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today I'm going to walk very reverently
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on sacred ground I want to point out a
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very important symbol in our Temple
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covenants but I want to do it reverently
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so I'm going to quote the scriptures I
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feel like that's the safest way to do
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this I'm going to quote primarily the
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scriptures and the words of
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Apostles I think that's safe but I pray
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that those of you who have eyes to see
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will see exactly what I'm trying to
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point
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out now in today's symbol I need to take
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you back to those four connections we
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made earlier on in this course
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connection number one was that the
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temple ordinance are trying to push us
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from terrestrial into
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Celestial the church and the chapel and
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all that we do before we get to the
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temple is designed to push us out of the
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testal world and into the terrestrial to
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get us to step up to let go of the
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natural man to bury that natural man in
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the waters of baptism or break it like
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we do in the sacrament but when we enter
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the temple the ordinances are pushing us
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out of the terrestrial world world and
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into the celestial so we're constantly
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asking ourselves what is the terrestrial
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act that I need to let go of what is the
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terrestrial thing I'm holding on to that
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this ordinance has invited me to let go
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of for example with the rib and side by
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side the celestial invitation is can you
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walk side by side can you protect each
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other's Hearts can you stay closest to
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each other's hearts and there's the
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invitation to come out of the
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terrestrial and into the
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Celestial connection number two is going
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to be very vital for this for this
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symbol and that is when the Lord
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instructed us to build a temple he told
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us to organize prepare and
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establish we were to organize we were to
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prepare and we were to establish but
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then he used the exact same verbs in the
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dedication of the temple but he turned
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them around and this time if we go into
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the temple we will be
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organized be prepared and be
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established and I think that message is
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that everything in the temple has that
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reciprocal nature that what God does to
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me is an invitation for me to do to him
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so everything is reciprocal and we need
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to understand that today because it's
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not just something Jesus did that we
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need to remember it's an invitation to
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do the same thing to be the same thing
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so if God is anointing me in the temple
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he's inviting me to anoint myself to do
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what he is
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doing that's that prepare be prepared
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organized be organized idea so watch for
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that in today's video so let's jump into
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it turn with me to Isaiah chapter 22
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this is a beautiful contribution that
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Isaiah gives us and I'm so grateful to
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have it in the scriptures so that we can
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discuss it here in this class and in the
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Chapels and in our homes this is where I
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turn in my home as I want to explain
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this to my children so here's the
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background of Isaiah chapter 22 as you
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recall from your readings of Isaiah from
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the come follow me Old Testament year
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Isaiah serves with several Kings of
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Judah probably the longest standing was
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Hezekiah
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well King Hezekiah has a chief of staff
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a steward the holder of his keys the
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holder of his
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purse that is
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unworthy and Isaiah is sent to fire him
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his name is
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shebna so we find in Isaiah CH
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22 verse 15 thus sayith the Lord God of
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host go get thee unto this Treasurer e
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even unto shebna which is over the house
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and say and the rest of the verses is
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kind of his firing statement notice
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verse 17 the Lord will carry thee away
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with a mighty
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captivity he will surely violently turn
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and toss thee like a ball into a large
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country I'm going to kick you out of the
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country I'm going to kick you out of the
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Kingdom I'm kicking you out of your
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position shebna you have been an
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unworthy
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Steward you have violated the trust of
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the king he cannot trust you now think
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about that if you're Hezekiah and you
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find out that your Steward has been
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unworthy well now who do I trust who can
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I trust who can I put in that
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position that I can trust and you and I
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might be asking the very same question I
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are there are so many voices in the
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world today so many people yelling at me
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what I should do or what I should think
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and what I should believe who can I
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trust and maybe you've been doubled
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maybe you've been betrayed by someone
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you loved someone that that at one point
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you trusted and maybe your trust level
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is
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down who can I trust on whom can I Rely
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that's the
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question so Isaiah is sent to Hezekiah
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to say I am sending you a replacement
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that you can
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trust notice verse 20
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it shall come to pass in that day that I
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will call my servant
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eliakim son of
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hilaya now
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Hezekiah you can trust him and everyone
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else can trust
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him now eliakim now becomes a symbol of
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Jesus who can the father trust with his
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Affairs who can the father trust to let
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in the right people
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because eliakim is going to hold the key
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to the king notice verse 22 the key of
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the House of David will I lay upon his
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shoulder he shall open and None Shall
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shut and he shall shut and None Shall
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open now that's a direct reference to
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Christ if you turn to Revelation 3:7 to
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the church in Philadelphia John wrote
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these things saith he that is holy he
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that is true he that hath the Key of
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David he that openeth and no man
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shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth
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do you see the reference to Isaiah 22
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Jesus has the Key of David and because
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of it look at verse eight I Know Thy
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Works behold I have set before thee and
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open
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door and no man can shut it Jesus has
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the key to let us in to see the
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king heavenly father being a symbol of
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the king here and Jesus is the steward
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he has the key to open the door to the
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father he decides who can get in and see
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the king now shebna was not letting the
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right people in or he was letting the
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wrong people in
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and now eliakim has that key Jesus has
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that key and so I'm left to
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wonder who can get in to see the king
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can Jesus get me in to see the king will
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he open the door and that's why I love
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that imagery in Revelation that Jesus
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opened all the
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doors that I have no barriers to see the
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Father the only barrier is the one I set
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for myself with my righteousness or lack
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thereof Jesus has opened every barrier
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every door to see the father that's what
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he did to the king but in the end he
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will make sure that the right people get
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in to see the king the invitation is for
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all of us but Jesus is a faithful
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Steward and he will let the right people
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in and Hezekiah can trust him and
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helping him know that Hezekiah can trust
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him the Lord says to Isaiah back in
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Isaiah chapter 22 let's jump to verse
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21 I will clothe him with thy robe and
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strengthen him with thy girdle and I
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will commit the government into his
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hands Jesus is the one carrying out the
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plan here on this Earth he is Rob he is
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robed in the power and the glory of the
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Father the government is in his hands he
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is running the Affairs here on Earth
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remember Jes the father showed up to
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Joseph Smith simply to introduce the son
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and then the son took over and carried
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out the business that's how it works on
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this planet Jesus has been robed in the
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glory and the power of the father and
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has the
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government now you can trust him
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Hezekiah and all of us can trust him now
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the Lord says to Isaiah verse
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23 I will fasten him as has a nail in a
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sure
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place that's who Jesus is he is a nail
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in a sure place and because of that
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because he's this sure nail you that
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nail will not fall you can hang anything
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you need to on the nail of Jesus and it
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will not fall and so it reads in verse
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24 they shall hang upon on him all the
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glory of thy father's house all our
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hopes all our fears I love that
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Christmas song about old little town of
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Bethlehem all of the hopes and fears of
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all the years hang on that little boy
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born in
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Bethlehem my salvation hangs My Hope for
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Glory My Hope for anything the very
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basis of My Hope and my faith Fai hangs
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on Jesus who is a nail in a sure
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place he is worthy of that hope he will
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not falter he will not fail you can hang
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on Jesus all your trust all your hope
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now other people may have failed
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you other people may have betrayed you
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you may have placed Hope on someone else
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and they were not a nail in a sure place
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and they failed you and betrayed you but
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you can't and Trust
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Jesus my life is to spend my days with
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the Youth of the church and I find that
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so many of them have a closed door
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that're we're afraid of Christ we love
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him and we're afraid of
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him he must be the most disappointed
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person in me I think to
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myself and I'm a little reluctant to
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fully let him
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in let me illustrate the woman with the
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issue of
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blood now because of the law of Moses
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that they were under at that point she
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cannot touch anyone and no one can touch
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her anyone who touches her is unclean
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this woman has struggled for 12
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years and no one has cured her and it's
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gotten worse this woman is
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desperate then she hears of
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Jesus and she starts to hang her hopes
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on Christ
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not
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fully because she thinks to herself if I
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could just Touch the Hem of His Garment
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now if you look that phrase up in your
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Bible dictionary you'll see that the Hem
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wasn't his pant Lake the Hem of His
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Garment was kind of a Shaw or a tunic
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that had blue tassels and when he walked
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he would have thrown that blue tassel
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over him it would have been behind
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him this woman wants to sneak up from
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behind and take a
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blessing and I wonder how many of us
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kind of feel the same way can I just can
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I just get a blessing without a whole
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lot of attention being drawn on me by
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the Savior who knows everything that
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I've ever
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done can I just get a a blessing from
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behind so notice in Mark's account it
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says that she when she heard of Jesus
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came in the press
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behind and touched His
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Garment she's not fully hanging all of
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her trust and all of her hope she's
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still a little guarded as I think we all
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are she wants to sneak up and take a
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blessing from behind
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him now as soon as she touches him the
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account says straightway the Fountain of
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her blood was dried up and she felt in
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her body that she was healed of that
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plague now tell me the emotion in her
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heart tell me the emotion that she's
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feeling when she after 12 years of
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struggling with this of being unable to
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be with people her family her friends
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she can't go to
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church 12 years she struggled and now
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she knows she's
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healed that I would suggest is the G
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Jesus we hope he
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is the Jesus we're praying he is the one
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that's forgiving and kind and heals and
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blesses the one who clearly does
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wonderful things in my
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life that's the Jesus we hope he
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is and then he
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says who touched
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me now tell me the emotion in her heart
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oh
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no oh
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no he's
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angry he's disappointed in
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me and there's the Jesus we're worried
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he might
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be the one that must be disappointed in
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me the one that I don't fully want to
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face and now's this moment
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he turned around who touched
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me now if we read Luke's
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account I wonder if she was one of the
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one notice this
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verse right after Jesus says who touched
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me and she couldn't have been very far
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away she couldn't have she must have
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been right behind him when he turns
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around and says who touched me she
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couldn't have gone very far notice what
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Luke
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says when all
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denied did that include
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her was her first reaction to this
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miracle it wasn't me not me I didn't do
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it I didn't touch
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you is she afraid of Jesus are you are
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you holding back and not hanging on him
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all your
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hope are you a little resistant to fully
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let him in to open the door all the
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way see the interesting thing is Jesus
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has opened every door to
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you but the door into your heart doesn't
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have a door handle on his
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side he's
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knocking and some of us are
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hesitant I wonder if what's going on on
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the other side of that door is they're
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frantically
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cleaning I wonder if they're cleaning up
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and then they'll let Jesus in Imagine
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The Savior were coming to dinner at your
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house tonight what would you do all day
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you would clean up I wonder if some of
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us feel like well I can't let him in
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while the house is a mess I can't let
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him see this I'm ashamed I can't let him
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walk into this mess so let me hurry and
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clean up and then I'll let Jesus
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in and that's ridiculous right when does
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he want to come in when does he want to
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have the door open and he come in he
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wants to clean with you in fact he'll
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clean better than you can clean on your
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own he wants to clean but it's that I
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don't want him to see the
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mess and so I'm not going to let him in
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until the house is clean and so in my
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heart it's this I didn't touch you don't
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notice me don't come I'm
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nervous and we
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hesitate we can't fully lay on Jesus all
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of our hope
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and we hold
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back now what is Jesus doing going back
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to Mark's account it
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says he looked around about to see
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her as I picture this scene in my
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head I picture her terrified I didn't
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wasn't me I didn't do
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it and Jesus is
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just looking at
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her and I think that look is
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saying
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Bryce when are you going to let me
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in when are you going to drop your fears
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your vulnerabilities that you're so
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defensive
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against when are you going to let me in
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I'm
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here I want to help let me
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clean that's what I see in that look he
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must have been giving her hang your
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hopes on me all the way don't hold back
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let me in fully you can trust the nail
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in the sure
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Place give me your heart all of it I
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won't hurt you trust me hang on me all
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your hopes
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I think that was the look he just looked
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at her please let me in I'm
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waiting you don't need to clean the
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house without
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me let me in and will clean
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together so one of the bravest moments
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in the scriptures I think this stands up
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there with David walking out against
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Goliath or any other Brave moment
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Jonathan and the Garrison or any moment
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of
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Bravery I think this is the brave moment
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you and I where we finally fully lay on
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Jesus all that we can and we don't hold
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back we trust that he is a nail in the
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sure
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place and that I can trust
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him I love this
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verse but the
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woman fearing and trembling
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knowing what was done in her came and
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fell down before him and told him all
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the
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truth she fully let him
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in she opened the
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door now is he going to hurt her is he
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going to rebuke her is he going to shame
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her is he going to make her feel guilty
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like some of us
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expect his word the the first word out
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of his mouth was
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simply
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ughter which one is
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he the Messiah we hope he is or the
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Messiah we worried he might
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be which one is he what does that one
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word tell you about
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him
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daughter it is not shame you will get
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from Christ
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it is not
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condemnation if you're afraid of Jesus
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then I would suggest you're missing who
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he
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is and your Act of Faith needs to be
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drop the
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fear and let him fully into your life
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and hang on him all your hope all your
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faith trusting that he will hold that
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weight and he will it won't come
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crashing down that he will hold the
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weight you place upon
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him now CS Lewis wrote a series of
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children stories to help children find
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Jesus he's very specific in the books
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that he's helping children find
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Jesus there's this beautiful scene in
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one of the books called the Silver Chair
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where a girl named Jill comes into
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Narnia bill doesn't know anything about
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alen alen is CS Lewis's symbol of Christ
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and appropriately chosen right because
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he's a big scary
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lion who is as kind and gentle and
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loving as anyone ever he is Jesus he's
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so beautiful I fell in love with lions
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because I fell in love with alen and
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they touched upon my heartstrings for my
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love of Christ I love alen but he's a
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big scary
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lion and Jill is in naria and knows
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nothing about alen but she's very very
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thirsty and she hears water so she goes
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to the where she hears the source of
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water and sitting in front of the water
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is a big scary
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lion it's
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aln and she doesn't know now this is the
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woman with the issue of blood it's the
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same situation I guarantee CS Lewis got
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this from the New Testament
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and here's this moment here's the moment
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all of us have to face with
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Christ and so the lion says to
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her are you not thirsty said the
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lion oh I'm dying of thirst said
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Jill then drink said the
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lion now notice what Jill
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says may
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I could I would you mind going away
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while I
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do and there it
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is there's the
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fear I love
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him but I'm terrified of
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him would you go away while I
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drank I love the response the lion
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answered this only by a look and a very
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low growl and as Jill gazed at its
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motionless bulk she realized she might
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as well have asked the whole Mountain to
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move aside for her
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convenience the delicious Rippling noise
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of the stream was driving her nearly
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frantic will you promise not to do
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anything to me if I do come isn't that
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another one of our fears are you going
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to hurt me by what you
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ask I'm nervous to fully follow how many
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people in the New Testament as you
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studied come follow me were hesitant to
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follow Jesus let me go do this let me go
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do that
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I want to come but I got to go do this
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first I have other
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priorities I don't know if you're going
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to hurt
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me will you promise not to do anything
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to me if I do
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come I make no promise said the lion
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Jill was so thirsty now that without
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noticing in it she had come a step
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nearer do you eat
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girls it's that
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fear I'm afraid of what you're going to
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do to me
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Jesus do you eat little
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girls I have swallowed up girls and boys
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women and men Kings and Emperors cities
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and Realms said the lion it didn't say
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this as if it were boasting nor as if it
00:25:44
were sorry nor as if it were angry it
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just said
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it I dare not come and drink said Jill
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see the holding
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back I can't fully hang on Jesus
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all I'm
00:26:02
scared I dare not come and
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drink then you will die of thirst said
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the
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lion oh dear said Jill coming a step
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nearer I suppose I must go and look for
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another stream
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then I wonder how many people you and I
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love are looking for another
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stream looking for another way to drink
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the refreshing water but not the one
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that Jesus is sitting in front
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of I wonder how many people are looking
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for happiness in the wrong
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place and so alen says to
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her there is no other
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stream and I
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testify there is no other
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stream there is no other other stream
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that will quench your thirst like this
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one will others will leave you
00:27:03
hungry there is no other stream that
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will do what his water will
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do now remember the fearing and
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trembling moment from the woman with the
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issue of blood to remember the act of
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Bravery to just be
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vulnerable be scared to death but Let
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Jesus into my life fully
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100% Let Jesus into my life notice what
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CS Lewis wrote
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next it was the hardest thing that she
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ever had to
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do but she went forward to the
00:27:39
stream knelt down and began scooping up
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water in her hand now watch the nail
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hold
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her he is a nail in the sure
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place you can trust him you can let him
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in fully
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you won't fall he won't drop you he will
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hold you up all your hopes all your
00:28:05
dreams he will hold you up
00:28:10
notice it was the coldest most
00:28:13
refreshing water she had ever
00:28:16
tasted you didn't need to drink much of
00:28:18
it for it quenched your thirst at
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once that's the water he offers but only
00:28:26
when you fully hang everything on him
00:28:30
I'm all in
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Lord he is a nail in a sure
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place and you can trust
00:28:39
him you can trust that he will not hurt
00:28:43
you one more scripture Story one more
00:28:45
story of Jesus I sense in myself and in
00:28:49
many of my students that I'm terrified
00:28:52
of Jesus because he knows everything
00:28:54
about me and I'm worried that it's
00:28:56
disappointment and shame I'm going to
00:28:59
face that if I let him in he'll walk
00:29:01
into the house and go oh my goodness
00:29:03
look at this mess and I'll feel
00:29:06
ashamed and I wonder if that expectation
00:29:10
of
00:29:11
condemnation and shame and
00:29:13
disappointment is what's keeping him at
00:29:15
a distance if that's what's keeping us
00:29:17
from opening the door because I know I
00:29:21
just know I'm going to be
00:29:23
embarrassed and
00:29:25
ashamed but let me show you a very
00:29:28
tender scene a woman taken in adultery
00:29:30
in the very Act is brought into the
00:29:33
presence of
00:29:35
Jesus now imagine facing Christ at your
00:29:39
worst
00:29:40
moment this woman is at her worst moment
00:29:43
and there she is in front of
00:29:45
Christ now at first he won't do anything
00:29:49
he refuses to take action but they press
00:29:51
him now this is really a trap to get
00:29:54
Jesus condemned by the Romans or to to
00:29:57
foil his claim to be Christ that's
00:30:00
what's really going on so they press him
00:30:02
to judge her should she be stoned or
00:30:05
not and then Jesus says something
00:30:08
profound he says in John 8:7 he that is
00:30:13
without sin among you let him first cast
00:30:17
a stone at her now did someone
00:30:23
qualify was there someone there who did
00:30:28
qualify and could have thrown a stone at
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her
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yes he
00:30:38
qualified but did not throw a
00:30:42
stone I think that really is the problem
00:30:45
here so many other people in my life are
00:30:48
so willing to throw stones at me if I
00:30:51
make a mistake they're so willing to
00:30:53
Stone me or shame me or cancel me that's
00:30:56
the culture we live in and we kind of
00:30:58
get to we get thinking that Christ lives
00:31:01
by that culture but the one person who
00:31:04
qualified to Stone her
00:31:08
didn't he didn't Stone
00:31:11
her now what does that tell
00:31:14
you he qualified he met the criteria he
00:31:17
was without sin and chose not to Stone
00:31:22
her and there's the there's the nail in
00:31:25
the sure place you have to trust
00:31:28
he's not going to Stone you if you let
00:31:30
Jesus into your life he's not going to
00:31:33
Stone
00:31:34
you when everyone leaves because they
00:31:37
are condemned by their guilt and it's
00:31:39
just Jesus and the woman Jesus was left
00:31:43
alone and the woman standing in the
00:31:46
midst and when Jesus lifted himself up
00:31:49
and saw none but the
00:31:52
woman he said unto
00:31:56
Heroman where are those thine
00:31:59
accusers hath no man condemned
00:32:02
thee she answered and said no man
00:32:06
Lord now will you listen to The Nail in
00:32:10
the sure Place those of you who aren't
00:32:13
fully letting him into your life because
00:32:15
you're afraid of the stones he will
00:32:17
throw at
00:32:18
you the changes he will make in you the
00:32:22
places he will take
00:32:24
you Jesus says to her
00:32:27
neither do I condemn
00:32:32
thee now let me point out he didn't
00:32:34
condone her either notice he says go and
00:32:37
sin no
00:32:40
more did did she walk away knowing she
00:32:43
needed to change her behavior
00:32:46
yes did she walk away
00:32:50
shamed mocked
00:32:52
embarrassed
00:32:55
canell no
00:32:57
neither do I condemn
00:33:01
thee now look at the footnote Joseph
00:33:03
Smith adds an absolutely essential to
00:33:06
understand
00:33:07
footnote after Jesus says go and sin no
00:33:11
more it says the woman glorified God
00:33:14
from that hour and believed on his name
00:33:18
she in her shame she's in her darkest
00:33:21
moment when the room is the very
00:33:24
messiest Jesus comes in
00:33:27
and instead of
00:33:29
Shame she feels Glory she glorifies
00:33:34
him she honors him she believes on him
00:33:37
she walked away from an exchange with
00:33:40
Christ at her darkest moment lifted
00:33:45
knowing she needs to do better there's
00:33:47
no question she needs to improve her
00:33:49
behavior I guarantee any exchange you
00:33:52
had with the father or the son you would
00:33:55
walk away motivated to be better
00:33:57
inspired to be better but not shamed
00:34:00
into being
00:34:01
better you would not walk away
00:34:04
embarrassed or mocked or
00:34:07
condemned you would walk away glorifying
00:34:10
God and knowing you needed to change
00:34:12
your behavior that's the god you can
00:34:14
rest your hopes on hang everything hang
00:34:18
your whole heart on Christ he will not
00:34:22
drop it you will not fall he won't throw
00:34:26
Stone at
00:34:28
you open up that door even at Your
00:34:32
Darkest messiest
00:34:34
hour stop being afraid of
00:34:38
him and let him
00:34:40
in hang everything on that
00:34:44
nail fearing and trembling
00:34:47
sometimes and I guarantee you will drink
00:34:50
water you've never tasted
00:34:53
before I stand as a witness that he is
00:34:56
worthy and capable of holding you
00:35:00
up and keeping you safe yes he will
00:35:03
change you yes it will be challenging
00:35:06
and difficult but he will walk with you
00:35:08
the whole
00:35:09
way and that water that you drink is
00:35:12
better than anything else out
00:35:15
there okay
00:35:18
now that's be
00:35:23
organized let's turn it
00:35:25
around
00:35:27
in that sacred connection with
00:35:30
Christ when I am reminded that he is a
00:35:34
na in a sure place in that
00:35:39
moment in that
00:35:42
moment what is he asking of
00:35:47
me he is asking me to be a nail in a
00:35:53
sure place for him
00:35:58
that's the beauty of that sacred
00:36:01
moment he is reminding me that he is a
00:36:05
nail in a sure place for me I can trust
00:36:08
him I can I don't need to hold back
00:36:11
anymore let him in fully that's his
00:36:14
reminder in that sacred moment he is
00:36:17
reminding me that he is a nail in a sure
00:36:20
place and at the same time he is
00:36:24
asking that I be a nail in a sure place
00:36:28
for
00:36:29
him he's asking can I lay my hopes on
00:36:33
you can I trust you to carry my name to
00:36:37
the
00:36:38
world can I lay my hopes on
00:36:43
you and that sacred moment is an
00:36:46
invitation to live the Covenant now I
00:36:48
know exactly what I'm supposed to be the
00:36:50
temple Covenant with few words
00:36:54
spoken has invited me to be a nail in a
00:36:58
sure place for
00:37:00
Christ like he is a nail in a sure place
00:37:03
for me Lord you can hang on me anything
00:37:06
you need to you can hang a
00:37:08
responsibility on me you can trust me I
00:37:11
will not fail you Lord now make that
00:37:14
human we're going to make mistakes and
00:37:16
he's going to we're going to
00:37:17
repent but the invitation is to do my
00:37:21
best to be a nail in a sure place that's
00:37:25
what the temple is asking me to do
00:37:27
that's the
00:37:29
Covenant be a nail in a sure place for
00:37:34
Christ as he is a nail in a sure place
00:37:38
for
00:37:41
me
00:37:43
that is eye
00:37:45
opening and with very few words I know
00:37:48
exactly what I'm supposed to
00:37:50
do so I'm going to make M videos and I'm
00:37:55
going to declare his name for the rest
00:37:57
of my life and I'm going to stand up in
00:38:00
sacrament meeting and I'm going to
00:38:01
testify to my word and my life is going
00:38:04
to say to him Jesus you can trust me you
00:38:08
can lay on me all the trust all the
00:38:10
responsibility all of your
00:38:12
hope and I'm going to carry that and I'm
00:38:16
not going to let you
00:38:17
down I promise to be a nail and ass sure
00:38:20
place for
00:38:25
him
00:38:27
now one
00:38:31
more there
00:38:34
is one other
00:38:38
person with whom I have that same
00:38:43
connection Jesus is
00:38:47
one but there is one other
00:38:51
person I connect
00:38:54
with the same way
00:38:59
and that is my
00:39:02
spouse the only other
00:39:06
person and now I
00:39:08
know how to be a
00:39:11
husband I don't need a lot of
00:39:13
words I just need that
00:39:17
image my Covenant with
00:39:21
her is to be a nail in a sure place for
00:39:26
her
00:39:28
her I promise you
00:39:31
Jennifer you can trust
00:39:34
me you can hang your heart on
00:39:39
me I will not let you
00:39:42
down I promise to hold up the weight of
00:39:48
your
00:39:50
trust now I'm going to make some
00:39:51
mistakes because I'm human and I'm going
00:39:53
to repent quickly and I hope you'll
00:39:55
forgive me
00:39:59
but I promise I Covenant right here
00:40:02
right now at this
00:40:04
moment to be a nail in a sure place for
00:40:11
you that symbol more than thousands of
00:40:15
words is more instructive of how to be
00:40:20
married how to live the Covenant of
00:40:24
marriage than any
00:40:27
anything the symbol of that
00:40:30
Covenant is the sermon on how to keep
00:40:33
the Covenant of the
00:40:36
ceiling be a nail in a sure place for
00:40:41
each
00:40:43
other that your spouse can hang their
00:40:46
hopes their trust their whole heart on
00:40:50
you and that you will bear that
00:40:53
weight like Jesus Bears the weight we
00:40:56
place on him like I'm going to try my
00:41:00
very best to Bear the weight he places
00:41:02
on me bear the weight each other trusts
00:41:06
of each other bear the weight that
00:41:09
spouse places on
00:41:11
spouse that's the
00:41:13
Covenant it is powerful and beautiful
00:41:17
and of it I bear testimony and invite
00:41:20
you to get out of the terrestrial room
00:41:24
and into the celestial room
00:41:27
and commit to Jesus and
00:41:30
spouse to be a
00:41:33
nail in a sure
00:41:35
place and I say that in the name of
00:41:37
Jesus Christ
00:41:55
amen
