Amen and amen and amen. How we doing? Doing good? Do it good. You're extra clappy. I love it. I love it. I love how we clap every time we see somebody baptized, even it's on a video from a year ago. I love it so much. Because what you celebrate shows the world what you value. And I hope you're planning on being at beach baptism. If you've not been baptized, you should get baptized. Also, if you got a Bible, go to Matthew Chapter 11. That's where we're going to be. We're going to do the whole chapter. Welcome back. Surprised to see so many of you here after the beatdown we took last week. So good job. This week, it's going to be kind of the opposite.

Like in the beginning, it's a little more in your face.

It gets real awesome at the end.

So hang to the end, okay?

The reality is this, is that you and I, even a lot like this baptism video, we saw,

we always have these two competing voices going on in our lives,

these two competing feelings going on in our lives, these two competing feelings going on

in our life. And it pretty much boils down to this. You can either listen to the voice of the

sovereign Savior or you can let your circumstances be the loudest voice in your life. And fundamentally,

at your core, you believe, you trust, you have faith in one or the other.

And where you put your faith, whether it's in your sovereign savior, or you put your faith in your circumstances, will determine your reality.

And this, so you'll either trust Christ or you'll take your trust and you'll put it

in what's going on in your world. And this could include like you trust your behaviors or

your traditions or your upbringing or your financial situation or your health situation,

whatever it is. And where you put your upbringing, or your financial situation, or your health situation, whatever it is.

And where you put your faith, where you put your trust, determines whether your life is ruled by

faith or ruled by fear. It will determine whether you have a life of hope or hopelessness. It will determine whether you have a life of hope or hopelessness.

It will determine whether you live a life of dependence on the Almighty God who is in control of all things and loves you,

or you live a life of despair.

I told you this 50 times.

The difference, man, between faith and fear is simply this.

When you look into the future, who do you think is in control?

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