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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: and now to the Word of God. Amen. Genesis chapter fifty,

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Speaker 1: What are you doing with that organ trying to provoke me?

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Speaker 1: Genesis chapter fifty, verse nineteen. But Joseph said to them,

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Speaker 1: don't be afraid, am I in the place of God.

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Speaker 1: You intended to harm me, but God intended it to

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Speaker 1: accomplish what is now being died, the saving of many lives.

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Speaker 1: So then don't be afraid. I will provide for you

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Speaker 1: and your children. And he reassured them and spoke kindly

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Speaker 1: to them. God minute for good. The life of Joseph

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Speaker 1: is almost like an entire movie. I could even say

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Speaker 1: it's like a like a show with seven seasons. It

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Speaker 1: spans about fourteen chapters in the Book of Genesis. Holly

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Speaker 1: said one time that she doesn't like sermons about Joseph

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Speaker 1: because they try to do too much and trying to

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Speaker 1: spand that much content there's a lot you have to

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Speaker 1: track through with Joseph, all the betrayal, the hurt, the

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Speaker 1: promise God made him, the process that he went through.

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Speaker 1: But you're gonna like this one. And the reason that

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Speaker 1: you didn't like sermons about Joseph before is because they

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Speaker 1: didn't tell you the best stuff. So that's what I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna skim it today. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: something that it's really going to reach you. Holly. And So,

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Speaker 1: someone was saying to me about a TV show that

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Speaker 1: I would really like a while back, and they said

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Speaker 1: it's really good. I said, I watched it. I didn't

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Speaker 1: like it. They said, how many episodes did you watch?

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Speaker 1: I said, like three or four? It was boring. And

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Speaker 1: they said, well, if you can push past the first

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Speaker 1: two seasons, this is like a military career. I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to push through something trying to relax. They're not

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Speaker 1: paying me to watch this. I'm paying Netflix to watch this.

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Speaker 1: Am I'm pushing through. If you can really push through

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Speaker 1: the first two seasons, you get to the good part.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about get to

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Speaker 1: the good part. Get to the good part. And I

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Speaker 1: want to pray for you, because this is a prophetic

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Speaker 1: word for somebody, and I don't know who. So I

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Speaker 1: pray Father, in the name of Jesus, that this word

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Speaker 1: would reach from eternity right into Sunday morning or Tuesday

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Speaker 1: afternoon or four am on Thursday. I pray that it'll

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Speaker 1: go right here from South Charlotte, North Carolina, on this

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Speaker 1: plastic pulpit and penetrate the hearts of those who need

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Speaker 1: to get to the good part, those who are holding on,

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Speaker 1: those who are pushing through. I declare today they're going

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Speaker 1: to get to the good part. In Jesus' name. Amen,

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Speaker 1: you may be seated. Yeah, because I was kind of like,

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Speaker 1: if you have to watch two seasons for the show

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Speaker 1: to get interesting, is it really good? At that point?

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Speaker 1: You violate my definition of a good show if it

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Speaker 1: took two seasons. If I have to invest twenty hours

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Speaker 1: of my life, you know how many songs I can

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Speaker 1: your stupid show just kind of tick me on made

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Speaker 1: me mad while we're at it. Not only do I

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Speaker 1: not like thumbs up emojis, I prefer fist bump. And

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Speaker 1: not only do I not want to push through a

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Speaker 1: show that I'm supposed to be enjoying. Not only do

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Speaker 1: I want to not want to endure something that's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be meant for my entertainment I'm paying a subscription for.

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Speaker 1: I don't even really like the word good because it's

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Speaker 1: kind of common. Like I played a song for somebody

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Speaker 1: one time that I had just written, and I came

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Speaker 1: out of a songwriting season. I'm still in a songwriting

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Speaker 1: I use analogies that are relevant to my life. I

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Speaker 1: played them a song, they said, that's good. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want good. I want goosebumps, like I want

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Speaker 1: you to make noises and stuff that aren't even worse,

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Speaker 1: like oh yeah, oh, I just I don't want that's good.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't I don't even I don't even

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Speaker 1: want you to use that word at all, Like, oh man,

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Speaker 1: that that sermon was? That was? That was good. One

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Speaker 1: time somebody was preaching back to me while I was

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Speaker 1: I was like, no, it's life changing because I had

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Speaker 1: and like, that's that's a word. I like amazing. Everybody

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Speaker 1: and seventeen exclamation points. Amazing. Put all the exclamation points

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Speaker 1: Holly to tell me when I give her a gift.

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Speaker 1: I don't want her to be like, oh, this is good.

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Speaker 1: I want it to be terrific. Yeah. I wrote down

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Speaker 1: actually a list of words I didn't even look at

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Speaker 1: the source that are better than good, great, awesome, terrific, wonderful, incredible, stupendous.

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Speaker 1: Somebody say stupendous, yeah, I'll think stupendous, mind blowing hyphenated

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Speaker 1: words still a word. Ridiculous. You could tell me that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Oh that was ridiculous. That song was ridiculous. But good,

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Speaker 1: I don't like good. You can say it was sick.

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Speaker 1: You can say it was glorious. You can say it

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Speaker 1: In fact, I would rather don't even use an adjective,

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Speaker 1: use a superlative. That was the best ever since time began.

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Speaker 1: There's never been a better one, and there never will be,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I was kind of mad

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Speaker 1: because Joseph gets kind of toward the end of this

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Speaker 1: for good, after all he went through, and just to

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Speaker 1: the better part of his life. And then the only

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Speaker 1: end is it was good. It was good. Take you

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Speaker 1: on a big vacation. How'd you like it? It It was good? Good.

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Speaker 1: I just might not do it again. You know, it

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Speaker 1: was just good. It pretty good. I guess it depens

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Speaker 1: and you're like, why are you taking so much time

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Speaker 1: the good part. I am at the good part because

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Speaker 1: the very last thing that we really hear Joseph say

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Speaker 1: God think. Can I show you somebody say, this is good,

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Speaker 1: is why you didn't like stories about Joseph, because they

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Speaker 1: started in Genesis thirty seven when we started reading about Joseph.

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Speaker 1: But Joseph's story didn't start in Genesis thirty seven. It

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Speaker 1: started in Genesis one. And can I tell you that

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Speaker 1: your story didn't start. Everybody shout your birth year outlaw,

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Speaker 1: what's your birth year? What's your birth year? Put it

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Speaker 1: in the chat. Put it in the chat. Put it

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Speaker 1: in the chat. So we all are lying God forgive them.

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Speaker 1: It didn't start then it started in Genesis one. Read

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Speaker 1: this in the again. And God created the heavens and

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Speaker 1: the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, and

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Speaker 1: the process that Joseph had gone through. Joseph wasn't so

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Speaker 1: ended up there to begin with. Anyway, this is the

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Speaker 1: good part that we love to preach where it says

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Speaker 1: you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.

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Speaker 1: So isn't it crazy that the last thing we see

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Speaker 1: all through the process, never stopped being good. It never

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Speaker 1: oh boop. The little devils that you stress about all

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Speaker 1: big it is to God. That's how big it is

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Speaker 1: his hand is as short. Ya. Don't make me preach

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Speaker 1: as small to some of us. We'll compromise our character

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Speaker 1: You don't have to take any of your clothes off.

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Speaker 1: in the same way that we he can confuse what

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Speaker 1: Let's call on the prophet he said, woe to those

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Speaker 1: think you've experienced it, probably even in church, where people

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Speaker 1: That's what Isaiah's talking about. When you call evil good

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Speaker 1: sitting there going Tom Petty wouldn't have liked this song.

427
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: Tom Petty is dead. Tom Petty never even heard of

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Speaker 1: elevation worship while he was alive. I got Tom Petty

429
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: looking over my shoulder, going, eh, not so sure. Where

430
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: did Tom Petty come from in this? But like that's

431
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: a part of the process. Is like pushing through that judgment. Hey,

432
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Speaker 1: when y'all do that too, for you, it's not Tom

433
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: Petty over your shoulder, Okay, it's your mom. Wow. There's

434
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Speaker 1: a part when you go to do something for God,

435
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: write a song, take a step, make an active service,

436
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: change a habit. I don't care what it is. There

437
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: is a part of every process that's dark, and it

438
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: can come right, I mean right before the best part.

439
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: And if you let it die in the dark, you'll

440
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: never get to the Like I promise you. It's not

441
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: just the caffeine and me. It's like God sent me

442
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: out here to say to somebody, you've got to get

443
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Speaker 1: through this dark part of your life, of this stage

444
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: of a gouldhood. And maybe just because I've got two teenagers,

445
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: I was thinking about teens who commit suicide, and it

446
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: started to haunt me that, like they have no idea

447
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: that high school is weird for everybody. It doesn't feel

448
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: like this forever. It's not always. I mean there's still

449
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: challenges and people are still people, and life is still hard,

450
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: but it's not always this surge of hormones and weirdness

451
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: and stuff breaking out on your face everywhere, just stuff

452
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: in your mind and wonder. No, no, no, no, no no.

453
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: It won't always be this dark. It won't always be

454
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Speaker 1: the dark. You gotta live. You gotta live. Whoever you are,

455
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: you gotta live, You gotta live, You gotta live. You

456
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: gotta live to see it. You gotta live, You gotta

457
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Speaker 1: live to see I will remain confident in this that

458
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: I will see. I got lights, I will see the

459
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: good goodness of the Lord. Goodness, goodness. It's gonna get good.

460
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna get good. It's gonna get good and gooder

461
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: and gooder and better and better. And you haven't seen

462
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: anything yet. You haven't even met your best self yet.

463
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: You gotta get through this valley. Oh yeah, oh yeah,

464
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh yeah. I gotta get through this valley. Yea,

465
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Speaker 1: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death,

466
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Speaker 1: I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

467
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Speaker 1: Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Question, is

468
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: a rod and a staff a good thing or a

469
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: bad thing? Depends on whether you're a wolf or a sheep. Now,

470
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Speaker 1: when I belong to God, everything he does in my life,

471
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: it might not feel good, but it is good because

472
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: He's still good. Ya Awa through the valley. I gotta

473
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: get through this valley so I can make it to

474
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Speaker 1: the table. You prepare a table. That's kind of weak,

475
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Speaker 1: eld Jane, I said, make it to the table. Make

476
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Speaker 1: it to the table. Make it to the table. Leg

477
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: it to the table, Make it to the table, make

478
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Speaker 1: it to the I'm gonna make it to the table.

479
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna

480
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Speaker 1: make it. I'm gonna make it. I gotta make it.

481
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: I was for to make it. My kids need me

482
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: to make it. My wife needs me to make it.

483
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: My search needs me to make it. You have to

484
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: make it. You have to make it. You've got to

485
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: make it. It's necessary that you make it. You gotta

486
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: get to the good part. You gotta get to the

487
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: good part. You gotta locate Israel inside of your Jacob.

488
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: Sit up, Israel, be a man, be a woman, be

489
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: the one God call, stand up and do it. You

490
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: gotta make it to the table. And to make it

491
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: to the table, I gotta go through the shadow. Every

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00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: good thing has a dark part. So James says something

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Speaker 1: I thought we should think about. He said, don't need

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Speaker 1: to see brothers, sisters. Every good, somebody say good, Every

495
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: good and perfect gift comes from above. I think I

496
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: gave him the scripture. I'd love for you to show

497
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: it now, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights,

498
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Speaker 1: who does not change. Like shifting shadows. That's all any

499
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: shadows gift. You see it again, see it again. The

500
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: contrast that every good thing has a dark part. What

501
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: concerns me is I see a lot of people who

502
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: never get to the good part of their marriage, of

503
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: their gift, their skill. I guarantee you there's no guitar

504
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: players out here right now, but I guarantee you if

505
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: we could ask them when they maybe even on bass shay.

506
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: Before you first start learning how to play, there's a

507
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: point where your fingers hurt so bad. When I was

508
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: starting to learn to play guitar, my fingers would hurt

509
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: so bad. And Harold Staley, Jack crib they both told me,

510
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: these two men that were teaching me guitar, they both said,

511
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: you got to build up the callouses, and every time

512
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: I would go to practice, it would hurt so bad. Ah,

513
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: most people quit before they get the callous, because if

514
00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: you keep playing long enough, eventually your finger will be

515
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: able wade. Remember the before the calluses. And if you

516
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: don't play for a little while now, it's not that

517
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: this doesn't change. If you don't play for a while,

518
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: you got to start over again. Most people quit before

519
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: they get there, whether it's teenagers who in their life

520
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: or let's be honest, not even in their life, but

521
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: just sabotage themselves because they don't want to sit with

522
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: the loneliness, and you just want to tell them, no, no, no,

523
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,959
Speaker 1: don't give that away. That's too important. Don't give that away.

524
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Speaker 1: No no, no no, no, don't do that. Get to the

525
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: good part, Joseph, don't throw your brothers out. That's how

526
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: God is going to build a nation. Get to the

527
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: good part. I know you want to go off and

528
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: freak out and tell them another that's just your reaction.

529
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: That's not the reality. The real, you know, is better.

530
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: So James says, don't be deceived. Every good gift comes

531
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Speaker 1: from above. A few things I take from that one.

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00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: If it's good, it came from God. Write that down,

533
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 1: putting in check. If it's good, it came from God.

534
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: Say it fast like the micromachine. Man. If it's good,

535
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: it came from God. All right. So if God blesses

536
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: me through somebody or through something, it came from him.

537
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of birthday gifts a few days ago,

538
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: thanks to everybody sent me a gift. And hey, the

539
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: greatest gift is prayer, all right, so thank you. I

540
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: used to always hear a preachers say that. They'd say

541
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Speaker 1: thank you for all of you who give to the

542
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: church and all this stuff, and then, but most importantly,

543
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: your prayers. I'm like, is that prayers aren't more important

544
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: than the giving. We gotta feed people, we gotta help people,

545
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: we gotta build the kingdom. Thank you for all of it.

546
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: It's all important, you know, false dichotomy. But but uh,

547
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: what was I saying? Oh? Oh, the gifts, the guests,

548
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: the guests, the guests. You see this jacket I'm wearing.

549
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: Wade gave me this. And the funny thing was when

550
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: I saw his handwriting on the envelope. He's given me

551
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: so many gifts through the years. I said that one

552
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: was from Wade. It's gonna be good. I hadn't even

553
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: unwrapped the gift. I knew who gave it. When I

554
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: shook the box, I knew it was something I could wear.

555
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: I said, I got my preaching clothes for next week

556
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: because it came from Wade. Somebody said it came from Wade.

557
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 1: Wade knows what I like to wear. He knows blackest, slimming,

558
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 1: flattering to my body type. Came from Wade. It's good.

559
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: I'm good this week. I got something to wear this

560
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: because it came from Wade. If it comes from God,

561
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: it's gonna be good. So if it's good, it comes

562
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: from God, even if God does it through somebody else.

563
00:36:53,920 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: I didn't hug the postman for delivering Wade's gift. It's

564
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: kind of deep, right, we get dependent on people. We

565
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: think people have to be good to us for God

566
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: to be good to us. No they don't. No, they

567
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: don't question who got Jesus to the cross, which disciple

568
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: John the one he loved, or Judas the one who

569
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: betrayed him. And now you're seeing my theme of my message, right,

570
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: get to the good part. The part that feels good

571
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: isn't always the part that is good. You only know

572
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 1: that when you reflect on it. Because I was thinking,

573
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: if it's good, it came from God. If it came

574
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: from God, it's good. What if it didn't, it's going

575
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: to be good anyway. And that's where you can preach

576
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: Romans eight twenty eight. In all things God works for

577
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: the good. Now, I always heard that verse. They read

578
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: that much, and then it was confusing to people. All

579
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: things worked together for the good. They didn't even get

580
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: to the good part of the verse. They stopped on

581
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: the word good. The good part is what it says

582
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Speaker 1: next to those who love the Lord and are called

583
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: according to His purpose. So real quick, Divie, earlier I

584
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: saw you out here. You've had two tools that I've

585
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: seen since you came out, not counting your notebook. You

586
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: had this real quick and you had this. When we

587
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: talk about what God calls good, we have to understand

588
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: something about God. God doesn't call something good based on

589
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: how it made you feel while it was happening. God

590
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: doesn't call something good based on whether how much you

591
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: expected it and how much it matched your preference. God

592
00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: calls it good when it serves its purpose. David, you

593
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: were singing on this. You were sitting on this. I

594
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 1: have a feeling if you tried to sing on this

595
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: it wouldn't work. It wouldn't work. It's a good store,

596
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: but you can't sing into it. It's a good mic,

597
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: but you can't sit on it. Quit thinking you're not

598
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: good because you can't do what it wasn't even in

599
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: your function or your purpose to do. When God made

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00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: man on the sixth day, he said, it's very good.

601
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: It's very good. It's real good. It's in my image,

602
00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: it's according to my likeness. It's good. It's good. It's good.

603
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good,

604
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: it's good, it's good. Why are you saying that? Somebody

605
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 1: told me the other day I had a good workout.

606
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: I said, how is it good? Said I was throwing up.

607
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: After I said huh, he said, I know it worked.

608
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: Come get this stuff to be Joseph said, am I

609
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: in the place of God? No, you're not in the

610
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: place of God. But he had the same thought process

611
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Speaker 1: as God. He knew that the darkness doesn't have to

612
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Speaker 1: go away for the light to be effective. So when

613
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: you say how are you doing it, and you say

614
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Speaker 1: I'm good, you're not lying. You're just focusing. Wow. Sometimes

615
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: before you can get to the good part in your life,

616
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: you have to get to the good part in your mind.

617
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: So then you start saying things like lb Skinner when

618
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: it rained at our first church service, where there was

619
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: rain and the attendant suffered, and I was depressed, and

620
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Speaker 1: I said, it rained. Almost nobody came. He was smiling.

621
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Speaker 1: I said, what are you smiling about? It was rainy

622
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: and nobody came. He said, ah, But Pastor, it gave

623
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Speaker 1: our greeter teams a chance to shine. See he had

624
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: had these custom elevation umbrellas made, and he was waiting

625
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: for a chance to use somebody. He saw the rain,

626
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: he said it's good. I saw the rain and said,

627
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: oh God. He saw the rain and said it's good.

628
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: And I wonder are you waiting for it to get

629
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: good in your life? And God is waiting for you

630
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:09,240
Speaker 1: to get good in your mind. For everybody who's struggling

631
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: with comparison and envy? What are you good at? The

632
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: darkness doesn't want you to see that you only see

633
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: without form and void. God said, let there be light.

634
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: I'm just asking God over our congregation, look, shine the

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Speaker 1: light on the good part. This way, the good part.

636
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,959
Speaker 1: Turn your flashlight on your phone right now and start

637
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: shining it around. And when the people that are sitting

638
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,879
Speaker 1: in your apartment start asking you, what in the world

639
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: are you doing, say, I'm looking for the good part.

640
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the good part. I'm looking I need

641
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: some light. I need some light. I need some light.

642
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: I need the word of God. I need worship, I

643
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: need the presence of God. And that is why my

644
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,720
Speaker 1: consumption becomes important, and why every week I say something

645
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: to you about your phone your social media, your twenty

646
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: four seven Then what do they call it? Twenty four seven?

647
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 1: News cyclone cycle, new cycle. It's like people will say,

648
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: I've got to be informed. I gotta like it is

649
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: good to be informed. But if you have to dig

650
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: through that much garbage to get something good, is it

651
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: really good? We're confused. Like Adam and Eve, they weren't

652
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: in trouble because they ate an apple. The Bible says

653
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: that they ate from the tree of the knowledge of

654
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: good and evil, and they thought they were like God,

655
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: I know it's good. We always get in trouble when

656
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: we try to do God's job. God said it was good.

657
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: God said it was good. God said it was good.

658
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: And Joseph is such a great picture. All the way

659
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: across forty nine chapters of Genesis, he echoes back what

660
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: God said when he spoke the world into existence. That good.

661
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Speaker 1: But I don't even really want to show you this

662
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: from Joseph's life. I want to show you one thing

663
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: that Jesus said before I let you go. And this

664
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: is where the real power is because remember, Joseph said

665
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: it was good. That's what he said when he was

666
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: looking back, and that's powerful, and that really takes from

667
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: ature perspective to say, oh, man, I guess this is

668
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: what God. You know, it's I probably could have got

669
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: there an easier way, but I guess this is what God. Okay, Lord,

670
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Speaker 1: I accept it. Let me tell you something Jesus did.

671
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Speaker 1: He's he's getting ready to leave his disciples. They're sad.

672
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: They are what he calls grieving, and grieving doesn't just

673
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 1: have to be over a death. You can grieve an opportunity.

674
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: You can grieve a schedule that was lost, dicta billy,

675
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: you could grieve a lot of things. Jesus is dealing

676
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: with grieving disciples who are going to miss his physical presence.

677
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: I guess if we're going to tie it into Genesis, right, like,

678
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: Jesus is the light of the world, so they're losing

679
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: their light. He was what they walked by. He's the

680
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: only way that his presence, his words, his actions, his example,

681
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: his encouragement. They're going to lose that. Have you lost

682
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: something lately? Have you lost your light? Here's what he says.

683
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: Absolutely amazing how God's word works in concert with each other.

684
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: Because way after Joseph said it was good, now that

685
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: I look back on it, Jesus was saying this, John

686
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Speaker 1: chapter sixteen. But now I'm going to him who sent me.

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Speaker 1: None of you asked me where are you going? Watch this?

688
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: Watch this? No, no, no, Jesus knew where he was going.

689
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:58,479
Speaker 1: They didn't know where they were going, right, So he's

690
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: trying to convince them of something and that they're not

691
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: so sure of. Here's what he says. Rather, you are

692
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Speaker 1: filled with grief because I have said these things. He's

693
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Speaker 1: going to the cross. And this is the assurance that

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Speaker 1: he gives us. He tells them verse seven, it is

695
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: for your good that I am going away. Unless I

696
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: go away, the advocate the Holy Spirit will not come

697
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Speaker 1: to you. So here's the here's the upgrade. I was

698
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Speaker 1: with you. Now my spirit will be in you. But

699
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Speaker 1: first I gotta go. That's the dark part. The good

700
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: part is you're gonna have the spirit. He's gonna convince love, joy, peace,

701
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: page Kid's gonna say those general self control Galatian five

702
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Speaker 1: two twenty three. We're not there yet. We got to

703
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: the good part yet, this is the dark part. He

704
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: knows what they're about to go through, and he also

705
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: knows what they are going to get to, so he

706
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: is giving them something. So that while you go through

707
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Speaker 1: this painful moment, this first season, this second season, these

708
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: winter months, this dark part, this hard part of your day,

709
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 1: this hard part of your life, this hard part of

710
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: your marriage, your ministry. If you don't go through the

711
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,760
Speaker 1: dark part, you won't get to the good part unless

712
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: I go away. Yeah, it's gonna feel different, it's gonna

713
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: be confusing, you're not gonna know. This is where people

714
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: give up on God. They start reading the Bible and

715
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: they read it like a fortune cookie, and the first

716
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,439
Speaker 1: thing that makes them confused, they say, God's not real.

717
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: This stuff doesn't work. I'll really believe it. I pray

718
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen. But you didn't get to the

719
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: good part where you find out that it is not

720
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: in the answers that God becomes real. It is in

721
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 1: wrestling with the questions that you'll find out that there

722
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: is a kingdom within you, within you. That's the good part.

723
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: Thank God for all the good things around me. But

724
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: it's what He does and that's the good part. And

725
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: you will never get to that if you keep changing

726
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: what's around you never get to the good part because

727
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: you won't go through the dark part. Take a pill,

728
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: get out, the dark part, blow up the relationship. Many

729
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: people never get to intimacy in relationships. I'm gonna tell

730
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: you why, because they won't push through the insecurity to

731
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: get to real intimacy. You've got to go through insecurity

732
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: because I gotta be willing to let you see me.

733
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Speaker 1: If we're gonna have one guy said into me, see intimacy,

734
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: that's scary. I want you to see into me. So

735
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: we never get to intimacy because we won't work through

736
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: the insecurity of saying, yeah, I am flawed. And even

737
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: in our relationship with God, Jacob spent his whole life

738
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: pretending to be somebody else. But God said no, I

739
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: want to get to the good part, the true part,

740
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: the real part. Many people never get to their destiny

741
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: because they won't work through the disappointment, never get to

742
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: the wisdom because they won't work through the bitterness. To

743
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: get to the good part, you got to go through

744
00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: the dark part. But he's with me, He's with me.

745
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: Jesus said, I'm going away, what I'll be with you.

746
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 1: I'll be with you. It is good for you. Joseph

747
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: had it right, he said it was good. Jesus took

748
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: it to another level. Give me the verse. He didn't

749
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: say it was good after it happened. He said, it

750
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: is good. God give us the faith, not just to

751
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: look back on our life and say, ah, it all

752
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: worked out. But what if you could stand in the

753
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: darkest place where you don't know what's two feet ahead.

754
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 1: What if you could stand in the darkest place where

755
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: you don't know how God's going to do. What if

756
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: you could stand in the darkest place where you don't

757
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: know who's going to be with you. What if you

758
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 1: could stand in the darkest place where you can't predict

759
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: how He's going to provide. What if if you could

760
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: be like Jesus and say it is good for me,

761
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: and if it's not good right now, it's going to

762
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: be it is good. Put it up. It is good.

763
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: It is good. It is good. It is for my good.

764
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Speaker 1: And so I'm thankful that what God started doing, Thank

765
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: you Lord in Genesis one when he said on the

766
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: first day of creation that the light is good, he

767
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: is still doing. In Genesis fifty, where Joseph looked back

768
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: on everything he'd been through, I said it was good.

769
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: I need the faith, and you need the faith to

770
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: be able to say if it came from God is good.

771
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: If it's good it came from God. It is not

772
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: good right now. It's gonna be when he gets done

773
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: with it. Yet, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh, God, help

774
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: me appreciate the gifts that you put in my life.

775
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 1: Some of us don't know how good it was until

776
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: it's gone. I don't want to be like that. I

777
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: don't want to just survive seasons of my life and

778
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: then look back and say that was good. And I

779
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: didn't even know that was so good, that that was

780
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: so good. I didn't even know how good it was

781
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: until it was gone. We don't know it's good. Sometimes

782
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: still it's gone. But what if God right now sent

783
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: me to preach this word to you, to let you

784
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: know that even in the valley, there's a table, and

785
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: you've got to You've got to. You've got to, you've

786
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: got to, you've got to go through the dark part

787
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:11,760
Speaker 1: to get to the good part. Almost forgotten, I promise,

788
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: I almost forgot. I'm not playing with you all. Almost forgot.

789
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: Genesis fifty twenty two. This is why you never liked

790
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: sermons about Joseph. They stopped reading at the verse twenty one.

791
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: Look at twenty two Joseph stayed in Egypt along with

792
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: his father's family. He lived one hundred and ten years.

793
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: Every sermon I ever heard about Joseph was about the

794
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: first thirty years of his life. Oh, he didn't even

795
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: get to the good part yet. I came to prophesy,

796
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: You've got more life to live, You'll got more things

797
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 1: to do, You've got more love to give, You got more,

798
00:53:54,120 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: You'll got more. Joseph's state, it is up. And he

799
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: lived to be one hundred and ten. He didn't die

800
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: at the pit, he didn't die at the prison. He

801
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: didn't die at that life. He lived one ten And

802
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: I believe that I will see the goodness, goodness, the goodness,

803
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: the goodness. Give me the next verse. That's not the

804
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: best part either, here's the best part. You can have

805
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: Genesis fifty twenty. That's not the good part. This is

806
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: the good part. And saw the third generation of Ephraim's

807
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 1: children and the children of Makir, son of Manassa, were

808
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:46,760
Speaker 1: placed at burn on Joseph's knees. His grandbabies were sitting

809
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: on his knees in the same land of his suffering.

810
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: You hadn't even got to the good part yet. You

811
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: hadn't even seen God's best yet. You haven't even experienced

812
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: life yet. Oh it's getting good now, it's getting good. Now,

813
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: it's getting good. It's getting good. It's getting good. It's

814
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 1: getting good. It's getting good. It's getting good in my life.

815
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: It's getting dark because it's getting good. It's getting dark

816
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: because it's getting good. There's something on the other side.

817
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: That's why I've been in this fight. It's getting good,

818
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: that's getting good. It's getting good. It's getting good. Can

819
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: you at least say that. If you can't say it

820
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: is good, he say it's getting good. It's getting good.

821
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 1: It's getting good. It's getting good. It's getting good. It's

822
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 1: getting good. It's getting hard, it's getting good. It's getting awkward.

823
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 1: It's getting good. It's getting rough. It's getting good. It's

824
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: getting scary. It's getting good. Oh God, sir, it's good.

825
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: And there was give me Genesis one. For give me

826
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: Genesis one, for give me Genesis one for this? How

827
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 1: it started this, How it is this, How the book

828
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: is this, How your life end is this, How your

829
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: life starts. It's good, it's good, it's good. It's always good.

830
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: It's always good. It's not always good. But it's gonna

831
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: be good. It's getting good. It's getting good. It's getting good.

832
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: And God, God saw that the light was good, and

833
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: then verse five cents separate the light from the durness.

834
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: And God called the light day and dartniss calle night,

835
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: and there was evening and morning first day. God's not

836
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: done yet, but it's good. And then you gotta ask yourself,

837
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: why put it back up? Why evening and morning not

838
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: mourning and evening? Come on, it's getting good. It's getting good.

839
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:43,439
Speaker 1: This a God. I feels so bad for everybody who

840
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: locked off. That's serving. I feel so bad if you

841
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: love golf, because it's just getting gold. It's just I

842
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: feel so bad for everybody who quit because it's just

843
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Speaker 1: getting good. Watch watch live. Why evening and then morning?

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Speaker 1: In that backwards No, no, you gotta remember how it started.

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Speaker 1: Genesis one, verse one, Genesis one, verse one. In the beginning,

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Speaker 1: God created the heavens in the art. Give me the

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Speaker 1: next one. It's getting good now the earth was formless

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Speaker 1: and empty darkness. So I want you to know that

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Speaker 1: God starts good in the dark. Woo, it's getting good,

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Speaker 1: it's getting good. I'm clapping, I'm clapping. I'm clapping. You're

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Speaker 1: in the dark part right now. That's where it starts

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Speaker 1: with God. You're confused, right now, that's where it starts

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Speaker 1: with God. That dark part, that's just a preview of

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Speaker 1: how big the purpose really is. So when I tell

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Speaker 1: you you got to get to the good part, that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. It's a process. There's a part

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Speaker 1: of every process that'll make you want to quit. There's

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Speaker 1: a part of every person that will make you want

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Speaker 1: to murder. But I never would have preached a sermon

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Speaker 1: if I would have stopped in the dark part. That

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Speaker 1: part where my interior gallery of critics is saying, you

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Speaker 1: call this a sermon. Yes, you already said that before.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that. That's the dark part.

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Speaker 1: That means it's kidding God. The evening is the prelude

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Speaker 1: to the morning and the economy of God. You meant

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Speaker 1: him for evil, but he took the enemy man for evil.

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Speaker 1: You gotta get to the good part. If you die

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Speaker 1: in the dark part, it will be a miscarriage of

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Speaker 1: your calling. It's gonna get good man. You're like, I

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Speaker 1: don't believe that right now. That's fine. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to borrow my confidence. You're like, can I do that?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Philippians one six. Paul was talking to the

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Speaker 1: church at Philip I said, I am confident of this now.

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Speaker 1: The reason he's saying that maybe they're not confident of

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Speaker 1: this right now, Paul said, I am that he who

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Speaker 1: began what kind of work? Come on, talk to me online,

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Speaker 1: He who began a talk to me Columbia, talk to

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Speaker 1: me River Walk. Come on, talk to he who began

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Speaker 1: a talk to me Lake Norman, He who began a

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Speaker 1: If it's good, it came from God, and if it

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Speaker 1: started with God, it doesn't end with people. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what they did to you, saw in you, didn't

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Speaker 1: see in you. You're gonna get to the good part.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna die. No no, no, no no, no no

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Speaker 1: no no no no, no, no no, You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: I am confident in this that he who began a

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Speaker 1: good work and you will be faithful to complete it

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Speaker 1: to the day of Christ. This is the partnership of

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Speaker 1: the Gospel. So let's take a moment. Let's come into partnership.

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Speaker 1: Let's come into agreement together. Lift your hands, close your eyes,

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Speaker 1: bow your head. You got to get to the good part.

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Speaker 1: You got to get to the good part. That's not death,

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Speaker 1: it's just a shadow of You got to get to

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Speaker 1: the good part. Lord, in this moment of ministry, that

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Speaker 1: may determine whether someone makes it or lays down and

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Speaker 1: dies in a valley. I declare in decree on the

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Speaker 1: authority of your word. What the apostle Paul prophesied over

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Speaker 1: the church at Philippi, I declared over Elevation Church, You're

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Speaker 1: gonna go through the dark part, but you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to the good part. You're gonna be an amazing, amazing,

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Speaker 1: amazing mother, and an amazing life, an amazing man, an

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Speaker 1: amazing provider. You're gonna be. There are gifts in you,

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Speaker 1: there are skill sets in you. They haven't been recognized yet.

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Speaker 1: That's all right. It starts in the dark. It starts

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Speaker 1: in the dark. Lord. I thank you. Then, when it's

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Speaker 1: two am and we can't find a friend, you are there.

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Speaker 1: I thank you that when we trip and fall over

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Speaker 1: our own misgivings and can't get a get a get

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Speaker 1: a get a get a leg up, and we can't,

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Speaker 1: we can't even find a strength to stand again, you

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Speaker 1: are there. I'm gonna make it to the table. My

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Speaker 1: enemies will still be there, but I'm gonna eat. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna see, I'm gonna taste the goodness of the Lord

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Speaker 1: in the land of the living. May we not live

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Speaker 1: our lives worshiping the idol of tomorrow or clinging to

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Speaker 1: a relic of the past. May we push past the

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Speaker 1: religion so we can get to the friendship. You are good.

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Speaker 1: It is good. It is so in Jesus' name. Amen,

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Speaker 1: excuse it's good. It's good. Surely goodness and mercy will

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Speaker 1: follow me all the days of my life, even in

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Speaker 1: the valley, even in the shadow. You are good. You

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Speaker 1: are with me. You're Rod and staff. They comfort. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure about the valley. I'm not sure about the enemies.

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Speaker 1: But surely goodness will follow me wherever God leads me.

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Speaker 1: Clap your hands and give God praise for this word.

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Speaker 1: Come on, if you receive this word but I receive

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Speaker 1: it in the chatter, borrow my confidence and say, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna make it. I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't fight this hard to die, I didn't come

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Speaker 1: this far to turn back. The grace of God is

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Speaker 1: on your life. May grace and peace be multiplied to

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Speaker 1: you through God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Everyone who receives us wor a clap your hands and

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Speaker 1: say an't no. Well, maybe now it'll have a little

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Speaker 1: different meaning when I tell you it was so good

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Speaker 1: to have you with us today. Really, I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: making the time, and I'm believing Romans eight twenty eight

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Speaker 1: for each of our lives that God's purpose will be fulfilled.

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Speaker 1: We're believing God with you for the better things that

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Speaker 1: are ahead. And we're believing that God is going to

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Speaker 1: be with you even those shadows and enemies surround you.

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Speaker 1: You already heard the summer. I could go on and on.

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Speaker 1: I had many more scriptures. Maybe I'll do a part

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Speaker 1: two of this message sometime. Just now. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: we love you. We're praying for you now, and to

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Speaker 1: Him who is able to do immeasurably more than you

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Speaker 1: ask her, imagine according to His power that works mightily

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Speaker 1: in you, to be gloried through Christ Jesus in the

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Speaker 1: Church out forever. It's gonna be good. I'll see you

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Speaker 1: next time. H