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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message

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Speaker 1: I told them today. I said, it's been heavy for

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Speaker 1: so many people all week, and God has given us

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Speaker 1: the privilege to minister. It is a privilege to minister

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Speaker 1: to you. This is I think the thirteenth week. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I counted correctly. What's your count thirteen?

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Speaker 1: Since we couldn't have people in our buildings and we've

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Speaker 1: got quite a few more of those ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: What I'm grateful about is the buildings have been closed.

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Speaker 1: The church has been busy, and it's a good thing too,

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Speaker 1: because the devil sure has been busy. But the church.

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Speaker 1: How many of you this is your church, and you're

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Speaker 1: not just consuming put in the chat, say this is

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Speaker 1: my church. I am glad to be a part of

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Speaker 1: the family of God. I'm not just a clicker. I'm

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Speaker 1: not just a commenter. I'm not a subscriber. I am

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Speaker 1: a part of the Family of God. I'm washed in

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Speaker 1: the fountain, cleansed by his blood. That's what the old

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Speaker 1: hymn said. This is my church. Tell me in the

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Speaker 1: chat I see, I see South America saying this is

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Speaker 1: my church. How in the world the South, Charlotte and

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Speaker 1: South America get together only by the grace of God.

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Speaker 1: God is a unifier. God is a healer. God is

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Speaker 1: a barrier breaker. God is a yoke destroyer. God is

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Speaker 1: the great I am. He can be whatever he wants

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Speaker 1: to be. He's a transformer. He's more than me. It's

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Speaker 1: the eyes no better hold me back. This is my

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Speaker 1: church all over the world, our e fam. It used

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Speaker 1: to stand for extended. Now it stands for everywhere because

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Speaker 1: we just got to use. We're not gonna pay you,

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Speaker 1: but we are using your house as a church right now.

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Speaker 1: We need every available. Like Peter, we want to get

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Speaker 1: in your boat. And Jesus wants to know. Can I

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Speaker 1: use your space? Can I use your boat? Can I

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Speaker 1: use your influence? Can I use your voice? He inhabits

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Speaker 1: the praises of his people. This is my church. And

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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful, man, I really I've been wondering about you.

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Speaker 1: Y'all go ahead and sit down. We need to transition.

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Speaker 1: We need to transition. And I was telling them today

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Speaker 1: that it's like all week, and really for weeks now,

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Speaker 1: it's been so heavy in people's hearts that today the

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Speaker 1: Lord gave me an assignment that he wanted to lift

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Speaker 1: your burden. And I told everybody that's in this room

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Speaker 1: electric guitar, whether you're playing a Fender stratocaster or working

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Speaker 1: behind a switcher, I came out and told them, drink

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Speaker 1: your coffee, because today we want to be used by

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Speaker 1: God to lift those burdens that you've been feeling in.

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Speaker 1: And I have been worried about you. I know you're

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Speaker 1: not supposed to worry. Matthew six bubble says, don't worry.

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Speaker 1: Well I have been. I've been worried. I've been worried

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Speaker 1: checking on the people that I love. How are you?

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Speaker 1: thank you for being that kind of church that isn't

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Speaker 1: afraid to shine the light of Jesus Christ in real ways,

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Speaker 1: We're hearing from all over the world. God is using

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Speaker 1: what you said on that platform boldly all over the world.

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Speaker 1: of this text, John chapter four. You know I've heard

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Speaker 1: be Hell the fullness of his glory, and John sets

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Speaker 1: out to show us a glimpse of who Jesus is.

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Speaker 1: I wonder, do you know who Jesus is, not who

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, not who we want him to be.

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Speaker 1: Not the one who has the same melatonin as you,

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Speaker 1: Not the one who votes the same as you. Not

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Speaker 1: the one who only cares about what matters to you.

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Speaker 1: How wonder do you know him? Because he's the great

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Speaker 1: I am? I mean, John sets it up so you

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Speaker 1: can't miss it even if you want, because here's what

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Speaker 1: he does. Please y'all, please sit down. And I know

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Speaker 1: you're tired. You're tired. I don't want you on your feet.

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Speaker 1: You're tired, You're tired, So sit down, listen to this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me sit down to Okay, Okay, I'm gonna sit

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Speaker 1: down for a minute. I'm'a sit oure for me. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you how it goes. In John's Gospel, he

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Speaker 1: says that in the beginning was the Word in rivers

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Speaker 1: with God, and Word was God. And he says it

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Speaker 1: all thing for mad, through him and for him. So

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Speaker 1: Jesus has been busy. Jesus has been busy. Jesus has

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Speaker 1: been busy. Jesus didn't minister for thirty three years, the

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Speaker 1: word that was with God in the beginning became flesh

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Speaker 1: and we beheld him. He didn't get started when he

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Speaker 1: showed up. You know, it's the same way in your life.

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Speaker 1: God spoke you into this earth at the time that

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Speaker 1: he wanted. Come on, if y'all ain't gonna help get

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Speaker 1: out of here, I'm telling you. God put you where

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Speaker 1: he wanted you. And some of the battles that you're

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Speaker 1: fighting started long before you got here. That's part of

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Speaker 1: why you're tired. Some things that we fight are generational.

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Speaker 1: So when John is describing Jesus, Matthew gives you the genealogy,

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Speaker 1: but he does it through the people. John starts way

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Speaker 1: before that and says, in the beginning was the Word,

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Speaker 1: and the word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Speaker 1: And if you go all the way to the back

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Speaker 1: of John's Gospel, he says, these things were written about

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Speaker 1: Jesus that you may know and believe and have life

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Speaker 1: in his name. But he says something crazy. He says,

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Speaker 1: these are just a few of the things that he did.

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Speaker 1: Is that I just gave you what you could handle.

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Speaker 1: I just want to give you a glimpse of who

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Speaker 1: he is by showing you what he did. So in

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Speaker 1: John's Gospel, there there are seven signs that the author

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Speaker 1: mentions that Jesus did. It's not all that he did.

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Speaker 1: It's not all. Somebody say, it's not all. It's not all. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I felt the Holy Spirit on that put it, put

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Speaker 1: it in the chat right now. It's not all. It's

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Speaker 1: not all. What I know of God is not all

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Speaker 1: there is of God. What I think is true is

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Speaker 1: not all that is true. What I have experienced thus

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Speaker 1: far in my life is not what I have to

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Speaker 1: settle for. What I have known doesn't have to be

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Speaker 1: my normal forever. It's not all. But he said, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to give you a glimpse of what he did

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Speaker 1: so you can see who he is. These are called

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Speaker 1: the seven signs in John, the seven signs. It started

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Speaker 1: in Cana of Galilee when he turned water into wine.

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Speaker 1: I call this a molecular miracle. A molecular miracle. It

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Speaker 1: looks little, but it shows you who he is. How

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Speaker 1: many have had God show you who he is in little,

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Speaker 1: tiny ways. That's called a molecular miracle. Well, he can't

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Speaker 1: stay there forever, so he has to go and preach

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Speaker 1: in Judea in John chapter four, he heals a royal

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Speaker 1: official son. That's the second sign. And then in John

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Speaker 1: chapter five, he walks by a pool not to relax,

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Speaker 1: and disabled us to lie. And he speaks to a

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Speaker 1: man on a mat, and he gets him up off

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Speaker 1: that the man was trying to get to on the outside.

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Speaker 1: And he showed that he is greater than any earthly system.

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Speaker 1: And he can bring to you what others did not

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Speaker 1: nobody can do for you. That's the third sign. By

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Speaker 1: some of the more well known miracles. When he did

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Speaker 1: I've been up a long time, I'm hungry, and those

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Speaker 1: waffle fries and he multiplied to feed twenty thousand. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was five. Somebody just said, you didn't count

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Speaker 1: the women and children. God works through the people that

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Speaker 1: you don't even count. God works through the people that

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Speaker 1: you don't even notice. God works through the people that

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Speaker 1: So that's the fourth sign. By the time you get

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Speaker 1: to where am I at? Am I on the fourth sign?

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Speaker 1: What's the fifth sign? Oh? Maybe the fifth sign is

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Speaker 1: that man born blind he opened up his eyes and

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Speaker 1: ruined his life because when he opened up his eyes

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Speaker 1: there are certain things that once God shows you, you

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Speaker 1: can't unsee them anymore. He messed up lazarus whole funeral.

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Speaker 1: They didn't even get a chance to really start the funeral.

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Speaker 1: They didn't even really get a chance to mourn. And

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Speaker 1: here he came with a miracle. Now, several of these

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Speaker 1: signs were connected to a statement. John also gives seven statements.

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Speaker 1: You feel like you're in those. Are you tired of

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Speaker 1: me preaching? Yet? I'm not tired of this. I could

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Speaker 1: do this all day. Something comes alive in me when

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Speaker 1: I start preaching. It's the weirdest thing. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: how tired I am. God gives me some kind of strength.

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Speaker 1: It must be for you. You must have been on

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Speaker 1: the verbs this week. You must be burning out. But

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Speaker 1: God wanted to get you some oil so you don't

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Speaker 1: so you don't die before you realize the purpose. For

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Speaker 1: which he brought you into this world to begin with.

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Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the word was

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Speaker 1: with God, and the Word was God the Great. I

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Speaker 1: am so Jesus said some things. He said, I am

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Speaker 1: Do you know any of them? The bread of life?

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Speaker 1: He said that right after he fed all those people,

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Speaker 1: trying to inform their spirits. He said, I am the

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Speaker 1: light of the world. He said, I am the door

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Speaker 1: for the sheep. He said, I am the good shepherd,

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Speaker 1: even in the valley. I'll guide you. I'll be your light.

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Speaker 1: I am the light. I am the door. I am

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Speaker 1: the good Shepherd. I am the Resurrection and the Life.

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Speaker 1: I am the Way, the truth, and the Life. I

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Speaker 1: am the true Vine. That's seven. John is showing us

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Speaker 1: this number of completion. Seven. That's God's number. Seven. Six

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Speaker 1: is man's number. That's why we're tired, because we're living

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Speaker 1: in six. Jesus is the seventh man, the seventh Man.

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Speaker 1: And what I want to show you in this text,

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Speaker 1: if you let me show you this, it's going to

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Speaker 1: bring you a sense in your soul of something. I

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Speaker 1: know you're stressed out and I know there's a lot

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Speaker 1: to be worried about in the world. Man, I got

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Speaker 1: so mad this week, and I know you're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to get mad. But the same Jesus who pet the

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Speaker 1: little baby sheeps flipped over tables in the temple when

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Speaker 1: they weren't doing it for the right purpose. And there

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Speaker 1: was a guy on my Instagram this week and he

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Speaker 1: saw me and John talking about racism and the evil

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Speaker 1: and the atrocity and really the fact that if the

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Speaker 1: church is silent about these issues that matter to people,

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Speaker 1: it's like we want to dismantle the Cross. It's like

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Speaker 1: we only like this part. We don't want Jesus to

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Speaker 1: inform how we treat others. We just want him to

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Speaker 1: do stuff for us. And I don't go through every

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Speaker 1: comment on Instagram or YouTube, but one person said, I'm tired.

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Speaker 1: He said, tbh. To be honest, I'm tired of all

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Speaker 1: the pastors I follow posting about racism on my fee.

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Speaker 1: Can't we just get back to preaching Jesus, Which Jesus,

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Speaker 1: the one you went to Sunday School with, or the

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Speaker 1: one who went through Samaria, which Jesus. Come on now,

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Speaker 1: I'm just in need of an answer. Which Jesus do

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Speaker 1: we worship? Which one the one who said I am

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Speaker 1: the way, the one who you follow, or the one

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Speaker 1: that you lead, the one that you say, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: not following you any farther than he had to go

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Speaker 1: through scenario. And what's what he did when he sat down?

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Speaker 1: What's what he did when he sat down? In verse

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Speaker 1: six he said, he said he sat down, He sat

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Speaker 1: down tired as he was. Which is confusing, right, because

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Speaker 1: Isaiah forty is a dope scripture. You can't call the

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Speaker 1: Word of God dope. But just did I just did

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Speaker 1: it right here in American English said every syllable of it.

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Speaker 1: And it said in Isaiah forty the prophet said, why

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Speaker 1: do you complain, Jacobait say, Israel, my way is hidden

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Speaker 1: from the Lord. My causes disregard for my God. This

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Speaker 1: part do you not know? Have you not heard? The

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Speaker 1: Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends

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Speaker 1: of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary,

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Speaker 1: and his understanding no one can fathom. He will not

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Speaker 1: grow tired. And in the beginning was the word, The

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Speaker 1: word was with God. So this blew me away. John

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Speaker 1: chapter four, Verse six. Jesus tired, I prayed about this message.

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Speaker 1: Please know that I did, because there's so much I

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Speaker 1: can't do right now, and I feel bad about it,

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Speaker 1: and I wish I could do more. And this church

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Speaker 1: is doing everything that we can to be a part

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Speaker 1: of the solution, but there's so much I can't do.

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Speaker 1: And I know you've been tired, and I know it's

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Speaker 1: been hurting, and I know it's been lifelong. And it

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Speaker 1: might not be racism. It may be an addiction. It

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Speaker 1: may be wondering how much longer you're gonna have a job,

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Speaker 1: or when you're gonna get one, or when this is

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Speaker 1: all gonna be over, or when God's gonna send you

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Speaker 1: somebody who gets you. I know you've been tired, and

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Speaker 1: I prayed. I said, God, what do I tell them

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Speaker 1: they're tired? And what do I tell the person who

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Speaker 1: is too tired to go on? What do I tell

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Speaker 1: the one who says I'm too tired? God said, tell

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Speaker 1: them I got tired too. Jesus sat down in Samaria.

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Speaker 1: That's where to talk to a woman. That's who ask

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Speaker 1: him for water? That's what? But why because he was tired?

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Speaker 1: Because he was fully god Fully many as much as

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Speaker 1: we love to shout about his divinity. You know how

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Speaker 1: we were a minute ago when I was setting you

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Speaker 1: up about the great I am, just to bring you

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Speaker 1: back down so you could know that the same God

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Speaker 1: who created you, who he was strong enough, who was

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Speaker 1: powerful enough. Everybody thinks Jesus was weak. Raise your hand.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe being weary doesn't mean you're weak. Jesus tired?

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Speaker 1: Why was he tired? I didn't say who was he

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Speaker 1: tired of? We already know it was Peter. Come on, Peter.

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Speaker 1: Peter's fighting you at every turn, cussing and stuff in

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Speaker 1: front of the press, having to bleep Peter out. You know,

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Speaker 1: I know he was tired of the Pharisees. He couldn't

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Speaker 1: wash his hands or not wash his hands. They followed

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Speaker 1: him to every bathroom, every dinner. I know he was

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Speaker 1: tired of them. But it says he was tired from

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Speaker 1: the journey. Thinking about Jesus' journey, you know, walked everywhere,

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Speaker 1: no uber, no uber, Jesus, uber Christ uber Savior. Three

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Speaker 1: day walk from where they were baptizing through some area.

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Speaker 1: Straight through was the short cut. By the way, the

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Speaker 1: direct route is sometimes the divine route. Instead of hiding

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're tired, you just say God, I'm tired.

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Speaker 1: Somebody was yawning during my sermon one time, and I

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Speaker 1: just got mad about it. I said, how are you tired?

638
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: You're not doing anything, you know, But I found out

639
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: later they worked a night shift and came straight to church.

640
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to understand someone if you only

641
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: see them at one part of their journey. And some

642
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: people that we think are weak maybe are weary. Have

643
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: you thought about that that just because you're weary, it

644
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: doesn't make you weak. How do you know that, Jesus,

645
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: I am the light of the world. I am the

646
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: bread of life. I am the Resurrection, I am the door,

647
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: I am the Shepherd, I am the true vine. I

648
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: am the Way. At some point, six hours after they

649
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: left that morning, at noon, he said something we wouldn't

650
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: expect to hear the Saviors say, I am tired. This

651
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: is the incarnation. I worship a God who is powerful

652
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: enough to give me strength and who is human enough

653
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: to get tired. And for some reason this week I

654
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: felt that some of us needed to meet tired Jesus.

655
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: I thought maybe you could relate to him, because his

656
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: journey didn't really start with just leaving that morning I mean,

657
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: that's enough six hours that day. Six hours in one day.

658
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I got a six hour drive coming up

659
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: with my kids, and I'm downloading every episode of the

660
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: Office on all of their phones, just hoping we can

661
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: make it. Six hours, still be saved, still be married,

662
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: still be healed, delivered, blessed in one bappy family. And

663
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: that's a drive six hours because you leave at six's noon,

664
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: as hot as the heat of the day. Of course,

665
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: he's tired, And yet I wondered, was it only physical

666
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: or did he go through Samaria because he was tired

667
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: of the way they were treating each other. Why was

668
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: he tired? Why did he come to abolish the barriers

669
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: full of grace and truth and we beheld his glory.

670
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: His journey didn't start in Bethlehem. And the beginning was

671
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: the Word, and the word was with God, and the

672
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: word was God, and the word became flesh. That's a

673
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: long trip from the sapphire seal of Heaven to the

674
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: dusty streets of Samaria. Of course he was tired. Even

675
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,839
Speaker 1: youth will grow weary and stumble. But those who wait

676
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: on the Lord. I'm waiting on God right now. I'm

677
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: waiting somebody say I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting, and

678
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: I'm weary, and I'm not going to lie to you.

679
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: I'm weary. I mean, this is getting old and some

680
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: of me, y'all want to cuss right now, don't do

681
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: it in the chat, they'll block you. But even in

682
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: your mind, you're like, I'm sick of this. I am

683
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: sick of this. I mean, that's not an I am

684
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: statement we read in the Bible, but that's what you're

685
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: saying right now in your heart. I am, but I

686
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: am sick of this. I am. I am sick and tired.

687
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: I am tired of fighting battles. The thing about me,

688
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: some people say when they get tired, they start laughing.

689
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: Not me. When I get tired, I get mean, how

690
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: many of you when you get tired? That's why when

691
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: you had to pull me out of the elevator in

692
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: Australia and I was about to fight that guy after

693
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: I preached, I mean, I had just finished given the

694
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: invitation too. If you're here today, the Lord says, come,

695
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: and that dude said something sideways to me, and my

696
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: uncle taught me to hit him with your elbow if

697
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: you can get close enough and I was talking the

698
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: elbow and Chunks pulled me back. He said, you've been

699
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: I was jet lagged. I had preached twenty three times

700
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: in four days. They were preaching me to death at

701
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: Hillsong Church. I'm preaching. I'm preaching, preaching, preaching tired, and

702
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: Chunks told me. I said, come on, you're too tired now,

703
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: because when you get too tired, you start fighting battles

704
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: that don't matter to distract you from the ones that do.

705
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 1: That's just me. I start fighting everybody. I start fighting

706
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: people that are trying to help me when I'm tired.

707
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: So Jesus said, y'all go get lunch. I'm sitting here

708
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: for a minute, because the ones y'all have been fighting

709
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: against are the ones I came to say. He had

710
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: to go through Samaria. He had to sit down. There

711
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 1: was a woman coming who needed him. She didn't even

712
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: know it, she had no idea who he was. He

713
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: sat down because he was tired. I mean, you don't

714
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: have to do anything right now. Just sit down and

715
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: receive this word that the Son of God got tired.

716
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: The Son of God got tired. I know you're Superman

717
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: and you're mad at yourself because you can't always get

718
00:45:50,840 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: it perfect perfection. Got tired. Faith doesn't prevent fatigue. It

719
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: just gives me a place to sit. He sat by

720
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: a well. Here's the important thing. What well do you

721
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: sit by when you're tired? He said it was Jacob's well.

722
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: You with me, son, he said it was Jacob's well.

723
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: Joseph was given that well by Jacob. A lot of

724
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: what our kids learn comes from us. It's generational. Jesus

725
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: sat down by that well. I think that's so appropriate

726
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,280
Speaker 1: to say at this moment in our nation. What wells

727
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 1: are you digging for your kids to sit next to?

728
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 1: A lot of what we're going through today is because

729
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: of wells that were dug before we got here. Jesus

730
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: sat by Jacob's well. Wait on the Lord. Now we

731
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 1: see the Lord waiting on a woman. So I pictured

732
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: this moment. I picture me and you. You got your coffee,

733
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm drinking all the caffeine I can.

734
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: I'm still tired. And I know you can watch your

735
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 1: ted talk about you know when to go to bed

736
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: and when to wake up and all that. I'm not

737
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: talking about that. I'm talking about tired inside. I'm a

738
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: sole doctor. I don't know anything about r EM. I

739
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: don't know anything about Ergo dynamic pillows. Did I say

740
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: that right? I don't know anything about your mattress number.

741
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: That is not my specialty. But I know this, Sometimes

742
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: you've got to sit down by a real well and

743
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: listen to me. A lot of the places that we're

744
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: sitting while we're tired are only making us more dehydrated.

745
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: A lot of the places that we're drinking from are

746
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: making us dumber, more fragmented, less whole, less informed. And

747
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 1: this woman comes up and the picture she comes up

748
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: at noon because she's sneaking away from all of the

749
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: people who talked about her. She is a woman with

750
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: a past. The last thing she wants to see is

751
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: a man, specifically a Jewish man, specifically a rabbi. And

752
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: Jesus says, hey, can I get a drink? This is

753
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: not a pickup line. This is not a pickup line,

754
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: This is not a surface level question. This is Jesus

755
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: asking this woman, do you even know what's in you?

756
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm a stand up now. I'm a stand up now

757
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: because I hear God saying to someone today, you don't

758
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 1: even know what I put inside of you. What I

759
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: have put inside of you is so great. Now. If

760
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: you only see things on the surface, if you judge

761
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: how people judge, you will never see what's inside. This

762
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: was Jacob's well, but it was really just something for

763
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: Jesus to sit on. When he sat on the well

764
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: and asked the woman, can I get a drink? He

765
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: was not talking about H two O. Don't you get it.

766
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: It's never about what we think it's about. It's always

767
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: something deeper. So Jesus has showed up in this woman's situation,

768
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: and I can't help but think it's for somebody today.

769
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: You have been at your wits end, and you thought

770
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: I was going to give you a little pep talk,

771
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: and you thought I was going to tell you, you know,

772
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: get on with it and trust God and move forward,

773
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: and all these little clay cliches of faith. But I

774
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: came to tell you, sit with him a little while.

775
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: Sit with him a little while, Sit with him a

776
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: little while, Sit with him and see who you really are.

777
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 1: Sit with him a little while. I've been sitting I'm

778
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: just gonna confess to you, I've been sitting by the

779
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: wrong wealls a lot of the time. I've been depending

780
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: on people to inform me about who I am. I've

781
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: been depending on what I see with my eyes to

782
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: tell me how it is. But there is a well

783
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: that does not come from an external source, and you

784
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: can't see the pipes. There is within you a spirit

785
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: that is greater than whatever is going on around you.

786
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: Greater is he that is in me. I'm trying to shout,

787
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: sitting down so you can know. He sat on the

788
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: well so she could see what was within her. And

789
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: I believe God is revealing some things to us in

790
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: this season. I believe God is revealing to his church

791
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: in this season that he has made us for a

792
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: time when the world is so divided, when he has

793
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: made us for a time that the world is so apathetic.

794
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: And he sat by the well. He sat by the

795
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 1: well to talk to a women who had had five

796
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:03,359
Speaker 1: husbands and was living with number six, so she could

797
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: know he was number seven. On the first day, God worked.

798
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: On the second day, God worked. On the third day,

799
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: God worked. On the fourth day, God worked. On the

800
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: fifth day, God worked. On the sixth day, God worked.

801
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: What do you do? On the seventh He sat down,

802
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: not because he needed rest, but because she did. And

803
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: that's what I love about a God who will not

804
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 1: only fight for me and walk with me and talk

805
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: with me. But God said to tell you this week.

806
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: He is the God who will come through forty one

807
00:51:54,120 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: generations and go through Samaria to sit with you, Just

808
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 1: to sit with you. Sit with him for a minute.

809
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: He might show you something that is within you that

810
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: nobody else noticed. This woman had been passed around like

811
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,879
Speaker 1: the jar that she carried to the well that day.

812
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: She knew what it was to feel use. Did he

813
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: sit down at the well that day because he was

814
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: tired or because she was? You're tired of being used

815
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: by people, you type, manipulated by people. Sit with me

816
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: because I'm not seated where you're seated. When I sit

817
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: with him, he has seated me with him in heavenly places,

818
00:52:54,760 --> 00:53:00,760
Speaker 1: far above every ruler and principality. You say, I'm tired,

819
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: guysaid me too. I'm tired to see it how people

820
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: treat one another too. I'm tired of the injustice too. Man.

821
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: That's why I came in the form of a man,

822
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: so that I could be what man could never be.

823
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: I came to hang on across and say it is finished,

824
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: so that you can rest. I know we got work

825
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 1: to do. Can we sit for a minute. Can we

826
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,399
Speaker 1: just sit with him for a minute by the well

827
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: that will never run dry? Some of us passed e

828
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 1: a long time ago. The tank has been empty a

829
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: long time. So God says, I want you to sit

830
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: with me. When you sit with me, you will see

831
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: with me. When you sit with me. Who is this for?

832
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: Just raise your hand right now in the room, raise

833
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: your hand in the chat, say this is for me.

834
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: I want to sit with him. I want to sit

835
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: by the well that has living water. I want to

836
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: sit away from the streams that are poisoned by the

837
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: prejudice of men. I want to sit with him for

838
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: a minute. And Jesus tired, as he was said to

839
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: his disciples, y'all go get some food. I've got to

840
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: get a harvest now. I believe God sent me to

841
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: preach this message to somebody today who is tired on

842
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: the inside. And no amount of sleep, no amount of

843
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 1: netflix and numbing it, and no amount of pacing the

844
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: floors is going to solve it. And I believe God

845
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: brought you into his presence today for a reason. And

846
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: I think he woke me up at three in the morning,

847
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: this night, the night before the night before, so that

848
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: I could feel a little bit physically while I preach

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Speaker 1: this how you've been feeling before we got here. How

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Speaker 1: Jesus felt was how the woman felt. Even youth will

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Speaker 1: grow tired and weary, and young men will stumble and fall,

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Speaker 1: But they that wait on the Lord will renew their strength.

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Speaker 1: God said, even if you don't have the patience to

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Speaker 1: wait for me, I'm waiting for you. When you are tired,

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Speaker 1: you must be very careful that you do not become dehydrated.

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Speaker 1: You have got to drink this water. You have got

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Speaker 1: to drink this word. You have got to drink this worship.

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Speaker 1: You have got to move away from wells that will

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Speaker 1: never quench your thirst. And you have got to receive

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Speaker 1: the water that flows from within. In the beginning was

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Speaker 1: the Word, and the word was with God. And the

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Speaker 1: reason that you came to turn today is God wanted

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Speaker 1: to give you water. He knows your tired, he knows

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Speaker 1: you're thirsty. He hung on a cross and said, I

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Speaker 1: thirst too. He stretched his arms this wide because he

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Speaker 1: was tired of it too. And the man who was

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Speaker 1: God became man, and he who knew no sin became sin,

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Speaker 1: that we might become the righteousness of God. And he

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Speaker 1: said to the woman, and he said to me, and

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Speaker 1: he said to you, come unto me, Oh, you who

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Speaker 1: are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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Speaker 1: I am the bread of life. I am the Resurrection.

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Speaker 1: I am the Light. I am the Shepherd. I am

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Speaker 1: the Gaith. I am the Way, I am the vibe.

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Speaker 1: I am the seventh Man. I am the seventh Man.

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Speaker 1: I am the well. I am within you. You will

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Speaker 1: never get what you need from out there. It's in here.

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Speaker 1: It's in here. It's in here, it's in here. I

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Speaker 1: know you're not in a church building. There's no worship

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Speaker 1: leader to tell you lift your hands. Will you do

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Speaker 1: it anyway? I know there's not a feeling telling you

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Speaker 1: right now to have hope. Can you hope? Anyway? It

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Speaker 1: is a well that springs up from within. It is

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Speaker 1: a well that men did not dig. It is a

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Speaker 1: well that does not consult external situations. It is a

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Speaker 1: well of the holy steering. And God said, I came

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Speaker 1: all this way to sit with you, to be with you.

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Speaker 1: The proof of his power was not just when he

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Speaker 1: walked on water. The proof of his power was when

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Speaker 1: he sat on a well. Did you hear me better

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Speaker 1: online than they heard me in this room? Because if

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Speaker 1: you got that, you got the whole message. He didn't

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Speaker 1: just prove it by walking on water, which he did.

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Speaker 1: He proved it by sitting on a well. Sometimes he

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Speaker 1: walks on water, sometimes he is water. But I declare

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Speaker 1: that the Lord is in this place. We started this

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Speaker 1: service when I got up to preach saying the Lord

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Speaker 1: is in this place, and not for a minute was

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Speaker 1: I forsaken. And you came into this service today saying

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Speaker 1: I'm tired inside. God said, I know it's all right

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Speaker 1: to be tired, But why don't you go ahead and

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Speaker 1: and leave that jar that you brought behind, that jar

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Speaker 1: that represents what you've been carrying that you weren't meant

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Speaker 1: to carry alone and receive right now what only I

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Speaker 1: can reveal. Father, you gave me this word I believe

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Speaker 1: for your people. I didn't think of this. I didn't

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Speaker 1: study this in a book. You spoke to me and

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Speaker 1: told me to go to John four six, And I said,

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Speaker 1: what to tell the people when they're so tired, and

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Speaker 1: they're right to be tired, and they're tired, and they're

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Speaker 1: tired of being tired, and they're tired of things not changing.

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Speaker 1: And you told me to tell them. I got tired too,

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Speaker 1: and you are seated with me in heavenly places. So now, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we need the water of worship. We received the water

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Speaker 1: of your word today. In the beginning, it was a

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Speaker 1: word and word of fifth God, and the word was God.

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Speaker 1: We receive your word today. Now make it flesh in

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Speaker 1: our lives as we worship you. Now lift your hands

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Speaker 1: wherever you are. This is not a moment to be

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Speaker 1: self conscious. This is not a moment to log off.

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Speaker 1: This is not a moment to be distracted, because we

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Speaker 1: need this water in a dry and weary life. We

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Speaker 1: need this water. Lord. We wait on you. We believe

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Speaker 1: that you are in this place. Whether it's a cross

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Speaker 1: or an empty tomb, your presence is proven in both.

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Speaker 1: We take this moment just to let you know that

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Speaker 1: we know that we need you and you are in

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Speaker 1: this place. We may feel forsaken, we may feel forgotten,

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Speaker 1: we may feel frustrated. That's okay. You got tired too, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: But you sit with us in our brokenness, You sit

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Speaker 1: with us in our unbelief, you sit with us in

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Speaker 1: our rage, you sit with us to show us who

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Speaker 1: we really are. Just begin to minister to the lord.

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Speaker 1: Zeke Now for a minute, was I forsaken? The Lord

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Speaker 1: is in this place? Well, Shi for sake, living water

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Speaker 1: in this place. Not is in this place, Bread of

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Speaker 1: life in this place. Slot is in this place. Come,

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Speaker 1: Holy speed, Light of the world is in this fast sway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah is in this please? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Lo is

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Speaker 1: in this place. Sit for sit in this piece for

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Speaker 1: for sake. Not is in this please? Lot is in

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Speaker 1: this place. Come Holy speed to dry ball awaken Christian

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Speaker 1: comme minister with him on the harmony. Please sing that

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Speaker 1: over the people. Let him sit for a minute, so weary,

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Speaker 1: so exhaustive for me, emotions going crazy, sake, world going

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Speaker 1: crazy in this space. The attention is so great. We

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Speaker 1: don't know if we can make it this place. Minister

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Speaker 1: to the people. Come, Holy spe trible zoueway on you.

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Speaker 1: Not in this pace, lady, way in this and not

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Speaker 1: for an enemy? Was a foresay all I was, But

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Speaker 1: I was d in this place, l in this place.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, come Holy trible zooeway. Lord in this place.

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Speaker 1: Yes he is dash yes, yes for me? Was a

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Speaker 1: foresay because you're there comes your strength in His presence.

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Speaker 1: These play until it coming through you right now. He speed.

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Speaker 1: You needed this drive ho so you needed this moment.

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Speaker 1: You know you needed these play. He knows you needed Lord,

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Speaker 1: he needs He wept the tomb of lasses, not for

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Speaker 1: sap by the woman and the wow. Oh he knows

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Speaker 1: what you see. The Lord is the work for days.

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Speaker 1: The Lord is, He's left every ha come hold he speed,

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Speaker 1: tribal sly. The Lord is here, He's been. I know

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Speaker 1: the message is officially over, and you're probably tired of

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Speaker 1: hearing me talk. I went a long time to day,

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Speaker 1: but I had a lot of my heart and I

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Speaker 1: just want to make sure that you remember that God

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Speaker 1: is with you and that the presence of Christ is

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Speaker 1: within you. And I just want to thank you for

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Speaker 1: being a part of this ministry. Helene and I are

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Speaker 1: praying for you. These are really difficult days, and there's

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Speaker 1: so much work for the Church to do in the

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Speaker 1: world to bring God's Kingdom to earth. But we're committed

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Speaker 1: to this and it's a privilege to stand with you,

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Speaker 1: to share God's word with you, and to join together

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Speaker 1: with you and get into good news of Jesus Christ

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Speaker 1: to the world. We love you,