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God-s-Surprising-Sovereignty-Part-2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: When a wicked leader is carrying out his sinister agenda.
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Speaker 1: We wonder why God doesn't intervene, Why would he allow
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Speaker 1: innocent people to suffer? If we're not careful, we could
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Speaker 1: mistakenly assume that God is either passive or indifferent. Today,
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Speaker 1: on Insight for Living, jacksun Daul reminds us that neither
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Speaker 1: is true. Even so, we can't dismiss the painful process
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Speaker 1: of waiting on God to break his silence. The waiting
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Speaker 1: is real and very hard, but this is also real.
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Speaker 1: No one ultimately stands in the way of God's sovereign plan.
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Speaker 1: Chuck is teaching from Esther chapter seven.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it significant that God, in his timing wanted to
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Speaker 2: introduce the king to Mordecai and it took two banquets.
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Speaker 2: The point of it all is that in the mystery
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Speaker 2: of these changing of events, subtle things occur that the
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Speaker 2: sensitive heart picks up. And, my friend, that's what wisdom
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Speaker 2: is about. That's Christian maturity. And rather than thrashing about
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Speaker 2: on the lake thinking I will not make it, I
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Speaker 2: will never hear a voice, we begin to watch for
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Speaker 2: turns of events. I mean, right after he gets out
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Speaker 2: of this sleepless night. Who's in the courtyard or in
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Speaker 2: the court of the king but Haman. He has splinters
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Speaker 2: in his hands from building the gallows on which to
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Speaker 2: hang Mordecai, and the king called him. We laughed at
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Speaker 2: that last time. Remember the king calls him in, says
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Speaker 2: who should we honor? Hamen thinks who's better than me?
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you think that, but that's not my plan.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to honor Mordecai. And sure enough, Hayman is
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Speaker 2: the man who takes Mordecai out for a walk on
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Speaker 2: a horse, proclaiming his greatness. I'd call that a change
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Speaker 2: of events. Now my point is this, it is easy
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Speaker 2: to live like a dullard. It is easy to anticipate
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Speaker 2: that this year will be very much like last in
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Speaker 2: the one before, when in fact it may be altogether different.
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Speaker 2: Here's the tip I want to leave with you. When
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Speaker 2: events began to turn, realize none of it is merely coincidental.
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Speaker 2: Remember that. Take the word coincidental out of your vocabulary,
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Speaker 2: along with luck. You can throw them both out. You
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Speaker 2: don't need them anymore. Nothing is coincidental, isn't it coincidental?
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Speaker 2: How when you talk to Bobby this afternoon, he sounded
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Speaker 2: different than he sounded three days ago. Be sensitive. Isn't
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Speaker 2: it interesting that when the boss came in today he
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Speaker 2: spoke in a different way of my work than he
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Speaker 2: did several days ago in his time? In his time
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Speaker 2: he begins to move in subtle change methods. Chapter six.
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Speaker 2: When you get to chapter seven, there is a sudden
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Speaker 2: change in plans. The second banquet is attended by Hayman
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Speaker 2: and the King and the Queen. The conversation between the
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Speaker 2: Queen and the king breaks the silence as the King
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Speaker 2: asks her verse two, what is your petition? You know
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Speaker 2: he's asked that two other times besides this one. Chapter five,
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Speaker 2: verse three, What is your request? Chapter five, verse six,
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Speaker 2: And what is your request? She never answered? Chapter seven,
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Speaker 2: verse two she answers, sharp, lady, it wasn't right, It
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Speaker 2: wasn't the time, and she sensed it would interrupt our
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Speaker 2: thoughts too much for me to ask this question of you.
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Speaker 2: Are you a sensitive Christian just because you have a
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Speaker 2: lot of information? Do you feel the need to say
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Speaker 2: it all? Or do you pace it? You time it,
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Speaker 2: you wait on the right moment. What is your petition?
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Speaker 2: Queen esther? It shall be granted? To you, up to
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Speaker 2: half the kingdom. I love it that Esther, though, like
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Speaker 2: all of us, is trapped in that little cage of light,
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Speaker 2: that little space of sight. She hasn't told all that's
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Speaker 2: on her heart. She doesn't even hasn't even told him
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Speaker 2: till this moment that she's Jewish. But now she tells him.
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Speaker 2: Listen to her answer. If I found favor in your sight,
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Speaker 2: O King, and if it pleased the King, let my
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Speaker 2: life be given me as my petition and my people
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Speaker 2: is my request. That's my petition, for we have been
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Speaker 2: sold I and my people to be destroyed, to be killed,
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Speaker 2: and to be annihilated. That's exactly what Hayman had planned.
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Speaker 2: I read it earlier in the series. Now, if we
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Speaker 2: had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I
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Speaker 2: wouldn't take your time. You have many things too important
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Speaker 2: to worry about. But he wants to kill us. Look
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Speaker 2: at the King's response. Talk about a sudden change. I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: the King asked Queen Esther, who is he and where
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Speaker 2: is he who would presume to do this? You know
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Speaker 2: what I want to say, Where in the world were you,
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Speaker 2: friend when you signed a document just a few days ago?
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Speaker 2: Remember this Remember, we live in a world a preoccupied people.
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Speaker 2: They too live in a fog. Who knows how many
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Speaker 2: edicts he signed that day? Who knows how much was
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Speaker 2: on his mind? You all kings have a lot to
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Speaker 2: think about, like what's for lunch? How much is in
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Speaker 2: the tree? Now you know I'm being fasicious. The king
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Speaker 2: has decisions to make, and the way Hayman handled it,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it was veiled in all the legal ease
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Speaker 2: he could put together, and the king signs it, thinking
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Speaker 2: the man knows what he's doing. Suddenly things have changed.
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Speaker 2: Don't you ever tell me for the rest of our
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Speaker 2: relationship together that something is absolutely permanent, Or I'll remind
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Speaker 2: you of the breaking down of the Berlin Wall. Not
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Speaker 2: one of us would have thought that thing would come down.
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Speaker 2: God can move in the heart of a king. He
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Speaker 2: can change the mind of your mate, He can move
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Speaker 2: in affairs of your neighborhood. He can alter decisions of
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Speaker 2: presidents alike. It means nothing to him because none of
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Speaker 2: his world is limited by space, time, visible, tangible. He
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Speaker 2: lives in the realm and sends all that He is
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Speaker 2: all powerful and he's ready to move, and it's in
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Speaker 2: his time. He does make it beautiful, beautiful, so she
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Speaker 2: answers with the same kind of courage verse six. Who
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Speaker 2: is responsible a foe and an enemy? Is this wicked Haman?
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Speaker 2: Now Haman hasn't had the best of days for the
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Speaker 2: last twenty four to forty eight hours, probably thinks about now,
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Speaker 2: this was not a good day to get up, became
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Speaker 2: terrified before the king and the queen. Naturally, I mean,
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Speaker 2: we all are saying, family, you know why, because we
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Speaker 2: want justice, we want evil to pay for it, we
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Speaker 2: want good rewarded. It's built in our system. And Haman
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Speaker 2: ought not be running loose calling the shots. They ought
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Speaker 2: to finish him off. And now the king says, that's
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Speaker 2: the plan harbona verse nine, one of the eunuchs says,
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Speaker 2: there Gallos standing at Hayman's house fifty cubits high. You
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Speaker 2: talk about a surprising climax. All the time he was
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Speaker 2: building him, he was just picturing in his mind Mordecai
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Speaker 2: hanging on him. Finally, that day is going to come.
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Speaker 2: Haman made that for Mordecai, who spoke good on behalf
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Speaker 2: of the king, and the king said, hang him on it.
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Speaker 2: I love it, not because I like seeing guys hanging
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Speaker 2: on gallows. But this is in his time, this is
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Speaker 2: his way, This is how God works. And I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you when you haven't manipulated it, you just watch it
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Speaker 2: with great delight alongside others who were as surprised as you.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. Humans call this kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: Irony calls it sovereignty. God calls it sovereignty. So they
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Speaker 2: hanged Hayman on the gallows, which he had prepared for Mordecai,
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Speaker 2: and the king's anger subsided you know what else? So
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Speaker 2: does ours. Now the question remains, since we are trapped
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Speaker 2: in the cage, this little space, how can I be
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Speaker 2: sensitive to God's interventions? What are some things that will
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Speaker 2: help me? Because I don't have a book that I
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Speaker 2: can go to that has the answers in the back.
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Speaker 2: I can't unravel the knots. I can't get the tapestry
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Speaker 2: turned over to read why, which would help me? I think?
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Speaker 2: So I want to help here. I don't want to
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Speaker 2: be glib and I don't want to be uncaring because
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Speaker 2: I realized some of you, like job struggle with God.
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Speaker 2: Odds silence, which you're convinced perhaps by now is his absence. Please,
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Speaker 2: he is not absent. He may be silent, but he's
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Speaker 2: not absent. So let me share with you how to
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Speaker 2: how life can be handled on the lake. Okay, in
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Speaker 2: the fog number one, I have three thoughts. The fog
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Speaker 2: on your lake is neither accidental nor fatal. The fog
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Speaker 2: on your lake is neither accidental nor fatal. So while swimming,
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Speaker 2: listen for his voice. Some days you will panic and
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Speaker 2: dog paddle like mad. You'll try various approaches, breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke,
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Speaker 2: floating all the time. You want to be sure you're
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Speaker 2: listening for his voice. Now, let's be careful here. It
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Speaker 2: will come in various ways. I get nervous about people
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Speaker 2: who tell me they hear God's voice. I think that's fine.
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Speaker 2: Often want to know if they're seeing a good therapist.
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Speaker 2: I get nervous about people at every parking space is
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Speaker 2: from God. I call them bumper sticker Christians, and they're
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Speaker 2: scary people. They're spooky. I'm not talking about that. God
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Speaker 2: gave you a mind. God gave you reason. God gave
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Speaker 2: you a sensitivity that's built into your system. Each one
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Speaker 2: of us different from each other, from the other, and
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Speaker 2: so God wishes to reveal his will to you and
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Speaker 2: to take you while waiting. So while waiting, don't look
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Speaker 2: for spooky stuff. Get into his word, get on your knees,
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Speaker 2: counsel with a few that have reasonable counsel, solidly biblical
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Speaker 2: in their philosophy, and wait. Wait while swimming, listen for
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Speaker 2: his voice. Don't try to read the stars. Stay away
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Speaker 2: from people to tell you they can. The answers are
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Speaker 2: not on your palms. Stay away from people that read
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Speaker 2: that or in the newspaper. I've never found God's will
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Speaker 2: in the newspaper. Sometimes I've questioned God's will while reading
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Speaker 2: the newspaper. However, there are tangible things to connect with.
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Speaker 2: Passages of scripture that bring comfort, that bring insight, certain
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Speaker 2: messages that you can hear certain people you respect. Tap
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Speaker 2: into those and wait. Listen with a sensitive ear. Second,
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Speaker 2: the workings of our God are related to our crises
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Speaker 2: and unrelated to our clocks. The workings of our God
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Speaker 2: are related to our crises, but to our clocks. That's
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Speaker 2: why God doesn't care if this is the last day
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Speaker 2: you can buy that car on sale. It doesn't bother
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Speaker 2: God that it is a quarter after twelve or ten
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Speaker 2: minutes to one in the morning. So while waiting. Look
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Speaker 2: beyond the present. You know the best way to do that. Pray.
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Speaker 2: Make your life a life of prayer. Tell him in
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Speaker 2: anguish if necessary, Tell him the horror of the waiting,
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Speaker 2: express your panic. Tell him you're trapped right here. You
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Speaker 2: don't know how you can stay afloat much longer. You
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Speaker 2: can't hear his voice, but you need to see beyond
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Speaker 2: the pain of the present. When I pray, that helpens
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Speaker 2: to me. It helps me when I handle some pieces
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Speaker 2: of mail. It helps me when I can't quite grasp
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Speaker 2: a meaning of something I'm struggling with, when I'm dealing
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Speaker 2: with big decisions, when I'm working with difficult people, when
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Speaker 2: something in my own life is sort of twisted and struggling,
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Speaker 2: I find prayer gives me a calming perspective. You find
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Speaker 2: that too, don't you. Let's stay at that now. The
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Speaker 2: third is this, The surprises in store are not merely
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Speaker 2: ironic or coincidental. They are sovereignly designed. While anticipating trust
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Speaker 2: him for justice. You know what. You may not live
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Speaker 2: to see the justice, but it will come. Or he
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Speaker 2: is not just, and you know he is. I found
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Speaker 2: while in the fog that my great temptation is either
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Speaker 2: to doubt or to deny. Maybe they're the same, to
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Speaker 2: doubt or to deny that He is even at work.
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Speaker 2: And you know what, I'm brought back to more often
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Speaker 2: than anything else, when I think of something that looks
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Speaker 2: like it's the absolute end, but it is really I
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Speaker 2: look back later and say, it's the beginning. You know
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Speaker 2: what I think of the cross. The Roman officials applauded,
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Speaker 2: the Jewish officials clicked their heels. They must have drunk
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Speaker 2: half into the night. Finally we got rid of him.
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Speaker 2: That is over. How would you like it if I
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Speaker 2: said to you today, but coincidentally he was raised from
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Speaker 2: the dead. What an incredible coincidence. You won't let me
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Speaker 2: say that that's heresy. And I won't let you say
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Speaker 2: when God comes through with a change in his plans
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Speaker 2: where you said it is finished, I won't let you say,
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Speaker 2: as it turns towards something great, that that was coincidental.
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Speaker 2: What looked like the ending was in fact the beginning.
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Speaker 2: Listen to me today. There are some of you who
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Speaker 2: know the words of the tune we have sung so
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Speaker 2: often in his time. In his time, God makes all
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Speaker 2: things beautiful in his time, and you don't even know God.
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Speaker 2: You don't you know words about him. You even carry
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Speaker 2: a book, and he wrote you maybe even bow in
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Speaker 2: prayer when Christians pray. You're probably at your favorite local
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Speaker 2: church more than some Christians, and you're proud of that
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Speaker 2: that you were lost. You see, there's another part of
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Speaker 2: that verse that says, or that song that says, my
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Speaker 2: life to you, I bring may each song I have
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Speaker 2: to sing be to you a lovely thing in your time.
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Speaker 2: That's a person who has been too and even beyond
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Speaker 2: the cross. Let me tell you the smartest thing you
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Speaker 2: can do. Come absolutely as you are to the place
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Speaker 2: that will make a difference, and that's the foot of
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Speaker 2: the cross. Look up, the most unjust event is before you,
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Speaker 2: hanging on a cross. The only perfect one who ever
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Speaker 2: lived dead. Bloodstains on his head, on his arms, on
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Speaker 2: his feet, on his back, and he screamed, my God,
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Speaker 2: why have you forsaken me? Because in that little tiny
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Speaker 2: space on earth in the present, God was silent, but
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Speaker 2: he wasn't absent. He turned his back, sin was born,
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Speaker 2: and God said amen when he raised him from the grave.
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Speaker 2: It is all in motion. The smartest thing you could
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Speaker 2: do is to come to Jesus Christ, just exactly as
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Speaker 2: you are. Tell him you're a sinner, you have nothing
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Speaker 2: to hide. Believe me, it won't surprise him. He'll take
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Speaker 2: you just like you are. Your hypocrisy, your filthy thoughts,
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Speaker 2: your impure motives, your pride, your impatience, your religious morality.
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Speaker 2: He'll take it all, and he'll forgive you and take
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Speaker 2: you home to be with him because of his amazing grace.
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Speaker 2: He'll take a wretch like you. I know that because
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Speaker 2: he took one like me. It's smart to do that.
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Speaker 2: Do that now, don't put this off now, stupid to
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Speaker 2: leave unprepared to die. Time out to give your life
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Speaker 2: to Christ. Let's about together. I will not beg you,
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Speaker 2: but I will invite you. Since the Lord Jesus Christ
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Speaker 2: has taken the penalty that you and I deserved, which
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Speaker 2: was death for sin. Since he's paid the price and
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Speaker 2: has been raised from the grave and lives victorious over
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Speaker 2: it all in a realm that transcends time and space
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Speaker 2: and events and people, then he is well able to
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Speaker 2: woo you into his own family. And I'll trust his
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Speaker 2: spirit to do that.
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Speaker 1: Come today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Dear heavenly Father, for your hand on all
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Speaker 3: our lives. How grateful we are that, even though we
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Speaker 3: may not hear your voice in an audible way or
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Speaker 3: see your shadow cast across the wall in the room
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Speaker 3: where we're sitting, we know that you are there, for
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Speaker 3: you are everywhere, and best of all, you are not
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Speaker 3: only there, you are in charge. You are in full
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Speaker 3: control of the events that are transpiring and those events
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Speaker 3: yet future that will transpire. Some have experienced a turnaround
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Speaker 3: set of events that have changed their lives in many ways.
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Speaker 3: For some of these events have been very difficult for
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Speaker 3: them to endure. For others, they've turned toward the better.
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Speaker 3: And these who have enjoyed the change have given their
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Speaker 3: praise and thanks to you because you have been the
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Speaker 3: author of them. But whatever the event, Lord, thank you
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Speaker 3: for watching over us so carefully, for taking such good
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Speaker 3: care of the details of our lives, For not being
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Speaker 3: aloof and distant and out of touch, but for being
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Speaker 3: near and touch with our struggles as well as rejoicing
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Speaker 3: with us in our joys. Thank you for this story
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Speaker 3: we have heard today, not just a story, not a tale,
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Speaker 3: but a true record of your hand in the life
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Speaker 3: of your people who were totally dependent on you for deliverance.
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Speaker 3: And now, Father, I pray for those who have never
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Speaker 3: come to you through your son Jesus Christ. They've never
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Speaker 3: known spiritual deliverance from the slavery of the sin.
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Speaker 2: That they cannot stop.
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Speaker 3: I pray that you would bring them to this crossroad,
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Speaker 3: as they come to the foot of the cross and
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Speaker 3: acknowledge your son as their Lord and savior, and that
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Speaker 3: you will make this for them the sovereign turning point
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Speaker 3: of their lives, as they move out of darkness into
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Speaker 3: your brilliant light, from death to life itself. I ask
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Speaker 3: this in the name of our sovereign King and Savior,
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Speaker 3: Jesus the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: God is never aloof, never distant, and never indifferent to
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Speaker 1: the details of our lives. Whether we're enduring a painful
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Speaker 1: season of waiting or celebrating a sovereign turn of events,
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Speaker 1: God is near and He's in control. Stay with us,
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