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Hi, I'm John Maxwell. I'm excited to be with you at Passion City Church.

So Louis and Shelley thank you very much for having me. I'm excited

about how God has used you not only in Atlanta but around the world in your

ministry and to be able to be one of the seven voices on your series is a real honor so. your

and to be able to be one of the seven voices on your series is a real honor so thanks for having me.

As I think of 2020 I am now kind of calling it the wilderness year and you can obviously know why that

would be because this is a very difficult time of COVID-19 racial division a lot of uncertainty a lot of questions

we're all out of our comfort zone and when you think of the wilderness you think of

a place perhaps that you're not familiar with it and there's a

tendency for you to get lost there's a tendency for you go in circles not make

much progress and I want to talk to you about this time that we're going through, but I want to

encourage you in the message to watch and follow Jesus as he models for us or shows us how to handle our wilderness experience.

Now in a moment we're going to go to Luke chapter four where Jesus had a wilderness experience but before we do that

If you go over to Hebrew chapter 11 that's the great faith chapter men and women of 12 all of a sudden we find two things very interesting. The men and women of

faith in chapter 11 of Hebrews are now in the stands and they're basically cheering us on as we run the race.

So they're watching us run the race because this race that we're in has no finish line,

it's eternal.

And so they were a part of the race now they are

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