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Episode: “Who is Your Heavenly Father?”

The Bearded Bible Brothers tell us we need to accept the true loving nature of our Heavenly Father. What about His perception is about us? How do we become like a little child in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? We learn God is not our enemy.

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00:10 ♪♪♪ David Hart: Thank you so much for joining us today.
00:12 I am a father, you guys are fathers, but today's topic is
00:17 about our heavenly Father, yes?
00:19 Joshua Colson: It is about our heavenly Father and who he
00:22 really is.
00:23 I don't know how it was like for you in high school, but you'd
00:25 wait and start the next year, and if somebody had talked about
00:28 you before you got to class that day, people had an opinion of
00:31 you before they ever met you, and especially if they were
00:33 trying to slander you.
00:34 God is kind of like the king of getting smeared by the world in
00:38 history, and it's so bad because all his heart is for us is love,
00:42 but mankind throughout history has done nothing but attack him.
00:46 So, we want to actually share with you guys the true nature
00:49 of God.
00:51 We are taking clips from our past episodes that we show from
00:54 "The Bearded Bible Brothers" on our online platform, and showing
00:57 them for the first time on television.
00:59 So, right now we're going to one of those clips where we talk
01:01 about the true nature of the Father.
01:05 Joshua: I love you, Figey.
01:06 Hi, everyone, my name's Joshua and that's my brother reading.
01:09 Why are you reading?
01:12 Caleb Colson: I always read.
01:13 Joshua: Like the Bible, but why are you reading recreationally?
01:16 Caleb: This is "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charlie Dickinson.
01:20 I had to read this in high school, a sophomore in
01:23 high school.
01:25 There's a lot of guys named Jacque in here.
01:26 Anyhoo, I didn't understand a word back then.
01:29 I had to use the Cliff Notes to understand, but once I read
01:32 those Cliff Notes, I was like, whoa, this is an amazing story.
01:34 Biblical allegory here, it's pretty cool.
01:38 Joshua: You know, guys, one of the problems we have in life in
01:40 looking at God as our Father is that we've had a lot of
01:44 questionable fathers in life.
01:46 Not everybody's had an amazing father whose focus was to
01:48 cultivate and to grow you into the best person God designed you
01:51 to be, who took care of you and provided for you so that you
01:54 didn't have to make these questions in your life.
01:56 And so, when you just blink it and say God is a Father, that
01:59 brings a lot of mixed emotions to different people based on the
02:02 experiences they've had.
02:03 Caleb: That's why we want to take you to the Bible to be your
02:06 Cliff Notes, for example, to help you understand the
02:08 goodness, the love, the compassion of our
02:11 heavenly Father.
02:13 Joshua: Because that's what he wants for you, guys.
02:15 In the Old Testament, we had this perception that God was a
02:17 little different, right?
02:18 That he was angry, and smiting, and doing all this
02:20 different stuff.
02:22 Caleb: Throwing down lightning bolts, yeah, you see that
02:24 throughout different mythologies and from Zeus, you know,
02:28 throwing down lightning, you see that with Ba'al Hadad, with
02:31 Jupiter, but that's not who God really is.
02:32 Joshua: It's not, in Matthew, actually, we clear some things
02:34 up here in chapter 7, verses 7 through 11.
02:37 It says, "Ask and it will be given to you, seek, and you will
02:40 find, knock, and it will be open for you.
02:42 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to
02:46 him who knocks, it will be opened.
02:47 Or what man is there among you who if his son asks for bread,
02:52 he will give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish, he will give
02:55 him a serpent?
02:56 If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your
02:58 children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven
03:00 give good things to those who ask him?"
03:03 Caleb: That's amazing.
03:04 Joshua: If you ever give somebody a serpent when they ask
03:07 for something else, you are not a nice person.
03:09 Luckily, God's never gonna do that to you.
03:11 Caleb: And I know that's kind of a hard concept, even with that
03:13 scripture, for people understand, because back then
03:16 children were valued more, people wanted to have more and
03:18 more children.
03:20 It was an heirship, it was a carrying on of legacy, of
03:24 passing down property, and today people are more selfish.
03:27 They don't wanna have kids, they wanna do their own thing.
03:29 But we see that God calls us to be his children.
03:33 It is an heirship.
03:35 It's a thing of royalty.
03:36 And in this scripture, Romans 8:15 through 17, "For you did
03:39 not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you
03:42 received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, 'Abba, Father.'
03:46 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the
03:49 children of God.
03:50 And if children, then heirs, heirs of God the Father, and
03:53 joint heirs with Christ Jesus," that's amazing.
03:56 Joshua: That is amazing.
03:57 I don't know what an heirship is, he'll explain that later,
03:58 I'm sure, but he's also a provider.
04:00 And this is one of my favorite scripture verses, I know most
04:03 everyone has heard it, but Matthew 6:26 says, "Look at the
04:05 birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather
04:08 into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
04:11 Are you not of more value than they?"
04:14 Guys, if he's taking care of birds, and the flowers have way
04:17 cooler clothes than you're wearing, how much more is he
04:19 gonna be like, this is my son and daughter, I'm gonna take
04:21 care of them?
04:22 We so often are focused on asking our Father for the things
04:26 that he's already committed to providing as a Father.
04:28 We don't even delve into the true relationship of a father,
04:32 son, a father, daughter, because we're just sitting there asking
04:34 for the same things he's already given us already.
04:36 Caleb: And he does it because of love.
04:37 God is love.
04:39 We see that in numerous scriptures.
04:40 1 John 4:8, John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Ephesians 2:4 through 5.
04:44 All these scriptures explain the unconditional love of a Father,
04:47 something that you did not have to earn.
04:50 He just gave it freely.
04:51 He gave his Son freely, and that's why we know that he
04:55 loves us.
04:56 Joshua: We know that Psalms 145:8 says, "The Lord is
04:57 gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love."
05:01 He's not waiting for you to mess up so he can bonk you on
05:03 the head.
05:04 Hebrews 12:6 says, "The Lord disciplines the one he loves,
05:07 and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son."
05:11 A father's job is to correct you.
05:12 We've kind of gotten this mentality today that I'm your
05:14 dad, I'm your best friend, let's go do really lotharios things,
05:17 lotharios, nefarious, that's two words together.
05:20 Let's do bad things together.
05:21 This is what I get for trying to do big words.
05:23 A father is supposed to be a friend, but a father's job is to
05:27 instruct and correct.
05:28 That's the reason why kids push boundaries, because they want to
05:30 find where the walls are.
05:31 No matter what you say out loud, you wanna know there's a
05:33 definitive wall because somebody cares about you.
05:35 That's what your father's job is.
05:36 Caleb: The father is also meant to be the spiritual authority in
05:40 the household, to lead you to Messiah, to teach you how to
05:43 follow after the Lord.
05:44 He's that example.
05:46 I know some of you may have not seen that in your families
05:49 today, but you can look at your heavenly Father.
05:51 You can look how Jesus sought the heavenly Father's advice,
05:53 how he always prayed, how he always went to the mountain to a
05:55 quiet place to do that.
05:57 That's our example of what we should do.
05:59 Joshua: God is for you, he is not against you.
06:01 Every one of you who has a story that's unfortunate from your
06:04 father, it's time to break the cycle.
06:06 Instead of you living out the abuse that you went through, and
06:09 that his father went through before, and instead of
06:11 transferring that to the generation below you, let's draw
06:14 a line in the sand.
06:15 Let's go I may not understand it, I don't know what this is,
06:17 but I'm gonna believe it because God's promised it on his word.
06:19 Let's ask the Father today to cultivate a different view.
06:23 And in fact, it's not in my notes, but I'm gonna pray for
06:25 everybody right now because I think this is very important.
06:27 So, dear heavenly Father, we just pray for everyone in the
06:29 sound of my voice, that whatever their view of a father is,
06:32 however broken, however abandoned they may feel, that
06:35 you would change that view today.
06:37 That you would give them that Spirit of adoption that you've
06:40 promised in your Word.
06:41 That you would bind up the brokenhearted and the
06:43 expectation of everyone listening would transfer from
06:46 being abandoned, and abused, and left, and forgotten, to being
06:50 believed in, to being supported, to having a plan for their life,
06:53 to being provided for.
06:55 That all of those things you promised in your Word are the
06:57 expectation of us, not out of trying to get something from
06:59 you, but because we know that you love us and you have a plan
07:02 for and that's your purpose, dear heavenly Father.
07:04 So, I just take authority over all the lies of the enemy, all
07:07 the confusion, the rejection, the things that have kept us in
07:09 bondage, and everyone in bondage that's listening, and I pray for
07:12 a new day today to form in their lives, that they now move in the
07:15 plan that their Father has for them to grow to be the men and
07:18 women of God that he designed before the foundations of
07:20 this earth.
07:21 In Yeshua's name, we pray, amen.
07:23 Love you guys.
07:25 Dad's really nice.
07:28 David: I've got to say, I love what you said to us, Joshua,
07:31 earlier, that our heavenly Father loves us and he wants the
07:35 best for us in our lives.
07:36 That's what this is all about.
07:37 Joshua: It is, and Satan has created a fantastic smear
07:40 campaign of the Father throughout history.
07:43 We've just talked about all the times that man has looked at God
07:46 with the perception in his eye, he's out to get me.
07:48 Kirsten Hart: I will say, Old Testament is kind of rough,
07:52 there's some rough stuff.
07:53 I'm really thankful for that second testament when that
07:57 comes in.
07:58 Joshua: And a lot of people will say that, but keep in mind that
08:00 he gave people hundreds of years at different points in the Old
08:03 Testament to repent, and so when he finally did make a call, it
08:06 was after he had given them time, and time, and time again
08:09 to make that choice.
08:11 Caleb: Well, guys, that leads us to our next subject topic.
08:14 It's what is God's perception of us?
08:16 Are we these whiny little brats that are always annoying him?
08:19 We want this, help me, heal me and all this.
08:21 Kirsten: Yes, we are.
08:23 Caleb: Yeah, well, sometimes we may think of that as ourselves,
08:25 but God has a different perception of who we are.
08:27 He holds a high intrinsic value on our lives, and I'll give you
08:31 a hint, he gave his own Son to save us.
08:34 That's how much he loves us.
08:36 So, let's go to God's intrinsic value.
08:41 Joshua: Hey, everybody, I'm Joshua.
08:42 Caleb: And I'm Caleb.
08:44 Joshua: And we're brothers.
08:45 Caleb: We're brothers, totally brothers.
08:46 Joshua: We were actually nervous for a second because you always
08:48 question it.
08:49 I had to look.
08:51 Oh yeah, that's him, I know him.
08:52 Caleb: You know, many of you in our audience may be homeowners,
08:54 and you may have purchased your home for a specific price, but
08:56 with the market value that's constantly fluctuating and
08:59 changing, that price can go up and down.
09:01 Well, you may have placed new fixtures into your home, and
09:07 bought furniture and all this stuff, and it has a different
09:09 intrinsic value to you than the market value based upon supply
09:13 and demand.
09:15 Joshua: Now, life today is kind of set up in a weird way,
09:18 because the world somewhat judges us at a market
09:20 value idea.
09:22 Everybody kind of looks at each other and says, okay, this is
09:24 the position I have at my job, this are the assets I have in my
09:26 bank account, this is how my exterior facade looks, and based
09:30 on these different things, we find a market value in our life
09:33 that isn't accurate to what God looks at our lives in.
09:36 When God looks at man's life, he looks at it with an intrinsic
09:40 value of saying from the beginning to the end, everything
09:42 put together, this is how I see your value.
09:45 Not caught up in the exact moment you find yourself in,
09:47 where it may be at a place of disarray, or not having arrived
09:51 yet, but he looks at the end.
09:52 Caleb: That's right, that reminds me of Luke 15.
09:55 The Pharisees were complaining that Jesus surrounded himself
09:58 with tax collectors and these dirty people that society would
10:03 deem of low market value, and Jesus told three parables, the
10:06 parable of the lost sheep, of the lost coin, and the
10:09 prodigal son.
10:11 You know these stories.
10:12 The parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd, who is the Father,
10:14 has a hundred sheep.
10:16 One gets loose, he leaves the 99, and goes to search for that
10:19 one lost sheep.
10:20 He finds that sheep, celebrates, throws a party.
10:22 What was lost is now found.
10:23 Lost coin, the woman has ten silver coins, she loses one.
10:27 She searches nonstop until she finds that coin.
10:29 Tells her neighbors, they celebrate what was lost is
10:31 now found.
10:32 Parable of the prodigal son.
10:34 There's two sons, and one son wants his father's inheritance
10:37 before he's even dead.
10:39 He goes out, takes the inheritance, spends it
10:41 frivolously, comes back destitute, but the father
10:43 accepts him with loving arms.
10:45 That shows us how God places intrinsic value upon our lives.
10:50 That intrinsic values is his desire for a relationship
10:53 with us.
10:54 Joshua: It is his desire for us, and that's why in these stories
10:57 that Jesus shared the importance and value of seeking that
11:01 person out.
11:02 I can't say it enough how it's programmed into our heads and
11:04 hearts, that when we go through life that we run across
11:07 somebody, how many times have you've seen somebody who's
11:08 homeless on the side of the road, and your brain goes, "Are
11:10 they really homeless?
11:11 Are they this and that?
11:13 Oh, I can't have them around this.
11:14 I don't like this person for this."
11:15 We immediately devalue each other based off of what we're
11:19 seeing and not knowing who they truly are.
11:21 And in addition, we as people accept that lower value of
11:25 ourselves because of others, too.
11:27 So, it's not even just that we're forecasting that on
11:29 somebody else, it's that we hear this or we feel this based on
11:31 these pressures, and we allow that.
11:33 And yet, in verse 10 it says, "Likewise, I say to you, there's
11:35 joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
11:38 who repents."
11:40 We serve a Father who is dedicated and focused to seeking
11:43 out that one individual.
11:45 Not all of us that have this really high-looking market
11:48 value, or because we have arrived at our destination.
11:52 When the Father looks at you, it's not about your today, it's
11:57 not about your yesterday, it's in the summation of who he
12:00 created you to be.
12:02 What an amazing thing that is.
12:04 Caleb: Now on the other side of the coin, at the end of a
12:06 parable of the prodigal son, the good son, the son who obeyed the
12:09 father, he looks at the father lavishing his love on the lost
12:13 son, and he thinks that the father is playing favorites.
12:16 And we see, we look at God sometimes and we think God is
12:19 showing more affection to another person.
12:21 He gave this person more gifts, he looks prettier than I do, or
12:25 more handsome, and you think God is being disproportionate in his
12:29 love, because we look at things quantitatively.
12:32 This parable in Matthew 20, the parable the workers in
12:35 the vineyards, expresses when the Father, who is the
12:38 landowner, searches out and he hires workers in the vineyard to
12:44 harvest his grapes, and he agrees to pay them a denarius
12:48 for an entire day's work.
12:49 As they're working throughout the day, hour by hour, he finds
12:52 more workers that are stagnant and idle and that they have
12:56 nothing to do.
12:57 He hires them all to come work in the field.
12:59 At the end of the day, he pays every single man a denarius, the
13:03 same rate of pay.
13:05 Caleb: And people got angry, they grumbled, and the landowner
13:09 says, "Don't I have a right to do what I want with my
13:12 own money?
13:13 Are you being envious because I am generous?"
13:15 That shows us that God has the same worth value he places on
13:20 all of us.
13:21 And we look at things, well, I've been working harder for
13:23 God, I've been doing this, but he values us all the same.
13:26 We're all working as one in the body of Christ, but we're
13:28 looking at things quantitatively.
13:30 Joshua: It's not an excuse, guys, to be lazy and sit on your
13:32 butt and say God loves me just as much if I do nothing, but at
13:34 the same time, it's not an excuse for you to have that
13:37 wrong idea that I can earn my way into anything.
13:39 And that's the point of the father the entire time.
13:41 You can't earn anything, sorry to tell you this.
13:43 Your value is completely wrapped up in the fact that I created
13:45 you, that I love you, that you're fearfully and
13:47 wonderfully made.
13:49 It has nothing to do with the application of your works.
13:51 What you do and don't do should be a reflection of his love for
13:54 you, and that's the entire point.
13:56 Caleb: So, don't look at man's market value and what society
14:00 deems as how important you are, how beautiful you are, how
14:04 popular you are.
14:06 Are you good at sports?
14:07 Are you really athletic?
14:08 Look at God's intrinsic value on your life and trust in him and
14:12 be thankful.
14:13 Joshua: Get off your diet today, put away your apps with all the
14:15 calorie counters like I will, go eat pie.
14:18 Eat all the pie, pumpkin pie, eat all the animals on the table
14:20 that someone's prepared for you, and enjoy your time with your
14:23 family, we know we will.
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14:42 Caleb: There's nothing I love more than scripture.
14:44 Jeremiah 31:3 says, "The Lord has appeared of old to me,
14:49 saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.
14:53 Therefore with loving kindness, I have drawn you.'"
14:56 This is the Old Testament God you're hearing, that Father who
14:59 is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.
15:02 He's that father of the prodigal son, and I know everybody's
15:05 heard that story, and we get familiar with it, and it doesn't
15:08 have that potency that first time we heard it, but he
15:12 hasn't changed.
15:13 That Old Testament Father was finding any way possible,
15:16 through sacrifices and offerings, to draw us to him.
15:20 Kirsten: I love the combo of loving kindness.
15:25 Sometimes we're taught loving means I have to be harsh and
15:30 disciplined, but I love what you said.
15:31 Loving kindness is like the nice part of the love.
15:35 Do you know what I mean?
15:36 There's kindness associated with it, I like that.
15:38 Joshua: So, it's important that we do come to him like a little
15:41 child when he asks us to.
15:43 I think for our perception alone, when we grow up, and like
15:47 Caleb was saying, we we forget the potency of those
15:51 parables, right?
15:52 It just becomes a ritual for us.
15:53 But for a little kid, everything they take is brand new.
15:56 Oh my goodness, that's so amazing.
15:57 When my kids were little, I loved seeing how they would
15:59 react to things that they were seeing for the first time that
16:02 we take for granted every day.
16:04 God has good things for you, but we live in a world where the
16:07 enemy wants to stop that, change perception, bring harm to your
16:12 life, so we are about to talk about God not being your enemy,
16:17 how he does not have bad things for you.
16:19 If bad things happen, they only come from the enemy.
16:21 Only good can come from the Father.
16:25 Joshua: Hey, everybody, I'm Joshua.
16:27 Caleb: And I'm Caleb. Joshua: Brothers.
16:30 Caleb: We are, and today we're not going to reveal some great
16:32 theological mystery or do some outlandish stunt like some--
16:40 Joshua: It's toasted good.
16:43 It's burnt, oh, thank you.
16:46 Caleb: Hopefully we won't need that today, Josh.
16:49 Joshua: Oh, it's the other way, hold on.
16:51 There we go.
16:53 Caleb: Now that we've burned down half the building.
16:54 Joshua: These are delicious when you toast them, go on.
16:58 Caleb: Today, we just want to tell you a short, sweet message.
17:01 God is not your enemy.
17:03 Joshua: Duh, God's your enemy?
17:06 Caleb: Okay, some of y'all deep down inside may have gotten
17:09 bitter or resentful when you prayed for something and then
17:13 God doesn't answer you immediately, or you're hit with
17:16 some tough times, and you need to know God is not your enemy.
17:19 That he is for you, not against you.
17:21 That he desires to see you triumph over your foes, and turn
17:25 your mourning into dancing, and fill you full of joy.
17:28 Joshua: I don't know why y'all aren't dancing in the mourning.
17:30 Maybe y'all are different than us, but there's a message going
17:34 around that God wants you to be impoverished, that he wants you
17:37 to be beat down, that he wants, you know, you to basically hit
17:40 yourself in a book whenever a Gregorian monk chants.
17:43 You don't wanna do that, that's not helpful.
17:45 The thing is, how is God glorified if his people are
17:48 suffering, if they're weakened and downtrodden, if they can't
17:51 pay their bills, if they're in bad health?
17:53 When we read the Bible and God says that he is a God of this,
17:56 this, this, this, and all these amazing things, yet if his
17:59 people are broke down, beat down, and just living in the
18:02 dregs, how does that glorify God?
18:05 Caleb: Sometimes people use that as an excuse when the bad things
18:08 happen, and they don't wanna take responsibility for it, it
18:10 has to be God's fault.
18:12 Sometimes when we're waiting for God to fulfill a promise, we
18:17 kind of take control.
18:18 We're like, we're gonna help God along because we don't want him
18:20 to look bad, and we become like Abraham, and we kind of nudge
18:22 it along.
18:24 God, I'm gonna help you fulfill your promise, you know.
18:26 And when you do, you end up with a bunch of Ishmaels.
18:28 Joshua: Another problem, a bunch of Ishmaels?
18:30 That'd be a crazy thing.
18:32 I didn't even think about that.
18:33 But another issue is we get too focused on the promise and not
18:36 focused on him.
18:37 And that's one of the things that happens out of desperation.
18:40 We get in this state where we're so focused on when are you gonna
18:43 do this, and when are you gonna do this, and our shift becomes
18:47 on what he has promised to give to us instead of just being on
18:51 him as our Father.
18:52 Caleb: That's true, and we have to learn to surrender, guys.
18:55 We have to learn to trust God with our dreams and believe that
18:59 he loves us and he has our best interests at heart.
19:02 I have a personal story for this, very personal.
19:06 God has given me so many amazing promises throughout my lifetime,
19:10 and he had given me this particular promise about who my
19:15 wife was gonna be, who I was gonna marry.
19:17 I had these signs, these pointers to find her.
19:20 I knew she wasn't gonna come from America, she was gonna come
19:23 from across the Atlantic, this specific continent I knew she
19:25 was gonna come from.
19:26 I knew I was gonna marry young.
19:28 I knew how smart and brilliant she was, and how compassionate,
19:31 and man, after waiting for God to fulfill this promise, I
19:35 started getting, you know, pessimistic, and just negative,
19:39 and at the ripe old age of 16, yeah, when you're 16 years old,
19:43 you feel like every day takes forever.
19:45 I'm ready to give up.
19:47 That's it, you know.
19:48 Josh, you and I then, we were at Times Square, the year 2000.
19:53 ♪ In the year 2000 ♪
19:56 Caleb: Y2K, guys, we were crammed with millions of people,
19:59 and two days later we went to Times Square Church, David
20:03 Wilkerson's church, if you know him.
20:04 He's a street evangelist, helped start the story of "Cross and
20:08 the Switchblade," you've heard that?
20:10 He helped start Teen Challenge.
20:12 And he was giving a prophecy that morning, and the presence
20:15 of God was there.
20:16 I can't even remember the words of this prophecy, but I was just
20:19 overwhelmed with the presence of God, and God started to show
20:22 areas of my life that I hadn't completely surrendered to him.
20:25 And I'm like, okay, you know what, God?
20:26 I give up.
20:27 I surrender everything to you, all my hopes, all my dreams.
20:31 I repent, I ask you, forgive me for all these focuses in my life
20:36 that were not of you, and I'm gonna trust you, even if these
20:39 dreams are never fulfilled, I'm just gonna spend time with you
20:42 and you're gonna be my joy.
20:44 And two weeks later, I literally met my future wife.
20:47 Now, I didn't know it was her, I wasn't even looking for a
20:50 girl now.
20:52 Joshua: Even with all those context clues?
20:53 Even though she couldn't speak English, and was from that side
20:55 of the Atlantic, and clearly never been to America?
20:58 Caleb: And she kept coming across my path, coming across my
21:01 life, I'm like, man, what's wrong with this girl?
21:02 And finally, one day God tapped me on the shoulder, he said,
21:04 hey, look at that girl.
21:06 Like, yeah, yeah, do you recognize her?
21:08 I start looking like, oh, snap?
21:11 Well done, sir, well done.
21:13 Joshua: So, guys, whether or not you're 16 and been living those
21:16 16 whole treacherous years alone by yourself, and thinking that
21:20 God has dropped the ball, or maybe you're in your 40's like
21:23 me, and it just now happened, it doesn't matter.
21:26 The point of it is that God loves you, so he wants to
21:29 fulfill his promises to you, but he requires that you give them
21:33 to him.
21:34 Give that permission over.
21:36 So, what we'd like to do right now is read the Word over you,
21:38 because his promises are very, very powerful.
21:41 And in Romans 8:28 through verse 39 it says, "And we know that
21:46 all things work together for good to those who love God, to
21:49 those who are called according to his purpose.
21:51 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to
21:54 the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
21:57 many brethren.
21:58 Moreover, whom he predestined then he also called.
22:01 Whom he called, these he also justified.
22:04 And whom he justified, these he also glorified.
22:07 What then shall we say to these things?
22:09 If God is for us, who can be against us?
22:12 He who did not spare his own Son but delivered him up for us all,
22:16 how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
22:20 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect?
22:23 It is God who justifies.
22:25 Who is he who condemns?
22:26 It is Christ who died and furthermore is also risen, who
22:29 is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession
22:32 for us.
22:34 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
22:35 Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
22:39 nakedness, or peril, or sword?"
22:41 Or the Atlantic Ocean?
22:42 "As it is written, 'For your sake we are killed all day long.
22:46 We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.'
22:49 Yet in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him
22:53 who loved us.
22:54 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor
22:57 principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
23:00 come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be
23:03 able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ
23:07 Jesus our Lord."
23:08 He loves us. His promises are very clear.
23:12 There is no room to misinterpret this, and if you are, it's the
23:15 enemy speaking to you, do not listen.
23:17 If you believe he didn't love you, then why did he give you
23:19 that ability to open a pistachio?
23:21 It's already halfway there, he just wants you to do your part
23:24 and trust him and get the inside goodness.
23:27 Caleb: Join us next time, guys.
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23:30 Joshua: Don't play with fire, or blowtorches, or try to toast
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24:12 Kirsten: I would like to thank the two of you for bringing up
24:15 the topic in what you just taught, that how is God and
24:19 God's love glorified if we're walking around beaten down?
24:25 And I think there's such a mentality out there that woe
24:29 is me.
24:30 I mean, we talk about old hymns, "Such a worm as I, I am
24:34 not worthy."
24:35 You know, there's two different mindsets.
24:37 Either we're so low, or who we are in Christ and God wants to
24:41 be glorified in our lives.
24:43 If we're walking around defeated, how does that
24:45 glorify him?
24:46 Caleb: Exactly, he wants us to be conquers and overcomers.
24:48 He wants us to walk in the authority of his Son, Yeshua,
24:50 and do his miracles and his wonders, and yet we think we're
24:56 beaten down when God corrects us.
24:57 No, he's trying to protect us, just as we're parents and we
25:00 don't want our children running out in the middle of the street
25:02 in the middle of traffic.
25:04 He's trying to herd us back into the fold like sheep, you know,
25:07 and make sure that the enemy doesn't have a place to
25:09 destroy us.
25:11 David: We were made in his image.
25:13 I mean, come on, that's huge.
25:15 Caleb: With the beards and all.
25:17 Kirsten: Thank you, Lord, that I don't have one, but anyway.
25:22 Joshua: It's his love that we've been talking about, because the
25:25 most important thing to know about his character is his love
25:28 for you.
25:29 A lot of us on earth don't understand what love means when
25:32 they hear that word truly in respect to the Father.
25:35 Some of you didn't have a father.
25:37 Some of you had fathers who didn't actually show love to you
25:40 but showed abuse, and pain, and disdain, and other things.
25:43 It's so important that we understand that characteristic
25:46 of love, because it's a free gift.
25:49 You don't have to earn that love.
25:51 You don't have to be better at anything for him to love
25:54 you more.
25:55 And in all the broken areas of your life, and the things that
25:57 have happened to you before on this planet, and the things that
25:59 you've endured, those weren't the Father that did it, it was
26:02 the enemy that did that.
26:04 And the Father wants to come in and wrap his arms around you,
26:07 and love you, and restore you, and heal you, and I just wanted
26:11 to pray over you right now.
26:13 In the name of Yeshua, I just pray that everyone in the sound
26:15 of my voice, all the broken areas of their heart, all the
26:18 wrongs that have happened to them, that your loving arms
26:20 would restore them right now from the top of their head to
26:22 the soles of their feet.
26:24 That you would heal up the broken places, that you'd
26:26 restore their heart as a child, and that they would look at you
26:29 and at life with that childlike wonder again and with the hope
26:32 for a positive future and today.
26:35 David: Guys, thank you for your teaching today.
26:37 It's almost time to go, but I gotta mention your shirt one
26:40 more time.
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26:49 Kirsten: Right, and it's pound sign Bearded Bible Brothers.
26:53 Caleb: Hashtag, it's a great witnessing tool, it honestly is.
26:55 Joshua: That's right, so as we always say, shaalu
26:57 shalom yerushalayim.
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