Christ in the Waiting

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When waiting turns into doubt, Jesus meets us where we are and reminds us that His timing and ways are greater than our own. Abraham and Sarah's story shows that nothing is too hard for God, and what begins in cynicism can end in celebration when we trust His promises.

Christ comes close in the waiting

Christ is counterintuitive

Christ confronts the cynic

Life Group Discussion:

What is something you're currently waiting on, and how has that waiting affected your faith?

Have you ever had a plan for your life that God seemed to completely rewrite? What happened?

What's the difference between honest doubt and cynicism toward God?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Church, how we doing?
0:02.7	Come on, come on, come on.
0:05.1	Anybody been to Universal Studios?
0:07.8	Okay, cool, man.
0:10.0	11 service, man.
0:11.8	You guys have been.
0:12.7	This is the amusement park service.
0:16.3	So there was like a new ride.
0:18.3	When we went, there was a brand new ride.
0:20.5	And it was like Hagrid ride. When we went, there was a brand new ride. And it was like
0:21.2	Hagrid's magical creatures motorbike or something like that. Anybody ride that ride?
0:29.9	So it was like the thing, okay, I'm telling you, guys showed up. It was like the, it was the thing
0:36.1	you got to do. Like, hey, if you go now, you got to now, you got to do the new ride. You got to go on the new ride, you know? And so I'm like, okay, well, I don't want to miss out on the new ride. It's in Harry Potter world. I know some of you are like Harry Potter, like a shirt. Like, what are we talking about right now? I'm casting out demons right now. But anyways, it's the new ride. It's the new ride and we wanted to do the
0:56.8	ride, but the problem is on the app you can see is like four hour wait. I'm not going to do, we are not
1:01.6	going to spend four hours of our day waiting to ride this roller coaster. So we're watching.
1:07.2	I'm saying, hey, you know, maybe it dips down. Lo and behold, at some point in the day, two hour wait.
1:13.6	Like, two hour, okay, we'll do two hours.
1:15.6	We'll wait two hours.
1:16.7	So we kind of run across the amusement park to get in line for the Hagrid's magical creatures
1:23.3	motorbike ride.
1:24.8	Okay.
1:25.5	There we are.
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