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Pastor Rick's Daily Hope | Praying in Five Dimensions Part 1 | May 1, 2022
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- Pastor Rick Warren: The other day, if you'll pull out your
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- message notes, I was listening to a song, and I asked somebody
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- who did that song?
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- I knew it was a song from the past that I really liked, and I
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- said, "Who sang that song?"
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- And they said, "Oh, that was The 5th Dimension."
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- Okay, anybody remember that band, pop band, 5th Dimension?
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- I wrote down some of the songs they sing.
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- "Up, Up, and Away," remember that?
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- "Wedding Bell Blues," "Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep At
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- All," "Grazing in the Grass," it's a gas, "Stoned Soul
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- Picnic," "One Less Bell to Answer."
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- Everybody remember that one?
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- "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine."
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- Oh, yeah, everybody.
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- ♪ Let the sun shine. ♪
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- And then your favorite of all, "Workin' On A Groovy Thing."
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- I think that we have a picture of them.
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- Do we have a picture? Maybe not.
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- I just keep hoping if I switch cameras, it'll go.
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- I guess we don't.
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- So anyway, yeah, I remember that band, The 5th Dimension, and
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- then I thought, "What in the world is the fifth dimension?"
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- So, I thought I'd go look it up.
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- I'll spare you a little bit of the details, it's
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- about mathematics.
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- If you have a line, if you have a dot here and a dot here, and
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- you draw a line between it, and that line, that's called the
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- first dimension, just a line.
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- If you had another line on it, now you got two dimensions,
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- because you got two lines.
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- If you add a third line, now you got three dimensions.
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- You've got height, depth, or width, and breadth, and depth.
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- Then the fourth dimension.
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- There's a lot of controversy over what is the
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- fourth dimension.
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- A lot of people think the fourth dimension is time, it's length
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- of time, okay.
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- The fifth dimension was first talked about back in the '20s,
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- 1920s, where a couple very bright German scientists came up
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- with a theory, I actually wrote it down, an attempt to unify the
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- four fundamental forces in nature, strong nuclear forces,
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- weak nuclear forces, gravity, and electromagnetism.
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- And it's a mathematical theory, the fifth dimension, it's not
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- directly observable, which means it has no relationship to
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- your life.
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- Okay, now, I do know that sometimes you feel like you're
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- being pulled in many different directions.
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- I got an email the other day from a young woman who said,
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- "Pastor Rick, help me.
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- I feel like I'm being pulled in every different kind
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- of direction."
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- Well, if you're being pulled in a lot of different kinds of
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- directions, then you need a multi-dimensional way to pray.
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- One-dimensional praying is boring.
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- Two-dimensional praying is boring.
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- One-dimensional praying is unbiblical.
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- One-dimensional praying is ineffective.
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- So, this weekend I want us, as we are in part four of "40 Days
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- of Prayer," and I want us to look at the idea of praying in
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- the fifth dimension.
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- Praying in five different dimensions.
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- But first, before we get into how to pray in five different
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- dimensions, I need to give you a couple of really important
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- review truths.
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- Things that you already know, but you need to remind yourself
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- of 'em, so why don't you write these down.
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- These are the fundamental basis of all prayer.
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- Number one is that God is a multi-dimensional God.
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- He's not one-dimensional, he's not two-dimensional, he's not
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- three-dimensional, you can put on glasses and watch a 3D movie
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- of God.
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- God is a multi-dimensional God.
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- Now, I say that because the most important thing I can teach you
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- about prayer, and that's what we're looking at now, four
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- weeks, the most important thing I can teach you about prayer,
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- your fulfillment in prayer and your fruitfulness in prayer will
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- be dependent not on how much you know about prayer, but how
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- much you know about God.
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- The more you understand God, the better your prayers are going to
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- be, the more effective they'll be, the more fulfilled they'll
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- be, the more satisfying your prayer life will be.
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- It's not about learning all about prayer, that's important,
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- but more important than that is understanding God, and it starts
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- with the fact that God is a multi-dimensional God.
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- Now, what do you mean by that?
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- Well, it means that he's not just one dimension, and you can
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- see this in many different things.
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- Why don't you write these down.
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- First, we see this in God's creation.
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- Obviously, you're looking around, and the God who created
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- a multi-dimensional world and universe is a
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- multi-dimensional Creator.
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- And so, there are dimensions that we know about, but there
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- are some dimensions we don't even know about.
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- The Bible talks about the spirit realm, and we don't know
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- about that.
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- We don't see it, so we don't engage in it.
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- But the Bible says this about creation, which we do see,
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- Romans chapter 1 verse 20.
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- "Since creation of the world God's invisible qualities, his
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- eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen
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- in what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
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- People say, "Well, what about all the people who've never read
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- the Bible?"
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- Well, true, they haven't read the Bible, but you can learn a
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- lot about God just by looking at nature.
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- You don't have to have the Bible for a lot of things about it.
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- For instance, we know that God likes variety, that's obvious.
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- Look at nature.
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- We know that God is organized, that's obvious.
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- We know that God is creative.
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- We know that God likes diversity.
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- We know that God is powerful.
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- When you look at thunder, and lightning, and earthquakes, and,
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- you know, storms of asteroids, and all the different things
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- that society and in the world, we know in the universe that God
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- is creative, and God is great, and God is powerful.
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- We learn a lot about God just in nature.
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- So, the Bible says we're without excuse.
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- To me it takes more faith to not believe in God than to believe
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- in God.
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- If I'm walking down on a hillside and I see a little
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- stone out of place, I might think that's an accident, but if
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- I'm walking down the hillside and all of sudden, I see there
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- on that field a Rolex just laying there, are you gonna
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- believe that's an accident?
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- That is evidence of design.
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- Evidence of design, and a design must have a designer.
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- People say, "Well, God, the world, or the universe was
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- created with a big bang."
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- That doesn't bother me.
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- Wherever you've got a big bang you've got to have a big banger.
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- Somebody had to pull the trigger.
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- Not in a million years would you say that that watch just put
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- itself together.
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- And you could have trillions and trillions and kazillions of
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- years, and a watch is not gonna form itself, and all a sudden
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- start ticking on its own.
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- That takes an enormous--I don't have enough faith to be an
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- atheist, sorry.
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- My answer is just as speculative as yours is, but it's a whole
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- lot more reasonable than to just say it all just happened.
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- It just happened.
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- Look, have you ever seen the birth of a baby, and how that
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- baby comes together from a simple, single cell, and the
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- zygote, and then becomes you?
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- There's so many things that say that God is a God of complexity.
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- He's a God of complexity without even getting into the Bible.
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- Job chapter 11, verse 7 to 9.
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- Job and God are having a conversation,
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- and Job's kinda complaining about what went on
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- in his life, and God says, "But wait a minute, I'm the Creator,
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- and I'm in charge here," and he says, "Job, let me ask you
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- some questions."
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- "Can you fathom the limits and bounds of the greatness and
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- power of God?
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- The sky's no limit for God."
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- You say the sky's the limit, but it's not a limit for God.
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- "But it lies beyond your reach.
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- God knows the world of the dead, but you don't know it."
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- In other words, there's a whole realm, there's a whole dimension
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- you don't even know about, but God knows about it.
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- "God's greatness is broader than the earth, and it's wider than
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- the sea."
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- So, we know that God is a multi-dimensional God because
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- creation shows the complexity that God created, and so we know
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- that God had to be more complex than that.
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- female announcer: We all experience disappointments,
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- obstacles, and seemingly impossible circumstances in
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- Maybe you need a breakthrough in your marriage, your finances,
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- relationships, or with habits and painful memories that have
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- held you back.
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- You'll get a breakthrough in your life when you seek one, and
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- the way you do that is through prayer.
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- Pastor Rick: Now, there's another way we see God's
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- multi-dimensional nature, and that is in
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- Jesus's incarnation.
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- In other words, when God came to earth and became a human being.
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- Incarnation means God became flesh.
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- "The Word became flesh."
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- The Bible says in John chapter 1 verse 14, "The Word became a
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- human being and lived among us.
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- And we saw his glory, and he was full of grace and truth."
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- The fact that God can be God, and God can come to earth and be
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- a human, it means he's multi-dimensional.
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- He didn't have a problem.
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- If God had wanted to communicate with ants, he would've become
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- an ant.
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- If he wanted to communicate with cows, he would have become
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- a cow.
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- But God wanted to communicate to human beings, so he became one
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- of us, that's multi-dimensional.
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- The proof is in the fact of Jesus Christ, and the Bible says
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- about Jesus, Hebrews 13 verse 8, "Jesus Christ is the same
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- yesterday, today, and forever."
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- You know anybody like that?
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- Are you gonna be the same forever?
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- You weren't the same you were last week.
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- You lost a few hairs and added a few wrinkles.
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- You're not the same.
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- Now, what does this saying?
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- Jesus is neither bound by space nor time, why?
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- He's God, he's multi-dimensional, and the Bible
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- tells us in Revelation chapter 1, "Grace and peace to you from
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- him," he's talkin' about Jesus, "From him who is, and who was,
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- and who is to come."
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- You know, that about includes everything.
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- That certainly isn't describing you.
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- It's not like you where, you are, and you will be.
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- Jesus is multi-dimensional.
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- God the Father is multi-dimensional.
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- And then we actually see it in the Holy Spirit, number three.
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- We see God is multi-dimensional in how the Holy Spirit moves.
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- So, we see it in the whole Trinity, God the Father, God the
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- Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
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- John chapter 3, verse 8 says this: Jesus is talking,
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- he says, "You know the wind blows wherever it pleases, and
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- you hear its sound, but you don't know where the wind comes
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- from and you don't know where it's going.
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- That's the way it is with everybody born of the
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- Holy Spirit."
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- You know, what he's saying there?
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- He's saying you can't put the Holy Spirit in a box.
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- You can't control him, he's like the wind.
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- You don't know where it comes from, you don't know where it's
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- going, you can hear the sound.
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- And he says the Holy Spirit moves in dimensions we don't
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- move in.
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- You can't see the Holy Spirit, so clearly that's a dimension
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- that we're not acquainted with.
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- He's saying the Holy Spirit is multi-dimensional.
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- Job chapter 9, verse 10 and 11, he's talking about the Spirit.
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- "He does wonders that cannot be understood.
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- For he does so many miracles, they cannot be counted."
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- That's what the Holy Spirit does.
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- "When he passes me, I can't see him, and when he goes by me, I
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- don't recognize him."
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- I don't recognize him.
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- So, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are
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- all multi-dimensional.
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- Now, that's not a big revelation to you, you understand that, but
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- here's the important point.
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- Number two, because God is multi-dimensional, I'm
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- never alone.
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- I am never, never, ever alone, because he's in every dimension
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- at the same time.
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- He's in the past, he's in the present, he's in the future.
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- He's here, he's there, he's in heaven, he's on earth.
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- He's in the spirit world, he's in your and my world.
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- God is in every dimension all the time.
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- He's in you, he's above you, he's around you, because
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- he's multi-dimensional.
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- It's not a bunch of Gods, it's just one God in the person of
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- Father, Son, Holy Spirit, but because God is
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- multi-dimensional, I'm never alone.
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- Here's what David says.
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- "Where could I go to escape from you?
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- Where could I ever get away from your presence?
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- If I went up to heaven, you'd be there.
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- If I lay down in the world of the dead, you'd be there.
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- If I flew way beyond the east or lived in the farthest place to
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- the west, you'd be there, too, to lead me.
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- You'd be there, too, to help me.
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- I could ask the darkness to hide me, but even darkness isn't dark
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- to you.
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- The night is as bright as the day.
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- Darkness and light are the same to you."
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- Let me give you a little tip.
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- Never try to play hide and seek with God, 'cause every place
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- you'd try to hide, he's already there.
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- We're talking about the omnipresence of God.
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- He's everywhere, he's in all things.
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- He is beginning and the end, yesterday, today, tomorrow.
- 00:15:39.562 --> 00:15:43.632
- God is everywhere, so that means there's no place you've been,
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- there's no place you are, there's no place you're gonna be
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- that God's not going to be there.
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- That should encourage you, because you can't go to a place
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- in your future where God is not.
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- So, you're never going to be alone.
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- Now, what does all this have to do with prayer?
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- Well, it has a lot to do with prayer, because what it means is
- 00:16:08.891 --> 00:16:11.761
- since God is everywhere, and he's in the past, the present,
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- the future, and he's in every dimension of the world, and even
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- the dimensions we don't even know about--there might be ten
- 00:16:19.435 --> 00:16:22.405
- dimensions, who knows?
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- Because he's everywhere and in every dimension, you can talk to
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- him about every dimension of your life, and he already
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- understands it.
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- I mean, I know, there's some kids who think that God doesn't
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- understand Google, or the internet, or Candy Crush, but
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- God knew all about--oh, you know that one.
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- Somebody laughed at that.
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- So, let's get practical.
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- Because God is a multi-dimensional God, you
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- certainly don't want to do one-dimensional praying.
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- I'm going to take you to a different level today.
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- I want to talk to you about five dimensions of your life that you
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- can pray about.
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- And what I wanna do is explain them pretty quickly, and then
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- we're gonna actually practice them in communion.
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- Number one, first dimension, when I pray, first I look
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- backwards to the cross.
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- I look backwards to the cross, and I'm talking about in a
- 00:17:20.229 --> 00:17:25.367
- practical way, when I start my prayers, one of the things I
- 00:17:25.367 --> 00:17:28.871
- start to do is not with my problems today, or my fears
- 00:17:28.871 --> 00:17:32.108
- about tomorrow, but I start with what I'm grateful for that
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- happened in the past.
- 00:17:35.010 --> 00:17:37.813
- It's good to start your prayers with the cross, because it
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- starts with an attitude of gratitude.
- 00:17:42.051 --> 00:17:44.720
- Good place to start, because it fills you with thanksgiving.
- 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.057
- When I think about Jesus Christ dying for me on the cross, it
- 00:17:48.057 --> 00:17:52.661
- instantly reminds me of three things, I wrote them down there
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- for you.
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- How deeply God loves me, how costly evil and sin is, and how
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- completely I'm forgiven.
- 00:18:01.270 --> 00:18:04.373
- That's a good way to start your prayers.
- 00:18:04.373 --> 00:18:06.509
- How much God loves you, and even though your sins were a mess,
- 00:18:06.509 --> 00:18:10.880
- you're completely forgiven.
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- So, I look backward to the cross.
- 00:18:13.082 --> 00:18:15.384
- First Peter 1 says this, verse 18 and 19.
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- "God paid a ransom to save you."
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- "God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life."
- 00:18:21.524 --> 00:18:26.629
- "God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life, and he paid
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- for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the
- 00:18:30.065 --> 00:18:34.837
- sinless, spotless Lamb of God."
- 00:18:34.837 --> 00:18:38.274
- You want to know how much something is worth?
- 00:18:38.274 --> 00:18:41.844
- Whatever anybody's willing to pay for it.
- 00:18:41.844 --> 00:18:44.813
- You might have some valued possession in your home and you
- 00:18:44.813 --> 00:18:47.116
- think it's worth this much; let me tell you how much it's worth.
- 00:18:47.116 --> 00:18:49.852
- Not what your dad told you, not what you think; it's worth
- 00:18:49.852 --> 00:18:53.656
- whatever anybody's willing to pay for it.
- 00:18:53.656 --> 00:18:56.125
- If nobody's willing to pay for it, but how much you want, it's
- 00:18:56.125 --> 00:18:59.962
- not worth that, no matter how much you think it is.
- 00:18:59.962 --> 00:19:03.732
- How much are you worth?
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- Look at the cross.
- 00:19:05.067 --> 00:19:06.969
- God sent his own Son, he came to earth to die for you.
- 00:19:06.969 --> 00:19:15.177
- The Son of God became a Son of Man, so the sons of men could be
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- sons of God.
- 00:19:19.481 --> 00:19:22.017
- He did what we could not do for ourselves.
- 00:19:22.017 --> 00:19:24.253
- You couldn't pay for all the things you've done wrong,
- 00:19:24.253 --> 00:19:26.522
- neither could I.
- 00:19:26.522 --> 00:19:27.890
- So he said, I love them, and I'll do it, and that
- 00:19:27.890 --> 00:19:30.793
- shows how much you're worth.
- 00:19:30.793 --> 00:19:32.127
- He gave his own self, his own Son, to die for you.
- 00:19:32.127 --> 00:19:39.001
- So, when I pray, the first thing I like to do is I like to think
- 00:19:39.001 --> 00:19:42.805
- about how much Jesus loves me and how much I'm forgiven.
- 00:19:42.805 --> 00:19:47.176
- I look back to the cross.
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- That's a good way to start.
- 00:19:49.645 --> 00:19:51.013
- And by the way, one of the things that helps me on this
- 00:19:51.013 --> 00:19:52.848
- is music.
- 00:19:52.848 --> 00:19:54.950
- You say, "Well, the cross seems so long ago."
- 00:19:54.950 --> 00:19:57.353
- Get some songs about the cross.
- 00:19:57.353 --> 00:20:00.089
- Get some songs about Jesus dying, and in your time alone
- 00:20:00.089 --> 00:20:03.525
- with the Lord every day, you need not only to have a prayer
- 00:20:03.525 --> 00:20:06.095
- list, you need a playlist.
- 00:20:06.095 --> 00:20:09.398
- Maybe you've never thought about that.
- 00:20:09.398 --> 00:20:11.100
- You need not only a prayer list in your quiet time, you need
- 00:20:11.100 --> 00:20:14.403
- a playlist.
- 00:20:14.403 --> 00:20:16.138
- And you can get songs, "Oh, I like that song about the cross,
- 00:20:16.138 --> 00:20:19.308
- and it makes me think about what Jesus sacrificed for me."
- 00:20:19.308 --> 00:20:22.711
- That's a good thing.
- 00:20:22.711 --> 00:20:24.813
- Now, I want you to think about this.
- 00:20:24.813 --> 00:20:27.316
- Right now, all of your sins that you've committed, they're all in
- 00:20:27.316 --> 00:20:30.853
- the past, but so is the cross.
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- It's already been taken care of.
- 00:20:34.657 --> 00:20:36.558
- And because Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever,
- 00:20:36.558 --> 00:20:38.961
- and he's multi-dimensional, all of the sins you haven't
- 00:20:38.961 --> 00:20:42.298
- committed yet have already been paid for.
- 00:20:42.298 --> 00:20:46.368
- That's a big deal.
- 00:20:46.368 --> 00:20:48.537
- That means I go into the future knowing that even though I don't
- 00:20:48.537 --> 00:20:50.939
- wanna sin, I know I'm going to, but I don't want to, but I will,
- 00:20:50.939 --> 00:20:54.743
- they've already been paid for on the cross.
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- That he took care of it all, he solved my problem before I even
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- knew I had a problem.
- 00:21:01.550 --> 00:21:02.918
- Now, if you are using this notebook, and I don't know if
- 00:21:02.918 --> 00:21:05.988
- you've brought it with you today, if you didn't, I want you
- 00:21:05.988 --> 00:21:09.391
- to write this, write page 94 and 96, right under that point, 94
- 00:21:09.391 --> 00:21:14.697
- to 96, because in page 94 to 96, we're gonna cover a little
- 00:21:14.697 --> 00:21:19.835
- bit more of what I just talked about.
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- This week, if you're on track with us, we're gonna be goin'
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- into the Lord's Prayer.
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- So, number one, I first look backwards.
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- I look backward to the cross, that's one dimension.
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- Dimension number two, I look upward into the face of a
- 00:21:33.148 --> 00:21:39.288
- loving Father.
- 00:21:39.288 --> 00:21:41.023
- I look upward into my Father's loving face.
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- That's the second thing I like to do when I pray.
- 00:21:46.028 --> 00:21:48.964
- I start by thinking about the cross, and then I turn from the
- 00:21:48.964 --> 00:21:52.401
- past backwards to looking upward into my heavenly Father's face.
- 00:21:52.401 --> 00:21:58.440
- Now, the first thing you want to focus on is that God wants you
- 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:05.080
- to see him not as your dictator, not as your boss, not as your
- 00:22:05.080 --> 00:22:09.918
- supervisor, not as your coach.
- 00:22:09.918 --> 00:22:13.322
- When Jesus said this is how you should pray, he said you should
- 00:22:13.322 --> 00:22:16.959
- call God Father, Father.
- 00:22:16.959 --> 00:22:22.297
- We don't realize how radical that is, because in the Old
- 00:22:22.297 --> 00:22:25.601
- Testament, however, nobody called God Father.
- 00:22:25.601 --> 00:22:31.373
- Maybe one or two times for thousands of years.
- 00:22:31.373 --> 00:22:35.177
- God's called Majestic, King of kings, and Lord of lords,
- 00:22:35.177 --> 00:22:40.516
- Creator, and a lot of other really big terms.
- 00:22:40.516 --> 00:22:44.420
- Only a couple people for thousands of years called
- 00:22:44.420 --> 00:22:47.423
- God Father.
- 00:22:47.423 --> 00:22:49.625
- And Jesus, one of the things he came to do is to explain what
- 00:22:49.625 --> 00:22:52.194
- God's really like, and he says God wants you to call
- 00:22:52.194 --> 00:22:56.265
- him Father.
- 00:22:56.265 --> 00:23:00.002
- Do you call God Father in prayer?
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- God tells you to.
- 00:23:03.972 --> 00:23:06.542
- How many times do you say, "Now, Lord, now, God," and whatever
- 00:23:06.542 --> 00:23:13.148
- other terms you use?
- 00:23:13.148 --> 00:23:16.318
- I want you this next week, every prayer you pray,
- 00:23:16.318 --> 00:23:19.421
- start with Father, why?
- 00:23:19.421 --> 00:23:21.924
- It's the term God wants to be called.
- 00:23:21.924 --> 00:23:26.061
- You say, "Well, my father wasn't a very good father."
- 00:23:26.061 --> 00:23:27.830
- Your God isn't your father, and your father isn't your God.
- 00:23:27.830 --> 00:23:31.967
- God is a perfect Father, caring, close, considerate, consistent,
- 00:23:31.967 --> 00:23:36.338
- capable, perfect.
- 00:23:36.338 --> 00:23:39.508
- Every other human father is imperfect, but God is the
- 00:23:39.508 --> 00:23:42.311
- perfect, loving Father, and he says, I want you to call
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- me Father.
- 00:23:44.980 --> 00:23:46.615
- And when Jesus said start every prayer with this, "Our Father,"
- 00:23:46.615 --> 00:23:52.020
- he's serious about it.
- 00:23:52.020 --> 00:23:54.556
- So this week, instead of praying, "Now, Lord, now, God,"
- 00:23:54.556 --> 00:24:00.496
- I want you to say, "Now, Father."
- 00:24:00.496 --> 00:24:04.399
- The way you see God will control your life more than any other
- 00:24:04.399 --> 00:24:08.570
- thing in your life.
- 00:24:08.570 --> 00:24:10.772
- The way you see God will determine, as I said, whether
- 00:24:10.772 --> 00:24:14.576
- your prayers are fruitful and fulfilling or not.
- 00:24:14.576 --> 00:24:19.548
- It's how you see God.
- 00:24:19.548 --> 00:24:22.417
- And when Jesus says pray, "Our Father," he means it.
- 00:24:22.417 --> 00:24:27.890
- If you only make one change in your prayer life, and you simply
- 00:24:27.890 --> 00:24:33.362
- start calling God not God, not Lord, not Creator, or any other
- 00:24:33.362 --> 00:24:40.402
- term, call him Father.
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- It will radically change your prayer life, because what you
- 00:24:43.972 --> 00:24:47.109
- call somebody sets the tone.
- 00:24:47.109 --> 00:24:50.445
- If somebody comes in and calls me Reverend Warren, I know this
- 00:24:50.445 --> 00:24:55.751
- is gonna be a formal meeting, and they haven't the
- 00:24:55.751 --> 00:24:58.720
- slightest idea.
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- If somebody walks in and goes, "Hey, Rick," now I know we're on
- 00:25:01.657 --> 00:25:04.326
- the same level, we can talk.
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- You see, what you call God sets your tone for the prayer, and a
- 00:25:07.663 --> 00:25:12.668
- lot of you, when you pray, you act like you're applying for a
- 00:25:12.668 --> 00:25:16.939
- loan at a bank and the loan officer is God, or you're givin'
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- a deposition to an attorney and you're scared to death you're
- 00:25:24.913 --> 00:25:28.650
- going to say the wrong thing, or you're taking, you know, a
- 00:25:28.650 --> 00:25:36.091
- lie-detector test with the FBI.
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- How you see God will determine how much you enjoy prayer.
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