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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Glory to God, Glory to God.

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Speaker 2: What an amazing atmosphere, What an amazing room of beautiful people,

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Speaker 2: What a tapestry of transformed lives. You are the temple

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Speaker 2: of the Living God. Make sure today that the temple

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Speaker 2: is filled with praise. All right, open your mouth and

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Speaker 2: praise Him right now.

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Speaker 3: Come on all over the world, old many are now

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Speaker 3: and turn wherever you are.

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Speaker 1: Into a sanctuary. Do it right now.

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Speaker 2: Take a responsibility for your space right now and fill

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Speaker 2: it with praise.

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Speaker 1: Glory to God. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Grab hands with the person next to you. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: pray for each other. Repeat after me, Father, bless them

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Speaker 2: real good in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 2: Now hug seven people and tell them you're in the

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Speaker 2: right place today. Don't sit out when you finished hugging,

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Speaker 2: stay standing.

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Speaker 1: I agreet you online. Please let me know in the

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Speaker 1: comments where you're joining us.

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Speaker 2: From everyone everywhere all around the world. We welcome you everyone.

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Speaker 2: We're so glad you're here. Put it in the comments,

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Speaker 2: say I'm glad to be here. Say it out loud,

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Speaker 2: by faith, I'm glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: Also, y'all, we just announced Elevation Nights our tour that

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Speaker 2: is coming to the West Coast later this year.

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Speaker 1: Go to Elevation Nights for details.

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Speaker 2: Looks like we'll be going to Seattle, Vancouver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Boise, Idaho,

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Speaker 2: Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Colorado. Make plans for Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: September twenty fourth through Thursday October. It will be awesome

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Speaker 2: Elevation Nights dot com. Also today, the Lord said a

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Speaker 2: special word for somebody, and I can't wait to find

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Speaker 2: out who it is that he sent it for. I

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Speaker 2: thanked him before I came out because he gave it

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Speaker 2: to me, and I thanked him that I get to

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Speaker 2: now partner with him in delivering what the father wants

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Speaker 2: to say to his children. I'm going to be sharing

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Speaker 2: the next installment on my series called ghost Writer, and

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Speaker 2: I'm using as a metaphor you know how somebody needs

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Speaker 2: to write a book but they're not a good rite.

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Speaker 1: They hire somebody because they have.

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Speaker 2: A great story, but that doesn't make them a good writer.

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Speaker 2: So you can hire somebody called a ghost writer to

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Speaker 2: help you. I'm just using that to represent how the

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit in our lives will help us with the

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Speaker 2: story that we're telling. Our lives are meant to tell

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Speaker 2: the story of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We were

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Speaker 2: singing it earlier. I was dead and gone and you

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Speaker 2: raised me. I was lost in sin and you found me. Hallelujah,

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Speaker 2: you saved my soul.

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Speaker 1: But just like some of us have.

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Speaker 2: Trouble singing on pitch, and I'm one of you, but

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Speaker 2: we have trouble sometimes telling.

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Speaker 2: And so the Holy Spirit will help us not only

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Speaker 2: tell the story to others, but how many know you're

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Speaker 2: telling yourself a story every second of every day.

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Speaker 1: And that's where I really need his help.

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Speaker 2: And as you look through the Book of Acts, not

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Speaker 2: but acts like action. It's the things that the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit did through the early Church, and we are continuing

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Speaker 2: just two thousand years later in that same stream of

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Speaker 2: the Spirit's activity. So the subtitle of the series is

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Speaker 1: Now, if everything in your life makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Then you can go ahead and leave now and beat

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Speaker 2: everybody to the restaurant, go ahead and get some brunch logo,

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Speaker 2: on over to something else more interesting online. But if

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Speaker 2: there are some things in your life that don't make

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Speaker 2: today God wants to give you a lens through his word,

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Speaker 2: and as we worship him, he does that.

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Speaker 1: And now as you receive.

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Speaker 2: This word from him, He's going to give you a

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Speaker 2: way to see your situations. I'm going to Acts Chapter three, JJ,

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Speaker 2: I'm preaching like a wild man in a revival today.

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Speaker 2: I'm not circling nothing, highlighting nothing, writing nothing. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: don't act crazy. I can't take it. Acts Chapter three.

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Speaker 1: I love this story. This is my favorite Bible story today.

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Speaker 1: I have another one next week. Listen to this one.

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Speaker 3: Though.

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Speaker 2: One day, Peter and John were going up to the

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Speaker 2: Now now a man who was lame from birth was

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Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff he couldn't do before he came

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Speaker 1: The final verse we'll read for now is verse eleven.

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Speaker 2: While the man held on to Peter and John, all

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Speaker 2: the people were astonished and came running to them in

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Speaker 2: the place called Solomon's Colonnade. Now, today, I want to

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Speaker 2: use for my sermon title something that you normally hear

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to use them today in church.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the title of this sermon is places everyone.

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Speaker 1: Places everyone. Help me with this. Say it in your

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Speaker 2: Look at your neighbor in case they're not paying attention

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Speaker 2: to me, say places everyone.

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Speaker 1: We're about to have some action in here, lights.

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Speaker 2: Camera, Places everyone. That's why I'm glad you came today.

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Speaker 2: You almost didn't come, but I'm glad you came today

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Speaker 2: because the Holy Spirit said, Places, everyone.

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Speaker 1: Something's about to happen. Place us everyone. Something important is

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Speaker 1: about to unfold. Places everyone.

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Speaker 2: Say it.

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Speaker 1: Places everyone in glory to God and now be seated. Everyone.

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Speaker 1: Places everyone.

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Speaker 2: The most beautiful opening illustration emerged from my kitchen table.

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Speaker 2: Just yesterday, Elijah brought several friends home from college to visit.

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Speaker 2: A few of them have never been to Charlotte. They

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Speaker 2: were debating what to do with their day. The subject

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Speaker 2: of Carowins came up. Carowins is an amusement park in

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Speaker 2: the Greater Charlotte area. It's technically in South Carolina, but

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Speaker 1: It's just a place with roller coasters.

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Speaker 2: I was laughing because I haven't been to Carowins once

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Speaker 1: I may Holley take the kids when they were little.

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Speaker 2: The last time I went to Carowins, I was about

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Speaker 2: Carowins was so much better like five years ago. His friend,

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Speaker 2: I thought that was kind of profound. I mean, Carowins

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Speaker 2: just the way you experience Carowin's has changed since you

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Speaker 2: didn't get worse or it wasn't better. You were just younger.

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Speaker 1: It was on our rotation. It would be Ryan's one

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Speaker 2: You'll know about Ryan's Quincy's, Ryan's Quincy's Chinese.

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Speaker 2: Barbecue place in Ridgeville, South Carolina called Duke's Barbecue. And

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Speaker 2: I was explaining to them how we would go on

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were so tall you'd have to jump up.

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Speaker 2: And I was telling them all this, and we walk

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Speaker 2: in and I realize, oh, the trash cans are smaller.

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Speaker 2: I was frozen in five year old Stephen Ferdick's memory

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Speaker 2: of the trash cans. And in my mind, you have

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Speaker 2: to jump up the trash cans are so high.

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Speaker 2: I just had to grow up, and the trash cans

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Speaker 1: I just had to get bigger.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I have several points today, and I'll give you the

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Speaker 2: first one. Now you might find this worth writing down.

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Speaker 2: Number one. When the person changes, so does the place.

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Speaker 2: the caroins of your childhood will not be the.

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Speaker 2: It will still be the same basic con stept of

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Speaker 2: lines for two hours, which makes total sense, same basic concept,

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Speaker 2: but different point of view. Graham actually said to me

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Speaker 2: one time corn dogs fell off.

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Speaker 1: What happened to corn dogs?

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Speaker 2: Is it just me?

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Speaker 1: Or did corn dogs fall off? Corn dogs didn't fall off.

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Speaker 2: You grew up, and sometimes you change so much, not

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Speaker 2: that you came from and go, huh, these trash cans

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Speaker 2: aren't so big. You know what I love about the

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Speaker 2: story that we just read in the scripture. Peter and John,

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Speaker 1: Community would require it.

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Speaker 2: How many know that sometimes God doesn't synchronize his agenda

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Speaker 1: That means he's up to stuff he doesn't let you

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Speaker 2: people express it. It's like I hate this place. I'm

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Speaker 2: just doing this for now.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: I heard somebody say this the other day, there is

446
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Speaker 2: a great one. How am I supposed to be everywhere

447
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 2: at once?

448
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Speaker 1: You're not? Wait minute, let me check, let me check,

449
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Speaker 1: are you jesez, No, you're not. That's his job.

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Speaker 2: And even last week I was talking about God will

451
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Speaker 2: only support you for what you're supposed to do, and

452
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Speaker 2: that a lot of our stress comes from trying to

453
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Speaker 2: do stuff that we weren't called to do.

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Speaker 1: But here's the flip side of that. Okay, just like

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Speaker 1: a lot of.

456
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Speaker 2: Your stress comes from doing stuff that you're not supposed

457
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Speaker 2: to do, a lot of your blessings are in things

458
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Speaker 2: that you don't even see coming, that aren't even on

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Speaker 2: your schedule. Now, this story proves it, but I could

460
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Speaker 2: prove it from one hundred stories of things that Jesus

461
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: did in his ministry.

462
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Speaker 1: On the way, on the way, everybody say on the way.

463
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Speaker 1: Put it in the comment, say on the way.

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Speaker 2: We were singing one of our favorite new songs, Miracle

465
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Speaker 2: after miracle, open door after open door. Here it comes,

466
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Speaker 2: so get ready for another one. Another one is on

467
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Speaker 2: the way, which means it's coming right, but it also

468
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 2: means that sometimes it's on the way to where you

469
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Speaker 2: think you're going that God is going to do the

470
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Speaker 2: most amazing things in your life.

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Speaker 1: Clap your hands by faith and receive that what I

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Speaker 1: just told you. Come on, we don't ever want to

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Speaker 1: get so goal.

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Speaker 2: Focused that we become God oblivious. Sir, I cannot preach

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Speaker 2: this sermon in one setting. I will have to do

476
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Speaker 2: this in about seven parts. All right, It's a good

477
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Speaker 2: thing I'm in this series because here's how the text

478
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Speaker 2: says it. You have to really get the nuance to

479
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Speaker 2: appreciate how intentional the Holy Spirit is. Every word of

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Speaker 2: Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit. So you can

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Speaker 2: really find a lot in these little places, just stuff

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Speaker 2: that you would say. Verse one says one day Peter

483
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Speaker 2: and John were going up to the temple at the

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Speaker 2: time of prayer. Okay, so if they were going up,

485
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Speaker 2: what does that mean they weren't there yet? They were

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Speaker 2: going up. In scripture, it always says up to the temple.

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Speaker 2: Part of that is geographical, it's literally up, but part

488
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Speaker 2: of it is reverential because they were going up out

489
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Speaker 2: of the everyday affairs of life.

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Speaker 1: Do you go up? Do you go up?

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Speaker 2: And then the fact that it says that it was

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Speaker 2: in motion is only complimented and made more powerful by

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Speaker 2: this fact. As they are going up, and I love

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Speaker 2: how verse two starts.

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Speaker 1: It says, now.

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Speaker 2: At the same time that they're going up to do

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Speaker 2: their thing in the temple, and the temple is no

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Speaker 2: longer the same place to them that it was anymore.

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Speaker 1: But they've still got to go there. See.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes even though you're not going to stay there forever,

501
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Speaker 2: you need to do everything that.

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Speaker 1: God has called you to do in that place while

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Speaker 1: you are there.

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Speaker 2: And as they're going up to the temple at the

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Speaker 2: time of prayer three in the afternoon, it says, now

506
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Speaker 2: a man who was laying from birth was being carried

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Speaker 2: to the temple gate called beautiful, where he was put

508
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Speaker 2: every day to beg from those going to the temple courts.

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Speaker 2: Imagine the contrast. This gate is not just silver and

510
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Speaker 2: gold plated. This is a bronze gate that looks so good.

511
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Speaker 2: They call it beautiful. They call the gate beautiful. Every

512
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Speaker 2: day he was placed there to ask for money. Now

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Speaker 2: they are going to the temple out of their tradition.

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Speaker 2: He is going there out of his trauma. They are

515
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Speaker 2: going to the temple out of their routine.

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Speaker 1: He's going to the.

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Speaker 2: Gate out of his restriction, and he can't go where

518
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Speaker 2: they can go, and he can't do what they can do.

519
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Speaker 2: But every day he would take his place at the

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Speaker 2: gate and ask for change.

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Speaker 1: Change.

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Speaker 2: Now about the time that the temple guard is changing

523
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Speaker 2: over from the morning sacrifice to the evening sacrifice, the

524
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Speaker 2: Bible says that Peter and John see a man, and

525
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Speaker 2: always fresh that they saw a man at the gate.

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Speaker 2: Read it again verse two. A man who was lame

527
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Speaker 2: from birth was being carried. He hadn't even made it

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Speaker 2: to the gate yet. They hadn't even made it to

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Speaker 2: the temple stairs yet. So what I'm trying to say is,

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Speaker 2: on the way to wherever you're going, have a goal,

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Speaker 2: have a vision, have a target, have a thing. But

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Speaker 2: just on your way up to whatever you think God

533
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Speaker 2: is calling you to do, or whatever you would like

534
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Speaker 2: to become in His name, or whatever He is placed

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Speaker 2: in your heart, go up.

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Speaker 1: I'll help you out here for you. I even name

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Speaker 1: my church.

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Speaker 2: Elevation because I want you to go up, and God

539
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Speaker 2: wants you to go up, and you are seated in

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Speaker 2: heavenly places with Jesus. But just make sure that on

541
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Speaker 2: your way to where you're going, stay open to what

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Speaker 2: God is doing on the way.

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Speaker 1: Preach that back to your neighbor, tell.

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Speaker 2: Them on the way to where you're going, stay open

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Speaker 2: to what God is doing.

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Speaker 1: Because see, they thought.

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Speaker 2: We got to get to the temple, we gotta pray,

548
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Speaker 2: We got to watch the high priest offer this sacrifice,

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Speaker 2: even though we know Jesus is our high priest. But

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Speaker 2: this is our community, this is where we go, this

551
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Speaker 2: is what we do.

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Speaker 1: And so they're doing it. They're doing it.

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Speaker 2: And as they are stopped midstep, so is this man

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Speaker 2: being carried.

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Speaker 1: He is being carried. They are going up.

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Speaker 2: Neither one is where they want to be yet, but

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Speaker 2: God is right there on the way. Now. I want

558
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Speaker 2: to preach to everybody who's not where you want to

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Speaker 2: be yet.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I want to preach to everybody who hasn't mastered what

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Speaker 2: you want to master yet and you still feel kind

563
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Speaker 2: of yanked.

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Speaker 1: Around by some stuff right now.

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Speaker 2: I want to preach to everybody who doesn't have the

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Speaker 2: stability in your life that you want to have right

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Speaker 2: now and you are in between here and there, to

568
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Speaker 2: let you know that God is on the way. I

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Speaker 2: don't mean he's coming, I mean he's on the way.

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Speaker 2: He's OUTFA, he's Omega, and he's every letter in between.

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Speaker 2: He's everything in between. He's God.

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Speaker 1: Got five.

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Speaker 2: Your neighbors say, stay open, Stay open, because on the

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Speaker 2: way to where you think you're going, God might do

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Speaker 2: something greater.

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Speaker 1: Are you open to that on the way to where

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Speaker 1: you're going?

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Speaker 4: Mike?

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Speaker 2: I've had this happen so many times, so many times,

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Speaker 2: but I was reminded of one this week.

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Speaker 1: There was a There was a Sunday seven years ago.

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Speaker 1: I was washing.

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Speaker 2: My hands in the bathroom coming out to preach. D

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Speaker 2: Somebody's out here talking. Okay, I'm gonna get out to

585
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 2: my seat, and all of a sudden, this melody came

586
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Speaker 2: into my head while I'm washing my hands.

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Speaker 1: Worthy is your name.

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Speaker 5: Jeezesus, you deserve the praise?

589
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Speaker 1: Worthy is your name?

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Speaker 2: And I stopped and thought, I kind of like that. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'll have time for it right now. I gotta preach.

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Speaker 2: I gotta get out there, and God say, yeah.

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Speaker 1: You do. You gotta get out there. But why don't

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Speaker 1: you get out there and get something.

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Speaker 4: Here where you go out there? Because what if I

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Speaker 4: want to give you something on the way to where

597
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Speaker 4: you're going? You know what's crazy? I can't remember to

598
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Speaker 4: save my life. Listen to me. I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: To save my life what I preached that day.

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Speaker 6: But watch this where this is your.

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: How is it.

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00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 2: That what I thought wasn't even worth stopping for?

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Speaker 1: We're still singing seven years later because God gave it

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Speaker 1: to us.

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Speaker 2: On the way, and I'd pronounce, Place this.

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Speaker 1: Everyone, John is on the way. Place this, everyone, in

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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. Rise up, mind up, take my.

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Speaker 6: Hand and rins up.

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00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: Take my hand and ride up.

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00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 7: Rise up.

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Speaker 1: It's on the way. It's on the way. It's on

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00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: the way. Cry if you gotta cry, but.

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Speaker 3: Through your tears testify this's on the way.

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00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 2: We trample on God's purpose sometimes trying to get to

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Speaker 2: our plan. John, my sid Peter, you can't help this man.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna make me late to temple. Peter knew something.

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Jesus said he was coming to send

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Speaker 2: his spirit to live in us.

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Speaker 1: So what we're trying to get to is right here. Wait,

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Speaker 1: this man is a temple waiting to be restored.

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Speaker 2: The thing that's right in front of you is as

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Speaker 2: beautiful as the gate.

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Speaker 1: You're walking through. If you can stop and see.

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Speaker 8: It, Holly Loujah, Hall Loujah.

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Speaker 1: So stay open. That's what gates do, right, they open.

627
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Speaker 1: Stay open.

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Speaker 2: I know you pray that your child would marry a

629
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Speaker 2: missionary and serve God. They might not marry a missionary,

630
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: they might not get married at all.

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Speaker 1: Stay open, and God doesn't have to ask you what.

632
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: Age there's a to be married by, because you didn't

633
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 2: get married when your parents wanted you to get married either.

634
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 2: And now we sit here like gatekeepers of what God

635
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 2: can do and when God could do it.

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Speaker 1: But stay open. Now, now I preach a little more.

637
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: Felt like I was closing, didn't it. But that was

638
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: just the gate opening, the opening of the gate. Yeah yeah, yeah,

639
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: oh oh, I'm going to need some help today.

640
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: Turn to your neighbors, say place this everyone, almost like

641
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 2: God called Gabriel that morning. Now, the disciples have been

642
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: seeing God do amazing things, right, but this is the

643
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: first healing miracle that they did without Jesus. And you

644
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: know how you could tell because Peter.

645
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: Was doing so much. I read several times in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of funny Jesus would heal.

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00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 2: People that couldn't walk like this man couldn't walk. But

648
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Speaker 2: how Peter did. It was so dramatic. Jesus here you say,

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00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 2: get up, take up your mat, and walk. And his

650
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 2: word was so powerful because he's the perfect, spotless, living

651
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 2: embodiment of the Word of God. I can tell Peter's

652
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: not so sure about this because look at it's so funny.

653
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 2: Peter said, verse six, over, go out, I do not

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Speaker 2: have what I have a get you name just Christ

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Speaker 2: Nazareth walk and then verse seven give me verse seven

656
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 2: on the screen, yanking him up by the right hand.

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00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: Almost feel like Peter's like, you're not gonna make me

658
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 2: look stupid.

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00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: You did not one to wear this, and that's all right.

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00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 2: Because you progress and mature into it, you grow into it.

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Speaker 2: But it's an amazing thing here because you know, this

662
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Speaker 2: man isn't even looking at them when they first walk.

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Speaker 1: By, not even looking.

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Speaker 2: But we understand that because how many people have walked

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Speaker 2: by and despised him, how many people have walked by

666
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Speaker 2: and muttered under their breath about him?

667
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: How many people did he ask? Can I have some change?

668
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: Can I have some change? Can I have some change?

669
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 2: And they said no, no, no, And so Peter actually

670
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 2: has to start with the men's expectation.

671
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: The first thing God is going to have to heal for.

672
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 2: Some of us is our expectation, because we just have

673
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 2: learned to live in a place of disappointment as our

674
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 2: emotional home. So if anything would come along and violate

675
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 2: your expectation of disappointment, you would sabotage it and send

676
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: it away unless God healed your expectation. Look at us,

677
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 2: Peter said, look me in the eye, and then I

678
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 2: can give you something.

679
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: Change your focus.

680
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 2: If you keep looking at everybody who has walked by

681
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 2: and told you know, everybody who has not recognized you,

682
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: everybody who has.

683
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: Not helped you, everybody who has left you.

684
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 2: If you look at that even mentally, you will not

685
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 2: get what God has for you. You cannot receive a present

686
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 2: blessing living mentally in a past experience.

687
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: Places everyone. This is the day that the Lord has made.

688
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: So you got to get what God has for you

689
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: in this day. And now.

690
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 2: The Bible says that the man is looking at Peter

691
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 2: and John and he goes, so you got some change.

692
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got some change for you. I got

693
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 2: some change for you that you will not I got

694
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 2: some change for you that is so great that you

695
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 2: won't be back at this gate tomorrow unless it's by choice.

696
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: To walk through it.

697
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 2: God said, I'm gonna give you your autonomy back. I'm

698
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: gonna stop having you beg at places just for the

699
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: crumbs of somebody else's approval, because you're.

700
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: Going to know in this season that I have a

701
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: purpose from God. So I'm not sitting here at this

702
00:41:58,680 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: gate tomorrow.

703
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: When I come to this gate tomorrow, it will be

704
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 2: my choice to walk through it. That's what makes addiction

705
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,479
Speaker 2: such a sin, y'all. It's not the thing you're doing.

706
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: It's the fact that you have to. It has become

707
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 2: your God. It has become the thing that you have

708
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: to do. And God doesn't want you to owe anything

709
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 2: to anyone but Him except love.

710
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 9: I'ma break something off somebody today. I'm gonna break something off.

711
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 9: So I'm getting somebody up today. I'm getting somebody up

712
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 9: today with the help of the Holy Spirit. Even if

713
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 9: I got to yank you up. I've had to yank

714
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 9: some people up before preaching. You know, yeah, just start

715
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 9: start yanking people up. Because I think about it is,

716
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 9: when you've been rejected that long, the possibility of a

717
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 9: different direction is almost unthinkable. The possibility that they could

718
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 9: really like you for you when the last person used you.

719
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: Is so unusual. The fact that God could use you, He's.

720
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: Just unfathomable because look at all the reasons that you

721
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 2: think he shouldn't.

722
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be wonderful if you didn't know you. Then when

723
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: I say God could.

724
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 2: Use you, you go all right, and you wouldn't have all

725
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 2: of the reasons I'm wrong.

726
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: Rejection.

727
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 2: I know it isn't explicitly mentioned, but come on, he's

728
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: put there every day. How many people walk past that

729
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: man and told him no? But here's what I love

730
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 2: about the Lord. God can send one person to bless

731
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 2: you in such an amazing way that it will make

732
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 2: every rejection that came before it irrelevant in comparison. Say

733
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 2: that again, Pastor Stephen it Say it for the one

734
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 2: who was told no. Say it for the one who

735
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: knocked on the closed door till their knuckles bled. Say

736
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 2: it one more time. God can send one person, one person.

737
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 2: It didn't take everybody in the temple to get the

738
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 2: man up. It took one person. It took one name,

739
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 2: and it wasn't Peter, it was Jesus. God can send

740
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 2: one person to bless you in such an amazing way

741
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 2: that it will make every rejection that came before it

742
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 2: seem irrelevant. In comparison, God can send you one mentor

743
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,479
Speaker 2: in your life to teach you everything that your dad

744
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,720
Speaker 2: didn't teach you because he was too busy.

745
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: God can send one experience in your.

746
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 2: Life that will give you a lifetime education, all in

747
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 2: three days. God can send you one idea, and that

748
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 2: one idea, if you incubate it, and if you.

749
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: Set it before him.

750
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 2: And you trust him in it, that one idea can

751
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 2: make up for fifteen failures, five hundred failures. Every rejection

752
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 2: can be made irrelevant, and all of a sudden, it

753
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 2: doesn't matter who told this man no, because one person,

754
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 2: one change, one hand, one moment, get your expectation back.

755
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 2: It doesn't take everybody. It doesn't take everything going right.

756
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't take.

757
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: A stadium fall, It doesn't take ten thousand followers.

758
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't even take long. The Bible said, Instantly, he

759
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 1: got off, what blessing, what blessing?

760
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 2: One blessing, one word, one divot, one new.

761
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: Path, one new song, one new thing.

762
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 2: Places everyone, places everyone, you know. The only way you

763
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 2: don't get it if you're not there. Places everyone. God

764
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 2: turns to Gabriel. He says, today's today. Really, we're gonna

765
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 2: do it today. Yeah, we're gonna do it today. Today's today.

766
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 2: They've been preaching, they've been testifying, the church has been growing,

767
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 2: and today I'm gonna show old Peter what's in his

768
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 2: right hand. Because Peter's been using his mouth, but now

769
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 2: I want him to see what's in his hand. So

770
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 2: get down there, places, everyone, God is saying over the

771
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 2: church in acts places everyone. Everybody, get ready. Okay, is

772
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 2: that man ready?

773
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's ready. They're carrying him right now. Okay, they

774
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: don't have him to the gate yet.

775
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, that's where I want it, right there, before

776
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 2: he gets to the gate. Okay, Peter and John are coming,

777
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 2: but they're not quite at the temple yet.

778
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: Okay. Perfect.

779
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 2: And God says places, everyone, And the place that God

780
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 2: chose to do it was the place between the places

781
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 2: that they planned.

782
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: I need three people.

783
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 2: To shout about the place between the places, because that's

784
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 2: where I am right now. Ain't it good to know

785
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 2: the Lord, to know that he's on the way, To

786
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 2: know that with one blessing from his hand, it can

787
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 2: make up for every hand that was ever against me.

788
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 2: To know that with one blessing from his hand, he

789
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: can make every rejection irrelevant. And the part that I

790
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 2: wish I didn't need to preach is the part I

791
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 2: saved for last. They say save the best for last.

792
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 2: I saved the worst for last. I did it exactly backwards,

793
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 2: just trying to be faithful to the text, because the

794
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: Bible says in verse eleven, and this would be a

795
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 2: great place for the text to end in my mind.

796
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 2: When all the people heard about the man that was

797
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 2: walking and he's holding on to them, they were astonished

798
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 2: look at verse eleven and came running to the him

799
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: in the place.

800
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: Called Solomon's Colonnade.

801
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 2: Now a colonnade is a porch with columns that support

802
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 2: a roof. So there's this big temple length column row

803
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 2: of columns called Solomon's Colonnade on the eastern side of

804
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: the temple, and they would meet there. Jesus walked through

805
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 2: there once in John chapter ten. So in Peter smart

806
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 2: he went back to teaching the place where he saw

807
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 2: Jesus do it, because the best thing you can do

808
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 2: when you don't know what to do is do the

809
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 2: last thing you saw Jesus do.

810
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,240
Speaker 1: So they moved the meeting. They moved the meeting.

811
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 2: He's like, all right, I don't even know if they

812
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,439
Speaker 2: got to do the full temple service or not, because

813
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 2: it was a commotion.

814
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: There's thousands of people. This is not a small church service.

815
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: And so Peter said, everybody go to the colonnade. Now,

816
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: a colonnade is what a covered place?

817
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: And notice in verse eleven it says the man was

818
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: with them, right, so he can walk now, but he

819
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: chose to stay with them, and.

820
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: He's standing there holding on to Peter and John.

821
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 2: But he's no longer being carried now he's being covered.

822
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: Places.

823
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 2: Everyone places everyone for everyone who is refusing to walk

824
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 2: in your own strength. You need to come out of

825
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 2: the season where you're using other people to do for

826
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 2: you what God wants to strengthen you to do for yourself.

827
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 2: And it doesn't mean you're going to be doing it

828
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,720
Speaker 2: in your own strength. Because even when he wasn't carried,

829
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 2: he was holding on to Peter and John.

830
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: So I'm not carried, but I'm covered.

831
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 2: I love that because that means I'm gonna have to

832
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 2: do this, but I'm not doing this by myself. That

833
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,959
Speaker 2: means I'm gonna have to take some risks, but I'm

834
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 2: covered either way.

835
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 1: It goes.

836
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 2: That means that in this season of my life, I

837
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 2: can trust God to put me where he needs me

838
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 2: to be. Now, the danger in this is that we

839
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 2: think if we're in the right place. Okay, I took

840
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 2: the job, Okay, I said yes the thing, Okay, I

841
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 2: volunteered at the church, I did the thing on where

842
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be. We think everything's gonna go better

843
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 2: if we're in the right place. So now, at this

844
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 2: point in the party, you're expecting Peter gives a sermon,

845
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: and he does. Boy, he preaches too, and he lets

846
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 2: him have it, talking about you disowned the holy unrighteous one.

847
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 2: Jesus was handed over to you, but God raised him

848
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 2: from the dead.

849
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: You missed it.

850
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 2: You didn't recognize him for who he was, and you

851
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,479
Speaker 2: all need to repent, and many of them did.

852
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: In fact, two thousand did one dude.

853
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 2: Having a changed life led to two thousand salvations.

854
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: In one day. God math, God Math. And he's standing there,

855
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: dare I say it.

856
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 2: He's standing there in a place with pillars, and he's

857
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 2: turning into a pillar himself. He's standing in what he's becoming.

858
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 2: He's standing under what he's becoming. And he's standing there

859
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 2: and Peter preaches, and it's a good response.

860
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: And look what happened when Peter preached so.

861
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 2: Good that it turned the city inside out.

862
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: Chapter four, verse three. Please on the screen.

863
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 2: They seize Peter and John, and because it was evening,

864
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 2: they put him in jail. Wait, Jesus, but I served you, Jesus,

865
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 2: but I did the right thing.

866
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: Jesus, but I helped that man. Jesus.

867
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 2: Shouldn't you be giving me a bonus check? Jesus should

868
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 2: not be getting commission on this. Jesus, didn't you see

869
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 2: what we just did? No?

870
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: They put them in.

871
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 2: Jail till the next day, and then the Bible.

872
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 1: Says a versus more, but many who heard the message believe.

873
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: So it goes to show just because you're not there

874
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 2: to see it, doesn't mean God didn't do it.

875
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: Because why everybody was getting their changed life. They where

876
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:22,919
Speaker 1: in the jail cell.

877
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 2: And sometimes you've got to get determined in your spirit

878
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 2: that I will not let the place I'm in make me.

879
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: Doubt the purpose that I carry. I'm in this jail, but.

880
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 2: Jesus is working. I'm in this situation. But Jesus is working.

881
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 2: I'm in this state, but Jesus is working. And while

882
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 2: they're in jail, all the rulers are trying to decide

883
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 2: what are we.

884
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: Going to do about this. It's not what they did

885
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: for the man, it's.

886
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 2: What they were preaching about Jesus that got them thrown

887
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 2: in jail. We can't let them run around preaching that

888
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 2: Jesus is resurrected. They'll completely re jacked our power if

889
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 2: they find out that Jesus has all power.

890
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: What do we do? Put them in jail and we'll decide.

891
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 2: So you have to imagine that the man who was

892
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 2: at the gate feels pretty bad about all this. Hey,

893
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 2: where's Peter and John? I want to thank him real quick. Actually,

894
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 2: Peter and John had to go to jail because what

895
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 2: was free for you cost them something.

896
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: Dang.

897
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 2: I didn't mean for them to have to. I wasn't

898
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 2: trying to cause any trouble. Man.

899
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: I was doing the best I could, and he told

900
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: me yake me up. I didn't even ask him to

901
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: be healed. I just wanted some lunch money.

902
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: I feel bad about this. Hey, can I do anything

903
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 2: to help? I know I'm not much at anybody, But

904
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 2: is there anything I can do to help? And in

905
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 2: my imagination, I like to think, and I know you're like,

906
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 2: just read the Bible, don't use your imagination.

907
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: That's your problem. No, that's your problem.

908
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 2: You read the Bible like long ago in a galaxy

909
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 2: far far away.

910
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: But this ain't star wars.

911
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 2: This is a scripture and we are supposed to come

912
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 2: to this Bible with our senses and submit them to

913
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 2: the spirit, so that when we find ourselves like, Okay.

914
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: I feel like that. Sometimes I feel like I'm just

915
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: doing my job and I.

916
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 2: Feel like not in jail physically, but I feel like

917
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: I'm in prison for something and I don't really see

918
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 2: what God is doing.

919
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: And so we read this and imagine, maybe.

920
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 2: Matthew one of the disciples. Let's use Matthew. He goes, actually,

921
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 2: there is something you can do. Tomorrow, Peter and John

922
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 2: are going to have to give a defense before the

923
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 2: Sanhedrin and they're going to be called into question for

924
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 2: what they did. So when they are preaching, why don't

925
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 2: you just be there? Okay, cool, Yeah, no, I told

926
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 2: do that sounds great. If there's one thing I know

927
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 2: how to do, it's be there. Because that's all I've

928
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 2: been able to do. See this man, because he was paralyzed,

929
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 2: he's been practicing being a pillar his whole life. He

930
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 2: knows how to be there. So they say, yeah, just

931
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 2: be there, and Peter's gonna preach. And then the man

932
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 2: maybe says, and you want me to share a little something. No, no, no,

933
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 2: don't say anything. We don't even know if you're saved yet.

934
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 2: Don't say nothing. Just stand there. Look at your neighbors. Say,

935
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:41,399
Speaker 2: don't say nothing. Just stand there. So they called Peter

936
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 2: and John. They say, all right, why did you do it?

937
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 2: Peter says, if we are being called to account for

938
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 2: an act of kindness to this man, let it be

939
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 2: know that it was not us, but the God of

940
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 2: our fathers, raise this man for the sake of his

941
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:02,280
Speaker 2: Holy servant Jesus. Now, the Bible says, after Peter preached,

942
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 2: the people were not very impressed, but they were amazed.

943
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: And I'll show you how I know they weren't impressed.

944
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 2: Look at verse thirteen four verse thirteen when they saw

945
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 2: the courage of Peter and John and realized that they

946
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 2: were unschooled, ordinary men. That is not a compliment. That's

947
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:27,359
Speaker 2: like the guy who told me after church two weeks ago,

948
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 2: that was actually pretty insightful. I'm like, it's to actually

949
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 2: that bothers me about that sentence you just said.

950
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: And realized they were unschooled ordinary men.

951
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 2: Place says everyone, You don't have to be spectacular.

952
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: You just got to show up. You don't have to understand.

953
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: You just have to stand. That's all you got to do.

954
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:56,879
Speaker 1: They saw their courage.

955
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 2: You know how I confuses the devil when he sees

956
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 2: you still standing there after he launched a thousand missiles

957
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 2: at your mind to try to get you.

958
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: To go crazy and curse God and die. And you say, oh,

959
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: he's slay me yet, will I trust him? I'm standing here?

960
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 3: Ah ooh.

961
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 2: And when they saw the courage of Peter and John

962
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 2: and realize that they were unschooled ordinary men, they were

963
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 2: astonished and watched this. They took note that these men

964
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 2: had been with Jesus. Now see every experience they had

965
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 2: with Jesus collapses into this moment. Every time they saw

966
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 2: him feed somebody, every time they heard a teaching, every

967
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 2: time you show up, it is compounding your experience and

968
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 2: it will pay dividends in your future. Places, everyone, every

969
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 2: sermon you log in your spirit. Every note you write

970
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 2: down and put it up that week on the mirror,

971
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 2: every song that you learn, so you can sing a.

972
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 1: New song to the Lord.

973
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 2: It's compounding in your life for the glory of Christ.

974
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 2: And it says when they heard Peter, they took note.

975
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 2: But verse fourteen, that's my favorite. But since they could

976
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 2: see the man who had been healed standing there with them,

977
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 2: there was nothing they could say. It goes like this, children,

978
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:36,479
Speaker 2: when Peter preached, they took note. But when the man

979
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 2: stood there, they shut up. You want to shut up

980
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 2: the enemy.

981
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: Stand there. You want to silence the enemy. Stand there.

982
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: You want to back.

983
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 2: Down the feeling of depression and replace it with the

984
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 2: joy of the Lord.

985
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: I got two words for you, baby, Stand there.

986
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 7: Stand there when they talk about you.

987
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: Stand there when it.

988
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 8: Feels like there's no point, stand there.

989
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 2: Every place you set your foot, I'll give you.

990
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: But you gotta stand there. Don't walk away. You are

991
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: the one.

992
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 8: For the job.

993
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 2: All you gotta do is stand there, somebody.

994
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: Stand to your feet right now and do.

995
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 8: What you hadn't done yet, and praise him.

996
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: Look got know my place. I'm seeing that, see this,

997
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: see that, see it.

998
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 10: Stand there, stand there, Stand there, discouraged, Stand there while

999
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 10: you're healing. Stand there with your legs wobbling. Stand there

1000
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 10: while they point out.

1001
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: You and say I didn't see the one that used to. Yeah,

1002
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: I used to, But look at me doing well? I

1003
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: couldn't you to do?

1004
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 8: Just stand there, don't argue, don't quit, don't commit suicide,

1005
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 8: don't take another pill. Stay there, don't call fifteen people

1006
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 8: that don't know any better than you.

1007
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 1: You are not going back to the gate. Places.

1008
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 5: Everyone stand there, jeeus, keep me.

1009
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: Me the cross. Stand there there, Publa sit on.

1010
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 5: Say freely street.

1011
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: Flows from car freeze places everyone, This is where it happens.

1012
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: Ye the cry, yes, stand there, center.

1013
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 2: He the crow.

1014
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: Speed mine.

1015
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 5: Over see mine right?

1016
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 2: So then so.

1017
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: Shelf standing here, rest be.

1018
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 2: Erryver places everyone places, everyone places, everyone places everyone. When

1019
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 2: the person changes soul us the place for the cross

1020
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 2: that you are singing about as an emblem was an

1021
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 2: instrument of torture. But when the man Jesus Christ died,

1022
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 2: when the person of Jesus Christ died, the place changed,

1023
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 2: and that cross of his suffering is now the forgiveness

1024
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 2: of your sins.

1025
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 1: Stand there.

1026
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 2: And see the precious lamb of God. See from his head,

1027
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 2: his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down.

1028
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 2: Stand there and let the blood be applied.

1029
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: Stand there and let the mercy of God make you new.

1030
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: Stand there.

1031
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 2: That's all that man did. I can't sing, but I

1032
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 2: can stand there. I didn't even plan to be walking today,

1033
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 2: but I can stand here. You need me to stand there,

1034
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 2: I'll stand there. You need me to show up, I'll

1035
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 2: show up. You need me to be an example God.

1036
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: Watch this. Watch this.

1037
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 2: This man looked like an extra in the movie, but

1038
01:02:56,440 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 2: he was actually exhibit a of the witnessing power of

1039
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 2: the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

1040
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you that's you too. If you stand there,

1041
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:14,959
Speaker 1: pal ludin head's bowed, eyes closed. This is not a joke.

1042
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: This is a place.

1043
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:22,439
Speaker 2: That you might look back on and say that day I.

1044
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: Went through that gate.

1045
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 2: And I was changed. You can change. The trash won't

1046
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 2: be so big when you get taller. You can change.

1047
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 2: The pleasures of sin won't seem so powerful. You can change.

1048
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, I offer you my hand

1049
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 2: places every get up and walk. What are the chances

1050
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 2: you would be here to hear this sermon today?

1051
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: What are the chances this.

1052
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 2: Day, God must have something happening right now that is

1053
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 2: bigger than you. Don't be so selfish you think it's

1054
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 2: just about what you can get. Maybe God's about to

1055
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 2: use you to help somebody else up and you need to.

1056
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 1: Get strong for us. Stand there, Stand there. I offer

1057
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: an invitation for all of you today who need.

1058
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 2: To come to the cross, and I believe there are

1059
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 2: thousands who are hearing this message as I offer you

1060
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 2: this prayer.

1061
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:24,200
Speaker 1: This prayer is a place. It is a place of faith,

1062
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 1: not a physical location. God doesn't live in one building.

1063
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: God wants to come and live in your heart, so

1064
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 1: invite him.

1065
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 2: In the Bible says that if you confess with your

1066
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 2: mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart God

1067
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 2: raised Him.

1068
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: From the day, you will be saved. Today you will.

1069
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: So I'm going to offer a prayer. We're praying it

1070
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: out loud together as a church.

1071
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 2: Family for the benefit of those who are coming to

1072
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 2: God or back to God. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father,

1073
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 2: today is my day of salvation. I am a sinner

1074
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 2: in need of a savior, and I believe Jesus Christ

1075
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 2: is the Son of God and the savior of the world.

1076
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

1077
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

1078
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 2: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

1079
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 2: This is my new beginning. Raise your hand on the

1080
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 2: count of three, one, two three. If you prayed that prayer.

1081
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: Raise your hand, raise your hand. God bless you. God

1082
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 1: bless you. God bless you. Get up and walk. God

1083
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: bless you. Get up and walk. God bless you. Get

1084
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: up and walk. God bless you. Hear the name of Jesus,

1085
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus.

1086
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 5: In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

1087
01:05:51,480 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: We have the big sorry we have, we have a victor.

1088
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be the last man standing to let the

1089
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 2: Lord know I appreciate his grace.

1090
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: I'm not standing on my own. I'm standing by his spirit.

1091
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 8: Paul says, stand therefore, stand therefore.

1092
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 5: Put on the whole honor of God and stand.

1093
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 2: Hot boy, did people say, stand there, everybody that received

1094
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 2: a word from the Lord, clap your hands and praise him,

1095
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 2: not me, praise him.

1096
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 1: Give it to him, give him the glory. That's all

1097
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: you got.

1098
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 7: That man's started walking and trumping and praising God, that's

1099
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 7: all you've got.

1100
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 1: Every time you get a change, give praise.

1101
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 2: That way, you won't get prideful and think you're on

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Speaker 2: your own. I thank God for what he just gave us.

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Speaker 2: I feel that the Holy Spirit flowed to somebody today.

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Speaker 2: And it wasn't that you were crippled in your feet.

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Speaker 2: You were crippled in your faith, and God is getting

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Speaker 2: you up.

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Speaker 1: Stand there, stand there, stand there, stand there.

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Speaker 2: The devil's going to be so surprised. I thought I

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Speaker 2: convinced you to quit.

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Speaker 1: Uh uh.

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Speaker 2: I found out all I have to do is stand

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Speaker 2: there and let God fight my battles.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this.

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Speaker 2: I fight.

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Speaker 1: Somebody say I got changed today, I changed my mind.

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Speaker 1: I changed my perspective. Hallelujah. Well we gotta go now.

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Speaker 2: You can't stand there because somebody else wants to sit there.

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Speaker 1: Campus masters, you take it your mind. If I close here.

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Speaker 2: At Valentine mind, if I close, mom sermon, glory to God.

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Speaker 2: All right, take your hand, put it on the shoulder

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Speaker 2: of the person on either side of you. Online, we

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Speaker 2: also connect with you in the name of Jesus Christ

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Speaker 2: of Nazareth.

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Speaker 1: Rise up and walk and stand there.

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Speaker 2: I see you going back to places this week that

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Speaker 2: you used to be afraid of and saying, this trash

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Speaker 2: can isn't so big. I see you going back to

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Speaker 2: places this week that used to be fun for you,

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Speaker 2: saying this roller coaster fell off.

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Speaker 1: I see you heating up corn dogs this week, saying

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Speaker 1: this doesn't taste.

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Speaker 2: Good anymore because I grew up.

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Speaker 1: Places. Everyone, God's got an assignment for you. Place this, school.

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Speaker 2: Teachers, God's got an assignment for you. Place this, police officers, detectives.

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Speaker 2: God's got an assignment for you places. Stay at home moms,

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Speaker 2: God's got an assignment. Place this, babysitters. God's got an

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Speaker 2: assignment for you. Place this while you're waiting on your

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Speaker 2: next employment, places, while you're pastoring your church.

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Speaker 1: Places. Everyone, something is about to happen.

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Speaker 2: And now, unto him who is able to do immeasurably

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Speaker 2: more than you ask or imagine, to him, be glory

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Speaker 2: through Christ Jesus in the charks now and forever.

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Speaker 1: Give him a sound of praise.

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Speaker 2: If you'll receive this leorm, I'll see you next week,

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Speaker 2: same place, same time, Place.

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Speaker 1: This, everyone, places. 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 1: now or.

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Speaker 2: and if you enjoyed the podcast.

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