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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If you are new here, what we do on Saturday is we come together and we look to the Lord.

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We look to the Lord for what is the current prophetic reality.

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What is the current prophetic reality of heaven?

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What is God doing?

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We know that we have our reality, and oftentimes our reality is not something that we like.

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We don't like what's going on in our reality.

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But there is another reality all around us, and that is God's reality.

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That is the reality of the kingdom of heaven.

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And we want to know what is it that God's doing.

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Why?

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Because we want to partner with that.

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We don't want to partner with what we see.

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We want to partner with what God sees.

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Amen?

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That is what we do here, and we have such a good time.

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So if you are new here, you're in for a treat, because it is always very supernatural.

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This is why we call it Supernatural Saturday.

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I've been gone for a little while, you guys, and I want to kind of pick right back up where

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I was a couple weeks ago when we were talking about doing things the hard way.

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We just have this thing about doing things the hard way, and we don't even know most

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of the time that we're doing it, right?

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Because it's just, to us, it's not the hard way.

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It's our way.

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Right?

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We wouldn't call it the hard way.

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We just call it our way.

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This is the way we do things.

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And it's the hard way.

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And there's so many instances where we could have taken a different route, there could

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have been a different way, God's way.

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Now, God's way, oftentimes, to be fair, doesn't make a lot of sense, okay?

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And because it doesn't make a lot of sense, we don't often choose God's way.

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In fact, we get confused about whether or not it even is a way, because it doesn't make

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any sense.

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You need something tomorrow, and then people are like, oh, you know, you should just wait

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on the Lord.

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Wait, but I need this tomorrow, but you should just wait on the Lord.

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That makes a lot of sense.

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I'm going to go do that.

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No.

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We jump into action.

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We begin to strive.

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We begin to try to figure things out.

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And so, you guys, I'm not exempt to this.

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I just want to let you know that it is the human condition.

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It is the human condition, and that's why I call it not just the hard way, but our way,

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the human way.

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So I've been going to prayer in the morning, and I'd love to tell you that I've done this

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religiously for years and years and years.

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There have been sporadic times and seasons where I've done it religiously, so to speak,

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which means just constantly every day.

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But just recently, there's been a lot of stuff going on.

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I don't know if that's true for you, but it's definitely true for me, and it's definitely

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true for our team.

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For all of you that show up on weekly prayer and pray in that very beginning time of weekly

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prayer over me and my husband, over the leadership of last year's single.

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When I tell you that we're on the front lines of warfare, I'm not kidding.

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It is one thing after another, after another, after another, and it has definitely heated

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up as we've continued to progress.

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We continue to take more territory.

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We continue to become more well-known in the space of dating and relationships and marriage.

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Just in the last two weeks, one of my family members got into a lot of stuff and is now

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in the hospital.

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I know that one of our other coaches wrecked their car yesterday.

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Someone hit them.

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Someone hit them out of nowhere and wrecked their car, and even another one of our coaches

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tragically lost a very close family member to an accident.

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And so our team is constantly under attack, surveillance, whatever you want to call it.

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And so we really appreciate the covering of your prayer.

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So thank you so much for all of you that intercede for us.

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We intercede for you and you intercede for us, and that's how it goes.

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So I've been going back to a lot of intercession.

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I've been praying.

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My toucan rug, I don't know if you guys know that story.

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Some of you are new and you won't know the story, but I have a big Oriental rug in my

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dining room.

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It makes a perfect prayer walk because I go round and round and round and round and round

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my dining room table on this big Oriental rug that I guess I just got it off Facebook

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Marketplace.

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So I never paid attention to the pattern.

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And one day I was praying and you know, your head's kind of down.

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You're looking at your feet as you're walking and praying.

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And one day I was walking and praying and I noticed that the design on the outer border

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of this rug that I'm on right now, it looked a lot like toucans, you know, like the bird

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toucans.

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And I was like, oh, I think that's a toucan.

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And as soon as I said that, God said, one can't, but two can.

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And that is where, that is where the one can't, but two can.

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comes from. For those of you that have heard me talk about that, that's the

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slogan. If you've ever noticed Spirit Mate Match, the logo of Spirit Mate Match

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is a toucan. That is why it is a toucan. Most people are like, why is there a

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toucan on this dating app? Because one can't be a toucan. Remember friends, we're

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not just here for marriage. We're here for partnership. We're here for alliance.

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A kingdom alliance. And guess what? We already have one. We already have a

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kingdom alliance. You and me, all of us together, we're already aligned.

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And that's what we do on Supernatural Saturday. We don't just get aligned with

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each other. We get aligned with God. And so I was walking around this rug and I

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was just praying about everything that's going on right now. I'm just giving it to

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God. Just coming back to the throne and like, hey God, you know, I need you to

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take care of this. And this is what's happening. You know, I already know you

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know what's happening, but here's what's happening. And I began to pray from my

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own heart and from my own knowledge. But then the Spirit began to lead me.

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And I began to pray things. I began to pray that, you know, our Father who art in

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heaven, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I started to

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pray things like, you know what we have need of before we even ask. I started to

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pray for if we seek the kingdom first, you will provide us everything we need. I

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started to say these things. As I'm praying, I started saying these phrases

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and these scriptures. And when I was finished praying that day, God said, hey

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go look at Matthew 6. And I opened my Bible to Matthew 6. You guys know Matthew 6

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is part of the Sermon on the Mount. It's part of that sermon series that Jesus was

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doing. And Matthew 6 contains every single one of the phrases that I was

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praying. It includes the Lord's Prayer. It includes the, you know, God provides for

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the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. How much more will he provide

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for us, for those that love him, right? If that grass is withered today and cast

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into the fire tomorrow and he cares so much about it, how much more does he care

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for us? And then it goes on to say that he knows what we have need of before we

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even ask. And so today I want to talk about the Good Shepherd. Is everyone good

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with that? I want to talk about the Good Shepherd because I was reminded when I

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was in prayer that we are cared for, that we are loved. And we're going to have a

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little bit of a short Supernatural Saturday today. Next week, we're going to

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have a long one because we're headed into the Hebraic New Year. And you guys

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know that I love the Hebraic New Year. And so I'm going to begin to pray into

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that and ask God for words, prophetic words for all of us, for his single sons

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and daughters. What does it look like for us going into this new year? What does he

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want us to know? What does he want us to do? And so we're going to have a really

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amazing Supernatural Saturday next Saturday. So make sure that you are here

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or that you watch it in replay. But we're going to have a little bit of a short one

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today because I am speaking at a singles conference online. And that is going to

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be right at the end of Supernatural Saturday. They want me to talk about how

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to stay out of situationships. Can we all just laugh at that together? Okay. So,

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you know, I'm going to, I can't promise I'm going to behave myself because I will

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break that promise. But it will be a good time. A good time will be had by all.

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That's all that I know. All right. So here is today's thesis for Supernatural

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Saturday. What if God really is that good? Did you guys know that there's people on

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the Internet right now, people that are agnostic, people that maybe even were

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atheists? There's a trend going around. Do you want to know what it is? They're

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pretending that God is real for 30 days. They're pretending that God is real for

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30 days. They're trying it out. You know, the Bible says, taste and see that I'm

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good, right? They're trying it out for 30 days. Like, what would I do if I thought

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God was real? If I really thought that there was a God, they're trying that out

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for 30 days. And you know what's happening? They're getting radically

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converted. They're having encounters. Because the word of God, he tells us, he

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says, hey, give me a chance. Give me a shot. Let me show you. Let me show you

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that I'm good. And so that's happening. So what if God really is that good? What

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happens to a lot of us is, you know, we've been converted. We've been saved.

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We've been church.

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you know, whatever you want to call it, for a long, long time.

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And we've forgotten how God, how good God is a lot of times.

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We've forgotten all the things that God has done for us.

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I was revisiting all the things that God has delivered me from, delivered me to, helped

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me through, protected me from, and these are just the things I know about.

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Can you imagine all the things that have happened that you don't even know about that God has

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done for you?

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I have to revisit that sometimes, because a lot of times we get like spoiled little

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children like, hey, what have you done for me lately?

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What have you done for me lately?

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So I want to talk about that good shepherd today, because I really feel like grace is

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a scandal, you guys.

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It really is.

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When you think about it, it's just too good to be true.

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And we are programmed to not believe in things that are too good to be true.

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In fact, we have a saying, if it's too good to be true, then it's not true.

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Don't we have that saying?

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And so grace is kind of too good to be true, isn't it?

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God's love for us, the depth and the width of it, the power, the powerfulness of it,

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it's just kind of too good to be true.

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And we don't have to do anything in return.

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We don't have to get good to get God.

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We don't have to deserve it.

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We don't have to earn it.

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We don't have to merit it.

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We just get it.

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Yeah, that doesn't, that doesn't sound like a fair deal.

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And so that doesn't compute to our minds.

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So the big idea of today is, if God never designed us to be anything but children, and

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you guys, we're going to talk about the good shepherd and remember, have you ever seen

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sheep videos?

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There's lots of sheep videos on the internet and sheep bless their hearts.

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I just watched a video yesterday where a farmer was trying to get to his sheep that had rolled

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over on its back and could not, for the life of itself, get up.

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But the llama was protecting the sheep.

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So he couldn't get to the sheep because the llama was not letting him, it was like coming

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after him.

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It was an alpaca, a llama, something.

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And it was just kind of funny.

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But this sheep was just like, and there was a voiceover.

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So whoever was doing the voiceover was giving, was giving, you know, a voice to these animals,

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you know, and the sheep was like, hey, can someone help me?

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Hey, I need some help.

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And the llama's like, not on my watch, not on my watch, better get out of here, farmer.

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You know, it was really funny.

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It was a really funny video.

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But it just shows you that sheep, you know, they need some help.

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They are, they're not, they're not the kind of animal that can be left on its own.

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And that shows us that this life that we are living here, we're, we're designed, friends,

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to be dependent on, connected to, and cared for by this good shepherd.

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And for the, for, you know, the scripture reference for this entire Supernatural Saturday

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is Psalm 23.

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Go read it.

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It's beautiful, really soaking it.

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But God could have compared us to anything, but he decided to compare us to sheep.

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He could have, he could have chose lions.

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You know, he's a lion, the lion of Judah.

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No, he could have chose wolves, even, you know, a wolf.

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And there are some wolves in the Bible, but that's not us.

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He could have chose elephants.

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I like elephants.

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Do you like elephants?

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Do you like giraffes?

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They're all great.

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He didn't choose any of that.

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Over and over again, he calls us his sheep.

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And that matters.

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It matters because sheep, they're not predators, y'all.

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They're lovers, not fighters, aren't they?

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They're lovers, not fighters.

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I mean, those other animals are great, and we could have been compared to any of them.

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But if you see anything come against them, come against their young, those things will

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fight.

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You've seen an elephant stomp.

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Don't be messing with a mama elephant.

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Don't be messing with a mama bear.

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Don't be messing with even a gazelle, you know.

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They will fight.

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They will come at you.

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But sheep, no, not so much, not so much.

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They need to be protected because they are not equipped with impressive natural defenses,

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are they?

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It's not impressive, not at all.

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So they function best with what?

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Let's think about some of the things that they function best with, sheep.

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They function best within a flock.

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You guys, I have felt convicted in my heart that I do not spend enough time with a family

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of faith.

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I spend a lot of time with you guys, but it's virtual.

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But in person, spending time with other believers, I don't spend enough time in the flock, in

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the family of faith.

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This is not a PSA to go to church.

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This is not a commercial for your local church, okay?

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This is just the way that we were created to function.

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So find a spiritual community and get in there and get in there deep, okay?

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Even if it's a home group, I don't care what it is, a cell group, it doesn't matter what

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it is.

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It's a flock.

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Because that is where protection is.

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We have been designed to function best within a flock, within a community, and then with

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a shepherd.

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That's where our protection comes from.

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That's where our direction comes from.

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God intentionally chose this animal.

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We were not created for independence.

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There's another scripture, John 15, and I quote it all the time because God showed it

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to me years ago, because I'm a pretty independent personality.

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I grew up with not a lot of parental guidance.

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I grew up on my own.

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A lot of you know I was in foster care situations, and I was emancipated at a very young age

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when I was still a teenager, and so I'm used to caring for myself.

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I'm used to watching out for myself.

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I'm used to sleeping with one eye open.

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I was used to that before I came to Jesus, before I met him in my 20s.

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But old bad habits die hard, don't they?

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And because it's part of the human condition, it's even easier to gravitate towards, I got

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to do it myself.

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I got to do it myself.

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I got to do it myself.

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I got to figure it out myself.

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I got to make it happen myself.

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You guys, the goal has never been I've got this.

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The goal is he's got me.

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So John 15 really made an impact on me years ago.

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I'd already been a believer for a couple decades, and God showed me how I was still

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striving.

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He showed me how I was building in vain, showed me how I was still self-protecting.

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So he showed me John 15, and if you remember, John 15 talks about there's a vine and there

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are branches.

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I don't know if you guys know how agriculture works, but I'm just going to tell you right

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now, branches that are not connected to a vine, branches that are not connected to

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a tree trunk, they ain't doing much.

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The dead on the ground, they're going to wither up.

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The source of life comes from the root system, doesn't it?

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The source of life comes from the vine.

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Obviously everything is typology of grapes and vineyards and different things.

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So he is the vine and we are the branches.

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The branches get something the vine doesn't get.

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We get to bear fruit, isn't that beautiful?

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Think about a vineyard, think about grapes right now.

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So you see the vines, they're all tangled around.

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They're the things that are supplying the nutrients, they're the things that are supplying

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the life force.

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And then there's lots of branches coming off those vines, and what is on those branches?

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Grapes, beautiful, luscious grapes.

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We get to have the glory.

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You know, people are like, don't steal God's glory, don't steal God's glory, don't steal

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God's glory.

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You better not steal God's glory.

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Oh, you better give him the glory.

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Don't steal his glory.

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You are his glory.

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The children are the glory of the father, my friends.

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You are his glory.

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So when you shine, guess who shines, him.

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We need to become God's publicist.

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You want to be God's publicist?

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Years ago I had a little company called God's Publicist because I wanted to make him famous

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in the earth, and I hope I'm doing a good job, daddy.

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When you shine, he shines.

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When the children shine, he shines.

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It does not benefit God at all for you to be busted and disgusted.

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It does not benefit God at all for his children to be a mess, the hot mess express.

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That doesn't benefit him.

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How does that benefit him?

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The reason why people right now are doing a 30-day challenge of maybe God's real is

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because maybe his representatives, his branches haven't been bearing a lot of fruit.

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Because if we were bearing a lot of fruit, and this is not condemnation, if you hear

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that, that's in your heart because it's not in my heart.

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And let's let God deal with that.

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Let's reveal that to heal that because you've been around religion for too long.

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It's not condemnation.

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But the word of God says that we are to taste and see that he is good.

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How do we taste and see that he is good?

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Where's the fruit at?

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The fruit's in his people, isn't it?

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I promise you 99.9% of your prayers are going to be answered by another human being that

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God has sent.

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Sent to pray for you.

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Sent to provide for you.

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Sent to help you.

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Supernatural help.

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God is the...

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You guys know I say this a lot, but I'm going to say it again.

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God is the source.

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He is the source, but he's also HR.

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He's the source, but he's also the...

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human resource department, he is going to send human resources.

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And yes, there are angelic resources.

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Holy spirit obviously is our helper.

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The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in you and

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quickens your mortal body.

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But oftentimes prayers are answered from people that God has empowered,

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appointed and anointed to help you.

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This is really important stuff, you guys.

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So let's look at Psalm 23 real quick.

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I'm just going to give the cliff notes here.

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You can go read it.

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I want you to pay attention to who is doing everything.

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The Lord is my shepherd.

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I shall not want.

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He makes me lie down where in green pastures.

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He leads me beside what the still waters.

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He restores my soul.

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He makes me lie down.

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He leads me.

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He restores me.

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He guides me.

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He comforts me.

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He prepares a table before me.

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He anoints me.

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And then goodness and mercy follow me.

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So did you notice how much work the shepherd is doing here?

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The sheep's job is not to go find the pasture to create the pasture.

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The sheep's job is not to locate this still water.

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He gives us rest for our souls.

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We can't do that.

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The sheep's job isn't try to figure out how to get through that dark Valley.

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No, the sheep stays near the shepherd.

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You guys, we don't have to know where the green pasture is.

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We just have to know where the shepherd is.

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This is a timely message for so many, including myself, because we are weary.

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Raise your hand if you are weary.

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And, you know, I always tell y'all to stay off the internet and I hope

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you're listening to me because there's never been more bad news out there.

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You got to stay off the internet.

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Stop scrolling on Facebook.

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Facebook's the worst.

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Now Facebook's just full of tragedies like clickbait rage bait, tons of it all over.

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So our problem has never been that we don't have a shepherd.

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The problem is that we're trying to be the shepherd.

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Let's go back to the Genesis.

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Let's go back to the human condition.

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Humanity already had what we had provision.

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We had relationship.

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We had abundance.

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We had beautiful God-given identity.

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We had purpose.

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We had God, y'all.

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We had God in a way that no one has ever had since.

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He's walking with us and talking with us.

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He's taking nightly walks with us in the cool of the garden.

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Can you imagine?

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But then comes the temptation and what is the temptation?

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I just need to know for myself.

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Well, my daughter was about 18 months old.

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Really, as soon as she had language, you know what one of the first things that

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she said to me was, don't tell me that kids are born innocent, all right?

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They're born in the curse.

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You have to teach them to love and to share and to be good.

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They are not born good.

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Okay.

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They just don't have the faculties and the mobility to do anything really bad

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yet, except steal a cookie from the cookie jar.

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It is the home training that is going to make them good.

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It is your lifestyle that is going to teach them.

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One of the very first things my daughter said to me when she had language to

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talk was, I do it myself.

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I don't want to be dependent on you.

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I don't want to have to look to you for my needs.

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I want to do it.

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I want to take care of myself.

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You guys, that's, where do you think that comes from?

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Yeah.

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Kids need to learn.

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They need to grow up.

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They need to be able to tie their shoes and make themselves a cup of water.

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That's awesome.

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But it's in their hearts to not have to depend on you.

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You see that?

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And this is what the early folks in the garden did.

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They needed to, they needed to be in charge.

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They wanted to understand everything.

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They wanted to be in control.

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They wanted to protect themselves.

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They wanted to determine good from evil.

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That sounded really tempting to them.

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Oh, I want to know that.

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All of us now are just like, yeah, we didn't need that.

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We didn't need that.

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We didn't need that.

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We don't need that.

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We just wanted to be in charge.

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And that is why I'm so passionate about this.

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All of us now are just like, yeah, we didn't need that.

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We didn't need to know that.

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We're good.

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We're good.

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So what does it sound in modern day like?

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Because as humanity moved from dependence and interdependence to

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independence, we've been trying to shepherd ourselves ever since.

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But it sounds different in our modern age, right?

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It sounds like if I don't figure this out, nobody will if I don't do this

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Nobody will if I don't make this happen. It's not gonna happen. I

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Need to know what's coming. I need to know what's happening next. I

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Need to have a backup plan

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Trying to figure out the liability some of y'all would have made great insurance adjusters because all you can think about is what could go

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wrong

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You missed a job in insurance because that's what they do

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There are people that are paid to sit around and just think about the calamities from the liabilities

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This is us y'all come on, we're trying to make sure that everything works out

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And even though we wouldn't fully say it I

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Think in our hearts, we also think I can't completely trust God with this and some of you

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You're in a place where you don't trust God at all right now

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Because of some things that have happened you want to but you just don't know if you can

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Come on who am I talking to?

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Friends I will tell you control is exhausting and if we feel weary

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It's because we've probably been in a lot more control than we need to be

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It's exhausting because it it's not in our framework we're trying to do a job that we were never created to do

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So let's talk about why this grace life this shepherded life feels like a scam

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Can we talk about why it feels like a scam?

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Because it does sound too good to be true, right?

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Because all this is going on and then Jesus arrives with you know

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giving us all kinds of things that we didn't earn like

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forgiveness and

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Righteousness that we could never produce and love that we don't have to perform for so many of us have never known a love that we

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Didn't have to perform for and this is why some of y'all are still stuck in your dating lives because you out here overfunction and still

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Overfunctioning

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Jesus is offering us in Matthew 6 provision that we can't manufacture

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Belonging that we didn't earn right a

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Shepherd this always really touches my heart but a shepherd who's gonna go and search for you. I

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Definitely was you know that he leaves the 99 to go find the one

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I definitely was the one at one point in my life in my early 20s. I was the one I

474
00:27:37.600 --> 00:27:39.960
Was the one that he came and found anybody else?

475
00:27:42.280 --> 00:27:44.280
He's offering us eternal life

476
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:47.680
Bought and paid for by him and

477
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:52.320
Something inside of our little mortal heart says there's got to be a catch to this

478
00:27:52.320 --> 00:27:56.000
There's got to be a catch so we add one we added a catch you guys

479
00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.280
Can I tell you that we added a catch to it?

480
00:27:59.800 --> 00:28:05.600
Jesus said I came to seek and save that which was lost right and and John 3 16 says that he came into the world

481
00:28:05.600 --> 00:28:07.760
Not to condemn us but to what?

482
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:19.080
Give his life for us, right and then our little mortal hearts are like there has to be a catch and because there isn't a catch

483
00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:24.360
Because grace is scandalous. We added a catch and you know what? It's called religion

484
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.680
We added a catch

485
00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:35.240
Because religion says you better earn this do enough pray enough give enough serve enough behave enough

486
00:28:36.560 --> 00:28:40.960
Believe perfectly enough don't mess up and maybe God will be pleased with you

487
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:50.440
If you ever noticed religion puts you back as the source it puts you back into control it puts you back into self-shepherding

488
00:28:52.600 --> 00:28:59.160
Religion tells us we got to get good enough to get God but grace tells us God came and got you

489
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:02.960
Through his son Jesus Christ

490
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:05.920
Am I right?

491
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:08.240
You

492
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:15.640
Let's look at John 10 because people love John 10 and we love to quote John 10 10 the thief

493
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:17.880
Came to kill and steal and destroy

494
00:29:18.560 --> 00:29:20.440
It's like the beginning of a movie trailer

495
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:25.600
But I have come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly. We love that scripture

496
00:29:25.600 --> 00:29:27.600
We quote that scripture all the time

497
00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:33.440
The problem is is that that scripture the thief in that scripture is not the devil

498
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:35.960
What is it

499
00:29:36.520 --> 00:29:38.360
What is it?

500
00:29:38.360 --> 00:29:40.840
It's our catch. It's religion

501
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:43.760
Read the whole chapter not just 10 10

502
00:29:44.280 --> 00:29:48.200
Read John 10 read John 9 going into John 10

503
00:29:48.840 --> 00:29:50.200
What is Jesus doing?

504
00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:51.960
He's confronting the false

505
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:58.560
Shepherds and the religious leaders of that day that were burdening God's people rather than caring for them

506
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:10.000
Because we didn't just set up religion, y'all, we set up religious leaders and we start

507
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:11.800
worshiping them.

508
00:30:11.800 --> 00:30:15.240
A lot of them are oppressing people, did you know that?

509
00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.520
They're not shepherding people.

510
00:30:18.520 --> 00:30:24.440
You know how hard it is to find a good pastor, a good shepherd?

511
00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:29.800
I'm not here to down the church, but I'm going to tell you most churches are just LLCs, being

512
00:30:29.800 --> 00:30:33.320
led by a business leader.

513
00:30:33.320 --> 00:30:36.000
They're just small businesses.

514
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:37.000
God bless them.

515
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:42.440
God help them.

516
00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:46.880
I was blessed to have a good pastor in my life and I hope you have been blessed to see

517
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:48.880
what a real shepherd looks like.

518
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:53.240
They come to you when you're sick and you're broken.

519
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:55.080
They help you.

520
00:30:55.080 --> 00:30:56.080
They comfort you.

521
00:30:56.080 --> 00:30:57.080
They direct you.

522
00:30:57.080 --> 00:30:58.080
They counsel you.

523
00:30:58.080 --> 00:31:00.560
They're there for you in your time of need.

524
00:31:00.560 --> 00:31:06.040
They're an extension of the good shepherd.

525
00:31:06.040 --> 00:31:09.120
But you guys here in John 10, these people were doing the exact opposite.

526
00:31:09.120 --> 00:31:12.320
They were fleecing the flock, weren't they?

527
00:31:12.320 --> 00:31:13.920
They were saying, oh yeah, you want that?

528
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:14.920
You want a blessing?

529
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:16.340
You got to pay for it.

530
00:31:16.340 --> 00:31:17.340
That happens today too.

531
00:31:17.340 --> 00:31:18.340
Come on, friends.

532
00:31:18.340 --> 00:31:22.480
Sow a seed, sow a seed, give a tithe.

533
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:23.600
And I'm not against any of that.

534
00:31:23.600 --> 00:31:25.840
I believe in the law of sowing and reaping.

535
00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:27.120
It's God's law.

536
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:31.360
But anytime we oppress people and tell people that they cannot receive what happened at

537
00:31:31.360 --> 00:31:35.680
the finished work of the cross unless they give some money, that's not, that's not real.

538
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:36.680
That's not true.

539
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:38.000
That's not right.

540
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:40.360
And you might ask, well, then why does that happen for some people?

541
00:31:40.360 --> 00:31:44.600
They sow a seed because they're told that and then whatever they're asking for happens

542
00:31:44.600 --> 00:31:47.800
because it's by their faith that it's being done unto them.

543
00:31:47.800 --> 00:31:48.880
Not because it's a real thing.

544
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:50.560
It's by their faith that it's being done unto them.

545
00:31:50.560 --> 00:31:56.120
It's by their pure heartedness that it's being done unto them.

546
00:31:56.120 --> 00:31:57.440
It's not about what God can do.

547
00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:59.360
It's about what you believe he can do.

548
00:31:59.360 --> 00:32:08.440
And when people do anything in faith, faith produces miracles, doesn't it?

549
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:14.120
Now, I had no intention, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, you're meddling right now.

550
00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:16.600
I had no intention of this becoming this talk.

551
00:32:16.600 --> 00:32:22.120
I don't even know how we got here.

552
00:32:23.120 --> 00:32:26.280
Listen, I love the local church.

553
00:32:26.280 --> 00:32:28.760
I just told you that I got to get deeper into the flock.

554
00:32:28.760 --> 00:32:32.920
There are a lot of really, really good leaders and pastors, but there's a lot of bad ones

555
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:33.920
too.

556
00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:38.240
So just watch out for the bad shepherds, all right, friends, because they're out there.

557
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.560
And Jesus is strong with this.

558
00:32:41.560 --> 00:32:47.640
He contrasts them with thieves and robbers, with hired hands.

559
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:48.640
What does that mean?

560
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:51.760
People that just come in and because it doesn't belong to them, they don't take good care

561
00:32:51.760 --> 00:32:54.920
of it.

562
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:55.920
They don't care.

563
00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:56.920
It's just a job.

564
00:32:56.920 --> 00:32:59.480
It's just a paycheck.

565
00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:00.480
That's not their sheep.

566
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:03.800
It's just hired hands.

567
00:33:03.800 --> 00:33:06.360
And then of course, he talks about the good shepherd, which is himself.

568
00:33:06.360 --> 00:33:10.440
And then, so let's put that in context now with everything that we just heard and what

569
00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:12.040
it's really about.

570
00:33:12.040 --> 00:33:18.960
Then he comes and says, the thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy.

571
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.560
But I came that you might have life and that you might have it abundantly.

572
00:33:22.360 --> 00:33:23.360
You guys weren't abundantly there.

573
00:33:23.360 --> 00:33:24.360
It means overflow.

574
00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:27.880
It means being fully alive.

575
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:32.800
False shepherding takes from us, but Jesus, the good shepherd, gives to us.

576
00:33:32.800 --> 00:33:38.680
False shepherding burdens us, but Jesus brings life to us.

577
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:51.520
Bad shepherds bring fear, but good shepherds lay down their life for us, including Jesus.

578
00:33:51.520 --> 00:33:55.880
Religion, you guys, has produced exhausted sheep, but Jesus leads us into his green

579
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:56.880
pastures.

580
00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:01.680
Remember a different scripture that says, all you that are weary and heavy laden, come

581
00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:04.040
to me and I will give you rest.

582
00:34:04.040 --> 00:34:07.880
Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

583
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:11.520
You guys, I've said this a lot on Supernatural Saturday, but there's a lot of new people

584
00:34:11.520 --> 00:34:12.520
here.

585
00:34:12.520 --> 00:34:17.120
The yoke that he's talking about are the teachings of the leaders.

586
00:34:17.120 --> 00:34:22.080
Back in those days, every rabbi, so every quote unquote spiritual leader, had a yoke.

587
00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:27.000
They had a list of rules that you had to follow if you wanted to follow them.

588
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:32.719
And Jesus saying, come and follow me because my yoke, my list of rules is easy.

589
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.400
Remember when his disciples said, hey, what are the most important laws?

590
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:38.920
He said, love God and love others.

591
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:42.239
He said, my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

592
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:46.239
Some of these rabbis, their yokes were like a gazillion things before breakfast that you

593
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:47.360
had to do.

594
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:51.239
Cross every T, dot every I.

595
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:59.000
Religion produces exhausted sheep, you guys, but Jesus leads us into green pastures.

596
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:00.000
I want to get to some active...

597
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.320
We already know that when we wander away, the shepherd comes after us, right?

598
00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.480
He doesn't say, well, she should have known better.

599
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.160
He should have known better.

600
00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:13.640
He doesn't say, well, you know, that's what happens when you wander away.

601
00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:14.920
I've still got 99.

602
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:18.120
No, he goes after the one.

603
00:35:18.120 --> 00:35:20.760
And there have been seasons when each and every one of us were the one.

604
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:21.760
We were lost.

605
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:22.760
We were confused.

606
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:23.760
We were running.

607
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:24.760
We were hurting.

608
00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:26.480
We were distracted.

609
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:27.480
And he came after you.

610
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.760
I don't know how many of you can testify to a place where, you know, you just kind of

611
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:34.040
got cold in your faith.

612
00:35:34.040 --> 00:35:42.080
You weren't an unbeliever, but you weren't actively pursuing.

613
00:35:42.080 --> 00:35:45.440
You weren't actively growing.

614
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:51.120
And then all of a sudden something happened that just reminded you that he's a good, good

615
00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:56.080
father.

616
00:35:56.080 --> 00:35:57.480
That's something bad.

617
00:35:57.480 --> 00:35:58.860
My grandma used to threaten us.

618
00:35:58.860 --> 00:36:03.200
My grandma was a dyed-in-the-wool Pentecostal, and she just only knew a God of fear.

619
00:36:03.200 --> 00:36:04.200
That's all she knew.

620
00:36:04.200 --> 00:36:05.200
Bless her.

621
00:36:05.200 --> 00:36:06.200
I love her.

622
00:36:06.200 --> 00:36:07.520
She's in heaven.

623
00:36:07.520 --> 00:36:10.680
She's finally getting to see what his real character is, which is amazing.

624
00:36:10.680 --> 00:36:15.680
But she used to threaten us because she wanted us to live right.

625
00:36:15.680 --> 00:36:22.080
So she'd threaten us with God, God's going to get you, God's going to get you.

626
00:36:22.080 --> 00:36:28.200
She'd tell terrible stories about how God got them.

627
00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:32.320
You guys, and I was so full of love when I met Jesus, because remember, I wasn't a believer

628
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:33.320
during this time.

629
00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:36.280
And when I became a believer in my 20s, I'll never forget.

630
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:42.320
She was preaching to my 18-year-old cousin, and I was 22, and I was full of the love of

631
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:43.320
Jesus.

632
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:44.320
I knew Jesus.

633
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.040
I knew what he was really like.

634
00:36:46.040 --> 00:36:49.360
And she was preaching, and she was telling my cousin, because my cousin was not living

635
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:50.360
right.

636
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:54.760
And she's like, and telling her some scary story about what happened when, you know,

637
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:57.600
people weren't living right, you know, and stuff and blah, blah, blah, blah.

638
00:36:57.600 --> 00:37:01.120
And, you know, and half of it wasn't even true.

639
00:37:01.120 --> 00:37:04.480
And I just looked over and I was like, that's not true.

640
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:05.960
She got so mad.

641
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.160
Oh, Lord, she was mad.

642
00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:10.720
She was mad as a wet cat.

643
00:37:10.720 --> 00:37:13.960
If I was a little girl, she would have been like, go cut me a switch.

644
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.640
That's exactly what would have happened.

645
00:37:16.640 --> 00:37:19.360
But I was too big to be switched, y'all.

646
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:25.080
There was not going to be any switching on that day.

647
00:37:25.080 --> 00:37:28.080
My grandma was country as a turnip green.

648
00:37:28.080 --> 00:37:31.240
All right.

649
00:37:31.240 --> 00:37:34.400
You might have thought that you found God, but the whole time it was the shepherd coming

650
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:35.640
after you.

651
00:37:35.640 --> 00:37:38.640
It was the shepherd coming after you.

652
00:37:38.640 --> 00:37:40.440
Go listen to that song, Reckless Love.

653
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.000
It's a beautiful song.

654
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:43.480
He's coming after you.

655
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:45.080
He's going to kick down the doors.

656
00:37:45.080 --> 00:37:46.280
He's going to climb the walls.

657
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:49.920
He's going to do whatever he's got to do to come after you.

658
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:52.040
But can you receive his love when he gets there?

659
00:37:52.040 --> 00:37:54.480
I hope so.

660
00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:58.200
Can you receive the scandalous grace that he has to give?

661
00:37:58.200 --> 00:38:00.000
That sounds like a scam, but it's not.

662
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:01.000
All right.

663
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:02.480
So here's our activation.

664
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:09.920
Holy Spirit, reveal to me, remember my favorite prayer, teach me, show me, heal me, grow me.

665
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:16.000
Holy Spirit, show me where am I trying to be my own shepherd?

666
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:21.760
Finances, your dating, your children, your health, your career, come on.

667
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:23.240
What was the first thing that came to mind?

668
00:38:23.240 --> 00:38:25.360
Put it in the chat.

669
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.960
What place are you trying to take care of yourself most?

670
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:29.960
Get it in there.

671
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:30.960
Let's see it.

672
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:59.960
A lot of people in their finances.

673
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:06.840
Someone was just honest like all of life.

674
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:08.920
I'm just trying to take care of myself in every area.

675
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:09.920
Come on.

676
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:10.920
I love it.

677
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:11.920
I love the honesty and so does he.

678
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:12.920
All right.

679
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:20.920
Who's ready to resign the position of being their own shepherd?

680
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:25.280
Anyone ready to resign that position?

681
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.280
I know I am.

682
00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:29.640
So go ahead and say where you are right now.

683
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:37.160
Say, Jesus, I resign from being my own shepherd and I give you full responsibility for taking

684
00:39:37.160 --> 00:39:39.160
care of me.

685
00:39:39.160 --> 00:39:45.520
I give you full responsibility and I want you to close your eyes and picture yourself

686
00:39:45.520 --> 00:39:52.480
taking whatever it was that you put in the chat and laying it at your shepherd's feet.

687
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.560
Laying it at the cross, laying it at his feet, laying it at your shepherd's feet.

688
00:39:55.560 --> 00:39:59.320
Do you want to picture him as a shepherd with the staff?

689
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:13.840
By the way, his rod comforts me, doesn't abuse me, it doesn't beat me.

690
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:22.120
The shepherd never beat the sheep, y'all.

691
00:40:22.120 --> 00:40:30.880
Those things that he had, his rod and his staff were to lead and were to beat off predators.

692
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:33.320
They weren't to beat the sheep.

693
00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:40.200
Come on, picture yourself laying it down, lay it down, lay it down, lay it down.

694
00:40:40.200 --> 00:40:42.800
Now here's the thing, here's the kicker.

695
00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:47.120
After this call, you can't pick it back up.

696
00:40:47.120 --> 00:40:50.040
Every time it comes into your mind and you want to worry and you want to fret, go to

697
00:40:50.040 --> 00:40:56.960
Matthew 6 and remember that he clothes the lilies of the field and the grass of the earth.

698
00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:00.760
The birds of the air, they get a meal every day.

699
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:04.560
Now I think the birds need a memo because they're in the city eating french fries.

700
00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:06.920
I don't think that's what he had in mind for them.

701
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:10.040
We got to get these birds on.

702
00:41:10.040 --> 00:41:14.840
You guys, this shows you that creation is groaning and travailing, waiting for the revealing

703
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:20.360
of the sons and daughters of God because even the animals are off track.

704
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:25.200
The trash pandas, they're over here begging at my front door, trying to get me to feed

705
00:41:25.200 --> 00:41:26.200
them.

706
00:41:26.200 --> 00:41:31.120
I'm like, this is not the way you were created, trash panda.

707
00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:36.800
By the way, that's a raccoon.

708
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:37.960
They're so cute too, y'all.

709
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:38.960
They have rabies.

710
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:40.920
Stay away from them.

711
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:43.360
They will lure you in with their cuteness.

712
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:52.600
Now, they don't all have rabies, but they are one of the things that carry rabies, okay.

713
00:41:52.600 --> 00:41:53.600
Give it to them.

714
00:41:53.600 --> 00:41:54.600
Give it to them.

715
00:41:54.600 --> 00:41:55.600
Give it to them.

716
00:41:55.600 --> 00:41:57.040
Give it to them.

717
00:41:57.040 --> 00:41:58.600
So many songs coming into my head.

718
00:41:58.600 --> 00:42:03.800
Remember that old song, I'm trading my sorrows, I'm trading my pain, I'm laying them down

719
00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:04.800
for the joy of the Lord.

720
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:05.800
Yes, Lord.

721
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:06.800
Yes, Lord.

722
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:10.560
I'm going to get in trouble because we're not allowed to sing on these calls anymore.

723
00:42:11.200 --> 00:42:12.200
No one sent me an email.

724
00:42:12.200 --> 00:42:20.960
I barely sang.

725
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:26.520
John 10 27 says, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.

726
00:42:26.520 --> 00:42:34.000
My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.

727
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.980
It doesn't say that my sheep understand everything.

728
00:42:37.980 --> 00:42:41.500
It doesn't say that the sheep know what's going to happen next or they have a five-year

729
00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:44.580
plan and look, there's nothing wrong with having a plan because if you don't have a

730
00:42:44.580 --> 00:42:47.860
plan, God doesn't have any steps to order.

731
00:42:47.860 --> 00:42:51.460
Make a plan all you want to, but then understand that you've got to trust him with all your

732
00:42:51.460 --> 00:42:54.420
heart and lean not to your understanding, but acknowledge him in all your ways and he

733
00:42:54.420 --> 00:42:56.340
will direct your path.

734
00:42:56.340 --> 00:43:05.820
Make a plan, but be flexible because the plan is just a suggestion.

735
00:43:05.820 --> 00:43:07.380
God's going to order your steps.

736
00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:14.860
His word's going to be a light to your feet, into your path, amen?

737
00:43:14.860 --> 00:43:15.860
So what does this look like?

738
00:43:15.860 --> 00:43:16.860
My sheep hear my voice.

739
00:43:16.860 --> 00:43:17.860
I know them and they follow me.

740
00:43:17.860 --> 00:43:24.340
It looks like a relationship, doesn't it?

741
00:43:24.340 --> 00:43:30.220
And you guys, if you can liken this, if sheep, if you have a hard time liking it to, liking

742
00:43:30.220 --> 00:43:36.740
yourself to a sheep, liking yourself to a child, a small child, the word of God says

743
00:43:36.740 --> 00:43:38.960
we have to become children to enter the kingdom of God.

744
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:39.960
Why is it?

745
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:40.960
Because same difference.

746
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:44.060
Sheep, children, they can't fend for themselves.

747
00:43:44.060 --> 00:43:45.060
They need to be protected.

748
00:43:45.060 --> 00:43:46.060
They need to be led.

749
00:43:46.060 --> 00:43:47.060
They need to be guided.

750
00:43:47.060 --> 00:43:50.300
My kids never woke up in the morning when they were little, tiny, and jumped out of

751
00:43:50.300 --> 00:43:53.940
bed and said, yep, grabbed their little briefcase and headed out.

752
00:43:53.940 --> 00:43:57.380
No, that's not what happened.

753
00:43:57.380 --> 00:44:06.300
These kids didn't even know what socks were without my help.

754
00:44:06.860 --> 00:44:07.860
They come to you.

755
00:44:07.860 --> 00:44:08.860
What's for breakfast?

756
00:44:08.860 --> 00:44:09.860
What's for lunch?

757
00:44:09.860 --> 00:44:10.860
What's for dinner?

758
00:44:10.860 --> 00:44:11.860
What are we doing now?

759
00:44:11.860 --> 00:44:12.860
What's going to happen next?

760
00:44:12.860 --> 00:44:13.860
How do I do this?

761
00:44:13.860 --> 00:44:14.860
Help me.

762
00:44:14.860 --> 00:44:15.860
Help me.

763
00:44:15.860 --> 00:44:16.860
Help me.

764
00:44:16.860 --> 00:44:17.860
Help me.

765
00:44:17.860 --> 00:44:18.860
Help me.

766
00:44:18.860 --> 00:44:21.860
It's funny because that's the same kid that said, I do it myself.

767
00:44:21.860 --> 00:44:26.820
It's like, oh, okay, well, obviously, you don't do it yourself.

768
00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:28.860
Is this exactly how we are though with God?

769
00:44:28.860 --> 00:44:32.540
He's like, oh, yeah, go ahead, try to do it yourself.

770
00:44:32.540 --> 00:44:33.540
Okay.

771
00:44:33.540 --> 00:44:34.540
Well, let me help you.

772
00:44:34.780 --> 00:44:39.300
But just imagine a sheep waking up and being like, okay, everybody, what's our strategy

773
00:44:39.300 --> 00:44:40.300
today?

774
00:44:40.300 --> 00:44:41.300
What's our water strategy?

775
00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:42.300
What's our food strategy?

776
00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:45.500
Has anyone researched the pasture conditions out there?

777
00:44:45.500 --> 00:44:49.580
What's our predator saturation plan?

778
00:44:49.580 --> 00:44:52.580
What's the five-year grazing forecast?

779
00:44:52.580 --> 00:44:56.500
No, sheep don't do that.

780
00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:59.380
They wake up and they say, bah, that's it.

781
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.520
Actually, I just want to tell you, back in the day when I found out that we were sheep

782
00:45:07.520 --> 00:45:11.760
and he was the shepherd, I was kind of mildly offended because sheep are dumb.

783
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:15.960
If you've ever been around sheep, if you grow up with a farm in your life in any way, shape

784
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:19.240
or form, they are not smart animals, okay?

785
00:45:19.240 --> 00:45:20.240
They're not.

786
00:45:20.240 --> 00:45:24.160
And I'm like, oh, okay.

787
00:45:24.160 --> 00:45:28.960
No, the sheep have one question and one question alone.

788
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.080
Where is my shepherd?

789
00:45:31.080 --> 00:45:35.480
Because wherever he's going, I'm going.

790
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:37.760
Remember friends, you don't need to know where the provision is.

791
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:40.640
You don't need to know where the green pasture is or the still water is.

792
00:45:40.640 --> 00:45:44.660
All you need to know is where the shepherd is.

793
00:45:44.660 --> 00:45:49.280
So when God showed me John 15 back in the day, I used to say something over and over

794
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.920
and over again to remind myself, I'm just a branch.

795
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:52.920
I'm just a branch.

796
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:53.920
I'm just a branch.

797
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:54.920
I'm just a branch.

798
00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:55.920
I'm just a branch.

799
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:56.920
I'm just a branch.

800
00:45:56.920 --> 00:45:57.920
You guys, I was a striver.

801
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:03.240
I was an over-functioner because of my childhood and I needed to remind myself I'm just a branch.

802
00:46:03.240 --> 00:46:08.840
Anytime it came into my heart, oh my God, I can't do this anymore, God's like, good.

803
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:11.040
I never told you to do it in the first place.

804
00:46:11.040 --> 00:46:13.760
God, I can't take it anymore.

805
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:14.760
Okay.

806
00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:15.760
That's good to know.

807
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:16.760
Give it to me.

808
00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:17.760
Come on, y'all.

809
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.440
When you're at the end of your rope, you need to get on his rope.

810
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:24.800
People are like, when you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and swing.

811
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:25.800
No.

812
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:28.760
When you're at the end of your rope, you need to get on his rope.

813
00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:30.160
How about that?

814
00:46:30.160 --> 00:46:34.560
You need to grab a hold of the rope that's been thrown to you.

815
00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:40.840
You don't need your own rope.

816
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:43.000
Branches do not produce fruit through anxiety.

817
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.320
They don't scream, come on, grapes.

818
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:46.320
No.

819
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:48.000
They just remain connected.

820
00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:49.920
Life flows through the vine, you guys.

821
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:50.920
It is natural.

822
00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:52.480
It is organic.

823
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:55.040
Fruit is the result of relationship.

824
00:46:55.040 --> 00:46:56.880
Grace doesn't mean that you don't do anything.

825
00:46:56.880 --> 00:47:00.520
Grace means that you stop trying to be the source of it.

826
00:47:00.520 --> 00:47:04.960
See, people get this message wrong and then they go sit in some waiting room and wait

827
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:06.320
for God to do everything.

828
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:07.320
No.

829
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:09.160
Grace doesn't mean that you don't do anything.

830
00:47:09.160 --> 00:47:13.480
It just means that you know that you're not the source of the thing.

831
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.480
You know where your help comes from.

832
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:16.480
All right.

833
00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:24.460
I'm going to do one more little activation, then I got to go because I got to go speak

834
00:47:24.460 --> 00:47:27.980
at this to these singles that are stuck in situationships.

835
00:47:27.980 --> 00:47:33.700
I want you to close your eyes.

836
00:47:33.700 --> 00:47:37.100
And for a moment right now, you are not the mom.

837
00:47:37.100 --> 00:47:38.100
You're not the dad.

838
00:47:38.100 --> 00:47:41.260
You're not the CEO or the leader or the provider.

839
00:47:41.260 --> 00:47:46.500
You're not the strong friend that has the good advice.

840
00:47:46.500 --> 00:47:47.500
You're not the doormat.

841
00:47:47.500 --> 00:47:48.500
You're not the victim.

842
00:47:48.500 --> 00:47:51.780
You're not the problem solver.

843
00:47:51.900 --> 00:47:55.860
You're not the person that everyone else needs.

844
00:47:55.860 --> 00:47:56.860
Close them.

845
00:47:56.860 --> 00:47:57.860
Close them.

846
00:47:57.860 --> 00:47:58.860
Unless you're driving.

847
00:47:58.860 --> 00:47:59.860
Close them.

848
00:47:59.860 --> 00:48:00.860
Close them.

849
00:48:00.860 --> 00:48:01.860
I see people just sitting there staring at the camera.

850
00:48:01.860 --> 00:48:02.860
Close your eyes.

851
00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:07.580
You're not any of those things right now.

852
00:48:07.580 --> 00:48:08.580
You're just a little lamb.

853
00:48:08.580 --> 00:48:09.580
You're just a little lamb.

854
00:48:09.580 --> 00:48:21.900
And I want you to picture Jesus just picking you up.

855
00:48:21.900 --> 00:48:23.380
You didn't earn his affection.

856
00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:25.220
You're not impressing him.

857
00:48:25.220 --> 00:48:26.540
You're not performing for him.

858
00:48:26.540 --> 00:48:32.460
You're just simply being held by him.

859
00:48:32.460 --> 00:48:33.460
You're being held by him.

860
00:48:33.460 --> 00:48:36.180
You're just a little lamb.

861
00:48:36.180 --> 00:48:39.500
And he's saying to you, I've got you.

862
00:48:39.500 --> 00:48:41.660
You belong to me.

863
00:48:41.660 --> 00:48:45.580
I know what you need before you even ask.

864
00:48:45.580 --> 00:48:46.580
And this is a big one.

865
00:48:46.580 --> 00:48:48.940
He's saying, I know where we're going.

866
00:48:48.940 --> 00:48:51.500
He's not just saying, I know where you're going.

867
00:48:51.500 --> 00:48:56.020
He's saying, I know where we're going, where we're going together.

868
00:48:56.020 --> 00:49:00.380
So you can rest.

869
00:49:00.380 --> 00:49:05.540
You can rest.

870
00:49:05.540 --> 00:49:09.740
And friends, Jesus is taking you into green pastures.

871
00:49:09.740 --> 00:49:11.180
He is.

872
00:49:11.180 --> 00:49:14.260
He's taking you into great opportunities and relationships.

873
00:49:14.260 --> 00:49:17.060
He's leading you through a transition.

874
00:49:17.060 --> 00:49:20.100
If you let him, he'll give you rest during all of it.

875
00:49:20.100 --> 00:49:27.620
If you learn how to receive, tell him, say, God, let me be a good receiver.

876
00:49:27.620 --> 00:49:30.180
It's going to help you let that thing go.

877
00:49:30.180 --> 00:49:33.060
He's going to help you step into that new season.

878
00:49:33.060 --> 00:49:37.340
If you just need help believing that God really is this good, he's going to do that

879
00:49:37.340 --> 00:49:39.420
for you, too, if you ask him to.

880
00:49:39.420 --> 00:49:43.700
Remember, he knows what you have need of.

881
00:49:43.700 --> 00:49:47.580
And remember, yes, grace is scandalous, but grace wasn't free.

882
00:49:47.580 --> 00:49:49.420
It was just free for you.

883
00:49:49.420 --> 00:49:51.180
The shepherd paid for it.

884
00:49:51.180 --> 00:49:56.420
The good shepherd laid down his life for us.

885
00:49:56.420 --> 00:50:00.020
And all we have to do now is receive, abide, listen, follow, trust.

886
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.000
I'm just a branch.

887
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:02.000
I'm just a branch.

888
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:05.080
I'm just a branch, or I'm just a sheep.

889
00:50:05.080 --> 00:50:06.080
I'm just a lamb.

890
00:50:06.080 --> 00:50:07.080
I'm just a lamb.

891
00:50:07.080 --> 00:50:08.080
I'm just a lamb.

892
00:50:08.080 --> 00:50:09.080
I'm just a child.

893
00:50:09.080 --> 00:50:10.080
I'm just a child.

894
00:50:10.080 --> 00:50:13.840
I'm just a child.

895
00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:15.840
So I'm going to release this over you right now.

896
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.680
The Lord is my shepherd.

897
00:50:19.680 --> 00:50:21.040
You are his.

898
00:50:21.040 --> 00:50:22.040
You know his voice.

899
00:50:22.040 --> 00:50:23.040
You know his name.

900
00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:24.040
You know that you're not abandoned.

901
00:50:24.040 --> 00:50:25.040
You're not forgotten.

902
00:50:25.040 --> 00:50:27.160
You don't have to control everything.

903
00:50:27.160 --> 00:50:32.000
You no longer have to provide everything for yourself, and you don't have to know everything.

904
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:33.280
You don't have to earn his goodness.

905
00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:36.920
You don't have to perform for his love because he's going to lead you and restore you and

906
00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:42.700
protect you and provide for you, and he knows where all the good green grass is.

907
00:50:42.700 --> 00:50:48.620
He knows where all the good, fresh, sweet water is, and so from this point forward,

908
00:50:48.620 --> 00:50:52.600
you are going to remember to stop shepherding yourself, but you're going to stay close to

909
00:50:52.600 --> 00:50:56.900
the shepherd, and every time you're wondering where something is, the provision, whatever

910
00:50:56.900 --> 00:50:59.900
it is that you have need of, instead, you're going to say, well, I don't need to know where

911
00:50:59.900 --> 00:51:00.900
that is.

912
00:51:00.900 --> 00:51:01.900
I need to know where the shepherd is.

913
00:51:01.900 --> 00:51:02.900
Jesus, where are you?

914
00:51:02.900 --> 00:51:06.940
Show me where you are in all of this because his goodness and mercy is following you all

915
00:51:06.940 --> 00:51:10.860
the days of your life.

916
00:51:10.860 --> 00:51:12.020
All the days of your life.

917
00:51:12.020 --> 00:51:13.300
The Lord is your shepherd.

918
00:51:13.300 --> 00:51:19.260
You shall not want, you shall not want.

919
00:51:19.260 --> 00:51:21.460
Yes, Lord, we receive all that.

920
00:51:21.460 --> 00:51:23.180
We thank you for it.

921
00:51:23.180 --> 00:51:26.980
And so, good shepherd, where are you leading us today?

922
00:51:26.980 --> 00:51:27.980
Show us.

923
00:51:27.980 --> 00:51:31.900
Let us hear your voice clearly as we go forward.

924
00:51:31.900 --> 00:51:34.860
Let us follow you so that others can follow us in Jesus' name.

925
00:51:34.860 --> 00:51:35.860
Amen.

926
00:51:35.860 --> 00:51:36.860
All right.

927
00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:37.860
I love you all.

928
00:51:37.860 --> 00:51:37.860