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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW210026S
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:35 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello, happy Sabbath, 01:10 and welcome to another 3ABN Today Family Worship. 01:14 We are going to study the Word of God this evening, 01:17 and we're going to be 01:19 talking about trusting in the Lord, 01:22 a very important topic. 01:24 So you may want to grab your pens, 01:26 your pieces of paper, take notes. 01:28 We're going to go through quite a bit of scriptures, 01:31 and we're going to hear some stories of 01:34 about trusting in God. 01:36 With me this evening, 01:38 I have Art Humphrey, a part of the 3ABN family. 01:43 We've known you for quite a while. 01:47 Tell us a little bit about yourself 01:48 and what you do? 01:50 Well, I'm a retired filmmaker. Okay. 01:53 We worked at 3ABN in the very beginning 01:55 when our kids were small, 01:58 and I've done some film projects 02:00 that are interesting, 02:01 and based on the three angels' messages. 02:04 Yes, yes. Amen. 02:06 And next to you, we have your lovely wife, Pat Humphrey. 02:09 Pat, tell us about what you do? 02:12 Well, I'm officially retired, but just as busy 02:15 or if not busier 02:16 than I was when I was working full time. 02:19 Right now, a lot of my time is taken up with ASI. 02:22 I serve as the president 02:23 of the Southwest Chapter of ASI. 02:26 I'm an also involved in several other ministries 02:29 and just keeping very, very busy working for the Lord. 02:32 Amen. 02:33 I definitely had no clue that you were retired 02:36 because I've seen all the hats 02:38 that you wear, and it's incredible. 02:40 We've got Brother John Dinzey, 3ABN Latino general manager. 02:46 It's a blessing to have you on the program as well. 02:48 And we've got Pastor Ryan Day. 02:51 You wear a lot of hats too. 02:53 Well, if it fits, I wear it. 02:55 So that's just how it goes. Amen. 02:57 I'm looking forward to diving into this topic, 03:00 but before we go to the Word of God, 03:02 we always want to start with prayer. 03:04 Pastor Dinzey, will you have prayer for us? 03:07 Sure. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. 03:09 Our loving heavenly Father, 03:11 we thank You so much, Lord, 03:13 that we can gather around the table 03:14 as a family to talk about the marvelous things 03:18 in Your Holy Scriptures and, 03:20 Lord, we look forward to the day 03:23 when we will be in heaven around that big table 03:28 and You at the head of the table. 03:30 We anticipate, Lord, 03:32 that it will be a great blessing. 03:34 And we pray that You will give us a foretaste 03:36 as we are together 03:38 that not only will we be blessed, 03:40 but also those that are joining us 03:42 wherever they may be. 03:44 We ask You, Lord, for a blessing upon all 03:46 in the holy and blessed name of Jesus. 03:49 Amen. Amen. 03:51 Our opening scripture 03:53 for the evening is Proverbs 3:5-6. 03:57 And it says, "Trust in the Lord 03:59 with all your heart 04:01 and lean not on your own understanding, 04:04 in all your ways acknowledge Him, 04:07 and He shall direct your paths." 04:10 Can you guys think of any time 04:12 where you've had to place your trust in the Lord 04:15 and you wanted to go one way, 04:17 but He was saying go in another direction 04:20 and you had to trust Him. 04:22 Can you, anything you want to share? 04:24 This morning, every day, yesterday and the day before 04:28 and probably last week 04:30 and the week before last, you know, 04:32 it's a daily, daily... 04:34 We call it a daily walk with God. 04:36 It's a daily relationship. 04:38 And in that relationship, we're on a journey. 04:41 We're on a path of Him transforming us 04:44 as Paul would say, 04:45 you know he would say day by day 04:47 from faith to faith, glory to glory. 04:50 And so, yeah, every single day I wake up and I say a prayer. 04:53 I say, Lord, help me to learn more today 04:57 than I did yesterday to trust You. 04:58 Yes. 04:59 And that doesn't mean that we always do 05:02 because sometimes we take our eyes off 05:04 Jesus just as Peter did 05:05 when he was on the water that day. 05:07 But praise the Lord, we serve a gracious God, 05:09 who's still there for us to lift us back up 05:11 when we stumble and we learn from those mistakes 05:14 and we press forward knowing 05:15 that we can trust Him even more moving forward 05:19 with each and every step. 05:20 Amen. 05:22 And I think about your story with the bars. 05:26 Why don't you tell us a little bit about that? 05:29 Well, yeah, bars, 05:30 I wasn't incarcerated, we had a candy bar. 05:34 Would you believe it? 05:36 And so we operated our company, 05:38 Heart Paths Distributors for about four years. 05:42 And about 2019, I started getting concerned 05:47 because the business was not growing, 05:49 like I thought it should. 05:51 As a matter of fact, it was like 05:52 a flat line, you know? 05:54 And so I said, okay, we're going to pray every hour. 05:58 Whenever we hear the ding on the iPhone, 06:00 it says a message pray for the business. 06:03 And I prayed every hour for six months. 06:07 In December of that year, we were going to go into 2020. 06:10 Everybody here knows the famous 2020. 06:12 December of that year, 06:14 two major things happen in the business. 06:17 One, we got hit for a huge bill 06:20 that we were not expecting. 06:22 And two, major manufacturers of our main ingredient 06:26 announced that they would no longer 06:28 supply this product anymore. 06:30 Wow. Whammo. 06:31 Shut it down, my son, 06:33 the voice came, I didn't hear the voice, 06:36 but the voice was in the events. 06:39 So my wife was praying a different prayer. 06:42 Yeah. 06:43 I was praying actually that we would return back to Texas. 06:46 We were living in Oklahoma at the time 06:48 and our daughter really needed us back in Texas. 06:51 Some health issues and I wanted to go, 06:53 he wanted to stay because he wanted to, 06:55 of course I wanted the business to succeed as well. 06:58 But I was praying, Lord, just get us back. 07:03 And some events occurred 07:06 and the Lord opened the way for us to go back. 07:09 And when we finally got that realization that, 07:13 you know, the business was not going to make it 07:16 and some other things happen, Art said, okay, this is it. 07:20 We're going back to Texas. 07:21 And I said... Hallelujah. 07:23 Praise the Lord. 07:24 So, you know, someone said 07:26 we were praying against each other 07:28 because he was praying to stay and I was praying to go. 07:31 And I won. 07:34 Yeah. 07:37 When you're praying to the Lord, 07:39 you know, you have to follow His will. 07:41 That's what you have to do. 07:42 And you have to know 07:44 what His will is and He will show you. 07:45 You pray for His will to be done, 07:47 not our will, but you know, 07:49 it was obviously the Lord showed 07:51 what His will was. 07:52 Amen. 07:53 I think we face things like Pastor Ryan said 07:57 every day where the Lord 08:00 is presenting something before us. 08:02 And the question is, will you trust Me? 08:05 And I think every person will also face 08:07 some kind of difficulty, 08:10 if you want to call it or problem, 08:12 a situation that seems like 08:16 there's no way out, that you don't know what to do. 08:20 And those that are Christians know to 08:24 put things in the hands of the Lord, 08:25 because that is the best place where they should be. 08:29 That's the place where they should be, 08:31 but we have a tendency to want to do it myself, 08:34 you know, as kids grow up and you're trying to help them. 08:38 It's like, you don't know when the time comes 08:40 that they can actually handle things. 08:43 Sometimes you try to push them along. 08:45 But "I can do it. I can do it." 08:47 You know, it's the, it's the, what you hear from the kids. 08:50 Okay. All right. 08:52 And so, it's a learning experience, 08:57 learning to trust in the Lord. 08:58 Yes. Yes. 09:00 I think it's easy to trust in the Lord 09:01 when everything's going well, you know, you think, oh yes. 09:06 But those times when we are in doubt, 09:09 when we're in crisis, 09:11 when we just don't know what to do, 09:13 things haven't worked out 09:15 the way we think that they should. 09:17 That's when it's really, really challenging 09:19 to trust the Lord. 09:20 But that's when we have to trust the Lord. 09:22 Amen. Absolutely. 09:23 Look at the situation with the people of Israel. 09:26 Moses led them out of Egypt 09:28 and now they are faced 09:30 with the Red Sea and the Egyptians are coming. 09:35 They're not armed and the Egyptians are coming 09:38 and they're not smiling. 09:39 So Moses goes to the Lord, what do we do? 09:43 He didn't know what to do. 09:44 And the Lord, you know, 09:46 it's like Moses, you should know. 09:48 He says, why are you calling upon Me? 09:49 Just tell the people to go forward, you know? 09:52 So everyone will have to face something. 09:54 And what you decide to do 09:58 at that particular moment, 09:59 when you have to make a decision 10:03 will determine a blessing or additional suffering. 10:07 Yeah. That's what it is. 10:08 Yes. And that's a very good point. 10:11 You know, we need to follow that heavenly GPS. 10:15 I remember I was driving to a place 10:17 where I had been quite a bit. 10:19 And I was headed down the highway 10:23 and I'm just driving. 10:24 I'm just driving. 10:26 I got my GPS going, 'cause it was out of state 10:28 and I've got my GPS going, but I've been there before. 10:31 And this thing is telling me, make a U-turn, make a U-turn, 10:34 make a U-turn. 10:36 I'm like the road's clear, it's sunny, it's beautiful out. 10:39 And it's telling me to turn around. 10:41 I'm like, no, I know where I'm going. 10:43 I know what I'm doing. So I just keep on driving. 10:47 I look at a sign and I see I'm on the way to St. Louis 10:50 and I'm going in the opposite direction. 10:52 I needed to be going towards Chicago 10:54 'cause I was trying to make it to Detroit. 10:57 And so I was, I encountered a major setback. 11:01 I had to go all the way down. 11:03 I mean, there wasn't an exit for miles 11:06 and I had to keep on going. 11:08 So then I could turn back around, 11:10 but I lost so much time. 11:11 And that's what happens 11:13 when we don't place our trust in God. 11:14 When we think that 11:16 we can just take things on our own 11:17 and do things on our own 11:19 and we don't place our trust in Him, 11:22 we end up with that major setback. 11:25 And so, yeah, I wasted a lot of time like that. 11:28 And that's what happens in life too. 11:31 You know, people, 11:33 we are blessed when we trust in God 11:36 and, Pastor Dinzey, I think you have... 11:38 Yes. Jeremiah 17. 11:40 I have Jeremiah 17:7-8. 11:45 And this is from the New King James Version. 11:47 And it says, "Blessed is the man and woman 11:50 who trust in the Lord and whose hope is the Lord, 11:55 for he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, 11:59 which spreads out its roots by the river 12:02 and will not fear when heat comes, 12:05 but its leaf will be green 12:07 and will not be anxious in the year of drought 12:10 nor will cease from yielding fruit." 12:14 Wow. I love it. 12:16 There's so much here that we can learn from. 12:20 And it begins with, 12:22 "Blessed is the person who trusts in the Lord," 12:25 and notice that it uses also, 12:26 it also says, "and whose hope is the Lord." 12:30 Two words that are very powerful 12:33 and positive as when you link them with the Lord. 12:37 But notice how it says, a tree planted by the waters, 12:40 which means you will never lack the water you need. 12:44 So if, if we are connected to the Lord, 12:47 we should understand, 12:49 like it says in the Book of Psalm 34, 12:51 "You will not lack any good thing." 12:54 You will not lack any good thing. 12:56 The Lord will supply. 12:57 And when you're talking about roots, 12:59 it says, "It spreads out its roots by the river 13:02 and will not fear when heat comes," 13:04 you know, I had, I endeavored to plant 13:07 a pineapple plant in the house. 13:09 And so, I had that, I took the crown and it was, 13:13 it seemed to be growing okay inside. 13:15 But when the, springtime came 13:18 and it was what you would say 13:21 reasonable time to put it outside, 13:23 I put it outside. 13:25 And the heat was so intense. 13:28 The sun was just beating this little plant. 13:30 And the leaves were beginning to dry out. 13:33 It could not handle the intense heat. 13:36 And perhaps I needed to add more water to it, 13:39 but it was not surviving. 13:41 I had to move it so that it would get just partial sun. 13:46 And this is what the Lord does with us. 13:48 You know, He takes us 13:49 out of the unnecessary problems of life, 13:52 puts us where we would thrive and we will grow. 13:55 And He leads us 13:58 according to what He knows we can handle. 14:03 Trusting in Him, because He's not going to... 14:07 What is it that people say? 14:08 He's not going to trust you with something that is so huge. 14:11 He's not going to put something so huge upon you. 14:13 He leads you to take these steps of faith 14:16 so that when that other issue comes, 14:18 that is big, you will have already 14:20 learned the habit of trusting in Him. 14:24 And so, just like the pineapple plant 14:26 is doing very well now, I don't know 14:28 when the pineapple will come up, 14:29 but I'm looking forward to it. 14:30 I am too. 14:32 Tita makes them, 14:33 Idalia makes a mean pineapple upside down. 14:36 I'm looking forward 14:37 to getting those pineapples as well. 14:39 I love this text that he just read. 14:41 The part that really sticks out to me 14:43 is which spreads out its roots by the river. 14:45 But then this part here, which he mentioned, 14:47 "And will not fear when heat comes." 14:51 I'm thinking of another text 14:53 that is very similar to this one. 14:55 And before I read the text, 14:56 I just want to say this, can you trust God? 15:02 Can you trust God even when it doesn't make sense? 15:06 Just that it doesn't make sense 15:08 can fill in anything in your life. 15:10 When you're going through something 15:12 and it just doesn't make sense 15:13 why you're having to go through it. 15:15 Can you trust God through the heat and the fires, 15:18 the trials, the tribulations in your life? 15:20 I think of James Chapter 1, where it says there, 15:24 it says, I forget the particular verse, 15:25 it's one and two, 15:27 maybe verse two and three there. 15:28 It talks about counted all joy 15:30 when you fall into various trials, 15:32 because it builds patience, it builds faith. 15:35 But the text that comes to my mind another text 15:36 that's kind of in harmony with this one, 15:38 when the heat comes. 15:40 Malachi 3:2-3, it says, 15:45 "But who may abide the day of His coming 15:48 and who shall stand when He appears, 15:49 for He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. 15:54 And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. 15:57 And He shall purify the sons of Levi 15:59 and purge them as gold and silver 16:02 that they may offer to the Lord, 16:03 an offering in righteousness." 16:05 He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver. 16:09 And if you understand 16:10 how the silver making process goes, 16:12 a silversmith, 16:13 he will take for this illustration, 16:16 I'll just use just like a little nugget of silver. 16:19 And to get the purest form of that silver, 16:21 he will take some tongs 16:23 and he will grab that piece of silver. 16:24 And he'll go over to the flame. 16:26 And he will hold that piece of silver 16:28 in the hottest part of the flame. 16:31 What did the scripture say? 16:34 When the heat comes. 16:36 And will not fear when the heat comes. 16:38 Oftentimes that heat in our life, 16:40 that trial, that tribulation, 16:42 whatever it is we're experiencing, 16:44 it may feel hot in the moment. 16:46 It may feel unbearable. 16:47 Why am I having to go through this? 16:49 But there's a reason why God's allowing you, 16:51 remember the Bible says that, 16:52 "He will not allow you to be tempted 16:54 past the point you can bear." 16:55 Right? 16:56 And so that silversmith will hold that in the fire 17:00 in the hottest part of the fire. 17:01 If he leaves it in there just a moment too long, 17:04 he'll scorch it and then it burns. 17:06 And it's no good. 17:07 And so the question is, 17:09 how does he know that it's ready? 17:10 How does he know 17:11 when that perfect piece of little silver 17:13 that's being purified in the heat? 17:15 When the heat comes, 17:16 how does he know that it's ready? 17:18 When he can see his reflection in the silver. 17:21 That's right. Wow. 17:22 And that just lets us know that 17:24 oftentimes we go through trials, 17:25 oftentimes the heat will come. 17:28 Will you not fear when the heat comes, 17:30 will you trust in the Lord? 17:31 Because in those moments, 17:32 when you place your trust in God, 17:34 even when it seems like life makes no sense, 17:36 Lord, why in the world? 17:37 I could imagine Joseph sitting in prison 17:39 for those many, many years 17:40 and in the human carnal part of him saying, 17:43 what in the world, Lord, but I kept Your commandments. 17:45 You know, I'm Your remnant. 17:47 You know, I've kept my faith in You, 17:48 but yet he still trusted in the Lord. 17:50 And the Lord saw him through it. 17:52 We have to have that faith as well. 17:53 Amen. Excellent word. 17:55 You know, the, funny thing is like 17:58 I was sitting here and I looked over at you 18:01 and you had that little grin on your face. 18:03 You had that grin on your face. 18:05 And I was like, oh, this brother has something, 18:07 he's about to bring something. 18:09 I know you and you get 18:10 so excited about the Word of God. 18:11 And I love that. 18:13 Art, you wanted to add something? 18:14 Oh, yeah. 18:16 You know, it just made me think of the Hebrew boys. 18:17 You know, when heat gets turned on here 18:20 and fear not when heat comes, you know, 18:23 they told the king, 18:24 we're not afraid to talk to you or answer you, you know? 18:27 They had that faith, you know? That's right. 18:30 That everything will be all right. 18:32 Yes. And that was bold. 18:35 And that took that relationship in order to have that trust, 18:39 you have to have that relationship with God. 18:42 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. 18:44 You know, so you, have to have that. 18:47 And you have to have it before that time comes. 18:50 Absolutely. 18:51 You haven't built that relationship. 18:53 When that time comes, you are not ready. 18:55 Yeah. I forgot how that saying goes. 18:58 I think it's like, "Character is not made 19:00 in the midst of a trial, it's revealed." 19:02 And that's, so if you're going into the trial 19:05 with a messed up character, oh, it's going to come out. 19:08 It will come out. 19:10 So yes, Ryan, Psalm 56:3. 19:14 Oh, man. 19:16 It's so sweet, short and simple, 19:18 but it's powerful. 19:19 I love this text. This is Psalm 56:3. 19:22 And it says, "Whenever I am afraid, 19:25 I will trust in You." 19:27 We live in a world 19:28 where it seems like the enemy is constantly placing 19:32 a spirit of fear in the hearts of men. 19:35 In fact that right there in, I think it's Luke Chapter 21, 19:39 where Christ is giving 19:41 basically the contents of the sermon on the Mount 19:43 or there's pieces of the contents 19:44 of the sermon on the Mount in that passage. 19:46 And He talks about how in the last days 19:48 men's hearts failing them for fear. 19:51 I believe we're living in that time. 19:52 I believe we're living in a time 19:54 where men and women are fearing for their life. 19:56 They're in a constant state of anxiety and fear 20:00 about their surroundings, about society, 20:02 the future of the nation, the future of the world, 20:04 the future of the economy, 20:05 everything that affects them in life, 20:08 but a person who is in Christ, 20:12 they will not be afraid because they trust Him. 20:17 When you comprehend that 20:20 the King of the universe is on your side 20:25 and you comprehend those promises. 20:27 God cannot lie, the Bible says. 20:29 And when he says that 20:31 I will never leave you nor forsake you. 20:34 When that light bulb goes out and you realize God is with me, 20:38 the most powerful being 20:40 that exists is with me and on my side, 20:43 then why should I be afraid? 20:45 Why should I live in a state of fear? 20:46 Now there's something else 20:48 I'm going to bring out in just a moment 20:49 in connection with this concept of fear 20:52 and trusting in the Lord. 20:53 But again, I just have to read this text as well. 20:55 2 Timothy 1:7, beautiful text, 20:58 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, 21:01 but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 21:06 In this day and age with COVID 21:08 and this great outbreak of the virus and all of the, 21:12 you know, economic unrest, the social unrest 21:14 and everything that's happening around us. 21:16 It just seems like that 21:17 this world is going to crumble at any moment. 21:19 But yet, if you are in Christ 21:21 and you believe the King of the universe 21:23 and you believe His Word, 21:24 and you believe that He's standing with you 21:25 and what do you have to fear, 21:27 trust in Him and fear not, 21:29 because He's got a plan 21:30 and He's got the whole world as the little song says, 21:32 He has the whole world in His hands. 21:34 Amen. Amen. 21:37 Has there ever been a time, speaking of fear, 21:39 has there ever been a time in your life 21:41 where you've been afraid? 21:43 And this, I'm just throwing this one out there 21:45 'cause I definitely have a time that I can share. 21:48 Oh, I think if we're living and breathing. 21:52 Soar. Yes. 21:54 So we had an experience just the other day 21:58 when we were driving up here 21:59 and Art can tell you more about it 22:02 'cause he was actually driving, but we were cut off. 22:06 It was late at night. 22:08 And... 12:30. 22:09 Yeah, so visibility, you know, 22:11 of course isn't as good at night 22:13 and this truck 22:15 just comes behind us and cuts us off. 22:17 And there were barricades on the other side of the road 22:21 and Art's trying to figure out, you know, where do I go? 22:24 'Cause there's really nowhere to go. 22:25 And I heard him, 22:27 I was kind of dozing, but I heard him say, 22:29 Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. 22:31 And you can tell. Call upon the name of the Lord. 22:34 Amen. 22:35 There's some construction south of here on 59. 22:40 You probably know and you've seen it. 22:42 And there's those barricades that fold up nicely. 22:45 They were getting narrower and narrower. 22:48 And I saw the truck trying to pass me on the left. 22:52 And so I'm getting closer to the barricades 22:55 and he's getting closer to me. 22:57 So there was nowhere for me 22:58 to go other than tear up my car 23:00 and hit all the barricades, you know? 23:02 So I just call on name of Lord. 23:03 And it seemed like they were moving or something, 23:07 but no, they were not. 23:10 But I was so close. 23:12 I could go on like that and knocked them down. 23:14 I don't know how we escape that. 23:18 God made a way. 23:20 And this is where prayer comes into. 23:22 And you know, 23:23 not just us praying in the moment, 23:25 but whenever we travel, 23:27 we have prayer partners and we say, 23:30 Lord, you know, we ask them to ask the Lord 23:33 to pray for us and protect us. 23:37 And I believe that Lord does that. 23:39 He does protect us. Yes. 23:42 I remember I was laying there in the hospital bed. 23:44 My appendix had ruptured 23:46 and it had sealed off my intestines 23:48 and they were about to go next, but they got in there, 23:51 they did the surgery, 23:52 they cleaned all that up and everything like that. 23:54 But I remember my mom walking me to the sink 23:57 and she started crying. 23:59 And it was because I was like flesh and bone. 24:02 I was so weak at that point. 24:05 And she was walking me over there 24:06 to help me brush my teeth 24:08 because I couldn't even do that for myself. 24:10 And so, I remember going back to the bed, 24:13 she walked me back over there. 24:14 I laid down and this was at a point in my life 24:17 where I did not trust in God. 24:18 I didn't want anything to do with God 24:19 at that point in my life. 24:21 I was out there, I was doing my own thing. 24:24 And I remember just laying in that bed, 24:27 like afraid that, you know, and I may not make it, 24:31 you know, and my white blood cell count 24:33 had gone up, 24:34 which is an indicator for an infection. 24:37 And I was just like, God, if you get me out of this, 24:40 I'll change, I'll do something different. 24:43 And unfortunately, after He got me out of that, 24:46 like I ended up having a case 24:48 of what I call blessing amnesia, 24:51 where you kind of forget about 24:53 conveniently forget about 24:54 what God has delivered you from. 24:57 But I remember that type of fear 25:00 being outside of the ark of safety and, 25:05 you know, when witnessing to other people 25:07 and sharing Christ with others, 25:09 like to know what that fear 25:13 is like on the outside. 25:16 But then to see the peace that comes from being on the inside 25:21 from having a relationship with Christ, 25:24 I don't want to be out there and I want to bring everybody 25:28 that we can into the ark of safety. 25:31 You know, God is, amazing, 25:34 amazing, and perfect love casts out fear. 25:36 That's right. Amen. Amen. 25:38 I'm sorry. Go ahead. 25:40 But anyway, there's a situation in Revelation 25:42 where it talks about 25:44 the wicked outside of the holy city. 25:47 I like to tell young people to imagine this scene here. 25:51 There's no more opportunity for salvation 25:54 and you are on the outside looking in. 25:58 Today is the day of salvation. 26:00 Don't wait until it's too late. 26:03 And see if you can imagine yourself 26:05 on the inside looking out and do the necessary repentance 26:11 to make that happen in your life. 26:15 There are a lot of scriptures that talk about fear 26:18 and the Lord seems to be continually trying to help us 26:23 understand fear not nor be dismayed, 26:26 you know, so many scriptures. 26:28 And even Jesus, when He was in the boat 26:30 with the disciples, He said, "Why are you afraid? 26:35 You of little faith. 26:37 But it's interesting 26:38 because the scripture that Pastor Ryan Day says, 26:41 whenever I am afraid as if that is something 26:45 that we are all going to face some moment of fear. 26:48 You know it wasn't too long ago, 26:51 a few months ago, 26:52 we've had two individuals pass away 26:54 and they knew that death was coming. 26:58 But having visited both of them, 27:01 it seemed to me that 27:02 they had put themselves in the hands of the Lord. 27:06 They were not afraid of death. 27:08 And so when I look at Psalm 23, where he says, 27:13 "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." 27:15 And then later he says, 27:17 "Though I walk through 27:19 the valley of the shadow of death." 27:21 What does he say? "I shall fear no evil." 27:23 I will fear no evil. 27:24 So even though 27:26 when you're facing something that, 27:28 you know, may do you harm, 27:30 you can be in the hands of the Lord, 27:32 trusting that whatever happens to you... 27:34 That's right. You're in his care. 27:36 He will take care of you, whether it is like the, 27:39 like you mentioned the Hebrew worthies. 27:41 We call them the Hebrew worthies. 27:43 They were willing to face death. 27:47 They knew that, okay, the king is serious about this, 27:51 the Lord can save us if He wants to, 27:53 but he says, if He chooses not to, 27:56 we are not bowing down to your idol. 27:59 So we're all going to have to make decisions. 28:03 And by God's grace, let us make the decisions 28:05 that puts us in the care of the Lord. 28:09 And again, it goes back 28:10 to what we talked about earlier, 28:12 and it's having that relationship 28:14 because you have that relationship with the Lord, 28:16 you don't have to be afraid 28:18 because you know that you're in His hands, 28:20 but if you don't have that relationship, 28:22 then that's when fear really sets in and takes over. 28:27 Absolutely. That's an excellent point. 28:29 And, Pat, you have our next verse. 28:32 Yes. 28:34 So, I have Proverbs 16:3, 28:36 New King James Version which says, 28:39 "Commit your works to the Lord 28:41 and your thoughts will be established." 28:43 So when I read that text, 28:44 I had to ponder a little bit about, 28:47 you know, what is that text really saying? 28:49 And I think what that says to me is that, 28:53 whatever we are doing, 28:55 whatever we need help with, 28:57 whatever tasks we are trying to accomplish, 29:01 whatever challenges we're facing, 29:03 whatever it is, just give it to the Lord 29:06 and He will take care of it. 29:08 So that's what that text really is saying to me. 29:11 Amen. Amen. 29:13 Anybody else want to add to that? 29:16 I mean, she, covered it. 29:18 She got it. Huh? 29:19 Yeah. All right. 29:21 All right. All right. 29:22 You've got Isaiah 43:2. Okay. 29:26 I have, let's see New King James Version, 29:29 and I'd like to read the King James Version, 29:32 not just, not for comparison, 29:33 but just to see the difference in the versions. 29:37 "When you pass through the waters, 29:38 I will be with you and through the rivers 29:41 they shall not overflow you. 29:43 When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned 29:47 nor shall the flames scorch you." 29:50 Okay. Isaiah 43:2. 29:53 43:2. Let's see. 29:58 "When now passes through the waters, 30:00 I will be with thee and through the rivers 30:05 they shall not overflow thee. 30:07 And thou walkest through the fire, 30:09 thou shall not be burned, 30:10 neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." 30:13 This is talking about trouble, isn't it? 30:17 My wife and I were in a trip in the midst of a job interview 30:23 for both of us. 30:25 And we went to the city to visit my mother. 30:28 So we went to catch the train from the airport to visit her 30:32 and said, "Free Sunday night." 30:34 Good. The train ride is free. 30:36 So we got on the train. 30:37 You know, there's no free train ride. 30:41 There's no free train. 30:43 And there were thugs on the train. 30:47 And I was with my beautiful wife 30:49 and they thought she was beautiful too. 30:53 Those men, they, one of them walked up and down the aisle, 30:58 back and forth, looking at us 31:00 and talking with his friends there. 31:02 And one sat in front of us. 31:04 And every so often he would turn around and look at us. 31:07 And he looked at her. 31:08 They couldn't do a thing because earlier I had said, 31:11 said to my wife, "Start praying." 31:15 We were praying 31:17 and I lifted up this situation and those guys, 31:21 they couldn't even think of what to do to us. 31:24 I know they want to do 31:25 something bad to me and take her. 31:28 And there was no police protection 31:30 or anything on the train and we're going, 31:32 and we had put 31:34 our trust completely in the Lord 31:36 because the trouble was there. 31:37 It was, it's here now. So we were in the fire. 31:43 We were in the waters, 31:44 but the waters couldn't overflow us 31:46 and the fire couldn't burn us. 31:49 I think that also that text really speaks to me. 31:54 And I claimed that text along with Psalm 91, 31:57 because a lot of us are some more than others 32:01 fearful about some of the things 32:03 that are going to happen in the future. 32:04 Especially young people, I hear them often say, 32:07 oh, I'm really scared of the time of trouble. 32:09 And you know, 32:11 it is a scary thing to think about, 32:13 but those kinds of promises are really comforting. 32:17 And I claimed those promises and just trust that the Lord 32:21 will take care of us in these times. 32:23 Amen. Yeah. 32:25 I remember being in Chicago, much younger and, 32:30 my car had broke down, so I was taking the bus. 32:32 I don't know if you, they have a good bus system in Chicago. 32:36 And it was one of those times 32:38 when I know how far the house was. 32:42 And if, the bus was not coming, I could start walking and, 32:45 you know, I might make it. 32:47 So I walked down one block and it was dark 32:50 and I was just waiting at the bus stop. 32:52 And this car pulls up 32:55 and two guys were in the vehicle 32:57 and one of the guys comes towards me 33:00 and he starts threatening me. 33:03 And you know, you're in our territory 33:05 and this is our gang, you know, 33:06 our gang such and such is, we... 33:09 This is our territory 33:11 and you're from such and such a gang. 33:13 And I said, no, you, you have the wrong guy. 33:16 I don't do that. I'm a Christian. 33:18 I say, you're a Christian. I said, yes. 33:21 And I had in my hand a Bible and a notebook. 33:24 So he goes, let me see that. 33:26 So now he's looking through my notebook 33:27 where I had the, you know, the notes from the Bible. 33:30 And he says, I'm a Christian too. 33:32 And I said, oh, you are? 33:37 My mind is saying, I should be in good company, 33:40 but it doesn't quite feel that way. 33:43 But the other guy was on the other side of the car. 33:46 And, you know, he says, Hey Frankie, come on, let's go. 33:49 He said, no, I'm dealing with this guy. 33:50 I'm dealing with this guy. 33:52 And so I'm praying and saying, Lord, you know, 33:54 what's going to become of this, you know, help me. 33:58 And so you start to evaluate the situation 34:01 and what are you going to do. 34:02 They have a car. 34:04 If you start running, they're going to chase you 34:05 with the car. 34:06 And so, the Lord solved the problem. 34:08 How? 34:09 Well as we were talking, another guy comes by 34:13 and he had one of the meanest looking 34:17 German shepherds 34:18 that you could possibly look at. 34:20 And he had this dog really tight with his hands. 34:23 And he had a, also a, 34:25 some kind of a stick in his hand, 34:27 like a little small baseball bat. 34:29 And he says, what are you guys doing to this guy? 34:32 And I looked at him wondering, who are you, you know? 34:35 And he says, leave him alone. 34:37 Oh, we're just talking to him. 34:39 It wasn't a friendly conversation 34:41 I might add to that. 34:43 So anyway, he says, just leave him alone. 34:46 And the other guy against, 34:48 come on, Frankie, let's just go. 34:50 He says, all right, you guys be cool, you know? 34:52 And he got back in the car 34:53 and they left and he said, did they bother you? 34:55 Did they hurt you? 34:56 No, I was, you know, they didn't bother me. 34:58 They were just asking me questions. 34:59 He says, well, I was ready to fight with you. 35:01 I was ready to fight on your side and my dog too. 35:04 And so I said, well, I appreciate it. 35:06 Thank you very much. I'm glad it wasn't necessary. 35:08 He says, yeah, these guys are just causing trouble. 35:12 And so, I was glad to help. 35:14 So he kept going and I said, you know, the Lord is good. 35:20 He protected me 35:21 from some unnecessary situation that, 35:24 you know, you don't, 35:25 you never know what you have to go through, 35:27 but there are many stories. 35:29 I'm sure that we could, you know, 35:30 keep coming up with stories 35:32 of how the Lord has protected us. 35:33 But this is an example to me that, you know, 35:36 whatever situation you're in, 35:38 God will be with you in some way. 35:40 That's right. 35:41 I like to tell my wife 35:42 after something like that happens, 35:44 did you see where the guy went? 35:47 Because you can't catch the angels off guard, 35:51 they're going to wait until you didn't notice 35:53 before they disappear. 35:55 I didn't even know where he came from, he just... 35:58 Yeah. Did you see where he went? 36:00 No. Wow. 36:03 Yeah. That's incredible. 36:04 Praise God for his protection. 36:06 And that's why we need to, you know, again, 36:08 place our trust in Him 36:09 because nobody has our back better than He does. 36:14 Okay. 36:15 I've got Psalm 143:8. 36:19 And it says, "Cause me to hear 36:21 Your lovingkindness in the morning, 36:24 for in You do I trust, cause me to know the way in 36:28 which I should walk, 36:30 for I lift up my soul to You." 36:35 This verse right here really speaks to me 36:37 because it's, you know, saying, 36:39 cause me to hear Your lovingkindness, 36:42 like God is, 36:44 He's a God of love and He wants the best 36:48 for each and every one of us. 36:50 And so, I want Him to order my steps. 36:52 I've seen what happens when I make decisions 36:55 for myself compared to when He makes decisions 36:59 and, you know, and says, hey, I've got this for you. 37:04 Will you be obedient? 37:05 Will you walk in the way that I have for you? 37:08 And so, I'd rather walk in the way that 37:10 He has for me, because the other way 37:12 is just like my drive to Detroit. 37:14 It took me all the way 37:16 in the wrong direction and I was lost. 37:18 So yeah, I love Psalm 143:8. 37:22 That's right. 37:25 I just, what caught my eye in that text 37:28 is cause me to love Your lovingkindness 37:30 in the morning. 37:34 We don't wait till midday to invite the Lord, 37:36 to come join us in our day. 37:38 Come on now. That's right. 37:39 I don't want to wait until 37:41 after I get off work in the evening to say, 37:42 oh yeah, Lord, you know, I forgot that, 37:44 you know, invite You to come with me today. 37:46 You know, every morning 37:48 I walk out my house, you know, we live in a country. 37:51 If you've ever been to 3ABN headquarters, 37:52 you know, what's out in the middle of no man's land. 37:55 It's in about the middle of the cornfield. 37:57 And I literally am, 38:00 without giving too much information 38:02 of where I live. 38:05 I live next to a horse pasture. 38:08 And in Southern Illinois, 38:10 we're from Arkansas where I'm from, 38:12 we have lots of mosquitoes. 38:13 Well, there's some mosquitoes here, 38:14 but where are we lack in mosquitoes like 38:16 what Arkansas has, here in Southern Illinois 38:18 we have plenty of horseflies. 38:20 And if you've ever seen or heard of a horsefly 38:23 or ever have been bitten by one, 38:25 then you know, it's not a pleasant experience. 38:27 And so, I mean, 38:28 every morning I step out my house, 38:30 it doesn't matter. 38:31 As soon as the sun comes up 38:32 all the way until the sun goes down, 38:34 I step out my door early in the morning, 38:35 7:30 to go to work. 38:36 And sure enough, I mean, it's like, 38:39 I mean, it's like fighter pilots, 38:42 these horseflies just zip zip right, you know? 38:46 And so, I tell that story 38:48 because as irritating those horseflies are, 38:52 you better believe the enemy in very much likeness 38:56 to that is waiting on you early in the morning 38:59 when you get up. 39:01 He's already has a plan 39:03 to cause you to fall and to stumble. 39:05 He already has a plan in hopes that 39:07 you will distrust God at some point, 39:09 hopefully early on in the day. 39:11 So he can set you on a path of where you're, 39:13 you don't have you, you forsaken the Lord early on. 39:16 And then when I read this text here, 39:17 Your lovingkindness in the morning, Lord, help me. 39:21 It caused me to hear 39:22 Your lovingkindness in the morning. 39:24 Help me to start my day with You in my mind 39:26 and with You by my side, 39:28 because I'm going to need You 39:29 from the get go, from the start. 39:31 If I'm going to get through this day 39:32 and be a righteous man at the end of the day 39:35 and the enemy with his demons and all of his plans. 39:39 I mean, they're just like those irritating horseflies, 39:41 just, I mean, just all they're all upon you 39:44 trying to make sure that you fall 39:46 and stumble throughout the day. 39:47 And so every morning that I wake up, 39:49 I always uplift God, I uplift a prayer to the Lord 39:53 and say, Father, go before me and go with me 39:57 because I need You, Lord. 39:58 I'm not going to be able to put one foot, 40:00 one foot in front of the other. 40:01 And I certainly ain't gonna be 40:03 able to walk out this door and handle them horseflies 40:04 if You're not with me. 40:07 That's for sure though, therefore to remember. 40:09 Oh, man, I know the Lord, 40:10 wasn't the Lord's plan to make those things. 40:12 So maybe He did, 40:14 but they had to have been different 40:15 before the fall of man. 40:18 Horseflies, don't get bit by them. 40:20 They hurt. Yes. 40:24 You know, it's interesting 40:26 because he mentioned something that is, 40:28 it is a reality that the devil 40:33 is there to make suggestions to us, 40:36 to put thoughts in our minds, that we should be afraid. 40:40 You're not going to get out of this. 40:41 You should just give up, 40:42 you know, the devil will make suggestions 40:44 to bring fear upon you. 40:46 But if we keep holding on to God's promises, 40:49 trust in Him and I believe 40:51 what will help us as well is if we consider 40:54 how the Lord has helped us in the past, 40:57 how He has blessed you in the past, 40:58 how He has carried you 41:00 through different situations provided for you. 41:03 And that will encourage you to keep going 41:06 and keep trusting in the Lord 41:07 that whatever you're facing now, 41:09 as you consider 41:10 what He's done for you in the past, you can say, 41:12 the Lord will help me through this one as well. 41:14 Amen. Absolutely. Yeah. 41:16 He definitely works some miracles 41:18 and you can look all through the Bible 41:21 and see times where it's like, no, 41:23 they're not going to make it out of that one. 41:25 And then turn a few pages, turn a few pages, 41:29 continue reading in the story. 41:30 And you're like, wow, God just parted the Red Sea. 41:35 He just opened the way, 41:37 He protected them through the fire. 41:39 I'm mean, there's so many instances 41:40 where God does that. 41:42 That's right. Yeah. Yeah. 41:43 I need to share this because, you know, 41:46 we look at the different things in the Bible 41:48 and we see how God 41:50 marvelously delivered the people. 41:52 We already mentioned the Hebrews, 41:55 delivered them from the fire, as the Bible says not even 41:57 their clothing smells like smoke. 41:59 I walked the other day by this, 42:02 what is this generator out here 42:05 that every so often they test it. 42:07 I just passed by, it was just a second 42:10 and my clothes smell like smoke. 42:12 And those guys were in there more than a second. 42:15 And their clothing did not smell like smoke, 42:17 but God delivered them. 42:19 But there are also examples in the Bible 42:21 where John the Baptist was not delivered. 42:25 The Lord did not miraculously deliver him. 42:28 So we have to understand that we, the Lord loves us. 42:33 And if we are having to face 42:35 something where suffering comes upon us, 42:38 there's that scripture that helps me. 42:40 And I'm sure it has helped many other people 42:42 that are listening to me. 42:43 He says, "And we know that 42:45 all things work together for good, 42:51 to them that are the called according to His purpose." 42:53 So, is working out some good for you 42:56 or some good for someone else. 42:58 So trust in the Lord that even though you walk through 43:00 the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil, 43:03 whether evil comes upon you or not, 43:05 fear no evil, trust the Lord. 43:06 He will be with us in every situation. 43:10 And that promise that Jesus made, 43:11 I will be with you on Monday, 43:13 Tuesdays and Wednesdays He said, 43:15 no, it's every single day, every single moment, 43:18 it's every single moment. 43:20 We have to remember too, that even the Hebrew worthies, 43:23 they said our God is able to save us, 43:27 protect us. 43:28 But if not, so they knew that 43:32 if God chose not to deliver them, 43:35 they still trusted in Him. 43:37 That's right. 43:38 Absolutely Amen, excellent point. 43:41 Pastor Dinzey, will you take us to our next verse? 43:43 1 John 5:14. 43:47 1 John 5:14, 43:49 "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him." 43:55 This is the qualifier. 43:57 This is the confidence we have in him. 43:59 "That if we ask anything, according to His will, 44:04 He hears us." 44:06 This is confidence. This is faith in God. 44:08 This is trust in God. 44:10 And it's beautiful, beautiful. 44:12 I found something that I said, you know, that is really nice. 44:16 I'm just not going to try to say in my own words, 44:17 I'm just going to go ahead and read it. 44:19 It's very, powerful. 44:20 It says, it says here, "If we knew 44:23 God's will thoroughly 44:25 and submitted it to it heartedly, 44:28 it would be impossible for us to ask anything for the spirit 44:32 or for the body, which He should not perform." 44:36 It is this ideal state which the apostle has in view. 44:40 And so the idea, 44:42 the understanding is that 44:43 if we ask anything according to God's will, 44:46 we should trust that 44:48 He's going to answer this 44:50 and He's not going to keep anything 44:52 that is good from us. 44:54 So, we should have that confidence, 44:57 that quiet confidence and, 45:00 boy, I don't know if I should share this story. 45:02 I think I should. I was reading this book. 45:05 I think it's called Corsage at 7:30. 45:08 This was an old evangelist. 45:10 And he was telling a story when he was young and that, 45:15 for some reason his father was not there. 45:17 It was just him and his mother. 45:18 They lived out on the country and he was out playing outside 45:22 and you know, having fun by himself. 45:24 And eventually he noticed this, hey, my tummy, it hurts. 45:28 I'm hungry. 45:30 Mom hasn't called me to eat. 45:32 He didn't know what time it was. 45:34 But what he knew was my tummy is hurting. 45:36 Say, mom, when are we going to eat? 45:39 And she said, son, come here. 45:43 She opened all the cupboards. 45:44 She says, son, this morning 45:46 we ate the last of the food we have. 45:49 We have no more food. 45:51 What are we going to do? 45:53 He says, we're going to go to the Lord in prayer. 45:56 They knelt. 45:57 And they said, Lord, we are out of food. 46:00 And we don't know 46:01 where are we going to get any food? 46:02 We have no way of getting food. 46:04 Please help us. 46:05 And they finished the prayer and said, amen. 46:08 Okay, son, now let's go to the door 46:10 and wait for God to answer it. 46:13 And they were standing by the door 46:15 and she was looking straight ahead. 46:18 And he was looking straight ahead trying to figure out 46:20 what is, what is she looking at? 46:21 And he would look to the left 46:23 and look to the right, look straight ahead, 46:25 mom kept looking straight ahead. 46:27 And he said, I don't know for how long we were looking, 46:31 but just after a while, 46:32 some, somebody was coming, it got small, 46:36 it was smaller and started getting bigger. 46:38 And this person said, I don't know why, 46:40 but I have this food. 46:42 And it seems like 46:43 I need to come this way for some reason. 46:45 It's like the Lord wanted me to come this way. 46:47 Do you have need of food? 46:49 We've been waiting for you. We just prayed. 46:52 And we've been waiting for you to come. 46:54 So he said, I learned to trust in God in whatever situation 46:59 I have because of my mother. 47:03 So we all have had somebody 47:05 that the Lord has put in our path, 47:07 whether it's a mother, father, brother, sister, 47:09 friend, or brother and sister from the church that the Lord 47:12 has tried to tell us, trust Me. 47:15 Yes. Trust Me. 47:16 Yes. Yeah. Amen. 47:18 For me, that was, that was my mom too. 47:20 So, yeah, that's incredible. 47:23 Pastor Ryan, Psalm 91:1-2. 47:27 This passage, man, 47:28 this is one of my favorite passages 47:30 in Scripture, Psalm 91. 47:32 There's just so many powerful promises here. 47:36 But I'm going to read verses 1 and 2. 47:38 And it says, "He who dwells 47:40 in the secret place of the most high 47:42 shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 47:45 I will say of the Lord. 47:47 He is my refuge and my fortress, 47:49 my God in Him I will trust." 47:53 Now those two texts are powerful. 47:55 But I mentioned earlier that I may say something 47:58 in connection with one of my previous verses, 48:00 which came from Psalms 56:3 was when, 48:04 which was talking about the spirit of fear 48:06 or actually it was 2 Timothy 1:7, 48:09 talking about the spirit of fear. 48:11 I want to continue reading in Psalm 91. 48:13 I just want to read the next few verses 48:14 because I believe there's an application here 48:18 that is very much appropriate 48:21 for the time that we're living in. 48:22 Okay? 48:24 And so this is what it says, starting with verse 3, 48:26 continuing on verse 3 of Psalms 91, it says, 48:29 "Surely He shall deliver you 48:31 from the snare of the fowler 48:32 and from the perilous pestilence. 48:36 And He shall cover you with His feathers, 48:39 and under His wings you shall take refuge. 48:42 His truth shall be your shield and buckler. 48:45 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night 48:47 nor of the arrow that flies by day, 48:50 nor" here it is again "of the pestilence 48:54 that walks in darkness nor of the destruction 48:57 that lays waste at noon day." 48:59 I found it interesting that 49:01 he mentioned pestilence twice in that small little passage, 49:04 you know, we've been dealing with, 49:06 you know, what the Bible says 49:07 is one of the signs of the times of the last days. 49:10 It says there would be famines and pestilences, 49:13 and we've been dealing 49:14 with one of the worst in history. 49:16 And that, of course, is COVID-19. 49:18 But I think what has struck me so, 49:21 kind of caught me off guard is, you know, 49:23 you expect the world, you expect people in the world, 49:26 you know, as the scripture says, 49:27 as I quoted earlier in Luke 21, 49:30 you know, men's hearts failing them for fear. 49:32 You expect that from people 49:33 who don't have a relationship with Jesus, 49:35 but what strikes me odd 49:36 is when you see people in the church 49:38 who profess the name of Christ, 49:40 and yet they're living in such a strong state of fear, 49:43 even dealing with the things that we're dealing with, 49:46 with these pestilences the COVID. 49:47 Now don't get me wrong. 49:48 I'm not one of these conspiracy theories that don't believe. 49:50 I believe this is a very real, a real thing. 49:53 And I'm certainly not trying to be controversial 49:55 or judgmental or critical of it at all. 49:58 But, and I know it's so real that you know, 50:00 many lives have been claimed of this virus, 50:03 but yet at the same time, it breaks my heart to see 50:07 so many Christians live in fear constantly of the fact 50:11 that they're going to die of this disease. 50:13 And it is possible. 50:15 I mean, I could die of this disease, 50:17 but in my... 50:18 I can only, I can't speak for everyone else, 50:19 but I can speak for myself. 50:21 When I have prayed many times through this whole process 50:23 and praise the Lord, 50:24 I have not gotten COVID through this whole process. 50:27 And, you know, I'd wear my mask when, 50:28 when I've been instructed to wear a mask. 50:30 And there's times when I felt like 50:32 there was no need to wear a mask, 50:33 I didn't wear a mask, but nonetheless, 50:35 I've always put my trust in the Lord, 50:37 again not trying to uplift myself 50:39 or say that I'm some ideal Christian here, 50:42 because I certainly have my flaws, 50:43 but I've looked at it like this, 50:45 Lord, if it's my time, it's my time. 50:48 I don't want to be foolish and die before my time. 50:50 Therefore, I'm going to practice washing hands 50:52 and wear the mask 50:53 when it's appropriate and when needed. 50:55 And I'm going to take my vitamins and take, you know, 50:57 take my vitamin D in my, 50:58 in all the things that they expect us 51:00 to take to protect ourselves. 51:01 But at the same time, 51:03 I refuse to live in a state of fear 51:05 and walk out my door, you know, too close to him. 51:08 And I'm too close to this person 51:10 in a constant fear 51:11 that I'm going to get some disease. 51:12 I trust in the Lord personally. 51:15 My idea is, Lord, if it's my time to go, 51:18 and you're going to permit me to get this disease 51:19 and die from it. 51:20 Well, then I know where my faith is. 51:22 My faith is in Jesus Christ. 51:24 I don't want to die, but Lord, 51:25 if you see fit that that's the case. 51:27 And it's my time to go then Lord, 51:29 I know that when my eyes opened the next millisecond, 51:31 I'm going to see You coming in the clouds. 51:33 At the same time I also trust and believe the promises 51:36 of this very scripture right here. 51:38 We just read in Psalm 91:1-6 here that He will deliver you. 51:44 And there may be someone at home 51:45 watching right now that says what, 51:46 what about my mom or my grandmother, 51:48 or my husband or my wife, 51:49 or my kids or whoever they died of this. 51:51 He didn't deliver them. Well, you know what? 51:53 The Bible says that His ways are not our ways. 51:55 His thoughts are not our thoughts. 51:56 There's times that the Lord will allow things to happen. 52:00 That again, as I stated earlier, 52:02 it just doesn't make sense to us. 52:04 But the question is, 52:05 and here's the ultimate question. 52:07 Will you trust Him through the most trying 52:09 and difficult times 52:11 and even when it don't make sense? 52:12 Lord, I don't understand 52:14 why You allowed my mother to die of this disease. 52:17 Lord, I don't know when You said right here, 52:18 Lord, that You shall deliver them 52:20 from the snare of the fowler of the perilous pestilence. 52:23 Lord, why didn't You deliver them 52:24 from the perilous pestilence? 52:26 But the Lord had a reason why? 52:28 His judgment is true. 52:29 His judgment is perfect, 52:31 but we can't live in that and allow the enemy to sneak 52:34 into our mind and say, 52:36 He didn't deliver them. 52:37 So He must not be a God that keeps His promises. 52:40 Let me tell you something. 52:41 But we may all, we may have many reason 52:43 to question the plan of God often 52:46 because we don't fully understand it, 52:48 but there's one thing we will never question 52:49 and that's God's goodness. 52:51 God has been so good to us. 52:53 And so when I read this text here, 52:55 I just, you know, sorry to go on a rant. 52:59 But I just, it just bothered me. 53:01 It bothers me to a certain extent. 53:02 And in somewhat, you know, 53:04 just shocks me to see my brothers and sisters. 53:06 Some of them, not all of them, 53:07 but some of them just living in a state of fear, you know, 53:10 won't go here, won't go there. 53:12 Won't go worship the Lord. 53:13 And I understand we've gotta be, we've gotta, 53:14 we've gotta be cautious, I recognize that. 53:16 And I'm certainly not saying we shouldn't, 53:18 but hey, trust in the Lord. 53:19 Amen. 53:21 Trust in His promises, trust that you, 53:22 that even if you were 53:23 to potentially contract the disease 53:26 and wasn't your plan to do so, God will get you through it. 53:29 And He doesn't, you know 53:30 what Lord, You know, what's best, 53:32 You know, what's best because my faith's in You 53:34 and I'm going to place my trust in You, 53:36 knowing that You will see me in that resurrection soon. 53:39 Amen. That's just the way I look. 53:41 It may not be everyone's faith. 53:42 There may not be everyone's thoughts or ideas, 53:44 and that's where I am with it. 53:46 I'm in a comforting situation where Lord, 53:49 I want to trust in You that whatever the outcome may be, 53:51 I trust Your judgment on what happens to me next. 53:55 And the other thing is we need to consider the fact that, 53:57 you know, God sees, He sees the end 54:00 from the beginning and He has eternity in view. 54:04 So while we get caught up in this temporary life, 54:07 the three score and 10 and all of that stuff, 54:09 like God sees eternity and He longs to save us like 54:14 He wants us to be saved so bad 54:17 and He wants to spend eternity with us. 54:19 Eternity, that's a long time. 54:21 He loves us that much that 54:22 He wants to spend eternity with us 54:26 which is absolutely incredible. 54:29 Which also shows us that, you know, 54:31 we need to walk a certain way. 54:35 Pat, how, should we walk in 2 Corinthians 5:7? 54:39 It's short and sweet, but powerful, 54:42 "For we walk by faith and not by sight." 54:46 And when I read that text, 54:47 I'm reminded of something that happened just recently. 54:50 The Lord had to really kind of rebuke me because, 54:56 I mentioned earlier that 54:58 I'm involved in several ministries 54:59 where one of those 55:01 is Streams of Light International. 55:02 We talked about that on 3ABN, a couple of weeks ago, 55:05 and we are publishing The Great Controversy, 55:09 special edition of The Great Controversy. 55:11 And this is a ministry, of course, a new ministry. 55:14 And so we were getting to, 55:17 just the point where we needed to make 55:18 the negotiations with the press. 55:21 And I started getting nervous. 55:25 And I said to, Olay, 55:28 who is the director of this project. 55:30 I said, Olay we're getting ready 55:32 to go to press. 55:34 And we don't have the money to go to press. 55:36 And, you know, 55:37 because I'm a person I like to see, 55:39 you know, like all the I's dotted, T's crossed. 55:42 And I want to see the money in the bank. 55:47 Natural human tendency right there. 55:48 It is. And so this is what he said. 55:51 He said to me, he said Pat, 55:54 we are doing our part, God will do His part. 55:57 Amen. That's right. 55:59 I like it. 56:00 That moment on, I put it in the Lord's hands 56:03 and I said, okay, 56:04 I'm not going to worry about it. 56:05 We're going to do our part. Amen. 56:09 Praise the Lord. 56:10 Yes, Art, please take us to Psalm 145:18. 56:14 I know we're running low on time. 56:16 Okay. 56:17 Psalm 145:18, "The Lord is nigh 56:20 unto all them that call upon Him 56:23 to all that call upon Him in truth." 56:26 Jesus is the truth. 56:29 When we call upon Him and we are trusting in Jesus, 56:34 we're doing the right thing. 56:35 That's right. Yes. 56:37 Amen. Amen. 56:38 You know, I want to go back to our opening scripture, 56:41 which was Proverbs 3:5-6 that says, 56:44 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart 56:46 and lean not on your own understanding, 56:48 in all your ways acknowledge Him, 56:51 and He shall direct your paths." 56:54 It's so crucial that we trust in the Lord. 56:57 You can't have a relationship, 56:59 not a healthy relationship without trust. 57:02 So I want to thank you all for coming 57:04 and sharing today and really sharing 57:07 from your heart about trusting in the Lord. 57:11 And I hope that, you know, 57:12 you will spend time in God's Word 57:15 that you will get to know the Lord for yourself. 57:19 If you don't already, 57:21 He is the one that we need to place our trust in. 57:24 He will never leave us nor forsake us, 57:27 and He cannot lie. 57:29 And so place your trust in Him. 57:32 Until next time, God bless you. |
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