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Speaker 1: ark of the Covenant represents God's presence. You have God's presence,

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Speaker 1: not on the shoulders of a priest, but you have

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Speaker 1: the great High Priest Jesus, who lives inside of you.

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Speaker 1: So you are never without his presidence. He's in it

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Speaker 1: with me, what else, working through me and fighting for me.

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Speaker 1: So they carry this arc of the Covenant ahead of them.

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Speaker 1: The whole passage is filled with anticipation about a certain

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Speaker 1: situation that is very uncertain for the people who are

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Speaker 1: walking into it life feels like that. I told Holly

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Speaker 1: the other day that a lot of times I will

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Speaker 1: say I'm anxious when I'm really excited because I don't

435
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Speaker 1: always know the difference, and I get excited and I

436
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Speaker 1: label it anxiety. But what I really am is excited,

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Speaker 1: just uncertain. That's what I think we're stepping into. In

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Speaker 1: this text. They're excited, their faith faith filled, but they

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Speaker 1: also have an incomplete picture of what's going to happen next.

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Speaker 1: And the Lord says through Joshua, when the priest's feet

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Speaker 1: touched the waters, this is what he said, when they

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Speaker 1: priests carrying the ark of the Covenant when ahead of

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Speaker 1: them verse fifteen. The Jordan is at flood stage all

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Speaker 1: during harvest. Yet as soon as the priest who harried

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Speaker 1: the art the presence of God reached the Jordan. Not

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Speaker 1: prayed about the Jordan, not study three books about the Jordan,

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Speaker 1: not took a class about the Jordan. But when they

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Speaker 1: reached the place, when they got to something that they

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Speaker 1: had no idea how we'd get through it, it was

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Speaker 1: in walking toward it that they demonstrated their faith for it.

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Speaker 1: And it says that as soon as their feet verse fifteen,

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Speaker 1: y'all got it. As soon as their feet touched the

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Speaker 1: water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. Now, when

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Speaker 1: I say faith, we should take a moment and clarify

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Speaker 1: what we mean by faith in the context of a

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Speaker 1: Christian church. Faith means almost anything you want it to mean.

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Speaker 1: If you say it in a generic way, I have

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Speaker 1: faith in you could just be a nice way of

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Speaker 1: saying that I love you, I love you, I have

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Speaker 1: faith in you. Well, if that's what we mean when

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Speaker 1: we say faith, if we have that kind of faith

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Speaker 1: in God that we have in the friend, that we

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Speaker 1: would say I have faith in you, or if we

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Speaker 1: just mean I have a good feeling that it's going

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Speaker 1: to turn out all right, that's not the kind of

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Speaker 1: faith I need when I'm going through and overflowing Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you what I don't have when

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Speaker 1: I'm going through and overflowing Jordan, a good feeling about this.

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Speaker 1: So I need faith that will help me step through

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Speaker 1: something that I don't have a good feeling about anybody else.

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Speaker 1: I need faith that can take me to the brink

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Speaker 1: of something that is a breakthrough. But in the absence

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Speaker 1: of the information that I need about it. I need

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Speaker 1: the faith to help me step into it, even at

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Speaker 1: the moment that I don't see how it's going to

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Speaker 1: be moved out of my way. The nature of Christian faith,

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Speaker 1: the nature of Christian faith, it is distinctive from any

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Speaker 1: other kind of faith. And here's why most versions of

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Speaker 1: faith are generated from within the person and then placed

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Speaker 1: upon the object. You sat in that chair today because

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Speaker 1: you had faith in it. So you were in that

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Speaker 1: chair because of your faith in that chair. Well, in

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Speaker 1: the sixteen hundreds in England, these theologians got together in

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Speaker 1: Westminster Abbey and there was a civil war happening in

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Speaker 1: the country, and they were trying to boil down the

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Speaker 1: faith to the distinctives. Now, this Westminster Confession came to

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Speaker 1: be one of the core documents for many denominations, especially

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Speaker 1: in the Reform tradition. What do we really believe? And

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Speaker 1: one of the things that they said up about faith

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Speaker 1: was this that by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of

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Speaker 1: Christ unto you, and you receiving and resting on Him

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Speaker 1: and his righteousness by faith. Watch this which faith you have,

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Speaker 1: not of yourself. It is the gift of God. Now

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Speaker 1: let me give you the monkst corner version of that

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Speaker 1: you're ready. It doesn't come from you. So if you've

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Speaker 1: got dried up faith, if you've got weighed down faith,

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Speaker 1: if you've got broken down faith, but you've got a great, big,

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Speaker 1: full God, who is heavy with blessing, who is sovereign

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Speaker 1: over the affairs of men, then you don't put your

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Speaker 1: faith in your faith as you walk through this life,

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Speaker 1: sometimes up, sometimes down. The good news of the Gospel

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Speaker 1: is even my faith doesn't come from me. So God says,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you grace for your life. I want

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Speaker 1: to give you grace for your situation. I want to

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Speaker 1: give you grace to save you from your sin. But

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Speaker 1: you need faith to receive grace. So guess what God's

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Speaker 1: gonna do. I'm not just gonna give you the grace

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Speaker 1: because you need the faith to get the grace. But

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Speaker 1: I know you and you don't even have the faith

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Speaker 1: that it takes to get the grace. So what I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do is send my son in the likeness of

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Speaker 1: a sinful man. And when he dies and the blood

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Speaker 1: runs down, and when they bury him in Joseph's tomb,

514
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Speaker 1: I feel like preaching. And the Angel rolls the stone

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Speaker 1: away and he gets something that sinds into heaven and

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Speaker 1: sends the spirit down. Guess what he's doing. And he's

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Speaker 1: sending you faith from another place. He's sending you trust

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Speaker 1: from another realm. He is sending you the gift from

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Speaker 1: another dimension. And it doesn't come from you. And if

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Speaker 1: it doesn't come from you, it doesn't depend on you.

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Speaker 1: And if it comes from God, they cannot run out.

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Speaker 1: It'll be like that wine at the wedding in Kanov Galilee.

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Speaker 1: It'll just keep coming because God is enuf to something upstream.

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Speaker 1: My faith flows from him. Don't put them on two

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Speaker 1: different levels. Oh, grace comes from God. Faith comes from me.

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Speaker 1: You need the faith to get the grace. So what

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Speaker 1: they were saying in England, I'm saying in Charlotte, and

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Speaker 1: somebody's watching it in England too, somewhere in England. First

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Speaker 1: time I went to England, they were telling me about

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Speaker 1: all the towns and everything. We got there. We landed

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Speaker 1: one day. I was preciated in London. We landed at

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Speaker 1: six am and Heathrow, Heathrow at six am is Heathrow

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Speaker 1: is hell? That place they said, is only twenty miles

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Speaker 1: to the hotel We got in a car in London

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Speaker 1: from Heathrow Airport three hours to get twenty miles twenty

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Speaker 1: miles where I'm from. If you don't respect the Lord

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Speaker 1: or the law, you could do that in fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: where I'm from, and and and so it's it's relative.

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Speaker 1: What That's what I'm saying. It's it's it's relatives. It's relative.

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Speaker 1: The amount of faith that you have in your steps

541
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Speaker 1: relates to the amount of faith that you have in

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Speaker 1: his sovereignty. When I tell God all the reasons he

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Speaker 1: can't use me, I get this sense that He already

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Speaker 1: knew that. So I step into it anyway. As I step,

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Speaker 1: he makes me strong. I see you in the spirit

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Speaker 1: steping towards something right now. I see you steping toward

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Speaker 1: a better version of the parent that you wish you

548
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: would have had, and you didn't. But you're stepping into it,

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Speaker 1: even though you don't have a frame of reference for it.

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Speaker 1: But you're stepping into it. You're stepping into it. We

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Speaker 1: got an upstream God who knew you'd be in the

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Speaker 1: situation you were in before you were in the situation,

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Speaker 1: and prepared you for the moment before you got to

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Speaker 1: the brink. The Bible said that when they're when their

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Speaker 1: feet touched the water's edge, the water stood up. I

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Speaker 1: love that picture. So that means they had to step

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Speaker 1: all the way toward the Jordan, and only when they're

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00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: big toe got wet did a break apart. But y'all

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Speaker 1: know something, Apparently I still don't know how to read

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Speaker 1: the Bible. In my imagination, I always pictured this just

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Speaker 1: like the Red Sea. They step at the Jordan. He's overflowing,

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Speaker 1: boom step. Always pictured it like that. What's that Kevin

563
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: Costner movie water World? Always pictured that on the Jordan.

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Speaker 1: But remember Jordan's small. And also that's not what the

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Speaker 1: Bible says. The Bible says the water flowing verse thirteen

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Speaker 1: downstream will be cut off. That's where they saw the miracle,

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Speaker 1: when they stepped toward the uncertainty. That's where you're going

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Speaker 1: to see the miracle as you step into it, awkward

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Speaker 1: and uncomfortable, as you step into it, as you move

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Speaker 1: toward it, as you keep moving toward it, as you

571
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Speaker 1: keep praying, keep believing, keep trusting, keep coming, keep digging,

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Speaker 1: keep going, keep flowing, keep showing up, keep scheduling. Stuff

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Speaker 1: that feels fruitless, because you know, God told you to

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Speaker 1: do it, keep coming, keep going, keep moving. And when

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Speaker 1: they got there, they saw it. They saw it when

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Speaker 1: they got there. When did they see it when they

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Speaker 1: got there? They got there when they saw it. You know,

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Speaker 1: God says, you know, are we there yet? No, you're

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Speaker 1: not there yet. You'll know that you are there when

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Speaker 1: it happens. But I'm not going to show you anything

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Speaker 1: until you step into it. And yet that's not really

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Speaker 1: the point that I want to make, because it's true

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Speaker 1: they did not see it until they stepped into it.

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Speaker 1: That's when God cut off the waters and enabled them

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Speaker 1: to cross. When they did it. But watch what the

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Speaker 1: Bible said in verse sixteen. It says the water from

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Speaker 1: upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a

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Speaker 1: great distance away, had a town called Adam in the

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Speaker 1: vicinity of Zarathon. You ever heard of Zarathon? Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you about Zarathon Xarathon is about twenty miles from

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Speaker 1: where they crossed the Jordan River. You know the Jordan River.

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Speaker 1: You've heard of that. Okay, twenty miles away, you've heard

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Speaker 1: of Charleston. Okay, about thirty miles away you've heard of

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Speaker 1: You've heard of Charlotte about twenty miles away, and a

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Speaker 1: place that they still call Indian Land. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how long that one's gonna last to y'all have renamed

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Speaker 1: that soon. I'm sure. Hey, you heard of Charlotte. You

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Speaker 1: heard of the Jordan. Yeah, let me tell you about

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Speaker 1: the Jordan. That's where we crossed over, but that's not

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Speaker 1: where the miracles started. Don't do it, don't do it.

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Speaker 1: Don't do and play a single note, because I gotta

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Speaker 1: teach this. Somebody say twenty miles away. I studied it out.

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Speaker 1: I asked chat gpt, where is the town called Adam

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Speaker 1: in Joshua three? And the thing came back and I

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Speaker 1: looked it up in a real book. It said it's

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Speaker 1: twenty miles away, which means watch this that for good

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Speaker 1: to time it this right, that for them to get

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Speaker 1: to the edge of the Jordan River, that for the

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Speaker 1: priest big Toe to touch that water at floodstage, carrying

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Speaker 1: that arc after forty years in the wilderness plus five

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Speaker 1: after that, for this to happen at this moment, for

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Speaker 1: the water's downstream to be cut off at this moment,

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Speaker 1: that means God must have been up to something on

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Speaker 1: the stream hah, before I got here. Before I got here,

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Speaker 1: God's not walking with you, He's going before you. He

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Speaker 1: not sucking ball. He Sobrin's sister, He's sovereign brother, He's

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Speaker 1: sobrin baby. Yeah. God got there about three hours earlier

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Speaker 1: to Adam. He said, hey, waters of Adam, I need

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Speaker 1: y'all to stop real quick. Why because about three hours

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Speaker 1: from now, the priest's feet are about to hit the

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Speaker 1: Jordan River. About three hours from now, they're about to

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Speaker 1: come into the brink of the promise that I made Abraham. See,

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Speaker 1: this thing didn't start with Joshua. God was up to

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Speaker 1: something upstream before Joshua. Oh, God ever got to this moment.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it goes further back from that.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says in the beginning, God made the heaven

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Speaker 1: and the earth, and he got down in the dirt

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Speaker 1: and he made a man, and the man's name was Adam.

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Speaker 1: Now we've progressed a few hundred years, and Joshua is

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Speaker 1: leading God's people into the promise. Y'all help me, preacher.

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Speaker 1: We'll be here till one o'clock. I said, God was

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Speaker 1: getting started in the garden. What has been started in

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Speaker 1: this moment of your life. Didn't start in this moment

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Speaker 1: of your life. God was twenty miles ahead of you. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they say, raising kids, you gotta say one step ahead,

636
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Speaker 1: God said, I'll beat that. How about twenty miles ahead.

637
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,240
Speaker 1: How about I get there and I handle the situation

638
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: with your kids. How About I get the friends out

639
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: of their life and tell them run, devil, don't you

640
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: ever come back. How About I get this thing started

641
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: so when you get there, you can cross over, You

642
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: can make it through. How about if I give you

643
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: the faith to believe me. Okay, you got a mustard

644
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: seed faith. Let's put it up against that mouth real

645
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: quick and see which one wears greatest, Lord, Now, nona

646
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: give me the Flawlord. I want to preach to everybody

647
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: in this room who's having to trust God with something

648
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: that's twenty miles away. Stuff you can't see, stuff you

649
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: can't control, stuff you can't affect, stuff you can't move.

650
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: Not the stuff you can do. Just do that stuff.

651
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: Wear your own seatbelt. Don't ask Jesus Christ to buckle

652
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: your seat belt. He's a busy guy. You do that.

653
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: But for the other stuff that's overflowing the banks of

654
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: the Jordans. You step into that just believing. What would

655
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: you do if you believe that God was twenty miles

656
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:48,919
Speaker 1: away already doing what you're praying about. Wherever you see

657
00:44:49,000 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: a problem, Heaven has a plan. Wherever you have a problem,

658
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: Heaven has a plan. I'm gonna say it again, wherever,

659
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: wherever you have a problem, Heaven has a plan. Turn

660
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: that thing over to the Lord and leave it there.

661
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: I said, wherever you have a problem, Heaven has a plank,

662
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,720
Speaker 1: good chord, Scottie, turn that thing over to the Lord

663
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: and leave it there. Yeah, you want me to finish

664
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: that song. I'll finish it and get somebody good to

665
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: sing it to you next week if you come back.

666
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: Because God is up to something, but you won't see

667
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: it because it's twenty miles away. Can you trust him

668
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 1: with the twenty Can you trust him that you can't

669
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: get them to talk to you about it, but he's

670
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: talking to them about it. Can you trust him? Can

671
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: you trust him with something twenty miles away? Upstream? I

672
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: always pictured that the water stood up where they stood. No,

673
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: they didn't see it piled up. It had been piled

674
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: up for hours. You have no idea what God is speaking.

675
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: We ask God for blessings, and we should we also

676
00:46:48,520 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: need to ask him for damns, because he got to

677
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: a town called Adam and he built a dam. It's

678
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: too much, I know, it's too much. All is too much,

679
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: just too much. I'm gonna save it for the base.

680
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna save it for the base. It's a

681
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a mirror what he did. He said,

682
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: waters pile up. He remember, they can't see this on

683
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: the live feed. If it was today, word would have spread. Right. Oh, y'all,

684
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: don't worry, cause just keep walking because in and and

685
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:30,479
Speaker 1: and Adam, there's there's a there's a big pile of water.

686
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 1: So won't be long. The water's going into the dead sea,

687
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: and the one that's flowing down has completely stopped, so

688
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: it will be dry in five four three two one. Now, Nope,

689
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: no God, he's the god of the upstream. He's the

690
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: god of the unseen. That's the nature of faith. In

691
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,439
Speaker 1: case all of the Westminster Confession stuff was a little

692
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: abstract and theoretical, let me give you the picture. And

693
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: in case the picture in the Old Testament is a

694
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: little too physical for you, let me bring it over

695
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: to the New Testament, this same Jordan River would be

696
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: the Jordan River, not that Joshua crossed, but that Jesus

697
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: was baptized in God is up to something upstream for Joshua.

698
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: This moment represents the end of a wilderness experience when

699
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: Jesus was tempted in the wilderness for forty days and

700
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,399
Speaker 1: forty nights. He came out of the wilderness and came

701
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: into the Jordan River to be baptized by his cousin

702
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: John the Baptist, which is not a denomination, it was

703
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: his occupation. And he said, I can't baptize you. You

704
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,919
Speaker 1: need to baptize me. You are the savior. Jesus says,

705
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: shut up and do it. Jesus had the spirit of

706
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: Nike before phil Knight was ever a twinkle in his

707
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 1: mama's He said, just do it. Boom, gotta get baptized, Boom,

708
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: to fulfill all righteousness. Boom, just do it. So he

709
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: did it. And guess what happened to John for his obedience.

710
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: He was thrown in prison for preaching to a king

711
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: named Eric. And he was in prison about to be beheaded,

712
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: and he sent messengers to ask Jesus, are you the one. Now,

713
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: how did we go all the way from your baptizing

714
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: Jesus to you our doubting if he's the Messiah? Everybody

715
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: has doubts downstream, me, you, the Pope, the bishop, the

716
00:49:52,760 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: attorney general, you're praying grandmother, all have doubts downstream. When

717
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: God speaks something to you, or when you feel a possibility,

718
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: and I hope you feel least a little bit of

719
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: it today. I hope you feel at least a little

720
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: bit of it today. Well, Sunday is upstream. Sunday is upstream.

721
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: Sunday is where you get that dose of God is

722
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: in and with Me working through me, fighting for me.

723
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: Where I have a problem, Heaven has a plan downstream

724
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: that devil is waiting. Ask John the Baptist. He said,

725
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: are you the one? Or should we wait for somebody else? Now,

726
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,320
Speaker 1: I want to give you a word from Jesus. Don't

727
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: doubt downstream what God showed you upstream. For that to

728
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: make any sense in your life, you will need to

729
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: spend more time upstream this week, because if you're not

730
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: getting it from God, you will be stepping into situations

731
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: you're not ready for. The better. I am when I

732
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: get to the brink of the Jordan is the more

733
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: time I spent in his presence and staying in touch

734
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: with him. Hey, I need time with God. Upstream in

735
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: business terms, the term upstream doesn't have anything to do

736
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: with rivers. In business terms, upstream is where the product

737
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: is created and made and manufactured. Downstream refers to all

738
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: of the activities around marketing and selling the product. Why

739
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: do we live in a world where people spend so

740
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: much more time downstream marketing who they are than upstream

741
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: with God? So he can show you who you are

742
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: in the light of who He is and what he

743
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: has for your life. So you're never going to be

744
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: able to do the thing that you would do if

745
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 1: you don't know that you, and you will not know

746
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: that you if all you do is spend time broadcasting

747
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: those downstream distractions. Do you know what they are? In

748
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: your life? Those downstream doubts disappointment can put you in

749
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 1: a place where downstream, Oh, now I'm here, Now I'm

750
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: at this moment. I cannot appropriately embrace or seize this

751
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: moment because now I know God did some wonderful things

752
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: back there. I believe God is doing some wonderful things.

753
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: But like John, the Baptist. You find yourself in a

754
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: downstream situation and even the one who heralded Jesus Christ

755
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: begin to ask are you really him? That means downstream distractions.

756
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: You have to really be careful, especially if you are

757
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: one of the people that God said I'd be speaking

758
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: to that you are stepping into a season of your

759
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: life where you are becoming the true version of yourself,

760
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: and you are willing to let some things die now

761
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: that you used to cling to. If that is you,

762
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: and if you are walking through something in your life

763
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: and twenty miles away is an issue of situation that

764
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 1: you can't even really talk about or figure out. If

765
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: that's you, you have got to spend more time upstream.

766
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: There are so many Bibles on your phone right now,

767
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: it's not even funny. For free in the app store.

768
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: Put in Bible. I don't like to read. Hit the

769
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: little speaker, it'll read to you. I want to listen

770
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: to a man read to me. They got a woman too.

771
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: I found one yesterday, was talking in a Scottish accent.

772
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: I bought it. Tell me you can't spend time upstream,

773
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: you better make that car at church so when you

774
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:04,399
Speaker 1: get there, I said, when you get there. I said,

775
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 1: when you get there, you gotta be ready for what

776
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: God is going to do downstream. And you gotta believe

777
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: that God built a damn where you came from. And

778
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: he said, your past will I remember no more. Now

779
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: walk into it, Flow into it, Steak into it, Pray

780
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: into it, serve it to it. Step in to it

781
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: because he's up to something. I saw your nikes and

782
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you step into it. Now step

783
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: into it again. Somebody made those nikes that was upstream.

784
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: Somebody else sold them that was downstream. But when the

785
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: product is good enough, the sales can be whatever they

786
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: need to be. Because if the product is good enough,

787
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: God said, in this season, I'm building your character. I'm

788
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,399
Speaker 1: getting you ready for some things. People aren't gonna call

789
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: you as much. That's all right. Don't worry about the downstream.

790
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm the god of the upstream. And when his time

791
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: is time, and when his right is right, and when

792
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: it's mine, it's mine, and he can use me how

793
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: he was because he sucked to something about twenty miles away.

794
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: About twenty miles away, I was writing songs with Brandon

795
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: Lake this week. Y'all love Brandon. I told him to

796
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: come to church. He said he had to keep his

797
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: kids because I wanted to tell y'all what he told me.

798
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: He said, past, we've written so many times together, and

799
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: we wrote some some this week that I can't wait

800
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: to share with you too. And we've written with Chris

801
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: and others and Boom and all my people, and we're

802
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: sitting around he said, I never told you this, but

803
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: I want to tell you today. Did you know that

804
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: about twelve years ago I emailed Elevation and said, can

805
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: I come learn something about songwriting? And they said, no,

806
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: we don't offer that. And he told me the name

807
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: of the staff member, and the staff member didn't here anymore.

808
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: And it's a good thing too, because they did a

809
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: lot of bad things. They were a downstream staff member.

810
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, right out to the dead sea.

811
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: They were a dead sea staff member, is what they were.

812
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna help you. I'm gonna help you.

813
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you. I'm gonna help y'all, he said

814
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: twelve years ago. Now, when I thought about that, I said,

815
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: that's crazy, because now here we are eating sausage. And

816
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,919
Speaker 1: we wrote three songs together over the last two days

817
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 1: and we wrote Craves into Gardens and my testimony, and

818
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: me and you and Chris wrote Rattle, and we did

819
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And inn't that crazy that you were

820
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: living in Mount Pleasant while I was living in Monk's Corner?

821
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: How far is Mount Pleasant? Actually, it's about thirty eight,

822
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: But for the sake of the illustration, let's call it twenty.

823
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: Let's call it twenty. Let's call it twenty. Let's call

824
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: it twenty. Let's call it twenty. Did you ever read

825
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: your Bible to see how far was the Jordan River

826
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: the place they crossed that we know about, from the

827
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: place where God did the miracle? It's twenty miles. Did

828
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: you ever read your Bible? The Bible says when Jesus

829
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: left Nazareth to go live in Capernaum, how far was

830
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: the place where he went to live and do his

831
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: miracles from the place where he was raised? Twenty miles?

832
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: When he got to Galilee for his ministry. Matthew quotes

833
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 1: the prophet Isaiah in Matthew Chapter four. Y'all got five

834
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: minutes for me to tie this up. Come on, if

835
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: you got five minutes, I'm gonna make it worth your time.

836
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 1: Because the Bible says in Matthew chapter four, somebody shout,

837
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: God is up to something. Prophesy to your neighbor. God

838
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: is up up to something. God is up to something.

839
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: God is up to something. God is up to something.

840
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: Put it in the chat. God is up to something upstream.

841
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: Can't see it, can't prove it, don't need to. I

842
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: know him, I see the problem. Heaven has the plan.

843
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: God is up to something in my life. I emailed

844
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: and they said no. Twelve years later, here we are

845
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 1: write music and of touch the world because God is

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Speaker 1: up to something. Now. The Bible says in Matthew chapter four,

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Speaker 1: when Jesus give me my verse, y'all, God is up

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Speaker 1: to something. When Jesus heard that John had been put

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Speaker 1: in prison, he withdrew to Galilee verse thirteen. Leaving Nazareth.

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Speaker 1: He went and lived in Copernaum, twenty miles away, which

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Speaker 1: was by the lake in the area of Zebulen, and

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Speaker 1: left holly places like Monk's Corner that we don't know

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Speaker 1: but God did. And watch what God was doing to

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Speaker 1: fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah. Some of

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Speaker 1: the things that you are going through right now are

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Speaker 1: not about you. They are to fulfill God's purpose. Don't

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Speaker 1: be selfish, don't be myopic, don't get buried in self pity.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what the devil wants to get you downstream.

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Speaker 1: Let him deal with that you walk toward it. Let

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Speaker 1: him deal with your enemies. Let him deal with the

861
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: people who talk bad about you. Let him deal with

862
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: their ignorance. Let him straighten it out. Let him deal

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Speaker 1: with the things you can't deal with as you do

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Speaker 1: the things He's called you to do. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I'm preaching right to somebody's dry riverbed today. God is

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Speaker 1: up to something upstream is started in at him and

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Speaker 1: moved through Joshua. And here's Jesus go into Galilee to

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Speaker 1: fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah. Land of

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Speaker 1: Zebulin verse fifteen. Now and land of Neftali, the way

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Speaker 1: of the sea beyond the Jordan. You recognize the Jordan

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Speaker 1: Galilee of the Gentiles. The people living in darkness have

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Speaker 1: seen a great light on those living in the land

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Speaker 1: of the shadow of death. Somebody has been living in

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Speaker 1: the land of the shadow of death. But watch this,

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Speaker 1: it's not death. It's just a shadow. Because the light

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01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: is coming. Because God is getting the light ready, and

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01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: it will shine, and it will dawn, and it will

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Speaker 1: break forward. A light has dawned in Galilee. And I

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Speaker 1: believe that God, while Jesus was twelve years old working

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Speaker 1: under his father, who was a carpenter in Nazareth, was

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Speaker 1: getting ready for what he would do twenty miles away

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Speaker 1: when he came to Galilee the first time. As I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: he turned water into wine at Cana, and then he

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Speaker 1: went back. He went back to Cana, and I could

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Speaker 1: tell you what Jesus told John the Baptist when he

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Speaker 1: had downstream doubts. He said, Hey, the blind, see the

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01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 1: lame walk the deaf hear, go back and tell John

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01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: the good news is preached to the core, to the poor,

889
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: and chains are being broken. Go tell John blessed us.

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Speaker 1: He who doesn't fall away downstream and holds to what

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01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: God spoke upstream. He doesn't say those words. But that

892
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: was the spirit of the message. And you know what

893
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Speaker 1: of all those miracles Jesus did that we know about.

894
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Speaker 1: So many of them happened in Galilee. But when the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit led me to for you before we close

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Speaker 1: this service, and I don't know if you're twenty miles

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Speaker 1: away or two thousand miles away. I don't know where

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Speaker 1: this word's going to reach you, but I believe that

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Speaker 1: it has. I believe that it is. I believe that

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01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: right now God is up to something in your life.

901
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: It's upstream. Some of the things that he is blocking

902
01:01:54,080 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: in your life are for your blessing. Will you trust

903
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 1: him with the twenty Will you not stress for this

904
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: next two weeks while you wait for the results, while

905
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 1: you wait for the MRI appointment. Will you just put

906
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: that in his hands? Because where you see a problem,

907
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: Heaven has a plan. You can't see it, you're not

908
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: supposed to. You can't know it. You have to believe

909
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: it by faith. Drive into situations that you don't know

910
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: how to deal with. Twenty miles away, God was getting

911
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Speaker 1: a light ready for Galilee in Nazareth. And then the

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Speaker 1: Bible says in John chapter four, and this was the

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Speaker 1: very last scripture that he showed me for our sermon today,

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Speaker 1: it says that after he left Samaria, y'all, remember when

915
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: he met the woman at the well, Samaritan woman. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my favorite story. Right after that, he stayed two days

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Speaker 1: in Samaria. He left verse forty three for Galilee and

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Speaker 1: Jesus himself had pointed out that a pphet has no

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Speaker 1: honor in his own country. And when he arrived in Galilee,

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Speaker 1: feel the pregnancy in the potency in that sentence. When

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Speaker 1: he arrived in Galilee, the upstream prophet Isaiah said, a

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Speaker 1: great light is going to dawn on the people in darkness,

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Speaker 1: and now it's happening. It's happening. It's happening now. That's

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01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: why God sent this word to you today. Is happening

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01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: now in your life. It's happening now. It's a generational consequence,

926
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: and he's doing it now. And when he got to Galilee,

927
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 1: the Galileans welcomed him. They'd seen all he'd done in

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Speaker 1: Jerusalem at the Passover festival, for they'd also been there.

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Speaker 1: And once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he

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01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: had turned the water into wine. And there was a

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Speaker 1: certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When

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Speaker 1: the man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,

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Speaker 1: he went to him and begged him to come and

934
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Speaker 1: heal his son, who was close to death. I can't

935
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Speaker 1: do anything about that. I can't heal him. I can't

936
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: buy it, I can't do it. I need you to

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01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: help me with this, Jesus said, unless you people see

938
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: signs and wonders, you'll never believe in. The royal official said, sir,

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Speaker 1: come down, I need you to come. Come to Capernaum.

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01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: Leave Cana come with me to Capernaum. And Jesus says

941
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Speaker 1: something that's very prophetic for this moment in your life

942
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 1: verse fifty go your son will live. The second part

943
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: of that depends on the first part of that. Walk

944
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: toward it and watch what he did. And this is

945
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: what you must do with the situations in your life

946
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: that are beyond your control, that you don't understand, that

947
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: you can't figure out. The man took Jesus at his

948
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: word and departed. I watched this. While he was still

949
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: on the way, his servants met him with the news

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01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: that his boy was living. And when he inquired as

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01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: to the time when his son got better, they said

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01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:22,439
Speaker 1: yesterday at one in the afternoon. And when they said

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01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: one in the afternoon, the father realized this was the

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Speaker 1: exact time at which Jesus had said to him, give

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Speaker 1: me a wide shot. Your son will live. As he's

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Speaker 1: walking back to Copernaum from Cana. As he's walking they

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Speaker 1: interrupt him, said he's better. We came all this way

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01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 1: to tell you he's better. When did it happen. It

959
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 1: happened at one pm, he said, that's the exact time,

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01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 1: and he trusted Jesus. But I want to suggest to

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01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 1: you that the most significant thing about this text isn't

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01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: the time it happened at It was how far they traveled.

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01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: For Gana is twenty miles from Combernium, and that means

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01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 1: that the words from Jesus reached all the way back

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01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: to that sick boy and didn't even need the dad

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01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: to make the journey. You are not even going to

967
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: have to do everything you think you're gonna have to do.

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01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 1: God's just gonna do one of these. Watch this twenty

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01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: mile turnar rolphs twenty mile. I declare a twenty mile

970
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 1: turnar rout depression. Let the daughter go, addiction, let the

971
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: sun go. I call you fourth, I call light to

972
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 1: your situation. I call strength to your ankles. I called

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01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:57,919
Speaker 1: joy to your spirit, to every pairing room, I prophasia

974
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: a new soul. He did it twenty miles away. And

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01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 1: you think he can do it for you, He can

976
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: do it for you. He will do it. For you.

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01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 1: He has done it for you. The God who fights

978
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: your battles stands at your a dom and tells the

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Speaker 1: waters he's still here, comes my child. Now give him

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01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: that situation, give him that praise, Give him the praise

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01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: that you would give him if you believed he was

982
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: able to do. If you believe there are four with us,

983
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 1: then with him. He's up to something. Touch seven. People

984
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 1: say he's up to something. He's up to something in

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01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 1: the unseen. He's up to something in the unsuspecting. He's

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01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: up to something in the hidden place. He's up to

987
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: something in the shadows. He's up to something. Get ready, Galilee,

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01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: Get ready, Galilee. There's a cofferenter in Nasareth. He's not

989
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: building tables. He's getting ready for a cross. And when

990
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: he dies, it will flow to you and you will

991
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:17,680
Speaker 1: walk into the rest of your life as a new

992
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 1: creation in his name. That time is now Wrever you

993
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: see a problem, Heaven has a plan. Turn that thing

994
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 1: over to the Lord and leave it there twenty miles away.

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01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 1: Like Bianca said to me at Barnes and Noble, she

996
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 1: came over. I never go to Barnes and Noble. I

997
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 1: went that day. The only reason I was there at

998
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: that moment is because somebody had interrupted me earlier, and

999
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:13,720
Speaker 1: then I ran out of time to go where I

1000
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: wanted to go. Susa, I'll just go to Barnes and Noble.

1001
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: I was one around like a homeless man in Barnes

1002
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Speaker 1: and Noble, not intending to buy it anything. I said,

1003
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: let me go over to the Christian Living see if

1004
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:26,120
Speaker 1: I can at least rip off somebody's title and put

1005
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:32,879
Speaker 1: it in a sermons sometime soon, little downstream sermon preparation

1006
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: happened in that day. But she walked in and started

1007
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: crying when she saw me. She said, Pastor Steve, that

1008
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: I never met you. I moved three years ago to

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01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 1: go to Elevation, but then I had two miscarriages. I

1010
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: quit coming to church. I turned on the sermons once

1011
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 1: a while, but I don't even like the way it

1012
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 1: makes me feel, because I know I'm not where I'm

1013
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 1: supposed to be. But lately God has been doing something.

1014
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 1: So today I decided I would go and get my

1015
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 1: facial appointment because I've just been sitting around not doing anything,

1016
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: and that I would go to the bookstore and buy

1017
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 1: a book that God led me to. And is it

1018
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:33,080
Speaker 1: random that you're here. I said, I don't know, Bianca,

1019
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 1: the way my brain works. Your feet hit this Barnes

1020
01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: and Noble at the same time as mine for a reason. Now,

1021
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:57,599
Speaker 1: she cried. We talked, and then I said, I'm gonna

1022
01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: buy you some books. You ain't gonna have to buy them.

1023
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,639
Speaker 1: The Lord wants you to know he sees you. I said,

1024
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: but I get to pick him if I'm gonna pay.

1025
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: And no, I did not buy one of mine. I

1026
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: am not that so I get the royalties. No. I

1027
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: bought her two books, and I said, let's make your

1028
01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 1: husband a video and let's send you forward believing that

1029
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: God is not done with you. And she said, can

1030
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 1: I ask you one more thing? I'm like, dang it,

1031
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: I bought you a book when you made the sales.

1032
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: Stop talking. God sees you. You know, we gotta go

1033
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: say one more thing. What would you say to me

1034
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: after all that I've been through, when I struggle doubting

1035
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 1: if God is done with me, and I believe the

1036
01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 1: spirit of the Lord gave me this thing to do,

1037
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't give her the Westminster Confession right now?

1038
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: What I could do? And I grabbed I grabbed the

1039
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 1: first book I saw, and I said, you're only this

1040
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: far in, You're only this far in, You're only this

1041
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:03,680
Speaker 1: far in. There's so much more to your story. And

1042
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:08,600
Speaker 1: I speak it prophetically over you. I speak it prophetically

1043
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: over you. God sent us here at this moment so

1044
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 1: that you could have this reminder. They're twenty miles away.

1045
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 1: God is working. Father. What an amazing, amazing moment this is.

1046
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 1: I thank you in advance for testimonies that I will receive,

1047
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:34,080
Speaker 1: for people who turned it over to you in this moment,

1048
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: for people who gave up on their trying and trusting

1049
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: in their own ways in this moment, who put their

1050
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 1: big toe in the Jordan river, who called a counselor

1051
01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:45,639
Speaker 1: this week and said, I'm coming to work on my issues,

1052
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 1: who said, I'm going to make the call this week

1053
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna apologize for that thing. I'm going to

1054
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: get up this week, and I'm going to go forward

1055
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Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. Because you're in it

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Speaker 1: with me and through me, fighting for me. God is

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Speaker 1: not a gift. No, He's in it with me, working

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Speaker 1: through all Right, sing it two more times. We send

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Speaker 1: this word twenty miles to your home. We send it

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Speaker 1: to your copernaile. We send it to your sick child.

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Speaker 1: We send this work to your depression, We send it

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Speaker 1: to your situation. Sing it again, Chris, We're getting the revelation.

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Speaker 1: We're getting the revelation. He's fighting for God is the guess.

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Speaker 1: Oh now lift your hands. I want to hear your

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Speaker 1: voice saying I want to hear your voice. Come on,

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Speaker 1: come on, starting, Come on, come on starting. Kids. Things

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Speaker 1: are happening at your house, Things are happening in your

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Speaker 1: spirit right now. God is working this thing out right now.

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Speaker 1: You gotta believe this. Never before I call you forward.

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Speaker 1: I'm calling you forward, and I call you forward, my

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Speaker 1: grigs in the name of Jesus. Now on to him

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Speaker 1: who is able to do measurably. Mor He's work to

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Speaker 1: hivy glory in your life. Listen to you. He's not again. Well.

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Speaker 1: If you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: give and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.