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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: Be sure to.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week.

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Speaker 3: I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 4: Holly said to tell you about my hype track. But

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Speaker 4: it's not a hype track. It's a hope track. I'm

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Speaker 4: actually gonna use it to get into my sermon today.

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Speaker 4: I used to do these videos at the beginning of

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Speaker 4: every year. I did it a few years, and it

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Speaker 4: was designed to help you when you need motivation from

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Speaker 4: God's word and you need to listen to something that

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Speaker 4: will fire you up, but also at the same time

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Speaker 4: not make you feel like unspiritual. So I started making

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Speaker 4: these and then I quit for years, and this year

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Speaker 4: my oldest son, Elijah, who just went to college last week.

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Speaker 4: He and I had been talking for years about working

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Speaker 4: on one together and that he would make the beat

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Speaker 4: and that I would do the track, and so I

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Speaker 4: was like, I really don't want to do these anymore.

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Speaker 4: I'm too old to be doing those. People think I'm

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Speaker 4: trying to be a rapper. They start calling me eminem,

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Speaker 4: they start making fun of me, and so he's like no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: let me just try to make a beat. So he

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Speaker 4: and Josh got together made a track and they brought

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Speaker 4: it to me. And when I heard the track, I

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Speaker 4: was like, I'm on it and I put this together,

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Speaker 4: so I want to use it if you want to

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Speaker 4: hear it.

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Speaker 1: I mean I could play it for you right.

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Speaker 4: Now, just to get us into the message. Because last

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Speaker 4: week we said He's the God of Away. We were

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Speaker 4: singing he will make away, and this track says, with God,

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Speaker 4: there's always a way.

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Speaker 1: With God, there's always a way.

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Speaker 4: Nod your head like this and say always Now, look

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Speaker 4: at your neighbors, say by faith, I will find it.

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Speaker 1: All right, y'all, take a seat and watch the screen.

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Speaker 5: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: To the Great. I am No limits exist.

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Speaker 3: Therefore my potential to glorify him is endless. I'm moving

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Speaker 3: forward in the light of what.

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Speaker 6: He's spoken, and every other voice must let go, because

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Speaker 6: I know with every step he gives me strength.

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Speaker 1: Almighty God is fighting for me.

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Speaker 3: His spirit is my guide, his strength is my supply,

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Speaker 3: and every need will be provided by his hand at

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Speaker 3: just the right time.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to.

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Speaker 3: See it to believe it. I know the truth, and

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Speaker 3: I will do it, and do it, and do it

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Speaker 3: until my life becomes the proof. See he hid me

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Speaker 3: at his quiver, prepared me in his shadow for such a.

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Speaker 1: Time as this.

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Speaker 3: I'm a weapon, not a hostage.

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Speaker 1: I'm on an assignment. Nothing can stop it his time.

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Speaker 7: Take back my mind, take back my life, and break

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Speaker 7: every lie with the promise of God gos.

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Speaker 6: With God, there's always away. By faith, I will find it.

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Speaker 6: With God, there's always away. By faith, I will fight it.

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Speaker 1: What is a challenge with a giant waiting to fall?

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Speaker 8: What is a mountain to a God who does impossible?

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Speaker 7: What is an obstacle to a God whose word turns

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Speaker 7: sees to walls?

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Speaker 8: What is a set down?

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Speaker 1: What a set up for a miracle?

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Speaker 7: What is an enemy to a God who shuts the

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Speaker 7: lions mouth? What is a fire to a God whose

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Speaker 7: hand can sets me out? A thousand angels surround me.

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Speaker 7: Now speak to the stronghold and.

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Speaker 9: Watch it come down.

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Speaker 8: A thousand angels surround me. Now speak to the stronghold,

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Speaker 8: and once it come down.

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Speaker 7: With God, there's always away.

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Speaker 8: By faith, I will find it with God, always away

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Speaker 8: away my faith.

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Speaker 10: I will fight it.

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Speaker 7: If CoP's got power, I've got power.

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Speaker 8: If God's got strength. I've got strength.

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Speaker 7: If God got victory, I've got victory.

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Speaker 8: If it's in him, it's in me.

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Speaker 4: Because what's his is mine?

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Speaker 8: What's his it's mine. It's time gous. What's this it's mine?

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Speaker 1: What's this?

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Speaker 9: It's mine?

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Speaker 8: What's this?

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Speaker 11: It's mine?

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Speaker 4: It's going God.

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Speaker 8: With God, there's always away.

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Speaker 4: My faith. I will fight it.

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Speaker 8: With God.

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Speaker 7: If there's always away my faith, I will fight it.

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Speaker 8: I gotta sleep. I gotta sleep. I got an army.

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Speaker 8: I gotta God, the Creator than North, it's already.

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Speaker 1: I gotta hoping.

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Speaker 9: I gotta call him.

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Speaker 4: I got someone to be How about you lose?

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Speaker 8: I don't look get behind it.

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Speaker 9: With God, there's always a way.

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Speaker 4: They will find it.

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Speaker 8: With God, there's always a way.

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Speaker 4: They will find.

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Speaker 11: My pay.

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Speaker 1: I will find it.

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Speaker 12: There's always pay.

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Speaker 1: I will find it. There's always away.

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Speaker 8: Iday I will biden God.

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Speaker 6: There's my pay.

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Speaker 8: I will find it.

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Speaker 1: With God. There's always a way.

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Speaker 6: By faith.

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Speaker 1: I will find it. With God. There's always a way

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Speaker 1: by faith. I will find it.

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Speaker 11: You like it.

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 8: Oh man, y'all like it real.

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: I hope you can use it. You can go stream

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Speaker 1: it or whatever like that.

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Speaker 4: Do some push ups, or some burpies, or some kettlebell

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Speaker 4: swings or some Bulgarian split squads come more special. Thanks

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Speaker 4: to Jalen Ramsey for being in our video. Appreciate that

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Speaker 4: praying for you that God will bring you back better

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Speaker 4: than ever. David, I think I want.

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Speaker 1: You in it. Next year, you do the next one.

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Speaker 1: Can we sign a contract?

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Speaker 4: I want to preach right from that thought, look at

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Speaker 4: your neighbor and say, with God, there's always a way,

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Speaker 4: and by faith.

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Speaker 1: I will find it.

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Speaker 4: The beginning of this year, I was making myself a

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Speaker 4: bunch of little statements affirmations that were scriptural, and then

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Speaker 4: I started sharing them with people, and that was one

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Speaker 4: You know how many of you have hypothetical hurdles that

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Speaker 1: You just make some in your spare time. And that

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Speaker 4: I was driving somewhere and I was thinking about something

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Speaker 4: always a way, and by faith I will find it,

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Speaker 4: and it felt like both parts were important. The first

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Speaker 4: part lets me know that even right now in my life,

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Speaker 4: God is clearing a path for his purpose to be

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Speaker 4: that God has called you to do.

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Speaker 1: He's right now working on your behalf. Give God praise

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Speaker 1: if you believe that.

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Speaker 4: The harder part for me to get out of my

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Speaker 4: mouth is and by faith, I will find it, because

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Speaker 4: sometimes I just want Him to make it so obvious

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Speaker 1: And the scripture that I want to share with you

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Speaker 1: very familiar story.

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Speaker 4: I won't be long today because what I want to

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Speaker 4: say is actually very clear to me. God gave me

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Speaker 4: a word for this moment for your life. It's in

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Speaker 4: Luke chapter five, and you can sit. We don't have

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Speaker 4: say it again with God. There's always a way, I say,

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Speaker 4: by faith, I will find it. This story in Luke

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Speaker 4: of that confession that I could find. The Bible says

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Speaker 4: one day Jesus was teaching, and pharisees and teachers of

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Speaker 4: power of the Lord was with Jesus. The power of

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Speaker 4: the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. Some

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Speaker 4: men came verse eighteen, carrying a paralyzed man on a

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Speaker 4: It didn't say faith when Peter put his nets down

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Speaker 4: The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking

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Speaker 4: to themselves, who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who

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Speaker 4: can forgive sins? But God alone. Jesus knew what they

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Speaker 4: in your hearts? Which is easier to say your sins

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Speaker 4: preview of somebody's future. He went home praising God. You know,

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Speaker 4: home praising God. Just elbow your neighbor in their rib

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Speaker 1: Wlim reverse.

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Speaker 4: Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were

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Speaker 4: filled with awe and said, we have seen remarkable things today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for your word.

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Speaker 4: Now, this encounter between Jesus and the paralyzed man is

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Speaker 4: The Pharisees, the teachers of the law, these ruling class

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Speaker 4: but maybe they came to see if he was doing

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Speaker 4: He came to fulfill it because we can't. One of

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Speaker 4: the scriptures I memorized in college said that what the

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Speaker 4: in the likeness of sinful man, to be a sin offering.

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Speaker 1: So whenever you read about Jesus doing.

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Speaker 4: Anybody else in the passage carrying a paralyzed man. I

447
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Speaker 4: didn't see the Pharisees carrying anybody on a mat. I

448
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Speaker 4: didn't see the religious teachers trying to help anybody. You know,

449
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Speaker 4: the truth of it is, you haven't really struggled. You

450
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Speaker 4: haven't really experienced struggle until you stepped in to try

451
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Speaker 4: to bring somebody else.

452
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Speaker 1: With you along the journey. So they tried. And I

453
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Speaker 1: want to do something right now that may seem sacrilegious,

454
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Speaker 1: but I need to do it to get the point across.

455
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Speaker 4: Because there's somebody I'm preaching to you and you are blocked,

456
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Speaker 4: but you've tried. You blocked, You've been blocked, but you

457
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Speaker 4: have tried it's very different. Then I just didn't even

458
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Speaker 4: try it. I just didn't even do it. I just

459
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Speaker 4: didn't It's very different. It's a different kind of tired

460
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Speaker 4: when you've really tried. That's why I like to preach

461
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Speaker 4: to youth sometimes, because they haven't even really tried yet.

462
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Speaker 4: They haven't even got tired of themselves yet. They're not

463
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Speaker 4: even sick of themselves yet.

464
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't even have to do.

465
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Speaker 4: It, have the work I have to do with you

466
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Speaker 4: when I preach to you all, y'all, over thirty people,

467
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Speaker 4: over forty people, over fifty people. I'm tired of this.

468
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Speaker 4: I tried everything you're up there talking about. I tried

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Speaker 4: all of that. And now look, they tried, and Verse

470
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Speaker 4: eighteen says that they couldn't get in, but they tried

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Speaker 4: to take him into the house, lay him before Jesus.

472
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Speaker 4: And here's what I want to show you in verse

473
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Speaker 4: nineteen is what they did and what they could have

474
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Speaker 4: done when they could not find a way to do this,

475
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Speaker 4: what to bring this man to Jesus because of the crowd.

476
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Speaker 4: They went up on the roof and lowered him on

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Speaker 4: his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd,

478
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Speaker 4: right in front of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Now, I love that.

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Speaker 4: What I love about it, though, is it says when

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Speaker 4: they could not find a way to do this what

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Speaker 4: they originally intended to do because of the crowd, and

483
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Speaker 4: then there's a comma. It doesn't say that they started

484
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Speaker 4: a fight in the parking lot so their friend could

485
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Speaker 4: get in. I love that because do something for me

486
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Speaker 4: real quick. This might disturb you, but I want y'all

487
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Speaker 4: to take away the second part of that verse. So

488
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Speaker 4: they could not find a way to do this because

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Speaker 4: of the crowd, comma, Now take away the rest.

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Speaker 1: What would you do next in that situation? What are

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Speaker 1: you doing in that situation?

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Speaker 4: Because if we make a few substitutions here, we're not

493
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Speaker 4: talking about four men that lived two thousand years ago anymore.

494
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Speaker 1: We're talking about you. When they could not find a way.

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Speaker 4: Because of the crowd, comma, they looked at each other

496
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Speaker 4: and said, well, we tried and turned around and went home.

497
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Speaker 4: This story would probably not be in the Bible. If

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Speaker 4: the men brought the man all the way to Jesus,

499
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Speaker 4: encountered resistance at the door, tried, begged, bribed, I'll do anything,

500
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Speaker 4: don't you see this man needs help now? See you're

501
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Speaker 4: wondering the same thing I wondered. Why wouldn't somebody else

502
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Speaker 4: give him their spot? But paralyzed people were not given

503
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Speaker 4: special access in this time. There were no handicapped spots

504
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Speaker 4: in this time for people in this condition. In fact,

505
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Speaker 4: it was often seen as a sign of God's divine

506
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Speaker 4: displeasure on your life if you had something physically wrong.

507
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Speaker 4: So they assumed there's something that you are not doing

508
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Speaker 4: right that has caused your legs to not be able

509
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Speaker 4: to work, So they would actually ostracize you.

510
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Speaker 1: Rather than including you, they would exclude you.

511
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Speaker 4: So the man on the mat didn't get a special

512
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Speaker 4: spot for having no ability to walk. In fact, he

513
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Speaker 4: had more obstacles. The one who needed it the most

514
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Speaker 4: had the least access to it. And might I just

515
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Speaker 4: ask a question, Church, why do we make it so

516
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Speaker 4: hard for people to come to God sometimes? Why do

517
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Speaker 4: we put up so many restrictions for people to come

518
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Speaker 4: into the presence of God?

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Speaker 8: Why do we judge.

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Speaker 4: Others for struggling with stuff that if we were in

521
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Speaker 4: a situation, we might have the same struggle or truth

522
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Speaker 4: be told, why do we judge people for stuff that

523
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Speaker 4: we haven't been even free from ourselves for five years.

524
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Speaker 8: Why do we judge people for stuff that.

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Speaker 4: If they showed everything we thought about on a movie screen,

526
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Speaker 4: we would be embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: About it too. So I'm glad these men didn't start

528
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Speaker 1: a fight.

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Speaker 4: Because if they start a fight, they go to prison

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Speaker 4: and their friend doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Have a ride home. How do you deal with it?

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Speaker 1: Put the half verse up again, because I want you

533
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Speaker 1: to think about how you're going to finish this sentence

534
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Speaker 1: in your life right now.

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Speaker 4: When they could not find a way because of the crowd,

536
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Speaker 4: When they could not find a way because of the debt,

537
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Speaker 4: when they could not find a way because of the genetics,

538
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Speaker 4: when they could not find a way because of the addiction,

539
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Speaker 4: When they could not find a way because of the

540
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Speaker 4: broken heart, when they could not find a way because

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Speaker 4: of the divorce, when they could not find a way

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Speaker 4: because of the betrayal, when they could not find a

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Speaker 4: way because of their boss. I'm coming all through this crowd.

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Speaker 4: I'm coming all through this crowd. I'm coming all through

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Speaker 4: this crowd until I find that place where you've been

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Speaker 4: blocked because I came with a word from God today.

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Speaker 4: There's always a way.

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Speaker 9: With God.

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Speaker 4: Somebody shout with God. There's always a way, And just

550
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Speaker 4: because I don't see it when I first show up,

551
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Speaker 4: and just because I can't point to it yet, and

552
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Speaker 4: just because it's not obvious, and just because I can't

553
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Speaker 4: really get my truck through there, and just because I

554
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Speaker 4: can't get there dancing, and just because I can't get

555
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Speaker 4: there in style, and just because of m be a

556
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Speaker 4: few years late, and just because somebody told me you

557
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Speaker 4: can't go this way, and people like you can't do that,

558
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Speaker 4: and people from our background can't rise there. With God,

559
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Speaker 4: there's always a way. Yeah, high five your neighbors say,

560
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Speaker 4: always means always. And if the first way didn't work,

561
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Speaker 4: there must be another one, because with God, there's always. Now,

562
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Speaker 4: imagine you show up and you're like, okay, well, I mean,

563
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Speaker 4: this is the way we're supposed to go through, and

564
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Speaker 4: this is the way you're supposed to work, and the

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Speaker 4: fair season.

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Speaker 1: The teachers in the law are more important.

567
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Speaker 4: Than us anyway, and so if they've got the good seats,

568
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Speaker 4: we might as well go away.

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Speaker 11: This is you.

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Speaker 4: Stopping your miracle, your maturity, your ministry, your legacy, your

571
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Speaker 4: freedom because you stop mid sentence. How does this sentence end?

572
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Speaker 4: Give me the half sentence again. When they could not

573
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Speaker 4: find a way to do this because of the crowd,

574
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Speaker 4: they turned around and went home, which they had every

575
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Speaker 4: right to do, because they already did more than anybody

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Speaker 4: else in the whole passage except Jesus. They already did

577
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Speaker 4: more than the Pharisees. What were the Pharisees doing again?

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Speaker 4: Let me look at verse seventeen, Verse seventeen. Up there,

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Speaker 4: I just won't see what the Phiseeas are doing. The

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Speaker 4: ones who filed sid an example, the one the'suplicy teaching

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Speaker 4: a law. One of the Pharisee teachers of the law were.

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Speaker 1: Sitting there.

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Speaker 5: Like they're about to judge Jesus. Yeah, like they're about

584
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Speaker 5: to judge Jesus, like they're.

585
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Speaker 4: About to catch him doing something wrong. I don't know

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Speaker 4: whether to say this or to say that. You think

587
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Speaker 4: I should say it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you could handle it. I don't

589
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Speaker 1: know you can hand all right. It's in the same verse.

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Speaker 1: They were sitting there, they were teaching the law.

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Speaker 4: They had come from our village of Gali and Judea

592
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Speaker 4: and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was with Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Told you you weren't ready the power of the Lord.

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Speaker 4: Wasn't with them. The power of the Lord was with

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Speaker 4: I think you need to take your power back from people, yeah,

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Speaker 4: and bring that thing to Jesus, because the power is

597
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Speaker 4: not with them. The power is not with them. I'm

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Speaker 4: not saying God can't use people. I just told you

599
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Speaker 4: to join any group. But what I am saying is

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Speaker 4: that there have been times in your life where you

601
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Speaker 4: have thought that people needed to give you permission, people

602
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Speaker 4: needed to cheer you on, people needed to understand you.

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Speaker 4: Do you know what I would say in this pulpit

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Speaker 4: If I needed every person to vote before I said it,

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Speaker 4: the sermon would be so short we wouldn't even need

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Speaker 4: to come. So there has to come a point in

607
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Speaker 4: your life where you decide that I'm not going to

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Speaker 4: spend another minute trying to convince people.

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Speaker 1: Of what I need to believe.

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Speaker 8: Jesus for.

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Speaker 4: I don't mean don't be nice. I don't mean don't

612
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Speaker 4: make friends. I don't mean don't be congenial. I'm just

613
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Speaker 4: saying that there's nothing that these teachers of the law

614
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Speaker 4: can do to stop God from doing what God has

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00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 4: made up his mind to do. The Power of the

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Speaker 4: Lord is with Jesus. Jesus is the.

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Speaker 8: Son of God.

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Speaker 13: If Jesus is in the house, healing is in the house.

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Speaker 13: If Jesus is in the house, freedom is in the house.

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Speaker 13: If Jesus gives the command and faith makes.

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Speaker 4: The move, then the glory of God will be the result.

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Speaker 4: How many are glad that the power is with Jesus,

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Speaker 4: all right? So they try to get in, they can't

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Speaker 4: get in. This is me every time I try, I'm inspired,

625
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Speaker 4: I'm trying. I try harder, I try harder. It gets heavier,

626
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Speaker 4: it gets heavier. This is what keeping the laws like.

627
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Speaker 4: This is what trying to be right with God through

628
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 4: your works is right. This is what discipline without actual

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00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 4: grace in your life. This is what not accepting your

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Speaker 4: current lot in life and being grateful for it while

631
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Speaker 4: aspiring to what you do. This is trying harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, heavier, heavier,

632
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 4: heavier inspired. Let's take our friend to Jesus tired, he

633
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Speaker 4: was heavy. Well, we tried give me my half sentence again.

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Speaker 1: Watch what.

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Speaker 6: They did.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I loved the Bible. When they could not find

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Speaker 1: a way to do this because of the crowd.

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00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 4: That's what's right in front of you, and you can't

639
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Speaker 4: push through it, and you can't go over it, can't

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Speaker 4: go on.

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Speaker 1: When they could not find a way to do this

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Speaker 1: because of the row, now finish the verse. They went.

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Speaker 4: Up.

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Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord says, don't try harder, try higher.

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Speaker 1: Oh Holly, Ferdie, come preaching this thing. If it's just

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Speaker 1: for me and you.

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Speaker 4: I hear God saying, try higher, try higher, try higher,

648
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Speaker 4: try higher, because see there's plenty of room on the roof.

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Speaker 4: See there's plenty of room on the roof. I said,

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Speaker 4: there's plenty of room on the roof. It's not that

651
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Speaker 4: you hadn't tried hard enough. You've been trying. You got

652
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 4: dirt under your fingernails, you came a long way, you

653
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 4: did a lot of stuff. It's not that you haven't

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Speaker 4: tried harder. It's that you haven't tried higher. And I

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Speaker 4: know a man, I said, I know a man. Give

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Speaker 4: me my camera so I can preach it. I want

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Speaker 4: to preach it from Milwaukee to Mosambique. I'm no a

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Speaker 4: name that is above every name.

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Speaker 10: For God has given Jesus the name that is above.

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Speaker 4: Every day that the name of Jesus, every name had

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Speaker 4: Scott him.

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Speaker 8: The house and Henry to them has Scott him the best.

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Speaker 1: Hat five three people say I'm going higher.

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Speaker 9: Higher, higher, fire, not harder, higher, not harder, hire, not harder, fire.

665
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Speaker 8: Not harder fire. Look by my flesh, y my face,

666
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Speaker 8: whose whip? My God? There's alway soway. Then I try

667
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 8: not fun mine.

668
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 12: They don't fuck brower, but find the spirit. I hear

669
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Speaker 12: John the Revelator saying, come up higher, come up higher,

670
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:23,959
Speaker 12: come up higher, high, now.

671
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Speaker 8: High five everybody you can reach and say.

672
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Speaker 4: I'm going up, whether you come or not, higher, higher, higher. Oh,

673
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 4: now I get it. It's not that I wasn't doing enough.

674
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 4: It's not that I wasn't trying enough. It said I

675
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 4: wasn't trusting enough, because I kept thinking if I couldn't

676
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Speaker 4: get in the way I wanted to get in, it

677
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Speaker 4: wasn't it to be.

678
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Speaker 1: No, it's not trying harder. I don't have to force it.

679
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 8: I can make it.

680
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Speaker 10: Why fake trusting him who was and is and is

681
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Speaker 10: to come. So that means I don't go by what

682
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,760
Speaker 10: I see. I don't try harder.

683
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 4: If I just had to try harder than Christ died

684
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 4: for nothing. The gospel isn't try harder, it's try because

685
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 4: if you ever call his name, He will reach down

686
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Speaker 4: and get you up.

687
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Speaker 1: Do I have three witnesses in the.

688
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Speaker 8: Whole church that if you ever humble yourself and say,

689
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 8: Almighty Father, I need.

690
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 4: To right now, He'll look upon you with mercy and

691
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 4: grace and compassion and.

692
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Speaker 8: Help for your time of me.

693
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Speaker 4: That's the word I needed, man, because sometimes it gets

694
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Speaker 4: heavy because I try harderhiher. But God said, try higher.

695
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Speaker 1: Be like these dudes who said, can't get in, can't

696
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: get in, can't get in, gotta go up. We'll get

697
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: you a picture again. Can't get in, can't get in,

698
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: can't get in, gotta go up.

699
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Speaker 4: And you are saying to me, pastor Stephen, what exactly

700
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 4: does that mean?

701
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: Sit down? I'll tell you.

702
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 4: Somebody say, try higher, because I know there's a way.

703
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 4: Because with God there's always a way. By faith, I

704
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 4: will find it. What is faith? Faith is when I

705
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 4: get my eyes above the waves and put it on

706
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 4: the one who can sneak one word to the waves

707
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 4: and make them be still. You think God can't bring

708
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 4: your kid back, You think God can't fix this thing.

709
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 4: If you think God can't turn an industry around, you

710
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 4: think God can't raise you up. In a famine, I said.

711
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: Try higher, Try higher, try higher. Maybe ought to close

712
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: a news app in a Bible app every once in

713
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Speaker 1: a while.

714
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Speaker 4: So hire, what does God say? What does his words say?

715
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 4: I didn't come here to debate about it. I came

716
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 4: here to declare it. God says, I'm going over, not under.

717
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 4: God says, I'm the heading off the tail. God said,

718
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 4: I'm a puffing, not beneath. He said, I'm sitting.

719
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 8: See that.

720
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Speaker 1: Now, high five your neighbor again, because I'm gonna tell

721
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: you five things. I need some too. Come on, I

722
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: need some to don't leave me out. Don't leave me out.

723
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: Don't let me out, don't let me out. I got

724
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: five you want to write them down? God said, I'm

725
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: gonna tell you how to try hid Hi.

726
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you try higher, now, harder, so you

727
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 4: don't just go and go. That was pretty good. And

728
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 4: I think he blew out his vocal cords trying to

729
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 4: tell me something and all that. I don't know what

730
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 4: I think about preacher rapping or nothing like.

731
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: That on the thing on the video. And I don't

732
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Speaker 1: even know if he had much flow or.

733
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Speaker 4: Anything like that. I really don't know about that Cardigan.

734
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 4: What was that thing you're wearing. I don't know about that,

735
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 4: So you don't leave here, just some so stupid stuff.

736
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 4: I wrote down five thanks. I thought I had them

737
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 4: in my pocket, but they're back there in the pulpit.

738
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 4: Let's see if I can remember them. Once said, God

739
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 4: said it's gonna take prayer. Now you know why I

740
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 4: came over here. They put on my sheet. They said,

741
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 4: the online prayer team is coming today. I said, I

742
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 4: know I got the right word. I know I've got

743
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 4: the right word. Forty two of y'all while we're having

744
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 4: church y'all their online praying for.

745
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: The people in the comments section.

746
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Speaker 4: Every time I tell somebody, every time I tell somebody,

747
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 4: put your thing in the chat and.

748
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: We'll pray for you. I know they go, all right,

749
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: tried to pray?

750
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Speaker 4: Did you did you pray about it? Or did you

751
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 4: hold on hondah? Did you worry about it and label

752
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 4: it prayer? Because those are different. I had to sit

753
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 4: down on the side of the bed the other day.

754
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 4: I was having shortness of breath about some things that

755
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 4: I was worried about, and I put my feet down

756
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 4: and I said, they're not moving until I say out

757
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 4: loud to my father, who I remember that he is,

758
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 4: and begin to get myself into a condition because I

759
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 4: don't feel that right now. And I felt blocked. You

760
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 4: ever feel blocked, anybody let me. Sometimes you get so

761
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 4: blocked you can't even breathe right, Yeah, yeah, So I

762
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 4: had to put my feet on the ground. And if

763
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 4: you had asked me, I would have said, yeah, yeah, No,

764
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 4: I prayed about this, but I didn't pray about it today.

765
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 4: You gotta keep praying. But you're gonna pray once and

766
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 4: say I tried, it didn't work. You do that with restaurants. No,

767
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 4: I ate back there in nineteen ninety seven. I'm good,

768
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 4: And so sometimes it's heavy because I remember what they did.

769
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 4: They brought the man before Jesus God, don't won't you

770
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 4: just come out here and hear me preach and yell

771
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 4: and scream and sing and all this stuff that we

772
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 4: try to do and then go home and wonder while

773
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 4: you're blocked.

774
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna take prayer for you to try higher. You

775
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: need God.

776
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 4: You need God in your situation. You need angels in

777
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 4: your situation. You need the spirit of God to make

778
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 4: it through some of the things we're going through today.

779
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: You need prayer. I mean not just pray louder, because

780
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: that's try harder, pray louder. Oh God, Oh.

781
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 8: God, Oh God, God.

782
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Speaker 1: I call on you now for peace.

783
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 8: Peace.

784
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Speaker 4: And it's not praying longer because all your people say, well,

785
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 4: I try to pray, I'll fall asleep. Did you try

786
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 4: it walking? That'll be real hard to do, to fall

787
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 4: if you fall asleep prayer walking. Come see me, because

788
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 4: you are a modern day Lazarus coming out like a

789
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 4: zombie in prayer. But I'm serious. I'm talking about praying

790
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 4: larger because number two, it's going to take. There's only

791
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 4: five of these. I can get them quick to try

792
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 4: higher means that God might need to deal with your priorities. Remember,

793
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 4: it wasn't so significant who these men were, because they

794
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 4: weren't even named in the passage. It was what they

795
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 4: were carrying. They were carrying somebody that Jesus wanted to use.

796
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 4: And notice something I don't know if you caught this.

797
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 4: When they laid the sick man down, thinking Jesus would

798
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 4: heal him like he was known to be able to do.

799
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 4: The first thing Jesus did was say, you're forgiven. But

800
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:47,399
Speaker 4: they weren't looking for forgiveness, were they. But Sometimes God

801
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 4: doesn't give us what we want the first time, does he?

802
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 4: Sometimes he wants to do something deeper before he raises

803
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 4: us higher, doesn't he.

804
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: If y'all clap, I can move on to number three.

805
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,720
Speaker 4: Or say out or something, Because a lot of times

806
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 4: in my life I've been more consumed with what it

807
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 4: was costing me than what I was carrying. There was

808
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 4: something significant about this man, and it was beyond any

809
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 4: of their inkling of understanding what it would be.

810
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: They thought, maybe our friend will get a miracle.

811
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 4: They didn't know that he would be a sermon illustration

812
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 4: that we'd be preaching about two thousand years later.

813
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: Now, is it possible that try and.

814
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 4: Hire is just about you saying God, I know what

815
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 4: I think needs to happen, I know where I think

816
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 4: is supposed to be.

817
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: I know what I think was supposed to be the outcome.

818
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 4: Is it possible that the word of God for you

819
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 4: today might be let go of the outcome and surrender

820
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 4: to God in the process, Because that's how you try higher,

821
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 4: trying harder as just you're going to force it, force it,

822
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 4: and sometimes you can even force something through the flesh

823
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 4: that you'll be praying for God to take away later.

824
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: You hear me, I'm annoying for somebody right now, and

825
00:48:59,080 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is.

826
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 4: I hear God saying, you don't have to pray louder, longer,

827
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 4: pray larger, priority, priority. Who are you fighting for? They

828
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 4: were fighting for their friend. So if you're not fighting

829
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 4: for anybody, give me the hat firs again.

830
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: Verse eighteen. When they could not find a way to

831
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: do this because of the crowd, they gave up and

832
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: went home.

833
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 4: There was something after the comma that they cared about,

834
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 4: and it was something they were carrying.

835
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Speaker 1: It was somebody.

836
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 4: There has to come a time in your life where

837
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 4: you say, I don't even want to do it for

838
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 4: me right now, But maybe God wants to do something

839
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 4: through me that's bigger than me.

840
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not always about me. That's how you try higher.

841
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 4: And I should come back over here because the third

842
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 4: one I wrote down if you're going to try.

843
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:57,439
Speaker 1: Higher is partners. I said, partners. That's y'all's cue to shout.

844
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: I said, partners.

845
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 4: Put in the chat right now what you need prayer for,

846
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 4: and they will pray for you before the next time

847
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 4: you see it.

848
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: Will you do that?

849
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 4: I don't care how strong you are. One man doesn't

850
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 4: get another man up on the roof like that. It's

851
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 4: not going to happen without partners trying.

852
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: And higher in this season.

853
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 4: Isn't just you going into isolation and gritting your teeth

854
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 4: and getting it done alone. That's why I want you

855
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 4: in this church as much as you can get here,

856
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 4: so we can get around each other, so you can

857
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 4: pretend like you know how to sing because the person.

858
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: Next to you can. I want that for you. I

859
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: don't want you to just try harder by.

860
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 4: Yourself and the devil just beats you half to death

861
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 4: because you just think you can do it all in

862
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 4: isolation and you don't ask anybody, and you don't join anything,

863
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 4: and you don't listen to anybody that's.

864
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: Not trying higher, that's trying harder.

865
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Speaker 4: Some men came carrying a man who is your crew

866
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 4: to help you get it done, to carry it with you.

867
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 4: You need to find somebody in your life who has

868
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 4: figured out something that you are frustrated with and tell

869
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 4: them I'm coming up there. I'm coming up there with you.

870
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 4: I'm coming up there because you know something. You know

871
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 4: something I don't, and I'm not gonna stay down here

872
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 4: saying I tried everything when I didn't even ask anybody

873
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 4: to help me. I'm not doing this one more day

874
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 4: by myself. I need some real partners. And some of

875
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 4: the people I thought were my partners, those people were

876
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 4: actually the problem.

877
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 14: So I need some new friends. Sorry, I do need

878
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 14: some new friends. Every once in a while, co Am,

879
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 14: I gonna get down.

880
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: Pray for me. I love it.

881
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Speaker 4: And the Lord says something very interesting to me. He said,

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Speaker 4: the fourth one is permission. Permission. Permission isn't going to

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Speaker 4: come from the Pharisees. Permission to live the way of

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Speaker 4: Christ is not going to come from the culture. They

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Speaker 4: will always call you crazy. But some of the things

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Speaker 4: that you're praying about right now you could make decisions

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Speaker 4: about before the day is over. When Jesus told this man,

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Speaker 4: take up your mat and walk, if he gave him

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Speaker 4: the command but did not give him the power, it

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Speaker 4: would have been cruel of Jesus. So when Jesus told

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Speaker 4: the man take up your mat and walk, he was

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Speaker 4: acknowledging the man's problem, but giving him the permission to

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Speaker 4: live above it. I declare to you in the mighty

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Speaker 4: name of Jesus that he has defeated death, sin.

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Speaker 1: And the grave.

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Speaker 4: Come on that sin no longer is your master, that

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Speaker 4: it no longer has dominion for you. How do you

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Speaker 4: know that, Pastor Stephen, Because when the man came in,

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Speaker 4: he was lying on the mat. When he left, he

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Speaker 4: was carrying it, and he didn't need anybody to carry him.

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Speaker 4: If you're ready to get over some stuff that the

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Speaker 4: enemy said you couldn't move past, give God a praise,

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Speaker 4: because that's my fifth p is praise. And God said,

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Speaker 4: if we're gonna do it in this season, like we

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Speaker 4: need to do it in this season. If you want

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Speaker 4: to see me make a way, give.

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Speaker 8: Me a praise for who I am, for what I've done,

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Speaker 8: for what I've brought you through.

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Speaker 4: Everybody that owes God the praise, give it to him

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Speaker 4: right now.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna give you thirty seconds. So open your mouth

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Speaker 8: and bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that

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Speaker 8: is within me. Higher, try higher, give him the greatest

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Speaker 8: phrase you ever gave him.

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Speaker 6: Why not.

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Speaker 8: He's high and lifting up and get it right.

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Speaker 4: And because I gotta tell you this, because they went higher,

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Speaker 4: he got healed, and everybody praised God, and everybody praised God,

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Speaker 4: and everybody praised God, and everybody from the brokest to

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Speaker 4: the richest, from the shortest to the tallest, from the

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Speaker 4: newest to the oldest, and everybody praised God. Because with

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Speaker 4: God there's always a way, and by faith, I'll find it.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna find it. You just hadn't looked high enough yet.

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Speaker 4: There it's there. I see a cloud the size of

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Speaker 4: a man's hand.

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Speaker 1: You just gotta look off and keep looking out. Father.

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Speaker 4: I thank you for what I feel in this moment.

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Speaker 4: I don't know who is for, but somebody's going home

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Speaker 4: a different way than they came. I establish that right

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Speaker 4: now by faith, I anticipate the testimony that I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: receive of people who came in lying on a mat

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Speaker 4: and went home praising God, holding what used to hold them.

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Speaker 4: I thank you right now that you're making ways for

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Speaker 4: your children as we praise.

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Speaker 1: You are making ways.

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Speaker 4: Worship and worship and worship. Oh O, Jesus said, all

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Speaker 4: authority has been given to me. That means the devil

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Speaker 4: can't hold you. Yeah, open your mouth. Come on, this

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Speaker 4: is the highway when you worship and get your mind

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Speaker 4: on him.

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Speaker 1: That's the highway. Isaiah said. For his thoughts are higher

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Speaker 1: than your thoughts, and His ways are higher than your ways.

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Speaker 1: On praise makes a highway.

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Speaker 8: Praise makes a highway for y'all way, Come on listening,

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Speaker 8: highway for y'all wait your waitiness, let's go. We say away.

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Speaker 11: We say y'all way in the pass when it was

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Speaker 11: pe way, we say allway. Well, we say y'allways at me. Hey.

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Speaker 1: of you who are a part of Elevation.

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