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Speaker 1: It's not only a time of worship, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: Okay, so Hershey, Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Columbus, Ohio,

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Speaker 5: Many of you you expected Pastor Stephen to walk up.

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Speaker 5: And there was a collective side for some of the room,

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Speaker 5: like it's okay, my name is Larry Bribe, but everybody

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Speaker 5: calls me LB and my wife and I had the

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Speaker 5: distinct privilege of being one of the original eight families

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Speaker 5: that got a chance to sell our homes. He quit

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Speaker 5: her jobs eighteen years ago to start Elevation Church and

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Speaker 5: man like, I want to see what God has done

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Speaker 5: eighteen years of servant.

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Speaker 3: Baby, look what look around, Look what God has done?

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Speaker 3: And thank you.

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Speaker 5: Before we started this ministry, we got on our knees.

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Speaker 5: There were no people, We had nothing, no money. We

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Speaker 5: had a blank page, but not a blank check it

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Speaker 5: was and we got on the knees and we just prayed,

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Speaker 5: Lord like, bring to people. Yeah we didn't know you,

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Speaker 5: we didn't, but God saw you. God saw you in Gaston,

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Speaker 5: God saw you in Rono. God saw you, and He's

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Speaker 5: set this moment on your calendar to be here today

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Speaker 5: to hear a word, and I'm excited to deliver it.

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Speaker 5: Here here's the verse I want to give you to

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Speaker 5: set up what we're doing today. But before we get

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Speaker 5: into that, I do need to say thank you Pastor Stephen.

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Speaker 5: Thank you Pastor Stephen for faithfully leading this ministry, being

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Speaker 5: my pastor for twenty years. Thank you for faithfully standing

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Speaker 5: in the pulprit every week preaching the word of God.

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Speaker 5: I remember Gosh byab A Budt seventeen years ago. He came,

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Speaker 5: he said, LB, I need you to do this and

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Speaker 5: I looked at him and said, I don't think I

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Speaker 5: can do that. He said, well, I guess if you

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Speaker 5: don't believe it, you'll have to have faith that I've

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Speaker 5: got enough belief for both of us.

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Speaker 3: I think you can do it, So go do it.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for being that kind of leader who push

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Speaker 5: us us out.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, honor you love you, Pastor Stephen.

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Speaker 5: First Amuel fourteen, chapter one, Just one verse to te

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Speaker 5: off where we want to go with this. This is

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Speaker 5: one day Jonathan, son of Saul, said to his young

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Speaker 5: on the other side. But he did not tell his father.

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Speaker 5: Here's the title for today's message. You can pick out

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Speaker 5: your favorite person around you only get one, say I'm

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Speaker 5: coming with. You can look to your second favor. Don't

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Speaker 5: make him feel left out and rejected. Look at him,

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Speaker 5: say I'm coming with. After you've given out at least

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Speaker 3: Think you worship team. In this passage of scripture, you've

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Speaker 5: Young man named Jonathan. He is the son of Saul,

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Speaker 5: who is the king of nation Israel. The king had

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Speaker 3: He was rejected as king. It would no longer be king.

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Speaker 5: Samuel, he had woken the dog the Philistines, and he

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Speaker 5: best fighting men to hide underneath the pomegranate tree. Sir,

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Speaker 5: here you got the king, the leader of Nation Israel,

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Speaker 5: So he's looking at his father's rejection that also forced

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Speaker 5: And some of you are looking at a situation that

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Speaker 5: that can make you go one direction or another. As

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Speaker 3: Is to be with my dad. If he's going somewhere,

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Speaker 3: I'd be like, I'm coming with, grab my little hat, jumping.

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Speaker 5: wouldn't I wouldn't notice all the times that we'd be

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Speaker 5: I grew up in Minnesota, where it's like really cold.

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Speaker 5: I said, I wonder what he's doing in there. I

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Speaker 3: Of the building. It was called the Delroy.

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Speaker 5: that moment that I saw my dad's humanity and he

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Speaker 5: But if I look back, that was a defining moment

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Speaker 5: I felt like, if I could have just done it better,

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Speaker 5: the orphan spirit today. Anybody who's ever lived with rejection

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Speaker 5: if you think about the picture of an orphan, here's

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Speaker 3: You're at an orphanage.

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Speaker 5: All right, kids, somebody is coming today, so put on

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Speaker 5: Best clothes, you're on your best behavior, and you don't

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Speaker 3: You're good enough.

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Speaker 5: If I could have just been a little bit taller,

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Speaker 5: if I had have won more trophies, if I would

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Speaker 5: And I want to talk about the orphan spirit today

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Speaker 5: because some if you are a grown man or a woman,

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Speaker 5: Why Because I have walked with this orphan spirit all

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Speaker 3: Did you know the first orphan is Satan. He wanted

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Speaker 5: He was jealous of his worship, so he tries to

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Speaker 5: somebody else. And because of that, Satan was rejected and

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Speaker 5: he was sent down.

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Speaker 3: He was thrown down. It says this in Revelation chapter twelve,

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Speaker 5: It says, for the accuser Satan, for the accused of

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Speaker 5: day and night has been hurled down. So the very

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Speaker 5: rejection that Satan experience is what he uses to attack you.

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Speaker 5: I believe one of the primary assignments of the enemy

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Speaker 5: feel it. Here's the story that's painted in Revelation chapter twelve, verseent.

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Speaker 5: He is accusing you day and night before God. So

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Speaker 5: with picture Satan staying before God, like.

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Speaker 3: Did you see JJ? Did you see what he did?

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Speaker 5: Did you hear him? Did you see the way he's looking?

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Speaker 5: And he is hurling insults day and night.

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Speaker 3: It is relentless in the attack of how he's accusing you.

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Speaker 5: He's saying they're not worth loving. Did you see how

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Speaker 5: To they said they're a follower of Jesus, and then

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Speaker 3: Come on, Jesus, come on, look it down. They're now

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Speaker 5: That's what the accuser is doing day and night with you.

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Speaker 5: And what does our God do with that accusation. He

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Speaker 5: does to you what he did to his son. He

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Speaker 5: said of Jesus, before he did any public ministry, this

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Speaker 5: is my son in whom I am well pleased. Before

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Speaker 3: We have a God who looks at you and said,

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Speaker 3: that's my son, that's my daughter. Shut your pie hole.

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Speaker 3: That's the accuser.

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Speaker 5: Relentlessly attacking your character, and he's got good evidence to

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Speaker 5: because when you are the Lord's son or daughter, no

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Speaker 3: That's the message of the gospel. I remember when my son.

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Speaker 5: Corbin, a couple of years ago, he had a bully

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Speaker 5: starting fights on the bus. And Corbin told me about

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Speaker 5: and I said, listen, never start a fight, but if

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Speaker 5: you start to finish it, I said, don't go looking

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Speaker 5: for a fight, but you don't let evil back you.

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Speaker 3: Into a corner.

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Speaker 5: And you always defend people who cannot defend themselves. And

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Speaker 5: maybe not James Dobson approved, but it's what I got.

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Speaker 5: And so my wife and I were at breakfast one

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Speaker 5: knew exactly what it was, and the prince were like,

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Speaker 5: your son, he's been in a fight. Get down to school.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, yes, I will. So I come into

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Speaker 3: Like reading Dad, like how is Dad going to respond?

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Speaker 3: You know that look?

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Speaker 5: Some of you have that way where you look at

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Speaker 5: God and I need to challenge your perception of how

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Speaker 5: I wonder why you're getting in a traffic gym because

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Speaker 5: And some of you have become really good at this response,

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Speaker 3: You have predetermined the answer. Now, what's the question. The

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Speaker 5: I have been praying that the words of the Orthan

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Speaker 3: What if they don't like me? He's so looking out

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Speaker 5: Here's what I want to teach you, the gift of

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Speaker 3: I am self aware. How do you see me? Oh?

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Speaker 5: I shouldn't have said that. But the orphan, Oh you're wrong,

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Speaker 5: You need to understand that God always validates the identity.

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Speaker 5: But the spirit of a son or a daughter, No, no, no,

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Speaker 5: it'll make you self aware.

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Speaker 3: You're right. I shouldn't have said that. God, I'm sorry,

443
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Speaker 3: Please forgive me versus. Oh, you're a horrible person. God

444
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Speaker 3: is gracious.

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Speaker 5: He's continuing this conversation because he wants to bring Moses

446
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Speaker 5: along with this journey. He's not just giving him a

447
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Speaker 5: one and done. Some of you feel like God's one

448
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Speaker 5: and done with me. He gave you that chance.

449
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Speaker 3: I'm on to the next.

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Speaker 5: That's not our God, that's not what I just see

451
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Speaker 5: displayed in the scriptures. I see a God who's in

452
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Speaker 5: the conversation, who's with you, who's walking alongside of you. Yes,

453
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Speaker 5: you bring him ninety nine excuses. He's gonna keep coming

454
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Speaker 5: to you one hundred times, and so the conversation continues.

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Speaker 5: In verse eighteen, he says this, Yes, he says, the

456
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Speaker 5: elders of Israel will listen to you. God says to Moses,

457
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Speaker 5: he says, then you and the elders are to go

458
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Speaker 5: to the King of Egypt and say to him, the Lord,

459
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Speaker 5: the God of.

460
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Speaker 3: The Keepers, has met us.

461
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Speaker 5: Let us take a three day journey into the willingness

462
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Speaker 5: to offer sacrifices to the Lord, our God. But I

463
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Speaker 5: know that the King of Egypt will not let you

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Speaker 5: go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will

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Speaker 5: stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all

466
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Speaker 5: the wonders that I perform among them, and then he

467
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Speaker 5: will let you go.

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Speaker 3: Moses, do you see.

469
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Speaker 5: That I'm going to provide for you? Do you see

470
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Speaker 5: that I'm going to make every way for you? Do

471
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Speaker 5: you see that I'm the one running this thing?

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Speaker 3: Anyway?

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Speaker 5: All you have to do is show up. Here's Moses's response,

474
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Speaker 5: first one of chapter four, and Moses answer, what if

475
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Speaker 5: they don't believe me? You're listen to me and they

476
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Speaker 5: say the Lord did not appear to you. The third

477
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Speaker 5: sound of the orphan spirit is they won't accept me.

478
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Speaker 5: I think that's what Moses is saying here. There's a

479
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Speaker 5: profound sense of rejection. Rejection. Here's the reality when you're

480
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Speaker 5: comes into your life. Because we all start out. I

481
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 5: think showing up with high expectations. I'm expecting, and then

482
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Speaker 5: you get punched in the mouth and you get rejection.

483
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Speaker 3: What happens to your expectations.

484
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Speaker 5: You lower them to the level of your expirit so

485
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Speaker 5: you no longer experience disappointment anymore. Some of you started

486
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Speaker 5: out with an expectation that would make you rise up.

487
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 5: Now it's fall into the place where you're tripping over it.

488
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Speaker 5: Not because you don't love God. You fear rejection. We

489
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Speaker 5: talked about projection. I want to talk about projection because

490
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Speaker 5: those of us that are familiar with rejection, we project

491
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Speaker 5: I am going to reject you before you reject me,

492
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Speaker 5: because I don't want to go through that anymore. That's

493
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Speaker 5: why you're on your third marriage. That's why you can't

494
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Speaker 5: keep friends. That's why you keep popping from church to

495
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Speaker 5: church to church, because you are protecting yourself. You're prejecting.

496
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Speaker 5: I don't want experience that again. So rather than go

497
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Speaker 5: through it, I will keep you at a distance, and

498
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Speaker 5: I with it gets too close, I will reject you.

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Speaker 3: Because I don't I don't know if that will be

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Speaker 3: accept it.

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Speaker 5: How many of us are orphans living in a place

502
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Speaker 5: of such fear of rejection. It does not let us

503
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Speaker 5: receive the love of the people that are around us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: One person clapped. I appreciate that, And God continues in

506
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Speaker 5: verse eight. Is this helping anybody?

507
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Speaker 3: Thank you?

508
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Speaker 5: Verse eight of chapter four. Then the Lord said, look

509
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Speaker 5: how gracious God is. He's putting up with all of

510
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Speaker 5: his excuses.

511
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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah. I'd be like on with them

512
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Speaker 3: enough already. But God is so gracious.

513
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Speaker 5: And he says, if they don't believe you and pay

514
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Speaker 5: attention to the first sign, they will maybe believe the second.

515
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Speaker 5: But if they don't believe these two signs, or listen,

516
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Speaker 5: do you take some water from the nile, pour down

517
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Speaker 5: on the dry ground. The water you take from the

518
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Speaker 5: river will become blood in the ground. Now, Moses says,

519
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Speaker 5: verse ten, pardon your servant, Lord, I've never been eloquent,

520
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Speaker 5: neither in the past nor since I've spoken.

521
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Speaker 3: To your servant.

522
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Speaker 5: I am slow and speech and tongue. Here's the sound

523
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Speaker 5: of the orphan there. It's like, I'm not enough. Here's

524
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Speaker 5: what scarcity does in our lives and rejection does. It

525
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Speaker 5: starts with I don't have enough, it moves on to

526
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Speaker 5: I'm not good enough. Then eventually it stands in the

527
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Speaker 5: place of I'll never be enough. We grew up really poor,

528
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Speaker 5: like free government cheese, poor as a kid, and so

529
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Speaker 5: that mindset of an orphan who had no money.

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Speaker 3: I might be able to buy new clothes right now,

531
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Speaker 3: but I still feel like a third grader eating a

532
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Speaker 3: cheese sandwich. I remember we were so poor.

533
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Speaker 5: When I would go to the gas station, I will

534
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Speaker 5: only put two dollars worth of gas in that a time,

535
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Speaker 5: because that's all I could afford. I remember in college

536
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Speaker 5: I got a credit card. Don't do that, don't give

537
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Speaker 5: your kid a credit card. And I remember using my

538
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Speaker 5: credit card for the very first time. I go to

539
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Speaker 5: the gas station. I'm like, I'm putting ten dollars worth

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Speaker 5: of gas in this car. I have lived in large

541
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Speaker 5: today ten bucks in the car, baby, and I run

542
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Speaker 5: the card and I'm staring at the thing. I've been

543
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Speaker 5: waiting my whole life to say, not approved in every

544
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Speaker 5: area of my life because the reality is, it wasn't

545
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Speaker 5: my fear that my dad didn't love me. The deepest

546
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Speaker 5: fear is I wasn't worth loving. And when that orphan

547
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Speaker 5: spirit drowns you into the ground and beats you up,

548
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Speaker 5: it makes you feel like you're not even worth loving

549
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Speaker 5: because I'm not good enough. And then God still doesn't

550
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Speaker 5: give up on him.

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Speaker 3: Most as you're my boy, most as I got you.

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Speaker 5: I picked you not because you're eloquent, not because you're good,

553
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Speaker 5: because you're mind.

554
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Speaker 3: I picked you because I'm sovereign and your mind.

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Speaker 5: If I were looking for eloquence, I would have passed

556
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Speaker 5: by you long ago. But the way God picks is

557
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Speaker 5: not what you and I use. And so God comes

558
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Speaker 5: to him another time, and he said, if God says

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Speaker 5: this in verse eleven, he says, the Lord said to him,

560
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Speaker 5: who gave human beings their mouths? God is like stepping

561
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Speaker 5: the the game. Who gave them their mouths? Who made

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Speaker 5: them deaf or mute? Who gives them sir or makes

563
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Speaker 5: them blind?

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Speaker 3: Is it not I? The Lord? Now go, I will

565
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Speaker 3: help you speak and teach you what to say. God's

566
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Speaker 3: like I got all your excuses covered. Verse thirteen. Moses

567
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Speaker 3: has pardoned your servant, Lord, Please send someone else.

568
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Speaker 5: I think the fifth sound of the orphan spirit, the

569
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Speaker 5: orphan heart is I'm going to fail, and some of

570
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Speaker 5: you will always play it safe because you never want

571
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Speaker 5: to fail, because the reality is when you live life

572
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Speaker 5: is an orphan It's one thing between failing and the

573
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Speaker 5: whole other thing to be a fail year.

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Speaker 3: That's what the orphan spirit does.

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Speaker 5: And outside of Christ, we would close the book and

576
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Speaker 5: we'd be done with a sermon, because that's all this

577
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Speaker 5: available as orphan spirits. But the story does not end there,

578
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Speaker 5: because we serve a great God, and there's a whole

579
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Speaker 5: other side of the sermon. And I'm about to preach.

580
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 5: I'm about to show you the God that we serve.

581
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Speaker 5: I'm about to bring the God who loves you.

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Speaker 3: For your life.

583
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Speaker 5: Some of you so identify, and I get the moments

584
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Speaker 5: of silence because I'm getting really close. Because the orphan

585
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Speaker 5: spirit is an equal opportunity employer.

586
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Speaker 3: The matter race age is going to try to enslave

587
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Speaker 3: every single one of you.

588
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Speaker 5: But here's the scripture I want to speak over you

589
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 5: is in Romans chapter eight, verses fourteen to seventeen. This

590
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Speaker 5: is the good News of the Gospel. Here it says,

591
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Speaker 5: for those who are led by the Spirit of God

592
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Speaker 5: are the children of God.

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Speaker 3: Oh this makes me happy just reading this. The spirit

594
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Speaker 3: you received does not make you slave, so that you

595
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Speaker 3: live in fear again.

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Speaker 5: You see what he's speaking there because the orphan spirit

597
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Speaker 5: is what happens outside of Jesus. It can still be

598
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Speaker 5: what you go to in Jesus because it makes you

599
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Speaker 5: a slave, and it's driven by fear. That's the orphan spirit.

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Speaker 5: That's the old spirit. That's the one that died. But

601
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 5: he keeps popping his head back up. That's how you were.

602
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 5: But this is not who you have to be. And

603
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 5: he says, so that you live in fear. But the spirit, rather,

604
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 5: the spirit you received, brought about your.

605
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Speaker 3: Adoption to sonship. And by him we cry abba Father.

606
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 5: The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit though we are

607
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Speaker 5: God's children. Now, if we are children, then we are heirs,

608
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Speaker 5: heirs of God and co heirs of Christ.

609
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Speaker 3: That is good news. That means that all who have

610
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 3: received the Holy Spirit have been adopted and we have

611
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Speaker 3: the right to become children of God.

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Speaker 5: Not because of your performance, because the orphan spirit is

613
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Speaker 5: always trying to prove itself through the performance. If I

614
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Speaker 5: could just do it a little bit better, if I

615
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 5: could say it a little bit more articulate, maybe just

616
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Speaker 5: maybe I'd get picked. That's not what it means to

617
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Speaker 5: be adopted as son or daughter of the Most I

618
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 5: got this, You're adopted into sonship. We do a lot

619
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Speaker 5: of ship in church, fellowship, discipleship, leadership, but it all

620
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Speaker 5: starts with sonship. That's the foundation for everything you'll build on.

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Speaker 3: Is that.

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Speaker 5: And I love the scripture that you've been adopted as

623
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Speaker 5: sons and daughters of the Most High God, and it

624
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Speaker 5: means that you are co heirs. Here's what that scripture

625
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Speaker 5: really means. It means you got access and you got inheritance.

626
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Speaker 5: You mean I am a co heir with Jesus. It

627
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Speaker 5: means I got all the access Jesus.

628
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Speaker 3: Have I have. You mean all the rights and benefits

629
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Speaker 3: that Jesus got I got.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that's the good news, son or daughter of the

631
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Speaker 5: Most that God.

632
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Speaker 3: You have that access and you have that inheritance.

633
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Speaker 5: That's for all of us who have received Jesus as

634
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Speaker 5: our lord and saver, being forgiven of our sins. We

635
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Speaker 5: have been adopted as sons and daughters of the Most God.

636
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Speaker 5: But here's what I realize is when I as a

637
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Speaker 5: pastor in anybody who wants to leave, when I'm driven

638
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Speaker 5: by the orphan spirit, I will build an orphanage and

639
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 5: not a church. Here's the reality I wish I could

640
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 5: say I have perfected this a week ago.

641
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Speaker 3: I get on my son so hard and.

642
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Speaker 5: It's completely me speaking from an orphan spirit, and I

643
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,959
Speaker 5: so hurt him. I had to go to him after

644
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 5: and say, man, I'm so sorry, buddy, forgive me for that.

645
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 3: I'm still in process.

646
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 5: I'm still in motion that little orphan and pops her

647
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 5: head up really often in my life. But what I

648
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 5: have through the person of Jesus is the ability to

649
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 5: take that thought captive, make it obedient to him and

650
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Speaker 5: how do I want to operate? So I had to

651
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 5: ask my son for forgiveness. I'm still working on it.

652
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 5: But for those of us who call Elevation Church home,

653
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Speaker 5: here's why you love this church so much. Because Pastor

654
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Speaker 5: Steven has been my pastor for twenty years.

655
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Speaker 3: But he's more than my pastor. He's my spiritual father.

656
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 5: He's the one that made me feel seen and known,

657
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 5: and he made me feel like I was home.

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Speaker 3: He made me feel like I belonged. And for all

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Speaker 3: of you that call Elevation Church home, aren't you glad

660
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Speaker 3: that we've got a pastor who's a father, who's creating

661
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Speaker 3: a house where you're gonna have to prove yourself in

662
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Speaker 3: this place. Oh my goodness. Oh, but I want to

663
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 3: take a second to say, how do you see God?

664
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 3: How do you see him?

665
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 5: Do you picture to him with a furrowed brow, arms crossed,

666
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 5: waiting in disappointment, judging every one of your decisions based

667
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 5: upon what's the image you see? Is it a face

668
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 5: filled with kindness? Or is it a distant God who

669
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 5: isn't personal to you? Because you'll never feel like you're

670
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 5: a son when your father is distant. So when we

671
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 5: use the term abba father, it's only used three times

672
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 5: in the New Testament. It's the most tender term of God.

673
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 5: It means father, it means dad, it means intimacy, It

674
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 5: means he's close, and it means he loves you, and

675
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 5: he means he's in this thing with you.

676
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 3: How do you picture God? Because I cannot see myself

677
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 3: as a son if I have a bad picture of

678
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 3: my father. Oh, I got to start with how do

679
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 3: I see God?

680
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 5: And I want to go to a familiar passage, but

681
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 5: I want to frame it through a way of helping

682
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 5: you learn how to see God differently. It's gonna be

683
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 5: the story of the prodigal son. Some of you you've

684
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 5: heard it so many times. Cool, that's fine. I want

685
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 5: to go through it in this way, and I want

686
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 5: you to.

687
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 3: See God a little bit different. Here's the review of

688
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 3: the story.

689
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 5: He's got two sons in this story of the prodigal Son.

690
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: It's out of Luke chapter fifteen.

691
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 5: The younger son is like, Dad, I wish you were dead,

692
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 5: because if you were dead then I could have your inheritance.

693
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 5: I don't want to wait until you're dead. So how

694
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 5: about you give it to me now so I can

695
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 5: go enjoy it. And here's the reality. God is good.

696
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 3: And sometimes you'll be asking God for what you want,

697
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 3: but it's not what you need. Oh, some of the

698
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 3: worst things that happened in your life is you got

699
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: what you wanted. Ah.

700
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 5: And he got what he wanted, and he went to

701
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 5: Vegas and he got naked and crazy.

702
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Speaker 1: Is that?

703
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 5: In the passage he goes off and he squanders this

704
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 5: living in wild living, squanders it and he wakes up

705
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 5: in a pig pen one day. Now, remember this is

706
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 5: the son who rejected his father. This is a good dad.

707
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 5: But he woke up in a pigpen and he starts

708
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 5: rehearsing his orphan speech. I'm no longer worthy to be

709
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 5: called your son. Treat me like one of your hired slaves.

710
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 3: Give me that, Give me that. Romans eighth fifteen passage again.

711
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 5: Says he said, the spirit you're received does not make

712
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 5: you slaves, so that you live in fear. Again, here's

713
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 5: a son who was loved by his father. Because of

714
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 5: his decisions, he woke up in a pig pen. I said,

715
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,720
Speaker 5: I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat

716
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 5: me like one of your hired slaves. And he starts

717
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 5: out in this journey to come back to his father.

718
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 5: Here's what I would want to speak over some of

719
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 5: you today. You did not come to church coming home

720
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 5: to the father. You are creating in the in image

721
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 5: of God. There's an indelible mark that's been left on you.

722
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 5: And though you are in a pig pen, there's something

723
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 5: that says I'm created for more than this.

724
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 3: That's the Holy Spirit prompting you, calling you back to

725
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 3: your father. That's the God that we serve.

726
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 5: Even in his lowest moment, he knew that if I

727
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 5: could just get back to my dad, I'm not worthy

728
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 5: to be called your son. But just if I can

729
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 5: get there, and he sets out in this journey, walking

730
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 5: this walk of shame, hands in his pocket, shuffling his feet,

731
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 5: head down, shoulders slumped, the posture of an orphan who

732
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 5: doesn't feel good enough to be picked. And in the passage,

733
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 5: the father he always knew his son would come back home.

734
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 5: And he says when he saw him at a distance,

735
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 5: his heart was filled with compassion, not contempt, not condemnation,

736
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 5: not criticism. You need to know that Abba, his heart

737
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 5: is compassionate towards you.

738
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 3: He sees you. And what did that compassion do? It

739
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 3: made him run to his son.

740
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 5: The son just move towards the dad, and the dad

741
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 5: came running to him.

742
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: That's Abba, father.

743
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 5: If you just turn to him, you just look towards

744
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 5: him and moved, he will come running towards you. That's Abba, father.

745
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 5: What's the look on the dad's face? Tears because he

746
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 5: was broken that his son had to walk through that.

747
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 5: And the son starts giving his orphan speech, Dad, I'm.

748
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 3: No longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me.

749
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 3: He just said, Let's give him a name. Let's call

750
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 3: him paul.

751
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 5: Little Paulie would walk around the house when he was

752
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 5: a little boy. He'd play with all of his daddy's

753
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 5: things because he knew he was his dad's son. Paul

754
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 5: and Paul went to the pig pin. Paul woke up

755
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 5: one day and said, I need to go back to

756
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 5: my father.

757
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 3: Now.

758
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 5: The father, at a distance, sees his Paul. You see,

759
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 5: sometimes we don't make God personal.

760
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 3: He's so personal. He knows your name, Paul, that's my

761
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 3: baby boy.

762
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 5: And his heart was broken that his son had to

763
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 5: experience that rejection. And he runs to him and he

764
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 5: meets him and the son starts giving him a speech.

765
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 3: He's like, it's like, my son who is dead is alive?

766
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: I can.

767
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 5: And then he puts a See, here's the thing, because

768
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 5: co air means you've got access and you've got inheritance.

769
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 5: In that culture, when the son disrespected his father like that,

770
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 5: he would have never been allowed to come back into

771
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 5: his father's presence.

772
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 3: That's what religion always does.

773
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 5: It says, based upon your behavior and your performance, you

774
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 5: know no longer worthy, so go get right and then

775
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 5: you can come back into his presence.

776
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 3: That's religion. That's not a god. That's not the god

777
00:37:58,680 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 3: that we serve.

778
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 5: Because the town's elders would never have allowed that son

779
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 5: to come back into his father's presence again. They would

780
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 5: have met that boy on the road, taken him behind

781
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 5: the woodshed and beaten him, because that's what his performance deserved.

782
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 5: Why is the father running to get to the sun

783
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 5: one because his heart is filled with compassion, and too.

784
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 3: Is he needed to get there before the mob?

785
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 5: Because no, no, you've got unlimited access to me because

786
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 5: you're my son, not because of what you did, not

787
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 5: because of who you know, but you are my son.

788
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 3: This son of mine who was dead is alive again.

789
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 5: And then he says, put a robe on him, it's

790
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 5: his inheritance, because that's your kingship, his inheritance. Put a

791
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 5: ring on his finger, it's the authority. You never lost

792
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 5: the authority. It's always been yours all along. And then

793
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 5: what's amazing is he put sandals on his feet. You

794
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 5: know what the difference between a slave and his son was.

795
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 5: Slaves didn't wear shoes, sons did. He's re establishing his

796
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 5: sonship that he never lost.

797
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 3: A'b a father. His heart is filled with compassion, and

798
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 3: he came running to him.

799
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 5: But as I was studying for this, I became fascinated

800
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 5: because there's this other son. He was out working on

801
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 5: the back forty He shows up.

802
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 3: Because they're gonna have a party.

803
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 5: The dad's like, hey, kill the fatted calf, throw the

804
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 5: brisket on the trigger, let's eat, let's go. And so

805
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 5: the son shows up and he starts smelling the aroma

806
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 5: of meat, and he hears the party, and he's like,

807
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 5: what's going on?

808
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 3: They told me your son or your brother? He's back.

809
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 5: Look how the sun responded the other son. So you

810
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 5: got Paul the prodigal. This is Patrick. I'm gonna call

811
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 5: him Patrick the prideful Luke fifteen, verse twenty says the

812
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 5: older brother became angry and he refused to go win.

813
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 3: The father went out and pleated with him.

814
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 5: Look at the position of the posture of the father.

815
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 5: He goes to him. He goes to both sons. One

816
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 5: was a prodigal who smelled like last night, and the

817
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 5: other one who's been working for a reward that was

818
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 5: not his father's relationship.

819
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 3: I wonder how many of us think that God owes

820
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 3: us something.

821
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 5: He was angry, refused to go and so he father

822
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 5: went out and he pleaded with him. But he answered

823
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 5: his father, look all these years i've been slaving. You

824
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 5: mean the son who was in the house of himself

825
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 5: as an orphan too, because he was working for the reward,

826
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 5: not the relationship. He got two orphans in this home.

827
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 5: And I've never disobeyed you. You never gave me even

828
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 5: a young coach. So I can celebrate with my friends.

829
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 5: But when this son of yours, he's not even claiming

830
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 5: him as his brother, this son of yours, when this

831
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 5: son of your squander your property with prostitutes, comes home,

832
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 5: you kill a fatic cap for him. My son, the

833
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 5: father said, you will always be with me. Access and

834
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 5: everything I have is yours inheritance. But we had to

835
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 5: celebrate and be glad because this brother of yours is dead,

836
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 5: is alive again. He was lost and is found. So

837
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 5: in my Bible I changed the label of that passage.

838
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 5: It's the prodigal son, the prideful son.

839
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:31,240
Speaker 3: And abba Father. How do you see God?

840
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 5: A God who's filled with compassion and kindness, or God

841
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 5: who's got a scorecard just marking down the mistakes you make?

842
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 3: How do you see God? And this whole thing is

843
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 3: created because we have access to God.

844
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 5: Through Jesus Christ. And what you need to understand is

845
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 5: when Jesus went on the cross. God had to abandon

846
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 5: his son in that moment because the wrath that was

847
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 5: intended for you and me needed to be laid on

848
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 5: his son Jesus. So in that moment, his son felt

849
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 5: rejected and he was abandoned. Jesus was orphaned on the cross,

850
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 5: and Jesus.

851
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 3: Cries, up, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

852
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 3: The greatest pain in the cross was not the nails.

853
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 5: It was the separation from the Father, and.

854
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 3: It felt like rejection.

855
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 5: And what we need to understand is we've got a

856
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 5: savior who has been tempted in every way with you

857
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 5: are as I am. He is one who has been orphaned,

858
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 5: and he knows what it feels like to be separated.

859
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 5: But three days later, Father looks back towards the sun

860
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 5: and he feels his pleasure and he rises in victory.

861
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 3: That's the God that we serve. We have access because

862
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 3: of the finished work of Jesus. But Jesus was preparing

863
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 3: his disciples for the cross.

864
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 5: He knew his assignment. They didn't take his life, he

865
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 5: gave it up. He knew the assignment he was preparing

866
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 5: them for when he would go to the cross. It

867
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 5: says this in John Chapter fourteen, Verse six team He says,

868
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 5: and I will ask the Father and he will give

869
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 5: you another advocate to help you, because he's preparing for

870
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 5: them when they're going to feel like they're going to

871
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 5: be rejected and they're going to be orphaned because the

872
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 5: one that they had put all of their allegiance to

873
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 5: for three years is now going to leave. And they

874
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 5: didn't get it. But Jesus says, I've already prepared for

875
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 5: that moment where you're going to feel orphaned. I've asked

876
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 5: the Father, and he's going to send an advocate, the

877
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 5: Holy Spirit, and to help you and be with you forever.

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Speaker 5: Verse seventeen. The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept

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Speaker 5: him because another sees him or nor knows him, but

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Speaker 5: you know him, for he lives in you and will

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Speaker 5: be in you. Verse eighteen. He says, I will not

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Speaker 5: leave you as orphans. Jesus knew that you and I

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Speaker 5: will go through seasons where we will feel orphaned, where

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Speaker 5: we will feel separated. But he sent the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 5: the Hell, the Guide, the pyrocle, the one to come

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Speaker 5: and live.

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Speaker 3: Inside of you.

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Speaker 5: And because of that spirit, it gives us the right

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Speaker 5: to cry out Abbah Father, because we've been adopted as

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Speaker 5: sons and daughters of the Most High God.

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Speaker 3: That's the God that we serve.

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Speaker 5: And I was preparing for this sermon, I kept going

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Speaker 5: back to that place of I just wanted to be

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Speaker 5: with my Dad, the deepest cries in my heart, where

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Speaker 5: I just want to be with you. I'm coming with

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Speaker 5: But then I read the words of David who penned

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Speaker 5: this as a boy, and I saw on one thirty

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Speaker 5: nine verse sibiesis, but where can I go from your spirit?

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Speaker 5: Where can I flee from your presence? Verse eight? If

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Speaker 5: I go up to the heavens, you are there. If

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Speaker 5: I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

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Speaker 5: The deepest cry of my heart was to just be

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Speaker 5: with my father. I'm coming with But in my heavenly Father,

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Speaker 5: I found a God who says, I'm coming with you.

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Speaker 3: If you go to the mountaintops, I'm coming with you.

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Speaker 3: If you make your bed into depths, I'm coming with you.

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Speaker 3: I'm not intimidated by your shame, I'm not put up

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Speaker 3: by your mistakes. I'm a God who's coming.

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Speaker 5: I'm coming with you.

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Speaker 3: Stand your feet at all of our locations.

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Speaker 5: The way to be adopted as a son or daughter

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Speaker 5: of the Most High God, is they're confessing that you're

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Speaker 5: a sinner, believing in your mouth that Jesus is your lord,

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Speaker 5: and confessing that he died and rose again. And if

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Speaker 5: you have never placed your faith in Jesus, if you've

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Speaker 5: never been made a new creation.

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Speaker 3: This is why God brought you here. He wants to

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Speaker 3: forgive you of all of your sins. He wants to

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Speaker 3: redeem you, and it wants to make you a s

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Speaker 3: and a daughter.

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Speaker 5: And what I want to speak over some of you men,

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Speaker 5: I'm not your father, but I'm a father, and I

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Speaker 5: would want you to hear from your heavenly father's voices,

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Speaker 5: proud of you. You've been waiting your whole life to

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Speaker 5: hear those words. He's proud of you, not what you did.

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Speaker 5: He's proud of who you are. That's the God that

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Speaker 5: we serve. And some of you have been keeping God

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Speaker 5: at a distance because you feel like religion. I need

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Speaker 5: to clean myself up before I come to him. That's

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Speaker 5: the reason he died is because you couldn't do it. Maybe,

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Speaker 5: just maybe this is the moment that God is breaking

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Speaker 5: through all of that shame, all of that guilt, that

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Speaker 5: has made you stand at a distance, and you keep

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Speaker 5: defining yourself by your lowest moments. But God sees you

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Speaker 5: according to your highest potential, and he loves you, and

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Speaker 5: he brought this opportunity for you to be forgiven. And

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Speaker 5: would you bow your heads, close your eyes, nobody moving.

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Speaker 3: This is a holy moment.

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Speaker 5: This is where sons and daughters are coming back to God.

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Speaker 5: And if you have never placed your faith in Him,

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Speaker 5: if you've never been forgiven of your sins, we are

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Speaker 5: going to say a prayer together out loud for the

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Speaker 5: benefit of somebody who's making this decision for the first

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Speaker 5: time or coming back to him.

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Speaker 3: Pray with me out loud, Church family. I believe that

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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 5: Is the son of God who died in the cross

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Speaker 5: and rose from the grave to forgive me of my sin.

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Speaker 5: I give you my life, I give you my sin,

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Speaker 5: I give you my shame. Forgive me, and I'll spend

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Speaker 5: my life following you with your headst about in your

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Speaker 5: eyes that closed. I'm going to count the three and

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Speaker 5: when I get there, without hesitation, I need you to

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Speaker 5: boldly shoot your hand in the air, declaring you are

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Speaker 5: trusting Jesus as your Lord and Savior. On the count

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Speaker 5: of three, one, two, three, should you hand up well,

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Speaker 5: all across this auditorium, all across there auditorium.

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Speaker 3: I'm all a's celebrate that sarch family. Let's celebrate that

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Speaker 3: search family.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us today.

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Speaker 4: We pray that God has spoken to you in a

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Speaker 4: unique and powerful way through the message.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 4: We are in our year in Offering season as a

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Speaker 4: church where we get the opportunity to reflect back on

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Speaker 4: all the ways that God has been faithful to our

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Speaker 4: ministry this year, but also to look ahead at what

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Speaker 4: we're believing God for in the upcoming year. And each

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Speaker 4: year as a church, we get to come around a

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Speaker 4: special offering and offering that contributes to both outreach efforts

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Speaker 4: in local and global cities and as well as the

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Speaker 4: expansion of our ministry continuing to reach people all over

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Speaker 4: with the hope of the Gospel. And we'd invite you

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Speaker 4: to take part and participate in our year end offering.

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Speaker 4: To do so, you can go to Elevationchurch dot org.

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Speaker 4: Just click the banner there at the top and then

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Speaker 4: you'll be able to see everything that you need to

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Speaker 4: be a part of our year end offering.

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Speaker 2: You'll see two options. The first is to begin tithing.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you've been wanting to prioritize God in your finances,

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Speaker 4: but you haven't taken that step to make a commitment

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Speaker 4: to doing so.

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Speaker 2: This is a great place to begin.

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Speaker 4: Or perhaps you've been giving consistently in this season, God

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Speaker 4: may be challenging you to stretch above and beyond the

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Speaker 4: tithe to give a sacrificial gift to our year end offering.

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Speaker 4: If you're part of one of our physical locations, you

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Speaker 4: can choose your campus there, or if you're part of

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Speaker 4: our online ministry, of course you'll choose Epham or online

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Speaker 4: and then enter the amount that you'd like to give.

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Speaker 4: We are believing for all the ways that God is

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Speaker 4: going to stretch our faith in this season through our

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Speaker 4: year end offering, and we can't wait to see what

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Speaker 4: God does through you.

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Speaker 2: God bless and we'll see you soon.