WEBVTT 00:00:24.939 --> 00:00:26.779 Hey man, God bless you, church. 00:00:26.939 --> 00:00:30.619 It's an honor and a privilege to be with you today. 00:00:33.019 --> 00:00:40.859 Normally, this is the time where I get right into the message, I tell a quirky story, and uh and we get going. 00:00:41.099 --> 00:00:46.140 However, uh that worship time was something else, wasn't it? 00:00:46.700 --> 00:00:51.019 Can we just uh show appreciation to our our our band? 00:00:51.980 --> 00:00:59.500 They're off stage right now, but can I can I just invite you uh just to stand to your feet for a second with me? 00:01:02.379 --> 00:01:13.420 The Bible says in the book of Revelation that the angels sing holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. 00:01:14.539 --> 00:01:20.219 And there is a cry in heaven that said, Who is worthy to open the scrolls? 00:01:20.459 --> 00:01:25.900 Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scrolls? 00:01:26.459 --> 00:02:01.899 And there was one found, the Lamb of God, who was slain before the beginning of time, and the angels bowed down and sang, Holy Holy, worthy is the Lamb, worthy is the Lamb, you are holy. 00:02:02.699 --> 00:02:04.699 Come on, church, sing it together. 00:02:06.299 --> 00:02:13.340 Yes, an anthem to God with all your strength and all your might. 00:02:14.539 --> 00:02:17.180 This is what we're gonna be singing to Him. 00:02:19.420 --> 00:02:21.259 Worthy is the Lamb. 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:35.979 You are holy, are you Lord God Almighty? 00:02:38.060 --> 00:02:43.579 Worthy is a lamb, worthy is a lamb. 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:46.539 You are holy. 00:02:54.219 --> 00:02:55.500 Are you Lord God? 00:02:56.060 --> 00:03:12.699 Oh my worthy is the lamb, worthy is the Lamb, Amen. 00:03:14.859 --> 00:03:19.259 You are worthy, God, worthy are you. 00:03:20.219 --> 00:03:21.740 You may be seated. 00:03:22.859 --> 00:03:26.859 It is beautiful to hear your voice. 00:03:27.500 --> 00:03:33.099 It is beautiful to hear the worship of God in your lips. 00:03:33.979 --> 00:03:40.460 And I imagine that in this moment God shut the angels down. 00:03:41.180 --> 00:03:43.659 He said, Just give me a second, angels. 00:03:43.900 --> 00:03:49.419 I know that you can sing, and I know that you've been worshiping for all eternity, but just give me a second. 00:03:49.579 --> 00:03:56.060 Just I'm gonna turn you down for a second because my people are praising me. 00:03:56.379 --> 00:03:58.379 My people are worshiping me. 00:03:58.620 --> 00:04:03.579 My people are singing, worthy is my name. 00:04:04.139 --> 00:04:08.219 And that is the song of heaven. 00:04:08.460 --> 00:04:17.019 And this moment that we just lived right now was a heavenly, divinely appointed moment for your life. 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:27.100 And and and this message today has nothing to do with this, but I feel that God is calling us to a deep worship. 00:04:27.420 --> 00:04:32.620 A worship that that is born out of out of a desire. 00:04:33.019 --> 00:04:43.019 Um, can I even say it this way, out of a despair, to need to be with him, to worship him. 00:04:44.060 --> 00:04:45.980 That is why we live. 00:04:46.459 --> 00:05:11.259 That is the reason for our existence, that is the purpose of our being, that is the sole reason that that we that we breathe is to worship him, and he is worthy, and we're gonna spend all eternity with him, and it's gonna be awesome, and we're gonna be there, and you're gonna be there, and it's gonna be great. 00:05:11.899 --> 00:05:13.180 God bless you. 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:17.579 We are in this series called My Family and Me. 00:05:17.819 --> 00:05:36.379 And we've we've we've learned last week about the the gift of grace and multiplying grace and generosity over generosity and what God has for our lives as we learn, as we give uh to his work, as we give to our family. 00:05:36.620 --> 00:05:39.180 This is the reason why we're here. 00:05:39.339 --> 00:05:45.899 And my question, I think, today is what runs in your family? 00:05:46.459 --> 00:05:50.699 Today's title is It Runs in the Family. 00:05:51.019 --> 00:05:52.139 It runs in the family. 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:59.339 And and for those of you that have children, you know that there are things that just run in the family. 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:09.100 And if you have friends uh that that that have children and you start seeing their children, you start to say, Well, I can identify it runs in the family. 00:06:09.259 --> 00:06:18.300 And oftentimes that could be um eyes, height, uh a laughter, a way somebody laughs, a personality. 00:06:18.459 --> 00:06:25.339 Uh in my case, my my children, my my boys, are actually taller than I am. 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:27.420 So that part didn't run in the family. 00:06:27.579 --> 00:06:30.939 So I don't know where they got that from, but but they're taller than I am. 00:06:31.019 --> 00:06:36.219 And I believe Grace, my daughter, she's gonna end up being about as tall as me. 00:06:36.379 --> 00:06:46.379 Uh so I don't know where that's coming from, but that didn't run in the family because there are some things that run deeper than than DNA. 00:06:46.620 --> 00:07:01.579 There are some things that run deeper in our family than than our looks, than our personalities, and and those things, um, those things are the stories that are built around our families. 00:07:01.819 --> 00:07:04.379 And I was I was blessed a couple of years ago. 00:07:04.459 --> 00:07:13.819 I think I I mentioned this at one point, but um I used to play football, and I was I was that was my that was my thing. 00:07:13.980 --> 00:07:20.060 I was I was pretty good at football, and I thought that was gonna be what God had for my life. 00:07:20.219 --> 00:07:21.659 I was like, God, amen. 00:07:21.819 --> 00:07:26.379 I will be a football player for the rest of my life if that's what you want for me. 00:07:26.540 --> 00:08:00.779 Uh and and there's this one particular game, this one particular game that uh I remember vividly, and I've had dreams of playing football and going back to the gridiron and and doing my thing, and it's this one game against a high school called AN Meyer, and in that game, I scored four touchdowns, and it was the greatest game of my life, and I thought, God, wouldn't it be awesome if I could just relive that moment? 00:08:01.259 --> 00:08:07.819 And I've been reliving that moment in my child, my children's lives since they were little. 00:08:07.899 --> 00:08:28.060 I've been telling them about A and Meyer, I've been telling them about the four touchdowns, and then one Christmas day, I turn on YouTube and just out of luck, I don't, I just typed in Westlane Secondary versus A and Meyer 1998. 00:08:29.180 --> 00:08:30.939 And there was the video. 00:08:33.100 --> 00:08:41.899 It wasn't me, it was somebody uploaded the video of my four touchdowns, and I woke up my family, and I was like, kids, I told you so. 00:08:42.620 --> 00:08:44.940 I told I wasn't making it up. 00:08:45.259 --> 00:08:51.100 I told you this happened, and I've got it on repeat on my YouTube playlist. 00:08:51.180 --> 00:09:07.580 Um, but but but there are stories that get passed on, and there are great stories that get passed on to our children, but there are also those those heavy stories, those stories that that we don't necessarily talk about. 00:09:08.460 --> 00:09:14.539 But in the province of Quebec, one in four children have lived separation. 00:09:16.139 --> 00:09:26.059 And that's not a DNA thing, that's a family story thing, and nobody plans for division. 00:09:27.179 --> 00:09:30.059 And this is the part that got to me. 00:09:30.220 --> 00:09:39.500 Nobody plans for division, yet division multiplies across generations. 00:09:40.939 --> 00:09:45.500 Nobody plans for division, yet division multiplies. 00:09:45.659 --> 00:09:49.419 Do you do you hear how how absurd that sounds? 00:09:50.220 --> 00:09:58.460 Like, like, even mathematically, logically, how how fallacious that statement is. 00:09:58.779 --> 00:10:03.100 Division multiplies in families. 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:07.980 That makes absolutely no sense. 00:10:08.700 --> 00:10:14.299 And that is a distortion of the principles of mathematics. 00:10:14.779 --> 00:10:21.580 Division multiplies, and yet that is exactly what the enemy wants. 00:10:22.139 --> 00:10:38.620 He distorts what God has called pure, he distorts what God has created, and it becomes a distortion, a fallacious account of your family's life, and that's what he wants. 00:10:38.939 --> 00:10:47.580 He wants you to know that that he that division is now somehow related to your DNA. 00:10:48.299 --> 00:10:49.259 And why? 00:10:50.539 --> 00:11:07.179 Because when we see the first family in the Gospels, in the Gospels, in the Bible, when we see the first family, it's Adam and Eve, and after they sin, we get two very clear symptoms of sin. 00:11:08.139 --> 00:11:13.820 Two very clear symptoms of what happens when sin enters the family. 00:11:14.059 --> 00:11:20.460 The very first thing that happens when sin enters a family is hiding. 00:11:22.220 --> 00:11:23.100 Hiding. 00:11:24.460 --> 00:11:30.620 They sinned, and the first thing that they did was they went and they hid from the presence of God. 00:11:31.259 --> 00:11:34.299 Sin creates hiding. 00:11:34.620 --> 00:11:39.259 The second thing that happens is division. 00:11:40.460 --> 00:11:45.179 You see, after after they hid, God went and he found them. 00:11:46.460 --> 00:11:48.379 A picture of the gospel. 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:53.419 He went and he finds them and he says, He says, Where are you, Adam? 00:11:53.500 --> 00:12:00.059 And and Adam says, We were, I was naked and I was afraid, so I hid. 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:03.980 God says, What have you done? 00:12:04.620 --> 00:12:08.139 And here is the division. 00:12:08.700 --> 00:12:10.700 The woman you gave me. 00:12:11.659 --> 00:12:21.179 He's trying to alienate himself from the responsibility of what just happened, and he separates the division now happens. 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:24.939 He went into hiding and now he's dividing. 00:12:25.659 --> 00:12:31.899 Sin hides, and sin divides. 00:12:33.580 --> 00:12:37.100 And that is not a DNA thing. 00:12:37.500 --> 00:12:43.419 That then happens in their two sons, Cain and Abel. 00:12:43.740 --> 00:12:50.939 And in the story of Cain and Abel, Cain kills Abel and then goes into hiding, and God says, What have you done? 00:12:51.100 --> 00:12:54.139 And Cain says, Am I my brother's keeper? 00:12:55.340 --> 00:12:57.340 Should I know where he is? 00:12:57.820 --> 00:12:58.860 Division. 00:13:00.939 --> 00:13:04.059 Hiding, dividing. 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:10.139 If we fast forward from Cain and Abel, we go into Abraham. 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:13.580 Going through the Bible here, guys. 00:13:13.820 --> 00:13:14.779 Abraham. 00:13:15.659 --> 00:13:18.460 Abraham has two sons. 00:13:19.259 --> 00:13:22.860 And those two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. 00:13:23.259 --> 00:13:41.659 And Ishmael is the first son born out of wedlock, born from from anxiety, born from from wanting to uh to to make God's will my will, to force God's hand into the purpose for their lives. 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:47.100 And so Abraham has a son named Ishmael with a with a woman named Hagar. 00:13:47.419 --> 00:13:54.539 And as Ishmael is growing up, then the promised son comes in, and that is Isaac. 00:13:54.779 --> 00:13:57.179 And Isaac's mom is Sarah. 00:13:58.860 --> 00:14:05.340 And Ishmael sees his brother, his half-brother, and he wants to kill him. 00:14:06.059 --> 00:14:08.059 And he's jealous of him. 00:14:08.620 --> 00:14:11.500 And so now they go into hiding. 00:14:11.659 --> 00:14:15.179 They have to be, they have to be expelled from the home. 00:14:15.259 --> 00:14:17.100 They go into hiding. 00:14:17.500 --> 00:14:21.019 And then there's division now between brothers. 00:14:22.860 --> 00:14:26.299 And then we've got Abraham. 00:14:27.179 --> 00:14:28.779 We've got Isaac. 00:14:29.259 --> 00:14:31.259 And then we come to Jacob. 00:14:32.460 --> 00:14:39.340 And Jacob himself has a couple of sons. 00:14:40.860 --> 00:14:44.939 And those sons are many. 00:14:45.419 --> 00:14:51.100 In fact, where we pick up the story, he's got eleven children. 00:14:52.059 --> 00:14:56.299 And of the eleven children, there's one that's that's loved. 00:14:56.779 --> 00:15:00.299 The youngest one, his name is Joseph. 00:15:00.939 --> 00:15:13.659 And and his his love for his father is so great that his father sees it, gives him a multicolored uh uh uh jacket. 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:18.539 So he's wearing this this beautiful robe that he has to wear. 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:22.779 And his ten brothers have to go out to the fields and work. 00:15:23.179 --> 00:15:27.899 And Joseph's job was to stay seated beside his dad. 00:15:28.779 --> 00:15:33.659 Joseph was the one that was beside his father the whole time. 00:15:33.820 --> 00:15:42.620 The Bible says that that his father Jacob loved him so much, he wouldn't let him go and and and work in the fields. 00:15:42.779 --> 00:15:44.299 He had him right next to him. 00:15:44.379 --> 00:15:53.740 And the Bible says that Joseph had dreams, and in those dreams, he he would see his brothers would bow down before him. 00:15:53.899 --> 00:15:55.100 He's the youngest one. 00:15:55.340 --> 00:16:03.740 He already doesn't work, he doesn't have a job, he's living off of his brother's work, and now he's got to tell his brothers, hey, guess what? 00:16:04.220 --> 00:16:08.299 At one point, you guys are gonna bow down to me. 00:16:08.460 --> 00:16:10.860 And they're thinking, bow down to you? 00:16:11.019 --> 00:16:12.220 Are you crazy? 00:16:12.539 --> 00:16:15.259 Already we are the ones supporting you. 00:16:15.419 --> 00:16:18.299 Why don't you carry your own weight? 00:16:18.939 --> 00:16:27.899 And he says, No, I saw it in a dream, and in that dream, he says, You will bow down. 00:16:28.059 --> 00:16:32.860 And and and and not only you guys, you know what else I saw in my dream? 00:16:33.340 --> 00:16:41.100 Mom and dad are also going to bow down to me, and they're thinking, this kid is gone crazy. 00:16:41.340 --> 00:16:44.939 Like, what is going on in his in his mind? 00:16:45.419 --> 00:16:51.340 And in that place, we see that that the brothers now start to divide. 00:16:51.740 --> 00:16:59.259 And now they start to feel uh jealousy, they start to feel anger towards their brother. 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:01.899 So they sell their brother. 00:17:02.460 --> 00:17:06.460 And and and you know the story if you've been around church. 00:17:06.620 --> 00:17:13.180 They sell the brother, the brother gets sold, Joseph gets sold, uh, and then he goes into Egypt. 00:17:13.259 --> 00:17:20.620 And in Egypt, he goes into Potiphar's house, and Potiphar is a a wealthy man. 00:17:20.779 --> 00:17:24.620 And in that story, uh, Joseph is a great worker. 00:17:24.860 --> 00:17:31.980 He makes the whole house of Potiphar uh uh flourish and blessing upon blessing. 00:17:32.140 --> 00:17:41.020 And Potiphar says, You can you can you you can have anything you want in my in my household, and Joseph is faithful to the house of Potiphar. 00:17:41.260 --> 00:17:59.660 And Potiphar's wife sees this young man, and she's just like a little bit thirsty, and uh and she's looking at him and says, Hey, whoa, uh that's a good-looking young boy. 00:18:00.220 --> 00:18:13.180 And so she wants to get with him, he wants to honor God, he runs away from her, and she then accuses him of something horrible. 00:18:13.900 --> 00:18:20.380 And then he gets taken into prison, goes to prison, goes to jail, and then gets forgotten in jail. 00:18:20.620 --> 00:18:28.220 And that's where we're gonna pick up the story: the story of Joseph being forgotten, the seasons of Joseph's life. 00:18:28.380 --> 00:18:35.020 So before there was a pit, before the prison, and then and then from the prison, he gets elevated to the palace. 00:18:35.100 --> 00:18:46.780 Uh, before all of that, there's a family, and that's where Joseph inherited something that all of us can relate to, something that all of us can understand. 00:18:47.020 --> 00:18:49.900 And what he inherited is real. 00:18:51.580 --> 00:18:59.740 He inherited something that goes beyond DNA, it goes into the story of his life. 00:18:59.980 --> 00:19:05.340 And now we find Joseph in the palace, and he has another dream. 00:19:05.420 --> 00:19:10.220 Uh he interprets, I'm sorry, he interprets the dream of the Pharaoh. 00:19:10.380 --> 00:19:18.700 And during the interpretation of that dream, he tells Pharaoh, there's going to be seven years of prosperity and seven years of famine. 00:19:18.860 --> 00:19:23.900 And during the seven years of prosperity, Joseph has two children. 00:19:25.340 --> 00:19:35.900 And those two children, the Bible says in Genesis 41, 51, Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh. 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:38.140 Everyone say with me, Manasseh. 00:19:39.980 --> 00:19:41.500 Manasseh, one more time. 00:19:41.820 --> 00:19:42.540 Manasseh. 00:19:43.500 --> 00:19:59.260 Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said this, it is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household. 00:20:00.780 --> 00:20:08.700 Do you notice that he didn't say God made me forget the pit where he was thrown into by his brothers? 00:20:09.020 --> 00:20:15.580 He didn't say God made me forget the prison where he was thrown into by the wife of Potiphar. 00:20:15.820 --> 00:20:21.820 He didn't say God made me forget all of the years of suffering in the jail. 00:20:22.220 --> 00:20:29.420 He said, God made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household. 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:36.860 He mentions his father's household on purpose because that is where the wound started. 00:20:37.820 --> 00:20:40.940 The wound started at home. 00:20:41.500 --> 00:20:45.420 The problem in Joseph's life started at home. 00:20:45.660 --> 00:20:50.700 Favoritism, jealousy, division, hiding. 00:20:50.940 --> 00:20:53.500 That is what Joseph inherited. 00:20:53.660 --> 00:20:59.340 Yet he refused to let the world define who he is. 00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:04.620 He refused to let the wound defy who he is. 00:21:05.660 --> 00:21:12.140 And he decided that every season in his life tried to give him a name. 00:21:12.620 --> 00:21:19.980 Every season of his life was either slave, prisoner, forgotten, or victim. 00:21:21.180 --> 00:21:24.460 And Joseph stops and he says, Never again. 00:21:24.620 --> 00:21:27.340 I'm going to believe God's purpose for my life. 00:21:27.500 --> 00:21:31.180 And he names his firstborn Manasseh. 00:21:32.300 --> 00:21:41.740 The Lord has made me forget the pain and the hurt and the suffering of my past, of my family. 00:21:41.980 --> 00:21:48.700 What I inherited from them will no longer be reproduced in my children. 00:21:48.860 --> 00:21:54.060 And many of us inherit those things, those things that that we never chose. 00:21:55.740 --> 00:22:00.860 We didn't choose the pain that we received from our families. 00:22:01.020 --> 00:22:02.380 We didn't choose that. 00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:04.460 But we get it. 00:22:06.220 --> 00:22:11.500 And the danger is not necessarily in the wound. 00:22:12.780 --> 00:22:19.180 It's in allowing the wound to define who I am today. 00:22:20.620 --> 00:22:24.140 And so God is showing us. 00:22:24.620 --> 00:22:33.740 This story, not because Joseph had a memory loss, but because Joseph now became free. 00:22:34.220 --> 00:22:41.900 And I think that the word manase is a symbol of the freedom that God wants to give us. 00:22:42.140 --> 00:22:49.580 He wants to give us, he wants us to be free from that hurt, free from that pain, free from that past. 00:22:50.540 --> 00:22:52.700 Freedom in his name. 00:22:52.940 --> 00:22:56.220 Freedom in the name that is above all names. 00:22:56.380 --> 00:23:04.620 It's not about what happened to me, it's about what I allow to define my life today. 00:23:05.900 --> 00:23:27.180 And if you would, if you would just allow God to let you see that moment, let you go back to that moment and not ask why it happened, but what do you want me to learn from that moment? 00:23:27.980 --> 00:23:30.380 What do you want me to learn from that moment? 00:23:30.540 --> 00:23:47.180 And and I have learned that that one of the greatest releases that I've had over my own life is this one phrase that my parents did the best they could with the information they had. 00:23:49.100 --> 00:23:56.300 My parents brought us up and did the best they could with the information that they had. 00:23:56.540 --> 00:24:04.140 And that has helped me release so much of my past, so much of the pain and the hurt. 00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:12.220 I was I was a football player, I was a basketball player, I was a soccer player, I did as many sports as I could. 00:24:12.380 --> 00:24:21.020 And in all those sports, I would always look up and I would I would try to find my my own dad in the stands, and I could never find him. 00:24:21.660 --> 00:24:23.260 He was busy working. 00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:25.580 We are an immigrant family. 00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:34.540 So as an immigrant family, he was he was hard at work every single day, on the weekends, at night, evenings, day, all the time he was working. 00:24:34.700 --> 00:24:43.820 And while he was working, I was playing and I was doing sports, and I would look up into the stands looking for him, and I couldn't find him. 00:24:45.100 --> 00:24:49.660 And growing up, that was that was a pain in my heart. 00:24:50.300 --> 00:24:57.100 And now I've got to relate to my heavenly father, and I've got to call him dad, and I've got to call him father. 00:24:57.340 --> 00:25:02.380 And the question that I had in my early 20s was, God, where were you? 00:25:03.580 --> 00:25:20.060 And I can relate to you as God, and I can relate to you as Jesus, and I can relate to you as King and mighty God, creator of the heavens and earth, but Dad, Father. 00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:27.500 And in that moment, the the pain, all those memories came back. 00:25:29.020 --> 00:25:31.100 And that's when I remembered. 00:25:32.780 --> 00:25:38.540 And I think that's when that's when this story started started growing in me. 00:25:38.780 --> 00:25:41.500 Because Joseph names his son Manasseh. 00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:46.220 God made me forget, God made me forget the pain of my household. 00:25:46.300 --> 00:25:49.740 And I started to look back and I said, God, where were you? 00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:52.780 Where were you in those moments of victory? 00:25:52.940 --> 00:25:55.980 Where were you in that four touchdown game? 00:25:56.300 --> 00:25:57.340 Where were you? 00:25:57.580 --> 00:25:59.420 And he said, I was there. 00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:02.700 You didn't see me, but I was there. 00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:09.100 And there was a gentleman, and I've talked about him before, but if you remember, there was a gentleman by the name of Mr. 00:26:09.260 --> 00:26:19.740 Williams, six feet four inches tall, close to 300 pounds, the largest human being I have ever seen in my life. 00:26:21.100 --> 00:26:22.940 He's African American. 00:26:23.500 --> 00:26:27.900 And he had a son in the junior division. 00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:35.340 And he would come watch my games in the senior division before watching his son in the junior division. 00:26:35.580 --> 00:26:41.900 And he would shout out at the top of his lungs, number 24, that's my boy. 00:26:42.860 --> 00:26:43.820 I'm like, Mr. 00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:46.300 Williams, tone it down. 00:26:46.620 --> 00:26:49.820 People actually believe that you're my dad. 00:26:50.220 --> 00:26:56.220 And nobody messed with me in high school because they actually thought this was my dad. 00:26:56.460 --> 00:27:01.420 And the whole time I thought I was this big tough guy in high school playing football, I wasn't. 00:27:01.580 --> 00:27:02.220 It was Mr. 00:27:02.300 --> 00:27:03.900 Williams behind me. 00:27:04.860 --> 00:27:09.820 This whole time I've been wanting to release all of that past. 00:27:10.780 --> 00:27:13.020 And it wasn't me, it was God. 00:27:13.420 --> 00:27:15.740 And he was saying, I was there, I was Mr. 00:27:15.820 --> 00:27:24.700 Williams, I was Dante Perillo, I was, I was Dougie Maddox, I was Johnny Pavone, I was these men in your life. 00:27:25.260 --> 00:27:26.220 That was me. 00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:31.420 And where your dad was not present, I was present through them. 00:27:31.820 --> 00:27:39.180 And as I got older, I got married, and I'm looking for, I'm looking for a father figure. 00:27:39.260 --> 00:27:40.940 I don't know what I'm going to do. 00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:49.020 I worked at a church that we were that we were helping out, and and I was earning, I think, less than minimum wage. 00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:51.820 And I was thinking, what's going to happen? 00:27:52.060 --> 00:28:01.420 God, is this is this what you want for my we we got a young family coming up, and I have no idea what to do next. 00:28:01.660 --> 00:28:04.540 And God put another man in my life. 00:28:04.860 --> 00:28:20.380 Anthony Tioli came into my life, and and he's not even a believer, but he said, Sullivan, I'm gonna show you everything that I know, and and I'm gonna I'm gonna step up to the plate for you and watch what I'm gonna do. 00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:23.980 And and this has never been done before, but we're gonna try it out. 00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:27.100 I want you to teach at the university. 00:28:27.820 --> 00:28:34.300 And I will I will go to the administrators and I will tell them that you are a good public speaker. 00:28:35.660 --> 00:28:37.340 Who would have thought? 00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:42.940 I was 26 years old, and he said, You're gonna teach here with me. 00:28:43.100 --> 00:29:04.140 And he took me under his wing and he opened the doors, and the university opened the doors, and now I'm teaching at the university, and I'm thinking, God, wow! And every time, every time that that feeling goes back, God shows me that he's been there. 00:29:04.300 --> 00:29:19.980 And so if you are a single mom here today, I want you to know that God is with you, and he is the father of your children, and he is a husband to you, and he will move. 00:29:20.140 --> 00:29:24.220 And that's the beauty of being part of a church community. 00:29:24.460 --> 00:29:31.500 The beauty of being a part of a church community is that your children have have many fathers. 00:29:31.900 --> 00:29:59.260 And one of the things that I absolutely love to do, and and our are our children's pastors here with us, and and one of the things that I love to do is I love to go before the service, before you see me up here in the front, I'll go up to the children's service upstairs, and I'll thank every single volunteer that is up there because I know the the impact that they're going to have in our children's lives. 00:29:59.420 --> 00:30:09.980 It's not taking care of kids, it's impacting the next generation, it's impacting our young children, it's impacting their futures. 00:30:11.100 --> 00:30:12.940 God is using them. 00:30:13.100 --> 00:30:32.300 If God could use Anthony Tioli, who is not a Christian, who was not a believer at that time, to lead me and guide me into a purpose, into a time, into a training, because I didn't know that this was gonna be the ultimate destiny. 00:30:32.860 --> 00:30:43.900 I didn't know that, but God was training me and He used somebody to open up those doors, and that is what's happening right now with our kids. 00:30:45.100 --> 00:30:49.180 And I want to invite you to be a part of that movement. 00:30:49.340 --> 00:30:58.620 I want to invite you that if you see a child running around, they're not bothering anybody, they're discovering. 00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:07.900 And in their discovery, they will find your love and your hug, and that is going to impact the next generation. 00:31:08.060 --> 00:31:09.660 That is going to impact them. 00:31:09.820 --> 00:31:16.620 And so I want to invite you to get a hold of this moment and and and volunteer with our kids. 00:31:16.700 --> 00:31:31.020 I I can tell you, if if I wasn't up here on this stage, I would be in there in that room with them because of the importance that a father figure, a mother figure has over our children. 00:31:31.180 --> 00:31:32.380 Would you agree to that? 00:31:33.100 --> 00:31:33.660 Amen. 00:31:33.820 --> 00:31:34.300 Amen. 00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:37.740 So now you gave me an applause and an amen. 00:31:37.820 --> 00:31:38.780 You heard it. 00:31:39.020 --> 00:31:42.940 We're gonna have volunteers for our children's ministry. 00:31:43.100 --> 00:31:45.340 Now, watch this healing. 00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:50.060 Joseph has two children. 00:31:51.100 --> 00:31:57.580 And and healing is not the finish line. 00:31:58.380 --> 00:32:00.140 Healing is not the finish line. 00:32:00.300 --> 00:32:01.420 He has two children. 00:32:01.580 --> 00:32:13.900 One is Manasseh, the second son is Ephraim, and in Genesis 41, 52, it says, Genesis 41, 52, I've got it here. 00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:23.660 The second son he named Ephraim and said, It is because God had made me, has made me fruitful. 00:32:24.060 --> 00:32:24.700 Where? 00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:27.500 Can you read it together? 00:32:29.900 --> 00:32:33.260 In the land of my suffering. 00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:39.740 So Manasseh means that God, God has made me forget. 00:32:40.140 --> 00:32:45.820 God has healed my past wounds, God has healed my family inheritance. 00:32:46.620 --> 00:32:52.940 And then Ephraim comes on the stage and God and and Joseph calls him Ephraim. 00:32:53.180 --> 00:32:57.900 God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering. 00:32:58.460 --> 00:33:02.700 What a vision that Joseph had. 00:33:03.900 --> 00:33:10.220 If there is somebody in the Bible that can complain about life, it's Joseph. 00:33:10.860 --> 00:33:12.460 He can complain. 00:33:13.340 --> 00:33:14.540 It's not fair. 00:33:14.780 --> 00:33:15.420 Why me? 00:33:15.580 --> 00:33:17.580 What did I do to deserve this? 00:33:17.740 --> 00:33:25.980 And yet he says, God made me forget my past, and now he has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering. 00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:27.260 Can I say this? 00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:35.500 There is fruit that is going to come out of the moments of the suffering that you've lived. 00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:37.580 There is great fruit. 00:33:37.820 --> 00:33:45.820 A great seed was sown, even if you don't see it right now, but there is fruit that is coming from that moment. 00:33:46.060 --> 00:33:59.900 And Romans chapter 5, verse 3 and 4 says, we also glory in our suffering, because we know that suffering produces perseverance. 00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:04.380 And perseverance produces character. 00:34:04.780 --> 00:34:08.940 And character produces hope. 00:34:09.820 --> 00:34:29.980 And that is why suffering is so vital that we see that it is not it's not something that's happening to me, it's something that God wants to use for me and produce a fruit in our lives. 00:34:31.099 --> 00:34:39.420 See, the goal of grace is not just merely survival, it's transformation. 00:34:40.140 --> 00:34:43.900 It's to be fruitful, it's to give back. 00:34:44.300 --> 00:35:05.500 There are so many testimonies in this place of difficult seasons that somebody else is living right now that needs you, that needs your advice, that needs your heart, that needs your wisdom, that needs your experience. 00:35:05.740 --> 00:35:10.220 Somebody is going through what you already went through. 00:35:10.460 --> 00:35:17.820 And when we sing that song, we we're calling on the God of Moses, the God of Mary, the God of David. 00:35:17.900 --> 00:35:22.380 There's a song that we sing together that we're calling on the God of Israel. 00:35:22.539 --> 00:35:35.180 And when we say that, you notice that in the Bible, in the Old Testament, it always refers to a family, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. 00:35:36.140 --> 00:35:38.860 It's always referring to a family. 00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:45.420 And I want to say, the God of Fred. 00:35:47.180 --> 00:35:49.099 That's who I'm calling. 00:35:50.140 --> 00:35:55.740 I'm calling on the God that you call in those difficult moments. 00:35:57.340 --> 00:36:05.340 In the moments where your business, you had no idea what the next step was, but you were faithful to God and you were saying, God, I'm here. 00:36:05.579 --> 00:36:07.820 That's the God that I need for my business. 00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:11.180 That's the God that you need in your business. 00:36:14.140 --> 00:36:15.980 Calling on the God of Jonathan. 00:36:17.660 --> 00:36:25.660 In a difficult moment, even through ministry, Jonathan was faithful to God. 00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:29.900 And he said, I'm here, God, use me. 00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:47.579 And in those difficult moments of my experience in ministry, I'm calling on the God of Jonathan, who delivered him and freed him and opened up a new path. 00:36:48.300 --> 00:36:49.500 The God of MJ. 00:36:51.660 --> 00:36:54.140 Through suffering and through loss. 00:36:55.579 --> 00:36:57.660 That's the God I'm calling on. 00:36:59.260 --> 00:37:07.340 The God that redefines our present, a new life God. 00:37:08.220 --> 00:37:12.700 And I want to invite the musicians to come forward with us. 00:37:15.019 --> 00:37:30.300 As we start to wrap this up, I want you to know that grace, grace is the unmerited, unearned, undeserved favor of God over your life. 00:37:30.700 --> 00:37:41.500 And if you've been through a difficult season, that moment, God is delivering grace over your life. 00:37:41.660 --> 00:37:50.860 The unearned, unmerited favor of God over your life, so that you can extend it out to other people. 00:37:52.300 --> 00:37:56.940 So that you can reunite. 00:37:57.900 --> 00:38:01.420 And so we saw how sin divides. 00:38:02.539 --> 00:38:07.180 Sin hides, grace reunites. 00:38:07.660 --> 00:38:10.460 And grace abides. 00:38:12.460 --> 00:38:14.380 Grace reunites. 00:38:14.539 --> 00:38:23.500 And so Joseph is now in the face, he's got his children, and he's called them Manasseh, and he's called him Ephraim. 00:38:24.140 --> 00:38:27.660 And now he's in a position of power. 00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:30.940 He is the prime minister of Egypt. 00:38:31.740 --> 00:38:36.940 The only other person more powerful than Joseph is Pharaoh himself. 00:38:38.220 --> 00:38:43.260 And Joseph now has to take care of his brothers. 00:38:43.579 --> 00:39:02.220 And his brothers are presented to him because there is a great famine in the land, and they have come to Egypt to get grain from Egypt, and they have no idea that they're asking grain from the prime minister of the land. 00:39:03.660 --> 00:39:08.140 And in that moment, Joseph has a choice to make. 00:39:08.700 --> 00:39:17.019 And Joseph decides he has he has the ability and the power to get vengeance. 00:39:18.780 --> 00:39:24.059 He has the ability and the power to get payback. 00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:31.660 And it's in that moment that we see the maturity of Joseph. 00:39:33.019 --> 00:39:44.380 Because maturity is not how we speak about our past, it's how we speak about those who hurt us in a past. 00:39:46.539 --> 00:39:55.340 And in that moment, Joseph takes his brothers, and instead of paying them back, he declares these words over them. 00:39:55.579 --> 00:40:04.460 He says, he says, what you meant for evil, what God meant for good. 00:40:06.220 --> 00:40:15.420 Genesis 50, verse 20, you intended to harm me, but God intended it for good. 00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:20.700 And that's the same thing that Paul says to us. 00:40:21.099 --> 00:40:35.340 In Second Corinthians chapter 5, verse 18, God says this that God reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. 00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:45.180 And that's what happens when you allow God to help you get over the past. 00:40:46.300 --> 00:40:51.420 When you allow God to heal your heart from the past wounds. 00:40:52.539 --> 00:41:06.460 When you allow God to prosper you and to make you fruitful through the pain and through the hurt and through the suffering, something beautiful then happens. 00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:07.980 Reunion. 00:41:09.660 --> 00:41:11.420 Reunion happens. 00:41:12.940 --> 00:41:14.860 Blessing happens. 00:41:16.140 --> 00:41:18.140 Restoring happens. 00:41:21.180 --> 00:41:23.099 Lives are transformed. 00:41:24.539 --> 00:41:33.340 You weren't you the one that was hurt or violated? 00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:39.019 How can you be so happy now? 00:41:41.260 --> 00:41:47.019 And those are the things that God does in our lives. 00:41:48.300 --> 00:41:55.900 He transforms and heals, renews and restores, and he gives you a new life. 00:41:56.539 --> 00:41:59.820 So that you can now decide today. 00:42:00.619 --> 00:42:02.220 It ends with me. 00:42:03.180 --> 00:42:05.420 Today it stops with me. 00:42:05.740 --> 00:42:08.140 Division ends here today. 00:42:08.460 --> 00:42:11.420 Hiding from God ends here today. 00:42:11.820 --> 00:42:14.860 I will not inherit that to my children. 00:42:15.180 --> 00:42:17.820 I will not inherit that to my family. 00:42:18.059 --> 00:42:19.900 It stops with me. 00:42:20.539 --> 00:42:22.780 Joseph could have continued on. 00:42:23.260 --> 00:42:34.860 Joseph could have had uh hurt and pain and just gone after his brothers and really paid back all those years of suffering, but he didn't. 00:42:35.019 --> 00:42:39.260 And that is the proof of a restored life. 00:42:40.780 --> 00:42:45.660 A life to whom God has made prosperous. 00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:53.099 The Bible says, to whom much is forgiven loves much. 00:42:54.940 --> 00:42:57.420 And I know that I've been forgiven of much. 00:42:58.380 --> 00:43:01.099 And that's why I love much. 00:43:03.820 --> 00:43:08.059 And so Manasseh and Ephraim. 00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:10.860 Manasseh's the older son. 00:43:11.180 --> 00:43:13.180 Ephraim is a younger son. 00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:19.500 And there is a law of the blessing of the older brother. 00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:26.940 And Jacob, Joseph's dad, is now old. 00:43:27.980 --> 00:43:31.099 And he's about to die. 00:43:32.300 --> 00:43:35.820 And Joseph brings him his two sons. 00:43:37.420 --> 00:43:42.860 And he puts the older son Manasseh to Joseph's right hand. 00:43:44.300 --> 00:43:50.140 And he puts the younger son Ephraim on Jacob's left hand. 00:43:51.340 --> 00:43:58.059 And the idea here is that the older son is blessed. 00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:02.940 A double portion of the blessing. 00:44:04.860 --> 00:44:09.019 A double portion of the blessing over Manasseh. 00:44:09.980 --> 00:44:14.059 And then a regular portion of blessing over Ephraim. 00:44:14.619 --> 00:44:20.300 And so Joseph knows that his dad is getting old and it's getting harder for him to see. 00:44:20.539 --> 00:44:24.140 So he places them in the correct order according to the blessing. 00:44:24.700 --> 00:44:30.860 The law, the law of the first blessing, the double portion blessing of the older son. 00:44:31.180 --> 00:44:38.539 And in that moment, Jacob sees the two boys. 00:44:38.940 --> 00:44:40.140 And watch what he says. 00:44:40.300 --> 00:44:45.980 He says, Joseph, these two boys are no longer yours. 00:44:47.900 --> 00:44:48.940 They are mine. 00:44:50.300 --> 00:44:54.860 And they're going to inherit everything that I give to them. 00:44:56.700 --> 00:45:05.340 He adopts his grandchildren and calls him, calls them his own. 00:45:06.220 --> 00:45:12.619 He takes the fathership of Joseph away from Manasseh and Ephraim. 00:45:12.780 --> 00:45:15.420 And he says, These are my boys now. 00:45:16.539 --> 00:45:19.579 And in that moment, he goes to bless him. 00:45:19.740 --> 00:45:21.900 And he extends his right hand. 00:45:22.059 --> 00:45:27.900 And instead of going over to Manasseh's head, he goes over to Ephraim's head. 00:45:28.140 --> 00:45:30.380 And he blesses Ephraim. 00:45:31.579 --> 00:45:38.140 The younger son, the one that wasn't expected to receive, now gets a double portion. 00:45:38.380 --> 00:45:41.260 What you weren't expecting to receive. 00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:49.019 Now God is calling you his son, his daughter, and he's extending his hand over to your head. 00:45:49.099 --> 00:46:03.740 And you weren't expecting this blessing, but now the blessing is upon your life, and he extends his hand over Manasseh and He blesses him, and he takes his left hand and he blesses Ephraim. 00:46:04.380 --> 00:46:09.660 He blesses Ephraim first with his right and left Manasseh. 00:46:10.220 --> 00:46:18.940 And he crosses his arms for the blessing to be passed down. 00:46:19.660 --> 00:46:22.460 He crosses his arms. 00:46:32.940 --> 00:46:34.059 You messed up. 00:46:34.300 --> 00:46:36.539 That's not how it's supposed to go. 00:46:37.180 --> 00:46:42.460 And often that's what I say to God, God, I think you messed up on this one. 00:46:43.099 --> 00:46:46.059 God, where's the answer to this prayer request? 00:46:46.140 --> 00:46:48.300 Where's the answer that I'm looking for? 00:46:48.539 --> 00:46:56.860 God, you know the prayers that I have, the needs that I have, the hurt that I'm carrying. 00:46:57.420 --> 00:46:58.059 You know. 00:46:59.180 --> 00:47:03.579 And Joseph runs to his dad and says, Dad, Dad, you you got it all wrong. 00:47:03.740 --> 00:47:04.700 Switch your hands. 00:47:04.860 --> 00:47:06.940 You're blessing the wrong kid. 00:47:08.220 --> 00:47:16.220 And this sentence jumped out at me, and I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't continue. 00:47:19.740 --> 00:47:20.940 I know, son. 00:47:24.220 --> 00:47:24.860 I know. 00:47:27.099 --> 00:47:30.700 That's what Jacob said to Joseph. 00:47:30.860 --> 00:47:31.340 I know. 00:47:33.500 --> 00:47:35.099 I know what I'm doing. 00:47:37.099 --> 00:47:38.860 I know you don't understand. 00:47:40.460 --> 00:47:41.420 But I do. 00:47:42.619 --> 00:47:44.300 I know what I'm doing. 00:47:46.220 --> 00:47:56.460 And in that moment, as I was reading this, and I've read this a hundred times in the scripture, it finally made sense. 00:47:59.420 --> 00:48:02.460 I don't have the answer to tomorrow's future. 00:48:04.220 --> 00:48:05.740 But I know who does. 00:48:07.340 --> 00:48:13.180 And he's not giving me all the answers, but he's saying this. 00:48:13.740 --> 00:48:14.380 I know. 00:48:16.539 --> 00:48:17.980 I know, son. 00:48:18.860 --> 00:48:20.300 I know, daughter. 00:48:20.539 --> 00:48:23.579 I know that you think I should do it this way. 00:48:23.820 --> 00:48:27.180 I know that you think that it should be this way. 00:48:27.420 --> 00:48:30.460 I know that you would have wished for a better life. 00:48:30.619 --> 00:48:34.780 I know that you would have wished that you were born into a different family. 00:48:35.019 --> 00:48:42.700 I know the problems and the struggles that you've had with your siblings, with your family members, with an aunt, with an uncle. 00:48:43.019 --> 00:48:43.660 I know. 00:48:46.140 --> 00:48:51.019 But I need you to know that I know. 00:48:52.619 --> 00:48:56.059 And I know what I'm going to do with your life. 00:48:57.180 --> 00:49:24.940 And he takes our past and he takes our mistakes and he takes our wounds and he takes our sin and he takes all of it, all of the hurt, and all of the pain, and he takes his goodness, and he takes his peace and his grace, and he crosses his arms together and blesses your life and your family's life and your children's life. 00:49:25.099 --> 00:49:36.300 And I almost feel like God, God takes all of this stuff and weaves it together and calls it good. 00:49:38.539 --> 00:49:45.579 He looks back at the tapestry of your life and he calls it good. 00:49:47.180 --> 00:49:53.740 For I know, declares the Lord, the plans that I have for you. 00:49:54.460 --> 00:49:57.980 Plans to prosper you and not to hurt you. 00:49:58.780 --> 00:50:07.260 Plans to enlarge you and give you a future that you had no idea was coming. 00:50:08.380 --> 00:50:18.220 Plans that eyes have not seen, nor ears have heard, are the plans that I have for your life. 00:50:18.940 --> 00:50:26.220 I can tell you, in my wildest dreams, would I have thought to teach one day at a university? 00:50:26.700 --> 00:50:34.860 In my wildest dreams would I think that a camera could take me to Europe. 00:50:35.980 --> 00:50:49.740 In my wildest dreams, did I think that those two things, teaching and connecting through an apparatus, would lead me here today. 00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:52.860 In my wildest dreams. 00:50:53.260 --> 00:50:55.740 But in God's plans, he knew it. 00:50:56.059 --> 00:50:58.300 And he knew what he was doing. 00:50:58.619 --> 00:51:06.220 And the blessing that comes over your life comes at the price of a cross. 00:51:08.460 --> 00:51:14.140 In that Jacob crosses his arms and blesses. 00:51:15.099 --> 00:51:28.220 Yet there is a cross that stands tall, that looms over my past and over my present and over my future. 00:51:30.220 --> 00:51:38.780 And through the cross, I have access to God who blesses me and who is with us. 00:51:38.940 --> 00:51:40.380 Church, would you stand? 00:51:53.180 --> 00:51:58.700 The first symptom of sin is hiding. 00:52:00.220 --> 00:52:03.660 The second is division. 00:52:05.260 --> 00:52:06.860 At the cross. 00:52:08.940 --> 00:52:11.420 We see that being reversed. 00:52:12.619 --> 00:52:19.980 The Bible says that grace and truth came through the person of Jesus. 00:52:20.940 --> 00:52:24.300 Grace is on the side of truth. 00:52:24.619 --> 00:52:26.140 The law was given by Moses. 00:52:26.539 --> 00:52:32.700 Grace and truth has come through the person of Jesus. 00:52:32.780 --> 00:52:36.619 And at the cross, that is reversed. 00:52:37.579 --> 00:52:49.260 What sin did to make us hide from God, the cross brings us close to God, draws us into a family of God. 00:52:50.780 --> 00:52:52.940 The family of God. 00:52:54.140 --> 00:52:59.340 So instead of hiding away from Him, we can run towards Him. 00:53:01.260 --> 00:53:12.619 Instead of being ashamed and embarrassed, we can let all of that go and let the cross be the blessing over our lives. 00:53:15.900 --> 00:53:18.460 So I just want to pray for you right now. 00:53:19.500 --> 00:53:23.660 God, I thank you for our church. 00:53:24.539 --> 00:53:27.980 I thank you for everyone that is in this place right now. 00:53:28.300 --> 00:53:29.340 God, you know. 00:53:29.900 --> 00:53:33.579 You know the hurt and the pain and the past. 00:53:34.619 --> 00:53:40.860 And I would ask that right now, God, that you would give us this blessing of Manasseh. 00:53:41.660 --> 00:53:47.579 The blessing that says that you help us forget that past. 00:53:47.980 --> 00:53:57.980 The past of our household, the past of the wounds that were created from our families, God, we will no longer live in that. 00:54:00.860 --> 00:54:09.900 We will live in the new life that you have produced for us, that you have purchased for us on the cross. 00:54:10.539 --> 00:54:33.660 And God, as we do that and we are healed by the power of your word, that the blessing that came over Ephraim has well come over us, a double portion of your blessing to be fruitful and to multiply the experiences that we've lived in our past into other people. 00:54:34.700 --> 00:54:39.740 That our testimony would be a testimony of your faithfulness. 00:54:40.059 --> 00:55:22.539 That our testimony would be a testimony of your greatness over our lives, how you brought us out from the Myri clay, and you have restored our lives so that we may be reunited with our loved ones, so that we may be reunited with those that never thought it would be possible, so that we would show your grace and your mercy in all things. 00:55:23.980 --> 00:55:26.460 Thank you, Lord, for what you're doing. 00:55:27.019 --> 00:55:29.500 Thank you, God, for what you're doing. 00:55:30.700 --> 00:55:37.260 Thank you that you are restoring and you're healing and you're raising up a new generation. 00:55:37.660 --> 00:55:40.460 You're raising up a family in Christ. 00:55:40.780 --> 00:55:46.300 You are leading us through the pain, through the hurt, through the past. 00:55:46.460 --> 00:55:49.660 You are leading us and you are guiding us. 00:55:50.539 --> 00:55:55.740 You are, you are the one that we are we are leading our lives with. 00:55:55.820 --> 00:55:59.099 We are standing on you, Jesus. 00:55:59.740 --> 00:56:05.260 You are our foundation, you are our firm foundation. 00:56:06.220 --> 00:56:14.140 Everything can fall around us, but in you we are safe, in you we are secure. 00:56:15.099 --> 00:56:20.140 Church, let's sing this song together as we praise his name.