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Speaker 1: Hey there. Before we jump into the amazing message today,

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Speaker 1: Go work out to say it. The Lord and I

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Speaker 1: want to share with you today. Let's go to Acts

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Speaker 1: chapter three. Stay standing for one moment, Acts chapter three.

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Speaker 1: As you're turning there, just to give a moment for

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Speaker 1: everybody to turn. Put in the chat right now. Where

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Speaker 1: We want to know, and what's your name? And uh,

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Speaker 1: what's your favorite what's your favorite band? And what's your

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Speaker 1: in the chat. Don't let the chat distract you, all right,

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Speaker 1: because God has a word for you today. Tell your

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Speaker 1: to speak to me today. Look at them and say,

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Speaker 1: God is going to speak to us today. Acts Chapter three,

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Speaker 1: Verse thirteen, Verse thirteen, And I really want to go

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Speaker 1: to verse nineteen. So I will. I said that like

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Speaker 1: it was something I really wanted. But we can do it.

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Speaker 1: We can do it. Let's just do it. The God

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Speaker 1: has glorified his servant, Jesus. You handed him over to

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Speaker 1: be killed and disowned him before Pilot, though he had

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Speaker 1: Righteous when and asked that a murderer be released to you.

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Speaker 1: You killed the author of life. Wow, but God raised

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Speaker 1: him from the dead. We are witnesses of this by

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Speaker 1: faith in name of Jesus. By what faith in the

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Speaker 1: name of Jesus, Love it, love it, love it. This man,

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Speaker 1: whom you see and know, was made strong. It is

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Speaker 1: Jesus's name and the faith that comes through him that

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Speaker 1: Fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as

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Speaker 1: did your leaders. But this, this, this what you did

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Speaker 1: in ignorance. This is how God fulfilled what he what

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Speaker 1: he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his

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Speaker 1: Messiah would suffer. Repent. Then repent, then change your mind,

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Speaker 1: change your direction, turn to God, so that your sins

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Speaker 1: from the Lord go back to verse fifteen. It's the

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Speaker 1: but God raised them from the dead. We are witnesses

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Speaker 1: of this today. I want to talk to you about

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Speaker 1: what comes after. What comes after, That's what the Lord

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Speaker 1: wants me to talk to you about. You know how

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Speaker 1: you've been stressing out about stuff that's out there somewhere.

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Speaker 1: The Lord said, let's talk about what comes after. You

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Speaker 1: But the Lord said, let's talk today for just a

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Speaker 1: few moments about what comes after. Thank you for your word,

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Speaker 1: God in Jesus, nay Amen. You may be seated while

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Speaker 1: you're getting situated. Quick plug. Holly has a book club.

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Speaker 1: You got two fans, baby, I'm like, you need a

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Speaker 1: new marketing department. No, it's awesome. She has a book

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Speaker 1: club and it is called the Holly Verdict book Club.

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Speaker 1: That's great. And then I pick on her and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, baby, I'm sorry. I have a book

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Speaker 1: Every five minutes she would turn to me and say,

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Speaker 1: gonna ask, what's the book better? Are you living out anyway?

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do that one day. But she said

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Speaker 1: It changed the beginning, and it made me think, maybe

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Speaker 1: it is. Here's what it is. I was thinking, did

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Speaker 1: And then you got the Gospels, which give the record

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Speaker 1: author who created me from my mother's womb. So stepping

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Speaker 1: right into the middle of his story, this man at

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Speaker 1: the gate, Peter recalls his story. It's a story with

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Speaker 1: then a story, with then a story. You hang around

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Speaker 1: here long enough, I'm gonna teach of the Bible. Abraham

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Speaker 1: is seventy five. Story is coming to a close at

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Speaker 1: seventy five. Right, you hadn't talked to the author yet, Abraham,

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Speaker 1: You had talked to the author yet, Abraham. The author

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Speaker 1: showed up to Abraham. He didn't even have an H

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Speaker 1: in his name. Vanna didn't even put an H in

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Speaker 1: his name yet. I watched with Wheel of Fortune every

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night when my mom, y'all, I'm wow, they're crazy.

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Speaker 1: Every Wednesday night it's called Wednesdays for the Wheel, and

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Speaker 1: I pray for Pat say Jack every Wednesday. And Pat,

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Speaker 1: if you ever watched this, I would love to have

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Speaker 1: you in elevation. I think you're amazing. Now I'll just

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Speaker 1: put it out there in case God wants answer a

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Speaker 1: dumb prayer. Abram, Abram, start counting stars. That's what the

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Speaker 1: author told him. Start talking to the stars. Lord, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you did good on those stars. That's cool man. Now

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Speaker 1: he's an herb the Kaldeans, and God says, go to

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Speaker 1: the land. I will show you and count the stars.

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Speaker 1: And if you can count them, that's how numerous your

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Speaker 1: descendants are going to be. That's what comes after, after

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Speaker 1: count the sand of the seashore. Now this is a

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Speaker 1: collision of history and destiny, because there's what God did

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Speaker 1: the stars long before Abram got here, and there's what

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Speaker 1: God is doing through Abram history destiny. You stay stuck

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Speaker 1: in one. Don't focus on the other. You're done. You

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Speaker 1: stay just focused on the history. You're walking around, talk

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Speaker 1: about how much you bench pressed in nineteen forty seven.

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Speaker 1: I was the man back then, y'all. I see these

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Speaker 1: kids these days. They don't know how we used to

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Speaker 1: do it back in the day. Now you're stuck in

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Speaker 1: your history. You start talking about what you're going to

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Speaker 1: do one day when nobody is bothering you and there's

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Speaker 1: no traffic and they make flying teslas and you don't

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Speaker 1: have to wait to get the work. Well, that's just

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Speaker 1: you hypothetically avoiding this present moment. Wow. Wow, Thank you God,

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Speaker 1: Thank you God that I'm not stuck where I started.

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Speaker 1: And but I thank you for that scripture that says

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Speaker 1: no eye has seen, no ear has heard, neither has

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Speaker 1: it entered in the heart of a man what God

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Speaker 1: has prepared for those who love him. But God has

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Speaker 1: revealed them to us by his spirit. See nobody ever,

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Speaker 1: says the next verse, everybody, I always heard the first verse,

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Speaker 1: is entered in the hearts of man? Next says but God.

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Speaker 1: Abraham was seventy five years old and his wife's womb

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Speaker 1: was as good as dead. But God wanted a baby

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Speaker 1: messed it up by having Ishmael with Hagar. But God

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Speaker 1: had a plan for Isaac and Ishmael. But God, but God,

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Speaker 1: but God has revealed them by his spirit. So that's

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Speaker 1: what his spirit does. That's what time with God does.

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Speaker 1: That's why coming to church is a better investment than

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Speaker 1: the stock market. That's why coming to church is a

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Speaker 1: better investment than washing your raggedy car, which is gonna

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Speaker 1: be dirty again in three days. That's why coming to

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Speaker 1: church and listening to the Word of God, because that

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Speaker 1: word gets in you, and when it mixes with the

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Speaker 1: spirit that was in you, and the soil of the

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Speaker 1: spirit and the seed of the word get together. God said,

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Speaker 1: so shall your seed be. At the same time he's

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Speaker 1: speaking to old Labe Holab Holy plug, you sure about that?

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Speaker 1: And the Lord's like, I'm sure about that because I'm

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Speaker 1: the author. I'm the author. Holly got one author on

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Speaker 1: the on the on the phone one time on the

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Speaker 1: Instagram on her book club, and she goes Holly Ford

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Speaker 1: dot com. You can look it up, and she said,

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Speaker 1: she said, she told me to plug the website. So

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Speaker 1: I forgot to do that. So I'm gonna do that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she'll pay me back in a sponsorship. You could

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Speaker 1: sponsor me when we get home. All right, that has

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Speaker 1: to be a sponsor. Dad, y'all quit looking at me.

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Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable. Shouldn't have said it, shouldn't have sent him.

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Speaker 1: What comes after? That's a whole other sermon. That's a

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Speaker 1: marriage seminar. Yeah, do the dishes, you might get a kiss,

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Speaker 1: all right, what comes after? And she was interviewing this

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Speaker 1: author who wrote a true story about her life, and

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Speaker 1: she was she gave up a baby for adoption, teenage pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: And when she got the author on the interview, she said,

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Speaker 1: you left the story off right there at the inn,

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Speaker 1: and you never told us did you meet the kid?

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Speaker 1: And she goes, oh, yeah, that's what my next book

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Speaker 1: is about. Always said good. I can't wait to read it. Y'all.

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Speaker 1: When we read the Book of Acts, we're reading the sequel.

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Speaker 1: It was written by Luke, who was a doctor who

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Speaker 1: traveled with Paul, and he wrote it while Paul was

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Speaker 1: imprisoned in Rome, and he wrote it to a man

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Speaker 1: named Theophilous. He calls him the most excellent Theophilous. I

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Speaker 1: want y'all start calling me that, by the way, most

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Speaker 1: excellent Pastor Stephen, All right, get on it. Twenty six

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Speaker 1: percent of the New Testament was written by Luke to Theophilos.

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Speaker 1: Who was Theophilus? I mean, Luke is writing to him.

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Speaker 1: Luke isn't even one of the original twelve Disciples. He's

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Speaker 1: a gentile who came later. And he writes his first book,

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Speaker 1: self titled Debut ep Luke. Then he puts out the

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Speaker 1: Book of Acts as a follow up the sequel, and

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Speaker 1: the disciples I never saw it this way before. They're

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Speaker 1: living in the sequel. Jesus has gone in bodily form.

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Speaker 1: What they knew is no longer available. What was normal

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Speaker 1: for them for three years has been up into the

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Speaker 1: cross has happened, the resurrection has happened, the Spirit has come.

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Speaker 1: There's persecution ahead, but there's progress ahead. And there is

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Speaker 1: always persecution with progress. If it's not from the outside,

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Speaker 1: flesh on the inside. There's always persecution with progress. The devil,

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Speaker 1: I told you all last week. The devil will step

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Speaker 1: right out of your way if you're headed in the

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Speaker 1: wrong direction. Try any football players in here. I heard

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Speaker 1: there were basketball players in here today. Is that right? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I thought all over here? All right, do it when

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Speaker 1: you get back when the season starts, turn around and

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Speaker 1: run toward the other goal and see if anybody stops you.

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Speaker 1: I let you do it all day long. They'll hand

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Speaker 1: you a gatorade. Yeah, do that again. You're putting points

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Speaker 1: on the board for the devil. He'll assist you. He'll

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Speaker 1: ally oop you. Buck you ever make up your mind.

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Speaker 1: I'm following Jesus, No, pardon back, I'm going forward to

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Speaker 1: the future. I got a father, Nay Abraham. Wow, some

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Speaker 1: names Wow, some name Jacob, And now his servant Jesus

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Speaker 1: is being glorified. The unfolding Plan. Corey Ton Boom said,

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Speaker 1: Heaven has no panic only plans. Heaven has no panic

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Speaker 1: only plans. Think about what she went through. And she

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Speaker 1: still said that, not before it happened, but after. She's

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Speaker 1: still standing there saying stuff like, Heaven has no panic

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Speaker 1: only plans. But it's an unfolding plan. It's an unfolding plan.

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Speaker 1: At the picture, you don't see the scene. So by

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Speaker 1: faith had to find out what God can do you're ready.

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Speaker 1: You're ready, You're ready, And I have to apply that

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Speaker 1: to the area where I'm the most anxious right now

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Speaker 1: and believe by faith going forward based on the foundation

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Speaker 1: of who God is, the God of Abraham, the God

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Speaker 1: of Isaac, the God of Jacob. Isaac was tied up

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Speaker 1: on an altar, and just as the moment where he

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Speaker 1: thought he was going to be sacrificed, he heard a

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Speaker 1: rustling of a ram in a bush. Because God never

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Speaker 1: intended to kill Isaac. God always had a ram. The

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Speaker 1: Bible says that Jesus is the Lamb of God who

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Speaker 1: was slain from the foundation of the earth. When Peter

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Speaker 1: stood at the cross, I got news for y'all. He

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Speaker 1: didn't call it good friend Day. He didn't call it

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Speaker 1: good Friday. We call it that because we know what

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Speaker 1: came m question. What if it's good? What if it's good?

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Speaker 1: What if it's good? We all know from broccoli that

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Speaker 1: it can be good and not taste good. We know

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Speaker 1: that what if it's good? What if it's good? Flip side,

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Speaker 1: well if it's not, what if it makes you feel

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Speaker 1: good but it's not good. Not calling anybody out to

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Speaker 1: put you on the spot, but is there anybody watching

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Speaker 1: online or at one of our campuses right now that

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Speaker 1: raise your hand, And if you want to raise your hand,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to that struggled with addiction and went

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Speaker 1: through recovery at some point in your life. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for raising your hand. And we're proud of you. We're

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Speaker 1: proud of you, proud of you. Do you want to

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Speaker 1: snatch people back now when you see them going down

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Speaker 1: that path? Don't you? Because you know that after the

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Speaker 1: high comes the lowest low. You know what it takes

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Speaker 1: to break free from those chains, and you know how

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Speaker 1: hard it still is for you every day, and you

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Speaker 1: just want to scream. Don't don't like like you all

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Speaker 1: want to scream for me. Don't keep walking pastor because

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Speaker 1: you see what comes after. That's why Peter said repent.

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Speaker 1: Did you notice that word in the text? He said, repent?

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Speaker 1: Turn around. You're going the wrong way. You got your

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Speaker 1: faith in the law. You listen to the prophets, but

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Speaker 1: you missed the Messiah. Repent. You're trusting in your works,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta receive discussable by grace. Repent. You're living

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Speaker 1: your life for sinful pleasures, and sin is fun for

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Speaker 1: a season. I said, sin is fun for a season,

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Speaker 1: emphasis on season. But after that season comes another season,

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Speaker 1: and some people that are trying to warn you right now,

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Speaker 1: you turn them off, You tune them out, You tell them, no,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to repent, you don't want to hear that.

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Speaker 1: But how can the refreshing come if the repentance doesn't repent?

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Speaker 1: Turn around? You got time, You're not dead, you're still breathing.

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Speaker 1: You're not in this forever. Let me show you how

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Speaker 1: I know. Can I show you how I know it's

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Speaker 1: not forever? Can I show you how I know you

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Speaker 1: still got time? Can I show you how I know

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Speaker 1: it's not too late? Can I show you how I

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Speaker 1: know it's gonna turn around? Can I show you why

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Speaker 1: I faith to preach this work to you today? Because

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Speaker 1: of what Peter said in verse fifteen. Verse fifteen is

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Speaker 1: he's so annoying. If you need to share Jesus with somebody,

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Speaker 1: but you only have five seconds, read them Acts three fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Don't start with Abraham. You'll mess it up. You'll be

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Speaker 1: putting Abraham on the arc and Moses and all that.

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Speaker 1: But don't do that. Just say Acts three fifteen and

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Speaker 1: show him this put on the big screen. We need

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Speaker 1: this on the big screen, on the big screen, the

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Speaker 1: big screen. This is a big verse. He said, you

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Speaker 1: kill the author of life. Remember this is as Peter,

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Speaker 1: not BS Peter, because Peter was cussing while Jesus was dying.

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Speaker 1: But now he's been forgiven and he's repented, and he

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Speaker 1: knows that that wasn't the end. Eh. And he's looking

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Speaker 1: right at these people and saying, when you handed him

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Speaker 1: over to the Romans, you killed him when you wanted

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Speaker 1: to give up rabbits as was the custom, instead of

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Speaker 1: the author of life. You kill the author. You're like pastor.

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Speaker 1: I really want to go here with you, but this

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Speaker 1: does not feel like to me the best verse I

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Speaker 1: should share with my friends. Like you just said, huh,

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Speaker 1: why are you stopping at the comma? Why are you

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Speaker 1: stopping at the comma? Any English teachers in the room.

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Speaker 1: English teachers make some noise. Y'all don't get shouted out much,

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Speaker 1: do you. I shouted out the basketball players. Everybody was happy.

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Speaker 1: English teachers. I need both of y'all to preach this message.

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Speaker 1: This is an all inclusive gospel. I need everybody's health, heer,

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Speaker 1: I need everybody's help. Tell me what a comma means stop,

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Speaker 1: it means stop, hold on. I'm confused because it sounds

638
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Speaker 1: like you're saying pause. But what I see people do

639
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Speaker 1: all the time is get a divorce and stop. What

640
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: I see people do all the time is fail and stop.

641
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Speaker 1: What I see people all do all the time is

642
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Speaker 1: come up short. And what I see people do all

643
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Speaker 1: the time is try to change and stop. What I

644
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: see people do all the time is give it three

645
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Speaker 1: days and stop. But don't ever let that devil put

646
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Speaker 1: a period where God put a Tama does that karma

647
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's over, and he's think of breath. I

648
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Speaker 1: keep going does whatever he's on the other side, I'm

649
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: that Tama feeling in my spirit. I'm not preaching from

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Speaker 1: my head. I'm preaching from my heart. This is emotionalism. No,

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Speaker 1: it's grammar. It is grammar. Is grammar. Professor Fernick is

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Speaker 1: in the house. Put it back off. I'm not done

653
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: with it yet. This sin is the soul and annoying.

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00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: This sentence is so annoying. No, not that diverse. The verse,

655
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Speaker 1: the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse,

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Speaker 1: the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse,

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Speaker 1: the verse, the same verse. Y'all put it out, put

658
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Speaker 1: it on the screen. Please please please this like us

659
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Speaker 1: waiting on God. You know what I'm saying? This like

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Speaker 1: Abraham twenty five years between when God gave him the

661
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: promise and he saw it come to path. But just

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00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: because I have to pause doesn't mean I stopped freaking.

663
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay right here till that word come. Whoa

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Speaker 1: spirit of the nature boys, Charlotte, North Carolina, where we

665
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Speaker 1: speak English, Southern English. I failed Greek. I never passed Hebrew.

666
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: They just sent me the degree to get me off

667
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: the books. That's true. I made friends with the professor.

668
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 1: I said, do you really want me to keep taking

669
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,959
Speaker 1: your class? And I had a degree a couple weeks later.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened in between, but I know

671
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Speaker 1: what came after I got that cemetery degree. I got

672
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Speaker 1: that ce degree. You kill the author. I normally give

673
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 1: you one word from God. Today I give you two.

674
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: And you don't need to know Hebrew. You'll need to

675
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Speaker 1: know Greek. You'll need to remember Theophilus. You have to

676
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Speaker 1: go back to Abraham. You have to do any of that.

677
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Speaker 1: Those two words that come after the comma, that's what

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Speaker 1: I want you to remember, for every battle in your

679
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Speaker 1: life in this season, for every cross in your life

680
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: in this season, for every struggle in your life in

681
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: this season, for every setback in your life, for every

682
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: question in your life, for every unanswered prayer in your

683
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: life in this season, for every thorn in your flesh

684
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Speaker 1: in this season, for every in your hip this season,

685
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Speaker 1: I want you to remember what comes after the come.

686
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Speaker 1: But God only two words. You need to whip the

687
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Speaker 1: devil's butt. Tell him, but stop being so reactive to

688
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: the enemy's attack. I told you last week, closed your doors.

689
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Speaker 1: Now I'm telling you this week, cover your butt. Can

690
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Speaker 1: y'all believe I think about stuff like this, that's why

691
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: you're at work. But God, you could do a whole

692
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Speaker 1: study on every time that it says but God in

693
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Speaker 1: the Bible, and you'd be blessed. You'd find out that

694
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Speaker 1: very rarely when dive for even a righteous person. But

695
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: God demonstrates his own love for us in this that

696
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Speaker 1: while we were still sinners, not at the end of

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Speaker 1: the movie, when we get our act together, when we

698
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Speaker 1: get to heaven one day and we are given our

699
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: wings and our trumpets. But while I'm still in my sin,

700
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: I need somebody to hear that it is in the

701
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Speaker 1: midst of the sin that the love is revealed. Now,

702
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: don't keep sinning just because of that. But don't you

703
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 1: stop because you're caught up in a comma. That's a comma.

704
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: That is a comma. It does not mean stop, and

705
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: it means what's coming next? You need to pay attention to.

706
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 1: But tell me if I'm right English teacher. But can

707
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Speaker 1: be an adjective, but can be a preposition. No, it

708
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: can be an adverb. See what I'm saying. I failed

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Speaker 1: my language class in this particular instance. But is not

710
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Speaker 1: a noun. So you don't have to get off. But

711
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: not in this instance. That's a different thing. This but now,

712
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: this is important. It is a conjunction, and I remember

713
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: it because of the song conjunction junction. What's your right? Right? So?

714
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Speaker 1: What what y'all know? The Bible? What's under that? I

715
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Speaker 1: love it? I love it. I love it. I love

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Speaker 1: it because right there in that butt, right there in

717
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 1: that butt, right there in that but is your breakthrough

718
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: right there in that but? Is your freedom right there

719
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: in that butt? Is you knowing how to calm yourself

720
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Speaker 1: down when you feel like you're going crazy. But it

721
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: means watch this. It is a conjunction. It is an

722
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Speaker 1: adversative conjunction, an adversative conjunction. What that means is whatever

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Speaker 1: comes after this butt, whatever comes after this butt. I'm

724
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: preaching you to you today about what comes and a

725
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: conjunction that is that is after this comma means that

726
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: whatever comes after this butt is going to make whatever

727
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Speaker 1: came before it wish that it had never even happened.

728
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Speaker 1: Let me say it again, this is where the deep

729
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: Christians are. Let me say it on this side, or

730
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: maybe I should say it to this side, or maybe

731
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Speaker 1: I should say it to this side, or maybe I

732
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: should say it, or maybe I should say it to

733
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: the people who got here early and got a seat

734
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: right there on the plot. Okay, maybe it's over here.

735
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Speaker 1: Watch this, watch this. Whatever comes after this but is

736
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: gonna cancel out whatever happened before it. You didn't hear me.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna make it that it never happened. It's

738
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: gonna make it that even though it happened, something greater

739
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: happened after that made what happened before the butt. My

740
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: preaching on my punctuation from March today, I'm preaching humbuck

741
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: punctuation marks today whatever. Now, when people say to you

742
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: stuff like this, they say, no offense. But whatever they're

743
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: getting ready to say on the other side of that butt,

744
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna make you forget and disbelieve whatever they said

745
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: before it no offense. But you can't dance, and your

746
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: tattoo is crooked, and I don't like your jewelry, and

747
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: you smell weird around your neck. You know, whatever they

748
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: tell you, it's gonna be so crazy. No offense, but

749
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: you get it, you get it, you get it. Don't

750
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: take this personally. But a lady told Holly one time,

751
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: don't take this personally. But we're leaving the church. We

752
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: don't think Pastor Steven preaches sound doctrine, the Gospel of

753
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And we're just tired of seeing people come

754
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: into church that are coming in high from the night before.

755
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: And I couldn't understand. If they can't come to church

756
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: high from the night before, how are we gonna lead

757
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: them to the most high God that they don't even

758
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: know about. If I can't preach to them, how they're

759
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: gonna preach if they don't hear? And she had the

760
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: unmitigated nerve gull and audacity to say, don't take it personal.

761
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: Nothing personal. But your church sucks and you're leading people

762
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 1: to hell. But it's not personal. And no, of course

763
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: not what you said after. But you killed the author.

764
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Speaker 1: But you can't do that, can you, Because the author

765
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Speaker 1: is the one who gets to decide when it's over.

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00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: You can't really kill the author, can you, Because if

767
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: you kill the author, they can write a sequel. If

768
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: you kill the author, they can put a comma. If

769
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Speaker 1: you kill the author, they can write another chapter. I

770
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 1: wasn't shouting over the comma. I wasn't shouting over the butt.

771
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: I was shouting over what came after. I wasn't shouting

772
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: over the pain. I wasn't shouting over the shame. I

773
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: was shouting over what came after. And if whatever comes

774
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: after that comma and that butt is bigger than what

775
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: came before it. And what came after that butt was God.

776
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,959
Speaker 1: And we're talking about the God of Abraham, the God

777
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And I wish Peter

778
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Speaker 1: would have kept going. I wish you would have started

779
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: talking about Joseph, because Joseph talked just like this. This

780
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: is how Joseph talked. Remember, sold into slavery, left in

781
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Speaker 1: a pit, taken to a prison, but falsely accused, for

782
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Speaker 1: gotten in a prison, standing before his brothers thirty nine

783
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Speaker 1: years laid, forty years of interval. That's what you live in.

784
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: You live in the interval, the interval between what God

785
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: spoke and what you see. You have to believe it

786
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: in the interval. And Joseph, after all that time, I

787
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: gotta show you what he said because Peter stopped one

788
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: character short. He should have talked about Joseph, who said,

789
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: asked for you you intended to harm me? Can you

790
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: please give me Genesis fifty twenty. I've got to show

791
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: to people this verse because you'll hear Joseph as Peter

792
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: is preaching about Jesus. Remember what Peter just said. You

793
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: killed him, but the grave couldn't keep him. Let me

794
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: be explicit. Your faith can't be in the miracle. It

795
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: has to be in the man. It has to be

796
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: in Jesus. It has to be in what he did.

797
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the fact that he got up out

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Speaker 1: of the grave. That's the basis of our faith. His

799
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: name is Jesus. His name will still be Jesus if

800
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: I have a job, his name will still be Jesus.

801
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: If I don't have a job, his name will still

802
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: be Jesus. If I'm crying, his name will still be Jesus.

803
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: If I lose twenty, if I gain twenty, his name

804
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: will still be Jesus. If you like me, his name

805
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 1: will still be Jesus. That's not changing, So neither is

806
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: my faith. He got up. It was cross versus creator,

807
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 1: and guess who won it was? It was God versus grave.

808
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 1: And guess who gave up. Guess who tapped out? Not God?

809
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: So why would you? Joseph, looking at all of his

810
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: pain and all of his trauma, he says something so powerful,

811
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: and you will recognize it. You will reckon. You will

812
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: wonder if Peter was plagiarizing Joseph when he said, you

813
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: killed the author. But God, look at this scripture. This

814
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: is amazing. You intended to harm me. But God, you

815
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: recognize those two words. You recognize that conjunction, the same

816
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: one that Jesus was doing on the cross. Joseph was

817
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: doing in his relationships, And that's what you gotta do.

818
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: He said, you intended to harm me, harm me. I

819
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: can't change that, But God intended it for what is

820
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: now being done. And he lived fifty five more years

821
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: to see his children's children's children brought to his knees.

822
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:48,760
Speaker 1: That's amazing, all because of what happened after the comma.

823
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: The Lord sent me prophetically to speak to somebody who's

824
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: at the comma right now? What am I going to

825
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: do next? How am I going to handle this? Can

826
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: I get up from the fall? Are we going to

827
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: try it again? Are we gonna believe again? Am I

828
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: gonna get out of the bed before eleven am this week?

829
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do next? And Joseph shows us

830
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: that you don't need a deep revelation, You just need

831
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: to disrupt the devil with a button because what comes

832
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: after that butt It doesn't change the past, No, you

833
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: can't change it. But what comes after, what comes after

834
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: can change the very nature of the whole first two

835
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,439
Speaker 1: hours of the movie, of the whole first twenty years

836
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: of your life, of the last twenty years of your life.

837
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: What comes after You'll be turned around saying, now, wait

838
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: a minute, Maybe God allowed some of that. Maybe it

839
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: wasn't bad. Maybe God put me through that test so

840
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: I would have a testimony. Maybe God let Joseph be

841
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: in that pit, so he could be standing in that

842
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 1: position to be a provider. You have to believe that

843
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:16,800
Speaker 1: by faith. But God, everybody say it, But God, don't

844
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: tell me you don't know how to fight the devil

845
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: this week. And don't tell me you don't have any weapons.

846
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: You don't need a big one if it's loaded. And

847
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:31,879
Speaker 1: that is a loaded statement because that but God anything. Loneliness.

848
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: You know I feel alone. I know you do. But

849
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: God is with me. But God is with me, okay.

850
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 1: And if God is with me, He's going to bring

851
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: everything I need. I can't do it, but God is

852
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: in me. But God's spirit. Peter couldn't preach till the

853
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: spirit came. It was what came after. I declare a

854
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: shift in your life. I declare a shift in your

855
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: self image. I declare a shift in your insecurities. I

856
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 1: declare a shift in your adversity. I declare a shift

857
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 1: in your perspective. You cannot change the past, but God

858
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: can change your perspective. Harm me, You tried to harm me.

859
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: It came to harm me. I even harmed myself. The

860
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: word harm. I told them to put it on the board.

861
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: Hopefully they can do it for me. Now it says

862
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 1: harm harm wide shot. Can I change it? Can I

863
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: change it? Cannot change it. I don't want to erase it,

864
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 1: but can I change it? I can erase it is

865
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: up there. Cannot change it. Of course you can by

866
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: what comes after? Do it? I feel like David Blaine

867
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 1: up here, y'all, how we took something so ugly and

868
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: what came after three letters, three days. You killed the author,

869
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: you killed the composer, but it didn't stop the symphony.

870
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: God is the one who brings it all into harmony.

871
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: Harmony that's a musical term. Holly's got a book club,

872
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: but I got songwriting team. Harmony, the author, the composer,

873
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: they get to write the notes. See and y'all, I

874
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: don't play piano. I play guitar pretty good, not as

875
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: good as Joey who does play guitar as good as Joey.

876
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you right now, I know how to

877
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: find middle C on this piano. And I wanted to

878
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: show you what Joseph meant when he said you meant

879
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: to harm me. But God use all of it to

880
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: bring us to this moment. And I will not let

881
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: what happened before regulate what I believe God for going forward.

882
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: I use that as an illustration Church, just to talk

883
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: to you about the fact that this note, this single

884
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: note in isolation. Is it a good note? Anybody who

885
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: thinks it's a good note makes some noise from middle C.

886
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: Or is it a bad note? Everybody who thinks it's

887
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: a bad note makes some noise boo middle see. Come on,

888
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: you know intuitively what I'm trying to teach you. You

889
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: know intuitively what Miles Davis said. He said, it is

890
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: not the note you play that is wrong. It is

891
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: the next note you play that makes it wrong or right.

892
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that note. There's nothing right with

893
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: that note. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it neither?

894
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: It's neither until I hear what comes after bad note,

895
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: same note, next note. Not a bad note, but it's

896
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: a dissonant note because the interval is dissonant. There's nothing

897
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: wrong with this note. Don't start running around all your

898
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: pianos in your house and taking out middle seat. Ah,

899
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: it's a bad note. This is what we want to do.

900
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 1: Something happens in our lives. I gotta get rid of

901
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: that stress. I got to get rid of that child's

902
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:05,919
Speaker 1: I gotta get rid of that thing. This is bad,

903
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: this is horrible. No no no, no, no, no, no, no,

904
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: no no, you don't know yet until you hear all right,

905
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: sound like jaws in here right now? Ah, God brought

906
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: us here to talk about your next No, because you

907
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: can't control so much of what happens. You can't erase

908
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: what you did. Peter said, you killed the author. But God, now,

909
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: do you really think that anything that you've done is

910
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: greater than who God is? You really think any mistake

911
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: that you've made is greater than who God is? Joseph said,

912
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: you meant to harm me. But God, who works all

913
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: things together for his good, will take what was meant

914
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: to harm me and bring it into harmony. Next note,

915
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: it's your next note that God wants to speak about.

916
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: That sounds good. Middle C has been redeemed. All I

917
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: had to do was put it with F. That interval

918
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: is called a perfect fourth. A perfect fourth English music

919
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: theory therapy. Y'all ought to start paying me. And when

920
01:01:55,480 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: I put that together, mm hmmm, we could do a

921
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: lot with that. Come on, we could do a lot

922
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: with that. No, Abby, thirty years, thirty years till you

923
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: will hear that. Yeah, it was it, Ah, this is

924
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 1: my store, same note I started with and did this

925
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: to you, but where I took it? Next? What is

926
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: your next note? Are you going to stay stuck on

927
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: middle cea forever? Now we need a next note? This

928
01:02:55,120 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: is my story with in a story within a story.

929
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 1: God is the athor. The devil's a lie. He is

930
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: defeat He killed the othor. But God is rais devil.

931
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: What's your next note? Gonna be? This is my story.

932
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: The Devil's not the author. You're not the author. God

933
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 1: is the author. Don't you want to see what's on

934
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: the other side of this butt or You're gonna die

935
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: at the comma. You're gonna die at the gate. You're

936
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: gonna die in the disappointment. Yes, people broke your heart.

937
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 1: That's what broke in people. Hardly do they meant to

938
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: harm you? But God, but God, but God, but God,

939
01:03:54,160 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: but God, but God, but God? What is your next No,

940
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: God says you get to choose. You're gonna play the

941
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: one I wrote for you. You're gonna play the one

942
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: that I destined for you. You're gonna play the one

943
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 1: I created you for so that you have a story.

944
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: You could be telling a different story. This time, next year.

945
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: It's about the next note. Come off that cross, come

946
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 1: out of that grave, come out of that failure, repent

947
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: and turn to the Lord. He brought you here for

948
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 1: this moment to tell you He is the author and

949
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 1: the finisher. And the next note is yours to sing

950
01:04:55,120 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 1: uh may uh may uh may see grace see how sweet?

951
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 1: No no, uh may say Chris, it's your no, how sweet?

952
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: The the next note, uh like me? I want was

953
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: long watches bod Now next note a fault? What was blood?

954
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 1: Next note? Bad? Ah? I see? Oh, come on, let's

955
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: keep going, Let's keep going. What's your next note? I

956
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: know mine? Praise God, Praise God. You know it. Praise God,

957
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: Praise God, Praise God. Please pee. I can't sing it

958
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: for you. You got to open your mouth and let

959
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: everything that has breath praise the Lord God. Praise pea

960
01:06:48,520 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: pe pease ye. It's the next snow. It's the next snow.

961
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 1: It's the next note. You shall live and not die.

962
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: God kept you alive for a reason. It's the next note.

963
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: That's what the devil is fighting you over. What comes

964
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: after the comma? It is your next note? What will

965
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: it be? I know what mine is? I thought about

966
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: giving up. I thought about quitting. I thought about throwing

967
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 1: in the towel. I thought I wouldn't make it. I

968
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: thought I wasn't worthy. I thought that he couldn't forgive me.

969
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: I thought I couldn't do it. I thought i'd bout.

970
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: The best was behind me until I found out what

971
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 1: my next note needed to be. But God b h

972
01:07:45,440 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: but God bu bu bu. But I need you to

973
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: sing it like they sang it in the prison this week,

974
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: like in the DUP's nest. Bade God bye, God bye,

975
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: God bade God bye God. Let's sing it again. Let's

976
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 1: sing it again. Let's sing it again. Lift those hands.

977
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 1: Come on, come on God, I'm here today because he

978
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: stepped it. Next note, next th next raak through the

979
01:08:54,000 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: next down, next ray God, come on, no God, No,

980
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:16,639
Speaker 1: say it loud, put aways, time out hot that taggle

981
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: down God by God, God, God for a hand gone

982
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: a say come tell you go ahead. His name is Jesus,

983
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 1: Stay out, Stay out God God. Well, if you enjoyed

984
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd love

985
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and

986
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:05,320
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987
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:09,360
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988
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast