how about that meal tonight get those guys a just give them a thanks thank you guys that was wonderful incredible week so much work these guys are getting up at 4 in the morning to come and cook for us so thank you all right I want it to quiet down everybody listen up we're through talking hello there we go that's how we do it Ben are you guys ready for the fishing Awards come on good evening I'm Ben felen as I can say I've been around the block three times been up and down in an elevator but I a never seen anything like this before wow for our fishing Awards we have eight of them and here here we go I want to see coming up here I want to see Brandon Knight and Brandon Armstrong come [Music] up that's all right all right move it okay she said Brandon night's not feeling well so let's see I will tell you but I'll give this to him when I the award number eight Brandon Knight is a a two-minute fisherman the point I'm trying to make that he got out there and within two minutes he was catching fish so so we have a hey we have a fish like this I think some of the Noona people that uh that that come have uh made this what okay and it says on top what it is it's a two-minute fisherman from Brandon okay all right next I would like to see Brandon Armstrong see right here I can't see come here come [Music] all right let's turn around and take a good long look at you okay cuz this is see the we we make these things up as we see what it is uh and this is the best looking award yep yep it's a personal description and he gets one of these fishes and the reason for why is that we don't know why but out there while fishing he said he was about the best looking fisherman out there you know so we Shrugged our shoulders and said well okay you know it's here you go shake my hand did you hear what he said he just said you know it's true sure yeah all right he's going okay so it's a silly things that we do it's not just being real serious fishing so have a good time can we have up here please Willie come on [Music] up and uh Willie is he got the fish the absolute smallest one I mean that's right right there and I want you to know that that the uh some of these that were're doing tonight that uh uh they are paid for by uh uh the guy our head fisherman out there and all that thank you Willie good job and it was a wiy fish okay Robert did you come up Robert all right and so then coming after that if you'll just come up and stand here and Tommy need to see you up here all right why don't you come up here better than me go down there all right this okay he can fish and he can fish and he can fish what we have here that Robert is our di hard fisherman because he just keeps doing it and keeps doing it and he keeps catching fish well done here you are thank okay is Tommy around is he on his way didn't I ask didn't I ask for tmy his to here's tmy right there all right come up can come up and uh I want the uh that okay I want you to look I want you to look all right shake my hand okay tomies your award of this water water bottle here you go thank you well we got it this is the happy award for the happiest fisherman do you believe it or not boy Tommy all right now oh I should have told her come up Penny I want to see Penny Penny penny come on penny Okay and then standby if you'll just be stand by get up hey Kyle just get up and stand by and Robbie you too just stand where you are penny the bottle package yes that's a bottle package Penny and she has before won uh a fishing award and she has so much fun we have a good time with that Penny we have this bottle thing I'll show you a little bit up here put it on your leg and all that kind of stuff you can put your your uh water bottle in there and so forth and uh coming with that is one of these fishes also okay cuz wait just a minute wait just a minute I want to say congratul rations Penny you have the most cheerful [Music] award thank you Penny all right there we go byebye okay the two fish I want the blam blame one first huh huh Kyle come [Music] [Applause] forward this is the Blaine Smith that's the other one no okay uh we're going to get kind of we're going to get this messed around because uh Kyle has uh we're going to give him the blame Smith biggest fish award these were made by the folks in no con I thing stunningly beautiful so I ask him to see that well we got a little bit Miss ner here which is fine but Kyle got a 19 [Music] iner oh and then he caught a 20 incher thank you bless you all right and then next is and next is Robbie come up here Robbie and for all kinds of things of g at the other people and calling himself the uh best fisherman well maybe he was anyway do that so another one of these fishes that are stunningly beautifully made okay the mountain high stand van fishing Awards he he got a 24 in [Music] [Applause] drout I'll shake your hand thank you sir that's our top fisherman look out there for that picture again and hold that fish hold this fish up thank thanks yay appreciate you that is our fish finished fishing award and may I do the other okay now this other i t stand tall for it's the Brian Hill 12th men award Hunter Ivy will you come forward please I'll start telling about this January 2nd 1922 World War I there's a football game Texas A&M was playing doesn't matter they had 11 men well duh it's 11 men to play football and then one guy got hurt and they were going to have to stop the game and Texas A&M was going to have to give the game to the other person and then somebody in the stand stood up and said put me in coach then he came in then they took him and put him on that guy that got hurt and put him on that that uniform and he played now they had 11 men and so they could complete the game and so forth and Texas A&M won that game uh and today you'll see at a football game Texas A&M students they're all standing the reason why they stand ready to go in and ready to do what is needed okay the tradition is based on the idea that the fans have a potentially helpful and significant role in the game we have a similar situation here there are times when a camper steps up and helps whether ask or not come to you Hunter take your hand come on I'll show you this award people also they made this it says Mountain High the Brian Hill which is a text one of our Texas A&M people uh of our campers and so forth all right and and it says best server he will come and help and I make this spoon and I've made it for a lot of years and the reason it is the spoon the spoon gives you the idea of you're going to make something you're going to use something and be something and we thank you for what you think these people that are serving people doing stuff out there they're the ones that elected you to be the of the the uh Brian Hill award thank you here we go and and just to let you know it's called Brian Hill award because of uh the fact that one of the campers years ago one of our first times that uh he was uh he was the number one RTC army guy in Texas A&M the number one and he graduated and was commissioned in the Army and a short time later believe it was in the car rack that he was severely um severely hurt so he could no he could not be in the Army okay and so but uh but he came here I was he and I and all the others were at it was a thing at the uh out at the Rio Grand and the men of the church were were cooking hot dogs and things and a beautiful day in the sunsight and I was with Brian Hill and this in this Helper and took us 15 minutes to hear to understand what Brian Hill said but it was worth it because he said it's obvious God made this and all that and so we named it uh the Brian Hill award and so forth now I want to say that Ralph Alicia and Gago family thas so forth where are you right there all right the uh uh the the the other the primary prizes was given by them and they do it every year and they pick four prizes and so forth and so we thank you and Ralph is our honcho expert at fishing so bless you big people at our fun time and thank you for your time sir great job all right at this time I'm going to ask Miss Joanna Horton to come up and she's got something so give you guys a clap for this young lady she has done so much throughout the years throughout the years we just appreciate everything you've done Joanna what we're doing is thanks to a camper named Audra kler many years ago when she came to Mountain High and Faith Mountain Church she would go back and tell her friends that we did everything at the church and she felt like that we owed them us some donation money and she would collect money all year long from her friends all over the United States and when she would come to Camp she would give it to the church as a love donation well after she passed away Miss Charlotte and Robert sh was her best friend Miss Charlotte talked to me about it and I said I will carry on that I will carry on that tradition so every year I I do the same thing okay now obviously when the big covid hit we had some issues on how much we were able to gather to give to this church what they have given to us but if you will look around on the floor you'll see new carpet the last two years we have given enough money to help them recarpet help them recarpet this whole entire church now I I can't even remember last year it was around 6 or seven well you better come up here and hold me when I tell you about what it is s sh I'm about to cry this is this is the best we have ever done and I'll take a drum [Music] roll [Applause] [Music] $1,375 and he says they needed a new keyboard if that won't buy it we got it you got it thank you so much God bless you guys so much you don't understand and do this alone [Music] okay yeah yeah that's all right Julie Julie kept this okay for last night's silent auction we raised let me find my notes here yes this it goes to the camp is that right back to the camp and we raised $2,640 and the be hat goes to and I might get this wrong but Jerry Getty Gentry from naona for $180 all right at this time you guys ready to do some worship all right so I'm going to ask Faith mountains praise team to come up and as they're doing that though I want to take just a moment I don't want to ask all of the people from Faith mountain and from Red River and the surrounding areas uh to please stand up okay those of you stand up Red River Mountain our communities around here um would you give these guys a hand you don't know how much work they do behind the scenes along with all of our praise team our sound and media teams U Miss Susie our teachers bring the children and they serve you guys and so I just want to say thank you Faith Mountain thank you Red River uh we're an incredible community that opens our hearts to you guys and I know you feel that love throughout the town it's not just here and so I'm so proud to have uh our worship team step up and we're going to ask for two special guests to come up all right we got one where is ah there he is Kingsley we're going to have him do a raven imitation later Teresa we we've got we've got something for you they're going to help us now we want you guys to get into this okay you ready you ready to worship see I I'm not saying that the people in this room were holding out on me I think you guys are awesome but on Monday night I saw some Rhythm that I did not previously know everybody in this room had and I got excited because I knew we were doing this song so if you've got a table a hand probably not a neighbor to beat on maybe a fist bump to get to get going um we're g i we've already got two people playing the drums we've got two more professionals who are going to teach the adults to play their drum and dance number that they do but I think we need more this is a very percussive percussion percussive song and uh now I know you guys have rhythm so it's going to go something like [Music] this 1 2 3 4 let everything that has bre praise the Lord praise the Lord let everything that has praise the Lord praise the Lord Valley [Music] [Applause] [Music] Ena my soul the my soul I'll when I feel and I'll when I [Music] I'll down as long as breathing I got a reason [Music] to Lord oh my [Music] soul Lord my soul [Applause] is INS oh I won't be cing my God is alive he made inside I'm to PR [Music] thefe the grave praise you're faithful prise you're true there's noer than you prise you're and defeated the gra prise you're faithful praise you're True Praise there's noer than you [Music] prise the Lord oh my soul prise the Lord [Music] I'm [Applause] [Music] going the oh God is how could I keep it my God is alive how could I keep it aside I w't be my Jo is alive how I keep ins I'm going [Applause] [Music] to [Music] the let everything that praise the Lord praise the Lord let everything Let Us Praise the Lord praise the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Lord thank you guys I knew you could do it I knew it guys it's awesome you def don't want me in the drums oh I'm a little out of breath and we're going to sing a song called everything that has breath so it's going to be good we're here to give the Lord glory [Music] amen we lift our hands to the heavens we are here for you we reach for the of your garment know what it can do we know what it can do we refuse to go through the motions when the king is in the room he the sound of our devotion let it build the you build for you let everything that has bre let everything that rest PR prise let everything that sing a new to the oh let our praises [Music] praise the [Music] Lord we've come to Pour our oil to wash our saor feet every drop of every ble Keep Your Glory we refuse to bring offering doesn't us anything show with everything let everything that [Music] has that everything that [Music] has let sing to the let our Praises [Music] PR we praise the Lord we praise the [Music] Lord daning Jo we'll sings We love to bring you praise if it's down before you or a victory Shout with our head RA in heaven we love to bring you praise to the of Sal you're great I am you're the alha we love to bring [Applause] you praise let everything that has rest praise praise let everything that has PR PR let everything has sing a new s to oh let our PR PR we praise the lord we pra the Lord [Music] we praise the [Music] Lord we praise the [Music] Lord we [Music] praise I'm going to let you in on a little secret today um that I don't ever say but I was nervous this morning I was nervous this afternoon and it wasn't uh it wasn't because any of you guys scared me too much you know what it was is I knew this is important and I know the Praises that go on at Mountain High Reach the ears of heaven and that was a big responsibility to get up here and praise with you guys but it's important so I love you guys this is this is some of the most fun that we have all year telling you we get to ski and this is still hard fun we're going to do a song I hope you guys know if you do sing it really loud with me okay [Music] I just to speak the name of Jesus every heart and mind I know there isace within [Music] presence I speak [Music] Jesus I just to speak the name of Jesus every [Music] adds declaring there is hope and there is freedom I see Jesus [Music] your name is power your name is healing your name is break every stonghold shine through the Shadows light I just want to speak the name of Jesus over fear and always [Music] I to Every Soul cap by I speak Jesus your name is power your name is healing your name is m break every stronghold shine through the Shadows burn like a fire shout [Music] Jesus Jesus in streets Jesus in [Music] Theus my I speak the Holy Name Jesus sh Jes Jesus in the Darkness en Jesus for my I speak the shout Jesus from the mountains and Jesus in the streets Jesus in the darkness over every enemy Jesus for my I speak the Holy Name Jesus your name is power your name is healing [Music] your bre every stronghold shine through the Shadows [Music] like your name is power your name is healing your name [Music] is break every stronghold shine through the shadow where like I just want to speak the name of [Music] Jesus every [Music] heart I know is your I speak Jesus [Music] father we love you we love that we can call on your name at any time time and you're there and you answer the testimonies in this room is overwhelming to me the testimonies of God's goodness and his grace and his mercy and his faithfulness and we're going to sing a little a little diddy you might know from the 70s you [Music] Lord and I live my voice to worship you oh my soul Rejoice take joy my king in what you hear [Music] be a Sweet Sweet Sound In [Laughter] [Music] Your Love You Lord and I lift my to worship [Music] you oh my [Music] soul take Jo my king are you here let it be a Sweet Sweet Sound in [Laughter] [Music] your I Love You Lord and I my [Music] toship you oh my soul [Music] take joy my [Music] king [Music] you let it be a Sweet Sweet Sound [Music] take just a moment just stay in that moment of worship for a second I want to do something special before we get into the message tonight and you can be seated and get comfortable um how many of you know that we're always moving through New Seasons right I got to move this stuff CU I have to be able to stand on the edge and one of the greatest privileges as we grow older is being able to take the things that God gave us the Ministries and the calls and things and begin to pass them to the Next Generation Um you know we've always I'm sure you've heard it before but you know our ceiling is the next generation's floor and someone that's done an incredible incredible job from the very beginning of of mountain high camp Mike and charot Wilson Charlotte I just want to honor you would you please come up for just a moment please I'm not going to make you do a speech or anything she might sing a little little song for us but so I don't want to embarrass you but I I just want you to look around and I want you to think about the 29 years of this church being full of mountain high campers and volunteers and doctors and PT and the thousands and thousands of lives that God used you and Mike and Joanna and all these different Tracy God is pleased with you oh thank you and we bless you in the name of Jesus Christ thank you so much we love you guys give her the the Applause she [Music] [Applause] deserves yeah absolutely here since we got you up here might well let you take care of business I thought you'd forgotten me I did well thank you all you know and when you look around you know that two or three people can't do this that's right God touches all of these hearts and that's why it's God's camp and it's the body of Christ doing this everybody has their little nit and everybody does everything and I can't thank you it's it's God's Camp God does it I I can't accept the the accolades I really can't but thank you thank you I appreciate it yeah thank you well while I'm here um I just have one announcement and I wasn't planning on doing an announcement but Carl reminded me he wanted you all to know that all the pictures that he's been taken um if there are four people in it he's is going to send me four copies and if there two I'll get two copies and you'll get the big group photo and then everybody will get the pictures that he has taken of you he sends about 2,000 to me and we sort them out and thank you Carl now there's one real special uh job that uh is behind the scenes and really nobody knows about it but it's very important and Jessica and a would y'all come up here please this might have been why you've been nervous all day where's where's a the sister and she's the introverted sister oh here well and y'all remember um Ben King the praise team leader with the orange hair yeah their brother okay well he is in Argentina now and so we've been missing him and your mom for many many years has done a very important job she would call the parents and say your camper is here so I would like to give this to you all it's your campers Here Lady Mountain High that's what it is and here's one from Ben I'll see him I'll see him soon I'm sure I go back and forth all right well thank you you're welcome thank you and one more thing uh when Mike and I moved here in August of 1993 um we were just SED talking about our friends with brain injury and one night we were having a dinner with Ben and Julie Fon Julie turn around where's Ben see they're younger than I am they can climb the stairs well when we were having dinner we were talking about having a camp something some something fun for our camper our our friends and we mentioned something about a camp and y'all were the first two that we mentioned it to and instead of saying oh no that do sound good they said well count us in they didn't know what we were meaning about that but anyway they have been here for 29 years doing everything and we couldn't have done Camp without you and so we didn't know really Trac and I didn't know what to say so this is what we said Mountain High been in ch 1993 to 2024 thanks for being by our side it's been an incredible ride the Wilson indeed we were trying to sneak out we were trying to fly low out the door today and Teresa prayed that God would let us go gently so I guess it's as gentle as we get thank you it's been our privilege how lovely you two are it's for you know we said count us sin and they did and how wonderful it is is and and and you look out here and each one of you we're blessed by you and thank you and because of the what you do and all that we will stand to you and you my sweetheart we love you thank thanks back thank you thank you don't you love how God loves you and loves the body of Christ amen um obviously the theme of camp this year was rise up right and I don't know if you know this or not but like Kingsley and Tracy and myself we don't really talk about what we're going to talk about on the morning devotionals and stuff and I love to see how God takes things he takes this theme of rising up up and he brings it all together and he uses each one of us and each one of you to bring to bring a piece of that to the entire group amen so each one of you has a part in this and God had a specific role for each one of you this year just like he does every year we started out you know Monday morning talking about um who we are in Christ who does God say we are right and that we can rejoice and celebrate in his grace talking about our identity and then uh incredible message that Kingsley brought on Tuesday Morning um I told him I'm going to be ploring plagiarizing that for a few weeks so preachers preachers will tell you you know the first three times we talk about it it's it's theirs but then after that it's our message and so but he talked about rewriting Allowing God to help you rewrite your story and he spoke specifically about forgiv but I'm I'm going to kind of expand on that just a little bit actually not today but just on next Sunday as well um but see that's all part for us to be able to rise up we have to know who we are we we have to get set free from those things and then this morning I hope you caught the message that Tracy brought us through the bee and the and the flower that was that was amazing that we are to be who God has called us to be be and that it doesn't matter if you can't go to a 100 flowers right it doesn't matter if you just get to one and so our physical limitations never limit God you should be excited about that I am I'm really excited about that and so I just want to kind of wrap this up tonight and I want to tell you how much we love you how much we appreciate you how much this is our premere event that we do all year long and we pray and we prepare for this just like all year long and so that's how special you guys are not just to Faith Mountain but to our community and to our region see when we put a room together like this and the spirit of God is in within each one of us that light shines so bright amen all right so we want to make sure that if we're going to write up there's nothing that's holding us back so I was reading um I get I have a passion translation on my phone I don't know if you guys have Bible apps on your phone but it's a great tool and you can get all kinds of different translations but if you sign up for the the passion translation um you can get this this bi-weekly uh devotional and I get believe me I get books and and podcasts and teachings from people all of the time and there's no way I can read them all or keep up with them all and so I kind of try to specifically set aside different ones that I want I feel like the Holy Spirit has led me to listen to and I'm open to new ones but I think there's so many voices out there sometimes we need to be careful about listening to so many voices that we can't really get focused in on what God's really trying to speak to us and so ask the Holy Spirit ask Holy Spirit what are the ones I'm supposed to listen to what are the books I'm supposed to read what does my Bible study look like right um anyway this devotional and I've actually spoken from it a couple different times it's from the passion translation um this particular one is is the name of it is I hear his whisper for women by Brian Simmons um and I want to read this devotional over every one of you in Camp so everybody look at me all these guys in the back look at me this is for you this is for you this is for me listen to to the words of this because Holy Spirit wants you to hear this tonight child You Are Holy and fully found in me now just think about that for a moment who we really and truly are are complete are found in Christ Jesus it starts with a personal relationship with Jesus Christ if you're in this room tonight and you have never had that personal relationship the reason you see the joy you reason you see the love the blessings everything that happens because of what Jesus did for us and I can tell you after the last 38 years I would never go back if there was no promise of Heaven I would never give up what I have with Jesus here on this Earth amen So You Are Holy and fully found in me you do not consist of a bunch of broken pieces okay some of you have broken bodies but all of us as as um Kingsley shared we all are carrying hurts and pain and things from our past I spoke Monday and I told you our past Never Should Define who we are in Christ Jesus not what we did yesterday that what we did 30 years ago but in Christ we are fully we're not broken listen what he says you do not consist of a bunch of broken pieces held flimsily together by the glue of wishful thinking it does not depend on you thank God that it doesn't depend on me it depends on him my Mercy he's the Lord speaking to you my Mercy has filled in every crack with the liquid gold of my presence look around the room for a moment do you see Perfection I know if you look at me you don't but you know that in Christ Jesus see we're seated in the Heavenly Thrones with Jesus now we are perfect in heaven with him and we're seated with him now our spirit man is perfect our our soul or mind or will or emotions they're being formed into His Image but see yourself listen to what he says here you are whole and you are beautiful to behold somebody probably many of you want to need to hear this this morning or this evening used to preaching on Sunday mornings you are beautiful you are beautiful and you are whole in Christ's eyes and he didn't cause the pain and suffering but he says I'll use it for my glory see yourself in this being take a moment and resist remember there's no condemnation in Christ Jesus see yourself as completely whole and beautiful your life is a reflection of my Redemption power and you know that every time you walk out on the streets of Red River every time when we go home you guys head back tomorrow we we were talking some of the nonon guys and I uh it's hard to go back to the real world again isn't it because we got a room full of people that are willing to lay down their lives and they're loving each other and and there's no judgment there's not none of those things well that's not the world we're going back to but we are reflecting his glory amen that's who you are it doesn't matter what your body looks like it doesn't the older I get the closer I'm like come Lord Jesus plan a is come back right away then he says something really interesting in this article in this message bring me every part of you that feels out of sync and I will align it in my perfect love are there's a choice there right there's something that has to happen right there is we have to bring it to him he's not going to reach out out and grab it and take it from you you had to bring it to him you have to give it to him sometimes we have to give it to him daily sometimes Moment by moment hour by hour there is nothing that won't come alive when I breathe my spirit's life into it somebody be excited about that give me your Broken Dreams your shattered hopes and every discouragement of your soul bring me your joy your comfort your gratitude as well it is all part of your story it's all part of our story and we have an opportunity as Kingsly talked about to say this is the end of this chapter I'm going I'm going to let God write a new chapter I'm going to go home different I'm going to go home free I'm going to go home Anointed with a fresh Vision I am weaving it all together with the thread of my Mercy I am resurrecting your hope as I breathe my persistent promise into your spirit you are mine and you are beloved put please let that go in you are whole do you see yourself as whole or do you keep remembering those hurts and pains and those things from the past because Christ sees you as whole and perfect and the devil sees you as an incredible threat amen you will always I will always refresh you and continually re renew you with the oil of my love no you are not broken daughter or son not even a little amen all right so I'm not done don't think I got lots of time that's why I started us early I want to read a little bit of scripture to you this this evening before we wrap this up I want to be in Hebrews chapter 12 I'm in the new King James version so if we're going to rise up and you if you believe how many of you believe what I just read about you some of you do and I realize it's a process right we're learning we're growing we're understanding we're being conformed into the image of Christ but you have to start getting a hold of who God says you are and not who the world says you are so in that vein if you will I'm going to read from Hebrews chapter 12 uh really familiar uh scripture for a lot of you verse one and I'm in New King James version it says therefore he's been talking about this great um Hall of of famous Faith Warriors right in in chapter 11 it's the faith chapter right and so he says therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily in snares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us look looking to Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and he is sat down at the right hand of the Throne of god so let's let's break that down real quick um therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses he's been talking about the the Great Hall of Faith all the men and women that have gone before us right all the precious ones we watch the video and we're talking about uh precious joy King and all of these that have gone on before by the way haven't lost any of them right they're not lost they're in the arms of Jesus they're in they're in Perfection now and that's the race we're running right now but I always saw that I used to always tell people and and I still see it this way but it's like we're down on the playing field and all of those that have gone before us in this great Stadium cheering for us but you know the Lord showed me something new this this week as I was studying he said that's true he said look around the room because you are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses and each one of you is a witness to the faith and the love of the person sitting next to you in Christ amen we're surrounded that that's why this place is so special was because all of you come together and we're witnessing and we're reflecting his love love to a lost and dying world and we're loving each other but then the key is like this he says therefore lay aside every weight so Kingsley talked about something I would consider weight unforgiveness is sin all right I mean it's very clear in the Bible but it's also something that holds you back so sometimes we have things in our lives things from our past that's a weight it's like a burden remember the beasts of burdens rowing Stones um right we carry these burdens around that Jesus paid for and he never wanted us to carry those he's the writer of Hebrews is encour encouraging us to lay those burdens down and to lay down the sin that so easily in Tangles us and trips us up right and then the key is to run the race that is set before us looking to Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith so when I get in trouble is when I take my eyes off him right I'm I'm in it for the long haul I I'm not quitting okay I've made a mess of so many different things in my life but I've told Lord I'll never quit if you walk with me I will never quit never quit amen never quit the author and the finisher of your faith he's the one that wrote your faith into you and he's the one that's going to finish that walk that Journey of Faith that we're each one of us on and he endured the cross despising the shame how many of you despise the shame that we have to put up with sometimes we've all had to deal with shame and blame and guilt and condemnation that's the language of the devil right but Jesus says that's not who you are and that's not what I say about you so Jesus despised that shame he despised that but he saw the end from the beginning and he saw the Victory and you are that Victory amen that's who God says you are you are my victory and then he sat down at the right hand of the Throne of of God down in verse 12 I won't take a whole lot longer he starts talking about all the different his discipline right and and so he uses when we think of discipline I used to think he was punishing me and so if I didn't do everything right then something was going to go wrong because I was afraid God was going to see all of us have situations that have gone wrong in our lives whether we had control over it or not and God did not cause those situations he didn't break your body he didn't bring the shame and the guilt and the ation but he says you know what I'll use it to train you because we're all here to be trained to rule and reign with Christ forever we're being trained right now through the difficult times that we struggle with so he goes on in verse 12 and he says therefore strengthen the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet so that what is lame will not be dislocated but rather healed and I used to look at that scripture and I could not figure out what he was talking about because I was thinking in the physical room although at 70 here in just a few months the old arms hang down quite a bit more than they used to amen and there's there's some feeble knees in the room right but it's a picture of the physical describing the spiritual and he says make straight paths for your feet remember he's talking about where this great cloud of Witnesses right we're on this race we're on we're on this path I pray for people all the time when we're ministering with people I pray that God will show them the path that he has for you moving forward well know what the finish line is right it's our reward with Christ but I pray that he will show you the path and we don't get too far off that path we're going to all kind of go a little this way or that way but writer of Hebrews is encouraged us stay on that straight path keep your eyes on Jesus and it will that the lame won't be dislocated but healed and he will heal the things of our past and then finally down in verse 22 and I'll start wrapping it up with this he's been talking about in the verses before coming to a mountain it was Mount cyani he was talking about it was a physical Mountain remember that when Moses and the children of Israel came and it was a horrible Place freaked them out right they they didn't want anything to do it they're like Moses you go up there we're not going there right and so he's talking about this physical mountain and how they were afraid that they wouldn't even go near it and he says in verse 22 but you have not come to I'm Excuse me but you have come to Mount Zion to the city of the Living God the heavenly Jerusalem to innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and the Church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven to God the judge of all to the spirits of just men made perfect to Jesus the mediator of a New Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than the blood of Abel so what is he telling us we're not coming into a physical Mountain he says we've now come to a spiritual Mountain and it's a mountain of blessing it's the it's this city the new city that we're going to it's it's the body of Christ it's his sacrifice and we don't have to be afraid anymore we don't have to be afraid of the Bible tells us I won't fear man I I won't Walk In Fear right because what can mere man do to me I'm not going to worry about the one that can kill my body I'm going to worry about the one that can kill my spirit and in Christ Jesus nothing can kill your spirit you are complete and whole and perfect and we need to begin to walk that way every one of us we need to encourage each other we need to be that reflection as we go out we need to be carrying that light in fact we're going to do a very special song tonight that we've been doing charlot I don't know if we've been doing this from the beginning or almost and someone ask the praise team come back up and I believe that they handed out candles and so you not to stand up yet but what we're going to do is we're going to sing this song we do this every year we send you out with this song and this blessing go and light your world Amen think about who you are in Christ and who God says you are and let's start let's start using that as our weapon of warfare taking every thought captive to The Obedience of Christ and let's sing this and let's live this as we go out amen praise the [Music] [Music] in every soul Somey burning some dark and cold there is a spirit who brings a fire ignites a CLE and makes car our CLE to the darkness seek out the hopess confused and Tor hold out your candle for all to see it take your candle go like take your 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the opportunities and the things that you have for us I pray that we'll walk in our true identity and our true destiny in Christ Jesus and that we will light that world as we go forth we love you God bless you give God a clap offering God bless you guys thank you so much if you're available to stick around and help us we're going to tear everything down and get ready for have a great week somebody's keys are right there somebody we got a set of keys up here somebody just dropped I think somebody's Keys got a set of keys