Climbing Life's Mountains: Faith, Trust, and Growth

### Quotes for outreach

1. "Things that we need in life, things that make life better, come out of mountains. The problem isn't what's there. The problem is the only way to get it is you got to go up. And up isn't always easy. Up can be hard." [55:30] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Most things, I was thinking about this. And most things worth doing are up. For example. We have phrases. We say grow up. Stand up. Sit up. Build up. Bring up. Fix up. Pick up. Save up. Shape up. Take up. Look up. Lift up. If you're facing some kind of a difficulty in life as Christians. It's important that we be prayed up. Right? Up is good. Up is important. But up is hard. Down is easy. You can coast. Up, not quite so much." [57:25] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Everything that God has for us is up. Everything God has for you is up. According to the Apostle Paul, he's telling us that. And that the path to maturing. To becoming more Christ-like is always up. How many of you have recognized and walked with Jesus long enough that in order to mature and grow in this thing. This faith walk that we're on. It takes effort. It takes energy. It takes intent. Because it's up." [58:36] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "If you're in Christ today, and you're facing a mountain, listen, it's yours to climb. I promise you that. It's yours to climb. Maybe it sounds difficult. Maybe confusing. Maybe something you'd rather not do. But if you're in Christ, and there's some situation facing you, it's yours to climb. And God has prepared you for it, and you can do it. promise you that. You can do it. He's taught you. And a lot of times I've found in my life, I've learned things I didn't know I learned. That God has showed me and put inside of me things I didn't know were there until they were tested." [01:43:11] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Jesus didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead. And for us today, what that tells us is that you can climb your mountain, not only because Jesus is climbing with you, but because he's already climbed the mountain for you. There's no temptation. There's no test. There's no trial that he didn't experience as a man that he didn't carry to his cross, that he didn't die for it and resurrect above it so that he can give you, your victory when you climb your mountain. There's no mountain that Jesus hasn't already conquered." [01:50:07] (54 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for members

1. "Let me try and apply it a little bit more to our lives. Have you ever experienced or had an end then in life? You know, you're walking along. Life's going by. Typical kind of day. And then? And then the phone call. And then the text. And then the, and you fill in the blank. I think we probably have all experienced maybe more than one time those end then kinds of moments. Well, that happens in our walk as a Christian too. That we're journeying along with the Lord and then. And, you know, we have, and this story follows the end then. And what happens is and then our Christian walk that we're enjoying suddenly becomes a climb. Suddenly becomes harder." [56:21] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Mountains in the Bible. Where God makes Himself known. Where God demonstrates His power. Where God discloses to us His will and His purpose. Where God sets a course and a direction. And it all happens in mountains. So, we're going to look at not so much just the mountains. But we're going to look at those that, and the lives of those that He called to climb those mountains." [59:20] (24 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "You never climb alone. We all face these hard times in life. We all come to difficult times in life. It's there. Suddenly it's there. And maybe you're there right now. And I hope that today you find some encouragement if that's true. But number one, you never climb alone. I told you at the beginning, I've never climbed a mountain. And I have no desire to go climb a mountain. It just looks terrible. Like, I don't understand people who like to climb mountains. But to each his own. I've never done that. But I do know this. If I ever were to climb a mountain, I promise you, I promise you two things. Number one, I'm not going alone. And number two, I'm not taking an amateur with me." [01:12:06] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Not all mountains are the same. There's different kinds of mountains in the natural. I learned that mountains are classified. Now there's different, systems that, that add these, that mean nothing to me, but if I, you're a climber, they probably do, but they're classified some one group classifies them as a, as a between one and seven gives them a number between one and seven. There's another one's one in five and it depends on grade and difficulty. So you're, you're, you should a climb mountain that your skill is equal to. Like if you have the skill for a, and are trained to, to climb a number two rated mountain, you shouldn't climb a number six rated mountain. That would be stupid. Okay. So, so they're graded and in our spiritual journey, the same is true. Not, not all mountains are the same." [01:21:06] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "God tests us. God never tempts us. It's impossible for God to tempt you because temptation is towards evil and God never does evil and he would never violate relationship by trying to trip you up trying to get you to sin. God's never ever going to do that. In fact much the opposite. You know, he does he governs the degree of temptation that comes into your life. He knows what you can handle. He knows what's what you can bear and he may allow enough to push you to your limits. But he governs it where and in in that the Bible says he always provides a way of escape. There's always a way out. Listen, we need to something we need to understand something the devil can't make you do it. He can't you always have the ability to say no to temptation. You always have the power to walk away. You always have the power to turn the channel. You always have the power to not engage. You always have the ability. Because the Spirit of God is in you and God doesn't tempt which means with every temptation. There's a way out and it's it's trusting in him and doing what you know is right. No matter what your flesh is telling you no matter how justified you may feel in doing it." [01:33:57] (84 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)