Yeah good morning. So Pastor Josh asked me about a month ago if I would preach while he would be in Michigan I told him I would. If he was kind of caught off guard that I said yes so quickly and one thing I actually didn't expect was the overwhelming feeling that I would have to not have to go join cross that. You guys laugh but actually I just finished our second week and we've been a tough cross fit with Pastor Josh So I'm going to have some references for you guys that you get to feel rightat home in this church Sunday so we'll make sure to get to that you guys have the privilege I guess most of you listening to my second ever sermon the first one I did was in two thousandand eleven it was man month I was twenty years old had no idea what I was doing. Fairly new question so I decided to talk about these five seventeen. Year old is gone Behold the new has come about cries about stairs is a good time. So I practice that thing over and over again and I knew we had twenty minutes and afterwards Brian Clark was supposed to follow me he was going to deliver a little sermon about thesesaw in the light and I mostly remember this because he had me come up as a visual He had a huge cup of water and he took a literal cup of salt poured into this water and I had to drinkit. I don't even remember what their last ration was but I just remember drinking the salt water and being nervous the whole time because I was doing that sermon so. You know so I was practicing over and over again at home much like I have this one and always hitting between about eighteen and twenty one minutes and I was right there in that littlesweet spot needed twenty minutes eighteen to twenty WANT TO felt good but something happens when you take this second step. You know you start to shake a little bit and start to sweat. But alas my you guys I'll be in the middle of my lesson and I like Zakir Pitts I'm sorry. But something happens and so I get up I take the second step twelve minutes I finish my sermon in twelve minutes. Brian Clark came up here I think he did and his like fifteen minutes sowe got you guys out like twenty minutes earlier it was it was awesome so we'll see how this goes worst case scenario we get to let you guys go get snacks and coffee early I think we'll beOK. So what we're going to talk about today Usually when I am delivering maybe to a class or I'm given opportunity to speak I like talking about something maybe I'm struggling with couldbe a awesome theological question that I want to look at could be some sort of sin that I'm looking into some sort of doubt that I might have that I want the answer to and I want todeliver it to people. I mean do something a little bit different today and I decided to talk a little bit more about something that I feel like is a strong suit of mine you could even say maybe one of my spiritualgifts and that is going to be the topic of joy. So we're going to do is we're going to look at this graph that I have prepared and this is what we're going to call our joy graph this is non biblical this is a non biblical view of joy and sowe have a few different situations up here and we're going to we're going to look at these and the further up this line goes the more joy we're having in these situations so we have ifwe're hungry in the desert our joy isn't that high the four insulated in Egypt our joy is now that we have water but it's bitter sort of joy still isn't really that great but now we're getting intosome little better situations I had an OK day at work you know our joys maybe right there in the middle you have a child he was there that brings a lot of joy. And then Pastor Josh'sfavorite you win the lottery that is just as. All time high enjoy Right that's what we've been talking about the past few weeks I think that's what I've got out of everything so. That's kind of how we view it and so what we want to do now is we're in turn our Bibles and it's going to be James one chapter two I'm sorry James Chapter one Verse two he has aprobably heard this verse twenty times probably lots of sermons about it and hopefully we will put a little bit of a spin on it so that you guys can take something away from this so Jamesone starting in verse two. I consider pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance let perseverance finish its work so that youmay be mature and complete not lacking anything. So for the most part we're going to looking at verse two and what I've done is I've created a different graph and this is what verse two is telling us our situation should not look like. Sowe're still hungry in the desert but our joy is still at the top and our joy is going to stay consistent between all these situations so whether we are enslaved in Egypt whether we havebetter water we have an OK day at work for having a child or we won the lottery or joy staying the same. So I hope I'm a visual person so hopefully this this helps you guys a little bit what we're going to do now though is we're going to take this we're going to look at some of these situationsthat were maybe a little less favorable and we're going to see maybe why we were experiencing joy in these situations so we're going to look at early Israel and we're going to go tosome of these verses and we're going to figure out maybe where they were missing out on some joy. That's what I love about the Old Testament you can really learn a lot about human nature you can learn a lot about people and people say a lot of times like generations are gettingworse the next generation coming up it's. Going to be terrible if you look at early Israel you realize there was a struggle then too and so hopefully we get a little bit from that so let's gothere so we're going to turn now to Exodus sixteen verse two. That is Exodus sixteen verse two. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron this is your light said to them if only we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt they are talking about in Egypt wesat around parts of me and all the food we wanted we have brought us out here into the desert to start this entire assembly to death. So we have three main points so we're going to be going over today and I thought a whole bunch about different points that I want to hit narrowed it down to three. The first one isgoing to be this. The first thing holding us back from Joy is that we create trials from situations that are not even problems yet I'll say that one more time we create trials that are not even problems yet. As many of you know I work for Grand Canyon University and I and a chance to specialise there my main job is to help community college students take everything that they have theCommunity College bring it over to G.C. You make sure everything is smooth I make sure to be able to pay for everything and make sure everything is perfect for the transfer. One of thebiggest things I'm doing right now and I do and I meet the students is it's called a budget sheet and at the very top we have all of the tuition and fees and everything that D.C. is goingto charge the student then we get to a point was like Right what scholarships are we going to offer these students what money are we going to give them and then we subtract thatnumber from the top and we get another number and also and they see this big number like I need financial aid so we look at fine. Late to get them some government funding we takethat off and at the bottom we have a number it is an out of pocket cost to the students and when I see this I'll know if the cost is going to be relatively low or if it's a relatively high. And when I see one that is relatively high I start to freak out for the city because I know I don't want to pay that I don't want to pay that amount that I know the student is going to bepaying and so I search saying you know what maybe we can keep the committee called Get your G.P.A. we are trying to get you some more scholarships and we can look at alternativeloans or loans your parents could cosign I start going through all these things freaking out for the student. And I mostly do this I've been there for three years and I mostly did this in the first year. And the first year I did it up until a parent cut me off so I'm I'm still here going through alternative loan options you know they would stay at community college and so that stop. OK So is this out of pocket is perfect we can pay that so you see what I did is I created a problem for this family that wasn't actually an issue so I made a trial and made something thatwas tough something that was not a problem at all and that's kind of what's going on here in chapter sixteen so the yes they are hungry in the desert but complaining about itconsidering this to be something that they are struggling with is kind of crazy so I think honestly if they were just taking their. Request to God I honestly think you are still provided themanna if we still look if we look at the next chapter God Here's their complaint and he provides the daily bread he gives them instruction on that so I think if they're just like you knowMoses and Aaron I need my daily bread or we need something to eat God would have provided anyways you didn't need to make something that was an issue that's something thatshould have been an issue. I have another couple examples about how we are kind of tend to be complainer ZA little bit I've been reading this book it's called undefendable it is written by Brant Hansen. On my usecase I've heard all of these already but you're going to hear him again so Branson he might have heard of him he was the D.J. for air one for the longest time the super goofy superhilarious guy recently past couple years he for a couple years ago he decided that I wasn't the route for him and they kind of moved on but. In it there are some situations that he goesthrough. Just talking about how much of an impact he can make on people by not being offended and we just did a series on this newsgroup he just mostly talks about how being an offender willcan impact your self you can free yourself it can impact the nonbelievers and it can impact other believers and in it he does some situations where callers would call in and tell themsomething that maybe he's doing wrong while on air and so he's going to drink directly from the book they're pretty humorous so. Hopefully we can get something out of this. So oneday he was on the air and he was talking about the local forecast and he said this and I quote it'll be warmer than it should be for this time of year. Normally the highest seventy two buttoday there's a high of eighty two that's a little bit warmer than normal and so a listener calls in. You know I was really disappointed to hear your forecast it's not going to be warmer thanit should be because Goddard deigns the weather and it's going to be exactly how he wants it to be today that is very disappointing. Brant said nothing else except for I'm sorry you were disappointed by this a little bit later the same day he was playing his accordion he does these really weird things all the time. And he was doing his bit where. It the caller would call in and they would either give him a Christian hit song that was on the station or a hit song from the eighty's and he would goofygoofily that were to play his accordion while the caller would sing along. And so one day they did both they did a Christian hit song and they didn't eighty song and the phone rang.…