back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 01/12/2025
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>> It was the sin that drove the bitter nails 00:13:37.220 |
We'll answer any of the questions you may have. 00:13:59.280 |
the foundational doctrines of the Christian faith, 00:14:19.340 |
the all-membership meeting for the first meeting 00:15:34.460 |
please make sure you sign up as early as possible 00:15:49.460 |
of how to arrive at a correct interpretation. 00:16:03.460 |
so that we can put you into the proper groups. 00:16:08.460 |
again, for those of you who may have missed it, 00:16:15.460 |
that you can submit it both digitally on the app 00:16:21.460 |
But we did make a change at the beginning of the year. 00:16:26.460 |
and it prompts you to submit a new form of payment 00:16:31.460 |
please know it's because we changed the service 00:16:39.520 |
You'll just have to reenter the information there, okay? 00:17:06.580 |
for the promises, for the plans that you have for us, 00:17:17.580 |
And for all of that, we thank you and praise you. 00:17:20.580 |
We ask, God, that the more and more time goes by 00:17:28.520 |
we look forward to our future abode with you, 00:17:34.580 |
in anticipation, love, and affection for you. 00:17:39.580 |
I pray that it would truly be the expression of our love. 00:17:46.580 |
and also just knowing that you truly own all things. 00:18:04.640 |
that all of that would be truly used for your glory. 00:23:59.180 |
♪ O God, before the mountains were brought forth ♪ 00:24:16.120 |
♪ Or days of spring and summer filled the earth ♪ 00:24:30.180 |
♪ We dwell beneath the stars in ancient skies ♪ 00:24:43.120 |
♪ A thousand years are nothing in your sight ♪ 00:24:57.180 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:25:49.300 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:26:19.300 |
♪ O God of light, our ways are known to you ♪ 00:26:35.300 |
♪ But by your grace you're making all things new ♪ 00:27:04.360 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:27:28.360 |
♪ And all our days are held within your hands ♪ 00:28:04.420 |
- As you guys know, the missions team to Korea, 00:28:23.480 |
and we wanna be praying for them for an effective time 00:28:29.480 |
The Korea team, they're running English camps, 00:28:35.480 |
and we really pray that even though it's a short trip, 00:28:41.480 |
allowing them to be energized and continue to work. 00:28:44.480 |
And then right after, there's a good portion of the team 00:28:54.480 |
visiting both the pastors and doing ongoing ministry, 00:29:00.480 |
And then what's more, you guys are well aware 00:29:09.480 |
who have friends and family and parents or whatnot, 00:29:20.480 |
and so many different properties that were burned, 00:29:23.480 |
and then even the death toll continuing to rise. 00:29:29.480 |
God's hand would be experienced and felt during this time. 00:29:33.480 |
Would you please join me in a word of prayer as we begin? 00:30:00.480 |
God, there is very little that an individual may do, 00:30:04.480 |
but Lord God, we know that you can work mightily. 00:30:21.480 |
and sustain them, God, throughout this entire time. 00:30:34.480 |
we ask that, God, you would provide the courage. 00:30:44.480 |
breaking their hearts, causing their ears to be open, 00:30:48.480 |
and illuminating, God, the truth of the Lord Jesus 00:30:52.480 |
so that, God, they would hear, see, and believe. 00:32:28.480 |
and even just your fears and worries facing them. 00:32:37.480 |
we are a people beset with worry, anxiety, and fear. 00:32:49.480 |
so that we can look at the New Year with hope, 00:33:19.480 |
God has prepared us for a season of suffering, 00:33:26.480 |
God has prepared us for a life riddled with suffering. 00:33:43.480 |
Or do you actually anticipate how the scriptures 00:33:47.480 |
And the reason why I say this is because, yes, 00:33:49.480 |
there are all kinds of things happening right now. 00:34:07.480 |
not just local, countrywide, or even internationally, 00:34:20.480 |
My reaction is, "Well, the world's going on!" 00:34:38.480 |
of whether it's moral kind of depravity and corruption, 00:34:44.480 |
or even stuff completely just out of our control. 00:35:20.480 |
is the fact that we are constantly facing trouble, 00:35:40.480 |
who have been dispersed because of persecution. 00:35:43.480 |
He's speaking to those who've been displaced, 00:35:45.480 |
have lost their homes, and they are on the run. 00:35:59.480 |
you can imagine what it means to be chased out of town, 00:36:10.480 |
And he says to those who have been dispersed, 00:36:40.480 |
or is your response that you've been just fighting 00:36:51.480 |
It was the Lord Jesus Christ who told us in John 16, 00:37:06.480 |
was preparing his disciples and every disciple 00:38:02.480 |
And what's really interesting is in this passage 00:38:24.480 |
one of the ways this was translated in the Greek text 00:39:14.480 |
Well, scripture says it can come from every direction 00:39:17.480 |
because you understand the world that you stand on, 00:39:45.480 |
You live fighting against the spiritual forces." 00:39:47.480 |
And it says, "The spiritual forkness of darkness 00:39:54.480 |
and the principalities that surround this world." 00:40:15.480 |
you recall that the Lord said in Genesis chapter 6, 00:40:24.480 |
and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart 00:41:10.480 |
How much grotesque immorality there is sexually. 00:41:21.480 |
And then King Solomon reminds us and warns us, 00:41:24.480 |
"You understand that this life is wrought with vanity." 00:41:38.480 |
It is. God said to have kids is a blessed thing. 00:41:49.480 |
sometimes the greatest pains come from your children." 00:41:55.480 |
You pour out into your kid and you give him everything. 00:41:58.480 |
You give him your inheritance and he just curses you. 00:42:08.480 |
"If I knew and if I had wisdom, if I had money, 00:42:10.480 |
if I had possessions and the kingdom was successful." 00:42:16.480 |
To the point in Ecclesiastes 2, verse 17, he says, 00:42:22.480 |
For the work which had been done under the sun 00:42:26.480 |
Because everything is futility and striving after wind." 00:42:31.480 |
"If you had hope anywhere, in yourself, in your money, 00:42:35.480 |
He would say, "You know what, I removed one corrupt guy 00:42:44.480 |
I want to take a moment to pause there and say, 00:42:46.480 |
I know that right now I'm painting a very depressing picture. 00:42:52.480 |
But in some sense, this is the reality to which God said, 00:42:56.480 |
"It is wise for you sometime to go into the house of mourning 00:43:00.480 |
and realize how much this life and this world 00:43:14.480 |
sometimes I take a moment, studying a passage like this, 00:43:38.480 |
And because, let's say I'm tracing my young adult life 00:43:41.480 |
and I was thinking about, yeah, because I'm not just dating around, 00:43:44.480 |
I'm in it for marriage, and I'm supposed to marry 00:43:51.480 |
But did I just expect that to happen in every circumstance? 00:43:54.480 |
And because I studied the Bible, and because I came and served that church, 00:44:01.480 |
I'm supposed to therefore have obedient children, 00:44:04.480 |
I'm supposed to therefore be spared from all the suffering 00:44:10.480 |
And when suffering comes my way, all of a sudden, 00:44:19.480 |
I think there was a part of me that just simply assumed, 00:44:26.480 |
of course God is going to make my path smooth. 00:44:29.480 |
Of course God is going to make everything work. 00:44:56.480 |
The suffering, when we talk about where does it come from, 00:44:59.480 |
I mentioned everything in terms of the suffering that comes from the world 00:45:05.480 |
But actually, there's a lot of suffering that comes internally. 00:45:10.480 |
the majority of the suffering that comes because of you. 00:45:17.480 |
and think like, that's interesting, he just jumps so fast from 00:45:26.480 |
A lot of my suffering is because of my stupidity. 00:45:38.480 |
The suffering we experience causes us to ask God for the wisdom we need. 00:45:48.480 |
he talks about how, yes, there is a brother who is in humble circumstance. 00:45:52.480 |
Suffering can come because of your deficiencies. 00:45:56.480 |
Now, it's comparing and contrasting because of your poverty versus riches. 00:46:01.480 |
But he talks about this idea is, you understand, we're all finite. 00:46:05.480 |
And so the suffering comes because we're embedded with finiteness. 00:46:14.480 |
And so within that, my limitations produce my suffering. 00:46:21.480 |
he starts to talk about how when you are tempted, 00:46:24.480 |
let no one say, "Oh, I'm being tempted by God." 00:46:31.480 |
But each one is tempted when he is carried away, enticed by his own lusts. 00:46:40.480 |
Because I can't even control the stuff that's going on in here. 00:46:44.480 |
And my desires are producing in me this bed of death 00:46:52.480 |
I hope by walking through some of these passages, 00:47:01.480 |
that, yes, there is a host of hardship that come. 00:47:08.480 |
and just because I've been trying to live faithful, 00:47:15.480 |
that I am going to be safe from all the sufferings that people experience. 00:47:24.480 |
because I think people get surprised by loneliness. 00:47:28.480 |
This is a church, and we're supposed to have community, 00:47:30.480 |
and we're supposed to have one another's backs, 00:47:35.480 |
But I know that people regularly sometimes feel alone 00:47:44.480 |
and I know sometimes because of other experiences, hardships, 00:47:51.480 |
And I want to minimize that because that is a grievous thing. 00:47:56.480 |
God doesn't expect you to just be like, "I'm okay." 00:48:00.480 |
You know how with kids when they fall and they start to quiver? 00:48:04.480 |
Sometimes the parents go, "You're okay. You're okay." 00:48:20.480 |
but also, obviously, we have sometimes moments of great loss. 00:48:23.480 |
We have moments of great disappointment and failure. 00:48:26.480 |
I mean, you can literally do everything right. 00:48:30.480 |
You can be the obedient child who just follows things to the T, 00:48:41.480 |
All of a sudden, you're burdened with responsibilities 00:48:47.480 |
Sometimes you just are burdened with your own weakness, 00:48:54.480 |
because there is a kind of pain as you get older 00:48:57.480 |
where the pain doesn't come because someone inflicted you. 00:49:10.480 |
And all of a sudden, there's this strange, multicolored variety of suffering. 00:49:18.480 |
My question to you is, in the midst of that, how do you respond? 00:49:23.480 |
In the midst of that, what is your initial thought? 00:49:34.480 |
We know the Lord has His careful eye on all of His children, 00:49:42.480 |
So I want to encourage you with this passage. 00:49:48.480 |
"Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you 00:49:57.480 |
as though some strange thing were happening to you. 00:50:00.480 |
But to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, 00:50:04.480 |
keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory 00:50:11.480 |
If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, 00:50:15.480 |
because the spirit of glory and of God rests on you. 00:50:17.480 |
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer or thief or evildoer 00:50:23.480 |
But if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be ashamed, 00:50:40.480 |
Do not think that something abnormal is happening to you, 00:50:45.480 |
that somehow He forgot about you, that somehow He doesn't see. 00:50:49.480 |
But rather know the Lord is fully in control. 00:50:53.480 |
He is testing you, and He is going to produce in you glory, 00:50:59.480 |
In point two, the challenge of the passage is to, 00:51:04.480 |
rather than just simply react to the situation, 00:51:07.480 |
rather than simply respond in your flesh when something bad happens, 00:51:14.480 |
embedded not into your circumstance, but into your faith. 00:51:19.480 |
And so what he says is, "Consider it all joy." 00:51:28.480 |
"Happy thoughts, happy thoughts, happy thoughts." 00:51:30.480 |
He doesn't want you to simply fake it till you make it, 00:51:33.480 |
and He definitely doesn't want you to simply go into isolation and say, 00:51:44.480 |
We have so many different ways that people react to suffering, 00:51:50.480 |
"I want you to walk this narrow path that leads to joy and blessedness." 00:51:55.480 |
So in order to do that, within this idea of point number two, 00:52:02.480 |
At some point, you have to exercise a decision. 00:52:06.480 |
In this passage, He says when you experience the suffering 00:52:15.480 |
"Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance." 00:52:19.480 |
So in your mind, you're making biblical conclusions. 00:52:23.480 |
In your mind, you're making actual decisions. 00:52:26.480 |
When I counsel people, this is what I find as a tendency 00:52:30.480 |
amongst people who have experienced a lot of suffering. 00:52:33.480 |
A lot of times, sometimes people will tell me, 00:52:37.480 |
and then I'll walk them through the question. 00:52:39.480 |
I'll just tell me then what was the process, what was the journey, etc., 00:52:49.480 |
Then we would talk about God has a purpose, God has a plan, 00:52:54.480 |
and then they just simply repeat the question in another way. 00:53:04.480 |
Because they haven't made a decision to accept the fact 00:53:22.480 |
because sometimes the suffering is so painful, 00:53:30.480 |
You're trying to dissect and understand and process it. 00:53:36.480 |
But at some point, the Scripture challenges us, 00:53:50.480 |
that within all the timeline of everything you've experienced, 00:54:10.480 |
The passage tells us that something you know by your faith 00:54:25.480 |
And what He's going to do is make that endurance 00:54:31.480 |
And there is a future joy that we know by faith, 00:54:39.480 |
You recall in the famous passage, Hebrews 12, 00:54:52.480 |
"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses 00:54:54.480 |
"surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance 00:55:01.480 |
"and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 00:55:05.480 |
"fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, 00:55:17.480 |
"and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 00:55:20.480 |
"For consider Him who has endured such hostility 00:55:26.480 |
"so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." 00:55:33.480 |
"because you know that He is the perfecter of your faith." 00:55:56.480 |
Jesus was so powerful, God Almighty in the flesh, 00:56:03.480 |
He kind of walks around like, "Whoa," you know? 00:56:07.480 |
And He's got this, like, people are screaming at Him, 00:56:14.480 |
No, because He had so much composure, perfect composure. 00:56:31.480 |
Jesus told His disciples, "My heart is troubled." 00:56:41.480 |
It was not as though Jesus was not, like, fazed by anything. 00:57:01.480 |
which is the greatest degree of suffering, right? 00:57:22.480 |
The sheer rejection, the shame, the humiliation, 00:58:13.480 |
I'm not sure if you guys have ever heard that 00:58:17.480 |
But my next point, point number sub-point two, three, 00:58:32.480 |
Some of you guys are in the most competitive field. 00:58:48.480 |
Oh my gosh, I need to keep up with these guys 00:59:06.480 |
That blessed is a man who perseveres under trial. 00:59:11.480 |
Now that trial, again, it can mean various things 00:59:14.480 |
and it's been translated various things by context. 00:59:28.480 |
Literally, that God is putting you on the exam, 00:59:41.480 |
"which the Lord has promised to those who love him." 00:59:46.480 |
Future joy of the crown that God has promised, 00:59:48.480 |
but future joy to the path that leads us there. 00:59:56.480 |
But God has intended the purification of your soul. 01:00:13.480 |
and we have people who are producing product, et cetera. 01:00:15.480 |
What do you normally do when you have a launch, right? 01:00:22.480 |
"Everybody get on it, let's see if it crashes." 01:00:26.480 |
"we have so many bugs to fix, da-da-da-da-da." 01:00:30.480 |
You build a structure, you're in architecture 01:00:32.480 |
or something like that, you have to do stress tests. 01:00:34.480 |
You build a product, you're in mechanical engineering, 01:01:05.480 |
This is the amazing work of God in your life. 01:01:14.480 |
suffering and sorrow, and we're allowed to cry. 01:01:24.480 |
he has said, "Nothing has seized you, but it was common to man, 01:01:27.480 |
and he will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can handle." 01:01:34.480 |
Because God is in this process of giving to us 01:01:46.480 |
an endurance that we probably did not know we could have. 01:01:59.480 |
that simply it's Satan who's just making me fail, 01:02:09.480 |
"Nah, that guy, I need to just get that guy out of my life." 01:02:17.480 |
You know what scripture says in Isaiah chapter 45? 01:02:20.480 |
Isaiah 45, it says that God wanted men to know, 01:02:25.480 |
and he says, "That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun 01:02:29.480 |
that there is no one besides me, and I am the Lord. 01:02:45.480 |
So, I can't speak on behalf of the Lord things I don't know, 01:02:56.480 |
And then you wonder like, "Is God testing me?" 01:03:02.480 |
because God says he is going to use every circumstance. 01:03:08.480 |
"And God caused this, and that's why this happened," 01:03:23.480 |
And therefore, I want to move to the next portion, 01:03:32.480 |
outside of the circumstance of what he is doing in my life, 01:03:56.480 |
It's like, "Wait a minute, but I don't have money." 01:03:58.480 |
You lack nothing when you have the hand of God on you. 01:04:04.480 |
You lack nothing when God is at work maturing you. 01:04:09.480 |
If some of you guys have memorized James 1.4, amen. 01:04:18.480 |
"Consider it all joy, consider it all joy, consider it all joy," 01:04:29.480 |
"I know I'm supposed to have a better attitude, 01:04:34.480 |
I want to remind you that you have to know verse 4, 01:04:40.480 |
that you may not be able to go around the trial, 01:04:44.480 |
but God for sure is causing you to go through the trial, 01:04:48.480 |
because he is working in you perfection, completeness, 01:04:55.480 |
Scripture says that God has such a goal for you, 01:04:58.480 |
that you will be presented before him holy and blameless. 01:05:01.480 |
God has valued so much that your character would rise 01:05:08.480 |
to justified in Christ, previously still in the flesh, 01:05:29.480 |
He wants you to have the maturity of Christ's mind, 01:05:34.480 |
He wants you to have the maturity of his heart 01:05:36.480 |
and the way he feels, how he reacts to people, 01:05:42.480 |
and he wants you to react in every single way 01:05:44.480 |
as Christ would, so that you would have the mind, 01:05:56.480 |
an incredible high priest, who sympathizes with the weak 01:05:59.480 |
and come to our aid, God wants you to also mature 01:06:06.480 |
He wants you to have the perfections of Christ. 01:06:17.480 |
and the completeness of the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:06:20.480 |
Jesus is more valuable than a life of comfort. 01:06:29.480 |
than a life of ease, a life without suffering. 01:06:36.480 |
An interesting passage in Hebrews 2, verse 10, 01:06:47.480 |
"for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, 01:07:09.480 |
Jesus was in perfect harmony with the Father. 01:07:12.480 |
He only did the works the Father wanted him to do, 01:07:16.480 |
and he only said that which the Father gave him to do. 01:07:25.480 |
that it was only fitting that God would perfect our Savior, 01:07:30.480 |
who was already perfect, through the suffering? 01:08:03.480 |
the value of Christ's character is so much more 01:08:05.480 |
than anything you can imagine put into that statement, 01:08:14.480 |
So when we suffer, we can make this consideration. 01:08:25.480 |
And the suffering I experienced, Christ experienced. 01:08:31.480 |
Earlier, I went through a laundry list of loneliness. 01:08:42.480 |
people denied knowing him, especially his closest friends. 01:09:07.480 |
Like, "Jesus is going around teaching and healing people. 01:09:11.480 |
You know, like, that's how I'd scream at the passage, you know? 01:09:14.480 |
Some of you guys have people who are in your life. 01:09:27.480 |
It was fitting for him because he is your leader, 01:09:32.480 |
that you too then are perfected through suffering, 01:09:38.480 |
And so in this, I want to say that there is a joy 01:09:47.480 |
When we think outside of the immediate circumstance 01:10:11.480 |
And to know then my love to that greater degree, 01:10:29.480 |
"I had people basically following me and my leadership, 01:10:33.480 |
"and they thought essentially I was going to usher in 01:10:42.480 |
"whether I had everything or I lost everything, 01:10:47.480 |
"And if I could share in the sufferings of Christ, 01:10:53.480 |
I want you to turn to a pretty profound passage. 01:10:57.480 |
it's hard to not talk about the suffering of Job, right? 01:11:13.480 |
Job suffered in such a way where to most people, 01:11:21.480 |
And then to his closest friends, they're like, 01:11:32.480 |
he suffered by first losing all of his riches and his cattle, 01:11:36.480 |
then he suffered by losing all of his children, 01:11:47.480 |
he picked up broken pottery and just scraped his wounds. 01:11:54.480 |
She didn't die, but she was cursing God and saying, 01:12:10.480 |
And right now, we're thinking about this idea 01:12:19.480 |
but what's more, you know that you can experience his love 01:12:25.480 |
because you know what God's gonna do with you? 01:12:29.480 |
Does Job know all of that in the Old Testament? 01:12:36.480 |
Job replies, "Even today, my complaint is rebellion. 01:12:53.480 |
"I would learn the words which he would answer 01:12:58.480 |
"Would he contend with me by the greatness of his power? 01:13:07.480 |
"and I would be delivered forever from my judge. 01:13:16.480 |
"When he acts on the left, I cannot behold him. 01:13:19.480 |
"He turns on the right, and I cannot see him." 01:13:28.480 |
but I want to highlight a different kind of suffering 01:14:23.480 |
"Would he just demolish me and contend with me?" 01:15:01.480 |
yes, I can't see what he's doing on my right and my left, 01:15:19.480 |
Yes, in the furnace it's going to be so painful, 01:15:38.480 |
There are some horrendous stories sometimes you read, 01:15:43.480 |
and ache for the people who have experienced so much loss. 01:15:59.480 |
And therefore, I want to say to you as point three, 01:16:27.480 |
was suffering, was sacrifice, was giving, serving. 01:16:39.480 |
"God, I want to follow, but I want to make sure 01:16:43.480 |
"I have my rest days, I have my introverted moments 01:16:50.480 |
Do you have parameters, conditions, and demands? 01:16:54.480 |
Or do you have a willing and submissive spirit? 01:17:27.480 |
His effect on your life through that hardship. 01:17:31.480 |
Are we gonna say, "No, no, God, this can't be. 01:17:36.480 |
"You were to make sure this wasn't supposed to happen." 01:17:39.480 |
Or would you say, "God, as painful as it is." 01:17:55.480 |
because we can see various things come out of us. 01:17:57.480 |
And I realize, I'm reading James in a different way. 01:18:05.480 |
You know, weak faith that has no works is dead. 01:18:08.480 |
Test one, you're supposed to not be so quick to anger. 01:18:11.480 |
Test two, you're supposed to watch over your mouth. 01:18:17.480 |
what are the ways in which we are unwilling to suffer? 01:18:22.480 |
Typically, first and foremost, we react in anger. 01:18:34.480 |
Now, there are moments and times when we exhibit 01:18:36.480 |
righteous indignation or we're upset about the situation, 01:18:39.480 |
and it's not as though every outburst of anger 01:18:44.480 |
But if we're suffering and our natural reaction is just, 01:18:47.480 |
"No, no," and we're just angry about the situation, 01:18:51.480 |
we need greater endurance and a willing spirit. 01:18:55.480 |
What's more, the book of James has much to say 01:18:57.480 |
about your tongue, and I realize when we suffer, 01:19:06.480 |
great, great bitterness, hurtful words, critical words. 01:19:14.480 |
"Is your mouth filled with curses and witness, 01:19:17.480 |
"Are you exercising spirit control of your tongue 01:19:24.480 |
Now, obviously, the passage and the challenge for us 01:19:41.480 |
Because the heart that's discouraged by suffering 01:19:50.480 |
incredible heartache and pain within your family, 01:19:53.480 |
and you have said like, "This so-and-so person, 01:19:56.480 |
"my brother, my sister, my parent, my child, hopeless. 01:20:09.480 |
I think this is why this book is so full with exhortation. 01:20:40.480 |
it tells servants, "Be submissive to your masters 01:20:55.480 |
"a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly." 01:21:03.480 |
We are so fixated on fixing the circumstantial problem. 01:21:29.480 |
and beyond rationale and beyond what makes sense 01:21:54.480 |
So I want to encourage and challenge you guys 01:22:01.480 |
I don't know what all suffering you're experiencing, 01:22:04.480 |
but the Lord is giving you something so valuable 01:22:25.480 |
"even though now for a little while, if necessary, 01:22:33.480 |
"being more precious than gold, which is perishable, 01:22:39.480 |
"may be found to result in praise, glory, honor 01:22:46.480 |
"And though you have not seen him, you love him. 01:22:49.480 |
"And though you do not see him now, but you believe in him, 01:23:04.480 |
God is giving you something so much more valuable 01:23:29.480 |
that even in the midst of circumstances and situations 01:23:32.480 |
that seem so difficult and also are confusing, 01:23:45.480 |
and we know what you're doing because you've told us. 01:23:50.480 |
that we do not live this life aimlessly or purposelessly, 01:24:00.480 |
We recognize that that path involves so much heartache, 01:24:07.480 |
Thank you, God, that you do not leave us on our own. 01:24:10.480 |
Thank you, God, that you treat us like your children 01:24:13.480 |
and just like every child needs to be both weaned, 01:24:18.480 |
but also every child needs to be trained in righteousness. 01:28:23.480 |
that is unshaken by the circumstances of this world. 01:28:39.480 |
Thank you, God, that you are the true strong tower 01:28:42.480 |
in the midst of our storms and in the midst of our suffering. 01:28:45.480 |
Thank you once more, God, that in all of this 01:28:48.480 |
you say that you are able to come to our help 01:28:51.480 |
because you can sympathize with our weakness. 01:28:54.480 |
We pray, Father God, that you will continue to be merciful to us 01:28:57.480 |
and we thank you truly for the work that you are doing 01:29:04.480 |
Now, to him who was able to keep you from stumbling 01:29:07.480 |
and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, 01:29:12.480 |
To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, 01:43:38.480 |
- Who is still playing music? - I think Matt. 01:43:46.480 |
So we're gonna come back out and then end it like that. 01:43:49.480 |
End it kind of with a-- we're not going all the way out. 01:43:53.480 |
Yeah, first chord, fall out, and then go back in, 01:44:37.480 |
All right, we'll do verse 1 and then call it. 01:47:25.480 |
My guitar's out of tune, but we'll deal with that later. 01:52:03.480 |
♪ Oh God, before the mountains were brought forth ♪ 01:52:10.480 |
♪ O'er days of spring and summer felt the earth ♪ 01:52:30.480 |
♪ We dwell beneath the stars in ancient skies ♪ 01:52:37.480 |
♪ A thousand years are nothing in your sight ♪ 01:54:34.480 |
♪ But by your grace you're making all things new ♪