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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. Hope

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Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in

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Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message. Come on, everybody.

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Speaker 3: Listen, Let's clap our hands and thank our Savior today.

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Speaker 1: Come on.

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Speaker 3: If you're grateful to God, if God's been good to you,

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Speaker 3: come on.

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Speaker 1: If you can.

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Speaker 3: Testify of the faithfulness and the goodness, come on, if

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Speaker 3: you've tasted and you've seen that.

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Speaker 1: The Lord he is what, come on, clap and give

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Speaker 1: him a.

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Speaker 3: Shout of thanksgiving, give him your highest praise today. Come on, Elevation.

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Speaker 3: I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise

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Speaker 3: will continually be in my mouth. Go ahead and take

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Speaker 3: thirty seconds and just clap and thank him. Say thank

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Speaker 3: you God, Never have you left me, never have you

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Speaker 3: forsaken me. Hallelujah. I want to pray for some people today.

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Speaker 3: There's such a spirit and an atmosphere of faith today

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Speaker 3: and we just want to welcome all the campuses, everybody online.

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Speaker 3: Come on, clap and welcome everybody, Come on, welcome everybody

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Speaker 3: in New York City joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Why don't we pray together?

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Speaker 3: Why don't we believe for miracles, signs and wonders? Why

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Speaker 3: don't we believe that our God is the same yesterday, today,

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Speaker 3: and how long forever? And so if you need a miracle,

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Speaker 3: good news, you came to the place where we believe

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Speaker 3: still that God is still moving, God is still healing bodies.

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Speaker 3: Come on, clap of you believe it. He's still shutting

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Speaker 3: the mouth of the lion. Anybody believe He's still partner

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Speaker 3: the Red Sea and making away where there seems to

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Speaker 3: be no way. So, if you need a miracle today, financially, physically, emotionally,

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Speaker 3: while you lift a hand to Heaven right now, come

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Speaker 3: on church, let's pray together.

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Speaker 1: We just thank you God. We thank you in advance.

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Speaker 3: God. We don't wait for the check to show up.

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Speaker 3: We don't wait for the doctor's report. We already in advance,

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Speaker 3: give you the glory and give you the honor for

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Speaker 3: what you're about to do. We thank you God that

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Speaker 3: if you can take care of the grass, and if

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Speaker 3: you can take care of the birds, how much more

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Speaker 3: can you take care of us? So right now we

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Speaker 3: confess with our mouth what we believe in our heart,

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Speaker 3: that you're seated on the throne, that you're sovereign, and.

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Speaker 1: That you rule. We thank you God.

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Speaker 3: By faith we declare that all these things will be

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Speaker 3: accomplished in the name of Jesus. Come on, clap and

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Speaker 3: give God a praise today if you believe it. Come

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Speaker 3: on clap like you believe it today.

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Speaker 1: Amen and amen.

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Speaker 3: Just stay standing just for a moment. It's an honor

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Speaker 3: to be here today. And I'm gonna jump into the

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Speaker 3: just want to make sure we take a moment to

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Speaker 3: honor the pastors of this church for twenty years, have

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Speaker 3: led so faithfully, so diligently, with so much character, so

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Speaker 3: much integrity, and I just want to thank Pastor Stephen

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Speaker 3: and Hally for their leadership because not only have their

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Speaker 3: lives touched all the campuses and just America, but God

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Speaker 3: has breathed on these efforts to touch the earth. And

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Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you to Pastor Stephen

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Speaker 3: and Holly.

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Speaker 1: For your faithfulness. Come on clapping.

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Speaker 3: Thank God that they keep saying yes to the call

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Speaker 3: of God on their life, And I just think in

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Speaker 3: twenty years, In twenty years, all the continual yes is

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Speaker 1: They've had to say no to.

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Speaker 3: Pastor Steven ain't had a dessert in twenty years, Hallelujah,

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Speaker 3: Glory to God. Ain't missed the day in the weight

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Speaker 3: room in twenty years. But I just can't believe what

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Speaker 3: God has done in them and through them, and we

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Speaker 3: honor them. The Bible says to share good things with

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Speaker 3: those that teach us the word, to be a blessing

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Speaker 3: And so you know, to translate that today, it really

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Speaker 3: means send them a Starbucks gift card.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 3: But come on, clap one more time and thank God

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Speaker 3: for our pastors.

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Speaker 1: Pray for your pastors, love.

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Speaker 3: Them, Thank God for them.

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Speaker 1: Do me a favor.

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Speaker 3: Before you sit down, turn and give three people a

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Speaker 3: church high five next to you. Tell them how good

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Speaker 3: it is to see them in church today. Tell them

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Speaker 3: how awesome it is to have them in the House

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Speaker 3: of God.

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Speaker 1: Clap for the worship team in every life location.

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Speaker 3: Clap for everybody leading us in worship, My God, How

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Speaker 3: good is the worship today. If you have a Bible,

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Speaker 3: go to two Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen.

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Speaker 1: My name is Chadveach. In Spanish, that's Shad.

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Speaker 3: Beach, and I'm half Mexican.

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Speaker 1: Are there any Latins in the house?

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Speaker 3: There we go, And I come from Los Angeles, California,

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Speaker 3: and I just want to say thank you so much

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Speaker 3: to the EPHAM because in January, fires broke out in

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Speaker 3: and our city was literally on fire for a few days.

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Speaker 3: And by the time we're able to start our outreach ministry,

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Speaker 3: fifteen thousand people displaced from homes. And by the time

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Speaker 3: we're able to start our outreach ministry, I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: who showed up in force was the EPHAM of Southern California.

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Speaker 3: And they showed up in their shirts, They showed up

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Speaker 3: I just I say it is a tribute. It is

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Speaker 3: we clap for everybody online, If you're in Riverside today,

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Speaker 3: if you're in Orange County today, thank you for being

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Speaker 3: a part of helping us serve our city. We love

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Speaker 3: you and we thank God for you today, and so

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Speaker 3: thank God. Anybody excited for serve week, coming up, excited

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Speaker 3: go there in your Bible. Second Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna jump in. Anybody believe in the Bible today,

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Speaker 3: All right, We're gonna jump in. Two Timothy three sixteen.

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Speaker 3: It says, all scripture is given by the inspiration of God,

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Speaker 3: and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for

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Speaker 1: Come on, all the ladies in the house, whoa, whoa, so.

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Speaker 3: The man or the Woman of God may be complete,

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Speaker 3: thoroughly equipped for every good work. Let me read that

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Speaker 3: same verse. All scripture is God breathed. Let me just

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Speaker 3: pause there. All of the Bible is from Heaven. All

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Speaker 3: of the Bible. I don't know how you grew up.

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Speaker 3: I'm a pastor's kid, and after church, my dad used

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Speaker 3: to take us to the Golden Corral. Come on, somebody

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Speaker 3: ain't nothing like church in Golden Corral, nothing like life change.

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Speaker 3: And then lunch, and we used to go the Golden Corral.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what. Dad was too tired to

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Speaker 3: pay attention to our plates. So we're not putting on

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Speaker 3: any of the meats or any of the veggies. Were

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Speaker 3: going straight to the dessert. Who am I preaching to

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Speaker 3: you right now? I love going to the gold crowd.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to the Bible, you can't just have

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Speaker 3: the desserts. Don't just get stuck in Psalms and Proverbs

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Speaker 3: and the Gospels. You gotta get some of the epistles

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Speaker 3: major minor prophets. Get you some pentituke in there. All

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Speaker 3: scripture is God breathed. The Greek there is fail nusas

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Speaker 3: fail meaning God, Nusus means the breath of God. God

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Speaker 3: breathed on these pens through different authors and gave us

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Speaker 3: all of the Bible. Anybody believed, from Genesis to Revelation,

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Speaker 3: all scriptures straight from God. And it's useful in your life.

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Speaker 3: Come on, clap like you believe that all authority is

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Speaker 3: in that word right there.

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Speaker 1: All scripture is God breathed and.

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Speaker 3: Is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness,

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Speaker 3: so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped

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Speaker 3: for every good work. I want to preach a message today.

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Speaker 3: Write down the titles called this is my Bible. This

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Speaker 3: is my Bible. I'm trying to channel my best Joe

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Speaker 3: old Sting. This is my Bible. I can do what

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Speaker 3: is said I could do. I can have what is

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Speaker 3: as I say it. Come on, this is my Bible.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: Do you love the Bible today? There's something about the

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Speaker 3: b I b l e yes, that's the book for me.

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Speaker 3: I stand alone on the word of God. Look at

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Speaker 3: all the clap for everybody that grew up in church

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Speaker 3: y'all are still here. I love the Bible. There's something

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Speaker 3: about the scriptures. There's something about reading the Bible. I

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Speaker 3: fell in love with the Bible two times in my life.

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Speaker 3: The first time I fell in love with the Bible

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Speaker 3: is when I was sixteen years old. When I was sixteen,

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Speaker 3: I went to an event called Promise Keepers.

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Speaker 1: Promise Keepers.

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Speaker 3: Back in the day, men fill in stadiums around America

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Speaker 3: tape cassettes. How many y'all remember tape cassettes. If you're younger,

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Speaker 3: google it. And I'll never forget. Man. When I went

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Speaker 3: to Promise Keepers, I got rocked by Jesus, and I

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Speaker 3: came back to my house and they gave us a

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Speaker 1: And I'll never forget. I'd wait for my whole house

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Speaker 3: I didn't want them to know us this in love

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Speaker 3: to go to bed, and I'd kneel beside my bedside,

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Speaker 3: put my walkman on, and I'd take out my Bible

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Speaker 1: And I'll never forget.

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Speaker 3: the the second time I fell in love with the

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Speaker 3: Bible when I was nineteen years old. When I was nineteen,

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Speaker 3: I was in Bible College and I had long hair.

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Speaker 3: So that was not planned anyways, So I never got nineteen.

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Speaker 3: in Bible Collasus. His dad developed a Bible reading plan,

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Speaker 3: so he took us one day. We're in Bible College

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the semester. He took us to Starbucks. Said, boys,

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Speaker 3: So he took us to Starbucks. He allowed us to

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Speaker 3: how to choose a verse, and he called it soap scripture, observation,

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Speaker 1: You can learn lyrics, but you can't learn the Bible.

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Speaker 3: If you can memorize about Ryah carry, you can memorize

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Speaker 3: God's word. Clap like you want to store it up.

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Speaker 3: Clap like you want to eat it up. Clap like

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Speaker 3: you want to memorize it. Clap like you want a

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Speaker 3: word in season. I'm hiding God's word. It's the delight

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Speaker 3: of my heart. What did he say? Out of the

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Speaker 3: abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, So he said,

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Speaker 3: the good man stores up good things, and an evil

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Speaker 3: man stores up evil things. If you want good stuff. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget. I was in Biba College and he

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Speaker 3: was my buddy at the time. He was my best

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Speaker 3: friend until he married my little sister. Changes a relationship,

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Speaker 3: change the whole relationship, change the dynamic.

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Speaker 1: Okay. But we worked at a church in East.

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Speaker 3: La in the hood in the body of about look

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Speaker 3: us for Arrahns And we worked at this.

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Speaker 1: Church East La.

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Speaker 3: So we go to Biba College in the morning and

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Speaker 3: then we drive to the church to work in the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: And on the way from class to the church, we

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Speaker 3: had flash cards and we are trying to memorize God's word.

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Speaker 3: And so one guy would be driving and the other

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Speaker 3: guy would have the flash cards and we try and

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Speaker 3: test to see if he's got God's word. So we

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Speaker 3: sit there and go like Galatians two twenty, I'll be

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Speaker 3: like I have been crucified with Christ. For it is

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Speaker 3: no longer I that live, but it's Christ that lives

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Speaker 3: through me. And the life that I now live I

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Speaker 3: live by faith in the Son of God, who gave

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Speaker 3: himself as a ransom for me. Try me again, Isaiah

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Speaker 3: forty Ooh, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew

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Speaker 3: their strength. They shall rise on the wings of an ego,

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Speaker 3: they will run or not grow, they will walk in

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Speaker 3: that enough faith. Try me again, Psalm one, nineteen verse nine. Ooh,

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Speaker 3: how can a young man cleanse his ways by taking heat?

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Speaker 3: According to his word? And we started to memorize and

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Speaker 3: memorize and memorize. And I'm telling you today, when I

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Speaker 3: go to visit somebody in the hospital, I don't have

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Speaker 3: to google the scripture when somebody is going through depression,

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Speaker 3: I don't have to check chat GPT to find out

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Speaker 3: what God's saying in the situation. Come on, somebody clamp

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Speaker 3: like you want to hide it and store it and

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Speaker 3: build a well.

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Speaker 1: Come on, build a.

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Speaker 3: Well in your life. Let God's word reside.

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Speaker 1: Let it shame. It's God speaking directly to me.

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Speaker 3: Give him a praise today. Content content, Content. By the way,

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Speaker 3: you gotta be careful because whatever.

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Speaker 1: You're around gets on you.

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Speaker 3: Whatever's on you gets in you, and whatever's in you come.

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Speaker 1: Out of you.

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Speaker 3: You gotta be careful the atmosphere of where you walk.

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Speaker 1: That's why I was glad.

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Speaker 3: When they said, unto me today, let us go into

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Speaker 3: the house of the Lord, because when I get around

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Speaker 3: the people of God and I get around the.

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Speaker 1: Atmosphere of faith.

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Speaker 3: Oh, come on, that gets on me, and whatever's on

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Speaker 3: me gets in me, and whatever's in me comes out

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Speaker 3: of me. Anybody thankful today that I've got feet running

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Speaker 3: to the righteousness of God. I've got feet running to

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Speaker 3: the House of God. I've got feet running to the

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Speaker 3: atmosphere of faith. Whatever you're around gets on you, whatever's

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Speaker 3: on you gets into you, and whatever's in you comes

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Speaker 3: out of you. That's why when I was growing up,

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Speaker 3: we walk in the mall and I see that one

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Speaker 3: store top of hot I said, uh, no, Surrey, were

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Speaker 3: not going in there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but we're not going

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Speaker 1: in there.

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Speaker 3: Because whatever you're around gets on you, and whatever's on

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Speaker 3: you gets into you. That's why I love elevation, because

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Speaker 3: every time you get around, every time we gather every Sunday,

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Speaker 3: come on, we lift up holy hands. Come on, we

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Speaker 3: stir up our faith and our expectation. Come on, we say,

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Speaker 3: if God before us, who can be against us? The

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Speaker 3: Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?

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Speaker 3: Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength and

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Speaker 3: the stronghold.

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Speaker 1: Of my life.

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Speaker 3: And whenever I drove up to Starbucks. I wasn't just

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Speaker 3: around some Starbucks from some coffee from Seattle. I was

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Speaker 3: opening on my Bible. I was hanging around Jesus, and

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Speaker 3: Jesus in the atmosphere got on me. But I'm telling you,

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Speaker 3: God's word got in me, and God's words start to

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Speaker 3: fall out of my life. When you get God's word

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Speaker 3: in your heart, it will fall out of your mouth.

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Speaker 3: You just walk around. You won't have to look up something.

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Speaker 3: It'll just fall out of your mouth. You know, the

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Speaker 3: Bible says, well, you know the Bible says, well, you

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Speaker 3: know the Bible says. I found in life. People are

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Speaker 3: not interested in what I say. People are interested in

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Speaker 3: what God says.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know the Bible says, Well, that's cool. That's

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Speaker 1: a great opinion.

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Speaker 3: But you know the Bible says, and so if it's useful,

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Speaker 3: we should use it for content. How about number two?

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Speaker 3: How about for success? Anybody here by short hands, cross

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Speaker 3: all the campuses. If you would like to be successful

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Speaker 3: in life, let me see your hand.

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Speaker 1: You liked, Yes, wouldn't that be awesome?

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Speaker 3: If you're a Panther fan, you better really raise both

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Speaker 3: your hands. You were to pray in the tongue and

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Speaker 3: the spirit Joshua one A. The Book of the Law

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Speaker 3: shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate

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Speaker 3: in it day and night, that you may observe to

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Speaker 3: do according to all that is written in it, For

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Speaker 3: then you will make your way prosperous, and then you

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Speaker 3: will have good success.

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Speaker 1: I like that good success. This Book of.

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Speaker 3: The Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you

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Speaker 3: shall meditate in it both day and night. So the

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Speaker 3: Bible says we should meditate on the word of God

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Speaker 3: both day and night. I'm all for the verse of

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Speaker 3: the day, and thank God we got the Verse of

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Speaker 3: the day on your lock screen. But I'm telling you,

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Speaker 3: when I go to brush my teeth, I don't swipe

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Speaker 3: one time and think my mouth's clean. When I brush

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Speaker 3: my teeth, I get them all up in there. We

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Speaker 3: need more than the Verse of the day to make

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Speaker 3: it today. This Book of the Law shall not depart

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Speaker 3: from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it both

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Speaker 3: day and night, that you may be careful to observe

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Speaker 3: all that is written in it, and then you will

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Speaker 3: make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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Speaker 1: So you know what the scripture is teaching you.

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Speaker 3: The more you study this book, the more God will

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Speaker 3: make you a success. You know, the more you study

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Speaker 3: God's word, the more God will for your life. Why

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Speaker 3: because I'm not walking in the wisdom of myself. I'm

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Speaker 3: walking in the wisdom of God. I'm not leaning on

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Speaker 3: my own understanding. I'm acknowledging God's understanding. And when I

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Speaker 3: do that, God, Come on, anybody believe it today. The

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Speaker 3: steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord. God

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Speaker 3: will lead me, and he will guide me. He will

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Speaker 3: show me his path. So if I want to be

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Speaker 3: a success or, I want my children's children to be blessed.

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Speaker 3: Anybody believing that your children's children are going to be blessed,

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Speaker 3: anybody believing to be believed to leave a legacy. Let

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Speaker 3: me say it this way. It ran in your family

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Speaker 3: until it ran into you. Whoa And you know who

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Speaker 3: stopped it? The man or the woman that God in

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Speaker 3: God's word. Because the Bible says whom the son sets free,

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Speaker 3: and you shall know the truth, and the truth will

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Speaker 3: set you free.

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Speaker 1: So if I.

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Speaker 3: Study and marinate, And by the way, meditation is not

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Speaker 3: a hot yoga idea. Meditation is God's idea. God told

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Speaker 3: us to meditate on his word. God told us to

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Speaker 3: get some flash cards. God told us to walk around

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Speaker 3: our kitchen and declare the word of the Lord. This

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Speaker 3: book of the Law will not depart from my mouth.

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Speaker 3: But I will meditate on it both day and night.

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Speaker 3: I will be careful to observe all that is written

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Speaker 3: in it. And then I'm going to be prosperous, and

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Speaker 3: then i will be successful.

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Speaker 1: Anybody want to be a blessing.

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Speaker 3: You cannot be a blessing and tell your blessed.

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Speaker 1: So I love God's word.

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Speaker 3: It gives me content for my reality, for my business,

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Speaker 3: for my children, for my marriage. It gives me success

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Speaker 3: right down. The third thing, it shows me my motives.

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Speaker 3: It deals with my intentions. These are my intentions. You

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Speaker 3: guys are so unsaved. Thank God you're in church, for

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Speaker 3: the Word of God is alive and it's active, sharper

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Speaker 3: than any double edged sword. It penetrates even to the

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Speaker 3: dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the

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Speaker 3: thought and the attitudes of the heart. Other translations right

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Speaker 3: there say exposes us for who you really are. It

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Speaker 3: exposed and you know what. We live in a culture

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Speaker 3: of shame and hiding. We don't want anybody to know

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Speaker 3: what's lurking. All that jealousy, all that greed, all that manipulation,

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Speaker 3: all that envy, all that stuff that's lurking, all that judas, Judas,

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Speaker 3: why we give the money? We could have used it

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Speaker 3: in all that stuff that's lurking. But when you get

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Speaker 3: into God's word, everything is exposed and God starts to

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Speaker 3: deal with my motives.

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Speaker 1: So good news.

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Speaker 3: If you've got bad motives like mine, can get off

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Speaker 3: sometimes just the same. We are all sinners saved by grace.

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Speaker 3: When I get into God's Word, it corrects my motives,

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Speaker 3: It aligns my motives. It gets me back to live

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Speaker 3: for the glory of God, not for the glory of me.

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Speaker 3: So it deals with my identity. You cannot know who

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Speaker 3: you are until you know who you are, And my

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Speaker 3: prayer for you today is strong identity. The more you

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Speaker 3: read the Bible, the more i'm I'm confident in God.

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Speaker 3: I can do all things through Who, through Christ. That

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Speaker 3: strengthens me. So you need some confidence in your life.

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Speaker 1: The more you get in that word, the more it's

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Speaker 1: like I might.

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Speaker 3: Have weakness, but the power of Christ rests on my life.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna be bold. The righteous are as

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Speaker 3: bold as a lion. I'm gonna be bold. Why because

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Speaker 3: I know who I am. Remember, the devil came to

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Speaker 3: tempt Jesus three times after he was in a fast

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Speaker 3: for forty days, and three times he tempted Satan, and

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Speaker 3: he tempted Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And every single time he tempted him.

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Speaker 3: What did Jesus use to rebuke the temptation? The word

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Speaker 3: He's In fact, he stood on dude Roonomy six, Deuteronomy six,

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Speaker 3: and Deuteronomy nine every single time the enemy came to

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Speaker 3: tempt him. What do they say today, ten toes down

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Speaker 3: or something? Yeah, ten toes sounds so gangster when I

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Speaker 3: say it's so fun. He just stood there and said,

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Speaker 3: you know the Bible says, and then you try to

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Speaker 3: mess with him again? And what did he mess with him?

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Speaker 3: Identity motives? If you really are the son of God?

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Speaker 3: And he said, well, you know the Bible says, well,

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Speaker 3: the Bible says, why did he stand ten toes? Because

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Speaker 3: he had put God's word in his heart that he

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Speaker 3: might not sin against the Father. And I want to

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Speaker 3: encourage you today. You got to get your motives right.

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Speaker 3: The word of the Lord is alive and active. It

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Speaker 3: is sharper than any two edges sword. It pierces the

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Speaker 3: bone and the marrow. It separates the soul and the spirit,

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Speaker 3: and it exposes us for who we really are.

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Speaker 1: And in other.

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Speaker 3: Words, not that just the negative, but the positive. I

656
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Speaker 3: am the righteousness of God God. I am the head

657
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Speaker 3: and not the tale. I am a chosen generation, a

658
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Speaker 3: royal priesthood, a marvelous light. I am more than a

659
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Speaker 3: conqueror in Christ Jesus. I am blessed beyond measure. Come on,

660
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Speaker 3: clap today if you believe that you're understanding your identity

661
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Speaker 3: because you found it.

662
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Speaker 1: Come on.

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Speaker 3: You didn't find it on social media. You didn't find

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Speaker 3: it in your bank account. You didn't find it by

665
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Speaker 3: what somebody else said about you. I found it by

666
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Speaker 3: what God says. Come on, give them a praise today.

667
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 3: I know what God says.

668
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Speaker 1: I am.

669
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Speaker 3: Stop living for the audience of man, start living for

670
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Speaker 3: the audience of one.

671
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Speaker 1: I want to know what God says about me.

672
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Speaker 3: So it helps me with content, It helps me with success,

673
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 3: It helps me with motives, it helps me with movement.

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Speaker 1: Movement. Oh I love this next verse PSNG one nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a

676
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Speaker 3: light unto my path. These are dark days on the earth,

677
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: these are dark days in culture, these are dark days

678
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Speaker 3: in these patterns.

679
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, when.

680
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Speaker 3: I get God's word, all of a sudden, it shows

681
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 3: me what do I do in my home? What do

682
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 3: I do in my marriage? What do I do with

683
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Speaker 3: this child? What do I do in this circumstance? What

684
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 3: do you want me to do with my gifting? What

685
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 3: do you want me to do with my money? Anybody

686
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Speaker 3: thankful that God's word will illuminate your path. It'll show

687
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 3: you what to do, It'll show you where to go.

688
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 3: Come on, clap a little bit louder and just have faith.

689
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 3: Then it's gonna light up your path. You know, the

690
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Speaker 3: Bible actually teaches us that the path of the righteous

691
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 3: shines brighter and brighter. So the more I'm in this thing,

692
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 3: the more it's like I'm not living in the dark.

693
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 1: I'm living in the light.

694
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Speaker 3: And it feels like the more I don't get into

695
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 3: this work, the more I don't study it, the more

696
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 3: I don't read it, the more my life just ebbs

697
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 3: and flows into the darkness. But the more I'm in

698
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 3: this thing. The more it's like God is showing me

699
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 3: what to do and where to go. I'll never forget

700
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 3: where I grew up on a small island in the

701
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 3: state of Washington, and whenever people would come to visit

702
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 3: my family and visit my parents, we would take them

703
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Speaker 3: to Fort Casey and we would take them through where

704
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 3: there once was a war. We'd take them through the barracks.

705
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 3: And there was this one barrack that we go through

706
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Speaker 3: and there was no light, no electricity.

707
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Speaker 1: It was so dark in there.

708
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Speaker 3: And I'll never forgets kids, we'd love to run through

709
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 3: this darkness just to see if we're gonna make it

710
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 3: out alive. He would see if there was a boogeyman.

711
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 3: We just as kids, we just love to run through it.

712
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 3: And I'll never forget the first time we were trying

713
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 3: to do it and my mom came through with a

714
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 3: flashlight and I was like, Wow, this is crazy. We

715
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 3: didn't know what it looked like in there, we didn't

716
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Speaker 3: know what was happening in there. We didn't know any

717
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 3: of the potholes we could have stepped into. But when

718
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Speaker 3: that flashlight hit we were safe. And I just want

719
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 3: to encourage somebody today, you walking through a season where

720
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 3: you don't know what to do. I want to encourage

721
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 3: you to open up God's word and let it be

722
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Speaker 3: a lamp to your feet and a light unto your path.

723
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Speaker 3: I love the Bible write down number three. Not only

724
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 3: is it God speaking to me, not only is it useful,

725
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 3: but one of the things I love about God's word

726
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 3: is it will set me straight.

727
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Speaker 1: Man, it will get me right.

728
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Speaker 3: All scriptures God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting,

729
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Speaker 3: and training in righteousness.

730
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Speaker 1: Let me translate that to you.

731
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Speaker 3: God's word will show you what to do, what not

732
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Speaker 3: to do, and what to do what you haven't been.

733
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Speaker 1: Doing what you're supposed to be doing.

734
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Speaker 3: God's word shows me, this is what you should do,

735
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Speaker 3: this is what you are not to do. Like if

736
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Speaker 3: you're a cowboy fan, hear the word of the Lord,

737
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 3: really you say you love God. God's word will show

738
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Speaker 3: you what to do, what not to do, and what

739
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 3: to do when you.

740
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Speaker 1: Haven't been doing what you're supposed to be doing.

741
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: It's it's useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training.

742
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: I have yet to meet the person that's like.

743
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Speaker 3: One of the things that's really great about me is

744
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 3: I just love being rebuked. It's one of my superpowers.

745
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you've learned this about me,

746
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 3: but I'm just like, ah, correction, it's my favorite. And

747
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 3: like when my spouse corrects me, I'm like oohs you know,

748
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 3: and just like my kids correct me my boss.

749
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: Oh when my boss corrects me. Dude, I'm nailing it.

750
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Speaker 3: And I think God knows this about us, so he's like, Okay,

751
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 3: so maybe you don't like them correcting you, so I'll

752
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 3: correct you. So when I open this thing up, listen,

753
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 3: If your Bible's not messed up, your life will be.

754
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 3: When I read this thing. This thing cuts me to

755
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 3: my core. It not a he teaches me, but it

756
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 3: rebukes me and corrects me and trains me. This is

757
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 3: the best school of training you'll ever go through for parenthood,

758
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 3: best thing you need for your marriage. Come on, men

759
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 3: of God, let's be men of the word and get

760
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 3: our lives and our parenting and our marriages right. Come on, clap,

761
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 3: men of God. This right here will train you, rebuke you,

762
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 3: correct you. Otherwise you'll morph into the world's standards. Look

763
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 3: at Romans twelve, verse number two, and do not conform

764
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 3: to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of

765
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 3: your mind, that you may prove what is the good

766
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 3: and acceptable and perfect will of God. Don't morph into

767
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Speaker 3: what culture says. Don't go by what the world's standards are.

768
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Speaker 3: If the world says it's okay, it doesn't mean God

769
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 3: says it's okay. I'm not going by what man says.

770
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Speaker 3: I'm going by what God says. I don't care about

771
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 3: their opinion. I care about God's opinion. And every time

772
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 3: I read God's words, it aligns my values, it aligns

773
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 3: my attitude, It aligns my heart to God's will and

774
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 3: God's way and God's truth. I don't care about what

775
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 3: I want. I've got to live for what God wants.

776
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 3: Whenever Julie and I get real real, like you know,

777
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 3: like you ever take a red eye plane and He's

778
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 3: just like.

779
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: And people like you good, yeah, good.

780
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 3: And if it comes to desperate measures, Julian and I

781
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 3: go to this chiropractor. We don't want to go, but

782
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 3: if it gets bad, we go to the chiropractor and

783
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 3: we're like, well, you gotta help us. This is a

784
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 3: chiropractor right there, like we got you gotta help us.

785
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 3: Out and then he gets us right. Every time I

786
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 3: read God's word, it gets me right. It aligns me

787
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 3: back to say, hey, remember this is not about you.

788
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 3: This is all about Him. Don't bring yours thinking thinking here.

789
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 3: I want you to think like you are blessed and

790
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 3: you are faith and you are loved by God. Come on,

791
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 3: I need you to live, not for your own success,

792
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 3: but I want you to live to build the.

793
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God.

794
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 3: Every time I read the Bible, it aligns me back.

795
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 3: That's why I like to read the Bible in the

796
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 3: morning I wake up in my house. I need I

797
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 3: feel like God speaks loudest before my children are awake.

798
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 3: Once once my children are up, God's voice is silent.

799
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 3: I wake up in my house early, and I make

800
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 3: me a French press and I walk out. I will

801
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 3: do the same thing every morning. I walk out to

802
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 3: my sidewalk and I walk back in. Just getting outside

803
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 3: helps me get my day going. And I make me

804
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 3: a coffee, and I sit at my in my kitchen

805
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 3: counter and I sit there with my coffee in my Bible.

806
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 3: The same thing I learned in nineteen ninety nine is

807
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 3: the same thing that I do today. I don't have

808
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 3: another move. I don't have another option. All I have

809
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: is the b I bl e and the every day

810
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Speaker 3: I love. And I'm not reading it for y'all. I'm

811
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 3: reading it for me. This man of God needs to

812
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 3: get right, this parent needs to get right, this husband

813
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 3: needs to get right. And I read it. Oh, I've

814
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 3: been reading the same plan since nineteen ninety nine. And

815
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: I read it and I find it and you know what,

816
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:15,959
Speaker 3: I've never read it and been like, oh I heard

817
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 3: that one. Oh that was last year. Oh that was

818
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 3: so nineteen ninety nine. No, every time I read it,

819
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 3: something jumps into my heart, something leaps into my spirit.

820
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 3: Because his word is alive, and his word is active

821
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 3: and is training me and is teaching me.

822
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: Come on, clap and give him a praise.

823
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,720
Speaker 3: Last thing today, write down the last one. God's word

824
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 3: points me straight to Jesus. Oh, I love this about

825
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 3: the Bible. John five, last verse. You study the scriptures

826
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 3: diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.

827
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Speaker 1: These are the very.

828
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Speaker 3: Scriptures that testify about me.

829
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Speaker 1: You refuse to come to me to have life.

830
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 3: See the problem is most of us, we think that

831
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 3: it's about reading the Bible. Can look spiritual or we

832
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 3: can quote scripture. No, we read the Bible because we

833
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 3: want to know Jesus.

834
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: We read the Bible because we want to know Christ.

835
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 3: And he said to the religious people, the problem with

836
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 3: y'all is you think that you're so great because you

837
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 3: study the scriptures. But the scriptures are all about me,

838
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 3: and I want to just get our hearts right. As

839
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 3: we study God's word, we don't read it so we

840
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 3: can sound powerful. No knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

841
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 3: And the more I read the Bible, the more I

842
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: fall in love. Not with the Bible alone. I fall

843
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 3: in love with Jesus Christ, the son of the Living God.

844
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 3: Come on, the one that was crucified, the one that

845
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 3: died and rose again. Anybody loved Jesus today. So I'm

846
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 3: reading about Joseph, and Joseph and his deliverance he led

847
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 3: his brothers that sold him into a pit, and I'm

848
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 3: understanding that the greater deliverance and the greater forgiveness was

849
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 3: not just Joseph, it was Jesus. And my prayer is

850
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 3: that we would not fall in love with the Bible,

851
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 3: so we can fall in love with the law, but

852
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 3: we fall in love with God's word so we can

853
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 3: know Jesus. Paul the Apostle says, oh, that I might

854
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 3: know him, know him? How can you expect to get

855
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 3: to know Jesus without reading the book that's all about Jesus?

856
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 3: How can you expect to get cleaned with only one

857
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 3: swipe every single day? And I'm grateful that I got

858
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 3: that soap in nineteen ninety nine because every morning since

859
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 3: then try not to miss any appointments with my King.

860
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 3: I've been getting up and soaping because I notice how

861
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 3: quickly I can get dirty. It's kind of like my

862
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 3: kids when I say you need to take a bath.

863
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 3: I'm not dirty dead, I don't need a beth.

864
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Speaker 1: Son.

865
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Speaker 3: You've passed dirty. You're disgusting, And a lot of us

866
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 3: are like, I'm good, I'm straight. Come get a word,

867
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 3: live my life, do my thing. When was the last

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Speaker 3: time you let God speak directly to you? It's the

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Speaker 3: last time you let God get you straight? When was

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Speaker 3: the last time God's word was a lamp unto your

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Speaker 3: feet and a light unto your path? I pray that

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Speaker 3: you wouldn't just fall in love with the scripture, but

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Speaker 3: you'd fall in love with the one that the scriptures

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Speaker 3: are all about.

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Speaker 1: His name is Jesus. And I don't know when you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need God's word.

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Speaker 3: I don't know when you're gonna go through a circumstance

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Speaker 3: when you're gonna need the Bible. But I'm believing that

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Speaker 3: you're gonna store it up for the right time. We

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Speaker 3: have a lady in our church this last week was

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Speaker 3: pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: In March, she let us know.

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Speaker 3: That she has stage four cancer that the doctors were

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Speaker 3: saying was incurable. And she let our church know, and

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Speaker 3: she let our team know. And every Sunday i'd look down,

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Speaker 3: I'd see this lady who the doctors say are is

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Speaker 3: about to die. I'd see her worship better than everybody else.

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Speaker 1: I'd see her dance more than anybody else.

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Speaker 3: When I was preaching, she would amen better than about

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Speaker 3: ten people. And she kept just standing on God's word.

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Speaker 3: God's gonna heal me. God's gonna heal me. I don't

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Speaker 3: know how the doctors are saying this. I'm in pain,

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Speaker 3: she say, But I'm standing on God's word. I'm standing

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Speaker 3: on the verse that my God's a healer. Come on,

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Speaker 3: anybody believe today that by his stripes we are healed.

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Speaker 3: Isaiah fifty five. So shall my word be that goes

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Speaker 3: out from my mouth. It shall not return to me

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Speaker 3: empty or void, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,

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Speaker 3: and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

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Speaker 3: I want to show you a picture of my friend Fabiola.

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Speaker 3: This is at our all church prayer meeting. We're praying

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Speaker 3: over Fabiola a few weeks ago. We're praying that God

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Speaker 3: would touch her life. We're praying and we're standing on

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Speaker 3: God's word. See, when you go through hardship and you

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Speaker 3: go through trial, You're gonna have to stand on God's word.

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Speaker 3: Come on, you go through when you go through pain

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Speaker 3: and tragedy, You're not gonna be able to stand on

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Speaker 3: a on a tweet. You gotta be able to stand

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Speaker 3: on God's word. And this Tuesday, she zoomed into our

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Speaker 3: staff and she said, I want to let you know

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Speaker 3: and just got back from the doctors, and she held

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Speaker 3: up a certificate in the zoom and she said, the

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Speaker 3: doctors want to check on me today and they can't

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Speaker 3: find any cancer in my body. I've been completely and

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Speaker 3: totally healed by the grace of God. Come on clapping

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Speaker 3: like you believe that God is not a man that

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Speaker 3: he would lie. Come on, clap like you believe that

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Speaker 3: God is a promised giver and a promise keeper. Come on,

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Speaker 3: clip like you believe that God is not a man

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Speaker 3: that he would change his mind. Come on, Lets pray today, Jesus,

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Speaker 3: We thank you, We praise you today for your grace

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Speaker 3: and your favor.

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Speaker 1: In our life.

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Speaker 3: We pray that your word would run through our homes

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Speaker 3: and run through our lives and our marriages. And we

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Speaker 3: say out loud, we're gonna be like Jeremiah. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: find your words, and we're gonna eat them, and we're

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Speaker 3: gonna marinate on them, and they're gonna become the delight

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Speaker 3: of our hearts. We pray that as we study your word,

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Speaker 3: and as we memorize it and hide in our heart, Lord,

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Speaker 3: that we not just fall in love with the scriptures,

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Speaker 3: but we'd fall madly in love with you.

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Speaker 1: Jesus.

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Speaker 3: We have nothing whom have eye. On heaven and and earth,

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Speaker 3: and on earth. There's none that I desire beside thee.

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Speaker 3: So Lord, once again, become the premium. Lord, once again,

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Speaker 3: become the priority. Once again, become the first thing in

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Speaker 3: my life I'll seek first. The Kingdom of God and

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Speaker 3: your righteousness.

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Speaker 1: Come on, lift a hand to heaven. Lord.

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Speaker 3: I pray that we would not be lukewarm, we would

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Speaker 3: not be cold, but we would be hot. We'd be

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Speaker 3: zealous for the things of God. And I pray today

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Speaker 3: we'd open up our Bibles, and we're praying today.

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Speaker 1: As we open up your word.

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Speaker 3: Show us marvelous things from your word, Show us who

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Speaker 3: you are, show us how you move. We love you

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Speaker 3: today and we live for you. Oh, come on, elevation,

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Speaker 3: Come on, let's worship God. Come on, lift it up,

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Speaker 3: Come on lifting us. I called you no matter what

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Speaker 3: I facelie.

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Speaker 1: I call you faithful. I just want to fit you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your savation in your words.

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Speaker 1: You pay the price good. I call you faithful and

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Speaker 1: Dodds Lord, thank.

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Speaker 4: You, thank you, Oh, thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Your word is that the last egg. She's a word

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Speaker 1: from you changes every day. Your word, never fast, never

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Speaker 1: richards for.

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Speaker 4: So I call you faithful, Indad just wanna thank you,

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Speaker 4: just sing that sing call.

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Speaker 1: You faithful and doad just wanna.

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Speaker 4: One more time seeing sing n cale you faithful and

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Speaker 4: Doad just wanna thank you. I call you faithful and

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Speaker 4: that just wanna thank you.

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

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