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What If Jesus_ Questions Hold the Answers to Your Faith · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Did you know that while you have questions for Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he has even more for you. In fact, in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus asks three hundred and seven questions, but only answers
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  Speaker 1: three directly. Why is that? Why does the son of God,
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  Speaker 1: who holds all knowledge choose to ask rather than simply tell? You?
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  Speaker 1: Think you are the only ones searching for answers, But
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  Speaker 1: the reality is Jesus is searching your heart with his questions.
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  Speaker 1: This is what made him the greatest teacher of all time,
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  Speaker 1: his ability to ask the kind of questions that make
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  Speaker 1: you stop think and discover the truth for yourself. He
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  Speaker 1: never intended for his followers to simply be spoon fed answers.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted them to wrestle with the truth, to search
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  Speaker 1: their own hearts, to come to a place of personal revelation.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, when we look at how modern church teachings
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  Speaker 1: operate today, something feels different. We go to church, we listen,
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  Speaker 1: we take notes, but how often do we leave with
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  Speaker 1: questions that stir our souls? This is why so many
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  Speaker 1: people who met Jesus walked away astonished. His questions challenged
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  Speaker 1: them in ways they had never experienced before. They forced
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  Speaker 1: them to examine who they were, what they truly believed,
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  Speaker 1: and what they were willing to do about it. That
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what we will do in this video. We
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  Speaker 1: will walk through twenty of the most powerful questions Jesus
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  Speaker 1: asked in the Bible. But not as an academic study. No,
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  Speaker 1: these are questions Jesus is asking you today. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to just listen. I want you to answer.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of this video, you will not just
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  Speaker 1: have learned more about Jesus, you will have had a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with him. This is more than just a Bible's study.
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  Speaker 1: This is a transformational moment. This is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: you to hear the voice of Jesus speaking directly to you.
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  Speaker 1: I engage if you listen, If you allow these questions
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  Speaker 1: to search your heart, your faith will never be the same.
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  Speaker 1: And by the end of this video, we will pray
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  Speaker 1: together a powerful prayer for the Holy Spirit to help
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  Speaker 1: you step into the answers Jesus is leading you toward.
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  Speaker 1: If you know someone who is struggling with their faith,
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  Speaker 1: who is questioning their purpose, who is searching for truth,
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  Speaker 1: share this video with them. God is working and he
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  Speaker 1: might just use you to help bring someone into an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with Him by the way. We have created in
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  Speaker 1: help you understand God better by understanding the Bible better.
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  Speaker 1: simple and clear way so you can apply it to
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  Speaker 1: your life. It is our hope and prayer that this
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  Speaker 1: Like this video and share it with that one friend
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  Speaker 1: who really needs to hear this. Now let's begin. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is asking, will you answer? You've just seen how Jesus
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  Speaker 1: asked more questions than he answered. He never spoon fed
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  Speaker 1: the truth. He led people to discover it for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And now the first question we must face is one
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  Speaker 1: that carries eternal weight. It is not just another question.
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  Speaker 1: It is the question that defines everything. Jesus asked it
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  Speaker 1: thousands of years ago, and he is still asking it today.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you say that? I am imagine the scene
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and his disciples are walking in Caesarea, Philippi, a
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  Speaker 1: place filled with pagan worship, false gods, and statues dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to man made idols. It is here, in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of a world full of competing beliefs, that Jesus stops
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  Speaker 1: and asks his followers, who do people say that I am?
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  Speaker 1: They begin answering quickly. Some say you are John the Baptist,
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  Speaker 1: Others say Elijah, some say you are a prophet. The
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  Speaker 1: disciples are repeating what they have heard from the crowds,
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  Speaker 1: from religious leaders, from the rumors circulating in the cities.
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  Speaker 1: But then Jesus shifts the question. He looks them in
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  Speaker 1: the eye and asks, but what about you? Who do
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  Speaker 1: you say that I am? Silence that this question is different.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't about what others say. This isn't about what
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  Speaker 1: they were taught in the synagogue. This isn't about what
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  Speaker 1: is culturally acceptable. This is personal. This is about what
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  Speaker 1: they truly believe. And after a moment, Peter speaks. His
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  Speaker 1: voice is steady, His answer is clear. You are the Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: the son of the Living God. And Jesus responds, blessed
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  Speaker 1: are you Simon's son of Jonah, For this was not
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  Speaker 1: revealed to you by flesh and blood. But by my
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  Speaker 1: father in heaven. Peter didn't just say the right words,
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  Speaker 1: he received a divine revelation. And that is the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Many today can repeat what they have heard about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They can say he was a great teacher, he was
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  Speaker 1: a prophet, he was a historical figure. Some even say
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  Speaker 1: he was the son of God. But saying the words
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  Speaker 1: and believing them deep in your soul are two entirely
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  Speaker 1: different things. Jesus is still asking this question today. Who
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  Speaker 1: do you say that I am not? Who does your
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  Speaker 1: pastor say he is not? Who does your family say
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  Speaker 1: he is not? Who does culture say he is? Who
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  Speaker 1: do you say he is? Because the answer to this
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  Speaker 1: question changes everything. It is the dividing line between those
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  Speaker 1: who follow Jesus and those who do not. It is
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  Speaker 1: the difference between eternal life and eternal separation from God.
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  Speaker 1: Your entire faith, your entire eternity, your entire purpose, rests
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  Speaker 1: on your answer to this one question. So let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you who is Jesus to you? Is he just
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  Speaker 1: a good moral teacher or is he your Lord and savior?
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  Speaker 1: Is he just someone you hear about in church? Or
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  Speaker 1: is he the king of your life? Is he just
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  Speaker 1: a historical figure, or is he your closest friend, your redeemer,
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  Speaker 1: your source of truth. Many people believe in Jesus, but
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  Speaker 1: not everyone follows him. Many people say they love him,
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  Speaker 1: but not everyone obeys him. Many people acknowledge his existence,
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  Speaker 1: but not everyone surrenders their lives to him. So what
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  Speaker 1: about you? Who do you say that he is? Because
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  Speaker 1: the reality your answer is not just in your words,
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  Speaker 1: it's in your life. If you say Jesus is my
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  Speaker 1: lord but you do not follow his teachings, is he
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  Speaker 1: really your lord? If you say Jesus is my everything,
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  Speaker 1: but he is not your first priority, is he really
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  Speaker 1: everything to you? Peter's answer was not just a statement,
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  Speaker 1: It was a revelation that changed his life. He went
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  Speaker 1: from being a simple fisherman to the foundation upon which
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  Speaker 1: Christ built his church. His declaration of who Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: determined who he became, and the same is true for you.
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  Speaker 1: Your answer to this question will shape your destiny. So
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  Speaker 1: take a moment search your heart. Who is Jesus to you? Truly?
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  Speaker 1: Not just in the easy moments, but in the storms,
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  Speaker 1: Not just when everything is going well, but when everything
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  Speaker 1: is falling apart, when you are tempted when you are tired,
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  Speaker 1: when you are tested, Who is he? Then? Because in
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  Speaker 1: the end Jesus will ask this question again, but next
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  Speaker 1: time it will not be for you to answer with
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  Speaker 1: your words. It will be for you to answer with
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  Speaker 1: your life. So again, let me ask you, who do
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  Speaker 1: you say that he is? If your answer to jesus
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  Speaker 1: last question, who do you say that I am, is
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  Speaker 1: truly that he is Lord, Savior, the Son of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, then there is another question he asks that
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  Speaker 1: will shake you to your core, because if you truly
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  Speaker 1: believe he is who he says he is, then why
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  Speaker 1: do you still fear? Why do you still live in anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: in doubt, in uncertainty. This is where jesus next question
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  Speaker 1: cuts deep. Standing in the middle of a raging storm,
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  Speaker 1: he looks at his disciples, terrified, desperate, certain they are
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  Speaker 1: about to drown, and asks them, why are you so afraid?
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  Speaker 1: Imagine this scene. The disciples had been with Jesus for months,
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  Speaker 1: watching him perform miracles, healing the sick, casting out demons,
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  Speaker 1: feeding thousands with a few loaves of bread. They had
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  Speaker 1: seen his power first hand, and yet here they were
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  Speaker 1: facing a storm, and suddenly everything they knew about him
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  Speaker 1: seemed to vanish. Their fear overwhelmed their faith. The wind roared,
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  Speaker 1: the waves crashed, and in their panic, they did what
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  Speaker 1: many of us do when life gets hard. They assumed
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  Speaker 1: the worst. Lord, don't you care if we drown? It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just fear of dying, it was doubt. Did Jesus
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  Speaker 1: even care? Was he even paying attention? Was he going
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  Speaker 1: to do anything? And what was Jesus doing Sleeping in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the storm. The Son of God lay
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  Speaker 1: in perfect peace at the back of the boat, not
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't care, not because he was unaware, but
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  Speaker 1: because he knew the storm could not win. So when
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  Speaker 1: the decis shook him awake, begging him to do something,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus stood up, rebuked the wind and the waves, and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly there was perfect calm. And then, only then he
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  Speaker 1: turned to his disciples and asked the real question, why
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  Speaker 1: are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?
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  Speaker 1: Let that sink in. Jesus wasn't just asking about the storm.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't just asking why they were afraid of drowning.
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  Speaker 1: He was asking why they didn't trust him After everything
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  Speaker 1: they had seen, after everything they had experienced, Why did
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  Speaker 1: they still believe the storm was greater than their savior.
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  Speaker 1: And so now he asks you the same thing, Why
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  Speaker 1: are you so afraid? You've seen him work in your
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  Speaker 1: life before, You've seen his hand protect you, provide for you,
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  Speaker 1: sustain you. You've read his promises, you've heard his word,
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  Speaker 1: you call him Lord, and yet why do you still
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  Speaker 1: live in fear? What is the storm that has made
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  Speaker 1: you doubt everything you know about him? Is it the
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  Speaker 1: fear of not having enough, the fear of failure, the
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  Speaker 1: fear of losing someone you love, the fear of the unknown,
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  Speaker 1: the future, the uncertainty that keeps you up at night.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, Jesus is standing in your boat, and
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  Speaker 1: yet you are acting as if you are alone, as
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  Speaker 1: if the storm is bigger than he is, as if
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  Speaker 1: the waves have more power than the one who created them.
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  Speaker 1: So let's be real. Your fear does not come from
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  Speaker 1: the size of your storm. It comes from what you
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  Speaker 1: believe about Jesus. Because if you truly believed he was
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  Speaker 1: who he says he is, if you truly believed he
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  Speaker 1: had authority over everything, if you truly believe that he
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  Speaker 1: is in control, then your fear wouldn't control you. Your
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  Speaker 1: anxiety wouldn't consume you. Your mind wouldn't spiral into panic
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  Speaker 1: every time life got hard. The problem is not the storm.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is your faith. Jesus didn't tell the disciples
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't be afraid because the storm isn't that bad. No,
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  Speaker 1: he asked, do you still have no faith? He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: pointing at the storm. He was pointing at their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: So now he is pointing at yours. What would your
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  Speaker 1: life look like if you actually lived like you believed
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was in your boat. Would you still be
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  Speaker 1: anxious about the future, would you still let fear keep
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  Speaker 1: you from obeying God? Would you still waste time worrying
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  Speaker 1: about things you cannot control? Or would you finally step
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  Speaker 1: into the kind of faith that lets you sleep through
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  Speaker 1: the storm. Because that's what Jesus did. He didn't just
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  Speaker 1: tell the disciples not to be afraid. He showed them
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  Speaker 1: what peace looks like. He rested because he trusted the Father.
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  Speaker 1: He slept because he knew no storm could overpower the
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  Speaker 1: plan of God. He was calm because he knew who
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  Speaker 1: he was. And when you truly know who Jesus isar
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  Speaker 1: loses its grip on you. But Here's the thing. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: didn't stop the storm first and then ask the question.
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  Speaker 1: He asked it after he calmed the waves. Why Because
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  Speaker 1: the point wasn't whether or not he could fix the situation.
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  Speaker 1: The point was whether they trusted him even when the
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  Speaker 1: situation looked hopeless. So let's ask the real question. Do
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  Speaker 1: you trust him even in the middle of the storm,
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  Speaker 1: not just when he answers your prayers, not just when
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  Speaker 1: he fixes everything, not just when he makes the storm
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  Speaker 1: go away. Do you trust him even when he's silent?
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  Speaker 1: Do you trust him even when he hasn't calmed the
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  Speaker 1: waves yet? Do you trust him even when you can't
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  Speaker 1: see what he's doing? Because that is real faith. That
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  Speaker 1: is what separates those who only say they follow Jesus
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  Speaker 1: from those who actually walk in his peace. So again
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  Speaker 1: he asks you, why are you so afraid? And now
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  Speaker 1: it's your turn to answer. If fear is what holds
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  Speaker 1: so many people back, then the next question Jesus asks
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  Speaker 1: cuts even deeper, because sometimes the issue isn't just that
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  Speaker 1: we're afraid. The issue is that we've grown comfortable in
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  Speaker 1: our brokenness. We say we want healing, we say we
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  Speaker 1: want change, we say we want freedom, but do we
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  Speaker 1: really or have we settled into our dysfunction? Have we
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  Speaker 1: built our identity around our pain? Have we become so
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  Speaker 1: used to our struggle that we don't actually want to
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  Speaker 1: leave it behind? That is exactly why Jesus looks a
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  Speaker 1: man in the eyes and asks him a question that
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  Speaker 1: seems almost offensive. Do you want to be healed? Imagine
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  Speaker 1: the moment a man had been sick for thirty eight years,
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight years of being unable to walk, thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: years of watching other people move forward while he stayed stuck.
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  Speaker 1: He and his days lying near the pool of Bethesda,
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  Speaker 1: a place where the sick gathered hoping to be healed.
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  Speaker 1: There was a belief that when the water was stirred,
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  Speaker 1: whoever got in first would be cured. But this man
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  Speaker 1: never made it in time. He had no one to
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  Speaker 1: carry him, no one to help him, no one to
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  Speaker 1: make sure he got his breakthrough. And then Jesus arrives.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus sees him lying there, He knows how long he
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  Speaker 1: has been suffering, and instead of immediately healing him, instead
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  Speaker 1: of performing a miracle on the spot, Jesus asks him
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  Speaker 1: a question, do you want to be healed? At first?
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  Speaker 1: This question seems almost insulting. Of course he wants to
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  Speaker 1: be healed, right, isn't that obvious? But instead of answering yes,
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  Speaker 1: the man makes an excuse. He doesn't say yes, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be healed. He says, sir, I have
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  Speaker 1: no one to put me into the pool when the
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  Speaker 1: water is stirred up. And while I am going, another
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  Speaker 1: steps down before me. Listen carefully. He's standing in front
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  Speaker 1: of the Son of God, the one who holds all
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  Speaker 1: healing in his hands, the one who speaks and blind
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  Speaker 1: eyes see, the one who commands and the dead rise.
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  Speaker 1: And yet his first response isn't faith. It's a complaint.
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  Speaker 1: It's blame. It's I would be healed, but other people
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  Speaker 1: keep getting in my way. And isn't that exactly how
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  Speaker 1: so many of us respond when God offers us real healing.
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  Speaker 1: I would have a stronger faith, but I had a
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  Speaker 1: rough childhood. I would be free from this addiction, but
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  Speaker 1: it's too hard. I would walk away from this toxic relationship,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know if I can make it on
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  Speaker 1: my own. I would get serious about God, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: too busy. We say we want healing, but when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: offers it we start making excuses. The truth is some
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  Speaker 1: of us have been broken for so long that we
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  Speaker 1: don't even know who we would be without our pain.
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  Speaker 1: This man had been sick for nearly four decades. His
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  Speaker 1: entire identity was wrapped up in his condition. If he
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  Speaker 1: was healed, his entire life would change. He couldn't sit
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  Speaker 1: by the pool anymore waiting for someone to feel sorry
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  Speaker 1: for him. He couldn't rely on others to carry him anymore.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't use his sickness as a reason to stay stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Healing meant responsibility, Healing meant transformation. Healing meant no more excuses.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jesus looks at him, looks past all of
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  Speaker 1: his excuses, past all of his complaints, and simply commands,
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  Speaker 1: get up, take up your mat, and walk. And just
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  Speaker 1: like that, the man is healed. No angel came to
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  Speaker 1: stir the water, no one carried him, no one pushed
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  Speaker 1: others out of the way for him. Jesus spoke, and
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  Speaker 1: it was done. But notice something. Jesus didn't help him
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  Speaker 1: into the water. He didn't entertain the man's excuses, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't validate his complaints. He simply gave a command. And
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  Speaker 1: here's the real question. What if the man had refused
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus didn't physically lift him up, he didn't force
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  Speaker 1: him to stand. The man had to respond the moment
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  Speaker 1: he tried, the moment he obeyed, his healing came. But
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  Speaker 1: what if he had looked at Jesus and said, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I've been sick too long. It's too late for me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not strong enough. He would have stayed on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And that is exactly where many of us stay, not
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus doesn't want to heal us, but because we
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  Speaker 1: refuse to move when he tells us to get up.
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  Speaker 1: How many times has Jesus told you to walk away
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  Speaker 1: from sin but you made an excuse. How many times
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  Speaker 1: has he told you to leave the past behind but
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  Speaker 1: you kept replaying your pain. How many times has he
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  Speaker 1: offered you freedom, but you chose what was familiar over
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  Speaker 1: what was better. So now he asks you the same
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  Speaker 1: question he asked that man. Do you want to be healed?
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  Speaker 1: Not just physically, not just emotionally, but spiritually? Because the
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  Speaker 1: truth is, some people don't want healing. They want sympathy,
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  Speaker 1: they want validation. They want to stay broken because at
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  Speaker 1: least their pain gives them an identity. But healing requires change.
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  Speaker 1: If Jesus healed your mind, you couldn't keep living in bitterness.
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  Speaker 1: If he healed your heart, you couldn't keep making excuses
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  Speaker 1: for your sin. If he healed your spirit, you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: keep going through the motions of religion without real transformation.
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  Speaker 1: So ask yourself, honestly, do you want to be healed?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you just want to feel better for a
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  Speaker 1: little while? Because Jesus is standing in front of you
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  Speaker 1: right now with the same offer he made that man.
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  Speaker 1: He isn't asking if you wish things were different. He
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  Speaker 1: isn't asking if you feel bad about your situation. He
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  Speaker 1: is asking if you actually want to be healed. Because
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  Speaker 1: if you do, then it's time to get up. No
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  Speaker 1: more excuses, no more blaming other people, no more waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the right time, no more staying on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus has already spoken healing over your life, get up,
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  Speaker 1: pick up your mat, and walk. The only question left
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  Speaker 1: is will you If Jesus asking do you want to
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  Speaker 1: be healed forced us to confront our excuses, then what
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  Speaker 1: he asks next forces us to confront our priorities. Because
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  Speaker 1: even after healing, even after breakthrough. Even after seeing the
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  Speaker 1: power of God in our lives, we still have a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous habit of chasing the wrong things. We convince ourselves
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  Speaker 1: that if we just had more, more success, more money,
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  Speaker 1: more recognition, more security, then we would finally feel complete.
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  Speaker 1: But then Jesus asks a question that shatters that illusion completely.
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  Speaker 1: What good is it to gain the whole world yet
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  Speaker 1: forfeit your soul. This question is not just about material wealth,
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  Speaker 1: It is about where your heart truly is. What are
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  Speaker 1: you chasing? What is your deepest pursuit? Is it God
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  Speaker 1: or is it something else? Because at the end of
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  Speaker 1: your life, when you stand before God, what will all
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  Speaker 1: of it have been for? Imagine a man who has everything.
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  Speaker 1: He is respected, wealthy, admired. He has built a life
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  Speaker 1: full of accomplishments. He owns properties, he has a thriving career.
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  Speaker 1: He is secure in every worldly sense, and yet his
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  Speaker 1: soul is empty. He spent his entire life climbing the ladder,
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  Speaker 1: only to realize at the top that he was leaning
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  Speaker 1: against the wrong wall. This is the true tragedy of
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  Speaker 1: misplaced priorities. Jesus asks this question because he knows the
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  Speaker 1: deception of worldly success. He knows how easy it is
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  Speaker 1: to believe that if we just had a little more,
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  Speaker 1: we would finally be satisfied. But the truth is the
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  Speaker 1: world will never be enough. You can achieve everything you
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  Speaker 1: ever wanted and still wake up feeling lost. You can
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  Speaker 1: have the admiration of millions and still feel unseen. You
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  Speaker 1: can build an empire and still lose your soul in
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  Speaker 1: the process. And that is exactly what Jesus wants against,
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  Speaker 1: because when you are chasing after the world, you are
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  Speaker 1: chasing after something that will never last. Your money, it
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  Speaker 1: will fade your success. Someone else will take your place,
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  Speaker 1: your possessions, they will rot rust and be forgotten. Your influence,
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  Speaker 1: it will die with you. But your soul, your eternal soul,
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  Speaker 1: that is the one thing you cannot afford to lose.
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  Speaker 1: So let's be real. What are you sacrificing your soul for.
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  Speaker 1: Are you working yourself to exhaustion chasing financial security while
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  Speaker 1: neglecting your relationship with God. Are you so focused on
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  Speaker 1: gaining status, approval, or recognition that you have drifted further
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  Speaker 1: from the presence of God. Are you living in pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of things that will not matter in eternity? Because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is asking what good is it? What good is it
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  Speaker 1: to build a life that impresses people but disappoints God.
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  Speaker 1: What good is it to achieve everything you ever wanted
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  Speaker 1: but drift further from the one who created you. What
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  Speaker 1: good is it to gain the world but lose the
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  Speaker 1: very thing that matters most. The scariest part is that
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  Speaker 1: many people don't realize they are losing their soul until
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  Speaker 1: it's too late. They spend years building their career, only
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  Speaker 1: to realize they sacrifice their family and the process. They
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  Speaker 1: chase after relationships that seem fulfilling, only to realize they
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  Speaker 1: lost themselves along the way. They pour their time, energy,
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  Speaker 1: and devotion into things that have no eternal value, and
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  Speaker 1: in the end they have nothing left. So Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: not just asking this question as a warning. He is
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  Speaker 1: giving you a wake up call. Look at your life,
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  Speaker 1: Look at your pursuits. Look at what consumes your time,
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts, your energy. Are you storing up treasures in
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  Speaker 1: heaven or are you just building temporary success on earth?
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  Speaker 1: Are you walking toward God's purpose or are you just
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  Speaker 1: following what feels good in the moment. Are you living
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  Speaker 1: like this life is all there is? Or are you
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  Speaker 1: investing in what actually lasts forever? Because the truth is
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  Speaker 1: this world is passing away. Your job, your reputation, your
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  Speaker 1: bank account, none of it will follow you into eternity,
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  Speaker 1: but your soul. Your soul is eternal, and Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: t telling you now, do not trade something eternal for
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  Speaker 1: something temporary, because this is exactly what Satan wants you
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  Speaker 1: to do. He wants you so distracted by success that
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  Speaker 1: you forget about your soul. He wants you chasing after money, influence, validation,
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  Speaker 1: because he knows that if he can keep you focused
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  Speaker 1: on earthly things, you will never realize you are losing
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  Speaker 1: the most valuable thing you have. And the enemy doesn't
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  Speaker 1: always take your soul by force. He convinces you to
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  Speaker 1: hand it over, one compromise at a time. One more
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  Speaker 1: late night at the office instead of time with God,
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  Speaker 1: one more priority that pushes prayer further down your list,
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  Speaker 1: one more decision based on what benefits you now instead
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  Speaker 1: of what will matter in eternity, and before you know it,
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  Speaker 1: you are living for this world instead of the next.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you, is it worth it? And
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  Speaker 1: is what you are chasing your soul is the success?
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  Speaker 1: The validation, the comfort, the approval. Is it really worth
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  Speaker 1: it if it costs you the one thing that actually lasts?
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  Speaker 1: Because Jesus is not saying you cannot work hard, He's
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  Speaker 1: not saying you cannot have wealth, influence, or success. But
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  Speaker 1: he's asking you this, what is your soul worth to you?
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  Speaker 1: What if instead of chasing success, you chased God's presence.
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  Speaker 1: What if instead of focusing on wealth, you focused on
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  Speaker 1: spiritual riches. What if instead of working for things that
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  Speaker 1: will fade, you started investing in the things that last forever.
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  Speaker 1: Because at the end of your life, there is only
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  Speaker 1: one thing that will matter, not your money, not your achievements,
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  Speaker 1: not your status, only one thing. Did you live for Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: Or did you trade your soul for a world that
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  Speaker 1: was never meant to last? And so now Jesus asks
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  Speaker 1: you what good is it? And now it's your turn
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  Speaker 1: to answer. If Jesus asking what good is it to
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  Speaker 1: gain the world and lose your soul forced us to
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  Speaker 1: confront our priorities, then what he asks next forces us
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  Speaker 1: to confront our obedience. Because he is the truth. Many
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  Speaker 1: people say they follow Jesus, but their lives tell a
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  Speaker 1: very different story. They claim him as Lord, but they
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  Speaker 1: live as if they are their own master. They love
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  Speaker 1: the idea of salvation, but they reject the cost of discipleship.
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  Speaker 1: They sing about surrender, but in reality they have surrendered nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jesus asks a question that shakes the very
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  Speaker 1: foundation of false faith. Why do you call me Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Lord and not do what I say? Imagine hearing these
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  Speaker 1: words straight from Jesus mouth. He isn't speaking to strangers.
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  Speaker 1: He is speaking to those who claim to know him.
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  Speaker 1: People who gather around him, listen to his teachings, even
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  Speaker 1: call him Lord. And yet their actions prove that their
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  Speaker 1: loyalty is only in words, not in surrender. And so
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  Speaker 1: he asks, why why do you claim me as your
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  Speaker 1: lord but refuse to obey me. Why do you sing
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  Speaker 1: about my name but ignore my commands? Why do you
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  Speaker 1: pray to me for guidance but only listen when it
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  Speaker 1: aligns with what you already want. This is the great
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  Speaker 1: deception of modern Christianity. People love the title of being
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  Speaker 1: a believer, but they don't want the lifestyle of a disciple.
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  Speaker 1: They love grace, but they reject repentance. They love the
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  Speaker 1: idea of heaven, but they refuse to let go of
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  Speaker 1: the world, and Jesus is exposing the truth. Calling him
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  Speaker 1: lord means nothing if you do not obey him. Think
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  Speaker 1: about it. In any other area of life, obedience proves loyalty.
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  Speaker 1: If a soldier calls their commander sir, but refuses to
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  Speaker 1: follow orders, are they truly submitted? If an employee calls
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  Speaker 1: their boss leader but constantly ignores instructions, are they truly
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  Speaker 1: working under them? If a child calls someone father but
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  Speaker 1: never listens to his direction, are they truly honoring him? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Why do so many people believe they can call Jesus
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  Speaker 1: lord and yet live as if his words don't matter.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is many people love the idea of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: but not the authority of Jesus. They want a savior,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't want a king. They want forgiveness, but
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  Speaker 1: they don't want transformation. They want to be blessed, but
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to be changed. And Jesus is saying
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  Speaker 1: you cannot have one without the other. Because to call
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  Speaker 1: him lord is to recognize that he is above you.
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  Speaker 1: His words carry weight, his commands are not suggestions. His
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  Speaker 1: will is not up for negotiation. So here is the
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  Speaker 1: real question. Are you following Jesus, or are you just
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  Speaker 1: calling him lord without meaning it? What in your life
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  Speaker 1: shows that he is actually your master? What decisions have
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  Speaker 1: you made because he told you to, even when you
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to. What sins have you walked away from
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: because his words convicted you? What sacrifices have you made
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  Speaker 1: because obedience mattered more than comfort? Because Jesus is not
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  Speaker 1: impressed by empty words, He is not moved by religious performances.
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  Speaker 1: He is not swayed by how well you pretend to
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  Speaker 1: follow him. He looks at your heart, he looks at
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  Speaker 1: your actions, and if your obedience does not match your confession,
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  Speaker 1: then your faith is just a performance. Jesus drives this
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  Speaker 1: point home with a parable He compares two types of people,
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  Speaker 1: both of whom hear his words, but only one obeys.
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  Speaker 1: The one who puts his words into action is like
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  Speaker 1: a man who builds his house on a solid foundation.
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  Speaker 1: When the storm comes, the house stands because it was
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  Speaker 1: built on obedience. But the one who hears the words
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  Speaker 1: but does not obey is like a man who builds
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  Speaker 1: his house on sand, and when the storm comes, the
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  Speaker 1: house collapses. And that is exactly what happens to many
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  Speaker 1: people who call Jesus Lord, but do not obey him.
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  Speaker 1: They look like believers on the outside. Their faith appears
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  Speaker 1: strong when everything is good, but the moment a storm comes,
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  Speaker 1: their foundation is exposed. Because a faith that is built
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  Speaker 1: on words without obedience is a faith that will not stand.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you what foundation are you building
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  Speaker 1: your life on. Is it a foundation of true surrender
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  Speaker 1: or just religious routine. Is it a foundation of obedience
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  Speaker 1: or just empty words? Is it a foundation that will
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  Speaker 1: stand when the storm comes? Or will it crumble because
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  Speaker 1: it was built on sand? Because the truth is storms
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  Speaker 1: will come, trials, temptations, losses, struggles. They will test your faith,
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  Speaker 1: and when they do, your real foundation will be revealed.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus is warning you it is not enough to
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  Speaker 1: call him lord. You must live as if he is.
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  Speaker 1: So now he asks you personally, why do you call
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  Speaker 1: me Lord Lord and not do what I say? And
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: now it's your turn to answer. If Jesus's last question,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: why do you call me Lord Lord and not do
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  Speaker 1: what I say? Forced us to confront the truth about obedience,
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  Speaker 1: then his next question forces us to confront the truth
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  Speaker 1: about mercy. Because while some people claim to follow Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: but refuse to obey him. Others are trapped in the
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  Speaker 1: belief that they have fallen too far to be redeemed.
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  Speaker 1: They carry shame like a weight on their shoulders, guilt
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  Speaker 1: like a chain around their neck. They believe the lies
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy that whisper you are too dirty, you
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  Speaker 1: are too broken, God can never forgive you. And so,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: in the middle of their shame, in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: their failure, Jesus asks a question that silences the voices
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  Speaker 1: of condemnation forever, Where are your accusers? This is one
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  Speaker 1: of the most powerful moments in scripture. A woman caught
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  Speaker 1: in adultery is dragged into the temple courts by the
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  Speaker 1: religious leaders. They throw her onto the ground in front
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. She is humiliated, exposed, completely vulnerable. Her sin
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  Speaker 1: is out in the open for all to see. The
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees don't care about her. They care about trapping Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and so they ask teacher. The Law of Moses says
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  Speaker 1: we should stone such a woman. What do you say?
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  Speaker 1: This is a trap. If Jesus says, let her go,
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  Speaker 1: they will accuse him of breaking the law. If he says,
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  Speaker 1: stone her, he will lose his reputation as a teacher
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  Speaker 1: of grace and mercy. They think they have backed him
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  Speaker 1: into a corner, But instead of responding immediately, Jesus does
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  Speaker 1: something unexpected. He bends down and starts writing in the
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  Speaker 1: dust silence. The religious leaders are waiting for an answer.
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  Speaker 1: The woman is trembling, waiting for the first stone to
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  Speaker 1: be thrown. The crowd watches, holding their breath, but Jesus
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  Speaker 1: says nothing. He simply writes, and then finally he speaks,
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  Speaker 1: Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone,
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  Speaker 1: and one by one they walk away. The woman, who
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  Speaker 1: just moments ago was certain her life was over, is
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  Speaker 1: now left standing alone with Jesus. No more crowd, no
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  Speaker 1: more accusers, no more voices of condemnation, just her and
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  Speaker 1: the Son of God. And that's when he asks her,
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  Speaker 1: where are your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you?
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  Speaker 1: And she responds, no one, Lord, And Jesus says, neither
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  Speaker 1: do I go and sin no more. Let this sink in.
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  Speaker 1: The only person in that crowd who was actually without sin,
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  Speaker 1: the only person who had the right to throw a stone,
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  Speaker 1: chose mercy instead. Now look at your own life. How
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  Speaker 1: many times have you stood where this woman stood broken, ashamed,
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  Speaker 1: feeling unworthy of grace. How many times have you heard
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  Speaker 1: the enemy whisper God could never forgive you for this?
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  Speaker 1: How many times have you felt like your sin was
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: too great, too dark, too unforgivable. And yet Jesus looks
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  Speaker 1: at you and asks where are your accusers? Because the
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  Speaker 1: moment you stand before him, every accusation of the enemy
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  Speaker 1: loses its power. The voice that says you are too
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  Speaker 1: broken silenced. The voice that says you will never change silenced.
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  Speaker 1: The voice that says you are beyond saving silenced. Because
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  Speaker 1: if Jesus does not condemn you, then no one else
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  Speaker 1: has the right to. But here's what you need to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did not ignore the woman's sin. He acknowledged it.
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  Speaker 1: He did not say what you did was okay. He said,
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  Speaker 1: go and sin no more. He showed her mercy, but
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  Speaker 1: he also called her to transformation. And that is the
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  Speaker 1: heart of the gospel. Grace and truth, mercy and holiness,
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness and repentance. Jesus meets you where you are, but
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't leave you there. He doesn't shame you, but
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  Speaker 1: he does call you higher. He forgives you, but he
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  Speaker 1: also commands you to walk in newness of life. So
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you, are you still listening to your accusers?
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Or are you listening to Jesus? Are you still carrying
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  Speaker 1: the weight of guilt that he has already removed? Are
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  Speaker 1: you still believing the lie that you are beyond redemption?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still hiding from God when he is standing
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  Speaker 1: before you offering you freedom? Because the enemy wants nothing
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  Speaker 1: more than to keep you trapped in your past. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to keep you believing that you are too dirty,
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  Speaker 1: too unworthy, too far gone. But Jesus is standing right
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  Speaker 1: in front of you, asking where are your accusers? Look around,
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  Speaker 1: they are gone. The Cross has silenced them forever. So
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  Speaker 1: now he gives you the same command he gave that woman,
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  Speaker 1: Go and sin no more. Not go and be perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but go and walk in the freedom I have given you.
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  Speaker 1: Not go and try harder, but go and live in
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  Speaker 1: the grace I have poured over you. Not go and
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  Speaker 1: carry shame, but go and be free. Because if Jesus
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  Speaker 1: himself does not condemn you, then why are you still
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  Speaker 1: condemning yourself? So now he asks you again, where are
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  Speaker 1: your accusers? And now it's your turn to answer. If
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: jesus last questquestion, where are your accusers? Taught us that
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  Speaker 1: grace frees us from condemnation. Then his next question forces
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  Speaker 1: us to confront something that keeps many of us enslaved
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  Speaker 1: in fear worry, because even after receiving mercy, even after
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  Speaker 1: experiencing God's love, we still find ourselves consumed by anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: We stress over finances, we panic over the future. We
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  Speaker 1: stay awake at night, replaying our problems over and over again,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: as if worrying will somehow fix anything. And so, in
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  Speaker 1: one of the most direct and challenging moments of his teaching,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Jesus asks, why do you worry about what you will
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  Speaker 1: eat or what you will wear? Now? Think about this.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is speaking to real people with real needs. He
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  Speaker 1: isn't talking to the rich, He isn't addressing people with
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: financial security or full pantries. He is talking to people
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  Speaker 1: who literally didn't know where their next meal would come from,
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  Speaker 1: people whose daily life lives were a struggle for survival.
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  Speaker 1: And yet he tells them not to worry. For us
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to day, the worries might look different. You may not
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  Speaker 1: be wondering where your next meal is coming from, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're worrying about paying rent, getting a better job,
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  Speaker 1: providing for your family, or securing your future. Maybe you're
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  Speaker 1: consumed by the anxiety of what if? What if I
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  Speaker 1: don't have enough, what if I lose what I have?
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  Speaker 1: What if things don't work out? And Jesus asks, why
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  Speaker 1: why are you consumed by fear of the future when
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: your father is the one who holds it. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you stress about provision when you serve a god who
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: calls himself Jehovah jire, the Lord who provides? Why do
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you let anxiety rule your mind? When Jesus himself said,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: your heavenly father knows what you need before you even ask.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Jesus points to the birds of the air. They do
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  Speaker 1: not plant, they do not harvest, They do not st
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  Speaker 1: bress over supply chains or economic collapse, and yet God
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  Speaker 1: feeds them. Then he looks at the flowers of the field.
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  Speaker 1: They do not sew clothing for themselves, They do not
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  Speaker 1: stress about fashion trends or appearances, and yet God clothes
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  Speaker 1: them in beauty greater than Solomon's royal robes. And then
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  Speaker 1: comes the question that pierces through every anxious heart. Are
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: you not worth more than they do? You? Really believe
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  Speaker 1: that God, who takes care of birds and flowers, will
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  Speaker 1: not take care of you. Let that sink in because
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: at its core, worry is not just an emotion. It
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: is misplaced faith. You are either trusting that God will
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  Speaker 1: provide or you are trusting in your own ability to
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  Speaker 1: figure things out. You are either living with the peace
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  Speaker 1: of knowing He is in control, or you are living
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  Speaker 1: with the burden of thinking it all depends on you.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus is saying, you do not have to live
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  Speaker 1: this way. But let's be real. This question is hard
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  Speaker 1: because worry feels so natural. It feels like something we
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  Speaker 1: can't help. We worry because life is uncertain, because problems
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  Speaker 1: are real, because the future is unknown. But Jesus is
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: not telling us to ignore reality. He is not saying
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  Speaker 1: pretend like problems don't exist. What he is saying is
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: you don't have to let worry control you because worry
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  Speaker 1: does not add a single moment to your life. It
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: does not solve your problems, It does not provide. It
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  Speaker 1: only steals. It steals your peace, it steals your joy,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: It steals your ability to trust God fully. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is asking, why, why are you allowing something that steals
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: from you to dominate your life. Why are you spending
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: your energy on something that has never made things better?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Why are you living like an orphan, as if you
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: don't have a father in heaven who is watching over you.
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  Speaker 1: Because here's the truth. Worry is not just a bad habit.
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  Speaker 1: It is an attack on your faith. Satan loves to
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  Speaker 1: use worry to keep you distracted, because as long as
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  Speaker 1: you are consumed by fear, you cannot walk in faith.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you are focused on what you lack,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot see how God is providing. As long as
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  Speaker 1: you are doubting the future, you cannot fully trust the
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  Speaker 1: one who already holds it. And so Jesus gives the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
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  Speaker 1: all these things will be added to you. Seek first,
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  Speaker 1: not seek security first, Not seek money first, Not seek
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  Speaker 1: comfort first. Seek God first, because when your focus is
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  Speaker 1: on him, worry loses its power. When your heart is
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  Speaker 1: fully surrendered to him, you realize you are already taken
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  Speaker 1: care of. And that is what Jesus is calling you to.
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  Speaker 1: A life free from the weight of anxiety. Not because
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  Speaker 1: everything is easy, not because there are no challenges. But
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  Speaker 1: because you know who your father is, so now Jesus
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  Speaker 1: asks you the same question, why do you worry? And
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  Speaker 1: now it's your turn to answer. If jesus question, why
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  Speaker 1: do you worry about what you will eat or wear?
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  Speaker 1: Challenged us to confront the root of our anxiety, then
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  Speaker 1: his next question forces us to confront the illusion of control.
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  Speaker 1: Because behind every worry, every sleepless night, and every anxious
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  Speaker 1: thought is the belief that somehow we can control the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: We convince ourselves that if we just plan enough, if
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  Speaker 1: we just think about it enough, if we just prepare
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  Speaker 1: for every possible scenario, then maybe, just maybe, we can
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  Speaker 1: control what happens. But Jesus looks at us, with all
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  Speaker 1: our stress and mental exhaustion and asks a question that
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  Speaker 1: pierces right through the heart of our fear. Can any
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  Speaker 1: of you add a single hour to your life life
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  Speaker 1: by worrying? Think about this for a moment. Worry feels
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  Speaker 1: like doing something, It feels like taking action. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like we are solving problems, preparing for the worst, staying
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  Speaker 1: one step ahead. But in reality, worry accomplishes nothing, It
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  Speaker 1: changes nothing, It cannot add a single hour to our life.
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  Speaker 1: It cannot change the future, It cannot solve a single problem.
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  Speaker 1: It is an illusion. Imagine a person standing in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a raging storm. They are panicking, screaming, waving
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  Speaker 1: their arms, and worrying themselves sick, and yet none of
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  Speaker 1: it calms the storm, none of it changes the weather.
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  Speaker 1: The storm rages on, unaffected by their worry. And that
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what worry is like. It gives you the
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  Speaker 1: illusion of control without actually providing any real power. Worry
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  Speaker 1: is like running on a treadmill. You are exerting energy,
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  Speaker 1: you are moving, you are sweating, but you are not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. You are spending your mental and emotional energy
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  Speaker 1: on something that is ultimately powerless to change the situation.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus asks, why why are you spending your time
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  Speaker 1: and energy on something that has never brought you peace?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you giving your mind over to something that
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  Speaker 1: has never solved a problem. Why are you letting anxiety
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  Speaker 1: rob you of the present when it can do absolutely
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  Speaker 1: nothing to change the future. The truth is worry is
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  Speaker 1: a thief. It steals your focus, it steals your joy,
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  Speaker 1: it steals your ability to be fully present in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: and worst of all, it steals your trust in God,
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  Speaker 1: because behind every anxious thought is the belief that God
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  Speaker 1: cannot be trusted to take care of you. We don't
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  Speaker 1: like to admit this, but it's true. When we worry,
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  Speaker 1: we are essentially saying, God, I don't try trust you
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  Speaker 1: to handle this, so I have to figure it out
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  Speaker 1: on my own. We are taking the weight of the
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  Speaker 1: world onto our own shoulders, as if we are the
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  Speaker 1: ones in control. But here's the truth. You are not
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  Speaker 1: in control. You never have been, you never will be.
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  Speaker 1: And that is not a weakness. That is a relief
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  Speaker 1: because the one who is in control is infinitely more powerful,
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  Speaker 1: more loving, and more capable than we could ever be.
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  Speaker 1: Think about this. The God who spoke the universe into existence,
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  Speaker 1: the one who holds the stars in place, the one
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  Speaker 1: who controls the wind and the waves. That same God
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  Speaker 1: is the one who holds your life in his hands.
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  Speaker 1: And if he can control the cosmos, don't you think
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  Speaker 1: he can handle the details of your life. Worry is
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  Speaker 1: rooted in the fear that God won't get it right.
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  Speaker 1: It's rooted in the fear that his plan might not
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  Speaker 1: to line with our plan. But the truth is God's
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  Speaker 1: plan is always better. Even when it doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 1: in the moment. Look at the stories in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph was betrayed, sold into slavery, and thrown into prison
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  Speaker 1: for years. He had every reason to worry about his future,
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  Speaker 1: but God was working behind the scenes to position him
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  Speaker 1: for a purpose far greater than he could have imagined.
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  Speaker 1: What looked like disaster was actually preparation for destiny. Think
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  Speaker 1: about Daniel in the Lion's den. The natural response would
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  Speaker 1: be to panic, to worry, to try to find a
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  Speaker 1: way out, but Daniel trusted God even in the face
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  Speaker 1: of death, and God shut the mouths of the lions.
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  Speaker 1: What looked like a death sentence turned into a divine deliverance.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's Jesus himself. On the night before his crucifixion,
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  Speaker 1: he prayed aid in the garden of Gethsemone, overwhelmed with sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but instead of letting anxiety take over, he surrendered completely
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  Speaker 1: to the Father's will, and what looked like the greatest
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  Speaker 1: defeat in history, the cross, became the greatest victory of
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  Speaker 1: all time. So let me ask you, what storm in
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  Speaker 1: your life are you trying to control through worry? What
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  Speaker 1: situation are you replaying over and over in your mind,
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  Speaker 1: hoping that somehow your anxiety will change the outcome. What
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  Speaker 1: fear is stealing your peace, your focus, and your ability
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  Speaker 1: to trust god fully. Because Jesus is asking you now,
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  Speaker 1: can any of you add a single hour to your
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  Speaker 1: life by worrying? The answer is no, Worry cannot add
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  Speaker 1: to your life. It can only take away. It can
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  Speaker 1: take away your peace, It can take away your joy,
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  Speaker 1: It can take away your ability to see God's hand
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  Speaker 1: at work. So what if instead of trying to control
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  Speaker 1: the storm, you surrender to the one who controlled it.
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  Speaker 1: What if instead of letting anxiety run your mind, you
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  Speaker 1: let trust in God anchor your heart. What if instead
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  Speaker 1: of worrying about the future, you placed your future in
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  Speaker 1: the hands of the one who has already written it.
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  Speaker 1: Because the truth is, you cannot add to your life
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  Speaker 1: by worrying, but you can add to your life by
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  Speaker 1: trusting God. You can add peace, you can add strength,
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  Speaker 1: you can add confidence in His love and power. So
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  Speaker 1: now Jesus asks you, can any of you add a
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  Speaker 1: single hour to your life by worrying? And now it's
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  Speaker 1: your turn to answer. If Jesus last question, can any
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  Speaker 1: of you add a single hour? To your life by
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  Speaker 1: worrying forced us to confront the illusion of control. Then
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  Speaker 1: his next question forces us to confront the illusion of
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  Speaker 1: self righteousness. Because while many of us struggle with anxiety
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  Speaker 1: over our own lives, there is another dangerous tendency. We
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  Speaker 1: all have the tendency to focus on other people's flaws
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  Speaker 1: while ignoring our own. We are quick to judge, quick
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  Speaker 1: to criticize, quick to point out what others are doing wrong,
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  Speaker 1: all while overlooking the sin in our own hearts. And
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  Speaker 1: so Jesus in a way that only he can, exposes
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  Speaker 1: this hypocrisy with a piercing question, why do you look
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  Speaker 1: at the speck in your brother's eye but ignore the
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  Speaker 1: plank in your own? Imagine the scene. A man is
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  Speaker 1: walking around pointing at tiny dust particles in other people's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He is focused, he is observant, he is eager to
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  Speaker 1: correct them, and yet somehow he does not realize that
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  Speaker 1: he has a massive wooden plank sticking out of his
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  Speaker 1: own eye. It is ridiculous, it is comical, and yet
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  Speaker 1: this is exactly what many of us do. We magnify
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  Speaker 1: the small mistakes of others while being blind to our
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  Speaker 1: own massive failures. We judge others for their sins while
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  Speaker 1: excusing our own as not that bad. We demand accountability
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  Speaker 1: from others while refusing to take a hard look at ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus asks why why are you so quick to
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  Speaker 1: see what is wrong with someone else, but so slow
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  Speaker 1: to recognize your own brokenness. Why do you feel justified
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  Speaker 1: in condemning others when you are standing before God just
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  Speaker 1: as in need of mercy. Why do you elevate yourself
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  Speaker 1: as the judge when the only true judge is God himself.
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  Speaker 1: This question is not just about judging others. It is
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  Speaker 1: about the blindness of self righteousness. Because self righteousness is deceptive.
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  Speaker 1: It convinces us that we are fine while others are
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  Speaker 1: the problem. It keeps us from seeing our own flaws
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  Speaker 1: because it is easier to focus on what everyone else
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  Speaker 1: is doing wrong. Think it. It is always easier to
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  Speaker 1: recognize someone else's pride than to admit our own. It
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  Speaker 1: is always easier to call out someone else's selfishness than
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  Speaker 1: to confront our own motives. It is always easier to
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  Speaker 1: notice another person's dishonesty than to deal with the ways
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  Speaker 1: we twist the truth in our own favor. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is saying, before you try to fix someone else, fix yourself,
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  Speaker 1: because here's the truth. You cannot correct what you refuse
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  Speaker 1: to confess. You cannot help someone see clearly when you
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  Speaker 1: yourself are blind. You cannot bring wisdom to others when
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  Speaker 1: you have not humbled yourself before God. You cannot truly
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  Speaker 1: love people when your heart is full of judgment instead
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  Speaker 1: of grace. But let's be honest. We don't like looking
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  Speaker 1: in the mirror. We don't like admitting our own faults.
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  Speaker 1: It is uncomfortable, it is humbling, and yet it is
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  Speaker 1: necessary because if we refuse to see our own sin,
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  Speaker 1: we will live under the illusion of righteousness while our
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  Speaker 1: hearts are actually far from God. Look at the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: They were experts at pointing out the sins of others.
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  Speaker 1: They held people to the highest standards, condemned them for
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  Speaker 1: their failures, and believed themselves to be superior. And yet
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  Speaker 1: when they stood before Jesus, he exposed their blindness. He
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  Speaker 1: told them that on the outside they looked holy, but
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  Speaker 1: on the inside they were full of hypocrisy and corruption.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the danger for all of us. You
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  Speaker 1: can go to church every Sunday, you can know scripture
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  Speaker 1: forward and backward. You can have a reputation for being
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  Speaker 1: a godly person. And yet if your heart is filled
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  Speaker 1: with judgment instead of mercy, criticism instead of humility, pride
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  Speaker 1: instead of repentance, then you are no different than the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus is asking you now, what sin in your
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  Speaker 1: own life have you been ignoring while focusing on the
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  Speaker 1: failures of others? What pride has blinded you to your
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  Speaker 1: own need for grace? What plank have you refused to
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  Speaker 1: remove from your own eye? Because here's what happens when
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  Speaker 1: you actually take jesus words seriously. Everything changes. When you
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  Speaker 1: recognize your own sin, you become slower to judge others.
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  Speaker 1: When you realize how much grace you have received, you
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  Speaker 1: extend that same grace to others. When you humble yourself
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  Speaker 1: before God, you stop elevating yourself above others, and then
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  Speaker 1: something even greater happens. You become a true help to others.
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  Speaker 1: Because Jesus never said ignore your brother's speck. He said,
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  Speaker 1: first remove the plank from your own eye. Then you
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  Speaker 1: will see clearly to help your brother. Do you see
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  Speaker 1: the difference? Jesus isn't saying we should never correct others.
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  Speaker 1: He is saying, we must be chained first, because a
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  Speaker 1: person who has been humbled before God, a person who
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  Speaker 1: has recognized their own sin and received grace, that is
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  Speaker 1: the person who can truly help someone else, not out
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  Speaker 1: of judgment, but out of love, not out of pride,
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  Speaker 1: but out of compassion, Not with condemnation, but with gentleness
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  Speaker 1: and truth. So now Jesus is asking you, why do
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  Speaker 1: you look at the speck in your brother's eye but
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  Speaker 1: ignore the plank in your own? And now it's your
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  Speaker 1: turn to answer. If jesus last question, why do you
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  Speaker 1: look at the speck in your brother's eye but ignore
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  Speaker 1: the plank in your own forced us to confront our
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  Speaker 1: blindness to our own faults, then his next question forces
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  Speaker 1: us to confront a deeper blindness, one that keeps us
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  Speaker 1: from truly understanding God's ways. Because while it is easy
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  Speaker 1: to see other people's mistakes and failures, there is another
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  Speaker 1: kind of blindness that is far more dangerous, spiritual blindness.
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  Speaker 1: It is the inability to see what God is doing,
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  Speaker 1: to recognize his truth, to grasp his heart. And so,
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  Speaker 1: after performing miracles, after teaching his disciples again and again,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus looks at them, his closest followers, the ones who
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  Speaker 1: have seen it all, and asks a question that is
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  Speaker 1: filled with both challenge and frustration. Do you still not understand?
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  Speaker 1: This moment happens after Jesus has performed two incredible miracles.
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  Speaker 1: He has just fed five thousand people with five loaves
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  Speaker 1: and two fish, and then shortly after he feeds four
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  Speaker 1: thousand more with just seven loaves. The disciples have witnessed
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  Speaker 1: bread multiply in their own hands. They have seen Jesus
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  Speaker 1: do the impossible, not once, but twice, and yet immediately after,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus warns them about the yeaes of the Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: they completely miss the point. Instead of understanding the deeper
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  Speaker 1: meaning behind Jesus words, they start whispering among themselves, thinking
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  Speaker 1: he is upset because they forgot to bring bread. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: this scene. They are sitting in a boat with the
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  Speaker 1: Son of God, the one who has just proven twice
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  Speaker 1: that lack is never an issue for him, and yet
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  Speaker 1: they are worried about not having enough bread. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the moment when Jesus, probably shaking his head, says
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  Speaker 1: do you still not understand? Do you still not understand?
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  Speaker 1: Who I? Am Do you still not understand that I
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  Speaker 1: am your provider? Do you still not understand that you
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  Speaker 1: are focusing on the wrong thing? And this question is
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  Speaker 1: not just for the Disciples, it is for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: How many times has God provided for you only for
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  Speaker 1: you to panic the next time you face a need?
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  Speaker 1: How many times has God been faithful only for you
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  Speaker 1: to doubt him when things get difficult? How many times
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  Speaker 1: has God answered your prayers only for you to forget
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  Speaker 1: his goodness the moment, another problem arises, and Jesus is asking,
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  Speaker 1: do you still not understand? Do you still not understand
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  Speaker 1: that I am the same God who provided for you before,
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  Speaker 1: and I will do it again. Do you still not
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  Speaker 1: understand that I have never failed you and I never will.
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  Speaker 1: Do you still not understand that your fear is unnecessary
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  Speaker 1: because I am in control? The truth is, many of
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  Speaker 1: us suffer from spiritual amnesia. We forget what God has done,
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  Speaker 1: We forget the miracles we've seen, we forget the prayers
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  Speaker 1: He has answered. And because of this we keep making
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  Speaker 1: the same mistake as the Disciples. We focus on the
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  Speaker 1: wrong thing. Think about it. Jesus was warning them about
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  Speaker 1: the dangerous, corrupting influence of the pharisees teachings, but all
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  Speaker 1: they could think about was their empty stomachs. How often
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  Speaker 1: do we do the same. God is trying to show
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  Speaker 1: us something deeper, but we are focused on temporary worries.
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  Speaker 1: God is speaking about eternal matters, but we are consumed
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  Speaker 1: with earthly concerns. God is calling us to see the
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  Speaker 1: bigger picture, but we are stuck worrying about what is
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  Speaker 1: right in front of us. And Jesus is asking, why
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  Speaker 1: why are you still missing the point? Why are you
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  Speaker 1: still worried about things that I have already taken care of?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you still acting like you don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I am? This question is not meant to condemn us.
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  Speaker 1: It is meant to wake us up, because spiritual blindness
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  Speaker 1: is dangerous. The Pharisees were spiritually blind, and it kept
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  Speaker 1: them from recognizing the Son of God standing right in
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  Speaker 1: front of them. The crowds were spiritually blind, and they
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  Speaker 1: only followed Jesus for what he could do for them,
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  Speaker 1: rather than who he was. Even the Disciples struggle with
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  Speaker 1: spiritual blindness. Even though they walked with Jesus daily, they
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  Speaker 1: still missed what he was trying to show them. So
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you, are you spiritually blind in any
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  Speaker 1: area of your life? Are you still living as if
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  Speaker 1: God has to prove himself to you again and again?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still doubting him even after everything he has
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  Speaker 1: already done for you? Because here's the truth. Spiritual blindness
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  Speaker 1: is not about intelligence. It is about trust. You can
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  Speaker 1: have all the knowledge in the world and still not
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  Speaker 1: understand God's ways. You can have a religious background and
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  Speaker 1: still miss the heart of Jesus. You can go to church,
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  Speaker 1: read the Bible, even serve in ministry, and still be
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  Speaker 1: spiritually blind. So Jesus is asking you to day, do
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  Speaker 1: you still not understand? Do you still not understand that
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  Speaker 1: I am faithful? Do you still not understand that I
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  Speaker 1: am your provider, your protector, your source of strength. Do
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  Speaker 1: you still not understand that I Am leading you even
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  Speaker 1: when you don't see the full picture? Because if you
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  Speaker 1: truly understood this, your fear would disappear, your doubt would fade,
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  Speaker 1: your worry would lose its power because you would finally
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  Speaker 1: see Jesus for who he truly is. So now Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is looking at you, and he is asking do you
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  Speaker 1: still not understand? And now it's your turn? To answer.
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  Speaker 1: If jesus last question, do you still not understand? Forced
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: us to confront the blindness of our own hearts, then
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: his next question forces us to confront the cost of
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: truly following him. Because while many people are eager to
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  Speaker 1: receive blessings from Jesus, not everyone is willing to stay
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  Speaker 1: when things get difficult. This moment happens in John six,
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  Speaker 1: and it is one of the most heart breaking turning
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  Speaker 1: points in jesus ministry. Up until this point, crowd had
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  Speaker 1: been flocking to him. They had seen his miracles, they
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  Speaker 1: had been amazed by his power. They loved the idea
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  Speaker 1: of following Jesus until it required something deeper. And then
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  Speaker 1: when he spoke a hard truth, they walked away, and Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: watching them leave, turned to the Twelve Disciples and asked
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  Speaker 1: a question that echoes through every generation. Will you also
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  Speaker 1: leave me? This is not just a question for the twelve,
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  Speaker 1: It is a question for every believer who has ever
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  Speaker 1: faced the reality of what it truly means to follow Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Because let's be honest, it is easy to follow Jesus
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  Speaker 1: when things are good. It is easy to praise him
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  Speaker 1: when prayers are answered, when miracles happen when we feel
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  Speaker 1: his presence. But what happens when faith gets hard? What
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  Speaker 1: happens when God's plan doesn't make sense? What happens when
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: following Jesus costs you relationships, opportunities, or comfort. What happens
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  Speaker 1: when his words challenge your lifestyle, your desires, or your
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: way of thinking. Because this is exactly what happened in
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  Speaker 1: famous miracles, feeding the five thousand. The crowds were amazed,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted more. They followed him, eager for another sign,
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  Speaker 1: another blessing, another miracle. But then Jesus shifted the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of performing another miracle, he began teaching deep, challenging truths.
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  Speaker 1: He told them I am the bread of life. He
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  Speaker 1: told them that following him wasn't just about receiving temporary food,
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  Speaker 1: It was about spiritual transformation. He told them that if
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to have eternal life, they had to fully
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  Speaker 1: accept him, not just his miracles, but his message. And
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  Speaker 1: suddenly the excitement turned to discomfort. The very people who
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  Speaker 1: had been so eager to follow him now began to
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  Speaker 1: question him. They said, this is a hard teaching. Who
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  Speaker 1: can accept it, and then they left. One by one.
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  Speaker 1: The crowds that had once chased after Jesus turned their
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  Speaker 1: backs on him. The same people who had just witnessed
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  Speaker 1: a miracle with their own eyes walked away because his
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  Speaker 1: teaching was too difficult. And as they disappeared into the distance,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus turned to the twelve Disciples, his closest followers, the
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  Speaker 1: ones who had walked with him from the beginning, and
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  Speaker 1: he asked, will you also leave me? Imagine the weight
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  Speaker 1: of that moment. Imagine standing there watching the crowds leave,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that following Jesus is not going to get easier,
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  Speaker 1: It is only going to get harder. And now you
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  Speaker 1: have a choice, because that is what this question really is,
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  Speaker 1: a moment of decision, and it is a question that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus still asks to day because following Jesus is costly.
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  Speaker 1: It means surrendering your own will. It means standing firm
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  Speaker 1: in truth when the world preshures you to compromise. It
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  Speaker 1: means trusting him even when you don't understand. And if
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  Speaker 1: we are being honest, many people still walk away. Some
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  Speaker 1: leave because following Jesus means giving up a sinful lifestyle,
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  Speaker 1: Some leave because they cannot accept a truth that challenges
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  Speaker 1: their personal beliefs. Some leave because they expected Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: make life easy, and when trials came they felt disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jesus turns to you now, just as he
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  Speaker 1: did to his disciples, and he asks, will you also
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  Speaker 1: leave me? Will you leave when faith is no longer convenient?
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  Speaker 1: Will you leave when obedience requires sacrifice? Will you leave
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  Speaker 1: when the world mocks you for following Christ? Or will
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  Speaker 1: you stay? Because this question demands an answer, and in
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  Speaker 1: John six, Peter gives one of the most powerful responses
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  Speaker 1: in all of Scripture. He looks at Jesus and says, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to whom shall we go? You have the words of
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. Do you see it? Peter understood something the
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  Speaker 1: crowds did not. He realized that there is no life
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  Speaker 1: outside of Jesus. Yes, the teaching was hard, Yes the
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  Speaker 1: road would be difficult, but what other option was there?
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  Speaker 1: Where else could he go? Who else could offer what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus offers? And that is the heart of true faith.
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  Speaker 1: True faith is not about following Jesus when it is easy.
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  Speaker 1: It is about following him when it costs everything. True
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  Speaker 1: faith is not about seeking Jesus for blessings. It is
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  Speaker 1: about seeking him because he alone is life. True faith
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  Speaker 1: is not about walking with him for a season. It
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  Speaker 1: is about never turning back. So now Jesus asks you,
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  Speaker 1: will you also leave me? And now it's your turn
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  Speaker 1: to answer. If jesus last question, will you also leave me?
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  Speaker 1: Forced us to confront the cost of following him, then
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  Speaker 1: his next question forces us to confront the depth of
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  Speaker 1: our love for him. Because while following Jesus requires commitment,
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  Speaker 1: it is not just about duty or obedience. It is
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  Speaker 1: about love. And no one understood this better than Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Peter had been bold in his faith. He was the
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  Speaker 1: disciple who walked on water, the one who declared, you
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  Speaker 1: are the Christ, the son of the living God, the
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  Speaker 1: one who swore that even if everyone else abandoned Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he never would. But when the test came, when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was arrested, when fear took over, Peter did exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he swore he would never do. He denied Jesus, not once,
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  Speaker 1: not twice, three times. And then when the rooster crowed,
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  Speaker 1: Peter realized what he had done. Can you imagine the shame?
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the weight of knowing that in Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: darkest hour, when he needed his friends the most, Peter
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  Speaker 1: failed him. That failure broke Peter, the same man who
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  Speaker 1: had once been so bold, wept bitterly, and after Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was crucified, Peter went back to fishing. He returned to
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  Speaker 1: his old life, carrying the burden of regret, the weight
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  Speaker 1: of his betrayal. But Jesus was not done with Peter,
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  Speaker 1: because after the resurrection, Jesus came looking for him. And
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: in John twenty one we find one of the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful redemptive moments in the entire Bible. Peter and the
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  Speaker 1: other disciples are fishing. They have caught nothing, and then
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  Speaker 1: suddenly a man on the shore calls, out, cast your
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  Speaker 1: net on the right side of the boat, and you
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  Speaker 1: will find some fish. They do it, and suddenly their
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  Speaker 1: net is overflowing, and in that moment Peter knows it
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  Speaker 1: is the Lord. He doesn't wait, he doesn't hesitate. He
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  Speaker 1: jumps into the water and swims to Jesus. And what
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  Speaker 1: does Jesus do. He prepares breakfast. Let that sink in
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  Speaker 1: the risen Christ, the son of God, who has just
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  Speaker 1: conquered death, is sitting by a fire cooking fish, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for Peter, and after they eat, Jesus turns to Peter
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  Speaker 1: and asks him a question that cuts straight to the heart.
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  Speaker 1: Do you love me not? Why did you deny me? Not?
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  Speaker 1: Do you realize how badly you failed? Not? Sys? Are
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  Speaker 1: you even worthy to follow me any more? Just this?
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  Speaker 1: Do you love me? Imagine Peter in that moment. How
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  Speaker 1: do you answer when you know you have failed? How
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  Speaker 1: do you answer when you don't feel worthy? How do
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  Speaker 1: you answer when shame is screaming that you let God down?
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  Speaker 1: And yet Peter looks at Jesus and says, yes, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you know that I love you. Jesus asks him again,
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  Speaker 1: do you love me? Yes, Lord, you know that I
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  Speaker 1: love you? And a third time, one for each denial,
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  Speaker 1: do you love me? By this point, Peter is grieved,
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  Speaker 1: not because Jesus is trying to hurt him, but because
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is restoring him. Three times Peter denied him three times,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gives him the chance to declare his love three times.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus reaffirms that Peter's story is not over, and then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says something even more powerful, feed my sheep. In
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  Speaker 1: other words. You still have a calling, Peter. You failed,
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  Speaker 1: but I am not finished with you. You messed up,
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  Speaker 1: but my grace is greater than your sin. You walked away,
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  Speaker 1: but I am restoring you. This moment is everything because
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  Speaker 1: every single one of us has been Peter. We have
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  Speaker 1: all failed God. We have all denied him. Not with
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  Speaker 1: our words, maybe, but with our actions. We have all
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  Speaker 1: fallen short of who we were meant to be. And
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  Speaker 1: yet Jesus still calls us back. He doesn't ask for perfection,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't ask for explanations. He simply asks do you
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  Speaker 1: love me? Because at the end of the day, this
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  Speaker 1: is the only question that truly matters. Not did you
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  Speaker 1: always get it right? Not did you never struggle? Not
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: did you prove yourself worthy? Just this, do you love me?
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  Speaker 1: Because if you truly love Jesus, everything else will follow.
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  Speaker 1: Love leads to obedience, Love leads to surrender, Love leads
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  Speaker 1: to transformation. And Jesus is asking you today, after all
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  Speaker 1: your mistakes, after all your regrets, after all the times
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: you have fallen short, do you love me? And now
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: it's your turn to answer if jesus last question, do
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: you love me? Forced us to confront the depth of
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: our devotion. Then his next question forces us to confront
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  Speaker 1: something much darker, the h places of our hearts. Because
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  Speaker 1: while love for Jesus should shape everything we do, there
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: is another force at work in us, one that fights
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  Speaker 1: against that love, one that distorts our thinking, one that
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  Speaker 1: leads us away from the truth. And Jesus, in his wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: does not just address our actions. He addresses our thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: He goes straight to the route, to the place no
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  Speaker 1: one else can see. And in Matthew ninety four, he
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  Speaker 1: asks a question that cuts deeper than any surface level sin.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think evil in your hearts? This moment
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  Speaker 1: happens in the middle of a confrontation. Jesus has just
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  Speaker 1: performed an incredible miracle. He has healed a paralyzed man.
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  Speaker 1: But what makes this moment so shocking is that before
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  Speaker 1: he even tells the man to walk, he says something
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  Speaker 1: far greater. Take heart, son, your sins are forgiven. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: the religious leaders in the room are outraged. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the key. They don't say anything out loud. They don't
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  Speaker 1: challenge Jesus verbally, they don't argue with him. They just
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  Speaker 1: think it. This man is blaspheming and before they can
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  Speaker 1: even speak. Jesus and knowing their thoughts, turns to them
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  Speaker 1: and asks, why do you think evil in your hearts?
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that. Imagine sitting in a room with Jesus thinking
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  Speaker 1: something in your own mind, assuming no one else knows,
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  Speaker 1: only for Jesus to turn and answer the very thing
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  Speaker 1: you were just thinking. This is what makes this question
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  Speaker 1: so terrifying. It proves that Jesus sees everything, not just
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: what we say, not just what we do, but what
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: we think. Let that sink in. Before a word leaves
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  Speaker 1: your mouth, Jesus already knows before you act on your desires,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus already sees them forming before anyone else catches a
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  Speaker 1: glimpse of your true heart. Jesus already knows what is hidden,
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  Speaker 1: and he's asking why why do you allow thoughts in
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  Speaker 1: your heart that contradict who I am? Why do you
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: dwell on things that pull you away from the truth?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Why do you justify thoughts that, if spoken aloud, would
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: expose what is really inside? This question is not just
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  Speaker 1: for the Pharisees. It is for all of us, because,
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  Speaker 1: let's be honest, we all have thoughts that no one
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  Speaker 1: else sees, thoughts of pride, thoughts of resentment, thoughts of lust,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of self righteousness, thoughts of doubt, anger, or bitterness.
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  Speaker 1: And we assume that because no one else hears them,
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  Speaker 1: they don't really matter. But Jesus is saying they do,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: because what happens in your mind shapes your life. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Luke six forty five. That means what you think to
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  Speaker 1: day will become what you say tomorrow, what you dwell
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  Speaker 1: on in secret will become the actions that define you.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jesus as why do you think evil in
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: your hearts? Not just why do you sin? Not just
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: why do you make mistakes? But why are you entertaining
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: thoughts that lead you away from God? Because here's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Every sin starts in the mind before you ever act
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: on temptation. You think about it first, before bitterness ever
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  Speaker 1: takes root. You justify it in your heart, before pride
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  Speaker 1: ever manifests in your words. It builds up in your thoughts,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: and Jesus is saying, stop it at the source, because
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: if you do not take control of your thoughts, your
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: thoughts will take control of you. The Pharisees didn't just
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: wake up one day and decide to crucify Jesus. Their
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: hatred grew over time, fueled by their thoughts. They dwelled
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  Speaker 1: on their jealousy, They nurtured their pride, they refused to
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  Speaker 1: humble themselves, and eventually what started as a thought became
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  Speaker 1: their greatest sin. And this is what happens to all
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  Speaker 1: of us if we are not careful. A marriage doesn't
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  Speaker 1: fall apart in one day. It starts with small thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of discontent. A person doesn't suddenly walk away from God.
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  Speaker 1: It starts with quiet doubts that they never surrender to him.
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  Speaker 1: A lie doesn't become a lifestyle overnight. It starts with
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  Speaker 1: little justifications that chip away at integrity. This is why
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  Speaker 1: Jesus asks this question not to shame us, not to
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  Speaker 1: condemn us, but to wake us up. Because you cannot
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  Speaker 1: change what you refuse to acknowledge. So what thoughts have
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  Speaker 1: you been ignoring? What patterns of thinking have you excused?
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: Assuming they don't matter, Because here's the reality. They do matter.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: The enemy knows that if he can get you to
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: think the wrong way, eventually you will live the wrong way.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: But here's the good. News you are not powerless. Paul
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  Speaker 1: tells us in Second Corinthians ten to five that we
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  Speaker 1: are to take every thought captive and make it obedient
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: to Christ. That means you don't have to let your
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: thoughts control you. You don't have to let the enemy
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: plant seeds of deception, sin, or doubt in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You can fight back a how by surrendering your mind
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  Speaker 1: to God, by filling your heart with His truth instead
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: of the lies of the enemy, by bringing every hidden
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: thought into the light, and letting Jesus transform your heart
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: from the inside out. So now Jesus asks you why
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: do you think evil in your hearts? And now it's
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: your turn to answer. If jesus last question, why do
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: you think evil in your hearts forced us to confront
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: the hidden places of our thoughts, then his next question
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: forces us to confront the desires of our hearts. Because
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: while Jesus calls us to guard our minds against sin,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: he also invites us to ask boldly for what we
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  Speaker 1: truly need. He does not just want us to believe
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: in Him from a distance. He wants to bring our
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: faith into action, and so, in one of the most
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: powerful encounters in the Gospels, Jesus turns to a blind man,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: a man who has spent his life begging, a man
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  Speaker 1: whose entire world has been shaped by his condition, and
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  Speaker 1: he asks a question that seems almost unnecessary, what do
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  Speaker 1: you want me to do for you? At first glance,
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  Speaker 1: this question seems strange. Shouldn't it be obvious? This man
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  Speaker 1: is blind. He has spent years sitting by the roadside,
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  Speaker 1: dependent on the kindness of strangers, dreaming of the day
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  Speaker 1: he might see again. And yet Jesus does not assume.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: He asks, what do you want me to do for you? Why?
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Because faith requires a response. This moment takes place in
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  Speaker 1: Mark ten, where we meet Bartimaeus, the blind beggar. He
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  Speaker 1: is sitting by the road when he hears that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is passing by, and something inside of him ignites. He
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't hesitate, he doesn't stay silent. Instead, he starts shouting, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: son of David, have mercy on me. The crowd tries
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  Speaker 1: to shut him up. They tell him to be quiet,
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  Speaker 1: to stop making a scene, but Bartimaeus refuses. He cries
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  Speaker 1: out even louder, and then Jesus stops. Think about that
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: for a moment, The Son of God on his way
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem, on his way to fulfill the greatest mission
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: in history, stops because of the desperate cry of one
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: blind man. And then he says something incredible, call him.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see what just happened? That the very people
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  Speaker 1: who had been telling Bartimaeus to be quiet now have
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  Speaker 1: to go and tell him that Jesus is calling for him.
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  Speaker 1: And at that moment, Bartimaeus throws off his cloak, a
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  Speaker 1: symbol of his old life, his old limitations, his old
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: identity as a blind beggar, and he rushes toward Jesus.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: And then Jesus asks, what do you want me to
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  Speaker 1: do for you? Why does Jesus ask this because faith
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: must be specific. Jesus knew Bartimaeus was blind, but he
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: still wanted Bartimaeus to declare his faith out loud and
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: without hesitation. Bartimaeus responds, Rabbi, I want to see. He
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: does not say, if it's your will, maybe you could
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  Speaker 1: help me. He does not say, I don't want to
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: bother you, but if you have time. He says it, clearly, boldly,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: with faith, I want to see, and Jesus, seeing his faith, says, go,
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  Speaker 1: your faith has healed you, and instantly Bartimaeus receives his sight.
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  Speaker 1: This question is not just for Bartimaeus, it is for you,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: because Jesus is still asking, what do you want me
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  Speaker 1: to do for you? What are you asking God for?
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  Speaker 1: What do you believe he can do in your life?
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  Speaker 1: What need have you been too afraid to bring to him?
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: Because here's the truth. Many of us pray, but we
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: don't pray boldly. We whisper prayers, but we don't ask
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  Speaker 1: with specific faith. We hope for change, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: declare it with confidence. We cry out in pain, but
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: we don't always believe that God will actually move. And
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Jesus is asking, why why are you afraid to ask boldly?
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Why do you doubt that I am able? Why do
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: you hesitate to come to me like Bartimaeus did? Because
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  Speaker 1: here's what we need to understand. Jesus responds to faith.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Bartimaeus could have stayed silent, He could have listened to
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  Speaker 1: the crowd, He could have settled for his condition, but
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: instead he called out and Jesus heard him. So now
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: Jesus is asking you the same question, what do you
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: want me to do for you? Not what do you
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: think I might do? Not? What do you hope might happen.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: But what are you truly believing for? Because the way
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: you answer that question reveals the depth of your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Are you praying small prayers because because you are afraid
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  Speaker 1: to hope for more? Are you settling for less because
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: you assume God won't answer. Are you waiting for something
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: to change but you haven't actually asked Jesus to step in?
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: Because here's what we see in this story. Jesus wants
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  Speaker 1: us to ask, not because he doesn't know our needs,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: but because he wants us to activate our faith. Faith
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  Speaker 1: requires action, Faith requires boldness, Faith requires expectation. Bartimaeus didn't
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  Speaker 1: just cry out. He kept crying out until Jesus responded.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't just ask, He asked with confidence. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: just hope. He declared exactly what he needed and Jesus answered. So,
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  Speaker 1: now Jesus is looking at you. He sees your struggles,
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  Speaker 1: he knows your needs, he understands your deepest desires, and
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  Speaker 1: he is asking what do you want me to do
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  Speaker 1: for you? And now it's your turn to answer. If
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  Speaker 1: jesus last question, do you want me to do for you?
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  Speaker 1: Forced us to confront the boldness of our faith, then
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  Speaker 1: his next question forces us to confront the weakness of
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  Speaker 1: our commitment, because while Jesus invites us to ask boldly,
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  Speaker 1: to believe for great things, to trust him with our needs,
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  Speaker 1: he also calls us to spiritual discipline. And nowhere is
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  Speaker 1: this more evident than in the garden of Gathsemone, the
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  Speaker 1: night before the Cross, when Jesus, in his most desperate hour,
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  Speaker 1: turns to his disciples and asks, could you not watch
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  Speaker 1: with me one hour? This moment is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most intense, heart breaking moments in scripture. Jesus has spent
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  Speaker 1: three years pouring into his disciples, teaching them, leading them,
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  Speaker 1: showing them what it means to walk with God, and
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  Speaker 1: now his greatest trial has arrived. He is hours away
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  Speaker 1: from being arrested. The weight of what is coming is
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  Speaker 1: crushing him. He knows that in just a short time
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  Speaker 1: he will be beaten, humiliated, and nailed to a cross,
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  Speaker 1: so he goes to pray. He takes his three closest disciples, Peter, James,
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  Speaker 1: and John, and he brings them deeper into the garden.
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  Speaker 1: He tells them, my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to
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  Speaker 1: the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that Jesus, the Son of God, the
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  Speaker 1: one who has always been strong, is now vulnerable, and
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  Speaker 1: he is asking for one thing. Stay with me, watch
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  Speaker 1: with me, pray with me. And then he goes a
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  Speaker 1: little farther, falls on his face and begins to weep
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  Speaker 1: before the Father. Father, If it is possible, let this
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  Speaker 1: cup pass from me. Yet not my will, but yours
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  Speaker 1: be done. Jesus is wrestling with the weight of the cross.
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  Speaker 1: The agony is so intense that his sweat becomes like
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  Speaker 1: drops of blood. The burden of what he is about
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  Speaker 1: to face is beyond human comprehension. And then, after crying
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  Speaker 1: out to God, he returns to his disciples. And what
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  Speaker 1: does he find? They are asleep. Peter, the same man
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  Speaker 1: who had just declared he would die for Jesus, is sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: James and John, the same disciples who had asked for
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  Speaker 1: places of honor in his kingdom, are sleeping. The very
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  Speaker 1: ones Jesus had brought closer, the ones he trusted the most,
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  Speaker 1: the ones he needed in this moment. They could not
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  Speaker 1: even stay awake, and Jesus, filled with sorrow, asks them,
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  Speaker 1: could you not watch with me one hour? Imagine the
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  Speaker 1: disappointment in his voice. Imagine standing before him knowing that
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  Speaker 1: you failed him in his most desperate moment. And yet
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  Speaker 1: this question is not just for Peter, James, and John.
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  Speaker 1: It is for all of us. Because how often do
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  Speaker 1: we fall asleep spiritually? How often do we say we
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  Speaker 1: will pray, but we let distractions pull us away. How
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  Speaker 1: often do we start with passion but we lose focus
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  Speaker 1: before we finish. How often do we intend to seek
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  Speaker 1: God but we end up spiritually asleep. Jesus's question is
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  Speaker 1: a wake up call. Could you not watch with me
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  Speaker 1: one hour? Could you not pray? Could you not seek me?
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  Speaker 1: Could you not give me just a little time before
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  Speaker 1: you give your time to everything else? Because here's the reality.
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual discipline is hard. The disciples were not evil men.
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  Speaker 1: They were tired, they had just eaten the Passover meal,
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  Speaker 1: it was late. Their bodies were weak. And isn't that
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happens to us. We have good intentions, but
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  Speaker 1: our flesh is weak. We want to seek God, but
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  Speaker 1: we get distracted. We plan to spend time with him,
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  Speaker 1: but we make excuses. And Jesus is asking, why why
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  Speaker 1: do you give your time to everything except the one
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  Speaker 1: who sustains you. Why do you fight for everything in
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  Speaker 1: life but neglect the only fight that truly matters. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you expect to stand strong in the battle when
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  Speaker 1: you won't even prepare in the quiet place? Because this
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  Speaker 1: night in deathsemone was not just about Jesus suffering. It
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  Speaker 1: was about the disciple's failure. In just a few hours,
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  Speaker 1: Peter would deny Jesus three times. The other disciples would
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  Speaker 1: flee in fear, and why because they did not pray.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus even warned them, He said, watch and pray so
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  Speaker 1: that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing,
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  Speaker 1: but the flesh is weak. And yet they still fell asleep.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the warning for us, because prayer is
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  Speaker 1: not optional, it is survival. If you neglect prayer, you
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  Speaker 1: will fall. If you do not seek God, you will
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  Speaker 1: be spiritually weak. If you do not discipline yourself in
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  Speaker 1: the quiet moments, you will collapse in the difficult ones.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus is asking, could you not watch with me
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  Speaker 1: one hour? Because if if you cannot pray now when
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  Speaker 1: things are quiet, how will you stand when the storm comes?
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  Speaker 1: How will you resist temptation when you have not built
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  Speaker 1: the strength to fight. How will you endure trials when
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  Speaker 1: you have not developed endurance in prayer? How will you
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  Speaker 1: remain faithful when pressure comes if you do not have
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  Speaker 1: deep roots in God. Jesus question is not meant to condemn.
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  Speaker 1: It is meant to wake us up, because you cannot
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  Speaker 1: live a victorious Christian life without prayer. You cannot have
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  Speaker 1: a strong faith with a weak prayer life. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: walk in spiritual authority if you are asleep spiritually. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot expect to see the power of God in your
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  Speaker 1: life if you are not willing to seek him. So
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  Speaker 1: now Jesus turns to you. He sees your distractions. He
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  Speaker 1: sees how you intend to pray, but you let other
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  Speaker 1: things take priority. He sees how you long to grow spiritually,
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  Speaker 1: but you struggle to be insistent. And he is asking,
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  Speaker 1: could you not watch with me one hour? And now
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  Speaker 1: it's your turn to answer. If jesus last question, could
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  Speaker 1: you not watch with me one hour forced us to
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  Speaker 1: confront our lack of spiritual discipline, then his next question
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  Speaker 1: forces us to confront the very foundation of our faith.
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  Speaker 1: Because while spiritual discipline is crucial, it is powerless without belief.
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  Speaker 1: You can pray every day. You can read your Bible,
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  Speaker 1: you can go to church. But if deep down you
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  Speaker 1: don't actually believe that God can move, your faith is empty.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: And so in one of the most powerful encounters in
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  Speaker 1: the Gospels, Jesus looks at two desperate blind men and
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  Speaker 1: asks a question that changes everything. Do you believe that
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  Speaker 1: I am able to do this? At first, this might
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  Speaker 1: seem like an obvious question. These two blind men have
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  Speaker 1: been crying out for Jesus, following him through the streets,
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  Speaker 1: calling him the son of David. They have done everything
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  Speaker 1: they can to get his attention. Of course, they believe right,
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus doesn't assume. He asks, do you believe that
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  Speaker 1: I am able to do this? Why? Because belief is
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  Speaker 1: not just about words, It is about certainty. It is
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  Speaker 1: possible to say the right things without actually believing them
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  Speaker 1: in your heart. It is possible to pray for something
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  Speaker 1: while secretly doubting that it will happen. It is possible
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  Speaker 1: to call Jesus Lord but still question whether he can
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  Speaker 1: truly change your life, and Jesus is asking do you
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  Speaker 1: actually believe? This moment takes place in Matthew nine, where
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has just healed a woman who had been suffering
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  Speaker 1: for twelve years and raised a young girl from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: The news is spreading fast, and now two blind men
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  Speaker 1: are chasing after him. Picture the scene. They are stumbling
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  Speaker 1: through the streets, desperate, calling out, son of David, have
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  Speaker 1: mercy on us. They cannot see him, but they know
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  Speaker 1: he is their only hope. But here's what's interesting. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stop. He keeps walking. He goes into a house,
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  Speaker 1: and it is only when the blind men follow him
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  Speaker 1: inside that he finally turns and speaks to them. And
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  Speaker 1: that is when he asks, do you believe that I
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  Speaker 1: am able to do this? Why does he wait until
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  Speaker 1: they are inside to ask? Because faith requires persistence. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: does not always answer immediately. Sometimes he waits to see
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  Speaker 1: if we will keep pressing in. How many people would
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  Speaker 1: have given up when he didn't respond in the street.
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  Speaker 1: How many would have assumed he wasn't listening and walked away.
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  Speaker 1: How many would have let their doubt override their faith.
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  Speaker 1: But these men kept going. They followed him. They refuse
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  Speaker 1: to stop seeking him, and now standing face to face
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus, they have to answer the question, do you
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  Speaker 1: believe that I am able to do this, and without hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: they respond, yes Lord, not I hope so not maybe
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  Speaker 1: not if it's your will? Yes Lord, And in that
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  Speaker 1: moment Jesus touches their eyes and says something profound, according
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  Speaker 1: to your faith, let it be done to you, and
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  Speaker 1: instantly they can see. But did you catch it? According
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  Speaker 1: to your faith? Let it be done to you? Not
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  Speaker 1: because I am able, not because you asked, not because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it, but according to your faith. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see what Jesus is saying? Your faith determines what
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  Speaker 1: you receive. How much do you believe? How certain are
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  Speaker 1: you that God will move? How deep is your confidence
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  Speaker 1: in his power? Because Jesus is not asking if he
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  Speaker 1: is able. He is asking if you believe He is able?
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  Speaker 1: And that is a completely different question. It is easy
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  Speaker 1: to say God, God is powerful. It is easy to
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  Speaker 1: say Jesus can do anything. It is easy to believe
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  Speaker 1: in miracles for other people. But what about when it's
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  Speaker 1: your life, when it's your sickness, and when it's your
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  Speaker 1: broken marriage, when it's your impossible situation. Do you actually
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  Speaker 1: believe that He is able? Because if you are not sure,
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  Speaker 1: that uncertainty will limit what you receive. Remember what happened
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  Speaker 1: in Mark six. Jesus went to his home town, and
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says he could do no mighty works there,
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  Speaker 1: except that he laid his hands on a few sick
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  Speaker 1: people and healed them, and he marveled at their unbelief.
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  Speaker 1: Did you catch that Jesus could do no mighty works there?
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  Speaker 1: Not because he lost power, not because he wasn't willing,
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  Speaker 1: but because their unbelief blocked what he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: Let that sink in. God wants to move in your life.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to heal, he wants to restore, he wants
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  Speaker 1: to deliver. But if you do not believe he is able,
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  Speaker 1: you are standing in the way of your own breakthrough.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: And so Jesus asks you to day, do you believe
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  Speaker 1: that I am able to do this? Do you believe
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  Speaker 1: that I can restore what was lost? Do you believe
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  Speaker 1: that I can break the chains in your life? Do
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  Speaker 1: you believe that I can heal the sickness that doctors
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  Speaker 1: say is incurable? Do you believe that I can take
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  Speaker 1: your broken heart and make it whole again? Because your
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  Speaker 1: answer matters. If you hesitate, if you doubt, if you
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  Speaker 1: let fear speak louder than faith, you will never see
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  Speaker 1: what God intended for you. But if you stand like
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  Speaker 1: these two blind men, desperate, persistent, refusing to let go,
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  Speaker 1: and declare with full certainty, yes, Lord, then Jesus will
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  Speaker 1: look at you just as he looked at them, and say,
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  Speaker 1: according to your faith, let it be done to you.
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  Speaker 1: So now Jesus turns to you. He sees your struggles,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: that he knows your fears, He understands your hesitation, but
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: he is asking do you believe that I am able
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  Speaker 1: to do this? And now it's your turn to answer.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: If jesus last question, do you believe that I am
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  Speaker 1: able to do this? Forced us to confront the depth
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  Speaker 1: of our faith, then his next question forces us to
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  Speaker 1: confront the weight of our fears. Because while faith invites
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  Speaker 1: us to trust God completely, fear keeps us shackled to anxiety, doubt,
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  Speaker 1: and control. And so, in one of his most piercing questions,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus turns to the crowd and asks something that cuts
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  Speaker 1: straight to the heart of why so many of us
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  Speaker 1: struggle to truly trust Him? Which of you, by worrying,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: can add a single hour to your life? Imagine being there,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: Imagine hearing Jesus say this out loud. It's such a
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: simple question, but it completely shatters every excuse we have
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  Speaker 1: ever made for worrying, Because think about it. What is
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  Speaker 1: worrying ever changed? Has it ever healed a disease? Has
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  Speaker 1: it ever brought back what was lost? Has it ever
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: stopped a tragedy from happening? Has it ever made you
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  Speaker 1: feel at peace? Number Yet we do it anyway. We
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  Speaker 1: spend hours, days, even years consumed with worry. We replay
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  Speaker 1: conversations in our heads wondering what we should have said.
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  Speaker 1: We lose sleep over problems that haven't even happened. Yet
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  Speaker 1: we let fear dictate our choices, keeping us paralyzed instead
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  Speaker 1: of moving forward in faith. And Jesus, with absolute clarity,
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  Speaker 1: calls it out. Which of you, by worrying, can add
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  Speaker 1: a single hour to your life? And of course the
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  Speaker 1: answer is no one. But even though we know this,
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  Speaker 1: we still do it. We still let worry rule our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: We still allow fear to shape our decisions. We still
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  Speaker 1: hold on to control, thinking that if we just worry enough,
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  Speaker 1: we might be able to stop something bad from happening.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus is saying you can't worry does not protect you.
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  Speaker 1: Worry does not prepare you. Worry does not fix anything.
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  Speaker 1: Worry only steals from you. It steals your joy, it
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  Speaker 1: steals your peace, it steals your ability to hear God clearly.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we act like worrying is productive, We act
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  Speaker 1: like it's responsible. We say things like that I just
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  Speaker 1: can't help it, or I'm just being realistic, or I
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  Speaker 1: have to think about these things. But Jesus is saying,
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  Speaker 1: why why are you holding on to something that does
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  Speaker 1: nothing for you? Why are you letting fear sit in
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  Speaker 1: the driver's seat of your life? Why are you acting
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  Speaker 1: like your worry is more powerful than my promises? Because
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  Speaker 1: here's the truth. Worry is a liar. It tells you
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  Speaker 1: that you are in control. It tells you that if
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  Speaker 1: you think about something long enough, you can fix it.
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  Speaker 1: It tells you that if you let go, everything will
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  Speaker 1: fall apart. But none of that is true. God is
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  Speaker 1: in control, not you, not your thoughts, not your anxious plan,
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  Speaker 1: only God. And Jesus is reminding us if you cannot
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  Speaker 1: even add a single hour to your life by worrying,
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  Speaker 1: why do it at all? Because here's what's really happening.
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  Speaker 1: Worry is a sign of misplaced trust. If you trust
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  Speaker 1: your worries more than you trust God, then your fears
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  Speaker 1: will always be bigger than your faith. But if you
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  Speaker 1: trust God more than you trust your worries, then your
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  Speaker 1: faith will always be bigger than your fear. This is
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus follows up with one of the most comforting
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  Speaker 1: verses in all of Scripture. So do not worry, saying
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  Speaker 1: what shall we eat, or what shall we drink? Or
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  Speaker 1: what shall we wear? For the pagans run after all
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  Speaker 1: these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew six thirty one to thirty two. Did you catch
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  Speaker 1: that your heavenly Father knows that you need them? He
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  Speaker 1: knows what you need, He sees what you're going through.
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  Speaker 1: He understands the burdens on your heart, and he is
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  Speaker 1: already taking care of it. Jesus is not saying don't
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  Speaker 1: care about anything. He's not saying ignore your responsibilities. He's saying,
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  Speaker 1: stop acting like your worry is the answer, because it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: God is. This is why he gives us the solution
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: to worry. Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and all these things will be added to you. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: six thirty three. Did you notice what Jesus just did.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't just say stop worrying, He said replace your
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  Speaker 1: worry with seeking me. Because the best way to defeat
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  Speaker 1: worry is to focus on God instead. When you fix
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  Speaker 1: your eyes on Him, fear starts to fade. When you
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: trust in his promises, worry loses its grip. When you
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: surrender control to him, you finally find peace. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the real test, because if you say you trust God,
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  Speaker 1: but you still live in constant anxiety, then you have
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: to ask yourself do you really trust him? Do you
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  Speaker 1: trust that he will provide? Do you trust that he
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  Speaker 1: will guide you? Do you trust that He is already
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: working things out on your behalf? Or are you still
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  Speaker 1: trying to do it all on your own? Because here's
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Worry will not change your future, but faith will.
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  Speaker 1: Worry will keep you stuck in fear. Faith will move
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  Speaker 1: you forward in confidence. Worry will drain your joy. Faith
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  Speaker 1: will fill you with peace. Worry will make you feel
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: like everything depends on you. Faith will remind you that
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: everything depends on God. And that's why Jesus is asking
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  Speaker 1: you today, which of you, by worrying, can add a
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  Speaker 1: single hour to your life, and now it's your turn
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: to hanswer. If jesus last question, which of you, by
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: worrying can add a single hour to your life forced
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: us to confront the powerlessness of fear, then his next
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  Speaker 1: question forces us to confront the danger of spiritual dullness.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: Because while worry keeps us distracted by our problems, spiritual
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  Speaker 1: dullness keeps us unaware of what God is doing. And
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: in one of the most urgent moments in all of Scripture,
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: just hours before he is arrested, Jesus turns to his
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  Speaker 1: disciples and asks a question that should shake every believer
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: to their core. Why are you sleeping? Imagine the weight
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  Speaker 1: of this moment. It is the night before the cross.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has spent the evening sharing the Last Supper with
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, preparing them for what is to come. He
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  Speaker 1: has washed their feet, spoken of his betrayal, and given
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  Speaker 1: them final instructions about the Kingdom of God. And now
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  Speaker 1: they have arrived at the Garden of deathsemone. This is
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' darkest hour. He knows what is coming, the agony,
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  Speaker 1: the betray the suffering, the full weight of all the
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  Speaker 1: sin of humanity will soon be placed upon him, and
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  Speaker 1: so he goes to pray. He tells his disciples pray
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  Speaker 1: that you may not enter into temptation. Then he walks
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  Speaker 1: a short distance away, falls to the ground, and cries
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  Speaker 1: out to the Father, Father, if you are willing take
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  Speaker 1: this cup from me, Yet not my will, but yours
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  Speaker 1: be done. The burden is so intense that his sweat
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  Speaker 1: becomes like drops of blood. He is in agony, wrestling
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  Speaker 1: with what is about to happen. And then he comes
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  Speaker 1: back to his disciples. And what does he find. They
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  Speaker 1: are asleep Peter James, John, the ones closest to him,
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  Speaker 1: the ones he trusted, the ones who had just declared
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  Speaker 1: their loyalty. They are not watching, they are not praying,
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  Speaker 1: they are not standing with him. They are sleeping. And Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: heart broken and disappointed, asks why are you sleeping? Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine how painful this moment must have been? Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has spent three years pouring into these men. He has
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  Speaker 1: taught them, walked with them, perform miracles in front of them,
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  Speaker 1: and now, in his greatest moment of need, they are
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  Speaker 1: too tired to stay awake. But this question is not
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  Speaker 1: just for them, It is for you, because how often
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  Speaker 1: are we spiritually asleep when we should be praying. How
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  Speaker 1: often are we unaware of the battles happening around us?
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  Speaker 1: How often do we go through life distracted while the
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  Speaker 1: enemy moves against us? How often does God want to
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  Speaker 1: speak but we are too caught up in our own
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  Speaker 1: comfort to hear him. Jesus question is a wake up call.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you sleeping? Not just physically but spiritually? Because
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: spiritual sleep is far more dangerous than physical sleep. When
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  Speaker 1: you are physically asleep, you are unaware of your surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: When you are spiritually asleep, you are unawa aware of
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  Speaker 1: what God is doing. When you are physically asleep, time
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  Speaker 1: passes without you realizing it. When you are spiritually asleep,
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  Speaker 1: you waste years of your life without seeing your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: When you are physically asleep, you are defenseless against danger.
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  Speaker 1: When you are spiritually asleep, you are defenseless against the
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  Speaker 1: enemy's attacks. And Jesus is saying wake up because this
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  Speaker 1: moment in deathsemone was not just about Jesus suffering. It
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  Speaker 1: was about the disciple's failure. In just a few hours,
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  Speaker 1: Peter would deny Jesus three times. The other disciples would
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  Speaker 1: run in fear and why because they did not pray.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus even warned them, he said, watch and pray so
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  Speaker 1: that you will not fall into temptation, and yet they
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  Speaker 1: still fell asleep. And that is the warning for us,
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  Speaker 1: because spiritual sleep leads to spiritual failure. When you are
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  Speaker 1: spiritually asleep, you are vulnerable to temptation. When you are
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  Speaker 1: spiritually asleep, you miss the warnings God is giving you.
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  Speaker 1: When you are spiritually asleep, you fall when the battle
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  Speaker 1: comes because you were not prepared. And Jesus is asking
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  Speaker 1: why why are you not praying? Why are you not
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  Speaker 1: seeking me? Why are you not paying attention to what
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  Speaker 1: is happening in your life? Because here is the reality.
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  Speaker 1: God is always speaking, He is warning, he is guiding,
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  Speaker 1: he is calling us deeper. But if you are spiritually asleep,
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  Speaker 1: you will miss it. And this is exactly what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Peter. Jesus warned him, He told him, you will
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  Speaker 1: deny me. Three times. He told him watch and pray,
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  Speaker 1: or you will fall into temptation. But Peter didn't take
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  Speaker 1: it seriously. And what happened. Peter fell, He denied Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: He wept bitterly, and he realized too late that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had been right, and that is the danger of spiritual sleep.
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  Speaker 1: And you think you are fine until you fall. You
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  Speaker 1: think you are wrong until temptation knocks you down. You
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  Speaker 1: think you are close to God until a crisis hits
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  Speaker 1: and you realize you have no foundation. And Jesus is asking,
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  Speaker 1: why are you sleeping? Are you aware of what is
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  Speaker 1: happening in your life? Are you aware of the battles
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  Speaker 1: being fought over your soul? Are you paying attention to
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  Speaker 1: the enemy's strategies against you? Or are you asleep? Because
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  Speaker 1: spiritual sleep is deadly. If you are asleep, you will
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  Speaker 1: not see the attacks coming. If you are asleep, you
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  Speaker 1: will not be prepared for what's ahead. If you are asleep,
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  Speaker 1: you will fall into temptation without even realizing it. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is saying, wake up, because the time is urgent.
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  Speaker 1: This world is getting darker, the enemy is getting bolder,
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  Speaker 1: and if you are still sleeping, you will not be ready.
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  Speaker 1: So now Jesus is looking at you. He sees the distractions,
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  Speaker 1: he sees the apathy, he sees how you plan to
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  Speaker 1: seek him, but you keep putting it off, and he
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  Speaker 1: is asking why are you sleeping? And now it's your
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  Speaker 1: turn to answer. If jesus Last question, why are you sleeping?
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  Speaker 1: Was a wake up call to spiritual awareness, then his
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  Speaker 1: next question forces us to rethink everything we assume about goodness, righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and holiness. Because while most of jesus questions were directed
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  Speaker 1: at his disciples, the Pharisees, or the crowds, this question
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  Speaker 1: was asked to a man who thought he already had
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  Speaker 1: all the answers, a man who believed he was good,
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  Speaker 1: a man who wanted to follow God but didn't truly
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  Speaker 1: understand who Jesus was. And so, in a moment that
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  Speaker 1: seems almost strange at first, Jesus looks at him and asks,
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  Speaker 1: why do you call me good? This question comes from
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  Speaker 1: Mark ten seventeen to eighteen, when a wealthy, young ruler
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  Speaker 1: runs up to Jesus and asks, good Teacher, what must
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  Speaker 1: I do to inherit eternal life. It's a simple question,
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable one, but instead of answering him directly, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: does something unexpected. Before addressing eternal life, he challenges the
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  Speaker 1: very way this man sees goodness. Why do you call
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  Speaker 1: me good? No one is good except God alone. At first,
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  Speaker 1: this seems confusing. Why would Jesus ask this, isn't Jesus good?
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  Speaker 1: Of course he is. He is perfect, sinless, holy. But
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly why he asks the question, because this young
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  Speaker 1: man is coming to Jesus as if he is just
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  Speaker 1: another teacher. He is treating him like an ordinary rabbi,
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  Speaker 1: a wise instructor, someone who can give him advice. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is not just a teacher. He is God in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh. And so before answering his question about eternal life,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus forces him to confront what he actually believed. Yeves,
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  Speaker 1: why do you call me good? Are you saying this
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  Speaker 1: because you truly believe I am God? Or are you
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  Speaker 1: just saying this because it sounds respectful? Because if Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is not God, then he is not truly good, And
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  Speaker 1: if he is good, then he is more than just
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  Speaker 1: a teacher. Do you see what Jesus is doing. He
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  Speaker 1: is exposing the flawed way we define goodness because in
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  Speaker 1: human terms, we think of goodness as something relative. We
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  Speaker 1: say things like I'm not perfect, but I'm a good person.
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  Speaker 1: At least I'm not as bad as other people. I
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  Speaker 1: try to do good things. But Jesus is saying that's
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  Speaker 1: not how goodness works. No one is good except God alone.
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  Speaker 1: Let that sink in. No one, not you, not your
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  Speaker 1: pastor not the most generous, kind hearted person you know,
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  Speaker 1: no one. Compared to other people, we might look good,
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  Speaker 1: but compared to God's holiness, we all fall short. And
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly what Jesus is trying to reveal to
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  Speaker 1: this young man. Because after this, Jesus lists the commandments.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the commandments. Do not murder, do not commit adultery,
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  Speaker 1: do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud.
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  Speaker 1: Honor your father and mother. And the young man answers, confidently,
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  Speaker 1: teach her, I have kept all these from my youth.
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  Speaker 1: He truly believes he is good. He has followed the law,
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  Speaker 1: He has done everything right. He is moral, disciplined, and religious.
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  Speaker 1: But then Jesus looks at him with love and tells
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  Speaker 1: him the one thing he lacks. Go sell all that
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  Speaker 1: you have and give to the poor, and you will
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  Speaker 1: have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me, And what happens?
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  Speaker 1: The man walks away sad, because even though he had
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  Speaker 1: kept all the commandments, his heart was still attached to
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  Speaker 1: something else. He thought he was good, he thought he
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  Speaker 1: had earned righteous busness, But Jesus exposed the truth. His
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  Speaker 1: heart belonged to his wealth, not to God. And now
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  Speaker 1: Jesus asks you, why do you call me good? Do
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  Speaker 1: you believe that I am truly holy? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: just admire my teachings? Do you see me as Lord
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  Speaker 1: or do you see me as just a moral guide?
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  Speaker 1: Do you recognize your need for grace? Or are you
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  Speaker 1: still trying to prove your own goodness? Because if you
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  Speaker 1: still believe you are good enough on your own, then
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  Speaker 1: you have not yet understood who Jesus is. Because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did not come to affirm our goodness. He came to
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  Speaker 1: expose our sin and save us from it. This is
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  Speaker 1: why he said, I have not come to call the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: but sinners to repentance Luke five thirty two. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the real challenge. Until you see yourself as a sinner,
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  Speaker 1: you will never understand why you need a savior. And
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  Speaker 1: that was this young ruler's problem. He saw Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: a good teacher, but he didn't see him as God.
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  Speaker 1: He saw himself as righteous, but he didn't see his
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  Speaker 1: need for grace. He wanted eternal life, but he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: willing to surrender everything to follow Jesus. And that is
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  Speaker 1: the danger of thinking we are good enough on our own,
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  Speaker 1: because if you believe you are already good, you will
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  Speaker 1: never truly seek Jesus. You will admire him, you will
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  Speaker 1: respect his teachings, you will even try to follow his example,
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  Speaker 1: but you won't surrender. You won't give up everything to
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  Speaker 1: follow him. You won't let go of the things that
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  Speaker 1: still control your heart. You won't recognize your desperate need
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  Speaker 1: for his grace. And Jesus is asking you to day,
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  Speaker 1: why do you call me good? Do you truly believe
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  Speaker 1: I am God? Do you truly understand that only I
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  Speaker 1: am holy? Do you truly see that you need me
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  Speaker 1: more than anything else? Because he is the truth. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is not just good. He is holy, He is perfect,
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  Speaker 1: and he is God. And until you recognize that, you
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  Speaker 1: will never truly follow him. So now Jesus turns to you.
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  Speaker 1: He sees your heart, He knows what you are holding
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  Speaker 1: on to. He knows whether you have truly surrendered or
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  Speaker 1: if you are still trusting in your own goodness, And
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  Speaker 1: he is asking why do you call me good? And
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  Speaker 1: now it's your turn to answer. If jesus last question
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  Speaker 1: why do you call me good? Forced us to confront
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  Speaker 1: our understanding of holiness. Then his next question forces us
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  Speaker 1: to confront the weight of the cross. Because while every
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  Speaker 1: question Jesus asked revealed truth about our hearts, this question
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  Speaker 1: reveals the depth of his suffering. It is not just
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  Speaker 1: a question. It is a cry, a cry of pain,
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  Speaker 1: of anguish, of separation, a cry that echoes through eternity.
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  Speaker 1: And it is the most haunting, the most heart wrenching,
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  Speaker 1: the most unfathomable question Jesus ever spoke. My God, My God,
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  Speaker 1: why have you forsaken me? These are the words of
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  Speaker 1: a dying savior, the words of a king crucified by
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  Speaker 1: his own people, the words of the son of God,
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  Speaker 1: hanging between heaven and Earth, carrying the sin of the world.
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  Speaker 1: And for the first time in eternity, the Father turns away.
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  Speaker 1: Let that sink in. Jesus, who has always been one
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  Speaker 1: with the Father, Jesus who has always walked in perfect
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  Speaker 1: intimacy with God, Jesus, who has only ever done the
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  Speaker 1: will of the Father, now feels abandoned, forsaken alone, and
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  Speaker 1: he cries out, my God, my God, why have you
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  Speaker 1: forsaken me? This moment is unlike anything that has ever happened.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is the moment that Jesus takes on the
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  Speaker 1: full weight of sin, every lie, every betrayaled, every wicked thought,
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  Speaker 1: every act of hatred, every sin, past, present, and future
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  Speaker 1: is now upon him. And because God is holy, because
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  Speaker 1: he cannot be in the presence of sin, he turns
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  Speaker 1: his face away and Jesus feels it. He feels the
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  Speaker 1: separation that we deserved. He feels the judgment that was
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  Speaker 1: meant for us. He feels the wrath of God being
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  Speaker 1: poured out. This is hell, because hell is not just fire.
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  Speaker 1: Hell is being separated from God. And in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus experienced it for the first time. He felt what
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  Speaker 1: it was like to be apart from the Father, and
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  Speaker 1: he cried out, my God, my God, why have you
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  Speaker 1: forsaken me? But here's what's incredible. This was not just
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  Speaker 1: a cry of despair. It was a declaration because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was quoting Psalm twenty two. Psalm twenty two is a
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  Speaker 1: prophecy about the Messiah's suffering. It begins with these very words,
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  Speaker 1: my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But
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  Speaker 1: if you read the whole Psalm, something amazing happens. It
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  Speaker 1: starts with suffering, but it ends with victory. It starts
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  Speaker 1: with pain, but it ends with God's glory being revealed.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened on the cross, because even
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  Speaker 1: though Jesus felt forsaken, he was not abandoned. The father's
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  Speaker 1: silence was not rejection, it was redemption. The turning away
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  Speaker 1: was not punishment for Jesus, it was punishment for us
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  Speaker 1: placed upon him. He was forsaken so we would never
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  Speaker 1: have to be. He was crushed so we could be healed.
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  Speaker 1: He took our separation so we could have eternal intimacy
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  Speaker 1: with God. Do you see it? This question, why have
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  Speaker 1: you forsaken me? Is the heart of the gospel. It
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  Speaker 1: is the price of our salvation. It is the cost
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  Speaker 1: of grace. It is the weight of sin colliding with
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  Speaker 1: the mercy of God. And now Jesus asks you, do
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  Speaker 1: you understand what I did for you? Do you realize
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  Speaker 1: the cost of your forgiveness? Do you see how much
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  Speaker 1: I love you? Because when Jesus cried out, he was
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  Speaker 1: thinking of you. He was taking your place, he was
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  Speaker 1: carrying your shame, he was paying your debt, and he
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  Speaker 1: endured separation from the Father so that you would never
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  Speaker 1: have to. So now Jesus turns to you. He sees
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  Speaker 1: your struggle, he sees your doubts, he sees your fears,
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  Speaker 1: and he is asking, do you understand what this question means?
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  Speaker 1: Because this question why have you forsaken me? Is the
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  Speaker 1: reason you will never be forsaken? And now it's your
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  Speaker 1: turn to answer. Every question Jesus asked was not just
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  Speaker 1: for the people in the Bible. It was for you.
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  Speaker 1: Every moment of challenge, every piercing inquiry, every time he
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  Speaker 1: forced someone to stop and think. It was meant to
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  Speaker 1: shake us awake, to make us sea, to call us deeper.
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  Speaker 1: These weren't just random words spoken thousands of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: They were eternal invitations, invitations that still stand today waiting
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  Speaker 1: for an answer. And now, after everything we've covered, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is asking you again, do you know who he truly is?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you still following a version of him that
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  Speaker 1: fits your comfort? Are you afraid? Why? What's holding you
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  Speaker 1: back from trusting him fully? Do you actually want to
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  Speaker 1: be healed or have you gotten comfortable in your pain?
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  Speaker 1: What good is it to chase everything in this world
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  Speaker 1: if you end up losing your soul? You call him lord,
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  Speaker 1: but are you actually obeying him? Where are your accusers?
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  Speaker 1: If Jesus doesn't condemn you, why are you still condemning yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you worry so much? Do you really believe
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  Speaker 1: he won't take care of you? Do you understand yet
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  Speaker 1: or are you still blind to what he has been
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  Speaker 1: trying to show you? Will you leave him when it
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  Speaker 1: gets hard or will you stay even when it costs
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  Speaker 1: you everything? Do you love him? Really love him? Not
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  Speaker 1: just with your words, but with your life. Every question
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  Speaker 1: leads back to one truth. Jesus is asking for your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Because at the core of all of this, it is
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  Speaker 1: not just about knowledge. It is not just about hearing
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  Speaker 1: these questions, nodding in agreement and moving on with life unchanged.
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  Speaker 1: It is about how you respond. It is about whether
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  Speaker 1: or not these questions break you, challenge you, shift something
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  Speaker 1: inside of you. It is about whether or not you
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  Speaker 1: let these questions lead you to the truth that changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: And so now Jesus stands before you, just as he
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  Speaker 1: stood before the crowds, before the Pharisees, before his disciples,
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  Speaker 1: and he waits for your answer. He is not just
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  Speaker 1: asking for the right words. He is not just asking
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  Speaker 1: for an emotional response. He's not just asking for a
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  Speaker 1: promise that you will try harder. He is asking for everything,
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  Speaker 1: for surrender, for faith, for trust, for obedience. And that
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  Speaker 1: is where the real challenge is. Because it is one
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  Speaker 1: thing to agree with these questions. It is another thing
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  Speaker 1: to actually let them change your life. So here is
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  Speaker 1: the final question. What will you do now? Will you
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  Speaker 1: walk away like the rich young ruler, sad because you
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: weren't ready to fully surrender. Will you stay spiritually asleep,
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: ignoring the wake up call Jesus is giving you? Will
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  Speaker 1: you keep calling him Lord while refusing to actually live
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  Speaker 1: as if he is? Or dash? Will you let these
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  Speaker 1: questions wreck you? Will you let them open your eyes?
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  Speaker 1: Will you let them push you to truly seek him,
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  Speaker 1: truly follow him, truly trust him? Because here's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: You can't hear the voice of Jesus and stay the same.
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  Speaker 1: Every person he questioned was changed in one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: Some walked away, some hardened their hearts, but others others
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  Speaker 1: let those questions transform them. Others let those questions pull
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  Speaker 1: them into a faith deeper than they had ever known.
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  Speaker 1: So which one will you be? Because Jesus has asked,
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  Speaker 1: he has challenged, he has called you to respond. Now
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  Speaker 1: the only thing left is your answer. And if you
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  Speaker 1: are ready to stop running, stop hesitating, stop staying in
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  Speaker 1: the same place, Let's pray together. Let's ask the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to make these questions real in our hearts, to
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  Speaker 1: open our eyes to where we have been blind, to
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  Speaker 1: break whatever chains have been holding us back. Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: I hear your questions today and I know they are
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  Speaker 1: for me. You have asked me who I say you are.
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  Speaker 1: Help me to truly know you. You have asked me
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  Speaker 1: why I fear, Help me to trust you completely. You
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  Speaker 1: have asked me if I truly love you, Help me
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  Speaker 1: to love you with all my heart, soul, mind and strength.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to just hear these questions and walk
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  Speaker 1: away unchanged. I don't want to just call you Lord
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  Speaker 1: without actually living for you. I surrender. I trust you.
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  Speaker 1: I give you my heart, my life, my future, Lead me,
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  Speaker 1: change me, transform me in Jesus name. Amen. If this
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