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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. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message in just a moment. If you're standing

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Speaker 2: at one of our campuses, stay standing for a moment,

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Speaker 2: because we got a very special message today. You may

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Speaker 2: be wondering, yes, is Holly gonna preach?

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Speaker 1: Kind of? And so am I? So today this message?

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Speaker 1: Did you ever used to watch not wrestling, but wrestling?

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Speaker 2: Did you ever used to see tag team wrestling like

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Speaker 2: the Legion of Doom, the Steiner Brothers, stuff like that,

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Speaker 2: And then when you would when you would be tired,

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Speaker 2: you tag your partner in the corner. Today, Holly and

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Speaker 2: I are going to tag team a message as we

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Speaker 2: continue our series called Do the New You would you

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Speaker 2: look at your neighbor and say, I.

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Speaker 1: Barely recognize you. You've been changing so much?

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Speaker 2: Is that now?

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Speaker 1: Put it in the comments, say is oh man?

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Speaker 2: God has been doing an amazing work through this book,

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Speaker 2: through this message series, through these mindsets, and today we're

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Speaker 2: gonna we're.

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Speaker 1: Gonna change it up.

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Speaker 2: You may be wondering, why is there furniture behind you?

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Speaker 2: Good question, Uh Holly, We're gonna have a little chat.

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna chat.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some stuff. I've been wanting to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about some stuff.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but you said you said we were gonna tag team,

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Speaker 4: and in my mind it was less wrestling and more

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Speaker 4: like volleyball, you know, like where I don't know my

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Speaker 4: you know, like the person and then you yeah, so

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Speaker 4: I'm spiking or your spiking, your spiking.

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Speaker 3: OK maybe I'm a setter, you know, you go like that,

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Speaker 3: that's what it is, and then you spike it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say, knew more about sports.

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Speaker 4: But I have been wanting to interview you for really.

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Speaker 4: I have been begging him, babe, please let me interview you.

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Speaker 3: Let's sit down on a Sunday morning.

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Speaker 4: And because there's nobody I would rather talk to than you,

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Speaker 4: thank you. And sometimes our conversations are so I mean,

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Speaker 4: they're so good and they go I just love the

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Speaker 4: way you think, and so I'm really excited.

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Speaker 3: I've got questions.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready, and y'all y'all pray for me, because she's prepared.

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Speaker 1: I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I made a deal that I wouldn't look at her questions.

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Speaker 2: She left her notebook on the kitchen table, and I

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Speaker 2: was very tempted because I like to prepare. But in

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Speaker 2: this mindset we're going to share about Christ is in me.

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Speaker 2: Everybody say Christ is in me.

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Speaker 3: Christ is in me?

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Speaker 1: I am enough. I am enough, And.

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Speaker 2: I thought, what better way to put that to the

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Speaker 2: test than let her ask me whatever she wants in

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Speaker 2: front of We've got about a thousand E Group leaders

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Speaker 2: here helping us share this message. And these are the

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Speaker 2: real MVPs of Elevation Church, along with our volunteers, our givers,

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Speaker 2: our staff, and you know this is what they do

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Speaker 2: every week as they open their homes and opened their computers.

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Speaker 1: And whether it's in the room where.

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Speaker 2: It happens or the zoom where it happens, so many

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Speaker 2: great discussions happen. And one of my passions in this

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Speaker 2: year is to get God's word deeper and deeper and

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Speaker 2: deeper into your heart so the enemy can't snatch it.

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Speaker 1: So if you're ready for.

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Speaker 2: A conversation, but I could go anywhere and make some

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Speaker 2: noise all right, y'all be seated as we are seated.

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Speaker 2: Let's go Holly. When they were playing, it made me

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Speaker 2: remember how we used to sing. When I think of.

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Speaker 3: That, out the Lord, you can't make me sing.

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Speaker 2: How he saves me, how he raised me, how.

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Speaker 1: He filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me.

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Speaker 5: Judie termost when I think about the Lord, how he

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Speaker 5: picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my.

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Speaker 2: Feet from side brown, it makes me na shout.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, jeez, I know it.

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Speaker 5: Lord, You're worthy of all the glory and and.

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Speaker 6: Olua, thank you Jesus, Oh, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: That was our song in college. I think I think

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Speaker 2: that's part of the reason you married me. Not because

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Speaker 2: of my singing, but she was scholarship. We met before college,

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Speaker 2: Hollie and I met before college. I promise this won't

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Speaker 2: just be story time. I'm gonna preach your minister to

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Speaker 2: work out. But I want to tell them this because

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Speaker 2: when people see you like later in your journey, it's

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Speaker 2: like walking into the middle of a movie and they

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Speaker 2: can be really confused. And one time somebody said to me,

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Speaker 2: I don't really like megachurch pastors. As if I came

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Speaker 2: out of the womb with a megachurch like push, there's

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Speaker 2: a there's a there's a mega church inside of you faith.

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Speaker 2: But as far as our relationship and our ministry, we've

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Speaker 2: been doing this together since we were kids, since the

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Speaker 2: church just turned eighteen.

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Speaker 1: We started doing ministry when we were eighteen, and.

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Speaker 2: Then the summer we were nineteen, we traveled together and

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Speaker 2: she was on scholarship to this singing group called Joyful Sound.

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Speaker 1: But she was the sound person. But I knew she

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Speaker 1: really wanted to sing.

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Speaker 4: You didn't know I was had a background in Yes,

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Speaker 4: she has a background in running JBL eons.

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Speaker 1: She can set up a tent revival anywhere if you

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Speaker 1: need her to. I'm good with the snake and you

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Speaker 1: should start it.

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Speaker 2: You should start a sound company for worship events called

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Speaker 2: holly Lujah.

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Speaker 1: That'd be good anyway.

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Speaker 2: I'll turn it over to you in a minute because

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Speaker 2: I know your interview and we're gonna preach and teach today,

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Speaker 2: not just tell stories. But so I made a choir

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Speaker 2: and guess who I recruited to be my alto section

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Speaker 2: leader holle Lujah.

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Speaker 4: Okay, wait, I have to interject, because you he was

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Speaker 4: casting this vision like he does we were nineteen years old,

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Speaker 3: Was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna start a choir. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna have a choir and a band.

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Speaker 4: There's be just we're just gonna sing gospel songs. And

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Speaker 4: I was like, I don't okay, and he was like,

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Speaker 4: and I want you to help, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. And there was this other girl, I

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Speaker 4: tell the truth, there was this other girl and she

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Speaker 4: was like that sounds awesome. I mean, how can I help?

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Speaker 4: And I was like, I didn't say it wasn't gonna help.

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Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. Hold on a second, the healthy competition.

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Speaker 1: So what are we talking about? Ali? What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: You called this meeting?

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Speaker 3: I did? I called this meeting. First of all, I

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Speaker 3: am so.

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Speaker 4: I love this book so much and it's very special

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Speaker 4: to me. I matched my jacket to the book today.

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Speaker 3: It's so special to me because.

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Speaker 4: You haven't released a book in eight years. And what

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Speaker 4: a lot of people don't know is about a year

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Speaker 4: ago we had to fight. Well a conversation, yea, a

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Speaker 4: rather heated conversation, and I was saying, because we don't fight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, as the Baptist say, intense fellowship, intense fellowship.

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Speaker 4: So we have this intense conversation where I am saying

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Speaker 4: like there's I just feel like there's more inside of you.

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Speaker 4: I feel like there is a huge group of people

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Speaker 4: who need your words in written form. And he was

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Speaker 4: telling me how his sermons don't translate into books. He said,

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Speaker 4: my sermons, my idea is, Holly.

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Speaker 1: I've tried.

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Speaker 4: He actually, you actually wrote a book in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: And he said, I tried to wrote a book in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty. I'm done. I don't want to write. My

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Speaker 3: sermons don't translate.

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Speaker 4: And we went back and forth, and I felt like

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Speaker 4: I had pushed too hard, you know, like that wife pushing,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, okay, okay. So I decided I

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Speaker 4: was going to let it go and I was.

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Speaker 3: Going to push the Lord. It's so much more effective,

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Speaker 3: And this is the answer to my prayers.

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Speaker 2: Right here.

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Speaker 1: She finds starting. She finds y'all think she's sweet.

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Speaker 4: So we're talking about mindset too today.

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Speaker 3: But before we get to it, okay, I.

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Speaker 4: Have just like I just want to keep you loose

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Speaker 4: a little fun lightning round situation.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So here's what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna play ten seconds of a song of an

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Speaker 3: Ten seconds. We checked ten ten seconds. I think you

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm gonna play a little clip of a

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Speaker 4: song and you're going to pretend like that song title

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Speaker 4: preach that title.

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Speaker 2: I see the Israelites standing on the shore of the

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Speaker 2: saying back to Moses in Exodus fourteen, why are you

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Speaker 2: And since the song is called stuck in a moment,

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Speaker 2: I hear God saying to Moses and to you, you're

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Speaker 3: I promise you.

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Speaker 4: I did not give him a heads up about this.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you righty for the next one.

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Speaker 2: The last time a game like this was played on

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Speaker 2: this stage, Bishop td Jakes was doing the answering, this

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Speaker 2: is really really wrong of you to do this to me.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not, no, it's not all right.

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Speaker 1: You're the next one. Okay, you can't think so.

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Speaker 8: In a world keep side pushing me around, got up,

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Speaker 2: There was a king who made a treaty with an

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Speaker 2: the treaty, the enemy said, well, I actually want your

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Speaker 2: children too. He said, all right, and then he said

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Speaker 2: actually I want all your livestock too. And at some

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Speaker 2: point the king had to say, that's it. I'm drawing

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Speaker 2: could have my children, and I know I said you

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Speaker 2: could have our treasury, and I know I said you

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Speaker 2: could have the lamb. But I met with God and

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Speaker 2: I realized that if I give you an inch, you'll

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Speaker 2: And if I give you my thoughts, you want to

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Speaker 2: take my behaviors.

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Speaker 1: And if I give you my behaviors, you're going to

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Speaker 2: And if you take my patterns, you can have my life.

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Speaker 2: So I see somebody like that Old Testament king going

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Speaker 2: And God healed my marriage that day, and my kid

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Speaker 2: got off drugs that day, and the business was out

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Speaker 2: of the red that day, and the breakthrough.

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Speaker 1: Concept went to and we had an IPO that day.

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Speaker 2: And I never struggled with wanting to drink alcohol again

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Speaker 2: that day.

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Speaker 1: But it was my one day when for that day.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give you my favorite phrase that I

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Speaker 2: learned in therapy. Okay, yes, I go to therapy because

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Speaker 2: I'm crazy. No you're not, and I want to help

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Speaker 2: you with your crazy in case you don't get to

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Speaker 2: the therapist. All right, all right, So I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to charge you for this, but we worked through a

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Speaker 2: phrase in therapy.

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Speaker 1: This was a game changer for me.

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Speaker 2: When you talk about enough, everybody shout enough enough, put

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Speaker 2: it in the comments, enough enough, sit again, enough enough

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Speaker 2: for now, for now who. That was big to me, babe,

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Speaker 2: because you know how I am. I'm projecting so much

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Speaker 2: into the future, and and I operate sometimes from a

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Speaker 2: fear of running out. But then I remember Jesus taught

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Speaker 2: his disciples to pray this, give us this day our

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Speaker 2: daily bread. Don't you wish he would have said, this

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Speaker 2: day our monthly bread, so you could have the whole

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Speaker 2: closet full of paper towels that you need. But God's

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Speaker 2: not like Costco like that and not giving it to

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Speaker 2: you in a pack of forty eight.

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Speaker 1: He's going to give you the strength when you.

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Speaker 2: Need it, one word at a time, one apology at

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Speaker 2: a time, one day of sobriety at a time, one

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Speaker 2: day of coming to church at a time, one day

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Speaker 2: of going to E group at a time. And so

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to think that now that I've

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Speaker 2: written a book, I live in a place of perpetual enoughness.

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Speaker 2: We're in the abundance of God never leaves the forefront

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Speaker 2: of my imagination, causing me to triumph over every doubt

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Speaker 2: an obstacle. I just trust that He's going to give

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Speaker 2: me enough for now and when I need the next step.

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Speaker 2: This is for somebody who's making a decision and you

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Speaker 2: feel like you're not intelligent enough to make it, or

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Speaker 2: you don't have enough facts to make it. You have

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Speaker 2: enough for now, Suit up and see it. Okay, did

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Speaker 2: I talk too long?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm talking. I do. I have plenty of questions,

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Speaker 3: But you say it comes out.

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Speaker 2: If we run out of time, we'll put a bonus session.

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Speaker 2: I'm running back, walk it out.

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Speaker 3: I love it all right. This is.

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Speaker 4: My top one of my top two quotes in the

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Speaker 4: entire book, and I'm going to just read it for you.

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Speaker 4: You say this, what's been a lot harder for me

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Speaker 4: than accepting Jesus is accepting Even accepting Jesus took a moment.

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Speaker 4: Accepting me is taking a lifetime to accept.

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Speaker 3: Then you go on to say to accept.

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Speaker 4: Jesus but not accept Stephen is to miss the gift

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Speaker 4: of salvation where it matters most.

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Speaker 3: You can't just accept Jesus by faith. You have to

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Speaker 3: accept yourself by faith too. This quote like.

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Speaker 4: Let off the page for me because I grew up

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Speaker 4: Southern Baptist and Baptists, we love the phrase accept Jesus

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Speaker 4: into your heart. I mean that is like a core

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Speaker 4: belief of mine. Yeah, you have to accept Jesus into

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Speaker 4: your heart.

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Speaker 9: It's a it's a moment, it's a it's a it's

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Speaker 9: a it's a it's a monumental decision in your life.

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Speaker 9: But when I read this, I was like, oh, I

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Speaker 9: think I missed half of it.

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Speaker 3: Where did this? How do you do this?

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Speaker 4: How do you practically grow in accepting Stephen?

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Speaker 3: Give us some how.

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Speaker 1: You help you do?

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if you remember saying this,

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Speaker 2: but you've heard me say that. You said it a lot,

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Speaker 2: and so trust me you said this. We're sitting at

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Speaker 2: Firebirds on a date night. This is maybe twelve years ago,

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Speaker 2: maybe even longer than that. But the church was growing.

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Speaker 2: I remember the day that the church got bigger than

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Speaker 2: Monk's corner of the town I grew up in.

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Speaker 1: That was kind of a scary thought for.

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Speaker 2: Me, like, wait a minute, talk about I'm not enough

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Speaker 2: the town I grew up in. It was wonderful, but

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Speaker 2: there were less people that lived in that town when

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Speaker 2: I grew up in it than are coming to church now.

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Speaker 1: So not only have I never seen anything.

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Speaker 2: This big and let it, but I lived in a

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Speaker 2: town that was smaller than what I'm responsible to lead.

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Speaker 2: And one day I wanted to fire everybody, and most

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Speaker 2: of all, wanted to fire myself, because I'm like, wait

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Speaker 2: a minute, if the whole team is messing up, they

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Speaker 2: fire the coach, right, So you don't just trade players.

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Speaker 1: If every player is bad, you get a new coach.

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Speaker 2: So I'm telling her this, I'm like, if the oh,

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Speaker 2: the team is bad, then you thaw the new coach.

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Speaker 2: I just don't feel like I'm the leader that our

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Speaker 2: church needs. Without hesitation, she leans across the bread at Firebirds.

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Speaker 2: You'll know that bread at Firebirds. She leans across the bread.

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Speaker 2: She's got the butter knife in her hand. It's a

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Speaker 2: big old knife. So maybe what she said more powerful

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Speaker 2: she said.

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Speaker 1: I said, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't feel like I'm the leader we need. She said, well,

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Speaker 2: you're the one we've got.

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Speaker 10: With a knife. The firebirds knives are big. That helps.

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Speaker 1: You tell me.

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Speaker 2: When I was walking out the door when the kids

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Speaker 2: were little, you've got what it takes, and again, almost

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Speaker 2: hearing that would make me angry, I didn't go but

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Speaker 2: her there buckeroo.

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Speaker 1: I would be like, hey, yeah, you don't know how

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Speaker 1: heavy it is.

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Speaker 2: And then you were carrying your own pressures of trying

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Speaker 2: to figure out who am I And I think we've

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Speaker 2: worked through this together, yeah, because we started in ministry

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Speaker 2: as kids together. And the part of the story that

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Speaker 2: I didn't tell earlier is that before we went to college,

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Speaker 2: Holly was traveling with a ministry team through Monk's Corner

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Speaker 2: and I grew up in a Methodist church with a

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Speaker 2: heritage from that church because my grandfather was a Methodist pastor,

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Speaker 2: and so we went every week. But then when I

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Speaker 2: was in high school, the Baptist church revival, when I

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Speaker 2: went over there, I met this guy named Jody, who

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Speaker 2: ended up being my.

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Speaker 1: Brother in law. So it's a whole story.

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Speaker 2: Right, like God is always working everything together in.

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Speaker 1: Our lives for his glory.

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Speaker 2: But at that revival, I went down to the altar

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Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to accept Jesus into my life.

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Speaker 2: And it was transformative, Like what an amazing deal that is?

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Speaker 2: I give him my sin, I get his grace. I

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Speaker 2: give him my shame, I get his justification. I give

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Speaker 2: him my broken pieces. He begins to build my life

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Speaker 2: into a bigger picture story that he's telling.

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Speaker 1: For his glory. Who wouldn't want to accept that?

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Speaker 2: It'd be like giving away the Apple Goggles thing today,

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Speaker 2: the thing that's going to make us all robots and

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Speaker 2: send us all to the mark of the beast, the

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Speaker 2: new thing that just came out, the End Times Goggles.

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Speaker 1: I get, Apple's going to take this sermon down if

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Speaker 1: I keep going.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it'd be like giving something away Like here

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Speaker 2: you go, and and God is a giver and so

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Speaker 2: there's no strings attached. You leave your sin, you leave

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Speaker 2: your shame, but you don't leave yourself.

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Speaker 1: I need to get this.

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Speaker 2: I need to get this through because one of the

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Speaker 2: ways that we are taught salvation is actually destructive to

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Speaker 2: our sense of self worth.

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Speaker 1: And it's this God doesn't like you.

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Speaker 2: God, in fact, is so angry with you that the

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Speaker 2: only way he could deal with it was sending his

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Speaker 2: son to die for you. Now, did God send Jesus

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Speaker 2: to die for us.

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Speaker 1: Because we couldn't pay the penalty?

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Speaker 2: Yes, because sin demands a price, and the price is perfection,

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Speaker 2: and you couldn't pay it. So Jesus did. How many

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Speaker 2: are grateful that he did.

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Speaker 1: Come on, all of my.

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Speaker 2: Fellow perfectionists, that you don't have to get it right

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Speaker 2: all the time. That he got it right. He lived

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Speaker 2: as if he had sinned, so I can live as

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Speaker 2: if I never did, so I can hold my head

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Speaker 2: up so I can belong to Jesus.

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Speaker 1: But here's the part that got me.

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Speaker 2: I started hearing it described in certain classes that I

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Speaker 2: took for Bible College, and all of that almost like

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Speaker 2: a group insurance policy.

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Speaker 1: Jesus died for you. God really doesn't like you. He

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Speaker 1: really can't stand you.

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Speaker 2: Because he knows all about you, and he sees you

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Speaker 2: at three in the morning, and he knows where.

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Speaker 1: You were last night, and he knows what you did

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Speaker 1: last summer and last fall.

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Speaker 2: You're so funny, thank you. And because he can't stand you,

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Speaker 2: he sinned his son. And now when he sees you,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't see you. He sees his son. And because

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Speaker 2: he doesn't have to look at your terrible, worthless self,

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Speaker 2: he loves you.

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Speaker 1: Cool.

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Speaker 2: It's like I have a pre existing condition called sucking.

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Speaker 1: But I pray to prayer accepted Jesus.

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Speaker 2: I got in on the policy and I'm good and

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Speaker 2: God has to forgive me. But he really doesn't want

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Speaker 2: to remember this whenever you are tempted to think that way. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we're all sinners in need of a savior. No, there's

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Speaker 2: nothing in me that can save myself. And yes, I

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Speaker 2: need Jesus in order to be right with God.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, but just that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Now from that? Did the Bible start in Genesis three?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: Come on, when we sinned and became separated from God?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Or did the Bible start with let us make man

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Speaker 2: in our image? And when God made snakes, he said

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Speaker 2: it's good. Everything he made he said it's good.

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Speaker 1: When he made you, he said very good.

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Speaker 2: So I know you got some very bad things you

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Speaker 2: struggle with and some y ugly parts of you that

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Speaker 2: you're working on, and I know you have some very

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Speaker 2: deep issues that go really deep, but remember that it

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Speaker 2: started out with a God who made you.

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Speaker 1: Very good, very good.

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Speaker 2: And God is trying to get me back as Steven

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Speaker 2: Larry Stevens Fredick Jr.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to get me back to very good.

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Speaker 2: He's trying to give me a vision of his very

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Speaker 2: good for my life. He's trying to get me back

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Speaker 2: to the seed of Stephen. He's trying to shine light,

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Speaker 2: give water and yes, even fertilizer to your life to

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Speaker 2: bring you back to what you put inside of you.

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Speaker 1: So holly for me.

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Speaker 2: The whole way that this message do the New Youth

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Speaker 2: starts and I won't review it long because we've already

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Speaker 2: covered it, but it talks about do you do you

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Speaker 2: as possibly being the worst advice that anyone could ever

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Speaker 2: give you, because.

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Speaker 1: If I just do me, but I don't develop me, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Going to be a perpetual, emotional two year old if

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Speaker 2: I just do me, if I.

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Speaker 1: Don't grow into who God made me.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, if you're one of these people

665
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Speaker 2: who's very driven in you're like, I'm not going to

666
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 2: just do me, I'm going to do future me. Future me, Well,

667
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: that's a treadmill that will leave you exhausted and you'll

668
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 2: collapse trying to chase something that you think you're supposed

669
00:38:58,560 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 2: to be.

670
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: Usually what we're chasing when we say.

671
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 2: Oh, my future self that's patient and ripped and rich,

672
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 2: and patient and ripped and rich but can still enjoy

673
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 2: a nice dessert. But I'm ripped and I'm not uptight,

674
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 2: but I am driven and focused. Stop that, because you

675
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 2: are comparing your behind the scenes to everybody else's highlight reel.

676
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: Come on, and what you're chasing is.

677
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: A compilation of what other people have shown you of

678
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 2: their life that you've cobbled together and think you need

679
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 2: to be that for God to bless you.

680
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: And you don't wow.

681
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 3: Wow.

682
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 2: So accepting Stephen means that when I show up to

683
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 2: preach to you, or when I show up in a

684
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 2: tough moment with one of our kids, or when I

685
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 2: show up to try to be the husband that she needs,

686
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 2: and I know that I'm still under development, that I

687
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 2: believe that if God would have needed somebody else to

688
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 2: do it, he would choose someone else to do it.

689
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: And the fundamental component of my belief.

690
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 2: System about this is that if there are eight billion

691
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 2: people in the world, God had options. Yeah, and He

692
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 2: put you in that house, He put you in that business,

693
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: he put you in that ministry, he put you with

694
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 2: that woman, he put you with those kids. God chows

695
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 2: you say it to your neighbor.

696
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: God shows you.

697
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 2: Now look right back at him and ask him a question,

698
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 2: Will you come on, come on? Will you choose you,

699
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 2: that's the decision you're making every day, yep. Or are

700
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 2: you going to feel the need so much to measure

701
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: up to something called perfection that God knew you were

702
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 2: never going to be? Or can you be cool in

703
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 2: the process when you say to yourself, well, I did cuss,

704
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: but I didn't say the real bad words this day,

705
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 2: next week, I'm a dial it all the way down

706
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 2: to heck. And every step you make towards heck, you

707
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 2: got to be like, that's pretty good.

708
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: You saw where I came from. It wasn't heck.

709
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 2: And I'm passionate about this because I am a perfectionist.

710
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 2: I don't know what version I think God is looking

711
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: for when I come through the door. But sometimes I

712
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 2: just have to sit myself down and be like, dude,

713
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,919
Speaker 2: you grew up in a small town, you stepped out,

714
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 2: you met this woman.

715
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: God's me good to you. You're doing all right.

716
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 2: I always wondered, though, Holly, I want to read you

717
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 2: think about this. Where's the line between being content and

718
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 2: being complacent?

719
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: Yeah? It's tough because.

720
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 2: I want to be content, yeah, in every circumstance, but

721
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 2: I don't want contentment to turn into an excuse.

722
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

723
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,959
Speaker 1: Whereby I can just accept immaturity in my life.

724
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 8: Yep.

725
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 2: The first step of growing into who God knows you

726
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 2: are is to accept who you are. Accept it, accept it, accept.

727
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: It, and step into it.

728
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll get you from this bar, and we'll

729
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 2: put some plates on it, and some more plates on it,

730
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: and some more plates on it, and you'll barely recognize yourself.

731
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 2: This is the process of transformation.

732
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 1: Yep.

733
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 4: Okay, you open up this section, this mindset crisis in me.

734
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 4: I'm enough with this story that you tell about dropping

735
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 4: a class in college and the professors say to you

736
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 4: it's something they imply that they knew you weren't a

737
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 4: serious enough student. And then you say this later in

738
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 4: that chapter, you say, I'm constantly fighting a voice that

739
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 4: tells me I'm not deep enough as a preacher, or

740
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 4: that I'm not serious enough, or I'm not a hard worker.

741
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 4: And then all that defensiveness is going to come out

742
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 4: in how I preach and teach. I'll subconsciously think, oh,

743
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:33,240
Speaker 4: this needs to be deep.

744
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 3: I need to be deep. I can't get on that

745
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 3: platform and be shallow.

746
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 4: I've got to prove to the people wrong who said

747
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 4: I'm not deep. And then you talk about you go

748
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 4: on to talk about performing.

749
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 3: For the wrong voices in our lives.

750
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 4: So how do you catch yourself when you find yourself

751
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,959
Speaker 4: living for the wrong voice?

752
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 3: Says? And how do you get yourself back?

753
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: Can we do it in stages?

754
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: The answer to that, yeah, if it's a sermon, I'll

755
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 2: put Eric on the front row while I'm studying.

756
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: Eric's been my best friends since we were fourteen.

757
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 2: We did Green Day shows together, Pearl Jim shows together,

758
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 2: and now we spread the gospel together. And then when

759
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: I put him on the front row, I realized, wait

760
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 2: a minute, ericting thinking about me like a seminary professor

761
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: judging if I said I'm aphibischev right. And then I say,

762
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 2: and nobody's going to know in your church if you

763
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 2: mispronounced my aphibichev either, because they can't say.

764
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: It right either.

765
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 2: And once I lock in through a lens of love

766
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 2: somebody that I love and somebody that loves me, it

767
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 2: frees me up.

768
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 3: That's good. Lock into the lens of love.

769
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, lock into the lens of love. Even in your

770
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: Bible reading. When you're reading the Bible, start explaining it

771
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 2: after you read it to somebody you love.

772
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: Wow, Try any group.

773
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 3: It's not too late.

774
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: It's not too late.

775
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 2: And I wish it were that easy in our lives,

776
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 2: because when you're performing for somebody else's approval. There's one

777
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 2: story about Jesus that I want you to go back to.

778
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 2: I want you to go down to the Jordan and

779
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 2: almost like picture if you can put yourself there. Jesus

780
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 2: is being baptized. Why to be cleansed from his sin? No,

781
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 2: he had no sin, to be obedient to his father.

782
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 2: And as he's coming up from the water, I'm about

783
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 2: to blow your mind. If you've never heard this before,

784
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 2: this changed my life. As he's coming up out of

785
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 2: the water, a voice, everybody say, a voice, A voice,

786
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 2: a voice from heaven said, this is my son, whom

787
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 2: I love.

788
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: Well, he was proud of his son. Okay, now I

789
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: haven't blown your mind yet.

790
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 2: I you're like, that's nice, it's nice, and it's cool

791
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 2: until you put it in context, and then it becomes

792
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 2: a game changer. What if I told you that, at

793
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 2: the moment that the voice from heaven said, this is

794
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 2: my son whom I love, I am well pleased with him.

795
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 2: What if I told you that at that moment Jesus

796
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 2: had not yet performed a single public miracle, right wow,

797
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 2: And God said, already love him. Had not opened a

798
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 2: single blind eye. God said, I'm proud of him. That's

799
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 2: my boy, that's my girl. He had not fed the

800
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 2: crowds a golden corral buffet from a happy meal.

801
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: And God said he's enough. Right. So, when Jesus went.

802
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 2: To do all of those things, Lazarus come forth. When

803
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 2: he went to do all of those things, Pharisees shut up.

804
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 2: He wasn't trying to prove anything to the Pharisees. He

805
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 2: wasn't trying to prove anything to Lazarus because his starting

806
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 2: place was the.

807
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: Love of his father.

808
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 2: Now, every day, I need you to find a way

809
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: to be baptized in that lovey. I don't mean you

810
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 2: have to go get into jacuzzi, get slipped, get over

811
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 2: the fence and your neighbor's jacuzi.

812
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about physically.

813
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 2: I'm talking about spiritually, letting God baptize you in the

814
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 2: enoughness that is Him incredible, so you can come from abundance. Yeah,

815
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 2: I don't mean just material abundance. There will be times

816
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 2: where you'll say, Paul, I've learned to be content in

817
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 2: every circumstance, whether with plenty or with little, but one

818
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 2: thing you will never lack a day in your life

819
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 2: is his love and his guidance. How many of you

820
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 2: struggle with a scarcity mindset? I tell one little embarrassing

821
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 2: story in the book. I wan to share it with

822
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 2: you right now. Elijah, when he was about nine or ten,

823
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 2: was grabbing napkins at dinner one day, and he grabbed

824
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 2: like twenty napkins.

825
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: It's probably five, but let's call it twenty.

826
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 2: It makes it a little more justified what I did,

827
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 2: because when he grabbed the napkins, I start freaking.

828
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: Out, like, you don't need that many napkins.

829
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 2: And I gave him the greatest lesson on napkin conservation

830
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 2: in the history of parenting. And I don't think he

831
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 2: should have wasted the napkins. And I think it's good.

832
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,280
Speaker 2: But I remembered, Mom. Do you remember how how Dad

833
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 2: when he was growing up, he was very poor, and

834
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 2: so when he had his own house and his on

835
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 2: napkins and paper towels. Sometimes he'd walk around and he

836
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 2: would tear the paper towels in half, and.

837
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: He'd go, you don't need a whole paper towel. You

838
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 1: think you' some kind of prints.

839
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 2: Coming in here taking a full paper towel.

840
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: Now I'm bringing this up.

841
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 2: It sounds so small because when we make it too big,

842
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 2: and we think like when.

843
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: You stand before the Red Sea, stretch out your staff.

844
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:33,959
Speaker 1: You're probably not going.

845
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,919
Speaker 2: To lead a nation of millions Monday, but you will

846
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 2: walk around your house and ask the question is it enough?

847
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 2: And the way you answer that question is not just

848
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 2: tied to is God enough? But it's how you answer

849
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 2: the question did He make me enough? And here's where

850
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 2: I think the gap is. I'm fired off.

851
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 1: Now I'm glad they got a bounc chair. You can

852
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: swivel while I preached this. Get a little kinetic motion.

853
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 2: As I preached this, because what you're talking about, in

854
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 2: the process of those professors telling me we knew you

855
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 2: weren't a serious student, That's how I saw myself. What

856
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 2: they say about you only has the power you give

857
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 2: it by the way you see yourself. I want to

858
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 2: break this victim mentality off of Christians, like that if

859
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: somebody spoke something.

860
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: Over you, you just have to believe it like it's your birthright.

861
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 2: No, your father spoke over you, and whoever spoke over you.

862
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: What wasn't true. Your father is over them. So watch this.

863
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: I have a better word over my life.

864
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have a second opinion for God.

865
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 2: I have a truth from him. I have a revelation

866
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 2: from him. I know the truth of the Gospel. Come on,

867
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 2: He's not against me. I am enough.

868
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: He is with me. I can't do all things through Christ.

869
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: High five. Your neighbors say you got what it takes.

870
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 3: What it takes, so.

871
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: We gotta listen to that voice.

872
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people speak a lot of

873
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 2: things over us.

874
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: It happens to all of us. They say stuff about

875
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 1: me all the time.

876
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 2: But I got somebody else I can go to and say, Father,

877
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 2: is what they said true? And if it's not, and

878
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:47,720
Speaker 2: if what they spoke contradicts what he is saying, go with.

879
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,760
Speaker 1: What your father spoke.

880
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 5: God.

881
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:53,240
Speaker 1: I love this stuff.

882
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 2: Because I see you breaking free from this idea of

883
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 2: what they told you you couldn't be.

884
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: They didn't make you.

885
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 2: If they didn't make you, and they don't own you,

886
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 2: they don't get to label you.

887
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: God is my label maker. I'm mating his image.

888
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 2: I'm redeemed by the blood of his son, and it's precious,

889
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 2: and so am I.

890
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 3: Got time for one morning just talking. No, you're not,

891
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 3: you're preaching, Okay.

892
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: I hope y'all are getting this at Riverwalk.

893
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 2: I hope y'all are getting this at University City. I

894
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 2: hope y'all are getting this at Ballad Hide. I hope

895
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 2: you're getting this in Greenville. I hope you're getting this

896
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 2: in Raleigh. I hope you're getting this Epham.

897
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: All over the world. I hope you're receiving this word in.

898
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 2: Your college norm me receiving the calling I've been almighty God.

899
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, people can't cancel what God calls.

900
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 3: That's right.

901
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: Come on, Christ is in me. I am enough. Now,

902
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: don't leave that first part out. You just run around.

903
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm enough. I'm enough. It's kind, I'm as smart, I

904
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: as important.

905
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,879
Speaker 2: Like that's great for a movie, but you get into

906
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 2: real life on Monday, you're gonna need something hire to

907
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 2: point too. And so that's where it comes from from me, babe,

908
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 2: because if I did the self acceptance thing without.

909
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: Jesus, I'll hit it dead end. I've got to know

910
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: that he's with me, and I got.

911
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 2: To know that he didn't make mistakes when he made

912
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: me and I'm gonna tell you one more thing before

913
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 2: we get to your final question, and we got to

914
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:56,760
Speaker 2: do a part.

915
00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 3: Two of this, Yes, two, three, four or five.

916
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: I like to tell you the's a little behind the

917
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 1: scenes stories.

918
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't holler when we talk about

919
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,720
Speaker 2: these things when it's just me and her.

920
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be weird? Holly touch your neighbor.

921
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 2: It's like high five in bo.

922
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: But we do this. This is what we do.

923
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 2: Some of the best sermons I ever preached were our

924
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 2: three point two mile walk after Sunday when we start

925
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 2: talking and then you start sharing, and I think you

926
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 2: really need somebody that you love in your life, whether

927
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 2: in the E group or whether it's somebody that you

928
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 2: love where you can unpack the word of God. Because

929
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 2: if God speaks a word over you, but then you

930
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 2: don't water it, yep, it'll die and you'll think it

931
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 2: didn't work.

932
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: But it just needs water.

933
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 2: And I think what we're trying to model today, and

934
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 2: I know it's a little different way to do it,

935
00:54:56,120 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 2: but that God is a conversationalist. And when I say

936
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 2: do the new you, sometimes the only way for you

937
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 2: to do the new you singular is to do the

938
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 2: new you plural in the South. We don't say you all,

939
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 2: We say yeah yeah. So one day I'm gonna do

940
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 2: a group study called do the New y'all y'all. And

941
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: the reason I'm gonna do it is because I want

942
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 2: you to see that if you keep hearing at the

943
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 2: level of what God says, but you keep relating to

944
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,720
Speaker 2: people who are at the level of what they feel,

945
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 2: you will come down to them time after time. And

946
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 2: so this this core belief for me. We were in

947
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 2: a songwriting session a few years ago. You know a

948
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 2: lot of people will ask me sometimes, what's the best

949
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 2: song you ever wrote that was underrated in your mind?

950
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 2: I think one that I really like and I don't

951
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 2: know if it's underrated, but nobody ever talks about it.

952
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: Makes me mad.

953
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 2: It's called the one you Love. When we were writing

954
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 2: that song, well, why aren't y'all streaming it? There's no

955
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 2: streams on Spotify for that song? Y'all clap them and

956
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 2: stuff of it. The song was a journey with some

957
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 2: other great writers, and I don't say this to insult

958
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 2: any of them, but at one point during the writing

959
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 2: session there were several writers and we're working on the

960
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 2: song and the second verse began to come out in

961
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 2: a way where it said, I know you're proud of me,

962
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 2: even though I don't deserve it.

963
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: Sometimes.

964
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 2: No, I'm not a perfect child, but I still make

965
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 2: my father smile. I know you're proud of me. And

966
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,399
Speaker 2: then the chorus said, you take me just as I am.

967
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 2: You would choose me all over again. I am the

968
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 2: one you love. You know that's what John called himself

969
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 2: in the Bible.

970
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, he loves the one he loves.

971
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 2: And somebody in the room said, I don't know if

972
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 2: theologically I can really vibe with the fact that God

973
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 2: is proud of me. And I said, then you don't

974
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 2: have to sing it, but I've got to because I

975
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 2: deal with so much self critical internal dialogue. And maybe

976
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 2: you don't. And if you don't, I'm happy for you,

977
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 2: and I hope you never do. But God sent me

978
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 2: to reach a few people that you don't know how

979
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 2: to hear that voice saying, this is my child. I

980
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 2: saw you go out of your way for that person,

981
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 2: even though they didn't thank you.

982
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: I saw that.

983
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 2: I see you giving what you have even though you

984
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 2: feel like you blew it. And you yelled at the

985
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 2: kids six times today. The reason you're yelling with them

986
00:57:52,800 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 2: is because you're with them.

987
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 3: To say that again.

988
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sometimes the Lord will say I'm proud of you

989
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 2: that you were so caring to your kids today.

990
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: And sometimes it'll say I'm so proud of you that

991
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: you didn't kill your kids today.

992
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 2: Now I realize that people will take this to the

993
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:22,959
Speaker 2: extremes sometimes and just justify behavior that frankly, God wants

994
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 2: to rescue you from. But even if you're going to

995
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 2: grow out of that, you're going to do it by

996
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 2: accepting that you make your father smile even though you're

997
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 2: not a perfect child, and you've accepted Jesus.

998
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: If you haven't, you ought to do it today. But

999
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: you also ought to accept you. Yeah, because he did.

1000
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, he accepted you, and

1001
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 2: you don't you have a higher standard than God.

1002
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 3: Well, WHOA.

1003
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 2: So I just want you breathing in this thought. Christ

1004
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 2: is in me. I am enough. Say it again, Christ

1005
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 2: is in me. Christ in me, I am enough.

1006
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 3: I am enough.

1007
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 2: That's the most powerful revelation I think in the whole book.

1008
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: Yep, not, I'm going to be enough?

1009
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 2: Ye boy, God's really going to want to hang out

1010
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 2: with me when I'm no longer dealing with this man.

1011
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 2: He's really gonna use me when I get smart. No, no, no,

1012
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 2: he's going to use you, stupid.

1013
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: Ask Peter all these Bible characters we read about.

1014
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 2: I don't know how you wanted to close, Holly, but

1015
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 2: I have one more thing I wanted to share in

1016
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 2: order to solidify this. Is there any question that if

1017
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 2: you didn't get to ask it, you're gonna fuss at me,

1018
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 2: like because I didn't let you ask the question? Okay, Okay,

1019
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 2: I'll talk about one more song line and we're going

1020
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 2: to sing and worship and just close this time by

1021
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 2: reflecting and responding on what God has spoken.

1022
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: How many feel that God has spoken something to you today?

1023
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 6: No?

1024
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 2: I think yeah, I think this is one of those

1025
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 2: messages that you do need to get in with your

1026
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 2: E group or sit down with your notebook and your coffee.

1027
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: And watch it back and listen to it again.

1028
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we talked about so many things, but there

1029
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 2: was something specific that God wanted to speak to you.

1030
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 2: So let me just bring it back to the entire

1031
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 2: revelation that Christ is in me. I am enough in

1032
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: a way that you can hold it in your heart

1033
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 2: because I don't want you going well, there was a

1034
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 2: lot of good stuff. Now I want you to remember

1035
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 2: one thing today. The song Gyra, which literally Jira means

1036
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 2: will see see.

1037
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: It means that God will see to it.

1038
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 2: So when he called the place Jehovah Jira, he was

1039
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 2: calling the place Jehovah Jirah where God provided. This is

1040
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 2: from the Abraham and Isaac story. Anyway, that's not important.

1041
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 2: I don't even know why I said that, probably just

1042
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 2: to show that seminary professor, I know what I'm talking about.

1043
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 2: Here's the point again, in a songwriting room, is that

1044
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 2: song began to take shape. It was very beautiful song

1045
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 2: with our friends Chandler and Naomi and Chris and we

1046
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 2: sat there and we'd never all written together. And I

1047
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 2: threw out a line that said, I'll never be more

1048
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 2: loved than I am right now. And as Chandler began

1049
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:34,680
Speaker 2: to sing that, and then we begin to sing, I

1050
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 2: wasn't holding you up, So there's nothing I could do

1051
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 2: to let you down. It doesn't take a trophy to

1052
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 2: make you proud, because I'll never be more loved than

1053
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 2: I am right now. Jira, you are enough. And as

1054
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,439
Speaker 2: the song begin to flow with different verses. It came

1055
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 2: to a point that crescendoed in saying, I'm already loved,

1056
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 2: I'm already chosen, I know who I am, I know

1057
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 2: what you've spoken, I'm already loved more than I could imagine,

1058
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 2: and that is enough. We sang it over and over.

1059
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: Again, that is enough, that is enough.

1060
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 2: But as we sat in that writing room that day,

1061
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:12,479
Speaker 2: it went to a different place. We begin to say,

1062
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 2: you are enough, You are enough, because my sufficiency is

1063
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 2: in Him.

1064
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: Not in myself. You are enough, You are enough.

1065
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 2: But what happened next is a life message that I

1066
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 2: want to give to you, because immediately after we sang

1067
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 2: that is enough, the truth and you are enough, the

1068
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 2: God that speaks truth and is truth, we begin to sang,

1069
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 2: you are enough, So I am enough.

1070
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 3: Come on, so good.

1071
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 2: When we recorded the song, it was eighteen minutes long

1072
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 2: right in this empty room, back when we couldn't have

1073
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 2: everybody together for church.

1074
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: And in that collaboration, some of the songs.

1075
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 2: Had to be edited way down because the Holy Spirit

1076
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 2: bro out in such a powerful way. We had to

1077
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 2: get Gyra to under ten minutes because we couldn't put

1078
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 2: it out on the digital streaming platforms if it was

1079
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 2: one second more than nine point fifty nine. They sent

1080
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 2: me back several options. We could edit this, we could

1081
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 2: edit that. But one option they sent was unacceptable because

1082
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 2: it said that is enough, the truth, and it said

1083
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:26,880
Speaker 2: you are enough to God. But in order to save time,

1084
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 2: they had cut out so I am enough.

1085
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 1: I said, whatever we have to cut out to put

1086
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: that back in. I need that back.

1087
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 2: In because if you just say that is enough, the

1088
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 2: truth is enough, you are enough. God is enough, it

1089
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 2: hasn't become personal to you yet.

1090
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: I want it to be personal for you that He

1091
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: is enough.

1092
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 2: So I am enough, and you'll never be more loved

1093
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 2: than you are right now, right now, clap your hands about.

1094
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: We'll do that just right here where you are.

1095
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:23,439
Speaker 2: So beatison, i can't hear what key we're in. I'm

1096
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 2: waiting to hear a piano so we can sing together.

1097
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: Thank you God that you are enough. So I am enough.

1098
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 7: Thank you, Lord, you are enough. Thank you Si.

1099
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 6: You are.

1100
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Speaker 1: Shy, thank you you are.

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Speaker 2: S.

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Speaker 11: You know so he.

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Speaker 2: Now sing Gira, think about how He's provided for you.

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Speaker 1: You Yes, Lord h.

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Speaker 7: C S will be consent, Sun said.

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Speaker 8: Jia.

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Speaker 1: Cure, No, clap those hands like you love it. Let

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Speaker 1: you know he loves you.

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Speaker 12: Well, Jo.

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Speaker 1: You singing out church.

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Speaker 8: So.

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Speaker 12: Every son said, shop you right choice, say.

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Speaker 6: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I'm don't want you to say thank you. I'm lay.

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Speaker 7: Hold if that.

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Speaker 2: Jo said, I.

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Speaker 12: I know you walk.

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Speaker 2: You a you know, take you that you.

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Speaker 6: It's you.

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Speaker 1: Quee yan. Now we're singing that to the father. You

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Speaker 1: are enough.

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Speaker 2: What if he's singing it right back over us? Thank

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Speaker 2: you Jesus, who you are, how you were made.

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Speaker 1: Father.

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Speaker 2: I pray for each person who will hear this message.

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Speaker 2: May they receive it in the place where they doubt

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Speaker 2: the most deeply, where they need it the most. May

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Speaker 2: every insecurity meet the presence of Jehovah Jirah. Every past trauma,

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Speaker 2: every failure, every mistake be overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: Yes, by the presence of El Shadai.

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Speaker 2: I thank you for your presence with us today, Lord,

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Speaker 2: and thank you for how this ministry will go forth

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Speaker 2: and touch those all over the world who need.

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Speaker 1: To hear it at just the right time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, in Jesus' name, would you hug eight people and

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Speaker 2: tell them you've got what it takes.

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Speaker 1: Got what it takes, and men, 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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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

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Speaker 2: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more

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Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe.

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Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends.

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Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and

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Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at

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Speaker 2: Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.