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1 (8s): All right. Well, welcome everybody. It's so good to see you guys in person and online. Welcome. My name is Matt Wolf. I'm the lead pastor here at arise church. We're all about helping people follow Jesus, and we want to help you follow Jesus. If I haven't connected with you, I want to go to rice number.com/connect. Fill out that form that says, I knew press that button. Fill that out. Your in-person online. Fill that out. If you do that, we get $5 to the Denver rescue mission. So we give a gift in your name to help someone get out of homelessness, get a meal, all that good stuff. So it makes sure you do that. I'd love to connect and please do hang around afterwards. If you're even just like a little tiny bit interested in one of those global outreach teams this summer to Mexico or Astonia hangout, even just to find out more. Jimmy Smith is our global outreach coordinator and he is incredible. 1 (50s): He does so many good things. He coaches, countries all over coaches, churches all over the country in how to do this. And we get them here. He's part of our church. So we love Jimmy that he's here. Cause we're all about bold outreach here. Bold outreach is one of our values. So we say we are boldly sent to seek and love the lost. Like we're not afraid to go out there. And we do that around the world. We're also doing some cool stuff here locally. We have a new refugee ministry that's helping with, you know, right now, one family that lives just down the street, Burmese refugees from the nation of Myanmar where there's a ton of conflict and we get to help them a little bit. So we're excited about that. If you're interested at all in those things arise and Broadcom slash connect, fill out the serve somewhere form, click local or global outreach, and we'll get you more info. 1 (1m 32s): You can just find out more, make sure you do that today. We are in our second message in our better than you think series. If you missed message, number one, you can always catch up. We got audio video, we got transcripts go to horizon and.com/media. You can subscribe to make sure that it gets straight to your phone and your podcast app or on YouTube. And we want you to connect with those messages. In last week, we talked about heaven, how heaven is way better than most people think. And today we're going to talk about salvation title, my message, climbing, Everest, climbing Everest. And I don't know a ton about Everest. You know, that's not really been my thing, but a man named Paul veiling. 1 (2m 12s): We have this picture of Paul. Valan had read some books about mountaineering as just a child. He heard about some of the people that were climbing Everest. So he made it his lifelong dream to climb Mount Everest. And he's still kinda thought it was a pipe dream. But when he entered into his thirties, he went into Asia and he was traveling around, met some people, met a guy who was a guide who had been to Everest and summative multiple times. He thought maybe I could do this. So in 2013, he went to Nepal for the first time. And he tried out on some of the smaller peaks there in the nation of Nepal and went up to two, these peaks that are so high and he thought I could do this. I have a guide. 1 (2m 52s): I could do it. So in 2014 he decided he would make it his mission that year to climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. It's two thirds of the way through our atmosphere, 29,028 2 (3m 4s): Feet above sea level. Okay. That's kind of tall in case you were wondering that's more than like double our fourteeners here in Colorado. It makes our mountains look like foothills. 1 (3m 15s): So he made it his mission to do it. So he went in 24, 2014 and he went finally to the base camp. It takes weeks just to make it to base camp and you have to be there for a little while to acclimate. So he went in April of 2014 was acclimating to the weather. And one particularly difficult thing for him was that he had asthma. 2 (3m 33s): Okay. There's very 1 (3m 34s): Little air at that high. So it takes a while to acclimate, but he's like, I'm going to do it. But they're in 2014, they were waiting for the weather to get just right. Cause there's only really a few days, a few weeks in the entire year where people can make it to the summit because the weather is so bad. And so erratic was snowstorms and blizzards. But while they were waiting, there was some hot weather and it actually caused a big chunk of ice to fall off a glacier, to fall off the mountain and hit and, and destroyed and killed 13 2 (4m 3s): People that were there. 13 people in base camp were killed before they even left base camp. And for Paul, it was like, Oh my gosh. 1 (4m 11s): W how, how can we do this? And in fact, the Nepalese government at that point said, no, no, no. We're shutting down the mountain this year. Nobody is climbing to the top of Everest and no one did in 2014. 2 (4m 22s): So he thought 1 (4m 22s): Maybe his dreams were dashed. So he went back home and decided, Hey, maybe I'll get a chance again. So we started training and training. Like you have to do training, purchasing the gear, all that stuff to get ready to maybe go up the mountain. Again. Finally, he was contacted at the end of 2017 by that same guide. And he said, Hey, 2018 is going to be my last year ever going up. So if you want to, 2 (4m 42s): You know, now's the time. So Paul decided on doing it, going up Everest 2018. 1 (4m 48s): So he trained even more trained, harder. He, he prepared, he had all the gear and when he got to the base camp in 2014, 2 (4m 53s): He was ready. He made 1 (4m 56s): Sure that his breathing got acclimated to that low amount of oxygen and they set out so there's base camp and then you go base camp and you go up a few thousand more feet to tamp two. And then you have to go up a few more thousand feet to camp three. And all this time, it is arduous. Some of the most difficult climbing 2 (5m 12s): In the world. And there they were 1 (5m 14s): Every day, day in and day out going farther and farther trying to acclimate to the air, especially man, I can't imagine that 2 (5m 19s): One mountain 1 (5m 22s): Climbing expert said that it's like breathing through a straw while you're running on a treadmill. That's how bad the oxygen is. And that's for people 2 (5m 30s): That don't have asthma. So Paul was working super hard and finally, finally 1 (5m 35s): They made it to camp two and then they set out for camp three. And on the way to camp three, one of his friends that was going with him died unexpectedly. 2 (5m 43s): And he didn't 1 (5m 43s): Know if emotionally he could keep moving on, but he said, I'm going to keep pressing forward. I'm gonna keep trying. And he finally made it to camp three. It took 15 hours to make it there. And then to make it to camp four, I'm sorry, between camp three and camp four was 15 straight of climbing, no sleep, 15 hours straight. And they finally made it 2 (6m 2s): Camp four and his guide said 1 (6m 5s): We made it, but we have to go now to the summit. We have to go. Now I know you've been climbing for 15 hours straight without sleeping at all, but we have to go. It's 8:00 PM at night, but we have to do it if we want a chance to make it to the summit tomorrow. So they started there in the middle of the night, climb even harder in some of the coldest temperature in the mouth. And he's already gone 15 hours straight without sleeping, but he kept pushing himself for another seven hours straight. They finally made it to an area that has a big ledge where, where you can get a little bit of rest. So he sat down and he was going to trade out one of the oxygen tanks he was using. So he could breathe at that high of an altitude. And he felt his temperature just drop. And he looked at his 2 (6m 45s): Body temperature dropped by a few degrees in that moment. And that meant his fingers 1 (6m 50s): Starting to tighten up.

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