WEBVTT 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.359 You may be seated if you can. 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:53.359 Folks, I'm telling you, I know you're excited about football season about to start, and we'll have a hundred thousand people go to these stadiums and sit there for five to six hours and look like a bunch of Comanche Indians and never complain and then come to church and after an hour say it's time to go, something's wrong. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:58.480 And I said that because I want to preach two hours. 00:00:58.719 --> 00:00:59.760 Just to jump. 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:03.920 But I want you to know that's so good to be back. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:12.319 God has just so been blessing Susan and me and uh just opening all kinds of doors. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:19.200 I'm now doing a series of messages for First Baptist Church and in the community that we are on Wednesday nights. 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.959 I did one in the spring, and then they said, Well, will you do another one? 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.840 I said, Are you kidding? 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:27.920 You're asking me, will I do another one? 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:30.400 I said, How many do you need? 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:40.799 And so I just started last Wednesday, this past Wednesday night on what I what you're gonna get an overview of this morning. 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:46.719 Why God is good all the time? 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:52.240 Come on, God is good all the time? 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:54.640 Amen. 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:56.159 Do you believe that? 00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.040 Why do you believe that? 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:01.760 Because he's good. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.600 But how do we know he's good? 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:10.479 How do we know that God wants us to live in the goodness of God? 00:02:12.079 --> 00:02:18.879 Well, you're gonna have one of your favorite chapters today in the Bible, Psalms 23. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:40.960 Turn to Psalms 23, and then you're gonna also have on your outline Psalms 100, verse 5, that literally says, God is good, his mercy everlasting, his truth endureth forever. 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:48.319 Whoa! That's enough to make a Pentecostal shout, which you don't have to say much for a Pentecostal to shout. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:57.759 So today we're gonna be looking at, you remember the little prayer you were taught growing up? 00:02:58.159 --> 00:02:59.599 God is great. 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.039 Let us thank him for our food. 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:12.159 You don't really understand how powerful that little prayer for food is. 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.319 God is great, God is good. 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:23.599 Those are the two pillars of the goodness of God. 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:28.640 He's great and he's good. 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:37.120 How do you know he's good when you don't feel like he's good? 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.439 How do you know he's good when you're in pain? 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:47.120 How do you know he's good when you don't understand? 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:53.120 How do you know he's good when you're walking through hell? 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.280 How do you know he's good when you're in the fire? 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.439 How do you know he's good when you're down and out? 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:08.879 How do you know he's good when you're depressed? 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:18.399 How do you know he's good when your husband's just walked out on you? 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:24.719 How do you know he's good when your wife's just walked out on you? 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:26.319 Especially if you're a pastor. 00:04:26.479 --> 00:04:30.159 I have dealt in the last year with two pastors and wife just left. 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.399 They didn't want to be in the ministry anymore. 00:04:36.479 --> 00:04:40.959 How do you know he's good when you don't feel like he's good? 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:44.719 Well, we're gonna see that today. 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.560 Oh, I'll tell you, this has been such an encouragement to me. 00:04:48.799 --> 00:04:50.079 It really has. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:05:06.079 But the four things we're gonna look at first is Satan does not want us to experience or to live in the goodness of God. 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:29.519 Because when we are in his goodness, you've got a statement on that outline, when we are focusing on his goodness and not our trials, not our problems, not our situations, not our circumstances, but when we are focusing on the goodness of God, we have hope. 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:37.039 And the last thing Satan wants you and me to have is hope. 00:05:37.359 --> 00:05:40.959 Because when you have hope, you're walking by faith. 00:05:41.679 --> 00:05:46.000 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 00:05:46.239 --> 00:05:47.679 You just trust in God. 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:55.599 You're trusting in the Lord with all your heart, leaning not on your own understanding, but in all your ways, you are acknowledging Him. 00:05:57.679 --> 00:05:58.879 Proverbs 2, 6. 00:05:59.039 --> 00:06:01.279 I'm at Proverbs 3, 5 and 6. 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:08.319 So you're walking in faith, and without faith, it's impossible to please God. 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:14.719 So he doesn't want you walking by faith, he wants you walking by sight. 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.759 He wants you walking in the flesh. 00:06:17.919 --> 00:06:27.679 And when you're walking by sight and in the flesh, you are gonna be living without hope because your flesh can produce nothing good. 00:06:28.799 --> 00:06:30.159 Can I get an amen? 00:06:32.239 --> 00:06:45.039 So, four evidences of us not walking in the goodness of God, number one. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.239 Here we go. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.279 I'll go pretty quick, but I'm not in a hurry. 00:06:49.359 --> 00:06:53.599 We're eating here today, so don't start looking at your watch. 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.199 That means nothing. 00:06:55.919 --> 00:06:58.719 What happens when I forget the goodness of God? 00:06:58.799 --> 00:07:04.879 Number one, I start claiming all the credit for what God's doing in my life. 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:06.639 Oh, look at me. 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:11.439 Man, I started this business with nothing. 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:14.799 Now it's two or three, four million dollar business right now. 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.719 Look what I've done. 00:07:17.359 --> 00:07:22.799 Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you, you've not done anything that God's not allowed you to do. 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:28.239 Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that gets power to get wealth. 00:07:28.479 --> 00:07:30.319 Deuteronomy 8.18. 00:07:31.119 --> 00:07:31.759 Amen. 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:37.919 Remember, hey, real quick, remember the rich man? 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:40.959 The parable of the rich man? 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:47.279 He and what was it in Luke 12, verses 21 through 24, I think. 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:53.199 And he had built all this great wealth through his crops and all. 00:07:53.359 --> 00:07:56.799 And boy, he started taking credit for it. 00:07:57.119 --> 00:08:00.959 Six times in those four little verses, he uses the word I. 00:08:02.479 --> 00:08:04.239 I, I, I, I, I. 00:08:04.719 --> 00:08:12.639 And it got so prosperous that he decided, instead of sharing it for the goodness of God, and hey, thanking God. 00:08:12.719 --> 00:08:16.479 And by the way, when God blesses you, let me, I'm gonna help you right here. 00:08:16.799 --> 00:08:21.439 When God blesses you, it's for the purpose for you to bless someone else. 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:23.359 Can I get an amen? 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.719 God does not bless you and me for us to hoard it, He blesses us to give it. 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:35.679 God says it's more blessed to give than it is to receive. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:38.320 In Luke 6, 38. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:46.080 So he says, I'm gonna tear down my barns, I'm gonna build bigger barns so I can have plenty more. 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.240 And the Lord looks him in the face and he says, You fool. 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:54.159 That's what he says. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:55.200 Read it. 00:08:57.280 --> 00:09:00.000 Tonight you're gonna die. 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:03.280 And then whose is all this gonna be? 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:08.080 Whoa! What about a king of Gripper? 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:28.720 He was in Caesarea, he had just preached an unbelievable speech, and he's standing there in all the glory of his royal garb, and the people start shouting and praising him and saying, These are the words of a God. 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:40.480 Then the angel shows up and strikes him dead, and his body's eaten on the spot by worms. 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:44.560 Do you understand? 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:49.840 All that you have, all that you are, is because of the goodness of God. 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.840 Can I get an amen, church? 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:53.920 Number two. 00:09:56.800 --> 00:10:07.519 Not only do we claim credit for what God did for us, and by the way, the verse for that is 1 Corinthians 4 7, where he says, What do you have that God hasn't given you? 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:18.160 And in all that you have is from God, why act as though you are so great and as though you have accomplished something on your own? 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:19.600 Paul said that. 00:10:34.800 --> 00:10:37.920 I'm just sitting here crying through this whole thing. 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:42.399 Because of the goodness of God, CCW is right here packed. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:50.639 We've watched God for 14 years do miracle after miracle, but let me tell you why those miracles happen. 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:54.639 Because of the goodness of God and his greatness. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.879 The two pillars, great and good. 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:11.440 But the second reason, the second indication that we have forgotten the goodness of God. 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:16.720 We stop asking God for help through our prayers. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.879 James 4, 2, you know it. 00:11:21.280 --> 00:11:23.440 We have not because we what? 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.720 Because we ask not. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.320 And listen to what he says in Luke 11, 13 there on your outline. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:40.399 He says, if any of you people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Heavenly Father give to them the Holy Spirit who asked him? 00:11:41.040 --> 00:11:41.680 Wow. 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:42.800 Wow. 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:52.960 And then he says, in Hebrews 4, 16, let us come boldly into the throne of grace that we might receive mercy and grace and find help in time of need. 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.960 And then I love what he says in Psalms 69, 16. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:05.920 He says, Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of your heart. 00:12:09.680 --> 00:12:15.440 See, there's a progression that God teaches us how to trust him. 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:19.200 God's just taught me this. 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:21.759 How I have let this pass me. 00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:24.160 The example, I knew the principle. 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:29.600 Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, lean not on thy own understanding, and in all the ways acknowledge him. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:30.720 He'll direct your past. 00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:32.800 So uh walk by faith, not by sight. 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:34.000 2 Corinthians 5, 20. 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:36.160 Man, I can shoot them out like a machine gun. 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:38.720 Well, what does that really mean? 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:47.759 You know, the older I get, the more understanding I'm getting of what those verses really do mean. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:49.440 And you know why? 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:59.040 Because I've literally walked through the word and watched those principles really be activated in my life. 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:04.560 Here's the progression. 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:05.519 You're gonna love this. 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:07.200 How many of you have children? 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:09.440 Most of us. 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:11.120 How many of you have grandchildren? 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:13.360 Oh boy, yeah, and you spoil everything. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:18.080 Yeah, you love it because you give them everything, and when they get in trouble, you send them home. 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:20.960 Hey, watch this. 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.759 Here's the progression of what it means to trust in God and walk by faith. 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:27.840 Lord just gave me this. 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:34.879 One, when a child, your child, realizes they have a need. 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:35.840 Okay? 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:38.560 They realize they have a need. 00:13:38.800 --> 00:13:40.080 That's step one. 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:41.200 What do they do? 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.360 They go to mom and dad, Daddy, I have a need. 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:47.280 I want a milkshake. 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:52.480 I have a need. 00:13:54.160 --> 00:13:55.680 So here's the process. 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:57.840 Number one, the child has a need. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.320 Number two, they go to the parent. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:04.240 And then the parent realizes they have a need. 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:08.399 And then number three, the parent meets the need. 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:16.560 And when the parent meets the need, in number three, now number four, they know they can trust the parent. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.639 Somebody say that's good. 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.200 That is what God wants us to do. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.040 I don't care if it's a big need. 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.560 I don't care if it's a little need. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:32.320 I don't care if it's any kind of need. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.160 He wants you to bring it to him. 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.399 If it's big enough to worry about, it's big enough to pray about. 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:45.840 If it's little enough to worry about, it's that's not a word, is it? 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:46.639 Small enough. 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:47.680 Little enough. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.200 Hey, it's small enough to pray about. 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:54.720 It really is. 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:56.879 Bring it to him. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.080 Thy words were found and I did eat them. 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:06.480 And thy words were the joy unto my heart, Jeremiah said. 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:15.440 But he also said, hey, God said, Jeremiah, cry out to me, and I'll show you great and mighty things which you know not. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:24.800 The reason you're not seeing God's hand move in a mighty way, maybe it's because you're not living in the goodness of God. 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:27.519 Maybe it's because you're not asking God. 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:30.000 You're trying to do it yourself. 00:15:33.280 --> 00:15:34.240 Guilty. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.879 I'm the guy that says, Lord, I got this. 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:42.320 If I need you, I'll holla. 00:15:45.680 --> 00:15:47.440 Or was I wrong? 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.160 The little things, the big things, the medium things. 00:15:54.160 --> 00:15:55.440 Number three. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:02.399 What happens when I forget the goodness, God's goodness, the goodness of God? 00:16:02.560 --> 00:16:03.600 I claim credit. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.560 I stop asking. 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:08.240 Number three, I stop trusting in difficult times. 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:10.639 Listen to what he says. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.759 In Psalms 16, 1 and 2. 00:16:13.920 --> 00:16:15.280 I stopped trusting God. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.240 But then listen to what David said. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.600 Protect me, God, because I trust in you. 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.720 Trust in you, he said to the Lord, I trust in you. 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.399 You are my Lord. 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.600 Every good thing I have comes from you. 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:32.960 Say this with me. 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:35.759 Every good thing I have comes from God. 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:36.879 Say it with me. 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.160 Everything I have comes from God. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.480 Can we get an amen? 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.800 Can we just give God a clap off for the goodness of God? 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:52.639 Wow. 00:16:53.680 --> 00:16:54.320 Wow. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.600 What a mighty God we serve. 00:16:58.160 --> 00:17:00.320 That's why you wear a bracelet around him. 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:01.759 I'm so glad y'all keep doing that. 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:02.560 I'm out of them. 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:03.519 I give them everywhere. 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.839 I use a whole awesome word to witness to people everywhere I go. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.079 But Jesus is awesome. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.240 And you know why he's awesome? 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:13.920 Because of his goodness. 00:17:14.639 --> 00:17:16.799 And because of his greatness. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.680 That's why he's awesome. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:21.200 Wow. 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:27.119 Woo! I'm a little Pentecostal, so don't let me scare you. 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.720 My granddaddy was a Pentecostal. 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:35.039 My grandmother was a diehard Southern Baptist. 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.599 People ask me all my life, what are you? 00:17:39.919 --> 00:17:49.039 Because when I start preaching, they just some of them just ask me at this church of doing the Wednesday night for them, are you really a Baptist? 00:17:49.919 --> 00:17:51.359 I said, not really. 00:17:52.639 --> 00:17:53.839 Well, what are you? 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.480 I said, I'm a Biblicist. 00:17:59.199 --> 00:18:00.639 I'm not kidding. 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.519 They said, What's that? 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.199 Some of you are thinking that same thing. 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:08.079 I'm glad he asked that. 00:18:08.159 --> 00:18:08.399 Go ahead. 00:18:10.159 --> 00:18:12.720 It means I believe the Word of God. 00:18:12.879 --> 00:18:14.639 I want to live the Word of God. 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.759 I want to be a witness of the Word of God. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.879 The Word of God is all I want to be. 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:31.519 I want it to be so much in me through me that I'm walking in the leadership of the Holy Spirit because John 16, the Holy Spirit teaches you the truth. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.799 And you're to walk in the truth. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:36.159 Amen. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:40.959 So we see in difficult times. 00:18:41.199 --> 00:18:51.119 Paul said that we're to count these difficult times, our troubles, hey, because we know that these things produce patience. 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:52.480 Romans 5.3. 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:57.759 And then Romans 8.28, you know it, but I don't think we understand it totally. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:04.879 All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:07.439 There's some prerequisites there. 00:19:07.679 --> 00:19:09.199 First of all, you gotta know him. 00:19:09.439 --> 00:19:13.679 Hey, hey, you gotta love him, and you gotta be doing what he's told you to do. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:16.399 Okay? 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:22.879 But we see right here, what truth I stopped trusting God in difficult times. 00:19:23.199 --> 00:19:25.759 God is good in the bad times. 00:19:25.919 --> 00:19:27.039 Can I get an amen? 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:28.559 Say that with me. 00:19:28.879 --> 00:19:31.839 God is still good in the bad times. 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:35.599 What about Joseph? 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.559 13 years in prison. 00:19:40.959 --> 00:19:42.959 Those were bad times. 00:19:43.439 --> 00:19:52.240 But he happened to interpret the butler and the cook's dreams, and they were brought before Pharaoh. 00:19:52.399 --> 00:19:58.079 Pharaoh said, I'm gonna need somebody to interpret and said, Hey, we know somebody. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:00.000 His name's Joseph. 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.079 They brought Joseph, you know the rest of the story. 00:20:02.159 --> 00:20:04.319 Well, no, some of you don't know the rest of the story. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:11.519 I used to say, well, you know, but we're living in such an illiterate biblical knowledge now in America. 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:12.879 It's unreal. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:14.959 But what happened? 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:16.799 He interprets the dreams. 00:20:17.439 --> 00:20:18.480 And guess what? 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.919 He gets now watch this. 00:20:23.439 --> 00:20:30.399 He went from the pit to the palace overnight. 00:20:30.639 --> 00:20:34.399 He went from a pauper to a prince overnight. 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:39.119 Hey, he went from a nobody to second in command overnight. 00:20:40.399 --> 00:20:42.959 Now that's the greatness. 00:20:43.439 --> 00:20:46.079 That's the goodness of God. 00:20:51.199 --> 00:20:52.480 Number four. 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:58.399 I become very pessimistic about the future. 00:20:58.959 --> 00:21:00.559 I looked that word up. 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:05.279 Some of you are not going to be saying amen, you're going to be saying, Oh me. 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:07.519 And I'm first. 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:10.799 You know what the word pessimistic means? 00:21:11.679 --> 00:21:12.720 Gloomy. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:15.279 Negative. 00:21:16.639 --> 00:21:17.599 Cynical. 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:20.559 Depressed. 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:22.799 No hope. 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:27.439 Totally empty. 00:21:29.679 --> 00:21:31.039 There's no hope. 00:21:31.199 --> 00:21:32.399 There's no hope. 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:34.079 There's no hope. 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:36.000 That's what it means. 00:21:36.399 --> 00:21:37.679 A negative person. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:39.439 A pessimistic person. 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:40.879 What happens? 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:46.879 They're focusing on the problems and the circumstances and the negatives of everything. 00:21:47.919 --> 00:21:50.079 Now let me ask you one question. 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:52.959 Are you guilty of doing that sometimes? 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.919 If I don't see every one of the hands, I'm preaching online. 00:21:58.959 --> 00:21:59.279 Okay. 00:22:00.639 --> 00:22:00.959 Okay. 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.399 Let me remind you: lion lips are abomination unto God. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:06.159 They will not go unpunished. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:08.079 Proverbs 16 5. 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.559 I'm gonna wake her mouth up with soup. 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:14.879 My grandmother used to tell me that. 00:22:15.199 --> 00:22:17.919 You know, she never did it, but she sure thought she was. 00:22:19.679 --> 00:22:20.720 But now watch this. 00:22:20.879 --> 00:22:21.919 This is so good. 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:28.480 What Satan wants is you to have no hope. 00:22:28.879 --> 00:22:30.079 Say that with me. 00:22:30.399 --> 00:22:33.679 Satan wants us to have no hope. 00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:34.799 That's it. 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:42.959 Because once he gets you to where you think it's over, you have no hope, you're down and out, you're empty. 00:22:46.159 --> 00:22:51.359 Hey, hey, he knows that you're no good as a witness for Christ. 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:53.519 It's over. 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:58.319 People look at you and they say, if that's Christianity, I don't want any part of it. 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:05.439 I mean, why do I want somebody that's critical and always griping and complaining? 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:07.519 I get that every day at work. 00:23:08.159 --> 00:23:11.759 I want somebody who says, hey, like a Benji Wilson, I love you. 00:23:11.919 --> 00:23:13.519 I didn't have time to talk about Benji. 00:23:13.679 --> 00:23:14.399 I know him very well. 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:16.799 I was one of the ones that used to spank him. 00:23:19.439 --> 00:23:20.720 Well, that's another story. 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:22.399 We'll tell that later. 00:23:23.439 --> 00:23:24.879 But listen to me. 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:27.439 Satan wants you to have no hope. 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:29.439 But I've got hope. 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:30.000 Say it. 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:31.359 I've got hope. 00:23:31.679 --> 00:23:32.399 You ready? 00:23:32.639 --> 00:23:33.599 Psalms 23. 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.559 Buckle up. 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:36.240 Get your pen ready. 00:23:36.959 --> 00:23:38.240 You'll take that outline. 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:39.919 That's why I made it for you. 00:23:40.159 --> 00:23:45.039 Because every one of us, what I'm preaching right now, we live it. 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:52.799 We're negative, we're positive, we're negative, we're up and down, we have problems, we get down, Satan ducks us down, we don't want to get back up. 00:23:52.959 --> 00:23:58.319 But let me remind you, the Bible says in Proverbs, the righteous fall seven times, but they get back up. 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:03.119 Now watch. 00:24:03.679 --> 00:24:04.720 Here it is. 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:07.119 Why do I have hope? 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:08.079 Are you ready? 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:11.679 You are going to watch this, and you. 00:24:12.399 --> 00:24:14.799 I don't know what I did with my phone. 00:24:15.199 --> 00:24:16.000 Oh well. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:18.959 Is it right? 00:24:19.439 --> 00:24:20.240 It doesn't matter. 00:24:20.399 --> 00:24:21.679 Jeremiah, I know the verse. 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:23.679 I was gonna get you to turn there and you can't. 00:24:23.919 --> 00:24:27.039 Jeremiah 29, verse 11 and 12. 00:24:29.439 --> 00:24:31.119 You know what God says? 00:24:31.439 --> 00:24:33.199 Why do we have hope? 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:35.679 He's got a plan for you. 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:40.559 God, in fact, you know what Jeremiah 29 says? 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.359 Look at it. 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:42.720 Verse 11. 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:46.319 He says that he's thinking about you. 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:48.799 And you know why he's thinking about you? 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:51.119 Because he's got a plan for you. 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:53.839 That's so good, folks. 00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:55.039 He's thinking about it. 00:24:55.199 --> 00:24:57.519 And then he goes on to tell you what this plan is. 00:24:57.679 --> 00:25:02.879 He says, this plan is not a plan that's gonna hurt you or be bad for you. 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.519 It's gonna be a plan that's gonna be good to you, not evil. 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:12.319 It's gonna build you up, it's gonna encourage you, it's gonna put you on the right path. 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:25.759 You're gonna be able to have, see what I have called you, gifted you, called you, gifted you, and given you talents to do so you can witness and be a living testimony for an awesome God. 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:39.439 And then he says, when you're doing that, falling in his plan, he says, You can ask what you want. 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:42.159 I'll answer it. 00:25:43.439 --> 00:25:44.079 Hello? 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:45.359 You okay? 00:25:46.959 --> 00:25:52.480 But you gotta be doing what his plan is and not what my plan is. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:54.720 That's the major difference. 00:25:54.879 --> 00:25:56.079 Why are you so depressed? 00:25:56.159 --> 00:25:56.639 I'm gonna help you. 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:01.119 You don't have to go and pay a counselor for this, you don't have to have drugs for this. 00:26:01.679 --> 00:26:10.159 While most of us are negative and pessimistic and down and out, it's because we're not doing what God's called us to do. 00:26:11.679 --> 00:26:12.799 That's good. 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:18.319 I did that for a long time. 00:26:18.879 --> 00:26:20.720 Almost in divorce. 00:26:20.959 --> 00:26:24.079 Not with Susan, but with my first wife that died. 00:26:24.639 --> 00:26:31.919 I was running, I was running like a chicken running from somebody's fixing to wring their neck from the Lord. 00:26:34.639 --> 00:26:48.879 But once I got in his plan, once I got in his path, then I got his power, then I got his presence, and then I got his protection. 00:26:50.159 --> 00:26:52.480 That's straight off the hot press. 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:54.319 That's not in my notes. 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.319 Whoo, thank you, Jesus. 00:26:59.439 --> 00:27:01.119 Thank you, Jesus. 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:04.959 I'm sweating. 00:27:06.959 --> 00:27:08.399 So, number one. 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:11.439 Number one, are you ready? 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:15.679 The Lord is my shepherd. 00:27:16.159 --> 00:27:17.359 I lack nothing. 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:18.399 Did you see that? 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:20.159 I shall not want anything. 00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:21.839 I lack nothing. 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.879 By the way, the Greek word for nothing, there's nothing. 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:30.799 Number one, God will meet my needs. 00:27:30.959 --> 00:27:32.319 Can I get an amen? 00:27:32.959 --> 00:27:33.839 Say it with me. 00:27:34.159 --> 00:27:35.919 God will meet my needs. 00:27:37.439 --> 00:27:43.199 Philippians 4.19, my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches and glory through Christ Jesus. 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:46.639 Why do we have hope? 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:52.159 How do we know we're in the goodness of God? 00:27:52.399 --> 00:27:56.000 Because we are living, knowing that he will meet my needs. 00:27:56.159 --> 00:27:56.879 Number two. 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.039 Look at verse 2. 00:28:01.679 --> 00:28:04.399 He makes me to lie down in green pastures. 00:28:04.959 --> 00:28:08.079