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00:02 >> We set our sights on compelling stories. 12 minor 00:06 prophets of the old test. 00:08 The profits message rich and wisdom and filled with true is 00:13 as relevant today as it was. Then 00:16 it's hard to find. Come next. 00:19 Joining us now on 3ABN for an in-depth study of the word of 00:23 God 00:25 in the mines. 00:30 >> Hello and welcome back to 3 ABN summer Camp meeting. 00:33 We're so glad you joined us. Good morning to you at home. 00:37 And good morning to you here in person audience. How are you 00:40 this morning? 00:43 Praise the Lord. 00:45 I want to ask you at home. How was your breakfast a home? 00:49 It doesn't compare to what we had here. Can't meeting, 00:52 right? 00:53 We have been spirits. The Fed to, though, haven't we? Wow. 00:57 What a blessing. You know, we have a little bit of rain here 00:59 yesterday. And while the clouds cleared out, beautiful sunshine 01:04 this morning, right cooler temperatures here in southern 01:06 Illinois. We praise the lord for that because we want you 01:09 all to move here. We have the perfect weather here in 01:12 southern Illinois. 01:14 I have the privilege, though, this morning of introducing my 01:16 wife, Jill. It's a real privilege. You know, we first 01:19 met in 1996. So we've known each other about 27 years. 01:24 The married 21 years this September. But it's been a 01:28 tremendous privilege to be in ministry together. 01:31 We have a lot of people, I should say. Some people say, 01:34 hey, so what's it like the kind of work together said, okay. 01:38 Haha, 01:39 you want to know how it is? 01:41 You do not really. 01:44 It's fantastic. You know, it's a blessing. My wife's office is 01:47 just down the hall and to be in ministry together. What a 01:50 privilege. What an absolute blessing. And it's a blessing 01:54 to have you as our 3 been family here and you join us as 01:58 well. You know, Joe, 01:59 she has a love of the Bible. She loves the scriptures. 02:03 She has a deep love and care for others, 02:07 but she has a deep love for the Lord Jesus Christ and the such 02:11 a blessing. You know, as you see Ron Savage school panel, 02:13 I'm sure quite often. And she so enjoys studying for Sabha 02:17 school. She takes a lot of time into all those lessons. And she 02:21 just is really fun because she'd be there on the couch and 02:24 studying for the upcoming South school. Less than it should be 02:27 safe. Greg, this little tidbit wound. I'm here all my points 02:31 right here, my list. And so I'm blessed. I get to hear all I 02:36 could hear about 7 school before you all do. 02:39 But I'm blessed. I'm really blessed to have her as my wife 02:42 into the ministry together. But they're going to something 02:44 a little difference to the music, the next he's actually 02:47 going to have Tim Parton play at the end of her message and 02:50 her message today is resting in his love. 02:56 >> Thank you, sweetheart. 02:58 [MUSIC] 03:01 Almost kids. 03:04 We'll save that for later. 03:07 What an incredible blessing to be together at 3 being can't 03:11 mean is it not? 03:13 I've been so my soul has been spiritually enriched by the 03:17 messages that I've heard. Thank you, Pastor James. 03:20 The message we just heard on Jose with powerful praise the 03:23 Lord, 03:25 my privilege to speak on the book of 03:28 you all read the bulletin. That's an eye on. That's right. 03:31 Praise the Lord arrests. Teen in his love has great 03:35 referenced. I like lists. You all know that from 72 03:39 pounds. 03:41 So today we're going to have 7 keys to discover how you and I 03:46 can rest in his love from the book of Zephonites. 03:51 Before we do that and ask you a question, 03:54 are you 03:56 at rest? 03:58 Are you secure in your salvation? 04:02 Do you ever have worry 04:04 in your heart? 04:06 Do you ever feel shame or guilt? 04:10 Do you struggle with condemnation? 04:13 Are you at rest in your relationships, with other 04:16 people, 04:17 with your spouse, with your children, with your parents or 04:22 co-workers or neighbors are church members? 04:28 Are you completely at rest? 04:31 If I'm being honest with you, I don't think I am 04:34 all the time 04:36 in all times in all places. But I want to be 04:40 today. We will explore ways that we can find rest in 04:45 Christ. Let's pray. 04:48 Holy Father, we come before you in the name of TCS. Grateful 04:52 for you were done right now. I asked 04:56 so you would hide me behind the cross Jesus. Would you be 05:01 uplifted unseen and glorified which your word come alive and 05:07 speak to us and speak to our hearts and we thank you. 05:11 And we will give you all the praising glory in Jesus name. 05:15 Amen. 05:17 They say that confession is good for the soul. You know 05:21 this and h*** o* the 05:25 reputation. 05:26 So I want to make a confession today to you all. 05:30 I have always been a happy person 05:33 even from when I was a little child growing up teenage years 05:38 into adulthood. In fact, people would tease me and they say, 05:41 Jill, you always even wake up happy. And that is true. 05:45 I literally wake up happy and I'm happy throughout the day 05:48 and I've always been that way. 05:51 But I went through a season 05:54 and a time in my life 05:57 of depression 05:58 a time when there was darkness a time when I could not see the 06:04 light 06:05 and things did not. 06:07 I feel 06:08 or sea men to be at rest that we're talking about here today. 06:13 I keep a journal not consistently, but from time to 06:17 time 06:18 and I want to read you, this is a personal entry. 06:23 I want to read you an entry from that journal. This is from 06:26 that time when I was not rest and that time when I was 06:31 struggling with darkness, 06:36 I come to you. 06:40 Mt. 06:41 Bleeding. 06:45 Somehow not enough. 06:48 What I do is not enough. 06:50 A Christian should have it all together. 06:52 Aren't I a Christ follower? 06:55 Perhaps not. 06:57 If I feel this way, 06:59 the shame becomes oppressive. 07:03 It's easier not to feel. 07:05 I pushed the thoughts away, 07:09 swallowed the lump in my throat. Will my mind to other 07:14 thoughts? 07:15 It's better not to focus on how I feel better. Not to think 07:20 better. Not to question 07:23 because it only brings pain 07:25 and I don't have time for pain. 07:28 God, I'm scared. 07:30 If I truly look inside, allow myself to feel what do I 07:33 discover? 07:34 Who is Jill? Really? 07:38 What if it's not pretty and sign? 07:40 It's better to lock it away. 07:43 You can do this. Put on your game face. Pretend that 07:48 everything is OK. 07:49 I cannot show weakness. I will not show weakness. Our be 07:56 strong. 07:57 I would be fine 07:59 yet. I'm dying. 08:02 Insight 08:06 had not 08:08 continue. 08:10 That was from a time of darkness 08:14 in my life 08:17 and you might not have experienced anything like that 08:20 in your life. But if I'm guess seen I would say everybody in 08:23 this room 08:25 and you watching at home headaches Tyrion stat one point 08:29 or another in your life. The mask of good Christianity. 08:34 We put it on, do we not? We coming to church and we say 08:37 happy 7th. How are you? And we take a going to be a good 08:40 Christian. Hi, I'm doing great. 08:43 Is that really how we are? 08:45 >> Is that really how we feel inside? And yet we try to pull 08:48 ourselves up by our bootstraps and put on the facade of 08:52 Christianity 08:54 when we are maybe not really at rest. 08:59 Have you ever felt insecure? 09:01 Have you ever been angrier irritated? 09:03 Have you ever been skittish or afraid? Have you ever been 09:07 tense or bitter? Have you ever faced the death of a loved one? 09:13 Have you ever dealt with divorce 09:15 or loss? 09:17 Our separation from friends 09:21 today. We're going to look at how you and I can find discover 09:27 encounter rest in Christ 7 Keys to finding that risk from the 09:33 book and Stephan I a before we do that. Let's just give a 09:36 brief overview of Zephon. I it's a very short book. 09:39 Only 3 chapters. If you're looking for it, it's after a 09:45 backache and before Haggi I we're going to spend her time 09:48 in. Stephanie, I so you welcome to open up and look there, 09:52 Stephan Ions f an Iowan verse one. Obviously he's a prophet. 09:56 But did you know he was also royalty? He was a great, 09:59 great, great and son of King Hezekiah. 10:04 Stephanie Prophesied doom, the reign of King Josiah. He was 10:10 the last good King of Israel of Judah. 10:14 Now about 100 years before this would be in 7.22. BC the 10 10:20 Northern Kingdoms. The nation of Israel was taken and 10:25 dispersed because of their apostasy because of the day or 10:29 idolatry. Now we come down around 100 years to the time of 10:34 Josiah. This is mid 600 BC 10:37 and we find the prophet Zephon Maya Prophesying during that 10:40 very same time. And what's amazing to me is that the 10:43 people of Judah should have learned the lessons that 10:47 happened over here in Israel. Should they have not? They 10:50 realize that Israel had been in the pasta. See Israel had 10:53 worship idols. Israel had done their own thing and they had 10:58 been completely taken 11:02 and you see the judgment of God on that nation. And yet we come 11:05 down to Judah maybe 100 years later and they are on the brink 11:10 of more and spiritual collapse. 11:14 The nation of Judah is morally and spiritually bankrupt. 11:19 They participated in foreign called stay worship canaanite 11:23 gods 11:25 at this time is when God called Zephon. I a 11:28 to prophesied morning. If you look at the theme of the book 11:33 is Fun. I it's justice on this side and over here we have 11:38 Mercy. I love Pastor James talked about that. Getting not 11:41 justice and mercy. We have the justice to judgment. Theirs is 11:46 warning of impending judgment. You find in the book of Stephan 11:50 I a but over here we see God calling to his people re pants, 11:56 which you turn back to me. Would you turn away from your 11:59 idol worship and those evil things and turn back to worship 12:04 me? 12:06 If we look at the outline of the book deaf and I to me, 12:09 it's kind of divided into 5 parts. If you start all the way 12:12 over here, part one is chapter one. And this is a warning. 12:16 If you're a chapter one, it's warning of impending judgment. 12:21 The whole thing judgment on Judah, judgment on Drew slum 12:25 judgment on the heave in. Then you come over here to part 12:28 2. Now, this is chapter 2, the first 3 verses and it is an 12:32 appeal for repentance and appeal for real reformation. 12:38 Then we come to part 3. This is the latter half of Chapter 2 12:42 and its judgment again. But this time not on the people of 12:46 God. This is the judgment on the 4 and the heat. Even 12:49 nations. We see actually the 5 full judgment, the philistines, 12:54 the moabite, the ammonites, the Ethiopians and the Assyrians. 12:59 Then we come to Chapter 13:01 4 13:02 and this is the beginning of I'm sorry, part for I'm not 13:06 confused. Part for this is the beginning of Chapter 3 and it 13:10 is this universal judgment. By time we get down verse 8, 13:14 the judgment is falling on everyone but it doesn't stop 13:16 there. The book doesn't stop there if it started and stopped 13:19 in Zephonites 3, 8, 13:22 where we are hoping 13:24 but it doesn't stop there. We have a part 5 and that comes 13:27 the latter. Half of Chapter 3, which is incredible. It's 13:32 reformation. Re Penn, 10's followed by this culminating 13:38 ringing declaration of joy. 13:41 There's joy from God's people over their deliverance and 13:46 there's joy from God because his people to people that he 13:51 loves have turned back to him. 13:55 So let's look at those 70's for discovering rest in Christ. 14:02 7 Keys from the book of Fun. I Am Keen Number one. We're 14:05 going to overhear key number one is to allow God to caught 14:11 out the idols from your life. 14:16 So what's the number one? We're going to practice 14:17 together. Allow God to caught out the idols from your life. 14:24 We allow God to do that. Work runs F an Iowan verse 4. 14:28 I was stretch out my hand. This is God talking. I'm going 14:32 to stretch out my hand against who, 14:35 Judy. This is God's people. Judgment Day is coming up on 14:39 the church. I was stretch out my hand against Judah 14:43 against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off every 14:49 trace of bail. These are the idols were talking about our 14:53 cutoff every trace of bail from this place. The names of the 14:57 idolatrous priest with a pagan priest jumped out of or 6. 15:01 Those who have turned back from following the Lord and have not 15:06 sought the Lord nor inquired of him. 15:11 Do you want to experience rest 15:14 in your life? 15:15 You and I need to allow God to take those things out of our 15:20 lives. 15:22 Separate us from him. 15:25 Amos chapter 3 verse 3 says can to act together and less. 15:29 They are agreed and we always refer to this. Is marriage 15:32 doing not you need to marry a Christian or a fellow believer 15:36 and of course said is true. But I think it has a deeper 15:40 meaning he can we walk with God, 15:43 can we have rest in our soul and in our spirit, if there are 15:47 things in our lives that we hold firm got idols that we 15:52 keep in place of God, things that we think are I just don't 15:56 want to give it up in. I can't give it up. 15:59 Of course, we can't change our hearts. There's nothing we can 16:03 do to cut out the idols. But you and I can make a choice 16:07 to allow God to do. The work said only God can do in our 16:13 hearts and in our lives. You know, discipline. This is 16:17 painful, is it not? 16:19 But it can be re store a team, 16:23 the process of cutting the idols from our hearts and lives 16:28 sometimes painful and it sometimes does supplant. 16:32 But it's the story to have. This is where we see God's 16:34 justice because he wants nothing between us and him. 16:37 But we see his mercy because he loves us and he says just give 16:41 it to me and I I will take it. I will do the work in your 16:45 heart. He burst after 12 verse 11 says now know chastening. 16:50 That means 16:52 discipline. Good job now know chastening or discipline seems 16:56 joyful. Obviously we don't enjoy it for the president. 16:59 It's painful. Nevertheless, afterward 8 yields the 17:03 peaceable fruit of right shiftiness to those who are 17:08 trained by. And what does that mean? The trial we go through? 17:12 When we have that? I do that. We say God, I want you to cut 17:15 it out. Would you take out of my life? Sometimes it is a 17:18 process and sometimes it's painful. But God is working in 17:22 your heart and mind, right, miss. He's making us into the 17:27 image of Jesus without the dark clouds in our lives. We would 17:32 never know the joy of sunshine. 17:37 We can become callous and an teachable. 17:42 If we refuse to learn from pain. 17:48 Key number one to experiencing unrest in Christ is allowed on 17:55 to cut out the idols from your life. Key number 2 is arrives 18:02 from spiritual left or G 18:05 our rise from spirit show. Lethargy were still and 18:09 Stephanie, I won. We're going to verse 12 and I like it in 18:12 the new living translation the way it quotes. It's on to read 18:16 it from that Stephanie Iowan 12 hour search with lanterns that 18:20 God speaking. 18:22 I was searched with lanterns in Jerusalem's Darkest Corners. 18:26 So where is God searching 18:28 the church? This is the church. He is searching the darkest 18:34 corners of the church and our hearts 18:40 punish those 18:42 hoosick complacent in their sons. 18:46 They think the larger do nothing 18:49 either. Good. 18:51 New King James says our punter, some men said told in their 18:55 complacency, you see it's difficult for you and I to rest 19:01 in his love. It's difficult for us to experience oneness with 19:05 him 19:06 and experience joy of rest in him. If our hearts are numb, 19:12 if their callous, if they're in different 19:16 and you might say, OK, I get that job. I want to arise from 19:19 spiritual left to do. But I don't know how to do it. 19:22 How am I to arise from spiritual lethargy? I love 19:26 Isaiah. 43 19. We're going to go there. Isaiah 43 19 19:31 because the key is UN. I need to ask God to do a new thing in 19:38 our hearts and in our lives. I-40 to 19. Behold, I would do. 19:46 You'll hear behold? I would do. 19:49 I think yes. That word new in Hebrew means new in Kuala, 19:54 teeny. 19:55 Not that time. 19:58 It can also mean renew, in other words, 20:01 asking God to do renew and un. I that first love experience we 20:06 had with him. We're asking him to bring back 20:10 that fire we used to have. I would do a new thing now is 20:16 to spring forth show you not know what I would make a road 20:19 in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. I want a wilderness 20:24 of sin and guilt. Are you in a wilderness of shame and 20:27 condemnation? Do you go to God and ask for answers to prayer 20:32 and it seems like your prayers hit the ceiling and he is not 20:36 hearing you. Are you walking in the wilderness? God does not 20:40 want you to languish there. You do not have to die there. 20:44 He can set you free. You are in that wilderness. But he wants 20:49 to being presented, sir. 20:51 There is a dearth where there is a spiritual drought 20:56 is spiritual lethargy. Cars says I will do a new thing. 21:01 I will do a new seat. 21:04 So key number one is to we're over here. Allow God to caught 21:09 out. So idols. Key number to a rise from spiritual lethargy. 21:16 You guys are good. Key number 3, sapped 21:21 God's instruction and correction. 21:27 I got you down. I do not like this one 21:30 except God's instruction and correction. 21:37 We're definitely a 3, 21:39 Stephanie. I 3 verses one 2. 21:43 Wow 21:45 to her. 21:46 This is God's people druce 21:50 woe to her who is revalue us and 21:53 polluted 21:55 to the oppressed. Seen city 21:58 now comes averse to a four-fold rebuke to God's people. She has 22:04 not obeyed his voice. 22:07 She has not received correction. 22:11 She has not trust stayed in the low earn. 22:16 She has not drawn near 22:18 to her God. 22:20 The 4 fold rebuke. God's people 22:23 are disobedient. 22:25 God's people refuse to be corrected. 22:30 God's people lack faith in God, 22:34 God's people don't draw near to him. They stay a good distance 22:39 from him. 22:41 Let's unpack this for just a moment. Before we go to the 22:44 next key, 22:46 let's look at Disobedience. God's people are disobedient. 22:49 You know, every time 22:51 UN I 22:53 I mean, the phrase that 22:55 every time God calls to your heart, 22:58 you're faced with the choice. Are you not? 23:01 We can say yes, Scott, I want to do it your way. Yes, God, 23:05 I don't want to forgive this person but only to grant me 23:09 your forgiveness. I don't want to walk in obedience to what 23:13 you've commanded me. But would you place that in my heart 23:19 when God calls to our heart, what can we say now? 23:24 Still choices. We can say yes, Scott, I want your will ye, 23:28 Scott. I want your way. Yes, God, please soften my heart or 23:32 we can say no, god. I don't want to hear you. I do want to 23:35 listen. 23:36 I don't want to obey. 23:39 We think that obedience is a complicated process, but it's 23:44 not 23:46 it's simply making a choice. Do I want to do it got way or 23:50 do I want to do it my own way. 23:55 The people are not just disobedient. 23:57 They refused correction. Now this is not talking about 24:01 just taking a step in to center on knowing our lips and then 24:04 gonna ask for forgiveness. This is outright rebellion. 24:08 It reminds me of Farrow remembered the children of 24:11 Israel when the plagues we're coming up on Egypt and what 24:14 happened. We're an Exodus. 5 verse to Pharaoh said How is 24:19 the Lord 24:21 that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not 24:26 know the Lorne 24:27 nor will I let Israel 24:31 Pharaoh refused correction. 24:34 That was at the peril of this country. 24:37 The plagues report now 24:38 his crops were destroyed. His country was destroyed. 24:43 His people were killed 24:47 because to he refused correction. 24:51 I noticed that 24:53 when it's cold and it's wintertime and those maybe 24:55 icicles hanging off of the roof. Have you noticed when the 24:58 sun comes out in a winter day? What happens to the icicles? 25:03 But did you know that the same sun 25:06 that melts ice? 25:08 It hardens clay 25:11 times. We Judge God, do we not? 25:15 Why with Farrow and his people destroyed? Why did you do that? 25:19 Why? 25:20 But yet the difference is not the sun. The sun is the same. 25:24 The difference was in. They objects response to the side. 25:30 So God is the same. He loves everyone. But you and I have a 25:34 choice. We can say yes to Jesus. We can say I want you to 25:38 soften my heart. I want to follow you. I want to walk in 25:43 your way are we can say 25:46 I don't want anything to do with you got I know better than 25:49 you got. I don't like your way. God. I'm going to do it my way. 25:57 God is the same. 25:59 The difference is in how you and I respond to him. 26:05 They were disobedient. They refused correction. They lacked 26:07 faith in God. Now to God, not give them faith. Of course he 26:11 did Roma's 12, 3 God gave to everyone. Major of faith were 26:17 all given that grain of mustard seed and Romans. 10, 17 faith 26:21 comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 26:24 So that begs the question where the people of that time, 26:26 not in the word enough. 26:29 Did they not exercise the measure of faith that they had 26:34 been given? 26:37 What happens when you and I lack faith in God 26:40 as a cause? We're not the word enough. 26:43 Is it because we have not sir sized and walked out the faith 26:49 that God has given us 26:51 and they also stayed away from God. It reminds me of James 4, 26:55 8, it says drawn near to got and he will do all the new year 27:01 to you. 27:04 So let's review our 70's for rest. Teen in the him key 27:08 number one, allow God to cut out the idols in our life. 27:13 Key number 2, a rise from spiritual lethargy. Key number 27:18 3, 27:20 God's instruction and correction. Key number 4 27:25 receive his son Righteous S I love this guy. Receive his 27:33 righteousness or indefinite 3 verses 12 13. Stephanie has 3, 27:39 12 13. I got speaking. I would leave. Leave in your midst. 27:45 I'm a geek and humble people. Jay Schulz, trust in the name 27:51 of the Lord. Now we're going to come back to that fought in 27:53 just a moment. 27:55 The remnant of his Irwin first 13 showed you know, what's that 27:59 word unrighteousness? The remnant of Israel would do no 28:03 unrighteousness and speak no lies nor show a deceitful ton 28:08 be founded their mandate. They show feet their flocks and 28:12 lie down 28:13 and nobody shell make them 28:18 afraid. 28:20 The remnant of Israel if they're doing no 28:22 unrighteousness and there is no deceitful tongue, there is no 28:26 guile. They're walking in righteousness, are they not? 28:30 And yet so often we think Christianity is about our own 28:35 righteousness and not about the righteousness of Jesus Christ. 28:40 So we think if I only gritted my teeth, if I only tried 28:43 harder, if I only worked are, if I only did more for the 28:48 church, if I only tried harder, 28:52 we can tackle Christianity that way. That's the same problem 28:56 that happens when you and I put on the mask and pretend 28:59 everything is OK, 29:01 can you see hope and change the color of his skin? 29:04 Can a leopard take the spots off his hide? 29:08 The Bible says then may you do good who are a cause? It's time 29:12 to to do mean evil. 29:15 All right. Just an aside, this 64 is as filthy rags. This is 29:19 talking about the righteousness of Christ Christ. Our 29:23 righteousness EC is his holiness. It's his purity. 29:27 It is his life that is lived in the U.S.. 29:31 I love the book of Romans. You all know that 29:35 Roman 7 chapter 7 is about this tug of war in the life. 29:41 That's a serious talk of war. 29:43 What I want to do, 29:44 I don't do and the things I don't want to do. Those are the 29:48 things I find myself doing and you get down to the end of 29:51 Roman 7, which is to say all red should mandate I am. 29:56 She'll deliver me from this body of death is very 30:00 interesting. Parallel. I think here involving 7.17, it says it 30:04 is no longer I could do it but sin that dwells in me now the 30:10 rigged Wells in Greek, OK, you means to inhabit dwell or make 30:14 a home 30:18 sin. It's not me acting out. Well, I made a choice to lapse 30:23 into my life. I get that. But it's not me. It's because 30:25 I've allowed CNN to take up residence in my heart. 30:32 But you can contrast this with the glaciers to verse 20. 30:37 What does that say? I've been crucified with Christ. It is no 30:40 longer I live but Christ who lives in many praise the Lord. 30:46 So the difference here you see it's not me doing the good 30:49 work. That's not me. Trying harder is not me gritting my 30:52 teeth. It's not me saying I will be good. I would be good. 30:54 I would be good. 30:55 I'm exhausted. No, it's because I've allowed Jesus Christ the 31:00 Lord of my life to live in my life. And when he lives in my 31:06 life, 31:07 when he lives in your life, 31:09 he will set U.S. free 31:15 God's people. Key number 4 31:19 to experience seen rest in Christ. 31:22 It's when UN I truly 31:26 scene of his righteousness. 31:30 >> Now I know it when you're coming back to the make a 31:32 number of people. Let's spend just a moment on that and then 31:34 we'll go to key number 5, 31:37 I believe in your midst to make a number of people they would 31:39 trust in the name 31:41 of the Lord. 31:43 Humility is trusting in God, 31:47 not in me. 31:49 You know, from childhood. We are taught to do it 31:51 ourselves, 31:53 you know, a little kid. And when they brush their own teeth 31:55 for the first time where they feed themselves what we say 31:58 good for you when they learned how to tie their own shoes for 32:01 the first time. What we say, oh, you growing up to be a big 32:04 kid when they learned how to make their bad without the 32:07 wrinkles. We say look at you and when they learn how to do 32:09 laundry were impressed and those are good things. Of 32:12 course, we need to be adults and function in society. 32:15 I'm not saying that, 32:17 but we somehow apply that to our walk with God that 32:21 independence, that self sufficiency, 32:26 that pride 32:27 that leaves in our hearts. 32:31 Humility is trusting in God, 32:36 not in me. 32:38 At the end of that passage in verse 13, it says no one show 32:43 make them 32:44 a free. 32:46 When we humbly trust in Christ's righteousness, 32:51 we do have to be afraid of people. 32:53 We don't have to be afraid of situations 32:57 and the margin. My Bible, sometimes I write the date when 33:01 God speaks to me about a particular verse 33:05 and then as they have 51 verse 12, I have a certain date 33:08 written by this verse 33:10 because God used it in my life in a powerful way because I was 33:13 afraid of a person at that time in my life. 33:16 And it says, who are you that you should be afraid of a man 33:18 who would die? 33:20 >> And of the son of a man who will be made like grass. 33:24 And you forget 33:25 the Lord, your maker stretched out the heavens. You know, 33:30 it's amazing because we think, well, how are afraid of a 33:33 person, 33:35 4 people 33:37 we're just created in the image of God. 33:40 All right. We're not to create or and you realize that our God 33:44 is omnipotent. Our God is omniscient. Our God can do 33:49 anything. So we're going back 7 keys to experiencing resting 33:54 cries. Key number one is to allow God to caught out the 33:58 idols in your life. Key number 2 is our rise from spiritual 34:04 lethargy. Key number 3, except his instruction and correction. 34:11 Key number 4, receive his righteousness. Key number 5, 34:17 rejoice and God's victory in your life. 34:23 Warren's F a -3 34:25 verses 14 15. Stephanie has 3, 14 15 saying daughter of Zion 34:34 got talking with people. This is people 34:37 saying no daughter of Zion shout oh Israel 34:41 because Ed and reach Oif with all your heart daughter of drew 34:47 some and why are we to saying why are we to rejoice? We see 34:51 it in the next first 15. 34:53 The Lord has taken away your judgment. 34:59 He has cast out your enemy. 35:03 The King of Israel. The Lord is in your midst. USC disaster. 35:07 No more 35:10 this time. If you read Stephon, I I know we really don't have 35:12 time in this passage to time. We have together to read it 35:15 all. But if you read it chapters one 2 is serious 35:19 judgment. 35:20 If you're eating 35:21 morning 35:23 judgment correction upon the people 35:26 by time we get to this passage where they are saying mean 35:31 Andrey Joy scene, God has done a work in their lives. You see 35:37 joy and rejoicing come after a time of trial and judgment. 35:42 Sometimes we only see the rainbow after the rain. 35:47 We only experience freedom 35:49 after bondage. We only know peace after pain. We only truly 35:56 feel joy 35:57 after saw sometimes the very act of discipline prepares the 36:04 soul for peace. 36:07 Matthew Henry in his commentary on this particular passage says 36:12 this after the promise is of taking away sin follow promises 36:19 of taking away tropical 36:21 when the cause is removed, the effect 36:26 will cease. 36:28 >> What makes up people holy will make a people. 36:35 Did you catch that? 36:37 Why do we saying it says here saying oh Israel and read 36:41 choice daughter of Zion. Why do we saying 36:45 is this a demand from God? 36:47 Are we guilted into singing? Are we forced into joy? 36:53 And yet we do that to other Christians 36:56 and we do that to ourselves with this mask I talked to 36:59 about at the beginning. 37:01 Good Christians are supposed to be happy 37:04 and yet we don't realize that we can only thing we can only 37:09 read choice when you and I have been delivered. You see there's 37:13 a reason this key comes all the way down at number 5 because if 37:17 we have not allowed God to cut out the idols in our life, 37:20 what is there to rejoice over if we have not risen from 37:23 spiritual lethargy, how can we be happy if we have not 37:28 experienced cause instruction and correction? If we don't 37:32 know what it means to have Jesus live in our hearts and 37:36 receive his righteousness, how can you and I say, 37:40 how can you in ivory toys? We still many times get the 37:44 cart before the horse and we think this is the way 37:47 Christianity is. And we put people into key number 5 and 37:50 say everybody should sing and be happy and rejoice 37:53 when we have never experienced deliverance. 37:56 We thing because we are 38:00 delivered. 38:02 It takes away our judgments. 38:07 God takes your shame. God takes your guilt. Got takes your 38:11 condemnation. God takes your curse. But he doesn't just take 38:15 away our judgments. He casts how our 38:23 who is the enemy in your life right now? 38:27 Is it your addiction? 38:29 Khan said whoever the sun sets free 38:31 is free in D 38:34 is it your accusers? 38:37 The woman in John who was caught in the very act of 38:41 adultery 38:43 and cast at the feet of Jesus. 38:46 >> She had multiple accusers to she not. She had people who 38:49 surrounded her ready to stone her ready, too, accused her of 38:55 sand and adultery and she was guilty. 38:58 And yet Jesus stoops down 39:01 and began to write in the sand of the sins of the accusing 39:06 people 39:07 and one by one they left 39:11 and tell 39:12 he said women, where are your accusers? 39:17 She said nobody is left. 39:21 You can cast your enemy. God can take away your 39:24 addiction. God can take away. The people who QC 39:30 God can take away. Say 10 39:33 revelation, 12, 10, the accuser of the bear brother and he's 39:36 the ultimate accuser is passed down who accuse them before our 39:42 God day and night going back towards 7 keys to experiencing 39:47 rest and freedom in Jesus. Allow God to cut out the idols 39:51 from your life around highs from spiritual lethargy except 39:57 his correction and instruction receive his righteousness. 40:02 >> Read choice, saying God's victory in your life. 40:07 Key number 6 receive his salvation 40:12 when Stephanie History. 40:14 >> First 16 in the first part of 17, Stephanie, 3, 16, 40:18 17 in that day. It should be said to Jerusalem to God's 40:23 people. 40:25 Do not fear. Zion. 40:27 Let not your hands be weak. 40:30 >> So Lord, your God is where is he a long ways off? 40:34 Is he over the mountain? 40:35 Is he hiding his face? 40:38 The Lord, your God is with you, the Lord, your God in your 40:43 midst them. It won a will. 40:49 >> And Hebrew. It means the liver. 40:53 You and I don't have to wrestle with doubts and insecurities 40:56 we can accept and receive his gift of deliverance. 41:02 That is his gift of salvation. What is the Fusion's to 8 to 10 41:06 saved by grace. You've been saved through faith 41:11 and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. Not a 41:14 word lest anyone should boost for. We are his workmanship 41:20 created in Christ. Jesus for Good works which God prepared 41:24 beforehand that we should walk in them? I love that because if 41:28 you look at that passage in tandem UC salvation is a gift 41:31 from God isn't not the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from 41:36 all sin. It is a gift from God but sanctification in the act 41:41 of walking in Jesus, the active becoming like Jesus. The act of 41:45 purification of our characters is a gift from God as well 41:51 receive and accept his gift of Salvation 41:56 walk in the knowledge that you are safe, 42:03 I'm going to speak specifically. We have 42:04 Christians of many denominations and even on 42:06 Christians who watched 3ABN 42:09 and I don't know what denomination you are here. 42:11 Probably most of your 7th day Adventists. 42:15 I want to speak specifically to 7th Day Adventists right now. 42:20 We do not 42:22 except 42:24 and received the gift of salvation very well. 42:28 I'm not saying you do specifically. I'm just saying 42:31 as a people as a church 42:34 as a denomination. And I think maybe it's because we're afraid 42:37 of one saved, always saved. 42:39 And we say, well, if I say, wow, I'm saved and accepted in 42:44 Jesus at this moment, we think 42:46 I'm going to come like the back to us. 42:50 We begin that fear journey and there is in the Bible is very 42:54 clear that you can turn away from salvation. So I'm not 42:59 saying one saved always saved by saying this. The Bible is 43:01 very clear. Un I have to make daily choices to walk and him 43:06 to receive his gift of salvation. But there is nothing 43:11 wrong with you. And I not having to walk in cars, 43:15 Johnston, battle of whether we're going to make it to have 43:19 Boston struggling and have a really except God and my really 43:23 good enough. And I really covered by the plot. If you 43:26 confess your sins, he is faithful and just different. 43:33 We can stand and say aye and saved by the blood of Jesus. 43:42 5, a black eye. She said yes, 43:47 receive 43:49 salvation. 43:51 >> The final key key numbers said bin, 43:55 it's about the whole theme is on 43:57 rest 43:59 in his left. 44:01 Rest 44:03 in his love for indefinite 3 verse 17. 44:08 Stephanie has 3.17, 44:11 the large you God in your midst. We already read the 44:13 first part here. The Lord, your God in your midst, the mighty 44:16 one will save or will deliver. 44:21 >> He will rejoice over you. Wince Gladness. 44:26 He will quiet you with his love. King James says he will 44:32 rest in his love. 44:36 He would sure why 44:38 over you with 44:41 see me 44:43 in English. The word you is the object to the verb quiet. 44:48 It says he will quiet. You quiet too. Quiet you with his 44:54 love. But in Hebrew, the word you does not exist. 44:58 Also be read. He will be quiet in his love, which is very 45:02 similar to the King James translation. He will rest in 45:06 his love. The September generates. He will renew the ye 45:10 and his love. 45:14 How are you a 9 to rest 45:16 in his left? 45:19 I want to give you a verse here, which you're going to 45:20 say, Joe, this has nothing to do with anything. But if you 45:23 stay with me, hopefully you'll get the connection. 45:25 Isaiah chapter. 26 45:28 verse 3 says what? 45:31 You will keep him 45:32 imperfect peace whose mind is stayed on the scene 45:38 because he trusts Indy. 45:42 And for so many years, I thought that meant 45:46 I got to work hard to keep my mind on. God. 45:50 Kuz doesn't say that. Whose mind estate on you you're going 45:53 to be in perfect peace. Only if your mind is on God, you could 45:56 be a perfect peace. Only if your mind the state and I would 45:58 spend time in devotions. And if my mind wandered, 46:01 I take hot. I want your piece. Get my mind back over here. 46:04 >> And if I'm worried about something, I take God, I want 46:06 your piece. Get my mind back over here. And if I was 46:09 frustrated with something and say God, I want your piece, 46:11 get use to get your mind on me. Stay stay. Get back here. 46:15 But you know what? The word stay in. Hebrew means 46:18 to lean. 46:20 >> May 46:22 rest upon. 46:25 >> That puts a completely different twist on that 46:28 passage. Does it not 46:30 another words? My job is to lean my head 46:35 on God's chest. 46:38 He's the one who keeps me in peace. 46:40 It's not me struggling to get my mind back on him. 46:45 Eileen, my head against him as a kid would against a father, 46:49 lay my head on his shoulder. 46:52 I think in the same sense we can understand this concept of 46:58 rest in his life. 47:00 If I'm being honest with you rested does not come easy to 47:03 me. 47:05 That's my personality. I guess I'm always doing. Always 47:09 driven. 47:11 I'm always working. 47:12 I'm always focused 47:17 hard for me 47:20 to be present. If you know what that means. 47:23 It's hard for me 47:26 to rest. 47:28 So if you were to tell jail, you're supposed to rest in 47:31 God's love. You know what? I do a better try harder. 47:35 I got to rest. Come on, Joe. Rest your mind. Quiet. Rest. 47:39 Come on, Joe. Rest struggle. 47:42 >> God, I'm trying. I'm trying hard to because I caught him 47:46 trying to be still. 47:53 That's not what it says. 47:55 What if you take the same analogy that we did in the 47:57 ASEAN? 26 48:00 and all I have to do to rest. 48:03 It's to lay my head on God's test. 48:08 I think this is what's talked about in the book of Hebrews 48:11 when it talks about entering into his rest, 48:16 stopping the struggle of doing it my own way. 48:20 My own works 48:22 learning the rest of righteousness by FIFA 48:26 learning true SAP and stressed 48:29 learning the joy of rest teen in hand. 48:33 Have you ever noticed that when you're in the company of a true 48:36 friend, 48:38 you don't always have to talk. 48:42 You don't have to be perfect. 48:45 You can sit in silence 48:48 and this comfort in that 48:50 a comfortable nus. 48:54 I believe the relationship we have with gone. 49:00 It's like a marriage. 49:03 God wants to marry us. 49:05 If you look at the book of Hosea what to say, our be 49:09 trough, you to me 49:12 forever. 49:14 And yet we say, 49:16 I think about it, Don. 49:19 I really have to marry you. 49:22 Do I have to commit? 49:25 It's a long time to follow you. 49:27 I don't know if I can do that. 49:29 Have to give up 49:32 what idols in my life. Am I going to have to give up? 49:38 You know, if I want my like my spiritual lethargy, I like 49:41 walking away from you got enough to want to marry. 49:47 And yet he said, yes, 49:48 [MUSIC] 49:52 you know, this is a revelation, 3, 49:54 that he stands at the door of her heart and not because love 49:57 never forces. 50:00 [MUSIC] 50:02 And I imagine him standing 50:05 outside the door of my heart 50:09 and he just says, Joe, 50:11 would you just let me last year? 50:18 That's all we want. 50:20 I wanna be your husband? Would you just allow me 50:24 love you? No strings attached. No coercion. No guilt or 50:30 condemnation. 50:31 No shame. 50:33 >> Would you just let me allow me? 50:38 >> To LA few 50:40 we need to rest in his love. 50:44 High tide is struggling. 50:46 I'm tired of the anxiety and fear in your life. 50:50 Are you tired of the pain and shame and condemnation? 50:54 >> What burdens? 50:56 >> Are you carrying today? 50:59 What burden is? Did you bring with you? 51:04 2? Can't me 51:05 the burden. A son? 51:08 Is it the burden of addiction? 51:11 This is the burden of shame in condemnation. 51:15 Is that the burden of an forgiveness 51:18 and bitterness? 51:21 Is that the burden? As I read to you in the beginning of 51:24 depression 51:25 and sadness, 51:27 it said the burden of sexual impurity 51:32 and what mask 51:34 are you wearing? That covers up those burdens 51:39 pretending like Everythings. OK? 51:42 >> Walking into church or into family or into community while 51:47 you're die iin. 51:49 >> Inside, 51:53 you know, we don't have to carry those. 51:55 We don't have to leave. Can't meeting with the same burdens 52:00 that we entered the camp meeting. 52:04 We can say God, you carry me. 52:07 I'm too weak to stand of my own. My strength is caught. 52:12 I am weak 52:14 and not go on. 52:17 Please Sky. 52:19 Would you carry me? 52:21 I asked him to do the song specifically. 52:25 It's a song that the late Aaron Wilburn and Tim wrote 52:30 and it talks about how God wants to carry the burdens. 52:35 They might be hidden from other people. And I want to ask 52:39 during this song, if you came to camp meeting with the bird, 52:44 if you came here was something in your heart and in your life, 52:48 nobody else needs to know what it is because I'm 52:51 if you want to come forward during this song or pray over 52:58 the house at the end, God 53:01 would you carry? 53:02 [MUSIC] 53:08 >> Right. And then lonely 53:10 ice and then the dog. 53:14 The silence. So love with each B, 2 of my heart. 53:21 >> Looking for home. 53:23 >> But there's no in view. 53:27 We feel like a chime. 53:30 I mean. 53:35 >> Who needs carry me? I'm too we to stand. 53:41 [MUSIC] 53:44 >> These are done. 53:46 >> As long as I can. 53:49 >> Lord my stream is gone. 53:54 The rhyme. 53:57 >> I can school. 54:00 [MUSIC] 54:03 >> These kids. 54:08 [MUSIC] 54:10 >> The day of the journey, 54:14 the unknown. And 54:17 then there's the men. Murray Hochul, what you have said 54:23 that you will be. 54:25 >> With me when a 3rd Zahra gone. 54:30 >> And I won't have to travel this room. 54:34 >> We do. 54:38 >> These carry me. I'm too. We stand. 54:45 >> Everybody's heard. And as long as I can and or my string 54:53 is gone 54:54 [MUSIC] 54:59 and cool. 55:04 >> These carry me. 55:05 >> He too. 55:11 [MUSIC] 55:14 >> We? 55:18 [MUSIC] 55:23 [MUSIC] 55:28 >> We are 55:30 Levy's very needy. I'm to be. 55:35 >> To stand. 55:38 >> I've carry these burdens small. 55:42 >> As I can. 55:46 >> Lord my stream. These gone 55:50 o ther I'm. 55:54 >> I can and cool. 56:00 [MUSIC] 56:02 >> The very 56:05 >> medium. 56:08 [MUSIC] 56:11 >> God we come before you right now 56:14 as your children 56:16 broke in week. 56:19 But with the savior who some nifty, too, 56:22 with the God who can do anything 56:26 right now, you're standing 56:29 at the door for hearts and saying we should just let me 56:32 love. 56:34 We just let me 56:36 [MUSIC] 56:39 I ask Lord Jesus 56:41 and my heart. Would you coming 56:45 and the hearts of my brothers and sisters here who have come 56:48 forward. 56:49 We're carrying burdens 56:51 those watching at home. 56:54 We're dealing with addiction or Sudan or depression or anxiety 57:00 are struggling with things in their life. 57:04 God would you carry us? We'd use set U.S. free. We right now 57:09 online due to cut out the idols from our lives. We choose to 57:13 arise from spiritual lethargy. Annex sacked your instruction 57:18 in correction in our lives. We want to receive your 57:22 righteousness God. 57:24 >> We want to read Joyce and what you doing in our lives. 57:28 We want to receive your salvation in Reston year. 57:32 Liven me. Thank you. 57:34 In Jesus name 57:36 [MUSIC] 57:41 [MUSIC] 57:46 [MUSIC] 57:51 [MUSIC] 57:56 [MUSIC] 58:01 [MUSIC] |
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