WEBVTT 00:00.151 --> 00:02.713 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Way Community Church Podcast. 00:03.193 --> 00:06.335 [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Darahal and I'm the pastor of the Way Community Church. 00:07.015 --> 00:11.358 [SPEAKER_00]: We are showing people the way to life with Jesus and we are thankful that you joined us today. 00:12.118 --> 00:21.284 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want any info about our church or if you're interested in becoming a member of our church, you can email info at the waycc.online. 00:21.804 --> 00:24.386 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, if you like to worship through giving, 00:29.429 --> 00:29.729 [SPEAKER_00]: giving. 00:30.169 --> 00:36.271 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever looked at the state of the world and thought to yourself, this makes absolutely no sense. 00:36.992 --> 00:42.633 [SPEAKER_00]: There are things that can trouble us about life that can also make it difficult to have faith in God. 00:43.234 --> 00:49.576 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you've ever found yourself in that place that is an honest place and you are not alone, today we're going to look at Psalm 73. 00:49.696 --> 00:56.118 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a man in the Bible whose name is Asaf who felt similarly as he considered some things he could not understand. 00:56.938 --> 01:00.121 [SPEAKER_00]: that troubled him about the world around him, that made no sense. 01:00.541 --> 01:04.604 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to encourage you to follow along the transcript of this podcast, grab your Bibles. 01:04.805 --> 01:10.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's study guys, we're together. 01:21.263 --> 01:27.427 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm glad we're ready to contribute and ministry today from our men in the parking lot, too. 01:29.128 --> 01:37.154 [SPEAKER_00]: Greeders, gatekeepers, guest services, greenhouse, deeks, mothers. 01:37.394 --> 01:39.896 [SPEAKER_00]: And we thank God for those who are leading us in worship. 01:39.916 --> 01:42.878 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you give our praise for Monique, who just led the last song? 01:47.258 --> 01:52.543 [SPEAKER_00]: at least as Shayna and Greg Carter and C.O.O. 01:52.583 --> 01:56.146 [SPEAKER_00]: and creative director thank God for the guys in the band as well leading us today. 01:56.567 --> 01:58.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 73 is where we are. 01:58.869 --> 02:01.992 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to read there two verses that you're hearing. 02:02.012 --> 02:04.454 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to encourage you to keep your by was a Bible. 02:04.494 --> 02:10.940 [SPEAKER_00]: Have open because we'll look at multiple lyrics in this song for the next few minutes. 02:11.872 --> 02:24.636 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to get something in your mind if it's something that you're dealing with wrestling with in life that it just doesn't make sense to you and trying to figure it out has stretched you out. 02:27.677 --> 02:28.078 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 02:29.278 --> 02:31.459 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have it, I want you to get it in your mind. 02:32.159 --> 02:33.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 73, first 16 through 17. 02:36.232 --> 02:49.197 [SPEAKER_00]: The word of the Lord says in a new international version, when I try to understand all this, it troubled me deeply to like entered the sanctuary of God. 02:50.058 --> 02:58.481 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I understood, I want to close our back to church month of this thought in mind when the world makes no sense. 02:58.501 --> 03:02.943 [SPEAKER_00]: You may be seated, the presence of the living God, when the world, 03:05.243 --> 03:07.004 [SPEAKER_00]: makes no sense. 03:12.506 --> 03:17.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you may know this and you may not be my favorite color is blue. 03:18.969 --> 03:28.033 [SPEAKER_00]: I love blue so much that if I could wear it every day in a week I would or some shade or variation of it and whatever I'm putting on for the day. 03:29.102 --> 03:38.248 [SPEAKER_00]: But blue is not just used to describe the color that appears when light bounces off of certain objects. 03:38.968 --> 03:44.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Blue is also used as an adjective to describe emotions and moods. 03:45.992 --> 03:54.538 [SPEAKER_00]: To be blue is to feel sadness or to be melancholy to feel down or even depressed. 03:54.558 --> 03:57.940 [SPEAKER_00]: So my question for you is, what in this world 03:58.707 --> 04:00.548 [SPEAKER_00]: makes you feel blue. 04:03.230 --> 04:16.539 [SPEAKER_00]: If Lady Ebony can answer this question, she might say, she feels blue when spousal in this treatment calls us the bottom to fall out in a woman's life and that woman has no resources to rebuild. 04:18.900 --> 04:27.246 [SPEAKER_00]: If I had to answer what makes me feel blue, I would say, when cowardice in leadership creates chaos and followership. 04:31.915 --> 04:39.078 [SPEAKER_00]: or when injustice is so obvious that it makes no sense that justice is not being served. 04:41.699 --> 04:47.702 [SPEAKER_00]: It's no wonder the end that a whole genre of music emanated from the heartbeat of enslaved 04:53.608 --> 04:56.930 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear what Judy Ventures Williams says. 04:57.391 --> 05:00.753 [SPEAKER_00]: She says in his book, The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. 05:00.793 --> 05:08.039 [SPEAKER_00]: The Boyle discusses sorrow songs, music created by African captives, exiled in America. 05:08.739 --> 05:12.662 [SPEAKER_00]: The songs are laments, prayers sung to God, 05:13.075 --> 05:18.600 [SPEAKER_00]: as a former protest and supplication, looking for justice from a righteous God. 05:19.361 --> 05:28.450 [SPEAKER_00]: The original American music conveys so hunger and a restlessness, unvoiced longing towards a true world. 05:29.311 --> 05:31.433 [SPEAKER_00]: The music also carries hope, a 05:31.573 --> 05:33.434 [SPEAKER_00]: faith in the final justice of things. 05:33.935 --> 05:43.181 [SPEAKER_00]: In the Saul songs we have a window into the identities of an oppressed people and their belief in a God who saw them and would remember them. 05:44.221 --> 05:52.387 [SPEAKER_00]: In the music they wrestled with good and evil suffering and pain their limits like those in the 06:00.882 --> 06:06.025 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 73 is a song or a song of lament. 06:06.826 --> 06:09.047 [SPEAKER_00]: It is the blues in the Bible. 06:09.948 --> 06:16.932 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like ASAP is singing with Marvin Gaye said, oh, make you wanna hollum, the way they do my life. 06:18.117 --> 06:32.793 [SPEAKER_00]: ASAP is brilliant songwriter who wrote 12 songs including song 50 and songs 73 through 83 is not just a musician and songwriter he's a singer he's a seer and a prophet. 06:33.906 --> 06:51.889 [SPEAKER_00]: and he creatively weaves together his multitude of skills seeing prophetically the issues in the world that he cannot comply completely makes sense of but communicating them through the creativity of Psalms or lyrics or poetry. 06:52.529 --> 07:00.231 [SPEAKER_00]: The parallelism in Psalm 73, the poetic balance and rhythm in the Hebrew gives creative expression 07:01.389 --> 07:08.611 [SPEAKER_00]: to authentic raw emotions that are sometimes easier expressed through art. 07:09.931 --> 07:11.472 [SPEAKER_00]: So we thank God for the artists, don't we? 07:12.012 --> 07:23.875 [SPEAKER_00]: We thank God for the song writers, for the poets, because they use language to communicate the issues of our soul that we may not have the words to fully articulate. 07:24.744 --> 07:37.093 [SPEAKER_00]: This man ASAP is a musician who was appointed by King David to oversee music in worship and he sang at the dedication of Solomon's temple. 07:37.113 --> 07:41.916 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you hear the words of what happened that day when the temple was dedicated. 07:42.297 --> 07:45.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Second Chronicle shot the five first E11 through 14. 07:46.540 --> 07:50.222 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, when the priests came out from the holy place, 07:51.183 --> 08:06.468 [SPEAKER_00]: for all the priests were present, and sanctify themselves without regard to divisions, and all the Levitical Singers, there he is, ASAP, Hemen, Jettathen, and their sons, and Kinsman, clotheed and fought linen, those of the choir roles. 08:07.309 --> 08:15.534 [SPEAKER_00]: with symbols, hearts, liars, those of the instruments, standing east of the altar, and 120 priests, blowing trumpets. 08:16.495 --> 08:34.227 [SPEAKER_00]: In the unison, when the trumpets and singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and glorify the Lord, and when they raised their voices accompanied by the musical instruments, they praise the Lord saying, God is good for His kindness is everlasting. 08:35.116 --> 08:44.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Then the house of God was filled with the cloud so that the priest could not rise to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord, feel the house of God. 08:45.832 --> 08:46.873 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't you see, A.S.F. 08:46.913 --> 08:47.473 [SPEAKER_00]: in this moment? 08:48.174 --> 08:56.419 [SPEAKER_00]: This fear, this prophet, this songwriter, who's singing on the day that sacred space is being dedicated to God. 08:57.380 --> 09:05.025 [SPEAKER_00]: While he is singing in a unison, the words he's singing is God is good and his mercies have a lasting. 09:05.446 --> 09:11.310 [SPEAKER_00]: And as he sings that in the right key, with the right tone, with the right note, 09:11.910 --> 09:16.734 [SPEAKER_00]: His heart and his mind is wrestling with the reality of the world he lives in. 09:18.456 --> 09:26.883 [SPEAKER_00]: So here he is in the sacred space, singing about God's goodness, but he's got a conflict going on on the inside that's going to cause him to write another song. 09:28.104 --> 09:30.046 [SPEAKER_00]: So he leaves the dedication of the temple. 09:31.013 --> 09:35.716 [SPEAKER_00]: He grabs his pen, he starts to write, and Psalm 73 comes out. 09:36.016 --> 09:45.363 [SPEAKER_00]: It's no wonder then that he would write a song about how he personally needed to run to God's house when he struggled to understand what was happening in the world. 09:46.604 --> 09:50.667 [SPEAKER_00]: And so in this song, he gives us the space to be transparent. 09:50.967 --> 09:55.210 [SPEAKER_00]: And the first thing we'll note is this, senselessness can break us. 09:58.043 --> 10:09.212 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever experienced something senseless, you know that number one, senselessness, it can break us. 10:09.252 --> 10:16.817 [SPEAKER_00]: When it's difficult to make sense of something, the adverse effect on our selfhood can feel like we've been torn apart. 10:17.438 --> 10:20.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Which you may read, senselessness can break our faith. 10:21.456 --> 10:33.602 [SPEAKER_00]: For verse two down to verse number 12, he's writing about how his faith is struggling because he is, he is looking at how people who don't serve God seem to be living better than people who do serve God. 10:35.483 --> 10:44.227 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he's starting to wonder, why am I wasting all my time cultivating a faith that don't seem to have a practical impact on everyday real life? 10:46.153 --> 10:53.860 [SPEAKER_00]: and God's people can stumble into faithlessness if we become distracted by the apparent success of ungodly people. 10:55.021 --> 11:04.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a major key, when a godly person tries to understand the impact of morality or reality, the senselessness can cause faithlessness. 11:06.411 --> 11:08.293 [SPEAKER_00]: What you say around, here's what I'm saying. 11:08.673 --> 11:11.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes there is no connection. 11:12.624 --> 11:17.005 [SPEAKER_00]: between how a person acts and what a person gets out of life. 11:20.626 --> 11:26.167 [SPEAKER_00]: It's an untested faith that presumes that you'll always get good out if you put good in. 11:27.387 --> 11:33.829 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a maturing faith that is rebuilt on the ruins of being broken by senselessness. 11:35.215 --> 11:40.960 [SPEAKER_00]: If you in this room right now can say, well, in 2022, six, my faith is as strong as it has ever been. 11:41.280 --> 11:49.407 [SPEAKER_00]: I guarantee you that the strong faith you have now is built on top of the old faith you used to have that senselessness tore apart. 11:51.268 --> 11:53.350 [SPEAKER_00]: That you faced something that told your faith up. 11:53.970 --> 12:02.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Now there's new faith that's stronger than that old faith, but you needed the shards from the broken faith to rebuild this new and strong faith. 12:03.634 --> 12:08.381 [SPEAKER_00]: because senselessness can break us, it can break our faith, but then be senselessness can break our hearts. 12:10.384 --> 12:16.913 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever experienced something senseless or witnessed something senseless, trying to process it, can break your heart. 12:18.024 --> 12:25.107 [SPEAKER_00]: And ASAP gives the implication in verse 1 and in verse 13 that his heart is no longer pure. 12:25.848 --> 12:27.208 [SPEAKER_00]: His heart has been broken. 12:27.228 --> 12:34.292 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some bitterness that's starting to see me in because he can't make sense out of the world he lives in. 12:34.852 --> 12:37.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Now in verse 1 he starts off as you'll see. 12:37.313 --> 12:40.395 [SPEAKER_00]: He says surely God is good to Israel. 12:41.522 --> 12:43.104 [SPEAKER_00]: to those who are pure and hard. 12:43.765 --> 12:49.611 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's gonna start his song saying, okay, Lord, he's about to get real, but before I do, I'm gonna say this ain't your fault, this not only you. 12:50.392 --> 12:52.114 [SPEAKER_00]: You're good to people who got good hearts. 12:52.355 --> 12:57.380 [SPEAKER_00]: Then it comes in verse 13 and says, now me, surely in vain, I kept my heart pure. 12:58.381 --> 13:01.185 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I try to be pure, but I am so sure no more. 13:03.071 --> 13:06.092 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was a waste of time trying to do all that stuff to keep a good heart. 13:06.152 --> 13:11.674 [SPEAKER_00]: I know God good to the good heart it, but right now in this world on make sense and my heart is not as pure as it used to be. 13:12.834 --> 13:15.475 [SPEAKER_00]: His heart was broken by the Sicily since that he's facing. 13:15.695 --> 13:20.777 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he comes in verse 14 and says, and all I feel every morning is afflicted. 13:22.217 --> 13:26.899 [SPEAKER_00]: That word afflicted means to be stricken as it were by life's difficulties. 13:27.199 --> 13:30.320 [SPEAKER_00]: It means life is putting them hands on them. 13:31.924 --> 13:33.085 [SPEAKER_00]: You haven't felt beat up by life. 13:34.346 --> 13:43.912 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a woke up in the morning and before you can get good and more and out, you just felt a haymaker come out of nowhere to rock you from Santa Tissor Conference. 13:43.932 --> 13:45.854 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a chat joke for him before you pray. 13:47.368 --> 13:53.992 [SPEAKER_00]: and saw something that completely disoriented you from the beginning of your day before your feet ever hit the ground. 13:54.332 --> 13:56.754 [SPEAKER_00]: As I've said, man, I used to have a good heart now. 13:57.014 --> 14:02.117 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know any more because every morning all it feels like it's on catching a jab and an uppercut from life. 14:02.377 --> 14:04.538 [SPEAKER_00]: And life ain't tired of beating on me yet. 14:04.799 --> 14:06.119 [SPEAKER_00]: I face hell yesterday. 14:06.360 --> 14:07.720 [SPEAKER_00]: I wake up to hell today. 14:08.001 --> 14:11.883 [SPEAKER_00]: And I believe tomorrow, if the Lord let me live, I'm gonna see more hell than you. 14:14.222 --> 14:21.964 [SPEAKER_00]: As I've said, my faith is broken, my heart is broken, but then, senselessness can also break our minds. 14:23.904 --> 14:24.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at verse number 16. 14:25.164 --> 14:32.406 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, when I tried to understand this, what church it troubled me deeply. 14:34.026 --> 14:37.507 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I'm trying to make sense out of what don't make sense. 14:38.067 --> 14:41.148 [SPEAKER_00]: And the more I try to understand, the worse it gets for me. 14:42.546 --> 14:51.352 [SPEAKER_00]: to the extent that my mind can't even contain why these things that I don't understand keep happening to me and people like me. 14:52.693 --> 14:56.135 [SPEAKER_00]: And here's the truth, as your pastor and brother and Christ, I gotta be honest with you. 14:56.655 --> 15:01.318 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not know why the wicked succeed while the righteous suffer. 15:01.758 --> 15:01.999 [UNKNOWN]: No. 15:04.060 --> 15:04.860 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like ASAP. 15:05.681 --> 15:08.603 [SPEAKER_00]: When I try to understand, it troubles me deeply, too. 15:09.883 --> 15:15.605 [SPEAKER_00]: But I do want to give you a word for some, this may be your first time hearing his word for others, this may be a refresher. 15:15.625 --> 15:20.428 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to give you a word to add to your toolbox to help you when you're trying to make sense. 15:20.508 --> 15:22.188 [SPEAKER_00]: I would out of what don't make sense. 15:22.488 --> 15:23.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a new word. 15:23.609 --> 15:24.489 [SPEAKER_00]: That word is the Odyssey. 15:24.509 --> 15:24.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 15:24.689 --> 15:24.849 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 15:24.869 --> 15:25.110 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 15:25.170 --> 15:25.290 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 15:25.310 --> 15:25.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 15:28.231 --> 15:29.331 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 15:33.773 --> 15:33.973 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 15:34.494 --> 15:36.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 15:36.895 --> 15:36.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 15:37.015 --> 15:37.475 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you me. 15:40.245 --> 15:45.646 [SPEAKER_00]: I got my way find this piano, I got glasses, we know medicine in them because it just made me look smarter. 15:47.827 --> 15:48.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Newer. 15:49.427 --> 16:00.310 [SPEAKER_00]: When you're struggling to make sense out of nonsense and senselessness is threatening to break apart your faith and your heart and your mind, I submit to you the term the Odyssey. 16:01.310 --> 16:09.152 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a theological defense of God's goodness, justice, and that old word means all powerfulness. 16:10.146 --> 16:13.828 [SPEAKER_00]: in spite of the existence of evil and suffering in the world. 16:15.009 --> 16:25.196 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a contribution to our vocabulary from a German philosopher in the year 17, 10, his name is God of freedom, will helm likeness. 16:25.576 --> 16:30.339 [SPEAKER_00]: And he coined this term, the Odyssey, using two Greek terms he put together. 16:31.255 --> 16:34.958 [SPEAKER_00]: Theos and DK, God and justice. 16:35.799 --> 16:39.663 [SPEAKER_00]: And what it means in its original language is vindication of God. 16:40.863 --> 16:48.251 [SPEAKER_00]: So he, like you and me, tried to make sense out of the world around him and didn't have a word to explain the unexplainable. 16:49.052 --> 17:01.747 [SPEAKER_00]: So he took God and justice, put them together in the word, were in one word, to try to give us as believers something to hold on to when we consider the epiquarium paradox. 17:02.800 --> 17:14.848 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Epicurus was a great philosopher who disbelieved in the goodness of God and his paradox has been the truth of what many hearts feel. 17:15.709 --> 17:23.394 [SPEAKER_00]: Epicurus said that this way is God willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent. 17:24.515 --> 17:29.338 [SPEAKER_00]: If he is able, but not willing, then he is malevolent. 17:30.330 --> 17:32.250 [SPEAKER_00]: Is he both able and willing? 17:32.871 --> 17:34.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Then, when's come with evil? 17:35.551 --> 17:39.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Is he neither able, nor willing, then why call him God? 17:41.993 --> 17:51.435 [SPEAKER_00]: Apocures, look that life and what couldn't be understood and decide it, that this God that claim is real and good, either and real or he ain't good. 17:53.476 --> 18:07.421 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, to counteract that, the term idea, the Odyssey, was created to help believers find something real to hold on to when we ask questions like, why do bad things happen to good people? 18:08.681 --> 18:11.122 [SPEAKER_00]: Or, why do good things happen to bad people? 18:12.422 --> 18:16.044 [SPEAKER_00]: Or, why do people of low character occupy high offices? 18:17.624 --> 18:19.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Or, why do the innocent suffer? 18:22.397 --> 18:33.525 [SPEAKER_00]: When you ask questions that don't have a simple answer, you need something to grab your soul because the senselessness can break your faith, it can break your heart, and it can break your mind. 18:34.786 --> 18:44.013 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the simple answer is that there's a tension between God's sovereignty and human kinds free wheel. 18:44.972 --> 19:01.158 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the simple answer, and I submitted to you, but I'm gonna be honest, I'm giving it to you knowing that it's simple and knowing that when you leave this place and you go plant your feet back in the life, you got the liver from Monday to next Sunday, that you may face something on Tuesday, that that simple answer just won't do for you. 19:03.079 --> 19:11.502 [SPEAKER_00]: That the next time you face something, you can make sense of, you might remember what Ralph said, but that don't mean what Ralph said or hold on to you in that moment. 19:13.123 --> 19:18.884 [SPEAKER_00]: I offer you the simplicity of a peanut butter and jelly knowing that you're gonna be hungry and need some chicken and rice. 19:18.904 --> 19:19.445 [SPEAKER_00]: You understand? 19:21.025 --> 19:27.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, I appreciate the simplicity of what you've offered but how can I find the complexity of what I need? 19:27.226 --> 19:41.290 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think what ASF is saying is that the complex answer can only be found in cultivating sacred space with God because the answer is not in a principle that answers in a person. 19:42.837 --> 19:46.598 [SPEAKER_00]: The simple answer is, God is all powerful, but we still got free will. 19:46.778 --> 19:53.801 [SPEAKER_00]: The complex answer is, as life becomes more senseless, your space got a more come more sacred. 19:56.141 --> 20:01.623 [SPEAKER_00]: Consenselessness can break us, but number two, sacred space can remake us. 20:03.584 --> 20:06.325 [SPEAKER_00]: In verse 16, he said, I tried to understand it. 20:07.342 --> 20:08.502 [SPEAKER_00]: And it didn't make sense to me. 20:09.223 --> 20:13.804 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 72, he says, until I entered the sanctuary of God. 20:14.724 --> 20:19.265 [SPEAKER_00]: That word of sanctuary of God, that phrase, it means sacred place, a holy place. 20:19.625 --> 20:27.228 [SPEAKER_00]: It can't refer to the temple of Tabernacle, but it really means a special place, just what I go, me, God, and God comes to me. 20:28.128 --> 20:35.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if we were to serve as scripture from Genesis to Revelation, we would notice that there's a progression in sacred space. 20:37.444 --> 20:39.668 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord created sacred space for us in the garden. 20:39.949 --> 20:41.773 [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't work because we allow sin to come in. 20:42.855 --> 20:47.765 [SPEAKER_00]: God removed people from the garden so that we wouldn't live forever in sin. 20:49.350 --> 20:56.635 [SPEAKER_00]: Once he removed us from the garden to create sacred space, it started with the temple and tabernacle in the Old Testament. 20:57.376 --> 21:01.739 [SPEAKER_00]: God gave Moses divine specifications of how to build these buildings. 21:02.280 --> 21:08.984 [SPEAKER_00]: When he built the tabernacle, Moses that is, and Solomon the temple, that became the sacred place where God would meet people. 21:09.765 --> 21:13.248 [SPEAKER_00]: Then when Jesus died on the cross and rose again from the grave, 21:14.035 --> 21:24.177 [SPEAKER_00]: that redesign or progress the idea of sacred space from being at one holy building to be whenever holy people come together. 21:25.678 --> 21:36.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Then in the end, God says, I'm gonna redo on the new earth what Sam broke on the first earth and I'm gonna just come back and live with y'all gonna live with me in a oasis. 21:37.180 --> 21:39.561 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, look at Exodus chapter 25 verse number eight. 21:40.532 --> 21:47.416 [SPEAKER_00]: God says, have them construct a what church, a sanctuary for me, so that I may do what? 21:47.716 --> 21:48.937 [SPEAKER_00]: Do well among them. 21:49.237 --> 21:51.358 [SPEAKER_00]: God says, you wanna have sacred space with me? 21:51.738 --> 21:52.659 [SPEAKER_00]: Build a tabernacle. 21:53.640 --> 21:54.460 [SPEAKER_00]: But I tell you what. 21:54.940 --> 21:59.983 [SPEAKER_00]: In that tabernacle, only one of y'all can come talk to me one day per year. 22:00.844 --> 22:03.405 [SPEAKER_00]: If two of y'all come in, two of y'all ain't walking out. 22:05.366 --> 22:09.969 [SPEAKER_00]: If one of y'all come in, more than one day, the next day you come in, you're not walking out. 22:11.278 --> 22:17.039 [SPEAKER_00]: If the one who come in on the one day I said you can come, come in and they have step in, they're not walking up. 22:18.059 --> 22:23.581 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can come meet with me, but understand my holiness requires a certain standard for you to be near me. 22:25.501 --> 22:30.822 [SPEAKER_00]: So then, in 1 Peter 2, 5, we see the progression in the sacred space. 22:31.422 --> 22:35.823 [SPEAKER_00]: Peter says, you also, as what church, living stones. 22:35.903 --> 22:37.943 [SPEAKER_00]: As you and me, we are living stones. 22:40.833 --> 22:49.718 [SPEAKER_00]: as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 22:51.058 --> 22:57.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Peter is saying, look, I know that you're going to meet that building and you're going to worship in those buildings, but I need you to understand. 22:57.602 --> 23:09.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Once Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave, the holiness and the sacredness of space was no longer kept at one geographical location, now space is sacred. 23:09.308 --> 23:13.212 [SPEAKER_00]: whenever two or three of God's children get together and they start carrying on. 23:13.452 --> 23:27.665 [SPEAKER_00]: If you come together with me and I come together with you and we start clapping our hands and stumping our feet and reading scripture and praying to God and somebody teaches or somebody preaches all of a sudden no matter where we gather, that becomes sacred space. 23:27.885 --> 23:34.592 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody in this house who's grateful for the resurrection of Jesus that makes it sacred, not just religious. 23:37.682 --> 23:41.565 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus' resurrection opens up the way back to God. 23:42.306 --> 23:46.769 [SPEAKER_00]: So now, any who come by faith can easily access God's presence. 23:47.290 --> 23:54.715 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know 1437, Georgia Highway 138 in Congress is the way community church, but it's really just the building. 23:54.995 --> 23:56.817 [SPEAKER_00]: We are the way community church. 23:56.997 --> 24:02.842 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever we gather together, wherever we are, it becomes T-D-U-C-C-Gangang. 24:03.082 --> 24:07.065 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody grateful to be a part of what God is doing in New Zealand? 24:10.035 --> 24:11.836 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a progression in sacred space. 24:12.257 --> 24:13.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Started with a table in a tabernacle. 24:14.018 --> 24:16.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's made up of God's people whenever we gather. 24:16.660 --> 24:27.249 [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, Revelation 21 and 3 says, and I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, behold, the white church, the tabernacle of God is among the people. 24:27.990 --> 24:32.974 [SPEAKER_00]: God will dwell with them, they shall be his people, and God himself will be among them. 24:33.814 --> 24:36.857 [SPEAKER_00]: God says, for all time, we'll share all space. 24:37.477 --> 24:39.119 [SPEAKER_00]: And all space in that moment will be sacred. 24:40.130 --> 24:45.653 [SPEAKER_00]: Now that on me, we got to wait till we get to heaven to enjoy sacred space with God. 24:46.294 --> 24:53.818 [SPEAKER_00]: As a matter of fact, when the godly need help to make sense of life, they go to the sanctuary of God. 24:55.519 --> 24:56.700 [SPEAKER_00]: And my sense of desire. 24:57.120 --> 25:04.205 [SPEAKER_00]: If you invite a family and friends to Tito last week, I appreciate you, because that means you believe this is the same place for you to bring your people to. 25:05.631 --> 25:22.362 [SPEAKER_00]: My sensor desire as the past of this church is that whenever you're in this space and we're together that you feel like we're in sacred space together, that this is a unique part of your weekly rhythm that keeps you near to God, because we all need sacred space. 25:24.727 --> 25:28.049 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the man who joined us in that room, yesterday needed sacred space. 25:28.849 --> 25:32.551 [SPEAKER_00]: The women who are going on a retreat in a few weeks from now, need sacred space. 25:33.091 --> 25:41.616 [SPEAKER_00]: The children over there in the greenhouse, they not over there being baby sat, they over there in sacred space, curated for the level of life they are living. 25:42.156 --> 25:46.979 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, because sacred space A gives us room for honesty. 25:49.840 --> 25:52.582 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, notice I didn't say religious space. 25:54.590 --> 25:57.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Because religious space does not make room for honesty. 25:59.291 --> 26:04.412 [SPEAKER_00]: In religious space, you got to pretend to be right, even if you're not real. 26:04.432 --> 26:07.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 26:07.232 --> 26:11.193 [SPEAKER_00]: In sacred space, it's OK if you wrong as long as you're real. 26:11.213 --> 26:15.834 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 26:15.874 --> 26:15.974 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 26:16.014 --> 26:16.134 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 26:16.154 --> 26:17.854 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what ASAP is getting at it in this song. 26:18.435 --> 26:19.975 [SPEAKER_00]: He says in verse number three, 26:21.154 --> 26:24.536 [SPEAKER_00]: I got a problem, God, I don't like what I see. 26:25.436 --> 26:31.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Because what I'm noticing is, all the wicked people seem to be doing better than all the righteous people. 26:32.781 --> 26:35.502 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I don't like is, is I'm over here serving you. 26:35.762 --> 26:38.044 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm singing through, and to my throat is horse. 26:38.304 --> 26:40.585 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm all about the temple and the crowd is falling. 26:40.865 --> 26:44.928 [SPEAKER_00]: But then people who don't serve you, seem to get away with everything they do. 26:45.795 --> 26:47.736 [SPEAKER_00]: They're looking good and living good. 26:47.776 --> 26:50.799 [SPEAKER_00]: They talk big, and they make others feel small. 26:51.699 --> 26:53.120 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can't understand it. 26:53.941 --> 26:57.323 [SPEAKER_00]: And all mine being wrong, but I got to keep it real with you, God. 26:57.504 --> 27:01.587 [SPEAKER_00]: When I was out there doing my own thing, everything in my life seemed to come together. 27:01.727 --> 27:06.190 [SPEAKER_00]: The minute I start getting serious about serving you, all of a sudden it seemed like my life got worse. 27:06.210 --> 27:09.172 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man. 27:09.192 --> 27:11.034 [SPEAKER_00]: Secre space gives room for honesty. 27:11.454 --> 27:12.975 [SPEAKER_00]: A-saf is honest with God. 27:14.162 --> 27:15.822 [SPEAKER_00]: He's telling the truth about how he feels. 27:16.022 --> 27:26.564 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a major key, a godly person should seek out sacred space to be honest with God when their faith is in jeopardy of what things they cannot understand. 27:28.625 --> 27:39.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Which is a rare, whenever some happens in your life that you can't make sense of, you got two ways to run, either away from God or two God. 27:40.442 --> 27:48.147 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that moment, your faith is going to be tested because dependent upon the severity of the senselessness you may blame God for letting it happen. 27:49.487 --> 27:55.351 [SPEAKER_00]: So if I can believe God is the bad person in the whole ordeal, I'm definitely running away from God. 27:56.211 --> 28:20.067 [SPEAKER_00]: But if in that moment, I can find honesty in sacred space with God, even if I'm mad at you, Lord, even if what I'm saying ain't theologically right, even if what I say, don't match up with what the Bible say, at least I'm running to you with not nose and tears running down my face and private between me and you pouring out my soul, telling you how I really feel, because if anybody can deal with the real God, it should be you. 28:23.413 --> 28:30.795 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a major key, God cannot help us if we enter sacred space being fake about how we really feel. 28:34.037 --> 28:38.338 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're gonna enter sacred space and be fake, just stay out. 28:38.358 --> 28:38.458 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 28:38.998 --> 28:42.619 [UNKNOWN]: Amen. 28:42.639 --> 28:49.262 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you right now, if you don't go to your house and make a prayer closet, you're gonna clean it all out, get all your 50 pear shoes out. 28:53.738 --> 28:55.819 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna put scriptures on the wall. 28:56.659 --> 28:59.521 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna bring in an incense and light the incense. 29:00.461 --> 29:04.363 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna get you something that when you kneel down to pray, your knees won't hurt. 29:05.064 --> 29:11.046 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you go in there and you close the door and you got on the clean white garment, you take a shower before you pray every time. 29:12.767 --> 29:14.648 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you go in there and you kneel down. 29:15.669 --> 29:16.749 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're gonna be fake. 29:17.930 --> 29:20.271 [SPEAKER_00]: You might as well have left your shoes in the closet. 29:23.008 --> 29:26.752 [SPEAKER_00]: When you enter sacred space, don't worry about being right. 29:26.912 --> 29:29.274 [SPEAKER_00]: Because sacred space is not religious space. 29:29.574 --> 29:31.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Sacred space is real space. 29:31.576 --> 29:35.660 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I have anybody in this house who can keep it a hundred women, testify, forever? 29:35.700 --> 29:39.564 [SPEAKER_00]: You ain't the only one who's ever had to have a real talk with God. 29:42.747 --> 29:47.452 [SPEAKER_00]: Sacred space gives us room for honesty, but then be sacred space gives us real hope. 29:49.428 --> 29:58.414 [SPEAKER_00]: He says in verse 26 by flesh and my heart may feel, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 29:59.175 --> 30:10.743 [SPEAKER_00]: He's saying when I'm weak, when I want to give up, when I don't have resources to pull on to stabilize or sturdy me, here's what I realize, the realest hope I have is God's presence in my life. 30:12.745 --> 30:15.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Because even when some happens, you got two ways you go wrong. 30:16.472 --> 30:18.454 [SPEAKER_00]: away from God or to war's God. 30:19.074 --> 30:23.217 [SPEAKER_00]: And whichever way you want, determines what you're putting your hope in to deliver you. 30:25.159 --> 30:32.985 [SPEAKER_00]: If you run from God, that means you believe that there's something over there that's a more real hope than God's presence. 30:34.206 --> 30:41.031 [SPEAKER_00]: And all of us have been over there, long enough to know it may look good, but it can't really hold on to you when life starts to put hands on you. 30:42.572 --> 30:45.575 [SPEAKER_00]: It's nothing we can turn to that gives us real hope. 30:46.681 --> 30:49.863 [SPEAKER_00]: existential and eternal other than the presence of God. 30:50.024 --> 30:59.391 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I'm so grateful for about hope is that when ASAP starts talking to God, he's writing this song, he's telling the Lord what he's mad about, what he don't like, what he don't understand. 30:59.851 --> 31:02.293 [SPEAKER_00]: By the time he gets to the end of the song, he says, you know what? 31:02.793 --> 31:05.996 [SPEAKER_00]: When I start focusing on you, I start focusing on it. 31:06.276 --> 31:09.218 [SPEAKER_00]: And even though I don't like it, I can't help but love you. 31:09.458 --> 31:14.482 [SPEAKER_00]: And as long as I love you, you're gonna put something on the inside of me that's gonna help me deal with it. 31:16.003 --> 31:22.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that anybody who's redirected your focus to a whole leg arm? 31:23.168 --> 31:23.889 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a real hope. 31:25.270 --> 31:27.572 [SPEAKER_00]: Real hope ain't changed at all, I won't trust you. 31:27.812 --> 31:32.555 [SPEAKER_00]: Real hope is changed me while I wait for you to change it. 31:34.337 --> 31:39.741 [SPEAKER_00]: Because sacred space gives us real hope, sacred space, gives us room for honesty, see and I'll be done. 31:39.781 --> 31:42.743 [SPEAKER_00]: Sacred space gives us refuge and home. 31:45.295 --> 32:03.348 [SPEAKER_00]: When senselessness breaks us, we become wandering souls, always looking for something that we never seem to be able to find, tempted to look forward in all the wrong places. 32:05.690 --> 32:13.356 [SPEAKER_00]: When we come to the Lord honestly, what we find in the Lord is what verse 28 says, we find refuge. 32:14.587 --> 32:18.271 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, but ask for me, it's good to be near God. 32:19.552 --> 32:23.536 [SPEAKER_00]: I have made the sovereign Lord my refuge. 32:24.377 --> 32:26.959 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the same song, at the beginning of the song, he ain't wanna hear it. 32:29.762 --> 32:32.244 [SPEAKER_00]: God, I know you good to people who gotta be hard, but I gotta problem. 32:33.005 --> 32:35.808 [SPEAKER_00]: It seemed like people who got dirty hands keep getting all the good stuff. 32:36.707 --> 32:37.827 [SPEAKER_00]: and you let them get away with it. 32:37.847 --> 32:38.988 [SPEAKER_00]: You let them oppress people. 32:39.028 --> 32:40.329 [SPEAKER_00]: You let them keep prospering. 32:40.609 --> 32:41.969 [SPEAKER_00]: They live in good and looking good. 32:41.989 --> 32:44.130 [SPEAKER_00]: The closer I get to you, the worse my life seems to get. 32:44.430 --> 32:48.152 [SPEAKER_00]: Every day I wake up and life just take a left hook and an upper cut that I didn't see common. 32:49.664 --> 32:53.928 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I try to understand it, it don't make sense until I went into your sanctuary. 32:54.628 --> 32:56.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you gave me understanding. 32:56.650 --> 33:04.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I realize really what I need is just to be as close to you as I can possibly get because you are sovereign. 33:04.537 --> 33:09.102 [SPEAKER_00]: That means even if I don't like it understanding or can explain it, I know you're over it. 33:09.222 --> 33:11.444 [SPEAKER_00]: And one day, it's gonna have to reconcile with you. 33:14.625 --> 33:15.586 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're my refuge. 33:16.327 --> 33:21.271 [SPEAKER_00]: There were refuge means shelter from rain or storm or danger. 33:21.511 --> 33:26.615 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the place you, it's like it starts raining while you walk and you're getting out of the rain. 33:27.496 --> 33:32.421 [SPEAKER_00]: Or it's the place you run to when danger is on your heels and you know you can find safety. 33:33.201 --> 33:38.466 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I like verse 28, but one version says, and RV is good to be near God. 33:39.492 --> 33:44.676 [SPEAKER_00]: Another version, New American Standard says, the nearness of God is good for me. 33:46.337 --> 33:51.361 [SPEAKER_00]: The implication in our videos, when I go to the sacred space, I get nearing God. 33:52.402 --> 33:57.927 [SPEAKER_00]: The implication of the new American Standard is, no matter where I go, God is always near. 33:59.317 --> 34:00.518 [SPEAKER_00]: You can pick which one you would like. 34:00.898 --> 34:03.000 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll take both of them, B-O-F-F. 34:03.240 --> 34:05.501 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if it's me moving or God moving. 34:05.621 --> 34:12.246 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody grateful for the fact that as long as I'm near the Lord, that is home for me? 34:16.509 --> 34:20.892 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the reason this world makes no sense to believers. 34:22.473 --> 34:24.875 [SPEAKER_00]: It's because this world is not our home. 34:27.981 --> 34:34.488 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a realized, the more spiritually mature you become, the more senseless the world seems to be. 34:36.330 --> 34:41.876 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a realized, the more questions you get answered, is the more questions you need answered? 34:43.798 --> 34:49.645 [SPEAKER_00]: It's because this world is not our home, which is why Jesus said, don't let your hearts be troubled. 34:51.017 --> 34:53.339 [SPEAKER_00]: I know it don't make no sense, but don't let your hearts be troubled. 34:54.079 --> 34:58.843 [SPEAKER_00]: I know justice don't say in the fine people in Mississippi who look like you, but don't let your heart be troubled. 34:59.784 --> 35:08.210 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you're torn between who's really in charge, the man at 1600 Pennsylvania or the one who claims to sit on the throne of the cosmos, but don't let your heart be troubled. 35:08.511 --> 35:15.476 [SPEAKER_00]: I know gas, two months ago was $40 for a four gallon now, it's $90 for the same gas, but don't let your heart be troubled. 35:15.936 --> 35:39.589 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you're trying to make sense out of nonsense and your mind can't understand it and your heart might be broken in your faith Don't seems like it's on sturdy ground, but don't let your heart be troubled Why because if you believe in God, but you're all so in me and my father's house is in me He said your home is in me Okay y'all looking me like that's not a point to celebrate. 35:39.909 --> 35:45.232 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember back in the day that you knew it was time to come home when the street lights came on 35:48.514 --> 35:54.056 [SPEAKER_00]: And don't let you ignore the street lights for 15 minutes. 35:54.076 --> 35:57.898 [SPEAKER_00]: Then somebody got to come out on that porch and call your name. 36:00.779 --> 36:03.520 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you remember when we got a little older, we started smelling ourselves. 36:04.580 --> 36:05.580 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you had a curfew. 36:06.621 --> 36:09.902 [SPEAKER_00]: But you figured, you know, they'll be sleep by the time I get home. 36:11.662 --> 36:15.684 [SPEAKER_00]: So here you come, tip 20 in two hours after curfew. 36:16.943 --> 36:23.367 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't open, you locked the door, you walking through a house, the lights all, you still be able to tell on the table. 36:26.709 --> 36:35.475 [SPEAKER_00]: And you look up, and the person who's sneaking past is saying, right there in the Reconna chair, looking at you through the darkness. 36:36.898 --> 36:46.320 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you could be mad that they tripped out on you for coming in late, but you should be glad that even though you came in late, the door still opened for you. 36:46.820 --> 36:53.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody who can give God praise for the fact that in Jesus, I've always got a refuge. 36:53.162 --> 36:58.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Somewhere I can run, even when I've been wondering in the darkness, he'll lead the light on for me. 36:59.103 --> 37:04.144 [SPEAKER_00]: You ought to give God praise for the fact that the door to his presence is always over 37:13.929 --> 37:15.110 [SPEAKER_00]: So I have a question for you. 37:17.232 --> 37:22.815 [SPEAKER_00]: What question in your soul has almost made you want to quit in life? 37:27.338 --> 37:27.898 [SPEAKER_00]: What question? 37:30.460 --> 37:31.600 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do the good suffer? 37:32.221 --> 37:33.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Why the bad succeed? 37:33.221 --> 37:33.942 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that your question? 37:37.338 --> 37:37.918 [SPEAKER_00]: What question? 37:38.659 --> 37:40.660 [SPEAKER_00]: Has almost made you want to quit trusting God? 37:44.681 --> 37:47.583 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you put this dream in my heart and then not let it come to pass? 37:50.644 --> 37:51.204 [SPEAKER_00]: What question? 37:53.125 --> 37:58.448 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you keep giving children to people who don't want them, but don't give children to people who beg you for truth? 38:03.350 --> 38:03.910 [SPEAKER_00]: What question? 38:06.991 --> 38:12.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Why in 2026 are African-Americans still being hung from trees? 38:14.714 --> 38:18.716 [SPEAKER_00]: And everyone in 2026, they found hangar from a tree that called a suicide. 38:20.397 --> 38:21.077 [SPEAKER_00]: What's your question? 38:25.159 --> 38:29.521 [SPEAKER_00]: Why you put more responsibility on me than you gave me resources to handle? 38:32.362 --> 38:34.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Why you making people come to me when I don't have enough for me? 38:36.401 --> 38:37.061 [SPEAKER_00]: What's your question? 38:42.162 --> 38:44.343 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's an action item for all of us, and that is this. 38:46.644 --> 38:59.107 [SPEAKER_00]: Make the corporate sacred space of Tito, a part of your monthly commitment, and develop a personal sacred space, just for you. 39:01.507 --> 39:04.208 [SPEAKER_00]: If you stay in the worm, you're going to stay in the senselessness. 39:05.723 --> 39:07.704 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to have somewhere safe you can run to. 39:09.084 --> 39:10.484 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can feel near the guy. 39:11.445 --> 39:17.806 [SPEAKER_00]: Because what God does when we get near to him, he elevates us to see things from his perspective. 39:19.607 --> 39:21.047 [SPEAKER_00]: And we get a different point of view. 39:21.848 --> 39:22.568 [SPEAKER_00]: What you mean around? 39:22.728 --> 39:25.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would the guy in the ever-invita ungodly? 39:26.369 --> 39:27.509 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a broken point of view. 39:28.670 --> 39:29.730 [SPEAKER_00]: But hey, I'm a broken man. 39:30.944 --> 39:33.145 [SPEAKER_00]: I still got stuff I ain't dealt with from a childhood. 39:33.946 --> 39:37.348 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm a seat things from a skew point of view because I'm still skew. 39:38.089 --> 39:44.633 [SPEAKER_00]: So I need the Lord to elevate me above where life tries to make me stay. 39:46.094 --> 39:47.334 [SPEAKER_00]: So I can get a different point of view. 39:48.555 --> 39:53.859 [SPEAKER_00]: And say, OK, I don't like it, but I see it better now. 39:55.500 --> 39:56.921 [SPEAKER_00]: And I trust you to take care of it. 39:57.601 --> 39:59.582 [SPEAKER_00]: A man church, a man get a load of hands