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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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

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Speaker 1: gives your.

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

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Let's give the Lord twenty seconds a praise that he

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Speaker 3: gave Jesus the name that is above every name, and

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Speaker 3: he gave us that name to call on today.

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Speaker 1: What a beautiful name it is the name of Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: Star King.

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Speaker 3: Well, you might want to turn around and introduce yourself

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Speaker 3: to five people.

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Speaker 1: Tell him your name. Hello, my name is.

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Speaker 3: Let's get on a first name basis. If you're watching online,

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Speaker 3: put your name in the chat.

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Speaker 1: Who are you? Where you come from.

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Speaker 3: I'm pulling out my phone right now to see who's

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Speaker 3: joining us across all of our streaming platforms. Just go

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Speaker 3: ahead and put your name in the chat. If you're

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Speaker 3: watching this at a later time, put it in the comments.

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Speaker 3: An Elevation Church, Let's thank God for our e fam

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Speaker 3: watching all over the world right now.

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Speaker 1: As I heard somebody say, you can do better than that.

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Speaker 3: One time I heard a preacher preaching out in the country,

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Speaker 3: and he didn't like the response he was getting from

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Speaker 3: the church.

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Speaker 1: He said, you can do better than that, and somebody

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Speaker 1: in the crowd shouted, so could you don't do that? Today?

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Speaker 3: We have trained security who know martial arts. I'm so

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Speaker 3: glad you're here today. I'm so thankful, not only for

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Speaker 3: the sermon that I'm about to preach to you, but

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Speaker 3: the sermon that.

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Speaker 1: You've preached all week long.

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Speaker 3: Everybody who served during Love Week, large or small, Thank you,

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Speaker 3: everybody who gave so that we could.

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Speaker 1: Be out there. Thank you man.

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Speaker 3: I wish you could have seen me and Holly and

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Speaker 3: your campus pastors and your outreach staff just giving out

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Speaker 3: checks left and right this week to feed the hungry,

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Speaker 3: to lift up the broken hearted, to bind up the wounded,

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Speaker 3: to make a difference in somebody's life. I wish you

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Speaker 3: could have seen my son Graham with a power tool

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Speaker 3: in his hand. I told him, son, I can't teach

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Speaker 3: you what to do with that. The only power tool

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Speaker 3: I ever held was a microphone to preach the gospel.

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Speaker 3: But so many people this week made a difference. And

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Speaker 3: if you are one of them, I say thank you.

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Speaker 3: And if you were not one of them. It is

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Speaker 3: never too late to get in on a good thing.

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Speaker 3: I said, It's never too late to get in on

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Speaker 3: a good thing. So may today be a day of

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Speaker 3: new beginnings. It's also a day of continuations, because I

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Speaker 3: have started a series called That's what I thought.

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Speaker 1: Look at your neighbors, say that's what I thought.

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Speaker 3: That's what I thought. That's what I thought. You want

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Speaker 3: to say something, now, That's what I thought. I like

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Speaker 3: that energy. When we run up on the devil on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: versus when he runs up on us on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Come to church, come.

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Speaker 3: About jamespray, job, bones, sway. And the key to all

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Speaker 3: of this is that when we are not together like this,

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Speaker 3: you are able to take what you get here and

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Speaker 3: apply it there wherever you're there may be that is

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Speaker 3: my desire for you, and that there would be no

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Speaker 3: place that the Word of God cannot make the difference

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Speaker 3: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm excited to share.

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Speaker 3: A message with you, and I'm going to use for

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Speaker 3: a foundational scripture First Corinthians thirteen eight through eleven. As

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Speaker 3: you're looking in your bible, let me welcome a few

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Speaker 3: epham from around the world.

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Speaker 1: We've got Rebecca, Shriika, Sheryl.

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Speaker 3: Anne, Dianelesia, Laura. We got Bremerton, Washington, Bremerton, Washington, Flagstaff, Arizona,

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Speaker 3: VICKI from Texas. God bless you from all over the world.

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Speaker 3: Just keep letting us know where you're watching from. We

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Speaker 3: want to connect with you. And today, as I share

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Speaker 3: a principle and then a picture, I love to teach

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Speaker 3: that way. That's my favorite way to teach a principle

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Speaker 3: and then a picture. A principle and then a picture,

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Speaker 3: so you can hear a sermon and see a sermon.

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Speaker 3: And we're going to do both today First Corinthians, chapter thirteen,

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Speaker 3: which is normally a scripture you.

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Speaker 3: the Lord sent me to prophesy, but I'm preaching from

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Speaker 3: First Corinthians thirteen, and specifically from verse eight through eleven,

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Speaker 3: But this is one of the most powerful I thoughts

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Speaker 3: sometimes leave you in isolation. It can lead you to

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Speaker 3: do things that are impulsive. It can lead you to insecurity.

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Speaker 3: I although start with the letter I, so we're exchanging

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Speaker 3: that now for God thoughts. And the most famous I

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Speaker 3: we don't stand the whole time. We're just standing for

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Speaker 3: the reading of God's word because it's his word, and

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Speaker 3: he's holy, and he's amazing, and he deserves it.

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Speaker 3: So everyone standing, clear your feet, listen to the word

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Speaker 3: of God. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,

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Speaker 3: they will cease. Where there are tongues, they will be stilled.

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Speaker 3: Where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we

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Speaker 3: know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when

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Speaker 3: completeness comes, what is in part disappears. Here's the verse

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Speaker 3: I want to reach you. When I was a child,

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Speaker 3: I talked like a child. I thought like a child.

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Speaker 3: I reasoned like a child. When I became a man

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Speaker 3: and got this hair on my chest, when I became

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Speaker 3: a man and got these grays in my beard. When

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Speaker 3: I became a man, I put the ways of childhood

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Speaker 3: behind me. And the title of this message is a

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Speaker 3: declaration today. So turn your neighbor and say, I don't

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Speaker 3: know what you're going through. Looked right at him and say,

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Speaker 3: but the hardest part is behind behind you.

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Speaker 1: I knew it. I knew that was the word of

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Speaker 3: The devil fought me all night last night, telling me,

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Speaker 3: you can't stand up and preach that. What if they

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Speaker 3: have something negative in their future this week? What if

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Speaker 3: they have something disappointing in their.

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Speaker 1: Future this week? You don't know what they're going through.

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Speaker 1: But the word of the Lord is the hardest part

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Speaker 1: is behind you. Tell three people it's behind you.

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Speaker 3: Put it in the chat on your way to your seat,

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Speaker 3: tell them it's behind you.

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Speaker 1: It's behind you, it's behind you. Where credit is due.

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Speaker 3: I stole that title from Holly. Is something that she

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Speaker 3: says when we go out on elevation Nights, which we

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Speaker 3: are coming to a city near you soon in October.

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Speaker 1: So go to elevation night.

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Speaker 3: And usually after a few songs, Holly and I will

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Speaker 3: and it's always so excited, and we thank them for coming,

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Speaker 3: get the wording exactly right. She's like, I don't know

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Speaker 3: but you decided to come contagious anyway, But just relax

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Speaker 3: An amazing worship team singing songs of praise to me,

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Speaker 3: I think it's so important She's just letting them know

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Speaker 3: that everything that the enemy could have done to keep

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Speaker 3: you from getting here tonight, you made it. And now

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Speaker 3: just take it in and just receive it. And I

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Speaker 3: want to say that to those of you at elevation today,

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Speaker 3: Bought a plane ticket or took a scooter, but you

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Speaker 3: that the hardest part is behind you.

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Speaker 1: Now just receive, just sing just worship God.

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Speaker 3: Where you're like, yeah, that's so good to hear, whether

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Speaker 3: Of course, there are parts of your life and parts

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Speaker 3: All the parts of your life that you are considering today,

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Speaker 3: to this moment, have been, But I do know that

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Speaker 3: the apostle Paul says something so profound in First Corinthians thirteen,

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Speaker 3: verse eight, which is a wedding scripture. Remember, and then

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Speaker 3: the people getting married after they read First Corinthians thirteen

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Speaker 3: after they have sailed and blissed to their honeymoon. So

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Speaker 3: is knowledge, it will pass away verse nine four. We

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Speaker 3: know in part, everybody say we know in part. Use

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Speaker 3: to me that scripture keeps me humble to me, that

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Speaker 3: scripture keeps me open, That scripture keeps me aware that

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Speaker 3: there are some things that I know about God, but

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Speaker 3: I know in part in part, and anything that I

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Speaker 3: know about God is a thing that is a part

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Speaker 1: So, for example, I like to use musical examples. E.

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Speaker 1: And I may do this illustration more in depth.

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Speaker 3: Next week, but just to set the table, play the

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Speaker 3: high E string of that guitar. That string is a thing.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could get your truth straight.

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Speaker 3: an appointment with Jesus and you said, it's time for

442
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Speaker 3: me to stop complaining. Now it's time for me to

443
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Speaker 3: stop being afraid of what other people think. Right now,

444
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Speaker 3: it's time for me to stop lusting. Now I'm married,

445
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Speaker 3: now I need to be devoted to one woman right now.

446
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 3: And then orthodontist Holy Ghos says, yeah, let me just

447
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Speaker 3: take those lust off of your teeth.

448
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Speaker 1: Then you just take the oh, those.

449
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Speaker 3: Brackets, Let me take those brackets out of your brain

450
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Speaker 3: so that you will only be attracted to your wife

451
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Speaker 3: ever again, because you got to put the ways of

452
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Speaker 3: childhood behind you. Wouldn't it be awesome if all of

453
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Speaker 3: a sudden, one day you just went to the orthodontist

454
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Speaker 3: called the Holy Spirit and said, I need this thing

455
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Speaker 3: that happened to me when I was twelve. It became

456
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Speaker 3: trauma in my life. But I need you to take

457
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Speaker 3: the trauma off of me so I can live in

458
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Speaker 3: the truth. Oh, no problem. Let's put you through a program.

459
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Speaker 3: If we can get you through an eighteen month program, here,

460
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Speaker 3: memorize these twenty scriptures.

461
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Speaker 1: These are the top twenty scriptures for trauma.

462
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Speaker 3: And when you memorize these twenty scriptures, you will no

463
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Speaker 3: longer feel the effects of trauma.

464
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Speaker 1: But the trauma trace says trapped.

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Speaker 3: In the body sometimes even when the spirit has been

466
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Speaker 3: set free by the blood of Christ. Wouldn't it be

467
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Speaker 3: wonderful if there was an orthodonist spiritually speaking, just to

468
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Speaker 3: sit you.

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Speaker 1: Down in a chair. I wish I could get you

470
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Speaker 1: in a chair today and lean you back and numb

471
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Speaker 1: you up and.

472
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Speaker 3: Just yank stuff off of your life. I mean, just

473
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Speaker 3: take it off so you can smile again. So you

474
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Speaker 3: could say I was depressed for the last year, but

475
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Speaker 3: I went to evolution Elevation Church and that preacher leave

476
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Speaker 3: me back and yanked it off. And I'm smiling now,

477
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Speaker 3: I'm singing, now, I'm dancing. Now, I'm a man, now

478
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Speaker 3: I'm a woman now. Wouldn't it be good if you

479
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Speaker 3: could graduate from grief? Wouldn't it be good if you

480
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Speaker 3: could graduate from greed? I used to be stingy, but

481
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Speaker 3: God did a work in my life. And now all

482
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Speaker 3: of a sudden, all I want to do is give

483
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Speaker 3: money away. I won't even let my boss take me.

484
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Speaker 3: I just give the check back and tell him to use.

485
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Speaker 1: It to fight cancer. Just one day I went in

486
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Speaker 1: the chair.

487
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Speaker 3: And the preacher preaching the truth came and now I

488
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Speaker 3: got my truth straight. But see, it is a fight

489
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Speaker 3: for alignment in your life.

490
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Speaker 1: That takes time to get it straight, to get it straight.

491
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Speaker 1: And this process of I thought like a child.

492
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Speaker 3: But now I think like a champion isn't as simple

493
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Speaker 3: as it seems. And you know that.

494
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Speaker 1: You know that.

495
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Speaker 3: If you don't know that, the people who live with

496
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Speaker 3: you do because they are still waiting on you to

497
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Speaker 3: get your braces off. Okay, I want to show you

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Speaker 3: an example from the Scriptures of somebody who paid the

499
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Speaker 3: price of thinking like a child, but not to be negative,

500
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Speaker 3: not to be hateful, not to be depressing, just because

501
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 3: this man in Second Kings chapter five had a great

502
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Speaker 3: opportunity for his life to change, but he thought like

503
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Speaker 3: a child. And because he thought like a child, he

504
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 3: almost forfeited his change. That happens to all of us,

505
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Speaker 3: you know, all of us. Something that is passing becomes

506
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Speaker 3: something permanent. Here's what I mean. We have emotions, whether

507
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Speaker 3: it's anger, we have emotions and feelings, whether it's self pity.

508
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Speaker 3: We have emotions and feelings, and sometimes even just temptations

509
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Speaker 3: that seem to come from the pit of hell, and

510
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Speaker 3: they are passing emotions. But the temptation of the enemy

511
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Speaker 3: is for you to take something that is passing and

512
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Speaker 3: turn it into something permanent, so that not only do

513
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Speaker 3: you feel anger passing, but you lash out in anger

514
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Speaker 3: and say something to someone that you love that cannot

515
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Speaker 3: be undone with the simple apology, what did you do?

516
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Speaker 3: You took a passing frustration, an external expression and did

517
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Speaker 3: permanent damage. I want you to stop sacrificing what is

518
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Speaker 3: permanent on the altar of what is passing. I want

519
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Speaker 3: you to stop sacrificing what is permanent to satisfy what

520
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Speaker 3: is passing. If there is a teenager in here, I

521
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Speaker 3: want you off of every form of addictive behavior, whether

522
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Speaker 3: it's a substance or whether it's a website. I want

523
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Speaker 3: you off of every form of addictive substance that would

524
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Speaker 3: rob you of your soul, because I know that those

525
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 3: things help us, whether we're adults or whether we're children.

526
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Speaker 3: They help us to get through the moment. But the

527
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Speaker 3: moment is passing, and after the anxiety has passed, and

528
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Speaker 3: after you have trained your body to be addicted to

529
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Speaker 3: stimuli that keep you enslaved, now you have a lasting

530
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Speaker 3: habit that you embedded in your life to deal with

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Speaker 3: a passing emotion.

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Speaker 1: I want you off porn. I want you off every

533
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Speaker 1: vape pen.

534
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Speaker 3: I don't want you having to take something in your

535
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Speaker 3: body to deal with something in your mind, and then

536
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Speaker 3: five years from now we're trying to figure out how

537
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Speaker 3: to get you off of this. I want it broken.

538
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Speaker 3: I want it choked out. I want every teenager that

539
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Speaker 3: listens to me preach, stop sacrificing what is permanent to

540
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Speaker 3: satisfy what is passing.

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Speaker 1: It will pass.

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Speaker 3: Let it pass, Pray till it passes, Praise till it passes.

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Speaker 1: I'll need to hit a pin. I can hit a prayer.

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Speaker 1: I'll need to.

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Speaker 3: Hit a pin.

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Speaker 1: I can hit a praise because.

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Speaker 5: It came to pass, and God is here to say.

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Speaker 1: I felt that when I was preparing.

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Speaker 3: I felt that for every woman that I went to

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Speaker 3: speak to you in recovery.

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Speaker 1: This week at Dove's Nest, some of.

552
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Speaker 3: Them were looking at me, like, please tell them this, younger,

553
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Speaker 3: Please tell them this, younger. Don't sacrifice what is permanent

554
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 3: your character, don't sacrifice what is permanent. You're calling stop

555
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 3: giving up your relationship with God for popularity with people.

556
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 3: They can't put you in, they can't vote you out.

557
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Speaker 1: He is God, and him only shall you serve. So

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Speaker 1: y'all sit down.

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Speaker 3: This is supposed to be a love chapter, supposed to

560
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Speaker 3: be lovely. I love you enough to tell you that

561
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Speaker 3: stop sacrificing what is permanent. That's what the church at

562
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Speaker 3: Corinth was doing. They were sacrificing what was permanent love

563
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Speaker 3: for what was passing, spiritual gifts.

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Speaker 1: So they would.

565
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Speaker 3: Sacrifice their love for one another in order to show off.

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Speaker 3: They were sacrificing what was permanent to satisfy what was passing.

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Speaker 1: Because even if you.

568
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Speaker 3: Do go off and say what you want to say,

569
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Speaker 3: it's only going to feel good for about the five

570
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Speaker 3: seconds it takes you to realize that now you've got

571
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Speaker 3: to spend five days recovering from what felt good.

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Speaker 1: For five seconds. Was the five seconds really worth it? Dude?

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Speaker 1: Passing versus permanent.

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Speaker 3: So this is an odd story to connect with First Corinthians.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna just tell you right now, but the way

577
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Speaker 3: the Lord showed it to me was a principal and

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Speaker 3: a picture. The principle is stop sacrificing what's permanent to

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Speaker 3: satisfy what's passing.

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Speaker 1: Okay. The picture is a.

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Speaker 3: Man named Naman who was a great general of an

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Speaker 3: army of the enemies of Israel called Aram Benidad.

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Speaker 1: The second was the king, and naming was his man.

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Speaker 3: Naming was a great man, says But now I'm going

585
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Speaker 3: to stop right there and preach.

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Speaker 1: He was a great man. But he was a great man.

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Speaker 3: But how many of you I just described you in

588
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Speaker 3: one incomplete sentence. I'm a good person, but I'm a Christian.

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Speaker 3: But well, he was a great man. But he had leprosy.

590
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Speaker 3: He had lepsy. Leprosy was an incurable skin condition. Of

591
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Speaker 3: course you've heard of leprosy, but in this time, it's

592
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Speaker 3: hard for us to imagine what the cost of carrying

593
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Speaker 3: that condition would have been. Not only was it incurable,

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Speaker 3: but it was completely isolating. So what is it like

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Speaker 3: to be a leader who is also a leper? He

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Speaker 3: commanded men, but he could not cure his skin. There

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Speaker 3: are conditions in the room that confound you. You cannot

598
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Speaker 3: understand how you can be so adept at business and

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00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 3: so detached emotionally at home. You do not understand how

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Speaker 3: you can be so good at getting everyone else to

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Speaker 3: connect with you except the ones you love the most.

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Speaker 3: You cannot understand why it has been possible for you

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Speaker 3: to discipline this.

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Speaker 1: Area of your life but not get that one under control.

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Speaker 1: He was a great man, but.

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Speaker 3: High position, leprous condition, And into this juxtaposition of his realities,

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00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 3: which are both very real. The Bible says that there

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Speaker 3: was a little girl living at his house that one day,

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Speaker 3: perhaps seeing him change out of his armor, noticed the

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Speaker 3: spots of leprosy that were beginning to spread. In fact,

611
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Speaker 3: the Bible says that it was a spot so they

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Speaker 3: caught it early. And the little girl didn't have the

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Speaker 3: audacity to say it to naymen because she was an

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Speaker 3: Israelite and she was actually taken as a slave to

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Speaker 3: serve in this house, so it's uncommon that she would

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Speaker 3: be the one to voice this idea, but she did.

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Speaker 3: You might be surprised who God will speak through in

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Speaker 3: your life as well. She said, if it were possible

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Speaker 3: for Naman to go and see the prophet Elisha in Israel.

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Speaker 3: He could cure him. Elisha is amazing with miracles. He

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Speaker 3: helped this widow who was about to have to sell

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Speaker 3: her sons into slavery with just a little bit of oil.

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Speaker 5: Huh.

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Speaker 3: I know you're not gonna believe this, But he one

625
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Speaker 3: time called for rain and there was a drought and

626
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 3: water came out of nowhere when he spoke the word

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Speaker 3: of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: If he could get to Elisha, be amazing. So Naman

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Speaker 1: did it. He did it.

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Speaker 3: How hard would that be? By the way, we were

631
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Speaker 3: talking about the hard part? How hard would it be

632
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 3: to go to your enemy for help? He has to

633
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 3: humble himself to do that, and he makes a journey

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00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 3: it's about two hundred miles. But he didn't just make

635
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Speaker 3: the journey. He had to go to the king and

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Speaker 3: get a letter from the king to take to the prophet.

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Speaker 3: Because you can't just show up and tell the prophet

638
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 3: you want to be healed. You've got to have some

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00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 3: letter of recommendation, somebody to help you with entree into

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00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 3: the course of a great prophet. And so the king says, sure,

641
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Speaker 3: I'll write you a letter, And he writes a letter

642
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Speaker 3: to say to the King of Israel, would you have

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Speaker 3: your profit?

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Speaker 1: Heal my commander. So Naman makes the journey and he

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Speaker 1: loads up.

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Speaker 3: And I want to pick up here in second Kings,

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Speaker 3: and not just recap, but show you a little bit

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Speaker 3: of this story. In verse four, please, Naman went to

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Speaker 3: his master and told him what the girl from Israel

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Speaker 3: had said. By all means go. The King of Aram reply,

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Speaker 3: I'll send a letter to the King of Israel.

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Speaker 1: So I just told you all this, but watch this

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Speaker 1: part that happens next.

654
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Speaker 3: Naman left, taking with him yeah name, and left taken

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Speaker 3: with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold,

656
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Speaker 3: and ten sets of clothing.

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Speaker 1: He's traveling. Heavin the letter that he took to the

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Speaker 1: King of Israel.

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Speaker 3: Read with this letter, I am sending my servant name

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Speaker 3: and to you so that you may cure him of

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Speaker 3: his leprosy. Now, when the letter got to the king,

662
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 3: come back to me for a moment. Church, I want

663
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: you to see this moment. The king says, well, he

664
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 3: tears his robes and says, am I God, can I

665
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 3: kill and bring back to life?

666
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: Why does this.

667
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: Fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy.

668
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 3: See how he is trying to pick a fight or

669
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 3: a quarrel with me. In other words, the king is

670
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 3: saying this is impossible. But verse eight says that when Elisha,

671
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 3: the man of God, heard that the king of Israel

672
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 3: had torn his robes, he sent him this message, why

673
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me,

674
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 3: and he will know.

675
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 1: That there is a prophet in Israel. In other words,

676
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: turn to your neighbors, say it's not hard for God.

677
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: This is not hard for God. You're tearing your What

678
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: are you tearing your robes about? You think God, who

679
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 3: creates life, can't restore life. You think God, who has

680
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 3: power over the grave, cannot raise this man from his

681
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 3: condition before he dies of it. You think this is

682
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 3: too hard for God. Nothing is too hard for God.

683
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 3: Nothing is impossible for him. Nothing makes him sweat, nothing

684
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 3: makes him shocked, nothing makes him shudder, nothing makes him

685
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 3: back up, nothing makes him recalculate, nothing makes him count

686
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 3: the costs. He's got more than enough to go around.

687
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 3: You think this is hard for God. This is no

688
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 3: problem for God. This is easy for God. And so

689
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 3: Elisha sends a message, bring him to me. And verse

690
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 3: nine sounds like everything is going great. So Naman went

691
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 3: with his horses and cheriots. I'm about to show y'all.

692
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 3: Something blew my mind when I saw it and stopped

693
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 3: at the door of Elisha's house.

694
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm about to get my miracle. This is amazing.

695
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 3: I traveled two hundred miles else with six thousand shekels,

696
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 3: but it was worth it. I had to get a

697
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 3: letter from the king to the king, but it was

698
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 3: worth it. I'm having to risk everything by being here

699
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 3: in enemy territory, but it's worth it. I am right

700
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: here at the door, and I know this man has

701
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 3: what I need and he can do it.

702
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: He said, it's not even hard for him. He said,

703
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: all I have to do is come. So I'm gonna come.

704
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna knock on the door. He's gonna come out.

705
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 3: He's gonna do a little thing, a little dance, a

706
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 3: little wave, a little hallelujah, a little thank you Jesus.

707
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 3: Whatever they do over here in Israel, whatever they do

708
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 3: over there at the Pentecostal Church, whatever they do at

709
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 3: the Episcopalian Church, whatever they do, whatever they're sign, whatever

710
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 3: their method, He's gonna.

711
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 1: Do that for me and the spot's gonna go away.

712
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 3: And verse ten says Elisha sent a messenger to say

713
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 3: to him, go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan,

714
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 3: and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.

715
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 3: But Naming went away angry and said, I thought, I thought.

716
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 3: I thought we'll put it back on the scripture, scream voice,

717
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 3: that he would surely.

718
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: Come out to me and stand.

719
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 3: And call on the name of the Lord, his God,

720
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 3: wave his hand over the spot. This guy had it

721
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 3: down to a science what God was supposed to do

722
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 3: for him. He had it down to the detail. Here's

723
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 3: how it's gonna go. He's gonna come, he's gonna stand,

724
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 3: he's gonna wave, he's gonna say, he's gonna pray. It's

725
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,959
Speaker 3: gonna go. He's gonna come, he's gonna stand, he's gonna wave.

726
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 3: It's gonna go. He's gonna come, he's gonna stand, he's

727
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 3: gonna wave. It's gonna go. And he's visualizing it the

728
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 3: whole time. It's gonna be great. Man, I got the

729
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 3: favor of.

730
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: God, I got the blessing of God.

731
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 3: I'm naming. I'm naming. You know my name, man, I'm naming.

732
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 3: They tell him Naman is here. Knock, knock, knock. It's naming.

733
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: You know the one that that you got the letter

734
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: about from Joem. Yeah, yeah, him, I'm naming. I'm here

735
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: at the door, open up, knock, knock, it's naming.

736
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 3: He's gonna come, he's gonna stand, he's gonna wave, it's

737
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:39,359
Speaker 3: gonna go.

738
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: And oh, what's his name?

739
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 3: Answers the door instead of Elisha, you ever asked for

740
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: the prophet, but.

741
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: You got what's his name? Instead?

742
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 3: And Naming said who are you? He said, it's not

743
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 3: important who I am. It's important what the prophet is

744
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 3: said you need to do. You need to go wash

745
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 3: yourself seven times into Jordan and your flesh will be

746
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 3: restored and you'll be cleansed. But Naming when or where angry?

747
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 3: And said, I don't want to wash. When I became

748
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 3: a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

749
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: Naming is a man. He is a great man.

750
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 3: So why is a great man thinking like a child

751
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 3: talking about I.

752
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: Don't want to wash. I don't want to take a bath.

753
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it like that.

754
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 3: You're supposed to wave, And the messenger said, he ain't

755
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 3: gonna wave you gotta wash. I came with a word

756
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 3: for somebody today who has been waiting for God to

757
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 3: wave over your situation. And God said, you can wait

758
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 3: all day for me to wave. Already waved all I'm

759
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: gonna wave. Now you gotta wash. Tell your neighbor you

760
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 3: gotta wash.

761
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: You gotta wash some things.

762
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 3: God is not going to wave away some thought patterns.

763
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 3: God is not going to wave away. I wish it

764
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 3: was so simple. I wish we could lean you back

765
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 3: in that chair, yank those braces off your teeth, and

766
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 3: put you out of here straight. But the fact is,

767
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 3: sometimes you gotta floss between those teeth. Sometimes God doesn't wave.

768
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 3: Sometimes God tells you to wash, and nobody shouts when

769
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 3: I preach like this.

770
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: If I said God's.

771
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 3: Gonna wave it away, I'd have thirty five Hallelujahs.

772
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: In the back of the room.

773
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 3: But I can't even get the front row to stand

774
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: up when the word of the Lord says, you gotta wash.

775
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 3: There is a process that I have you in. There

776
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 3: is a protocol that I have you in. There is

777
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 3: a stage I am bringing you through. There is a process.

778
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 3: There is a stage for this, There is a prescription

779
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 3: for this.

780
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: There is a command for this.

781
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 3: So the question becomes, are you mature enough that when

782
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 3: God doesn't do magic, you will still go through with

783
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 3: the method that will produce the miracle that you came

784
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 3: all this way for. Anyway, Naman was just about to

785
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 3: walk away because I don't wanna.

786
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: I don't care if you wanna.

787
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 3: You can wash even if you don't wanna, and it

788
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 3: will work if you do what God.

789
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: Told you to do. I don't want to forgive them.

790
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 3: I don't want to wear one of those volunteer T

791
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 3: shirts and stand out there and that's not my color.

792
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 3: I don't wanna, I don't wanna.

793
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: I don't wanna. I don't want to.

794
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 3: So you don't want to die, but you don't want

795
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 3: to wash? Which one's gonna be stronger? Because washing is

796
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 3: a passing activity. Healing is permanent. So I would rather

797
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 3: give up what is passing my pride to have what

798
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 3: is permanent. This is a life saving word for somebody.

799
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 3: God said you gotta dip in this. You gotta dip

800
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 3: in this. It is not enough for you to stop

801
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 3: at the door and wait for God to wait. How

802
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 3: many times have I waited for God to wave something

803
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 3: away that he called me to wash. I thought he

804
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 3: was gonna wave. I thought they were gonna appreciate me.

805
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 3: I thought I was getting a raise. Instead I got fired.

806
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 3: I thought they were gonna say thank you to me,

807
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 3: but instead they he.

808
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: Cussed me out.

809
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be horrible that God was trying to do

810
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 3: stuff in your life, but you got blocked from it

811
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 3: because of what you thought.

812
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: And the worst thing would be.

813
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 3: For you to get blocked by something that's behind you.

814
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 3: Watch name in his reasoning, he sounds like a child.

815
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 3: He's a champion in war, but he is a child

816
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 3: in this moment, and that happens to all of us.

817
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 3: He said, I thought he would come out here and wave,

818
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 3: then the spot would go away and cure me of

819
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:41,760
Speaker 3: my leprosy.

820
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: Verse number twelve.

821
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 3: Are not Abana and far part of the rivers of

822
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 3: Damascus better than all the waters of Israel. Couldn't I

823
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 3: wash in them and be cleansed? So he turned and

824
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 3: went back, headed for Damascus. When you turn and go back,

825
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 3: you can never get better. But that's the hardest part.

826
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 3: The hardest part is behind you. The hardest part is

827
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 3: letting go of your expectations because of the way things

828
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 3: have always been. Some of you have been eating manna

829
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: for so many years you're surprised that it stops showing up.

830
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 3: That just means you're on the edge of the promised land.

831
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 3: God wants you to plant and harvest.

832
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: Now.

833
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 3: The hardest part is to let go of what's behind you.

834
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 3: I had better waters than that in Damascus, he said,

835
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 3: And I'm so grateful for verse thirteen, because I feel

836
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 3: like we're in a moment like this today, you and

837
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 3: I as we talk and listen to me. All over

838
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 3: the world, some of you are about to go back

839
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 3: to something that is behind you. And it is not

840
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 3: the challenge in front of you that is stopping you.

841
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 3: It's the template of where you've been and the expectation

842
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 3: of where you're you would be. That's what's stopping you.

843
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 3: That's what's keeping you from being pure. That's what's holding

844
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 3: you back from the intimacy and the victory that you

845
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 3: desire in your life. Because the Bible says in verse

846
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 3: thirteen that Naman servants went to him and said, my father,

847
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 3: if the prophet had told you to do some great thing,

848
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 3: would you not have done it? How much more than

849
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 3: when he tells you wash and be cleansed. Now in

850
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 3: other words, what he's saying, and I'm just going to

851
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 3: elaborate a moment, naming, Sir, we've come all this way.

852
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: We traveled seven days to get here.

853
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 3: Now, think of all the things that had to happen

854
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 3: for you to get to this point. The servant girl

855
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 3: had to see the spot at the right time. The

856
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: odds were against it, but it happened. The king had

857
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 3: to agree to write you a letter and risk his

858
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: national reputation in order to talk to an enemy, and

859
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 3: he did that for you. We had to make the

860
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 3: journey safely to a place that we have attacked and

861
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 3: ransackedeveral times, and we made it safely. And we have

862
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 3: been going through this dry, arid terrain for two hundred

863
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 3: miles for seven days. We've been walking to get to

864
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 3: this point. And you want to go back to Damascus, now, naming,

865
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 3: just do it.

866
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: Just do it.

867
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 3: Worst case scenario, you get clean, best case you get cured.

868
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 3: But either way, we've come too far.

869
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: Huh.

870
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 3: We traveled too much. Huh. God has arranged too much.

871
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 3: The servants saw the spot, the king wrote the letter.

872
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 3: We made the trip. You mean, we traveled seven days

873
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 3: and you won't take seven dips.

874
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: You better dip. Naman.

875
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 3: Tell your neighbor you better dip all this way you came.

876
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 3: You better dip all that God did for you to

877
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 3: get you hear, you better dip.

878
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: Out Of all the things you could be watching on live,

879
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Speaker 1: you're watching a.

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Speaker 3: Preacher in a red crop hoodie talking to you about.

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Speaker 1: The Word of the Lord. All the stuff you could

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Speaker 1: have clicked on, God brought you to this point. Don't

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Speaker 1: you dare click off? You better dip. This word is

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 3: All the hell you went through, all the enemy's annihilation tactics,

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Speaker 3: scare tactics and threats, all of the panic attacks you

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Speaker 3: breathe through, all of the nervous breakthroughs you survive.

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Speaker 1: The hard pard is.

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Speaker 3: Behind you. We're standing at the door. All we gotta

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Speaker 3: do is dip. I came to prophesy to somebody.

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Speaker 1: I'll know who you are.

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Speaker 3: But God woke me up at three am to tell

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Speaker 3: you you're standing at the door and all you gotta

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Speaker 3: do Hot five.

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Speaker 5: All your neighbors is say, all I gotta do is dimp.

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Speaker 5: All I gotta do is dip. All I gotta do

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Speaker 5: is dip.

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Speaker 1: Because the hardest part is behind me.

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Speaker 3: It is not what God is calling you to do

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Speaker 3: that is stopping you.

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Speaker 1: It is what is behind you, that is what.

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Speaker 3: You expected God to do that is stopping you. And

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Speaker 3: right now I just said something that we are going

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Speaker 3: to receive a testimony from in the weeks to come,

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Speaker 3: that somebody thought that they were blocked by what was

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Speaker 3: ahead of them. But the Jordan River isn't big, The

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Speaker 3: Jordan River isn't hard to cross, The Jordan River isn't

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Speaker 3: hard to bathe in.

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Speaker 1: The Only thing that.

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Speaker 3: Was hard about it was I thought. And the reason

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Speaker 3: Namon fought it is because he thought it was beneath him.

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Speaker 3: God brings us to these moments in life where we

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Speaker 3: are tempted to let something that is passing cost us

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Speaker 3: something that is permanent. And a man with leprosy permanent,

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Speaker 3: had to do something passing that he didn't want to do.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know what that is for you, but

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Speaker 3: you do you do because the Holy Spirit is speaking

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Speaker 3: it to you in concert with my voice.

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Speaker 1: Is his voice joom, just right there together.

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Speaker 3: I know that seven is the number of completion, and

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Speaker 3: I know that when that which is complete has come,

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Speaker 3: that which is incomplete disappears. Firs Corinthians thirteen says, and

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Speaker 3: I know that we know in part, and we prophesy

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Speaker 3: in part, and where there are tongues, they will cease.

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Speaker 1: But love never fails.

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Speaker 3: I know that when I became a man, I put

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Speaker 3: childish ways behind me. But watch what happened to Naman

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Speaker 3: when his servant pulled him to the side and said, naming,

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Speaker 3: the hardest part is behind you do it naming verse fourteen,

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Speaker 3: went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times,

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Speaker 3: as the Man of God had told him, and his

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Speaker 3: flesh was restored and became clean, like that of what

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Speaker 3: a young boy.

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Speaker 1: When I was a child, I thought like a child.

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Speaker 3: But when I stopped thinking like a child, my skin

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Speaker 3: was made new again. We take what is passing and

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Speaker 3: turn it into something permanent. God took something that was permanent,

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Speaker 3: naming his leprosy, and turned it into something passing.

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Speaker 1: It will pass, It will.

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Speaker 3: Pass, Kings and kingdoms will all pass away. But there's

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Speaker 3: something about that name. It will pass. And when Naymon

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Speaker 3: did it, When Naman dipped, when Naymon got out of

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Speaker 3: his thought and got into the water and did what

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Speaker 3: God told him to do, he was restored. I'm believing

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Speaker 3: for restoration Sunday in somebody's life today, the restoration of

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Speaker 3: your right mind, the restoration of your peace, the restoration

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Speaker 3: of your joy. That something that you have convinced yourself

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Speaker 3: is permanent is really passing, is passing.

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Speaker 1: You hear me, You are not going to suffer from

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Speaker 1: this forever.

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Speaker 3: It will pass. And we fix our eyes and not

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Speaker 3: on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what

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Speaker 3: is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

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Speaker 1: It will pass. Right now. God has brought you.

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Speaker 3: To this moment as if it's the edge of the

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Speaker 3: Jordan that you are deciding whether to obey Him in

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Speaker 3: this next step of your life.

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Speaker 1: And I want to tell you that the heart, the

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Speaker 1: hardest part, is behind you.

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Speaker 3: While says in Romans five, verse seven, very rarely will

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Speaker 3: anyone die for righteous person, though for a good person

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Speaker 3: someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his

963
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Speaker 3: own love for us in this while we were still sinners.

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Speaker 1: Christ died for us. The hard part is behind you.

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Speaker 3: Verse nine says if He has justified you buy his blood,

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Speaker 3: how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath

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Speaker 3: through him? The hard part is behind you. He already

968
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Speaker 3: hung there, stopped living in your shame.

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Speaker 1: He died for it. The hard part is behind you.

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Speaker 3: The hard part was accomplished for you, and by the

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Speaker 3: grace of God. Today I command you to be clean.

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Speaker 3: I command you to allow his grace to wash it away,

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Speaker 3: to wash off the residue of the regret and the failure.

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Speaker 1: The hard part is behind you. Now when everyone's standing.

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Speaker 3: All over this church, no one moving, no one distracting,

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Speaker 3: the moment, this moment, this moment, this moment is significant.

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Speaker 3: You are standing at the door and you've come all

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Speaker 3: this way. And look at how much you've survived. Look

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Speaker 3: how much you've endured. Look how much God has protected

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Speaker 3: you from. Look how much God did in your life

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Speaker 3: since the time you were a little girl, since the

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Speaker 3: time you were a little boy.

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Speaker 1: No, it hasn't been perfect, but He has been present.

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Speaker 3: Look at all that God did to bring you here,

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Speaker 3: That someone saw the spot, that you made it seven

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Speaker 3: days journey. That you are standing at the door, and

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Speaker 3: every time you get close to the Jordan, you walk

988
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Speaker 3: away and go back.

989
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Speaker 1: To something passing.

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Speaker 3: What God wants to take something passing and do something

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Speaker 3: permanent in your life today, For this is the moment

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Speaker 3: for someone to call on the name of Jesus and

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Speaker 3: be saved.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says.

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Speaker 3: That if you will call upon the name of the Lord,

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Speaker 3: you will be saved. That if you would confess with

997
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Speaker 3: your mouth that Jesus's Lord, and believe in your heart

998
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Speaker 3: God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

999
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Speaker 3: Right now, I'm praying a prayer for someone who is

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Speaker 3: far from God. You don't have leprosy on your skin,

1001
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Speaker 3: but there is a condition in your soul called sin.

1002
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Speaker 1: If not dealt with, it is fatal.

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Speaker 3: But it has already been provided for by the person

1004
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Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ. He died for you, He did the

1005
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Speaker 3: hard part. He rose for you. You can rise with him today.

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Speaker 3: This can be your moment, This can be your day.

1007
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Speaker 3: You can come to God by his grace. So right now,

1008
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Speaker 3: if that's you and the Lord is speaking to you

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Speaker 3: not to wash yourself, but that he wants to wash you,

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Speaker 3: and you want this to be your new beginning, I'm

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Speaker 3: going to lead you in a prayer. We're going to

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Speaker 3: repeat this prayer for the benefit of those who are

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Speaker 3: coming to God, are coming back to God. And if

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Speaker 3: you pray this and mean it with your heart, God

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Speaker 3: will hear you from heaven, and he will heal you

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Speaker 3: and cleanse you.

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Speaker 1: This is your new beginning.

1018
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Speaker 3: Pray and repeat after me, church family, say Heavenly Father.

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Speaker 3: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and

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Speaker 3: today I make Jesus the Lord and savior of my life.

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Speaker 1: I believe He.

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Speaker 3: Died that I would be forgiven and rose again to

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Speaker 3: give me life. I receive this new life. This is

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Speaker 3: my new beginning. I am a child of God. On

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Speaker 3: the count of three, shoots your hand up. If you

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00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 3: prayed that one, two, three, I want to celebrate with

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Speaker 3: you right now.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of hands. I praise the Lord for

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Speaker 1: your commitment.

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Speaker 3: I praise the Lord for your new beginning.

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Speaker 1: I believe God for your hope for your future. Praise

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Speaker 1: the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Let's give God a break, big church wise shot of praise.

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Speaker 1: Come on, lift every.

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Speaker 3: Voice, live every voice, live every voice.

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Speaker 1: Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Speaker 3: Some orange Bibe coming around so you can have a

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Speaker 3: new Bible to commemorate your new beginning.

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Speaker 1: I just need to know before.

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Speaker 3: I turn it over to your campus pastors, who received

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Speaker 3: a word from the Lord today that was for your life.

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Speaker 3: So everybody knows in this room. How we close service.

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Speaker 3: We don't sneak out early. We finished together. Campus pastors,

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Speaker 3: you take it at your campus, and I want to

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Speaker 3: close right here at our Balentine location and online. Look

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Speaker 3: at the camera, look at me. Grab your neighbor's hand.

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01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 3: Tell them I don't have leprosy. You can hold my hand.

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01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 3: Tell your neighbor you can hold my hand.

1049
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Speaker 1: You won't catch anything. Set the holy ghosts. Don't feel

1050
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: that fire, feel that fire, feel that fire.

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01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 3: You know. Saying came to me and I didn't want

1052
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Speaker 3: to put it in the sermon for all the campuses.

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Speaker 3: But you know how they say, what you don't know

1054
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Speaker 3: can't hurt you. That's a lie. That's a lie.

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Speaker 1: What you don't know can actually kill you.

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Speaker 3: And that's why God gives you moments like these to

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01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 3: show you things in your life that are so important.

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Speaker 1: What you don't know can't hurt you, that's not true.

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Speaker 3: But this is what you won't do, can't heal you.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And now, unto Him who is able to do immeasurably

1062
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Speaker 3: more than you ask, think or imagine, to him, be

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Speaker 3: glory through Christ Jesus in the church.

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Speaker 1: Now and forever, Everybody smile.

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01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 3: At your neighbor real big say, I got my braces off.

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Speaker 1: You're blessed, you're dismiss I'll see you next week. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now,

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01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:21,120
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01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,440
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