hopefully mom and dad will
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  Speaker 1: sign the document. God, is your willing to sign?
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  Speaker 2: Yours?
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  Speaker 1: When you gave your life to him, he took responsibility
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  Speaker 1: for you, and he guarantees your safe arrival into his port.
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  Speaker 2: After all, you are his sheep.
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  Speaker 1: After all, he is your shepherd, and Jesus said, I
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  Speaker 1: am the good shepherd.
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  Speaker 2: I know my sheep, and my sheep know me. You
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  Speaker 2: belong to him.
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  Speaker 1: You are a bride, and he is your bridegroom, and
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  Speaker 1: the church is being prepared as a bride adorned for
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  Speaker 1: her husband. You're his child, he's your father. You're no
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  Speaker 1: longer a slave. You're a God's own child. And since
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  Speaker 1: you are God's child, everything he has belongs to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we can say with confidence you'll survive this storm.
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  Speaker 1: You will because you're not alone. You belong to God.
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  Speaker 1: And one more, you are in the Lord's service. You
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  Speaker 1: are in the Lord's service, Paul said, for there stood
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  Speaker 1: by me this night, an angel of the God to
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  Speaker 1: whom I belong and.
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  Speaker 2: Whom I serve.
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  Speaker 1: You see, God had told Paul what Paul was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do, carry the Gospel to Rome. Paul had not
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  Speaker 1: yet arrived in Rome, so he knew God wasn't finished
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  Speaker 1: with him. And since God wasn't finished, Paul knew he
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  Speaker 1: would survive the storm. Now, most of us do not
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  Speaker 1: have such a clear message as the apostle Paul had,
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  Speaker 1: But we do have this assurance. We will not live
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  Speaker 1: one day less than we are supposed to. We will
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  Speaker 1: not live one day less than we are supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: If God has work for you to do, he will
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  Speaker 1: keep you.
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  Speaker 2: Alive to do it.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, all the days planned for me were
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  Speaker 1: written in your book before I was one day old.
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  Speaker 2: No life is too short, and no life is too long.
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  Speaker 1: Every person lives exactly the number of days that God
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  Speaker 1: has already determined. Every person lives exactly the number of
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  Speaker 1: days that God has already determined. He gives us the
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  Speaker 1: number of days that we need to fulfill the mission
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  Speaker 1: that He provides.
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  Speaker 2: You will live your prescribed number of days.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot change the quantity of days that you live.
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  Speaker 1: You can change the quality of those days. But the
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  Speaker 1: number of days has already been determined, So you don't
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  Speaker 1: need to be anxious about that. Now. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: you won't have problems in those days. In fact, Paul
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  Speaker 1: didn't say that either.
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  Speaker 2: Quite the contrary. Look at the next two verses.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, take heart men, for I believe that it will
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  Speaker 1: be just as it was told me. However, we must
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  Speaker 1: run aground on a certain island. He's very honest. He said,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be all right, but we're gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: few problems.
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  Speaker 2: First, we have to wreck this ship.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have great success. You're gonna get through this storm,
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  Speaker 1: but you may have to go through some challenges first.
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  Speaker 1: You may have to lose a job first, run out
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  Speaker 1: of money first, go bankrupt first, very a loved one first.
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  Speaker 1: We all have to die first before we reach the
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  Speaker 1: eternal shore. But here's the promise. In this world. You
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  Speaker 1: will have trouble, but be brave. I have defeated the world.
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  Speaker 1: God has never promised a life with no problems, but
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  Speaker 1: God has promised to be there when we face them.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask Noah Drew.
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  Speaker 1: He's only two years old, but he can tell you
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  Speaker 1: more than most about the protective presence of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: On June ninth, the Drew family, members of Oak Hills,
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  Speaker 1: were making a short drive from their house to their
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood pool with their kids in the back seat. They
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  Speaker 1: were driving so slowly that the automatic door locks did
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  Speaker 1: not engage and Somehow, little Noah opened the door and
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  Speaker 1: he fell out onto the pavement. His mom, Leah, felt
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  Speaker 1: a bump, like she had driven over a speed bump,
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  Speaker 1: and she came to a quick stop. Her husband, Ben
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  Speaker 1: jumped out of the car, where he found Noah on
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  Speaker 1: the pavement. He immediately told his wife he's alive, and
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  Speaker 1: he he set Noah on the passenger's seat.
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  Speaker 2: Noah's legs were covered with blood and he was shaking violently.
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  Speaker 1: Leanna ran over to the passenger's seat and she held
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  Speaker 1: Noah on her lap. As they rushed their baby to
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  Speaker 1: the emergency room, she repeated thank you Jesus over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. He didn't speak for a long time, but
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  Speaker 1: when he spoke, he said, Mama, I need a band aid,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when she knew her little boy was okay.
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  Speaker 1: The er tests showed no broken bones. Incredible. A six
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  Speaker 1: thousand pound vehicle had run over his legs, yet little
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  Speaker 1: Noah had nothing to show for it except cuts and bruises.
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  Speaker 1: Later that night, Leanna did what any mom would do.
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  Speaker 1: She dropped to her knees in her closet and she
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  Speaker 1: thanked Jesus. She thanked Jesus for sparing her boy. And
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  Speaker 1: then she climbed in bed with him. She assumed that
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  Speaker 1: he was asleep. Turns out he was not. She writes,
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  Speaker 1: as I was lying beside him in the dark that night,
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  Speaker 1: out of the blue, he said, Mama.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus catched me. I said he did.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I told Jesus thank you, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: you're very welcome. The next day, out of the blue,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Mama, Jesus has brown hands. He catched me
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  Speaker 1: like this. He held his arms outstretched, cupping his little hands.
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  Speaker 1: The next day he told me that Jesus has brown hair.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I asked him about Jesus, he says that's all
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  Speaker 1: in a very nonchalant manner. He's reluctant to offer up
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  Speaker 1: any more information than pretends to nor me whenever I
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  Speaker 1: ask him questions about Jesus. But when he says his
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  Speaker 1: prayers at night, he says, thank you Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: For catching me.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if Jesus caught Noah, because he knew a
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  Speaker 1: little child like Noah would believe that he indeed was Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus still catches his people, He still catches us, He
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  Speaker 1: still extends his arms, He still sends his angels and
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  Speaker 1: many times he catches us this side of the grave,
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  Speaker 1: and when he doesn't, when he allows us to pass
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  Speaker 1: from this life into the next, there he is waiting
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  Speaker 1: for us, to catch us and to hold us. On
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  Speaker 1: the other side. We know he's waiting for us in heaven. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: life comes with storms. Turbulence turns this world into typhoons.
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  Speaker 1: The northeasters beat down on the best of us, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're beating down on you. I'm thinking that for
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  Speaker 1: some of you, this message is a divine appointment in
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  Speaker 1: which God is wanting you to know that He is
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  Speaker 1: with you, that you belong to him, and that He
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  Speaker 1: has already determined the length of your life, and that
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  Speaker 1: he has sent his angels to protect you. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ will catch you. He is your friend and
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  Speaker 1: your father. Most of all, he's the chief commander of
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  Speaker 1: the storm, and because you belong to him, you will
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  Speaker 1: survive this tempest.
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  Speaker 2: The same Jesus who sent.
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  Speaker 1: The angel to Paul sends this message to you when
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  Speaker 1: you pass through the waters, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: You may be facing the perfect storm, but Jesus offers
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  Speaker 1: perfect peace, and he is the perfect one to lead
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  Speaker 1: you through this difficult time. Amen, let's pray together, And so,
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  Speaker 1: dear Father, we turn to you to receive this message.
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  Speaker 1: We do admit that many of our troubles come our
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  Speaker 1: way because of our disobedience, and we confess that we
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  Speaker 1: need your forgiveness, and we receive your loving.
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  Speaker 3: Rebuke ad I'll be all right. You don't have to
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  Speaker 3: stay if you've already chosen. I won't stand in your way.
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  Speaker 4: I can feel it in your distance, in the way
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  Speaker 4: you barely speak, like your heart is somewhere else now,
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  Speaker 4: somewhere I can't reach.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying to just do hold us.
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  Speaker 4: Why are you slowly slipped away? Now I'm left with
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: all the silence you didn't want to say. Maybe I
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  Speaker 4: just held along to something.
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  Speaker 3: Already gone.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'll be fined.
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  Speaker 6: You can leave.
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  Speaker 7: You don't don't know me anything.
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  Speaker 3: If your heart.
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  Speaker 7: Is found, How do what we used to be? How
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  Speaker 7: be fine? Don't look back?
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  Speaker 6: How survived this empty space? Not tonight, maybe not soon,
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  Speaker 6: but hollor.
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  Speaker 4: To be okay.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need to fake the feeling.
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  Speaker 4: I can see it in your eyes. There's no reason
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  Speaker 4: left the stand.
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  Speaker 2: When the love already died.
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  Speaker 5: Through the quieting your voice, how can hear your choice,
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  Speaker 5: hob be fine.
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  Speaker 1: You can.
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  Speaker 7: You don't know me anything.
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  Speaker 3: Give your heart is found.
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  Speaker 6: How do what we used to be? Be fine?
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  Speaker 3: Don't look back.
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  Speaker 6: I'll survive this empty space, not tonight, maybe not so,
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  Speaker 6: but I learned to be okay. I don't need a
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  Speaker 6: reason why. I can see it in goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: And it breaks me in Dutch. But I won't ask
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  Speaker 2: you to stay.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be fine. You, Kenny, you don't know me anything.
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  Speaker 7: Give your heart honest found on it.
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  Speaker 3: How do what we to be hop be fine? Don't
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  Speaker 3: look back?
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  Speaker 7: How survive?
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  Speaker 3: Is simpty space?
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  Speaker 7: That a lie? Maybe not so, but I'll learn to
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  Speaker 7: be okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be all right.