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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Oh my God, Well.

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Speaker 1: Well I'm praising you because hey, how big is your

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Speaker 1: Because let me hear it right now.

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Speaker 4: If you've got a.

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Speaker 5: Reason, don't put the pentiton Pentecostal courts in there on there.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's praising him today because they woke up today.

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Speaker 4: That's a good start.

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Speaker 1: Now, listen.

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Speaker 2: Some people don't praise God because they woke up to

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Speaker 2: see another day. But if you ever thought you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: see another day and you did, then you have a

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Speaker 2: reason to praise him. Everything that has breadth and is thankful,

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Speaker 2: praise the Lord. Somebody's praising him because they had something

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Speaker 2: to eat today.

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Speaker 1: Now listen, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not saying it was healthy, that was your decision. I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying that you aren't still hungry. But somebody's praising

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Speaker 2: him today because he fed me. Somebody's praising him today

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Speaker 2: because I had somewhere to sleep last night that was

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Speaker 2: soft and comfortable. Somebody's praising him because this week you

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Speaker 2: ailed again, and it's been a long time since that

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Speaker 2: smile was on your face and you felt a trickle

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Speaker 2: of joy, and you're about to see an avalanche of

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Speaker 2: God's blessing come against your depression.

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Speaker 1: Somebody's phrasing him today.

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Speaker 2: Because somebody's in church with you that you thought would

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Speaker 2: never be back in church, but they came today. Somebody's

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Speaker 2: phrasing him because although the medical diagnosis doesn't look good

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Speaker 2: right now, you know that Jehovah Rapha is your healer

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Speaker 2: and that he is the resurrection and he is the life.

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Speaker 6: Somebody's phrasing him today because although I'm not where I

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Speaker 6: want to be, I look back in my past and

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Speaker 6: I thank him that I'm not who I used to be.

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Speaker 6: I'm praising him because now you fill in the blank.

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Speaker 7: I'm praising him because he's faithful. I'm praising him because

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Speaker 7: he's King of kings. I'm praising him because he's my

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Speaker 7: I'm praising him because he's my shepherd.

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Speaker 4: I'm praising him because.

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Speaker 1: I should my thought.

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Speaker 2: I'm praising him because he fit me in the valley.

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Speaker 5: I'm praising him for every mountain he brought me off from.

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Speaker 8: A personal praise right now, say put in there. I'm

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Speaker 8: praising it in cons Oh no, got Brad praising.

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Speaker 9: Beyond because he's good. I go what he don't pray?

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Speaker 4: I pray he'll love me.

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Speaker 9: Baby, got me going for me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm praising.

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Speaker 9: He'll be gol, dude, leave me not. I praid he'll

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Speaker 9: be good. Leave never and go. Man, you shore just

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Speaker 9: y me you jes back.

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Speaker 6: To me?

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Speaker 10: Shut.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, he's good to me.

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Speaker 8: He's been good to me. I want seven people say

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Speaker 8: he's been good to me. Yeah he's really not good.

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Speaker 8: Yeah he's really.

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Speaker 4: Worthy of it.

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Speaker 9: You don't really love him.

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Speaker 8: I don't really appreciate him, you don't really know him.

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Speaker 8: Yeah he really did it.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is real to me. Y'all want to keep singing that?

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Speaker 2: All?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Downloaded on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music, Go get

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Speaker 2: a cassette. Sure been good. The new song is out now.

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Speaker 2: But I have a feeling for some of you that's

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Speaker 2: not a new song. For some of you, that has

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Speaker 2: been the song of your heart through every season of

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Speaker 2: your life. That life hasn't always been good. And people

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Speaker 2: haven't always treated you good, but He's always been good

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Speaker 2: through it all.

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Speaker 1: For we know that in all things, God works all

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Speaker 1: things together for good. They're not all good, He's all good.

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Speaker 1: How many know what was all God in my life?

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Speaker 1: That I made it this far? I still want to.

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Speaker 2: See in the comments, Hey, Epham, I want in the

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Speaker 2: comments every because you can think of while you're praising him.

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Speaker 2: I'm praising him because and just fill in the blank.

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Speaker 2: We're praising him today because you're here with us. Elevation Valentine.

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Speaker 2: Let's welcome our Epham around the world.

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Speaker 1: Welcome. We're glad you're.

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Speaker 2: Here for the final installment of our series, Ghostwriter.

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Speaker 4: This is it, y'all.

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Speaker 1: We gotta make it count, all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's at least the series or the season finale,

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Speaker 2: and then we might do a season two sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Because we only got to acts ten. The birthday girl herself,

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Speaker 1: Holly Ferdick left us last week in Acts chapter nine.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to pick up where Holly dropped you off

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Speaker 2: in Acts chapter ten, and I want to say not

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Speaker 2: only happy birthday to you, Holly, and all the things

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Speaker 2: that I wrote in that letter that I wrote you

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Speaker 2: at four thirty am. So if there were typos, please

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Speaker 2: forgive them. And if I got a little mushy at

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Speaker 2: the end or a little inappropriate with some of the

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Speaker 2: things that I said at the end, you'll forgive me.

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Speaker 2: But thank you for the way that you nourish our family,

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Speaker 2: our dreams, for the ways that you fight against our fears,

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Speaker 2: and insecure with the loveliness of your poise and the

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Speaker 2: precision of your words and encouragement. When I call you

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, I'm kidding kind of. The Holy Spirit

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Speaker 2: is the greatest guide that I was ever given in

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Speaker 2: my life, and the Holy Spirit is the second greatest.

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Speaker 2: And you know what's crazy, There's so many times where

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Speaker 2: the first guide, the Holy Spirit, used the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 2: in a way to steer me because sometimes I won't

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Speaker 2: listen to him, but I will listen to you. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for seeing the best in us, and thank you

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Speaker 2: for bringing the best of you. You're amazing. Is it

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Speaker 2: a coincidence that today is Pentecost Sunday, fifty days after

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Speaker 2: the Resurrection, where the Church celebrates the birth of the

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Speaker 2: Church and the giving of the Holy Spirit, and May

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Speaker 2: nineteenth happens to be this year a Sunday.

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Speaker 1: The birthday, not a church, but of my Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: I told you, listen, I told her, I said, this

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Speaker 1: week where your birthday falls, I would take the weekend

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Speaker 2: She said, well, would you just preach a special birthday

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Speaker 2: sermon for me? I said, deal, because we wanted to

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Speaker 2: close this series where we've been talking about the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit and how many are grateful by the way for

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit and for what he's teaching you in

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Speaker 2: your life. That he is so much more than a

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Speaker 2: He can give you a good feeling. If God has

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Speaker 2: given out goosebumps, I'll take him.

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Speaker 1: How about you?

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Speaker 2: People say that faith is not feelings, Well, I need

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Speaker 2: sometimes to feel God's presence because I feel a lot

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Speaker 2: of other things too. But the Book of Acts has

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Speaker 2: also spoken of the Holy Spirit in so many ways,

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Speaker 2: as being the promise of God, the gift of God,

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Speaker 2: the fountain of God, the outpouring, the baptism of the

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit is mentioned, the fullness, the power, the witness,

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Speaker 2: and the guidance of the Holy And I believe that

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Speaker 2: the Lord led me to this special passage today, not only,

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Speaker 2: of course, for Holly, but for all of us as

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Speaker 2: we are listening now for what the Spirit says. For

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Speaker 2: those of you who are here for the first time,

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Speaker 2: we don't stand for the whole sermon. We stand for

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Speaker 2: the scripture. Then we sit, and then standing as discretionary

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Speaker 2: from that point forward. But I asked that you stand

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Speaker 2: wherever you are for the reading of God's word, Acts

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Speaker 2: chapter ten, verse nine. Maybe you're going to have a

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Speaker 2: approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

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Speaker 1: He became hungry and wanted something to eat.

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Speaker 2: And for some of you, that's your new life verse

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Speaker 2: I want something to eat, Lord, I claim Acts ten

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Speaker 2: while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

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Speaker 2: He saw heaven opened in something like a large sheet

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Speaker 2: kill and eat surely not, Lord. Peter replied, I have

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Speaker 2: Verse fifteen. Then the voice spoke to him a second time.

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Speaker 2: This is the persistence of God. Do not call anything

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Speaker 2: Peter's kind of hard headed, and immediately the sheet was

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Speaker 2: They called out, asking if Simon, who was known as Peter,

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Speaker 1: To it verse nineteen. While Peter was still thinking about

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Speaker 2: The next day, Peter started out with them, and some

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Speaker 2: last verse he arrived in cessarea. Cornelius was expecting them.

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Speaker 2: Say amen, for the word of the Lord. Say it

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Speaker 2: again a little louder, please, And then now go back

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Speaker 2: to this verse. This is the verse I want to

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Speaker 2: dedicate to Holly and to all of you. On Pentecost Sunday,

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Speaker 2: Holly's birth day. Verse ten, he became hungry and wanted

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Speaker 2: something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared.

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Speaker 2: Now look at your neighbor. Tell them this, God is

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Speaker 2: preparing something amazing for you. Tell them again, God is

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Speaker 2: comments to say, God is preparing something amazing for you.

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Speaker 2: Now flip it a little bit. Turn to your other neighbor,

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Speaker 2: preparing you for something amazing. Okay, So Peter's hungry. Somebody's

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Speaker 2: been hungry. Somebody needs something from the Lord today. You

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Speaker 2: in the wilderness of your despair. Here it comes. God

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Speaker 2: you may be seated. There's something special about to happen

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Speaker 2: Now what? God, I prayed for this baby, you gave

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Speaker 1: It because you know, I'm the one who leans over

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Speaker 2: When the services now, thank you for dining with us tonight.

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Speaker 2: We have a few specials that are not on the menu.

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Speaker 2: I think you ought to keep those hands going because

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Speaker 2: And just like you clapped for Peter, I want you

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Speaker 1: Grace God that he brought you back to church another day.

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Speaker 1: I didn't say you prayed an hour before you came,

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Speaker 2: Maybe if you're a new mom, you have to go

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Speaker 1: And that's why I think anytime.

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Speaker 2: And he's up there praying, And as he's praying, we

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Speaker 2: God, how do you want me, little old me Simon

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's amazing how you used me to heal

442
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Speaker 2: that man at the gate called beautiful. It's amazing how

443
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Speaker 2: you used me to preach and convert all these people.

444
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Speaker 2: It's amazing how you were there with me in the prison.

445
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Speaker 2: It's amazing how you used me to get Anius off

446
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Speaker 2: of his mat. It's amazing how you used me to

447
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 2: get Tabitha up, that woman who had made all of

448
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 2: those things for all of these people.

449
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Speaker 1: But now I'm in Japa.

450
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Speaker 2: Now he's still in Japa, but he doesn't really know

451
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 2: what he's doing in Jopa. But he's in Joppa and

452
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 2: he's stopping somewhere and he doesn't know where he's going,

453
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 2: but he has stopped somewhere that he is praying.

454
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Speaker 1: About where God has him and where God is taking him.

455
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 2: And he's praying, and then he gets sleepy while he's praying,

456
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 2: and he sees something in his vision that completely freaks

457
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Speaker 2: him out.

458
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Speaker 1: A blanket comes down from heaven.

459
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Speaker 2: And this is where everybody who really thinks while I

460
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: read the Bible is like, so, Pastor, when you say

461
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Speaker 2: that Peter got high, are you.

462
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: Just talking about the roof he went up on?

463
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Speaker 2: Did they have mushrooms back then, pastor, what's going on

464
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Speaker 2: that he would see this blanket?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

466
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: You just see blankets with birds and stuff on them

467
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: every day, the stuff that happens in the Bible.

468
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Speaker 1: That's the way we like it. Though. We like the Bible.

469
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 2: Stuff can be weird, supernatural, freaky crazy.

470
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Speaker 1: But we're just trying to pay our bills. And what

471
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: I am suggesting to you.

472
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Speaker 2: Is that the God who showed Peter this wants to

473
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Speaker 2: show you something too. Somebody shout, God, show me something,

474
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Speaker 2: be more specific, Holy Spirit, show me something.

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Speaker 1: That's been my biggest prayer of the last year. You

476
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: can rip it off in you. I just pray, God,

477
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: show me something. What did I not see about that

478
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: conversation that I should have seen?

479
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 4: God?

480
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 2: What did I miss while I went through my day

481
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 2: that you want me to incorporate into my tomorrow?

482
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 4: God?

483
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: What was the thing that I missed today that if I.

484
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 2: Don't pick up on it and adjust it, I will

485
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 2: multiply the mistakes of today and too tomorrow.

486
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Speaker 4: God.

487
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Speaker 2: What is the thing that I have thought I was

488
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: right about all my life that I'm really wrong about

489
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 2: right now? What are the answers that I knew yesterday

490
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 2: that have become irrelevant in this season of my life

491
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 2: that I am still clinging to that.

492
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: Are keeping me from being who I need to be.

493
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Speaker 2: Peter was praying, I wonder, was he praying for an

494
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Speaker 2: opportunity to take the gospel to the Gentiles.

495
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Speaker 1: Now, the Gentiles, just to catch.

496
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Speaker 2: You up a little bit, they were not bad people,

497
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Speaker 2: but they were not God's covenant people. God's covenant people

498
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 2: were the Jews. And God always had a plan to

499
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Speaker 2: bless the Gentiles through the Jews. He told Abraham, I

500
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 2: will bless you, and you will be a blessing, and

501
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 2: all of the peoples of the earth will be blessed

502
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Speaker 2: through you. And so now Peter is standing in the

503
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Speaker 2: continuation of something that God spoke centuries before he was

504
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Speaker 2: ever born.

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Speaker 1: This thing did not start with you. It's bigger than you.

506
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: Everything you're going through is connected to something bigger than you.

507
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 2: One of the greatest gifts the Holy Spirit can give

508
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: us is a wide lens on our life to realize

509
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 2: that there will come somebody after you that is dependent

510
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 2: on your example, that there has come somebody before you

511
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 2: who has given you an example to follow, and that

512
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 2: those who came before you might have had chains on

513
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: them that you have the power to break because God

514
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: called you and assigned you to break them. That's a

515
00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 2: wide lens. When you worship, it gives you a wide life.

516
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: When you worry, it narrows the scope of what you're

517
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 2: going through. When you don't pray, you feel nothing but pressure.

518
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 2: But I came to tell you, if you will pray

519
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 2: your way through this pressure doesn't have to be a

520
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: long prayer, doesn't even have to be a focused prayer.

521
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: Peter was half a sleep and God spoke to him.

522
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: So as long as you will set your heart in

523
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 2: the direction of God, he wants to speak to you

524
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Speaker 2: more than you want to hear him. He wants to

525
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: show you more than you want.

526
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: To see it. Stop talking to God like you have

527
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: to negotiate a hostage out of the situation. He wants

528
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: to give you wisdom, wants to give you opportunity, wants

529
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Speaker 1: to show you open doors. Wants to tell you who

530
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Speaker 1: to call, wants to tell you who to talk to,

531
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Speaker 1: wants to bring people in your path. He just wants

532
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Speaker 1: to know. Will you be prepared? Prepared?

533
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Speaker 2: Peter was preparing because I don't know what's next, but

534
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 2: I gotta get ready for it. So I gotta pray

535
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Speaker 2: my way through this thing. I gotta pray my way

536
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 2: so I can prepare. I almost brought my screen out

537
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 2: today because I wanted to show you something. I wanted

538
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 2: to write the word prepare on the screen and spell

539
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 2: it the way that you would think was wrong, but

540
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: the way that would actually be right. I was just

541
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: going to write, God is preparing you, but I was

542
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: going to spell it p R E p A I

543
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Speaker 2: R prepare, and I was going to let it sit

544
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 2: there for about fifteen minutes till all of the OCD

545
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: Grammar police started throwing stones at me at the stage.

546
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 2: You're like Stephen in Acts chapter seven, just appear taking

547
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: the stones, and just before I died and went unconscious,

548
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 2: throwing your elevation pins at me and stuff.

549
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: Spelled it wrong.

550
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: I was going to say, no, no, no, God is

551
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Speaker 2: preparing you for what He has prepair you.

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Speaker 1: Four.

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Speaker 2: I believe, while Holly was growing up in Miami, Florida,

554
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: and I was growing up in Monk's Corner, South Carolina,

555
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: that the experiences and gifts that God was given me

556
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 2: in Monk's Corner and the experiences and gifts that God

557
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: was giving her in Miami were two ingredients that were

558
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: meant to go together to make the ministry that God

559
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 2: has privileged us to serve within today.

560
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Speaker 1: So I believe that we were pre paired. You still

561
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Speaker 1: don't get it.

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Speaker 2: My second illustration is this, Before I preach, I always

563
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Speaker 2: take out of my pocket this thing. It just seems

564
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: unnecessary weight to be up here preaching, so I'd always

565
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Speaker 2: take it out of my pocket.

566
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: I went to take it out. Do you know what

567
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: this is? I'm not going to do a product endorsement,

568
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: but this is the thing. Yeah, okay, the.

569
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: Thing that drives you crazy when you see somebody walking

570
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: around like they are such a baller that they can't

571
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Speaker 2: take that out their air for five minutes to check

572
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 2: out in the grocery store line.

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Speaker 1: And I do it too, but I'm usually just listening

574
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Speaker 1: to something.

575
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Speaker 2: I'm not talking to anybody, And sometimes if I want

576
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: to get somewhere quick, I'll put it in and pretend

577
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: like I'm talking to somebody, just like I walk through it.

578
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll get back to you on that. That'll

579
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: be great.

580
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Speaker 2: Funny because I can't hear your phone through this Bluetooth AirPod,

581
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: but I can hear mine.

582
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: Because my phone is paired, so you don't know.

583
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: I might be listening to Fred Hammond or Drake up

584
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 2: here right now, but it's my phone, and I wouldn't

585
00:33:59,200 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 2: have to.

586
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: Make this work with this.

587
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: Because I'm not waiting until I get up here to

588
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: pair it. It's prepared, prepared, prepared, and so the voice

589
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 2: that I would hear in my ear would be relative

590
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 2: to the device that this instrument was pared to. The

591
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: Bible says walk in the spirit, and you will not

592
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: fulfill the lust of the flesh. Is the problem with

593
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: the voices that are going through your mind, that are

594
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 2: sabotaging your strength, sucking you dry of your joy, and

595
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 2: causing you to lose your confidence in what you know

596
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 2: good and well.

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Speaker 1: God called you to do.

598
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 2: Is it possible that you have been prepared to the

599
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 2: wrong device. Is there something that's going on in your

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00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: mind today? I'm just asking because when I read the passage,

601
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Speaker 2: you were like, this is a weird one, Pastor is

602
00:34:59,200 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 2: it really?

603
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,240
Speaker 4: Or is it a picture that Peter even though.

604
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: He wasn't prepared to raise a dead girl, He wasn't

605
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 2: prepared to go to Cornelius's house. He wasn't prepared to

606
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 2: speak to a centurion and that's chapter ten that he

607
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 2: was prepared. I think I think it's possible. I think

608
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,919
Speaker 2: it's possible. I think it's possible that although you don't

609
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 2: feel ready for this season of your life, that although

610
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: you feel alone in this season of your life, that

611
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 2: although you feel you don't have the skills that it

612
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 2: takes for this step of faith that God has given you.

613
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 4: That although you feel like you're the wrong one for

614
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 4: the job, I think.

615
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 2: It's possible that God has been preparing you for the

616
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: exact assignment that you are designed to accomplish. I will

617
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: fulfill it. Say it out loud, I will fulfill it.

618
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: If it's for me, it will be. And that's why

619
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Speaker 2: I want you to disconnect from every device that is

620
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 2: not a part of your destiny. Every voice, every website,

621
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 2: every social media app, everything you play on your head

622
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 2: in a loop and you call it your truth. It's

623
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 2: not your truth. You are in a trance, baby, You

624
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: are in a trance, so thinking, this is the way

625
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 2: I have to be. This is who I've always been,

626
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 2: this is how the world is, this is how every

627
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: teenager is.

628
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: Not every teenager. Baby, you hadn't met me yet.

629
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Speaker 4: I'm full of the Holy.

630
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: Ghost and fire, and I'm baptized, and I'm bored, and

631
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 2: I'm born again, and I'm fired up.

632
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: And I'm prepared.

633
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 8: All right, I'll do it.

634
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: The Lord said, I gotta tell you about David. He

635
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 2: saw Goliath. What could prepare you for Goliath?

636
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: Oh?

637
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 2: I killed the lion. Oh I kill the bear. Oh

638
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 2: I got a slingshot. Now, when I hook up this

639
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 2: instrument to.

640
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: This device, when I hook up this experience with this challenge,

641
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: sometimes you forget what you've got.

642
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, And sometimes you remember where you've been, And sometimes

643
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: that's a good thing. But sometimes you have memorized a

644
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: menu that is no longer available to you. Can I

645
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 2: preach this thing, y'all? I gotta get you ready for

646
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 2: the summer. Yeah, I gotta get you ready for the summer.

647
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 2: Everybody's trying to get a beach body. I'm trying to

648
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: get you a beach spirit. Biceps won't help you. Whenever

649
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: you all hell breaks loose in your family.

650
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: None of that going to matter a bit.

651
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 2: But what matters because we're talking about we're talking about food, but.

652
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Speaker 1: God is using the food.

653
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 2: If you thought this passage was actually about food, you

654
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 2: need to read it again through the lens of the

655
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, Peter did.

656
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: He's up there hungry. And you know, whenever you're hungry,

657
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: everything looks good. And that's the truth.

658
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 2: Ask Esaul, how good a bowl of beans will look

659
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 2: when you're hungry? And that's why some people date the

660
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 2: wrong people? Okay, verse ten. He became hungry eating stuff

661
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Speaker 2: you never would have ate. Well, he became hungry and

662
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,919
Speaker 2: he wanted some to eat. And while the meat okay

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Speaker 2: verse the in this is so good? Y see this,

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Speaker 2: yes sEH first ten. And while the meal was being prepared,

665
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Speaker 2: what was being prepared? Put it in the comments what

666
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 2: was being prepared? The meal wasn't the only thing being prepared.

667
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: Peter was being prepared and part of that preparation process

668
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Speaker 2: was in unpairing and unpairing with this past. The Spirit

669
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Speaker 2: of God confirmed to me so many times through our

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Speaker 2: worship experience today when we were singing, and I'm sorry

671
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Speaker 2: for all of you didn't get to hear all the songs.

672
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Speaker 2: Everything we sang today was a confirmation of what He

673
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Speaker 2: gave me to preach. It was like it was pared together.

674
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Speaker 2: And one of the things that you may not have

675
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: seen on the surface was there was a video for

676
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Speaker 2: my wife's birthday, and people were saying, thank you, Pastor Holly,

677
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 2: thank you, Pastor Holly, thank you, Pastor Holly for the

678
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 2: words you've spoken. And I thought it was a appropriate

679
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 2: And although we do not praise men, we praise God,

680
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Speaker 2: who gives us men and women as gifts.

681
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Speaker 1: And so it was right that they celebrated you. But

682
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Speaker 1: it wasn't that they celebrated you that touch me.

683
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Speaker 2: It was what they called you, Pastor Holly, because it

684
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Speaker 2: took me back to the memory of the time that

685
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Speaker 2: you said.

686
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Speaker 1: I will never marry a pastor. She said that now

687
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Speaker 1: he is one.

688
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

689
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Speaker 2: Simon would have never seen himself as a shepherd, but

690
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Speaker 2: Jesus called him Peter and said, feed my sheep. God

691
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Speaker 2: was prepairing, prepairing Jews and Gentiles prepared, and God needed

692
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Speaker 2: somebody who was an official apostle to knock down that

693
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Speaker 2: barrier officially and get the gospel to the gentiles. And

694
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Speaker 2: I'm glad he did because I am a gentile, and

695
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that the gospel didn't stop with what Peter

696
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 2: thought about it.

697
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Speaker 1: He's preparing me, He's not just preparing a meal. He's

698
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Speaker 1: preparing me.

699
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Speaker 2: Are you so focused on the meal that you don't

700
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Speaker 2: even see the mission? Are you so focused on this

701
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 2: day's needs, this day's inconvenience, this season's hunger, this season's annoyance,

702
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Speaker 2: Like it is so typical for me to get so

703
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 2: irritated so that I will miss something that could have

704
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 2: been a miracle because of something as small as an irritation.

705
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Speaker 1: And I thought it's significant. On our last week of

706
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Speaker 1: the Ghostwriter series.

707
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Speaker 2: Talk about how sometimes the greatest things that God brings

708
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Speaker 2: into our life are off menu.

709
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Speaker 1: They are not things.

710
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Speaker 2: When I say menu, I'm talking about how you expected

711
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Speaker 2: him to use you. I'll never be a pastor's wife. Cool,

712
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 2: I'll just make you a pastor and then you'll have

713
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Speaker 2: to be a pastor's wife. I'll never be free, you say, well,

714
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 2: God says good. I just give you the blood of Jesus,

715
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Speaker 2: and I'll declare you righteous, and I'll set you free,

716
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Speaker 2: and if.

717
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Speaker 4: The sun sets you free, you'll be free. Indeed, I'll

718
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Speaker 4: just do what I want to do.

719
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Speaker 2: You can't call unclean what God has called clean. That's

720
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Speaker 2: what he told Peter. Because we look at the passage

721
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Speaker 2: and we see a bunch of characters. Right, there's this

722
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 2: guy and I didn't get to say about him, but

723
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Speaker 2: this guy, Cornelias, he's amazing, it's amazing. He's over one

724
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Speaker 2: hundred soldiers. He is very, very faithful. He's not aver,

725
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Speaker 2: he's not a Jew, he's not circumcised, he's not definitely

726
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 2: not a Christian yet. But God wants to give him

727
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. So one day he's praying at three pm.

728
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Speaker 2: And this is amazing because while he's praying at three

729
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Speaker 2: pm one day, God is already preparing him with somebody

730
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Speaker 2: who's going to be praying.

731
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Speaker 1: At noon the next day. But that's beside the point.

732
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Speaker 2: Because while you are praying about stuff, God is preparing stuff.

733
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Speaker 2: And don't worry if you don't see what he's preparing,

734
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Speaker 2: because he was praying thirty miles away. Don't stop praying

735
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Speaker 2: just because you don't see proof. The proof might be

736
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Speaker 2: on the way while you're praying. So Cornelia sees an angel.

737
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Speaker 2: Now Peter didn't see an angel. Peter heard a voice

738
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Speaker 2: and saw a sheet. Now I think one of the

739
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Speaker 2: reasons for that is that he had had three years

740
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Speaker 2: with Jesus and when he called him Lord and said

741
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Speaker 2: I can't do this.

742
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Speaker 1: He knew the voice because he was prepared because one thing.

743
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Speaker 2: And I'll leave this illustration alone after this, even if

744
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 2: it was paired, if I left it back there, it

745
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 2: would be too distant to pick it up.

746
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Speaker 1: That's why you got to stay close to God in

747
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:17,720
Speaker 1: your heart throughout the dad for it to connect.

748
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 2: It must be close. God didn't leave you, You left

749
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Speaker 2: him in your heart. Do not leave Jesus in this

750
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Speaker 2: church today. When you leave, you have the Holy Spirit

751
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 2: He goes with you. This is a moving menu. Yeah,

752
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 2: this is like a faith food truck. It's gonna show

753
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 2: up wherever you need it this week. It's gonna show

754
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 2: up wherever you need it this week. Boy, I needed

755
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 2: it yesterday. I was about the road rage real bad

756
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 2: on somebody. And that relationship with Jesus has Peter so

757
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 2: familiar that even and though he does not recognize what

758
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 2: God is showing him because he sees a sheet with

759
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 2: animals and he's not supposed to eat him.

760
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Speaker 1: And I don't know. And isn't that how most of

761
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: our life feels? Honestly, it's not so clear always. If

762
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Speaker 1: the Bible had a verse, should I let my aging parent.

763
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Speaker 4: Move in with me?

764
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Speaker 1: Or should I provide them with the nursing home.

765
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Speaker 2: And if I provide them with the nursing home, how

766
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 2: will I pay for because I don't have any money?

767
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: Ayway, if the Bible give you an.

768
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 2: Exact verse about that, but it says my God will

769
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 2: supply all your needs, it does not go into that

770
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Speaker 2: level of detail.

771
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Speaker 1: The detail in this passage is fascinating.

772
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Speaker 2: How Peter sees this sheet and the Lord tells him

773
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Speaker 2: something about food, but he is using the food check

774
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 2: this out to show Peter his future. And what he

775
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 2: is saying to Peter, he's saying to you and I

776
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: God is saying just because it's not on your menu

777
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's not on mine.

778
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: Just because us.

779
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Speaker 2: You don't think I can do it doesn't mean it's

780
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 2: not already happening. Just because you don't see a way

781
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 2: that it would turn around at this stage doesn't mean that.

782
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: It's not already halfway turned.

783
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 2: For Notice what the Bible says about noon the following day,

784
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Speaker 2: verse nine. As they were on their journey and approaching

785
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 2: the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray

786
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 2: y'all missed it.

787
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: Dropped down to verse seventeen.

788
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,959
Speaker 2: While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision,

789
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 2: The men sent by Cornelius.

790
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: Found out where Simon's house was. Now, when the angel

791
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: came to Cornelis, he said, go find.

792
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 2: A guy named Simon the Tanner, And when you get

793
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 2: there in Joppa, you're gonna ask for a man who

794
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 2: used to be called Simon, but he goes by the

795
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 2: name Peter. So the men get there when verse seventeen,

796
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 2: while Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision.

797
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 2: And in my prayer this morning I saw somebody who

798
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 2: is wondering what does this mean?

799
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: Here? I am single again? What does this mean? Here?

800
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: I am going back through this cycle again? Thought I

801
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 2: was through with it? What does this mean? My kids

802
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: aren't speaking to me. What does this mean? I cannot

803
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: get through this door because of my employment record?

804
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 1: What does this mean?

805
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 4: Here?

806
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 2: I am in a situation where I feel rejected.

807
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: Should I fall back now? Or is that a sign

808
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: to try harder?

809
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 2: Is the fact that it hasn't happened yet a sign

810
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 2: that I'm doing the wrong thing and I should try

811
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: something else. Is the fact that I'm struggling the way

812
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 2: that I'm getting stronger?

813
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: Or is it a sign that God is redirecting me.

814
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 2: Now, Wild Peter is praying about all of this, like

815
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 2: You've been thinking about this and wondering, what does this

816
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 2: mean that I'm going through this? What does this mean

817
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 2: that I'm anxious? What does it mean that I'm so afraid?

818
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 2: What does it mean that I feel like I'm out

819
00:47:59,200 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 2: of options?

820
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 4: What does this mean?

821
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 2: Wild Peter was still wondering about the meaning of the vision.

822
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: Verse seventeen.

823
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 2: The men sent by Cornelius found Simon's house and stopped

824
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 2: at the gate. So God said to tell you, while

825
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 2: you're wondering about your next step, the answer is already

826
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 2: at the gate waiting for you. I'll declare it again.

827
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 2: While Peter was praying, the men were already there. I

828
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 2: am so slow, Church, forgive me. I am so slow.

829
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 2: I read verse nine about fifteen times, and I didn't

830
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 2: get it. About noon the following day, as they were

831
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: on their wage're approaching the city, Peter went up on

832
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 2: the roof to pray.

833
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: So I pictured it like this. Wild Peter and the.

834
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 2: Other disciples that he had met there in Jappa were

835
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 2: going back to the city. They probably been out all

836
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 2: morning doing some ministry, preaching, some crusades, and as they.

837
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:53,240
Speaker 1: Got to the city.

838
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 2: They stopped at the house, and Peter's like, I'm gonna

839
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 2: go up there and pray. But that is not the

840
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 2: they that is referenced in verse nine. Put it up

841
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 2: again about noon the following day. This is good as

842
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 2: they were on their journey and approaching the city.

843
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 1: They is not Peter and his voice.

844
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 2: They is the three men that Cornelia sent out of

845
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 2: the prayer that he prayed a day earlier. They are

846
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 2: already on the way. I don't know whose word that is.

847
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 2: I know what day you need in your life. I

848
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 2: don't know if the day that you need are people

849
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 2: to partner with you, mentors to help you. I don't

850
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 2: know if the day that you need in your life

851
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 2: are emotional areas of healing where you need.

852
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: The balm of Almighty God.

853
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 2: But God said to tell you on this final week

854
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 2: of my series on the Holy Spirit, they are already.

855
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: On the way.

856
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 4: And get ready because when.

857
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 5: You get down there, it's gonna be somebody you hadn't

858
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 5: even met yet.

859
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 2: Get ready because what God's gonna bless you with.

860
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 4: Is it even gonna be on the menu? By thought,

861
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 4: somebody say it's off menu, it's off menu. What good

862
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 4: has on his mind for you.

863
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:25,760
Speaker 1: Is off the menu.

864
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 5: What Good has on his heart to do through you

865
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 5: is off the menu. It's not in your mind, it's

866
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 5: not in your senses, it's not.

867
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 2: In your past, it's not in your tradition.

868
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 4: But it's coming. It is coming, is coming. It's coming.

869
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 4: It is coming, is coming, It's coming, is coming, It's coming.

870
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Speaker 4: It's already at the gate.

871
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 8: It's already at the gate.

872
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 4: It's already at the gate. While you're praying.

873
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 9: It's waiting. It's waiting, it's waiting.

874
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 2: I find people say it's waiting at the gate. It's

875
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,959
Speaker 2: waiting at the gate. It's waiting at the gate. Yeah,

876
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 2: so you got a decision to make honey Pie. You

877
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 2: got a decision to make baby Boom. You got a

878
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 2: decision to make Saint. You got a decision to make Simon.

879
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 2: You got a decision to make Peter. Because it goes

880
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 2: like this, there's three men at the gate, and there's

881
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 2: two men on the roof.

882
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 1: What you mean, pastor Steve? Who else up there? You're

883
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: talking about the Lord Peter and the Lord. No no, no, no,

884
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: no no no no no. I read you the verse.

885
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 2: I told you we were gonna come back to it.

886
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 2: I told you I was gonna make a sandwich. I

887
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 2: put it in a ziplock back. I prepared for this

888
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 2: field trip.

889
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: I packed this.

890
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 2: Lunch because I want you to get it. I want

891
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 2: you to get it, even if it's not on the menu.

892
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 2: I want you to get it. Even if your mom

893
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 2: didn't give it to you. I want you to get it,

894
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 2: even if your dad didn't give it to you.

895
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: I want you to get it. Even if your kids

896
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: aren't saying thank you.

897
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 2: I want you to get it, even if nobody recognizes

898
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:14,399
Speaker 2: the value of your life.

899
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: The Bible says that they went to the house of Simon.

900
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 2: The Tanner watched this looking for a man, and when

901
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 2: they got there, they called out verse eighteen, asking if Simon,

902
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 2: who was known as Peter, was there.

903
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: There's two people on the roof and three people at

904
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: the gate. There's Simon on the roof.

905
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 2: Everything Peter had been before he met Jesus, and there's

906
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 2: Peter on the roof. Simon is looking at the blanket, saying,

907
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 2: I never did that before. I can't do that kind

908
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 2: of stuff. We say when God shows us what he

909
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 2: wants us to do. Because this blanket, it's God showing him.

910
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 2: I want to cover the earth with the Gospel. Worried

911
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 2: about a meal, I'm worried about a mission. Stop getting

912
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 2: tripped up on the wrong stupid stuff. They hurt your feelings.

913
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 2: Don't let a hurt feeling keep you from your future.

914
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 2: My God, you need to have a birthday every week

915
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 2: so I can preach this good Holly. I knew the

916
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 2: Holy Ghost was going to show up on Pentecosts Sunday

917
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,399
Speaker 2: because I knew there were some things that he needed

918
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 2: to talk to you about, Simon.

919
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: There are some things that he needs to say to you, Simon.

920
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: Did you notice that. I want you to notice this.

921
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 2: When the Lord starts talking to Simon Peter, Simon Peter,

922
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 2: both of them are up there. You know, Simon is

923
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 2: you know, at least he represents the part of us

924
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 2: that is stuck in our tradition and stuck in our

925
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 2: limited experience, and stuck in the way that we perceive things,

926
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 2: and stuck in the way that we think certain people

927
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 2: are and the way that we think certain genders, and

928
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 2: the way that we think that certain.

929
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: Women can do this and men can do that, and

930
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: you know, people can do this, and people can do that.

931
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 2: I'll never forget people telling me when did you decide

932
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 2: to become a multicultural church?

933
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: There's never a decision. And then Kirk Franklin asked me

934
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: one time, were you are you? Were you surprised? Are

935
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: you ever surprised how much black people like you? And

936
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: and and I said, absolutely not. That doesn't surprise me

937
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: at all. It's mutual. We're prepared, prepared, they're not mismatched.

938
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 2: My uh, my friend the other day he said, what

939
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't know is you you know

940
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 2: more gospel music than any white man alive. I said,

941
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,800
Speaker 2: because I was singing in gospel choir since I was sixteen,

942
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 2: So this wasn't a surprise to me.

943
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: Not to me. Now.

944
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 2: The reason I bring these traditions up is because those

945
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 2: are all pretty cute. What if it's not so mentionable

946
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 2: what you're attached to. What if yours is something that's

947
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 2: sexual that makes you feel filthy? What if you are

948
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 2: paired to and connected to a cycle of condemnation or

949
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 2: compulsion that causes you to keep giving away everything valuable

950
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 2: for the next meal. What if within you it is

951
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 2: a severe and chronic emotional condition that people tell you

952
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 2: to just rejoice over top of but it keeps getting

953
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 2: down on the inside. What I want you to understand

954
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 2: about this precious Holy Spirit that you have been given, baptized,

955
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 2: empowered by, filled with called by, chosen by a witness to,

956
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 2: and guided by in your life. The Holy Spirit, who

957
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 2: one writer said, is the wind and the fire, who

958
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 2: is the ship and the sea, who.

959
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: Is the horse and the road. This Holy Spirit, this

960
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Look what he did for Peter. While Peter

961
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: verse seventeen, was wondering about the meaning of the vision,

962
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: the men stopped at the gate.

963
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 2: They called out, asking if Simon, who was known as Peter,

964
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 2: was staying there, and this is what must happen in

965
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:37,320
Speaker 2: your life daily verse nineteen. While Peter was still thinking

966
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 2: about the vision, the spirit said to him, Simon, catch it,

967
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 2: catch it, catch it. While Peter was thinking, why I

968
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 2: do about this?

969
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: I can't do this? What does this mean?

970
00:56:55,080 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 2: I don't know, the Spirit said Simon. See because all

971
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 2: his life he's been playing. Simon says, thinking like Simon,

972
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 2: eating like Simon, moving like Simon.

973
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: But how many no new minds make new moves with God?

974
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: Who is this four other than Holly? I mean, this

975
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: thing is cooking inside of me right now.

976
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 2: And while Peter was thinking about it, the spirit said, Simon,

977
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 2: I want to spend less time playing Simon says with myself,

978
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 2: because my Simon will tell me some stuff that I

979
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 2: know is not going to move me for just me.

980
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 2: My Simon will tell me, you know I mentioned road rage. Hey,

981
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 2: drive up around this medium medium, go cut them off.

982
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 2: Turn the car sideways, be there waiting for them.

983
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: Get out, Stand up on top of the jeep with

984
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: your shirt off. That's my Simon. So it is imperative

985
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: for me. It is imperative with your polo shirt tied

986
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 1: around your head like a.

987
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 2: Bandana on top of the jeep on the way home

988
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 2: from church today and let them know that's not right

989
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 2: how they cut you off. And then so I need

990
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 2: watch this. I need the Spirit to speak to my

991
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 2: Simon so when I go downstairs I can be Peter.

992
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: I need the Spirit to speak to my Simon and

993
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: tell me that's crazy. That's your ego talking.

994
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 2: That's just you trying to be somebody important and you're

995
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 2: not even thinking about what really matters. I need the

996
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 2: Spirit to talk to my Simon because the Spirit can

997
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 2: show me the me that is new, show me, the

998
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 2: me that is new. Ooh me, new me, new men you.

999
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 2: It kind of works if you put it together.

1000
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 9: Menu.

1001
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: So, God says, you've been dealing with situations a certain way.

1002
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: You always hide when it gets scary. You've been dealing

1003
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: with situations a certain way. You always numb when it

1004
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: gets uncomfortable.

1005
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 2: You've been dealing with situations a certain way.

1006
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: You always withdraw. The moment that it gets too intimate,

1007
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: you get squeamish.

1008
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 4: And you move out.

1009
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 2: But God says, you've got a new menu. You've got

1010
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 2: a new menu, and on this menu is a new

1011
00:59:51,320 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 2: set of fruit. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

1012
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 2: self control. This is the fruit of the spirit. And

1013
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 2: it's amazing because the Spirit started speaking to Simon. When

1014
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 2: the Spirit spoke to Simon, he said, don't hesitate, don't try.

1015
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: To figure it out in your head.

1016
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but stop judging

1017
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 2: God's capacity by your calculator. Holy Spirit spoke to me

1018
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 2: four days ago and said, you keep imagining scenarios like

1019
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be there with you when you

1020
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 2: go through them.

1021
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: Stop it.

1022
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 2: Simon says, you might not make it. The Spirit says,

1023
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 2: I am in you and with you, and I will

1024
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 2: show you the deep things of God. I has not seen,

1025
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 2: ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the

1026
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,439
Speaker 2: heart of a man, the things that God has prepared

1027
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 2: for those who love him. But God, Oh that's first

1028
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 2: Corinthians two ten.

1029
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: Y'all want to see it.

1030
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 2: I has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has

1031
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 2: it entered into the heart of a Simon what God

1032
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 2: has prepared, prepared, prepared, But God has revealed them through his.

1033
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: Spirit. And this is the point I wanted to preach

1034
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: you to today.

1035
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 2: And I know you're hungry, but don't go into a

1036
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 2: trance on me right now, because the Bible said that.

1037
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: You got to let His spirit speak to.

1038
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 2: Your Simon, so this can happen Verse twenty Get up,

1039
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: go downstairs, do not hesitate, for I have sent them.

1040
01:01:53,400 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: Verse twenty one. Peter went down. And it's a good thing.

1041
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: It's a good thing.

1042
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 2: Because if Simon went down, the Gentiles never would have

1043
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 2: got the gospel. Okay, let me resay that God would

1044
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 2: have had to pick somebody else. You know, God's gonna

1045
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:19,920
Speaker 2: do it what he's gonna do, how He's gonna do it.

1046
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 2: Peter would have missed it. Stop sending Simon down into

1047
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 2: Peter situations.

1048
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: Stop showing up.

1049
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 2: Like a baby Christian when you've been knowing God for

1050
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 2: forty nine years. Because God said, I got something I'm

1051
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 2: preparing for you, but I gotta prepare you for what

1052
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 2: I have prepared. If Simon goes down, he tells these men,

1053
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 2: I can't eat with you. Your gentiles go away. But

1054
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 2: when Peter went down, he said, I'm the one. I

1055
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 2: don't feel like the one. I don't get it, I

1056
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 2: don't understand it, but I'm the one. Now, let's go

1057
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 2: to Cessarea, and let's take the Gospel and the Holy

1058
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 2: Spirit with us. And you know when they got there,

1059
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 2: that says Cornelius was expecting him. He had a whole

1060
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 2: crowd there.

1061
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: Peter starts preaching, and the Lord did something that he

1062
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: did a lot with Peter. He interrupted him. He's just like,

1063
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: he's like, shut up already.

1064
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 2: And the Holy Spirit came and they all began to

1065
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 2: speak with other tongues, and they were all filled with

1066
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, and the Gospel started rippling through generations

1067
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 2: to the point that today we are in church as gentiles.

1068
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 2: Because Peter came down those stays.

1069
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 4: I'm so grateful.

1070
01:03:59,240 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 2: That even.

1071
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: We weren't on the menu, we were on God's mind.

1072
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 2: When the Lord sends something into your life this week,

1073
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 2: in your rooftop moments, When the Lord sends something into

1074
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 2: your life this week, in your confused moments, and.

1075
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 1: You're wondering what it means, check the gate and send

1076
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 1: Peter down and say I'm the one.

1077
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 8: No, no, no no.

1078
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 2: People wouldn't have picked you. You weren't on their menu.

1079
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 2: But we have an off menu. God he takes people.

1080
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: Who say I'll never marry a pastor and he goes,

1081
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: ha ha.

1082
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 2: Ha ha, Holly, Haha, Pastor, Holly, get ready for God

1083
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 2: to do something in your life this week that wasn't

1084
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:10,479
Speaker 2: even on your menu. Get ready for God to change

1085
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 2: a situations that you.

1086
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 9: Gave up on.

1087
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 10: Get ready for God to do it in a way

1088
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 10: that's your eyes have not seen, and your ears I

1089
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 10: have not heard. Hot five fifteen people say I'm ready,

1090
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 10: I'm ready.

1091
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 4: I'm on the rooftop.

1092
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 9: Then i'm ready.

1093
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 5: I've got a relationship with God.

1094
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 9: Then i'm ready.

1095
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 8: I'm the righteousness of God, and I'm ready.

1096
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: Off menu, off menu. Weren't even expecting it, were you.

1097
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 1: That's good.

1098
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 2: God likes to throw surprise parties, So your pity party

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Speaker 2: is going to be interrupted this week by a surprise

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Speaker 2: party for God to show you.

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Speaker 1: That the thing you thought made you kittleful.

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Speaker 4: Actually makes you powerful. Give Peter down the stairs, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's have a Thurday party.

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Speaker 5: Let's have a birthday party.

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Speaker 4: My snon that Renard.

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Speaker 5: Give it twenty five seconds, afray.

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Speaker 4: Praising, You'll be gone.

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Speaker 9: You didn't.

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Speaker 8: Give them away by cleaner head pray.

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Speaker 9: You did not come head Percy. He'll be kind.

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Speaker 4: Hana, prazy you because.

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Speaker 9: A bend pray.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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