5 Reasons God is Not Answering Your Prayers | Investigating Jesus | Pastor Josh Howerton

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Hey, guys. Thanks for checking out this Bible teaching. Um, every week we release a podcast that corresponds to the sermon. It's like a little bit of a deeper dive where we hit some things that didn't make it into the sermon, some theological concepts. We talk about things that are going on in our culture and how to think about them from a biblical perspective. We call that podcast Live Free. An episode releases every Monday that corresponds to the sermon. If you would like to check out Live Free, just go to the Lake Point YouTube channel and look for the Podcast tab there. We'll see you at Live Free. Now, enjoy this Bible teaching. All right. Well, good morning, Lake Point family. [applause] If you guys, um, got your Bibles, let's head over to Luke, chapter 11. That's where we're gonna be today, Luke 11. While you turn there, um, hey, man, I just wanna say something about last week. Uh, honestly, after last week, as a pastor, I just wanna, uh, take a second and say I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm really prou- I'm really proud of you. Uh, I'm really proud of our church. The, the reason I say that is, um, last week if you were here, we started a series called Investigating Jesus. Gonna go all the way up to Easter where what we're do- actually, I won't do that. Well, what I did last week [clears throat] is, uh, we answered the question: what did Jesus say about marriage, divorce, and remarriage? And honestly, it's, it's like a, it's, it's a tou- it was a tough, tough message, you know, for depending on where somebody came from, what they've experienced. And a while ago, man, that's a sermon that I would've felt like, you know, uh, kinda how I felt walking into it was like, all right, man, you know, I gotta do my job and, uh, tell them what the Word says and put on your hard hat and strap up and, you know, it's gonna be a long week. But honestly, um, the way that the- you guys responded, it was just,