Beautiful Disaster | Chris Durso | Zoe Church LA | 12.31.17

Zoe Church LA

Chad Veach

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Beautiful Disaster - “Even when you don’t do what God wants, you’re STILL the one who God WANTS.” - Our lives are not defined by our sins but by the one who forgives our sins. Listen as Pastor Chris Durso speaks about how we serve a God that will leave the 99 sheep for the one!

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0:00.0	This is Zoe Church, LA. We're not just fans, but rather followers of Jesus.
0:07.0	Tune in as Pastor Chad Veach teaches of God's love and how we can live a Zoe life, an abundant life.
0:14.0	Genesis chapter 29, reading from verse 13, this is the amplified amplified translation and this is how the story reads
0:23.4	it says when laban heard of the arrival of jacob his sister's son he ran to meet him he embraced
0:30.8	and kissed him and brought him to his house and and then jacob told laban these things he says
0:35.6	surely you are my bone and my flesh. Jacob
0:38.7	Jacob stayed with him a month. And then Laban said to Jacob, just because you are my relative,
0:43.6	should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be? Verse 16. Now Laban had two
0:51.1	daughters. The name of the older was Leah. The name of the younger was Rachel.
0:57.3	Verse 17.
0:58.2	Let's pay close attention to verse 17.
1:01.7	It says Leah's eyes were weak and dull-looking.
1:06.4	Now, we're going to stop right there because maybe, just maybe, you missed out on what the Bible was trying to point out to us in that moment, okay?
1:14.9	This is the Bible's way of letting us know that Leah was not the prettiest of girls.
1:19.9	It says that her eyes were weak and dull-looking.
1:23.4	In other words, if you stared at this girl for too long, your eyes will become weak and dull-looking.
1:32.2	It's the Bible's way of saying she wasn't a pretty girl.
1:35.6	Now, right about now, I could feel all the women staring at me with a gaze of death because you're most likely offended by this, which you can't be offended by this. For two reasons why you can't be offended by this. One, it's in the Bible, okay? If you're going to be mad at anyone, be mad at God. He put it there. Fair? Two, it's the Old Testament. We all know that ugliness was abolished at the cross. You're all beautiful people.
2:02.4	You have nothing to worry about. Can I get amen? Oh, that you respond to. Like, okay,
2:09.2	she's ugly, but not me. Amen. It says that lay his eyes were weak and dull looking,
2:14.6	but Rachel was beautiful and attractive. This is what you call a contrast.
2:20.7	Okay? So you got Leah, not so pretty. Rachel, very pretty. Okay. Jacob loved Rachel. So he said,
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