February 12, 2024 • 48 mins
Anna and Sarah have been discussing 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, breaking down each attribute of Love mentioned in the passage. This is the last episode of the series! In this week's episode, they talk about verse 7 and relate it to their own lives.
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Alright, go ahead, I'm gonna take it away.
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Friends, it's been a minute since we've been sitting here recording, but today we're gonna
finish up our series on love, which I can hardly believe because we've been doing this
for a while now.
Yeah, well we did take a break from it.
That's true, but I almost am like, what am I gonna do when it's over?
I know.
Well, y'all have to stick around and find out what we do when it's over.
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We have to stick around and find out too because we don't even know.
But today we're talking about 1 Corinthians verse 7, love bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Chapter 13.
Did I say that?
I said 1 Corinthians 13, 7.
I didn't hear that, I thought you said verse 7.
Maybe I did.
It doesn't matter.
Either way, 1 Corinthians 13.
And what we've been doing is taking a verse from 1 Corinthians 13 and kind of doing a
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deep dive into it using other scripture and talking about our applications from that.
So that's what we're going to be doing today as well.
Hey guys, welcome back to our Worship Warriors podcast.
I'm gonna have to pull my notes up on my laptop though because these are tiny.
Yeah, it's like microscopic writing.
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Y'all.
I could probably do it though if I...
Okay, real quick funny story.
Last night I was teaching the small children at church and I was supposed to have a resource
printed out, but I did not print out that resource.
And it was like there was a picture of it in the book I was using, like that small.
Oh yeah.
And so I had to lean and focus on it.
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You needed a freaking magnifying glass.
It was kind of funny though.
And the kids definitely laughed at me.
I can see it if I hold it right here.
I don't know where to start, but...
Oh well, and see, I think we both did these similar, like a similar way.
And so we can talk through each, there's all things, there's all things, there's all things,
there's all things, we can talk through each point, like take turns.
Yes.
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Yeah, that way.
Yeah.
Which is just kind of nice because usually it's not quite so clear and concise, I feel
like.
Yeah, it's true.
So I like the way this verse is sectioned off.
I still don't really know what I'm talking about, but the Holy Spirit's here, so she
knows what's up.
Amen.
Okay, so like Anna said, we're going through verse seven.
And so it's, I don't have it pulled up, love, what is it?
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Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And just thinking about those words, that's really hard to do.
Yeah.
Like, it's really hard to bear burdens of others and yourself.
It's also hard to believe in others and believe in God at times.
And it sounds like blasphemy to say that, but I mean, let's be honest, here it is.
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I mean, I will say for me personally, I always believe in God and I know that I can trust
him, but living it out that I actually believe in certain difficult moments, that's really
hard.
Yeah.
Hoping all things, enduring all things, again, hoping all things are the hard times, that's
hard.
Enduring all things.
Today was hard enough to endure and that was nothing compared to what Jesus went through.
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Right.
So anyway, so I guess we can just start from the beginning.
Bears all things.
The first verse I have here is Ephesians 4, 1 through 3, and it says, I therefore a prisoner
for the Lord, this is Paul, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which
you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one
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another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace.
So we're doing bearing all things for this verse.
And so I put this in here, I don't remember exactly why, but if you think about it, first
of all, Paul of all people, he went through it.
He went through it.
Yeah.
And he not only endured things, but he was bearing a lot on his own shoulders with his
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own personal stuff because of the way he was living for the Lord.
Lots of persecution there, obviously, especially toward the end.
He was in prison and then other things before that, clearly.
But then on top of that, he was really good at, I mean, you see all these letters that
he wrote to these churches.
And he really was caring for them genuinely, even though he wasn't able to be there in
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person at times.
I guarantee you, without having to see this in scripture, that he was bearing so much
of other people's burdens on his heart in praying for them.
And to me, that is huge.
Like that is huge.
Like not because to me, it's like I'm so selfish at times that yes, I have a busy and hectic
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life and yes, I have important roles in my life, but that doesn't mean that I'm too good
to not help my friends out whenever they're in need by bearing their burdens with them.
And that also doesn't mean, like sometimes that means saying to my husband, Casey, Anna's
in trouble, yada, yada, yada.
I got to go.
And then he just has to bear the burden with me by being home with Markham while I go help
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Anna or vice versa.
Which has happened before.
It has happened one time.
She could have died, y'all.
I was in a wreck and Sarah can't even rescue, so.
I guess that did happen.
Yeah.
That was just something random to me.
But anyway, so like it could be actually physically going, but it also could be like this, in
this case, where Paul wasn't actually there.
But I really, I believe that wholeheartedly that he was really bearing the burdens.
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And you know, if people were writing letters back to him, whoever it was, you know, Timothy,
he really, you know, like whoever it was.
I believe he really was bearing the burden and thinking of them often.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not saying he's perfect at it.
He was a human being too.
But I believe he was.
And so I feel like that is probably why I put that verse in there because of who was
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speaking and thinking about his life in that way.
So you know, there's multiple ways to bear the burden, but I feel like that's a really
good way of doing it is intercessory prayer and constantly thinking of others and what
they're going through as well.
Yeah.
So any thoughts?
Um, I definitely agree with you about Paul had a great burden for the people that he
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was ministering to.
And I'm sure he prayed for them all the time.
Obviously he did too, because he wouldn't have written these letters to these people
because that wasn't easy either, right?
To have to call these churches out and be like, hey, this is what you're doing wrong
and what scripture says about it and everything.
But it's obviously it was driven out of love that he had for Christ and for these people
too.
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Yeah.
So it's good.
What you got?
Okay.
Love bears all things.
Um, the first verse that popped to my mind, um, it's actually one that's come up in my
life a lot recently and it's Galatians six verse two, which says bear one another's burdens
until fulfilled the law of Christ.
So like it's, it's a, it's a very strict command to bear each other's burdens in Christ.
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Um, following Jesus's example as he bore all of our burdens when he got on the cross for
our sins.
Um, and I know that might seem like such a simple concept, but I have a friend who's
going through a really hard time right now, like spiritual warfare, honestly, left and
right.
She's going through a big pruning season and she's been talking to me and two of our other
friends about it a lot and she keeps apologizing.
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And she's like, I'm sorry, I know I'm talking about this a lot and I'm talking about this
a lot.
And we've had this, I mean, I've told her, I've quoted this first to her.
I was like, Hey, the Bible says that we're supposed to bear one another's burdens until
fulfilled the law of Christ.
We want you to come to us and tell us these things so that we can pray for you and so
that we can uplift you in Christ and encourage you.
Um, because we love her, um, and we like, because Jesus loves her and Jesus loves us.
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And so we need to show that love to her as well.
Um, during this hard time that she's going through.
That's good.
And then, um, I've been reading, uh, this semester at the college ministry that I'm
a part of in the women's Bible study, we're going through Hebrews.
I was reading Hebrews two and it was just talking about how Jesus bore everything for
us.
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Um, let me see verse Hebrews two verse eight says, now I'm putting everything in subject
subject into him.
He left nothing outside his control at present.
We do not yet see everything in subjection to him, but we see him who for a little while
was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus kind of glory and honor because of the suffering
of death.
So that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.
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So Jesus literally bore everything for us.
Like he bore not only bringing himself down from glory, right?
In heaven and becoming a man like experiencing flesh, making himself lower than even the
angels whom he created by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.
So for our behalf, Jesus bore everything.
There was, there's a real on our Instagram page that I just put up this week and it's
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a quote by Tim Keller and it says, um, that it says Jesus literally walked in your shoes.
Yeah.
Cause he did.
Yeah.
Like that was your burden that you should have been bearing.
But you honestly, like we can't where it's not possible for us to, but you know what
I mean?
Like, and he did that for us.
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He took that on himself for us.
Yeah.
And then it goes on to talk about how he literally calls us his brothers, which is crazy.
Jesus lowered himself, call us his brothers and sisters.
And then let me see.
So the verse 14, it goes on to say, since therefore the children share in the flesh
and blood, he himself likewise particular, the same things that brought that through
death, he might destroy the one who had the power of death, that is the devil and deliver
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all those who through fear of death were subject subject to lifelong slavery.
So meaning that we've been set free from slavery.
Therefore and then verse 17, therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every
respect that he might become a merciful, merciful and faithful high priest in the service of
God to make propitiate propitiation for the sins of the people.
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This is mind blowing to me that Jesus bore all of that for us.
And I was really reminded of that week when I was reading that, like Jesus, God's son,
who's also God, like God the son literally is love.
And like he bore all things for us, which is insane.
He bore the opposite of himself.
Yeah.
Opposite of love, like for us.
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Yeah.
He went completely against who he was in nature for us.
So then in looking at that, how can we not in return show love to one another and by
bearing each other's burdens?
Right.
After all that Jesus has done for us.
Well, it's not the least we could do, but it is still like nothing compared to what
he did for us.
Exactly.
Yeah.
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Okay.
So I have my next verse here for bears all things.
It says, Oh, I did all of mine for bears all things.
That's okay.
Okay.
I hadn't read all my reread all mine.
So I don't know.
So there's this one.
It's Colossians three, 12 to 13.
And it says put on them as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness,
humility, meekness and patience bearing with one another.
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And if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven
you so you also must forgive.
So the reason that I chose this one to read just now is because I've mentioned this in
a previous podcast, but for some reason, whenever I read in scripture, it says to put on something.
It makes me think of putting on clothes.
Yeah.
And I mentioned that before.
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Yeah.
It's like putting on the armor of God, putting on, you know, whatever.
And you won't just, and you don't just walk out of your home.
I've said this also on the podcast.
I think you don't walk into Walmart and then you just suddenly take off your clothes or
you shouldn't.
Yeah.
You know, you shouldn't do that.
So to me, it's like I'm putting on this attitude, this service, like this attitude of service
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toward others when I walk out the store and I'm not taking it off because it's inappropriate
against my nature to take it off.
Just like it would be inappropriate to take your clothes off in Walmart.
Yeah.
And so I'm putting on this attitude of service for others.
And obviously like you still need to make sure your priorities are straight.
So like, for instance, I'll use this example because I can relate to this right now.
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If you have kids and you're in Walmart or whatever and someone else is like bearing
their brints to you, but your kid is like hurt or something's really wrong or whatever,
where you know like right now this is not the time you need to leave, then pray in your
heart quickly to the Holy Spirit and hey, how do I need to do this?
Talk to that person for as long as you can, give them your number, maybe whatever you
need to do, you know?
So like your priorities do need to be straight, but you also need to always be on the lookout
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and be aware of like is my heart set, my heart posture and attitude of service toward others
so I can bear their burdens with them and lead them to Christ.
Wow.
You know?
Yeah.
And you don't just take that off.
And you know, it goes with the other things too that it says, that's just not the topic
for today.
So like compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, and all those things.
Like you need to be compassionate, you need to be kind, you need to be humble and meek
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and patient while you're bearing other people's burdens with them.
Romans 15, one through three says, we who are strong have an obligation.
This is ESV, obligation to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up for Christ did not please
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himself but as it is written, the reproachers of those who reproached you fell on me.
So this is similar to what Anna was saying earlier about how Christ bore our sins, that
part is.
But if you focus on the part where it's talking directly to believers in this, we have an
obligation.
And I know that's not the original word.
But I trust ESV enough to believe that we are obligated, you know?
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We are obligated to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
So I'm going to think in this case, and this may not be the original thing, but this is
true though, we are all weak without Christ.
We are all weak.
That is just a fact.
And so I am obligated to bear with all of this weakling's failings as much as she is
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obligated to bear with my failings as a weakling.
And we're not, and like I was saying earlier, well I don't know if I actually said this
exactly but say for instance, Anna was struggling with something but in my selfish heart I just
wanted to go to bed because I've had a long day and I'm exhausted.
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Sometimes you need to get over yourself.
You're obligated to your friends and to other believers and even non-believers because you
could lead them to Christ.
I will say there is some boundary there as well depending on the situation, but especially
with believers you are really obligated to bear each other's burdens.
And so you need to get over yourself.
Where'd the sun go guys?
Right there.
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Okay, that's okay.
You can still see us.
Can I see this?
Yeah.
Okay, anyway, so you get the gist, we're obligated.
And we, like it says, and not to please ourselves.
So we need to get over ourselves for the sake of others because then it says, this is my
favorite part, let each of us please his neighbor for his good.
So it's for her good that I'm bearing her burden with her.
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It's good for Anna that I'm building her up by one, bearing her burden and also how the
Holy Spirit leads in the moment for me to build her up.
Yeah.
Anyway, just to reiterate that, that's all I got for that one.
Oh, one more thing though on your point about bearing all things.
What you're saying is true.
Sometimes that takes putting away your own desires or your own whatever and listening
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to a person in need or helping them out however you can.
For instance, the other night when my friend, our friend was struggling, we were watching
a show and she came upstairs.
This is at our college ministry building.
She came upstairs and wanted to talk.
And so not that this was some great sacrifice on our part, and I'm not saying this toot
my own horn, but we paused the show, actively listened to her, wound up not being able to
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finish our episode because we were talking and then we were praying for like an hour,
hour and a half, because we were taking time to build her up.
And I'm not saying that to toot my own horn.
I'm just saying sometimes it takes sacrificing something you want to do or I don't know.
Because sometimes you just want to sit there and relax and not have to think about serious
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things.
Yeah.
And that's what you're meaning.
Yeah.
And that's what happened because it was such a sweet time of getting to encourage her.
And then we all prayed over her and that was just it was amazing.
And Holy Spirit is obviously always present with us, but he was just very present in that
moment.
And so I'm just I'm just saying, like, don't hesitate to set aside what you're doing either,
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because you don't know how the Lord's going to bless what you do for someone else either
and the way he's going to use you.
You don't know.
So anyway.
OK, so the next part of the verse is believes all things.
So I struggled with this part because I've never actually focused on this part of the
verse.
And so until I had to do a podcast over it, I was like, I should probably really dig deep
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into this and figure something out.
I actually heard a few different opinions from three or four different commentaries.
I heard two different opinions.
So I went to someone who is a lot wiser than me spiritually and who I trust his opinion.
And so I just was curious to know what you think.
And he was like, you know, I've always wondered about that, too.
So I was like, well, that's helpful.
OK, it's a lot.
But it also made me feel better that like not only did I not know, but someone who was
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way wiser than me and very knowledgeable about the Bible also was not aware of exactly what
it meant, because we really don't know.
And also, if you look up cross references for this, you don't find very many that actually
go along with this first part of the verse.
Like there's not many.
I found one and it didn't even make sense with what it was saying.
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So whenever love is saying that love believes all things, I believe at this moment again,
I'm not an expert.
I don't know everything that it is saying that because God is who he is, even like
say Anna walked up to me and she was like, hey, I've been really struggling with this
in cycle again.
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And it's something she's been struggling with for, say, 10 years or whatever.
And she comes up to me and she's like, hey, I'm struggling with this again.
Can you pray with me?
Blah, blah, blah.
But you know what?
I'm going to do better starting now.
Here's the thing.
Whether she does better now, like say she does, she gives her all, she does better.
But then in two weeks, she fails again, because in my head, I'm thinking, well, she said that
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last time, too.
Yeah.
And I'm going to believe that because God is sovereign and because I know from Anna's
fruits that even though she struggled with this over and over again, I know she truly
does want to do better.
So I'm going to believe that because God is who he is, I'm going to trust him that he
knows what's going to happen.
And that's all that matters.
And I'm going to support her in this and I'm going to keep her accountable or do whatever
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it is that I need to do.
And I'm going to believe that God is really moving in her and doing a work in her no matter
if she fails because of her own selfishness.
And so it's really just believing in God and believing in all good things in Christ, in
God, even if other people around you fail.
It's kind of like you don't give up on them even though they have been stuck in.
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Oh, OK.
So it is the same thing.
Yeah.
OK.
So we're basically saying the same thing.
So I don't know if that part was choppy or not because I had to cut some things out.
But anyway, basically, we apparently agree.
Yeah.
So but the other one was more along the lines of believing the best in people, even though
they fail.
And to me, that's not very Christ centered.
No.
So I didn't understand that personally.
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I mean, I want to believe the best in people, but the truth is we suck.
Yeah.
So I'm going to believe that you really want to do better and I'm going to support you
in that.
But I'm going to let God guide you and God guide me in supporting you because I believe
in him at all times.
Exactly.
It's more so trusting the Holy Spirit in you to do a work.
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Yeah.
And it's up to you whether you respond to conviction or not.
Yeah, I agree.
So I'm going to read real quick.
OK.
So this is kind of similar to this.
This is the only one I could die personally found that I really that really struck me.
This first.
Well, I think there's two, but this one is really my favorite one.
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Second Timothy to 24 through 26.
And it says, a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be kind to everyone, be
able to teach and be patient with difficult people, gently instruct those who oppose the
truth.
Perhaps God will change those people's hearts and they will learn the truth.
Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil's trap, for they have been
held captive by him to do whatever he wants.
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So basically saying the same thing where it's like you're believing in God because God could
change those people's hearts.
Yeah.
And whatever they say, whether in the end it was true or not, you're going to believe
that God is doing a work in them.
Yeah.
And believing that believing in all things when it comes to God.
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Yeah, because yeah, because he well, OK, I didn't have I didn't think about this.
So you just said that.
But I was talking to a friend recently about well, like when you're angry about a situation
in your life, you're like angry at somebody because they're mistreating somebody or you're
angry at injustice in the world.
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I think that it can also be like trusting, like looking at yourself and being like, wow,
look how much I love this person, like how much I'm angry on their behalf.
But thinking about how much more infinitely God wants them, how much more infinitely like
don't be beat.
But there's a verse that talks about being deceived.
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God is not mocked.
Like, God is going to take care of it, you know?
And so that just got me thinking about it because I have a friend who's dealing with
another situation and she's angry.
It's I mean, and it's it's honestly it's a righteous thing because like people she loves
have been treated poorly.
And but I was just talking to her about it and I was saying, like, well, think about
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how much you're angry on their behalf, think how much you love them, like think how much
this injustice injustice against them has upset you.
Think about how much more it's upsetting God.
Think about how much more God loves these people that you're upset on their behalf
for.
I don't know.
And so that's like also believing that God's going to do what he says he's going to do,
right?
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He's going to take care of it.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
First of all, apparently, I can't remember what website I got this from and I'm not even
going to attempt pronouncing the word because it's Greek.
But it says I found two different sources actually that says believes in this verse
actually the Greek word.
Yeah, I'm not going to try to pronounce it.
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It's P I S T E U E I, which is the Greek word meaning to put one's faith or trust in something
or someone.
So the tense used in Greek lets us know that this is a constant continuous and trusting
of one's faith and something or someone involving a never give up kind of belief that something
will turn out for the very best.
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So it means like, but like that's not to say that love is blind and it turns a blind eye
to what's going on.
That was one of the commentaries that I read.
That's what I was saying.
Yeah.
And I was like, what?
Yeah, but I like that they added like a God by love isn't stupid nor is it blind.
It sees everything.
But because it's so filled with faith, it pushes the disconcerting, disturbing negative
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realities out of the way.
But I mean, I think that's good because like that doesn't mean like God ignores our problems.
Right.
God literally sent Jesus as a solution to our problems.
But anyway, the verses I have on it are Philippians 2, 3 through 11, which sounds like a lot,
but it's really not that much.
And this is from the ESV as well, which I don't know that this really has to do anything
with the commentary I just read.
But you know, I got these said two different times.
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Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant
than yourselves.
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Now this in mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was
in the form of God, did not count equality with God as thing to be grasped, but emptied
himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
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And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point
of death, even death on a cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, the glory of God the Father.
And so in that way, it's really talking about like when your friend like, say I come to
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Sarah and I'm struggling with the sin cycle, her believing in the best in me, or her believing
the best of God in me, that he's going to work in my life and that I'm going to respond
to conviction of the Holy Spirit, is her that takes that requires her to humble herself
and to say, well, hey, I'm no better than Anna here.
We're all equal at the foot of the cross.
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And we all have this deep, deep desire, this deep need for Jesus.
Because we're nothing without him, as you said earlier.
So I guess that's how the passage kind of correlates to what I was thinking.
I have someone in my life that I've known for a very long time and this person is struggling
with addiction.
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They have come to me and some others several times for like rides here and there to go
take them to the hospital because they want to detox and all this stuff like they're going
to get better and all this stuff.
Just a phone call to talk to them while they're sitting there trying not to use, you know,
all these things.
It's been a lot of phone calls at two in the morning or drop and goes and you know, that's
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exhausting.
But and we we have had to set some boundaries so we don't just go every time now because
it was causing it was seeping into our main priorities and we have families to take care
of and this and that and the other.
My son comes first and you know, all these things.
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But in general, we still that person is a very big priority in our life if they need
us, even though they have from like for a long time now have failed in their journey
to recovery and getting away from drugs.
And I'm not I'm not saying that to my own horn because God has had to really humble
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me.
And so you have to like and yes, you humble yourself, but also that requires God.
You cannot humble yourself to that.
I was that wasn't me humbling myself.
That was saying, God, I don't want to do this, but you're telling me to.
So I need to.
And in that way, that was just another example on a more like, I guess, more serious.
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I don't know if serious is the right word, but more.
Or am I thinking of?
I don't know.
On a larger scale.
Relevant.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
You get the gist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just another example, because every time that person calls me, if God tells me to go, I
need to go because I'm going to believe in the best in him.
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And exactly.
And also that person, whether it be that person, specifically or a different person or whoever
it be 10 years down the road, they might really have freedom and peace from that struggle
and from that sin cycle.
So that person might experience peace in the future and never do that drug again, never
do whatever that sin cycle was again.
And it might be 10 to 15 years down the road.
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It might be not in your lifetime.
But here's the thing, it might be because they had people like you continuously believing
in God and supporting them in a Christ like manner all of those years and all of those
times.
And you might get 20 years down the road still doing this over and over again.
Again, sometimes you do need to set boundaries with certain things.
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I'm not saying let them walk all over you.
That's where the Holy Spirit guides you in that.
But like, you know, you might get tired and you might be like, no, I've been doing this
for 20 years, God, I don't want to keep doing this.
But God literally took a lifetime of sin for you.
Yeah.
So you need to just keep doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Humble yourself and pray and ask the Lord to help you love them the way he does.
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Like pray and ask the Lord to help you look at them the way that he does.
Because he doesn't look at them.
I mean, he looks on them and he has compassion on them.
He has compassion on us.
Infinite.
And then the other thing, were you done?
Mostly.
Okay.
I was thinking when you were talking was that you can't allow your source of joy come from
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or depend on whether these people get better or not.
Yes.
Because your joy should come from the Lord and the Lord alone.
You're going to wear yourself out so quickly if you are like, oh, well, maybe this person
will get better this time.
And then when they don't, you can't let that completely destroy you.
You need to put your faith in your trust and your joy and your hope in the Lord.
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You're not living for them.
You're living for God.
Yeah.
I mean, I know it's not exactly what you're saying, but like you have to remember that
in the moment.
Like this is not my life.
This is a part of my life.
Yeah.
But my life is God.
And so you can't let that ruin your whole day or dwell.
You can't dwell on that your whole life.
Yeah.
So make sure that your faith in the Lord is bigger than your faith in that person or their
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ability to change because none of us are capable of change on our own.
You want to go?
Oh, sure.
You're going to let me go first this time?
Oh my gosh.
Look at me.
I'm so selfless.
So for love, love hopes all things.
The first thing that I kind of thought of was like love always expects the best in others.
So like rather than assuming, we'll squeeze this, this goes right into this, that rather
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than assuming failure or bad results in someone's life, like God's love always expects the best
in someone else.
Maybe that's why I was getting it from earlier.
It was for hopes all things.
So and then also it like not only expects it, but it's like filled with anticipation
to see the manifestation of the thing hoped for.
It's like you're in waiting and hopeful anticipation of like of that person to be healed from whatever
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they're dealing with or whatever it is.
So Romans 15 13 says, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing
so that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope.
And so again, that sort of hope can only come from the Lord as you're waiting for whatever
results you're waiting for, as you're waiting in love for it.
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And then Romans 12 12 commands us rejoicing hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant
in prayer.
And so as you're hoping for this thing, as you're hoping for this person, you need to
constantly be seeking the Lord because again, your joy does not come from whatever result
does or doesn't happen.
It doesn't come from your circumstances in life.
Your joy comes from the Lord.
And then thinking about where it says like, it's filled with anticipation to see the manifestation
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of the thing hoped for.
Hebrews 11 1 literally talks about, my faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
So like, we have hope because we have the assurance that Jesus came and he died on the
cross for our sins.
After like years and years of hoping and waiting, we have assurance that that prophecy was fulfilled,
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that Jesus has come, that he has saved us from our sins.
So and then finally Romans, I know I'm kind of zooming through these, but Romans 8 24
through 25, for in this hope we were saved.
Now hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he sees.
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
And so as you're waiting on a situation to change or on someone to break out of this
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cycle or someone to come to Christ or whatever, and you're loving them through that, you need
to wait with hope in the Lord that he's going to like number one, take care of the situation.
And then like it says here, we wait for it with patience, but we can have patience because
we have hope that the Lord has overcome everything.
I can't, I don't have this reference written down, but this first is coming to me in the
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moment, which is where Jesus talks, where Jesus literally says, take heart for I have
overcome the world.
Right.
So we have hope that he has won the victory, that he has conquered the evil one that is
the devil.
I guess he's in Hebrews 2, that he has the power over sin and death forever.
And so that we in love, we can love people by hoping for the best in them through Christ.
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Yeah.
That's all I have.
That was good.
I actually had Hebrews 11 1, but I don't think you had any of my other ones.
I mean, I really don't have much else.
I mean, I will say there was something that I thought of as you were talking, because
you're talking about an overall hope, which is what I had down also.
Yeah.
Which is obviously the most important thing.
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Yeah.
So I'll read some of my verses, but then I also have a thought about everyday little
things.
Hope.
Okay.
So my first verse is Jeremiah 29 and 11, for I know the plans I have for you to clear to
the Lord plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and hope.
Here's the thing.
We all try to plan our lives out.
Yeah.
We have new year resolutions, we have all these things, but that's why we need to send
them all over.
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Like I think it's okay to have, I think it's biblical in my opinion, it's biblical to have
visions, dreams, plans.
Yeah.
But you need to hold them with an open hand.
I watched this girl, I've told this to Anna a few times, I think over the years.
Yeah.
There's a girl on Coffee and Bible Time, very from, at least from my personal opinion, everything
I've watched and listened to, very biblical.
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Ashley, the older sister of the two sisters on there, she was doing this thing.
Oh, she went on a mission trip.
That's what it was.
She did a video talking about it.
In her video, she was talking about how, I think it was the main thing that God taught
her that summer or there was something in there about this.
She said that she needs to hold her plans in the palm of her hands, but open.
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Don't close it.
Don't plan something and then just keep trying to do it over and over again.
Because what if God wants you to open it, but he's having to pry your heart open, pry
your hands open.
Yeah.
You need to open your hands.
Keep the hopes there, keep the plans there.
But then if God takes them out and puts something else in, you just need to go along with it.
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Because you have hope that God has the best plan for you and the plans for welfare.
This isn't necessarily talking about financially.
This is talking about what is best for you and best for his kingdom, most importantly,
best to glorify him and best to grow his kingdom.
Not the welfare, in my opinion, plan for welfare and not for evil.
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To give you a future and hope.
You need to, every day, every week, every year, you need to just let God plan your life
because you have hope in him.
You have hope that he has the best plan for your life and the best plan for his kingdom
and the best plan for welfare and not for evil.
Everything you're doing is going to lead you to evil if you do it without him.
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But everything that he does, you have hope that because he is who he is, you can trust.
That's another word.
Trust, to me, it could be synonymous to hope at times because they really just go hand
in hand.
In order to have hope in God, you have to trust him.
And so you can't have one without the other, really.
So anyway, that was my first verse.
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This one, Isaiah 40, 29 through 31.
He gives power to the faint and to him who has no might, he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary and young men shall fall exhausted.
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings like eagles.
They shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint.
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So I love this passage so much because it gives us so much hope for not only the overall,
the end of our life here on earth, but it also gives you hope for your weak.
Like dang, listen, like it says, young men, young men, sorry, even youths shall faint
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and be weary and young men shall fall exhausted.
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
OK, first of all, yes, in my opinion, this, you know, this could mean we're living in
this world, this wicked world.
We're exhausted because look around you.
It's terrible.
Everything is terrible.
I mean, not everything, because obviously the goodness of God is still here.
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But you know what I mean.
It's just the world is just bad.
It's wicked.
And we're living through this and all this stuff.
It's exhausting at times.
It's exhausting a lot of the time, especially if you're really, truly pursuing God in this.
And but God is going to renew our strength at the end of times whenever we are in heaven
with him, whenever he comes back to us and all this stuff.
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So there's that.
But there's also if you're if you've got a crazy life, maybe you've had a bad week,
maybe you're busy, maybe you're not busy most of the time, but something is going on in
your life and it's just bad and you're exhausted.
And you know, you are just sick and tired of whatever it is.
And maybe you're depressed or anxious or whatever it is.
And you just need strength and you don't have it.
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Well, you don't need to have it on your own because God is going to renew your strength
because it says so in his word.
It says they who wait for the Lord.
So if you're pursuing God, if you're waiting for him, if you're saying, God, I'm waiting
and expect like I expect your hope.
I have hope that I can have your strength, that you can give it to me, that you can give
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me the energy that I need to just get through the day like he's going to renew your strength.
He's already doing it if you just wait on him and pursue him.
And that's the thing, though.
People think waiting is just like sitting here waiting.
Yeah.
Sometimes you do need to sit in silence and just listen.
Yes.
But most of the time you can't even hear God's voice.
You can't even see the strength that he's holding out for you if you're not even if
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you're not if you're not familiar with his voice.
You're not familiar with what he what he looks like.
So you have to pursue him in his word.
Talk to him and he's going to give you that strength and then just wait because he's going
to give it to you.
So there's that.
That makes sense.
Yeah, it makes sense.
OK.
And then my last one is Revelation 21 one through five.
And it says, well, love this passage because this is talking about the biggest hope of
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all, in my opinion.
And we can already touch this, but it says that I saw a new heaven and a new earth for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more.
And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.
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He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as
their God.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more.
Neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore for the former things have
passed away.
And he who was seated on the throne said, behold, I am making all things new.
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Also he said, write this down for these words are trustworthy and true.
I don't have any commentary on that.
Yeah, it just kind of speaks for itself.
So we have hope.
Yeah, we have a lot of hope.
So for 11, there's all things.
I just have one passage also from Philippians.
I've made a lot of Paul's stuff for this.
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Paul's pretty good, Dom.
Paul's pretty good.
So the passage I found for this was Philippians 2, 5 through 8.
I already read for, yeah, I read this already.
But it's for something else.
So I read this already.
I'm reading it again.
Sorry.
Because I read Philippians 2, 3 through 11.
Now this is just 5 through 8.
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You know what?
Just do any of that.
Love and there's all things.
Okay, I'm going to start over.
It's Philippians 2, 5 through 8.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in
the form of God did not count equality with God, a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself
by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men and being found in
human form.
He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.
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And Jesus Christ himself, who is love embodied, was obedient to the point of death, even death
on the cross.
And Hebrews 2 talked about it too, how Jesus came in the form of a servant, or it talks
about here how he came in the form of a servant.
And then in Hebrews 2, it talks about how he made himself lower than the angels.
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And Jesus endured so much.
He endured death on the cross for our behalf.
Love bears, or love endures all things for our behalf and on our behalf.
And like Sarah kind of said earlier, when thinking about how crappy our lives are, how
hard our lives are, it's nothing compared to what Jesus went through.
And Hebrews 2 also talks about how he literally had the form of a man so that he could relate
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to us, so that he could be relatable to us, so that we didn't have to feel like we were
alone.
Because Jesus was made like us, he is able to help us, therefore, endure all things.
And again, it's insane because we don't have to do it alone.
And I mean, how crazy is it that, I think Romans talks about this, how he is both just
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and the justifier, meaning that God is just, he can't allow sin into heaven, he can't
allow that in his presence.
And yet he made a plan and put a plan in place to provide the justifier.
He himself was the justifier and sent his one and only son to make way for us to be
with him.
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So that even though people might say that he's a cruel God who requires sacrifice and
what kind of God sends people to hell and all this, but that's the thing, he's both
a just God, but then he made a way by sending his one and only son.
And I can't think of a greater example of love than that.
Oh, I guess one more thing, just to put this in even more context, when I was reading through
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Hebrews 1 this week, the first two chapters talk about Jesus and who he is, and it's crazy
because Paul does a deep dive into it.
But here's just some things about Jesus.
So he is the heir of all things.
He is creator.
He is the radiance of the glory of God.
He is the exact imprint of God's nature.
He is the upholder of the universe by the word of his power.
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He is the heir of God in his name.
He is co-ruler with God sitting at his right hand.
He is never ending.
He is a lover of righteousness and hater of wickedness.
He is anointed and appointed, I like that those kind of rhyme, by the word is king of
kings and he is the same forever and ever.
He's never ending.
So like when thinking about Jesus and all he, I just think it's crazy that that same
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Jesus came to earth and endured all he did for me.
Yeah.
For me?
Are you kidding?
Because I suck.
And like the fact that he looked on me, he had compassion on me and saw me in my hour
of deepest need and like decided that he loved me enough to make a way for me to be with
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him someday, forever and also to have an intimate relationship with him here on this earth is
insanity.
And why would I not then in turn love him too, like to the best of my ability?
I mean, how can you not?
And I say that as someone who's just been struggling with not spending time with the
Lord and like it's just hit me so hard this week how selfish I am and how bent I am towards
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unholiness because man, it's crazy when I let my son nature get in the way and my own
selfishness get in the way and I don't spend time with the God that did all that for me.
How can I not?
You know?
Anyway.
And I mean, that same Jesus is there for me today when I'm sad and he's like there to
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he's near to me.
Like he literally left us his Holy Spirit to comfort us and to be there for us too.
Like he's done so much for us.
Yeah.
Even though we're like wretched.
Yeah.
Like completely wretched.
Yeah.
Insane.
Insane?
It is insane.
That's me just abbreviating insane.
It's catching on, just like.
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Catching on, trust me guys.
It's what all the kids are saying.
It's the trend.
It's insane.
I feel like that was being not funny.
I think we're just done.
I do have a verse though and then I'll be done.
I have three verses, but I'm just going to read one because we've covered all the others
really.
Yeah.
Um, actually there's two, but they're short.
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So the first one is.
Who's fine?
She loves me.
You just gave a full sermon over here.
I'm just kidding.
Okay, so Psalm 136, one says, give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his steadfast
love and there's forever.
So the reason I want to read this one is because, um, I actually heard, I'm, I don't even want
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to try to pronounce her name.
If I remember to, I will link it down below on the YouTube description of this.
Um, if I remember to.
But her name is Malena and her last name starts with a C. I don't know how to pronounce it.
So I'm not going to try it.
I don't want to butcher it.
Something that she says that they do in their home is if someone gets angry or something
bad is happening.
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But I think specifically when I heard that she was talking about anger, like she has
three or four kids and if any of them get angry, what they do in their home is they
stop and they think of something to be thankful for.
I think it's three things.
I can't remember.
It's one or three things and they stop and they list them off.
Because let me go back to the verse.
When you give thanks to the Lord in all of your hardship, do you know what happens?
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You're able to endure more.
Like you can't, like you can't endure more without some form of gratitude toward God
being there.
Even if you don't know that it's gratitude, even if you're not saying thank you God for
this, joy in the Lord comes from gratitude.
You're being grateful for what he's done for you.
You're acknowledging everything he's done for you.
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That's gratefulness.
And you can't endure more without being grateful.
Jesus was able to endure all he did because he was ultimately so grateful and thankful
to the father that he had and for the love of his father that he had.
And he was able to endure all of that because of that.
And so it goes along like you can't have peace that surpasses all understanding without gratefulness
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either.
Like it just, you know, so even just with the little things, like if you're having a
hard day, like we were talking about and you just feel like you can't endure it anymore.
No, you can't on your own.
So just stop what you're doing and say, God, there are blessings.
I just don't see them.
So I'm going to thank you for being you.
Show me my blessings so I can list those off to you too.
And I guarantee you, I guarantee I'm 100% positive you will be able to endure more from
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that point on.
So there's that.
Ephesians 6 13 says, therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand firm.
So this to me is actually a perfect verse to end on because in order to do any of the
things we've been talking about, to endure every, to endure all things, believe all things,
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hope all things, endure all things.
I already said that.
Bears all things.
I didn't say that one.
Oh, in order to do all of these things, you can't fully do these in Christ.
You can't fully allow God to do all of these things through you.
If you don't pursue him and in pursuing him, you will begin to have the armor of God on
you.
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Because the closer you get to God, the more familiar you are with him, the more you talk
to him, the more you know his voice, the more you can see him, the more, the quicker you
are to be thankful in those hard moments.
All these things, you are putting on the armor of God, the closer you get to God.
And we could do a whole podcast on that, but we're not going to right now.
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So I'm not going to go into those details if you don't know what that is.
Just go read the passage in Ephesians 6, do your own study time on it.
And you have to put armor on you to stand up against the devil and the demons in this
world.
You have to.
You have to.
So in order to endure all things from the devil and what he's throwing at you, because
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he hates you and he hates God, you have to have the armor of God on you.
So that's it.
So yeah, I think that's all we got.
That's all we got.
We don't know what's going to happen next, but we're eager to find out.
Lord willing, we'll have a podcast in two weeks.
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Okay, hope y'all have a good week.
Peace.
Alright, go ahead, I'm gonna take it away.
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Friends, it's been a minute since we've been sitting here recording, but today we're gonna
finish up our series on love, which I can hardly believe because we've been doing this
for a while now.
Yeah, well we did take a break from it.
That's true, but I almost am like, what am I gonna do when it's over?
I know.
Well, y'all have to stick around and find out what we do when it's over.
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We have to stick around and find out too because we don't even know.
But today we're talking about 1 Corinthians verse 7, love bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Chapter 13.
Did I say that?
I said 1 Corinthians 13, 7.
I didn't hear that, I thought you said verse 7.
Maybe I did.
It doesn't matter.
Either way, 1 Corinthians 13.
And what we've been doing is taking a verse from 1 Corinthians 13 and kind of doing a
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deep dive into it using other scripture and talking about our applications from that.
So that's what we're going to be doing today as well.
Hey guys, welcome back to our Worship Warriors podcast.
I'm gonna have to pull my notes up on my laptop though because these are tiny.
Yeah, it's like microscopic writing.
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Y'all.
I could probably do it though if I...
Okay, real quick funny story.
Last night I was teaching the small children at church and I was supposed to have a resource
printed out, but I did not print out that resource.
And it was like there was a picture of it in the book I was using, like that small.
Oh yeah.
And so I had to lean and focus on it.
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You needed a freaking magnifying glass.
It was kind of funny though.
And the kids definitely laughed at me.
I can see it if I hold it right here.
I don't know where to start, but...
Oh well, and see, I think we both did these similar, like a similar way.
And so we can talk through each, there's all things, there's all things, there's all things,
there's all things, we can talk through each point, like take turns.
Yes.
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Yeah, that way.
Yeah.
Which is just kind of nice because usually it's not quite so clear and concise, I feel
like.
Yeah, it's true.
So I like the way this verse is sectioned off.
I still don't really know what I'm talking about, but the Holy Spirit's here, so she
knows what's up.
Amen.
Okay, so like Anna said, we're going through verse seven.
And so it's, I don't have it pulled up, love, what is it?
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Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And just thinking about those words, that's really hard to do.
Yeah.
Like, it's really hard to bear burdens of others and yourself.
It's also hard to believe in others and believe in God at times.
And it sounds like blasphemy to say that, but I mean, let's be honest, here it is.
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I mean, I will say for me personally, I always believe in God and I know that I can trust
him, but living it out that I actually believe in certain difficult moments, that's really
hard.
Yeah.
Hoping all things, enduring all things, again, hoping all things are the hard times, that's
hard.
Enduring all things.
Today was hard enough to endure and that was nothing compared to what Jesus went through.
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Right.
So anyway, so I guess we can just start from the beginning.
Bears all things.
The first verse I have here is Ephesians 4, 1 through 3, and it says, I therefore a prisoner
for the Lord, this is Paul, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which
you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one
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another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace.
So we're doing bearing all things for this verse.
And so I put this in here, I don't remember exactly why, but if you think about it, first
of all, Paul of all people, he went through it.
He went through it.
Yeah.
And he not only endured things, but he was bearing a lot on his own shoulders with his
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own personal stuff because of the way he was living for the Lord.
Lots of persecution there, obviously, especially toward the end.
He was in prison and then other things before that, clearly.
But then on top of that, he was really good at, I mean, you see all these letters that
he wrote to these churches.
And he really was caring for them genuinely, even though he wasn't able to be there in
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person at times.
I guarantee you, without having to see this in scripture, that he was bearing so much
of other people's burdens on his heart in praying for them.
And to me, that is huge.
Like that is huge.
Like not because to me, it's like I'm so selfish at times that yes, I have a busy and hectic
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life and yes, I have important roles in my life, but that doesn't mean that I'm too good
to not help my friends out whenever they're in need by bearing their burdens with them.
And that also doesn't mean, like sometimes that means saying to my husband, Casey, Anna's
in trouble, yada, yada, yada.
I got to go.
And then he just has to bear the burden with me by being home with Markham while I go help
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Anna or vice versa.
Which has happened before.
It has happened one time.
She could have died, y'all.
I was in a wreck and Sarah can't even rescue, so.
I guess that did happen.
Yeah.
That was just something random to me.
But anyway, so like it could be actually physically going, but it also could be like this, in
this case, where Paul wasn't actually there.
But I really, I believe that wholeheartedly that he was really bearing the burdens.
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And you know, if people were writing letters back to him, whoever it was, you know, Timothy,
he really, you know, like whoever it was.
I believe he really was bearing the burden and thinking of them often.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not saying he's perfect at it.
He was a human being too.
But I believe he was.
And so I feel like that is probably why I put that verse in there because of who was
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speaking and thinking about his life in that way.
So you know, there's multiple ways to bear the burden, but I feel like that's a really
good way of doing it is intercessory prayer and constantly thinking of others and what
they're going through as well.
Yeah.
So any thoughts?
Um, I definitely agree with you about Paul had a great burden for the people that he
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was ministering to.
And I'm sure he prayed for them all the time.
Obviously he did too, because he wouldn't have written these letters to these people
because that wasn't easy either, right?
To have to call these churches out and be like, hey, this is what you're doing wrong
and what scripture says about it and everything.
But it's obviously it was driven out of love that he had for Christ and for these people
too.
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Yeah.
So it's good.
What you got?
Okay.
Love bears all things.
Um, the first verse that popped to my mind, um, it's actually one that's come up in my
life a lot recently and it's Galatians six verse two, which says bear one another's burdens
until fulfilled the law of Christ.
So like it's, it's a, it's a very strict command to bear each other's burdens in Christ.
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Um, following Jesus's example as he bore all of our burdens when he got on the cross for
our sins.
Um, and I know that might seem like such a simple concept, but I have a friend who's
going through a really hard time right now, like spiritual warfare, honestly, left and
right.
She's going through a big pruning season and she's been talking to me and two of our other
friends about it a lot and she keeps apologizing.
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And she's like, I'm sorry, I know I'm talking about this a lot and I'm talking about this
a lot.
And we've had this, I mean, I've told her, I've quoted this first to her.
I was like, Hey, the Bible says that we're supposed to bear one another's burdens until
fulfilled the law of Christ.
We want you to come to us and tell us these things so that we can pray for you and so
that we can uplift you in Christ and encourage you.
Um, because we love her, um, and we like, because Jesus loves her and Jesus loves us.
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And so we need to show that love to her as well.
Um, during this hard time that she's going through.
That's good.
And then, um, I've been reading, uh, this semester at the college ministry that I'm
a part of in the women's Bible study, we're going through Hebrews.
I was reading Hebrews two and it was just talking about how Jesus bore everything for
us.
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Um, let me see verse Hebrews two verse eight says, now I'm putting everything in subject
subject into him.
He left nothing outside his control at present.
We do not yet see everything in subjection to him, but we see him who for a little while
was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus kind of glory and honor because of the suffering
of death.
So that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.
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So Jesus literally bore everything for us.
Like he bore not only bringing himself down from glory, right?
In heaven and becoming a man like experiencing flesh, making himself lower than even the
angels whom he created by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.
So for our behalf, Jesus bore everything.
There was, there's a real on our Instagram page that I just put up this week and it's
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a quote by Tim Keller and it says, um, that it says Jesus literally walked in your shoes.
Yeah.
Cause he did.
Yeah.
Like that was your burden that you should have been bearing.
But you honestly, like we can't where it's not possible for us to, but you know what
I mean?
Like, and he did that for us.
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He took that on himself for us.
Yeah.
And then it goes on to talk about how he literally calls us his brothers, which is crazy.
Jesus lowered himself, call us his brothers and sisters.
And then let me see.
So the verse 14, it goes on to say, since therefore the children share in the flesh
and blood, he himself likewise particular, the same things that brought that through
death, he might destroy the one who had the power of death, that is the devil and deliver
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all those who through fear of death were subject subject to lifelong slavery.
So meaning that we've been set free from slavery.
Therefore and then verse 17, therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every
respect that he might become a merciful, merciful and faithful high priest in the service of
God to make propitiate propitiation for the sins of the people.
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This is mind blowing to me that Jesus bore all of that for us.
And I was really reminded of that week when I was reading that, like Jesus, God's son,
who's also God, like God the son literally is love.
And like he bore all things for us, which is insane.
He bore the opposite of himself.
Yeah.
Opposite of love, like for us.
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Yeah.
He went completely against who he was in nature for us.
So then in looking at that, how can we not in return show love to one another and by
bearing each other's burdens?
Right.
After all that Jesus has done for us.
Well, it's not the least we could do, but it is still like nothing compared to what
he did for us.
Exactly.
Yeah.
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Okay.
So I have my next verse here for bears all things.
It says, Oh, I did all of mine for bears all things.
That's okay.
Okay.
I hadn't read all my reread all mine.
So I don't know.
So there's this one.
It's Colossians three, 12 to 13.
And it says put on them as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness,
humility, meekness and patience bearing with one another.
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And if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven
you so you also must forgive.
So the reason that I chose this one to read just now is because I've mentioned this in
a previous podcast, but for some reason, whenever I read in scripture, it says to put on something.
It makes me think of putting on clothes.
Yeah.
And I mentioned that before.
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Yeah.
It's like putting on the armor of God, putting on, you know, whatever.
And you won't just, and you don't just walk out of your home.
I've said this also on the podcast.
I think you don't walk into Walmart and then you just suddenly take off your clothes or
you shouldn't.
Yeah.
You know, you shouldn't do that.
So to me, it's like I'm putting on this attitude, this service, like this attitude of service
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toward others when I walk out the store and I'm not taking it off because it's inappropriate
against my nature to take it off.
Just like it would be inappropriate to take your clothes off in Walmart.
Yeah.
And so I'm putting on this attitude of service for others.
And obviously like you still need to make sure your priorities are straight.
So like, for instance, I'll use this example because I can relate to this right now.
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If you have kids and you're in Walmart or whatever and someone else is like bearing
their brints to you, but your kid is like hurt or something's really wrong or whatever,
where you know like right now this is not the time you need to leave, then pray in your
heart quickly to the Holy Spirit and hey, how do I need to do this?
Talk to that person for as long as you can, give them your number, maybe whatever you
need to do, you know?
So like your priorities do need to be straight, but you also need to always be on the lookout
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and be aware of like is my heart set, my heart posture and attitude of service toward others
so I can bear their burdens with them and lead them to Christ.
Wow.
You know?
Yeah.
And you don't just take that off.
And you know, it goes with the other things too that it says, that's just not the topic
for today.
So like compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, and all those things.
Like you need to be compassionate, you need to be kind, you need to be humble and meek
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and patient while you're bearing other people's burdens with them.
Romans 15, one through three says, we who are strong have an obligation.
This is ESV, obligation to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up for Christ did not please
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himself but as it is written, the reproachers of those who reproached you fell on me.
So this is similar to what Anna was saying earlier about how Christ bore our sins, that
part is.
But if you focus on the part where it's talking directly to believers in this, we have an
obligation.
And I know that's not the original word.
But I trust ESV enough to believe that we are obligated, you know?
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We are obligated to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
So I'm going to think in this case, and this may not be the original thing, but this is
true though, we are all weak without Christ.
We are all weak.
That is just a fact.
And so I am obligated to bear with all of this weakling's failings as much as she is
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obligated to bear with my failings as a weakling.
And we're not, and like I was saying earlier, well I don't know if I actually said this
exactly but say for instance, Anna was struggling with something but in my selfish heart I just
wanted to go to bed because I've had a long day and I'm exhausted.
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Sometimes you need to get over yourself.
You're obligated to your friends and to other believers and even non-believers because you
could lead them to Christ.
I will say there is some boundary there as well depending on the situation, but especially
with believers you are really obligated to bear each other's burdens.
And so you need to get over yourself.
Where'd the sun go guys?
Right there.
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Okay, that's okay.
You can still see us.
Can I see this?
Yeah.
Okay, anyway, so you get the gist, we're obligated.
And we, like it says, and not to please ourselves.
So we need to get over ourselves for the sake of others because then it says, this is my
favorite part, let each of us please his neighbor for his good.
So it's for her good that I'm bearing her burden with her.
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It's good for Anna that I'm building her up by one, bearing her burden and also how the
Holy Spirit leads in the moment for me to build her up.
Yeah.
Anyway, just to reiterate that, that's all I got for that one.
Oh, one more thing though on your point about bearing all things.
What you're saying is true.
Sometimes that takes putting away your own desires or your own whatever and listening
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to a person in need or helping them out however you can.
For instance, the other night when my friend, our friend was struggling, we were watching
a show and she came upstairs.
This is at our college ministry building.
She came upstairs and wanted to talk.
And so not that this was some great sacrifice on our part, and I'm not saying this toot
my own horn, but we paused the show, actively listened to her, wound up not being able to
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finish our episode because we were talking and then we were praying for like an hour,
hour and a half, because we were taking time to build her up.
And I'm not saying that to toot my own horn.
I'm just saying sometimes it takes sacrificing something you want to do or I don't know.
Because sometimes you just want to sit there and relax and not have to think about serious
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things.
Yeah.
And that's what you're meaning.
Yeah.
And that's what happened because it was such a sweet time of getting to encourage her.
And then we all prayed over her and that was just it was amazing.
And Holy Spirit is obviously always present with us, but he was just very present in that
moment.
And so I'm just I'm just saying, like, don't hesitate to set aside what you're doing either,
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because you don't know how the Lord's going to bless what you do for someone else either
and the way he's going to use you.
You don't know.
So anyway.
OK, so the next part of the verse is believes all things.
So I struggled with this part because I've never actually focused on this part of the
verse.
And so until I had to do a podcast over it, I was like, I should probably really dig deep
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into this and figure something out.
I actually heard a few different opinions from three or four different commentaries.
I heard two different opinions.
So I went to someone who is a lot wiser than me spiritually and who I trust his opinion.
And so I just was curious to know what you think.
And he was like, you know, I've always wondered about that, too.
So I was like, well, that's helpful.
OK, it's a lot.
But it also made me feel better that like not only did I not know, but someone who was
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way wiser than me and very knowledgeable about the Bible also was not aware of exactly what
it meant, because we really don't know.
And also, if you look up cross references for this, you don't find very many that actually
go along with this first part of the verse.
Like there's not many.
I found one and it didn't even make sense with what it was saying.
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So whenever love is saying that love believes all things, I believe at this moment again,
I'm not an expert.
I don't know everything that it is saying that because God is who he is, even like
say Anna walked up to me and she was like, hey, I've been really struggling with this
in cycle again.
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And it's something she's been struggling with for, say, 10 years or whatever.
And she comes up to me and she's like, hey, I'm struggling with this again.
Can you pray with me?
Blah, blah, blah.
But you know what?
I'm going to do better starting now.
Here's the thing.
Whether she does better now, like say she does, she gives her all, she does better.
But then in two weeks, she fails again, because in my head, I'm thinking, well, she said that
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last time, too.
Yeah.
And I'm going to believe that because God is sovereign and because I know from Anna's
fruits that even though she struggled with this over and over again, I know she truly
does want to do better.
So I'm going to believe that because God is who he is, I'm going to trust him that he
knows what's going to happen.
And that's all that matters.
And I'm going to support her in this and I'm going to keep her accountable or do whatever
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it is that I need to do.
And I'm going to believe that God is really moving in her and doing a work in her no matter
if she fails because of her own selfishness.
And so it's really just believing in God and believing in all good things in Christ, in
God, even if other people around you fail.
It's kind of like you don't give up on them even though they have been stuck in.
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Oh, OK.
So it is the same thing.
Yeah.
OK.
So we're basically saying the same thing.
So I don't know if that part was choppy or not because I had to cut some things out.
But anyway, basically, we apparently agree.
Yeah.
So but the other one was more along the lines of believing the best in people, even though
they fail.
And to me, that's not very Christ centered.
No.
So I didn't understand that personally.
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I mean, I want to believe the best in people, but the truth is we suck.
Yeah.
So I'm going to believe that you really want to do better and I'm going to support you
in that.
But I'm going to let God guide you and God guide me in supporting you because I believe
in him at all times.
Exactly.
It's more so trusting the Holy Spirit in you to do a work.
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Yeah.
And it's up to you whether you respond to conviction or not.
Yeah, I agree.
So I'm going to read real quick.
OK.
So this is kind of similar to this.
This is the only one I could die personally found that I really that really struck me.
This first.
Well, I think there's two, but this one is really my favorite one.
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Second Timothy to 24 through 26.
And it says, a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be kind to everyone, be
able to teach and be patient with difficult people, gently instruct those who oppose the
truth.
Perhaps God will change those people's hearts and they will learn the truth.
Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil's trap, for they have been
held captive by him to do whatever he wants.
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So basically saying the same thing where it's like you're believing in God because God could
change those people's hearts.
Yeah.
And whatever they say, whether in the end it was true or not, you're going to believe
that God is doing a work in them.
Yeah.
And believing that believing in all things when it comes to God.
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Yeah, because yeah, because he well, OK, I didn't have I didn't think about this.
So you just said that.
But I was talking to a friend recently about well, like when you're angry about a situation
in your life, you're like angry at somebody because they're mistreating somebody or you're
angry at injustice in the world.
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I think that it can also be like trusting, like looking at yourself and being like, wow,
look how much I love this person, like how much I'm angry on their behalf.
But thinking about how much more infinitely God wants them, how much more infinitely like
don't be beat.
But there's a verse that talks about being deceived.
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God is not mocked.
Like, God is going to take care of it, you know?
And so that just got me thinking about it because I have a friend who's dealing with
another situation and she's angry.
It's I mean, and it's it's honestly it's a righteous thing because like people she loves
have been treated poorly.
And but I was just talking to her about it and I was saying, like, well, think about
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how much you're angry on their behalf, think how much you love them, like think how much
this injustice injustice against them has upset you.
Think about how much more it's upsetting God.
Think about how much more God loves these people that you're upset on their behalf
for.
I don't know.
And so that's like also believing that God's going to do what he says he's going to do,
right?
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He's going to take care of it.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
First of all, apparently, I can't remember what website I got this from and I'm not even
going to attempt pronouncing the word because it's Greek.
But it says I found two different sources actually that says believes in this verse
actually the Greek word.
Yeah, I'm not going to try to pronounce it.
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It's P I S T E U E I, which is the Greek word meaning to put one's faith or trust in something
or someone.
So the tense used in Greek lets us know that this is a constant continuous and trusting
of one's faith and something or someone involving a never give up kind of belief that something
will turn out for the very best.
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So it means like, but like that's not to say that love is blind and it turns a blind eye
to what's going on.
That was one of the commentaries that I read.
That's what I was saying.
Yeah.
And I was like, what?
Yeah, but I like that they added like a God by love isn't stupid nor is it blind.
It sees everything.
But because it's so filled with faith, it pushes the disconcerting, disturbing negative
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realities out of the way.
But I mean, I think that's good because like that doesn't mean like God ignores our problems.
Right.
God literally sent Jesus as a solution to our problems.
But anyway, the verses I have on it are Philippians 2, 3 through 11, which sounds like a lot,
but it's really not that much.
And this is from the ESV as well, which I don't know that this really has to do anything
with the commentary I just read.
But you know, I got these said two different times.
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Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant
than yourselves.
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Now this in mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was
in the form of God, did not count equality with God as thing to be grasped, but emptied
himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
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And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point
of death, even death on a cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, the glory of God the Father.
And so in that way, it's really talking about like when your friend like, say I come to
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Sarah and I'm struggling with the sin cycle, her believing in the best in me, or her believing
the best of God in me, that he's going to work in my life and that I'm going to respond
to conviction of the Holy Spirit, is her that takes that requires her to humble herself
and to say, well, hey, I'm no better than Anna here.
We're all equal at the foot of the cross.
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And we all have this deep, deep desire, this deep need for Jesus.
Because we're nothing without him, as you said earlier.
So I guess that's how the passage kind of correlates to what I was thinking.
I have someone in my life that I've known for a very long time and this person is struggling
with addiction.
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They have come to me and some others several times for like rides here and there to go
take them to the hospital because they want to detox and all this stuff like they're going
to get better and all this stuff.
Just a phone call to talk to them while they're sitting there trying not to use, you know,
all these things.
It's been a lot of phone calls at two in the morning or drop and goes and you know, that's
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exhausting.
But and we we have had to set some boundaries so we don't just go every time now because
it was causing it was seeping into our main priorities and we have families to take care
of and this and that and the other.
My son comes first and you know, all these things.
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But in general, we still that person is a very big priority in our life if they need
us, even though they have from like for a long time now have failed in their journey
to recovery and getting away from drugs.
And I'm not I'm not saying that to my own horn because God has had to really humble
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me.
And so you have to like and yes, you humble yourself, but also that requires God.
You cannot humble yourself to that.
I was that wasn't me humbling myself.
That was saying, God, I don't want to do this, but you're telling me to.
So I need to.
And in that way, that was just another example on a more like, I guess, more serious.
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I don't know if serious is the right word, but more.
Or am I thinking of?
I don't know.
On a larger scale.
Relevant.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
You get the gist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just another example, because every time that person calls me, if God tells me to go, I
need to go because I'm going to believe in the best in him.
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And exactly.
And also that person, whether it be that person, specifically or a different person or whoever
it be 10 years down the road, they might really have freedom and peace from that struggle
and from that sin cycle.
So that person might experience peace in the future and never do that drug again, never
do whatever that sin cycle was again.
And it might be 10 to 15 years down the road.
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It might be not in your lifetime.
But here's the thing, it might be because they had people like you continuously believing
in God and supporting them in a Christ like manner all of those years and all of those
times.
And you might get 20 years down the road still doing this over and over again.
Again, sometimes you do need to set boundaries with certain things.
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I'm not saying let them walk all over you.
That's where the Holy Spirit guides you in that.
But like, you know, you might get tired and you might be like, no, I've been doing this
for 20 years, God, I don't want to keep doing this.
But God literally took a lifetime of sin for you.
Yeah.
So you need to just keep doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Humble yourself and pray and ask the Lord to help you love them the way he does.
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Like pray and ask the Lord to help you look at them the way that he does.
Because he doesn't look at them.
I mean, he looks on them and he has compassion on them.
He has compassion on us.
Infinite.
And then the other thing, were you done?
Mostly.
Okay.
I was thinking when you were talking was that you can't allow your source of joy come from
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or depend on whether these people get better or not.
Yes.
Because your joy should come from the Lord and the Lord alone.
You're going to wear yourself out so quickly if you are like, oh, well, maybe this person
will get better this time.
And then when they don't, you can't let that completely destroy you.
You need to put your faith in your trust and your joy and your hope in the Lord.
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You're not living for them.
You're living for God.
Yeah.
I mean, I know it's not exactly what you're saying, but like you have to remember that
in the moment.
Like this is not my life.
This is a part of my life.
Yeah.
But my life is God.
And so you can't let that ruin your whole day or dwell.
You can't dwell on that your whole life.
Yeah.
So make sure that your faith in the Lord is bigger than your faith in that person or their
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ability to change because none of us are capable of change on our own.
You want to go?
Oh, sure.
You're going to let me go first this time?
Oh my gosh.
Look at me.
I'm so selfless.
So for love, love hopes all things.
The first thing that I kind of thought of was like love always expects the best in others.
So like rather than assuming, we'll squeeze this, this goes right into this, that rather
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than assuming failure or bad results in someone's life, like God's love always expects the best
in someone else.
Maybe that's why I was getting it from earlier.
It was for hopes all things.
So and then also it like not only expects it, but it's like filled with anticipation
to see the manifestation of the thing hoped for.
It's like you're in waiting and hopeful anticipation of like of that person to be healed from whatever
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they're dealing with or whatever it is.
So Romans 15 13 says, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing
so that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope.
And so again, that sort of hope can only come from the Lord as you're waiting for whatever
results you're waiting for, as you're waiting in love for it.
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And then Romans 12 12 commands us rejoicing hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant
in prayer.
And so as you're hoping for this thing, as you're hoping for this person, you need to
constantly be seeking the Lord because again, your joy does not come from whatever result
does or doesn't happen.
It doesn't come from your circumstances in life.
Your joy comes from the Lord.
And then thinking about where it says like, it's filled with anticipation to see the manifestation
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of the thing hoped for.
Hebrews 11 1 literally talks about, my faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
So like, we have hope because we have the assurance that Jesus came and he died on the
cross for our sins.
After like years and years of hoping and waiting, we have assurance that that prophecy was fulfilled,
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that Jesus has come, that he has saved us from our sins.
So and then finally Romans, I know I'm kind of zooming through these, but Romans 8 24
through 25, for in this hope we were saved.
Now hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he sees.
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
And so as you're waiting on a situation to change or on someone to break out of this
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cycle or someone to come to Christ or whatever, and you're loving them through that, you need
to wait with hope in the Lord that he's going to like number one, take care of the situation.
And then like it says here, we wait for it with patience, but we can have patience because
we have hope that the Lord has overcome everything.
I can't, I don't have this reference written down, but this first is coming to me in the
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moment, which is where Jesus talks, where Jesus literally says, take heart for I have
overcome the world.
Right.
So we have hope that he has won the victory, that he has conquered the evil one that is
the devil.
I guess he's in Hebrews 2, that he has the power over sin and death forever.
And so that we in love, we can love people by hoping for the best in them through Christ.
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Yeah.
That's all I have.
That was good.
I actually had Hebrews 11 1, but I don't think you had any of my other ones.
I mean, I really don't have much else.
I mean, I will say there was something that I thought of as you were talking, because
you're talking about an overall hope, which is what I had down also.
Yeah.
Which is obviously the most important thing.
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Yeah.
So I'll read some of my verses, but then I also have a thought about everyday little
things.
Hope.
Okay.
So my first verse is Jeremiah 29 and 11, for I know the plans I have for you to clear to
the Lord plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and hope.
Here's the thing.
We all try to plan our lives out.
Yeah.
We have new year resolutions, we have all these things, but that's why we need to send
them all over.
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Like I think it's okay to have, I think it's biblical in my opinion, it's biblical to have
visions, dreams, plans.
Yeah.
But you need to hold them with an open hand.
I watched this girl, I've told this to Anna a few times, I think over the years.
Yeah.
There's a girl on Coffee and Bible Time, very from, at least from my personal opinion, everything
I've watched and listened to, very biblical.
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Ashley, the older sister of the two sisters on there, she was doing this thing.
Oh, she went on a mission trip.
That's what it was.
She did a video talking about it.
In her video, she was talking about how, I think it was the main thing that God taught
her that summer or there was something in there about this.
She said that she needs to hold her plans in the palm of her hands, but open.
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Don't close it.
Don't plan something and then just keep trying to do it over and over again.
Because what if God wants you to open it, but he's having to pry your heart open, pry
your hands open.
Yeah.
You need to open your hands.
Keep the hopes there, keep the plans there.
But then if God takes them out and puts something else in, you just need to go along with it.
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Because you have hope that God has the best plan for you and the plans for welfare.
This isn't necessarily talking about financially.
This is talking about what is best for you and best for his kingdom, most importantly,
best to glorify him and best to grow his kingdom.
Not the welfare, in my opinion, plan for welfare and not for evil.
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To give you a future and hope.
You need to, every day, every week, every year, you need to just let God plan your life
because you have hope in him.
You have hope that he has the best plan for your life and the best plan for his kingdom
and the best plan for welfare and not for evil.
Everything you're doing is going to lead you to evil if you do it without him.
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But everything that he does, you have hope that because he is who he is, you can trust.
That's another word.
Trust, to me, it could be synonymous to hope at times because they really just go hand
in hand.
In order to have hope in God, you have to trust him.
And so you can't have one without the other, really.
So anyway, that was my first verse.
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This one, Isaiah 40, 29 through 31.
He gives power to the faint and to him who has no might, he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary and young men shall fall exhausted.
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings like eagles.
They shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint.
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So I love this passage so much because it gives us so much hope for not only the overall,
the end of our life here on earth, but it also gives you hope for your weak.
Like dang, listen, like it says, young men, young men, sorry, even youths shall faint
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and be weary and young men shall fall exhausted.
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.
OK, first of all, yes, in my opinion, this, you know, this could mean we're living in
this world, this wicked world.
We're exhausted because look around you.
It's terrible.
Everything is terrible.
I mean, not everything, because obviously the goodness of God is still here.
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But you know what I mean.
It's just the world is just bad.
It's wicked.
And we're living through this and all this stuff.
It's exhausting at times.
It's exhausting a lot of the time, especially if you're really, truly pursuing God in this.
And but God is going to renew our strength at the end of times whenever we are in heaven
with him, whenever he comes back to us and all this stuff.
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So there's that.
But there's also if you're if you've got a crazy life, maybe you've had a bad week,
maybe you're busy, maybe you're not busy most of the time, but something is going on in
your life and it's just bad and you're exhausted.
And you know, you are just sick and tired of whatever it is.
And maybe you're depressed or anxious or whatever it is.
And you just need strength and you don't have it.
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Well, you don't need to have it on your own because God is going to renew your strength
because it says so in his word.
It says they who wait for the Lord.
So if you're pursuing God, if you're waiting for him, if you're saying, God, I'm waiting
and expect like I expect your hope.
I have hope that I can have your strength, that you can give it to me, that you can give
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me the energy that I need to just get through the day like he's going to renew your strength.
He's already doing it if you just wait on him and pursue him.
And that's the thing, though.
People think waiting is just like sitting here waiting.
Yeah.
Sometimes you do need to sit in silence and just listen.
Yes.
But most of the time you can't even hear God's voice.
You can't even see the strength that he's holding out for you if you're not even if
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you're not if you're not familiar with his voice.
You're not familiar with what he what he looks like.
So you have to pursue him in his word.
Talk to him and he's going to give you that strength and then just wait because he's going
to give it to you.
So there's that.
That makes sense.
Yeah, it makes sense.
OK.
And then my last one is Revelation 21 one through five.
And it says, well, love this passage because this is talking about the biggest hope of
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all, in my opinion.
And we can already touch this, but it says that I saw a new heaven and a new earth for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more.
And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.
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He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as
their God.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more.
Neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore for the former things have
passed away.
And he who was seated on the throne said, behold, I am making all things new.
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Also he said, write this down for these words are trustworthy and true.
I don't have any commentary on that.
Yeah, it just kind of speaks for itself.
So we have hope.
Yeah, we have a lot of hope.
So for 11, there's all things.
I just have one passage also from Philippians.
I've made a lot of Paul's stuff for this.
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Paul's pretty good, Dom.
Paul's pretty good.
So the passage I found for this was Philippians 2, 5 through 8.
I already read for, yeah, I read this already.
But it's for something else.
So I read this already.
I'm reading it again.
Sorry.
Because I read Philippians 2, 3 through 11.
Now this is just 5 through 8.
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You know what?
Just do any of that.
Love and there's all things.
Okay, I'm going to start over.
It's Philippians 2, 5 through 8.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in
the form of God did not count equality with God, a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself
by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men and being found in
human form.
He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.
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And Jesus Christ himself, who is love embodied, was obedient to the point of death, even death
on the cross.
And Hebrews 2 talked about it too, how Jesus came in the form of a servant, or it talks
about here how he came in the form of a servant.
And then in Hebrews 2, it talks about how he made himself lower than the angels.
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And Jesus endured so much.
He endured death on the cross for our behalf.
Love bears, or love endures all things for our behalf and on our behalf.
And like Sarah kind of said earlier, when thinking about how crappy our lives are, how
hard our lives are, it's nothing compared to what Jesus went through.
And Hebrews 2 also talks about how he literally had the form of a man so that he could relate
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to us, so that he could be relatable to us, so that we didn't have to feel like we were
alone.
Because Jesus was made like us, he is able to help us, therefore, endure all things.
And again, it's insane because we don't have to do it alone.
And I mean, how crazy is it that, I think Romans talks about this, how he is both just
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and the justifier, meaning that God is just, he can't allow sin into heaven, he can't
allow that in his presence.
And yet he made a plan and put a plan in place to provide the justifier.
He himself was the justifier and sent his one and only son to make way for us to be
with him.
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So that even though people might say that he's a cruel God who requires sacrifice and
what kind of God sends people to hell and all this, but that's the thing, he's both
a just God, but then he made a way by sending his one and only son.
And I can't think of a greater example of love than that.
Oh, I guess one more thing, just to put this in even more context, when I was reading through
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Hebrews 1 this week, the first two chapters talk about Jesus and who he is, and it's crazy
because Paul does a deep dive into it.
But here's just some things about Jesus.
So he is the heir of all things.
He is creator.
He is the radiance of the glory of God.
He is the exact imprint of God's nature.
He is the upholder of the universe by the word of his power.
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He is the heir of God in his name.
He is co-ruler with God sitting at his right hand.
He is never ending.
He is a lover of righteousness and hater of wickedness.
He is anointed and appointed, I like that those kind of rhyme, by the word is king of
kings and he is the same forever and ever.
He's never ending.
So like when thinking about Jesus and all he, I just think it's crazy that that same
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Jesus came to earth and endured all he did for me.
Yeah.
For me?
Are you kidding?
Because I suck.
And like the fact that he looked on me, he had compassion on me and saw me in my hour
of deepest need and like decided that he loved me enough to make a way for me to be with
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him someday, forever and also to have an intimate relationship with him here on this earth is
insanity.
And why would I not then in turn love him too, like to the best of my ability?
I mean, how can you not?
And I say that as someone who's just been struggling with not spending time with the
Lord and like it's just hit me so hard this week how selfish I am and how bent I am towards
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unholiness because man, it's crazy when I let my son nature get in the way and my own
selfishness get in the way and I don't spend time with the God that did all that for me.
How can I not?
You know?
Anyway.
And I mean, that same Jesus is there for me today when I'm sad and he's like there to
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he's near to me.
Like he literally left us his Holy Spirit to comfort us and to be there for us too.
Like he's done so much for us.
Yeah.
Even though we're like wretched.
Yeah.
Like completely wretched.
Yeah.
Insane.
Insane?
It is insane.
That's me just abbreviating insane.
It's catching on, just like.
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Catching on, trust me guys.
It's what all the kids are saying.
It's the trend.
It's insane.
I feel like that was being not funny.
I think we're just done.
I do have a verse though and then I'll be done.
I have three verses, but I'm just going to read one because we've covered all the others
really.
Yeah.
Um, actually there's two, but they're short.
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So the first one is.
Who's fine?
She loves me.
You just gave a full sermon over here.
I'm just kidding.
Okay, so Psalm 136, one says, give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his steadfast
love and there's forever.
So the reason I want to read this one is because, um, I actually heard, I'm, I don't even want
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to try to pronounce her name.
If I remember to, I will link it down below on the YouTube description of this.
Um, if I remember to.
But her name is Malena and her last name starts with a C. I don't know how to pronounce it.
So I'm not going to try it.
I don't want to butcher it.
Something that she says that they do in their home is if someone gets angry or something
bad is happening.
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But I think specifically when I heard that she was talking about anger, like she has
three or four kids and if any of them get angry, what they do in their home is they
stop and they think of something to be thankful for.
I think it's three things.
I can't remember.
It's one or three things and they stop and they list them off.
Because let me go back to the verse.
When you give thanks to the Lord in all of your hardship, do you know what happens?
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You're able to endure more.
Like you can't, like you can't endure more without some form of gratitude toward God
being there.
Even if you don't know that it's gratitude, even if you're not saying thank you God for
this, joy in the Lord comes from gratitude.
You're being grateful for what he's done for you.
You're acknowledging everything he's done for you.
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That's gratefulness.
And you can't endure more without being grateful.
Jesus was able to endure all he did because he was ultimately so grateful and thankful
to the father that he had and for the love of his father that he had.
And he was able to endure all of that because of that.
And so it goes along like you can't have peace that surpasses all understanding without gratefulness
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either.
Like it just, you know, so even just with the little things, like if you're having a
hard day, like we were talking about and you just feel like you can't endure it anymore.
No, you can't on your own.
So just stop what you're doing and say, God, there are blessings.
I just don't see them.
So I'm going to thank you for being you.
Show me my blessings so I can list those off to you too.
And I guarantee you, I guarantee I'm 100% positive you will be able to endure more from
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that point on.
So there's that.
Ephesians 6 13 says, therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand firm.
So this to me is actually a perfect verse to end on because in order to do any of the
things we've been talking about, to endure every, to endure all things, believe all things,
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hope all things, endure all things.
I already said that.
Bears all things.
I didn't say that one.
Oh, in order to do all of these things, you can't fully do these in Christ.
You can't fully allow God to do all of these things through you.
If you don't pursue him and in pursuing him, you will begin to have the armor of God on
you.
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Because the closer you get to God, the more familiar you are with him, the more you talk
to him, the more you know his voice, the more you can see him, the more, the quicker you
are to be thankful in those hard moments.
All these things, you are putting on the armor of God, the closer you get to God.
And we could do a whole podcast on that, but we're not going to right now.
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So I'm not going to go into those details if you don't know what that is.
Just go read the passage in Ephesians 6, do your own study time on it.
And you have to put armor on you to stand up against the devil and the demons in this
world.
You have to.
You have to.
So in order to endure all things from the devil and what he's throwing at you, because
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he hates you and he hates God, you have to have the armor of God on you.
So that's it.
So yeah, I think that's all we got.
That's all we got.
We don't know what's going to happen next, but we're eager to find out.
Lord willing, we'll have a podcast in two weeks.
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Okay, hope y'all have a good week.
Peace.
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