WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.400 Alright guys, so I'm gonna start the sermon, but before I start, I want to thank Vincent for my water. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:09.359 My man be coming through clutch. 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:10.720 Thank you, bro. 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:14.720 Bro, he be coming through clutch. 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:16.079 Alright. 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:18.640 I got a question for you guys. 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:19.679 Okay. 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:22.399 My question is. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:25.519 Are you okay? 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:29.039 Are you okay? 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.600 Think about what I'm asking you. 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:32.000 Okay. 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:34.079 Are you okay? 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:35.840 Are you okay? 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.240 Now don't give me the answer, right? 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.280 That you give to people as they're passing you by, real quick. 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:45.200 Don't give me that automatic, yeah, I'm good. 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:46.719 Pastor, I'm good. 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:48.000 And keep it going. 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:48.960 Are you okay? 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:50.240 I need you to think about it. 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:51.520 Are you okay? 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:57.840 I'm talking about the kind of question that makes you stop and look in the mirror. 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:01.679 Am I okay? 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:04.959 Y'all ever faced the mirror? 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:09.040 Let me tell you, what you're facing in the mirror is your reality. 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.239 So when you face in the mirror, right? 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:16.319 And I'm asking you to face in the mirror, ask yourself, are you okay? 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:18.079 Can you answer that? 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.040 Are you really okay? 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.760 Do you feel satisfied? 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.599 Are you right now satisfied? 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:34.400 Because you can have money in your bank account, but still be empty. 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:37.760 That's the reality, bro. 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:38.799 Still be empty. 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:45.200 You can have people around you, a whole bunch of people you know, a big gathering. 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.480 You can have people around you and still feel alone. 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:58.560 You can have relationships with people, friendships, and still feel, watch this, disconnected. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:03.760 You can have a house. 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:05.439 Oh, this one's good. 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:10.719 You can have a house and still feel like you're not home. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:15.919 And you may ask yourself, right? 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.080 Why am I still not fulfilled? 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:27.039 Why am I still not satisfied? 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:28.400 Why? 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:30.800 Why is that? 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:43.599 And if your honest answer to these questions is no, I'm not okay, and no, I'm not satisfied, then I need you to pay attention today, please. 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.159 God got a word for you. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:53.360 Because maybe the problem isn't that you don't have enough, because that's why we don't feel satisfied. 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:55.120 It's like, I don't have enough. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:02.240 You don't, you may not say it, but your body automatically tells you you don't got enough, that's why you don't feel satisfied. 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:12.080 Maybe you're looking for something in everything, and you're not looking past the one thing that's the problem, and that's the void. 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:14.560 That's the void. 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:16.879 What does void mean? 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:28.479 Void means empty space, a vacant area, vacancy, a deep feeling of loneliness and feeling of want. 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:34.879 A deep feeling of loneliness and a deep feeling of desire, like you want something. 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.199 You ever just you ever said, I want something, I just don't know what it is? 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.240 So y'all know what I'm talking about. 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:50.560 If you gotta think twice to answer, if you're satisfied, that's because you're incomplete within. 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:59.840 So if you don't feel like you're satisfied or something's missing, it's because inside there's something that's missing. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:01.520 You're incomplete. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:07.120 Within you lies a space, right? 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:09.280 That feels hollow. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:18.000 It's hollow, it's deep, and it's lonely, it's a lonely place. 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.839 I came to tell you today that that place needs attention. 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:24.480 You need to pay attention to that place. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.600 That place needs to be filled. 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:34.319 That place needs an occupant, it needs something. 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.519 Today's sermon is titled Your Void Has a Name. 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:42.240 Tell the person next to you, Your Void Has a Name. 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:46.720 To God be the glory. 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.839 Now, I talked about being satisfied. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:51.920 What does satisfied mean? 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:53.439 Tell you what satisfied me. 00:04:53.600 --> 00:05:07.519 It means to feel pleased, to feel content, or to feel fulfilled because your needs, your wants, and all of your expectations have been met. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.480 That's what being satisfied means. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:11.040 Okay? 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:16.959 So, in other words, satisfied means that you're okay with enough. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:19.839 You're okay with enough. 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:22.959 Which is crazy to me. 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:29.600 But if you think about it, the moment you have something, you think it's enough, you're satisfied. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:32.639 But there's the problem with this. 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:37.360 The problem I have with satisfied being enough is this. 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:39.439 How much is enough? 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:42.879 How much is really enough? 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:46.079 How much money is enough? 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.199 How much success is enough? 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:50.879 Right? 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.199 How much attention do we need to say that's enough attention? 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:56.399 I'm good now. 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:58.079 Thank you for paying attention to me. 00:05:58.160 --> 00:05:58.720 That's enough. 00:05:58.800 --> 00:05:59.759 I'm full of attention. 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.279 How much is enough? 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.160 How much love is enough? 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:07.680 We look for love at the wrong places. 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:13.199 How much of that wrong love is enough for you to say, I'm good, I'm satisfied? 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:21.920 Because if you're trying to fill a spiritual void with physical things, nothing will ever be enough. 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:26.240 Nothing, nothing will ever be enough for you. 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:32.879 You could keep getting more and still feel like something is missing. 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:35.360 Don't matter what you receive. 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:48.399 You could receive gifts and love and attention from so many people, but at the end of the day, the void that has no name, if it's not full, you still feel empty. 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:54.160 And that could be because sometimes we gotta dig deep. 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.120 You gotta dig deep in life. 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.519 Many people don't want to figure out what's wrong with them. 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:07.279 They prefer to just, I know something's wrong, but that's where I'm gonna leave it. 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:07.920 You know what it is? 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:09.360 They're surface people. 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.000 I'm good right here on the surface. 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:15.279 I'm good. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.519 I know my surface. 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:19.040 Oh my gosh. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:20.560 I don't gotta dig in my surface. 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:26.639 I know my surface, I know what's around me, so I'm content, I'm satisfied. 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.399 My surface, what I see in myself, it's enough. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.639 I'm good, I'm good right here. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:35.040 And people don't want to dig deep. 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:36.079 You know why? 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:42.639 Because figuring, um, because trying to figure out what's inside of you takes for you to dig deep. 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:45.600 And when you start digging deep, pay attention. 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:51.920 When you start digging deep, you run the risk of uncovering something you buried a long time ago. 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.600 A long time ago. 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:02.079 Something you didn't want to deal with, you buried it. 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:04.240 A trauma. 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.360 No, something you don't want nobody to know about. 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:12.000 You stuff it. 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:13.839 I don't want nobody to know. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:14.959 This happened to me. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:20.000 I'ma just anybody else on me, I'm stuffing everything down. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.319 Something that you thought that you laid to rest. 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:25.920 You thought it was over. 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:29.439 You thought that by stuffing it, you laid it to rest. 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:30.800 Let me tell you something. 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.120 Here's the thing about things that are buried. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.279 You know what happens with things that are buried? 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:40.480 Just because you buried it doesn't mean that it disappeared, it's just hidden. 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.120 I'ma say it one more time. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:54.399 Just because you buried your trauma, your stress, you buried it does not mean that it disappeared. 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:55.919 You just hid it. 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:59.200 You put it away for a little while. 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:01.120 You just hit it. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:08.159 And sometimes, God will allow you to start going to dig. 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.879 But when God allows you to dig, I need you to get this. 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:21.039 When God allows you to dig, he's not trying to destroy you, he's trying to heal you. 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:22.399 That's good. 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.000 He's trying to heal you. 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:30.399 So when God is allowing you to dig, and everything you stuffed inside of you, you don't want nobody to know. 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.320 All of that pain and trauma, all of that, it's stuffed. 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:38.720 Nobody around you knows what you got stuffed inside you. 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:42.879 Nobody does. 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:48.480 But when God allows you to dig, he's not trying to destroy you, he wants to heal you. 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:56.960 Because what you don't uncover, you will continue to carry. 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:04.080 What you don't uncover, what you don't take out, you're gonna keep carrying. 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.519 See, it's kind of like set it and forget it. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:09.440 Right? 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:18.080 You set your trauma all the way down and stuff it with other problems, and you go along your life and you try to forget it. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.080 You try, but why is it that it keeps popping back up? 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.799 Because you ain't healed from it yet. 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:27.360 You're not healed yet. 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.240 That's why the trauma keeps showing up. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:34.720 I want you to catch this, guys. 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:41.519 If digging is tiring and painful for the one with the shovel, imagine how the ground feels. 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.600 How do you think the ground feels when it's being dug? 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:01.519 The ground is chilling. 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.080 Like we be chilling, right? 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:14.879 But in order for the ground to become a firm foundation, it needs to be dug in. 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:16.799 You need to dig into it. 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:18.080 Okay? 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.039 Sometimes digging hurts. 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:28.960 Sometimes admitting you're wrong hurts. 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:32.480 I know a few. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:36.720 I know a few. 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.360 Yo, and this sometimes repentance hurts. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.759 That one hurts, bro. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.399 But the truth is this, guys. 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:57.679 You gotta be willing to hurt for a moment so you don't have to hurt for the rest of your life. 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:04.879 So you gotta come to the point and say, I know that this hurts, God. 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:15.120 This hurt, this hurts right now, but I prefer to feel the pain for a moment than to keep carrying everything I've been stuffing for the rest of my life. 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.519 Today's Bible verse is in a book of Psalms 63.1. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.240 It should be up on the screen. 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:31.200 Thank you to the beautiful, precious Pastor Luce. 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:32.559 Amen. 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.120 Psalms 63.1. 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:38.320 Yo, this is good, bro. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:38.879 Watch this. 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.399 Look at what David said, bro. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:41.679 Let's read it together. 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:42.720 It's on the screen, guys. 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:47.519 It says, You, God, are my God. 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:49.600 Excuse me. 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:56.080 Then he says, Earnestly I seek you. 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:58.879 I thirst for you. 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:01.679 My whole being longs for you. 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:08.240 In a dry and parched land where there is no water. 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:10.080 My God. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:11.679 Let's break this down. 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.039 Y'all know I like eating words. 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:13.919 Let's break this down. 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:16.639 David says, I earnestly seek you. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:18.159 That's what he started with. 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:24.000 Earnestly means doing something with deep and sincere intention. 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:26.639 That's what earnestly means. 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:31.679 So with serious intention, not casually. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:33.840 Not casually. 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:36.240 He's not trying to seek God casually. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.840 There are a lot of casual believers. 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:43.840 Not occasionally. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.320 And y'all know some occasional believers because I know them too. 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:53.440 Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Father's Day. 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:54.320 That's it. 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:55.440 That's when you see them. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:57.759 Those are occasional believers. 00:13:58.399 --> 00:13:58.720 Right? 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:00.559 Those are occasional believers. 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.759 And not when it's convenient. 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:06.080 Not when it's convenient. 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.679 He's not saying he's gonna seek God when it's convenient for him. 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:16.799 How easy life that, how easy life will be if we went to God when we needed him and that's it. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.879 That's being that's us being convenient with ourselves. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.720 It's like, okay, this is hard, God, I'm gonna go to you. 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.000 But when it's over, you already know what I'm about. 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:32.080 And we say we don't need him. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.759 He he's he's the God that provides, he's the God that heals. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:45.440 And the moment he provides and heals, since we are convenient Christians, we push him away. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:50.080 Once we receive what we wanted, forget about God for a moment. 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:54.000 Because he did what I wanted, and that's all I need. 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:55.440 Thank you, God. 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:57.360 Back to my life. 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.120 I can say that because I used to be like that, bro. 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.039 That's why I can say that. 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:09.840 But see, David wasn't saying that, he wasn't saying, God, I'll look for you when I get around to it. 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.720 When I get a chance, I'll go look for you. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:17.360 When I feel like I need you, I'll go look for you. 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:18.960 He wasn't saying that. 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:23.039 David was saying, God, I'm coming after you. 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:32.000 I'm chasing you earnestly, with a deep desire and intention. 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:32.639 I'm gone. 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:34.799 Wherever you are, I'm going. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.639 Because I need to be there. 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:39.200 I need to be in your presence. 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:40.960 That's what David was trying to say. 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.279 David knew how to seek God. 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:50.240 Because the God we serve, guys, I say this all the time: the God we serve is intentional. 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:52.240 He's an intentional God. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:58.080 If God was intentional enough to wake you up today, be intentional about seeking him. 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:00.559 Be intentional. 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:07.919 If God was intentional enough to give you another day, be intentional about pursuing him today. 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:09.840 Be intentional. 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:20.240 If God was intentional enough to send his son to die for you, don't give God a half-hearted response. 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:23.360 That don't do nothing for you. 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:24.320 But look, continuing. 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:30.080 Then David continues and he says, I earnestly, and then he says, I thirst for you. 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:32.720 I thirst for you. 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:34.879 You know what he was doing here? 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:40.879 Now we see David was revealing his spiritual condition before God. 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:46.080 He said, I think about this. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.000 He's writing this, Josh. 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.480 And while he's writing this, he's having a conversation with God the Father. 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.960 And he's telling him, I thirst for you. 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:57.519 You're already in conversation with God. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:05.039 He's in the middle of a conversation with God the Father, and he's writing, he said, I thirst for you. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:07.440 That's deep. 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:10.480 What does this show? 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:11.839 He was dry. 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:14.799 He's dry, spiritually dry. 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:18.319 He was spiritually thirsty because he said, I thirst for you. 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:24.079 He's in a dry and parched land, which is what he said in the verse. 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:30.480 And I believe somebody listening to me today knows exactly what David is talking about. 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:32.559 I know, I know. 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:39.839 Because you could look good on the outside and still be dry as a desert on the inside. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:43.440 We're experts on looking good on the outside. 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:46.480 We could fake it till we make it. 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:48.880 Y'all know how it is. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:50.640 You okay? 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:51.759 Yeah, I'm okay. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:52.960 No, you're not. 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:55.359 No, you're not. 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:56.960 No, you're not. 00:17:57.039 --> 00:17:57.759 You're not okay. 00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.039 You're not okay. 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.440 It's okay to not be okay. 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:02.240 Right? 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.759 We need to learn that. 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:05.440 The body of Christ needs to learn. 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.519 It's okay to not be okay. 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:08.640 Okay. 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:11.920 You could shout every Sunday. 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:18.559 Come here and shout and praise the Lord every Sunday and still be empty every Monday. 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:21.680 You know why? 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.799 You shout on Sunday, but you're empty Monday? 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.200 Because you were empty on Sunday. 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:31.119 Because you were empty on Sunday. 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.400 You could say, God is good all the time. 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.480 And all the time, God is good. 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:43.279 You can say that all you want and still secretly ask God, God, where are you right now? 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:45.359 Where are you right now? 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:46.640 I don't see you. 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:48.240 I need to see you. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:49.599 Where are you? 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.960 But here's what David is teaching us in this verse. 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:57.039 When you recognize your thirst, you don't run from God. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:58.480 You run to God. 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:05.359 When you're thirsty, when you're parched, you don't run from God. 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:09.039 How could you run from the one who could quench your thirst? 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:14.160 Why would you run the other way? 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:17.039 No, you can't. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:18.720 This is what he's saying, right? 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:20.720 You run to God. 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:27.359 Many of us run around thirsty, dehydrated, dry. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:32.000 But your thirst is not proof that God abandoned you. 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.359 Let me let me tell you this. 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:37.279 It gets better with the next line. 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:38.160 Hold up. 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:39.519 Hold up. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.319 Look, your thirst, what you feel now? 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.039 Yo, it's not proof that God abandoned you. 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:49.440 Your thirst is the evidence that your soul is telling you, I need him. 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:52.880 I need them. 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.119 You think because I'm a pastor, I don't say, God, I need you. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:19:59.519 Huh? 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.519 You think you think I got it all together because I be up here? 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.839 And I don't have my moments where I'm like, Lord, where are you? 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:14.400 Teaching about having faith and then going through something where I don't feel like I got faith? 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:16.720 You think I don't go through stuff? 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:19.599 Who? 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.839 These shoes are heavy. 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:30.960 These shoes hurt, these shoes make you cry, these shoes make you want to give up. 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:34.640 Because you're gonna go through. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.319 Maybe not mine, it's mine's I'm talking about my pastor's shoes. 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:41.759 They're heavy. 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:45.440 And you know what we do, guys? 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:46.720 We feel distant. 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:55.920 And if you know that the name of the void I'm talking about is Jesus, then we have to ask a question. 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:59.440 Why does God feel so far away right now? 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:01.839 Why does He feel so far away? 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:04.160 Look at what the word distance means. 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:09.039 Distance is the amount of space between two people or two things. 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:13.119 I could have finished there. 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:14.559 That's crazy. 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:19.839 And sometimes we tell ourselves, God is too far away. 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:22.480 Where's God? 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:24.480 Oh, he's far away. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:27.599 But there's something that you need to understand. 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:30.559 God hasn't moved. 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:32.480 He hasn't moved. 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:33.759 You moved. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.000 You moved. 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.440 God didn't move. 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:38.400 You moved. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:39.680 God didn't move. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:40.960 I moved. 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:46.480 So when God feels far away, check who was the one who walked away. 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.480 Analyze and say, God, who walked away? 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:52.400 Did you walk away or was it me? 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:53.839 What did I do this time? 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:56.480 What did I do this time, God? 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.519 If you guys remember the Book of Joshua, right? 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:08.079 It's a famous verse in the book of Joshua, and it says, I will never leave you nor forsake you. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:09.279 You guys know that, right? 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:11.440 Excuse me. 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:13.119 Joshua 1.5, right? 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:15.519 I will never leave you nor forsake you. 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:17.839 Think about that. 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:19.839 Talk about Joshua. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:24.319 Joshua was getting ready to step into something bigger than himself. 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:25.599 Read it, bro. 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:26.640 It's a good book. 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.319 He was getting ready to step something into bigger than himself. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:31.200 Why? 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:34.160 Because his leader Moses has died. 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:36.480 Moses is gone. 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:38.880 Moses just died. 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:43.920 The responsibility now shifts from Moses to Joshua. 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:48.880 Moses died? 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:49.519 Okay. 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:52.720 I guess it's my turn. 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.680 Imagine, imagine being Joshua. 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:01.279 And knowing that what Moses had to do, now Moses is dead. 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:04.319 You gotta carry what Moses had to do. 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:06.319 Must have been tough. 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.920 And God tells Joshua, You're not going into this alone. 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:14.880 Who said you were gonna be by yourself? 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:17.440 He said, I will be with you. 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:19.680 That was a promise that God gave him. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.720 Now God didn't promise Joshua this. 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:26.640 He didn't promise him that the journey was gonna be easy. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:27.759 He didn't say that. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:28.960 Read it for yourself. 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.079 He didn't say, Yo, I'm with you. 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:34.400 Everything's gonna be you're gonna be good. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:35.680 He didn't say that. 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.119 He didn't say that. 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:41.279 I wish he said that a couple times in my life, but he didn't. 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:43.440 The reality is he didn't. 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:46.640 He promised Joshua that he would be there. 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:50.880 And that's the word for somebody today. 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:53.519 God didn't promise you no problems. 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:57.200 He didn't promise you no storms. 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:01.039 And he didn't promise you no battles. 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:07.279 He didn't say that you were not gonna be in storms, not gonna have problems, and not go through battles. 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:08.799