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12-2 and after the deportation to

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Babylon Janiah was the father of shiel

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and shtil the father of zerubabel and

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zerubabel the father of abud and abud

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the father of elim and elim the father

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of Azor and Azor the father of zadok and

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zadok the father of Akim and aim the

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father of elod and elod the father of

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elad AR and elazar the father of Matten

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and Matten the father of Jacob and Jacob

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the father of Joseph the husband of Mary

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of whom Jesus was born who is called

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Christ so all the generations from

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Abraham to David were 14 generations and

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from David to the deportation to Babylon

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14 generations and from the deportation

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to Babylon to the Christ 14 Generations

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now the birth of Jesus Christ took place

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in this way when his mother Mary had

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been betrothed to Joseph before they

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came together she was found to be with

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child from the Holy Spirit and her

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husband Joseph being a just man and

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unwilling to put her to shame resolved

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to divorce her quietly but as he

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considered these things behold an angel

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of the Lord appeared to him in a dream

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saying Joseph son of David do not fear

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to take Mary as your wife for that which

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is conceived in her is from the Holy

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Spirit she will bear a son and you shall

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call his name Jesus for he will save his

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people from their

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sins all this took place to fulfill what

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the Lord had spoken by the

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prophet behold the Virgin shall conceive

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and bear a son and they shall call his

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Emmanuel which means god with us when

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Joseph woke from his sleep he did as the

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angel of the Lord commanded him he took

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his wife but knew her not until she had

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given birth to a son and he called his

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Jesus hey everybody good morning and

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welcome to CCC uh really really glad

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you're here so uh thanks for coming uh

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before I get started I want to tell you

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about a Ministry that my wife Karen and

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I are really excited about it's actually

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a Ministry that Jim College started

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before he retired and we feel so

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strongly about it that we decided to

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take it over and this ministry has one

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goal we only want to do one thing and

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this is what we want to do we're going

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to make grandparenting great again okay

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that's it that's it all

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right uh in all seriousness we uh have

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what we call the grandparents huddle and

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we meet uh once a month the first Sunday

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of the month over in the gym at the

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10:00 hour and we do it for a serious

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reason one we want to make we want to be

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intentional about grandparenting and the

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reason I'm so passionate about it is

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because it finally hit me that being a

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grandfather is my last big role and I

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want to do it well so if you're a

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grandparent I want to invite you to the

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grandparent huddle if you have a

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grandparent that goes to this church or

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that lives in this area invite them you

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can get more information out at the next

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steps area but uh let's do it together

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let's make grandparenting great again

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all right thanks for letting me have a

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little fun with that all right we are in

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the third week of our Advent series and

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the word Advent implies

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anticipation waiting and waiting can be

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hard that's why we have this mock

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waiting room set up here and if you've

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ever been in a waiting room and and I

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have one of things that makes it hard is

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that you you don't know what's going on

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on the other side of the door and when

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I've been in a waiting room there have

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been times where I've just been longing

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for somebody to tell me something tell

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me anything because silence can be the

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toughest part about waiting the title of

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this message is waiting in

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silence waiting in silence we're looking

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at Matthew chapter 1 if you want to turn

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there if you have your Bibles you can

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turn to Matthew chapter 1 if you want to

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use one of our Bibles it's on page 757

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or you can just wait for the verses that

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come up on the screen in Matthew chapter

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is really the story of the birth of

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Jesus but before it gets to the story of

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the birth of Jesus there's a

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genealogy a list of names and we

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actually spared you the first 11 verses

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of the genealogy you know uh the Old

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King James Bible which is the Bible I

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grew up with uh doesn't say

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that like Abraham was the father of

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Isaac Isaac was the father of Jacob it

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it uses the word begat like Abraham

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begat Isaac Isaac begat Jacob there are

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a lot of begats here there are 42 to be

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exact 42 Generations

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42 names and we we left out we left the

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last 14 and read those 14 to you not

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just to give you a taste of the

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uh but during that those 14 Generations

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there were no prophets in Israel now if

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you remember a prophet is somebody who

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stands between God and people and the

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prophet would give the message of God to

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the people with no prophets that meant

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God went silent and he was silent for

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400 years through all 14

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Generations now you have to be careful

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with the Silence of God because it's

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easy to think when God goes silent

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whether it's in the Bible or in your

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life that he is not paying attention

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that he he doesn't really care but I

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always think of the Book of Job you know

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the Book of Job is uh known as a book

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about suffering and it is but it's not

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just a book about suffering it's also a

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book about waiting and waiting in

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silence because the Book of Job starts

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with like a peak behind the curtain at a

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conversation that job is not privy to

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it's a conversation between God and

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Satan and now God says to Satan have you

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seen my servant job it's obvious that

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God loves job and Satan says to God does

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job love you for nothing you have filled

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his life with blessings you've made his

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life easy if his life ever gets hard he

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will curse you to your face and what

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Satan is saying is God no one loves you

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for you you're like a rich man who has

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to buy his friends like as long as you

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are piling on blessings to somebody they

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feel like they love you but if you ever

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remove those

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blessings they will hate you and God

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says job loves me for me and Satan

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says want to bet and I'm paraphrasing

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that all right and then what happens is

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that God gives permission for Satan to

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make job's life hard and if you know the

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story you know that's a gross

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understatement his life gets incredibly

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hard The Book of Job is 42 chapters long

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God does not speak until chapter

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38 for all that time he is silent and

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job thinks that God is not paying

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attention that God doesn't care but he

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couldn't have been more

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wrong because when you're reading the

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story you realize that all of Heaven is

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like on the edge of their seats watching

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everything job does wondering if job

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will be the one who loves God just for

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god listen waiting is hard and if you

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are here right now and you feel like you

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are waiting in

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silence then I want you to know this

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message is for you I told you last week

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that God loves patterns and there's a

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pattern In this passage we're looking at

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all right here are my three points and

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they're pretty simple so you know where

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I'm going I want to talk about when why

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and how when God goes silent why God

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goes silent and then finally how God

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breaks his silence first when God goes

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silent when I was a kid and I would uh

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read the gospel of Matthew when I

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started Matthew chapter 1 I would just

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blow through all those names I wouldn't

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even really look at them because they

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seem completely irrelevant at least to

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me but the Bible's inspired by God so

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that means everything's in here for a

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reason and that means the genealogy is

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there for a reason if for no other

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reason to let you know that you aren't

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the only one who has waited on God and

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silence but Zach told us in the first

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message that he gave in this series that

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waiting on God is that gap between god

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making a promise and God keeping that

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promise however long that time is that's

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waiting all right in in Genesis chapter

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Abraham who is the first name on this

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list and the promise to Abraham was that

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someone was going to come from Abraham's

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bloodline and through that one person

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all the world would be blessed and that

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promise was fulfilled with Jesus but in

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between Abraham and Jesus is 2,000 years

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waiting now there are times in my life

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where I have been desperate for God to

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to break his silence to let me know what

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was going on to let me know what he

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wanted me to do

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but waiting on God particularly waiting

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in silence is also

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trusting because the gap between god

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making a promise and God keeping a

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promise isn't just

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trusting one of the things that Zach has

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mentioned uh that I don't know if I ever

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heard anyone else mention before Zach

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talks about God's

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resume uh and The more I've thought

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about it the The more I've loved that

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idea because a resume is something you

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put together that tells somebody what

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you have done in the past so they know

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what they can expect in the

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future God has a resume and when I am

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waiting for God particularly waiting in

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silence I need to go someplace where I

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can look at his resume and one of the

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places I can go is this list of names

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these 42 names of people who some of

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them some of these names I can't even

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pronounce some of them I know I

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pronounce wrong and they all these 42

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names until God fulfills his promise to

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Joseph and that's my

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name Joseph A man whose friends might

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have called him Joe like my friends call

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me Joe and I'm reminded that when I'm

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waiting on God I'm waiting in between

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when God makes a promise when he keeps a

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promise

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and I can trust him because of his

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resume because the greatest promise he

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ever made he fulfilled in the coming of

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Jesus that brings me to my second point

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is why why God goes silent I can think

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of three reasons why God makes us wait

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waiting does something inside of us

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waiting does something inside of others

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and waiting does something for the world

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first waiting does something inside of

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us I've been had the privilege of being

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a father of three I have a son named

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Jeremy and two daughters Rachel and

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Becca and I got to watch them go through

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all the stages from infant to toddler to

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teen to young adult now to full-fledged

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adults with their own families and I'm a

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grandfather watching my grandchildren go

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through the same stages and at every

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stage there are crucial things for

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someone to learn and there some of those

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lessons have been I've been able to

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apply to my spiritual life as well I I

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think of when my son Jeremy when he was

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about two or three he fell and needed to

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go get

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stitches he actually fell because he was

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trying to fill his squirt gun and the

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only water source he could reach was the

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toilet which I applaud his Ingenuity but

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that's about all I applaud there but

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while he was trying to fill it he

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slipped and he hit his head on the

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porcelain and I had to take him to the

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emergency room to get stitches and

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because he was so young they put him in

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what they called the papoose where they

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just strapped him down like this and he

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was scared and I remember looking at him

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and trying to calm him down just saying

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Jeremy it's going to be okay it's going

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to be okay it's going to be okay but

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when that doctor uh put the shot of

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Xylocaine into his eye and it stung

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Jeremy looked at me with eyes full of

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betrayal and he said Daddy it's not okay

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it's not okay right it broke my heart

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because there's no way I could get him

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to understand that what was happening

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was for his

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good it was for his

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benefit I've watched uh my toddlers and

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my grandchildren go through the the

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painful process of learning to wait you

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know toddlers are uh

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they want everything like right now like

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if they don't get their snack now they

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lose their mind right no toddler is born

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with

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patience but if a toddler doesn't learn

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to wait to develop patience they don't

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become like well-rounded adults with

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just a little bit of lack of patience

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humans are are way too complex for that

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patience is connected to all kinds of

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stuff if they don't develop patience

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they won't don't develop trust or

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gratitude or unselfishness or the

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ability to love or hope or perseverance

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there are all kinds of things that are

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connected to waiting learning to wait

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and I I was thinking about myself and

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that I think technology has not done me

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any favors with my patience because

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technology puts things immediate again

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and when like what if I'm working on my

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computer and that little spinning like

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wheel comes up that's multicolored I

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have to fight my toddler urge to lose my

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mind while I'm waiting for my computer

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to start working again if I'm driving

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around town and I'm stuck behind

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somebody who's driving below the speed

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limit I always say something like I

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don't roll down my window and say it I

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just say it to myself you know like if

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if you are someone who drives below the

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speed limit and town and I've been stuck

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behind you I've I've talked about

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you but I wonder if when God makes me

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wait even in silence I wonder if it's

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not unlike Jeremy with

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stitches that God just cannot make me

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understand that what is happening is for

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my good and for my

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benefit and I just don't get

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it waiting does something inside of us

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waiting also does something inside of

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others you know it's hard to have

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perfect timing for anything uh the one

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time I remember wanting to have per the

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timing to be perfect was when I was

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getting engaged uh to my wife Karen and

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I had it all planned out in my head and

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it was going to be a surprise to her and

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we the idea was that we're going to

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drive from the college we were going to

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to her parents house I'd asked her dad's

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permission and IID told them that I was

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going to uh ask her to marry me that

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night when we got there and so I had

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that in my mind we're driving it took

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about five hours to drive from our

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College to Karen's parents home and uh I

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made a couple of bad turns and so we

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were running late at least for my

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schedule and then uh Karen leaned over

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cuz she saw our gas my gas gauge and she

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said hey should we stop and get gas and

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I said I know when I need gas right and

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I could just see my perfect night

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crumbling around the edges because I had

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hurt her feelings I had to try to make

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up to her because I was trying to make

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this night perfect we ended up getting

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we got engaged we made it I didn't need

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gas right I will finish that story

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though that uh the next morning my

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future father-in-law decided to do

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something nice for me and he uh took

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took my car to go get gas he ran out of

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gas a half mile from his from his I had

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to walk back that's the way my

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relationship started with my

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father-in-law it's hard to have perfect

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timing right all I had to do was I was

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trying to have perfect timing for just

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two people me and Karen there's a

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passage in Galatians Galatians 4:4

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listen to this it says but when the

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fullness of time had

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come God sent forth his son born of

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woman born under the

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law but when the fullness of time had

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come God sent his son at just the right

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time with perfect time for Who and the

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answer is for

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everyone for

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everyone I mean it's it's incredible all

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the the complexities that God has to all

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the variables God has to take into

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consideration when he does anything I I

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always think of a of a Rubik's Cube I

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like this even though I I can't solve it

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and I know some of you can solve it and

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are itching to get up here and solve it

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but uh one of the things I like about a

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Rubik's Cube is because it reminds me

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that things are more

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complex than I think like I if I think

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of one row and I move it it actually

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impacts everything else I think that's

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the way God has to he's not just

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concerned about you he's and he's not

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just concerned about the people that you

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know but everybody around you and then

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for multiple Generations right because

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the only reason you even exist is

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because you're great great great

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grandfather ran into your great great

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great grandmother in some weird way and

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they made a connection and they decided

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to get married and have kids and then it

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happened again and again and again and

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then you're here right because even the

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smallest things in the past have

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impacted the present and the Very

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smallest things that are happening right

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now are impacting the future you realize

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that so when God is making you wait is

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not just doing something inside of you

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it's actually doing something for

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everyone around you people you know and

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people you don't and generations to come

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who don't even exist

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yet listen when when God makes you wait

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one of the reasons he does it is it's

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it's doing something inside of you but

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it's also doing something inside of

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others and finally God is doing

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something for the world one of the

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things that theologians and

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historians who Ponder Galatians 4:4 that

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in the fullness of time at just the

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right time God sent his son into the

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world one of the things that historians

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have noticed is that there are some

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things that happened in the first

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century that had never happened before

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in the history of the world the first

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was peace the Roman Empire had

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established peace across the entire

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Empire was one of the only times the

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entire known world was at peace they

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called it pox Romana right the Peace of

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Rome second thing is that Rome decided

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to build a network of roads to connect

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the empire unlike anything that had ever

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been done before that's where the phrase

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comes all roads lead to Rome and finally

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there was a universal language where

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Greek had infiltrated the entire Empire

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so that everyone knew Greek here's a

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question how are people going to know

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that

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Emmanuel God With Us was born in the

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Backwater Town of

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Bethlehem I'll tell you

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they'll travel roads that go to the

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furthest reaches of the Empire they're

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going to speak in a language that

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everyone knows and they're going to do

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it when the world is at peace for one of

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the only times listen when God is making

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you

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wait do not

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underestimate all that he is doing in

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that time all right that BR brings me to

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the last point which is uh

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what happens when God how God breaks his

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silence look at this this is the story

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of jesus' birth let me read it this is

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verses 18- 25 I love this passage it

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says now the birth of Jesus Christ took

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place in this way when his mother Mary

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had been betrothed to Joseph before they

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came together she was found to be a

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child from the Holy Spirit and her

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husband Joseph being a just man and

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unwilling to put her to shame resolved

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to divorce her quietly but as he

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considered these things behold an angel

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of the Lord appeared to him in a dream

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saying Joseph son of David do not fear

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to take Mary as your wife for that which

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is conceived in her is from the Holy

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Spirit she will bear a son you shall

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call his name Jesus for he shall save

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his people from their sins all this took

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place to fulfill what the Lord had

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spoken by the prophet behold the Virgin

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shall conceive and bear a son and they

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shall call his name Emmanuel which means

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god with us when Joseph woke from sleep

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he did as the angel of the Lord

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commanded him he took his wife but knew

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her not until she had given birth to a

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son and he called his name

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Jesus so when God breaks his silence he

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does so

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suddenly suddenly he he's not like you

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know I I get notified by ups that a

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package is coming sometime between 10

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and 3 kind of to give me an idea of what

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that's not the way God does does it 400

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years of silence and all of a sudden a

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young woman named Mary turns around and

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there's an angel who has a message for

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her from God 400 years of silence and a

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man named Joseph goes to bed and dream

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in his dream an angel appears to him

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with a message from God this is the

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thing if you are waiting for God in

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silence one moment you will be waiting

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and the next moment you won't be when

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God breaks his silence he does it

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suddenly the second thing is when God

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breaks his silence it is unexpected this

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this whole story is full of surprises I

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if you noticed but it's crazy it's it's

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full of of dreams and angels and a a

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virgin and a baby and a star and wise

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men and Shepherds I mean no one expected

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any of those things it wasn't what

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people were expecting it wasn't what

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people were praying for and this is the

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thing when God breaks his silence he may

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not give you the answer that you were

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expecting or even that you were praying

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for and that's okay because when God

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breaks his silence it is

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absolutely

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wonderful because it's beyond anything

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you could

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imagine look at verse 23 he says behold

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the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son

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and they shall call his name Emmanuel

555
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which means god with us God didn't just

556
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speak he came and Jesus came he said

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call his name Jesus for he will save his

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people from their sins listen if you are

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waiting for God to do something in your

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life and you feel like you've been

561
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waiting in silence for a while don't

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miss what God wants to do in you and

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through you in the midst of this time

564
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but also remember that in between god

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making a promise and God keeping a

566
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promise is when you are waiting and

567
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sometimes that's in silence but when God

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breaks his silence it will happen

569
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suddenly it may be completely

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unexpected but it will be more

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wonderful than you can imagine because

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when God breaks his silence it's always

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always worth the wait would you pray

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with me

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Father in heaven we come to you and I'm

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so grateful for this passage even for

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these names that I can scarcely

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pronounce because they remind me of

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people that waited in silence but you

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00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:50,520
had not forgotten them just as you have

581
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not forgotten us I pray for every person

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here that you would remind them of Your

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Love of your resume

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that you are

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faithful and I pray that you would speak

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and break your silence soon for them

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pray this in Jesus name amen