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0:00yeah all right meet me in the Book of
0:01John chapter number 20 verse number 25
0:03but he said to
0:06them unless I see the nail marks in his
0:10hand and put my finger where the nails
0:15were and put my hand to his
0:19side I will not
0:24believe H he said but but he said to
0:27them unless I see the nail marks in his
0:29hand and put my finger where the nails
0:32were hold on to that and put my hand
0:36into his side I will not believe I want
0:39to put a tag on this text and teach uh
0:41from this topic wow I couldn't believe
0:44my
0:45eyes I couldn't believe my eyes you may
0:47have your seats in the house I couldn't
0:49believe my eyes we are in part four of
0:52this series entitled me in three and our
0:56word for 2025 is believe
1:00we believe in major and as a matter of
1:02fact just as a point of a commercial I
1:05want you to be with us uh next week
1:07we're getting ready to do me and three
1:09the relationship
1:12Edition oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah we we
1:15getting ready to do me and three the
1:16relationship Edition we're g we're going
1:18to talk about dating and and and
1:20marriage and uh and singleness and
1:24divorcees and and what does that look
1:26like and what it's going down so so so
1:29do me a favor if if they didn't come to
1:31church this week uh send them a text
1:33message and say next week is for you I
1:35promise you next week I couldn't believe
1:39my eyes F family while in preparation
1:41for today's conversation I ran across a
1:43quote that was serve as a diving board
1:45into our discourse today the statement
1:48captured me and it Arrested me it this
1:52is a quote that's popular and some would
1:54even say profound it's short it's simple
1:57yet may be substit the quote that I'm
2:01referring to is this seeing is
2:05believing seeing is believing the idea
2:09of this popular phrase is that we
2:11usually think something is true when we
2:14see it with our own eyes we have to see
2:17something before we can accept it as
2:19having real value or even that it exists
2:21at all stay with me we're going
2:22somewhere if someone tells you a story
2:24about something that seems
2:27abnormal or maybe you you sense some
2:30type of exaggeration in their
2:32explanation you wouldn't even take their
2:35word for it you're going to ask them to
2:38see something before you believe
2:40something tell the truth or or or you
2:42find yourself in a heated discourse or
2:45debate or even argument online and and
2:48uh you know somebody might not believe
2:50your point of view or what you said is
2:52true so the first thing you're going to
2:54do is you're going to go scroll through
2:55your phone and find the
2:58receipts and you're going to slam slam
3:00the receipts in their face like you're
3:01playing the big Joker at the end of a
3:03space
3:04game because you need to let them know
3:07that sometimes seeing is believing all
3:11that I is true and the some people don't
3:16believe until they see right no that
3:19that's that's reality some people don't
3:21believe something until they see it the
3:25the Apostle the Apostle Kendrick Lamar
3:28said sometimes you got to pop out and
3:32show
3:33them your neighbor tell them to rest
3:35after
3:36church that is to say that some people
3:38only believe when you show them and
3:40family while I do think that that quote
3:43can be true in some cases I disagree
3:45with this application regarding our
3:47spiritual Foundation see spiritually
3:50speaking seeing isn't believing
3:52believing is
3:55seeing the issue that I have with seeing
3:57is believing is that while it may be
4:00incorrect it may not be incorrect but it
4:02is incomplete because it only accounts
4:05for the eyes in my
4:08head God and the eyes in my head are
4:11designed to allow me to see what's in
4:14front of me the eyes in my head are
4:16allow or are designed to allow me to see
4:19what's physically in front of me they
4:21they cannot see inwardly the eyes in my
4:25head are limited to things that have
4:28already been created
4:31if you knew how good that was the eyes
4:33in my head only see things that have
4:36already been
4:38created the the eyes in my head are
4:41reactive they they see something that
4:43already has
4:45structure oh God so so so scripturally
4:49speaking though stay with me I'm going
4:50somewhere this is gonna mess you up go
4:52God has given us another set of
4:54eyes not just the eyes in my head but
4:57he's given us eyes in our heart
5:01Ephesians 1:18 it says this is right
5:02here on the screen PE what it says it
5:04says Paul says this he says having the
5:07eyes of your hearts enlightened that you
5:10may know what is the Hope um to which he
5:15has called you watch watch this what are
5:17the riches his of his glorious
5:20inheritance in the Saints God this is
5:23good he's saying having the eyes of our
5:27hearts enlightened there's a distinct
5:29relation between the eyes in my head and
5:31the eyes in my heart the eyes in my head
5:33gives us sight the eyes in my heart
5:35gives me
5:38Vision sight is what's what oh did y'all
5:42understand how good this is to me sight
5:44is what's in front of you vision is
5:46what's ahead of
5:49you the question is not do you have
5:52sight for your life the question is do
5:55you have
5:57Vision me and three do you you have
6:00Vision you you you you have to have
6:02Vision you can't wing it and win at
6:07life you can't wing it and win you can't
6:10you you you have to know where you're
6:13going before you can actually go
6:15somewhere the worst thing to do is get
6:17in the car with somebody that don't know
6:19where they're
6:21going don't look at anybody look
6:23straight at me you might roll with them
6:24on the way to church
6:26today because because when you don't
6:28know where you're going you'll never
6:30know when you get
6:33there I I know you have sight but do you
6:35have
6:36Vision um what does the next three weeks
6:39of your life look
6:41like are you winging it what does the
6:44next three months of your life look like
6:47what does the next three years of your
6:50life look
6:51like are you just winging are you just
6:53waking up saying okay whatever happens
6:56today
6:57happens or or or somebody say or or do
7:02you wake up with a plan to make
7:05something
7:07happen what what your what's your vision
7:10watch this what's your vision for your
7:14finances or are you just winging
7:18it you just wake up saying Holy Ghost
7:20put some money in my bank
7:23account Holy Ghost like
7:27ah uh what's your vision for your
7:30family what's your vision for your
7:33Fitness what's your vision for
7:34philanthropy what's your vision for
7:36emotional health what your vision for
7:38your faith walk what what kind of me
7:40will I be in
7:44three what and Paul says this in
7:46Ephesians 1:18 he says watch this it's
7:49going to mess you up he says that that I
7:51pray that your hearts are alive are
7:53enlightened hope is shared riches were
7:56given and inheritance received trip on
8:00that let's put that scripture back up
8:01there I just want y'all to see something
8:02before I get into my text he says he
8:05says he says
8:07riches an
8:09inheritance and
8:11Enlightenment and I thought that that
8:13was the shouting point until I got some
8:15context to what Paul was was writing
8:19about and it is the shouting point but
8:21it's not what you think see when you
8:23heard riches hope and inheritance some
8:28of us started thinking about
8:32stuff but what Paul is referencing is
8:35he's not talking simply about stuff he's
8:38talking about a
8:40savior he he's this he's not talking
8:43about junk he's talking about Jesus and
8:46I know that we will shout over cars
8:49cribs and clothes but I wonder if
8:52there's anybody in here that will shout
8:54because of Christ that will shout that
8:57he is my firm f look at somebody and say
9:01Jesus I I I wonder who would shout about
9:04Jesus Jesus our Heavenly hope Jesus Our
9:08Risen Redeemer Jesus our Eternal
9:11emancipator Jesus our Heavenly hero
9:14somebody say Jesus Jesus Is Our sinless
9:17Savior Jesus our righteous rescuer Jesus
9:21our Dynamic deliverer Jesus our
9:23Sovereign Savior Jesus somebody shout
9:26Jesus Jesus our suffering sub itute
9:29Jesus our Majestic Messiah Jesus our
9:33Mighty God Jesus our Everlasting father
9:36Jesus our meaningful mediator G look at
9:39somebody and say Jesus
9:42[Applause]
9:43Jesus his name is Jesus and he is our
9:49hope
9:51sir not
9:56stuff he is our rich
10:01not a
10:05car I know you got a plan for getting
10:11stuff but what's the plan for getting
10:13closer to
10:17Jesus
10:20God because um Paul Paul really lays
10:24this out for us because he's showing us
10:27how important the reality is is that
10:30believing is seeing um because our word
10:34for 2025 is believe and um and I don't
10:38want you to limit believing for the
10:42accoutrements of
10:45life I I don't want you to limit
10:48believing for
10:50accomplishments and things that you can
10:52acquire I I don't want you to limit it
10:54there you can have that there um but
10:56Romans 10:9 says this it says watch this
10:59if you
11:00confess with your mouth and believe in
11:05your heart believe what though that God
11:09raised him from the
11:12dead you will be
11:16save why because right
11:19belief brings
11:22relief that's not on screen but I need
11:24you to PE that because some of what
11:26we're going through is a result of the
11:29Chasm or the golf between God and
11:34us so Paul Paul reminds us of that he
11:38reminds us that believing is see if I
11:39would had time I don't have time because
11:40I got to get into my text but if I did
11:42have time I will unpack how we walk by
11:45faith and not by sight that the reality
11:50is the things that we see are
11:52temporal and the things that we don't
11:54see are
11:56Eternal so it's an encouragement not to
11:58live our Our Lives simply for things
12:01that we see because those things will
12:04fade away but then there's something
12:06that will God this is good to me
12:08something that will stay that we do not
12:10see I got to get into my text and by the
12:12time of our text ladies and gentlemen oh
12:14I'm doing great on time by the time of
12:15our text ladies and gentlemen our
12:17righteous Redeemer has risen Mary
12:20Magdalene is at the tomb questioning uh
12:23and with questions because she had not
12:26uh to this point been privy to the
12:28information that Our Risen Savior has in
12:32fact risen she is at the tomb uh but
12:35Jesus's body is no longer there this
12:38melancholic Melancholy Mary is at this
12:41tomb where Jesus was somebody say was he
12:45she's at this tomb where Jesus was and
12:47and she is met by linen garments empty
12:51of a
12:52body this individual appears behind Mary
12:56just a little bit of context individual
12:58appears behind Mary Magdalene you know
13:00Mary Magdalene don't you you know Mary
13:03Mary Mary Mary Magdalene was was the
13:06former woman of the
13:08night The Prostitute can I say Pro okay
13:12it's like woman of the night what's that
13:13Pastor former former for former former
13:17and um there's this one specific
13:19instance where uh she got to the feet of
13:21Jesus and she be to wipe his feet with
13:24her hair and she cried and she sat there
13:27and and and worshiped him that that's
13:29that's Mary that's the Mary that shows
13:30up that this this worshiping Mary is the
13:33one that shows up at the tomb and and
13:36the first person to see this risen Jesus
13:39was Mary trip on that you you would have
13:42thought that the first person to have
13:44see him would be the Pharisees since
13:46they knew a whole lot of
13:49scriptures you you you would have
13:51thought it would have been somebody else
13:52right but but it was it was Mary
13:55Magdalene it was the woman that had a
13:58past
14:01the woman the the the person that had an
14:04issue the person that didn't grow up in
14:07church but had an encounter with Jesus
14:11that changed everything so so this is
14:13this Mary M Mary this individual rose up
14:17behind Mary as Mary is Weeping at an
14:20empty tomb and um this individual says
14:24why he says woman why are you weeping I
14:28think that that's an interesting
14:29question because she's at a tomb modern
14:31day Seminary a cemetery she's at a c why
14:34would a person be weeping
14:37obviously uh obviously she lost somebody
14:40she loved so I'm tripping on that
14:42question uh that's an interesting
14:45question maybe she's at the tomb because
14:46she lost somebody she loved and and and
14:48that can affect you so so maybe the
14:51question that this individual is asking
14:53is not about uh information but he's
14:56dropping
14:58revelation maybe maybe M then Mary oh
15:01let me give you this so then Mary
15:03supposes that the person that's behind
15:05her speaking to her is maybe a garden or
15:07somebody that's here to take care of the
15:09grounds or something like that and and
15:11she begins to uh uh have this
15:14conversation with him and uh watch watch
15:16what Mary this G to mess you up Mary
15:18says Where have you laid
15:21him what you did with
15:24Jesus this is what she said she said
15:26what you did with Jesus and and and
15:29and um she says Where have you laid them
15:31tell me where you laid him this is just
15:33paraphrase and I'll go get
15:35them trip on this I don't know how much
15:38Jesus
15:39weighed let's just say average
15:41individual grow let's say 150 Bible
15:45talks about there was a 100 pounds of
15:46herbs and spices in there with so let
15:49how is
15:51Mary going to go and get the body of
15:55Jesus and carry Jesus and if you were
15:59able to do it Mary where you taking them
16:02you going to put them in the living room
16:06just what Mar Mary what what are you
16:10doing but it it was her love that was
16:14speaking it was her love that was that
16:17was it it was it was it was what was
16:18happening in her heart it was the
16:20transformation that is taking place that
16:22she simply says just tell me where he is
16:24and I'll go get him yeah yeah how you
16:28going to going to do that how are you
16:30going to carry that see here's here's
16:33why love is so important because love
16:35carries the
16:37load y'all better get here next week for
16:40relationships
16:41Edition love carries the load Mary is
16:44willing to sign herself up for something
16:47she knows she don't know how she's going
16:48to fulfill it but because she loves him
16:51that much she's willing to step into a
16:54situation this is good to
16:56me love carries the load
17:00oh man I don't have time y'all come back
17:01next week I'll unpack that um Mary Mary
17:05said tell me where he is I'm just giving
17:06you context so that you can respect the
17:08content tell me where he is and I'll go
17:10get him she she was crying she was
17:13having this conversation and she didn't
17:15even realize that God was
17:18close she didn't even understand because
17:20she was emotionally intoxicated that she
17:23was actually talking to
17:25Jesus she she was having a conversation
17:29with the Risen Jesus and she didn't know
17:31it because grief had her
17:34heart have you ever been so low that you
17:38wonder God where you
17:41at you you ever had so many tears in
17:44your eyes that it felt like God was far
17:47from
17:49you you ever cry without
17:53explanation you ever tried to come up
17:54with answers and solutions that you
17:57don't even know how you would be able to
17:58do it even even if you were able to do
18:01it they could have at least called me
18:03and I could have I could have came over
18:04there no you couldn't have they they
18:06they stay too far you couldn't have done
18:07that you you couldn't have took care of
18:09all of their situation you you ever been
18:11in a situation where you're trying to
18:13come up with a reason to kind of carry
18:16the load of somebody you love the Bible
18:17says that Jesus was literally talking
18:20this is just context y'all Jesus is
18:22literally talking to Mary and Mary Mary
18:25doesn't understand that she was crying
18:27but he was close because the Bible says
18:29in Psalms 34:18 he says the Lord is
18:32close to those uh who are brokenhearted
18:35and saves those who have been crushed in
18:40spirit so she's been going through this
18:42pain this
18:43anguish this this
18:45despair um but what if I told you that
18:49anguish always will produce an
18:52assignment what what if I told you that
18:54pain has a purpose and and tears are the
18:58down payment for your next
19:03takeover and and me and three I want you
19:05to do three this is your me and three
19:06to-do list right here right here I want
19:08you to repurpose pain reframe problems
19:12and then release
19:15people I'll get to the text I'm getting
19:17to the text I'm good on time I said
19:20repurpose
19:22pain use it as
19:25fuel it was not fatal it was fuel
19:30and if you're still here that means God
19:33still has a
19:35purpose he needs you to reframe the
19:38problems problems are no long former
19:42problems are no longer problems they're
19:43opportunities for God to show
19:46up and here's the one that's the
19:49toughest
19:50sometimes and release some
19:55people because some of the pain some of
19:58the problems are the result of some of
20:01the
20:04people y'all better stop clapping y'all
20:06might have came to church with
20:09him amen
20:17Pastor next
20:20week John chapter number 20 verse number
20:2319 that's the context so that's that's
20:25the that's that's what surrounding where
20:26we are in the text on the chapter number
20:29verse number 19 on the evening of that
20:32first day of the week when the disciples
20:34were together with the doors lock for
20:37fear of the Jewish leaders because they
20:40figur they just crucified Jesus I know
20:42they getting ready to come kill me so
20:44the disciples was hidden with the doors
20:48locked that's that's that's interesting
20:51they were hiding with the door lock with
20:54a table in front of
20:56it they they were hiding with the door
20:58lock
20:59then Jesus bum rush the scene how did
21:03Jesus get in if they were hiding with
21:06the door
21:07lock here's the first thing that Jesus
21:09says in verse number 19 says peace be
21:11with you after he had said this he
21:14showed them his hands and his side verse
21:18number 20 is very important stick a pen
21:20highlight it Circle it underline it
21:22double click in a second after he said
21:24this he showed them his hands and his
21:29side the disciples were Overjoyed
21:31because of what they saw the disciples
21:32saw his hands the disciples saw his side
21:34and they were Overjoyed because of it
21:36when they saw the Lord when they saw the
21:39Lord they were
21:41Overjoyed I understand that enter Thomas
21:44into the
21:46scene now Thomas also known as dimus are
21:50y'all all right with reading the Bible
21:51in church also known as dimus one of the
21:5412 was not with the disciples when Jesus
21:59came the first
22:02time so the other disciples told him we
22:05have seen the Lord so let me let me
22:08modernize it the disciples was hanging
22:10out in the room Jesus popped into the
22:12room that they had the door locked on
22:15they came back eight days later saying
22:17to Thomas bro you won't believe what
22:20just happened we were in the we were
22:22hiding right so I'm under the table and
22:25uh uh and and and and and and and M was
22:28over there and uh Peter doing this thing
22:31and Pete this all of a sudden Jesus just
22:35appears in the
22:36room and then when he appears in the
22:38room he starts saying like peace be with
22:40you then he showed me his side then he
22:42showed me his hand and Thomas in there
22:47like let me guess and he showed you
22:50where he get the nails yes and then he
22:52put his hand and he showed me he was
22:53like right there and um and Thomas is
22:57like okay
22:59somebody get some medicine somebody get
23:00them some something because they going
23:02through
23:03something Thomas AKA
23:08dimus you know him as doubting
23:12Thomas it's a whole it's a whole
23:19calismasi
23:21means twin twin Where Have You Been
23:27nobody Lo
23:33no twin Where Have You Been that's
23:37interesting because maybe we're calling
23:40him doubting Thomas but we're his
23:48twin don't don't look at somebody else
23:50somebody said Clock IT Lord have
23:55mer maybe maybe we're Maybe we have the
23:58propensity to be his twin the the the
24:02proclivity the
24:04tendency to be his twin because Thomas
24:08Thomas said if you're saying all of this
24:10is true how come I haven't seen it and I
24:13don't believe
24:15you don't look at anybody look straight
24:17at
24:18me there are some people that can tell
24:20you something and you say okay well let
24:23me go I need to go and
24:25see because I I you have a
24:28tendency to exaggerate some stuff
24:31anybody got an exaggerating friend they
24:33just don't put put your hand down stop
24:36it they just exaggerated just a little
24:41bit I found $72
24:48yesterday so so Thomas was not there
24:52watch this when Jesus appeared and
24:55showed the disciples his hand
24:59and his side so rightfully so Thomas
25:02says watch y'all let let me tell you
25:04something let me tell you what Thomas
25:06says to Thomas says I don't believe
25:08y'all that's what he say that's the
25:09ghetto version he said I don't believe
25:11y'all um he he he was operating in this
25:16idea of unbelief in what they were
25:21saying we use that doubting Thomas
25:23phrase as if to say Thomas was doubting
25:26whether or not Jesus rose
25:30he was not doubting whether or not Jesus
25:32rose he was doubting their version of
25:34the
25:35story because all of them was in the
25:38room and all of them came back with a
25:39different
25:40version he showed us his hand no he
25:42didn't he showed us his side first no he
25:44didn't he showed us his hand and then he
25:46appeared in the room no he didn't he
25:47broke the door down he picked the lock
25:49Thomas is like okay wait a minute
25:52now you understand what I'm saying you
25:54got come
25:56on he he was operating unbelief and and
25:59and and and again unbelief was the
26:01product was the byproduct of
26:04his where was Thomas
26:09though now I've been
26:11searching trying to find out where was
26:15Thomas I'm not even tripping on the fact
26:17that he said I don't believe you what y
26:19let's just I where I'm looking up
26:22Scholars historians I'm using my little
26:25$2 degree I'm trying to commentaries I'm
26:28trying to figure out where somebody tell
26:30me Church fathers somebody where was
26:32Thomas nobody knows where Thomas was
26:33maybe and this is just this is just me
26:36just I don't know where Thomas was but
26:39nowhere he could have been was better
26:41than where he should have
26:48been Thomas where did you book on your
26:52calendar to go when Jesus was with the
26:55other disciples wow
26:59wow uh-oh wow Thomas means dimus dimus
27:04means twin maybe we have more in common
27:07with our twin than we
27:10believe what have you booked more
27:13important than your appointment with
27:16Jesus we have vacations booked out
27:19months in advance PTO taken no five
27:23minutes with
27:25Jesus I just got to find me time to pray
27:27you don't have to find time to Vacation
27:29you don't have to find time for
27:32[Music]
27:35Cancun every time I start reading my
27:37Bible it's just I get so tired you don't
27:40get tired in
27:41Dubai you can't go to sleep you're like
27:43man let's turn
27:48up so Thomas was not where he should
27:50have
27:51been which is where Jesus
27:54was um maybe his unbelief was the
27:58byproduct of his misplaced
28:01priorities maybe when we're not in the
28:03room that Jesus is in we miss out on
28:07increases in our belief
28:11system maybe our faithlessness is tie to
28:14our
28:16absenteeism
28:18wow wow you know what I ain't going to
28:21church today I'mma just you know what
28:22today I'm tired I'm just go to next week
28:24a matter of fact what what series they
28:26you in yeah not any for me I'll go to
28:28I'll go to the next series huh I'm I'm
28:30just tired but if you're not in the room
28:36it's possible to miss out on what
28:38happened in the
28:40room when you're not in are y'all
28:43here so so so my belief system gets
28:48stunted because I'm not in his
28:50presence I got to go uhoh my time is
28:53against me watch this uh so so so watch
28:57this
28:58Thomas says I hear these versions of the
29:00story sounds cool that whatever John
29:0420:25 this is Thomas's
29:07reply
29:08unless I
29:10see the nail marks in his
29:13hand and put my finger where the nails
29:18were Lord this is good and he's not done
29:21put my hand on his side I'm sorry into
29:27his side
29:29I will not
29:31believe these were all Lord have mercy
29:34this Jesus's discourse was Thomas began
29:38after this and and and it was really
29:41getting to the heart of the matter watch
29:42this they were all following Jesus all
29:46believers um but Thomas did not believe
29:50their version of the story so he says
29:54unless watch this I see
29:58the nail marks in his hand touch it and
30:02put my hand in his side now
30:04theologically I have an issue with that
30:07just give me two minutes to wrestle out
30:10loud theologically I have an issue
30:12because if you resurrected Jesus why not
30:15resurrect with a resurrected
30:18body cuz that's what you told us we're
30:21get it we're getting the resurrected
30:23body so here so so Thomas asking to is
30:27this good y'all Tomas asking to say
30:31unless I see some stuff that that on his
30:34hand and his side and the nail marks I'm
30:37tripping because why do you need to see
30:40that and Jesus why are you Rising why
30:43would you why would you defeat death and
30:47keep those
30:53marks do y'all like the Bible I'm
30:56wrestling out loud why would you defeat
30:59death hell and the grave yet still keep
31:03the scars of what you went through yeah
31:07because he understood that there will be
31:09some followers some Believers that will
31:12believe him simply because of what they
31:13seen and then there's others of us that
31:16say I don't just believe because of what
31:18I've seen I've got to touch him and I
31:22wonder if there's anybody in here that
31:24can say in
31:252025 I don't just want to see a miracle
31:28I want to experience
31:30[Music]
31:32one he says man I got to go he says um
31:38Thomas Thomas I want to see and then I
31:41don't just want to see I want to touch
31:43Jesus appears in the room y'all go back
31:44and read it Jesus appears in the room uh
31:47comes back eight days later and um he's
31:50sitting next to he's in the room and uh
31:52he's having conversation and then he
31:54leans over at Thomas and uh he says Hey
31:58Thomas Thomas like what's up hey hey hey
32:00hey um I heard you had a
32:03request I heard you wanted to see uh the
32:07nail prints in in my hand and and Thomas
32:10says yeah yeah I want to see that he
32:12said not only did you want to see but
32:13you wanted to you wanted to touch he
32:16says um he says all right come on come
32:19here Thomas Thomas takes his
32:22hand takes his hand and he puts his hand
32:27in the nail where the nails were um then
32:31he takes his his hand and he puts his
32:34hand where uh uh this the the spirit
32:37went into his
32:38side and Thomas's reply is is found in
32:42John 20 and
32:4428 Thomas's
32:47reply is found Thomas said this he says
32:51my Lord and my
32:56God he says my my Lord and my
33:00God Thomas says watch this he says my
33:04Lord and my
33:07God he says my
33:11Lord my
33:13God my
33:15Lord you you're my leader you're my
33:17example my God you are my
33:23savior my Lord you rule everything my
33:26God you save my soul
33:29soul my Lord you tell me how to live my
33:32life my God you rule over my
33:37life Thomas
33:39says I'm not talking about
33:41Thomas because that's our
33:45twin I'm talking about
33:48us I know he's your
33:51God is he your lord
33:57I know he's your God you believe he died
34:00and Rose for you yes you believe that on
34:02the third day he got up with all power
34:05yes do you believe that it's through him
34:08that that you live and move and have
34:09your
34:11yes but do you believe that to the
34:13degree that you will allow him to be the
34:18Lord over your
34:22life not just your
34:26Sundays on but your
34:29Monday but your
34:32Tuesday but your Wednesday not just your
34:35faith the god of your
34:37faith but is he Lord over your
34:42finances it is he Lord over over your uh
34:46oh are y'all all right is he Lord over
34:49your
34:54tongue he says let the words of my
34:59mouth and the
35:01meditation of my heart be
35:05acceptable because he's
35:08Lord would you put your hands together
35:10in the house come on stand up I want to
35:11pray for
35:13you come on come
35:15on he's not just God he's
35:19Lord and the beautiful thing about this
35:21text
35:23is this text and y'all got to go back
35:26and read it I'm telling you it'll bless
35:28you real
35:29good this text gets to the heart of the
35:32matter Jesus showed up and he did not he
35:36did not necessarily condemn Thomas he
35:39did not rebuke
35:43Thomas but he gave he dropped a a
35:45location pen in Thomas's belief
35:48system he says this is where you
35:53are now I know you've been following
35:56me but with that belief system I want to
35:59increase it I want you to believe me for
36:02more I want you to believe me to be more
36:05I want I want you to allow me to lead
36:07your
36:10life not just save your
36:13soul with every eye closed every head
36:21bowed if you're under the sound of my
36:24voice
36:27and
36:29um and you feel
36:32like
36:34God the fact of the matter is you are my
36:39God it's not the god part that kind of
36:42gets me it's it's the Lord part there's
36:45been seasons of my life where I have not
36:47let you lead certain areas of my
36:52life if you're under the sound of my
36:54voice and you say you know what there
36:56are certain areas I give to God in other
36:58areas I just kind of I just kind of do
37:00my own thing sometimes
37:02and and I want to give it to God you
37:05just like you're just like Thomas and
37:07and many of us
37:10here I know you're my
37:13God but
37:15sometimes I take the will of being
37:19Lord sometimes I start steering my own
37:23life sometimes Life Starts life and and
37:25I start putting my myself in the
37:27driver's seat and I don't always do I
37:29don't I want to I don't it's not that
37:31I'm not it's not that I don't want to I
37:33I do it's just sometimes there are some
37:35areas of my life that are that are that
37:37come more natural to me giving to you
37:39and other areas I got to fight
37:44with with every eye closed every head
37:47bow and you say I identify with that
37:51would you do me a favor slip your hand
37:52in the air I want to pray over you right
37:53where you
37:54are see there are certain areas God you
37:57got all of that and then there's other
37:59areas God could you get me out of the
38:01driver seat please you can put those
38:04hands down I see those hands my God my
38:09God my
38:11god father I
38:13pray over every single
38:17person I pray in the name of Jesus that
38:19you continue to do a work in their
38:22heart that the love that they have for
38:24you is so evident God and and I pray
38:27that you would wrap your loving arms
38:28around them even
38:30more that they feel how much you want to
38:34love them to the next level in you that
38:37you don't come
38:38condemning you come to
38:41cover so father we
38:44pray that for every heart that is
38:47surrendered every mind that has stayed
38:50on you you will provide us peace in this
38:52moment you would receive us and we give
38:56you All In All Access paths into every
39:00area of Our Lives your word is a
39:04lamp and a
39:06light unto our lives so we seek your
39:09word we seek your voice for what to do
39:12in every
39:15area that we've brought before
39:19you it is in Jesus name we
39:22pray amen amen