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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Come on, praise Him for every valley

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Speaker 1: and every mountain and stepfast. Love is better than life. Wow.

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Speaker 1: What an awesome God you are no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: Everything in our life points to the fact that there

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Speaker 2: was a steady hand guiding us.

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Speaker 1: And now Lord, we clap our hands.

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Speaker 2: To celebrate your hand that never left our lives in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Amen, you know what you got to do?

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Speaker 2: High five to eighteen people and tell them it was

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Speaker 2: the hand of God.

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Speaker 1: Raise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Did you do eighteen or did

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Speaker 2: you round up lazy bones everybody online as well? Give

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Speaker 2: a high five in the chat. Look, fist pump in

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Speaker 2: the chat. Let us know you're here too. Our epham

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Speaker 2: around the world.

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Speaker 1: Today. I have a word for our anniversary. I told

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Speaker 1: the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I tried to tell God several months ago that

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Speaker 2: I wanted to invite a guest to speak for the anniversary.

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Speaker 2: I said, this is great Sunday for me to just

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Speaker 2: enjoy all that you have done, Lord and the works

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Speaker 2: thy hands have made. So invite a guest speaker, and

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Speaker 2: I even had a little list of guests that I

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Speaker 2: wanted to bring. You know, almost anybody will come preach

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Speaker 2: to you because you are the most amazing church in

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Speaker 2: the world. No, I'm saying that that's not bragging, is

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Speaker 2: a fact you are the greatest, all right.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying the greatest on stage.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying the greatest people, the greatest volunteers, the greatest

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Speaker 2: So I was getting my list ready of guest speakers,

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Speaker 2: and then I saw something that I felt in the

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Speaker 2: scripture that I was supposed to preach on this day.

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Speaker 2: So then I was conflicted, because I want the day

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Speaker 2: like you do and not have to dry my snot

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Speaker 2: and put vizin in my eyes and get up here

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Speaker 2: saw this word, though, it really felt important and it

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Speaker 1: Now Graham looked at me, because we went a little

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Speaker 1: longer in worship.

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Speaker 2: We had a video and Holly baptized half the town

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Speaker 2: of Charlotte here at Valentine and at all of our locations.

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Speaker 2: Let's welcome all of our locations right now. So we

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Speaker 2: sang and we and we prayed, and we praised, and

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Speaker 1: And Graham looked at me and goes, are you preaching today?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: How long is this going to be? I got an

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Speaker 1: appointment with a bull at Chipotle. You'd preaching too. What

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Speaker 1: truth of the matter is, not only should we.

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Speaker 2: Really make time for God's presence that matters the most,

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Speaker 2: But I believe that if you listen good, I can

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Speaker 2: that I would get a guest speaker, he said, okay,

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Speaker 2: then you be the guest. Because it's my church. The

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Speaker 2: Lord said, he said, I'm inviting you say yes. So

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Speaker 2: here is my yes Isaiah forty nine, verses one through four.

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Speaker 2: Listen to me, you islands, hear this, you distant nations.

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Speaker 2: Before I was born, the Lord called me from my

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Speaker 2: He made me into a polished arrow, and concealed me

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Speaker 2: servant Israel, and whom I will display my splendor. But

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Speaker 2: I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent

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Speaker 2: The word of the Lord. Do you receive it? The

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Speaker 2: concealed but not canceled. Concealed but not canceled. I thank

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Speaker 2: thank you for penetration of these principles that have ministered

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Speaker 2: you're going to do it like you always do, in

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Speaker 2: you glory in Jesus' name. We praise you in advance. Hallelujah.

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Speaker 2: but not canceled. Now let me start this personally. A

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Speaker 2: And even though there were so many things to be

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Speaker 2: was talking to a friend about this, who's very wise

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Speaker 2: I just can't believe that, after all God has done

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Speaker 2: My friend said, anybody who's known you for five minutes

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Speaker 1: I'm not lazy. I'm afraid. Yeah, you're afraid. You're afraid.

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Speaker 2: You're not motivated right now because you're afraid, and you're

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Speaker 2: He hid me me into a polished arrow and concealed

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Speaker 1: You know that He put you where he put you

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Speaker 2: It aspar dame or amphetamines. You decide, I'll drink the

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Speaker 1: He says that my reward is in God's hand.

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Speaker 2: It is the hand of God that decides when I'm promoted.

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Speaker 2: I know I'm cute, I know i'm handsome, I know

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Speaker 2: I'm charismatic, But none of that is what got me here.

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Speaker 1: It was nothing but the hand of God. Yeah, my

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Speaker 2: I said, explain to me what it means. And what

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Speaker 1: Put that in the comments section. Let's do something good

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Speaker 1: Right now, I.

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Speaker 2: So the answer to that is, yes, you're under attack

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Speaker 1: And now you see why I picked this passage that

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Speaker 1: That's what it means.

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Speaker 2: So when God wanted to deliver his people, he sent

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Speaker 2: This makes no sense. Repeat after me, This makes no sense.

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Speaker 2: Why would God sharpen an arrow polish an arrow and

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Speaker 1: But until the arrow is ready to be launched, the

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Speaker 2: Judge your potential by the quiver, you'll think I'm never

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Speaker 1: If you judge watch.

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Speaker 2: This the potential of your child by what they're struggling

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Speaker 2: But what if it is not a destination where they

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Speaker 1: Curse your quiver. That's where God.

446
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 2: Keeps his most valuable weapons, his secret weapons, his special weapons,

447
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 2: his sharp weapons, his ready weapons, his capable weapons, his weapons.

448
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: That no one will see. Come in.

449
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 2: Now the Bible seems kind of brilliant because I understand

450
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 2: that it is the shameful things that God uses to

451
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: shame the strong, that it is the foolishness of the

452
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 2: cross that God used to save the world. When he

453
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 2: got ready to redeem us from our sin, he found

454
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 2: a virgin womb.

455
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 1: Why this makes no sense.

456
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 2: When he got ready to take down a Philistine giant,

457
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 2: he chose a shepherd boy who was hidden in a

458
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 2: field coust this.

459
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: Makes no sense.

460
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 2: When he got ready to use somebody to liberate the

461
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 2: Israelites from Egypt, he chose a murderer who was a fugitive.

462
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: Why Because this makes no sense. And when this makes

463
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 2: no sense, that's where.

464
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: God can get the greatest glory.

465
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 4: So he said, I gotta get a left handed warrior. Teezus,

466
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 4: are you feeling this like I'm feeling this.

467
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: Because somebody in here has the left hand?

468
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: All your life in a right handed tribe, and you

469
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 2: never really fit in, and you've never really been what

470
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: you thought you were supposed to be, and you've never

471
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 2: really had what you felt like you were supposed to have.

472
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 2: And what other people do easily. You struggle, for you're

473
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 2: a left handed warrior from a right handed tribe. And

474
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 2: God looks across fifty thousand Bingjamite soldiers. They had about

475
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 2: forty seven thousand swordsmen and only seven hundred lefties, and

476
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: God said, I need a lefty for this. God is

477
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: looking for lefties, and you're about to find out why.

478
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this message

479
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: makes some holy ghost noise.

480
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: Of this eighteen year old church.

481
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 2: Eighteen year old church. And you know what happens when

482
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 2: you turn eighteen. You can go to war when you

483
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 2: turn eighteen. I believe God's about to raise up a warrior.

484
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 2: As I've reached this word today. As a matter of fact,

485
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 2: what's sat in your hand?

486
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: What's sat in your hand? What's that in your hand?

487
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 2: You look like a whapish Isaiah said he had me

488
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 2: in the shadows, but he wasn't punishing me. He was

489
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 2: polishing me. I'm not being punished. I'm being polished. That's

490
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: his hand working on me. That's his hand sending me down.

491
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 2: That's his hand too, hiding me for the right time.

492
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 2: And when the right time comes, I'm going to be

493
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 2: the right one for the right time because he hid

494
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 2: me in his quiver. It's not a curse, it's a

495
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: quiver loneliness. Sometimes it's because you feel left handed. One

496
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 2: of my best friends he said that three words or

497
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: they're not words, they're phrases.

498
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: But he said three words, but he should have said

499
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: three phrases describe.

500
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 2: How he's felt his whole life, left out, looked over,

501
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 2: and less than. Now understand this church for the historical

502
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: context that if you were left handed in a right

503
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 2: handed tribe, they didn't let you serve in the military

504
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 2: except in a special position, and it wasn't the best position.

505
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: So imagine all the times that.

506
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 2: Ehud got looked over, left out, and felt less than.

507
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 2: And the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he

508
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 2: gave them Verse fifteen Police. He gave them a deliverer

509
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 2: from a place they weren't looking. He gave them what

510
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 2: they had looked over. He gave them someone who had

511
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: been left out. He gave them what they considered less than.

512
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: And we regard Christ according to the flesh. We miss

513
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 2: his glory because God will always wrap his favor in flesh.

514
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: And when we look for God to do something, only

515
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: from the right hand of what we consider a blessing.

516
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: We miss what's on the left.

517
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 2: Every time I'm trying to say, God's trying to give

518
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 2: you stuff, but you're watching the wrong hand. You're waiting

519
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 2: for everything to go right. But sometimes God wants to

520
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 2: bless you from the left.

521
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: Now do you see.

522
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 2: Why I invited myself to preach this message, Because it's

523
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 2: been eighteen years they've been struggling, and eighteen years they've

524
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 2: been suffering. And for eighteen years God has been blessing

525
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: this ministry. And for eighteen years it was nothing but

526
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: his hand that kept us going.

527
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: For eighteen years.

528
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: And then they cried out and God sent them a

529
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: blessing from the left.

530
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: So WA's what happens when he goes.

531
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: The Israelite sent him with tribute to Eglon, king of Moab.

532
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: And I want you to picture this in your hand.

533
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 2: Because this loaner called a loser, looked over and left out,

534
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: This loaner called a loser, looked over and left out.

535
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: That's not always just the way people talk about you.

536
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's the way you talk to yourself.

537
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 2: This left handed warrior, this left handed judge, he takes

538
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 2: the tribute to the enemy king.

539
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: But verse sixteen says something kind of interesting.

540
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: Now, Ehud, the left handed deliver had made a double

541
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: edged sword about a cubit long uh huh, which he

542
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 2: strapped to his right thigh under his clothing. So we

543
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: called this conceal and carry all right, not making a

544
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 2: political statement.

545
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: This is just you know, they would have canceled the Bible.

546
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 2: Isaiah would have got canceled, Paul would have got canceled.

547
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 2: Jeremiah definitely would have got canceled.

548
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: Some of the prophets were walking around naked. Cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel.

549
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: Some of us have canceled culture in our heart.

550
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 2: And anything that doesn't look like, oh yeah, I'm coming

551
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 2: for him this morning, Mama, I'm coming for him on

552
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 2: my eighteenth birthday. I didn't come here just to blow

553
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 2: a kazou. I came here to break a chain, because

554
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: every once in a while you have canceled out something

555
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 2: that God came to give you, and.

556
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 1: You keep canceling. He carried a weapon in to deliver

557
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: his people, and.

558
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: It was first of all, it was concealed. Everybody say concealed.

559
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: He put it under his clothing. Watch what he did.

560
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,720
Speaker 2: Verse seventeen. He presented the tribute to Eglon, king of Moab,

561
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 2: who was a very fat man. I didn't call him

562
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 2: the Bible did. Don't cancel me, cancel judges. He was

563
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: a fat man. You couldn't even read the Bible if

564
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 2: it was written today. He was a fat man. So

565
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 2: I un presented the tribute. Here's your stuff.

566
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: We hate you eighteen years of slavery. Keep going, And

567
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: he sent the.

568
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: Rest of them on their way, because sometimes you got

569
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 2: to do what God gave you to do and nobody's

570
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 2: gonna get it, but you still got to do it.

571
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: So he sent them.

572
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 2: Away and they carried it out, but on reaching the

573
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: stone images near Gilgal, he himself went back to Aglon

574
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 2: and said, your.

575
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: Majesty, I have a secret message for you.

576
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 2: And the king said to his attendant Lebos, and they

577
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 2: all left. And he had then approached him while he

578
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 2: was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace,

579
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 2: and said, I have a message from God for you,

580
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 2: and the king gets up from his seat. Stop knowing nothing,

581
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 2: because if they came in from the tribe of Benjamin,

582
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 2: they were probably searched for weapons, but the warriors always

583
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 2: carried the weapon on the opposite leg that they intended

584
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: to draw it from. So if you come in here

585
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: from a right handed tribe, we're gonna check your left thigh.

586
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: But God told him to strap it to the right one.

587
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 2: That was the unchecked leg. That was the one nobody

588
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: thought to look for. That was the thing that they

589
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: didn't even see as a threat. That was the thing

590
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 2: that's nuck in unexpected. There are some of you who

591
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 2: are in here today and you are checking the wrong leg.

592
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 2: You are checking the wrong source, you are checking the circumstance.

593
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:44,240
Speaker 2: But God, when he gets ready to deliver his people

594
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 2: from eighteen years of captivity, he uses somebody who can conceal.

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00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 1: Everybody say, conceal the weapon on his right leg. Why

596
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: his right leg?

597
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: Verse twenty one tells us because when the moment came,

598
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 2: he had reached with his rejected hand, with his weak hand,

599
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 2: with his left out hand, with his looked.

600
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: Overhand, with his less than hand.

601
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 2: You keep thinking, God, he's going to use your special strength.

602
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 2: He's going to use your secret weakness as a secret webbit.

603
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 2: And old fat Egglon never saw it come in, Old Egglon,

604
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 2: he didn't check that right leg, did he? And verse

605
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 2: twenty one says he took that sword that he made

606
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: himself from his right thig Boone plunged it into the

607
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: king's big old king Hippo belly walked out, blew a trumpet,

608
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 2: got ten thousand mobabides dead, and the land had.

609
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: Rest for eighty years. Why Why did God give them

610
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: the victory? How?

611
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: How did God give them the victory? It was from

612
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:26,280
Speaker 2: something concealed. Not only was it concealed, it was crossed.

613
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: It came from the other side, which was the right side.

614
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 2: You don't get it. You're the right one for this,

615
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: And what you think is wrong with you is what

616
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: makes you right for this. What was your Hey, work

617
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 2: on yourself, get yourself better, do what you can do

618
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 2: to increase your strengths. But know in the meantime that

619
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 2: you serve a god who gave a victory to a

620
00:38:54,719 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 2: nation over an eighteen year problem, and he used a

621
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: left handed warrior that nobody saw come in.

622
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: So turn to your.

623
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 2: Neighbor and say, look to the left, because it's going

624
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 2: to come from in this season, and unexpected place. It's

625
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 2: going to come from in this season, and unexpected blessing.

626
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: It's going to come from.

627
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 2: In this season, an unexpected experience. It's coming from the left.

628
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 2: It's a concealed weapon. Everybody say concealed, and he crossed it.

629
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 2: Everybody say crossed. But I gotta show you.

630
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: One more thing.

631
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: Not only was it concealed, and not only was it

632
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 2: crossed where it came from the other side, But the

633
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 2: Bible says that this dagger, this sword in verse sixteen.

634
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: Was about a cubit. And I had to look up.

635
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: I'm just being honest.

636
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 2: I don't remember they talked to me, probably in seminary,

637
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 2: but I forgot.

638
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: I had to look up how big is a cubit? Actually,

639
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Speaker 1: what I googled was how big is a cubit? In

640
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: American I don't want them meters? Well, I look like

641
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: international annoying thing.

642
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: No, how big was the instrument that ended eighteen years

643
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 2: of oppression?

644
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: And Google told.

645
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 2: Me something, and God told me something, and Google told me.

646
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: That a cubit is eighteen inches.

647
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: I said, what now, we're celebrating eighteen years eighteen years.

648
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: And honest, eighteen No, that's another Bible verse.

649
00:40:52,040 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 2: Eighteen years of captivity ended with eighteen inches of faith.

650
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 2: So you mean to tell me that for every year

651
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 2: they were oppressed, e Hud made a weapon an inch bigger.

652
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 2: An inch for every year, an inch for every year.

653
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: Do you know how long eighteen years is?

654
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 2: That's as long as my oldest son has been alive.

655
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: Do you know how long eighteen years is?

656
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 2: Eighteen years is seventy two summer, springs, winter and falls.

657
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: That's eighteen years. Eighteen years is a long time. Is

658
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 2: six thousand, five hundred and seventy four days.

659
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: That's eighteen years.

660
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 2: That's one one hundred and fifty seven thousand, seven hundred

661
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 2: and eighty eight hours.

662
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: That's eighteen years.

663
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 2: That's nine million, four hundred and sixty three thousand, two

664
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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty minutes. And all of a sudden, ten

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Speaker 2: million minutes of oppression ended. Eighteen years of oppression ended

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Speaker 2: because of eighteen inches in the left hand, not.

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Speaker 1: The right hand. So God said, on this eighteenth year

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Speaker 1: anniversary of elevation, Church, what do you have in your hand?

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Speaker 1: It's enough?

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Speaker 2: Eighteen years is long, eighteen inches is short.

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Speaker 1: But isn't this what God always does to use the

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Speaker 1: small thing to take down the big thing?

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Speaker 2: Isn't this what He always does, taking the mystery of

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Speaker 2: the gospel to mystify the scholar and the wisdom of

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Speaker 2: this age, to confound it to be brought to note.

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Speaker 2: So I came to remind this church that God called

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Speaker 2: me to pastor this year.

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Speaker 1: This is a church that.

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Speaker 2: Believes in eighteen inch miracles.

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Speaker 1: Hallelujah Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Eighteen inches is all it took for eighteen years to

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Speaker 2: come to an end.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen inches, they say.

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Speaker 2: They say that the greatest journey and the longest trip

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Speaker 2: in human experience is eighteen inches from the head to

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Speaker 2: the heart. These numbers are approximate, but the truth is

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Speaker 2: very relevant because some of you are eighteen inches away

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Speaker 2: from faith. Isaiah said, I know he called me in

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Speaker 2: my head. I know he chose me before I was born.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes my heart gets discouraged and I say to myself,

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Speaker 2: I spent my strength in vain. It was all for nothing.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever felt that way? I feel that way

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Speaker 2: sometimes talking to you. But I have to remember now,

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Speaker 2: and you have to remember eighteen inches takes time, and

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Speaker 2: some of the things that you believe in your head

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Speaker 2: haven't made it to your heart yet. And when they do,

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Speaker 2: when you really believe that I'm not less than I'm

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Speaker 2: left handed, they say I'm weird.

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Speaker 1: God says, I'm wired by him. The Master workman.

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Speaker 2: And if I can find a way to preach to

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Speaker 2: you over the next few weeks as.

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Speaker 1: I launch my book, Do the New You, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Going to try to get you to see that God

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Speaker 5: has brought you to this moment of your life because

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Speaker 5: you are a weapon in his hand to do good

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Speaker 5: for His kingdom.

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Speaker 1: So the next time you feel.

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Speaker 2: Like Isaiah and you feel concealed and you say, God,

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Speaker 2: I can't see how it's going to work out, and

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Speaker 2: I don't see how it's going to happen, and I'll

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Speaker 2: see why I have to go through this. Remember it's concealed,

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Speaker 2: but it's not canceled. It is still active in your life.

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Speaker 2: And this weapon of the double edged sword of the

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Speaker 2: Word of God is in your hand today. For Isaiah said,

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Speaker 2: and I echo, Yet what is.

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Speaker 1: Due mean is in the Lord's hand.

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Speaker 2: Stop looking at how small it is in your hand,

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Speaker 2: and start realizing how powerful.

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Speaker 1: His hand is.

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Speaker 2: He's got you in his hand, Church, He's got us

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Speaker 2: in his hand. I've seen it in the baptism tank.

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Speaker 2: I've seen it in the boardroom. I've seen it at

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Speaker 2: the bottom, I've seen it in the breakthrough. I'm still

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Speaker 2: in his hand. And if you know you're in his hand,

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Speaker 2: Lift your hands and give him.

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Speaker 1: Praise for eighteen years. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry.

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Speaker 1: 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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