God's Testing You
The Mark Driscoll Podcast
Mark Driscoll
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Your test is for your testimony. |
| 0:02.0 | How many of you want to have a testimony? |
| 0:04.0 | Okay? |
| 0:05.0 | How many of you don't want to go through a test to have a testimony? |
| 0:08.0 | You can't have one without the other. |
| 0:11.0 | What he says is, God tests our heart, |
| 0:13.9 | that's what he's talking about. |
| 0:15.8 | And what he's saying is that the test is for his testimony. |
| 0:19.1 | And here's the difference between a biography |
| 0:21.7 | and a testimony. |
| 0:23.0 | The world tells stories about human life and conquest and victory, |
| 0:28.0 | and its biography, and it is, here's what I did, and here's how I did it. A testimony is, here's what I did and here's how I did it. A testimony is here's what God did and here's how he did it. |
| 0:36.8 | The difference between a biography and a testimony is who's the hero? |
| 0:41.4 | A biography, I'm the hero. Testimony, God's the hero? A biography, I'm the hero. |
| 0:42.9 | Testimony, God's the hero. |
| 0:45.4 | And what Paul is going through here is a test |
| 0:48.2 | and it's for his testimony. |
| 0:51.6 | And here, I've said this before but I use this analogy a lot. |
| 0:57.0 | This is my water bottle for the series. |
| 1:00.0 | It's Jesus is coming, look busy and so I use this analogy a lot but there's |
| 1:10.2 | water in the bottle what happens when I bump the bottle what comes out whatever water in the bottle, what happens when I bump the bottle, what comes out, |
| 1:14.3 | whatever's in the bottle. |
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