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Speaker 1: y'all must be listening to lying on repeating your headphone fascin,

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Speaker 1: you we worked on this a few years ago. Really,

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Speaker 1: this amazing team that God gave us here. When we

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Speaker 1: to go out today no matter what you're going through

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Speaker 1: This is so if you like straightforward worship music, there's

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Speaker 1: and it's all worship. I mean, worship is not just

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Speaker 1: we got warfare worship wedding worship. Abby said, make sure

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Speaker 1: I thought, y'all have my back today God God will

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Speaker 1: speak something you have no context for. He'll tell Noah,

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Speaker 1: build an arc and there's no such thing as rain yet.

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Speaker 1: And can you do that? Can you believe what God

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Speaker 1: says when you don't see it at all? That is

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Speaker 1: the five letter word faith. And it goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: You know. On the first day, God says light, B.

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Speaker 1: Light says yes, sir. Light was Day two, God says

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Speaker 1: clouds in sky B C B and the sea said yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: And the cloud said, I'll take the high road. You

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Speaker 1: take the low road, and the sea went deep and

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Speaker 1: the clouds went high, and it was good. God spoke,

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Speaker 1: God saw. On the third day, God told the land

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Speaker 1: land produce living things, make plants, and the land said, yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: And the plants started to grow. On the fourth day

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Speaker 1: kind of different. But God said, hey, Sun, you take

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Speaker 1: the day shift. The sun said, yes, sir. The moon said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a night person. No, the moon didn't say that.

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Speaker 1: The moon said, I'll go where you need me to go.

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Speaker 1: I'll do what you need me to do. I'll be

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Speaker 1: what you need me to be. I'll hang where you

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Speaker 1: need me to hang. I'll pull the ocean that you

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Speaker 1: made on the second day, I'll pull it. I'll control

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Speaker 1: the tides. Everybody's doing its job. Everything is working in

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Speaker 1: perfect order, according to the spoken word of God. In

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Speaker 1: the creation of cow. In the fifth day, he told

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Speaker 1: the birds, I made a place for you called Scott.

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Speaker 1: They're like, this is amazing. I believe I can fly.

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Speaker 1: I'm a flap till I get there. And they start

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Speaker 1: flying around. And then Nemo and Dorry and all of that.

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Speaker 1: On the fifth day, and nobody argued. On the sixth day,

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Speaker 1: he made the living creatures and the cows, and the horses,

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Speaker 1: and the oxen and the donkeys, everything in his place

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Speaker 1: till you came along. Now, of everything God spoke, only

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Speaker 1: one talked back, Lord, I don't know how to do

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Speaker 1: what you're telling me to do. I'm making fun of Moses,

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Speaker 1: but I already told you he has much greater faith

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Speaker 1: than me to even be in this place. The first

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Speaker 1: thing Moses did when God spoke, he took off his shoes.

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Speaker 1: So now let's step into his shoes so we can

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Speaker 1: step in, because he took them off when he saw

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Speaker 1: that burning bush. And let's imagine this is me. Let's

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Speaker 1: imagine this is you, and the Lord is talking about

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Speaker 1: world peace, and you are carrying a shepherd's staff, and

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Speaker 1: the Lord is speaking to you about generational blessing, and

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Speaker 1: you are still wrestling with a generational curse. It's a

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Speaker 1: war of words what God has spoken over your life.

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Speaker 1: That is one thing about the Spirit of God who

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Speaker 1: lives within us through the Holy Spirit. Now Moses didn't

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Speaker 1: know about the Holy Spirit inside of you. He didn't

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Speaker 1: even know who he was talking to yet. But the

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Speaker 1: Spirit of God in Genesis was doing what the Spirit

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Speaker 1: of God is doing today. It says, the spirit of

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Speaker 1: God hovered above everything that God had made. When the

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Speaker 1: word of God speaks, he speaks from above. That's why

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Speaker 1: he can tell you things in your spirit that you

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Speaker 1: can't see with your eyes and that people can't confirm

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Speaker 1: with their words. Because he speaks from above. It can

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Speaker 1: I show you this on a deeper level? You ready,

483
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: there are at least at least you could probably find

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Speaker 1: more four missing pieces that Moses had to wrestle with

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Speaker 1: to move forward in the mission God gave him. I

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Speaker 1: think they will apply to everybody in this room. How

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Speaker 1: can that be. There's twelve year olds in this room.

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Speaker 1: There's eighty year olds in this room. There's people who

489
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Speaker 1: are on unemployment in this room. There's multimillionaires in this room.

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Speaker 1: But when God speaks his spirit and personal lives the

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Speaker 1: word directly to the way He made you to be.

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Speaker 1: God likes puzzles. Now, He's not gonna give you the picture.

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Speaker 1: That's the worst part about trying to be who God's

494
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Speaker 1: made you to be. He dumps the pieces out on

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Speaker 1: the table and doesn't show you a picture. Well, he

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Speaker 1: shows you one piece at a time. That's how God works,

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Speaker 1: one piece at a time. Step by step, day by day,

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Speaker 1: Give us this day seventy years worth of bread so

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Speaker 1: we never have to go to the store again. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: our daily bread. You get overwhelmed by this. You have

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Speaker 1: no peace. You're overwhelmed. You're thinking about thirteen hypothetical scenarios.

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Speaker 1: You can't fight the devil on a hypothetical. And that's

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Speaker 1: how Moses started. I'm gonna just pull him up real quick.

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Speaker 1: You're ready, I'm I'm gonna give you all four of

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Speaker 1: them so quick. So pay attention. The first thing that

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Speaker 1: Moses said, the missing piece, because God is saying, I

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Speaker 1: got something for you to do. Now, how many of

508
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: you feel like God has something for you to do.

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Speaker 1: It's not leading people out of slavery or something like that,

510
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Speaker 1: big like that, but God's given you something to do.

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Speaker 1: Raise your hand or die. Okay, all right, So this

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Speaker 1: is for everybody that's still here. Ah. The first thing

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Speaker 1: Moses said, give me that Exodus three scripture. He said, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Exodus three, Exodus three? Who am I that I should

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Speaker 1: go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?

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Speaker 1: God said, I'll be with you. So then that follows

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Speaker 1: this next question. You got, who am I. And then

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Speaker 1: look at verse thirteen. Moses said to God, suppose I

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Speaker 1: go to this real liace and said to the God,

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Speaker 1: your father send me to you, And they asked, what

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Speaker 1: is his name? Then why shall I tell them? In

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Speaker 1: other words, my first question is who am I? But

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Speaker 1: who are you? I hadn't heard from this in four

524
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Speaker 1: hundred years. It's been four hundred years since a personal

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Speaker 1: epiphany like this, God spoke to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph.

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Speaker 1: But you got to understand there has been a long gap.

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Speaker 1: When's the last time you had an encounter with God?

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Speaker 1: When's the last time that you were like? That was

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Speaker 1: God that did that for me. That was God that

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Speaker 1: held me in his arms. That was God that reassured me.

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Speaker 1: That was God that kept me from ending at all.

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Speaker 1: That was God that kept me from going to prison,

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Speaker 1: because if I would have done what I thought about

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Speaker 1: doing it, I would not be here today. That was God. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so he's kind of getting honest. He's like, who am

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Speaker 1: I to do this? But then who are you? Give

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Speaker 1: me a second together? My thoughts. If you're knew to church,

538
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: knew to God, knew to religion, I need to warn

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00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: you about us we're the worst. We are the worst

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Speaker 1: about pretending like we have faith figured out, and so

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Speaker 1: we say words, words, words, words, words, words, But we're

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Speaker 1: really good at hiding our war. Not many people quit

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00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: coming to church because they assume, oh, they all have

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Speaker 1: something that I don't have. They have like this deep

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Speaker 1: relationship with God. They know them. You know, they say

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Speaker 1: words propitiation. I don't know what that means. That's not

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Speaker 1: a five letter word. I'm telling you the truth about Christians.

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00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 1: And we Meanwhile, but a lot of us were taught

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Speaker 1: that we had to have the whole thing figured out

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Speaker 1: or it wasn't faith. So we mastered the art of

551
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Speaker 1: sounding certain. We mastered the art of magnifying your missing pieces,

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Speaker 1: so I don't have to deal with mine. Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: dying out. Lord, Am I still on the right track.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot more clapping earlier. Now. Now that's

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Speaker 1: good news only if you are willing to get honest.

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Speaker 1: That is good news about how God works in our life.

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Speaker 1: Unless we think that the only way for us to

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Speaker 1: have peace is to have no missing pieces. And this

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Speaker 1: is where a lot of us who are perfectionists of

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Speaker 1: talking any of Graham one, we think everything has to

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Speaker 1: be us, so for us to be happy, for us

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Speaker 1: to be grateful. And so we get in this thing

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Speaker 1: all the time, a lot of us, do not all

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Speaker 1: of us, but we get in this thing at a

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Speaker 1: lot of the time that we say, when this, then i'le,

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Speaker 1: When this than i'le. Now. The worst thing you can believe,

567
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Speaker 1: please hear me, The worst thing that you can believe

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Speaker 1: is that when you get here, then God will love you.

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Speaker 1: That is from the pit of hell, that is alive,

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Speaker 1: That is not in the Bible. It is by grace.

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Speaker 1: You are saying, a kid, you God, grace. You got

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Speaker 1: a lot, You got the greatest gift. His name is Jesus.

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Speaker 1: We all need Jesus. We all need Jesus. Look at

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Speaker 1: somebody say you need Jesus more than me. No, don't

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Speaker 1: say that. Don't say that need him just as much

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Speaker 1: as you. I need him just as much as you.

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Speaker 1: I need him just as much as you. I was

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Speaker 1: yelling at the ump and a baseball game and somebody said,

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Speaker 1: I thought you were supposed to be a preacher. I said,

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Speaker 1: my name is Stephen today, no pastor on the front.

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Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Ram's dad. Okay, but I'm in the process

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Speaker 1: he's fuckis. It's called sanctification, and it happens in stages.

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Speaker 1: And I just wish that Moses would have asked the

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Speaker 1: second question first. I just wish that he would have

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Speaker 1: started with the source, not himself, because if you ask

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Speaker 1: who am I, before you ask God who are you?

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Speaker 1: You will misunderstand what you're made of. You're not made

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Speaker 1: of dirt, You're not made of flesh, you are not

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Speaker 1: made of bone, you are not made of I ran

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Speaker 1: out of physical things to say. I'm winging this. You

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Speaker 1: are made of spirit. Is that cool? Then everything else

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Speaker 1: doesn't define you. So I like to telegram I'm five

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Speaker 1: nine in the natural, but in the spirit, David is

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Speaker 1: bigger than Goliath. You don't understand. You don't understand. When

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Speaker 1: I watch Holly putting a puzzle together, I do two things.

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Speaker 1: One I'm marvel that she can stick with this, and second,

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Speaker 1: I notice that she puts the frame first. I've never

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Speaker 1: done a puzzle, don't intend to, but if I ever do.

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Speaker 1: She taught me that you start with the frame. Five

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Speaker 1: letter word f r am me. You start with the frame.

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Speaker 1: Do you know the author of Hebrews said that the

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Speaker 1: worlds were framed by the word of God. That everything

603
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Speaker 1: we see, I'm in it now. I'm in it now,

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Speaker 1: That everything we see visibly is made by something that

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Speaker 1: God spoke invisibly, that the worlds were framed by the

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Speaker 1: word of God that he told the sunshine. Sun said yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: He told the moon, now it's your turn, and the

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Speaker 1: moon said, I'll do it when you need me to

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Speaker 1: do it. He told the fish to flap around, he

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Speaker 1: told the birds to elevate. Everything in created order understands

611
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Speaker 1: when God speaks. Stop speaking against what God has spoken

612
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: over life, because it's a war of words, and you

613
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: have become your own worst enemy. You know, there's only

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Speaker 1: two characters in Exodus four. It's God and Moses and

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Speaker 1: the bush. I reckon the bush deserves a shout out.

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Speaker 1: Is burning up and not burning down. I mean, that's

617
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Speaker 1: pretty good special effects. And I guess there's four. There's

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Speaker 1: the staff. There's the stick, which becomes significant later in

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Speaker 1: his life. But he doesn't know that yet. See, you

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Speaker 1: don't know yet, You don't know yet. When the Lord said,

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Speaker 1: what is that in your hand? Remember, he said, who

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Speaker 1: are you? Lord? Who am I? An amazing turn of

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Speaker 1: events in Exodus chapter four Moses. Next objection was, when

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Speaker 1: I go to my people and tell them that I

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Speaker 1: met with you and they weren't here to see it.

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Speaker 1: What if they say to me, you are on drugs.

627
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Speaker 1: You saw bush, This is psychedelics. This is not scripture.

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Speaker 1: You saw bush burning up. And the Lord said, I am,

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Speaker 1: And there's so much to study here. Would y'all be

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Speaker 1: cool if we did a whole series one day on

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Speaker 1: the God of Moses. I want to do it. I

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Speaker 1: did God of Jacob years ago, and then I put

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Speaker 1: that verse in the song. I'm calling on the God

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Speaker 1: of Moses, the one who opened up the ocean. Now,

635
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Speaker 1: if you hear it like that, it sounds like Moses

636
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Speaker 1: opened the ocean. Sounds like Moses opened the ocean. He

637
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: was so mighty and strong, you had such great faith.

638
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the same guy, the guy who said

639
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Speaker 1: I can't even talk straight. It was God that opened

640
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Speaker 1: the ocean. It's God that's going to do it for you.

641
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: You hear me. It is God that works in you

642
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: to will and to do according to his good pleasure.

643
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: It is God. It is his word that does the work.

644
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Speaker 1: So he said, who am I? You've been wondering that

645
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Speaker 1: hadn't you You really wonder when you have to transition

646
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: and identity. I'm a shepherd, now I'm supposed to be

647
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Speaker 1: a spokesman before that, Moses, we don't have time to

648
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Speaker 1: do it, but will do it. In the series, Moses

649
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: was known as a murderer because before he learned how

650
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Speaker 1: to manage what God had called him to, before he

651
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: knew what to do with that. A lot of the

652
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: mistakes you make early in your life, you have the

653
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: wrong response, but it's for the right reason. He saw

654
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: one of his fellow Hebrews getting beat by an Egyptian,

655
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Speaker 1: and he killed a man and hit him in the sand.

656
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Speaker 1: Now he's been in hiding forty years and the Lord comes.

657
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: He hasn't to anybody in four hundred years, and the

658
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: word comes. Are you open to a better word? Or

659
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: are you so addicted to your excuses? Three categories? Right?

660
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: Who am I? Let's look at these? That speaks of

661
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: his preparation. Who am I? I'm not ready for this?

662
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: Who am I? And then he wants to know who

663
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: are you? That's information. I don't know who you are. God,

664
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Speaker 1: I don't know enough to do this. Nobody gave me

665
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: a class for pastoring the church through a global pandemic.

666
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: Nobody if they did that class, I skipped that day.

667
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: And nobody gave you a class for some of the

668
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: stuff you're going through. Either, nobody tells you how to

669
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Speaker 1: survive the loss of somebody who was your life a

670
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: missing pieces, missing pieces? Who am I? I'm not ready? Preparation,

671
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: Who are you information? Lord? I don't even know the

672
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: Book of Ruth from a baby Ruth. Lord, I'm just

673
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 1: new to the That's fine, that's fine, That's fine because

674
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: God wants to show you how you cannot know and

675
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: still go. This word is so real for somebody, and

676
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: I don't know who is for. I don't have to

677
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: know who is for. I just got to preach it

678
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: and then the Holy Spirit of God will apply it

679
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: to that area of your life where you're insecure, because look,

680
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: Moses is like, I can't talk. That's a very specific thing.

681
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: But really what he's dealing with is what if they

682
00:46:54,360 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: don't believe me? That's validation. Are you one of those

683
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: in your life? Today? Let's go through them slowly and

684
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: you can write these down and ask the Lord to

685
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: speak to you about them throughout this week. Preparation, Lord,

686
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: Who am I to do this? I wouldn't. This is

687
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: not my story. But you may be saying this. I

688
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: wasn't even raised right, How do I raise kids myself?

689
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: I don't have any experience owning a business. Here I

690
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: am God in I didn't see this comment preparation information?

691
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: Who are you? God? What do I not know? You know?

692
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 1: The ones who are in the worst trouble who are

693
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: here in this word today, the ones who have made

694
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Speaker 1: their own picture of what they think their situation is

695
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: supposed to look like. And they built that picture based

696
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: on somebody else's puzzle. And you are going to spend

697
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: the rest of your life thinking that you're missing pieces

698
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: because you are trying to build somebody else his picture.

699
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: And so not who and so now now God has

700
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: you here, and God wants to teach you the art

701
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: of going forward when you don't know where, Abraham, when

702
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: you don't know how, Moses, and God's answer is pathetic

703
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: if you think about it. What's that in your hand?

704
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: You mean my stick? Then I'm only holding because I

705
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: fled to Egypt and had to work for Jethrow, because

706
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: I made the mistake of murdering someone because I didn't

707
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: know how to do it. And I read that over

708
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: and over again this week, thinking about your stick, thinking

709
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: about your mistake, and the Lord said clearly to me

710
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: to tell you He's going to turn the mistake into

711
00:48:54,960 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: a miracle. No, no, no, no no, I'm not saying

712
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 1: God's gonna work around it. I'm saying he's actually gonna

713
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: use it. Because you're like, okay, well, I'll praise God anyway.

714
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,439
Speaker 1: I hate life, I hate myself, but God is good.

715
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: That's attractive. That will win a world to Jesus. Yeah,

716
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he bled on the cross for. He's

717
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: already been through all of them. Look, you might have

718
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: to move forward in this season of your life without preparation,

719
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: and you might have to figure it out as you go.

720
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: You might have to read books at night. You might

721
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: have to read you might you might have to you

722
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: might have to read books period. All right. You might

723
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: have to ask people. You might have to get honest

724
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: and say to somebody like, hey, man, I gotta be

725
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: honest with you know anything about managing money. I'm driving

726
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: this because I'm so stupid that I signed up for

727
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand percent interest. By the way, I'm gonna

728
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: bring Dave Ramsey in a couple of weeks to help

729
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: y'all with all that. All right, all right, so that'll

730
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: be good, but you might have to get honest and say,

731
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not prepared for this. I don't

732
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: have this right now. But don't think that just because

733
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: you don't know it right now doesn't mean you can't

734
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: grow in it. You can. You can't. You can't, you can't.

735
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: The devil is a liar. And and and don't think

736
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: you need to know everything when God said, when God,

737
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: when Moses said, huh, tell me who you are? You

738
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 1: know what God told him? I am I love the Lord.

739
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: Can you be more specific? No? Nope, Because every situation

740
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: I put you in that is too big for you.

741
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: You are gonna see another dimension of who I am.

742
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: I am gone, I'm too big for your box. I am,

743
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 1: I am Resurrection, I am Water, I am the great

744
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: I am, and the great I am. It's bigger than

745
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: all your little I'm not. That's why I came in

746
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: his presence today, and that's why when some people are

747
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: standing there looking at the song, I'm letting it wash

748
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: over me because I need those words from God. I

749
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: need a spoken and sun over me. I need it

750
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: in my heart because y'all, honestly, I'm bad at words,

751
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 1: not the ones I say. I'm good at those most

752
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: of the time, bad at the ones that I say

753
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: to myself, I'm stepping in moses shoes today. I'm asking

754
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: you to do the same INChO what are you not

755
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: and what what you're not have to do with who

756
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: God is. I got to meet somebody so inspirational the

757
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: other day who was blind shortly after birth and it's

758
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: been blind all their life, and they were saying how

759
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: how their mom, meaning well went around to all these

760
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: different churches to get him healed. And he said, up

761
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: until about age nine, he went along with it, and

762
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: they would put oil on his eyes and he said

763
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: it would just burn. I didn't get any better. And

764
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm not saying God can't heal, and I'm not saying

765
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: any of this is bad. But this was his story

766
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: and I was listening to it, and I thought this

767
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: is crazy because he finally said to his mom, and

768
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: I think he was about Abbey's age nine or ten,

769
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, he said, Mom, one night, his

770
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: mom was crying and praying God, please heal my boy.

771
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: Heal my boy, heal my boy, here my boy, And

772
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for mom to pray. And who

773
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't pray that? And you know, I'm not saying that

774
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: God causes this or God causes that. The Lord said,

775
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: you always identify me by what I give you, and

776
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: sometimes I want you to know me in what I

777
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: didn't give you. Is it not I? And he said

778
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: I heard my mom crying and I finally went in

779
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: and said, Mom, you are giving me a headache. You're

780
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: crying so much. Did you ever think maybe God made

781
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: me this way for a reason and he has something

782
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: for me to do? And then a few minutes later,

783
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: he was telling me about songs he wrote like Love's

784
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: in need of love today And I just called to

785
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: say I love you, and superstition, it was Stevie Wonder, y'all,

786
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: it was Stevie Wonder. Stevie said that. Stevie Wonder said that,

787
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,280
Speaker 1: he said, Mom, you ever think maybe God has something

788
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: for me to do just like I am? And I'm

789
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: thinking Stevie was right. Huh. I'm thinking he was right.

790
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: And I think how horrible it would be if those

791
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 1: songs didn't exist because he didn't have his sight. You

792
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: probably won't ever write a song as good as Stevie.

793
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,959
Speaker 1: In fact, I can say this, you will never write

794
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: a song as good as Steevee, and neither will I.

795
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: But something in you will go unsung if what is

796
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: in your hand goes unstretched. Because when Moses said, I

797
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: have never I've never been good at this, that was

798
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: the fourth That was the fourth one. It was a limitation,

799
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: and God got angry. God got angry. You think I

800
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: don't know that about you? You think I put you

801
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: in a sky without wings. I gave you what I

802
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: wanted you to have. And since you're so insistent on

803
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 1: being insecure, since you don't believe me about all this. Now,

804
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: Moses has already seen a lot. He turned his staff

805
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: into a snake. He still isn't convinced. He put his

806
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,439
Speaker 1: hand in his cloak, it came out lepros Ah, put

807
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: it back in. It came out here. That's crazy. But

808
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: he still doesn't want to go. And it comes out

809
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: in this moment. Send someone else, not me, God not me,

810
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: not me. It's a war of words. See, the Lord

811
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: keeps speaking over you, not only that you're gonna make it.

812
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 1: He keeps telling you you're doing better than you think

813
00:55:54,960 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: you are, and you won't believe him. He keeps telling

814
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: you put it in my hands, I'll deal with it,

815
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: and you won't believe him. It's a war of words.

816
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: It's a war of words, and which one will win,

817
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:17,320
Speaker 1: which one will win. So we're standing in this in

818
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,959
Speaker 1: this scene with Moses and his shoes, and the Lord

819
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: told me to ask you, are you ready to make

820
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: peace with the way things are, believing that God can

821
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: use it somehow for his glory, or are you gonna

822
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:37,280
Speaker 1: let one missing peace to find the rest of your life.

823
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: One thing we learn about from a puzzle is that

824
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: something can be in pieces on purpose. If God is

825
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 1: only giving you one thing at a time, do one

826
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: thing at a time. We just released an album on Friday,

827
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 1: another Shameless Plug I Loved album. We wrote it one

828
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 1: song at a time, one verse at a one word,

829
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: one syllable, one note at a don That's how it works.

830
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: You are not supposed to know where God is gonna

831
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: have you in twenty years. It's a five letter word.

832
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: It's called faith. And if you will go, God said,

833
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send Aaron to help you. I'm gonna send

834
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: somebody to help you. I love it because I read

835
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: Moses saying send somebody else, send God. It's like, okay,

836
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: I'll send your brother. I will send a partner into

837
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: your life for the pieces that you don't have. I

838
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: will send people into your life who have the pieces

839
00:57:53,040 --> 00:58:02,439
Speaker 1: that you don't have. But you've got to receive this word. God.

840
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: Make me more like the moon. Let me hang where

841
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: you told me to hang. God, Make me more like

842
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: the birds who sore where I'm supposed to soar. Make

843
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: me more God. Make if this isn't too much that,

844
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: make me like a bean sprout who knows how to

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Speaker 1: come forth when you call it. God. Make me more

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Speaker 1: like Jesus, who is the image of God, who knew

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Speaker 1: that even in his life, even in his human existence,

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Speaker 1: when he laid aside his privilege as God and took

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Speaker 1: on flesh the word incarnate to be with you to

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Speaker 1: fulfill the great I am, God said, whatever you're not,

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Speaker 1: I am whatever you're You don't I do? You keep

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Speaker 1: saying I don't, God says, I do. This is a

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Speaker 1: weird wedding ceremony. I don't I do. I don't I do,

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Speaker 1: I don't I do. I don't think I can make it.

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Speaker 1: I do think you can make it. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to do. I do know what to do. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how it's gonna happen. I do know how

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. All I'm trying to say is who

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Speaker 1: made your mouth? Why you keep saying stuff that goes

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Speaker 1: against what the one who made you spoke over you.

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Speaker 1: Why would you line up against yourself. It's a war

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Speaker 1: of words, and I'm on the winning's side because the

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Speaker 1: final word over my life was spoken before my first

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Speaker 1: breath was breathed. I said the final word over my life.

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Speaker 1: God's got the big picture, and the final word over

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Speaker 1: my life is spoken, and all of his promises are

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Speaker 1: yes and Amen. Now just stand up and lift your

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Speaker 1: hands right where you are. This is a God moment.

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Speaker 1: This is a God word. This is a God word,

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Speaker 1: This is a God thing. This is a God intersection.

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Speaker 1: This is a burning bush, this is holy ground. This

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Speaker 1: is time for you decide to decide. Are you gonna

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna make peace with the missing pieces who

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Speaker 1: didn't love you? I'm sorry they didn't love you, but

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Speaker 1: that doesn't get to stop you. I'm sorry they left you,

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Speaker 1: but God didn't I'm sorry that it hurts, but he's

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Speaker 1: a healer. I'm sorry you're broken, but there is a

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Speaker 1: ball in Gilead. When all we see is broken pieces,

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Speaker 1: God sees the big picture. And what is that in

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Speaker 1: your hand? I'll see I got this stick, I got

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Speaker 1: this situation, I made this mistake, I got these doubts.

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Speaker 1: And the Lord says, if you want to see what

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Speaker 1: my hand can do, I want you to stop speaking

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Speaker 1: against what I put in your hand. We're gonna work

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Speaker 1: on this. We're gonna work this word deeper and deeper

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Speaker 1: into our hearts. We're gonna work on this because it's

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Speaker 1: a war. You have no peace in your heart. You

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01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: keep saying, ah, when this happens, that happens, if this

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Speaker 1: didn't happen, if they come, when they acknowledge, when they see,

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Speaker 1: when I get this, But the Lord says, I want

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Speaker 1: you to be at peace right now. And I know

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Speaker 1: there's some things you don't know, and I know there's

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Speaker 1: some questions. Have you know how we get there? And say, Oh,

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Speaker 1: when I get to God, I'm gonna ask him a

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. You're not going to ask God anything

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Speaker 1: except why did I let the devil beat me? Up

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Speaker 1: so bad when you're this big? Who are you? Who

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Speaker 1: are you? Now? Lift your hands again. I know you

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Speaker 1: didn't keep them up that whole time. Show me who

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Speaker 1: you are, God, Show me who I am. I'm not

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Speaker 1: waiting on something else, because that that'd be crazy for

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Speaker 1: me to wait to have peace until there's peace in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, peace and other parts of the world.

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Speaker 1: Know God, let it begin in my wort, and I

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Speaker 1: thank you for how you made me. Would you say

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Speaker 1: that out loud? Thank you for how you made me

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Speaker 1: missing pieces? And all you ever thought those missing pieces

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Speaker 1: were a space for God to fill? Maybe it is.

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Speaker 1: If you have heard this word today and you have

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Speaker 1: never taken the moment to put your faith in Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: I want to give you the opportunity right now to

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Speaker 1: give him your life. He is what you've been missing.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is what you have been missing. And no matter

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Speaker 1: what you achieve, what you chase, what you earn, what

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Speaker 1: you do, you are never going to have peace in

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Speaker 1: your heart until you receive Jesus as your Lord and savior. Never.

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Speaker 1: I believe God brought us together for this moment so

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Speaker 1: I could lead you in this prayer. Now. The Bible

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Speaker 1: doesn't say if you do seven things you'll be right

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Speaker 1: with God. The Bible doesn't say that if you'll change

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Speaker 1: your life that you'll be right with God. The Bible

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Speaker 1: says that it is by grace we are saved through faith.

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Speaker 1: It is the gift of God, not of work, so

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Speaker 1: that no one can boast. We all need Jesus and today,

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Speaker 1: if you're ready to place your faith in Him and

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Speaker 1: turn from your sin and trust him with your life,

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Speaker 1: the Bible says that if you confess with your mouth

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Speaker 1: Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart God raised

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Speaker 1: him from the dead, you will be saved. Heads bowed,

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Speaker 1: eyes close. All around the world, this is an encounter.

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Speaker 1: This is a burning bush moment. This is you and God.

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Speaker 1: He brought you here. You've been missing peace. This is

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Speaker 1: the missing peace. This is what you've been looking for.

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Speaker 1: This is what you've been searching for. And while you

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Speaker 1: were looking for God, God was looking for you. There.

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Speaker 1: He is in this moment to meet with you and

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Speaker 1: call you. So, if that's your heart I'm speaking to,

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Speaker 1: I want you to pray after me. I'm gonna pray

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Speaker 1: and I want you to repeat after me. We're praying

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Speaker 1: out loud as a church family. For those who are

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Speaker 1: coming to God, are coming back to God. Repeat after me,

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Speaker 1: Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior,

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Speaker 1: and I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

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Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

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Speaker 1: I believe you die that I could be forgiven and

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Speaker 1: rose again to give me life. This is my new beginning.

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Speaker 1: On three, shoot your hand up if you pray that

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Speaker 1: with me. One two, three, Shoot him up, Shoot him

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Speaker 1: up in the room, shoot him up in the chat.

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Speaker 1: Let's give God praise. That's awesome, that's amazing. Come on,

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Speaker 1: Let's give him a better praise than that. Let's give

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Speaker 1: him a better pray. Give him your best phrase all day. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate,

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Speaker 1: others by investing today at Elevationchurch dot org, slash give

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Speaker 1: and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.