Richard Ellis Talks

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Richard Ellis Talks with Richard Ellis. Thanks for
allowing us to share this time with you. Honestly, it's
our favorite time of the day where we get to
hang out together and talk about how the truth of
God's word can make a huge difference in your life.
And that's what we're going to hear from Richard in
a way that only he can do, with words of hope, insight,

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and humor. You may be stuck in traffic or stuck
in life. Either way, today's message is going to help
get you on the right track as you learn how
much God loves you right where you are. So let's
get right into today's talk. Here's Richard Ellis.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The topic today is who's that girl? Let me tell you.
I don't know if you know. There's been a recent
discovery in Israel. There say it's.

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Like the Kumaran Caves where they find these dead Sea scrolls,
and they found it's amazing stuff.

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They found some scriptures and I can't.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Remember exactly what passage it is, but they found some
lost scriptures over in Genesis, think chapter three in the
conversation between Adam and God before where Eve.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Was created and God said to Adam.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You know the passage where he said, you know, everything's good,
but there's one thing that's not good, that you're alone.
And God said to Adam, I'm going to make you
a partner.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Help me.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
But God said it's going to cost you an arm.
And Adam said, gosh, me know, I really am lonely,
but I don't think so I'm not giving up an arm.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
And God said, well, it's going to cost you a leg.
And Adam thought and thought. I says no, God, and
you know I'm not living that a leg. And he
said it was going to cost you a hand and
a foot.

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And Adam again says, you know, God, I just can't
see leive him out a hand in a foot?

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He said, what can I get for a rib? So
imagine what we could have gotten?

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As wonderful as women are, what could we have gotten
if we had sacrificed an arm and a leg and
a foot in a hand. Well, meanwhile, back in the scriptures,
all right, here's what I want to talk to you
about today.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Who's that girl?

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And there is a passage in Proverbs chapter thirty one
that really is an amazement to you.

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Probably it is to me. I don't know how anybody
live this thing.

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And if anybody's read this thing in proverbs about who
can find a virtuous woman? My question is, who is
that girl? How can anybody live this way? And I
want to read through some of this stuff to you
say right up front that I can't do it.

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I've lived for the last.

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Ten years with a woman who's born two children and
is burying another one, and she's sick every time and
a lot of the time. And it is hard enough
being around that when you see the woman you love hurt,
I cannot imagine what it's like to be that way.
All this women live stuff and all this equal right stuff.
Let me tell you something about being a man. I
will never have a child inside of me. And I

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know that's hard for some women to hear, because you
feel the same way.

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It may never have worked out for you to have children,
but you can.

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I can't and to fill a life within your body.
And all I can do is put my hand on
her stomach and feel the feet and the head and
the butt and the flips and all that stuff that's
going on there. That's as close as I can get.
And there are some things that God blesses men with.
But there's some things that God blesses women with that
men will never understand. I don't think men can stay home,

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And if there are single dads that do it, I
don't know how they do it. I don't think I
have the patience. And I think one of the highest
paying jobs that there should be, and one of the
toughest jobs on the planet is being a mom. And
for you women out there that work and have kids
and are single moms and have to do it all,
I really don't know how you do it, and I
don't know how it does just pull you completely apart,

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because I don't think there's a woman on the planet
that's breathing, that gets any kind of.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Joy dropping off kids at a daycare and saying, well,
you stay here and mom is going to go to work.

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That can't be easy, no matter how high the ladder
you want to climb, it can't be easy to walk
away if that's what you've got to do, And even
if you have the option, it's still tough. But there's
this woman in Proverbs thirty one. And by the way,
a lot of people think that Solomon wrote this whole
book of Proverbs.

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And he didn't.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
This last chapter is not written by Solomon.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Written by King.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
In verse one, it says the words of King Lemuel
the utterance which his mother taught him. These are things
that King Lemuel wrote down, and there are things that
his mother taught him.

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And he's recorded for us in scripture.

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And he starts out talking about different things, but gets down.
He talks about drinking is where he starts out, basically,
and then he gets down to verse ten. And then
here's the question, who can find a virtuous wife? Another
translation says, who can find a wife of noble character?
How do you find this woman? I've said this to
women and to men, but I'll say it to you
if you're a single. Most single women and men have

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this too. But most single women have a list. You've
got one of these lists. You'll ever written out one
of these lists. This guy is going to be this, this,
and this, and it's somewhere.

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In a bible or tucked away.

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You got either a conscious list or written down a
subconscious in your brain, or it's written down. Here's what
I tell people, aren't married, become this person you're looking for.
Because you got all this stuff, you know a guy
could pull this out and say, Okay, here's a woman
I'm looking for. You know what I say, that guy,
then become what you're looking for, big boy, Because if
some woman is this and you're not this, and she

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sees you, she'll say nice to meet you and keep
going and you'll be very impressed and say you're the
one and she'll say yeah, but you're not. Don't spend
your life looking for someone else to fix your life.
Let God change your life and bring someone along who's
doing the same thing, and you'll be amazed how easy
it happens. No one will ever fix your life except

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Jesus Christ. That's what's happened to me. And my wife
is a gift. And I don't mean to be morbid
when I say this, but guys, I didn't marry my
wife forever. I married her for life. And that sounds negative.

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You know.

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I don't have any guarantee that I'll have tomorrow with
my wife. But she is a gift today. Or my
children or anything that I have, they're a gift. And
some of you are widows in here, possibly are some
of you have gone through divorce and he's gone and
you still are alive, and you may not like it,
but you're alive.

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Make him your life, and.

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Then when people come and go, whether it's death or
divorce or whatever, you still have a life because he's
your life, not another person that can die or leave. Okay,
that may be negative or morbid to you, but it's safe.
Who can find a woman of noble characters? She is
worth far more than ruby's. Well, it usually only takes
a diamond, but some of them do want rubies.

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So but a woman like this is priceless.

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Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing
of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the
days of her life. She selects woolen flax and works
with eager hands. She is like the merchant ships. And
it's interesting here, listen. She's like the merchant ships bringing
her food from Afar, which I kind of thought it
means she shops at Sam's. It's like when they come

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home with those groceries, like it's a truck full of clothes,
you know, all this stuff boxes of me, and we
go to Sam's. The toilet paper where he's supposed to
keep Sam's toilet paper. And I tried to put it
in the tank one day, and I realized the water
would run that anyhow, listen to this one. Verse fifteen,
She gets up while it is still dark. She provides

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food for her family and portions for her servants.

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Girls ought to be a door.

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On most homes says open twenty four hours a day,
because a lot of homes have to be that way.

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Baby's waking up. She's there.

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This woman is there and working. Verse sixteen, she considers
a field and buys it out of her earning.

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She plants a vineyard. She's got real estate investments and
the money she makes on it. She bought a winery.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
It sounds like and I don't know how that fits in,
but she plants a vineyard.

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Sometimes you get.

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The impression that God intends women to be these mealy
mouthful little.

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Creatures that can't think or do or anything. Guys, I
don't tell you what.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
There is one entrepreneurial woman in this story, and she
is out there doing now.

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Listen to me.

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She is not out there trying to prove something to
some man. She is living a godly life. And you
will never have peace if you spend your life trying
to prove that you are worthy, because you have to
work litt hard, or you're a woman that you have
to prove to some man or some world that you're worth.

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Let me tell you something. You're worthy because Jesus says
you're worthy.

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Your worth comes in the fact that, in the same
place that I get mine, that the God of the
universe let his own son die be buried and racing
to death so I could have life eternally abundantly, so
that I could have worth, so that I could have meaning.

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And you will never find that in a job. You'll
never find that in a man.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
You'll never find that at anybody but him. Seventeen. She
gets about her work vigorously. Her arms are strong for
her tasks. I think that kind of applies to this
health club craze going on here.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
She works out a lot. Verse eighteen.

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She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp
does not go out at night. She makes good money
and pays her bills so they don't turn the lights off.
Y'all didn't know all this was in here, did you.
She's making a profit and her lamp doesn't go out
at night.

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She's vigilant. Verse nineteen.

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In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the
spindle with her fingers. She opens her arms to the
poor and extends her hands to the needy.

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I'm gonna give you a little tidbit here. It just
hit me.

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Do you know what a lot of people say that women? Oh,
she has the gift of hospitality. Anybody got a mom
you think has the gift of hospitality?

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Like she just has this.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
What's that woman's name that does all these magazine things?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh yeah, that Martha Stewart thing.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Some people would say, Martha Stewart has the gift of hospitality.
All right, let me give you some information here. You
know what the word hospitality means. It doesn't mean great decorator.
The word hospitality in Greek is a combination of two
Greek words that mean this lover of strangers.

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If you have the gift of hospitality.

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You love strangers, and you can meet someone you've never seen,
never known, and take them in just like that. A
poor person, a needy person. You don't ask a lot
of questions. You just say, you know what, we'll take.

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Care of it.

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And I know some people, one woman in particular, said
they used to live by the railroad tracks growing up,
and all they knew growing up during the war, when
people were trying the bumbs and people who are not
really bums trying to go from place to place during
the depression, would get on trains and they'd go on
the track, and everybody knew if you stopped in this house,
they weren't gonna rob her.

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They were hungry, and.

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She'd take in these men that were traveling trying to
get home and feed them. And this guy said, that's
all I aver knew growing up. My mama took in
the poor. She took in the needy. Some of us
don't even know our neighbors. You don't know the person
that lives here here or above your belowion apartment. And
what's even more tragic is we don't even care who
they are.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Verse twenty one.

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When it snows, she has no fear for her household,
for all of them were clothing scarlet.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
What I say is a family dressed in red and.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Colorado there, but I don't know if that applies. Verse
twenty two. She makes coverings for her bed. She is
clothed and fine linen and purple. Whoever this woman is,
she's a great dresser. She looks like a million bucks.
Fine linen and purple, and I'll tell you from a
man's point of view.

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I don't know if I will or not.

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Anyhow, there's nothing wrong, you know what I am going
to say this, There is nothing wrong looking good, But
don't be provocative. You know, I don't have many places
I can say this. There's some girls that I would
say this to individually. You know, if you're trying to
get attention that way, you don't want the kind of
attention you're getting unless you.

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Want that kind of attention.

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And I know girls who walk into sales meetings with these,
you know, mini skirt deals and it may get some
guy's attention guys, but that's not probably on that guy's
list for a long term relationship that you're looking for.
Just be careful how you dress. It may be fashionable.
I'm not saying where you know, we're bathing suits that
come to your ankles and up to your neck. You know,
I'm just saying, be careful. You don't want to make

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trouble in your office with some guy messing with you,
then don't tease him, but think about how you dress.
Sure it's nice to get somebody's attention. Sure it's nice
to be noticed, but get noticed for the right stuff.
And this woman here is getting noticed for what she
looks like so much on the outside as her character
and who she is on the inside.

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Verse twenty two.

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Her husband is respected at the city gate where he
takes his seat among the elders of the land. And
that sounds to me like she's married to an old
guy who sits around a lot. But I don't think
that's what it means. Her husband is respected, is basically
what it's saying. And the people who are respected the leaders,
that's where he is.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Verse twenty three.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
She makes linen garments and sells them and supplies the
merchants and the king. James here says with girdles. So
I think she manufactures clothing and sells lingerie. I'm not sure.
I don't think you have to do that, of course,
but it's in here. Verse twenty five. She is clothed
with strength. Now listen to this. This is one of
my wife's favorite verses. She is clothed with strength and dignity.

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She can laugh at the days to come. Are you
clothed with strength and dignity? When you meet a woman
who is clothed with strength and dignity.

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You know it.

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Not that she's a cocky woman, not that she's a
proud woman. She is strong and there is dignity about her.
She knows who she is, she knows where she's going.
She's confident. Ever meet a woman like that, not pushy
to tell everybody what to do. Strength and dignity. And
notice it says her clothing is strength and dignity. It's

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the first thing you're going to notice about her, no
matter what she's got on, no matter how you're dressed.
People ought to notice your strength and your dignity. And
I liked it when it says the NIV here she
can laugh at the days to come.

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She's not freaked out about the future.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
She knows who she is, and she knows who she is,
and she's safe in that no matter what comes. She
speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
I'm going to try to get this out. I stood
in the back. I am usually the one in my
family that does the talking. When I get to come
in here and stand back here and hear my wife

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talking and hear what comes out of her mouth, it's.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Because she speaks with the wisdom and faithful instruction is
on her tongue. I have a friend who's going through
a rough time. A girl and a girlfriend to her
said this to her, and be careful what she says people.
And these girls are both Christians. But this one friend
said the other one, you're going through rough times. She's lonely,
she's not dating anybody, all that stuff. This girl friend

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of her supposedly friends said, well, you know what, you
just need to find some guy this weekend and get
laid and you'll feel a lot better that my friends
is not faithful instruction, because she ain't gonna feel any
better when that's over. Be careful what you listen to,
and be careful what you tell people, because sometimes it's
all they needed to push them over the edge and

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they'll just.

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Go do what you said.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
She speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the affairs of her household and does
not eat the bread of idleness very low carbohydrate diet
twenty eight. Her children arise and call her blessed. Her
husband also and praises her. Many women do noble things,

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but you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive, and beauty
is fleeting. You know, even the best day you time
and gravity take their toll anyhow, Charm is deceptive, and
beauty is fleeting. But a woman who fears the Lord
is to be praised. I've driven down the road some days.

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It's funny you see different kind of women. I've gone
down the road and seen some lady in a seventy
eight Dodge or whatever. She's in, older woman, maybe eighty
nine years old. They're still letting her drive. Why, we
don't know. And this woman will be a little shriveled
up lady, seat pushed up as far as she can,
hands on the steering wheel, and kind of a get

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the you know what out of my way attitude on
her face.

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Angry. Have you ever met these women who are just angry, bitter, mean.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Just take you off at the knees, in the head.
At the same time, just hateful, just hateful. You know
how do you get that way? That's not what's described here.
A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
You meet a godly woman, a woman who fears the Lord.
You know what, I don't care what time and grave
have done to her face and body. You will see eyes,

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And the Bible says, the eyes are the wind of
the soul. I've got a mother in law. That wasn't
a dramatic pause. That's that's for anyone listening to the tape.
I'm trying to compose myself. It's not a statement of
fact anyhow. And I go in her house. I don't
even have to catch her. She walks her in the house, singing,

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just little doodle songs, just singing. And you know what,
she was about this big, and she's about this big,
and she has osteoporosis. She has a big hump on
her back. But you look in her eyes and you
never see her. You just see him, and she knows him.
And the Bible talks about people don't go around humming
and singing for nothing. There's a song in your heart

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when you know him, And it doesn't just get sung
for a few minutes out of a hymnal on a Sunday.
You can't get it out of your heart. And you'll
catch yourself just singing Verse thirty one. And give her
the reward she has earned, and let her works bring
her praise.

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At the city gate.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
People talk about these women, not the way people talk
about some women, but in the right way. You know what,
you can't live like this. You can't be this person.
It's impossible without him. And I'm going to give you
a verse.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Paul said in Philippians four thirteen. I can do all.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Things through Christ, who strengthens me. So you read this
stuff and you say, God, I can't be this woman.
I can't live this life. I've tried. I can't, he says,
you know what, That's what I was waiting to hear
Galatians two twenty.

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And I'm gonna flip over here and read this. Some
of you know it by heart.

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And if you write stuff down, write this down and
go read this. I have been crucified with Christ. Is
no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.
And the life which I now live in the flesh,
I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me.

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Guys, it's not me that lives anymore. It's Him. And
if you'll just say, God, you know what, I can't
be this woman. I can't do it all this stuff.

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I can't be a mom, I can't be a wife.
I can't be a single mom. I can't be a
single woman in this world. I can't do it. And
he says, you know what I can't. So just tell
me you can't every day and get out of the
way and let me do what you can't do. And
it is his strength that sustains you and that supports you. Now,
I'm going to try to share this because I've seen

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this in the last week. But I got a call
this morning at about five thirty and a family showed up,
A single mom showed up at the church.

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I passed her not too far from here.

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She showed up a little seven year old boy who
if he saw him as a normal looking little boy
a few months ago and is now, he had gotten large.
The medication he was on, he had an inoperable brain tumor.
And he was in church last Sunday, and he died
this morning at five o'clock. And I was in their
home this morning at eight, and I walked in the
living room and there he sat in a chair in

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the living room with a blanket over him, his favorite blanket,
waiting for the funeral home to come pick him up,
and the family walking around, and the grandmother there with
her hand on him. And I saw a strength this morning,
and a woman and she didn't get it from anywhere
but him, and her little boy's gone. And I saw

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the mom, the grandmother, the uncle, about six of the
family reaching that chair and picked that little boy up,
big boy, and they physically carried him through the kitchen,
through the garage, out to a van from the funeral home,
put him on a cod and they strapped him in.
She laid a beanie baby on his stomach, and he
was gone.

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Let me tell you something.

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You won't make it without Jesus, because you're either leaving
soon or you're going to have to live through a
lot of stuff. And you better get the lines open,
and you better talk to him, and you better know him,
because there's a day coming if it hadn't come already,
when you will not make it unless you know God personally.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
I'm not talking him about believing in God.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
The Bible says the demons in hell believe in God
and tremble in his name. So if you believe in God,
you're right up there with the demons. I'm talking about
trusting him. I'm talking about knowing him. I'm talking about
walking with him. And you say, well, I just got
invited to once. You know, I didn't bring this much kleenex.
I don't know what happened. If you say I don't

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believe all this stuff, let me tell you may not
have agree with me. If your deal's working, you just
keep it up. If your God is working, you just
keep worshiping him and doing your deal. But if he's not,
I'm telling you I got a God who loved me
so much.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
He proved it by laying his kid's life down.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
And he could have stopped it, and Jesus could have
stopped it, but he said, I'm going to show them
that I love him.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm going to turn my back on my own son.
I'm going to let him.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Die, but I'm going to raise him from the dead
so they don't have to die spiritually, so they don't
have to be separated from me. And if they don't
get it because of that, they're just not going to
get it, because it doesn't get any bigger than that.
A man laid down his life for his friends. Jesus
died for you, and you say, well, my life sucks.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
It may keep being tough till the day you die,
but it doesn't have to be terrible. You can have joy,
you can have peace, you can know love. You can
be alone, but never lonely. He'll be a husband to you,
the scripture says. But you're gonna have to talk to him.
You're gonna have to spend time with him. You're gonna
have to get to know him. You're gonna have to communicate,

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have to let him live in you and through you
and be your life and be your strength, and he'll
make all the difference.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Richard Ellis will return in a moment to wrap up
today's talk with a few final words, But first I
want to share some important information about the program. The
reason we do this is to share with you the
good news. When you open your heart and life to
the saving grace of Jesus Christ, that's the beginning point
of the most amazing journey you'll ever experience. But it's

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also a journey that we want to join with you.
So if you've been on this road for a while
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Maybe you've got some questions, stuck in neutral or even
wondering how to take the next breath.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
We're here.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Give us a call at eight five five six. Richard
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Speaker 2 (22:24):
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Speaker 1 (22:26):
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Speaker 3 (23:21):
Right, let's pray, Father, thank you so much just for
waking me up this morning. God, even more than being
alive physically, as awesome as that is, and I can't
sustain my life. Father, I thank you that I have
spiritual life, and that the God of the universe lives
in me and through me and has a plan and

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a purpose. And Father, I pray that the women in
this room would know the strength of the woman I
was spent this morning with that only comes from you
in times like these, Father, make these women strong, women,
dignified women, women that live despite time. I'm in gravity,
and everyone around them knows that they know you, not

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that they're pushy, not that they're proud, not that they're cocky,
but that they're humbled themselves before you and have realized
that in due time, you lift them up. Father, bless
these women. Protect them. The single women, Lord, give them patience, impurity.
The single moms give them patience, impurity and strength to

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be mom and dad. The divorced woman, Lord, who have
so much anger and bitterness, possibly heal their hearts. The
widow's Lord who don't want another man, they just want
the one they lost and don't know what to do.
And the mature, godly women who have lived through it all.
Let them be mentors and encouragers to those who come

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behind them. And for all of it, we thank you
and we love you, God, and we thank you so
much for loving us, not just in a word, but
indeed and proving it by giving your own son. You're
an awesome God, and we ask you to use this
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