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Living Waters of Grace 12.12.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  Fear is a horrible thing, isn't it?
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  Fear can really mess you up. It can cause you to just freak
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  out. It can cause you to be hopeless.
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  It can cause you to hear stupid things in your head that are
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  lies from the devil. It can.
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  It can cause people to do horrible things.
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  Fear. God hasn't given us a spirit of
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  fear, the Bible says, but of power and of love, and of a
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  sound mind. Have you ever stopped to think
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  that God created us with a range of emotions along with
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  happiness, joy and contentment? He created us with the potential
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  for anger, jealousy, and impatience.
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  Additionally, Pastor Clark discusses today the emotion of
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  fear. There are positive reasons why
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  we fear. For example, it keeps us from
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  approaching an aggressive dog or from getting into a stranger's
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  car. But sometimes our fear is
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  unfounded. Turn to the Lord in these times
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  and lean on His strength to gain the courage you need now.
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  Here's Pastor Clarky in the book of Acts Chapter 27 with today's
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  edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  If you've ever been to the shore on land and you have a vacation
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  and all of a sudden the winds start coming up and the, and
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  gets to the temperatures drop and the waves start looking
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  really crazy and the lifeguards won't let you in the in the
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  water. That's a discouraging time
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  because Northeasterns could last a week and your whole vacation
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  and all the money is spent to be at the beach.
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  You know, you can't go in the water.
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  You can go up maybe to your knees and that's it.
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  So this is what's happening here.
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  This is a very, very serious storm and it's scary, someone
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  said. It's like they were in this
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  really cool boat and this floating and the sun and the
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  gentle breeze and all of a sudden they're like a toothpick
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  in the mid midst of 40 foot swells that this is
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  unbelievable. So the ship was caught and it
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  could not head into the wind. So we let her dry.
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  So they didn't have the ability to steer this boat.
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  Now this boat was taken by the wind and being pushed down more
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  toward the coast of Africa instead of the shores of Italy.
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  And they couldn't even really tell where they were going.
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  And running under the shelter of an island called Claudia, we
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  secured the skiff with difficulty.
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  They're trying to stabilize this this huge vessel and when they
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  had taken it on board, they use cables.
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  So they're pulling the the lifeboat out of the water to
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  skiff and getting it into the big boat because it would start
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  smashing the other boat. And they undergirded the ship
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  and with these cables to sort of wrap it around to prevent it
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  from coming apart because of the waves less they should run
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  aground on the sands. They struck sail and were so
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  driven and because we were exceedingly Tempest toss the
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  next day they lightened the ship.
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  So they're starting to dump stuff out of the boat.
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  The cargo, which was worth a lot of money, they had to begin to
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  get rid of it because of the weight.
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  They're they're lightning the ship.
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  On the third day we threw the ship's tackle overboard with our
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  own hands. So not any are they getting rid
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  of the grain. But now they're getting rid of
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  any kind of physical bedding or any kind of equipment.
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  It isn't necessary right now. And they're getting rid of all
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  of it. It says in verse 20 now when
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  neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and those small
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  Tempest beat on us all hope that we would be saved was finally
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  given up. Have you ever been in a
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  situation where you're going through something that you feel
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  that there's no hope left and they're ready to give up?
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  I'm sure you have been. I know I have been.
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  There doesn't seem to be any answer or any reason for why it
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  is what it is you're going through.
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  And it's a really time of testing your faith and how well
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  you know God because God will never fail you.
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  He promises us throughout the Scriptures, Jesus never fails.
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  Our faith fails. We get our eyes off of the Lord,
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  we get our minds and our hearts out of the word of God, and then
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  all of a sudden we have nothing to stand on, do we?
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  There's no stability. Everything's uncertain.
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  Everything's up in the air and they're at a point right now
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  that they are basically hopeless and they're giving up.
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  I don't know where you are today, but I'm here to tell you
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  and encourage you. Don't give up no matter what.
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  Get close to God. He's ready to do something.
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  You get close to Him, He'll reveal himself to you in ways
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  that you never even knew Him. I hate to say it, but we're all,
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  at least I'll say myself, knuckleheads, I'm going to say
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  that about you. But God has to many times cause
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  stuff to happen in order to get our attention, to show us like
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  we're missing things. We're not seeing things the way
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  he wants us to. We're maybe not living the way
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  he wants us to live. He's he loves us so much that
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  he's going to do everything he can sometimes.
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  And he starts gradually many times to get your attention.
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  And then if you don't listen, then maybe things get a little
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  bit more challenging, more difficult.
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  But here's Paul in this situation.
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  He's a human being like the rest of them.
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  I'm sure he's freaking out too, in his ways.
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  A lot of people are seasick. They can't even think about
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  eating anything. But Paul begins to speak verse
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  21. But after a long abstinence from
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  food, then Paul stood in the midst of them and said, men, you
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  should have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete and
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  incurred this disaster and loss. Has then anybody ever told you
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  after you made a decision and everything fell apart?
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  I told you so you shouldn't have done that.
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  Always Monday morning quarterbacks always telling you
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  how you should have handled it differently.
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  Well, that's the last thing you want to hear at that point in
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  time because like you already made the decision and
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  everything's messed up. You don't need to tell me that.
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  I already know I've messed up, right?
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  So he says. And now I urge you in verse 22
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  to take heart for there will be no loss of life among you, but
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  only of the ship. Now they must.
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  Some of them had to think he was nuts.
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  The ship is going everywhere and it is like, no way.
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  How are we not going to die? But Paul during this journey was
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  also sharing the gospel. And I'm sure there was people on
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  the ship at that time because of what was happening.
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  Said, hey, Paul, what do I need to do to be saved?
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  Is there an afterlife? Yeah, there is.
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  Let me tell you about it. Let me tell you, this life's
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  real short. You want to put your trust in
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  Jesus because one day you're going to leave this world and
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  you want to be where he is. You don't want to be in hell.
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  You want to be in heaven with the Lord.
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  And he's made a way because of what Jesus did on the cross to
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  die for us and to forgive us of our sins that cleanse us,
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  forgive us, give us new life. So there was probably a lot of
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  deathbed conversions here. I always like visiting hospitals
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  when someone's getting ready to die and they still have
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  consciousness and their loved ones ask the pastor to go and
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  talk to the person who's in the bed.
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  The person in the bed knows that it's coming down the home
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  stretch and they're going to pass from this life.
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  And that's when you begin to tell them about the gospel.
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  And I'm amazed. And how many people are
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  definitely prepared at that point to hear it and to believe
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  it and to depend on the Lord so they can go into heaven?
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  Isn't that wonderful? God in his mercy, He does that.
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  And occasionally someone won't say anything.
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  You don't know if they believed or didn't, but you know, you,
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  you, you tell them the truth and you trust the Holy Spirit to do
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  what only He can do. And so Paul's telling them
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  there's not going to be any loss of life.
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  And this is amazing here, verse 23.
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  Now we know. And Acts 23 verse 11, Paul was
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  in jail and he wasn't sure if he was going to be able to get the
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  room. Jesus showed up personally and
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  spoke to Paul and told him that you're going to get the room,
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  don't worry about it, I'm going to get you there.
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  So Paul tucked that down in his heart, a promise from God to
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  hold on to. But now he's got another
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  spiritual encounter. For there stood by me this night
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  an Angel of the of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve,
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  saying, do not be afraid, Paul, you must be brought before
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  Caesar. And indeed God has granted you
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  all those who sail with you. So the Angel reminded Paul,
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  don't you remember? Jesus told you you're going to
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  get the room. Paul's faith, I'm sure, wasn't
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  shipwrecked, but he's, you know, he's human.
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  Like, you know this stuff. You know what's going to happen
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  here? He needed the confirmation from
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  the Lord that it was going to be OK and they were going to get
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  through it. Don't be afraid, Paul.
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  So Paul's being admonished not to be afraid.
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  And fear is a horrible thing, isn't it?
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  Fear can really mess you up. It can cause you to just freak
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  out. It can cause you to be hopeless.
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  It can cause you to hear stupid things in your head that are
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  lies from the devil. It can.
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  It can cause people to do horrible things.
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  Fear. God hasn't given us a spirit of
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  fear, the Bible says, but a power and of love and of a sound
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  mind. When we have fear, we have to
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  call it out as a lie because God does not give us that spirit,
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  does He? And we have to acknowledge that
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  and ask the Lord to replace the thoughts that we have that are
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  causing the fear with the things that He tells us to think upon.
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  Paul, think on these things whatsoever.
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  Things are pure, lovely, just, and a good report.
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  That's a discipline. It's real easy to get down the
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  fear track and to stay on that right?
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  No, I'm not going to fear, I'm not going to live with this in
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  my head. Lord, take this out.
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  Help me. Ask the Lord to help you.
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  He will stabilize my thoughts. God give me truth to think on
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  and not lies. Therefore take heart men.
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  And He says that to us today. Take heart brothers and sisters,
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  for I believe God that it will be just as it was as he told me.
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  I believe God. Who do you believe in your life?
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  You believe Fox News, CNN, Wall Street?
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  Or do you believe the God of heaven, the creator of the
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  universe? Everything in your life, in my
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  life, is designed by God to cause our faith to increase, not
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  to decrease. Adversity and trial and
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  heartache and tragedy are allowed in our lives to deepen
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  us, not to destroy us. If we believe God, no matter
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  what, we're going to get through.
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  Amen. If we don't believe God, it is
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  hopeless. There is no answer apart from
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  God Himself. So God tests us.
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  And in every situation, He knows where you're at.
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  Clark needs more faith. He needs to go deeper with me,
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  and I'm going to allow this to occur so that he's on his face
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  crying out to me like he never cried out to me before.
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  Someone told me this morning they were moments from death,
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  kidney operating at 2%. A Christian told his brother
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  that God will do whatever he has to do to get us back with him.
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  He'll allow adversity. He'll allow us to get smacked
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  around in life. He'll allow all kinds of things
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  to happen to us that we don't like and we don't think it's
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  fair. Until finally we say, I give up,
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  Lord, I want what you want. No longer do I want what I want.
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  And I still battle as a human being, as I'm sure you do, with
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  my will versus God's will. I try to negotiate with God at
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  times so that he might let me have my way, and sometimes he
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  does. OK, clerk, go ahead.
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  We'll catch up later when it doesn't work out and he's always
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  gracious and merciful and loving.
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  He God never. He's the only one that says I
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  didn't tell you so the words full of like the admonitions of
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  the consequences of going against the will of God.
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  But he's so tender to us when we come to him, no matter where
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  we've come from. He's the good father, the Good
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  Shepherd, the merciful 1 and I love the story of the prodigal
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  when he comes back. He's not sitting down with an
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  acquisition and bunch of questions.
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  He knows our heart and he knows when we turn, when we repent.
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  And right away he's like, I know, I know, I love you.
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  Come, let me hug you, let me embrace you, Let me restore you
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  and let me reveal myself to you. So then Paul says, OK, we're
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  going to get through this, but we are going to run a ground on
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  a certain island. So remember that just because
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  you're a Christian doesn't mean you won't have trials.
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  You won't have tribulations, but you will get through them
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  because of him. None of us get through this life
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  without stuff occurring. Now.
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  When the 14th, 40th, 14th night had come, as we were driven up
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  and down the Adriatic Sea about midnight, the sailors sensed
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  that they were drawing near to some land, so they were hearing
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  the Breakers on the shoreline. They knew they couldn't see
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  anything because the stars and the and the moon and everything
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  was blocked out from the clouds from the storm.
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  They knew they were getting near land and they took soundings and
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  found it to be 20 fathoms. So they're checking the depth of
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  the water, 20 fathoms. And then they got a little
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  further. They took sounding again and
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  found it to be 15 fathoms. Then fearing lest we should run
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  aground on the rocks, they dropped 4 anchors from the stern
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  and prayed for day to come. So like, oh, God help this
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  daylight to come so we can see what's going on here.
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  When they had let down the skiff into the sea under pretense of
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  putting out anchors from the prow, Paul said, this centurion
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  and the soldiers, unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot
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  be saved. So some guys wanted to get in
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  that little dinghy and watch out for their own hides and not
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  worry about anybody else. But Paul said, hey, these guys
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  all got to stay in this boat the way God set it up so that
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  everybody's going to get saved and get through this.
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  Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the skiff and let it
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  fall off. So there was no chance of any
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  escape that way. And as the day was about to
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  dawn, Paul implored them all to take food, saying today is the
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  14th day you have waited and continue without food and eat
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  nothing. Now some of these people weren't
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  eating because of fast, but some people I'm sure were seasick and
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  there's no way they were interested in having any food.
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  But Paul knew they were going to need some stamina and strength
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  to be able to swim from where they were jumping in the water
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  to get to land. OK.
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  Therefore, I urge you to take nourishment, for this is for
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  your survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any
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  of you. And when he had said these
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  things, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of
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  them all. So some believe that he was
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  actually, you know, providing the Lord's Supper for the
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  believers there, but he gave thanks publicly.
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  So Paul's a witness in the midst of all this craziness, and
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  that's what God calls you me to be.
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  He's watching how you handle whatever it is you're dealing
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  with. And are you still thanking God,
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  walking with God, praising God, following the Lord?
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  Are you wimping out and freaking out and saying you're not going
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  to follow God anymore because of what happened to you?
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  That's the big decision. And when God puts you or allows
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  you to be in something you don't like, but you know it's for your
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  good, it's going to be for the benefit of other people as they
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  watch how you handle your relationship with God in the
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  midst of the adversity. And whenever they see you
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  staying stable and strong in the Lord.
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  Someone's going to ask you one day, how did tell me about this
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  God you follow? I need to know him.
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  I need to have him. I don't know how you're getting
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  through what it is you're getting through, but I see you
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  getting through and I know you tell me it's because of your
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  faith in the Lord. I need this Jesus too.
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  But if we fall apart and we give up and we curse God, then
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  everything is a mess. So they were encouraged.
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  They ate. They began to eat, and they were
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  all encouraged and also took food themselves.
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  Verse 37 and all we were 276 persons on the ship.
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  So when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and
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  threw out the wheat into the sea.
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  When it was day they did not recognize the land, but they
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  observed the Bay with the beach onto which they planned to run
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  the ship if possible. This little island is South of
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  Italy and it's called Malta. And they let go of the anchors
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  and left them in the sea, meanwhile loosening the rudder
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  ropes. And they hoisted the mainsail to
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  the wind and made for sure. So they're they're going right
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  into the ground, the ship into the sand, but striking a place
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  where two seas met. They ran the strip aground and
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  Prowl stuck fast and remained immovable.
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  But the stern was being broken up by the violence of the waves,
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  and the soldiers plan was to kill the prisoners lest any of
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  them should swim away and escape.
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  But the centurion wanted to save Paul, kept them from their
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  purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should jump
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  overboard first and get to the land and the rest, some on
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  boards and some on parts of the ship.
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  And so it was that they all escaped safely to land.
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  So the Lord has this in the Bible to teach us that when
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  you're in situations that are beyond your ability to control,
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  that God is the one that will show up and give you the ability
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  to stay, stay stable and sane and not be freaking out.
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  And I can rehearse in my own life.
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  I'm sure you can't. I remember when this happened.
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  Oh God, I didn't know how I was going to ever get through it.
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  And here I am so many years later, and it's in the past and
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  it's a chapter in the legacy of my own personal life and my
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  family's life. I can say God's still in
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  control. He's still working, He's still
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  doing miracles. He's still getting us through
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  all of us. And, and as a body of believers,
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  as a family of God here we walk in the midst of the adversity
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  with each other, don't we? We pray for each other, we lift
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  each other up. We're there for one another.
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  We care for each other. And we we wait on the Lord to
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  bring the healing and the comfort and the deliverance and
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  eventually the testimony. Nothing better than a testimony.
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  Of someone who's been through something that, you know, only
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  God could get him through. This young couple that I met at
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  the conference, I said, how's your mom and dad doing?
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  They said our dad just died a month ago of a massive heart
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  attack. Godly man, probably in his early
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  50's the last time you'd think you'd be dying at that age,
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  right? But they had joy in their face.
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  They had the peace of God. Yeah, their hearts are broken,
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  but they know they're dads with the Lord and they are going to
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  keep serving God. How many people would have maybe
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  said I'm not going to serve God anymore.
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  Look what he did. Look what happened in my life.
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  That's not the Christian way, is it?
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  The Christian way is though he slay me yet I will trust him.
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  And I don't know about you, but Pastor Lewis and myself and the
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  guys that went to the conference together, we heard things that
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  are activating things in our heart that only an experience
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  like that can accomplish. We went with soft hearts.
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  As I pray you come to church on Sundays or Wednesdays whenever
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  studies your heart's open to to hear from God because God's
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  going to speak through His Word. He never does not speak through
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  His Word. I got a new app on my phone, so
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  when I'm driving around, I'm hearing one scripture after
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  another. Scriptures when you drive,
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  scriptures when you eat, scriptures when you sleep,
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  scriptures when your leisure, whatever.
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  It's just awesome. Nice little bit of music in the
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  background. But this is the word, the word,
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  the word. You got to hold on to the Word
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  of God and you got to know the Word of God, and you got to
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  believe the word of God and you got to act on the word of God in
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  Psalm 121, God, the help of those who seek Him.
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  You got to seek the Lord. The Lord wants you to seek Him.
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  And the psalmist says, I will lift my eyes up to the hills or
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  to the mountains from whence comes my help when stuff's
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  happening. You can call 30 people on the
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  phone and I'll pray for you, but no one can help you but God,
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  right? Isn't that the reality, The
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  bottom line only? The only person that can help
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  you and life is God. We can point people to God, we
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  can tell people about God, but they have to get with God, just
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  like you do whenever things are dismal, desperate, disastrous.
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  My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.
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  He will not allow your foot to be moved.
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  He who keeps you will not slumber.
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  Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
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  The Lord is your keeper. The Lord is your shade at your
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  right hand. The sun shall not strike you by
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  day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from
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  all evil. He shall preserve your soul.
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  The Lord shall preserve your going out.
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  And you're coming in from this time forth and even forever
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  more. Amen.
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  Psalm 121. Get with the Lord in that Psalm
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  if, if you really need to connect right now and let the
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  Psalm wash over you and let it feel you and let it renew this,
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  this need that that God has in his heart in the sense of
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  wanting you to depend fully upon him, to trust him and every
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  situation that you're in, and He'll be strong on your behalf.
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  Amen. If this isn't true, why are we
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  here today, right? If this isn't true, what else is
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  there to believe in nothing that it is true, Jesus tells us the
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  trust in Him with all of our heart.
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  Lean not to our understanding and always acknowledge Him and
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  He shall direct our paths. Thank you for listening to this
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  edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Pastor Clark is teaching us about the book of Acts in this
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  series. Acts is a powerful and unique
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  part of Scripture, not just because it records the spread of
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  the gospel geographically from Jerusalem to the ends of the
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  earth, but also culturally. Acts shows us how the message of
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  Jesus moved beyond its Jewish roots and began to reach the
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  Gentile world. What started with Peter leading
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  a small group in the Upper Room became a global movement with
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  Paul taking the gospel to cities, synagogues and
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  marketplaces across the Roman Empire.
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  Acts captures this vital transition and reminds us that
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  the good news of Jesus is for all people in every place.
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  May we be inspired to carry that same gospel boldly into our
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  world today. Living Waters of Grace comes to
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  you from Calvary Chapel, Westmoreland.
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