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You're okay! Jump! · Quiet Time Conversations | Practical Discipleship

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me ask you this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is your foundation always shaking?
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  SPEAKER_00: Even though you're a Christian, your foundation is shaking from day to day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So picture this with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a foundation that is Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is our solid rock.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what we do is we build things on top of that foundation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we build scaffolding up on top of that foundation, like a little tree house.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then we sit at the top of our little tree house, our little scaffolding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the wind blows, it creaks, it moves, it shakes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it starts to break.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's terrifying.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's terrifying because our foundation as we know it is shaking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the real foundation never shook.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's what we built on top of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe over time, all of this sand blows on top of this foundation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we can't even see the foundation anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just see sand, sand dunes, and you know, the sand changes every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sand is never the same because the wind blows and it changes it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So our foundation is never the same from day to day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't, what do we hold on to?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is our anchor?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the floor of our foundation is always changing from day to day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wind is always blowing it around and it looks different every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we walk through life feeling like there's nothing sure that we can hold on to because our foundation is always shifting and changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what we've got to realize is we have built, we've put something on the foundation that is Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've added to it for our own comfort or out of our own fears or insecurities.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've added to the foundation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then what happens?
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  SPEAKER_00: The wind blows.
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  SPEAKER_00: And imagine yourself, imagine that you have built scaffolding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're like me, it's not built well.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're three, four stories up.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have built four stories of scaffolding on top of this foundation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rickety, constantly moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can probably hear things uh breaking, like wood breaking.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't count on anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you forgot that you're on this solid foundation that is Christ, because maybe you really didn't even never, you never knew what that meant.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've built up all of the scaffolding, and in this Christian life that you're living, there the foundation is shaky.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was always a shaky foundation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was never a sure foundation because you never jumped off your scaffolding.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have been relying on what you have built to make sure you're okay for all of these Christian years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or sand has come in and you know you're walking around on sand like you're out in the desert, dying, when underneath that sand is everything you've ever needed, everything you've ever wanted.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's underneath it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Underneath all that scaffolding is everything you've ever wanted, that sure foundation that never moves, never cracks, never shakes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a solid rock of Christ and it doesn't move.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why does why does the wind come and shake up our scaffolding?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's a great opportunity to jump off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'll say this: jumping off is very scary because you are jumping off of everything you've ever put up to make sure you're okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And jumping off into the unknown is so scary.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is what you will find.
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  SPEAKER_00: I promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: I promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: You jump off your scaffolding of everything you've ever known, of everything you've ever used to make sure you're okay, and you will land shore footed on Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will lose that which you have worked so hard to attain that kept you okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will have to lose that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you will find an exchange that God never changes, he never lies, his character is his character.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is love, he is caring, he is all the fruits of the spirit, he's everything that's good.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I think that the enemy makes the wind blow while we're up on our scaffolding and says, Look, God's not even helping you.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Look, you are shaking in the wind, there's earthquakes, there's rain, you're just up there freezing and shaking and thinking, this Christian life is not working out for me.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: This whole God thing is not working out for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think the enemy does that when really the entire time the sure rock of Christ was down below.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your scaffolding has been sitting on it the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we got to jump off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if your foundation is full of sand, then we got to pray and say, wash it away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wash it away, and then get ready for the washing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will come and it will be very scary.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when it goes, and when all that sand is off the foundation, you are standing on a rock that never moves, never cracks, doesn't have moods.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is not moody.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's not moody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is not upset with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is this love that goes far beyond what we have known.
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  SPEAKER_00: We haven't known this kind of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why we get in the Bible, because that's where we learn this love.
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  SPEAKER_00: We learn it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we don't really see it in the world around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we it's hard to find that kind of love in the world around us because it's him.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's our father, he's our creator, he's our Jesus is our savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything that's good, everything that's good is him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you're on that solid rock, he's taking care of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's taking care of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may end up face down on that solid rock, um, scared to death, having having to lose things that you thought were important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um you know, when God comes in and removes the things you have put between you and him, it's scary, but it always has a good ending.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm here this morning to encourage you to jump off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jump off of what you have built on top of the grock of Christ to make sure you are okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jump off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because those things are holding you back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just no fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's not be held back anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's jump off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if we're full of sand, let's ask God to bring the waters and wash away the sand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And though we will feel like everything is slipping from beneath our feet, we will find the solid rock of Christ and the foundation that we've been looking for the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll find it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll find it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you brave?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you brave enough to do it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you do it?
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  SPEAKER_00: You can do it.