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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Glory to God in the Highest and on earth, Peace

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Speaker 1: and goodwill toward men and women on whom his favor rest.

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Speaker 1: Somebody put in the chat he's talking about me. That's me,

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Speaker 1: that's me. His favorite rests on me. I used to

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Speaker 1: let you touch your neighbor, but I'm scared they'll lock

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Speaker 1: us up in jail if I have you touch your

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Speaker 1: neighbor right now. So just look at somebody, wink at

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Speaker 1: him and say I got the favor of God. Say

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Speaker 1: it like that, say it kind of yeah, like that

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Speaker 1: with a little bit of swag. I got the favor

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Speaker 1: of God. Anybody who knows that, just put it in

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Speaker 1: the chat. I have the favor of God. I have

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Speaker 1: the faith of God. No, no, no, no no, no, not

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Speaker 1: a fancy favor. Oh Lord, I thank you for my

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Speaker 1: parking space. Thou hast given me a parking space. So

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Speaker 1: very convenience. I'm not clapping for convenience. No, no, no no, no,

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Speaker 1: that's fancy favor. I'm clapping cook. I could have been bed,

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Speaker 1: I could have lost my mind. I could have gone crazy. Buddy,

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Speaker 1: got me? I shot faith or got it now? I'm

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Speaker 1: not thank you, Lauren. How many are excited about the

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Speaker 1: favor of God? I love y'all. It's a delayed reaction.

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Speaker 1: You're like, I gotta think about that. And that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do today. We are going to consider

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Speaker 1: as this year ends. I wonder how many of you

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Speaker 1: are new to our ministry. By that, I mean you've

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Speaker 1: been a part of this ministry for less than a year.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the chat say I'm a nube, now

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Speaker 1: use it right. So sorry, my kids just cringe every

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Speaker 1: time I try to say something that's remotely relevant. You

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Speaker 1: can't say that, so it's weird. But this message is

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Speaker 1: for those of you, whether you're brand new to the ministry,

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Speaker 1: have been here a long time, because we end each

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Speaker 1: year kind of wrapping a word from God around the year,

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Speaker 1: and you are not going to believe what God told

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Speaker 1: me to call this year in Because I had to

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Speaker 1: get this one from the spirit. I could not do

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Speaker 1: this with my mind because I would have tried to

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Speaker 1: figure out what to call twenty twenty. If you are

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Speaker 1: on planet Earth and watching this in a future year

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Speaker 1: and everything looks weird, I can just imagine if you

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Speaker 1: watch Elevation in twenty nineteen and then turned it on

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, you could be like what happened to

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Speaker 1: the people if you didn't know, if it was much

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Speaker 1: later and you didn't have the historical context, that'd be

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Speaker 1: kind of crazy. But I want to give you some

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Speaker 1: context that every year we finish the year with one

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Speaker 1: word from God, and this year the Lord told me

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Speaker 1: that we were going to you're ready, Finish with favor.

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Speaker 1: That's my message today. Finish with favor. Go ahead and

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Speaker 1: put it in the chat. I mean as big as

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Speaker 1: you can. I wish you could do a size twenty

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Speaker 1: four o'clock for every hour of the day. Finish with favor.

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Speaker 1: Put it right there. Finish with favor, and you may

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Speaker 1: be seated. Let's get this sermons started. Finish with favor,

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Speaker 1: I said Lord. I can't say favor is the word

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty in good conscience. They'll think I'm crazy.

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Speaker 1: And it was as if the Lord said to me,

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Speaker 1: not out loud. They already know that. The people that

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Speaker 1: and they like it. The right kind of crazy. I'm

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Speaker 1: the right kind of crazy. I'm the I'm the right

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Speaker 1: kind of crazy. I'm the right kind of crazy, at

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Speaker 1: least I want to be. I've been all kinds of crazy,

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Speaker 1: I really am. It isn't it weird to call this

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Speaker 1: the year a favor? I've heard a lot of people

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Speaker 1: use a lot of words to describe twenty twenty, and

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Speaker 1: some of them even started with the letter F. But

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Speaker 1: they they didn't. They didn't, they didn't say it was

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Speaker 1: the year of favor. I went through a lot of options.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking, well, Lord, you know, we should call

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Speaker 1: it the year. We should call it what people have experienced.

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Speaker 1: And the first thing that came to my mind, and

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Speaker 1: the letter F but I thought the year of fear

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Speaker 1: them on the wide shot, on the white shot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the year of fear. But it didn't look right. When

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Speaker 1: not really too terribly inspiring. We're giving an offering next week,

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Speaker 1: and how many of you are excited to give to God?

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Speaker 1: always try to stretch. But this year, I was like

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Speaker 1: and I had to practice writing the number down a

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Speaker 1: I knew what he was speaking. But there was so

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Speaker 1: much fear, And I think the Year of Fear would

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Speaker 1: be a good thing to call twenty twenty. If we're

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Speaker 1: handshake until this year. Put it back on the screen,

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Speaker 1: the Year of Fear. I thought we could call it

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Speaker 1: the Fear Offering. That didn't sound right then, sundvery biblical,

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Speaker 1: we should call it. If you really want to be

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Speaker 1: accurate about it, we should label it the Year of frustration,

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Speaker 1: because that starts with an F, and you can say

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Speaker 1: it in church. The year of frustration, the frustration of

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Speaker 1: going to do not next month. Now I have to

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Speaker 1: And that surprises you because some people say that this

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Speaker 1: church breaks all the rules. But I really like people

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Speaker 1: I can't figure out is I live in North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. The frustrating you feel it,

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Speaker 1: You feel my frustration. I am terrified to go on

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Speaker 1: don't want to have to deal with the deal. It

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Speaker 1: bad out dynamics and I don't like it. But I

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Speaker 1: got the write three hundred in a row favor. But

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Speaker 1: I'm frustrated. It has certainly been If we just want

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Speaker 1: to label this year according to the facts, everybody say facts,

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Speaker 1: call it the Year of fighting all things that start

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Speaker 1: with the letter F. We have found places and spaces

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Speaker 1: to fight. We fight over syllables, we fight over punctuation

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Speaker 1: You can get canceled when you use a comma instead

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Speaker 1: of a semicolon. In the year twenty twenty, somebody will

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Speaker 1: pick you apart. I'm telling you for everything you say.

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Speaker 1: It's different from people who have a microphone or a

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Speaker 1: big epic message and we're all supposed to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I thought of calling it the year of Fuci, but

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Speaker 1: And the Lord said, you can call it any of that,

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Speaker 1: and tell my people, proclaim this over my people. It's

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Speaker 1: the year of favor. Somebody shall favor the year. Put

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Speaker 1: it on the screen. It's supposed to come up. The year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the one. The year. We had to wait for

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Speaker 1: end to figure it out. But it's the year of favor.

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Speaker 1: The spirit of the the Lord is on me. That's what

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Speaker 1: Jesus said. Favor. Put that word in the chat. Favor favor.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the chat. Say it with your mouth, favor, favor, favor.

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Speaker 1: Are you famil with that word? The kids don't say

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Speaker 1: favor much anymore. This is a word. See my kids

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Speaker 1: all the little temper tantrums, pity parties that you had

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Speaker 1: The Lord said, we are going to and I want

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Speaker 1: now I can't say any of that. But I think

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Speaker 1: think it's harder sometimes to get someone who has heard

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Speaker 1: was favor. No, it was Black Friday, that's all it was.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't favor. It was marketing because we cheapen it.

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Speaker 1: he became frustrated. He became so frustrated that he started fighting.

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Speaker 1: so Moses's story ended in failure. He didn't get to

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Speaker 1: But Jesus came so that what Moses ended in failure

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Speaker 1: he could finish with, say Danish with finish with. And

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Speaker 1: I can't explain this to you because it's like a neube,

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Speaker 1: I don't really know how to describe this to you

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Speaker 1: because we don't have a context for it. See, you

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Speaker 1: are so familiar with earning, so you're reflecting on the year,

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Speaker 1: and you're thinking of all the failures that you had.

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Speaker 1: But Jesus said, I want to set up a rematch.

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Speaker 1: I want to redeem the year. I want to redeem

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Speaker 1: me elet January February. He said, I'm stepping in to

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Speaker 1: the last month of the year so you can finish

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Speaker 1: with Thank you, Jesus, I received your favorite and I

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Speaker 1: receive your grace, and I am your righteousness. And I

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Speaker 1: thank you that you beat that devil that was beating me,

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Speaker 1: and you took away that sin that was suffocating me,

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Speaker 1: I thank you that you that you broke the back

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Speaker 1: of frustration. I thank you that that I no longer

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Speaker 1: have to fight from a place of defeat. I don't

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Speaker 1: have to fight in my flesh. I don't wrestle against

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Speaker 1: flesh and blood. I have the spirit. The spirit of

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Speaker 1: the Lord is on me. He has annoyed in me.

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Speaker 1: He broke that failure, he broke it off your life.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're gonna finish with failure favor. Sorry, See

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Speaker 1: how easy it was to slip back into the whole one,

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Speaker 1: because that's what I'm familiar with. You slip back into

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Speaker 1: what you're familiar with when you're afraid fear, when you're frustrated,

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Speaker 1: and when you're in it, when you're fighting, you just

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Speaker 1: do familiar stuff. That's why you call people names that

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Speaker 1: you love. That's why you yell at people that are

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Speaker 1: trying to help you. Because when you're in fear, phil,

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Speaker 1: that's why you strike the rock twice. That's why you

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Speaker 1: do it. Now, let me show you this, because because

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Speaker 1: this is so powerful. When Jesus finished in the wilderness,

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Speaker 1: it said the devil was done, but Jesus wasn't. So

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Speaker 1: the enemy got tired before the Savior did. All right,

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Speaker 1: so you're gonna overcome. You're gonna you're gonna du this.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna finish with favor. You started with some other stuff.

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Speaker 1: I know you did, But you're gonna finish with favor.

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Speaker 1: Lord told me to tell you that you're gonna finish

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Speaker 1: with favor. And this is how we know, uh luke

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Speaker 1: for fourteen? Did we really only do one verse so far?

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Speaker 1: Y'all need a bathroom break or intermission or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Just get up and do what you need to do.

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Speaker 1: I'll be right here when you get back, all right, Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: so the Bible says he left the wilderness. That's the

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Speaker 1: first place. And you want to study this later. There's

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Speaker 1: several places that we're talking about talking about the wilderness

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Speaker 1: where the devil was finished. But Jesus wasn't. He outlasted him,

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Speaker 1: of perseverance in you after the point that you've give

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Speaker 1: those things, and the devil's trying to get you to

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Speaker 1: That's all right, because it said that Jesus did what

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Speaker 1: the favor of God doesn't mean that he stops the test.

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Speaker 1: It means that he continues the transformation so that he

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Speaker 1: keeps working in my life, so that he has unlimited

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Speaker 1: patience and grace. Thank you Lord. This is this a powerful, powerful,

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Speaker 1: annoying that that's on this word today. Finish with favor.

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Speaker 1: So he outlasted the devil. I'm just laughing because Graham,

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Speaker 1: He was serious, he said, I think I could outlast him.

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Speaker 1: He's old anyway. That's what made me laugh. I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about Jess I last and the devil. I thought,

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Speaker 1: that's that's crazy. But I guess that's some kind of

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Speaker 1: self confidence delusion. You'll pray for Graham, is what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Jess returned to Gottie in the power of the spirit. Wow,

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Speaker 1: in the power of the Spirit and news about him

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Speaker 1: spread through the whole countryside. This is the real breaking news.

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Speaker 1: This is the real breaking news. He broke the chain,

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Speaker 1: he broke the shame. That's that's the breaking news. That

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Speaker 1: that's what I mean. Is the year of the Lord's favor.

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Speaker 1: That's what I mean. That's what the Lord said. So

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Speaker 1: it spread through the whole countryside. He was teaching in

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Speaker 1: their synagogues. Remember he was in the wilderness. Now he's

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Speaker 1: in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. He didn't pay

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Speaker 1: any attention to that. He knew that man's empty praise

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Speaker 1: and treasures that fade are never enough. That's Jesus' favorite

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Speaker 1: worship song, grays out the garths. He loves that one.

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Speaker 1: He look at this verse sixteen because it's important. He

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Speaker 1: went to Nazareth. Just please put that right there on

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Speaker 1: the on the side, so I can I can tell

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Speaker 1: you about that in a minute. Where he had been

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Speaker 1: Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written.

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Speaker 1: He found the place where it is written. Somebody say,

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Speaker 1: find the place, Find the place, Find the place, Find

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Speaker 1: the place. The spirit of the Lord is on me

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Speaker 1: because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to

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Speaker 1: the poor, breaking news, good news. But wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: they're poor. No, no, no, I'm not talking about situation.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about circumstance. I'm not talking about fame.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about I'm talking about favor. Good news

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Speaker 1: to the poor, a report that contradicts the reality. Let

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Speaker 1: the week say, I am strong, good news to the poor.

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Speaker 1: I love all this stuff. He sent me to a

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Speaker 1: with me out loud, ready read to proclaim the year

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Speaker 1: of the Lord's favor again, to proclaim the year of

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Speaker 1: the Lord's favor one more time. To proclaim the year

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Speaker 1: of the Lord's favor. And I put twenty twenty by

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Speaker 1: it in my Bible because I don't see that necessarily

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Speaker 1: right now, but I believe it because faith is the

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Speaker 1: that I can't even see. So I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you something. Will you proclaim something that you can't currently perceive.

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Speaker 1: He said, proclaim to the poor. That's not easy to

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Speaker 1: the blind, that's not easy to the prisoners. And let

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Speaker 1: me tell you something. When Jesus was on Earth, there

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Speaker 1: is no widespread record of people getting out of prison

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Speaker 1: in mass but he still said it was the year

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Speaker 1: of freedom and favor, year of the Lord's favor. And

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Speaker 1: watch what he did. You'll know how. I hadn't had

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Speaker 1: the stool out here in a while. I brought it

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Speaker 1: today just for this moment in the sermon. It's a prop.

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Speaker 1: Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to

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Speaker 1: the attendant, and sat out. So that's why I wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring this out, to show you what Jesus did

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Speaker 1: while you're stressing out, to show you what he's doing

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Speaker 1: in heaven right now. I was surprised to see that

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Speaker 1: in Revelation chapter five he was seated on the throne.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was weird. I'm like, well, that's the

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Speaker 1: whole problem. God, if you'd get up and do something

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Speaker 1: about this crazy mess. How are you gonna sit down

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Speaker 1: You know, Martha, remember that story. I'm thinking, how could

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Speaker 1: you be seated right now. Especially what really got me

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Speaker 1: was that Jesus is quoting Isaiah sixty one. Let me

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Speaker 1: show you this real quick. You can just flip there

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Speaker 1: in your Bible right on your phone, So do that

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Speaker 1: real quick. Now. Jesus didn't have you version Craig Groschell

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Speaker 1: Bible at none of that verse of the day. For Jesus,

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Speaker 1: whole thing was probably on the scroll. And you now

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Speaker 1: didn't need them. He found the place. He found the

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of easy to find the place when

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Speaker 1: you know who you are, When you know who you are,

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Speaker 1: you know where you below. You can always find a

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Speaker 1: place you can always when you know that, when you

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Speaker 1: know that the favor of God is on your life,

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Speaker 1: you can find your place anywhere. Is't that good? Isn't

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Speaker 1: that good? Don't you want to live like that? I'm

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Speaker 1: not there yet. You're not either what Jesus was. So

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Speaker 1: he's like, okay, we're reading Isaiah. Okay, all right, this

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Speaker 1: I wrote about me. How cool is Jesus? Somebody shall favor.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't talking about circumstances. He wasn't talking. He wasn't

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Speaker 1: and he wasn't talking about candidates or any of that.

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Speaker 1: He so knew his purpose that he found on this place,

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Speaker 1: the sound effect. He goes, yeah, this one, this one,

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Speaker 1: this one right here. This is what I want to say.

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Speaker 1: You listening, Rodney, you're listening, Carol, you're listening. David, you're listening.

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Speaker 1: Because he knew these people, because it's the place where

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Speaker 1: They thought they did, they thought they did. We think

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Speaker 1: we do, see We're so familiar, aren't we. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if familiarity is sometimes the enemy of favor. I wonder,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if familiarity is the enemy of God's favor.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I wonder that Isaiah sixty one, I

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Speaker 1: hadn't even found it yet. I'm telling you all how

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Speaker 1: he found it, and I hadn't even turned there yet. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here it is. He said, This is Isaiah, hundreds of

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Speaker 1: years before Jesus. That amazing. He said, the spirit of

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Speaker 1: annoying to me to proclaim good news to the poor.

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Speaker 1: Sent me to bind up the broken heart. It proclaim

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Speaker 1: freedom for the captives, and to release from darkness for

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Speaker 1: and the day of vengeance of our God. Does that

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Speaker 1: sound familiar? Some of it does? Give me looke for again.

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Speaker 1: Let me show you this. It said that he stood

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Speaker 1: up and unrolled it, found the place. Give me verse eighteen.

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Speaker 1: has annoyed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

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Speaker 1: He sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and

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Speaker 1: to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Then he

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Speaker 1: rolled up the scroll, gave it back, and sat down.

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Speaker 1: Go back to Isaiah sixty one one more time. Verse

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Speaker 1: favor and the day of vengeance of our God. Go

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Speaker 1: back to Luke for the same verse that I just

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Speaker 1: read to you verse nineteen. One more time he said,

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Speaker 1: to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor one more time.

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Speaker 1: I want you to see this, this powerful. In Isaiah

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Speaker 1: sixty one two, the prophet said, hundreds of years before

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Speaker 1: Jesus to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and

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Speaker 1: the day of vengeance of our God. Go back to Luke,

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Speaker 1: for Jesus said to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,

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Speaker 1: and he sat down. Why do you stop there? See

646
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Speaker 1: this was the problem. It wasn't that the people listening

647
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Speaker 1: didn't know the scriptures. They were very familiar with the scriptures.

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Speaker 1: So we think that's the problem a lot. If people

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Speaker 1: knew the Bible more, if people knew the word of

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Speaker 1: God moral, I'll tell you, then this nation with America

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Speaker 1: would turn back to God in all of that. No,

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Speaker 1: no, no no, no. They knew the Bible. They knew the

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Speaker 1: rest of the verse, the year of the Lord's favor

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Speaker 1: and the day of angeance of our God. That was

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Speaker 1: in their Bible. So when Jesus said the year a

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Speaker 1: favor of the Lord and then rolled up the scroll

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Speaker 1: and sat down, they were confused because they were waiting

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Speaker 1: for the vengeance part. When are you gonna finish this

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Speaker 1: member of mortal combat? Finish him? That's what they wanted

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Speaker 1: for the Roman oppression. That's what they wanted him to

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Speaker 1: come and do. That's what we want the Lord to do.

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Speaker 1: Get rid of this. I want this to stop. I

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Speaker 1: want this to be done. I want the bad people punished.

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Speaker 1: I want the right. I want the wrong to be

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Speaker 1: made right. I want the favor of what we say

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Speaker 1: when we say the favor of God is we want

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Speaker 1: all the enemies eliminated. Jesus came to save the people

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Speaker 1: that they wanted him to wipe out. Oh yeah, he

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Speaker 1: came to fulfill the law, not abolishit. He did it.

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Speaker 1: He came to fulfill the vengeance of God because sin

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Speaker 1: has to be punished and shame has to be dealt with.

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Speaker 1: But he did not put it on you, and he

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Speaker 1: did not put it on me. And see, this is

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Speaker 1: the breaking news. This is the good news of the gospel.

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Speaker 1: This is what will set the captive free. He didn't

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Speaker 1: come to put it on you. He came to take

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Speaker 1: it on himself, that he became sin who knew no sin,

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Speaker 1: that you might become the righteousness of God. This is

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Speaker 1: the gospel. It's good in twenty twenty. It was good

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Speaker 1: in twenty It was good when he said it, and

681
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: is good to the last. Draw. Now take this gospel

682
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Speaker 1: and drink this blood and receive this word. It is finished.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Praise him like his finished. Praise him like

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Speaker 1: he won it. Praise him lucky he did it. So

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Speaker 1: I need you to know what he did. I need

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Speaker 1: you to know that, he said, it's the year of

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Speaker 1: the Lord's favor. Period you're looking at it. Don't look

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Speaker 1: for the new car. That might be favor. It might

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Speaker 1: be payments. Don't look for that for favor. Don't look

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Speaker 1: for bow ass hmm. Don't look for any of that.

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Speaker 1: He sat down. He said, I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: tell you what favor is. You showed a picture. List,

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Speaker 1: let me show a picture of this. Let's shaw a

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Speaker 1: picture this man. It'd be so cool to endiscernment here,

695
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: but I can't because I didn't write the Bible. I

696
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Speaker 1: wish at that moment that they would have put finished

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Speaker 1: with favor on the chat subscribed on YouTube, turned on

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Speaker 1: the bell and gave the tie to the year end offriend.

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Speaker 1: We cando they didn't do that. Remember, we read the Bible.

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Speaker 1: It's what is said, and it's where it said. So

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Speaker 1: saying that he defeated the devil in the wilderness where

702
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: it happened tells us that he was doing for us

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Speaker 1: what we could never do for ourselves. That's the grace

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Speaker 1: of God. If it starts with grace, it ends in favor.

705
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Speaker 1: If it starts with effort, it ends in frustration. Finished

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Speaker 1: with favor, Start with grace. He stood up and he read,

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Speaker 1: and he stopped at the part that he came to fulfill.

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Speaker 1: He came to do that for you. You can't do

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Speaker 1: it for yourself. That's the whole point. Rolled it up,

710
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Speaker 1: gave it back to Timmy, the synagogue assistant. He put

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Speaker 1: it back in the art and Jesus said, I'm the

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00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: arc you can put that up. I am, I am

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Speaker 1: the word of God. Isn't that amazing? He opened the scroll,

714
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Speaker 1: read the passage. He's going to set the prisoners free,

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Speaker 1: good news to the poor. What you don't have, God's

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00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: going to make up the difference in all these things

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00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: that we can take symbolically. They don't even have to

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Speaker 1: be literal. That's what he's doing in your life this year.

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Speaker 1: It's not This is not Andy Dufraan's style. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember when he got out of prison. This is a

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Speaker 1: spiritual prison. This is spiritual blindness. And what really ministered

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Speaker 1: to me in the text is to know that he

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Speaker 1: said he came to open the eyes of the blind,

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Speaker 1: and he said in verse twenty one, today this scripture

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Speaker 1: is fulfilled in your hearing. Look at the whole verse.

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Speaker 1: He began by saying to them, he finished with favor.

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Speaker 1: He began to speak, he sat down. When God sits,

728
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Speaker 1: he's not tired. He's finished. The work is finished. It's accomplished. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So he began by saying, today, if I say today

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Speaker 1: not January first, twenty twenty one, when absolutely nothing changes

731
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Speaker 1: and we all promise to go on diets and to

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Speaker 1: do better, and we think something that's known, and today

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Speaker 1: this is the year of the Lord's favor. This scripture

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Speaker 1: is fulfilled in your hearing. And they were amazed. Give

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Speaker 1: me twenty one and you'll just keep up with me,

736
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Speaker 1: because I'm going to go off the screen. All spoke

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Speaker 1: well of him, and we're amazed at the gracious words

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Speaker 1: that came from his lips. But watch what they said next.

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Speaker 1: Isn't this Joseph's son, they asked, And that messed the

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Speaker 1: whole thing up. And tell you this, but when we

741
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: went to see Jody and Emiley a while back. This

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Speaker 1: is my brother in law. He works at North Greenville

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Speaker 1: College where I went to school, North Greenville University. Now

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Speaker 1: they've really really moved up, and we were talking about

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Speaker 1: how beautiful the campus was, not necessarily the buildings, but

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Speaker 1: the buildings are fine, but it was the Blue Ridge

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Speaker 1: Mountains in the background. He said something to me. I

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Speaker 1: can't get this out of my head. He said, can

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Speaker 1: you believe we had this the whole time we were

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Speaker 1: here as students. I said, what do you mean? He said, bo,

751
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Speaker 1: that's what he calls me. We call each other that bow.

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Speaker 1: He goes, he points to the mountain range. It's a

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Speaker 1: real pretty day too, He goes. This was in our backyard.

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Speaker 1: The Blue Ridge Mountains were in our backyard. You know.

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Speaker 1: Me and Holly went to that school. We never went

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Speaker 1: on one hike. It was in our backyard. Crazy, and

757
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Speaker 1: I looked at it. I was like, this is like

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Speaker 1: the kind of thing I would pay the vacation at now.

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Speaker 1: Not the dorm room. The dorm room was crap. And

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Speaker 1: I think that was the problem. I think this is

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Speaker 1: what I said to him I was looking at I said,

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Speaker 1: we were so focused on what we were living in

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Speaker 1: that we didn't even realize what we were looking at.

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Speaker 1: When you're living in it, you don't even know what

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Speaker 1: you're looking at. That's why we really have to be

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Speaker 1: careful not to wish away stages of our life. Wade,

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Speaker 1: because that was in your backyard. It took twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: to get some of us to see that's. Showing up

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Speaker 1: early to get a seat at Valentine at nine thirty

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning was a privilege back when we

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Speaker 1: could all do it without fear. We had the favor

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Speaker 1: of God. We still do, but some of it it

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Speaker 1: was our backyard. Just looked at it. I was like, dude,

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Speaker 1: this is trippy. Are you sure they didn't move these

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Speaker 1: mountains in since we left. Are you playing with me?

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Speaker 1: Did you slip something in my turkey? What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Is this really here? My illusion? It was there? He

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Speaker 1: was there, He had been brought up there. He was

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Speaker 1: a Nazareth. That's where he grew up. Is familiarity the

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Speaker 1: enemy of favor? Because I think it is sometimes, I

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Speaker 1: really do. I think we choose what is familiar, even

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Speaker 1: the expense of God's favor sometimes. And I'll prove it

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Speaker 1: to you not from psychology. I have no degree in that.

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Speaker 1: I'll prove it to you, not from sociology. I prove

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Speaker 1: it to you from theology and the text. Why is

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Speaker 1: it that the place where Jesus should have been able

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Speaker 1: to do the most, he was able to do the least.

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Speaker 1: That should have been the place for the greatest favor

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Speaker 1: of God? Okay, now I need to say this to you.

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Speaker 1: This might sound rough. Some of the places where God

791
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: should be working the most in your life, you're letting

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Speaker 1: him do the least. And the reason is you are

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Speaker 1: choosing what is familiar, and you are chasing away God's favor.

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Speaker 1: For many of us, we're waiting on the vengeance. Ah,

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Speaker 1: we think we know so much. And when he rolls

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Speaker 1: up the scroll and sits down, and we think, well,

797
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Speaker 1: it must be over because God didn't do what I

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Speaker 1: wanted him to do. Look at me is finished when

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Speaker 1: he says it's finished. He is who he says, he is,

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Speaker 1: not who you think he is. And you are who

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00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: he says. You are, not what they say you are,

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00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: whether they is your thoughts, your addictions, your insecurities, your

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00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: secret stuff, your secret stuff. You are not what that

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Speaker 1: says you are or your life. That's not what we

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Speaker 1: mean by favor. We don't mean the facts. We mean

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Speaker 1: the father. So when they were looking at him, there's

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00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,439
Speaker 1: a Greek word that they use, and it's used ten

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Speaker 1: times in the Book of Acts, only twice in Luke.

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Speaker 1: It says, when he said what he said, he said

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Speaker 1: today the scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. Faith comes

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Speaker 1: by hearing. Faith comes by hearing, but not with physical ears,

812
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: spiritual ears. And it's a terrible thing. The famous woman said,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember her name right now. To have sight

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Speaker 1: but be blind, it's a terrible thing because he's talking

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Speaker 1: about opening blind eyes. But they are blind to the

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Speaker 1: Blue Ridge mountains that are in their own backyard because

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Speaker 1: He is favor, and he's right in front of them,

818
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:22,959
Speaker 1: just like the favor of God is right in front

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00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: of you. I promise it is. It's everywhere. You bumped

820
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: into it trying to get in a fight on your

821
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: way out the house. Today, you bumped into the favor

822
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 1: of God. You had to push the favor of God

823
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: out of the way to get to your bad attitude.

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Speaker 1: He said, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.

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Speaker 1: And he sat down and they spoke well, but they

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Speaker 1: were so familiar. That's Joseph's son. Wow, he talks good,

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Speaker 1: but we know him. We know him familiar favor. Familiarity

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Speaker 1: is familiarity keeping you from God's favor. Are you addicted

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Speaker 1: to feeling miserable? Feels familiar? If fear is your natural

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00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: habitat for long enough, you'll seek it out. You'll find

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Speaker 1: something to be afraid about. I started looking up a

832
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: state taxis the other night and freaking out. And I

833
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: don't think I'm dying. I just needed something to be

834
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Speaker 1: worried about. I just needed something to freak out about.

835
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Speaker 1: I didn't have anything in the moment. It was too good,

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Speaker 1: it was too good. I had to make something up

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Speaker 1: in the moment. Isn't that crazy? But I think I

838
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: was seeking what was familiar and to receive and accept

839
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 1: God's favor. When he says the year of the Lord's favor,

840
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Speaker 1: the other translation is the acceptable year of the Lord. Now,

841
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Speaker 1: the Jewish people knew a concept called jubilee every cycle

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Speaker 1: of seven years and fiftieth or forty ninth year. The

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Speaker 1: rabbis differ as to which one it fell on. Originally,

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Speaker 1: the debts would be forgiven and the prisoners would be released.

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Speaker 1: And Jesus was saying, I am your jubilee. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to wait till the fiftieth year. You don't have

847
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: to wait till twenty twenty one. You don't have to

848
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: wait till you get married. You don't have to wait

849
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: till you get divorced. I mean, everybody's trying to go

850
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: somewhere else, he said. Today. Today, this is the everybody

851
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: saying this is the year, this is the year. This

852
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: is the year. But if frustration is a more familiar

853
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: state for you, you you will create frustration. You do this.

854
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: I know this is hard to hear, but please hear

855
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: me with spiritual ears. Please hear me with spiritual ears.

856
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: Some of the frustration you just got to get through

857
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: because it's not your fault. Some of it you're creating.

858
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: You're creating it. When you compare yourself to other people,

859
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: you're creating it. When you overload yourself with all this

860
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: stuff you're looking at, you are making yourself frust And

861
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: the reason you're doing it, I'm gonna tell you why

862
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 1: you're doing it because it feels familiar. So you want

863
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: what's familiar, because that feels like nazareth favor feels funny.

864
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: There's no equivalent for God's favor. People don't love you

865
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: like that. They don't love you like that. So when

866
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: God tries to you push out away. That's not familiar.

867
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: That's not familiar. I can't just trust that my sins

868
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: are forgiven. I can't just pray to God in any situation.

869
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: I can't just give God this burden. I can't just

870
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: roll it on him and trust that he cares for me.

871
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: I can't smile I'm going through this. I can't trust wholeheartedly.

872
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: I can't take the next step without knowing all the details.

873
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: That's not familiar. So I will create frustration through a

874
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: spirit of manipulation, just to feel what feels like home

875
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: to me. It said, they fastened their eyes on him.

876
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: The word is adnitzio and spell it. You can look

877
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: it up on a bible at at neat seo. It's

878
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: used to describe a very emotional attention. I gotta show you.

879
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 1: This is too important. Go all the way back to

880
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: verse twenty one, please, yeah, no, twenty two? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,

881
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: twenty three. You want the right one the whole time.

882
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, but I can't find it. Is it

883
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: still there? I'm sorry. I am not messing this up,

884
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: because this is what makes the difference. This is why

885
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: I didn't see the mountains. This is why I couldn't

886
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: see the Blue Ridge mountains because yeah, yeah, yeah, the

887
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: gracious word came from his lips. Uh da da da

888
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: da dah. All the eyes, yeah, the eyes of everyone

889
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: verse twenty That's where it was. That's where it was.

890
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were at neat seo.

891
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: It's an emotional focus. It's the same word. Listen to

892
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: this halt. When he was taken up in X one

893
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: to ten, they at need Ceo. They watched because they wondered,

894
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: if he's leaving, what's going to happen? To us, that's

895
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 1: how you felt all year. Well, if I'm losing this,

896
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: if it's not like this anymore, what's going to replace this?

897
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: That's what the word was. It was the same word

898
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: when Peter was cussing, when Jesus was being taken away

899
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: to be crucified. The servant girl at needs CEO fastened

900
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: her eyes. It was an emotion. It's not just like

901
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: you look. It's like you're emotionally focusing on something. And

902
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: here's the thing I found out about God's favor. My

903
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: emotional focus determines whether I go to frustration, fear, fighting,

904
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: or favor. So the Lord said he wanted to give

905
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 1: you the gift this last month of the year, whoever

906
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: this is for, He wants to give you your emotional

907
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: focus back. And what that is going to require. I

908
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: want to make sure you're down because this is not

909
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: going to be easy. You are going to have to

910
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: let go of some certain attachments to familiar things that

911
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: are blocking God's favor. I don't mean you're gonna leave

912
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: the city. I don't mean you're gonna flee the state.

913
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: I don't mean you're gonna move to Canada. I mean

914
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: that in this moment, you are going to decide what

915
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: has been in your backyard all along that is bigger

916
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: than what you're going through and living in right now

917
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: that my focus, listen, my focus is my favor, not

918
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: your favor. God gave you a favor. God gave me

919
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: a favor. God gave you a family. God gave me

920
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: a family. God gave you a gift. God gave me

921
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: a gift. Every preacher watching me, God gave you a church.

922
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: God gave me a church. Everybody watching this that wants

923
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: God to do something that he's doing for somebody else,

924
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: it is time for you to focus on the favor

925
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: that God has given you in this season of your life.

926
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: And I promise you this, at Nisio, you will find

927
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. If you want to look for goodness,

928
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: it's on your right hand. If you want to look

929
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: for mercy, it's on your left hand. So he rolled

930
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: up the scroll and he sat down and said, you

931
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: want favor, it's right in front of you. It's right

932
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: in front of you. It is right in front of you.

933
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: It is not out there somewhere. It is not to

934
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: be found in any earthly promotion. It is not to

935
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: be found in any earthly acclaim. It is in the wilderness,

936
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: it is in the synagogue, it is in Nazareth. But

937
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: the place where he was brought up was the place

938
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: where they were so familiar with him that they could

939
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: not receive the favor because they chose what was familiar.

940
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: That's Joseph's son. Are you open to seeing the favor

941
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: of God? I asked the Lord to do three things

942
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 1: for us. Make us conscious of his favor. You got

943
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: to see it, to help us cooperate with his favor.

944
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: Stop fighting against what God is doing in my life.

945
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: And then the biggest part of all this, why I

946
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: want to give my offering next weekend to make me

947
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: a conduit for his favor. I want that because this

948
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: is the year of the Lord's favor, and I don't

949
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: know about tomorrow. He opened the scroll, you know, that's

950
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: the same thing he did in Revelation five. They couldn't

951
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: find anybody to open the scroll and break the seals.

952
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: And then there was a lamb next to the one

953
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: who was seated on the throne, not stressed, not freaking out,

954
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: and neither should you be, because no matter how it started,

955
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna finish with favor. What sins started in the garden.

956
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: Jesus dealt with on the cross, and he buried in

957
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: his tomb. So I'm making the declaration you're gonna finish

958
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 1: with favor. I wonder do you receive that or are

959
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: you gonna chase it away? Are you gonna chase it away?

960
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: That's what the people did to Jesus. He starts speaking

961
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 1: about the favor of God. He said, it's the year

962
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: of the Lord's favor. And they were ants. They were

963
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: looking at him. They were expecting one thing, you know,

964
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: like we all are. This is how it's gonna be.

965
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: This was supposed to work. They're looking at it. They're

966
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: focused on what they think he's going to do. But

967
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: he said something very powerful. He said in verse twenty four, Truly,

968
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: I tell you, amen, I say to you, no prophet

969
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: is accepted in his hometown. Oh do you accept what

970
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: God is doing in this season of your life? I

971
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 1: know what you expected him to do, But will you

972
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,439
Speaker 1: accept what he is doing? He said, you are too

973
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: familiar to receive the favor that is sitting right in

974
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: front of you. You are so used to rejection that

975
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: you find it when it's not even there. And you

976
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: are so unfamiliar with acceptance that you can't receive the

977
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: love I'm sending you. And whoever you are, and whatever

978
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 1: this year has been like for you, the Lord send

979
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: me with the message. Today is the day of the

980
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: Lord's favor. It is right in front of you. And

981
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: I don't care how it started. I don't care what

982
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: it looks like. It doesn't matter what happened up until now.

983
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: You will finish with favor. Confess it. I will finish

984
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: with favor again. I will finish with favor. And he

985
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: sat down right in front of him. He said, the

986
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: problem with you, well, you can't receive the favor. This

987
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: is to the Jewish people who should have really known him,

988
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: the people who saw him running around when he was

989
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 1: two years old. Their familiarity killed their favor. And this

990
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: is kind of sad that Jesus was rejected by the

991
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: people that should have recognized him. Listen to this verse

992
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: twenty five. I assure you this is Jesus speaking to

993
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: the people that he knew that should I've known him,

994
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 1: but couldn't see it because their emotional focus was on

995
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: what they expected God to be like? Is that where

996
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: your focus is what you expected your kid to be

997
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:15,479
Speaker 1: like at age eighteen that you expected that you would

998
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: have kids by now what you expected to happen this

999
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 1: year in your career. If that is your emotional focus,

1000
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: it is going to kill your favor. That's what happened. Here.

1001
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 1: Jesus goes all the way back to their history and

1002
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 1: he says there were many widows in Israel twenty five

1003
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 1: at Elijah's time. You remember this story? Do you all

1004
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: remember this? I hope you don't, because if you're unfamiliar

1005
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: with it, you'll hear it better. I hope you don't know.

1006
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: He said there was a drought three and a half years.

1007
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,919
Speaker 1: There was a famine caused by the drought. Yet Elijah

1008
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: twenty six was not sent to any of them, but

1009
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 1: to a widow in Zaraphath, in the region of Sidon.

1010
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 1: And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the

1011
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: time of Elijah the prophet. These are famous Bible stories,

1012
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 1: first King seventeen, second King's five. You can look these

1013
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: up later, but what you'll see is this that God

1014
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 1: sent his greatest favor to the people who were least familiar.

1015
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: And I wonder do we know too much? I wonder

1016
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: do we have too much of a blueprint of how

1017
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 1: God is going to bless us. And I wonder have

1018
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 1: we lived in it so long that we no longer

1019
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: see it for what it is? He said, God had

1020
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: to go to a woman at Zarapat, had to go

1021
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: to a Syrian commander named name and to show what

1022
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: he could do because the people who should have received

1023
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: his power I couldn't recognize what was right in front

1024
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 1: of them. Can you God has given you some great

1025
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: opportunities this year. He's done some amazing things in your life.

1026
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: This year, He's shown you some ugly stuff that if

1027
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: he didn't show it to you, it would have killed you.

1028
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 1: Can you receive that? Is this the acceptable year of

1029
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 1: the Lord? He's talking about his salvation, his deliberance as ministry.

1030
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: But I wonder have we accepted this for what it

1031
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: really is yet? Because that's the key. Will you accept

1032
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: the favor of God? Or are you pushing it away

1033
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:20,479
Speaker 1: because it feels weird? That's what they did, It says

1034
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: in verse twenty eight. All the people in the synagogue

1035
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 1: were furious when they heard this. They heard about God's

1036
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 1: favor and they were furious, Yeah, because it wasn't what

1037
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: they were familiar with. I don't like this. I'm done.

1038
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: What if Joseph would have said that when his brothers

1039
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:40,880
Speaker 1: threw him in a pin. What if Mary would have

1040
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: said that, when the angel visits, I don't like this.

1041
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 1: This doesn't feel good. Do you understand that somebody else

1042
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 1: is counting on you to find your favor in your situation?

1043
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:58,520
Speaker 1: They don't have the last word. That's why I love God.

1044
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: If he said, this is the year of his favor.

1045
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: This is the year of his favor. If he said

1046
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 1: I'm annoying, I'm annoying. If he said I can do it,

1047
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 1: I can do it. If he put it in my hand,

1048
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: if he gave it to me, I'm gonna unroll it.

1049
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna sit down with him

1050
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: and trust that it is finished. But they got up

1051
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: verse twenty nine, drove him out of the town, took

1052
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: him to the brow of the hill on which the

1053
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.

1054
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:36,000
Speaker 1: Watch this. They chased away God's favor because it was

1055
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: not familiar. You have been chasing away the favor of

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Speaker 1: God because it's been coming looking like trouble. You have

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Speaker 1: been chasing away the favor of God because it has

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Speaker 1: been coming looking like challenge. You have been chasing away

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Speaker 1: the favor of God because it's not comfortable. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: chase it away? Are you gonna embrace it? I believe

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Speaker 1: God's favor is finding someone right now. And what I

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Speaker 1: want to leave you with on this message finished with

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Speaker 1: Favor is verse thirty that when the favor of God

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Speaker 1: is on you, you can do what Jesus did. But

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Speaker 1: he walked right through the crowd six feet back, six

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Speaker 1: feet back, six feet back, six feet back, six feet back,

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Speaker 1: six but he walked right Go ahead and take a

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Speaker 1: selfie right now for a picture of favor, because guess what,

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Speaker 1: there were some times in April and May and June

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Speaker 1: and July. I'm starting my New Year's Eve. Sermon early,

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to right now. Listen, right now, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: finish with favor. So go ahead and take the picture

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Speaker 1: right now now and post it with a hashtag finish

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Speaker 1: with favor. Watch this. The devil should have killed you

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Speaker 1: while he had the chance. He should have killed you

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Speaker 1: in the cradle. He should have killed you before you

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Speaker 1: found out that the power of God is on you.

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Speaker 1: He should have took you out before you have found

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Speaker 1: out I got the favor of God. It can't kill you.

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Speaker 1: It can't kill you. And he went on his way

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Speaker 1: because it is not finished. When they say it is,

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Speaker 1: it is not finished. When Hell says it is, it

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:44,639
Speaker 1: is not finished. When a government official says it is.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, I will bill my church, and the gates

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Speaker 1: of Hell will not prevail. I declare over elevation. This

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Speaker 1: is a ministry that was started in the mind of God.

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Speaker 1: I declare it over your family. I declare it over

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Speaker 1: your calling. You didn't start it. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: finish it, and you don't have to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: So walk right through in the favor of God. Walk

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Speaker 1: right through in the favor of God. Walk right through

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Speaker 1: in the chat with your mouth say I'm walking in

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Speaker 1: the favor of God. Again, I'm walking in the favor

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Speaker 1: of God. And they that wait on the Lord shall

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Speaker 1: renew their strength. They'll mount up on wings like eagles.

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Speaker 1: Oh it feels good to get above it. Sometimes they

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Speaker 1: were running, not crow weary. I like progress when I'm

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Speaker 1: getting there fast. But one thing is said, they were

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Speaker 1: walking and not fame. I don't know if you got

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Speaker 1: very high this year. A lot of us didn't. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you got very far this year very fast.

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Speaker 1: It's been slow progress for a lot of us, and

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Speaker 1: even some steps backwards. But I'm still walking in the

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Speaker 1: favor of God. You're gonna chase it away they chase

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Speaker 1: Jesus out of their town, or are you gonna embrace it?

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Speaker 1: The favor of the Lord. It's right in front of

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Speaker 1: It's not far off. It's not in some distant galaxy.

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Speaker 1: It's not waiting for some future version of you that

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Speaker 1: has better scripture, reading habits. No, no, no, no no, no,

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Speaker 1: The favor of God is here. Lord. We're We're really

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Speaker 1: tempted right now. That's the true We're tempted to be afraid.

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Speaker 1: It's familiar. Everybody's doing it. It's really foreign concept for

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Speaker 1: us to resist the temptation to fear. It's really easy

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Speaker 1: to fear. It's familiar. We know how to do it.

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Speaker 1: We're good at it. We are professional fearers. We're frustrated

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Speaker 1: about the things that keep on slipping on us. It's

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Speaker 1: hard for us to believe that you're at work even

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Speaker 1: in those areas. Some of us were born fighters, but

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Speaker 1: the problem comes when we start fighting against the very

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Speaker 1: favor that you gave us, the gift, the situation, and yes, Lord,

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Speaker 1: even the thorn. So Lord, when you gave me this proclamation,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was weird. I thought it was weird.

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Speaker 1: I thought the Year of the Lord's Favor didn't sound

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Speaker 1: right for twenty twenty. But then you showed me that

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Speaker 1: the fear, the frustration, the fight, that's what favors for.

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Speaker 1: That's what favors for. That's why you gave us that

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Speaker 1: favor to raise that child. That's why you gave us

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Speaker 1: that favor to be patient as we wait. That's why

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Speaker 1: you gave us that favor to battle that addiction. That's

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Speaker 1: why you gave us that favor. We take our seat

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Speaker 1: with you now. People are taking stands everywhere this year.

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Speaker 1: Just for a moment, we want to take a seat

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Speaker 1: with you. We thank you that you're worthy to open

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Speaker 1: the scroll. You know what's going to happen in the future.

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Speaker 1: You've already been there, and you declare that because you

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Speaker 1: finished with favor, we will too. Surely, goodness and mercy

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Speaker 1: will follow me all the days of my life, and

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Speaker 1: I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

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Speaker 1: I will finish with favor given praise. If you received

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Speaker 1: this word, thank you Lord. It's the year of the

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Speaker 1: Lord's Favor. Do you believe that takes faith? You have

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Speaker 1: to look right in the of circumstances that seem to

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Speaker 1: say otherwise and still declare I will finish with favor.

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Speaker 1: And I want to thank you for helping us finish

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Speaker 1: this year with favor as a ministry not only to

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Speaker 1: receive God's favor, but to be a conduit of God's favor.

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Speaker 1: When you give here in our year end offering, just

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Speaker 1: know that you're a part of building God's kingdom that

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Speaker 1: can't be shaken, and I'm excited about seeing how God

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Speaker 1: uses you. We're designating December thirteenth on that Sunday for

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Speaker 1: our offering weekend, but of course you can give any time.

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Speaker 1: Eleviationchurch dot Org. I want to appreciate all of you

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Speaker 1: who tied, those of you who are beginning to do

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Speaker 1: that to put God first. This is a great time

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Speaker 1: to do it, To tell God before a new year begins.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for your favor, and I

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Speaker 1: want to trust you in faith and put you first.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who are giving above and beyond,

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Speaker 1: just know that we're praying for you. Know that we

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Speaker 1: believe that God is going to supply all your needs

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Speaker 1: as you continue to respond in obedience to Him. But

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Speaker 1: above all, know this that he's already gone before. I

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Speaker 1: want to put the blessing on you before we go.

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Speaker 1: The Lord bless you and keep you. Make his face

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Speaker 1: shine upon you, and be gracious to you. The Lord

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Speaker 1: turned his face towards you and give you peace. May

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Speaker 1: his favor be upon you. We're finishing with favor. Nothing

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Speaker 1: can stop what God has started. We love you.