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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. How good it is to be in

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Speaker 1: God's house today? Anybody thankful to be in the Lord's

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Speaker 1: House on this Sunday morning, Clap your hands. I want

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Speaker 1: to welcome you to church right here. I'm at the

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Speaker 1: Balantine campus, but all of our friends on the e

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Speaker 1: Fam and really all over the world, all of our

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Speaker 1: locations were so grateful that you're tuning in. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just thinking about the Psalmist as he says, Oh, I

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Speaker 1: want to magnify the Lord. Let us exalt his holy name.

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Speaker 1: How many of you know that whatever you magnify in

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Speaker 1: your life gets bigger. There's something about as we begin

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Speaker 1: to worship God, we start making the name of God

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Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. In our situation. You might have some problems,

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Speaker 1: but come on, your God is bigger than every problem

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Speaker 1: you have. Come on and give him praise. And today

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Speaker 1: I think it's powerful that you're in church. To the

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Speaker 1: Psalmi stays, let us, let us exalt his holy name.

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Speaker 1: You know that faith is not just individual. Faith is communal.

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Speaker 1: That we need each other. And today, as we've gathered

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Speaker 1: in God's house, I believe he's right here with us,

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna minister, He's gonna speak to us. Can

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Speaker 1: we thank God for just the best worship team ever?

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Leland in the house, My friend Leland.

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Speaker 1: Leland sings like he's in heaven. I don't know some

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Speaker 1: of those notes that he is, but I'm like, dear Jesus,

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Speaker 1: Dear Jesus, my name is Rich. If we've never met before,

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Speaker 1: I hail from Miami, Florida. I lead a church called

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Speaker 1: Voo Church. And what an honor. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: What an honor it is to be with you today.

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Speaker 1: And if you've got a Bible, quickly turned to the

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Speaker 1: book of Deuteronomy. We're gonna read God's word from a

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Speaker 1: standing position this morning. Deuteronomy chapter twenty. I want to

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Speaker 1: give you one verse and then we're going to look

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Speaker 1: at about eight verses today. And as you're turning there,

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Speaker 1: it is always such a great privilege and such a

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Speaker 1: great honor to stand behind this pulpit. I thank God

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Speaker 1: for this house, and I thank God for the ministry,

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Speaker 1: the life and the leadership of Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick.

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Speaker 1: It is Pastor Appreciation Month, and your pastor is not

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Speaker 1: just your pastor, but really he pastors so many people

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Speaker 1: all around the world. Can we thank God for his

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Speaker 1: life and can we thank God for his ministry? Can

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Speaker 1: we clap our hands and make some noise today? It's

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Speaker 1: always funny preaching at elevation because there's very few pulpits

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Speaker 1: in the world that when you walk up to it,

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Speaker 1: there's almost like a gasp, like, Oh, someone drove in

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Speaker 1: today from Omaha and they were hoping to hear Pastor

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Speaker 1: Steven and you got rich. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 1: I do believe that God's going to minister to us.

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking about your pastor walking in because

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Speaker 1: for me, as as I come here year after year,

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Speaker 1: I get excited to share the word, but equally I

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Speaker 1: get excited to take a month just to put honor

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Speaker 1: where honor is due. I remember some years ago when

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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat when they were good pray for him.

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Speaker 1: They were in the Eastern conference finals, and my dad

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Speaker 1: he scored some tickets, and my dad's balling on a budget,

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Speaker 1: and so he got us nosebleed tickets. In fact, we

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Speaker 1: weren't just we weren't sitting up high. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: But I remember watching the game from a distance. It

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Speaker 1: was almost like watching the game on delay. You're so

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Speaker 1: these guys. That's from a distance. Since that time, I've

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Speaker 1: had a couple opportunities to sit on the court. And

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Speaker 1: how ma y'all know, sitting on the court, sitting on

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Speaker 1: the wood is a totally different game. You can see

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Speaker 1: guys sweat drop, you can hear what they're saying. One time,

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Speaker 1: here's what I want to hear. Same game, different perspective.

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Speaker 1: Proximity brings perspective. And let me just say, as a

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Speaker 1: a man of integrity, he is a man of courage,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for what God has done in

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Speaker 1: want to say to Elevation Church, you better take care

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Speaker 1: of that man. Pray for him, stand with him. We

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Speaker 1: love your pastor, Steve, and a pastor all like. Come on,

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Speaker 1: he makes the noise if we're grateful. It's a life

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Speaker 1: for the leadership a pastor Stephen Hollyford. We love you, guys.

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Speaker 1: We got your back today. Let me give you one

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Speaker 1: and I feel it today. Deuteronomy chapter twenty, verse one.

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Speaker 1: It says this, when you go to war against your

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Speaker 1: enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater

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Speaker 1: your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will

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Speaker 1: be with you. Yeah, you should just clap your hands.

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Speaker 1: Is that good? Is that good? I want to speak

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Speaker 1: the Lord, thank you for your word. God. We believe

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Speaker 1: it's sharper than any double edged sword. Speak to us now, Lord,

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Speaker 1: as we read it, we invite it to read us.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we leave here different from how we came. Speak

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Speaker 1: of God's people said, all of God's people said, if

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Speaker 1: you love Jesus, make a little bit of noise today,

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Speaker 1: all right, high five a couple of people and say

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Speaker 1: you're gonna win. Say you're gonna win. In the chat,

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Speaker 1: throughout the scripture God invites us and tells us that

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Speaker 1: we're going to win. But notice he never says that

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Speaker 1: we won't have to fight. In fact, the longer I

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Speaker 1: the Christian life is not a dance. It's a battle.

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Speaker 1: And the first battle that we must always fight is

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Speaker 1: not an external one. It's always an internal one. It's

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Speaker 1: always the battle in your mind that you have to fight,

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Speaker 1: the war on the inside. I think many times we

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Speaker 1: go I want to change my life. Listen, you don't

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Speaker 1: life by changing your mind. How many out there you

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Speaker 1: could just use some more peace? Anyone? Just you could

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Speaker 1: some more peace. Anybody thankful for a God that says

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Speaker 1: My Bible says that his peace tra sends understanding. Let

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Speaker 1: me make that modern day. You might be in a

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Speaker 1: up against a challenge today that is illogical. But praise

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Speaker 1: make any sense. I need you to clap your hands,

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Speaker 1: win on the outside. Deuteronomy chapter twenty is powerful because

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Speaker 1: the book of instruction that God is giving his law,

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Speaker 1: He's given his commands. And here in Deuteronomy twenty, what

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Speaker 1: we're discovering is that Moses is giving a battle briefing

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Speaker 1: like before they actually step into a fight, he's giving

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Speaker 1: And what's really interesting, as he begins to teach long

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Speaker 1: a framework from wherever we're operating from that we're not

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Speaker 1: way you're gonna fight from victory is when you actually

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Speaker 1: believe that God is for you. I know that kind

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Speaker 1: I don't remember any other parents out there. Your kids

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Speaker 1: What happens when you squeeze an orange? You get what orange?

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Speaker 1: My good? Give him a big round applause today. Wow?

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Speaker 1: What happens when you squeeze a Christian complaining? Fear trouble? No, friend,

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Speaker 1: when you squeeze a believer, you ought to get believer

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Speaker 1: juice believer or juice believer? Juice believer? Juice? You ought

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Speaker 1: to get believer juice, because believers ought to have fruit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you're a believer, you want to have fruit of

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Speaker 1: the spirit, which means when attacks hit my life, when

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Speaker 1: people lie about my name, when they choose me, when

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Speaker 1: life squeezes me, I want love to be the result.

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Speaker 1: When all of a sudden I'm dealing with the sorrows

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Speaker 1: of life and the pressures of life, I pray that

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Speaker 1: joy would be squeezed out of me. Believer, juice, I

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Speaker 1: pray that when anxiety wants to hit my life, I

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Speaker 1: pray that all of a sudden I'm feeling strangled by worry,

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Speaker 1: I pray that peace would begin to erupt. It's believer juice.

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Speaker 1: But how much more for kindness and goodness and gentleness

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Speaker 1: and faithfulness, self control. Come on, all the fruit of

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, because last time I checked, the fruit

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Speaker 1: of the Spirit still grows under pressure. Come on and

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Speaker 1: clap your hands to make sure that fruit shows up.

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Speaker 1: And so God has the priest go forward. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine be in that army, like what's going on here? Man?

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Speaker 1: You're sending out the preachers. Yeah, we're going to battle. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we need a strategy, and I'm gonna give you a

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Speaker 1: sermon a sermon, But what is God trying to do?

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Speaker 1: God is trying to get his external world into their

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Speaker 1: internal world. God is trying to get his external word

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Speaker 1: inside to shape their internal world. I gotta get the

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Speaker 1: Word in you, because as the Word takes root in you,

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Speaker 1: something's going to grow. Faith is going to grow. I

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Speaker 1: have a friend who's a performance coach, and I love

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Speaker 1: him so much, and he said to me something the

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Speaker 1: other day that really struck me. He said, Rich, have

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Speaker 1: you ever noticed that people tend to shape and design

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Speaker 1: their external environment to mirror their internal one. Now, all

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Speaker 1: of the gospel, just we understand is about inside out

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Speaker 1: change that I have to have my heart change, and

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Speaker 1: Jesus does that. But that shouldn't stop us that once

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Speaker 1: we've had that moment of salvation take place, Maturity would say,

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Speaker 1: let me set up an external world that impacts and

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Speaker 1: influences my internal world. But so many people, if you

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Speaker 1: just look at it, it's like their whole life is in chaos.

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Speaker 1: Watch their environment around them will be in chaos. So

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Speaker 1: many people, they start going through worry, and so what

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Speaker 1: do they do? They feed into that worry. Many pool

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Speaker 1: they feel lonely, So what do they do, they isolate,

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Speaker 1: so their external environment begins to mirror what's happening on

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Speaker 1: the inside. You know this to be true. That's why

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Speaker 1: when you're having a bad it's like, Alexa play my

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Speaker 1: depressed playlist, Tom all adult and some of y'all got crazy.

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Speaker 1: Alexa play I want to cry in the shower playlist.

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Speaker 1: They never heard that term misery loves company is true.

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Speaker 1: That what we're feeling, we want our outside world to

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Speaker 1: look like that. So often, and so all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling fear, So I put on the news to

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Speaker 1: feed my fear. I'm upset. So now I go to

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Speaker 1: TikTok and I scroll and I death scroll, just so

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Speaker 1: I get angrier and angrier and angrier. But maturity somebody

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Speaker 1: who wants to win. Before they begin, they say, all right,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel this, but I gotta play faith. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to worship, but I'm gonna play worship. I

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Speaker 1: want to set up an external world that changes my

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Speaker 1: internal world. I think sometimes we can we can overthink

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Speaker 1: this because sometimes we can start thinking of ourselves. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's it. I gotta change my environment. I gotta move cities.

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Speaker 1: I gotta move churches, and sometimes those things are required,

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Speaker 1: but more often not, it's smaller things. It's just creating

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Speaker 1: small little habits to say, let me just do things

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Speaker 1: that all of a sudden I can create an external

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Speaker 1: world that begins to change. Let his word on the

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Speaker 1: outside get in and shape my heart on the inside.

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Speaker 1: One of the most practical things I think we can do.

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Speaker 1: My my friend here, Adrian's got his phone, is we

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Speaker 1: could start with this thing right here, this little devil

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Speaker 1: in our pocket. I just go for the next fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes about how bad the iPhone is. You know, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not the point. But this right here is one

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Speaker 1: of the leading causes of our anxiety, of our restlessness.

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Speaker 1: This is the whole thing that we carry with this

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Speaker 1: all the time, just little people. No, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you know this all day long. Let me just tell

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Speaker 1: you when it comes to this thing, like here's just

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Speaker 1: a base thing. You could have a friend tell me

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Speaker 1: you got to parent your phone. Rich Wow. Wow, I said,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? He said, well, your kids go

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Speaker 1: to bed before you, don't They said yes. He said

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Speaker 1: you wake up before your kids, don't you. I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do. He said, why don't you do that with

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Speaker 1: your phone. For some of us, it's like, just quit

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Speaker 1: sleeping with your phone. Yeah, someboy all got your phone

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Speaker 1: on your pillow at night. I don't know why I'm anxious.

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Speaker 1: You don't. Can you imagine if you're an alcoholic, It's like, Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm really struggling, but I sleep with Jack Daniels every night.

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Speaker 1: You can't defeat the enemy if you're sleeping with the enemy.

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Speaker 1: Come on, No, you gotta put it to bed at night.

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Speaker 1: And maybe it shouldn't even sleep in your room. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you should tuck it in another room, unplug it, and

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Speaker 1: say good night, little phone, I'll see you in the morning.

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Speaker 1: In fact, just little things just change your environment. Instead

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Speaker 1: of putting your phone on your nightstand at night, why

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Speaker 1: not swap that out and put this on your night

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Speaker 1: stand at night? Why not just make a decision, even

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Speaker 1: right here today, I want to win before I begin,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go biblical before I go digital. Come on,

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Speaker 1: come on, mean, why don't you just put your Bible

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Speaker 1: on your nightstand? But if you don't read it, even

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Speaker 1: if you don't get to it, let it be a

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Speaker 1: trigger on the external side of you that before I

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Speaker 1: go to bed at night, it's the last thing I see,

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Speaker 1: and when I wake up in the morning, it's the

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Speaker 1: first thing that I see. Faith comes by hearing and

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Speaker 1: hearing the word of God. I might not feel it

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Speaker 1: on the inside, but I want to put it on

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Speaker 1: the outside to trigger my environment, to say I want

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Speaker 1: God's word to get on the inside of you. Go on,

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Speaker 1: clap your hand, make a little bit of noise, make

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Speaker 1: a little bit of noise. Sometimes it's just a little cue.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just a little thing that the priests would

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Speaker 1: come out before them. They might not have wanted a sermon,

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Speaker 1: but they needed a sermon. It's like the more and

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Speaker 1: more I grow in my life, when I'm feeling lonely,

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Speaker 1: when I'm feeling depressed, I don't want to say, Alexa,

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Speaker 1: play my depressed playlist. I want to say, Alexa, play

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Speaker 1: my faith filled elevation worship playlist. Jesus be the who

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Speaker 1: am I that you keep me on your mind. God,

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Speaker 1: I'm just grateful for you. They say gratitude is the

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Speaker 1: right attitude. When I hear that song, I want to

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Speaker 1: run through a brick wall. Why Because faith has a sound.

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Speaker 1: Peace has a sound, and what you play starts to

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Speaker 1: shape your environment. It starts turning things around. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get God's word louder than your worry. Let me hear

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Speaker 1: the sound of faith, Let me hear the sound of peace.

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Speaker 1: Let me hear the sound of joy in this house.

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Speaker 1: I play it when I don't feel it. Who am

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Speaker 1: I that you keep me on your mind? God? I'm

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Speaker 1: just grateful for you. What a what a miracle? How

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Speaker 1: did you do this in me? And yeah, I got

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Speaker 1: some battles in front of me. But Lord, what I've

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Speaker 1: seen you do time and time again is I know

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Speaker 1: what you brought me out of. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you're doing, but I know what you have done. And

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Speaker 1: if you are faithful back, then you'll be faithful again.

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Speaker 1: I need you to praise God in faith today when

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Speaker 1: before you begin, grab a seat, Grab a seat, Let

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Speaker 1: me give you this last one. Look at verse five

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Speaker 1: with me. We're just walking through the text today, just

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Speaker 1: a Bible study on a Sunday. Pastor will be back soon,

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Speaker 1: Please come back to church. Look at verse five. This

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Speaker 1: is very interesting me. The officers shall say to the army,

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Speaker 1: has anyone built a new house and not yet begun

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Speaker 1: to live in it? Let him go home, or he

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Speaker 1: may die in battle, and someone else may begin to

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Speaker 1: live in it. Has they one planted a vineyard and

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Speaker 1: not begun to enjoy it. Let him go home, or

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Speaker 1: he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Has anyone pledged to a woman and not married her,

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Speaker 1: Let him go home, or he may die in battle

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Speaker 1: and someone else marry her. This is a very fascinating

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Speaker 1: part because this is before the battle has begun, and

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Speaker 1: here is the strategy of winning. I believe this last thought.

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Speaker 1: I want you to get this deep in your heart.

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Speaker 1: It's simply this, don't let your anxiety overthrow your order.

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Speaker 1: When you study the Word of God, and you see

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Speaker 1: when it says do not be anxious, it can be

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Speaker 1: translated do not be torn apart, because that's what anxiety does.

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Speaker 1: It makes us feel sin and it separates us. But

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Speaker 1: if you really want to win in life, you really

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Speaker 1: don't win until you become whole. Everything about our gospel

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Speaker 1: is about an integrated life, mind, body, spirit, and soul

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Speaker 1: coming together on all cylinders. And what's taking place here

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Speaker 1: is that they give these instructions to the people and

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Speaker 1: they say, Hey, has anyone like built a new house

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Speaker 1: and you haven't gotten to live in yet leave. Has

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Speaker 1: anyone about to get married and you haven't gotten to

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Speaker 1: be with your leave? If anyone's planted a new vineyard

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Speaker 1: and you haven't enjoyed it, leave, what's happening here? What

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Speaker 1: I want you to see in the text is that

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Speaker 1: God is not just interested merely in raising up fighters.

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Speaker 1: He also is raising up families. And when we talk

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Speaker 1: about things like contending and fighting back, it's not merely

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Speaker 1: always in life about enduring. It's also about enjoying. That's

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Speaker 1: what I love about Elevation Church. You don't just have

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Speaker 1: to come to church. You get to come to church here.

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Speaker 1: We're not just suffering through it. No, we enjoy the

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Speaker 1: President of God. God is into your enjoyment. In fact,

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Speaker 1: all the pleasures of life, every good gift came from above.

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Speaker 1: What's meant to happen in the life of a Christian

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Speaker 1: is every good thing that He's given you relationships, family, jobs, blessing.

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Speaker 1: It is supposed to roll back up into praise and

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Speaker 1: adoration of Him that I would give glory unto God.

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Speaker 1: I'm blessed to be a blessing. But just see this

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Speaker 1: category here. You've got a house, you've got a spouse

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Speaker 1: and you've got a vineyard. By the way, if you've

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Speaker 1: got a house and a spouse, all you're missing is

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Speaker 1: a vineyard. But your house speaks about your home life.

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Speaker 1: Your spouse speaks of your relationships, and your vinyard speaks

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Speaker 1: around your work and what God has said, He said

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Speaker 1: I care about all those things. Listen to me. One

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Speaker 1: of the most spiritual things you will ever do in

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Speaker 1: your entire life is go back home and get your

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Speaker 1: house in order. If your home life is in chaos,

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Speaker 1: your peace will always be in confusion. And many of

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Speaker 1: us sometimes we think it's the really big, massive thing,

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Speaker 1: but often it's the small thing. God is a god

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Speaker 1: of order. I don't have enough time today, but I

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Speaker 1: want to hear this order is the antidote to anxiety. Order.

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Speaker 1: We don't serve a god of disorder, but a God

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Speaker 1: of peace, meaning that when I get my life in order,

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Speaker 1: peace will be the result. And I see so many

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Speaker 1: people today and they're wondering why I feel so afraid,

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Speaker 1: why I feel like I'm up against so many challenges,

637
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Speaker 1: And it's because they're missing that peace on the inside.

638
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: But if you want to win, before you begin, you

639
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: better get your priority set. Everything about God, and his

640
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: book is about priorities. Seek first the Kingdom of God,

641
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: and all these things shall be added unto you. We

642
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: have a whole generation that's chasing after the added things.

643
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: But God says, if you'll put me first, I'll handle

644
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Speaker 1: all of the additions. What is tithing, It's about putting

645
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Speaker 1: God first? What is Sabbath about? Going God, I'm gonna

646
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Speaker 1: cease one day of the week, and I'm gonna trust

647
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: you like Chick fil A that as I work for

648
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: six days and I take one day off. You're the

649
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: God who can show up. You're the God who can

650
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: do exceedingly, immeasurably more than we could ever ask forything.

651
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: It's about order, and even for me, it's just good,

652
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: like the order of my life. Number one, God tell

653
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: this to my church today. Number two, my spouse. Number three,

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Speaker 1: my children, I got four of them, Wyatt Wild Whalen

655
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Speaker 1: a wolfgang. Number four, my family and friends watch this.

656
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Speaker 1: Number five, my church. Number six, the community. There's a

657
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Speaker 1: lot of preachers today that if they're not careful, they

658
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: will prefer God's bride over their own bride. It's not noble,

659
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: it's dangerous. I can't take care of God's children if

660
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: I don't first take care of my children and listen.

661
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Speaker 1: This is one of the things I love about your

662
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: pastor is that he's got his priorities set. He doesn't

663
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: bend to culture, he doesn't bend to naysayers and critics.

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Speaker 1: He understands the assignment of God and with it, he's

665
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Speaker 1: a leader worth following. Because you don't want an anxious priest.

666
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Speaker 1: You don't want a disintegrated preacher. You want someone who's

667
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: integrated in whole because you teach what you know, but

668
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Speaker 1: you reproduce who you are very good. Yeah, And so

669
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Speaker 1: God says, I want you to go home because I

670
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that you are a whole before

671
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Speaker 1: you fight. Let me show you this verse. It's verse

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Speaker 1: I think it's verse number Is it first number eight?

673
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Speaker 1: Can you bring that one up? Yeah? Verse eight. Is

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Speaker 1: anyone afraid or faint hearted? Let him go home so

675
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Speaker 1: that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too. Boo.

676
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Speaker 1: I just want to remind some people to that Elevation

677
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: church and those watching online. Fear is contagious. Yea. And

678
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Speaker 1: so he says, Yo, if there's anybody in the camp

679
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Speaker 1: who's afraid, leave now, because I can't let the rest

680
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Speaker 1: of the company. That's who you are, a group of soldiers,

681
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: not a crowd a company. I can't let you catch that.

682
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: About two weeks ago, I woke up with a sore throat.

683
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Speaker 1: Couldn't believe it. Went to the doctors. They said, Rich,

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Speaker 1: you have strep throat. I said, I'm forty one years

685
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Speaker 1: of age. I don't know you could get strep throat

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Speaker 1: at forty one years of age, So like we might

687
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Speaker 1: have to take your tonsils, I said you, the devil

688
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: is a liar. You should have come from me when

689
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: I was eight. There is no way you're having my tonsils.

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Speaker 1: Bro Well, it just so happened that about seven days prior,

691
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Speaker 1: my son, Wyat, my oldest, he had strep throat. It

692
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Speaker 1: wasn't random. I caught it from Wyatt. I wonder today,

693
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Speaker 1: some of the things that you're carrying you didn't start

694
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Speaker 1: with that. You caught that along the way. You caught fear.

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00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: You've been examining something outside of God's word. That's feeding

696
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Speaker 1: your fear. A coworker gave you that, A fearful friend

697
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: gave you that. An absentee father gave you that. The

698
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: betrayal of a man or a woman. Something else gave

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Speaker 1: you that, because my Bible says that you are not

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Speaker 1: given a spirit of fear, but of love, power and

701
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Speaker 1: sound mind. Come on and clap your hands if you

702
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Speaker 1: believe our God has the antidote. He says, get your

703
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: life in order. I just like telling some people there's

704
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: some folks in your life right now. You gotta let

705
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 1: them go check your circle. Fear is like secondhand smoke.

706
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: It might not have started with you, but it doesn't

707
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: mean that it won't affect you. And some of us

708
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: are inhaling something from afar, and all of a sudden

709
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: it's getting down into our heart and it's leaving us

710
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: in a restless place. I think many times we find

711
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: ourselves going, God, just take away the battles. But that's

712
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: not the point of this message. It is one battle

713
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Speaker 1: after the next. You're in the fight. It's a But

714
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: what you have to learn is that God wants to

715
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Speaker 1: mature you in the battle. He wants to strengthen you

716
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Speaker 1: in the battle. He wants to give you peace and

717
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: joy and love right there in the middle. All the

718
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: water in the ocean can't sink a ship unless it

719
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: gets inside the ship. I love how Pastor Steven's been

720
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: preaching about the same lies new loops, because here's what's funny.

721
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: I went to the doctor for my strep throat and

722
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: at this point I'm just like, I want immediate results.

723
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Speaker 1: I'm like, give me the shot. Bro. He's like, we're

724
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Speaker 1: so sorry, we run backward with shots. We gotta give

725
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: you antibiotics. I'm like, okay, two pills a day for

726
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: ten days. Well, five days in I felt good. I

727
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: went to elevation nights, had the spirit of God. I

728
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: forgot that I had ever been sick, and then last

729
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: week the virus came back. Today, as I stand on

730
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: the stage, I'm back on antibiotics. See which, why are

731
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: you telling me is I'm telling you this that sometimes

732
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: we have to face the same fight again and again

733
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: and again, and we have to keep coming back to

734
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: it because if you don't confront it, you can't change it.

735
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: And if you keep denying it, you'll never ever be

736
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: delivered from it. I want to say to some people

737
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: right now that are running from some stuff, listen to me.

738
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Speaker 1: When you numb the pain, you also numb the blessing.

739
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: When you try to escape the trial, you're also going

740
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: to escape the teaching and the lesson in it. They

741
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: go hand in hand. And some fights you just got

742
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: to keep fighting. Some things you got to keep coming

743
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: back to. Some things you got to keep going. God,

744
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: I got to apply your word again. I was laying

745
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: in bed with my son about two weeks ago, my

746
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 1: oldest son, Wyatt, and we were recounting his really first

747
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: trip to Disney World. I took him when he was

748
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: four years of age, and I really traumatize my apologize

749
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: for that. At four years of age, I took him

750
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Speaker 1: on Mountain. I said, you're gonna love it. He came off,

751
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: You ever cry so hard, you convince yourself you have asthma.

752
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: I hate you. He's in therapy, so that's going good.

753
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: But he said, Dad, I hate that, right. I'm so sorry.

754
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: And every year we would talk about it, and I'm

755
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: always like, why you gotta go on it again. You'll

756
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: love it, You'll love it, you'll love it. He's like, no, Dad,

757
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to go, and I go, you'll love it,

758
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: you'll love it. Well, we just went back, literally maybe

759
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: six weeks ago, and at seven years of age. I

760
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: had to bribe him a little bit I said, I'll

761
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: get you two toys, one from Star Wars, one from Marvel.

762
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: Don't come at me in the comments. I'm just trying

763
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: my best out in these streets. He's like, you promise,

764
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: He's like crying. I'm like, you're gonna love it, you know.

765
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: But he went on Space Mountain. Of course, as we

766
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: came off the ride, he's got his hands up laughing

767
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: to me, goes Dad again again again, And I was like, son,

768
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: I want to go again, but the way my budget

769
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Speaker 1: set up, I only got I only got one lightning passed.

770
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Speaker 1: And so I said it bro just next year. You know.

771
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Speaker 1: I tell you that because the night I was laying

772
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: in bed with him, just two weeks ago, we were

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Speaker 1: talking about Disney World. I said, why, what's your favorite

774
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: ride at Disney World? He said Space Mountain. I said

775
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: why that makes me laugh because you told me that

776
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: you were so afraid of it that you hated it.

777
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: He said, I know, Dad, but I think they changed

778
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: the ride. And I said, no, Sun, the ride didn't change.

779
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Speaker 1: You changed. You changed. It didn't get easier, you got stronger,

780
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: and the battles won't get lighter. You'll just get wiser

781
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: and circumstances won't change, but you will. You will grow

782
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: from the inside out. You will win from your mind.

783
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Speaker 1: And even before you get in the battle, even before

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Speaker 1: it begins, you're walking in with a winning mindset. I

785
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: know who my God is, and if my God is

786
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 1: for me, well he's brought me through in the past,

787
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: he'll bring me through again. I know there's a mountain

788
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: in front of me, but all I gotta do is

789
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: agree with the word of God. And even this mountain

790
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: has got to move. Anybody feel like moving to mountain today?

791
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: Clap your hands, give God to pray. Let's just stand

792
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: to your feet all over this place. One verse I

793
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Speaker 1: did not read, and let me speak at over to

794
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: you as we come to a close Deuteronomy, chapter twenty,

795
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Speaker 1: verse four, The Lord your God goes with you to

796
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Speaker 1: fight for you, to give you victory. May you step

797
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 1: into this week knowing that you have a God who

798
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: will fight for you and with you, and he will

799
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Speaker 1: give you victory. I know it feels like it's been

800
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: battle after battle, but I think a faith filled person

801
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 1: looks back on their story and it says, actually, it's

802
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: been victory after victory after victory after victory. I'm getting stronger.

803
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm getting stronger. And if you'll face it, listen to me.

804
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: If you'll face it, God will fight with you. He

805
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: didn't give you armor on the backside. You go back

806
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: and read Ephesian six. There is no back play because

807
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Speaker 1: He never meant for you to turn from this thing.

808
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 1: He meant you to face it. And God says, if

809
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: you'll face it, I'm a fight for you. I'm a

810
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: fight for you. I'm a fight for you. I'm a

811
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: fight for you. When I was a kid, I was

812
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: obsessed with professional wrestling. Don't you tell me it's fake,

813
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: It's real. And I used to love the tag team

814
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: leading to Doom Road Warriors. I'll keep going, but I'll stop.

815
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: There always be this moment in a tag team match

816
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Speaker 1: where the guy's down. He's down. He's down, he's down,

817
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: he's tired, he's weary. What his partner is outside reaching

818
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: reaching kind of looks like the cross. But while I

819
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: was stuck in my sin, Christ died for me. What

820
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 1: a miracle. When I couldn't get to him, he came

821
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: to me and he reached out. And all you gotta

822
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: do is tag God in, because when that partner gets

823
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: in the ring momentum is about to shift. A miracle

824
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: is on the way. I came all the way to Charlotte,

825
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: North Carolina to tell some people tag God in. Jesus

826
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Speaker 1: is here and if you tag him in, victory is

827
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Speaker 1: on the way. Lifts your hands, listen, your boys, come

828
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Speaker 1: on in worship God.

829
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Speaker 2: Hey, wanna fuck.

830
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Speaker 1: Fucking Toto?

831
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Speaker 2: This, sir?

832
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Speaker 1: What lay a power? Jesus were saying? What a faith saying?

833
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Speaker 1: Thus say in your family, how you save myself? Thous

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Speaker 1: Daddy coming you raise me? Fut me, coach fun me

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Speaker 1: ca water being co funding me? Case what fun wat

836
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Speaker 1: a beer? Tag got it? Tag him in? Tag him in.

837
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Speaker 1: Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus with your

838
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Speaker 1: head out of your eyes blue and all of our

839
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Speaker 1: locations and online, Thank God for Jesus for pieces not

840
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: on a concept, that's a person. He is the Prince

841
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: of peace. The Cross was God saying, you can tag

842
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Speaker 1: Jesus in. If you'll face it, He'll fight with you.

843
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: Victory is in front of you. I don't know what

844
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 1: battles you're stepping into this week, but you can win.

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Speaker 1: Before you begin. It's a battle briefing. You're getting battle ready.

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Speaker 1: It's a battle plan. God. Thank you for your presence. God,

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Speaker 1: anything's possible when your people show up and your presence

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Speaker 1: shows up, it's an atmosphere of possibility. So the Lord,

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Speaker 1: I pray for people today that are fighting, people that

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Speaker 1: are dealing with anxiety, people dealing with fear. What I

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Speaker 1: pray that your word would get into their heart and

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Speaker 1: begin to shape and reshape their internal world even now,

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Speaker 1: Peace that transcends, peace that passes. What a miracle. Who

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Speaker 1: am I that you'd love me? Holy Spirit? I just

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Speaker 1: send you at work today, people facing so many things.

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Speaker 1: Would you meet him here right here, right now, stay

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Speaker 1: with your head bowed and your eyes closed before we

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Speaker 1: dismiss them, before we get out of here. I just

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Speaker 1: want to get people an opportunity. The Bible says, believe

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Speaker 1: in your heart and confess with your mouth, and you

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Speaker 1: shall be saved. You can't achieve salvation, you receive it.

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Speaker 1: It's by grace through faith, so that no man can boast.

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Speaker 1: For God so loved the world that he gave as

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Speaker 1: one and only son, that whoever believes in and will

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Speaker 1: not perish. But I've everlasting life. That's the message in

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Speaker 1: the anthem of Elevation Church, and that's what we bring

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Speaker 1: week in and week out. If you're online or right

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Speaker 1: here in the room, and that's you today, you say,

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Speaker 1: I want to surrender my life over to Jesus. On

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Speaker 1: the count of three, I want to give you an

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Speaker 1: opportunity just to lift your hand up high enough and

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Speaker 1: long enough, just to say I want to put my trust,

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Speaker 1: my faith in Jesus. It happens in a moment. It's

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Speaker 1: called tagging God in. You're getting stronger day by faith.

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Speaker 1: On the count of three. If that's you, lay say rich,

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Speaker 1: would you pray with me? I want I want to

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Speaker 1: receive grace. I want to receive Jesus on the kind

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Speaker 1: of three. Ready one the Bible says today is that

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Speaker 1: day two. Don't look at your neighbors. Not about your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: It's between you and Jesus. Ready, one, two, three. If

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Speaker 1: that you looked up, that's me. That's me. Thank you God,

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Speaker 1: Thank you God, Thank you Jesus. Online right there, come

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Speaker 1: on elevation, lift your hands towards Heaven. We're gonna pray

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Speaker 1: this prayer and we're seeing this chorus. Say dear Jesus, today,

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Speaker 1: I give you my life. I turn from my ways

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Speaker 1: and I receive your words. I believe and confess you

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Speaker 1: are who you said that you are. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: loving me, Thank you for saving me. Today I ask

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Speaker 1: that you would give me the grace to follow you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your peace, thank you for your joy,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your word. Miracle in Jesus' name. Come on, everybody,

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Speaker 1: give God praise. Thank you for joining us.

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

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.