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 Lord, we thank you that you are here, and though we cannot see you, you're invisible, we long to behold you and to know you.

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 Father, I pray that you would speak through your word through me, your servant, today.

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 That you would grow within us an awe of who you are and a love for you and a holy fear of you,

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 that we might more completely and perfectly know you and love you and walk with you.

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 Lord, speak for your children are listening. In Jesus' name, amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 Amen.

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 On November 13th, I was cruising through town from one event to another, and I arrived at Dig and Delve, a conference I know a lot of us were at.

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 And I was met as I came in by Richard Long, who a lot of you know, and he was like,

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 Daniel, did you hear? We need to be praying for Paris.

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 And I was just like, what are you talking about?

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 And he was all distraught, and a lot of people were looking at their phones.

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 And I'm always on my phone. I'm always keeping up with the news.

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 But I'd been away from my phone for like 20 minutes because I'm still a new driver, so I still obey the laws of the road.

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 And so I hadn't looked on my phone while I was driving, and I'd missed that the Western world was just smashed by these terrorist attacks in Paris.

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 And it really affected a lot of us.

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 All around the globe, people were, myself included, changing our Facebook profile pictures to the picture of the French flag over our picture.

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 I know a lot of you know what I'm talking about.

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 And the most commonly hashtag thing on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter that weekend, about 70 to 90 million hashtags, was pray for Paris.

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 Hashtag pray for Paris.

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 And as that weekend went on, and everyone and everywhere, non-Christians, Christians, people of faith, people of no faith, hashtag pray for Paris,

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 it hit me that we were all saying that.

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 I think that alliteration was compelling.

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 But I didn't know how many of us were actually doing that.

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 So we organized an impromptu prayer meeting for our church called Pray for Paris.

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 And as we put that together, people from the church mentioned to me, whether by email or just through people, mentioned, like, why are we just praying for Paris?

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 Over the same weekend, there was terrorist attacks in Nairobi.

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 Over the same weekend, there were some horrific natural disasters in other parts of the world.

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 I mean, Paris has the media attention.

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 We're all hashtag praying for Paris.

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 But the rest of the world is on fire as well.

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 And I really appreciated that feedback.

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 And so at that prayer meeting, we didn't just pray for Paris.

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 We prayed for so many different things of the brokenness around the world.

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 And what hit me was that even as so many of us around the world of the 70 to 90 million hashtag pray for Paris people,

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 so many of us, whether they were people of faith or not, knew that we had to pray not just for what was going on in Paris,

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 but for stuff around the world when it really came down to it.

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 But at the same time, like so many people, and I'm sure others in the church, I'm not the only one,

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 that struggled to actually live out what we were saying, which was that we should be praying.

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 And since then, I started praying more about that and our church.

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 And I knew I was going to get to preach a New Year sermon today.

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 And so as I was praying about what to preach about, what began to be put on my heart was to preach a sermon on prayer

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 that would help cast 2016 as a year that our church becomes an even more prayerful church.

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 And so as I was doing that, I started listening to various sermons and stuff on prayer.

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 And I got to hear a really, really, really good talk in many ways from an older man on prayer.

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 And he was just driving home how often in the Bible when it speaks about a revival and a spiritual awakening

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 and justice coming to the land and all of these things,

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 the thing that the Bible is calling for there is for prayer.

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 Famously, I think it's 2 Chronicles 7 verse 14 says that if God's people who are called by his name

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 will humble themselves and pray and seek his face, then he will hear from heaven, forgive our sin, and heal our land.

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 It was spoken specifically to the people of Israel, but the concept remains that

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 if we long to see the world become a more whole place, that what we need, what is called for is prayer.

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 Prayer. And I know that our church, this is a church that loves the scriptures.

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 We have, I'm not usually the one preaching, usually it's George.

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 He's an incredible preacher.

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 And I think that's why a lot of people come to this church, because we love the scriptures.

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 And in our Bible studies, even in our Sunday school with the kids, we're teaching the word.

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 We love the word.

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 And this older man in the talk I was listening to was saying,

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 this guy, he loves great preaching too.

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 And he says, you know, the scriptures are so important and we need to know them and to obey them.

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 But he said, look, that passage on calling for revival is not calling for better preachers.

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 It was calling for prayer.

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 And he was saying, this was a talk back in like the 70s or the 60s.

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 And he was saying, you know, we've never had so many well-qualified and excellent preachers.

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 And he was listing off the famous preachers of the day.

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 And he said, but look at America.

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 He's American.

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 Look at America.

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 And he was talking about the deep brokenness happening in the country.

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 And America and Canada were on this path toward even greater brokenness through the sexual revolution and all of that at that time.

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 He said, we're having great preachers, but he was calling for prayer.

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 And as I was listening to this and wondering if that was the passage I would preach on,

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 one of the things that began to hit me was that in his words, the very things he was saying,

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 and often the way that I approach trying to become a more prayerful person is to try to keep on more and more guilt to see,

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 to make myself a more prayerful person.

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 And so Shirley, our communications assistant at the church and I started meeting for one week

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 as I was trying to get ready for the sermon every morning before we started work to pray for God,

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 to help me put together a message on prayer and to help our church become more prayerful.

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 And as we began praying before God, asking for his help, not just for the church as a whole, but for ourselves,

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 it began to hit us that so often the way we approach becoming more prayerful is by just trying to willpower

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 or guilting ourselves into it and all of that.

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 And so instead, the passage I'm preaching on is a passage that's not really even on prayer.

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 It's this really broken, raw, I think beautiful passage of a woman who is crying out to Jesus for help.

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 And I think that though this is in no way an exhaustive sermon on prayer and the reasons we need to be praying

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 and the ways to pray and all of that stuff,

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 there's just a little glimpse of something in this passage we're looking at this morning

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 that I think will help all of us thrive as a church evermore becoming a prayerful church.

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 So I'm going to read the short text again and then we'll go through it more slowly.

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 And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

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 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying,

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 Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David.

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 My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.

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 But Jesus did not answer her word.

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 And his disciples came and begged him, saying,

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 Send her away, for she's crying out after us.

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 Jesus answered,

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 I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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 But she came and knelt before him, saying,

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 Lord, help me.

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 And he answered,

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 It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

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 She said,

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 Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table.

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 Then Jesus answered her,

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 A woman, great is your faith.

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 Be it done for you as you desire.

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 And her daughter was healed instantly.

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 The first thing that struck me as I was reading through this

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 and seeing what lessons we can learn from this broken mother of a demon-possessed daughter

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 is the faithfulness in her endurance in crying out to Jesus.

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 It doesn't just say that in verse 22 that she cried out,

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 Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David.

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 But it said she was crying.

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 That means she was saying this over and over and over again.

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 Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David.

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 My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.

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 Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David.

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 My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.

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 Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David.

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 She's crying out and she's crying out.

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 And the whole time she's crying out,

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 Jesus is not saying a word.

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 He's ignoring her.

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 I don't know if I'm the only one who's ever gone to give someone a high five

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 and they don't give you a high five back.

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 It's called standing you up.

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 At least back in grade school, that was really embarrassing.

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 And not just for kids.

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 That's embarrassing for any of us.

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 When you're crying out to someone,

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 when you're trying to get someone's attention

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 and they're just ignoring you.

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 That hurts.

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 That's embarrassing.

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 And that hurts if it's just like you're in the car cruising through town

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 and you go to give the person beside you a high five with your other hand

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 and drive safely.

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 But you're driving and if it's just you and them,

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 that'd be embarrassing.

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 But to be crying out in front of a crowd of people

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 and to have Jesus who you're crying out to just ignoring you,

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 that is really embarrassing.

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 That is profoundly discouraging.

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 I know that for so many of us,

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 when it seems like God is not hearing us,

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 I know at least for myself,

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 I then stop praying about it.

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 And so the first thing I hope that this passage will help for us

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 is that for those of us who have been burdened for things

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 that we've been praying for

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 and we haven't seen God answer us,

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 it seems that he's been silent,

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 that this passage would reawaken our going to God in prayer,

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 our endurance.

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 For some of us in the room,

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 I think it's family members that we have believed for

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 and prayed for that they would come to know Jesus

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 and years have gone by and they haven't.

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 And it's just so easy to think,

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 this person is never giving their life to the Lord

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 and just to stop praying about it.

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 I know for others of us in this congregation,

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 you have prayed for and advocated for big issues,

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 for the vulnerable,

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 regarding human trafficking, sexual abuse, abortion,

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 for years and years,

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 decades longer than I've been alive.

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 And you haven't seen things get better in Canada.

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 In fact, in many ways, they've gotten worse.

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 It's so easy, it's so much easier

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 to just not pray about that stuff anymore

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 because it's so hard to pray for those things

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 when we don't see God answering.

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 I just want to encourage you as your brother in the Lord

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 from this passage to keep on praying for those things.

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 God doesn't promise he's going to answer

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 the way we want him to answer,

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 but just like this woman, to keep on praying.

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 I don't know what the story would have been like

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 if this woman, like I have been,

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 just stopped praying for those things,

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 just let it trail off.

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 But I'm so thankful for the sake of her daughter

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 and for her own sake that she kept on crying out

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 and crying out and crying out.

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 Now, she's crying out.

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 It's bad.

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 She's being ignored by Jesus.

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 It's not what I'd expect from Jesus.

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 Probably not what she expected from him.

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 And then it gets worse.

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 The followers of Jesus, his disciples,

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 begin saying to Jesus, send her away.

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 If being ignored isn't bad enough,

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 now his followers are saying, send her away.

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 At this point, most people stop following Jesus

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 or just want nothing to do with them.

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 I know that because of the amount of people that say,

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 I'm not a Christian, not because I don't like Christ,

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 but because I don't like Christians.

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 I don't like the followers of Jesus.

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 But this woman is just like,

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 Noah, it doesn't matter how much of a tool

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 these people are who follow him

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 and who are his, I need him.

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 And so she kept on going after him.

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 Let us not be discouraged by how brutal

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 other Christians or even ourselves can be,

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 but let us look to Jesus and endure in faith.

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 She's crying out.

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 She's crying out.

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 It's even embarrassing having them

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 saying in front of others, like, send her away.

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 She doesn't let up.

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 And then finally, Jesus, the one who she needs

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 and who she's crying out to and looking to

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 for her answer, opens his mouth.

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 The expectation in her heart at that point.

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 It's like you're going for so long through a dark tunnel

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 and finally you see a light at the end of the tunnel.

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 And the light is not even stationary.

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 It's coming towards you.

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 Your rescue is coming.

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 Jesus opens his mouth to speak and bam,

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 it's not a light, it's a train.

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 It just flattens her.

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 Send, his words are,

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 I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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 That's verse 24.

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 She's crying out, crying out.

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 So faithful, so faithful.

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 People pushing her away.

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 She's crying out and then he opens his mouth.

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 I'm not here for you.

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 And her answer is, her reply is unbelievable.

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 Verse 25.

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 But she came and knelt before Jesus.

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 The one who's ignoring her,

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 the one who just said, I'm not here for you.

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 And she kneels down and says, Lord, help me.

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 This gets right to what prayer is all about.

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 In that we often approach,

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 I've often approached prayer, if I'm honest,

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 as if it's some type of Christian magic.

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 Magic is not like a non-Christian prayer.

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 Magic is the opposite of what prayer is.

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 Because in magic, you're trying to assert your mastery

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 over the spiritual and physical universe,

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 to manipulate it to get what you want.

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 It's putting yourself as Lord over creation.

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 But in prayer, you're looking to the one,

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 in her words, Lord.

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 You're looking to the king of the universe saying,

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 would you do this?

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 Could you do this?

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 Please do this.

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 By virtue of that, you're acknowledging

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 you're not the master of the universe.

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 You're not able to manipulate the universe.

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 You're looking to him who can,

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 who is in charge.

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 It's the reverse of magic.

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 And this is important for us because

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 so often when we start trying to become more prayerful,

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 we begin to kind of key into these like stuff

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 that's not biblical about how we can get God

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 to bring his kingdom, his revival,

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 his breakthrough, his healing,

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 whatever it is we're looking to him for.

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 And we begin like in some different denominations

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 have their key words.

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 If you just pray this way,

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 for some of us who are in some more certain circles,

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 it's like if I pray loud enough,

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 if I pray with enough passion.

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 I've been at prayer meetings where people are like,

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 hey, we need to pray louder.

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 And so people start being, dear God,

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 and they're just passionate.

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 And you'll be like, that was a great prayer meeting.

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 Why was it a great prayer meeting?

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 Because we pray loud enough.

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 And it's just like if we pray with enough enthusiasm,

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 then God will rend the heavens and come down

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 as if we can yell our way to getting God

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 to do what he wants us to do.

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 For others, it's actually a reverence thing.

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 I got rebuked earlier this year

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 when I was on a missions trip

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 and I was praying in the view of some as too casually.

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 And it's like, no, you need to speak with,

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 they legit said, you need to speak with these and vows.

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 I was like, then God will hear.

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 I'm like, what are you saying?

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 And if you believe that, talk with me after.

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 I'll fight you.

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 There's not magic words to try to get God

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 to do what he wants us to do.

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 She's just looking to him.

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 At the Pray for Parish prayer meeting,

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 at one part, we started praying through Psalm 2

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 as a way we'd read the words.

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 You know, why do the nations conspire

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 and the people apply in vain?

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 And so we were praying, God, right now,

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 this is what's happening.

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 The nations, people are conspiring

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 to destroy innocent lives.

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 And we're just praying through the Bible.

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 And sometimes when we hear people doing that,

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 it can make us feel like,

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 oh, I don't know if I can pray so fancy.

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 I don't know if I can pray the Bible like that

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 or pray like Owen Ripley in his most beautiful way.

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 But this woman's prayer is simply,

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 Lord, help me.

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 Just humility, just looking to God

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 with the words that she has,

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 looking to him for help.

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 And sometimes it's not so much

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 about the words that we say,

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 but we think that if we can do the right stuff,

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 then we can get God to answer prayers.

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 I know that this church sacrificed so very much

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 when we left St. Albans

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 and left our name, left our building,

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 sacrificed so much and came to this place.

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 And I say we, but I wasn't even part of that sacrifice.

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 I came later.

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 But many of you, you gave up so much

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 of security and comfort

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 and so much of the beauty of that name

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 we had for so long

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 and having our own building

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 and all of that stuff.

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 And you sacrificed so much.

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 And I've been told that there is,

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 for a lot of us,

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 a belief that in sacrificing all these things

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 and being so faithful to the scriptures

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 and being so faithful to God

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 that he would give us a building.

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 And it's something that is still in the hearts

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 of many of you.

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 And so you're praying for a building.

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 I've joined you in praying

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 that God would give us a building if it's his will.

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 But the years have gone by

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 and no building has come.

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 And it can be really, really discouraging.

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 But I want to encourage you,

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 if it's still in your heart,

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 to pray for a building,

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 to keep praying for it.

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 But also to remind you

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 that no amount of sacrifice

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 on our part as a church

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 puts God in our debt

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 to give us something that we long for.

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 For others, it's like,

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 if I just live a very chaste, pure life,

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 if I am faithful in my spiritual disciplines,

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 if I pursue the Lord,

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 if I'm content in his goodness,

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 if I walk in purity,

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 then he will give me the woman

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 or the guy of my dreams.

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 But no amount of being faithful

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 in any of those things

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 will get you those things that you long for

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 and you dream of and you're praying for.

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 And if that is your attitude,

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 if this woman had a sense of entitlement,

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 like I've been so faithful crying out,

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 I've been so faithful.

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 I'm looking to Jesus

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 when my fellow Canaanites are looking to pagans,

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 like God, surely you're gonna help me.

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 And if that was her attitude

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 when Jesus says,

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 I'm not here to help you,

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 then if it's entitlement that you're going for

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 and you see that he is not tracking

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 with your sense of entitlement,

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 then you're not getting on your knees.

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 You're leaving.

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 You're peacing out.

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 I know this is true

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 because I've lost many friends to this,

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 specifically the one regarding relationships.

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 I've seen people faithfully following God

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 as single people

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 for years and years and years.

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 And as the years go on,

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 God doesn't come through

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 for the thing that they're praying for,

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 for that godly spouse.

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 And so they walk away from the faith

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 in bitterness and disappointment.

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 And I want to encourage you,

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 it doesn't matter what we've done

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 that is so awesome,

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 we never put God in our debt.

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 This woman, she does not approach Jesus

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 in any sense of entitlement,

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 though there's urgency,

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 but no entitlement.

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 It's a profound humility

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 as she gets on her knees.

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 And it says,

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 Lord, help me.

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 I pray for such humility for myself.

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 Before moving on,

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 there's another thing

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 as she says,

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 Lord, help me.

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 She's actually advocating for her daughter.

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 And I'm sure that there would be

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 some help to her

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 if her daughter wasn't demon-possessed.

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 But I don't think when she says,

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 Lord, help me,

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 it's like, Lord,

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 I don't want to have to stay up

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 through sleepless nights anymore.

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 Like, help me

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 because I, you know,

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 it will help me

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 if you help my daughter.

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 Like, I just need some relief.

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 I really believe

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 that she's so closely identified

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 with the plight of her daughter

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 that as she petitions Jesus,

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 she seamlessly switches out

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 from saying,

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 Lord, help my daughter.

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 And she's just saying,

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 Lord, help me.

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 She's so closely identified

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 with the vulnerability

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 of her daughter

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 that's become her own cause.

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 And you'll see this

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 as a pattern of prayer

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 throughout the scriptures.

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 Famously, Daniel,

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 in Daniel chapter 9,

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 he's repenting for the sins

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 and he's repenting,

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 confessing as if it's his own sin.

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 For the sin of the people of Israel.

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 And you see that he is,

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 in his praying for the people of Israel,

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 he ends up identifying so closely,

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 like this woman,

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 he's saying,

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 basically,

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 Lord, forgive me.

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 Lord, help me.

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 Or Lord, forgive us.

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 Lord, help us.

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 Even though it's them,

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 in a sense,

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 that he's praying for forgiveness for.

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 And this isn't the kind of thing

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 that you can just muster up

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 if you just try a little harder.

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 But as we begin

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 to increasingly seek God in prayer

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 for all manner of brokenness in our lives,

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 whether it is a personal pain

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 or it is regarding

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 the most vulnerable Canadians

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 or it's regarding people in Paris

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 or whatever it is,

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 there is a sense

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 that you may discover

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 that you're yourself

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 beginning to pray like that.

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 And that's a biblical thing to do

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 where you're so closely identifying with them

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 that it becomes your own cause.

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 She's on her knees.

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 She's so humble.

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 Lord, help me.

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 Verse 26.

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 And he answered,

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 it is not right

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 to take the children's bread

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 and throw it to the dogs.

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 Reading what other theologians

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 and other pastors say about this,

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 I find that this makes people

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 very, very uncomfortable.

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 How is Jesus?

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 Who, like the scripture says

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 that God is love.

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 Jesus is God.

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 Jesus is love.

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 How does Jesus say such a thing?

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 And so you have theologians saying

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 maybe in the original language

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 it's possible that

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 it wasn't actually the word dog.

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 It could have been translated

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 as puppy maybe.

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 So he's like,

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 it's not right to give the children's bread

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 to puppies.

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 Like good academic theologians saying

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 like maybe this explains

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 how Jesus said this.

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 Now, I'm not an anthropologist,

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 but it seems that whatever culture

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 or language you're looking at,

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 comparing a woman to a canine

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 is not actually like an endearing term.

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 It's not like,

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 it's not like,

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 oh, my little cookie.

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 Like it's,

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 he just compared her to a dog

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 in the context of

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 I'm not here to help the dogs.

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 It,

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 and as I was reading that

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 and praying through that,

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 it began to hit me that

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 that when people are going through

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 really tough, tough stuff,

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 the kind of stuff that it seems

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 like God is ignoring you

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 or it seems like,

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 it really seems as if God himself

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 is calling you a dog.

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 When my friends have,

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 have gone through

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 a deep,

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 horrific abuse,

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 it,

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 it seems as if God is so far away

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 or even worse,

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 like,

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 like he's crushing them.

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 That's what it seems.

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 And,

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 and people will say

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 with the best intentions,

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 maybe you or I have even said

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 the kind of thing,

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 like one day you'll understand.

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 It doesn't make sense now,

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 but you'll understand.

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 I don't know if this woman

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 or,

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 or theologians

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 2,000 years later

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 ever get to understand

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 why Jesus said what he said,

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 but we know that he said it.

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 I really don't think this woman

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 will ever get to understand

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 why Jesus said what he said.

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 She just knew that he said it.

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 But somehow,

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 despite,

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 despite what was happening

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 in that current context,

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 she still knew something of Jesus.

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 That though she didn't understand

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 what he was doing

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 or why he was doing it

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 or how if he's in control,

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 these bad things can be happening

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 to her daughter

00:21:41.299 --> 00:21:42.139
 and all of that stuff,

00:21:42.420 --> 00:21:44.000
 she isn't going anywhere else

00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:44.559
 but Jesus.

00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:46.000
 Somehow,

00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.519
 she understands that

00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:48.759
 despite everything that's happening,

00:21:48.859 --> 00:21:49.599
 despite what she's hearing

00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:50.079
 from Jesus,

00:21:50.339 --> 00:21:52.039
 she has this incredible faith

00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:53.079
 that he is powerful,

00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:54.960
 that his love is steadfast.

00:21:55.660 --> 00:21:56.700
 That he is powerful

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 and his love is steadfast.

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 I'll prove it to you

00:21:59.220 --> 00:21:59.720
 in a minute,

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 but first,

00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:02.359
 why was she with Jesus

00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:03.240
 when she could have been

00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:04.299
 pursuing someone else?

00:22:04.660 --> 00:22:05.460
 Maybe there was a,

00:22:05.460 --> 00:22:06.940
 maybe she had a really kind mom

00:22:06.940 --> 00:22:09.160
 or maybe there was some lovely,

00:22:09.340 --> 00:22:09.519
 like,

00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:10.259
 I don't know,

00:22:10.320 --> 00:22:11.539
 there's kind,

00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:12.660
 lovely people in every culture,

00:22:13.100 --> 00:22:14.200
 but she wasn't with them,

00:22:14.299 --> 00:22:15.080
 she was with Jesus

00:22:15.080 --> 00:22:16.320
 because she needed someone

00:22:16.320 --> 00:22:17.120
 that just didn't care

00:22:17.120 --> 00:22:17.740
 about her daughter.

00:22:17.840 --> 00:22:18.799
 She needed someone with power

00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:20.200
 to do something about it.

00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:21.840
 But why was she with Jesus

00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:22.700
 pursuing him

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 when she was a Canaanite

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 and the Canaanites

00:22:24.779 --> 00:22:25.860
 had their own gods

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 and they believed

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 that their gods had power

00:22:28.539 --> 00:22:30.080
 and they had people who,

00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:30.340
 like,

00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:31.640
 witch doctor type people

00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:32.720
 who showed

00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:33.220
 this,

00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:34.680
 this types of power,

00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:35.380
 who, like,

00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:37.100
 actually could legit

00:22:37.100 --> 00:22:38.600
 use witchcraft to do things

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 and she's not following them.

00:22:40.460 --> 00:22:41.080
 She's following,

00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:42.320
 pursuing Jesus.

00:22:43.080 --> 00:22:43.799
 Why is that?

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 Because the Canaanite gods

00:22:45.860 --> 00:22:47.360
 were known for power

00:22:47.360 --> 00:22:48.500
 but not known for kindness

00:22:48.500 --> 00:22:49.220
 and mercy

00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:50.039
 and love.

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 And she knew that,

00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:51.600
 like,

00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.600
 in that context

00:22:52.600 --> 00:22:54.460
 that a demon-possessed girl,

00:22:54.700 --> 00:22:54.820
 like,

00:22:54.900 --> 00:22:55.400
 to us it would,

00:22:55.580 --> 00:22:56.960
 it would look something akin to,

00:22:57.060 --> 00:22:58.140
 we might just write it off

00:22:58.140 --> 00:22:58.360
 as, like,

00:22:58.400 --> 00:22:59.580
 special needs of some kind.

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 And in that culture,

00:23:01.580 --> 00:23:02.580
 someone with that

00:23:02.579 --> 00:23:04.199
 is more than taboo.

00:23:04.500 --> 00:23:05.819
 They're more than an Ocast.

00:23:05.939 --> 00:23:06.839
 They are to be,

00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:07.259
 they are,

00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:08.139
 in many cases,

00:23:08.299 --> 00:23:09.359
 they would bring out

00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:09.839
 their children

00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:11.199
 and have them be just,

00:23:11.419 --> 00:23:11.639
 like,

00:23:11.699 --> 00:23:12.699
 killed by neglect

00:23:12.699 --> 00:23:13.359
 off in,

00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:13.559
 like,

00:23:13.579 --> 00:23:14.359
 a desert place

00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:15.759
 trying to hide them

00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:16.319
 from everyone

00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:17.099
 so they would not be

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 associated with their kid,

00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:19.939
 the very kid she's identifying

00:23:19.939 --> 00:23:20.859
 with so closely.

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 So she knows

00:23:22.159 --> 00:23:22.919
 the Canaanite gods

00:23:22.919 --> 00:23:23.659
 might have power

00:23:23.659 --> 00:23:24.460
 but they're not,

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:25.399
 they're not loving.

00:23:26.019 --> 00:23:26.699
 She knows that

00:23:26.699 --> 00:23:27.240
 there's others

00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:27.899
 who might be loving

00:23:27.899 --> 00:23:28.599
 but they don't have power.

00:23:28.740 --> 00:23:30.279
 She has this confidence

00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:30.899
 that Jesus

00:23:30.899 --> 00:23:32.279
 is the one of power

00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:33.160
 and of love

00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:33.879
 and she's not going

00:23:33.879 --> 00:23:34.519
 anywhere else.

00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:36.180
 And you'll see that

00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:37.839
 elsewhere where,

00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:39.420
 in John chapter 6,

00:23:39.539 --> 00:23:40.399
 Jesus is, again,

00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:41.399
 saying things that,

00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:42.639
 that people don't understand

00:23:42.639 --> 00:23:43.440
 why he's saying it

00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:44.319
 and it seems bizarre

00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:46.399
 and kind of whack

00:23:46.399 --> 00:23:47.399
 and so he's talking

00:23:47.399 --> 00:23:48.200
 about eating his flesh

00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:49.059
 and drinking his blood

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 and people are like,

00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:51.119
 that's messed up

00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:52.099
 and so a lot of people

00:23:52.099 --> 00:23:52.779
 who were following him

00:23:52.779 --> 00:23:53.399
 begin leaving.

00:23:54.180 --> 00:23:54.359
 And,

00:23:54.460 --> 00:23:56.359
 and Jesus turns to Peter

00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:56.680
 and says,

00:23:56.740 --> 00:23:57.379
 are you going to leave too?

00:23:57.460 --> 00:23:58.379
 And Peter's response is,

00:23:58.599 --> 00:23:59.500
 where else can I go?

00:23:59.619 --> 00:24:01.180
 You alone have the words of life.

00:24:01.180 --> 00:24:03.259
 And that's what kept Peter

00:24:03.259 --> 00:24:04.039
 following Jesus

00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:05.420
 and I think that's what kept

00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:06.799
 this woman pursuing him.

00:24:07.060 --> 00:24:07.220
 She,

00:24:07.460 --> 00:24:08.660
 I'm sure that she would have

00:24:08.660 --> 00:24:09.560
 loved to go somewhere else

00:24:09.560 --> 00:24:10.500
 that would have been more polite

00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:11.200
 and less embarrassing

00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:11.500
 and,

00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:12.640
 and gotten her what she wanted

00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:13.140
 more quickly

00:24:13.140 --> 00:24:14.460
 but she has this attitude

00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:14.660
 of,

00:24:14.900 --> 00:24:16.100
 there's nowhere else I can go.

00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:16.380
 He,

00:24:16.560 --> 00:24:18.420
 you alone have the words of life.

00:24:20.420 --> 00:24:20.820
 She,

00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:22.120
 she knows he's both powerful

00:24:22.120 --> 00:24:22.960
 and that he's loving.

00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:23.820
 And,

00:24:23.860 --> 00:24:24.680
 and I'll prove that to you

00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:25.080
 in a second

00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:26.039
 of how we know that,

00:24:26.080 --> 00:24:26.600
 not just by,

00:24:27.060 --> 00:24:27.799
 but how we actually know

00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:28.720
 that she believed that.

00:24:29.159 --> 00:24:30.180
 But first there's,

00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:32.180
 as she cries out to him

00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:33.539
 in such humility,

00:24:33.700 --> 00:24:35.579
 I am in awe of,

00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:36.639
 verse 27,

00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:37.399
 yes Lord,

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:38.700
 yet even the dogs

00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:39.319
 eat the crumbs

00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:40.099
 that fall from their

00:24:40.099 --> 00:24:40.839
 master's table.

00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:43.180
 Yes Lord,

00:24:43.220 --> 00:24:44.099
 yet even the dogs

00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:44.659
 eat the crumbs

00:24:44.659 --> 00:24:46.079
 that fall from the master's table.

00:24:46.159 --> 00:24:46.519
 She's saying,

00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:46.700
 yeah,

00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:46.960
 sure,

00:24:47.019 --> 00:24:47.539
 I'm a dog,

00:24:47.899 --> 00:24:48.119
 but,

00:24:48.259 --> 00:24:49.539
 but even your crumbs

00:24:49.539 --> 00:24:50.299
 are enough.

00:24:50.899 --> 00:24:51.379
 Your crumbs,

00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:52.839
 there's life in your,

00:24:52.940 --> 00:24:53.799
 even in your crumbs.

00:24:54.659 --> 00:24:55.019
 There is,

00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:55.819
 there is salvation

00:24:55.819 --> 00:24:57.099
 and rescue for my daughter

00:24:57.099 --> 00:24:57.960
 even in your crumbs.

00:24:58.059 --> 00:24:58.220
 So,

00:24:58.439 --> 00:24:59.000
 I'm a dog,

00:24:59.119 --> 00:24:59.799
 give me the crumbs.

00:25:01.899 --> 00:25:03.439
 And Jesus answers her,

00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:03.899
 oh woman,

00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:05.000
 great is your faith.

00:25:07.439 --> 00:25:08.319
 Be it done for you

00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:08.919
 as you desire.

00:25:09.019 --> 00:25:09.659
 He gives her

00:25:09.659 --> 00:25:10.259
 that thing

00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:11.460
 that she's been advocating for.

00:25:11.819 --> 00:25:12.759
 He doesn't always promise

00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:13.659
 that he'll do that for us,

00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:13.879
 but,

00:25:14.619 --> 00:25:15.619
 but she in,

00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:16.639
 in this incredible,

00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:17.200
 vulnerable,

00:25:17.460 --> 00:25:18.519
 broken place

00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:20.720
 gets to encounter Jesus

00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:21.500
 in a way that

00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:22.619
 no one else around her

00:25:22.619 --> 00:25:23.099
 got to.

00:25:23.659 --> 00:25:23.839
 Like,

00:25:23.859 --> 00:25:24.899
 there were so many people,

00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:25.720
 I'm sure that they all

00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:27.180
 had various areas

00:25:27.180 --> 00:25:28.259
 of brokenness in me

00:25:28.259 --> 00:25:29.360
 and they're following Jesus

00:25:29.360 --> 00:25:31.000
 and they loved him

00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:31.640
 for the miracles

00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:32.380
 and for the bread

00:25:32.380 --> 00:25:33.079
 and all these things.

00:25:33.180 --> 00:25:34.660
 They were big fans of Jesus,

00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:35.000
 but,

00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:36.559
 but this woman gets to actually

00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:37.579
 encounter him.

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:37.819
 She,

00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:39.240
 others are seeing him

00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:40.059
 and knowing about him,

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:41.779
 but she actually gets to know him

00:25:41.779 --> 00:25:42.759
 in this intimate way.

00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:46.160
 And as I was looking at my own life

00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:47.100
 of things that I,

00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:48.819
 I shy away from praying for,

00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:49.140
 I,

00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:50.319
 I think I'm not alone

00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:50.940
 in being someone,

00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:51.799
 that there are topics

00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:53.319
 that I don't want to go pray for

00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:53.960
 anymore

00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:55.039
 because I'm afraid

00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:56.079
 that if I go there,

00:25:56.180 --> 00:25:56.920
 it's just going to be

00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:57.779
 too vulnerable.

00:25:58.019 --> 00:25:58.440
 It's just going to be

00:25:58.440 --> 00:25:59.120
 too painful.

00:25:59.819 --> 00:26:01.279
 And this woman

00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:02.220
 does not shy away

00:26:02.220 --> 00:26:03.579
 from going to that place

00:26:03.579 --> 00:26:04.860
 of deep vulnerability

00:26:04.860 --> 00:26:05.660
 and pain.

00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:07.519
 When we were at the

00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:08.660
 Pray for Paris prayer meeting,

00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:08.960
 like,

00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:09.140
 there was,

00:26:09.220 --> 00:26:09.259
 like,

00:26:09.299 --> 00:26:09.840
 four of us

00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:10.700
 at the church office

00:26:10.700 --> 00:26:11.120
 praying.

00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:13.079
 And we started off

00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:13.220
 with,

00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:13.440
 like,

00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:15.059
 praying Psalm 2,

00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:15.740
 just praying exactly

00:26:15.740 --> 00:26:16.100
 what's there.

00:26:16.180 --> 00:26:16.279
 Like,

00:26:16.299 --> 00:26:16.579
 oh Lord,

00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:17.759
 why do the nations conspire

00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.180
 with the people's

00:26:18.180 --> 00:26:18.500
 Paul and Vain?

00:26:18.500 --> 00:26:19.140
 That's what's happening,

00:26:19.259 --> 00:26:19.460
 Jesus.

00:26:19.579 --> 00:26:20.420
 Would you come

00:26:20.420 --> 00:26:21.140
 and bring your peace?

00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:22.380
 And then toward the end,

00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:23.580
 it talks about the King,

00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:24.220
 the promised one,

00:26:24.300 --> 00:26:24.640
 Jesus,

00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:25.940
 being on the throne.

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:27.600
 And my prayers went

00:26:27.600 --> 00:26:28.060
 from this,

00:26:28.120 --> 00:26:28.200
 like,

00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:28.380
 really,

00:26:28.500 --> 00:26:28.560
 like,

00:26:28.620 --> 00:26:29.720
 positive stuff

00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:29.940
 that,

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:30.160
 like,

00:26:30.560 --> 00:26:30.700
 to,

00:26:30.860 --> 00:26:32.320
 I found myself

00:26:32.320 --> 00:26:32.920
 praying things

00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:33.660
 that I was starting

00:26:33.660 --> 00:26:34.039
 to be like,

00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:34.820
 oh my goodness,

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:35.100
 like,

00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:35.840
 Shirley and Ross

00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:36.279
 are going to start

00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:36.560
 thinking,

00:26:36.700 --> 00:26:36.800
 like,

00:26:36.820 --> 00:26:37.560
 I'm some heretic.

00:26:37.700 --> 00:26:38.360
 Because I started

00:26:38.360 --> 00:26:38.700
 praying,

00:26:38.840 --> 00:26:39.000
 like,

00:26:39.220 --> 00:26:39.740
 Jesus,

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:40.740
 your word says

00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:41.440
 you're on the throne,

00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:42.220
 but it doesn't seem

00:26:42.220 --> 00:26:42.980
 like you're on the throne.

00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:45.019
 Your word says that,

00:26:45.100 --> 00:26:45.259
 God,

00:26:45.320 --> 00:26:46.039
 you're a good father,

00:26:46.180 --> 00:26:47.160
 but it doesn't seem

00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:48.080
 like you're a good father

00:26:48.080 --> 00:26:48.560
 right now.

00:26:50.420 --> 00:26:51.240
 helpless father

00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:52.000
 who might be good,

00:26:52.060 --> 00:26:52.940
 but can't help us.

00:26:53.060 --> 00:26:53.920
 Or it seems like

00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:54.800
 you're a really cruel father

00:26:54.800 --> 00:26:55.420
 allowing this stuff

00:26:55.420 --> 00:26:55.820
 to happen.

00:26:56.060 --> 00:26:56.580
 And I'm starting

00:26:56.580 --> 00:26:57.120
 praying these things,

00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:57.320
 I'm like,

00:26:57.360 --> 00:26:58.180
 what am I saying?

00:26:58.300 --> 00:26:58.500
 Like,

00:26:59.060 --> 00:27:00.000
 I'm on staff at this church,

00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:01.140
 I can't say stuff like that.

00:27:01.420 --> 00:27:03.180
 I'm paid to be positive,

00:27:03.320 --> 00:27:03.560
 you know?

00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:06.080
 But,

00:27:06.420 --> 00:27:09.300
 it's a very biblical thing

00:27:09.300 --> 00:27:10.600
 to pray those very

00:27:10.600 --> 00:27:11.680
 raw prayers.

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:12.580
 The Psalms,

00:27:12.660 --> 00:27:14.200
 a third of the 150 Psalms,

00:27:14.300 --> 00:27:14.900
 I'm not going to math,

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:15.980
 but it's a lot of Psalms,

00:27:16.320 --> 00:27:17.500
 are filled with prayers

00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:18.120
 like that.

00:27:18.380 --> 00:27:18.720
 They're saying,

00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:19.060
 God,

00:27:19.140 --> 00:27:19.980
 how long will you

00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:20.779
 forsake us?

00:27:21.380 --> 00:27:21.680
 God,

00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:22.779
 in Psalm 88,

00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:23.019
 like,

00:27:23.120 --> 00:27:24.660
 darkness is a better friend

00:27:24.660 --> 00:27:25.440
 than God,

00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:26.539
 is basically what he says.

00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:28.099
 He's crying out

00:27:28.099 --> 00:27:30.059
 with bringing the fullness

00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:30.960
 of their pain

00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:32.120
 and their brokenness

00:27:32.120 --> 00:27:32.720
 and their vulnerability

00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:33.460
 to God.

00:27:34.339 --> 00:27:35.120
 I want to encourage us

00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:35.559
 as a church

00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:36.319
 not to shy away

00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:37.259
 from those areas

00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:38.799
 that are so painful,

00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:40.799
 so raw to bring to God.

00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:42.660
 Because as she brought

00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:43.779
 that stuff to God,

00:27:43.860 --> 00:27:44.500
 as she brought her

00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:45.240
 brokenness to Him,

00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:46.519
 she got to encounter

00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:48.819
 the reality of who Jesus is.

00:27:48.819 --> 00:27:50.220
 It took a lot

00:27:50.220 --> 00:27:50.899
 of endurance.

00:27:51.339 --> 00:27:52.500
 It took profound humility.

00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:55.039
 But she got eventually

00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:56.279
 to encounter Him.

00:27:56.859 --> 00:27:57.799
 So I want to encourage us

00:27:57.799 --> 00:27:58.419
 not to shy away

00:27:58.419 --> 00:27:59.659
 from those broken things,

00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:00.759
 whether it's the brokenness

00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:01.639
 in Paris that just

00:28:01.639 --> 00:28:03.299
 hit a chord in me

00:28:03.299 --> 00:28:03.799
 that evening,

00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:05.220
 or if it's brokenness

00:28:05.220 --> 00:28:05.700
 in our lives,

00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:06.559
 to take that stuff

00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:07.059
 to God

00:28:07.059 --> 00:28:08.339
 as we long

00:28:08.339 --> 00:28:09.159
 to encounter Him.

00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:10.240
 Now,

00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:11.500
 how did this woman

00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:12.480
 have such endurance?

00:28:13.059 --> 00:28:13.819
 How did this woman

00:28:13.819 --> 00:28:14.819
 have such humility?

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:17.000
 How did she be so willing

00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:17.639
 to be vulnerable

00:28:17.639 --> 00:28:18.559
 with Him?

00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:20.179
 How did she know

00:28:20.179 --> 00:28:21.619
 that He was both powerful

00:28:21.619 --> 00:28:23.159
 and had steadfast love?

00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:24.019
 How did she have

00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:24.659
 all of that?

00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:27.200
 Because I can read this

00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:27.480
 and be like,

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:28.099
 hey, I need to be

00:28:28.099 --> 00:28:28.539
 like this woman.

00:28:28.659 --> 00:28:29.720
 I'm going to go home

00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:30.799
 and I'm going to be

00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:31.279
 like this woman.

00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:31.779
 I'm going to pray

00:28:31.779 --> 00:28:32.399
 for that stuff.

00:28:32.500 --> 00:28:33.259
 But if you're anything

00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:33.779
 like me,

00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:35.220
 you go from going to pray

00:28:35.220 --> 00:28:35.639
 to the next thing

00:28:35.639 --> 00:28:36.139
 you're on your phone,

00:28:36.220 --> 00:28:36.819
 checking Facebook

00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:37.579
 and Instagramming,

00:28:37.639 --> 00:28:37.819
 whatever.

00:28:37.819 --> 00:28:38.200
 Like,

00:28:38.639 --> 00:28:39.799
 it's difficult

00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:41.119
 to be enduring

00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:41.700
 in prayer

00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:42.700
 and all of this stuff.

00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:43.679
 How do we not

00:28:43.679 --> 00:28:44.179
 just do this

00:28:44.180 --> 00:28:44.620
 for a minute?

00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:45.539
 How do we actually

00:28:45.539 --> 00:28:46.500
 follow her example

00:28:46.500 --> 00:28:47.940
 and seek God's kingdom

00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:49.400
 for this broken world?

00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:51.680
 The key to that

00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:52.580
 is in the opening words

00:28:52.580 --> 00:28:53.220
 that she says

00:28:53.220 --> 00:28:54.000
 over and over.

00:28:55.560 --> 00:28:56.360
 Verse 22,

00:28:56.539 --> 00:28:57.519
 Have mercy on me,

00:28:57.560 --> 00:28:57.920
 O Lord,

00:28:58.039 --> 00:28:58.660
 Son of David.

00:29:00.180 --> 00:29:01.100
 I don't know how

00:29:01.100 --> 00:29:02.080
 this Canaanite woman,

00:29:02.580 --> 00:29:02.960
 the Canaanites

00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:03.539
 were supposed to be

00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:04.279
 exterminated.

00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:04.799
 They were supposed

00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:06.380
 to be wiped out

00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:08.120
 back hundreds of years before.

00:29:08.560 --> 00:29:10.120
 She was such an outcast.

00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:11.120
 She's not of the people

00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:11.500
 of Israel.

00:29:11.620 --> 00:29:12.759
 She's not of the people

00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:13.519
 who were the people

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:14.019
 of God,

00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:15.220
 but somehow she has

00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:16.119
 come to believe

00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:18.680
 that Jesus is the Messiah

00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:20.079
 for Israel

00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:21.119
 and she understands

00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:21.700
 that that has

00:29:21.700 --> 00:29:23.579
 incredible implications

00:29:23.579 --> 00:29:24.240
 for her.

00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:26.099
 She believes that Jesus,

00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:27.539
 she's using this Jewish term,

00:29:28.059 --> 00:29:29.279
 this messianic term,

00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:30.180
 she's calling him

00:29:30.180 --> 00:29:31.220
 the Son of David.

00:29:31.700 --> 00:29:32.379
 Somehow she had

00:29:32.379 --> 00:29:33.639
 come to believe

00:29:33.639 --> 00:29:34.779
 and had come

00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:35.240
 quite literally

00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:36.019
 to follow

00:29:36.019 --> 00:29:37.539
 the Son of David.

00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:38.259
 Now,

00:29:38.259 --> 00:29:39.079
 it's not referring to,

00:29:39.339 --> 00:29:39.920
 she didn't,

00:29:40.139 --> 00:29:40.759
 she wasn't mistaken

00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:41.200
 about like,

00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:41.420
 oh,

00:29:41.740 --> 00:29:42.240
 someone's like,

00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:42.340
 hey,

00:29:42.360 --> 00:29:42.759
 that's not actually

00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:43.319
 the Son of David,

00:29:43.360 --> 00:29:43.720
 that's actually

00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:44.420
 the Son of Joseph,

00:29:44.539 --> 00:29:45.000
 like adopted,

00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:45.440
 but you know,

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.319
 that's not what was

00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:46.840
 going on right there.

00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:48.039
 In saying the Son of David,

00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:49.380
 she is recognizing

00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:50.660
 that he is the Messiah,

00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:52.860
 the long-promised

00:29:52.860 --> 00:29:53.900
 descendant of David.

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:56.120
 And other people

00:29:56.120 --> 00:29:57.700
 may have seen Jesus,

00:29:58.259 --> 00:29:58.900
 but she was,

00:29:59.059 --> 00:29:59.620
 to use the word

00:29:59.620 --> 00:30:00.559
 the Bible uses sometimes,

00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.100
 she was like beholding

00:30:02.100 --> 00:30:03.519
 Jesus for who he is.

00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:04.660
 She was seeing

00:30:04.660 --> 00:30:07.299
 and seeing like

00:30:07.299 --> 00:30:09.000
 in who he really is

00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:09.700
 and it was changing

00:30:09.700 --> 00:30:11.500
 everything for her.

00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:12.539
 It's why she was able

00:30:12.539 --> 00:30:13.740
 to do all the stuff

00:30:13.740 --> 00:30:14.319
 that I'm saying

00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:15.160
 we need to do as a church,

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:16.420
 humility and endurance

00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:17.000
 and all this stuff,

00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:18.440
 because she was beholding

00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:19.640
 the Son of David.

00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:21.319
 What was she beholding?

00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.079
 In John,

00:30:22.299 --> 00:30:24.019
 rather in Revelation

00:30:24.019 --> 00:30:25.019
 at the end of the Bible,

00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:26.059
 the follower of Jesus,

00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:27.240
 a friend of his named John,

00:30:27.380 --> 00:30:28.599
 sees this revelation

00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:29.539
 of who Jesus is

00:30:29.539 --> 00:30:29.940
 and the fullness

00:30:29.940 --> 00:30:30.680
 of his brilliance.

00:30:31.099 --> 00:30:31.680
 And it says,

00:30:31.859 --> 00:30:32.759
 as he sees Jesus,

00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:34.579
 it's in the first chapters

00:30:34.579 --> 00:30:35.240
 of Revelation,

00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:36.319
 John sees that

00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:37.339
 Jesus' voice

00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:38.140
 is like a trumpet,

00:30:38.140 --> 00:30:39.200
 that his hair

00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:40.080
 is like wool,

00:30:40.220 --> 00:30:41.080
 white as snow,

00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:41.780
 that his feet

00:30:41.780 --> 00:30:43.240
 are like burnished bronze,

00:30:43.360 --> 00:30:44.580
 that his voice

00:30:44.580 --> 00:30:45.400
 is like the roar

00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:46.340
 of many waters,

00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:47.040
 that his eyes

00:30:47.040 --> 00:30:48.440
 are like flames of fire,

00:30:48.520 --> 00:30:49.180
 that his face

00:30:49.180 --> 00:30:50.140
 is like the fullness

00:30:50.140 --> 00:30:50.800
 of the sun

00:30:50.800 --> 00:30:52.020
 at the full day.

00:30:52.100 --> 00:30:53.360
 It is glorious.

00:30:53.560 --> 00:30:54.020
 And you'll notice

00:30:54.020 --> 00:30:54.860
 that he keeps saying

00:30:54.860 --> 00:30:55.540
 like this,

00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:56.120
 like that,

00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:57.680
 because there are no words

00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:58.800
 in any language

00:30:58.800 --> 00:30:59.540
 to describe

00:30:59.540 --> 00:31:00.680
 what Jesus actually

00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:01.960
 looks like and sounds like

00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:02.900
 because he's that majestic

00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:03.400
 and beautiful

00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:04.220
 that words fail us.

00:31:04.280 --> 00:31:05.020
 We can only use similes.

00:31:05.140 --> 00:31:05.640
 He's like that.

00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:06.259
 He's like this.

00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:07.440
 You can't describe

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:08.380
 how glorious he is.

00:31:08.700 --> 00:31:09.580
 But that's not actually,

00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:10.420
 the fullness of that

00:31:10.420 --> 00:31:11.400
 is not what this woman

00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:11.960
 beheld.

00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:13.120
 She didn't see

00:31:13.120 --> 00:31:15.360
 the eyes like fire.

00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:16.039
 She saw,

00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:17.200
 she just saw

00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:18.080
 this person

00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:18.820
 in front of her

00:31:18.820 --> 00:31:19.660
 that the Bible says

00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:20.460
 there was nothing

00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:21.480
 attractive about him,

00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.120
 but still she beheld

00:31:23.120 --> 00:31:24.080
 the Messiah,

00:31:24.180 --> 00:31:24.900
 the son of David.

00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:26.100
 She,

00:31:26.380 --> 00:31:27.200
 in calling him

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:27.720
 the son of David,

00:31:27.779 --> 00:31:28.380
 she knew something

00:31:28.380 --> 00:31:29.019
 of the Messiah.

00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:30.120
 This is the one.

00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:31.539
 She beheld the one.

00:31:31.600 --> 00:31:32.180
 Somehow she knew

00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:32.460
 he,

00:31:32.620 --> 00:31:33.860
 this is the man

00:31:33.859 --> 00:31:35.000
 that was promised

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:35.819
 that would crush

00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:36.519
 the serpent,

00:31:36.719 --> 00:31:37.199
 the devil.

00:31:38.059 --> 00:31:38.740
 What that means

00:31:38.740 --> 00:31:39.279
 for her,

00:31:39.439 --> 00:31:40.240
 for she who,

00:31:40.339 --> 00:31:41.839
 daughter is afflicted

00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:42.379
 by a devil.

00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:44.159
 She knows he's the one

00:31:44.159 --> 00:31:44.879
 who's going to crush

00:31:44.879 --> 00:31:46.359
 the devil's head

00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:47.500
 with his heel.

00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:49.219
 She sees the one,

00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:49.919
 even as a king,

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:50.719
 an oak cast

00:31:50.719 --> 00:31:52.319
 that the scripture says

00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:53.299
 in Genesis 12

00:31:53.299 --> 00:31:54.099
 would be a blessing

00:31:54.099 --> 00:31:54.799
 to the nations.

00:31:55.379 --> 00:31:56.339
 She sees the one

00:31:56.339 --> 00:31:57.879
 who the scriptures say

00:31:57.879 --> 00:31:59.279
 will gather the oak cast.

00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:00.059
 She's an oak cast

00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:00.619
 and she sees

00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:01.500
 what that means for her.

00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:03.019
 The scriptures prophesy,

00:32:03.019 --> 00:32:04.420
 this is the one

00:32:04.420 --> 00:32:07.200
 who will bind up

00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:07.960
 the brokenhearted

00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:09.039
 and bring freedom

00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:10.339
 to those who are in captivity,

00:32:10.859 --> 00:32:12.879
 who will set the oppressed free,

00:32:13.180 --> 00:32:14.279
 who will bring good news

00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:15.000
 to the poor,

00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:16.059
 to the lost.

00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:17.099
 He will bring salvation

00:32:17.099 --> 00:32:18.039
 to the nations.

00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:19.319
 This is the one

00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:20.720
 whose very name

00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:21.480
 is Healer.

00:32:21.660 --> 00:32:22.319
 This is the one

00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:22.559
 who,

00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.559
 it says in Isaiah,

00:32:23.700 --> 00:32:24.700
 is wonderful.

00:32:24.879 --> 00:32:25.660
 He fills us

00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:26.940
 with wonder and awe

00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:28.559
 that he is the prince of peace

00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:29.400
 despite the chaos

00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:30.279
 he might be going through.

00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:31.139
 He is the one

00:32:31.139 --> 00:32:31.680
 that brings

00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:32.460
 and establishes

00:32:32.460 --> 00:32:32.859
 a kingdom

00:32:32.859 --> 00:32:34.119
 that will outlast

00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:34.759
 every,

00:32:34.919 --> 00:32:36.199
 it will outlast Herod,

00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:37.500
 it will outlast Pilate,

00:32:37.579 --> 00:32:38.119
 it will outlast

00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:38.839
 every Caesar,

00:32:39.059 --> 00:32:39.839
 it will outlast

00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:40.559
 every president

00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:41.319
 and prime minister.

00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:42.639
 He is the king of kings

00:32:42.639 --> 00:32:44.339
 whom no oppressor

00:32:44.339 --> 00:32:45.119
 will ever be able

00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.719
 to get into his empire

00:32:47.719 --> 00:32:49.099
 because he is above all

00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:49.779
 and he,

00:32:49.939 --> 00:32:51.240
 his will will be done

00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:52.159
 and she sees that

00:32:52.159 --> 00:32:53.299
 despite all the brokenness

00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:54.500
 that's who he is.

00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:55.519
 She beholds

00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:56.119
 the one

00:32:56.119 --> 00:32:56.599
 who isn't just

00:32:56.599 --> 00:32:57.619
 a great teacher

00:32:57.619 --> 00:32:58.719
 and a path to wisdom

00:32:58.719 --> 00:32:59.419
 but he is

00:32:59.419 --> 00:33:00.399
 the very source

00:33:00.399 --> 00:33:01.079
 and the embodiment

00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:01.959
 of wisdom itself.

00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:03.259
 He's not a source

00:33:03.259 --> 00:33:03.920
 of enlightenment.

00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:05.180
 He is the very light

00:33:05.180 --> 00:33:05.759
 of the world.

00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:07.120
 She sees him

00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:08.400
 who we cannot speak about

00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:10.079
 as simply a great teacher

00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:10.880
 or a great king

00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:11.559
 or a great prophet

00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:12.400
 of the past

00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:13.759
 but someone who we must

00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:14.299
 speak about

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:15.420
 as alive today

00:33:15.420 --> 00:33:17.160
 because he defeated death

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:18.640
 and lives even today.

00:33:18.900 --> 00:33:19.660
 She sees the one

00:33:19.660 --> 00:33:20.559
 who we can't just speak about

00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:21.660
 as someone alive today

00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:22.460
 as if I'm telling you

00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:23.620
 about some great

00:33:23.620 --> 00:33:24.440
 inspiring hero

00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:25.779
 that just got a Nobel Peace Prize

00:33:25.779 --> 00:33:27.180
 but we have to speak about

00:33:27.180 --> 00:33:27.640
 as the one

00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:29.059
 who's always in the room

00:33:29.059 --> 00:33:29.480
 with us

00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:30.099
 because his name

00:33:30.099 --> 00:33:30.679
 is Emmanuel

00:33:30.679 --> 00:33:31.500
 God with us.

00:33:31.579 --> 00:33:32.419
 He's present here

00:33:32.419 --> 00:33:35.779
 and Jesus

00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:36.559
 I thank you

00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:37.259
 that you're here.

00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:38.639
 God I thank you

00:33:38.639 --> 00:33:39.440
 Jesus that

00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:40.259
 you're not just

00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:41.500
 our guest of honor today

00:33:41.500 --> 00:33:42.819
 but that you're the reason

00:33:42.819 --> 00:33:43.559
 that we're here.

00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:44.539
 We've gathered

00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:45.159
 in your name

00:33:45.159 --> 00:33:46.220
 to worship you

00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:47.359
 the very one

00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:47.960
 whom this woman

00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:48.980
 is crying out to

00:33:48.980 --> 00:33:51.379
 and even as I speak

00:33:51.379 --> 00:33:52.079
 about prayer

00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:52.960
 and brokenness

00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:53.460
 and vulnerability

00:33:53.460 --> 00:33:54.039
 Jesus

00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:54.679
 I know that

00:33:54.679 --> 00:33:55.319
 these things

00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:55.980
 are not foreign

00:33:55.980 --> 00:33:56.720
 to you at all

00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:57.579
 but that you entered

00:33:57.579 --> 00:33:58.360
 into the fullness

00:33:58.360 --> 00:33:59.180
 of our pain

00:33:59.180 --> 00:34:00.259
 and our brokenness

00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:01.660
 that by your very wounds

00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:02.960
 and by your death

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:04.039
 we would receive life.

00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:07.660
 In Jesus

00:34:07.660 --> 00:34:08.220
 I know that

00:34:08.220 --> 00:34:08.840
 as I talk about

00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:10.139
 beholding who you are

00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:11.780
 that there are some of us

00:34:11.780 --> 00:34:12.539
 in this place

00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:13.480
 who know exactly

00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:14.320
 what I'm talking about

00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:14.920
 know exactly

00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:16.599
 of the joy

00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:17.519
 and the glory

00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:18.300
 and the meaning

00:34:18.300 --> 00:34:19.019
 and the purpose

00:34:19.019 --> 00:34:19.800
 and the life

00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.699
 of beholding you

00:34:22.699 --> 00:34:24.139
 but God

00:34:24.139 --> 00:34:25.460
 the haunting thing

00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:26.300
 is that it's only

00:34:26.300 --> 00:34:27.460
 a memory for them

00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:28.659
 that though they have

00:34:28.659 --> 00:34:30.059
 had such incredible times

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:30.900
 over the years

00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:31.880
 of beholding you

00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:32.840
 and savoring

00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:33.639
 who you are

00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:34.720
 not just believing

00:34:34.720 --> 00:34:35.199
 about you

00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:35.980
 but following you

00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:37.079
 that Jesus

00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:38.360
 is now simply

00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:39.539
 something of their past

00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:41.860
 and Jesus

00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:43.119
 I pray for

00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:44.119
 our church

00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:45.079
 that you would

00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:45.579
 help us

00:34:45.579 --> 00:34:46.320
 to behold you

00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:46.900
 afresh

00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:47.840
 that you would

00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:48.179
 give us

00:34:48.179 --> 00:34:49.159
 a fresh revelation

00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:50.199
 of who you are

00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:51.159
 that you would

00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:51.579
 help us

00:34:51.579 --> 00:34:52.360
 not just to know

00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:53.199
 things about you

00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:54.440
 but to know you

00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:55.360
 that we wouldn't

00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:56.539
 just talk about you

00:34:56.539 --> 00:34:58.000
 and sing about you

00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:58.559
 but that we would

00:34:58.559 --> 00:34:59.539
 speak with you

00:34:59.539 --> 00:35:00.380
 just like this woman

00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:00.720
 did

00:35:00.720 --> 00:35:02.900
 and Jesus

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:03.619
 I pray for

00:35:03.619 --> 00:35:04.440
 my brothers and sisters

00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:04.920
 in the room

00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:06.360
 who they're tracking

00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:07.480
 totally with where it's at

00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:08.599
 that their life

00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:09.679
 is one of beholding you

00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:10.480
 and savoring you

00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:11.260
 and loving you

00:35:11.260 --> 00:35:12.440
 and all of that

00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:12.639
 Lord

00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:13.360
 that you would

00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.300
 care for us

00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:16.000
 in such a way

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:16.860
 that there would not

00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:17.940
 be a time in our lives

00:35:17.940 --> 00:35:18.480
 where it becomes

00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:19.220
 just a memory

00:35:19.220 --> 00:35:21.460
 Lord I pray for

00:35:21.460 --> 00:35:22.559
 years from now

00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:24.960
 when we're all

00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:26.159
 much older than today

00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:27.139
 and we've been through

00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:28.320
 stuff we never thought

00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:29.179
 we'd have to go through

00:35:29.179 --> 00:35:29.759
 and it feels like

00:35:29.759 --> 00:35:30.659
 our teeth are kicked in

00:35:30.659 --> 00:35:31.739
 that God you would

00:35:31.739 --> 00:35:32.920
 be there with us

00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:33.480
 Emmanuel

00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:34.900
 that even in

00:35:34.900 --> 00:35:36.139
 everything that life

00:35:36.139 --> 00:35:36.719
 throws at us

00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:37.759
 in the disappointments

00:35:37.759 --> 00:35:38.820
 and in the successes

00:35:38.820 --> 00:35:39.539
 and in everything

00:35:39.539 --> 00:35:40.719
 we would behold

00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:41.539
 you Jesus

00:35:41.539 --> 00:35:42.199
 continually

00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:43.739
 and Jesus

00:35:43.739 --> 00:35:44.860
 I pray for those

00:35:44.860 --> 00:35:46.279
 who even now

00:35:46.279 --> 00:35:47.239
 as I speak to you

00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:47.940
 who is here

00:35:47.940 --> 00:35:48.420
 in the room

00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:49.119
 with us

00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:49.960
 that they

00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:50.940
 legit think

00:35:50.940 --> 00:35:52.019
 I'm speaking to

00:35:52.019 --> 00:35:53.139
 an imaginary friend

00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:54.320
 that you would

00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:54.780
 gently

00:35:54.780 --> 00:35:56.720
 but so very clearly

00:35:56.720 --> 00:35:59.159
 reveal the reality

00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:00.159
 that you are not just

00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:02.400
 the God that works

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:02.880
 for me

00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:04.240
 and works for some of us

00:36:04.240 --> 00:36:05.039
 but that you are

00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:05.619
 the true

00:36:05.619 --> 00:36:06.780
 and living God

00:36:06.780 --> 00:36:09.960
 that you are

00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:10.960
 the only way

00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:12.480
 and the only truth

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:13.480
 the only life

00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:16.780
 Jesus

00:36:16.780 --> 00:36:17.440
 it's in your name

00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:18.280
 that I ask this

00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:20.860
 Amen

00:36:20.860 --> 00:36:22.880
 I'm sorry

00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:23.500
 we're not done

00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:26.480
 that begs the question

00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:27.360
 how do we behold

00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:27.820
 Jesus

00:36:27.820 --> 00:36:30.039
 how do we

00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:30.940
 actually not just

00:36:30.940 --> 00:36:31.460
 know about him

00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:32.360
 but how do we know him

00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:34.280
 and there's so many

00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:35.180
 things we could talk

00:36:35.180 --> 00:36:35.820
 about if

00:36:35.820 --> 00:36:37.300
 we wanted to do

00:36:37.300 --> 00:36:37.820
 a full day

00:36:37.820 --> 00:36:39.059
 on beholding Jesus

00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:40.500
 the scriptures

00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:41.200
 are an incredible

00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:42.019
 place to go

00:36:42.019 --> 00:36:43.320
 to begin to

00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:44.640
 see the stuff

00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:45.079
 that this woman

00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:45.900
 did about who

00:36:45.900 --> 00:36:46.579
 the son of David

00:36:46.579 --> 00:36:46.940
 is

00:36:46.940 --> 00:36:47.700
 this woman

00:36:47.700 --> 00:36:48.720
 knew something

00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:49.260
 of the scriptures

00:36:49.260 --> 00:36:49.880
 that's how she was

00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:50.420
 able to know

00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:51.619
 that he is

00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:52.039
 the one

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:52.760
 who the scriptures

00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:53.460
 speak of

00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:54.920
 as both being

00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:55.619
 in Psalm 62

00:36:55.619 --> 00:36:56.160
 the one of

00:36:56.160 --> 00:36:57.800
 power and steadfast love

00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.039
 that's how she knew

00:36:59.039 --> 00:36:59.980
 that was the case

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.820
 no matter what he said

00:37:00.820 --> 00:37:02.960
 we can speak about

00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:03.740
 how worship

00:37:03.740 --> 00:37:04.780
 is when we're singing

00:37:04.780 --> 00:37:05.440
 songs to God

00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:06.039
 that's one of the ways

00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:06.980
 that helps turn our

00:37:06.980 --> 00:37:08.160
 hearts to the glory

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:08.640
 and the goodness

00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:09.340
 and the reality

00:37:09.340 --> 00:37:10.039
 of who he is

00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:11.220
 we can speak about

00:37:11.220 --> 00:37:11.780
 the reality of

00:37:11.780 --> 00:37:12.240
 stepping outside

00:37:12.240 --> 00:37:13.039
 of our comfort zone

00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:14.039
 and going to these

00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:14.740
 things where it's

00:37:14.740 --> 00:37:15.680
 risky and difficult

00:37:15.680 --> 00:37:16.460
 with God

00:37:16.460 --> 00:37:17.140
 we go there

00:37:17.139 --> 00:37:17.819
 and how we get

00:37:17.819 --> 00:37:18.639
 to behold God

00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:19.179
 coming through

00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:19.719
 for us

00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:20.739
 and there's so many

00:37:20.739 --> 00:37:22.659
 ways to behold God

00:37:22.659 --> 00:37:24.039
 all of them have to be

00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:24.759
 in line with the scriptures

00:37:24.759 --> 00:37:26.039
 or you're not beholding God

00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:26.460
 it's someone else

00:37:26.460 --> 00:37:26.980
 you're beholding

00:37:26.980 --> 00:37:27.839
 and it's not going

00:37:27.839 --> 00:37:29.000
 to be what you need

00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:30.619
 but it starts

00:37:30.619 --> 00:37:31.900
 all the same way

00:37:31.900 --> 00:37:33.239
 and that is

00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:35.139
 this woman

00:37:35.139 --> 00:37:35.879
 doesn't just say

00:37:35.879 --> 00:37:36.779
 son of David

00:37:36.779 --> 00:37:37.599
 have mercy on me

00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:38.699
 but she is continually

00:37:38.699 --> 00:37:39.259
 crying out

00:37:39.259 --> 00:37:40.139
 oh Lord

00:37:40.139 --> 00:37:40.980
 son of David

00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:41.940
 and then when she

00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:42.639
 gets on her knees

00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:43.299
 in that place

00:37:43.299 --> 00:37:44.039
 of such vulnerability

00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:44.779
 her words are

00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:45.820
 not just help me

00:37:45.820 --> 00:37:47.060
 but Lord help me

00:37:47.060 --> 00:37:48.360
 and this is consistent

00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:49.340
 with a broader teaching

00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:49.900
 of the Bible

00:37:49.900 --> 00:37:50.760
 throughout the pages

00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:51.260
 of scripture

00:37:51.260 --> 00:37:52.140
 that there are

00:37:52.140 --> 00:37:53.040
 two ways

00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:55.280
 to do life

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:57.100
 one that is dead

00:37:57.100 --> 00:37:57.960
 and one that is alive

00:37:57.960 --> 00:37:59.680
 and those two ways

00:37:59.680 --> 00:38:00.260
 can be

00:38:00.260 --> 00:38:01.140
 some have said

00:38:01.140 --> 00:38:02.300
 accurately so

00:38:02.300 --> 00:38:03.820
 that the two ways

00:38:03.820 --> 00:38:04.700
 are chalked down

00:38:04.700 --> 00:38:05.140
 to this

00:38:05.140 --> 00:38:05.960
 that there is

00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:07.580
 in the heart

00:38:07.580 --> 00:38:08.360
 of every person

00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:09.380
 it's like there's a throne

00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:10.340
 it's whether

00:38:10.340 --> 00:38:11.540
 if thrones aren't your thing

00:38:11.540 --> 00:38:12.240
 it's like the command

00:38:12.240 --> 00:38:13.019
 control center

00:38:13.019 --> 00:38:14.420
 of who you are

00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:16.619
 and that there's

00:38:16.619 --> 00:38:17.360
 two ways to live

00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:18.320
 either you can live

00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:19.019
 with yourself

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:20.880
 as the one

00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:21.440
 on the throne

00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:22.059
 of your heart

00:38:22.059 --> 00:38:23.099
 as the Lord

00:38:23.099 --> 00:38:23.680
 as the king

00:38:23.680 --> 00:38:24.280
 of your life

00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:25.460
 or you can live

00:38:25.460 --> 00:38:26.860
 as having the one

00:38:26.860 --> 00:38:27.820
 who created

00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:28.300
 the universe

00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:29.180
 and designed you

00:38:29.180 --> 00:38:30.500
 and made that throne

00:38:30.500 --> 00:38:31.119
 in your heart

00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:32.500
 for him to be on

00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:33.800
 have Jesus be the throne

00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:34.099
 of your

00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:35.639
 the king of your heart

00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:36.980
 the king of your life

00:38:36.980 --> 00:38:38.400
 either you're a follower

00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:39.019
 of Jesus

00:38:39.019 --> 00:38:40.260
 or you're a follower

00:38:40.260 --> 00:38:41.000
 of yourself

00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:42.539
 or other

00:38:42.539 --> 00:38:43.940
 things that

00:38:43.940 --> 00:38:45.079
 do not deserve

00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:45.639
 your allegiance

00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:47.599
 and the way

00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:48.360
 that you see

00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:49.219
 in another part

00:38:49.219 --> 00:38:51.099
 of the scriptures

00:38:51.099 --> 00:38:51.719
 there's a

00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:53.460
 I think it might be

00:38:53.460 --> 00:38:53.920
 Luke 9

00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:54.820
 where there's a woman

00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:56.279
 who she's living

00:38:56.279 --> 00:38:57.059
 life like this

00:38:57.059 --> 00:38:57.880
 she's bound up

00:38:57.880 --> 00:38:58.980
 she's at some kind

00:38:58.980 --> 00:39:00.159
 of skeletal issue

00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:01.579
 and for years

00:39:01.579 --> 00:39:02.099
 and years

00:39:02.099 --> 00:39:03.059
 all she has seen

00:39:03.059 --> 00:39:03.679
 is herself

00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:04.940
 all that she sees

00:39:04.940 --> 00:39:05.820
 and then she

00:39:05.820 --> 00:39:06.559
 like this woman

00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:07.860
 cries out to Jesus

00:39:07.860 --> 00:39:08.779
 cry out to him

00:39:08.779 --> 00:39:09.380
 the Lord

00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:10.320
 saying would you

00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:11.059
 rescue me

00:39:11.059 --> 00:39:12.820
 and Jesus rescues her

00:39:12.820 --> 00:39:14.059
 he becomes her king

00:39:14.059 --> 00:39:15.500
 and as she is

00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:16.300
 as she is

00:39:16.300 --> 00:39:17.400
 is saved by Jesus

00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:18.800
 she stands up

00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:19.640
 and for the first time

00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:19.980
 in her life

00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:21.380
 she sees a face

00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:22.059
 and it's the face

00:39:22.059 --> 00:39:22.539
 of Jesus

00:39:22.539 --> 00:39:23.460
 and she sees

00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:24.920
 the universe

00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:25.460
 as it was meant

00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:26.039
 to be seen

00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:27.200
 and she worships God

00:39:27.200 --> 00:39:28.300
 and I think

00:39:28.300 --> 00:39:29.340
 for so many of us

00:39:29.340 --> 00:39:31.900
 we really have thought

00:39:31.900 --> 00:39:32.700
 that freedom

00:39:32.700 --> 00:39:33.539
 and life

00:39:33.539 --> 00:39:34.059
 and joy

00:39:34.059 --> 00:39:34.700
 would be found

00:39:34.700 --> 00:39:36.420
 as we assert ourselves

00:39:36.420 --> 00:39:37.740
 as we learn

00:39:37.740 --> 00:39:38.880
 to control

00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:39.599
 our destiny

00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:40.460
 by basically

00:39:40.460 --> 00:39:40.920
 asserting

00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.340
 ourselves

00:39:42.340 --> 00:39:42.960
 as the kings

00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:43.440
 of our lives

00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:44.380
 and what happens

00:39:44.380 --> 00:39:44.820
 is that

00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:45.599
 we get to

00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:46.519
 really know ourselves

00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:47.200
 and we get to

00:39:47.200 --> 00:39:49.119
 we're all about ourselves

00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:49.700
 and we're just like

00:39:49.700 --> 00:39:50.079
 this woman

00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:51.000
 who's bent over

00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:52.280
 and like

00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:53.380
 whatever experience

00:39:53.380 --> 00:39:54.019
 you go through

00:39:54.019 --> 00:39:55.039
 like whatever you're doing

00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:55.980
 all you're seeing

00:39:55.980 --> 00:39:56.579
 you're thinking about

00:39:56.579 --> 00:39:57.440
 like how did I handle

00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:58.059
 that situation

00:39:58.059 --> 00:39:59.019
 how did I do this

00:39:59.019 --> 00:39:59.619
 how was I there

00:39:59.619 --> 00:40:00.820
 I was awesome over here

00:40:00.820 --> 00:40:02.099
 I sucked over there

00:40:02.099 --> 00:40:03.579
 and all you're seeing

00:40:03.579 --> 00:40:03.820
 really

00:40:03.820 --> 00:40:04.960
 you become so obsessed

00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:05.599
 with yourself

00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.519
 that's no way to live

00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:09.199
 the answer

00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:09.860
 is the same

00:40:09.860 --> 00:40:10.340
 as it was

00:40:10.340 --> 00:40:10.940
 for this woman

00:40:10.940 --> 00:40:11.420
 as same

00:40:11.420 --> 00:40:11.860
 for the one

00:40:11.860 --> 00:40:12.659
 who is bound up

00:40:12.659 --> 00:40:13.259
 the same

00:40:13.259 --> 00:40:14.219
 it's been for my life

00:40:14.219 --> 00:40:14.679
 is that

00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:15.360
 is that

00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:16.159
 the way that we get

00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:17.099
 rescued from a life

00:40:17.099 --> 00:40:17.780
 where we are king

00:40:17.780 --> 00:40:18.259
 of our life

00:40:18.259 --> 00:40:18.920
 and all we see

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:19.460
 is ourselves

00:40:19.460 --> 00:40:20.880
 and life is like that

00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:22.219
 no matter how successful

00:40:22.219 --> 00:40:22.599
 we are

00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:23.300
 we're all still living

00:40:23.300 --> 00:40:24.099
 with that anxiety

00:40:24.099 --> 00:40:24.800
 of if we'll be able

00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:25.719
 to master

00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:26.380
 being able to keep

00:40:26.380 --> 00:40:27.280
 what we've accumulated

00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:28.079
 all that stuff

00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:29.440
 life is of you

00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:30.920
 and what we need to do

00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:31.860
 is to cry out to God

00:40:31.860 --> 00:40:32.480
 and say God

00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.199
 be the Lord

00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:35.340
 be the king of my life

00:40:35.340 --> 00:40:37.780
 don't just be the one

00:40:37.780 --> 00:40:38.340
 that I believe

00:40:38.340 --> 00:40:39.180
 is God

00:40:39.180 --> 00:40:40.360
 but be the one

00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:41.200
 in charge of my life

00:40:41.200 --> 00:40:42.000
 I want to be a follower

00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:42.460
 of you

00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:43.640
 not just someone

00:40:43.640 --> 00:40:44.200
 who believes in you

00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:44.680
 but someone who

00:40:44.680 --> 00:40:45.900
 is surrendered to you

00:40:45.900 --> 00:40:47.200
 and so in a moment

00:40:47.200 --> 00:40:48.100
 I'll ask you to stand

00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:49.079
 and we'll pray together

00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:50.820
 but as I pray

00:40:50.820 --> 00:40:51.579
 if you're someone

00:40:51.579 --> 00:40:52.340
 who has not

00:40:52.340 --> 00:40:53.840
 has not given your life

00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:54.220
 to Jesus

00:40:54.220 --> 00:40:54.680
 you haven't been

00:40:54.680 --> 00:40:56.140
 a follower of him

00:40:56.140 --> 00:40:56.800
 you're not a Christian

00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:58.240
 even though you may

00:40:58.240 --> 00:40:58.840
 identify as one

00:40:58.840 --> 00:40:59.480
 but you know that

00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:00.539
 he is not king

00:41:00.539 --> 00:41:01.000
 of your life

00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:01.860
 I want to invite you

00:41:01.860 --> 00:41:03.460
 not to think along

00:41:03.460 --> 00:41:04.059
 what I'm saying

00:41:04.059 --> 00:41:04.980
 and say amen to that

00:41:04.980 --> 00:41:06.179
 but just as you stand up

00:41:06.179 --> 00:41:06.679
 would you just

00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:07.460
 even quietly

00:41:07.460 --> 00:41:08.099
 but out loud

00:41:08.099 --> 00:41:08.539
 but quiet

00:41:08.539 --> 00:41:09.519
 you can just quietly

00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:09.840
 so you're not

00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:10.579
 distracting others around

00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:11.599
 you just say

00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:12.940
 cry out to him

00:41:12.940 --> 00:41:13.480
 to be the king

00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:14.000
 of your life

00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:14.840
 and there's

00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:15.420
 I'm not going to give you

00:41:15.420 --> 00:41:16.260
 some magic formulas

00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:17.159
 and incantation

00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:17.760
 to if you say

00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:18.240
 the sinner's prayer

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:18.820
 like this like that

00:41:18.820 --> 00:41:20.099
 just cry out to him

00:41:20.099 --> 00:41:20.960
 even something like

00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:22.219
 Lord help me

00:41:22.219 --> 00:41:24.400
 be my Lord

00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:27.000
 would you forgive my sin

00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:27.900
 and would you be

00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:29.119
 the king of my life

00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:30.880
 and if that's something

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:31.840
 that you pray this morning

00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.159
 or any time in the future

00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:34.179
 I want to invite you

00:41:34.179 --> 00:41:34.880
 come talk to me

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.420
 or George

00:41:35.420 --> 00:41:36.559
 we'd love to talk

00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:37.039
 with you more

00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:37.820
 about how to then

00:41:37.820 --> 00:41:38.539
 live that out

00:41:38.539 --> 00:41:40.720
 but I plead with you

00:41:40.720 --> 00:41:42.340
 not to live life anymore

00:41:42.340 --> 00:41:43.440
 as someone who just

00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:44.240
 hears and knows

00:41:44.240 --> 00:41:44.920
 about Jesus

00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:46.700
 but someone who actually

00:41:46.700 --> 00:41:47.300
 has Jesus

00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:47.920
 on the throne

00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:48.599
 of your heart

00:41:48.599 --> 00:41:49.599
 that he would be

00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:50.200
 your Lord

00:41:50.200 --> 00:41:52.180
 and your Savior

00:41:52.180 --> 00:41:54.220
 would you stand with me

00:41:54.219 --> 00:42:03.759
 heavenly father

00:42:03.759 --> 00:42:06.779
 so often we know

00:42:06.779 --> 00:42:08.399
 things that we should do

00:42:08.399 --> 00:42:09.339
 but we find that we

00:42:09.339 --> 00:42:10.419
 don't have the willpower

00:42:10.419 --> 00:42:11.279
 or the strength

00:42:11.279 --> 00:42:12.739
 sufficient to actually

00:42:12.739 --> 00:42:13.579
 follow through

00:42:13.579 --> 00:42:14.159
 and do it

00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:15.759
 Lord I

00:42:15.759 --> 00:42:17.439
 confess it so often

00:42:17.439 --> 00:42:17.779
 I

00:42:17.779 --> 00:42:19.759
 can hear words about

00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:22.740
 prayer or anything

00:42:22.740 --> 00:42:23.580
 and I'm like

00:42:23.580 --> 00:42:24.520
 hey I'm gonna do that

00:42:24.520 --> 00:42:25.660
 I'm gonna follow that

00:42:25.660 --> 00:42:26.060
 example

00:42:26.060 --> 00:42:27.800
 but I lack the strength

00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:28.400
 to do it

00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:29.700
 Lord

00:42:29.700 --> 00:42:31.080
 we confess that

00:42:31.080 --> 00:42:31.840
 we have so often

00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:32.520
 not been like the

00:42:32.520 --> 00:42:33.080
 Canaanite woman

00:42:33.080 --> 00:42:35.080
 who found her strength

00:42:35.080 --> 00:42:36.960
 to walk in

00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:38.160
 what she needed to

00:42:38.160 --> 00:42:39.920
 from who you are

00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:41.160
 instead that we try

00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:42.020
 to do it on our own

00:42:42.020 --> 00:42:43.140
 and Lord we confess

00:42:43.140 --> 00:42:44.340
 that we

00:42:44.340 --> 00:42:46.100
 are often not like

00:42:46.099 --> 00:42:46.920
 this Canaanite woman

00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:48.360
 enduring faithfully

00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:48.980
 in prayer

00:42:48.980 --> 00:42:49.779
 and humility

00:42:49.779 --> 00:42:51.299
 but instead Lord

00:42:51.299 --> 00:42:52.199
 we give up

00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:52.980
 too soon

00:42:52.980 --> 00:42:54.619
 instead we

00:42:54.619 --> 00:42:55.659
 approach you

00:42:55.659 --> 00:42:56.299
 but with arrogance

00:42:56.299 --> 00:42:57.059
 and entitlement

00:42:57.059 --> 00:42:58.900
 instead we

00:42:58.900 --> 00:42:59.920
 we

00:42:59.920 --> 00:43:00.940
 so often

00:43:00.940 --> 00:43:02.219
 Lord even for me

00:43:02.219 --> 00:43:02.799
 this morning

00:43:02.799 --> 00:43:05.059
 forget

00:43:05.059 --> 00:43:05.679
 to

00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:06.940
 believe

00:43:06.940 --> 00:43:07.960
 and stop believing

00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:08.539
 that you are

00:43:08.539 --> 00:43:09.619
 good and loving

00:43:09.619 --> 00:43:10.539
 it's so easy

00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:11.299
 for other things

00:43:11.299 --> 00:43:12.460
 to turn our attention

00:43:12.460 --> 00:43:13.099
 from that

00:43:13.099 --> 00:43:15.079
 but Lord I pray

00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:15.960
 that in your mercy

00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:17.980
 Lord we pray

00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:18.800
 that in your mercy

00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:20.480
 you would help us

00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:21.519
 to behold you

00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:24.920
 who you really are

00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:28.639
 I pray that you would

00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:31.139
 not just in the past

00:43:31.139 --> 00:43:32.940
 but day by day by day

00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:33.980
 night by night

00:43:33.980 --> 00:43:35.420
 be the king

00:43:35.420 --> 00:43:36.240
 of our lives

00:43:36.240 --> 00:43:38.159
 Lord help us

00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:40.539
 help us to be

00:43:40.539 --> 00:43:41.559
 a prayerful church

00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:42.639
 faithful

00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:43.579
 not just better

00:43:43.579 --> 00:43:44.559
 than the church beside us

00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:45.079
 or anything like that

00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:45.519
 but to be

00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:46.840
 to be living in the fullness

00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:47.420
 of what it means

00:43:47.420 --> 00:43:48.000
 to be a church

00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:49.039
 that prays

00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:50.739
 and seeks your kingdom

00:43:50.739 --> 00:43:51.699
 and your healing

00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:52.400
 and the binding of

00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:53.400
 the broken hearted

00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:54.219
 in your name

00:43:54.219 --> 00:43:55.539
 but Lord help us

00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:56.039
 to not just be

00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:57.000
 a prayerful church

00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:58.719
 help us be a church

00:43:58.719 --> 00:43:59.880
 that beholds and loves you

00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:00.819
 with all of our heart

00:44:00.819 --> 00:44:02.059
 with all of our soul

00:44:02.059 --> 00:44:02.880
 with all of our mind

00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:03.819
 with all of our strength

00:44:03.819 --> 00:44:05.319
 in Jesus' name

00:44:05.319 --> 00:44:05.920
 Amen

00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:21.920
 forget to mayor

00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:23.780
 just to лег