If you have a Bible or a cell phone, go to Genesis 37, Genesis 37, and I'm going to stay in the series.

I love the series that we're in.

Things that I wish preachers would say, things that I wish preachers would say,

things that I wish preachers would say,

and there is a whole lot of things

that I wish preachers would say.

I'm a pastor's kid, just like Judah.

My wife is a pastor's kid just like Judah. My wife is a pastor's kid and I've grown up

around preachers and preaching my whole life and so I'm gonna talk to you tonight

about pain, about hurt because I wish more preachers would talk about how painful life can be.

Anybody by show a hand, you have ever gone through a painful season in your life. Let me just see your hand. You ever gone through a painful season in your life?

Let me just see your hand.

You ever gone through a season.

I want to talk tonight about some pain and some hardship.

And you can write down a subtitle,

because this is actually the real message I'm going to preach tonight.

It's called the testing of a dream.

And I believe that when God gives you a dream, he always follows it up with a test. And a lot of times the bigger the

dream, the bigger the test. And so I don't know if there's any dreamers in here.

I don't know if there's any people that have a dream to do something great in life.

Maybe you've got a dream to be an artist,

dream to own a business, dream to start a family, dream to get married.

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