100:00:00,320 –> 00:00:07,680You can find God in the open wounds of your life.200:00:07,680 –> 00:00:08,760He will meet you there.300:00:08,760 –> 00:00:15,840He reaches out to you there and the sammis does precisely the right thing for a wounded person.400:00:16,120 –> 00:00:19,879He pours out his wounds in the presence of God.500:00:20,180 –> 00:00:24,240That’s where the path from pin to piece begin.600:00:25,500 –> 00:00:28,760Welcome to open the Bible with pastor Collins Smith and Colin.700:00:28,760 –> 00:00:36,240Last time, we began to look at the subject of pain and how all of us probably have something in our life which has caused deep pain.800:00:37,040 –> 00:00:40,540How do we find peace with God in the middle of that?900:00:40,540 –> 00:00:43,000I think the samis has a great message for us today.1000:00:43,320 –> 00:00:44,459Yeah that’s right.1100:00:44,459 –> 00:00:49,639The Psalms really address every circumstance that a believer could possibly find in life.1200:00:49,639 –> 00:00:53,840And here in Psalm 129 and Psalm 130.1300:00:54,200 –> 00:01:00,840And we particularly find the wounded believer, the person who really has gone through it.1400:01:00,840 –> 00:01:07,040And there are open wounds and yet that person is looking to find healing from God.1500:01:07,040 –> 00:01:11,180You don’t need to find healing in order to come to God.1600:01:11,180 –> 00:01:15,239But rather come to God in order to find healing.1700:01:15,239 –> 00:01:17,080And so Psalm 130,1800:01:17,080 –> 00:01:25,620so as you’re listening today, if you’re in the depths, if you have open wounds,1900:01:25,620 –> 00:01:30,800if you have gone through an experience in which you have felt completely devastated2000:01:30,800 –> 00:01:33,239and you feel your need today,2100:01:33,239 –> 00:01:38,160the scriptures are going to give you the very way in which you can come to the Lord.2200:01:38,160 –> 00:01:42,019So latch on to them today, receive the word of God today.2300:01:42,019 –> 00:01:48,699Use this as your means of coming to the God in whom alone healing is found for all of2400:01:48,699 –> 00:01:51,779the open wounds of Christian believers.2500:01:51,779 –> 00:01:52,779Thanks for that Colin.2600:01:52,779 –> 00:02:00,099So today we are in Psalms 129-131 as we continue our message from pain to peace.2700:02:00,099 –> 00:02:01,980Here is Colin.2800:02:01,980 –> 00:02:09,220Now this Psalm is good news for the sufferer who screams out with the anguished cry.2900:02:09,220 –> 00:02:11,759Look at verse 4.3000:02:12,160 –> 00:02:16,320This is one to underline circle, yellow highlight and all the rest of it in your Bible but get3100:02:16,320 –> 00:02:18,639it into your mind and into your soul.3200:02:18,639 –> 00:02:19,639Verse 4.3300:02:19,639 –> 00:02:25,520With you, he says to God, there is forgiveness.3400:02:25,520 –> 00:02:34,399With you, there is forgiveness.3500:02:34,399 –> 00:02:41,559Now, I want to speak this word of hope.3600:02:42,320 –> 00:02:44,779To us as a congregation today.3700:02:44,779 –> 00:02:49,320With you, God, there is forgiveness.3800:02:49,320 –> 00:02:56,740Listen, there are some situations in which your wife may not forgive you, your husband3900:02:56,740 –> 00:03:04,279may not forgive you, your children may not forgive you, the state may not forgive you,4000:03:05,160 –> 00:03:10,839your employer may not forgive you, people in the church may not forgive you, but there4100:03:10,839 –> 00:03:16,539is forgiveness with God.4200:03:16,539 –> 00:03:22,979And here’s the psalmist, with all the regrets of his life, and with all the things that4300:03:22,979 –> 00:03:27,080he wishes he could turn the clock back and rerun and foolish mistakes that he wishes4400:03:27,080 –> 00:03:32,979he had never got himself involved in, and he knows he can’t change the past.4500:03:32,979 –> 00:03:33,979But he can.4600:03:33,979 –> 00:03:38,559He can look up into the face of God and he can see with you, there is forgiveness.4700:03:38,559 –> 00:03:42,820It’s wonderful.4800:03:42,820 –> 00:03:47,220And in the darkness we need to hear it.4900:03:47,220 –> 00:03:49,320And notice how he goes on.5000:03:49,320 –> 00:03:54,460With you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.5100:03:54,460 –> 00:04:01,380Now, that really isn’t how you would expect the verse to end, is it?5200:04:01,380 –> 00:04:06,779You’d expect it to say, with you, oh Lord, there is forgiveness that you may be loved.5300:04:06,779 –> 00:04:11,259That’s not what it says.5400:04:11,259 –> 00:04:16,200With you there is forgiveness that you may be feared.5500:04:16,200 –> 00:04:24,380So, what kind of fear increases with forgiveness?5600:04:24,380 –> 00:04:27,940What kind of fear is generated by forgiveness?5700:04:27,940 –> 00:04:30,519Because that’s what he’s saying.5800:04:30,880 –> 00:04:36,320So, he’s not talking about the fear of condemnation because the fear of condemnation disappears5900:04:36,320 –> 00:04:38,160with forgiveness.6000:04:38,160 –> 00:04:42,019Perfect love casts out that kind of fear so he’s certainly not talking about the fear6100:04:42,019 –> 00:04:43,019of condemnation.6200:04:43,019 –> 00:04:48,140So, what is this fear that is generated by forgiveness?6300:04:48,140 –> 00:04:53,640Remember the story in the gospels about Jesus being in a boat with his disciples and there6400:04:53,640 –> 00:04:55,600was a storm on the lake.6500:04:56,600 –> 00:04:59,320And, they were real scared.6600:04:59,320 –> 00:05:03,679Jesus got up and he spoke to the storm and he said peace be still and there was a great6700:05:03,679 –> 00:05:04,679calm.6800:05:04,679 –> 00:05:08,480You remember how the story ended.6900:05:08,480 –> 00:05:12,679Disciples danced around in the boat high-fiving each other.7000:05:12,679 –> 00:05:14,559It doesn’t end like that, does it?7100:05:14,559 –> 00:05:17,600You remember how it does end?7200:05:17,679 –> 00:05:20,119Jesus said peace be still.7300:05:20,119 –> 00:05:25,440The next thing Mark tells us is they were terrified.7400:05:25,440 –> 00:05:28,299Isn’t this fascinating?7500:05:28,299 –> 00:05:34,519When there was a storm, they were scared but when Jesus stopped the storm, they were terrified.7600:05:34,519 –> 00:05:36,000The fear went up.7700:05:36,000 –> 00:05:37,000Why?7800:05:37,000 –> 00:05:39,040What kind of fear was this?7900:05:39,359 –> 00:05:48,760They realized, even if dimly, that they were in the presence of Almighty God, who alone8000:05:48,760 –> 00:05:50,600can still a storm.8100:05:50,600 –> 00:05:56,279That he had come and he had touched their lives and was right with them.8200:05:56,679 –> 00:06:00,260They were overwhelmed with awe.8300:06:02,019 –> 00:06:03,920See, this is a wonderful kind of fear.8400:06:03,920 –> 00:06:08,160This is the sort of fear that the Bible talks about being the beginning of wisdom.8500:06:09,079 –> 00:06:14,000To realize that Almighty God has come near and has touched your life.8600:06:14,519 –> 00:06:21,140That the forgiveness that he’s released to you came at the cost of the death of his Son.8700:06:21,920 –> 00:06:26,100And that he didn’t give this to you so that you could just go back and make a mess in8800:06:26,100 –> 00:06:30,299the same way all over again, but rather so that through the power of his spirit, you8900:06:30,299 –> 00:06:35,540could walk in newness of life, and there is a sense of awe that God is now calling you9000:06:35,540 –> 00:06:37,320and saying, follow me.9100:06:37,799 –> 00:06:42,959Notice what happens by the way, after forgiveness.9200:06:42,959 –> 00:06:47,000These Psalms are packed full, spiritual wisdom.9300:06:47,000 –> 00:06:50,160Look at what happens after forgiveness.9400:06:50,160 –> 00:06:56,899Verse five, I wait for the Lord.9500:06:56,899 –> 00:07:01,880I wait for the Lord more than watchmen, wait for morning.9600:07:01,880 –> 00:07:03,679Now he’s already forgiven.9700:07:03,679 –> 00:07:09,839He said present tense that is forgiveness with you, so he’s not waiting for forgiveness.9800:07:09,839 –> 00:07:13,200What is he waiting for?9900:07:13,200 –> 00:07:18,720Well he says he is waiting for the Lord.10000:07:18,720 –> 00:07:25,320He’s waiting in other words to enjoy a restored sense of the presence and blessing of God10100:07:25,320 –> 00:07:26,619in his life.10200:07:26,619 –> 00:07:32,200By the way, that reminds us of a very important principle.10300:07:32,279 –> 00:07:39,779Forgiveness is immediate, healing is gradual.10400:07:39,779 –> 00:07:44,859Forgiveness is immediate, healing takes time.10500:07:44,859 –> 00:07:48,899Very important to understand the distinction between these two things.10600:07:48,899 –> 00:07:53,260The psalmist knows he’s forgiven, but he wants more than that.10700:07:53,260 –> 00:07:59,339He wants to feel again the intimacy of fellowship with God that he enjoyed before and that takes10800:08:00,000 –> 00:08:02,480He says I’ll wait for it.10900:08:02,480 –> 00:08:07,660I think you find the same thing with David in Psalm 51, where he prays in these two11000:08:07,660 –> 00:08:08,660dimensions.11100:08:08,660 –> 00:08:12,500Cleanse me with hyssop and I shall be clean wash me I shall be whiter than snow.11200:08:12,500 –> 00:08:14,359But it doesn’t end there.11300:08:14,359 –> 00:08:21,279He says restore to me the joy of my salvation and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.11400:08:21,279 –> 00:08:29,320So, don’t confuse being forgiven with feeling forgiven.11500:08:29,339 –> 00:08:30,899I find a lot of folks confused there.11600:08:30,899 –> 00:08:33,820I don’t feel forgiven so that must mean that God hasn’t forgiven me.11700:08:33,820 –> 00:08:36,020Now that’s a confusion.11800:08:36,020 –> 00:08:41,080Don’t confuse being forgiven with feeling forgiven.11900:08:41,080 –> 00:08:46,059Being forgiven is an act of God on the basis of the blood of Jesus Christ.12000:08:46,059 –> 00:08:48,919There is forgiveness.12100:08:48,919 –> 00:08:51,080With you.12200:08:51,080 –> 00:08:54,979Feeling forgiven is part of the process of recovery.12300:08:55,020 –> 00:09:01,960And sometimes it takes a while for your feelings to catch up with the new reality.12400:09:01,960 –> 00:09:08,020The wonderful thing is though that may take time and frankly it normally will, it will12500:09:08,020 –> 00:09:10,359happen.12600:09:10,359 –> 00:09:14,780That’s why the psalmus uses this wonderful image of my soul waiting for the Lord more12700:09:14,780 –> 00:09:18,260than watchmen wait for morning.12800:09:18,260 –> 00:09:21,640The watchman feels that the morning is a long time coming.12900:09:21,640 –> 00:09:25,820If you have had the experience of being awake at night, you will know how long the night13000:09:25,820 –> 00:09:28,380is if you cannot sleep.13100:09:28,380 –> 00:09:40,780But the morning will come, weeping endures for a night, the joy comes in the morning.13200:09:40,780 –> 00:09:46,780So an open wound, an anguished cry.13300:09:47,020 –> 00:09:52,239An open wound, an anguished cry, and we will look at 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message now15400:11:19,440 –> 00:11:20,919here again is Colin15500:11:20,919 –> 00:11:29,719An open wound, an anguished cry, here’s the third, the third picture as we’re following15600:11:29,739 –> 00:11:33,979progress through this experience of suffering- the weaned child.15700:11:33,979 –> 00:11:43,799Psalm 131 verse 2, I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother.15800:11:43,799 –> 00:11:47,260Now every mother knows weaning is a difficult business.15900:11:47,260 –> 00:11:50,580Bring back some memories for those who are mums here…16000:11:50,580 –> 00:11:58,219A lot of tears, a lot of tantrums.16100:11:58,239 –> 00:12:06,739Weaning isn’t easy for the child for the mother but it is part of the process of moving from16200:12:06,739 –> 00:12:11,200infancy to maturity.16300:12:11,200 –> 00:12:15,880It is a great relief for the child and for the mother when the process for weening is16400:12:15,880 –> 00:12:16,880complete.16500:12:16,880 –> 00:12:22,919At last the crying has stopped, the tantrums are over, and instead of making constant demands16600:12:22,919 –> 00:12:27,880on the mother, the child is now contented, sitting beside her.16700:12:28,020 –> 00:12:31,280That’s the picture here.16800:12:31,799 –> 00:12:38,359Now the point is, of course, that we go through a process of weaning in the Christian life16900:12:38,359 –> 00:12:45,580and this is part of what it means to move from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity.17000:12:45,840 –> 00:12:49,700See, the young child sees its mother as being there to give the little scrap everything17100:12:49,700 –> 00:12:56,039that he needs or wants on demand, as it were, and when the little fella feels hungry he17200:12:56,260 –> 00:13:01,820he cries out day or night and goes on yelling until he gets what he wants.17300:13:01,840 –> 00:13:08,000And there’s nothing wrong with that but it is infant.17400:13:08,000 –> 00:13:14,000There is something wrong with that if you are still doing it at age 25, right?17500:13:14,000 –> 00:13:19,320The mature son no longer sees his mother as existing to provide him with everything he17600:13:19,520 –> 00:13:27,679wants, but rather stands alongside his mother as one who is deeply loved.17700:13:29,799 –> 00:13:34,239We all begin the Christian life as spiritual infants.17800:13:34,239 –> 00:13:38,799And at that stage it is quite natural for us to feel that God is the one who exists17900:13:38,799 –> 00:13:42,479to keep us satisfied.18000:13:42,479 –> 00:13:46,479But God does not want us to remain in spiritual infancy.18100:13:46,539 –> 00:13:53,000He wants us to grow into the full measure of a mature son and daughter of God.18200:13:55,239 –> 00:14:01,039And you see that’s what suffering does.18300:14:01,039 –> 00:14:08,359It weans us off an infant approach to God.18400:14:08,359 –> 00:14:13,599It brings us to the place where we’re no longer loving God because everything is in18500:14:13,599 –> 00:14:15,479our life as we would want it to be.18600:14:15,640 –> 00:14:20,820We are loving God with the maturity of one who loves him for who he is.18700:14:22,140 –> 00:14:22,919That’s growth.18800:14:25,619 –> 00:14:30,039Now I want you to notice just briefly one of the key parts of this growth, the thing18900:14:30,039 –> 00:14:32,859that underlies the weaning process.19000:14:32,859 –> 00:14:41,200Notice in verse 1 that the psalmist has let go of some of the unanswerable questions of19100:14:41,200 –> 00:14:43,479his life.19200:14:43,979 –> 00:14:48,039And this is really the foundation of weaning or at least a major part of it.19300:14:48,039 –> 00:14:51,520My heart is not proud, he says O lord, my eyes are not haughty.19400:14:51,520 –> 00:14:55,559I don’t concern myself with great matters or things that are too wonderful for me.19500:14:55,559 –> 00:14:56,359That’s very important.19600:14:58,119 –> 00:15:03,359If you want to move in the right direction, if you want to pursue this path through the19700:15:03,359 –> 00:15:06,080valley of suffering, coming out the other side.19800:15:06,799 –> 00:15:15,880If you want to move from pain to peace, then at some point you will have to let go of the19900:15:15,880 –> 00:15:19,440questions you cannot answer.20000:15:19,440 –> 00:15:26,559Usually these questions will begin with the words, Why did God allow?20100:15:26,559 –> 00:15:33,159You got a question like that, and you’re not going to get an answer.20200:15:33,859 –> 00:15:40,380Why did God allow the particular suffering that has been most painful plowing up your20300:15:40,380 –> 00:15:43,380life?20400:15:43,380 –> 00:15:44,799I don’t know.20500:15:44,799 –> 00:15:49,640I don’t know.20600:15:49,640 –> 00:15:55,419And all of us struggle with the unanswered questions of our lives.20700:15:56,080 –> 00:16:05,260But at some point, if you’re going to move from infancy to maturity, you have to bring20800:16:05,280 –> 00:16:09,960the unanswered question to the foot of the cross of Jesus, and leave it there as something20900:16:09,960 –> 00:16:15,239that you trust to Him in faith also.21000:16:15,239 –> 00:16:21,299Way back in the 11th century, there was an English monk by the name of Anselm, a very21100:16:21,299 –> 00:16:22,900famous Christian.21200:16:22,900 –> 00:16:29,460He struggled with this whole question of believing when you do not understand, and he wrote a21300:16:29,460 –> 00:16:31,739very famous prayer.21400:16:31,739 –> 00:16:33,260This is what he said.21500:16:33,260 –> 00:16:41,099I do not seek, O Lord, to penetrate thy depths.21600:16:41,099 –> 00:16:48,320I by no means think my intellect equal to them.21700:16:48,320 –> 00:16:55,700But I long to understand in some degree thy truth which my heart believes and loves.21800:16:55,700 –> 00:16:58,679And then his most famous words.21900:16:58,679 –> 00:17:10,459For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand.22000:17:10,459 –> 00:17:13,800There is great wisdom there.22100:17:13,800 –> 00:17:16,599The secret things belong to the Lord.22200:17:17,239 –> 00:17:24,300There are some questions to which you will never know the answer in this life.22300:17:24,300 –> 00:17:29,400And frankly, wanting to know all things is like trying to put yourself in the position22400:17:29,400 –> 00:17:30,859of God.22500:17:30,859 –> 00:17:33,599And that is idolatry.22600:17:33,599 –> 00:17:39,760Only God knows all things, and you are not God.22700:17:39,760 –> 00:17:44,339So faith knows that it has to live with some unanswered questions.22800:17:45,339 –> 00:17:50,339I believe that I may understand.22900:17:50,339 –> 00:17:54,439There comes a point where I have to lay my unanswered questions at the foot of the cross23000:17:54,459 –> 00:17:59,900of Jesus, and say with Anselm, I don’t need to understand everything, Jesus, before23100:17:59,900 –> 00:18:09,380I believe, but I will believe so that one day I will truly understand.23200:18:09,380 –> 00:18:16,719The open wound, the anguished cry, the weaned child.23300:18:16,719 –> 00:18:21,180See the path of progress?23400:18:21,180 –> 00:18:28,420Now, in our very last moments, briefly, I want us to think, and I hope to think with23500:18:28,420 –> 00:18:38,060worship, about what it meant for Jesus to pray these Psalms.23600:18:38,239 –> 00:18:41,199Can you hear Jesus saying this?23700:18:41,199 –> 00:18:47,599They have greatly oppressed me from my youth.23800:18:47,599 –> 00:18:57,719No, no sooner was he born Herod wanted to murder him, and the hatred of Christ went23900:18:57,719 –> 00:19:01,640all the way through his life right up to the cross.24000:19:01,640 –> 00:19:07,099Can you hear Christ saying this?24100:19:07,099 –> 00:19:16,839They have plowed my back with long furrows.24200:19:16,839 –> 00:19:18,800You’ve seen the film of the passion.24300:19:18,800 –> 00:19:22,439It will immediately come back to you.24400:19:22,439 –> 00:19:32,239The scourging of Jesus Christ, lacerating not only his back, but the whole of his body.24500:19:32,239 –> 00:19:39,319They have plowed my back with long furrows.24600:19:39,319 –> 00:19:45,439Can you hear Jesus praying this from Psalm 130?24700:19:45,439 –> 00:19:52,020Out of the depths I cry to you O Lord.24800:19:52,020 –> 00:19:56,780Remember him in the awesome darkness that came over Calvary while he hung on the cross24900:19:56,780 –> 00:19:59,959for three of these hours and he cries out of the depths,25000:19:59,979 –> 00:20:03,479God, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?25100:20:06,420 –> 00:20:10,380But his suffering does not end in the cry of dereliction.25200:20:10,380 –> 00:20:15,339He puts his hope in the Lord and after the darkness passes he is able to say with the25300:20:15,339 –> 00:20:24,459spirit of a weaned child, Father, into your hands I commit my Spirit.25400:20:25,459 –> 00:20:33,339And our Lord Jesus Christ is able to say as no other can say, they have not gained the25500:20:33,339 –> 00:20:35,280victory over me.25600:20:36,920 –> 00:20:44,060That is why David at the end of Psalm 131 could say, O Israel put your hope in the Lord25700:20:44,060 –> 00:20:47,459both now and for evermore.25800:20:49,459 –> 00:20:53,119You know in all the discussion that goes on in our culture about religion and25900:20:53,319 –> 00:20:59,680about all the stuff we keep hearing about everything’s the same.26000:20:59,680 –> 00:21:05,400I find myself thinking more and more these days about the uniqueness of Jesus.26100:21:07,319 –> 00:21:14,619You go into a Buddhist temple, travel anywhere in the Far East you’ll see so many, and you’ll26200:21:14,800 –> 00:21:23,660see an image there, a large image of one sitting with folded arms and expressionless eyes looking26300:21:23,660 –> 00:21:30,060remote, passive, distant, as uncaring as you could imagine.26400:21:30,060 –> 00:21:42,280The arms of Jesus are not folded in detachment, the arms of Jesus are spread out in sacrificial26500:21:42,300 –> 00:21:46,219love.26600:21:46,219 –> 00:21:52,300When you go through the dark valley of pain and suffering He will meet you there.26700:21:52,300 –> 00:22:02,040A broken world needs Jesus because only Jesus can speak to a broken world.26800:22:02,040 –> 00:22:09,160He knows what it is for the open wound to bleed.26900:22:09,939 –> 00:22:18,099He knows what it is to cry out in the darkness.27000:22:18,099 –> 00:22:25,219He knows what it is to come through the triumph of victory.27100:22:25,219 –> 00:22:29,020And He’ll meet you in your darkness.27200:22:29,020 –> 00:22:34,300He’s the only One who can bring you through.27300:22:34,380 –> 00:22:38,400We’ve heard a message of hope here today, and it’s good to be reminded that because27400:22:38,400 –> 00:22:44,800of what Jesus did, we can move from pain to peace — the title of today’s message.27500:22:44,900 –> 00:22:50,020It’s part of our series Moving in the Right Direction, based on the Psalms of Assent,27600:22:50,020 –> 00:22:52,459that’s Psalms 120-134.27700:22:52,459 –> 00:22:56,859And if you’ve missed any of the series, or if you want to go back and listen again,27800:22:56,859 –> 00:23:03,699that’s easy to do by coming online to our website, openthebible.org.uk, or you can find27900:23:03,800 –> 00:23:08,640Pastor Collin’s teaching as a podcast, and those are on all the main podcast sites.28000:23:08,640 –> 00:23:14,000Simply search for Open the Bible UK and subscribe if you want to receive regular updates.28100:23:14,160 –> 00:23:18,920You can also find a link to the podcasts on our website.28200:23:18,920 –> 00:23:23,599Also on our website, and available as podcast, is Open the Bible Daily, and that’s our28300:23:23,599 –> 00:23:29,400series of short – two to three minute – daily reflection pieces based on Pastor Collin’s28400:23:29,400 –> 00:23:32,400teaching, and read in the UK by Sue McLeish.28500:23:32,400 –> 00:23:37,719There’s a new one every day and many Christians tune in every day to get that uplifting message28600:23:37,719 –> 00:23:39,500from Pastor Collins.28700:23:39,500 –> 00:23:45,520Let’s open the Bible daily which you can find on our website Open The Bible.org.uk28800:23:45,520 –> 00:23:53,219Collin, God says in his word that when we confess our sins he is faithful and just to28900:23:53,219 –> 00:23:58,079forgive us our sins but sometimes it just doesn’t feel like that.29000:23:58,219 –> 00:24:01,880Yeah and the good news is that your forgiveness does not depend on your29100:24:01,880 –> 00:24:02,880feeling.29200:24:02,880 –> 00:24:06,140It depends on faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.29300:24:06,140 –> 00:24:07,920That’s where it comes from.29400:24:07,920 –> 00:24:12,719So I may feel pretty bad about myself and maybe with some good reason.29500:24:12,719 –> 00:24:16,400But my forgiveness comes through the shed blood of Christ.29600:24:16,400 –> 00:24:23,359That’s what it costs and I’ve got to fix my faith on forgiveness that comes from him29700:24:23,359 –> 00:24:29,199and then lay hold of the strength that comes from him to begin to move in a different direction29800:24:29,199 –> 00:24:32,099as I head following Jesus into the future.29900:24:32,099 –> 00:24:36,880Thanks Colin I think many of us needed to hear that today.30000:24:36,880 –> 00:24:40,920You’ve been listening to Pastor Colin Smith on Open The Bible and I hope you’ll tune in30100:24:40,920 –> 00:24:46,439again tomorrow for the next message in the series Moving In The Right Direction.30200:24:46,439 –> 00:24:50,959For Pastor Colin and Open The Bible I’m David Pick and I look forward to being with you30300:24:50,959 –> 00:24:51,780again tomorrow.30400:24:53,699 –> 00:24:54,880Door Break30500:25:02,719 –> 00:25:09,079We all have dreams. I wonder what yours are? To start your own business, to raise happy30600:25:09,180 –> 00:25:14,959and successful children, to make a difference in the world. What do you do when it seems30700:25:14,959 –> 00:25:20,000your dreams are out of reach? Find out next time on Open The Bible.