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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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<v Speaker 1>the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

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<v Speaker 1>glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

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<v Speaker 1>God will transform your life. Do today's message.

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<v Speaker 2>If we haven't met before, my name is Brie and

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<v Speaker 2>I serve as one of the.

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<v Speaker 3>Pastors here at TC. I love y'all, I love y'all, and.

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<v Speaker 2>I am your substitute teacher for today.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>We have been in a sermon series with Pastor Tim

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<v Speaker 2>Ross sharing with us the Missing Piece talking about the

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<v Speaker 2>peace of God.

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<v Speaker 3>And for week three, I'm gonna bring.

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<v Speaker 2>The message and Tim will be back next week. But

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not just your average substitute teacher, okay, because I

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<v Speaker 2>know when you was in school, you had your favorite

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<v Speaker 2>teacher and the sub you walked in you was like, dang,

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<v Speaker 2>the substitute today. Okay, I'm not just a regular substitute.

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<v Speaker 2>Been here for a long time, okay, fourteen years. I've

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<v Speaker 2>been on staff here at Transformation Church. I am not

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<v Speaker 2>new to this. I am true to this, okay. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not your avereub that don't know what she's talking about,

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<v Speaker 2>so she just kind of keep you busy until the

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<v Speaker 2>next teacher come back. No, No, I have a word

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<v Speaker 2>from God for you today, one that I truly believe

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<v Speaker 2>has the potential to change your entire life because of

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<v Speaker 2>it has done.

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<v Speaker 3>That for me.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't teach you anything that I haven't experienced. And

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<v Speaker 2>one of the things that this is, this word today

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<v Speaker 2>that I want to give you, it's one that God

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<v Speaker 2>has shown.

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<v Speaker 3>Me in my own life. And I'm really excited about this.

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<v Speaker 2>If you don't know my story, I'm married to my husband, Aaron,

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<v Speaker 2>who was up here jumping around a minute ago. We've

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<v Speaker 2>been married for eleven years and I'm gonna tell y'all

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<v Speaker 2>I've received every single one of them class because baby,

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<v Speaker 2>we did the work to make it to eleven years Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>happy and the love, in absolute love with one another.

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<v Speaker 2>And we have experienced some really hardships in our life.

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<v Speaker 3>And today I'm gona talk a little bit about that.

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<v Speaker 2>But if you haven't heard our story, you can go

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<v Speaker 2>to YouTube and hear our story where we talked about

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<v Speaker 2>our marriage and how it was jacked up ten years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>Especially my God, we didn't know if it was gonna

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<v Speaker 2>make it. I had the Google divorce. Okay, we didn't know,

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<v Speaker 2>but God did a miraculous work in our marriage. And

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<v Speaker 2>two years ago we experienced a tragedy with the loss

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<v Speaker 2>of our son who was two weeks old Ace and

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<v Speaker 2>there are two. Those are the two I would say

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<v Speaker 2>biggest hurdles that I've experienced in my adult life. That

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<v Speaker 2>tragedy of not knowing if our marriage was gonna make it,

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<v Speaker 2>and our marriage was absolutely enshambles at the time, and

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<v Speaker 2>also experiencing what it's like to lose a child. Two

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<v Speaker 2>heartbreaking situations.

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<v Speaker 3>And the truth is, in those.

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<v Speaker 2>Two situations, I had two very different responses. First, ten

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<v Speaker 2>years ago, I was questioning God on every end, God,

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<v Speaker 2>who are you? You told me to get married? Why

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<v Speaker 2>would you allow me to go through this heartbreak?

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<v Speaker 3>Lord?

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<v Speaker 2>What is going on? I did not see God as

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<v Speaker 2>good or real at all in that situation.

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<v Speaker 3>But then I took a ten year journey. And when

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<v Speaker 3>I started taking.

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<v Speaker 2>That journey, I didn't know that two years ago, in

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<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty four, we were gonna lose our son. And

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<v Speaker 2>when we lost our son, there was such a different

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<v Speaker 2>response and Aaron and I than ten years before when

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<v Speaker 2>we experienced some hardship. And I believe that the word

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<v Speaker 2>that I'm sharing with you today is the reason why

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<v Speaker 2>when Ace passed away, there was nothing in us that

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<v Speaker 2>wondered if God was good. Nothing in us wondered if

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<v Speaker 2>God saw us. Nothing in us wondered if God knew

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<v Speaker 2>what was going on in our lives.

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<v Speaker 3>And it's because God.

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<v Speaker 2>Has shown himself to me through even this story that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna share today, but through the words that.

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<v Speaker 2>And so my hope and prayer is that hearing this

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<v Speaker 2>word today, that your roots will go down deeper and

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<v Speaker 2>who God is. Because when your roots are deep, that

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<v Speaker 2>the winds can come, the weather can change, you may

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<v Speaker 2>sway from side to side, but you're not gonna break

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<v Speaker 2>because you will be like a tree planted by the

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<v Speaker 2>rivers of water that will bear fruit in every single

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<v Speaker 2>season of your life. I believe that, and I believe

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<v Speaker 2>that because I have experienced that. So I want you

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<v Speaker 2>to go with me today to Genesis sixteen, and we're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna look at a story here.

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<v Speaker 3>One that is not told often.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually, as a matter of fact, there's parts of this

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<v Speaker 2>story that are told. But the part that I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>lean into today is not normally the part of the

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<v Speaker 2>story that we actually share in church a lot. Today,

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk to you about the story of Hagar. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>if you know that name and you know this story,

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<v Speaker 2>you know Hagar was in a story where she was

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<v Speaker 2>not the main character.

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<v Speaker 3>Hagar was a third character in a story that.

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<v Speaker 2>Really was about God giving a promise to Abram and SARAHI.

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<v Speaker 3>At the time, their name had not changed yet.

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<v Speaker 2>And God came to Abram and said, I'm gonna make

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<v Speaker 2>you a father of many nations. You're gonna have a child,

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<v Speaker 2>you're gonna have a son, and you're gonna be a.

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<v Speaker 3>Father of many nations.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, Abram and his wife were very old and they

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<v Speaker 2>waited ten years for God to make this promise a reality,

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<v Speaker 2>and it didn't happen. So they did what we do.

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<v Speaker 2>If God made us a promise, we don't see it happening,

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<v Speaker 2>we immediately try to come up.

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<v Speaker 3>With our own strategy to make it happen.

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<v Speaker 2>So, instead of waiting on God, they decided to pull

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<v Speaker 2>in an innocent bystander into the situation named Hagar. And

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<v Speaker 2>Hagar was a maid servant to SARAHI. She was one

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<v Speaker 2>that was forced into labor and obviously for into this

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<v Speaker 2>situation and This was not an abnormal thing. It was

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<v Speaker 2>very customary actually that if a wife could not get

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<v Speaker 2>pregnant back in this day, what they would do was

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<v Speaker 2>had their maid servant sleep with their husband get pregnant,

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<v Speaker 2>and then the wife would raise that child. It would

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<v Speaker 2>no longer be the maid servants instead. Now this child

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<v Speaker 2>is a child of the husband and the wife. So

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<v Speaker 2>Sarah and Abram couldn't wait, and so because they couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>wait on God, they went ahead and decided to get

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<v Speaker 2>Hagar pregnant. And what happens is once Hagar gets pregnant,

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<v Speaker 2>she starts to treat SARAHI with some contempt.

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<v Speaker 2>Aka assist the wives in the house and they can't

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<v Speaker 2>stand each other. Okay, so they get to fight in

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<v Speaker 2>and cussing and fuss and I don't know if they

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<v Speaker 2>cuss and fuss, but I'll just make that up.

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<v Speaker 3>Anyways, they get to fight in one another.

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<v Speaker 2>And what happens is Hagar has such a nervous system

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<v Speaker 2>response that she decides instead of fights or freeze, that

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<v Speaker 2>want to fleet and she runs away. And this is

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<v Speaker 2>where we're going to pick up. In verse seven Genesis sixteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse seven, Hagar is on the run because she is

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<v Speaker 2>so upset about her situation.

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<v Speaker 3>It says in verse seven.

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<v Speaker 2>The Angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring

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<v Speaker 2>of water in the wilderness along the road to Shirt.

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<v Speaker 2>The angel said to her, Hagar, sarahis servant. Where have

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<v Speaker 2>you come from and where are you going? I'm running

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<v Speaker 2>away from my mistress, Sarah SARAHI, she replied. The Angel

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<v Speaker 2>of the Lord said to her, return to your mistress, submit.

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<v Speaker 3>To her authority.

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<v Speaker 2>Then he added, I will give you more descendants than

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<v Speaker 2>you can count. And the angel also said, you are

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<v Speaker 2>now pregnant and will give birth to a son.

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<v Speaker 3>You are to name him Ishmael, and Ishmael means.

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<v Speaker 2>God hears, for the Lord has heard your cry of distress.

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<v Speaker 2>The son of yours will be like a wild man,

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<v Speaker 2>as untamed as a wild donkey. He will raise his

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<v Speaker 2>fists against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>he will live in open hostility against all his relatives. Thereafter,

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<v Speaker 2>Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord who

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<v Speaker 2>had spoken to her. She said, you are the God

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<v Speaker 2>who sees me. She also said, have I truly seen

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<v Speaker 2>the one who sees me? This story about Hagar is

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<v Speaker 2>not one that we. Like I said, we usually focus

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<v Speaker 2>on in scripture when we tell the story about Abram

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<v Speaker 2>and SARAHI. But Hagar had a profound encounter with God.

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<v Speaker 3>When she was running away from her situation, and what she.

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<v Speaker 2>Found out is several things about God knowing her fully

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<v Speaker 2>in a way that she didn't even know that he

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<v Speaker 2>knew her. Now, this is a crazy thing because we're

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<v Speaker 2>so used to living.

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<v Speaker 3>Our lives compartmentalized.

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<v Speaker 2>To think of a God that knows us fully almost

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't make sense. So for me, there are several people

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<v Speaker 2>who know different parts of who I am. My husband

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<v Speaker 2>who calls me sweet sometimes and sometimes I'm not sweet,

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<v Speaker 2>so he doesn't call me that as a nickname, and

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<v Speaker 2>that's how I know I haven't been sweet. He knows

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<v Speaker 2>me in a way that other people don't know me.

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<v Speaker 2>He knows the way that I sleep, the way I snore.

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<v Speaker 2>He knows different things about me around our house that

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<v Speaker 2>other people will never have to be privy to. I

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<v Speaker 2>come to this church, people call me Pastor bri here,

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<v Speaker 2>which you know, I'm still working it out, but whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>Pastor bri here, and basically you know me as a leader,

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<v Speaker 2>as a teacher. You may not know parts of me

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<v Speaker 2>that my husband knows about me. And honestly, sometimes because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not my husband's boss or pastor, he is not

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<v Speaker 2>seeing me in the way that people here may see me.

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<v Speaker 2>My family sees me in a totally different way. They

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<v Speaker 2>see me because they know who I was from the

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<v Speaker 2>day that I was born. When I was a little

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<v Speaker 2>girl with the buck teeth and the glasses.

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<v Speaker 3>I had to get glasses in first grade. Anybody else

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<v Speaker 3>have to get glasses early?

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<v Speaker 2>Anyways, I had to get glass not these these are fake, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>see right here anyways, but I had to.

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<v Speaker 3>Get glasses long time ago. My family knows me differently.

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<v Speaker 2>And the beautiful thing was when I left my hometown

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<v Speaker 2>in two thousand and seven, I moved to Tulsa. And

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<v Speaker 2>when I moved to Tulsa, none of my family came.

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<v Speaker 2>Well about two years ago my family joined me in Tulsa, Oklahoma,

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<v Speaker 2>and I actually am really glad about that.

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<v Speaker 3>Except one thing.

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<v Speaker 2>So, my dad has a nickname for me that you

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<v Speaker 2>didn't know I was gonna say this.

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<v Speaker 3>My dad has a nickname for me. And the thing is,

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<v Speaker 3>it's okay for dads to have nicknames.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just when your dad starts working at the place

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<v Speaker 2>that you're a boss set that you really don't.

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<v Speaker 3>Want him saying that.

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<v Speaker 2>Nickname just in the hallway, right, that's the part of

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<v Speaker 2>me that I don't want nobody else knowing, so that

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<v Speaker 2>my dad has for me. And I'm gonna tell you this,

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<v Speaker 2>and y'all better keep it to yourselves.

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<v Speaker 3>I ain't like if one did y'all come up to.

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<v Speaker 2>except for one person. God does not know just a

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<v Speaker 2>something totally different. God knows fully who I am, so

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<v Speaker 2>much so that God knows me better than I know myself.

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<v Speaker 3>What's going on inside of it.

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<v Speaker 2>pleasant situation. And in verse seven it says, the Angel

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<v Speaker 2>of the Lord found Hagar. Now what you have to

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<v Speaker 2>not like God was scouring the earth looking for Hagar.

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<v Speaker 3>Trying to find out where does she go? I can't

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<v Speaker 2>This is the same word that's used when they say

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<v Speaker 2>Noah found favor with God. Noah wasn't searching for a favor.

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<v Speaker 2>Noah encountered favor. So this Angel of the Lord was

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<v Speaker 3>This is what I love about God.

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<v Speaker 2>He knows you so much that he knows exactly where

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<v Speaker 2>to set up an encounter. He knows exactly where you

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<v Speaker 2>are gonna meet the end of your rope, because Hagar

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<v Speaker 2>and at the end of her rope, and God's address

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<v Speaker 2>to make it work for myself, that's where an encounter

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<v Speaker 3>So the Angel of the Lord encounters Hagard, and not

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<v Speaker 3>just in any place.

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<v Speaker 2>The scripture says that Hagar was by a spring of

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<v Speaker 2>of sure Now, this scripture is action packed, y'all, because

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<v Speaker 2>God specializes and putting water in the middle of a wilderness.

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<v Speaker 3>All you have to do is look at the story

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<v Speaker 2>Four different times they encountered a thirst that only God

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<v Speaker 3>A bitter stream.

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<v Speaker 2>God specializes and bringing water in the middle of the wilderness,

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<v Speaker 2>and this is what happened with Hagar. While Hagar was

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<v Speaker 3>It is the same situation.

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<v Speaker 2>And knew the New Testament when the woman at the

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<v Speaker 2>well met Jesus. And when she met Jesus, she not

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<v Speaker 2>only ran into a well of water, she ran into

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<v Speaker 2>living water. And this is what Hagar experience. On the

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<v Speaker 2>one This is what I love about God. He doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>in order to bring a spring of water. No, he

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<v Speaker 2>the road to Sure. The crazy thing is Hagar was

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<v Speaker 2>actually an Egyptian Egyptian slave, So what happened was in

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<v Speaker 2>this story is Theologians believe that when Pharaoh gave some

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<v Speaker 3>That was given to them.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the land of sure was a territory outside of Egypt,

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<v Speaker 3>Way back to her past.

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<v Speaker 2>If you think about your own story, if I think

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<v Speaker 2>about my own story, how many times do I run

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously, Hagar was not well respected in the land of

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<v Speaker 3>She was sold to someone else.

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<v Speaker 2>So it wasn't like she was going back to a

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<v Speaker 3>It's not like she was going back to a place

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<v Speaker 2>Respected or seen as worthy or significant. She was obviously

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<v Speaker 2>The children of Egypt who said, if you're gonna bring

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<v Speaker 2>back to slavery, this is what Hagar did. Can I

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<v Speaker 2>tell you that on your way backwards, God will set

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<v Speaker 3>And here's to stop you before you go backwards in

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<v Speaker 2>The situation she was in with Abram and Sarah was

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<v Speaker 2>her past. And today, if you think about the things

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<v Speaker 2>in your life that maybe you know what, this is

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<v Speaker 3>Find yourself in this story.

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<v Speaker 3>Now. As we keep going.

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<v Speaker 2>In this scripture, the story gets better and better. So,

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<v Speaker 2>Heygar has this encounter with this angel, and the angel

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<v Speaker 3>And where are you going? Now?

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<v Speaker 2>When we talk about one of the things I love

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<v Speaker 2>your childhood, different things like that that was not made

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<v Speaker 3>Where have you come from?

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<v Speaker 3>He is asking what is your story?

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<v Speaker 3>Who knew you and who did not know you.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell me who celebrated you and who took advantage of you.

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<v Speaker 3>Tell me your story.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a question that's being presented to Hagar, where

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<v Speaker 2>that is where are you going? Because God doesn't want

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<v Speaker 2>He wants to know our dreams. He wants to know

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<v Speaker 2>Know where are you going, what's your intentions?

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<v Speaker 3>Where are you headed?

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<v Speaker 2>Because what I want to do is not only speak

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<v Speaker 2>This is the kind of God that we serve. And

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<v Speaker 2>Hagar found out point number one that God already knows you.

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<v Speaker 2>He's asking questions, but it's not really for him to

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<v Speaker 2>So he goes on in this story and he's talking

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<v Speaker 2>How you know how you know that Hagar has had

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<v Speaker 3>And he goes on to say, God hears your pain.

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<v Speaker 3>And people act like they hear you all the time.

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<v Speaker 3>Was that what they got of your question? We never

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<v Speaker 2>God hears everything that we say, and how we know

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<v Speaker 2>She responds, and the angel responds to her with four

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<v Speaker 2>are pregnant with the son, name him Ishmael.

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<v Speaker 3>He gives her a path forward.

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<v Speaker 2>He says to her, you go back to your mistress,

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<v Speaker 2>go back to Sarah and submit to her. He also

432
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<v Speaker 2>gives her the pressure. He knows that when he has

433
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<v Speaker 2>this child, he's going to be like a wild donkey.

434
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<v Speaker 2>God does not.

435
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<v Speaker 3>Ignore our reality in order to give us a blessing.

436
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<v Speaker 2>This is not the kind of God we served. God

437
00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.960
<v Speaker 2>that avoids real, tough conversations. That's not the kind of

438
00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:10.799
<v Speaker 2>God we serve. That's Church people. I'll never forget when

439
00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:15.799
<v Speaker 2>our son passed away and having conversations with the saints,

440
00:23:16.839 --> 00:23:20.000
<v Speaker 2>and sometimes having conversations with the saints didn't make me

441
00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:25.359
<v Speaker 2>feel no better, honestly, because I believe the conversation questioning

442
00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:31.799
<v Speaker 2>whether or not they see my reality, because God says both.

443
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<v Speaker 3>And can be the truth.

444
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<v Speaker 2>The truth can be your actual reality as well as

445
00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:40.880
<v Speaker 2>a greater reality. But God doesn't tell us a greater

446
00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:43.480
<v Speaker 2>reality about his blessings and his provision and all the

447
00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:45.559
<v Speaker 2>things he wants to do in our life. Without first

448
00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:50.680
<v Speaker 2>addressing our reality. Don't let us church people make you

449
00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:54.240
<v Speaker 2>think that God does not care about your actual reality.

450
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<v Speaker 3>He's not saying for you, you too blessed to be stressed.

451
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<v Speaker 3>He's not saying that to you.

452
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<v Speaker 2>He's saying, that's a actually very stressful situation. I understand,

453
00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:06.720
<v Speaker 2>and I have blessed you, and I have called you,

454
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<v Speaker 2>and I'm more than enough for you, and you have

455
00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:13.359
<v Speaker 2>what it takes to walk this out. And I see

456
00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:15.759
<v Speaker 2>you and I hear you. That is the kind of

457
00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.400
<v Speaker 2>God that we serve. And Hagar had no idea that

458
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<v Speaker 2>God was this relational, had no idea that God was

459
00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:27.440
<v Speaker 2>this intimate with her, had no idea that God cared

460
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<v Speaker 2>about the details of her life, because no one in

461
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<v Speaker 2>her life ever did, knowing in her life, ever cared

462
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<v Speaker 2>about what her desires were, knowing in her life cared

463
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<v Speaker 2>about the pain that she had experienced.

464
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<v Speaker 3>And sometimes, when we haven't.

465
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<v Speaker 2>Been witnessed by other people in our life, we think

466
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<v Speaker 2>that God too does not hear us. But God heard Hagar,

467
00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:55.440
<v Speaker 2>and he gave her a promise. You're gonna have a son,

468
00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.440
<v Speaker 2>and you're going to be a mother to many nations.

469
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<v Speaker 2>Who would have ever thought that Hagar, if you just

470
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<v Speaker 2>looked at the way that she was raised, the place.

471
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<v Speaker 3>In society, and you have to.

472
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<v Speaker 2>Remember, this was not a time where there was advocacy

473
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<v Speaker 2>for people that were marginalized. There was no me too movement.

474
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<v Speaker 2>There was nobody going around trying to look out for

475
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<v Speaker 2>the minorities. That was not the case if you were

476
00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:20.559
<v Speaker 2>in the lower level of social status, that's where you stayed.

477
00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:26.839
<v Speaker 2>But God look down from heaven, and when he saw Heygar,

478
00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:29.359
<v Speaker 2>he didn't see what everybody else saw in her.

479
00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:32.200
<v Speaker 3>He didn't see that she was lower than anything else.

480
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<v Speaker 2>His thoughts outnumbered the grains of sand when it came

481
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<v Speaker 2>to Hagar, she was his masterpiece, beautifully and wonderfully made.

482
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<v Speaker 2>When we know that God sees and hears us like that,

483
00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:48.640
<v Speaker 2>it changes how we show up in the world. It

484
00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:53.519
<v Speaker 2>changes who we care about hearing us when we know

485
00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.119
<v Speaker 2>we are heard by God. If I know I'm heard

486
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<v Speaker 2>by God, I don't have to get anyone else's attention.

487
00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:08.200
<v Speaker 2>I have his undivided attention. And Hagar learned this about God.

488
00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:11.839
<v Speaker 2>He spoke to her pain, her path, her promise, and

489
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<v Speaker 2>her pressure.

490
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<v Speaker 3>Then we go on to verse thirteen.

491
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<v Speaker 2>And here Hagar, after having this encounter with God and

492
00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.720
<v Speaker 2>the Angel of the Lord speaking back to her. She

493
00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:27.480
<v Speaker 2>then comes up with a name for God, and this

494
00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:31.319
<v Speaker 2>was the first time in scripture that someone ever gave

495
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:36.119
<v Speaker 2>God a name from an experience with him. Hagar, the

496
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<v Speaker 2>person in the story that seems like she's the third

497
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<v Speaker 2>most important character in this whole story. She had an

498
00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:46.920
<v Speaker 2>encounter with God that changed her view of him, and

499
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:50.559
<v Speaker 2>she named him a name that meant the God who

500
00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:55.160
<v Speaker 2>sees me. This name, you know, I'm gonna tell you

501
00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.240
<v Speaker 2>how I thought it was said, and I'm gonna tell

502
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<v Speaker 2>you how it's really said. The name is Roy, and

503
00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:05.960
<v Speaker 2>I thought it was like a roller, your cousin, you know, everybody, every.

504
00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:07.799
<v Speaker 3>Black person know it at least an elworyal le roy.

505
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:12.200
<v Speaker 2>You already know that, okay, But it's actually pronounced l

506
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:17.519
<v Speaker 2>roe and it means the God who sees me. Earlier

507
00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:20.480
<v Speaker 2>today while praying some of the names of God, this

508
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.119
<v Speaker 2>is what you need to know that God is. He's

509
00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:26.079
<v Speaker 2>a god that you never He never loses track of you.

510
00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:29.079
<v Speaker 2>He never loses.

511
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:32.480
<v Speaker 3>Track of you. Not he knows. He knows you so well.

512
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:34.400
<v Speaker 3>He knows a number of hairs on your head.

513
00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:37.480
<v Speaker 2>Every time one of them fall out, he minus one.

514
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:40.559
<v Speaker 2>This is the kind of God that we serve, a

515
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:43.599
<v Speaker 2>God that we can never get. There's no such thing

516
00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:47.880
<v Speaker 2>as periphial vision for God, there's no such thing as

517
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:50.400
<v Speaker 2>him needed to go get go see an optrometrist, and

518
00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:53.640
<v Speaker 2>go get some contacts of glasses. He sees every single

519
00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:58.680
<v Speaker 2>detail in our lives. And for somebody that might feel like,

520
00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:01.119
<v Speaker 2>oh shoot, I don't know if I want God see

521
00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:04.880
<v Speaker 2>you and everything, honestly, but the only way that you can.

522
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:07.319
<v Speaker 3>Embrace that and find peace in that is to know.

523
00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:12.000
<v Speaker 2>He sees the invisible parts of you. He sees the

524
00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:15.440
<v Speaker 2>parts of you that you don't even see yourself see.

525
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:19.839
<v Speaker 2>Our God loves to see the invisible. Not only did

526
00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:24.000
<v Speaker 2>he see Hagar and her invisible situation, he saw Hannah

527
00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:28.359
<v Speaker 2>and hers, and he saw Leah in hers and blind

528
00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:31.039
<v Speaker 2>barn Maas even though he couldn't see Jesus, Jesus saw

529
00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:34.440
<v Speaker 2>him and zach kids although he was shorter than everybody

530
00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:35.799
<v Speaker 2>else and had to get up in that tree to

531
00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:39.279
<v Speaker 2>see Jesus, Jesus saw him. The people that feel the

532
00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:42.640
<v Speaker 2>most invisible in their lives and in this world, God

533
00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:46.920
<v Speaker 2>sees every ounce of their life. He sees the injustice

534
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:50.480
<v Speaker 2>that was done to you. He sees how they betrayed you,

535
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:52.440
<v Speaker 2>he sees how they hurt you.

536
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:55.440
<v Speaker 3>He sees your successes that you even.

537
00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:56.640
<v Speaker 2>Try to keep on the hush because you don't know

538
00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.519
<v Speaker 2>if anybody's going to be excited for you. He sees

539
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:04.720
<v Speaker 2>every part of your life, and Hagar, after having this

540
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:09.039
<v Speaker 2>encounter with God, realize that not only does God hear.

541
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:10.880
<v Speaker 3>Me, he sees me.

542
00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:17.119
<v Speaker 2>I think that there's some comfort in knowing that I'm

543
00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:22.160
<v Speaker 2>being witnessed by God, and knowing that there's not a

544
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:25.079
<v Speaker 2>part of my story that I'm ever introducing to Him,

545
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:29.000
<v Speaker 2>and knowing that when I pray to him, I'm not

546
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:32.640
<v Speaker 2>initiating a conversation. He'd already been knocking at the door.

547
00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:33.440
<v Speaker 3>Of my heart.

548
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.359
<v Speaker 2>There's a scripture in Psalms that says, my heart has

549
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:40.119
<v Speaker 2>heard you say come, and I am coming to talk

550
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:44.480
<v Speaker 2>to you. You're never starting a conversation with God and

551
00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:50.279
<v Speaker 2>your prayers. You're never initiating a relationship with him. The

552
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.480
<v Speaker 2>Holy Spirit drew you into a relationship with him long

553
00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:56.880
<v Speaker 2>time ago, and you know why, because God knows you

554
00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:59.640
<v Speaker 2>so well, he knows when to set up and.

555
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:01.119
<v Speaker 3>Encounter with him.

556
00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:05.119
<v Speaker 2>Scripture tells us that before we were ever ever in

557
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:10.519
<v Speaker 2>our mother's womb, he knew us. Now, sometimes we make

558
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:13.839
<v Speaker 2>God out to be just a really good human so

559
00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:17.319
<v Speaker 2>sometimes we think that he is having the same experience.

560
00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:17.359
<v Speaker 3>As we have.

561
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:21.880
<v Speaker 2>When a child is born, that's when we are first introduced.

562
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<v Speaker 3>To that child.

563
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.319
<v Speaker 2>Oh No, when it comes to God, the earth was

564
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:30.640
<v Speaker 2>groaning for our existence. It wasn't just by happenstance that

565
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:32.240
<v Speaker 2>your mama and your daddy got.

566
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:33.680
<v Speaker 3>Together and you ended up being here.

567
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:37.240
<v Speaker 2>God knew from the beginning of time, the exact day,

568
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.160
<v Speaker 2>the exact hour, minute, and second that you would enter

569
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:44.119
<v Speaker 2>this earth, and what kind of impact and calling he

570
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:45.839
<v Speaker 2>places inside of you.

571
00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:48.039
<v Speaker 3>That's how much God knows you.

572
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:53.279
<v Speaker 2>If you know you're known and heard and seen by

573
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:57.559
<v Speaker 2>a god like that, how would you show up every day?

574
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:00.519
<v Speaker 3>How would you go after the things that he called

575
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:01.119
<v Speaker 3>you to do?

576
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:04.119
<v Speaker 2>How would you have courage to live the life that

577
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.160
<v Speaker 2>he's called you to live? How would you stop caring

578
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.359
<v Speaker 2>about the people who don't hear you, or see you,

579
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:12.559
<v Speaker 2>or know you or understand you. Because I am fully

580
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:15.880
<v Speaker 2>understood by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

581
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:17.240
<v Speaker 3>Even the parts of me.

582
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:21.880
<v Speaker 2>That I don't understand he understands. He says, I know

583
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:23.319
<v Speaker 2>you don't know why you got that habit.

584
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:26.799
<v Speaker 3>I do. I know why you. You don't know how

585
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:28.880
<v Speaker 3>you why you can't just stop running your mouth. I

586
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:34.640
<v Speaker 3>know why you can't break that addiction. I know. And

587
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:39.200
<v Speaker 3>when we know that, it changes our relationship to God.

588
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.599
<v Speaker 2>Instead of running to and fro trying to figure out

589
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:44.839
<v Speaker 2>answers about our lives and trying to find peace in

590
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.519
<v Speaker 2>other kind of ways, we go to the ultimate source,

591
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:54.279
<v Speaker 2>who fully knows us, fully hears us, and fully sees us.

592
00:31:55.559 --> 00:32:00.000
<v Speaker 2>The only reason that God fully knows us, hears us,

593
00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:03.720
<v Speaker 2>and seize us is because of point number four.

594
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:06.559
<v Speaker 3>God already loves you.

595
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:16.319
<v Speaker 2>God loves you, and love has been such an unconditional,

596
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:20.400
<v Speaker 2>a conditional thing in our lives with the humans in

597
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:24.160
<v Speaker 2>our lives, that we sometimes sum that up to how

598
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:28.799
<v Speaker 2>God loves us. I think that I love my husband unconditionally.

599
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:29.400
<v Speaker 3>I think I do.

600
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:32.400
<v Speaker 2>But the truth is there are certain things that he

601
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:36.000
<v Speaker 2>does that when he does it, it just makes me swoon.

602
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:39.160
<v Speaker 2>It just makes me fall more in love with him.

603
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:41.920
<v Speaker 2>And oh how beautiful that is in a human to

604
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:46.839
<v Speaker 2>human relationship. But that is not our relationship with God.

605
00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:51.079
<v Speaker 2>God cannot love you anymore than he already loves you

606
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:55.759
<v Speaker 2>right now. There is nothing that you can do or say,

607
00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:59.200
<v Speaker 2>no performance that you can put on that will make

608
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.319
<v Speaker 2>him swoo over you more than he already swoons over

609
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:07.200
<v Speaker 2>you right now. Scripture tells us that he sings songs

610
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:08.359
<v Speaker 2>over us.

611
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:14.839
<v Speaker 3>You are God's dream come true. You are the apple

612
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:16.559
<v Speaker 3>of his eye.

613
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.960
<v Speaker 2>And I know because most of us in our lives

614
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:21.480
<v Speaker 2>never felt like we were anybody else's apple of their

615
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:25.079
<v Speaker 2>eye or anyone else's dream come true, not outside of

616
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:30.400
<v Speaker 2>performing well that sometimes it's hard for us to receive that.

617
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:36.200
<v Speaker 2>That's how God sees us. How you know that you

618
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:40.119
<v Speaker 2>are loved by someone is how much they are willing

619
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:46.759
<v Speaker 2>to pursue you. In this story of Hagar, Hagar didn't

620
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:51.519
<v Speaker 2>run to God. She wasn't trying to have this encounter

621
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.160
<v Speaker 2>with God. She was just trying to get away from

622
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:57.359
<v Speaker 2>her situation. And in her trying to get away from

623
00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.000
<v Speaker 2>this situation, she found out that there was a god,

624
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.480
<v Speaker 2>God that had been pursuing.

625
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:03.960
<v Speaker 3>Her all along.

626
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:08.440
<v Speaker 2>And because he had been pursuing her all along, she

627
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:11.199
<v Speaker 2>ran smack dab in the middle of his love and

628
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:14.800
<v Speaker 2>found out that he was a God who all ready

629
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:20.159
<v Speaker 2>loves her. This is the beautiful thing about God is

630
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:23.000
<v Speaker 2>there's nothing you can do to decrease his love for you.

631
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:26.039
<v Speaker 2>There's nothing you can do to increase his love for you.

632
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.960
<v Speaker 2>And I know because of the human relationships that we have.

633
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.960
<v Speaker 2>It's almost hard to even think because a lot of

634
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.159
<v Speaker 2>times we think, oh, God loves us because he has

635
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:38.360
<v Speaker 2>to love us, but he don't really like me. He

636
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:40.400
<v Speaker 2>don't really like me because I keep making decisions that

637
00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:43.639
<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't make it. And because we see God partially

638
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:45.960
<v Speaker 2>only at just the parts of who he is. You know,

639
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:49.159
<v Speaker 2>he's king, you know he's judged, you know he's Lord,

640
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:52.559
<v Speaker 2>but you don't understand he's also father and friend. So

641
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:56.360
<v Speaker 2>although he does care about fairness and righteousness, he also

642
00:34:56.519 --> 00:35:00.280
<v Speaker 2>cares about you. He also has compassion towards you. Because

643
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<v Speaker 2>God is never in heaven thinking why did they do that?

644
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<v Speaker 3>I don't understand.

645
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:08.719
<v Speaker 2>He understands why we make every decision that we make

646
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:12.639
<v Speaker 2>in our life, and because of that, he loves us.

647
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:17.360
<v Speaker 2>That's why his grace covers a multitude of our sins.

648
00:35:18.679 --> 00:35:25.079
<v Speaker 2>Hagard realize that God already loved her, and I think

649
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:30.000
<v Speaker 2>about the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, we see that

650
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:33.719
<v Speaker 2>God has been passionately pursuing us from the beginning of time.

651
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:39.559
<v Speaker 2>In Genesis, he's passionately pursuing Adam and Eve, finding them

652
00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:43.239
<v Speaker 2>in the garden where are you? But in Revelations he says,

653
00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:48.079
<v Speaker 2>I stand at the door of your heart knocking, and

654
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:51.280
<v Speaker 2>if you invite me in, I will come sit at

655
00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:54.639
<v Speaker 2>your table like a friend. This is the kind of

656
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:59.440
<v Speaker 2>God that we serve. And when we know this about God,

657
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:04.679
<v Speaker 2>it changes how much peace we behold in our lives.

658
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.599
<v Speaker 2>I can live a peaceful life. You can live a

659
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:14.519
<v Speaker 2>peaceful life because I know I'm never unknown, I'm never unheard,

660
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:22.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm never unseen, and I'm never unloved. This reality is

661
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:29.760
<v Speaker 2>true enough that when our son passed away two years ago,

662
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<v Speaker 2>there was parts of the situation that, honestly was just

663
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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know how our nervous system even was

664
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<v Speaker 2>able to contain all the stuff that was happening, honestly,

665
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:44.119
<v Speaker 2>but I would remind myself over and over again how

666
00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:47.239
<v Speaker 2>much God loved us and saw us and hurt us,

667
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:49.840
<v Speaker 2>and over and over again, I'd have to remind myself

668
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.360
<v Speaker 2>of that, because when you're going through something really hard,

669
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:56.719
<v Speaker 2>naturally you start to feel alone. And in this situation,

670
00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:59.000
<v Speaker 2>there was one day. You know, I'm gonna ask you,

671
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:01.760
<v Speaker 2>Ki if you can hear me that. There was one

672
00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:06.480
<v Speaker 2>day that I was at Aces Incubator in Nick You,

673
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:11.960
<v Speaker 2>and when I was preparing for this talk, I was like, God,

674
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:16.880
<v Speaker 2>was there's something in that experience that I could share today.

675
00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:21.199
<v Speaker 2>And a lot of times we would sitting nick You.

676
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<v Speaker 2>We were only there for two weeks. Ace only lived

677
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:25.719
<v Speaker 2>two weeks, and for two weeks we would sit in

678
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:28.559
<v Speaker 2>Nick You and there's nothing you can do. Our son

679
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.320
<v Speaker 2>was on paralytic medication, and that meant that he his

680
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:35.199
<v Speaker 2>body wasn't moving, his eyes weren't opening. He was alive,

681
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:37.199
<v Speaker 2>but he was on a breathing machine. So we couldn't

682
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.039
<v Speaker 2>really interact with him. We would just you know, sing

683
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:42.280
<v Speaker 2>to him or read books to him, or talk to

684
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:43.559
<v Speaker 2>him so he would.

685
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:43.960
<v Speaker 3>Know our voice.

686
00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:49.119
<v Speaker 2>And it gave me insight on how God feels about me.

687
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.360
<v Speaker 2>And on this day, I was sitting in Nick You,

688
00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:57.880
<v Speaker 2>sitting by Aces incubator, and I wrote this in my

689
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:01.000
<v Speaker 2>journal and I wanted to read it to you because

690
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:02.880
<v Speaker 2>it blessed.

691
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:03.360
<v Speaker 3>Me reading it again.

692
00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:07.480
<v Speaker 2>Honestly, what I learned about the love of God is

693
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:10.000
<v Speaker 2>that it really has nothing to do with you at all.

694
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:16.320
<v Speaker 2>God is love. He can't act outside of love. And

695
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:18.480
<v Speaker 2>when I know that God loves me in that kind

696
00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:22.760
<v Speaker 2>of way, I show up differently in my everyday life.

697
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.599
<v Speaker 2>So this day, this was July sixteenth, twenty twenty four,

698
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.960
<v Speaker 2>and I was sitting in Nick You, and this would

699
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.280
<v Speaker 2>have been have been five days before our son passed away.

700
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:39.079
<v Speaker 3>And this is what I wrote. It says, I'm sitting

701
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:40.119
<v Speaker 3>here with Asa nick You.

702
00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:46.519
<v Speaker 2>It is the oddest and most natural thing to just

703
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:52.239
<v Speaker 2>sit and admire him. He's not doing anything, not even

704
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:57.159
<v Speaker 2>breathing on his own, and yet I absolutely adore him.

705
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:01.239
<v Speaker 2>He's the apple of my eye. He is my dream

706
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.719
<v Speaker 2>come true. And then to God, I said, that's how

707
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:11.800
<v Speaker 2>you feel about me? Huh, doing nothing at all?

708
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:17.079
<v Speaker 3>You swoon over me. How would I live day to

709
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:22.320
<v Speaker 3>day if I really believe that? What changes in me?

710
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:27.760
<v Speaker 2>What do I allow myself? And what do I not allow?

711
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.239
<v Speaker 2>If I believe that you love me? This kind of way,

712
00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:38.480
<v Speaker 2>that sums up in my mind how God feels about you,

713
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:44.159
<v Speaker 2>not just us, you individually.

714
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.760
<v Speaker 3>The way that God loves you.

715
00:39:48.760 --> 00:39:53.199
<v Speaker 2>Is almost inconceivable. We almost can't even fathom it in

716
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.960
<v Speaker 2>our minds. But if I knew that every day, all day,

717
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:03.119
<v Speaker 2>the eyes of Heaven were on me, hearing not only

718
00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:05.639
<v Speaker 2>the words that I say, but my thoughts are far off,

719
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.079
<v Speaker 2>hearing not only my thoughts, but bottling my tears.

720
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:11.199
<v Speaker 3>Every single day.

721
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:15.159
<v Speaker 2>The things that I can consider countless or worthless, he

722
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:19.519
<v Speaker 2>bottles them as a treasure. This is how God feels

723
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:25.480
<v Speaker 2>about you. If we believe that, if we live like that,

724
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:26.920
<v Speaker 2>we will.

725
00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:27.840
<v Speaker 3>Live in more peace.

726
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:32.199
<v Speaker 2>Because when we talk about the missing peace, it has

727
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:38.079
<v Speaker 2>to do with the fact that God knows you, hears you,

728
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:44.119
<v Speaker 2>sees you, and loves you. This is the kind of

729
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:49.679
<v Speaker 2>God that we serve. What I love about the story

730
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:55.840
<v Speaker 2>of Hagard is that this is essentially a foreshadowing of

731
00:40:55.880 --> 00:41:01.960
<v Speaker 2>the Gospel. Jesus came to to earth, came to you

732
00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:06.519
<v Speaker 2>and to me to encounter us, to have an encounter

733
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:10.320
<v Speaker 2>with us, because he heard our pain and he saw

734
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:13.639
<v Speaker 2>us from far off. And when he came, he did

735
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:17.880
<v Speaker 2>not come to just do miracles, signs and wonders. He

736
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:21.679
<v Speaker 2>did not just come to have arguments with the Pharisees.

737
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:23.920
<v Speaker 2>He did not just come so that he can have

738
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:27.159
<v Speaker 2>a group of disciples that followed him. Jesus came to

739
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:31.079
<v Speaker 2>this earth in order to show you and me how

740
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:36.239
<v Speaker 2>much God loves us, how much he hears us, sees us,

741
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:38.840
<v Speaker 2>and knows us. This is the kind of God that

742
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.519
<v Speaker 2>we served, so hegar story is not onto itself, it

743
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.239
<v Speaker 2>is a part of a greater story of how when

744
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:49.199
<v Speaker 2>we were in the wilderness of sin, there was a

745
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.000
<v Speaker 2>spring of water. And in that spring of water, it

746
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.239
<v Speaker 2>wasn't just any old spring of water, it was a

747
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:55.000
<v Speaker 2>living water.

748
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:56.320
<v Speaker 3>And when the living.

749
00:41:56.079 --> 00:41:59.840
<v Speaker 2>Water encountered us, he let us know. I want to

750
00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:02.960
<v Speaker 2>know all about your story. Don't think because you're a

751
00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:05.519
<v Speaker 2>new creator in Christ that you do not have to

752
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:06.599
<v Speaker 2>share your story and where.

753
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:07.559
<v Speaker 3>I want to know all of it.

754
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:10.239
<v Speaker 2>And you know why, because we overcome by the blood

755
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.920
<v Speaker 2>of the Lamb and the words of our testimony. I

756
00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.239
<v Speaker 2>want to know all about your story. But I also

757
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:18.480
<v Speaker 2>want to know where do you want to go in life?

758
00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:21.199
<v Speaker 2>What do you want to do? Because I called you

759
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:23.079
<v Speaker 2>to those things. That's not something you came up with

760
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.440
<v Speaker 2>on your own. I put that desire in your heart.

761
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:29.400
<v Speaker 2>And because of that, I'm not only going to just

762
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:30.599
<v Speaker 2>check your reality.

763
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:33.079
<v Speaker 3>I want to give you a promise. The thing that

764
00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:35.920
<v Speaker 3>you think you are. You are more than that. Well,

765
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:37.239
<v Speaker 3>for the beginning of time.

766
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.559
<v Speaker 2>I knew who you were, and I called you into

767
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:42.800
<v Speaker 2>this earth, and the earth was groaning for your existence.

768
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.440
<v Speaker 2>And that's the wasn't the only one that came for

769
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:48.119
<v Speaker 2>such a time as this. You came for such a

770
00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:50.760
<v Speaker 2>time as this. You are supposed to be here on

771
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:55.760
<v Speaker 2>this earth right now, doing the things of God. You

772
00:42:56.039 --> 00:43:01.840
<v Speaker 2>have my full attention. God says, you have my full attention.

773
00:43:03.639 --> 00:43:06.639
<v Speaker 2>Not one second of your life did I miss out on.

774
00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:12.159
<v Speaker 2>I've seen it all, and I know you better than

775
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:19.280
<v Speaker 2>you know yourself. So what is God asking from us today?

776
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:25.079
<v Speaker 2>And Proverbs, it says the Scripture, it says, my child,

777
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:33.199
<v Speaker 2>pay attention to me. I've been paying you attention. I've

778
00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:35.800
<v Speaker 2>been paying you attention. But you've been looking everywhere else

779
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:40.239
<v Speaker 2>for your worthiness. You've been looking everywhere else for your peace.

780
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:43.639
<v Speaker 3>You've been looking everywhere else to fit in and to belong.

781
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:46.400
<v Speaker 3>But today, pay.

782
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:49.199
<v Speaker 2>Attention to the one who's paying attention to you.

783
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:51.960
<v Speaker 3>Heyguard says, I.

784
00:43:52.039 --> 00:44:00.199
<v Speaker 2>Have seen the one who has already seen me. Today

785
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:05.920
<v Speaker 2>God is asking us to open our eyes and set

786
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:11.760
<v Speaker 2>our attention on him. When you set your attention on God,

787
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:16.320
<v Speaker 2>what you'll notice is he's already been paying attention to you.

788
00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:25.199
<v Speaker 2>Let's pray God today, we're really really grateful to serve

789
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:30.400
<v Speaker 2>a God like you, Really grateful to know that you

790
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.760
<v Speaker 2>are a God who knows us, hears us, sees us,

791
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:42.360
<v Speaker 2>and loves us. And because of that we can find

792
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:49.199
<v Speaker 2>peace for everyday life. To know that there's not one

793
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:53.760
<v Speaker 2>second that you've missed out on our life. To know

794
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:57.400
<v Speaker 2>that even the things that we whisper to ourself, you

795
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:01.400
<v Speaker 2>hear to so that the moments where we may be

796
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:07.079
<v Speaker 2>thought you didn't see us, you already saw us. There's

797
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:10.679
<v Speaker 2>been times, honestly that we thought, like a child playing

798
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:13.679
<v Speaker 2>hide and go seek, that when we don't see you,

799
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:14.880
<v Speaker 2>you don't see us.

800
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:18.920
<v Speaker 3>But the truth is you've always seen us.

801
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:25.679
<v Speaker 2>Every single day of our life was already written out.

802
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:35.440
<v Speaker 2>You already know us, and you already love us. Today, God,

803
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:40.400
<v Speaker 2>and whatever wilderness we may be in, maybe it's a

804
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:44.559
<v Speaker 2>wilderness in our relationships, Maybe it's a wilderness and our finances,

805
00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:47.320
<v Speaker 2>Maybe it's a wilderness and our bodies and our health,

806
00:45:48.559 --> 00:45:53.440
<v Speaker 2>would you set up an encounter with us today, just

807
00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:56.800
<v Speaker 2>like you met Hagar where she was at Would you

808
00:45:56.880 --> 00:46:02.920
<v Speaker 2>do that same thing for us today. God, help us

809
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:07.360
<v Speaker 2>to embrace your love in a way that changes how

810
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:09.320
<v Speaker 2>we show up every day.

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00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:13.639
<v Speaker 3>Send the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

812
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:17.199
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna do something a little different today. I've asked

813
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:19.920
<v Speaker 2>the worship team to come up. Typically, what we do

814
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:22.159
<v Speaker 2>at the end of service is you'll come up to

815
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.639
<v Speaker 2>the altar and have an encounter with God and we'll

816
00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:26.320
<v Speaker 2>have our altar.

817
00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:27.519
<v Speaker 3>Workers come up a little bit later.

818
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:29.960
<v Speaker 2>But what I'm gonna ask you to do for a second,

819
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.599
<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna ask you to hold in your seat

820
00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:36.599
<v Speaker 2>for one minute and allow God to encounter you right

821
00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:40.280
<v Speaker 2>where you are. Haygard didn't go looking for God and

822
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:43.320
<v Speaker 2>found him. He found her where she was already at.

823
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:47.599
<v Speaker 2>And today I'm asking the worship team to sing a song.

824
00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:49.920
<v Speaker 3>You can sing with him if you want to.

825
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:51.920
<v Speaker 2>But more than anything, what I'm asking you to do

826
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:54.559
<v Speaker 2>is where do you need from What do you need

827
00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:55.000
<v Speaker 2>from God?

828
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:55.400
<v Speaker 3>Today?

829
00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:58.719
<v Speaker 2>Do you need to feel like you are known, heard, seen,

830
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:02.760
<v Speaker 2>or loved? And today can you have that encounter with

831
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:05.480
<v Speaker 2>Him right where you are?

832
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:11.360
<v Speaker 3>Because our God sees you, he hears you, he knows you.

833
00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:14.920
<v Speaker 2>And my God, with every ounce of his being, he

834
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:19.480
<v Speaker 2>loves you. So before we run out of here into

835
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:23.000
<v Speaker 2>our everyday lives where we go around striving.

836
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:25.400
<v Speaker 3>Trying to be heard and seen and loved and known.

837
00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:29.360
<v Speaker 2>Maybe today before we leave, we allow God to encounter

838
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:30.800
<v Speaker 2>us right where we are.

839
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:32.360
<v Speaker 3>Amen.

840
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:37.239
<v Speaker 2>God has given us this thing that's called our imagination.

841
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:40.880
<v Speaker 2>We use that imagination for his glory.

842
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:42.440
<v Speaker 3>We have encounters with Him.

843
00:47:43.599 --> 00:47:45.599
<v Speaker 2>Then maybe we wouldn't have if we didn't use those

844
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.199
<v Speaker 2>faculties in that kind of way. So today, with your

845
00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:56.360
<v Speaker 2>hands open, I want you to imagine God hand in

846
00:47:56.639 --> 00:48:03.760
<v Speaker 2>hand with you. You know how you'll maybe grab your

847
00:48:03.800 --> 00:48:06.440
<v Speaker 2>grandmother's hand and she squeezes it in a way to

848
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:11.239
<v Speaker 2>let you know I'm here, baby, I love you, I

849
00:48:11.320 --> 00:48:16.079
<v Speaker 2>see you, I know you. Today, with your hands open,

850
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:18.960
<v Speaker 2>when you receive the love of God.

851
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:29.079
<v Speaker 3>He says that he's a father to the fatherless. He

852
00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:31.920
<v Speaker 3>knows that you weren't loved by your father the way.

853
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.440
<v Speaker 2>That you should have been. He said that he is

854
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:44.199
<v Speaker 2>a mother to the motherless, and maybe today you're carrying

855
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<v Speaker 2>some mother wounds. He said that he is a friend

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<v Speaker 2>of sinners. Today, maybe friendship has hurt your heart, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>you have felt betrayal or rejection.

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<v Speaker 3>He is the lover of your soul.

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<v Speaker 2>And honestly that may feel a little even awkward at first,

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<v Speaker 2>but it means that he loves every ounce of who

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<v Speaker 2>you are.

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<v Speaker 3>Today. Would you receive that love?

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<v Speaker 1>God?

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<v Speaker 2>Today, we receive your love. We receive your love. You

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00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:51.559
<v Speaker 2>bottle every one of our tears. You give us peace

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00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:57.280
<v Speaker 2>that not only calms our mind, but calms our nervous system.

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00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:02.239
<v Speaker 2>You give us healing that binds up the wound, the traumas,

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<v Speaker 2>the wounds that we had from a long time ago.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't stand on the other side of our miss

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<v Speaker 2>and ask us to clean it up. You stand shoulder

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<v Speaker 2>to shoulder with us and say, let me help.

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<v Speaker 3>Today. God, we are.

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<v Speaker 2>Asking you to open up our eyes to see you

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<v Speaker 2>the way you see us, To open up our ears

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00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:40.880
<v Speaker 2>to hear you the way that you hear us. God,

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<v Speaker 2>open up our minds to know you in a new way.

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00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:51.920
<v Speaker 3>And open our hearts.

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<v Speaker 2>To love you back. When we say I love you God,

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<v Speaker 2>essentially what we're saying is I love you too, God,

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<v Speaker 2>because we love you because you first loved us. And

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<v Speaker 2>we don't want this to be just some church experience,

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<v Speaker 2>but one that follows us to work. And when we

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<v Speaker 2>think we got to get the boss to see us

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00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:29.199
<v Speaker 2>to get a promotion. We know promotions come from You.

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00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:32.719
<v Speaker 3>And God. When we go home and we're with our

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<v Speaker 3>families and we're trying.

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<v Speaker 2>To be seen or understood by our spouse or our kids,

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<v Speaker 2>or our friends, or our siblings, our parents, that we

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<v Speaker 2>can lean back in confidence knowing that we are fully

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00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:57.199
<v Speaker 2>known by You. Let this understanding bring us peace that

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<v Speaker 2>passes all understanding. We love you so much. We love

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<v Speaker 2>you too.

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<v Speaker 3>In the name of Jesus, we pray Amen.

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<v Speaker 2>Amen. You may be in this room right now or

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<v Speaker 2>even watching online, and we've been talking about this God

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<v Speaker 2>that loves you from head to toe and you may

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<v Speaker 2>be wondering who is this God and how do I

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<v Speaker 2>get a relationship with him? Well, today I love for

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00:52:26.920 --> 00:52:29.159
<v Speaker 2>you to take a next step, and that is to

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<v Speaker 2>receive this free gift of salvation. This God who loves

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00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:37.400
<v Speaker 2>you so endlessly, so unconditionally, came to this earth, died

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00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:40.079
<v Speaker 2>on the cross, not just for the sins of the world,

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00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:40.639
<v Speaker 2>but for you.

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<v Speaker 3>If it was just you on this earth, he would

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<v Speaker 3>have done that.

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<v Speaker 2>If today you want to receive this gift of salvation,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to ask you a prayer, to pray a

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<v Speaker 2>prayer after me. All you have to do is believe

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<v Speaker 2>in your heart and confess with your mouth. And so

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<v Speaker 2>if that's you today, and I'm going to ask all

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<v Speaker 2>of our church online and in the room to pray

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00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:03.159
<v Speaker 2>this prayer together and say, Dear God, I admit I've

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<v Speaker 2>made mistakes.

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<v Speaker 3>I admit I need a savior I lead.

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<v Speaker 2>I ask that you change my heart, change my motives,

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<v Speaker 2>change my mind, and transform me.

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<v Speaker 3>Today. I believe.

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<v Speaker 2>That you know me, that you hear me, that you

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<v Speaker 2>see me, and that you love me. Today I am

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<v Speaker 2>saved in the name of Jesus. We pray, and everybody

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<v Speaker 2>says a man and a man. If you pray that

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<v Speaker 2>prayer today, either in this room or online, we want

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<v Speaker 2>you to text Saved to A two A two A two,

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<v Speaker 2>and we want to get you some more information about

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<v Speaker 2>how to walk out this life of salvation.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't do it on your own.

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<v Speaker 2>And also if you're heading out of here today, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a booth in the back that you can also get

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<v Speaker 2>some more information the next steps. And I believe we

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<v Speaker 2>might even have some free bibles back there for you,

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<v Speaker 2>So we go back there and get that information. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna ask our all to workers to come up here

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<v Speaker 2>to the front.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe today you want prayer about anything at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe something that we talked about today, or anything else

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<v Speaker 2>that's going on in your life. You can come up

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<v Speaker 2>here to receive prayer. We love you so much.

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<v Speaker 3>Go out and live a transformed life.