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Speaker 1: eight too, you do, Let's do chapter eight. Then let's

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Speaker 1: do chapter eight, verse fifteen through Deuteronomy nine, verse five.

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Speaker 1: I studied all of it, and I just want to

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Speaker 1: be faithful to share with you what God spoke to me. Hey,

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Speaker 1: congratulations today, You're like, what are you congratulating me for?

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Speaker 1: That you made it to the end of another year.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations that you came to church the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: What that means is God will give you an automatic

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Speaker 1: calorie deficit. So it's gonna be amazing because you're gonna

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Speaker 1: eat everything you want at Thanksgiving, and none of it

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Speaker 1: is gonna go to the fat cells. It's all gonna

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Speaker 1: go to places where it is going to produce a

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Speaker 1: better physique. Okay, I'm a false prophet. I need to

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Speaker 1: stop this and read the Bible. The Bible doesn't say

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Speaker 1: any of that. But I am glad you're here, and

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Speaker 1: I prophesied nobody's gonna fight at your Thanksgiving me all

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Speaker 1: because you're gonna keep your mouth shut when they say

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Speaker 1: stuff that makes you mad. A little tongue biting practice today.

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Speaker 1: Deuteronomy chapter eight, verse fifteen, listen to this. What God did.

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Speaker 1: He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, the

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Speaker 1: thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions.

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Speaker 1: He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave

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Speaker 1: you manna to eat in the wilderness. None of y'all,

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Speaker 1: God never fed any of you. I thought we were

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Speaker 1: talking about some historic group, pastor Steve, and now I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about you. What God did for you in seasons

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Speaker 1: Because we've all been in a wilderness, but we've seen

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Speaker 1: God's provision in those hard places. So that's what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness,

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Speaker 1: something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test

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Speaker 1: with you. You You may say to yourself, my power and

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Speaker 1: strength have produced this wealth for me. But remember the

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Speaker 1: Lord your God, for it is he who gives you

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Speaker 1: which he swore to your ancestors, as it is this day.

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Speaker 1: If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow

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Speaker 1: testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed

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Speaker 1: like the nation's the Lord destroyed before you. So you

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Speaker 1: Now Verse one, chapter nine, Here Israel, you are now

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Speaker 1: about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess

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Speaker 1: and tall. Anekites. You know about them and have heard

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Speaker 1: it said, who can stand up against the Anekites? But

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Speaker 1: be assured today that the Lord your God is the

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Speaker 1: one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire.

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Speaker 1: He will destroy them. He will subdue them before you,

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Speaker 1: and you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly,

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Speaker 1: as the Lord has promised you. After the Lord your

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Speaker 1: God has driven them out before you, do not say

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Speaker 1: possession of this land because of my righteousness. No, it

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Speaker 1: the Lord is going to drive them out before you.

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Speaker 1: It is not because of your righteousness. Touch your neighbor

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Speaker 1: and say you're not that good. It is not because

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Speaker 1: to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Let's say

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Speaker 1: amen to the word of God. The title of this

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Speaker 1: message is been here before, been here before. Speak your word, Lord.

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Speaker 1: We're listening in Jesus' name. Amen. Touch somebody on your

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Speaker 1: been here before. Amen. Your kids sometimes tend to remember

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're like, why this is not about the jaybird,

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Speaker 1: This is crazy. And then one of my boys, I

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Speaker 1: gonna be. I'm gonna just do crazy crap for you.

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Speaker 1: Your whole life just amazing stuff that kids only dream of.

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Speaker 1: got freaked out about one time, and forget about meeting cam. Okay, Now,

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Speaker 1: here Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan.

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Speaker 1: In some ways, that's exciting, you are now about to

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Speaker 1: telling the next generation. You're going into this land that

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Speaker 1: See that word is said to me too. It's the

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Speaker 1: send people. God will send provision, God will send promises.

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Speaker 1: Everybody say promises. I'm thankful for the promises that God

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Speaker 1: God has to show us that not everything we want

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Speaker 1: Deuteronomy is really reliving some of his own regrets. He

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Speaker 1: And he is warning them that when God brings you

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Speaker 1: the moment that you forget, you will lose the war.

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Speaker 1: Not because God isn't great, but because you forgot how

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Speaker 1: there to teach me that if my mother and father

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Speaker 1: forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. The

428
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Speaker 1: wilderness is there to teach me that there might not

429
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Speaker 1: be a fountain, but there's a rock, and God can

430
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Speaker 1: bring water out of hard places, that God can bring

431
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Speaker 1: blessings out of barren places. The wilderness is wonderful, but

432
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Speaker 1: there is one problem with the wilderness. If you stay

433
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Speaker 1: there too long, you will get so used to God

434
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Speaker 1: bringing it to you that you might be tempted to

435
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Speaker 1: forget that sometimes God brings it to you, and sometimes

436
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: He brings you to it. This is for the five

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Speaker 1: people who you have been wondering what in the world

438
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Speaker 1: is going going on? In my life right now. I

439
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: don't have the same friends I used to have. I

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00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: don't feel the same I used to feel. I can't

441
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Speaker 1: depend on what I used to depend on. It's not

442
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: working like it used to work. And you've been tempted

443
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Speaker 1: to lose confidence in God. But don't lose your faith

444
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Speaker 1: over this, Nah, just switch your focus. It isn't that

445
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: God left. He's just sifting you so and he brings

446
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: you into the next thing that he wants you to do.

447
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: You will be ready for it. It's preparation, baby. This

448
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: is my training camp. This is my getting ready word.

449
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: This is my getting ready season. This is my foundation

450
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Speaker 1: building season. So something strong to stand on. Oh God,

451
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Speaker 1: I feel it. I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready. Now.

452
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Speaker 1: Here's my learn here's my learn. So when you don't

453
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Speaker 1: get what you want from God, how many of you

454
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Speaker 1: had that happen some point in twenty twenty two? Everybody else,

455
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Speaker 1: come pray for me. You didn't raise your hand, you

456
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Speaker 1: come pray for me. I need that annoyingt than you

457
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: have of everything happens right, sales right goes on sale

458
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Speaker 1: when you want to buy it. Oh God, but I'll

459
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Speaker 1: tell you this. You have a choice to make like

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Speaker 1: they had a choice to make. When it doesn't happen

461
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Speaker 1: like you want it, raise your hand again. If there

462
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Speaker 1: was something that you wanted God to do, something you

463
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Speaker 1: wanted God to give, here's your options. You can either

464
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Speaker 1: lose confidence or to a number two, you can either

465
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Speaker 1: lose confidence. I love to play would you rather games

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Speaker 1: for people. My rule of thumb is when I say

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Speaker 1: would you rather? And I say the first thing, If

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Speaker 1: they go with that before they hear what was coming next,

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Speaker 1: I will make the second thing so horrible it'll be

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Speaker 1: our rated man. I'll tell you, I will take it

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Speaker 1: as far as I need to. So would you rather?

472
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: Would you rather lose confidence in what God promised? Or

473
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Speaker 1: gain clarity to really see? Oh? This is what matters. Oh,

474
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: and a lot of people do it. They just there's

475
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Speaker 1: no water. I'm out of here. Oh I don't have peace.

476
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: I'm just going back. And I chose this text because

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Speaker 1: a very unusual line, a very unusual line in verse two.

478
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Speaker 1: You know, he says you're about to cross over. They're

479
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Speaker 1: going to be greater and stronger than you. Look at this.

480
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: How bad of a motivational speech. Moses gave no wonder

481
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Speaker 1: he didn't go into the promised land. Man, this beech sucks.

482
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Speaker 1: Let's do the whole speech. Let's just at least do

483
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Speaker 1: the first three verses. Go to verse one. Listen, how

484
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Speaker 1: bad this is. Moses is not a motivator. He not.

485
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Speaker 1: He's a liberator. God used him. But he's always doubting himself.

486
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: He's always mad at them. He's always like, God, these

487
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: people that you won't do what you want them to do.

488
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: And God's like, that's because I gave them you as

489
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: a leader, so go get them to do it. And

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00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't do it. And that's why he's not going

491
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: in and you have that option. So now he's telling

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Speaker 1: them what they're going to do. Here Israel. You are

493
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: now about to cross the Jordan, go in and dispossessinations.

494
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to eat grapes. You are,

495
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: but before you eat grapes, you're gonna have to fight giants.

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Speaker 1: No shouts Lord, did I pick the wrong verse? Or

497
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Speaker 1: this is what? This is the process? You are about

498
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Speaker 1: to crossover promise and you will dispossess nations process. That's

499
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Speaker 1: where God's got you right now. Doesn't mean he isn't good,

500
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he didn't call you, doesn't mean he isn't

501
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: with you, doesn't mean you don't have it. It just

502
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Speaker 1: means that there are some problems that come with the promise,

503
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: and God saw them all. We'll see I can't do

504
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: it because see I have this thing in my life

505
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: and God didn't know that. So God didn't know that

506
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: you struggled with that. God did not know that you

507
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: would succumb to that addiction. God didn't know that about you.

508
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: You trust him or you don't. He knew it or

509
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: he didn't. He's sovereign or he's not. He's God or

510
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: he's not here. Israel, you are about to go in

511
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Speaker 1: and dispossessinations. And watch what he said. They are greater

512
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Speaker 1: and stronger than you. Wow. Imagine telling your team this

513
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Speaker 1: before you went out. Large cities that have walls up

514
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Speaker 1: to the sky. That's a little foreshadowing of Jericho. We're

515
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: about to shout those walls down after seven days. But

516
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Speaker 1: that's not yet. Verse two. The people are strong and tall.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the message. Here's the message. Anna Kites. Just

518
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: the name alone strikes fear into every Israelite's heart, like

519
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Speaker 1: when they used to say Mufussa on the lion came.

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00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: That's what that sounded like to them. They came from

521
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: the Nephilum. Genesis six. Look it up as creepy as weird,

522
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: as strain just twisted. It said that the sons of

523
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: God came to the daughters of men, and the Nephelum

524
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: were born, and the nephelm had descendants called the Anakites.

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00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: And when they went into the land to spy it out,

526
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: they came back forty years earlier saying there's Anakites. So

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Speaker 1: as Moses says it, it is an accusation against his

528
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Speaker 1: generation for what kept them out of what God was

529
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Speaker 1: bringing them into. And he said they're still there, and

530
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: that a shame. Those Anachites should be long gone. You

531
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Speaker 1: should have killed them forty years ago. God would have

532
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: helped you. He wanted to help you. He was helping you,

533
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: but you wouldn't do it because you got in that moment,

534
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: you got the wrong voices and the ten spies that

535
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: said we can't do it, and you stayed in the wilderness.

536
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 1: But look at this, this is the good part. Everything

537
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: I said was so I could say this. Don't you

538
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: hate when a preacher says that you're like did you

539
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: just waste thirty five minutes of my life saying stuff

540
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: that you didn't mean. No, no no, no, I want you

541
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: to hear what they said. Anechet everybody say Anakites. That's

542
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Speaker 1: thirty three percent participation. I need the whole community to

543
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: say it. Anecheist say like you're scared anachees, lions and

544
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: tigers and bears and ane geist. You know about them.

545
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: That's what Moses said. You know about them and have

546
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: heard it said. Who can stand up against the Anakites?

547
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: Now that's a weird saying. When he says you have

548
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: heard it said, that means it was in their vernacular.

549
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you heard it once or twice. That

550
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: means it's a common saying. My dad had a bunch

551
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: of sayans growing up. My mom had a bunch of

552
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: sayans growing up in the South. We have a bunch

553
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: of sayings that we really can't explain to you exactly

554
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: what they mean, but we've been hearing them all our life.

555
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: My dad used to say when he saw somebody stuck up,

556
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: he'd go, I wish I could buy them for what

557
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: they're worth and sell them for what they think they're worth. Oh,

558
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: that's cold. That's cold, that's coal. My mom used to

559
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: rewatch the news and they'd be talking about injustice or

560
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: murder or something. She'd say, God's gonna cut a hole

561
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: in the middle of the earth and swallow this whole

562
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: world up, and he's gonna start in California. Why y'all clapping?

563
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: That's so funny. You said that all the time. God's

564
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: gonna cut a hole. That's terrifying for us, old oh man.

565
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: The first time I went to California Illow PTSD, I

566
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: was thirty years old, and I was still scared. I

567
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: heard all my life. I heard all my life. I

568
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: heard all my life. Now, now, isn't that a weird

569
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: thing to have as a saying? Who can stand up

570
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Speaker 1: against the Anakites? Put it back on the screen, who

571
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: can stand up against the Anakites? I guess you had

572
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: to kind of be from there to get it, because

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Speaker 1: this doesn't sound like something you just say unprovoked, you know,

574
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 1: like we say what's up? Or how are you doing?

575
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: Which doesn't mean how are you doing? I really don't

576
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: want you to answer that question. I'm just saying something polite.

577
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm just saying how you're doing? But if you actually

578
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: answer me, I'm gonna be bored. Okay, So I don't

579
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: really mean how are you? This is not casual, and

580
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: this is not unprovoked. This is an answer to a

581
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: question that must have been asked at some point. Put

582
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: it back up. It's so important. Have you seen this?

583
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: Who can stand up against the Anakites? You don't just

584
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: say that randomly? You know how you doing? Who can

585
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: stand up against the Anakites? That's not something you say unprovoked? Right,

586
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: like something came before that? What was it? Why is

587
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: this such a common saying? That before Moses dies, y'all

588
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: he's weeks away from dying. Well, he's gonna be buried.

589
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: God's gonna take him up, hide him from the Israelites

590
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: so they won't go back to where Moses was, so

591
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: that they'll move forward. Because God will do whatever he

592
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: has to do in your life to get you to

593
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: move forward into what he is bringing you into. He'll

594
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: do that. And Moses says, you have heard it said,

595
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: who can stand up against the Anakites? Why would you

596
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: say that unless you were asked, hey, why didn't we

597
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: go into the Promised Land? Got to imagine that a

598
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: conversation happened at some point between these children who were

599
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: very little when they originally had the opportunity, and the

600
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: generation that died in the wilderness because they did not

601
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: have the faith to enter. And maybe you kid ask

602
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: you one day, Hey, didn't God tell Abraham and Isaac

603
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: and Jacob that he was going to bring us into

604
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: a land flowing with milk and honey? Yes, he did, Son,

605
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: Then why aren't we there Anakites? Well, why didn't you

606
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: fight the Anakites? Isn't God greater than any other enemy?

607
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: And maybe they would have said, who can stand up

608
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: against the Anakites? It had become an ingrained answer for

609
00:39:54,040 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: a faithless generation. It had been becomes such an embedded

610
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: excuse that it was now a popular saying. Well, I mean,

611
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: who can stand up against the Anakites? Who can stand

612
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: up against these giants? It's too big, it's too strong,

613
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: it's too crazy. Nobody can do it, y'all. I want

614
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: to say something from a pastoral heart, so lean in

615
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: when I say this, like if we were talking one

616
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: on one. I'm very concerned that we slap labels on

617
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: things to avoid having to work toward overcoming them, especially

618
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: in this day we live in. It's like, just because

619
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: we give it a name or a diagnosis, we give

620
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: it permission to stop us from becoming the person God

621
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: made us to be. And I apologize to you because

622
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,720
Speaker 1: many times in this pulpit I have refrained from saying

623
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: things like what I'm about to say because of people

624
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: who would say, well, you don't know what I'm struggling with.

625
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: You know you preach about this, but you don't know

626
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: that I'm going through that, So don't tell me this

627
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: when I'm going through that. That's fine. There's no place

628
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: in the family of God to shame people for what

629
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: they struggle with, right. You know me better than that.

630
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: I am not one of these preachers who teaches you

631
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Speaker 1: that if you have a dark day, it's because there's

632
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: an unconfessin in your life. If I appreach that to you,

633
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: God would smack me. I fall off this stage and die.

634
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: I'd have a cracked, open skull on the floor. Because

635
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: God knows I've had dark days. God knows I've had

636
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Speaker 1: seasons that I couldn't figure out. God knows sometimes I've

637
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Speaker 1: done exactly what I thought He wanted me to do

638
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: and it failed, and I wondered why so I will

639
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: never do that to you. I will never accuse you

640
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Speaker 1: of saying like, if you struggle with anxiety, you don't

641
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Speaker 1: trust God. That's just not what I believe. I don't

642
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Speaker 1: believe that if you struggle with anxiety, don't trust God.

643
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Speaker 1: But I am concerned that you will accept anxiety as

644
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Speaker 1: the norm of your life just because you can name

645
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Speaker 1: it that. And it's becoming really popular for us to

646
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Speaker 1: just say, oh, I have anxiety. I can't go there. Well,

647
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: if you do have anxiety, let's get treatment, Let's get help,

648
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Speaker 1: let's get therapy, let's learn mechanisms, let's start studying, let's

649
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Speaker 1: get let's get through it, little by little, bit by bit.

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Speaker 1: I'll be here for you. I'll talk you through it.

651
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: You can cry to me about it, but that's not

652
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Speaker 1: gonna stop me from possessing the peace that God promised me.

653
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: Just because I can say I struggle with it, struggle

654
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Speaker 1: is not surrender. Struggle me. I'm coming. I'm out of this.

655
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Speaker 1: I'm moving forward from this. I'm gonna do this for

656
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Speaker 1: my kids, for their kids. I'm gonna break it in

657
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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. That's where the power is in

658
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: that process where you get down in it, and they say, no,

659
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Speaker 1: I won't die in this. If God didn't bring it

660
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Speaker 1: to me, he one must want to bring me to it.

661
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Speaker 1: And in the neighbor of the living God, go down

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Speaker 1: Goliath anarchist, Yeah, I got it. I got it. You're

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Speaker 1: anointed for the Anakites. That's what the spirit is for,

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Speaker 1: That's what the grace is for, that's what the prophecy

665
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Speaker 1: is for. That's what the word is for. Surrender to

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Speaker 1: something just because you struggle with it. I talked to

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Speaker 1: a guy one time. He said, I just like Porn'll

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Speaker 1: sit down, I just like it. Like who wouldn't begin

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Speaker 1: to love something that was planted in their life they

670
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: short circuited their brain to a pleasure center, tapped in

671
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Speaker 1: to dopamine, unknown amounts of dopamine, and flooded with hormones.

672
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't. I just like it. That does not give

673
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Speaker 1: you permission to lose to it for the rest of

674
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Speaker 1: your life. You can beat it, you can do it.

675
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: You can you can. There are certain things, man, we

676
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Speaker 1: just give ourselves permission. Young couple was telling me, I'm

677
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: just telling you what people tell me, but I won't

678
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Speaker 1: tell you who they are, so it'd be it'd be

679
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Speaker 1: all right, you know, I'll just protect the names to it.

680
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Speaker 1: How does it say change the names to protect the guilty?

681
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Speaker 1: Said said, uh? Preaching like this is old fashioned sexual purity.

682
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: You can't stay sexually pure in this day and age.

683
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: It's too much, you know, we see too much on

684
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: TikTok and this and that, and it's just not even

685
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 1: these values don't even apply anymore. Anach who can stand

686
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Speaker 1: up against the Anakites? I mean, come on, you can't

687
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Speaker 1: possibly expect me to stay sexually pure, can you? Well?

688
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: That depends whose power are we tapping into? Is it

689
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Speaker 1: you or is it him? Is he God or is

690
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Speaker 1: he not? Is he faithful or is he not? Does

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Speaker 1: he bright chayse or did he get tired? Does he

692
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Speaker 1: make ways or does he stand still? He is still God.

693
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Speaker 1: I don't care what culture says you can do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what your parents said you can do it.

695
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: I don't care what your friend said you can do it.

696
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Speaker 1: I don't care what you've been saying to yourself. Sometimes

697
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Speaker 1: you gotta stand up to yourself. Anakies Anakites who can

698
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Speaker 1: stand against the Anakites? I asked to have you one

699
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Speaker 1: time you won't remember this. You're very small, precocious as

700
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Speaker 1: you are now, she said. Uh, I said, how'd you

701
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Speaker 1: get so beautiful? She goes, Uh God? I almost wanted

702
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: to call this message God because I was trying to

703
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: answer that question that they had. Who can stand up

704
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Speaker 1: against the Anakites? Uh? Try a real quick, try, real quick,

705
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: try real quick? Who can set you free from this

706
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: body of death? Uh God? Who can take the prejudices

707
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: that have been in you all your life and show

708
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: you a new way to be human? Uh God? Who

709
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: can make sure, no matter what recession, depression, oppression is

710
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: coming next, that God's people always have a place to eat.

711
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Speaker 1: Uh God. I feel the spirit of a breakthrough coming

712
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: through this room. You've been looking at Anakites, but you

713
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: need to get back to the promise. God can do

714
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: that for me. God can do that for me. God

715
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: can do it through me. Yes, he can. You know.

716
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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, that's the wrong question, who

717
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Speaker 1: can stand up against the Anakites? Especially when we have

718
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: Romans chapter eight, verse thirty one, where the apostle Paul

719
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Speaker 1: suggests an infinitely superior question. If God is for us,

720
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Speaker 1: who can't be against us? If God is foot, who

721
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: can stand against God? Who can fight against God? So

722
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: that's why I'm going toward it, That's why I'm moving

723
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Speaker 1: through it. That's why I'm progressing through this season because

724
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Speaker 1: I have a better question, not who can stand against

725
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: the anarchist? Who can stand against the purpose of a

726
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: mighty God, who spoke nothing into something, who multiplied something

727
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Speaker 1: into something else, and who is touching and redeeming every

728
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: life that is surrendered to him today. Who can take

729
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: five loaves and two fish and feed an entire Smorgasborg

730
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: in the wilderness, Who can bring manna to the tent,

731
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: who can bring water from the rock? Uh? God, here's

732
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Speaker 1: what he said I'm gonna do. Here's what he said

733
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. You're ready. You've been intimidated, You've been insecure.

734
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: You've been going round and round in this wilderness, telling

735
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: about well, who can possibly overcome this? How could I

736
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: possibly do it? He said? It's not your righteousness that

737
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: brought you here to begin with. It's never been about you.

738
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Speaker 1: I didn't choose you. I didn't put my hand on

739
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: you because of something good in you. I put my

740
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: hand on you because of something that I purposed for

741
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: your life, that you didn't even understand. See, this is

742
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: your first time being here, but this is not God's

743
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: for the Bible said that God will go before you.

744
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: So when I wake up tomorrow morning, I got a

745
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: lot of stuff I'm stressed about. I'm gonna be honest

746
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: with you. I got some challenges I can't figure out.

747
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: I got some questions I can't answer. I've got some

748
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: difficulties that I haven't overcome yet. But God says, when

749
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: you wake up tomorrow morning, don't think I'm waking up

750
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: when you do, because the Bible says that he then watcheth.

751
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 1: Israel does not sleep nor slumber. So when you wake up,

752
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: God has been awake. God goes before you. Say it.

753
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: God goes before me. So God doesn't follow me into challenges.

754
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: God doesn't follow me into situations. God doesn't follow me

755
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: into seasons. He says, when you get there, I've been

756
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Speaker 1: waiting for you. I've been preparing a place for you.

757
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: I will prepare the table for you in the presence

758
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Speaker 1: of your enemies. Even if you walk through the valley

759
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: of the Shadow of Death. When you got to church

760
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: this morning, God was already here. You don't have to

761
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: ask him to show up He was waiting to hover

762
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Speaker 1: and break like a wave, and move like a wind

763
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Speaker 1: and speak like a voice from the mountain. God was

764
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: already here. When you get to this next season that

765
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: you keep trying to plan, but you're worried about tomorrow,

766
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 1: so you're not trusting today, realize God is already in

767
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: your tomorrow. God is already in it. He said, I'm

768
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: gonna go before you, and I'm gonna take those Anakites,

769
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna like a devouring fire. Watch this subdue them.

770
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Speaker 1: Give me verse three. Verse three is the juice. Verse

771
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: three is the juice. I gotta give you this juice

772
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: right here. God said, I'm gonna go before you, across

773
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: ahead of you, like a devouring fire. And WA's what

774
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: God will do. He will destroy him who he who he?

775
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: He will subdue them before you who he and you

776
00:51:54,760 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: and you will drive them out. I thought you were

777
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:06,720
Speaker 1: going to do it. The word of the Lord says

778
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Speaker 1: he will go before you, but he won't do it

779
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: for you. You You will drive them out, not in your

780
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: own strength, not in your own power, but in His process.

781
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Speaker 1: I decree in the clare today, tonight, tonight, today. I

782
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: don't know when you're watching this. Y'all watch my sermons

783
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. Sometimes you can't get

784
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 1: anything else going on. You plaus to play on that

785
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: sermon and you listen to it, and I'll wake you

786
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: up screaming after about twenty minutes, because God said, I'm

787
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:49,439
Speaker 1: not gonna always bring it to you. I will bring

788
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: you to it. And now you must decide. You must

789
00:52:55,360 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: decide whether to go forward. And when you're kids ask

790
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: you about your anakites, how will you answer when your

791
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: kids say, how did you stay alive and keep trusting

792
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: God through what you went through? How will you answer

793
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: the question about your anakites? Well, you know, I just

794
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: gave up. It was too hard. I just quit going

795
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: to church because they hurt me at that church. I

796
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 1: just quit trying because I felt so unworthy. I just

797
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: quit trying because everybody else was stronger and taller and

798
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: better than me. Or are you going to tell him

799
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 1: a story that he brought me manna in the wilderness

800
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: water from a rock, and he led me to a

801
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: promise And I had to fight for it. I had

802
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: to fight for it. I had to fight every day

803
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: to have joy. I had to fight to put food

804
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: on the table. People. I had to fight to overcome

805
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: what was spoken about me. I had to fight to

806
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 1: overcome the diagnosis. I had to fight by the hospital bed.

807
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 1: I had to fight for every inch we God go.

808
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: We're living in it because if God is for you,

809
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: who can be against you? For the giants that you're facing.

810
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: There is a God who is greater. I impart the

811
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: faith of the Living God to your soul today, Lift

812
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 1: your hands and receive it. Who can stand against depression?

813
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: Who can stand against the record of sin and shame?

814
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: Who can stand against the grave, Who can stand against

815
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: the feet? Who can stand? God can? And you can

816
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: do all things through Christ, who strengthens you. Because you've

817
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: been here before. Baby, You've been here before. You've had

818
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: to trust God before, You've wondered if it would work

819
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: out before, you felt this before, and your faith only

820
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: God stronger. You're not dying in this. You've been here before.

821
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 1: And when you get to your future, God is going

822
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: to say I got here before you did, before He

823
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: knows the plans he has for you. The Lord has

824
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: directed me to pray for those who are in a

825
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: wilderness season. It is a time of sifting from what

826
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: you thought you wanted and what God really promised. It

827
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: is a time that you learn to trust. It is

828
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 1: a time that God gets you ready, or, as one

829
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: preacher said, he prepares you for what He is preparing

830
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Speaker 1: for you. Thank you, Lord for the tables that you've set.

831
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for the victories that you've planned. You

832
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: said you're gonna You're gonna drive them out quickly. Oh,

833
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: it's been a long time since some of us quickened

834
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 1: our faith. God. Today, I thank you that you gave

835
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: me a word that you will go before him. You

836
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: will go before her. Put your hand on the shoulder

837
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: of the person on either side of you, and just say,

838
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: very softly, God will go before you. Say it again,

839
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: God will go before you. Tell him. Don't worry, He's

840
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: already there. Oh. To believe this God, to believe it,

841
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: to receive it, to live like it, to step in it,

842
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: to walk in it. If I delight myself and you

843
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: you will give me the desires of my heart, That

844
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: means you'll put the new desires in the you desires in.

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Speaker 1: So we thank you for the wilderness where you sifted

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Speaker 1: some stuff. You sifted relationships, you sifted priorities, you sifted

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Speaker 1: beliefs and We thank you for that, because if we

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Speaker 1: didn't go through it, we wouldn't be ready. Now, Lord,

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Speaker 1: as we stand on the precipice of the promises that

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Speaker 1: you've made that we have not yet possessed in our life,

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Speaker 1: we want you to have your good, imperfect work in

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Speaker 1: us that we may trust you your promise, your word,

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Speaker 1: it shall come to pass. Well. Thanks for joining us

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Speaker 1: today for the message, and we trust that God spoke

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Speaker 1: to you right where you are as we're in this

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Speaker 1: year end season. If God is speaking to your life

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Speaker 1: and you'd like to begin tithing or give above and beyond,

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Speaker 1: we would invite you to head over to Elevationchurch dot org.

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Speaker 1: There you'll find all of the information available for you

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Speaker 1: to take part in the Year end Offering. If you

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Speaker 1: haven't begun tithing, we would always encourage you to start there.

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Speaker 1: Place God first in the air of your finances and

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Speaker 1: begin tithing and make that a part of your every

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Speaker 1: day life. If you already tie, then would like to

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Speaker 1: go above and beyond and help expand the ministry here

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Speaker 1: at Elevation Church, you can also do that through the

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Speaker 1: Year End Offering. All you have to do is click

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Speaker 1: the banner at Elevationchurch dot org. You can select the

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Speaker 1: campus that you're a part of. If you're a part

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Speaker 1: of our online community, select online, and if you're part

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Speaker 1: of one of our physical locations, make sure that you

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Speaker 1: select one of those campuses. Then you can select how

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Speaker 1: much you'd like to give and be a part of

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Speaker 1: all that God is doing right here at Elevation Church. Again,

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Speaker 1: we thank you for being a part of the family

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Speaker 1: here and we can't wait to see how God works

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Speaker 1: in and through your life as you open up your

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Speaker 1: hands and ask God to use you right where you are.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being a part of God bless