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my husband often praise as I'm getting
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ready to go speak or record he's praise
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Lord help Nancy to be the one to go
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first help that her to say yes to you
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about the things she's teaching before
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she teaches them to others he prays that
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God will do the work in me first and I
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prayed that myself for many years but
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I'm so thankful now to have someone who
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is praying that specifically as we come
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into a time like this
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tonight we're going to come together
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with tens perhaps of hundreds of
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thousands of other women around the
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world to cry out to the Lord on behalf
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of our families our churches our nations
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and the world but before we can do that
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we need God to do the work in us first
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and as I was seeking the Lord about what
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I should speak on this weekend actually
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I normally speak on the opening night
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Robert said to me a few weeks ago I
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think you need to speak on the subject
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of brokenness he had heard a message
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that I'd given unbroken as many years
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ago and he said I think that's the
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message you need to give and he said I
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think you need to do it on Friday
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morning before you have the concert of
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prayer before you have the cry out time
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well I had not thought for a moment
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about doing this message it's been many
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years since I've shared it it's a
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message that's very dear to my heart
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I've written a book on the subject but
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it just wasn't on my mind but I listened
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I thought I think God is leading through
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Roberts counsel our team talked we
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prayed together and we agreed that
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before we pray for others we need to let
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God do this work of humility and
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brokenness in our own hearts so we can
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pray effectively tonight and in the days
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ahead so over these next moments I want
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to talk about the principle of
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brokenness what it means what it is what
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it isn't and then illustrate it in God's
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Word with a number of people that show
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what it is to be broken or to not be
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broken and then I'll talk about the
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fruit of brokenness and then invite us
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to take a step of brokenness however God
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is speaking now I know what's in my
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notes I know what I'm planning to say
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and praying that the Lord will direct me
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as I speak but what I don't know is how
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the Holy Spirit will apply what I'm
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about to say to your heart to your
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situation one of the things I pray going
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into conferences like this I've been
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praying it over this past week or so
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it's Lord would you create circumstances
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in women's lives who are coming to this
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conference that will make them realize
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how much they need you will you make us
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desperate for you by circumstances that
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you create in our week how many of you
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would say now that you hear that God
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answered that prayer in your life this
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week now don't blame me but God loves us
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enough that he knows if we walk into a
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place like this and we're fine and we
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think we have no need why are we gonna
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cry out to him
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you don't call an ambulance unless you
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have a need and when you call and say
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911s per when somebody's had a heart
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attack here or somebody's falling down
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or there's an injury the ambulance comes
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racing to the scene of need and I
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envision God's grace as being a little
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bit like that ambulance you might call
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it a grace ambulance that comes racing
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to the scene of our need when we call
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out for always say lord I need you I
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think there are hardly sweeter words
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that God could hear a say and so God
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creates circumstances and you thought
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that it was your two-year-old who was
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the problem say I wouldn't have been so
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reactionary I wouldn't have been so
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angry if my two-year-old hadn't painted
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the living room furniture with butter
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but God knew you were an angry woman and
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he used that little two-year-old in
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those circumstances to squeeze you and
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what was inside of you came out he
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thought I'm this sweet loving gracious
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kind godly proverbs 31
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mother until my two-year-old filled the
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dryer with water and then you realize I
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am I'm crazy I mean I am an angry woman
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God created circumstances to make you
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realize you didn't just need the gospel
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when you got saved fifteen or twenty or
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in my case fifty-four years ago
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I need the gospel today you need the
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gospel today and those circumstances
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help us realize how much we need God by
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the way did you bring your hankie with
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you because you might be needing it if
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not for tears we ought to sell
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waterproof mascara at these events but
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tears are a good thing and maybe it's
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just some surrender that's needed
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through this morning you have that handy
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and I don't want to just see white
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hankies I want to see him but God wants
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to see hearts that are saying yes Lord
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yes Lord to whatever he says so need is
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something that makes us eligible an
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acknowledgement of me makes us eligible
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to receive the grace of God let me read
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to you a few verses from the Old
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Testament that speak to us about this
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matter of brokenness Isaiah 57 verse 15
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for thus says the one who is high and
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lifted up who inhabits eternity whose
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name is holy God says I dwell in the
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high and holy place that's God's address
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infinitely above us but God says I have
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another address
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I dwell also with him who is of a
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contrite and lowly spirit to revive the
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spirit of the lowly and to revive the
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heart of the contrite and then some 34
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verse 18 says something similar the Lord
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is near to those who have a broken heart
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and he saved such as have a contrite
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spirit Psalm 51 verse 16 David says
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after he sinned this great sin of
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adultery with
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Bathsheba he says Lord you do not
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delight in sacrifice or I would bring it
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you will not be pleased with a burnt
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offering how much could I give in the
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offering what could I do for you how
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many hoops could I jump through how many
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verses could I memorize how much could I
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beat myself up with guilt that's not
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what you want that's not what you are
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looking for sacrifices of God but
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sacrifices he's looking for are a broken
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spirit a broken and a contrite heart O
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God you will not despise Isaiah 66 verse
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2 this is the one God says to whom I
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will look as the eyes of the Lord go to
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and fro throughout the whole earth this
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day what kind of person is he looking
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for will he stop and look at you at your
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seat who's he looking for God says this
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is the one to whom I will look today he
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who is humble and contrite in spirit and
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trembles at my word so what kind of
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heart
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does God revive what kind of heart does
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God look to the heart God revives as we
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see in those verses and many others is
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the broken humble contrite heart now our
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emphasis in this era is on everything
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but that we want to be whole we want to
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be full we want to feel good and when we
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think about revivals we often think of
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revival as a time of great joy and
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blessing and fullness and celebration
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and it will be all of that and more in
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its time but we want a painless
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Pentecost we want all the fullness of
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God's Spirit we want to be this great
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godly free and full and fruitful woman
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without getting to the cross God's Word
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teaches us that the way up
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is down the way to wholeness is through
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brokenness one revivalist a man who was
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greatly used of God in revival in the
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1970s in Borneo
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he said revivals do not begin happily
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with everyone having a good time they
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start with a broken and a contrite heart
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you and I cannot meet God in revival
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until we first meet him in brokenness
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humility and brokenness James chapter 4
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says it this way draw near to God and He
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will draw near to you
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the problem is God is holy and we're not
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so we can't get anywhere near a holy God
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as we are so how is just a draw near to
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God how can he draw near to us well he
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goes on to say cleanse your hands you
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sinners purify your hearts you
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double-minded be wretched and mourn and
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weep now can I just say that there are
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very few modern therapists who will give
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you that kind of counsel they're trying
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to help us have good self-image feel
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good about ourselves but the James says
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be wretched and mourn and weep let your
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laughter be turned to mourning and your
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joy to gloom nobody walks in a Christian
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bookstore today and says or goes online
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at Amazon or Christian books commerce
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says can you find me a book on how to be
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gloomy how to be sad how to be mourning
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how to be wretched
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but God's Way is first down and then up
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humble yourselves before the Lord and He
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will exalt you this is God's way it's
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totally counter to what is natural to us
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now I think a lot of people are afraid
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of this whole idea of brokenness it's
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not well not if somebody suggested that
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I write a book on brokenness I talked
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with our publisher about that and I
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thought they must not have a marketing
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department because that is not exactly a
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popular topic today
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but I think sometimes we're afraid of it
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because we have some misconceptions
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about what brokenness is first of all
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what it's not our idea of brokenness
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sometimes is not the right one for
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example we may think of brokenness is
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always being sad or gloomy or
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introspective downcast never smiling
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never laughing always going on this
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witch hunt to find something else that's
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wrong in my life now there may be
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moments of sadness moments of gloom
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moments of looking inward but that in
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itself is not necessarily brokenness
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some think of it as a false humility
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always putting yourself down for some
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the idea of brokenness conjures up an
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image of crying lots of Tears
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having a deeply emotional experience but
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you know you can shed buckets full of
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tears in a prayer room or in an altar or
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a deeply emotional experience without
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having a moment of brokenness and you
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can have brokenness sometimes without
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necessarily shedding a tear some equate
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brokenness with having been deeply hurt
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by tragic life circumstances back in 95
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this happened to me that summer I was in
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this accident or somebody I loved this
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happen and I was broken well you may
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have been but maybe you weren't
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sometimes those deeply hurtful
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experiences can make us more hard and
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less broken more resistant you see
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brokenness is not a feeling though it
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certainly involves our feelings but it's
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not first and foremost a feeling rather
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it is a choice it is an act of our will
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before a holy God and brokenness is not
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just a one-time crisis experience
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although there may be points of
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brokenness when God deals with us in a
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specific way and there is a moment of
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brokenness but more than that brokenness
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is an ongoing continual
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style so I don't want to just know were
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you broken back at true woman o8 I want
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to know are you living as a broken woman
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today are you walking am i walking in
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humility and brokenness brokenness is
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not necessarily all those things but so
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what is brokenness what is God's idea of
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brokenness well brokenness is a
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lifestyle of agreeing with God about the
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true condition of my heart and my life
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not as you think it is but as an
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all-seeing all-knowing God knows it to
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be you see I've had hair with help
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makeup and wardrobe I think I look okay
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you just see me up here you see Robert
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and me up here we're holding hands were
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smiling and I'm not saying it's not fake
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but I'm saying you don't live with me
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and I don't live with you and so what do
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you think of me when I'm up here in this
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platform it doesn't really matter
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brokenness is a lifestyle of agreeing
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with God about what he knows what he
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sees when he looks at my heart
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brokenness is a lifestyle of
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unconditional absolute surrender to
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Jesus as Lord it's a lifestyle of waving
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this white flag and saying yes Lord
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whatever God says whatever his word says
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yes Lord
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think of that stallion that horse and we
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say that horse needs to be broken what
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do they mean by that they mean you take
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a 2x4 and hit that horse over the back
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and break it no they're talking about
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breaking its will so that it will be
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trained it will be submissive it will be
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responsive to the direction of the rider
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it's a it's a lifestyle brokenness is of
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saying yes Lord brokenness is the
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shattering of my self will so that the
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life and the Spirit of Jesus may be
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released through me brokenness is my
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response of humility and obedience to
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the conviction of
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spirits the conviction of his word and
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if I'm living in this word and if I'm
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walking in the light of this word and
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his spirit then that conviction will be
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happening all the time just in the
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course of things and not just because I
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do something that I act out sin but
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sometimes it's just something I'm
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thinking it's an attitude and God can
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fix my heart that was pride that was
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selfish that was self seeking that
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wasn't loving when you spoke to your
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husband that way when you you're looking
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at that woman and acting like you're
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really interested in what your she's
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saying but in your heart you're thinking
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I wish she'd go away now I know you
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never do that but God convicts me at
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times that what you're seeing on the
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outside is not true of what's on the
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inside and so if I'm broken I will
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continually be humbling myself and
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saying yes Lord and then obeying the
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promptings of God's Holy Spirit
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you see brokenness goes to directions
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there's a vertical dimension and if
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you've already heard this reference
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today and there's a horizontal dimension
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there's brokenness toward God and
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there's brokenness toward others one
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writer has likened it to our lives being
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a house and saying that we need to live
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with the roof off and the walls down
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roof off nothing between my soul and the
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Savior open transparent honest before
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God not defending not rationalising not
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excusing my sin not blaming somebody
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else saying Lord it's me you're right
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I'm wrong just to find God rather than
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ourselves
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that's a roof off brokenness but then
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there's also walls down brokenness and I
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think sometimes that's harder because
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god I know already knows everything
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that's going on so I can't really fool
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him but you don't really know and attain
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I'm learning in the last 10 months
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nowhere does this get lived out more
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this walls down thing than in the
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context of our homes
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and marriage in particular see I'm
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choosing everyday am i living with walls
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up or walls down toward Robert
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am I being honest am I being transparent
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about what's going on in my heart but
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that doesn't mean he just blurted out
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everything you think every time you
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think it that would not be wise but it
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means we're not putting up walls and
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we'll talk more about what that looks
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like over these next moments there are a
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lot of examples in Scripture of people
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who were broken humble contrite
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repentant and frequently those examples
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are set in contrast to people who were
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not broken and I want to give you three
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of those examples from the Gospel of
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Luke in just a moment but in each of
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these cases you'll see that it's not a
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matter of who is the worst sinner we're
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all sinners we're all in need of God's
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grace so it wasn't a matter of who
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sinned more or whose sin was worse what
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is it is a matter of the person's
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response to the conviction of God's holy
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spirit and that looks very different in
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each of these two pairs in each of these
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pairs of two people first of all in Luke
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chapter 18 we see an illustration of two
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churchgoers two churchgoers we're gonna
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look at two churchgoers two brothers and
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two people at a dinner the two
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churchgoers in Luke 18 Jesus told a
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parable and he's telling us he tells us
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in the scripture who is audiences it
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says he told this to some who trusted in
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themselves that they were righteous
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self-exalting and treated others with
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contempt I am something you are nothing
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now none of us would say that hopefully
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but how often are we thinking of
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ourselves in a better light than our
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mate or our family or our coworker or
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that neighbor so Jesus was speaking to
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those who thought they were something
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and others were less now Jesus was
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parentally perennially dealing with
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these people called the Pharisees and
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they were in the crowd that day
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and so he used a Pharisee as an
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illustration a Pharisee you went to
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church to worship supposedly but he gets
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in the presence of God and he looks
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around and he sees this tax collector
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how dare he come into this holy place
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for tax collectors were known notorious
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sinners they were cheats they were
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thief's everybody hated them they were
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despised they were vile they were scum
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that were the lowest of the lowly here's
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this Pharisee he's got a PhD at THD in
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theology and a few other things and
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these were the holy men of God they knew
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the Word of God they were the pious men
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they were the prayers they were the
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pastors they were the teachers they were
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the Bible study leaders so the contrast
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is great but the Pharisee exalts himself
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seeing this tax collector out of the
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corner of his eye because lord I thank
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you that I'm not like other sinners I
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know like this tax collector but I fast
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I pray I tie starts listing all the
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spiritual credentials to God that Jesus
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is maybe exaggerating the way that this
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Pharisee might have talked but he
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probably wasn't exaggerating the way the
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Pharisee might have thought Jesus says
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those two men left church that day and
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when one went home justified it wasn't
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the Pharisee it was that tax collector
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what was his prayer scripture says he
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couldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven
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but he bowed his face to the ground and
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he said O God be merciful to me
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no pride no pretense no covering know
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trying to look better just transparent
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before God roof off walls down which one
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did God listen to which one got his
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prayers answered I think there's some
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women in McPherson women's prison we're
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serving life without possibility of
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parole for murder one whose prayers God
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may hear some days more than he hears my
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prayers I don't have their history
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sometimes I have so much pride so much
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performance so much caring about image
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and I get with those women you could
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sense it from the women on the platform
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they don't care what you think about
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them
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they don't have anything to hide they
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don't have anything to lose by being
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honest and so here's me trying to
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protect my reputation public person
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whose prayers just got here there's our
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mind in that moment well Jesus told the
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story about two brothers in Luke chapter
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15 and again in the audience this day
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there were two kinds of people there
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were the tax collectors and the sinners
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they came to hear Jesus they were
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sponges they just soaked in his words
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they were humble but the Pharisees and
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the scribes were maybe I envisioned them
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kind of around the outskirts of the
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crowd they weren't gonna get too close
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the sinners are pressing in to Jesus
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they love Jesus because I know they
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needed him Pharisees the scribes
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teachers of the law they're the ones
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with the folded arms sitting back there
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scrutinizing evaluating critiquing
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murmuring where did he go to school
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where did he get his education I never
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heard of that way before it you know
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them we got some of them in some of our
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churches and aren't many of us sometimes
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in that place well those were the people
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in the audience that day so Jesus said
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let me tell you a story
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there were two brothers you know the
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story tells about the younger brother
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who was rebellious hard-hearted willful
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independent rebellious he spent his
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father's living said I want what's
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coming to me
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took it early took the inheritance
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squandered it profligate lifestyle and
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then when he'd spent it all he began to
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be the scripture says in need when God
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puts you in a place where you are in
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need
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thank God that's the best place we can
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possibly be where we have no solutions
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as money ran out his friends left him he
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had his family was gone he was desperate
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he was destitute he was in need in the
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scripture says he came to himself he
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came to his senses as like a wake-up
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call that's what Bob asked these women a
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few moments ago when did you have a
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wake-up call it's when they came to
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themselves they came to their senses
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they got honest about their failure they
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admitted their need and then there's
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repentance he says I will get up out of
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this pigsty and I'll go back to my
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father he was going one direction his
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own way
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he was willful he was raised he stops he
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has his wake-up call he turns around
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says I'll get up and I will go back to
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the place where I left grace that's
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repentance you could just see him
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practicing his speech all the way help
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me scared to death because you know if a
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son was rebellious in those days and you
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were caught they could they could stone
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you he didn't know what would happen
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what kind of reception he'd be met with
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so he's practicing I'm gonna say to my
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dad Oh dad I've sinned against God roof
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off I've sinned against Jew walls down
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I'm no longer worthy to be your son
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would you just let me be one of your
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hired servants because he's thinking I'm
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starving here in this Pigpen I have
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00:26:01,620 --> 00:26:04,140
nothing to eat and my dad has higher two
546
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hands who are better off than I am maybe
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00:26:06,330 --> 00:26:07,680
he would just let me work out in his
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field
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his dad sees him well I still a long way
550
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,110
off scripture says why because he'd been
551
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waiting longing for God to turn the
552
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heart of that son bring him back notice
553
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,160
by the way he didn't in
554
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that case go pursuing after his son and
555
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,330
let me say moms and grandmom's still
556
00:26:31,330 --> 00:26:34,150
apprentices here you may have a wayward
557
00:26:34,150 --> 00:26:36,550
rebellious son or daughter or grandchild
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00:26:36,550 --> 00:26:40,570
you cry yourself to sleep at night just
559
00:26:40,570 --> 00:26:43,750
so burdened what how they're destroying
560
00:26:43,750 --> 00:26:50,140
their lives don't rescue them from the
561
00:26:50,140 --> 00:26:53,860
cross I don't know what that means in
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00:26:53,860 --> 00:26:55,840
your case in your situation I don't that
563
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,070
doesn't mean necessarily don't do
564
00:26:57,070 --> 00:26:59,020
anything but I think there's some people
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who think they love their kids who are
566
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,260
really enabling them to stay away from
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00:27:02,260 --> 00:27:07,750
God sometimes you just need to take your
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00:27:07,750 --> 00:27:12,670
hands off and say you're gods that's
569
00:27:12,670 --> 00:27:15,370
hard I watched a lot of moms go through
570
00:27:15,370 --> 00:27:18,130
that that's hard but this dad let God
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00:27:18,130 --> 00:27:21,100
deal with his son and the dad comes
572
00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:22,810
running out you see the two you just
573
00:27:22,810 --> 00:27:24,730
picture them embracing it for the kid
574
00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:25,930
can't even get home he doesn't even get
575
00:27:25,930 --> 00:27:27,850
the whole speech out of his mouth I've
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00:27:27,850 --> 00:27:29,470
sinned against God I've sinned against
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00:27:29,470 --> 00:27:31,450
you before he can say the rest of it his
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00:27:31,450 --> 00:27:39,160
dad is saying welcome home son let's
579
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,600
celebrate let's have a party and the
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00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,000
kill the fatted calf and the music
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00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,800
begins and I think that family had
582
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,510
probably been morose and morbid and
583
00:27:49,510 --> 00:27:51,400
everybody was sad all this time they're
584
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,600
just grieving over this son now that
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00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,430
lost son has come home they're
586
00:27:54,430 --> 00:27:56,050
celebrating and everybody's joyful
587
00:27:56,050 --> 00:28:02,080
except the older brother who never did
588
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,270
anything wrong
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00:28:03,270 --> 00:28:06,300
he's dutiful he's firstborn he's
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00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:08,170
performing he's doing what he's supposed
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00:28:08,170 --> 00:28:11,380
to do all the time and he's had in the
592
00:28:11,380 --> 00:28:12,970
field and hears music anything and there
593
00:28:12,970 --> 00:28:14,410
hasn't been any music around here since
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00:28:14,410 --> 00:28:16,510
Mike Reddy younger brother left him what
595
00:28:16,510 --> 00:28:18,430
in the world is going on so he asked a
596
00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:22,420
servant what's happening with servant
597
00:28:22,420 --> 00:28:24,460
tells him the facts but he doesn't tell
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00:28:24,460 --> 00:28:26,740
him the truth he says your younger
599
00:28:26,740 --> 00:28:28,090
brother has come home and your dad has
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00:28:28,090 --> 00:28:30,010
received him safe and sound well that
601
00:28:30,010 --> 00:28:33,040
was the facts but it wasn't like the
602
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,530
whole truth look at what kind of
603
00:28:35,530 --> 00:28:37,149
condition he was in
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00:28:37,149 --> 00:28:39,820
and he's humble and he's broken come on
605
00:28:39,820 --> 00:28:42,909
let's celebrate the older brother is a
606
00:28:42,909 --> 00:28:44,830
picture of those Pharisee standing at
607
00:28:44,830 --> 00:28:46,599
the back of the crowd scrutinizing
608
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:49,269
evaluating critiquing murmuring what I
609
00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:52,419
never he ought to have to suffer for
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00:28:52,419 --> 00:28:56,200
what he did his dad here's your son's
611
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,359
out sulking in the field you better go
612
00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:00,460
talk to him the dad leaves the party
613
00:29:00,460 --> 00:29:01,509
I've been told that in the Jewish
614
00:29:01,509 --> 00:29:03,879
culture when the dad with a man in the
615
00:29:03,879 --> 00:29:05,169
house will lead the party the music
616
00:29:05,169 --> 00:29:06,759
stopped the dancing stopped the party
617
00:29:06,759 --> 00:29:08,679
stopped while the dad goes out and deals
618
00:29:08,679 --> 00:29:12,129
with this hard-hearted older brother
619
00:29:12,129 --> 00:29:14,859
who's the Pharisee proud and unbroken
620
00:29:14,859 --> 00:29:17,409
and isn't that a picture of what's going
621
00:29:17,409 --> 00:29:20,619
on in some of our churches it's not a
622
00:29:20,619 --> 00:29:22,719
lot of celebrating it's not a lot of
623
00:29:22,719 --> 00:29:24,129
life there's not a lot of joy you know
624
00:29:24,129 --> 00:29:25,779
why because the pastor's are always
625
00:29:25,779 --> 00:29:29,200
having to deal with the Pharisees the
626
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,440
proud unbroken people you took that
627
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,599
parking space away that hasn't that's my
628
00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:36,999
parking space since 1946 seven parking
629
00:29:36,999 --> 00:29:40,599
in that space your Leno's youth those
630
00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:42,820
teenagers meet in our Sunday school
631
00:29:42,820 --> 00:29:44,830
classroom listen to them they're so loud
632
00:29:44,830 --> 00:29:46,509
look at them they got holes everywhere
633
00:29:46,509 --> 00:29:49,539
and tats everywhere and these poor
634
00:29:49,539 --> 00:29:51,369
pastors are always putting out fires
635
00:29:51,369 --> 00:29:55,779
with the Pharisees so people are coming
636
00:29:55,779 --> 00:29:57,489
to Jesus and they're not all put
637
00:29:57,489 --> 00:29:59,320
together and they don't talk and look
638
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,899
and act like everybody else and and
639
00:30:01,899 --> 00:30:03,070
you're looking and you know some of us
640
00:30:03,070 --> 00:30:04,599
are looking at those brand-new baby
641
00:30:04,599 --> 00:30:06,369
Christians and they're just so full of
642
00:30:06,369 --> 00:30:08,019
joy and every time you sing they don't
643
00:30:08,019 --> 00:30:09,159
know the words they don't know the tune
644
00:30:09,159 --> 00:30:10,929
and they just make noise and they cry
645
00:30:10,929 --> 00:30:13,059
and they lift their hands and they and
646
00:30:13,059 --> 00:30:16,149
you're thinking give them a few months
647
00:30:16,149 --> 00:30:19,649
they'll get over it
648
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:29,640
they will if they sit next to you listen
649
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:30,750
our Heavenly Father
650
00:30:30,750 --> 00:30:36,300
receives broken sinners that's who the
651
00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:39,720
gospel is for and it's not that the
652
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,810
Pharisees aren't sinners it's that
653
00:30:42,810 --> 00:30:45,120
they're not broken they don't realize
654
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,310
their sin they don't need realize how
655
00:30:47,310 --> 00:30:51,390
much they need God's grace so some of us
656
00:30:51,390 --> 00:30:54,840
can't rejoice when God is doing a new
657
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,760
work a fresh work a sweet work of deep
658
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,350
work and it's not neat it's not tidy
659
00:30:58,350 --> 00:31:00,210
it's not exactly as we would have
660
00:31:00,210 --> 00:31:02,970
planned it or scripted it listen the
661
00:31:02,970 --> 00:31:04,260
longer you've been in this Christian
662
00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:06,600
life thing the higher up you go in terms
663
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,490
of position and responsibilities and
664
00:31:08,490 --> 00:31:10,800
influence the greater the temptation to
665
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,890
become a 21st century modern-day
666
00:31:13,890 --> 00:31:21,000
Pharisee I know I know we had a prayer
667
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,600
call last week or two ago with speakers
668
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,660
for this event I don't know if Janet
669
00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:29,160
Parshall was here this morning she had
670
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,870
some difficulty getting here yesterday
671
00:31:30,870 --> 00:31:33,390
but Janet prayed you'll hear from her
672
00:31:33,390 --> 00:31:36,050
tomorrow morning Lord willing
673
00:31:36,050 --> 00:31:38,790
she said Lord I want to pray for women
674
00:31:38,790 --> 00:31:40,920
coming to this conference who've been
675
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:47,010
saved 30 40 50 years and they know the
676
00:31:47,010 --> 00:31:51,390
routine but they've lost the
677
00:31:51,390 --> 00:31:57,090
relationship with Jesus now I know
678
00:31:57,090 --> 00:31:59,040
there's some women here like that but if
679
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,990
she prayed that in that moment I haven't
680
00:32:00,990 --> 00:32:02,670
had a chance to tell her this yet Janet
681
00:32:02,670 --> 00:32:04,110
if you're here I want to thank you for
682
00:32:04,110 --> 00:32:06,960
what you prayed because sitting where I
683
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,950
was in my home on the phone in my heart
684
00:32:10,950 --> 00:32:13,980
my hand went up in the air and I said
685
00:32:13,980 --> 00:32:20,010
she said that for me so busy I know the
686
00:32:20,010 --> 00:32:25,880
routine just not sweet fresh
687
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:31,850
sense of relationship with Jesus roof
688
00:32:31,850 --> 00:32:34,300
off florid that's me
689
00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:38,840
walls down I found my husband and I said
690
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,700
I want you to hear what God just said to
691
00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:45,590
me through Janet and her prayer I was
692
00:32:45,590 --> 00:32:47,450
able to take some steps over those next
693
00:32:47,450 --> 00:32:49,280
days over the past couple of weeks to
694
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,990
just draw near to God a fresh way sweet
695
00:32:53,990 --> 00:32:58,970
way to come home as a not a proud older
696
00:32:58,970 --> 00:33:04,580
brother but as a needy prodigal and God
697
00:33:04,580 --> 00:33:06,860
racist to meet us with His grace when we
698
00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:11,270
do well to churchgoers two brothers two
699
00:33:11,270 --> 00:33:13,280
people at a dinner it's the third one in
700
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,740
Luke chapter seven you remember the
701
00:33:15,740 --> 00:33:17,270
story again there's a Pharisee involved
702
00:33:17,270 --> 00:33:17,860
here
703
00:33:17,860 --> 00:33:20,300
Simon is his name he hosts this dinner
704
00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:23,000
for Jesus he's named the woman in this
705
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,860
case is not named we're just told she
706
00:33:24,860 --> 00:33:27,200
was a woman of the city who was a sinner
707
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,130
that means probably that she was an
708
00:33:31,130 --> 00:33:33,470
immoral woman she had a reputation
709
00:33:33,470 --> 00:33:35,090
everybody knew you didn't need to dame
710
00:33:35,090 --> 00:33:36,350
her they knew who she was
711
00:33:36,350 --> 00:33:38,270
how she got in that dinner I don't know
712
00:33:38,270 --> 00:33:40,700
she came probably uninvited she wasn't
713
00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:42,320
on the VIP list she wasn't on anybody's
714
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:42,920
list
715
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,630
she was an object of scorn and derision
716
00:33:44,630 --> 00:33:47,300
and shame and guilt but she makes her
717
00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:48,860
way into that dinner and as I've studied
718
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:51,170
this passage over the years I think that
719
00:33:51,170 --> 00:33:53,180
what it probably happened was she had
720
00:33:53,180 --> 00:33:55,520
heard Jesus or encountered him somewhere
721
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,370
prior to this moment and he had changed
722
00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:02,180
her life he had given her His grace and
723
00:34:02,180 --> 00:34:05,210
now she was coming back to say thank you
724
00:34:05,210 --> 00:34:09,770
I love you I'm so so grateful and she
725
00:34:09,770 --> 00:34:11,449
makes their way into this dinner and
726
00:34:11,449 --> 00:34:14,090
everything this woman does is at the
727
00:34:14,090 --> 00:34:17,090
feet of Jesus she's the lowly one in the
728
00:34:17,090 --> 00:34:19,280
contrast here is between her and Simon
729
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,710
the Pharisee he's watching all this
730
00:34:21,710 --> 00:34:24,139
going and first she stands behind him
731
00:34:24,139 --> 00:34:25,969
the scripture says at his feet what does
732
00:34:25,969 --> 00:34:30,050
that mean we remember how in the east
733
00:34:30,050 --> 00:34:32,389
there the at the dinners they would eat
734
00:34:32,389 --> 00:34:34,550
reclining propped up on their arm feet
735
00:34:34,550 --> 00:34:36,500
stretched out behind so she comes and
736
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:37,480
she stands
737
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,760
behind his feet just quiet now I am
738
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,609
confident that this woman never intended
739
00:34:42,609 --> 00:34:45,159
to make a scene to be seen to be noticed
740
00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:46,869
much less us to be standing here talking
741
00:34:46,869 --> 00:34:50,800
about her in this thousands of years
742
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:51,869
later
743
00:34:51,869 --> 00:34:54,790
and as she stands there I think she just
744
00:34:54,790 --> 00:35:13,390
wanted to be near him she didn't say I'm
745
00:35:13,390 --> 00:35:15,250
gonna cry now it wasn't scripted can't
746
00:35:15,250 --> 00:35:18,160
script that they flowed down from her
747
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,830
eyes down her cheeks and down onto the
748
00:35:20,830 --> 00:35:24,070
feet of Jesus almost as if she's
749
00:35:24,070 --> 00:35:29,170
embarrassed she gets down lower at Jesus
750
00:35:29,170 --> 00:35:32,800
feet began begins to wipe his feet with
751
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,359
her hair I don't know how long her hair
752
00:35:34,359 --> 00:35:38,590
was but she got to get down at the feet
753
00:35:38,590 --> 00:35:42,450
of Jesus and then she takes this bottle
754
00:35:42,450 --> 00:35:45,660
appointment that she brought with her
755
00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,609
something perhaps that she'd been saving
756
00:35:48,609 --> 00:35:51,580
as an instrument of her trade could I
757
00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:56,230
say it that way to be used on a special
758
00:35:56,230 --> 00:36:01,060
man well now she has met the man who's
759
00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:03,160
redeemed her life and what else is she
760
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,400
gonna do with this she breaks open that
761
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:12,790
flask she pours expensive ointment pours
762
00:36:12,790 --> 00:36:18,430
it on Jesus feet quiet humble no scene
763
00:36:18,430 --> 00:36:22,390
no performance well Simon he's the host
764
00:36:22,390 --> 00:36:25,090
of this fancy dinner he's looking around
765
00:36:25,090 --> 00:36:26,740
he sees this woman they always got their
766
00:36:26,740 --> 00:36:29,130
arms crossed
767
00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:37,460
I'm just actually cold up here and he's
768
00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:39,619
thinking to himself if Jesus knew what
769
00:36:39,619 --> 00:36:42,170
kind of woman she is he would not let
770
00:36:42,170 --> 00:36:44,019
her do that
771
00:36:44,019 --> 00:36:50,269
how seemly well Jesus not only knew who
772
00:36:50,269 --> 00:36:52,099
that woman was and what she was doing
773
00:36:52,099 --> 00:36:53,930
and what her past was jesus knew what
774
00:36:53,930 --> 00:36:57,529
Simon was thinking Jesus tells a story
775
00:36:57,529 --> 00:37:01,220
to sinuses let me tell you I won't go
776
00:37:01,220 --> 00:37:02,569
into all the details but he talks about
777
00:37:02,569 --> 00:37:05,240
two people who owned a lot a huge dead
778
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:07,190
one owed a little bit and he got it paid
779
00:37:07,190 --> 00:37:09,230
off the other owed a lot and he got it
780
00:37:09,230 --> 00:37:11,089
paid off which one will love his master
781
00:37:11,089 --> 00:37:12,710
the most Simon goes while the one who's
782
00:37:12,710 --> 00:37:14,660
been forgiven the most of course she
783
00:37:14,660 --> 00:37:18,759
says goes right you don't get it Simon I
784
00:37:18,759 --> 00:37:21,289
came into this house you didn't give me
785
00:37:21,289 --> 00:37:23,509
water to wash my feet
786
00:37:23,509 --> 00:37:25,789
you didn't give me a kiss a normal sign
787
00:37:25,789 --> 00:37:28,099
of grieving that you would do with a get
788
00:37:28,099 --> 00:37:29,420
honored guest in your home you didn't
789
00:37:29,420 --> 00:37:31,220
have oil to anoint my head these were
790
00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:33,319
signs of hospitality you didn't do
791
00:37:33,319 --> 00:37:35,450
anything because you were too proud you
792
00:37:35,450 --> 00:37:37,099
think you're the highest thing in this
793
00:37:37,099 --> 00:37:40,579
house your love your your affection for
794
00:37:40,579 --> 00:37:43,279
me is measured it's controlled but this
795
00:37:43,279 --> 00:37:49,910
woman it's just all real she loves me
796
00:37:49,910 --> 00:37:53,509
and why because she knows how much she's
797
00:37:53,509 --> 00:37:56,359
been forgiven it's not that you don't
798
00:37:56,359 --> 00:37:58,309
need to be forgiven a lot it's just you
799
00:37:58,309 --> 00:38:00,529
have no idea how much you need to be
800
00:38:00,529 --> 00:38:09,829
forgiven in each of those pairs which
801
00:38:09,829 --> 00:38:13,279
one do you most identify with do you
802
00:38:13,279 --> 00:38:15,619
identify with the prodigal the shameful
803
00:38:15,619 --> 00:38:18,829
sinful woman the tax collector the cheat
804
00:38:18,829 --> 00:38:20,509
the thief he's like no I'm not I'd never
805
00:38:20,509 --> 00:38:23,089
end up at McPherson prison that wouldn't
806
00:38:23,089 --> 00:38:27,980
be me well then you identify with the
807
00:38:27,980 --> 00:38:31,660
Pharisee the proud older brother
808
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unbroken you see it's not in the nature
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of your sin it's in the nature of your
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response and let me ask you this which
811
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one in each of those pairs did Jesus
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feel most comfortable with who was he
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drawn to was drawn to those who were
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broken and contrite in spirit you see
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and I don't want to offend you by saying
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this I'm gonna say it anyway God is more
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offended by the proud cold hard dry eyed
818
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critical heart of faithful churchgoers
819
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and ministry leaders than he is by an
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immoral woman prostitute adulteress
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murderer an abortionist who's recognised
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00:39:26,180 --> 00:39:31,010
their sin and come to the cross in
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humble repentance
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in fact I'll tell you a day Jesus really
825
00:39:44,540 --> 00:39:46,850
offended the Pharisees I'm sure of it
826
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it's when he said to them in Matthew 21
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verse 31 truly I say to you he's looking
828
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the Pharisees in the eyes the tax
829
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collectors and the prostitutes go into
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the kingdom of God before you you think
831
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that went over well in church that day I
832
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don't think so
833
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so what does it mean to be a broken
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woman what does it mean to be a humble
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woman and what are some of the
836
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characteristics of a proud unbroken
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woman I want to just list several for
838
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you when you come back this afternoon or
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at the door today I can't remember
840
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you'll get a little card that has these
841
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and more on it but I just want to be
842
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here with your heart right now you say
843
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:32,510
where'd you come up with this list I'll
844
00:40:32,510 --> 00:40:33,890
tell you where I came up with most of
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them this is pretty autobiographical I
846
00:40:36,370 --> 00:40:38,780
just looked at my own life when I first
847
00:40:38,780 --> 00:40:40,100
gave this message and I said what are
848
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some of the evidences of Pride and
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unbroken as' in my life and here some of
850
00:40:45,710 --> 00:40:48,530
the things proud women focus on the
851
00:40:48,530 --> 00:40:51,830
failures of others whereas broken women
852
00:40:51,830 --> 00:40:54,080
are overwhelmed with a sense of their
853
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,630
own need proud women have a critical
854
00:40:56,630 --> 00:40:58,490
fault finding spirit they look at
855
00:40:58,490 --> 00:41:00,530
everyone else's faults with a microscope
856
00:41:00,530 --> 00:41:04,490
but their own with a telescope broken
857
00:41:04,490 --> 00:41:05,390
women on the other hand are
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00:41:05,390 --> 00:41:07,550
compassionate toward others who fail
859
00:41:07,550 --> 00:41:09,680
they can forgive much because they know
860
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,830
how much they've been forgiven proud
861
00:41:12,830 --> 00:41:14,990
people are self-righteous they look down
862
00:41:14,990 --> 00:41:17,720
on others but broken people esteem all
863
00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:21,200
others as better than themselves proud
864
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,900
women have to prove that they are right
865
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:26,270
they have to get the last word whereas
866
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broken women are willing to yield the
867
00:41:28,610 --> 00:41:32,480
right to be right proud women are self
868
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,490
protective of their time their rights
869
00:41:34,490 --> 00:41:37,340
and their reputation but broken women
870
00:41:37,340 --> 00:41:41,150
are self-denying proud women want to be
871
00:41:41,150 --> 00:41:43,850
served they want their husband and their
872
00:41:43,850 --> 00:41:45,830
children and everyone else to meet their
873
00:41:45,830 --> 00:41:48,950
needs but broken women are motivated to
874
00:41:48,950 --> 00:41:52,640
serve others proud women have a drive to
875
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:53,840
be recognized and
876
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,120
appreciate it and they get hurt when
877
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,410
they're not thanked or when they get
878
00:41:57,410 --> 00:42:01,760
overlooked but broken women are willing
879
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,340
to serve without expecting anything in
880
00:42:04,340 --> 00:42:05,510
return
881
00:42:05,510 --> 00:42:08,240
proud women are wounded when others get
882
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,190
noticed or promoted and they get
883
00:42:10,190 --> 00:42:12,110
overlooked but broken women are eager
884
00:42:12,110 --> 00:42:14,060
for others to get the credit and they
885
00:42:14,060 --> 00:42:17,390
rejoice when others are lifted up I got
886
00:42:17,390 --> 00:42:20,420
to tell you after I first gave this
887
00:42:20,420 --> 00:42:24,440
message the first time I ever gave it 21
888
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,100
years ago God moved in on a service
889
00:42:28,100 --> 00:42:29,900
something like this in an extraordinary
890
00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:33,200
way and over the next two days God sent
891
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,870
a measure of revival as God's people
892
00:42:35,870 --> 00:42:38,150
whose hearts had been prepared began to
893
00:42:38,150 --> 00:42:41,510
respond to him saying yes Lord I gave
894
00:42:41,510 --> 00:42:43,040
the message sat down got out of the way
895
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,890
and God's Spirit kept working well in
896
00:42:45,890 --> 00:42:48,020
the days that followed people took this
897
00:42:48,020 --> 00:42:51,530
list and they reprinted it and they
898
00:42:51,530 --> 00:42:53,630
posted it we didn't have social media in
899
00:42:53,630 --> 00:42:55,640
those days but they copied it there were
900
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,940
cassette tapes of the message they
901
00:42:58,940 --> 00:43:01,280
distributed those all around the world
902
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,740
and people started writing me and saying
903
00:43:03,740 --> 00:43:06,230
how much this message had meant to them
904
00:43:06,230 --> 00:43:08,210
how much it had changed their lives and
905
00:43:08,210 --> 00:43:13,910
over time subtly I realized one day that
906
00:43:13,910 --> 00:43:19,790
all this stuff about this message about
907
00:43:19,790 --> 00:43:24,200
humility had become a source of pride in
908
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,470
my own heart and I think if maybe first
909
00:43:27,470 --> 00:43:29,270
dawned on me when I saw this list
910
00:43:29,270 --> 00:43:34,160
published without credit I'm thinking I
911
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,450
wrote that thing about humility
912
00:43:38,450 --> 00:43:42,720
[Laughter]
913
00:43:43,130 --> 00:43:47,280
and the biggest lessons in my life about
914
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,470
what I'm talking about right here have
915
00:43:49,470 --> 00:43:52,440
come since the first time I gave that
916
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,010
message and each time I give it since as
917
00:43:56,010 --> 00:43:57,930
God speaks to my own heart about this
918
00:43:57,930 --> 00:44:00,000
this drive to be noticed to be
919
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,760
appreciated to be thanked
920
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,040
proud people are self-conscious but
921
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,260
broken women are really not concerned
922
00:44:07,260 --> 00:44:09,150
with self at all proud people keep
923
00:44:09,150 --> 00:44:11,880
others at arm's length but broken women
924
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,430
are willing to risk getting close to
925
00:44:14,430 --> 00:44:17,040
others and take the risks of loving
926
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,589
intimately proud people are rigid and
927
00:44:19,589 --> 00:44:21,240
stiff and formal they're the ones that
928
00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:22,440
want to make sure they don't cry so
929
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:23,730
their makeup doesn't run and somebody
930
00:44:23,730 --> 00:44:24,869
might think I'm really like this
931
00:44:24,869 --> 00:44:28,680
horrible sinner but broken women they're
932
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,300
they're warm they're loving and they
933
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:32,220
don't care the tears can flow because
934
00:44:32,220 --> 00:44:34,050
they know that they're just sinners who
935
00:44:34,050 --> 00:44:36,329
need God's grace every moment every day
936
00:44:36,329 --> 00:44:39,619
of their lives
937
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,170
proud women find it difficult to share
938
00:44:43,170 --> 00:44:45,180
their spiritual needs with others so if
939
00:44:45,180 --> 00:44:46,530
you go have a little small group let's
940
00:44:46,530 --> 00:44:48,119
go around and share what God's doing in
941
00:44:48,119 --> 00:44:49,440
our lives or what he's speaking to you
942
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,420
about or what how can pray for you pray
943
00:44:51,420 --> 00:44:54,559
for me that I'll be a better mother
944
00:44:54,559 --> 00:44:57,059
better a wife I mean who doesn't need
945
00:44:57,059 --> 00:45:00,299
that but broken women are willing to get
946
00:45:00,299 --> 00:45:03,359
specific about their sin and open and
947
00:45:03,359 --> 00:45:06,089
transparent as God directs proud people
948
00:45:06,089 --> 00:45:08,329
have a hard time saying these words I
949
00:45:08,329 --> 00:45:14,280
was wrong will you please forgive me but
950
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,680
broken women are quick to admit failure
951
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:20,150
and to see forgiveness when necessary
952
00:45:20,150 --> 00:45:23,160
proud women wait for the other to come
953
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,290
and ask forgiveness if there's been a
954
00:45:25,290 --> 00:45:27,720
misunderstanding or a conflict in a
955
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:29,430
relationship now listen I wasn't in your
956
00:45:29,430 --> 00:45:31,349
home yesterday but I know what happened
957
00:45:31,349 --> 00:45:33,059
in some of your homes you were getting
958
00:45:33,059 --> 00:45:37,349
ready to come to true woman and you were
959
00:45:37,349 --> 00:45:39,030
hustling to get out the door and to get
960
00:45:39,030 --> 00:45:40,530
make sure your family's needs were all
961
00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:42,059
met and everything was going fast and
962
00:45:42,059 --> 00:45:44,130
you know things weren't everybody wasn't
963
00:45:44,130 --> 00:45:45,839
falling in line and doing exactly what
964
00:45:45,839 --> 00:45:47,609
she wanted your husband in the midst of
965
00:45:47,609 --> 00:45:50,190
all this said something that hurt your
966
00:45:50,190 --> 00:45:53,220
feelings and you've been nursing it ever
967
00:45:53,220 --> 00:45:54,119
since
968
00:45:54,119 --> 00:45:58,079
and you're thinking when I get home I
969
00:45:58,079 --> 00:45:59,519
mean it's just growing bigger and bigger
970
00:45:59,519 --> 00:46:01,470
and bigger in your mind what he did what
971
00:46:01,470 --> 00:46:03,720
he said and it's now a federal case in
972
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:06,390
your head and you're thinking when I get
973
00:46:06,390 --> 00:46:06,869
home
974
00:46:06,869 --> 00:46:10,650
he better be at the front door standing
975
00:46:10,650 --> 00:46:14,880
no better yet on his knees begging me I
976
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,130
was so wrong please will you forgive me
977
00:46:17,130 --> 00:46:21,539
that's a proud woman broken women race
978
00:46:21,539 --> 00:46:24,329
to the cross to see if they can get
979
00:46:24,329 --> 00:46:26,940
there first don't wait for him some of
980
00:46:26,940 --> 00:46:28,769
you been waiting for a mate or a child
981
00:46:28,769 --> 00:46:30,809
or parents who wounded you when you were
982
00:46:30,809 --> 00:46:32,609
a kid you've been waiting for them to
983
00:46:32,609 --> 00:46:34,529
recognize how wrong they were and I'm
984
00:46:34,529 --> 00:46:36,420
not saying they weren't wrong but you've
985
00:46:36,420 --> 00:46:38,220
been saying I'm gonna hold them at arm's
986
00:46:38,220 --> 00:46:39,599
length until they're willing to
987
00:46:39,599 --> 00:46:41,970
acknowledge how deeply they wounded me
988
00:46:41,970 --> 00:46:43,740
and come back and beg my forgiveness
989
00:46:43,740 --> 00:46:52,769
that is P R I D self all at the center
990
00:46:52,769 --> 00:46:56,430
of that crowd people are blind to their
991
00:46:56,430 --> 00:46:58,049
true heart condition the funny thing is
992
00:46:58,049 --> 00:46:59,460
everybody else I guess it's not funny
993
00:46:59,460 --> 00:47:01,349
but everybody else around them can see
994
00:47:01,349 --> 00:47:04,289
it the last ones to see it
995
00:47:04,289 --> 00:47:06,720
and know it the broken women realized
996
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:10,079
they have they walk in the light they
997
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:12,180
Scott shows them the truth about their
998
00:47:12,180 --> 00:47:14,220
lives proud women don't think they have
999
00:47:14,220 --> 00:47:16,130
anything they need to repent of and
1000
00:47:16,130 --> 00:47:18,869
there are hundreds if not thousands of
1001
00:47:18,869 --> 00:47:20,609
women in this room who coming into this
1002
00:47:20,609 --> 00:47:22,890
place today if somebody asks you is
1003
00:47:22,890 --> 00:47:24,150
there anything you need to be repenting
1004
00:47:24,150 --> 00:47:26,549
of any area of your life that God's
1005
00:47:26,549 --> 00:47:27,989
dealing with you couldn't think of
1006
00:47:27,989 --> 00:47:31,829
anything and I've been there I know what
1007
00:47:31,829 --> 00:47:35,069
that heart is like but broken women
1008
00:47:35,069 --> 00:47:37,230
realized they have need of a continual
1009
00:47:37,230 --> 00:47:41,130
heart attitude of repentance proud
1010
00:47:41,130 --> 00:47:43,109
people don't think they need revival but
1011
00:47:43,109 --> 00:47:47,880
they're sure everyone else does broken
1012
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,980
women continually sense their need for a
1013
00:47:49,980 --> 00:47:51,989
fresh encounter with God and a fresh
1014
00:47:51,989 --> 00:47:57,210
filling of his Holy Spirit proud women
1015
00:47:57,210 --> 00:48:00,089
are sitting here thinking of someone
1016
00:48:00,089 --> 00:48:02,540
else who needs to hear this message
1017
00:48:02,540 --> 00:48:04,890
and you're gonna make sure and send on
1018
00:48:04,890 --> 00:48:10,320
the link when you get home I don't mean
1019
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,670
by the way to suggest that all the proud
1020
00:48:11,670 --> 00:48:13,350
women are sitting over here they're
1021
00:48:13,350 --> 00:48:15,740
probably some over here too
1022
00:48:15,740 --> 00:48:20,850
well when you think of it this way why
1023
00:48:20,850 --> 00:48:24,030
would anybody want to be broken any more
1024
00:48:24,030 --> 00:48:26,160
than someone would sign up for surgery
1025
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:32,030
for childbirth I have a dear friend who
1026
00:48:32,030 --> 00:48:34,620
this week was sent into emergency
1027
00:48:34,620 --> 00:48:39,150
surgery I'd never wanted surgery who
1028
00:48:39,150 --> 00:48:42,480
want who does but they agreed to it
1029
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,670
because they were told that what's going
1030
00:48:44,670 --> 00:48:46,650
on your body is so toxic so poisonous
1031
00:48:46,650 --> 00:48:49,230
and if you don't have that surgery you
1032
00:48:49,230 --> 00:48:54,270
will die so why do you submit to
1033
00:48:54,270 --> 00:48:56,460
brokenness why do you let the Holy
1034
00:48:56,460 --> 00:48:58,620
Spirit bring about that kind of
1035
00:48:58,620 --> 00:49:00,720
sometimes painful thing in your life
1036
00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:02,850
well it's because of the fruit of
1037
00:49:02,850 --> 00:49:07,070
brokenness brokenness brings blessedness
1038
00:49:07,070 --> 00:49:10,200
blessedness Jesus said blessed are the
1039
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,420
poor in spirit that word poor is not
1040
00:49:12,420 --> 00:49:14,070
just like somebody who's living you know
1041
00:49:14,070 --> 00:49:16,590
below the poverty line that word poor in
1042
00:49:16,590 --> 00:49:18,120
the Greek language is a word that means
1043
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,290
utterly absolutely destitute
1044
00:49:21,290 --> 00:49:24,540
poverty-stricken you have no help no
1045
00:49:24,540 --> 00:49:26,640
hope no way of making it if someone
1046
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,280
doesn't reach down and lift you up out
1047
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,930
of that gutter and Jesus said blessed
1048
00:49:32,930 --> 00:49:36,660
happy joyful fortunate are those who are
1049
00:49:36,660 --> 00:49:39,360
poverty stricken now that's not our way
1050
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,130
of thinking that's counterintuitive but
1051
00:49:41,130 --> 00:49:42,840
it's God's math it's God's way of
1052
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,510
thinking blessed are the broken ones
1053
00:49:45,510 --> 00:49:47,750
those who realize they are bankrupt
1054
00:49:47,750 --> 00:49:51,300
apart from Jesus in His grace so what
1055
00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:53,490
kinds of blessings does brokenness bring
1056
00:49:53,490 --> 00:49:55,560
but we've seen that brokenness causes
1057
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,740
God to draw near to us that God draws
1058
00:49:58,740 --> 00:50:00,890
near to the humble broken ones and
1059
00:50:00,890 --> 00:50:04,500
conversely he stiff-arms the proud you
1060
00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:06,060
feel like you're not close to God maybe
1061
00:50:06,060 --> 00:50:08,430
God is keeping you at a distance because
1062
00:50:08,430 --> 00:50:09,970
God Hey
1063
00:50:09,970 --> 00:50:17,410
pride in every form new life is released
1064
00:50:17,410 --> 00:50:20,470
through our brokenness that's a blessing
1065
00:50:20,470 --> 00:50:22,810
of brokenness think about that kernel of
1066
00:50:22,810 --> 00:50:25,330
wheat that Jesus talked about that goes
1067
00:50:25,330 --> 00:50:28,420
into the ground and it dies it sheds its
1068
00:50:28,420 --> 00:50:30,520
hard outer shell it's buried in the
1069
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,920
ground no one coddling at no one singing
1070
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,990
to it playing music to it recognizing
1071
00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:38,260
and it just dies but Jesus says if it
1072
00:50:38,260 --> 00:50:41,710
doesn't die it abides alone and nothing
1073
00:50:41,710 --> 00:50:44,910
ever happens to it but if it dies it
1074
00:50:44,910 --> 00:50:49,390
brings forth much fruit brokenness
1075
00:50:49,390 --> 00:50:53,170
brings increased fruitfulness jesus said
1076
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this is my body which is broken for you
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his death released eternal life for us
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and so when we are willing to be broken
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humble contrite before God his abundant
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life can flow through us to others
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brokenness gives us an increased
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00:51:13,210 --> 00:51:16,060
capacity for love and for worship think
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about that woman in Luke chapter 7
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she's broken she's humble she's grateful
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she loves Jesus with all her heart and
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00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,820
nobody has to scrip for her how to
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00:51:24,820 --> 00:51:26,710
worship Him she doesn't need a praise
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00:51:26,710 --> 00:51:28,810
band up there telling her to do it she
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00:51:28,810 --> 00:51:30,070
doesn't need noise she doesn't need
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instruction to just it's it's unscripted
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it's beautiful it's precious but some of
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00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,390
us look at believers who act that way
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00:51:37,390 --> 00:51:40,320
and we get all pharisaical about it
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because those people over there raising
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their hands I'm gonna be one of those
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charms Matisse
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[Laughter]
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hey that's alright sit on your hands
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that's fine and let me say if you raise
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your hands in the air and somebody next
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00:52:04,569 --> 00:52:06,069
to you doesn't and you're looking at
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scamp's at them like why are they so
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00:52:07,779 --> 00:52:11,769
then you've got a problem see God's
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00:52:11,769 --> 00:52:14,230
looking at our hearts and when your
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00:52:14,230 --> 00:52:16,809
heart has seen who God is and who you
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00:52:16,809 --> 00:52:18,460
are you've been broken and humble before
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00:52:18,460 --> 00:52:21,700
God then love for Jesus worship for God
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00:52:21,700 --> 00:52:24,069
love for others it comes flowing out
1109
00:52:24,069 --> 00:52:26,920
vertically and horizontally it comes
1110
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:31,660
flowing out of brokenness brokenness
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00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:33,369
brings increased fruitfulness because
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God uses things and people that are
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00:52:36,009 --> 00:52:39,279
broken Jesus body broke it on Calvary
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00:52:39,279 --> 00:52:41,319
and eternal life released for the
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salvation of the world I just want to
1116
00:52:44,859 --> 00:52:47,170
address this question for a moment then
1117
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I want to invite you to choose a step of
1118
00:52:50,740 --> 00:52:52,690
brokenness as God's been speaking to you
1119
00:52:52,690 --> 00:52:54,369
say where do I start
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well first of all see God as he is
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00:52:56,380 --> 00:52:58,779
because the closer you get to God and
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00:52:58,779 --> 00:53:00,700
His Holiness the more you will see
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00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:06,730
yourself as you are and then fall on the
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00:53:06,730 --> 00:53:10,569
rock Christ Jesus who was broken for you
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00:53:10,569 --> 00:53:13,180
cry out to the Lord and say God be
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00:53:13,180 --> 00:53:17,470
merciful to me a sinner have mercy on me
1127
00:53:17,470 --> 00:53:21,029
and then acknowledge and verbalize
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00:53:21,029 --> 00:53:26,259
need-need God I need you I need you it's
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00:53:26,259 --> 00:53:28,329
not my brother it's not my sister it's
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00:53:28,329 --> 00:53:30,339
not my pastor it's not the elders it's
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00:53:30,339 --> 00:53:32,109
not the Deacons it's not the youth it's
1132
00:53:32,109 --> 00:53:34,960
not the old people Lord it's me standing
1133
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:39,970
in the need of prayer no blaming listen
1134
00:53:39,970 --> 00:53:41,769
there's no brokenness when the finger of
1135
00:53:41,769 --> 00:53:44,289
blame is still pointed at someone else
1136
00:53:44,289 --> 00:53:46,180
your husband your kids your parents your
1137
00:53:46,180 --> 00:53:48,910
your small group leader your pastor your
1138
00:53:48,910 --> 00:53:51,779
boss your whatever that's not brokenness
1139
00:53:51,779 --> 00:53:55,180
nothing in my hand I bring simply to thy
1140
00:53:55,180 --> 00:53:59,079
cross I cling naked come to thee for
1141
00:53:59,079 --> 00:53:59,910
grace
1142
00:53:59,910 --> 00:54:03,530
dress helpless look to thee for grace
1143
00:54:03,530 --> 00:54:07,530
fowl I to the fountain fly wash me
1144
00:54:07,530 --> 00:54:11,030
Savior or I die
1145
00:54:11,030 --> 00:54:15,510
acknowledge verbalize need to God roof
1146
00:54:15,510 --> 00:54:19,380
off and then walls down acknowledge and
1147
00:54:19,380 --> 00:54:22,940
verbalize need to others
1148
00:54:22,940 --> 00:54:26,160
there's no brokenness where there is no
1149
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:30,630
openness maybe to your husband but you
1150
00:54:30,630 --> 00:54:32,760
need to go home or call him before this
1151
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,730
day is over and say I've been such a
1152
00:54:35,730 --> 00:54:39,780
proud self-righteous critical judgmental
1153
00:54:39,780 --> 00:54:44,460
woman always evaluating you always
1154
00:54:44,460 --> 00:54:46,109
holding you up to my standard of
1155
00:54:46,109 --> 00:54:46,859
performance
1156
00:54:46,859 --> 00:54:52,500
could you please forgive me now I don't
1157
00:54:52,500 --> 00:54:54,329
know what your story is I don't know
1158
00:54:54,329 --> 00:54:55,799
what your details are I don't know what
1159
00:54:55,799 --> 00:54:58,530
your need is got I know that there's an
1160
00:54:58,530 --> 00:55:02,430
invitation that God draws near and he
1161
00:55:02,430 --> 00:55:04,920
brings near to you those who choose the
1162
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,589
pathway of humility and your choosing
1163
00:55:07,589 --> 00:55:10,619
that let me encourage you to do the very
1164
00:55:10,619 --> 00:55:13,410
thing that you know God wants you to do
1165
00:55:13,410 --> 00:55:16,369
but your flesh is telling you not to do
1166
00:55:16,369 --> 00:55:18,839
Lord I'll go to anyone I'll do anything
1167
00:55:18,839 --> 00:55:21,359
I'll make any wrong other past right
1168
00:55:21,359 --> 00:55:23,880
except that one thing I'll go to any
1169
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:25,829
person except that one person listen
1170
00:55:25,829 --> 00:55:27,359
some of you came as a church group here
1171
00:55:27,359 --> 00:55:31,440
I got 10 15 20 50 women here together at
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00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,750
this conference and some of you there's
1173
00:55:33,750 --> 00:55:36,119
someone in that group and they're just
1174
00:55:36,119 --> 00:55:39,270
walls a mile high between you and who
1175
00:55:39,270 --> 00:55:41,940
knows how it started or wire how long
1176
00:55:41,940 --> 00:55:44,760
it's been going on but maybe God brought
1177
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,579
you here today to reconcile your hearts
1178
00:55:47,579 --> 00:55:49,470
don't wait for the other to come to you
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00:55:49,470 --> 00:55:53,460
we're going to open the altar of God's
1180
00:55:53,460 --> 00:55:57,660
presence in just a few moments and I'm
1181
00:55:57,660 --> 00:56:00,180
gonna invite you to do whatever the Holy
1182
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:04,020
Spirit is telling you to do roof off
1183
00:56:04,020 --> 00:56:06,539
walls down and it may be that you need
1184
00:56:06,539 --> 00:56:08,250
to find that person maybe it's a mother
1185
00:56:08,250 --> 00:56:09,660
and daughter you came together or
1186
00:56:09,660 --> 00:56:11,730
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and
1187
00:56:11,730 --> 00:56:13,349
there's been a barrier between
1188
00:56:13,349 --> 00:56:16,739
you and you're blaming that stop blaming
1189
00:56:16,739 --> 00:56:19,890
don't do it God's not asking you to deal
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00:56:19,890 --> 00:56:21,599
with their sin God's asking you to deal
1191
00:56:21,599 --> 00:56:23,880
with your pride and you may need to take
1192
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:25,680
that person by the hand and come here
1193
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,930
and make an altar out of this front area
1194
00:56:27,930 --> 00:56:29,579
or perhaps go back there to that prayer
1195
00:56:29,579 --> 00:56:31,710
room or just kneel there at your seat or
1196
00:56:31,710 --> 00:56:34,259
in the aisle here and say I've been so
1197
00:56:34,259 --> 00:56:36,089
proud I've been so wrong would you
1198
00:56:36,089 --> 00:56:38,190
please forgive me
1199
00:56:38,190 --> 00:56:40,799
maybe you just need how long has it been
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00:56:40,799 --> 00:56:43,589
since you just knelt humbly before the
1201
00:56:43,589 --> 00:56:44,640
Lord and said Lord
1202
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:47,249
I made your grace how long has it been
1203
00:56:47,249 --> 00:56:49,799
since you've shared a real spiritual
1204
00:56:49,799 --> 00:56:51,989
need or burden with someone else some of
1205
00:56:51,989 --> 00:56:54,119
you have sons and daughters that are far
1206
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:56,369
from God but you're too embarrassed to
1207
00:56:56,369 --> 00:56:58,349
tell anybody some of you have kids in
1208
00:56:58,349 --> 00:57:02,579
prison or husband in prison and you're
1209
00:57:02,579 --> 00:57:05,400
so ashamed you're so embarrassed but you
1210
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,589
heard these women who are free and full
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00:57:07,589 --> 00:57:09,749
and fruitful because they got honest
1212
00:57:09,749 --> 00:57:12,329
maybe you just need to find somebody in
1213
00:57:12,329 --> 00:57:14,039
your church group there somebody who
1214
00:57:14,039 --> 00:57:15,779
knows you and to say there's something
1215
00:57:15,779 --> 00:57:17,609
I've been hiding something I've been
1216
00:57:17,609 --> 00:57:19,559
pretending about I'm not who you think I
1217
00:57:19,559 --> 00:57:23,759
am some of you women have many in this
1218
00:57:23,759 --> 00:57:25,829
room who have had an immoral
1219
00:57:25,829 --> 00:57:28,680
relationship and immoral past or an
1220
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,289
abortion you've you've hidden it listen
1221
00:57:31,289 --> 00:57:35,519
there is no sin God cannot forgive but
1222
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:37,739
God is not as concerned about the sin
1223
00:57:37,739 --> 00:57:39,869
that you have committed as he is about
1224
00:57:39,869 --> 00:57:43,259
how you respond to that sin are you
1225
00:57:43,259 --> 00:57:44,819
covering are you hiding are you
1226
00:57:44,819 --> 00:57:46,680
pretending or are you willing to walk
1227
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,410
out into the light now that doesn't mean
1228
00:57:49,410 --> 00:57:50,969
you have to tell everybody everything
1229
00:57:50,969 --> 00:57:53,249
about your whole life story but I'll
1230
00:57:53,249 --> 00:57:54,329
tell you what there shouldn't be
1231
00:57:54,329 --> 00:57:57,960
anything in your life or mine that we're
1232
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,660
not willing and open to share if it
1233
00:58:00,660 --> 00:58:02,910
would bring God glory and it would help
1234
00:58:02,910 --> 00:58:05,910
maybe somebody else who's walking in
1235
00:58:05,910 --> 00:58:10,589
that same direction someone asked if we
1236
00:58:10,589 --> 00:58:12,089
could just stand for a moment in the
1237
00:58:12,089 --> 00:58:14,940
presence of the Lord I know we've been
1238
00:58:14,940 --> 00:58:16,920
here a long time this morning but you
1239
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,619
saw a powerful illustration of
1240
00:58:19,619 --> 00:58:22,289
brokenness and humility in these women
1241
00:58:22,289 --> 00:58:24,960
who sat up here on the platform former
1242
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,549
inmates at McPherson women's
1243
00:58:28,740 --> 00:58:31,540
and I wonder what God has been saying to
1244
00:58:31,540 --> 00:58:34,450
you as he's been speaking to our hearts
1245
00:58:34,450 --> 00:58:37,180
this morning here at the front on the
1246
00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:40,500
far sides all the way there at the back
1247
00:58:40,500 --> 00:58:43,869
what has God been saying to you let's
1248
00:58:43,869 --> 00:58:45,640
just bow our hearts before the Lord for
1249
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:50,230
a moment be still before him I want to
1250
00:58:50,230 --> 00:58:53,380
ask you in these next moments would you
1251
00:58:53,380 --> 00:58:57,550
take some step of humility and
1252
00:58:57,550 --> 00:59:00,820
brokenness that God is speaking to you
1253
00:59:00,820 --> 00:59:03,340
about maybe it's to come to the front
1254
00:59:03,340 --> 00:59:04,780
here in neo maybe it's to get in an
1255
00:59:04,780 --> 00:59:06,369
aisle there into some kneel it's just a
1256
00:59:06,369 --> 00:59:08,560
turn at your seat and kneel there before
1257
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:09,940
the Lord and say this immediate what's
1258
00:59:09,940 --> 00:59:11,980
that do listen it doesn't do anything if
1259
00:59:11,980 --> 00:59:14,140
your hearts not humble but if your heart
1260
00:59:14,140 --> 00:59:15,790
is humble it can be an expression of
1261
00:59:15,790 --> 00:59:18,700
humility maybe you need to make your way
1262
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:20,050
back to that prayer room and get one of
1263
00:59:20,050 --> 00:59:21,310
those prayer partners and say I need
1264
00:59:21,310 --> 00:59:23,530
somebody to pray with me some of you
1265
00:59:23,530 --> 00:59:26,110
need to get on your phone go call your
1266
00:59:26,110 --> 00:59:30,070
husband say we got to talk now maybe
1267
00:59:30,070 --> 00:59:31,960
I've known women at a time like this
1268
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,030
who've needed to confess to their
1269
00:59:34,030 --> 00:59:36,490
husband that there was an immoral
1270
00:59:36,490 --> 00:59:38,350
relationship they had kept hidden I
1271
00:59:38,350 --> 00:59:40,869
wouldn't advise throwing that on your
1272
00:59:40,869 --> 00:59:42,880
husband on the phone in the next two
1273
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:46,030
minutes but I'd maybe find somebody else
1274
00:59:46,030 --> 00:59:47,740
and tell him I got to make this right
1275
00:59:47,740 --> 00:59:50,050
and then ask God for wisdom maybe get
1276
00:59:50,050 --> 00:59:52,270
him another mature women woman to pray
1277
00:59:52,270 --> 00:59:54,310
with you about the best way to bring
1278
00:59:54,310 --> 00:59:57,910
this into the light talking about roof
1279
00:59:57,910 --> 01:00:01,300
off walls down I don't know what God's
1280
01:00:01,300 --> 01:00:03,190
speaking to you about but we're gonna be
1281
01:00:03,190 --> 01:00:05,260
still we're gonna be quiet and I want
1282
01:00:05,260 --> 01:00:07,300
you to just stand for a few moments so
1283
01:00:07,300 --> 01:00:09,640
that those who want to move can make
1284
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,369
their way out and then if you get tired
1285
01:00:12,369 --> 01:00:13,990
of standing a few moment you can feel
1286
01:00:13,990 --> 01:00:15,970
free to be seated or however God
1287
01:00:15,970 --> 01:00:17,530
promised I'd like to ask you please so
1288
01:00:17,530 --> 01:00:20,140
for these next 10 or 15 minutes not to
1289
01:00:20,140 --> 01:00:21,910
disrupt anybody or anything we're just
1290
01:00:21,910 --> 01:00:24,340
gonna wait in the presence of the Lord
1291
01:00:24,340 --> 01:00:27,010
God's talking don't wait for somebody
1292
01:00:27,010 --> 01:00:30,490
else you move if God's telling you you
1293
01:00:30,490 --> 01:00:32,109
need to make something right you need to
1294
01:00:32,109 --> 01:00:34,119
talk to someone you need to pray you
1295
01:00:34,119 --> 01:00:35,890
need to go to that prayer room whatever
1296
01:00:35,890 --> 01:00:39,910
it is this whole room it's gonna be a
1297
01:00:39,910 --> 01:00:41,470
massive officer we're we're just gonna
1298
01:00:41,470 --> 01:00:45,580
come say Lord it's me standing in the
1299
01:00:45,580 --> 01:00:47,650
need of prayer we're not gonna be able
1300
01:00:47,650 --> 01:00:50,380
to pray for others tonight if our hearts
1301
01:00:50,380 --> 01:00:53,410
are not repentant and broken and humble
1302
01:00:53,410 --> 01:00:55,240
before God what do you need to repent of
1303
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,240
what do you need to confess what do you
1304
01:00:58,240 --> 01:00:59,560
need to get right about where do you
1305
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,300
need to let the roof off where do you
1306
01:01:01,300 --> 01:01:03,730
need to let the walls down you obey the
1307
01:01:03,730 --> 01:01:06,400
Holy Spirit as he speaks to us in these
1308
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:10,000
moments and although Jesus you are here
1309
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:14,350
in this place in your people they're
1310
01:01:14,350 --> 01:01:16,780
women here who are like that one woman
1311
01:01:16,780 --> 01:01:18,880
was for McPherson who say I've been in
1312
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,520
church all my life I maybe it was a
1313
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:22,990
Sunday school teacher but I don't know
1314
01:01:22,990 --> 01:01:25,920
Jesus don't mean I need to get saved
1315
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,869
give your heart surrender your will to
1316
01:01:28,869 --> 01:01:30,340
him Oh Lord I don't know what it is I
1317
01:01:30,340 --> 01:01:31,270
don't know what you're speaking to
1318
01:01:31,270 --> 01:01:34,300
people about but you are the Holy Spirit
1319
01:01:34,300 --> 01:01:36,070
she was a God of the universe and would
1320
01:01:36,070 --> 01:01:39,869
you move on people's hearts right now
1321
01:01:39,869 --> 01:01:41,890
forget everybody else and everything
1322
01:01:41,890 --> 01:01:45,700
around him just say yes Lord wave that
1323
01:01:45,700 --> 01:01:48,520
white flag of surrender Lord have your
1324
01:01:48,520 --> 00:00:00,000
way in this place
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