067: Nathan Lewis – How Fast Are You Running?

1
00:00:13,200 –> 00:00:15,300
Welcome to the good Christian
talks podcast.

2
00:00:15,300 –> 00:00:18,100
I’m Levi and I’m Chris.
Thank you so much for joining us

3
00:00:18,100 –> 00:00:22,800
this week on this podcast.
We select one taco week to help

4
00:00:22,900 –> 00:00:26,600
each one of us get the Bible in
our daily news feed.

5
00:00:27,500 –> 00:00:29,600
We post at the start of each
week for you to listen.

6
00:00:30,000 –> 00:00:32,500
With a short intro before hand
to kind of set the stage for the

7
00:00:32,500 –> 00:00:34,300
talk.
You’re about to hear and now

8
00:00:34,300 –> 00:00:35,800
let’s hear more about this
week’s talk.

9
00:00:50,900 –> 00:00:53,200
For talk this week.
We’re listening to an evening

10
00:00:53,200 –> 00:00:56,000
program that was given at the
Washington Bible school.

11
00:00:56,300 –> 00:00:59,300
Just this past year.
My brother Nathan Lewis the

12
00:00:59,300 –> 00:01:02,900
topic of his evening program is
how fast are you running?

13
00:01:03,300 –> 00:01:04,800
And in this evening program
brother?

14
00:01:04,800 –> 00:01:08,900
Nathan is taking a look at the
pace at which we are living our

15
00:01:08,900 –> 00:01:13,600
lives and how that the world is
continually trying to increase

16
00:01:13,900 –> 00:01:16,300
the pace in the speed at which
we do everything.

17
00:01:16,300 –> 00:01:20,000
He makes reference to a study
that shows that every year

18
00:01:20,000 –> 00:01:22,400
things.
Are getting Faster by 10%

19
00:01:22,400 –> 00:01:25,800
progressively everything from
the the response times to when

20
00:01:25,800 –> 00:01:27,900
we need information to how
quickly people expect

21
00:01:27,900 –> 00:01:30,600
information the instant
gratification that everybody’s

22
00:01:30,600 –> 00:01:34,700
expecting now in in the world is
only ramping up as more and more

23
00:01:34,700 –> 00:01:37,600
time goes on.
It starts in the beginning just

24
00:01:37,600 –> 00:01:41,300
by looking at some of the world
events about how things are just

25
00:01:41,300 –> 00:01:44,800
starting to move faster and
faster down a direction that to

26
00:01:44,800 –> 00:01:48,600
us looks and points to the signs
of the return of Christ.

27
00:01:48,800 –> 00:01:51,400
But to the world just looks like
things rolling out of control

28
00:01:51,700 –> 00:01:56,600
and then pivots from that to
look at how a life lived in the

29
00:01:56,600 –> 00:02:00,300
world versus lived for God is so
different, you know talking

30
00:02:00,300 –> 00:02:04,700
about how that at work and at
school everything supposed to

31
00:02:04,700 –> 00:02:08,300
be, you know, real fast real
quick as quickly as you possibly

32
00:02:08,300 –> 00:02:10,900
can this topic felt really
pointing to me because it’s been

33
00:02:10,900 –> 00:02:15,000
something I’ve been noticing
more recently as with work and

34
00:02:15,700 –> 00:02:18,300
family and everything going on
that they’re just always seems

35
00:02:18,300 –> 00:02:21,300
to be more to do and you’re
trying to say He’s as much as

36
00:02:21,300 –> 00:02:24,800
you can into every spare moment
you have what I really

37
00:02:24,800 –> 00:02:28,700
appreciated about.
Nathan’s class is the reminder

38
00:02:28,700 –> 00:02:34,000
that God wants us not to be
going as fast as humanly

39
00:02:34,000 –> 00:02:36,400
possible to try to get
everything in as quickly as we

40
00:02:36,400 –> 00:02:39,400
can and do as much as we can in
the time allotted but instead to

41
00:02:40,200 –> 00:02:45,600
stand still to focus and be
still which allows you to focus

42
00:02:45,600 –> 00:02:48,900
on God and to be able to hear
that still small voice inside

43
00:02:48,900 –> 00:02:53,900
you and Understand what God is
wanting you to do and to be able

44
00:02:53,900 –> 00:02:57,200
to live a life for him.
And that life is one that takes

45
00:02:58,300 –> 00:03:02,400
meditation and contemplation and
focus because when you’re going

46
00:03:02,400 –> 00:03:06,000
super fast you’re going as
quickly as you can you’re

47
00:03:06,000 –> 00:03:08,500
reacting.
You’re not thinking and when

48
00:03:08,500 –> 00:03:13,000
you’re reacting then the
reactions that are governing

49
00:03:13,000 –> 00:03:16,300
your decisions are not of God.
There are men because our own

50
00:03:16,300 –> 00:03:20,200
instincts are fleshly.
They’re not spiritual.

51
00:03:21,100 –> 00:03:25,800
So I just felt this was a in
particular for the point in my

52
00:03:25,800 –> 00:03:27,900
life that I’m at right now is a
really good reminder.

53
00:03:28,600 –> 00:03:33,200
And the way the world is going
with companies making the

54
00:03:33,200 –> 00:03:35,200
transition to where it’s less
about whether or not you’re in

55
00:03:35,200 –> 00:03:37,200
the office to work.
But just that you know your

56
00:03:37,200 –> 00:03:39,400
accessible and then you can work
wherever you want.

57
00:03:39,400 –> 00:03:41,900
However you want but that also
means that that work is always

58
00:03:41,900 –> 00:03:46,000
at your fingertips and always
accessible is something that is

59
00:03:46,000 –> 00:03:48,700
only going to become more
prevalent as time goes on so

60
00:03:49,400 –> 00:03:52,700
it’s a really enjoyable.
A really good lesson and a good

61
00:03:52,700 –> 00:03:57,100
reminder that as the world kind
of spins up and accelerates

62
00:03:57,100 –> 00:03:59,000
beyond that.
It’s important for us to step

63
00:03:59,000 –> 00:04:04,200
back and stand still and pause
and consider to make sure that

64
00:04:04,500 –> 00:04:07,500
you are staying focused on the
things of God and not just

65
00:04:07,500 –> 00:04:10,100
getting caught up in the rat
race that the rest of the world

66
00:04:10,100 –> 00:04:12,900
is in.
So as always if you have any

67
00:04:12,900 –> 00:04:16,800
suggestions for classes or
topics that you think would be

68
00:04:17,300 –> 00:04:20,399
beneficial to share to everybody
on the everybody else, please

69
00:04:20,600 –> 00:04:23,000
Send them in send a mass email
or share them with us on our

70
00:04:23,000 –> 00:04:26,700
social media and thank you for
all those that have already sent

71
00:04:26,700 –> 00:04:29,400
them in and with that.
We’ll turn it over to brother

72
00:04:29,400 –> 00:04:33,100
Nathan Louis for his evening
program titled how fast are you

73
00:04:33,100 –> 00:04:35,400
running?
I want to look at a little

74
00:04:35,400 –> 00:04:37,900
something tonight a little theme
from the scriptures, which I

75
00:04:37,900 –> 00:04:42,100
hope you’ll find
thought-provoking and exhort

76
00:04:42,100 –> 00:04:45,500
ational.
I don’t think there’s any doubt

77
00:04:45,500 –> 00:04:49,900
in the minds of any of us that
we live in the end times.

78
00:04:50,800 –> 00:04:54,700
The time of the end the time
when Jesus Christ is about to

79
00:04:54,700 –> 00:04:57,800
return there are signs and
abundance that Christ is almost

80
00:04:57,800 –> 00:05:00,700
here.
Israel is back in the land.

81
00:05:01,200 –> 00:05:07,200
We looked last night at the rise
of anti-Semitism Puritans making

82
00:05:07,200 –> 00:05:10,600
moves in Russia.
There’s Pope Francis.

83
00:05:10,600 –> 00:05:17,000
Has it communicable croaking the
powers of Europe are getting

84
00:05:17,000 –> 00:05:21,000
together.
Bricks it in the UK getting out

85
00:05:21,000 –> 00:05:24,300
of the EU.
There’s signs aplenty on every

86
00:05:24,300 –> 00:05:26,300
side.
But what about us?

87
00:05:27,600 –> 00:05:30,000
What about us?
What about something a little

88
00:05:30,000 –> 00:05:33,200
more personal in the way of
signs of the times?

89
00:05:33,500 –> 00:05:37,700
What will the time of the end be
like for us the disciples?

90
00:05:38,200 –> 00:05:41,700
What do the scriptures have to
tell us about those that are

91
00:05:41,700 –> 00:05:45,200
alive at the coming of Christ
and what they’ll have to contend

92
00:05:45,200 –> 00:05:48,900
with and do you know when you
start sort of taking away as

93
00:05:48,900 –> 00:05:54,000
Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14 and
Revelation in the times of the

94
00:05:54,000 –> 00:05:56,800
end prophecies and ask yourself
the question.

95
00:05:57,200 –> 00:06:00,300
What does the Bible have to say
about what the truth will be

96
00:06:00,300 –> 00:06:05,500
like for us?
There’s not actually that many

97
00:06:05,500 –> 00:06:09,200
scriptures these things that we
think might apply to us maybe

98
00:06:09,200 –> 00:06:14,400
from Matthew chapter 24, but
maybe have mostly an application

99
00:06:14,400 –> 00:06:19,800
to the disciples and AD 70, but
there is a prophecy that talks

100
00:06:19,800 –> 00:06:23,700
just about our end time and I’d
like you to come there.

101
00:06:23,900 –> 00:06:43,300
It’s Daniel and chapter 12.
Daniel chapter 12 and verse 4

102
00:06:45,000 –> 00:06:51,100
but thou o Daniel shut up the
words and seal the book even to

103
00:06:51,100 –> 00:06:54,100
the time of the end.
That’s our time.

104
00:06:54,100 –> 00:06:58,400
We live as we said in the time
of the end for in the time of

105
00:06:58,400 –> 00:07:07,000
the end many shall run to and
fro and knowledge shall be

106
00:07:07,000 –> 00:07:10,600
increased.
So we’re told here in Daniel

107
00:07:10,600 –> 00:07:13,200
chapter 12 that are
characteristic of the age in

108
00:07:13,200 –> 00:07:16,900
which we live when I still
return is that everything’s

109
00:07:16,900 –> 00:07:21,400
going really fast.
We seem to be told that we’re

110
00:07:21,400 –> 00:07:24,600
going to live in a world stuck
in fast forward.

111
00:07:25,000 –> 00:07:28,200
It’s true, isn’t it?
We do we live in a world that’s

112
00:07:28,200 –> 00:07:32,000
obsessed with speed with
cramming more and more into less

113
00:07:32,000 –> 00:07:35,400
and less.
Everyday is like a race against

114
00:07:35,400 –> 00:07:37,100
the clock.
We shouldn’t be surprised.

115
00:07:37,100 –> 00:07:41,200
Should we because Daniel said
many will run to and fro the

116
00:07:41,200 –> 00:07:46,100
spent at frantic pace of life is
characteristic of our age.

117
00:07:46,100 –> 00:07:50,200
It’s an age of speed and so to
make things better.

118
00:07:50,200 –> 00:07:51,800
We speak them up you think about
it?

119
00:07:51,800 –> 00:07:55,600
We used to have food now we have
fast food.

120
00:07:56,800 –> 00:08:01,900
We used to dial now.
We speed dial we used to read

121
00:08:02,200 –> 00:08:04,600
now.
We speed-read we used to walk

122
00:08:04,700 –> 00:08:08,000
now.
We speed walk we used to date.

123
00:08:08,200 –> 00:08:13,700
Well people used to date now
people speed date kids used to

124
00:08:13,700 –> 00:08:14,500
have braces.
Now.

125
00:08:14,500 –> 00:08:17,700
They have speed braces.
We used to cook now.

126
00:08:17,700 –> 00:08:22,600
We have Jamie Oliver’s team
minute meals in America a few

127
00:08:22,600 –> 00:08:25,600
years ago at McDonald’s.
If you didn’t get your order

128
00:08:25,600 –> 00:08:29,100
under 60 seconds, it was called
the 62nd challenge.

129
00:08:29,100 –> 00:08:33,400
It was free normal fast food was
not even fast enough instant.

130
00:08:33,400 –> 00:08:35,600
Gratification was almost too
slow.

131
00:08:36,900 –> 00:08:41,600
Do you know in 2003 a Texan man
was giving a speech that was

132
00:08:41,600 –> 00:08:46,000
given a speeding ticket for
speeding in a hundred kilometers

133
00:08:46,100 –> 00:08:51,200
an hour Zone.
Now he was not going a hundred

134
00:08:51,200 –> 00:09:00,200
kilometers. or 200 kilometers or
300 kilometers.

135
00:09:01,500 –> 00:09:07,500
He was going 389 kilometers an
hour.

136
00:09:09,100 –> 00:09:13,600
That’s the age in which we live
two hundred years ago.

137
00:09:14,200 –> 00:09:17,200
The fastest you could go was on
the back of a horse.

138
00:09:17,500 –> 00:09:24,200
Do you agree?
Now nessa’s scramjet does 11,200

139
00:09:24,200 –> 00:09:28,400
65 kilometers an hour.
That’s about three kilometers a

140
00:09:28,400 –> 00:09:31,300
second.
If you traveled from Ontario to

141
00:09:31,300 –> 00:09:36,900
hear his brother Dan did 4,000
my kilometers you could do that

142
00:09:36,900 –> 00:09:41,000
in about 20 minutes.
The age in which we live is an

143
00:09:41,000 –> 00:09:47,000
age of unprecedented speed.
Now Professor Richard Wiseman

144
00:09:47,000 –> 00:09:50,200
from the UK did a very
interesting study in

145
00:09:50,200 –> 00:09:54,500
international study in 2007
where he established that the

146
00:09:54,500 –> 00:09:59,000
average walking pace of your
average person on the street was

147
00:09:59,000 –> 00:10:04,700
a pretty good indicator on the
pace of Life a pretty reliable

148
00:10:04,800 –> 00:10:09,900
measurement and he had data from
1994 and he compared it to fresh

149
00:10:09,900 –> 00:10:14,500
data that he took in different
cities around the world in 2007.

150
00:10:14,800 –> 00:10:21,200
You know what he found globally
in just 13 years the pace of

151
00:10:21,200 –> 00:10:30,900
life. had increased 10% in
Singapore it increased 30% you

152
00:10:30,900 –> 00:10:34,000
just think about that brothers
and sisters in young people in

153
00:10:34,000 –> 00:10:40,500
10 years.
You are doing everything 10%

154
00:10:40,500 –> 00:10:43,900
faster.
That’s just amazing.

155
00:10:44,200 –> 00:10:48,800
It’s incredible.
We used to conform to Nature’s

156
00:10:48,800 –> 00:10:52,100
timetable week to beard when it
got dark.

157
00:10:52,200 –> 00:10:55,200
We got up when it got light.
We ate more when there was

158
00:10:55,200 –> 00:11:00,000
plentiful food in the summer and
in the winter We Shrunk and got

159
00:11:00,000 –> 00:11:04,000
smaller and everything seemed to
work with the Industrial Age.

160
00:11:04,000 –> 00:11:07,100
Now we can stay up later.
We can work longer we can work

161
00:11:07,100 –> 00:11:11,100
harder we can shop later with
the technology and internet

162
00:11:11,100 –> 00:11:13,100
Revolution.
The pace of life has just gone

163
00:11:13,100 –> 00:11:15,200
up again.
We can have instant messaging

164
00:11:15,200 –> 00:11:18,500
messenger.
We’re contact about every hour

165
00:11:18,500 –> 00:11:20,900
of the day.
We feel frazzled.

166
00:11:21,800 –> 00:11:25,400
We feel disconnected from
Nature’s pace.

167
00:11:26,700 –> 00:11:31,100
Here’s some statistics for you
thirty-six percent of people

168
00:11:31,600 –> 00:11:40,100
right now are feeling rushed all
the time. 60% of meals are

169
00:11:40,100 –> 00:11:44,800
rushed or hurried 40% of
Americans are doing the job of

170
00:11:44,800 –> 00:11:51,000
two people right now 47% of
people are finding that they

171
00:11:51,000 –> 00:11:55,000
have difficulty trying to take
time off almost half the people

172
00:11:55,100 –> 00:11:58,100
working in America.
They want to take time off not

173
00:11:58,100 –> 00:12:02,500
allowed work harder people are
going to the dentist to have a

174
00:12:02,500 –> 00:12:06,400
break.
I mean what is happening

175
00:12:06,400 –> 00:12:09,400
brothers and sisters?
I mean, this is beautiful thing

176
00:12:09,500 –> 00:12:12,400
that’s good for business, but
it’s telling us something isn’t

177
00:12:12,400 –> 00:12:14,700
it?
It’s telling us something in a

178
00:12:14,708 –> 00:12:20,700
study of 550 people on the speed
of Life 50% of them admitted to

179
00:12:20,700 –> 00:12:26,200
driving through red lights 60%
decided to use the car and see

180
00:12:26,200 –> 00:12:33,100
them take a short walk. 75% of
people would rather hang up then

181
00:12:33,100 –> 00:12:37,400
stay on hold.
And Eighty-Four percent of

182
00:12:37,400 –> 00:12:41,400
people admitted to walking on
the escalators just to gain an

183
00:12:41,400 –> 00:12:47,000
extra couple of seconds.
If statistics seen you to sleep

184
00:12:47,700 –> 00:12:53,900
then how about this one 37% of
Americans in 2005 admitted to

185
00:12:53,900 –> 00:13:00,300
falling asleep at the wheel?
37% that’s a hundred and three

186
00:13:00,300 –> 00:13:06,100
million Americans in 2005 fell
asleep sometime in the year at

187
00:13:06,100 –> 00:13:07,900
the wheel.
Why is this happening?

188
00:13:08,800 –> 00:13:13,400
People are feeling overwhelmed
the pace of life is too much

189
00:13:13,400 –> 00:13:16,900
you’re driving and you’re just
so tired you fall asleep.

190
00:13:17,000 –> 00:13:21,500
And actually the amazing thing
is that 13% of those people that

191
00:13:21,500 –> 00:13:24,400
admitted to doing it once in the
year admitted that they did it

192
00:13:24,400 –> 00:13:27,900
probably once a month.
Something’s happening out there

193
00:13:27,900 –> 00:13:31,500
brothers and sisters the world
that we live in wants to go

194
00:13:31,500 –> 00:13:38,200
faster and faster and faster and
we need to recognize that that

195
00:13:38,200 –> 00:13:41,300
pace of life is toxic to the
truth.

196
00:13:41,800 –> 00:13:46,400
We have to recalibrate somehow
we have to disconnect and slow

197
00:13:46,400 –> 00:13:51,500
down because in the headlong –
of daily life, it’s very easy to

198
00:13:51,500 –> 00:13:56,400
lose sight of the damage that
this does too.

199
00:13:56,700 –> 00:13:58,900
Our life to our lives in the
truth.

200
00:13:59,700 –> 00:14:02,900
We’re so marinated in this
culture of speed that we failed

201
00:14:02,900 –> 00:14:06,300
to notice the toll that it’s
taking on our lives a spiritual

202
00:14:06,300 –> 00:14:08,100
lives.
We find that we’re hurrying

203
00:14:08,100 –> 00:14:13,500
through our day rather than
living each day for God.

204
00:14:14,900 –> 00:14:21,000
Let me ask you a question.
Have you ever wondered why not a

205
00:14:21,008 –> 00:14:26,500
single country in the world
decides to increase their top

206
00:14:26,500 –> 00:14:28,500
speed limit of a hundred
kilometers an hour?

207
00:14:29,400 –> 00:14:35,500
Every year just by like 2% like
inflation happens your taxes go

208
00:14:35,500 –> 00:14:37,500
up.
How about next year?

209
00:14:37,500 –> 00:14:40,800
It’s a hundred and two
kilometers an hour and then it’s

210
00:14:41,100 –> 00:14:44,100
a hundred and four.
Why doesn’t this happen?

211
00:14:44,500 –> 00:14:48,000
We know why this doesn’t happen
brothers and sisters because

212
00:14:48,400 –> 00:14:54,300
Beyond a certain point a certain
speed reliably things start to

213
00:14:54,300 –> 00:14:57,400
go wrong.
They start to go bad and so it

214
00:14:57,400 –> 00:15:02,500
is in life when we go too fast
and mistakes go up irritability.

215
00:15:02,600 –> 00:15:08,300
Goes up and all of the good
things of Life productivity and

216
00:15:08,300 –> 00:15:13,700
morale energy Excellence a key
for others at Joy.

217
00:15:13,900 –> 00:15:17,800
They all go down so many of the
things that affect godliness.

218
00:15:18,000 –> 00:15:22,200
This is a serious issue.
The faster we rush.

219
00:15:23,400 –> 00:15:26,200
The further we inevitably seem
to fall behind.

220
00:15:26,700 –> 00:15:30,200
We develop all the symptoms of
people who are going too fast.

221
00:15:30,200 –> 00:15:34,700
We’re frustrated we withdraw
we’re a pathetic we’re

222
00:15:34,700 –> 00:15:38,200
depressed.
And if you feel brothers and

223
00:15:38,200 –> 00:15:41,500
sisters in young people like
your life is stuck on fast

224
00:15:41,500 –> 00:15:46,100
forward then maybe we all need
to reclaim some margin in our

225
00:15:46,100 –> 00:15:50,200
lives and recover some emotional
energy for God.

226
00:15:51,200 –> 00:15:53,700
So what is the scriptures?
What do the scriptures have to

227
00:15:53,900 –> 00:15:57,000
tell us about these things?
Well tonight.

228
00:15:57,000 –> 00:15:59,600
I just want to look at one
simple idea and it’s actually

229
00:15:59,600 –> 00:16:04,600
the opposite of speed.
It’s the opposite of running and

230
00:16:04,600 –> 00:16:10,800
it’s God’s solution.
It’s called standing still.

231
00:16:11,900 –> 00:16:15,100
I’d like you to come back to
Exodus in chapter 5.

232
00:16:24,900 –> 00:16:29,500
What’s God’s solution to running
frantically to and fro?

233
00:16:30,800 –> 00:16:35,000
To a frenetic pace of Life.
We’ll look let’s just start here

234
00:16:35,000 –> 00:16:38,000
tonight and Exodus chapter 5 and
verse 10.

235
00:16:39,300 –> 00:16:42,500
This is our life.
We’re in bondage to Fierro and

236
00:16:42,500 –> 00:16:45,900
the task masters of the people
went out verse 10 of Exodus 5

237
00:16:46,100 –> 00:16:49,700
and their offices and they speak
to the people saying thus saith

238
00:16:49,700 –> 00:16:53,000
Fierro.
I will not give you straw go you

239
00:16:53,000 –> 00:16:55,400
get you Straw from where you can
find it yet.

240
00:16:55,400 –> 00:16:57,600
Not Autumn of your work should
be diminished.

241
00:16:58,200 –> 00:17:00,400
So the people were scattered
abroad throughout all the land

242
00:17:00,400 –> 00:17:04,700
of It together stubble instead
of straw and the taskmasters

243
00:17:05,000 –> 00:17:10,500
hasted them saying fulfill your
Works your daily tasks as when

244
00:17:10,500 –> 00:17:15,099
there was straw.
This is the world pressure work

245
00:17:15,099 –> 00:17:22,200
Harder Faster longer.
We’re in bondage to this system.

246
00:17:23,700 –> 00:17:27,599
Sound familiar doesn’t sound
anything like our lives more

247
00:17:27,599 –> 00:17:31,100
bricks with less straw.
If it feel the sting of the

248
00:17:31,100 –> 00:17:33,300
Egyptian.
Whip on your back making bricks

249
00:17:33,300 –> 00:17:37,200
for Fierro working harder and
faster and longer with less.

250
00:17:37,200 –> 00:17:39,900
And for Less.
This is our lives.

251
00:17:40,400 –> 00:17:45,700
We are in bondage, but
thankfully God has a solution

252
00:17:45,700 –> 00:17:50,000
for us and we know the story
pretty well the Israelites are

253
00:17:50,000 –> 00:17:53,700
working faster and faster and
faster making bricks in God. and

254
00:17:53,700 –> 00:17:58,400
his Mercy brings the 10 plagues
that decimate the land of Egypt

255
00:17:58,400 –> 00:18:03,000
until at last fearow is broken
and look what it says in chapter

256
00:18:03,000 –> 00:18:14,900
12 in verse 33 Finally after 10
plagues pharaohs spirit is

257
00:18:14,900 –> 00:18:20,300
broken and exodus 12 and verse
33 says and the Egyptians were

258
00:18:20,400 –> 00:18:24,900
urgent upon the people that they
might send them out of the land

259
00:18:24,900 –> 00:18:29,900
and haste for they said we are
all dead men.

260
00:18:31,000 –> 00:18:33,800
So they’re working faster and
faster.

261
00:18:34,500 –> 00:18:37,200
The Egyptians are Urgent to get
them out of Egypt as fast as

262
00:18:37,200 –> 00:18:38,600
they can.
In fact they pass.

263
00:18:38,700 –> 00:18:42,100
Take of the Passover standing up
so that they’re ready to flee as

264
00:18:42,100 –> 00:18:45,400
soon as they get the word.
There’s not even time to Livin

265
00:18:45,400 –> 00:18:49,400
their bread and verse 39 and as
soon as fira Lentz they run to

266
00:18:49,400 –> 00:18:52,200
the edge of the Red Sea
Pharaoh’s roaring up behind them

267
00:18:52,300 –> 00:18:55,800
and look what we read in Exodus
chapter 14 and verse 13 and

268
00:18:55,800 –> 00:19:07,600
Moses said unto the people fear.
Ye not stand still. stand still

269
00:19:09,000 –> 00:19:12,100
God has an important lesson to
teach his people.

270
00:19:13,700 –> 00:19:16,500
Before they are baptized in the
Red Sea.

271
00:19:16,800 –> 00:19:22,100
They are impressed with the fact
that in the Journey of going

272
00:19:22,100 –> 00:19:27,700
from Egypt to the promised land
from slaves two sons.

273
00:19:27,800 –> 00:19:42,600
We have to slow down slow down.
slow down until we stand still.

274
00:19:44,800 –> 00:19:49,300
and then we can see God’s
salvation.

275
00:19:49,500 –> 00:19:52,300
Can you imagine that young
people especially you’ve got

276
00:19:52,300 –> 00:19:55,800
Fierro behind you with all his
army a hill on the side of a

277
00:19:55,808 –> 00:19:58,800
hill on this side.
All your instincts are screaming

278
00:19:58,800 –> 00:20:08,100
at run.
In God’s command is stand still.

279
00:20:10,100 –> 00:20:17,100
It’s totally counterintuitive.
But you see when we stand still

280
00:20:18,200 –> 00:20:23,700
we can see something we can see
something that we could never

281
00:20:23,700 –> 00:20:31,600
see while we were running and
that is God’s perspective while

282
00:20:31,600 –> 00:20:35,500
we’re running with them.
We’re not standing still with

283
00:20:35,500 –> 00:20:38,100
God.
It’s a matter of Relativity if

284
00:20:38,100 –> 00:20:41,900
we are moving we can’t see it
for what it is and it’s only

285
00:20:41,900 –> 00:20:48,700
when we slow down We stopped
completely and standstill that

286
00:20:48,700 –> 00:20:52,300
we can see the Egyptians for
what they really are.

287
00:20:53,700 –> 00:20:55,300
It’s actually exactly what they
said.

288
00:20:55,300 –> 00:21:00,500
They were in chapter 12 and
verse 33 did mean that’s all

289
00:21:00,500 –> 00:21:05,200
they are did mean running
straight into the middle of the

290
00:21:05,200 –> 00:21:07,200
Red Sea.
That’s who they are.

291
00:21:07,700 –> 00:21:14,100
That’s the world here today seem
today gone tomorrow.

292
00:21:15,300 –> 00:21:19,600
This is God’s salvation.
This is the truth that we can

293
00:21:19,600 –> 00:21:28,400
see as soon as we stand still.
We can see things from God’s

294
00:21:28,400 –> 00:21:31,400
perspective.
And did you know that standing

295
00:21:31,400 –> 00:21:36,900
still is a theme that runs all
the way through the scriptures

296
00:21:37,800 –> 00:21:41,300
standing still and seeing God’s
salvation.

297
00:21:41,500 –> 00:21:44,700
Here’s just a few which we won’t
look at but just to illustrate

298
00:21:44,700 –> 00:21:48,900
the point.
This is a very pervasive idea.

299
00:21:50,000 –> 00:21:54,700
You can look them up in your own
time think of Gideon and his 300

300
00:21:54,700 –> 00:21:57,400
men.
We’re told that it’s when they

301
00:21:57,400 –> 00:22:02,300
stood every man in his place
rather rooms has when they Stood

302
00:22:02,300 –> 00:22:07,000
Still that the midianites ran
and shuttered and fled and

303
00:22:07,000 –> 00:22:10,400
attacked each other.
It was when they blew their

304
00:22:10,400 –> 00:22:16,000
trumpets and Stood Still that
the midianites who had enslaved

305
00:22:16,000 –> 00:22:19,900
Israel and cruel bondage ran
down the valley of Jordan

306
00:22:19,900 –> 00:22:23,700
towards the Fords of Jordan to
perish in a watery grave in

307
00:22:23,700 –> 00:22:26,300
Judges chapter 7 exactly the
same.

308
00:22:27,800 –> 00:22:31,100
Well, what about Jehoshaphat in
second chronicles 20 and verse

309
00:22:31,100 –> 00:22:34,300
17 when he’s faced with a great
multitude of the moabites and

310
00:22:34,300 –> 00:22:40,400
ammonites and he said stand
Still and see the salvation of

311
00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:44,600
Yahweh and the enemy killed each
other to the last men was dead.

312
00:22:46,200 –> 00:22:51,700
What about his akaya being still
as he says in Psalm 46 verse 10

313
00:22:51,900 –> 00:22:55,400
as God destroyed sennacherib in
the Australian Army in a night.

314
00:22:55,400 –> 00:23:00,900
They were all dead Corpses.
What about from our story this

315
00:23:00,900 –> 00:23:05,200
week?
Heyman his hasted to the Battle

316
00:23:05,200 –> 00:23:10,900
of Doom and Esther stands still
before the king.

317
00:23:11,000 –> 00:23:14,100
It’s the same word and is to
five verses 1 and 2.

318
00:23:14,200 –> 00:23:17,500
It’s all through the scriptures.
It’s Ruth the moabite S.

319
00:23:18,000 –> 00:23:20,800
It’s shimada my team and
defeating the Philistines.

320
00:23:20,900 –> 00:23:24,600
It’s the Ethiopian eunuch.
It’s all about standing still

321
00:23:24,600 –> 00:23:27,000
brothers and sisters.
That’s when we see God’s

322
00:23:27,000 –> 00:23:30,700
salvation.
We see that God is able to save

323
00:23:30,700 –> 00:23:33,700
and the Israelites were
impressed with this lesson is

324
00:23:33,700 –> 00:23:39,500
they left Egypt behind as they
looked back at the Red Sea empty

325
00:23:40,400 –> 00:23:45,500
the Assyrians which they saw
yesterday gone in the night.

326
00:23:47,600 –> 00:23:49,200
They wouldn’t even forget this
lesson.

327
00:23:50,700 –> 00:23:55,400
It’s when we stand still.
We can see God’s salvation.

328
00:23:58,000 –> 00:24:00,800
Except the only problem is that
we do actually forget.

329
00:24:02,200 –> 00:24:07,500
Now if you fast-forward 40
years. the people of Israel the

330
00:24:07,500 –> 00:24:10,600
Next Generation we’re going to
have to be impressed with

331
00:24:10,600 –> 00:24:15,600
exactly the same lesson before
they entered the promised land

332
00:24:15,600 –> 00:24:18,900
come across to Joshua in chapter
3, you’d think that once would

333
00:24:18,900 –> 00:24:23,300
be enough when you buy the Red
Sea so dramatic all of the

334
00:24:23,300 –> 00:24:27,800
Egyptian Army drowned in a
moment because you just stood

335
00:24:27,800 –> 00:24:34,700
still but just 40 years later.
Everybody has forgotten.

336
00:24:36,100 –> 00:24:40,100
And Joshua 3.
The nation is going to have to

337
00:24:40,100 –> 00:24:41,800
be impressed with the same
lesson.

338
00:24:41,800 –> 00:24:46,900
Again, it’s a different time a
different group of people maybe

339
00:24:47,000 –> 00:24:50,800
different place.
But the same lesson Joshua 3 in

340
00:24:50,800 –> 00:24:55,900
verse 7 ja we said unto Joshua
this day will I begin to magnify

341
00:24:55,900 –> 00:24:59,800
the in the sight of all Israel
that they may know that as I was

342
00:24:59,800 –> 00:25:03,300
with Moses like I was with Moses
on the shores of the Red Sea.

343
00:25:03,500 –> 00:25:07,000
So will I be with thee and thou
shall command the priest that

344
00:25:07,000 –> 00:25:09,800
bear the Ark of the Covenant
saying When you come to the

345
00:25:09,800 –> 00:25:14,100
brink of the water of Jordan ye
shell.

346
00:25:16,000 –> 00:25:25,200
Stand still in Jordan. in verse
14 says and it came to pass when

347
00:25:25,200 –> 00:25:27,700
the people were moved from their
tents to pass over Jordan and

348
00:25:27,700 –> 00:25:30,100
the priest bearing the Ark of
the Covenant before the people

349
00:25:30,300 –> 00:25:33,000
and it says they that bear the
ark will come into Jordan and

350
00:25:33,008 –> 00:25:35,300
the feet of the priest that bear
the ark were dipped in the brim

351
00:25:35,300 –> 00:25:39,600
of the water for Jordan
overfloweth all his Banks all

352
00:25:39,600 –> 00:25:43,200
the time of harvest that the
waters which came down from

353
00:25:43,200 –> 00:25:49,500
above stood and Rose up upon and
heat very far from the city atom

354
00:25:49,700 –> 00:25:53,200
that has both sides are attend
those that I’m down toward the

355
00:25:53,200 –> 00:25:56,600
Sea of the plane, even the salt
sea failed and were cut off in

356
00:25:56,600 –> 00:26:01,000
the people passed over right
against Jericho on dry land just

357
00:26:01,100 –> 00:26:05,600
like the Red Sea.
Before them stood the Jordan

358
00:26:05,600 –> 00:26:11,500
River the descender the stream
of humanity that goes all the

359
00:26:11,500 –> 00:26:19,300
way from the sea of life in
Galilee down down down to the

360
00:26:19,300 –> 00:26:23,200
Red Sea to the Dead Sea.
I should say we’re told

361
00:26:23,200 –> 00:26:29,300
specifically in verse 15 that it
is not a gentle Meandering

362
00:26:29,500 –> 00:26:33,000
Brooke.
It is a swollen raging.

363
00:26:33,200 –> 00:26:37,600
Hard, it’s Swift and deadly it’s
fast and lethal.

364
00:26:37,600 –> 00:26:42,100
It’s a picture of humanity
flooded overflowing rushing

365
00:26:42,100 –> 00:26:45,700
headlong down down down towards
death.

366
00:26:46,200 –> 00:26:50,600
There’s people in that River
going 389 kilometers an hour

367
00:26:50,700 –> 00:26:56,800
straight into the deep sea And
the lesson is exactly the same

368
00:26:56,800 –> 00:27:00,800
as Exodus 14 in the shores of
the Red Sea.

369
00:27:00,900 –> 00:27:04,600
If we want to cross that raging
torrent into the promised land

370
00:27:05,300 –> 00:27:10,900
around 2,000 years or 2,000
cubits after our Lord and verse

371
00:27:10,900 –> 00:27:16,000
4 the Ark of the Covenant.
We want to gain entrance to the

372
00:27:16,000 –> 00:27:20,500
kingdom across this torrent of
humanity rushing headlong

373
00:27:20,500 –> 00:27:24,000
towards death and Oblivion.
We have to stand still.

374
00:27:26,000 –> 00:27:30,600
And it’s then and only then that
we can see the world for what it

375
00:27:30,600 –> 00:27:36,400
is and see God’s salvation.
The Ark of the Covenant of God’s

376
00:27:36,400 –> 00:27:40,400
presence amongst his people
rolling water.

377
00:27:41,600 –> 00:27:46,400
Uphill pushing the Relentless
tide of humanity back all the

378
00:27:46,400 –> 00:27:50,800
way to edin verse 16.
This is the Salvation of God.

379
00:27:50,800 –> 00:27:55,100
It’s his blueprint for salvation
for Redemption from the headlong

380
00:27:55,100 –> 00:28:01,100
Rush towards death his answer to
this frightening – of did men

381
00:28:01,100 –> 00:28:04,200
and women towards the grave is
to stand still.

382
00:28:05,700 –> 00:28:13,500
And see yahushua’s salvation the
arc our Lord Jesus Christ who

383
00:28:13,500 –> 00:28:19,100
can stem the tide reverse the
curse pushback death.

384
00:28:22,500 –> 00:28:25,500
I’d like you to come to Luke in
Chapter 7.

385
00:28:28,300 –> 00:28:38,700
Into a marvelous little parable.
inside a real life story Luke

386
00:28:38,700 –> 00:28:43,800
chapter 7 and the story of the
Widow of names son, see how our

387
00:28:43,800 –> 00:28:48,900
Lord Jesus Christ understood
this principle this story of

388
00:28:49,100 –> 00:28:57,800
Exodus 14 and Joshua chapter 3
Luke chapter 7 and verse 11 And

389
00:28:57,800 –> 00:29:02,700
it came to pass the day after.
That he went into a city called

390
00:29:02,700 –> 00:29:06,000
nain.
And many of his disciples went

391
00:29:06,000 –> 00:29:11,800
with him and much people now
when he came nigh to the gate of

392
00:29:11,800 –> 00:29:20,100
the city behold, there was a
dead man carried out the only

393
00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:25,700
son of his mother and she was a
widow and much people of the

394
00:29:25,700 –> 00:29:31,400
city was with her.
And when the Lord saw her he had

395
00:29:31,400 –> 00:29:39,500
compassion on her and said unto
her weep not he came and touched

396
00:29:39,600 –> 00:29:52,400
the Bier and they that beer him.
stood Still and he said young

397
00:29:52,400 –> 00:29:57,800
man I say unto thee.
All rise.

398
00:29:59,000 –> 00:30:03,400
And he that was dead set up and
began to speak and he delivered

399
00:30:03,400 –> 00:30:09,200
him to his mother and they came
a fear on all and they glorified

400
00:30:09,200 –> 00:30:13,800
God saying that a great prophet
has risen up among us and that

401
00:30:13,800 –> 00:30:19,100
God has visited his people.
It’s exactly the same picture

402
00:30:19,100 –> 00:30:23,900
isn’t it a huge procession of
people much people of the city

403
00:30:24,000 –> 00:30:27,700
and type.
It’s the whole world. the tide

404
00:30:27,700 –> 00:30:35,200
of humanity marching behind a
coffin Just like the children of

405
00:30:35,200 –> 00:30:42,100
Israel. at the shores of the
Jordan matching behind Joseph

406
00:30:42,100 –> 00:30:47,400
Kaufman But look what our Lord
does he recognizes in this

407
00:30:47,600 –> 00:30:51,400
Weeping Woman this Widow a
picture of his own mother

408
00:30:51,700 –> 00:30:56,400
mourning for the death of her
only special son, and he’s moved

409
00:30:56,500 –> 00:31:01,100
with compassion and just like
the Ark in Joshua chapter 3.

410
00:31:01,300 –> 00:31:06,400
He steps forward into the
swollen torrent of humanity

411
00:31:06,500 –> 00:31:12,400
flowing inexorably towards death
and he hopes The procession of

412
00:31:12,400 –> 00:31:20,800
death they that bear him Stood
Still they were confronted

413
00:31:20,800 –> 00:31:25,800
weren’t they by The Arc that
could compel Waters to flow

414
00:31:25,900 –> 00:31:31,600
uphill and Life to come out of
death and yars salvation.

415
00:31:32,200 –> 00:31:38,000
Yahushua was seen he was seen
when people Stood Still.

416
00:31:39,900 –> 00:31:44,700
The coffin was discarded.
The torrent of death stopped

417
00:31:44,900 –> 00:31:49,800
here was the one who one day
will roll the waters all the way

418
00:31:49,800 –> 00:31:56,800
back to Adam. so when the hid
long – of daily life What is the

419
00:31:56,800 –> 00:32:01,500
lesson for us?
The Frantic pace of Life mini

420
00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:07,600
running to and fro when we find
ourselves running running

421
00:32:07,900 –> 00:32:11,700
running when life seems to be
getting too fast.

422
00:32:12,300 –> 00:32:16,800
What is the lesson what I’d like
you to come back to Second of

423
00:32:16,800 –> 00:32:39,800
kings and chapter 5
And speaking of Kings chapter 5

424
00:32:39,800 –> 00:32:42,400
we have as we all know the story
of Naaman.

425
00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:46,300
We know it well.
And is great.

426
00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:51,500
And there’s Mighty and his
honorable a man as hey misname

427
00:32:51,500 –> 00:32:55,500
and was in verse 1 he had
leprosy.

428
00:32:57,000 –> 00:32:59,500
What’s he doing brothers and
sisters young people?

429
00:33:00,300 –> 00:33:05,300
He’s rushing headlong through
life straight towards the Dead

430
00:33:05,300 –> 00:33:10,100
Sea and he has leprosy he’s
moving faster than most a

431
00:33:10,100 –> 00:33:14,600
terrible disease.
He knew he had little time left

432
00:33:15,300 –> 00:33:17,100
and it’s second of Kings chapter
5.

433
00:33:17,500 –> 00:33:23,300
There are three men and they
tell us a gripping into sobering

434
00:33:23,300 –> 00:33:30,500
story with a powerful lesson for
us. firstly it is a Lusher.

435
00:33:31,700 –> 00:33:37,100
The man of God our Lord Jesus
Christ in type are example and

436
00:33:37,100 –> 00:33:44,200
look how he’s described in verse
16 and he said as Yahweh liveth

437
00:33:44,900 –> 00:33:54,800
before whom I stand he stands
still before God.

438
00:33:55,000 –> 00:33:59,200
That’s our Lord Jesus Christ.
Secondly in the story.

439
00:33:59,200 –> 00:34:05,500
We have Naman rushing headlong
towards a watery grave and he

440
00:34:05,500 –> 00:34:11,100
humbles himself in the Jordan
the very place where the waters

441
00:34:11,100 –> 00:34:14,300
were rolled back in Joshua 3.
It’s the same scene.

442
00:34:14,300 –> 00:34:19,199
He humbles himself to wash his
sins away and emerges clean.

443
00:34:19,199 –> 00:34:23,800
He sees the Power of the god
that saves God’s salvation is

444
00:34:23,800 –> 00:34:26,800
the meaning of Elijah’s name and
he goes from being a man.

445
00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:34,800
Who’s Shaheed long towards death
to a man in verse 15 standing

446
00:34:35,199 –> 00:34:42,000
still before Elijah.
He stood still before Elijah.

447
00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:48,100
So Elijah standing still?
Naaman was running running

448
00:34:48,100 –> 00:34:51,400
running now.
He’s cured healed.

449
00:34:53,100 –> 00:34:59,700
Transformed he stands still
before Elijah.

450
00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:08,000
Lastly in more chillingly we
have gehazi and look what gehazi

451
00:35:08,100 –> 00:35:13,300
does in verse 20, but gehazi the
servant of Elisha the man of God

452
00:35:13,300 –> 00:35:18,400
said behold.
My master has spared Naaman the

453
00:35:18,400 –> 00:35:22,000
Syrian and not receiving it as
hands that which he brought but

454
00:35:22,000 –> 00:35:29,800
it’s how we live with I will Oh.
Run after him and take some what

455
00:35:29,800 –> 00:35:33,900
of him so gehazi followed after
naming and when Naamans saw him

456
00:35:34,100 –> 00:35:37,400
running after him he lighted
down from The Chariot to meet

457
00:35:37,400 –> 00:35:41,700
him and said, it’s all well and
he said who all is well.

458
00:35:42,300 –> 00:35:46,500
My master has sent me saying
behold even now they become unto

459
00:35:46,500 –> 00:35:49,200
me from Mount Ephraim two young
men of the sons of the prophets.

460
00:35:49,400 –> 00:35:52,600
Give them.
I pray thee a talent of Sylvan

461
00:35:52,600 –> 00:35:58,700
into changes of garments name
and said, Be content take two

462
00:35:58,700 –> 00:36:02,500
towns in the urged him and bound
to talents of silver and two

463
00:36:02,500 –> 00:36:05,400
bags with two changes of
garments and lay them upon two

464
00:36:05,400 –> 00:36:08,500
of his servants and they beer
them before him and when he came

465
00:36:08,500 –> 00:36:12,300
to the tower took them from
their hand bestowed them in the

466
00:36:12,300 –> 00:36:15,000
house.
And he let them in go and they

467
00:36:15,000 –> 00:36:22,800
departed and he Winton. and
stood before his master and

468
00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:28,500
Elisha said unto him.
Whence comest thou gehazi?

469
00:36:30,000 –> 00:36:33,700
and he said the servant went no
with it.

470
00:36:35,000 –> 00:36:40,200
And he said unto him.
We not mine heart with the when

471
00:36:40,200 –> 00:36:42,800
the man turned away from his
Chariot to meet thee.

472
00:36:43,000 –> 00:36:47,900
Is it a time to receive money
and to receive garments Olive

473
00:36:47,900 –> 00:36:52,800
yards and Vineyards sheep oxen
menservants and maidservants the

474
00:36:52,800 –> 00:36:57,200
leprosy therefore of name and
shall cleave unto thee and unto

475
00:36:57,200 –> 00:37:02,500
thy seed forever and he went out
of his presence a leper as white

476
00:37:03,000 –> 00:37:07,300
as snow.
In the lesson of this story is

477
00:37:07,300 –> 00:37:12,600
the tragic end of a man.
Who pretended to be amongst

478
00:37:12,600 –> 00:37:17,800
those who stood still before
Yahweh in his heart?

479
00:37:19,500 –> 00:37:25,700
As well as in real life.
He wasn’t standing still he was

480
00:37:25,700 –> 00:37:31,200
running running after the things
of this life money status

481
00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:34,600
clothes.
He ran after all the things that

482
00:37:34,600 –> 00:37:39,600
Naman head when he was rushing
headlong towards the grave the

483
00:37:39,600 –> 00:37:43,900
things that Naman wanted to give
away now because he knew they

484
00:37:43,900 –> 00:37:49,700
couldn’t save him he pretended
to stand still but actually he

485
00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:53,600
was running.
In the literacy that Naaman

486
00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:59,500
washed off in the Jordan by
standing still and seeing Yahweh

487
00:37:59,500 –> 00:38:05,600
is salvation this man received.
It’s like Naaman hopped out of

488
00:38:05,600 –> 00:38:10,800
the Jordan.
And gehazi hop right in.

489
00:38:12,800 –> 00:38:16,200
The Jordan is a Swift and lethal
River.

490
00:38:17,300 –> 00:38:21,800
And the listen for us brothers
and sisters in young people is

491
00:38:21,800 –> 00:38:26,200
that it’s when we take the time
to stand still to step aside

492
00:38:26,200 –> 00:38:30,800
from the Relentless surge of
humanity that we can see God’s

493
00:38:30,800 –> 00:38:35,200
perspective.
When we stand still we can see

494
00:38:35,200 –> 00:38:40,100
just how fast that river flows
to death and we can see how

495
00:38:40,100 –> 00:38:44,600
pitiful the Naamans of this
world are caught and it’s tied.

496
00:38:46,100 –> 00:38:50,200
I’d like you to come to First of
Peter and chapter 4.

497
00:38:52,300 –> 00:39:04,200
And let’s learn the lesson of
gehazi together. the man who ran

498
00:39:05,000 –> 00:39:10,700
instead of standing still first
of Peter 4 and verse 1

499
00:39:14,200 –> 00:39:20,200
Forasmuch, then as Christ hath
suffered for us in the flesh arm

500
00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:25,300
yourselves likewise with the
same mind for he that hath

501
00:39:25,300 –> 00:39:28,800
suffered In the Flesh has ceased
from sin that he should no

502
00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:33,600
longer live the rest of his life
In the Flesh to the lusts of men

503
00:39:33,900 –> 00:39:39,100
but to the will of God for the
time past of our life may

504
00:39:39,100 –> 00:39:41,600
suffice us to have wrote the
will of the Gentiles.

505
00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:47,600
When we walked in a seriousness
lasts excess of wine revellings

506
00:39:47,900 –> 00:39:51,800
bang quitting’s abominable
idolatries.

507
00:39:52,200 –> 00:39:58,900
We’re in they think it’s strange
that you run not with them to

508
00:39:58,900 –> 00:40:04,100
the same excess of Riot speaking
evil of you who shall give

509
00:40:04,100 –> 00:40:08,700
account to him that is really to
judge the quick and the dead.

510
00:40:09,000 –> 00:40:15,000
Do you know that word?
Excess in verse 4 is the Greek

511
00:40:15,000 –> 00:40:20,300
word and a couscous.
It means overflowing flood

512
00:40:20,600 –> 00:40:25,600
rather rooms translates it an
overflow of riotous excess.

513
00:40:26,100 –> 00:40:29,500
The new King James has a flood
of dissipation.

514
00:40:29,600 –> 00:40:33,400
We live in a world that is
flooded overflowing its banks

515
00:40:33,500 –> 00:40:38,600
obsessed with speed.
We all know it’s going too fast

516
00:40:38,700 –> 00:40:42,100
mini are running to and fro that
Peter says in verse 4.

517
00:40:43,300 –> 00:40:48,200
It’s a question of whether we
are running with them.

518
00:40:49,600 –> 00:40:52,300
Are we?
Are we?

519
00:40:53,700 –> 00:40:58,500
How fast are you running?
And we swept up in this frantic

520
00:40:58,500 –> 00:41:02,200
race to the finish line of the
Dead Sea guilty of being

521
00:41:02,200 –> 00:41:05,600
overwhelmed by the pace of Life
guilty of being like gehazi

522
00:41:05,600 –> 00:41:09,400
running with them instead of
hopping out of hopping in the

523
00:41:09,400 –> 00:41:12,000
Jordan brothers and sisters is
Flowing faster than ever.

524
00:41:12,500 –> 00:41:19,100
In fact, it’s 10% quicker now,
then it was just 13 years ago.

525
00:41:20,600 –> 00:41:26,700
And it’s affecting us, isn’t it?
It’s the danger of being Swept

526
00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:33,400
Away.
Out of a life of godliness in

527
00:41:33,400 –> 00:41:35,800
the truth.
We seem to have less and less

528
00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:40,000
time for God for our readings
for hospitality.

529
00:41:41,100 –> 00:41:45,000
We feel burnt out.
We feel exhausted.

530
00:41:45,400 –> 00:41:47,300
You probably have had this
experience when you come to

531
00:41:47,300 –> 00:41:51,500
Bible school and you say ah,
long time no, see how are you

532
00:41:52,800 –> 00:42:00,200
exhausted?
Busy, it’s been me to write this

533
00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:03,700
is what we say.
It’s like we need a break we’re

534
00:42:03,700 –> 00:42:06,900
perpetually running and when we
get a break we get a night off.

535
00:42:06,900 –> 00:42:09,600
We don’t even really know what
to do with ourselves and

536
00:42:09,600 –> 00:42:15,000
suddenly we find we almost don’t
know how to slow down.

537
00:42:16,400 –> 00:42:22,700
We don’t know how to stand still
speed can be a way of Walling

538
00:42:22,700 –> 00:42:26,100
ourselves off from the deeper
things of life.

539
00:42:26,500 –> 00:42:30,700
We fill our heads and our lives
with distractions busyness

540
00:42:31,000 –> 00:42:34,200
important stuff so that we are
so busy.

541
00:42:34,200 –> 00:42:39,500
We never have to ask How is my
spiritual health?

542
00:42:42,100 –> 00:42:48,300
How is my godliness?
How is my Hospitality we can

543
00:42:48,300 –> 00:42:52,300
always allow ourselves to run so
fast that we never have time to

544
00:42:52,300 –> 00:42:57,600
ask the question of verse 1 do I
have the mind of Christ that has

545
00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:00,900
ceased from sin ceased from
running.

546
00:43:02,500 –> 00:43:05,800
This is the danger of the
frenetic pace of the age in

547
00:43:05,800 –> 00:43:07,700
which we live.
So what is the answer?

548
00:43:08,400 –> 00:43:13,700
What can we do what must we do
what I’d like you to come and

549
00:43:13,700 –> 00:43:27,600
conclusion to say 23 these are
the words. of a man Who was an

550
00:43:27,600 –> 00:43:38,300
absolute master of being still?
a master of finding time for God

551
00:43:39,900 –> 00:43:46,300
Psalm 23 in verse 1 Yahweh is my
shepherd.

552
00:43:47,500 –> 00:43:53,600
I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in

553
00:43:53,600 –> 00:43:59,500
Green Pastures.
He leadeth me beside the Still

554
00:44:00,300 –> 00:44:05,900
Waters in Imagine The Waters of
quietness.

555
00:44:06,800 –> 00:44:10,200
He restoreth my soul.
He leadeth me in the paths of

556
00:44:10,200 –> 00:44:13,700
righteousness for his name’s
sake.

557
00:44:15,100 –> 00:44:18,600
So there are there other Swift
Waters of Jordan dangerous and

558
00:44:18,600 –> 00:44:25,000
lethal seeking to claim our
souls in its impatient currents.

559
00:44:26,800 –> 00:44:33,900
Linda rather Still Waters the
Waters of quietness the wood is

560
00:44:33,900 –> 00:44:37,700
that can restore our soul.
We need to have moments of

561
00:44:37,700 –> 00:44:44,300
standing still with God moments
of deceleration moments of peace

562
00:44:44,300 –> 00:44:47,100
and quiet.
I want you to ask yourself this

563
00:44:47,100 –> 00:44:50,900
question.
When was the last time?

564
00:44:52,100 –> 00:45:05,000
that you took just 10 minutes.
to do nothing just to think of

565
00:45:05,000 –> 00:45:12,400
God’s salvation. his kingdom
just teen minutes.

566
00:45:14,000 –> 00:45:18,800
Just 10 minutes of Stillness.
When was the last time it’s

567
00:45:18,800 –> 00:45:21,400
extraordinary isn’t it?
Have terrible?

568
00:45:21,400 –> 00:45:28,000
We are at doing this restoring a
soul by The Still Waters.

569
00:45:30,400 –> 00:45:34,400
So here’s my suggestion.
It’s a little practical idea.

570
00:45:34,500 –> 00:45:40,100
So that each day we can have
moments of standing still time

571
00:45:40,100 –> 00:45:43,500
to restore our souls.
We all know that we need to do

572
00:45:43,500 –> 00:45:45,800
it.
But how do we make it happen?

573
00:45:46,500 –> 00:45:49,800
It’s got to be something that’s
simple and something that’s

574
00:45:49,800 –> 00:45:52,600
achievable.
If I say unto you you need to do

575
00:45:52,600 –> 00:45:59,200
one hour of meditation everyday
chances are none of you will do

576
00:45:59,200 –> 00:46:03,300
it and neither will I It’s got
to be something that we can make

577
00:46:03,300 –> 00:46:06,000
happen.
Let’s think about what we’ve

578
00:46:06,000 –> 00:46:09,900
said so far.
We’ve described the Jordan River

579
00:46:10,000 –> 00:46:14,700
is a picture of the world
overflowing Swift the torrent of

580
00:46:14,700 –> 00:46:18,400
humanity rushing headlong
towards Oblivion in the Dead Sea

581
00:46:19,200 –> 00:46:22,900
and in our days.
The time of the end it’s rushing

582
00:46:22,900 –> 00:46:26,100
faster and faster.
It wants to suck Us in and it’s

583
00:46:26,100 –> 00:46:30,400
only when we stand still we step
aside.

584
00:46:31,800 –> 00:46:35,900
From the Relentless tide of
humanity that we can see God’s

585
00:46:35,900 –> 00:46:40,700
perspective.
But God’s perspective on what?

586
00:46:41,900 –> 00:46:45,400
And the answer is that when we
stand still.

587
00:46:46,500 –> 00:46:49,500
We see God’s perspective on
time.

588
00:46:51,100 –> 00:46:54,200
Because if the Jordan is
overflowing with people rushing

589
00:46:54,700 –> 00:46:59,100
running disparate to cram
everything they can in 270 short

590
00:46:59,100 –> 00:47:02,300
years before they end up in the
Dead Sea then what other Still

591
00:47:02,300 –> 00:47:06,100
Waters.
Except they be people who?

592
00:47:08,300 –> 00:47:09,800
They don’t have to rush
anywhere.

593
00:47:11,200 –> 00:47:17,100
That detached from time there on
God’s time.

594
00:47:18,300 –> 00:47:21,200
They know.
That in God’s plan.

595
00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:27,100
They’re going to live forever.
See verse 6 surely goodness and

596
00:47:27,100 –> 00:47:32,900
mercy shall follow me all the
days of my life and I will dwell

597
00:47:32,900 –> 00:47:39,500
in the house of Yahweh forever.
See the difference everyone in

598
00:47:39,500 –> 00:47:42,500
the Jordan River is cramming
everything they can and 270

599
00:47:42,500 –> 00:47:46,900
short years, but the people By
the Waters of quietness Their

600
00:47:46,900 –> 00:47:52,600
perspective on time is forever.
There’s no need to rush is

601
00:47:52,600 –> 00:47:56,400
plenty plenty of time.
We don’t need to run brothers

602
00:47:56,400 –> 00:47:59,200
and sisters.
We have eternity.

603
00:47:59,200 –> 00:48:02,500
In fact, the kingdom only comes
to those who have looked to stop

604
00:48:02,500 –> 00:48:06,600
running into standstill to see
the world through God’s eyes to

605
00:48:06,600 –> 00:48:11,900
see just how fast each pitiful
Life races towards death when

606
00:48:11,900 –> 00:48:18,700
contrasted with whoever the
difference between the torrent

607
00:48:18,700 –> 00:48:23,400
of Jordan In the Still Waters is
God’s perspective on time.

608
00:48:24,700 –> 00:48:30,200
So here’s my idea.
When life is too fast?

609
00:48:31,800 –> 00:48:34,100
How do we learn the secret of
standing still?

610
00:48:36,000 –> 00:48:44,400
Why don’t you choose a clock?
just one clock or a watch

611
00:48:45,900 –> 00:48:50,800
Somewhere at home or somewhere
at work, but something that you

612
00:48:50,800 –> 00:48:55,400
regularly use a clock that you
always look at and I want you to

613
00:48:55,400 –> 00:49:01,000
sit it 10 minutes fast.
This is now.

614
00:49:02,600 –> 00:49:06,900
God’s time it’s 10 minutes ahead
of schedule.

615
00:49:07,600 –> 00:49:09,800
Now it might make you do to one
of two things.

616
00:49:09,900 –> 00:49:14,900
You might end up being early and
less rushed which would be good.

617
00:49:16,400 –> 00:49:21,200
Or you might look at the time
and think oh, that’s right.

618
00:49:22,100 –> 00:49:28,100
I have 10 minutes and you have
some time to recalculate to ask

619
00:49:28,100 –> 00:49:32,500
yourself in that little
10-minute window how fast am I

620
00:49:32,600 –> 00:49:35,200
running today?
How fast is the Jordan River

621
00:49:35,300 –> 00:49:38,400
flowing in my life today?
Am I on God’s time?

622
00:49:39,600 –> 00:49:44,400
Or the world’s time.
And if we need time to

623
00:49:44,400 –> 00:49:48,400
recalibrate for God to take a
few minutes to stand still.

624
00:49:49,600 –> 00:49:53,400
We can.
It’s God’s 10 minutes.

625
00:49:54,000 –> 00:49:56,900
It’s his time.
We won’t even be late.

626
00:49:57,700 –> 00:50:01,300
We can give it to him.
We can create moments of

627
00:50:01,300 –> 00:50:06,800
Stillness moments in each day
where we have the luxury of

628
00:50:06,800 –> 00:50:12,600
standing still By the Waters of
quietness relating ourselves to

629
00:50:12,600 –> 00:50:17,700
Eternal things to be people who
have time for God people who

630
00:50:17,700 –> 00:50:21,400
have learnt.
The busy frantic age in which we

631
00:50:21,400 –> 00:50:26,800
live at the time of the end to
stand still it’s an art that we

632
00:50:26,800 –> 00:50:29,500
must practice.
This is God’s solution.

633
00:50:31,100 –> 00:50:35,000
So when we feel like the
taskmasters a flogging us and

634
00:50:35,000 –> 00:50:38,400
we’re working harder and faster
and longer making bricks for

635
00:50:38,400 –> 00:50:43,000
fearow.
Let’s Take 10 minutes to stand

636
00:50:43,000 –> 00:50:47,000
still.
When the Roaring swollen torrent

637
00:50:47,000 –> 00:50:49,700
of the Jordan River stands
between us and the promised

638
00:50:49,700 –> 00:50:51,600
land.
Let’s remember that our Lord has

639
00:50:51,600 –> 00:50:57,300
gone before 2000 years ago in
all he asks us to do is to stand

640
00:50:58,000 –> 00:51:02,600
still.
The way will be made open.

641
00:51:03,900 –> 00:51:07,600
When we feel like we’re Swept
Away into the world’s inevitable

642
00:51:07,600 –> 00:51:09,800
Precision of death.
Let’s remember that our Lord

643
00:51:09,800 –> 00:51:14,600
Jesus Christ has bidden our
coffins to stand still.

644
00:51:16,500 –> 00:51:19,100
He’s an amazing thought brothers
and sisters in young people.

645
00:51:19,100 –> 00:51:24,500
Do you know what standing still
is it is an absolute privilege.

646
00:51:26,300 –> 00:51:32,900
It’s a privilege to stand still.
It’s a privilege that only we

647
00:51:33,600 –> 00:51:37,400
have.
The world is running to and fro

648
00:51:38,300 –> 00:51:43,700
frantic activity.
The Angels we’re told in

649
00:51:43,700 –> 00:51:50,200
Zechariah 4 in verse 10 also run
to and fro frantic activity.

650
00:51:51,500 –> 00:51:56,500
Amongst all of this.
We are bidding pleaded with

651
00:51:57,300 –> 00:52:03,800
beaked by our heavenly father to
just stand still and see his

652
00:52:03,800 –> 00:52:07,500
salvation.
It’s respond in our lives.

653
00:52:07,500 –> 00:52:10,900
Let’s reclaim some time some
margin for God that when our

654
00:52:10,900 –> 00:52:15,300
Lord comes we aren’t hopping
into Jordan, but we’re hopping

655
00:52:15,300 –> 00:52:22,500
out we are restoring our souls
by Still Waters and looking

656
00:52:22,500 –> 00:52:27,100
forward above all things to
dwelling in the house of our

657
00:52:27,100 –> 00:52:39,100
God.
Thank you for listening to the

658
00:52:39,100 –> 00:52:42,300
good Christian talks podcast,
Please Subscribe for new

659
00:52:42,300 –> 00:52:45,400
episodes and leave a review and
apple podcast or whatever

660
00:52:45,400 –> 00:52:48,200
service you are listening from
to help people find the show

661
00:52:48,200 –> 00:52:51,500
when they search for it.
If you enjoyed this talk share

662
00:52:51,500 –> 00:52:53,700
it on social media.
So other people can find it to

663
00:52:54,100 –> 00:52:56,600
for show notes and links to the
talk that you just listen to

664
00:52:56,900 –> 00:53:01,400
visit our show page at anchor
dot f m / G CT We want to

665
00:53:01,400 –> 00:53:03,300
encourage everyone to share
their thoughts from the talk

666
00:53:03,300 –> 00:53:06,700
this week on Facebook or
Instagram where we are at good

667
00:53:06,700 –> 00:53:10,800
christadelphians talks or on
Twitter where we are at GCT

668
00:53:10,900 –> 00:53:14,700
underscore podcast.
If you know of a great talk, we

669
00:53:14,700 –> 00:53:17,300
want to know about it to send a
suggestion to good

670
00:53:17,300 –> 00:53:20,500
christadelphians talks at
gmail.com or message us on any

671
00:53:20,500 –> 00:53:24,000
of our social media platforms.
Thank you for listening.

672
00:53:24,200 –> 00:53:26,200
God bless and talk to you next
week.