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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our

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Speaker 2: podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope

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

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message God's really been speaking to me this week.

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Speaker 2: And as for that reason that I wanted to interrupt

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Speaker 2: the series and the message that I was going to

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Speaker 2: bring from this stage and just talk to you, talk

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Speaker 2: to you. I told Wade, I was going to talk

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Speaker 2: to you today like you were on staff at this church.

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Speaker 2: I said, I'm going to talk to the whole church like.

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Speaker 1: They are on that unpaid staff. Clarify that.

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Speaker 2: And I want to speak to you about vision. About vision.

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Speaker 2: How many of you have a vision for your life?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: How many of you can explain your vision for your life.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the problem sometimes is that I know it,

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Speaker 2: but I can't explain it. My job is to figure

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Speaker 2: out a way to explain some things that sometimes we

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Speaker 2: intuitively know. And earlier this year you may be watching

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Speaker 2: this set a later time on the archive, but it

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Speaker 2: was at the beginning of twenty sixteen, that I begin

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Speaker 2: to ask God to give me fresh language for our

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Speaker 2: vision as a church, and a way of expressing where

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Speaker 2: we've been, where we're going, and who God has called

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Speaker 2: us to be that everybody could understand, relate to, and

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Speaker 2: even explain to their friends. And I guess it kicked

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Speaker 2: off when I was on an airplane, as all great

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Speaker 2: preacher stories start, and the guy next to me asked,

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Speaker 2: what do you do? And I told him I was

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Speaker 2: a preacher and he said, really, you don't look like

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Speaker 2: a preacher. And I said, well, then what do I

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Speaker 2: look like? He said, He looked at me really hard.

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Speaker 2: He said, I don't know, either some kind of fighter

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Speaker 2: or a musician.

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, I fight that devil with my praise.

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Speaker 2: Me. I said, no, I passed her church. It's great,

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Speaker 2: and he's from Charlotte. I was like, you should try it.

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Speaker 2: I want you to come, because I was trying to

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Speaker 2: explain to him that you could watch it online. Here's

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Speaker 2: the website, but you really got to come.

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Speaker 1: And I know it's a little inconvenient sometimes and.

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Speaker 2: You feel like I could just click on, but you

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Speaker 2: really got to come to experience it. I said, because

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Speaker 2: I think my preaching is okay, but it's really the people.

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Speaker 1: And I can prove that.

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Speaker 2: To you because a lot of times when I get

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Speaker 2: an email, they'll say, we knew from the moment we

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Speaker 2: rolled up on the parking lot that this was our church.

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Speaker 1: We knew when we saw people.

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Speaker 2: Smiling, excited, happy, enthusiastic, and joyful.

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Speaker 1: That this was our church. They hadn't heard a sermon yet.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't what happened behind the pulpit, but what was

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Speaker 2: happening as they parked their car. So I said, you

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Speaker 2: really got to come, and he said, well, I may

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Speaker 2: some time. And he said how many people come? I said, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you it's a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: I want you to know that it's a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: and it's different locations.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of people. He said how many?

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Speaker 2: I said, wells thousands of people. And he said how many?

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Speaker 2: You got thousands of people? How many thousands of people?

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Speaker 2: I said, well, bro, it's like over twenty thousand. I'm

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Speaker 2: not trying to be something, but if you just want.

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Speaker 1: To ask this, over twenty thousand.

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Speaker 2: And then he cussed when I said that, because he

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Speaker 2: don't talk like Christians, so he said the non Christian

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Speaker 2: equivalent of well, praise the Lord, Glory to God. And

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Speaker 2: his next question floored me. And this where I want

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Speaker 2: to go today, and I won't be long. I just

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Speaker 2: want to say something really simple to you.

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Speaker 1: He asked me, why do they come? Now? That's complicated.

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Speaker 2: Because I know what the answer to that is supposed.

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Speaker 2: I said, Man, I've asked myself that question a lot.

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Speaker 2: I think some people might come because they.

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Speaker 1: And but got me thinking, why did you come?

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Speaker 2: Would you take a moment and just tell the person

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Speaker 2: if you could do that real quick? Why did you

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Speaker 2: come at every campus? Yes you too, Blakeney, Yes you

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Speaker 1: Why'd you come? If you didn't have to.

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Speaker 2: Come, you could be washing your car, cleaning your closet.

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Speaker 2: I'm real glad you came. By the way, it's better

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Speaker 2: when you're here. I prayed that you would come. I

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Speaker 1: Okay, the exercise is over. I don't know. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out how myself.

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Speaker 2: What. It's a good question. I may as well draw

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Speaker 2: on this thing. They brought it up here, and you

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Speaker 2: get used for something.

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Speaker 1: Why not?

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Speaker 2: A lot of people spend their whole lives figuring out what.

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Speaker 2: But when he asked me why, it got me remembering

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Speaker 2: why we started the church, you know. And there's thousands

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Speaker 1: And I needed you to know why.

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Speaker 2: Because if I don't tell you why, and I just

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Speaker 2: might think that we put this thing on to entertain you,

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Speaker 2: like a spiritual VMAs, but we didn't. Or you may

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Speaker 2: think that we started the church or have the church

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Speaker 2: or something like that to build buildings. Let me tell

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Speaker 2: you something, I have no passion for construction. The first

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Speaker 2: a couple weeks before we opened it. Not in the building. Buildings,

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Speaker 2: they're cool. I thank God for them, and they're expensive.

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Speaker 2: But why My favorite scripture is Ephesians three twenty, and

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Speaker 2: Ephesians three twenty describes the experience that I have had

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Speaker 2: over the past ten years as a pastor.

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Speaker 1: God's about to do.

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Speaker 2: Something awesome, and I'm trying to get as many people

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Speaker 2: ready for it as I.

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Speaker 1: Can, he says.

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Speaker 2: immeasurably more than we ask or imagine. The biggest thought

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Speaker 2: go to imagining what could be possible through your life

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Speaker 2: imagination is pale in comparison to the reality of God's ability.

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Speaker 1: Now to Him, who is.

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Speaker 2: Able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I brought a stool out.

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Speaker 2: I'm too excited to sit on this stool today. Touch

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Speaker 2: your neighbors. Say God's about to do something. God's about

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Speaker 2: to do something. I mean, we're about to go into

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Speaker 2: a Revival season needs are going to be met. God's

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Speaker 2: going to be glorified. Hell's going to be popping Prozac pills.

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Speaker 1: Ten Nights of Glory, It's going to be awesome. We

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Speaker 1: got thousands of people signing up.

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Speaker 2: In egroots, strengthening their relationships, getting accountability. God is doing

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Speaker 2: something in our church. I mean, there are things going

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Speaker 2: on that you don't even know about. There are ministries

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Speaker 2: asking God, what can can I tell the people before

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Speaker 1: Know why we do it?

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Speaker 2: He said out to him, was able to do measureably

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Speaker 2: more than we ask her. Imagine according to His power

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Speaker 2: that is at work within us. Here's a Bible story

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Speaker 2: for you when you talk about why.

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Speaker 1: Did you come? What are your motives?

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Speaker 2: Why would why would you put yourself through the Valentine

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Speaker 1: Because people ask you they'll be like, you go to elevation,

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Speaker 2: And you tell them, oh, it's the water slide. I

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Speaker 2: And so one day, Jesus, can I talk to you

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Speaker 2: The staff, I would tell him about blind Bartimaeus. Blind

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Speaker 2: for men? And I like this type of Bible study,

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Speaker 2: and I like this study in the Greek and the

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Speaker 1: And so they said, you're gonna do that. I want

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Speaker 1: And so early on we would get up and just.

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Speaker 2: Tell the people, you know, it's not about what you

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Speaker 2: can sit and receive. There is something in you that

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Speaker 2: God wants to stir up.

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Speaker 1: And this man was.

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Speaker 2: Not willing to be inactive when Jesus passed by, when

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Speaker 2: Now. The crowd did what the crowd always does.

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Speaker 1: They told him to shut up.

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Speaker 2: do as a church. What do we do as a church?

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Speaker 2: When you come here? What happens? And I wrote down

445
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Speaker 2: this phrase. I was really proud of it because it rhymes.

446
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Speaker 2: And see that's kind of why I didn't choose that one,

447
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Speaker 2: because see how you were just like fine.

448
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Speaker 1: I was so excited about it. I came over. I

449
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Speaker 1: came over to Chunk and said.

450
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Speaker 2: I got it, and the rhymes and both start with

451
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Speaker 2: the same vowel.

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Speaker 1: Encounter said empower. That's what we do.

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Speaker 2: You know, like Isaiah, he saw the Lord high and

454
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Speaker 2: lifted up. And when people come in our church, we

455
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Speaker 2: want to see the Lord high and lift it up.

456
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Speaker 2: And the train of his robe fills the temple with glory.

457
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Speaker 2: And then when God says, whom shall us sin? Who

458
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Speaker 2: will go for us? And he touches your lips and

459
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Speaker 2: he cleanses you of your sin because you're an unclean person,

460
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Speaker 2: and you live among some people of unclean people, and

461
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Speaker 2: God empowers you. And I say, and went on to prophesy,

462
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Speaker 2: and that's what we want.

463
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Speaker 1: We want people to have an encounter with God that

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Speaker 1: will empower them for their life.

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Speaker 2: And I looked at Chunks, and he says, that's cool,

466
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Speaker 2: and it's right, that's what we want to happen. But

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Speaker 2: I didn't feel like you would say that to your friend,

468
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Speaker 2: you know, come with me to church for an encounter

469
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Speaker 2: that empowers.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: So I said, okay, well that's the right, right idea,

472
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Speaker 2: it's not the right way of saying it necessarily. So

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Speaker 2: then I came up with an even worse one. I

474
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Speaker 2: was like, all right, when people come to.

475
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Speaker 1: This church, what is it that they're looking for? What

476
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Speaker 1: do they want?

477
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Speaker 2: And I put down this phrase which is phonetically impressive.

478
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Speaker 2: I said, they want audacious inspiration. That's what they want, right, So, yes,

479
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Speaker 2: that's exactly what I woke up thinking about today, Pastor

480
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Speaker 2: Steve Man, I need some audacious inspiration in my life.

481
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Speaker 1: There's all these preacher terms and this week. This week,

482
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Speaker 1: I was with.

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Speaker 2: Our team and we had meetings all day about this,

484
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Speaker 2: and I was like, I.

485
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Speaker 1: Want to tell the people. I want him to know.

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Speaker 1: I want that dude in the back row of the

487
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Speaker 1: church who keep seeking it out.

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Speaker 2: I want him to know what we want for his life,

489
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Speaker 2: because it's what God wants.

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Speaker 1: For his life. We're figure it out, and we can't

491
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Speaker 1: figure it out, We're gonna shut the church down.

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Speaker 2: It's been nice. We shut the door and stayed up

493
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Speaker 2: kind of late and went home with nothing. The next day,

494
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Speaker 2: I was standing up because sometimes the breakthrough comes when

495
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Speaker 2: you've given.

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Speaker 1: Up on it. I've been like eight months looking for this,

497
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Speaker 1: and I.

498
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Speaker 2: Was talking to this guy and I was like, I

499
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Speaker 2: don't know, I'm looking for phrases in eight months. I

500
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Speaker 2: can't figure out how to say it where everybody can

501
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Speaker 2: get around it. And then I just said it, and

502
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Speaker 2: this is it. This is why you came, this is

503
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Speaker 2: what we want for you. I finally figured out how

504
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Speaker 2: to answer the guy on the plane's question. It took

505
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Speaker 2: me eight months, but the way I said it, I said,

506
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Speaker 2: if you come to Elevation Church, what I want for

507
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Speaker 2: you is I want.

508
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Speaker 1: You to see what God can do through you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And when I said it like that, I knew it.

511
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Speaker 1: That's it.

512
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Speaker 2: That's it, whether you know it or not, that's what

513
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Speaker 2: brought you here, because sometimes you don't even know why

514
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Speaker 2: you came.

515
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Speaker 1: When you come, what do you want me to do

516
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Speaker 1: for you? Blind? Bartimaeus had an answer to that question.

517
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Speaker 2: He said, I want to see, and Jesus opened his eyes.

518
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: I want to see, so he got his vision. That's

519
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 2: where it all starts, just to see. That's one of

520
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 2: the greatest ways you can invite someone to church.

521
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Speaker 1: By the way, hey, just come and see.

522
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Speaker 2: When they told Jesus, we want to see where you're staying,

523
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Speaker 2: because he turned around to those two guys and he said,

524
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Speaker 2: what do you want.

525
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Speaker 1: They said, well, we want to see where you're staying.

526
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Speaker 2: You know what he said, come and see.

527
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Speaker 1: And that's the first part. Just to see.

528
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Speaker 3: Because people are wandering through life blind to opportunities. Blind

529
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Speaker 3: to potential, blind to new beginnings.

530
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Speaker 2: And the first thing that God will do in transforming

531
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Speaker 2: your life is opening your eyes so you can see.

532
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Speaker 2: You gotta just come and see how many of you

533
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Speaker 2: have said that to somebody.

534
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: You just gotta see. You just gotta see, you've said

535
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Speaker 1: it before, you said it before. I just gotta you

536
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: gotta see for yourself, see see. So I believe that

537
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: God wants you to see.

538
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: What he.

539
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Speaker 2: This important changing colors? What God apologize for my handwriting?

540
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Speaker 2: Can who apologize from a spelling apologize for not knowing

541
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Speaker 2: how to erase this board?

542
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Speaker 1: Yet can do? To see what God can do?

543
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 2: Up until this point in your life, you've seen what you.

544
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Speaker 1: Can do. And isn't it time for you to throw

545
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Speaker 1: your cloak to the side of the road and see what.

546
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Speaker 3: God can do? What God not not what people can do,

547
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Speaker 3: not what your mom can do, not what a democrat

548
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Speaker 3: can do or a Republican can do, but to see

549
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Speaker 3: what God can now unto him who is able to

550
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Speaker 3: do in miserably.

551
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Speaker 1: More, your eye has not.

552
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 2: Seen, your ear has not heard, neither hasn't entered into

553
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Speaker 2: the heart of a man.

554
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Speaker 3: Come on, touch five people, Tell them I want to

555
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Speaker 3: see what God can do.

556
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Speaker 2: I want to see what God can do. I've taken

557
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Speaker 2: my life as far as it can go. I slept

558
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Speaker 2: with a lot of different people. I still feel empty.

559
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 2: I earned some.

560
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Speaker 1: Money, I still feel empty. I got a job, I

561
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Speaker 1: still feel empty. I'm ready for purpose now. I'm ready

562
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Speaker 1: for meeting. Now, I'm ready for a well that will run.

563
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Speaker 2: Why, I'm ready for bread that satisfies. I told you

564
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Speaker 2: this message is going to be a shift. I was

565
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Speaker 2: so excited to preach it. I thought, well, I'll share

566
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Speaker 2: that later in the year. God said, you'll share it

567
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Speaker 2: when I tell you to share it.

568
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Speaker 1: I said, when am I going to share it? And

569
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Speaker 1: say share it now?

570
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Speaker 2: Because somebody is sitting by the roadside and the opportunity

571
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Speaker 2: is passing by.

572
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Speaker 1: Don't you want to see what God can do as

573
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Speaker 1: a church? Wouldn't you?

574
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Speaker 2: Or do you want to be telling the story to

575
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Speaker 2: your kids one day of what God could have done?

576
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Speaker 1: You want to lay there one day on some bed.

577
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Speaker 2: I know you're gonna be one hundred and twenty when

578
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Speaker 2: you die because you eat kale and not gluten, But

579
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Speaker 2: you want to be laying there at that point thinking

580
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: about what God could have done? Would have done or

581
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 2: do you want to see. I'm sorry that I know

582
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Speaker 2: that the crowds are telling me to shut up, but

583
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Speaker 2: I've got.

584
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Speaker 1: To see.

585
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Speaker 2: What God can do. What God can do for you.

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00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: That's where it starts, to see what God can do.

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Speaker 1: For you.

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Speaker 2: And that's a great place to start, yeah, because you

589
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 2: need a touch from God and it's by grace.

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Speaker 1: We're saved through faith and I can't do it for myself.

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Speaker 2: And I want this to be a place where you

592
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Speaker 2: can come and God can do for you what you

593
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Speaker 2: need done.

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Speaker 1: You know, because some weeks you're going to need direction

595
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Speaker 1: and encouragement.

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Speaker 2: You got a business decision and this thing with your kids,

597
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Speaker 2: and I want you to come here to see what

598
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Speaker 2: God can do for you.

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Speaker 1: It's a great place to start, but it's a terrible

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Speaker 1: place to.

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Speaker 2: Stop because when God spoke the vision of this church

602
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Speaker 2: to me for the next ten years, and the vision

603
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Speaker 2: that He asks for each and every life that's represented

604
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Speaker 2: within this body of believers, he didn't say for you

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Speaker 2: to see what God could do for you.

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Speaker 1: He said it's time for you to see.

607
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Speaker 2: Let's use the.

608
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Speaker 1: Blue what God can do. I'm excited about this.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: To him who is able to do. Give them three

611
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Speaker 2: twenty again. What time is it? It's three twenty Ephesians

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Speaker 2: three twenty times three twenty. Whenever you're watching this, it's

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Speaker 2: three twenty. Set your watch, it's three twenty. Who is

614
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Speaker 2: able to do?

615
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: God?

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Speaker 2: See what God can do immeasurably more than we ask

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Speaker 2: or imagine, according to his power. Your potential is equal

618
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Speaker 2: to God's power, and nothing is impossible to him who believes.

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Speaker 2: Come on, ah, I feel the Holy Spirit of God

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Speaker 2: stirring something up in this place in.

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Speaker 1: Your life, in our communities in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: In Gaston, North Carolina, Gaston County. Don't you want to

623
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Speaker 3: see what God can do according.

624
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Speaker 1: To the power that works. This is the key within us.

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Speaker 1: So God has a job to do in the earth.

626
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Speaker 1: He's about redeeming.

627
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 2: He's about restoring, he's about reclaiming, he's about replenishing.

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Speaker 1: God has a job to do. That's the person next

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Speaker 1: you tell him. God has a job to do. But

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Speaker 1: give him the part.

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Speaker 2: Beat, give them the part be because if you just

632
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Speaker 2: tell them that, they'll wait for him to do it.

633
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Speaker 2: Tell him again, God has a job to do, but

634
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Speaker 2: he's gonna do.

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Speaker 1: It through you, Through you, through you.

636
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: Point at somebody and say through you. Put your finger

637
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Speaker 2: right in their face unless it's gonna lost trouble at.

638
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: Home, and tell them through you, through you, through you.

639
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: And notice that there is no clause following the sentence.

640
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: That's where the period goes right there. Not what God

641
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 2: can do through you, when not what God could do

642
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 2: through you. If I want you to see what God

643
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 2: can do.

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Speaker 1: Through you now, yeah, but I'm a murderer. I hear you, Moses.

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Speaker 1: It's all right. Take off your shoes and take the

646
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Speaker 1: next step. The place you are standing on is Holy grou.

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Speaker 1: I gotta talk to do and I want to do

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Speaker 1: it through.

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Speaker 5: You, through you, through you, through you, through you, through you,

650
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 5: through you, through you, through you, through you, through you,

651
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 5: through you, through you, for you, for you, through you,

652
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 5: through you, through you, through you, through you, through you,

653
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 5: through you, for you, through you, through you.

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00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: Through you, through you, through you, through you, through you,

655
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Speaker 1: through you, through you, through you, through you, through you,

656
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Speaker 1: through you. God wants his power to flow through you.

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Speaker 1: Stand on your feet. I've said what I came to say.

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Speaker 2: That's what you came for, and it needs it needs

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Speaker 2: to shift in your heart today. It's okay to start

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Speaker 2: with what God can do for you. But the cool

661
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Speaker 2: part about Bartimaeus is what happened after his eyes were open.

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Speaker 2: He saw what God could do for him. This is

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Speaker 2: the cool verse. I don't think people preach about this

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Speaker 2: because if you're doing it, you want the climax to

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Speaker 2: be and he could see. But the really important part

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Speaker 2: is what happened next. And it's going to come right

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Speaker 2: there on the screen. It says that Jesus told him

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Speaker 2: to go, and he said that his faith had healed him.

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Speaker 2: And then it said that immediately he received his sight,

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Speaker 2: see what God can do for you. And then this

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Speaker 2: is the part, he followed Jesus along the road. Now,

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Speaker 2: the greatest miracle in bartimaeus life was not that he

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Speaker 2: got to see what God could do for him. It's

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Speaker 2: that he made the decision to follow Jesus and see

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Speaker 2: what God could do through him.

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Speaker 1: Threw me, what what could God do through you? I

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't just mean in the church, which, by the way,

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Speaker 2: I hope you volunteer. I hope they swarmed the tents

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Speaker 2: when they're leaving today and just volunteer.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing a volunteer push. This isn't a giving sermon.

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Speaker 1: This is no nothing like that. This is what's in

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Speaker 1: my heart for you that if you're a part of

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Speaker 1: this ministry.

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Speaker 2: And this movement, whether online or on television or locally

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Speaker 2: here at one of our campuses, I want you to

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Speaker 2: see not what God can do through me. We have

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Speaker 2: so elevated the platform of the preacher. The preacher has

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Speaker 2: no platform if the people have no sense of mission.

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Speaker 1: For you. For you, I wish I knew your name.

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Speaker 2: I'll call it out. I'll just call your name straight out.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not a prophet, so I can't do that

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Speaker 2: kind of stuff. I could make something up. I could

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Speaker 2: call you Doug.

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Speaker 1: You might not be dug through you through Fergie over here.

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Speaker 2: Fergie wasn't always running a camera in the church. Fergie

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Speaker 2: was a mess. Little teenager, a little punk teenager came

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Speaker 2: over to the church ten years ago, been with me

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Speaker 2: almost the whole time. My first capital campaign where I

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Speaker 2: raised money in the church. We didn't have a building yet,

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Speaker 2: and we were praying for a building, but we wanted

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Speaker 2: to have the money ready when we had it because

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Speaker 2: we want to raise money for a building.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to raise money for a vision. So when

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Speaker 1: I would raise money.

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Speaker 2: I had a picture of Fergie getting baptized on my wall,

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Speaker 2: and when donors would come in and they'd say, what

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Speaker 2: are we getting to, I point to Fergie getting baptized.

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Speaker 1: I say, that's our mission. I saw our mission. That boy,

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Speaker 1: he's a man now.

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Speaker 2: He got some traps and some triceps.

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Speaker 1: Big old camera runs his jib cameras.

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Speaker 2: Only three people in the state of North Carolina licensed

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Speaker 2: to run one of these. I made that part up,

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Speaker 2: but he doesn't want it, and he puts me on TV.

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Speaker 2: He puts me on TV every week. Half a million

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Speaker 2: people watch on TV, thousands online all that every week

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Speaker 2: every week.

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Speaker 1: And he shows that. Show him the crowd real quick

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Speaker 1: if you can. I don't know if they have it

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Speaker 1: set up for that, but just show him for you.

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Speaker 1: Do the look what God's doing through you.

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Speaker 2: For you. And that's only a part of it. That's

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Speaker 2: only a part of them. That's only a part of it.

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Speaker 2: That's only a part of it. That's only we can't

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Speaker 2: show everything. He wrote me a letter last year when

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Speaker 2: we were opening our Balentine campus and said, if I get.

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Speaker 1: To open, I'm in your way. Step out the way.

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Speaker 1: Do his job.

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Speaker 2: And he said that I prayed that God would let

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Speaker 2: me open every be a part of opening every elevation church.

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Speaker 1: This teenage. He could have set them too young, he

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Speaker 1: could have set him too messed up.

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Speaker 2: He would come in on Sunday's smell like cigarette smoke

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Speaker 2: every Sunday, and he could have said, no, not me.

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Speaker 1: But now look what God is doing through him.

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Speaker 6: Now, I just want to ask the question, are you

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Speaker 6: ready to see what God can do through you?

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Speaker 1: Lift your hands.

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Speaker 3: Father.

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Speaker 2: I thank you in this moment that lives are being surrendered,

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Speaker 2: that hearts are being opened. I thank you that imaginations

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Speaker 2: are being excited and instigated by the possibilities of faith.

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Speaker 2: We want to see as a church. You continue to

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Speaker 2: move mountains, but it's only going to happen if the

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Speaker 2: people speak. It's only going to happen if the people move.

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Speaker 2: So God, we commit in this place to see what

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Speaker 2: you can do through off. I want to see what

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Speaker 2: God can do through me. I'm lifting my hands because

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Speaker 2: I want to see what God can.

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Speaker 1: Do through me. Our Father, who are in heaven, how

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Speaker 1: will it be your name, your kingdom come?

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Speaker 3: Nor will be done on earth as it is in heaven,

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Speaker 3: in my life as it is in heaven.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm to him who is able.

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Speaker 2: To do in miserably hard, and we ask formatch a

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Speaker 2: part income of power that works in you, that works

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Speaker 2: in you.

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Speaker 1: It's working at you, it's working at you.

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Speaker 3: He'll mesuna now.

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Speaker 2: of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because

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Speaker 2: of you that this ministry is possible. You can click

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