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God Did It | Revelation 7 | Colin Provart · The Salt Company Denver

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: You guys able to share favorite memory of the year?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna go out in stereotypical Colin fashion, and I'm gonna give you a list of my top ten salt memories from the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not cool with you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe these maybe you share, maybe some of these share in your top 10 moments.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not ranked, they actually go chronologically.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, MTC.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeti hunt, corn party, trivia.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone else?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Did anyone did anyone like first interact with Small Company during one of those events?
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh number two, Jonathan's acting skills on our Instagram videos.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't know what I'm talking about, go back and check them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, kickoff.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys remember how the power went out?
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then we just let it rip and people came to know Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, number four, uh, the forestry music video.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: Chilling in the mounds of Jesus, come on.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Pancake batter wrestling with Nacho Libre.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't know what I'm talking about, you missed it.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: What am I on?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Six, Rudy's messages that fall retreat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number seven, salt Coke Christmas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number eight, Salt Company Conference.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was reminiscing.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter 1, this is what we taught on at Salt Company Conference, where you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life, inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is what Zach Cunningham said on Saturday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the blood stops feeling precious, sin starts feeling casual.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number nine, leader interviews.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was so fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, our staff, I think that is our favorite three weeks of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Getting to sit with you, hear your story, getting to encourage you to continue to walk a gospel-centered life.
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  SPEAKER_00: We love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And number 10, and if I did rank them, this maybe would be the top of the list.
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  SPEAKER_00: Baptisms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand if you got baptized from August on this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Raise them high.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is so awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're so proud of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you have it in part, but I get it in whole.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bonus top 10 for me of things that I love about this last school year in SALT is the time I get to spend with our staff team.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys know we have the best staff team in the whole SALT network.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seven of them are amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I get one-on-one conversations with them, them in a group, Katie, Ashton, Ben, Gabe, Brooklyn, Jonathan, and Nate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give it up for your SALT Company staff team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, if you love them, make sure you tell them tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what your top ten moments were.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe some of them were shared, maybe some of them weren't, but for me, it's fun when top ten moments aren't just general but personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just baptism just generally, but your baptism.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just Rudy's messages, it's when God met you when Rudy was speaking.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, moments we remember, like our favorite moments of the year, the memorable moments that we end up talking about later, are moments that surpass our expectations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like even when you think something's gonna be awesome, like you think this is gonna be pretty good, but then it's better than you expect, that's a top 10 moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm talking about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like when things surpass your expectations, that's a top 10 moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's what I want you to see tonight from Revelation 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: If top moments are better than you expect, what I want you to see tonight is that God is better than you expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I hope you don't just see that tonight, but I hope you saw that this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I hope as you reflect on your year, you would say, God's better than I expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if you came to college knowing that God was gonna be good, you would say, He's better than I expected.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if you came into your senior year thinking, man, I've learned a lot about who God is over these last three years, I hope you'd say, God's better than you expected.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to talk to some of you who would say this year we're just not good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you see that even when life is harder than you hoped, God is still better than you expected.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's still kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even as we talk about top ten salt company moments, those moments weren't great because salt is better than you expected, those moments were great because God is better than you expected.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, for the rest of the summer and the rest of your life, I hope you discover that God is better than you expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's what I want you to see about the moments from this last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it be kind of a bummer.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people live like the moments in college are the best moments of their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I understand that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I hope you have fun moments in college, but what I want you to see tonight from Revelation 7 is these top ten moments are never meant to terminate on themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're meant to be previews of what you were ultimately made for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Previews of the life you're actually supposed to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're going to jump into Revelation 7, starting in verse 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: After this, I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm proud of you if you're going overseas this summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for being a part of a global gospel and a global God who has a global heart, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands, and they cried out in a loud voice Salvation belongs to our God who's seated on the throne and to the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Salvation belongs to our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope if you've been to Saul Company this year, that's what you've heard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is a message of salvation that God has made a way for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That God has created you and yet you've sinned.
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  SPEAKER_00: That God sends and yet you resist.
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  SPEAKER_00: That Jesus Christ lives a life that you couldn't perfectly obedient to his father and yet you reject it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what does he do?
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  SPEAKER_00: He dies in your place.
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  SPEAKER_00: He raises to new life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now when you believe in him, you can have the eternal life that God offers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's what I want you to see from Revelation 7 is it is not your salvation, it's God's.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because everyone in the room at some point in this last year has tried to make it our own salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I need to do is try a little harder.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I need to do is kind of get my life together, build my spiritual resume.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I need to do is just show up to Soul Company a couple more times and maybe listen a little closer so then maybe I can take that and do something with it, and that's how I'll be saved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're at the last soul company of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've tried it and it hasn't worked, and one more I don't think will help.
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  SPEAKER_00: But salvation, though it doesn't belong to you, it does belong to God, and he does offer it to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He invites you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He lives the life that you couldn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: He dies in your place, though you reject him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now when we place our faith in him and in his resurrection, we can share in his resurrection life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Salvation is better than you expected it to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: So salvation belongs to our God who's seated on the throne.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, I often hear that the good news of the gospel is that Jesus died for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's fine news.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a little bit better news that Jesus didn't just die, but he raises to new life.
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  SPEAKER_00: But can I tell you the gospel that I believe in?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just that Jesus dies, it's not just that Jesus raises to new life, is that Jesus actually ascends to heaven where he's reigning and ruling as king.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the best gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's why it's the best gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when life's hard, you have a king who's on the throne and in control.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you doubt, you can look to Jesus, who's unmoved and on the throne.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're afraid, when summer is harder than you thought it would be, you can look to Jesus, who's still on the throne.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you go through the darkest moments of your life, which will come.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the vast majority of you, I would guess the darkest moments of your life are ahead of you and not behind you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I need you to know is that the good news of the gospel isn't just that Jesus died for you, is raised to new life, but that Jesus is actually seated on the throne as king.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, the gospel is better news than you expected.
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  SPEAKER_00: So salvation belongs to our God who's seated on the throne and to the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a reminder of the way that salvation comes, not to the strong and powerful, but to the weak and lowly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which means if you feel unqualified, sad, down in your sin, stuck in shame with a past that you're not proud of, what I want you to know is salvation can be offered to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like tonight, you're invited.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tonight can be the night where you give up your former way of living, where you've tried to earn it, where you've tried to hide from it, where you've tried to act like you need to have it all together, and you can say salvation belongs to our God who's seated onto the throne and to the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: The one who is substituted in my place.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, before this, it says a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language which no one could number.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stand before the throne and before the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love this picture of diversity.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I want you to see tonight is that diversity is a reminder of the gospel's inclusivity.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, Jesus' blood buys all sorts of people with all sorts of backgrounds and all sorts of past and all sorts of sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And his blood is powerful enough for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's powerful enough to invite you in.
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  SPEAKER_00: You, yes, you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So maybe you've been coming to Salt Company all year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe this is your first time since the fall semester.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where you're at, but what I do know is that for everyone in the room, tonight is a great night to again believe that the gospel is true and can be applied to you in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: That you don't have to earn and chase and run and hide.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can actually walk into the light of God's grace and know that when you are laid bare before him, all your sin, all your shame, all your past, you'll find that there's a God who's better than you expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the angels stood there around the throne, along with the elders and the four living creatures.
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  SPEAKER_00: They fell face down before the throne and worship God, saying, Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength to our God forever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, God is better than you expected him to be, he's bigger than you could imagine, he's kinder than you hoped, and he's nearer than you dreamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you discover all that, he's better still.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, what do you do with a God who's better than you expect?
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  SPEAKER_00: You worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's worship?
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything said, sang, done, felt, that orients our hearts around the value of something or someone.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me make it simple for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Worship is responding to what we value most.
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  SPEAKER_00: Worship is responding to what we value most.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, we can worship a lot of things in a lot of ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does Revelation 7 do?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a reminder that we may worship a lot of things now, but there's only one who's worthy of our worship, one who's worthy of our lives, and there's only one who we will be worshiping for all of eternity, and that's Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is better than you expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: So worship of God is absolutely singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's not just singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's anything that orients our hearts to who God is, to the fact that he's better than we expect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, what do I want to mark your summer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find a church to worship with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Worship through opening up God's word and reading it and learning more about who he is and what he's done for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Worship in song, through your car and with friends and on walks, worship through prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find a quiet place where no one else will see you, and go to that place often and talk to a God that's better than you expect him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Worship through friendship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Worship through sharing the gospel, that I was far off, but God has shown me his salvation and brought me near.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to know what's worshipful when you share the good news of the gospel with someone else?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you're reminded that the gospel doesn't just apply to you, it actually applies to someone else too.
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  SPEAKER_00: That there's someone who's close to you and far from Jesus, and maybe God wants to use you to bring them close to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're having this moment right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoa.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's better than I expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I want you to imagine that you don't just feel that now, you didn't just feel that at full retreat, you just didn't just feel that at kickoff, but maybe you actually will feel that in May.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then again in June.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then in July, and then in August, and then in 2027, and then in 2057.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I want you to do is spend your entire life discovering that God is better than you expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even after you discover that, you discover that he's better still.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I need you to know is that's not dependent on Salt Company, which means if you're a senior or home for the summer or changing your rhythm and you won't be allowed around, you can be reminded that God is still better than you expect him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's never actually been about Salt Company.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we hope and pray is that Salt Company serves as a spotlight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like when you were in a dark place, or maybe there were lots of dim lights around you, the spotlight came in and showed you what you should pay attention to.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, a spotlight doesn't exist to draw attention to yourself, to itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: A spotlight exists to illuminate what matters most.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I hope Salt Company did.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope Salt Company was a giant spotlight to Jesus Christ, to who he is and what he's done for you and the relationship you can have with him because of the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which means it's never actually been about Salt Company.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always been about who Jesus is and what he's done.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me just read Revelation 7 one more time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll wrap up here soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Salvation belongs to our God who's seated on the throne and to the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the angels stood around the throne, and along with the elders and the four living creatures, they fell face down before the throne and worshiped God, saying, Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's better than you expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what do you do when God's better than you expected him to be?
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  SPEAKER_00: You worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're gonna do tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys okay with that?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna sing a few extra songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, all right, hang on, hang on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys are eager, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I wanted to share something with you before we start singing again.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I wrote this a few years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a reminder to me, maybe it'll be a reminder to you, maybe not, that God's better than I expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last year, how many of you were here at worship night last year?
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  SPEAKER_00: Great, awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you remember, maybe you don't, doesn't matter, but I did the A to Z of who you are in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I'm gonna do something a little different.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wrote this one a few years ago, but it's still kind of fun in my opinion.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give you the A to Z of who God is.
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  SPEAKER_00: That He is, in fact, better than you expect him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: Buckle in.
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  SPEAKER_00: We good?
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  SPEAKER_00: We go?
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is A, an author who's writing a better story than you expect.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's B, he's beautiful, he's more captivating than sin ever promised to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's C.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the creator holding together the world that we thought was holding us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's D, divine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not just a good man, but God Himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's E.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's eternal.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's before us, after us, and beyond us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's F, faithful.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's steady when everything else shakes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's G, glorious.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's weightier, greater, brighter than you could imagine.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's H, holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's completely other and yet still near.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's I, he's impeccable, no fault, no failure, and no evil in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's J, just.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will make every wrong right in the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's K, he's king.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't just rule with fear but with goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's L, he's loving, he's more loving than we expected and closer than we thought possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's M, he's merciful.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's not giving the judgment that we deserve.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's N, he's near, he's God with us, God beside us, God not leaving us, and God in us, he's O, He's omniscient.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never confused and never surprised.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's P, he's patient, He's slow to anger and abounding in love.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's Q, he's qualified, He's the one who is worthy of your entire life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's R, He's the Redeemer who turns stories of ruin into ones of grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's S, he's sovereign.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing outside of His hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's T, He's Trinity, Father, Son, and Spirit, and yet perfectly one.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's U, he's unchanging, the same in every season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gotta stretch for a few of these.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's V, he's voracious, true when everything else lies.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's W, he's worthy, deserving of more than your casual worship, but your entire life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hang with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's X, he's excellent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every way of God is good.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's Y.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's yearning.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's still pursuing wandering and lost people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's the.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's zealous.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's passionate for his glory and for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: You serve a God who loves you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who I hope, if nothing else, what this year has taught you is that every high and every low that you've experienced, every prayer you saw answered, and every prayer you're still waiting on, I hope you found that God's better than you expected him to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you find and discover that, I think you'll find that he's better still.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me pray for you.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: God, what do we what do we do?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: We see you.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: And you're better than we expected.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Kinder than we could imagine.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: More gracious than we could ask for, more merciful than we deserve.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: More powerful than we could hope.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: God, what do we do when you're better than we expected you to be?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think the only response is that we get on our knees and fall on our face and we worship you.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: We hold you high.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: You orient our hearts around who you are and what you've done.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: And so, God, I pray by your spirit, in every student in this room, would they spend their summer and the rest of their lives discovering that you're better than they expected you to be?
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: And 20, 30, 40 years from now, they'd discover that you're better still.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: God help us to worship you now.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Not just because it's fun, though it is.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: Not just because the lights are a particular color or the chairs are removed, but because you're worthy of it.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Because you're the king.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because you're still better than we expect you to be.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: So God, we are offering you not just our song, but our lives.