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Speaker 2: We're about to go into week two of our new

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Speaker 2: sermons series. Everybody got something for you today. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: all of our campuses, Welcome to our EPAM watching all

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Speaker 2: over the world. I want to take a moment and

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Speaker 2: greet you to let you know that there is no

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Speaker 2: distance in the spirit, that wherever you are, the Lord is,

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Speaker 2: and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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Speaker 2: So I pray that today you might feel free to

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Speaker 2: worship God, that you could just have a distraction free environment,

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Speaker 2: just to come before Him today and hear from him.

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Speaker 2: How many are glad that you made it to the

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Speaker 2: House of the Lord another day, Raise the Lord. So

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Speaker 2: many beautiful faces, so many wonderful stories and testimonies.

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Speaker 3: Just look around this room for a moment. Just look

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Speaker 3: around the room, I said.

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Speaker 2: Everybody that you're looking at today, they had a time

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Speaker 2: in their life where they didn't.

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Speaker 3: Think they'd make it, but they did.

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Speaker 2: Would you just touch your neighbor real quick, Just touch

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Speaker 2: them real quick and say, I just wanted to see

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Speaker 2: what a miracle feels like.

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Speaker 3: Come on, tell your neighbor you look like a miracle.

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Speaker 2: Turn to your other neighbors, say you look like you

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Speaker 2: need a miracle. Tell them it's a good thing you're

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Speaker 2: sitting next to me, because when I start singing, prison

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Speaker 2: doors fly open.

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Speaker 3: When I start praising. Let me test my microphone. When

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Speaker 3: I say Holly, you say. When I say God is.

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Speaker 4: Good, you say, And all the time when I say

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Speaker 4: thank you, you say. Jesus, we came to see King Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Now, your outfit looks beautiful, but I didn't come to

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Speaker 2: see your outfit. I came to see King Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Your hair is pretty.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you got it cut in color. But

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Speaker 2: I didn't come to see your hair. I came to

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Speaker 3: I like your jeans, whether they're baggy or skinny. I

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Speaker 2: But I didn't come to see your skinny jeans or

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Speaker 2: your fat jeans. I came to see King Jesus. So

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Speaker 2: let's take a moment and put all the attention on Hell.

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Speaker 3: Come on, come on, come on, come on.

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Speaker 2: I came to see him high and lift it up

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Speaker 2: the train of his row filled the temple.

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Speaker 3: See the King.

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Speaker 2: Today, we're going to go right back to John chapter one.

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Speaker 2: I've got a special message to share with you today

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Speaker 2: from the Lord's heart in John chapter one. It is

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Speaker 2: so funny to me how I outline all of my

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Speaker 2: message series for nothing. I was going to move to

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Speaker 2: John chapter two this week, but the Lord directed me

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Speaker 2: to stay in chapter one, and I think I know why,

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Speaker 2: as he has been speaking to me during worship. This

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give you some stuff today that you

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Speaker 2: will need to unpack with some friends. So if you're

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Speaker 2: we don't charge for it.

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Speaker 3: So what's your excuse?

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Speaker 2: Your excuse for not getting together with these wonderful people

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Speaker 2: Today, I believe the Lord is going to give you

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Speaker 2: A lot of people saw Jesus walk by, but John

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Speaker 2: Did you know Jesus is looking for a head to

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Speaker 2: Like I say to my kids when they're being nice

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Speaker 3: He said to them, come and you will see.

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Speaker 2: So they came and saw where he was staying, and

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Speaker 2: Jesus was Andrew Simon, Peter's brother. He first found his

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Speaker 2: Now a lot of people looked at Simon, but they

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Speaker 3: Y'all are slow today.

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Speaker 2: Remember, a lot of people looked at Jesus didn't see

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Speaker 2: But Jesus looked at Simon and said, you are Simon,

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Speaker 2: something very important. The title of this message is faith

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Speaker 3: Father.

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Speaker 2: I honor you and I bless you in advance for

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Speaker 2: of what you've already been doing in this person's life,

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Speaker 2: and that it will bring forth through it an abundant

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Speaker 2: you in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated.

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Speaker 3: Did you enjoy last week's message? Amen, If you missed it,

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Speaker 3: go get it online. It's all there.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it was the same online. It

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Speaker 2: it happens. Good job coming to church today. If you

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Speaker 2: didn't make it today because you couldn't, that's all right.

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Speaker 2: If you didn't make it because you didn't, you need

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Speaker 2: And I think right here in John chapter one are

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Speaker 2: you're so inclined. But the first thing is the thing

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Speaker 3: I'll pull your.

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Speaker 2: Attention back to the screens for just a moment where

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Speaker 2: Jesus turned around and asked his disciples, his soon to

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Speaker 2: what are you seeking? And then when they asked him

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Speaker 2: The first one is about the most important question that

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Speaker 2: first question that Jesus asked wasn't do you believe in me?

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Speaker 2: The first question Jesus asked wasn't will you follow me?

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Speaker 2: The first question that Jesus asked and John's gospel is

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Speaker 2: that question is so important is that because whatever you

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Speaker 2: One of Jesus's most popular teachings goes like this, seek

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Speaker 3: He was talking about the Kingdom of heaven.

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Speaker 2: But did you know that seek and you will find

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Speaker 2: of complaining. If you seek something to complain about, you'll find.

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Speaker 2: If you seek something wrong with my outfit today, you'll

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Speaker 2: else's too baggy. If you seek something wrong with what

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Speaker 2: If you seek something that you don't understand in this sermon,

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Speaker 3: To the situation that you're dealing with. What are you seeking?

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Speaker 2: I've often taught in marriage, two of the most important

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Speaker 3: I didn't bring a mirror, but.

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Speaker 2: and I'm not going to use it much. But just

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Speaker 2: how in marriage, if you look for something to be

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Speaker 3: If you look for something.

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Speaker 2: That your partner doesn't have that you wish they had,

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Speaker 2: you'll find it. If you look for something that they

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Speaker 2: Some of you found a few of them on the

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Speaker 2: on me, I'm so thankful that she doesn't. There's all

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Speaker 2: To me preach every week with her notebook open, it's

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Speaker 2: she's made a decision to have a perspective that, in

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Speaker 2: was said about I thought that was amazing. However long

444
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 2: they've been following John the Baptist, All it took was

445
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 2: one directive and they became the disciples, not of John,

446
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: but of the one that John was pointing to.

447
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Speaker 3: How much faith do you have for the unfamiliar?

448
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Speaker 2: How much faith do you have to detach from the

449
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 2: way you've always defined yourself?

450
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Speaker 3: Do you always have to go to a white church?

451
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 3: Do you always have to go to a black church?

452
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 2: Or will you go to the church that God sends

453
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Speaker 2: you to regardless of how people may define it. Do

454
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 2: you always have to go to a Pentecostal church? Do

455
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 2: you always have to go to a quiet church? Or

456
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 2: will you go to the church that God calls you to?

457
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 2: Does it always have to look like the lens that

458
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 2: you have for you to recognize the lamb in it?

459
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Speaker 3: Are you able to adapt.

460
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Speaker 2: And when God says change, change, it takes a lot

461
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Speaker 2: of faith to change. It takes faith to change how

462
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 2: you parent the kid. It takes faith because you've been

463
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 2: watching over them when they were little, making sure that

464
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 2: they didn't get hurt. But you can't keep them when

465
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 2: they're twenty three from climbing in a tree. They might

466
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 2: fall down, and the best you can do is help

467
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 2: them with the bills. It takes faith to let them

468
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Speaker 2: try new things. It takes faith to change the relationship.

469
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Speaker 2: It takes faith to let go of some of the control.

470
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Speaker 2: It takes faith just to completely change. I mean they

471
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 2: pivot on a single sentence to a person that they

472
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Speaker 2: know nothing about except that they know that John has

473
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Speaker 2: called him the Lamb of God. And when John said,

474
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Speaker 2: look the Lamb, they followed Jesus. They did not ask permission,

475
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Speaker 2: They did not interview him, they did not submit a

476
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 2: question to her, they did not check yelp. They simply

477
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 2: followed Jesus. That's what it says in verse thirty seven.

478
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: They followed Jesus. That takes faith to follow Jesus. I'm

479
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 2: gonna say it again until you get it. This is

480
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Speaker 2: not following Jesus like you, and I follow Jesus. Our

481
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 2: definition of follow is based on Instagram, TikTok.

482
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 3: And the artist formerly known as Twitter.

483
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 2: We follow somebody on x we follow somebody on Instagram.

484
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 3: It is as simple as hitting a button.

485
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 2: For them, this required a complete shift in their belief system.

486
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Speaker 3: This was not a button. This was a belief.

487
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 2: And to transfer all of your belief into someone you've

488
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 2: never seen, and to follow somewhere you've never.

489
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Speaker 3: Been, that takes faith.

490
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Speaker 2: And so we celebrate the fact that they stepped behind him,

491
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Speaker 2: perhaps quietly. How many steps they took before they were

492
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Speaker 2: addressed by the rabbi. We don't know how long did

493
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Speaker 2: Jesus let them walk before he turned around and acknowledged.

494
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Speaker 2: How long did he check to see that they were

495
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Speaker 2: still coming? How long did Jesus continue to keep his

496
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Speaker 2: stride unbroken, because he was on a purpose for a purpose,

497
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Speaker 2: with the purpose, not turning off of his path for anybody,

498
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Speaker 2: until he finally broke the silence silence, turned around and

499
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Speaker 2: said what do you seek? And the disciples didn't say

500
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Speaker 2: anything very deep that. In fact, they didn't answer him

501
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 2: at all. They said, where are you staying? John is

502
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Speaker 2: so clever. The word staying that he uses here is

503
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Speaker 2: the same word that he uses in John fifteen, where

504
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 2: he says abide stay in me, and I will abide

505
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 2: stay in you. It's the same word, not a letter different.

506
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Speaker 2: So what seems on the surface so simple is setting.

507
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Speaker 3: Us up for a revelation that's so deep.

508
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 2: It is that they had the faith to take steps

509
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Speaker 2: with the Savior. And boy, don't we love to see

510
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 2: somebody take a step of faith. Don't we love to

511
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 2: see somebody get baptized and take a step of faith.

512
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 2: Don't we love to see somebody raise their hand at

513
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Speaker 2: the end of the service and say, I am giving

514
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: my life to Jesus today.

515
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 3: And we love it so much we stay till the end.

516
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: We don't slip out and get to our car early

517
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: just because we want to get out before everybody else.

518
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: We stay because we care, and we celebrate that they

519
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 2: are starting their relationship with Jesus.

520
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know, we celebrate that.

521
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 2: We celebrate when somebody goes you know, I'm just gonna

522
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 2: move there by faith. I'm going to Saint Louis. I'm

523
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 2: stepping out in faith Saint Louis. I know there's a

524
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: lot of unknowns there's a lot of uncertainty, but we

525
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: will celebrate somebody who can step into uncertainty because most

526
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: of us are creatures of comfort, and we stay in

527
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: areas of familiarity. And when we watch somebody break free

528
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 2: and audition for American Idol, or we watch somebody break

529
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 2: free from the cage and just step out and do

530
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 2: something completely different. And I'm gonna be a chemist at

531
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Speaker 2: age sixty three. I've never studied chemistry in my life.

532
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 2: I don't even know how to use Plato. But I'm

533
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 2: gonna be a chemist at age sixty three. I'm going

534
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: back to school. I'm gonna start this. We celebrate that

535
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,959
Speaker 2: so well. But can I tell you something staying is underrated.

536
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 2: Staying is underrating because the same way that you think

537
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 2: it takes faith to step, I think it takes faith

538
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 2: to stay. And I will prove it to you not

539
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: from my own mind or experience. I will prove it

540
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 2: to you from this text. When they said where are

541
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: you staying, he said, come and you will see.

542
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Speaker 3: And verse thirty nine is.

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Speaker 2: The clearest verse that gets across my message today in

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Speaker 2: this entire passage. So they came and saw where he

545
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 2: was staying, and watch what they did next. Applaud them

546
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 2: for stepping out, applaud them for following the lamb.

547
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 3: It takes faith to be led by a lamb. It

548
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: takes faith to look at a lamb when you can't

549
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 3: see a king. All of that takes faith. To give

550
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 3: up on your plans, to give up, all of that

551
00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 3: takes faith.

552
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 2: But I want to celebrate something different today. Look at

553
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Speaker 2: it in verse thirty nine. So they came and saw

554
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day.

555
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: I celebrate that they had faith to stay. And you

556
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: celebrate that they had faith to step. But I celebrate

557
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 2: that they had faith to stay. And could it be

558
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 2: that in this season of your life, with all of

559
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: the turmoil, with all of the trauma, with all of

560
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: the unknowns, with all of the transformations and metamorphosis that

561
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: you're going through, God is calling you to.

562
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 3: A greater level of faith. And this season of faith

563
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 3: will not be defined by.

564
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Speaker 2: Your step, It will be defined by your stay. And

565
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: God said today, if I would preach this message like

566
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: he gave it to me, he would put your focus

567
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 2: in your eyes on Jesus and give you the faith

568
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 2: to stay. I don't know who this is for, But

569
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: you're where you need to be. I don't know who

570
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,479
Speaker 2: this is for, but don't move a muscle. I'll know

571
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 2: who this is for. But pillow your head on the

572
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: lion and take a nap. Because God is gonna be

573
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 2: shining through about four hours from now. Stay where He

574
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 2: puts you. Blessed are those who are planted by.

575
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Speaker 3: The streams of water.

576
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Speaker 2: I feel like preaching because if you quit, we'd give

577
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: you a going away party. If you started, we'd give

578
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: you a showing up party. But I want to give

579
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: somebody a stay and put party today. And the fact is,

580
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 2: it would have been easier for you to leave.

581
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Speaker 3: It would have been easier for you to walk off.

582
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Speaker 2: It would have been easier for you to wring your

583
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 2: hands and throw in.

584
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 3: The towel and give up on God.

585
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 2: It would have been easier for you to switch churches

586
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 2: thirteen times in the past fifteen years. It would have

587
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 2: been easier for you to say, let me.

588
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 3: Find a younger woman.

589
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: It would have been easier for you to say, let

590
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Speaker 2: me find a richer man.

591
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 3: I have tried your chances out there on the.

592
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 2: Open market, but instead you stayed. And I celebrate the

593
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 2: stayers today because it is since staying.

594
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: That you see you're telling me not to take the job.

595
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 3: I don't know what's the job you.

596
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 2: Might should take it, but I'll tell you one thing about.

597
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 3: The job that you take.

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00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 2: You are going to be going to work at that

599
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: company with you. So make sure that before you go

600
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: to work somebody else, you let work for somebody else,

601
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: You let God work on you enough that you like

602
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: the person that you go to work with when you

603
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 2: go to work.

604
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 3: Because if you go to work and you don't like

605
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 3: who you work with, I'm talking about you. If you

606
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 3: don't like who you show up.

607
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,239
Speaker 2: With, you can turn a vacation into a hell. You

608
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 2: can turn a mansion into a ghetto, you can turn anything.

609
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 3: Oh God, if you don't learn to stay, you will

610
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 3: never see King Jesus. Can we stay with you for

611
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 3: a day?

612
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Speaker 2: Jesus said, all right, you can say you can stay,

613
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: Come stay with me. I thought that was so cool

614
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 2: that the first thing we see about Jesus in the

615
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 2: scripture is through staying. And I'm all for steps of faith, right,

616
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 2: but I think that today that the majority of us

617
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 2: in the church aren't being called so much to a

618
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 2: step as a stay I'll break it down more.

619
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Speaker 3: I know it's kind of confusion. Where are you going

620
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 3: to go to college when you graduate high school?

621
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 2: I don't care so much where you go to college

622
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: as the fact that you stay close to God when

623
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 2: you get there.

624
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 3: So so go to.

625
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: The one that you can afford, Go to the one

626
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: that you make sense to you, go to the one

627
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 2: that you haven't offered for you. See, I'm talking to

628
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 2: you because it's more important that you stay pure when

629
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: you get there than it is that you select correctly

630
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: where you're going to go. And so much of our

631
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 2: agony in life is about going and getting it right.

632
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 3: And oh Jesus, am I following you? Right?

633
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: Am?

634
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 3: I doing the right thing?

635
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 2: And we get so paralyzed by that when they saw

636
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 2: Jesus because they stayed. I told you you're going to

637
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 2: talk about this message at home, and what I thought

638
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 2: was you'll probably use this message against each other, you know. See,

639
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 2: I told you we weren't supposed to move. See I

640
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 2: told you we weren't supposed.

641
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 3: To sell the house. God said stay. Well, that's not

642
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 3: what he meant that. No, that's not what I mean.

643
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 2: I am talking about the faith to stay even when

644
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 2: everything inside of you is telling you to rebel and run.

645
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 2: YEA many of you will not be here in this

646
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 2: church this time next year. And if that's because God

647
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 2: has moved you somewhere else and you're being fed there,

648
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 2: then I celebrate.

649
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 3: But if it's because you found it hard.

650
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 2: To follow Jesus and you thought that stepping out was

651
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 2: what it meant to have faith, then I did not

652
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 2: correctly teach you that it takes faith to stay. It

653
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 2: doesn't take faith for you to be into the Bible

654
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 2: one month, and then into New Age crystals the next month,

655
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 2: and then into self help and motivational teaching the third month,

656
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 2: and by the fourth month, we can't even keep up

657
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 2: with your location anymore. And we've got you on Life

658
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 2: three sixty, but we don't know what weird part of

659
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: the map you've gone to because you won't stay anywhere

660
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 2: and you won't build anything. And the first time you

661
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: hit a question in the scripture, and the first time

662
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 2: you hit something you don't understand about God, you think

663
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 2: you got to.

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Speaker 3: Run from God.

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Speaker 2: But what if the thing you don't understand about God

666
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Speaker 2: is just the reinforcement that you're not him. What if

667
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: the thing that you don't understand about Jesus is the

668
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Speaker 2: end of to come deeper into him? Do you really

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Speaker 2: think that when you found Jesus you were finished. You

670
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Speaker 2: weren't finished when you found him. In fact, you didn't

671
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Speaker 2: even really find him. He found you, and he found

672
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Speaker 2: you a mess, and he cleans you up and he

673
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Speaker 2: welcomed you home. And you've got to learn to stay

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Speaker 2: this time. You cannot keep running to the hog pen

675
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Speaker 2: every time it gets hard. You cannot keep running to

676
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Speaker 2: escape mechanisms that leave you.

677
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Speaker 3: A slave every time it gets hard. You've got to

678
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Speaker 3: stay somewhere.

679
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Speaker 2: You've got to stay positive surrounded by problems. You've got

680
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: to stay looking for the lamb of God. You've got

681
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 2: to stay looking for redemption. You've got to find a

682
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Speaker 2: reason to forgive, a strength to forgive. You've got to

683
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Speaker 2: find something to say to yourself to get yourself up.

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Speaker 3: In the morning.

685
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 2: You've got to stay in faith when everything inside.

686
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Speaker 3: Of you is screaming fear.

687
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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you how I get my messages

688
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Speaker 2: from God. I stay in the chair till he speaks.

689
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Speaker 2: If he doesn't speak in the chair, I get on

690
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Speaker 2: my face on the floor, and I stay on my

691
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: face still he speaks.

692
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Speaker 3: If he doesn't speak. When I'm on my face on the.

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Speaker 2: Floor, A pace around the house, and I stay pacing.

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Speaker 3: But even if i'm moving, I'm staying. I might have to.

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Speaker 2: Change locations, but I'm staying. I might have to change clothes,

696
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Speaker 2: but I'm staying. I might have to downside some of

697
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: my life, but I'm staying. I might have to change

698
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Speaker 2: some affiliations, but I'm staying. Because you keep saying that

699
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Speaker 2: faith will bring you out. But I believe God can

700
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Speaker 2: give you the faith to stay rooted, planted, more fruit,

701
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Speaker 2: much rude, abounding fruit if you abide. And they stayed

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Speaker 2: with him that day. Oh that's an important detail. Don't

703
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Speaker 2: miss that they stayed that day. God doesn't call you

704
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Speaker 2: to have the faith to stay for ten years, just

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Speaker 2: that day, just that day. You can follow Jesus the

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Speaker 2: whole way.

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Speaker 3: That way.

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Speaker 2: I talk to somebody who was sober one time. They've

709
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Speaker 2: been sober seven I met him just this past Elevation

710
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Speaker 2: Night's tour. They said, I've been sober seven years. I

711
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Speaker 2: said seven years. How they said, no, I didn't stay

712
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Speaker 2: sober seven years.

713
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Speaker 3: I stayed sober.

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Speaker 2: One day and another day and another day, and another day.

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Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. I stayed another day. I

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Speaker 2: stayed another day. That's how you do it. You stay

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Speaker 2: another day. Tell your neighbors, stay another day, Stay another day.

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Speaker 2: That's all you got to do. You have to forecast

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Speaker 2: out into the future. You are losing your strength because

720
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Speaker 2: you are projecting too far into your future. Stay another day,

721
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Speaker 2: stay another breath, stay another moment, Stay another day.

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Speaker 3: That's all I've got.

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Speaker 2: To do is stay another day. And that day they

724
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Speaker 2: stayed with Jesus. And the Bible does us so dirty?

725
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Speaker 2: All John Dinni's dirty. He just completely cuts to the

726
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Speaker 2: next scene.

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Speaker 3: And they stayed with him that day. And they ran

728
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Speaker 3: to Peter and said, we have found the Christ. I

729
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Speaker 3: want to know what happened in that house? What did

730
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Speaker 3: he say? What did he do?

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Speaker 2: We know he didn't do a miracle, because the first

732
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Speaker 2: miracle isn't until John chapter two.

733
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Speaker 3: It says in John chapter two, this.

734
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Speaker 2: Was the first of the signs that Jesus performed in Cana,

735
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Speaker 2: which is where Nathaniel was from, who we preached about

736
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Speaker 2: last week, who Jesus told you'll see greater things than these.

737
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Speaker 2: And then the next thing he saw was a miracle

738
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Speaker 2: of water becoming wine in his own hometown at a wedding.

739
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Speaker 3: But he wasn't turning water into wine in that house

740
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Speaker 3: said day he did that in John chapter two. They

741
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Speaker 3: weren't drinking wine in the house. What was he saying

742
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Speaker 3: in that house that day? And we don't know except

743
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Speaker 3: that they stayed.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes I can't explain it to you, but just

745
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Speaker 2: by staying, you get to see it.

746
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Speaker 3: And that true. Chris, Where's Chris?

747
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 2: He's always in here, been my worship leader for eighteen years.

748
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Speaker 2: He's won two Grammys, had a bunch of babies, you like,

749
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Speaker 2: I said, He had them bet this right.

750
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Speaker 3: By his side.

751
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Speaker 2: He told me, he told me, he told me, he

752
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Speaker 2: told me about seventeen years ago. I don't care if

753
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Speaker 2: I ever win a Grammy, he said. I don't care

754
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Speaker 2: if I ever get to go on Good Morning America.

755
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Speaker 3: And he's done that too.

756
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Speaker 2: I don't care if I ever have a platinum record,

757
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Speaker 2: gold record, he says. If this so powerful, he said,

758
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Speaker 2: I wanna see what my life can be if I

759
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Speaker 2: planted it in one place and serve God.

760
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna stop again because my heart is not.

761
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Speaker 2: The heart of just a speaker, but a Pastor, I

762
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Speaker 2: am not saying that you were wrong to change jobs.

763
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that you would be wrong to break

764
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Speaker 2: up with your boyfriend. In fact, some of some of

765
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Speaker 2: you need to end it with.

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Speaker 5: Him, so you could stay with him. Okay, that'd probably

767
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Speaker 5: be real confusing if you were listening to this and

768
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Speaker 5: not watching the video, wouldn't it?

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Speaker 3: Stay with God?

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Speaker 2: And I thought it was interesting that fruit that Chris

771
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Speaker 2: didn't even care about came to him because he stayed

772
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Speaker 2: planted in what God cares about.

773
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Speaker 3: They stayed with him that day.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like there's foreshadowing in this text. They stayed

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Speaker 2: with him that day. But what happened the next day, Well,

776
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Speaker 2: the next day he decided to leave for Galilee. They

777
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Speaker 2: found Philip and said follow me, and then they found

778
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Speaker 2: Nathaniel and then they took off and went to the

779
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Speaker 2: wedding and all of that. Do you know that more

780
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Speaker 2: would be revealed to these disciples through where Jesus stayed

781
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Speaker 2: than where he stepped. I was thinking about this because

782
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Speaker 2: we're in a series called Sea King Jesus Right, and

783
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Speaker 2: these disciples were so surprised to see Jesus at a

784
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Speaker 2: wedding turning water into wine, like, hey, Jesus, we got

785
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Speaker 2: to get out of here.

786
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Speaker 3: The wine's gone. And Jesus is like, now, this is

787
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Speaker 3: what we came for.

788
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Speaker 2: We showed up to stay after the wine is gone,

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Speaker 2: so that after everything seems to be over, we could

790
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Speaker 2: turn what seems to be nothing into some them. But

791
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Speaker 2: then their next stop was at the temple, where Jesus

792
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: made a whip and started driving out the people who

793
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Speaker 2: were charging the people for an exchange rate and charging

794
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Speaker 2: them for sacrifices and lying the people in the house

795
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Speaker 2: of God. And he said, you're robbing the people instead

796
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Speaker 2: of praying. So now notice this all in John chapter two.

797
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 2: They go from wine to whips. And it's the same

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Speaker 2: Jesus doing both. And one represents provision and one represents correction.

799
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Speaker 3: And it's the same Jesus doing both.

800
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Speaker 2: And sometimes we'll stay with him through the provision, but

801
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: we won't stay with him through the correction. But it's

802
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 2: the same shepherd of the stars who orders both. And

803
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Speaker 2: sometimes we will follow God because he's ordering our steps. Yes, Lord,

804
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Speaker 2: let me make the right decision. Yes Lord, let me

805
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: make the right investments. Yes Lord, let me meet.

806
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 3: The right people.

807
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 2: Yes, God, bring the right opportunities, the right scholarships. And

808
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Speaker 2: as long as he's ordering our steps, we're good. But

809
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Speaker 2: what about when he orders your stay? For example, in

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Speaker 2: John chapter four, Jesus shows up to a place called Samaria,

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Speaker 2: which is a place where the Jews wanted to go around,

812
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Speaker 2: but Jesus went through it. And not only did he

813
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Speaker 2: go directly through Samaria, which was a place of great political, economic,

814
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Speaker 2: and social tension, but the Bible says in John chapter four,

815
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Speaker 2: verse six, that when he got there, his disciples went

816
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Speaker 2: to get lunch, and he sat down on the well

817
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Speaker 2: and stayed in the heat of the day.

818
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Speaker 3: The Bible says at.

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Speaker 2: Noon or the sixth hour, the way they counted, he

820
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Speaker 2: stayed in the sun waiting for a woman who had

821
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Speaker 2: become an evangelist to the area.

822
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Speaker 3: See it.

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Speaker 2: They saw something of him as he walked, but they

824
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Speaker 2: saw even more when he stayed.

825
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Speaker 3: On his way to the temple.

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Speaker 2: In John chapter five, he stopped by the pool of Bethesda,

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Speaker 2: and there was a man there who had been stuck

828
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Speaker 2: there for thirty eight years. And Jesus, who had more

829
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Speaker 2: important things to do and important people see it, more

830
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 2: important places to go, He stayed by this man until

831
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Speaker 2: this man was able to walk. You can see a

832
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Speaker 2: lot about the Savior by when he chooses to stay.

833
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 2: In John chapter six, the multitudes had come to hear

834
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Speaker 2: him preach, and he taught so long they got hungry.

835
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Speaker 2: And the disciples said they gotta go, they gotta leave.

836
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Speaker 2: We gotta get out of here. Man, there's not enough food.

837
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Speaker 2: And Jesus said, no, they can stay.

838
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Speaker 3: They can stay. You don't have to feed.

839
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Speaker 2: Him, but I'm going to They can stay. You can

840
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 2: see a lot about a Savior who won't turn a

841
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 2: hungry soul away. You can see a lot about a

842
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 2: Savior who says no, she could stay, he could stay.

843
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 2: I know they made some mistakes, but they can stay.

844
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: I know you didn't plan for it, but they can stay.

845
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Speaker 2: You can see a lot about the Savior from where

846
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Speaker 2: he stays.

847
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Speaker 3: In John chapter seven, when his.

848
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Speaker 2: Brothers were like, you gotta go up and prove yourself,

849
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Speaker 2: got to go to one of the feast, and Jesus said, no,

850
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Speaker 2: I'm good in Galilee, y'all go, I'm gonna stay. You

851
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: can tell a lot by the Savior from where he stays.

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00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 2: In John chapter eight, there was a woman who came

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Speaker 2: to him who was caught in the act of adultery,

854
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Speaker 2: and Jesus, who had the right to throw a rock

855
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Speaker 2: at her and punish her by penalty of the law

856
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 2: of Moses for adultery, got down in the ground. You

857
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 2: could tell a lot by a savior who stoops and

858
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Speaker 2: stays in the dirt while others are casting stones. You

859
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 2: could tell a lot by a savior by where he stays.

860
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Speaker 2: In John chapter nine, there was a man who was

861
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Speaker 2: born blind. He was blind from birth, and Jesus said,

862
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 2: it's a sabbath, but I'm gonna heal you anyway, because

863
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 2: I'm going to stay and heal you, even if it

864
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: cost me controversy. You could tell a lot by a

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Speaker 2: savior who stays.

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Speaker 3: In John chapter eleven brings us to the pinnacle of

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Speaker 3: this message, the.

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Speaker 2: Faith to stay, because the Bible says in John chapter eleven,

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Speaker 2: verse one, Now a man named Lazarus was sick.

870
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Speaker 3: He was from Bethaning, the village of Mary and her

871
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Speaker 3: sister Martha.

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Speaker 2: This Mary, whose brother Lazareth now lay sick, was the

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Speaker 2: same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped.

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Speaker 3: His feet with her hair.

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Speaker 2: So the sister send word to Jesus, Lord the one

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Speaker 2: you love is sick. And when he heard this, Jesus said,

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Speaker 2: this sickness will not end in death. No, it is

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Speaker 2: for God's glory, so that God's son may be glorified

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Speaker 2: through it. Now, Jesus loved Martha, he loved her sister,

880
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Speaker 2: and he loved Lazarus. So when he heard Lazarus was sick,

881
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Speaker 2: he stayed where he was two more days. You could

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Speaker 2: tell a lot about the Savior from where he goes.

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Speaker 2: You could tell a lot about the Savior from what

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Speaker 2: he says. But you can tell even more about the

885
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 2: Savior from where he stays. And now we are confused,

886
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Speaker 2: and we are forgiven for being confused, because why would

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00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 2: verse six say he loved them and they needed him,

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00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 2: so he stayed two more days. Imagine the confusion of

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Speaker 2: John and Andrew.

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Speaker 3: Didn't you hear Jesus he's sick. Why are we staying

891
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Speaker 3: when he's sick?

892
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Speaker 2: And perhaps Jesus pulled John aside, you know, because John

893
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Speaker 2: is the one he loved the most.

894
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Speaker 3: John is the teacher's pet.

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Speaker 2: And maybe he explained to John off the record, see

896
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Speaker 2: if I go while he's sick, they will know me

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Speaker 2: as healer.

898
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 3: But they already know me as healer. And there is

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Speaker 3: something I want to show about my nature.

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Speaker 2: That I can only trust to someone that I love,

901
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Speaker 2: and I know they love me.

902
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 3: And since I know they love me.

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Speaker 2: Enough, I can stay here because they will love me

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Speaker 2: even if I'm late. Abide in me. Abide in me,

905
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Speaker 2: and you will bear much fruit. Abide in me through anxiety.

906
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 2: Abide in me though friends forsake you. Abide in me

907
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Speaker 2: with sickness in your body.

908
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 3: Abide in me when the worst things happen.

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00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 2: So he stayed because he had faith get ready for this.

910
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Speaker 2: He had faith to know that I can stay two

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Speaker 2: more days. And when I show up Jesus the Son

912
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Speaker 2: of God, Jesus the Lamb of God, Jesus who is

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Speaker 2: the resurrection New. When I get there, I'm going to

914
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 2: speak the word. And there is enough power in my

915
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Speaker 2: word that when I say Lazarus, get.

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Speaker 3: Up, he can't stay. So I have faith to stay

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00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 3: right where I am, because.

918
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Speaker 2: When I say his name, he's coming out of the grain.

919
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 2: We could have had church right there, but you missed

920
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 2: your Q. God is not staying away in your situation

921
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Speaker 2: because he for God about you.

922
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 3: God did not get lost on.

923
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Speaker 2: The way to Bethany, Jesus did not have bad cell

924
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 2: signal and unfortunately not get your message.

925
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 3: There are times in your life.

926
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Speaker 2: That God shows his love for you by the fact

927
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Speaker 2: that he trusts you enough to stay.

928
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Speaker 3: He knows you will stay. He knows you are like job.

929
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Speaker 2: They will not curse God no matter what afflicts their life.

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Speaker 2: They will not walk away from Me, no matter who

931
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Speaker 2: walks away from them. And God knows those who have

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Speaker 2: faith to stay.

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Speaker 6: So God, God faith to stay, because Jesus had faith.

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Speaker 2: To stay on a cross when he could have called

935
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Speaker 2: legions of angels.

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Speaker 3: And Peter said, don't you have enough fight faith to

937
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Speaker 3: fight back Jesus.

938
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Speaker 2: And Jesus said, don't you have enough faith to stay?

939
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Speaker 2: Don't you have enough faith to trust me in this situation?

940
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Speaker 2: And I believe that the greatest faith in this room

941
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Speaker 2: today is in the faith that somebody has.

942
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Speaker 6: To stay, to stay abide.

943
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Speaker 2: They stayed with him that day. By the way, when

944
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 2: Jesus went to the cross, only one stayed. His name

945
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Speaker 2: was John, the one who wrote it had the faith

946
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Speaker 2: to stay. You celebrate Peter who got out the walk

947
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Speaker 2: on the water.

948
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Speaker 3: Great.

949
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Speaker 2: I celebrate John who had the faith to stay at

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Speaker 2: the foot of the cross. Why everyone's standing, heads bowed

951
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 2: and eyes closed. Father, God, we receive your word today.

952
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Speaker 2: You are an amazing God. You are an incredible God.

953
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 2: You are a wonder working God that never changes. I

954
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Speaker 2: bless you today, God, because you stayed by my side

955
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Speaker 2: so many seasons, where others left and you stayed. My

956
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Speaker 2: prayer today is for someone whose branches are being shaken

957
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Speaker 2: by the storm of their life, someone who may have

958
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 2: moved to that John chapter eleven moment. I pray that

959
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Speaker 2: you would give them the faith to stay. I thank

960
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 2: you that you called Peter the Rock long before he

961
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Speaker 2: ever was, because you knew that your purpose for him

962
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Speaker 2: would stay.

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Speaker 3: Lord. I thank you today that there is a name.

964
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:20,280
Speaker 2: That when that name is mentioned, dead things come alive.

965
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Speaker 2: So Lord, we want to take just a moment and

966
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Speaker 2: look at the lamb of God, the one who is

967
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 2: worthy of all praise, the one who is worthy of

968
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 2: all worship, the one whose name never fails, the one

969
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 2: who went to the grave on Friday, stayed on Saturday,

970
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 2: and got up on Sunday.

971
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 3: God give us that Saturday faith to stay. Today.

972
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 2: We want to see King Jesus high and lift it up.

973
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 2: We want to see King Jesus. But we're looking at

974
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 2: the Lamb of God today, heads bowed, eyes closed all.

975
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:05,479
Speaker 3: Over this room.

976
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Speaker 2: I believe there is someone today who God is giving

977
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Speaker 2: you the opportunity to become a.

978
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 3: Follower of Jesus Christ.

979
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Speaker 2: And I want to invite you right now, by the

980
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 2: power of the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus,

981
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 2: on the authority of the Word of God, to place

982
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Speaker 2: your faith in Jesus, to make that first step of

983
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 2: faith to become.

984
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Speaker 3: A follower of Christ.

985
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 2: And you know when you make that step of faith,

986
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 2: you're not stepping out on your own. The Spirit of

987
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 2: God comes in to be your helper. The spirit that

988
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 2: raised Jesus from the dead. The blood of Jesus Christ

989
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 2: that pardons all sin, will come and wash your soul

990
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 2: and make you a new creation. Has eyes closed, you

991
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 2: say that's me today, Pastor Stephen.

992
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,840
Speaker 3: I believe the Lord is calling me to this moment

993
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 3: to follow him. Or maybe I have fallen away.

994
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 2: There was a time I was following Christ, but today

995
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:56,479
Speaker 2: I'm coming back.

996
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 3: If that's you, We're going to pray a prayer right now.

997
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 2: We're praying get out loud as a church family for

998
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 2: the benefit of those who are coming to God or

999
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 2: coming back to God, repeat after me, Church, Heavenly Father,

1000
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:15,720
Speaker 2: Today is my day of salvation. I am a sinner

1001
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 2: in need of a savior, and I believe that Jesus

1002
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 2: Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of

1003
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 2: the world. And today I make Jesus the.

1004
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 3: Lord of my life.

1005
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

1006
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 2: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

1007
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 2: This is my new beginning. I am a child of God.

1008
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Speaker 2: On the count of three shoots your hand in the ear.

1009
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Speaker 2: If you prayed that one, two, three, celebrate you right now.

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Speaker 3: Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Praise the Lord, everybody.

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1014
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,280
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:14,920
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