WEBVTT - Trapped In Transition

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Verdick.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to hit you with a scripture from Acts

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<v Speaker 2>chapter three for a moment, and who knows where we'll

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<v Speaker 2>go from there, but Acts chapter three would definitely be

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<v Speaker 2>our starting place. It's exciting to think about the potential

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<v Speaker 2>that exists in a moment like this, where the God

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<v Speaker 2>who knows you by name and knows not only the

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<v Speaker 2>struggles that you have right now, but whatever you're going

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<v Speaker 2>to face this week, could give you the instruction to

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<v Speaker 2>comfort and the serenity that you need for whatever is

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<v Speaker 2>going on in your life, and to prepare you for

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<v Speaker 2>opportunities and opposition. Elie just from one word, one word

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<v Speaker 2>that he could speak, and I want to share with

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<v Speaker 2>you from X chapter three eleven, while he clung to

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<v Speaker 2>Peter and John all the people ran together to them

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<v Speaker 2>in the portico called Solomon's astounded, and when Peter saw it,

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<v Speaker 2>he addressed the people men of Israel, why do you

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<v Speaker 2>wonder at this or why do you stare at us?

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<v Speaker 2>As though by our own power or piety we have

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<v Speaker 2>made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,

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<v Speaker 2>and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers,

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<v Speaker 2>glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied

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<v Speaker 2>in the presence of Pilate when he had decided to

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<v Speaker 2>release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One

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<v Speaker 2>and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.

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<v Speaker 2>And you killed the author of life, whom God raised

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<v Speaker 2>from the dead. To this we are witnesses and his name,

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<v Speaker 2>by faith in his name has made this man strong,

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<v Speaker 2>whom you see and know, and the faith that is

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<v Speaker 2>through Jesus has given the man this perfect health. In

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<v Speaker 2>the presence of you all, I want to speak to

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<v Speaker 2>you today for a few moments on this subject. Trapped

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<v Speaker 2>in transition, Trapped in transition, and I want to pray

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<v Speaker 2>before we get into it one more time.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's pray. Father.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I call on you to do the thing that

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<v Speaker 2>only you can do. I can study, I can prepare,

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<v Speaker 2>but I can only preach to a certain level unless

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<v Speaker 2>you inhabit this holy moment, Holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 3>There is a.

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<v Speaker 2>Design, custom tailored message that each person needs. I ask

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<v Speaker 2>now that you would measure that out to each heart.

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<v Speaker 2>Help us to get past all of the distractions that

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<v Speaker 2>would keep us from understanding the things that you desire

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<v Speaker 2>to say. And we give you all the glory in Jesus' name.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody shout Amen on your way to your seat. Touch

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<v Speaker 2>somebody and say I am in transition. I was standing

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<v Speaker 2>up and now I'm sitting down. You know, it's really

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<v Speaker 2>interesting when we travel. Holly likes to do stuff. That's

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<v Speaker 2>where we're different. I like to get in and get out.

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<v Speaker 2>If I'm preaching somewhere, I don't need to see the sites.

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<v Speaker 2>Just show me the stage where I need to do

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<v Speaker 2>my job. Get me back home where my refrigerator is

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<v Speaker 2>stocked with diet Coke.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not very adventurous. She's the opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>She wants to go and see all the touristy stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>And God helped that woman in a gift shop. I'm serious.

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<v Speaker 2>When we go through the gift shop, I just know

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<v Speaker 2>every time that it's going to be a piece of

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<v Speaker 2>my kid. It's college education find that's going to be left.

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<v Speaker 2>Is this a true story? Those of you who have traveled,

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<v Speaker 2>Holly Fredick is a good forty five minutes in any

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<v Speaker 2>gift shop, and I understood it until we went to Alcatraz.

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't understand why you want to buy something.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, the prison. It's not a prison anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>Now it's a national park, but until nineteen sixty two

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<v Speaker 2>is a prison, and I honestly enjoyed that one. Now

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<v Speaker 2>she's taken me to some really boring places. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>going to lie to you. One time we learned about

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<v Speaker 2>Australian military history and I just don't need to know it,

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<v Speaker 2>do you.

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<v Speaker 3>Know what I mean? I appreciate their continent, but it

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<v Speaker 3>is not a part of my history or my destiny.

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<v Speaker 2>So I usually last about thirty minutes, and then I

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<v Speaker 2>start feeling trapped.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean I really do.

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<v Speaker 2>I start feeling like I would do anything to get

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<v Speaker 2>out of this situation. But she's taken me all over

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<v Speaker 2>and at Alcatraz it was different because not only was

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<v Speaker 2>my wife, not only was my wife interested to visit Alcatraz,

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<v Speaker 2>but she was interested for me to hear the stories

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<v Speaker 2>on the headset that they gave you for the guided tour.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't know it's because I love seaw Shank

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<v Speaker 2>Redemption and it's my favorite movie. But something about that

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<v Speaker 2>just it connected with me. Okay, maybe it's all the

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<v Speaker 2>prison stories in the Bible. I don't know why, but

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<v Speaker 2>at Alcatraz it was different, and I wasn't born. I

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<v Speaker 2>was actually really fascinated, especially at this one part. I

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<v Speaker 2>brought you a picture from when I visited prison as

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<v Speaker 2>a tourist. This is me and Chunk standing at the

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<v Speaker 2>part of the tour where they would show you how

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<v Speaker 2>the prison Alcatraz. Because it's an island, it was directly

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<v Speaker 2>positioned where you could see one and one quarter miles

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<v Speaker 2>across the ocean.

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<v Speaker 3>You could see San Francisco.

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<v Speaker 2>And what they said on the headphones and I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>forget this is that what made it so agonizing for

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<v Speaker 2>a prisoner was that you could see just a little

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<v Speaker 2>over a mile everything that you wanted in life.

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<v Speaker 3>But you couldn't get to it.

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<v Speaker 2>When I heard that, I paused my headphones and then

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<v Speaker 2>I started making a sermon illustration about how many people,

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<v Speaker 2>how many people today, can see in your mind's eye

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<v Speaker 2>the person that you could be if you could ever

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<v Speaker 2>be free from an addiction, a habit, depression.

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<v Speaker 3>Or panic.

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<v Speaker 2>The ability to see it, but I can't swim to it.

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<v Speaker 2>The ability to see it, visualize it, and maybe even

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<v Speaker 2>taste it, but not experience it. It is a certain

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<v Speaker 2>type of torture that is only known in transition. When

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<v Speaker 2>we read the scriptures, we would do well to pay

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<v Speaker 2>attention to the transitions.

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<v Speaker 3>And this is for.

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<v Speaker 2>Jason and Tim and Brad and Chad and all of

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<v Speaker 2>my campus pastors who preach from time to time. It'll

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<v Speaker 2>make you a better preacher if you pay attention to

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<v Speaker 2>the transitions. Just when you're reading the Bible, look out

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<v Speaker 2>for the transitional phrases and even words like therefore and wherefore,

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<v Speaker 2>and whither and hither, and the transitional words that take

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<v Speaker 2>you from place to place. Pay attention to the transition.

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<v Speaker 2>As a matter of fact, it's not only good for

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<v Speaker 2>preaching in life. You will be so much more effective

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<v Speaker 2>if you learn to pay attention to the transitions. And

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<v Speaker 2>the scripture that I read to you today is a

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<v Speaker 2>transitional miracle. In the Book of Acts, I call it

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<v Speaker 2>a transitional miracle because it gives us a picture of

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<v Speaker 2>what the author Luke is already explaining as he chronicles

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<v Speaker 2>the birth of the Church. Not only is the Church

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<v Speaker 2>in a transitional period, going from being considered a cult

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<v Speaker 2>with very little political capital to going into influential spaces

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<v Speaker 2>and beginning to turn.

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<v Speaker 3>The world upside down.

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<v Speaker 2>For Jesus Christ the carpenter who was crucified. But the

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<v Speaker 2>Position of Acts chapter three is transitional in that.

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<v Speaker 3>It is the first miracle that is recorded.

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<v Speaker 2>Other than the Pentecostal miracle of those being filled with

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<v Speaker 2>the spirit. It is the first miracle of healing that

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<v Speaker 2>is recorded in the Book of Acts.

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<v Speaker 3>It will not be the last. It is the first.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's why I call it a transitional miracle, because

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<v Speaker 2>it is giving us a picture of what Jesus meant

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<v Speaker 2>when he said to his followers, don't leave your Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

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<v Speaker 2>the city of peace. Don't leave this place of peace,

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<v Speaker 2>but wait until you.

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<v Speaker 3>Have received the Holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 2>It is difficult to sit still in transition while you

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<v Speaker 2>are threatened by opposition from the outside. And they didn't

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<v Speaker 2>like Jesus, and that's why they killed him. But Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>told him to do something very difficult, to sit still

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<v Speaker 2>in transition and wait for him to do it his way.

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<v Speaker 3>It's the hardest thing in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>And yet every time Holly goes through the gift shop,

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<v Speaker 2>they get her every time because they position that gift

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<v Speaker 2>shop after she's seen all the history. I mean, I

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<v Speaker 2>understand a mug, but this woman, she'll buy a journal,

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<v Speaker 2>a mug, a memoir, a baseball cap, a beanie, a sticker.

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<v Speaker 3>This woman, she's a sucker. They get her every time.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I want you all to pray for the woman

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<v Speaker 2>of God that leads this church because she doesn't get it.

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<v Speaker 2>You are so vulnerable on your way out.

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<v Speaker 3>She doesn't get it.

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<v Speaker 2>One time, I was doing an assessment with someone who

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<v Speaker 2>was looking at our security in the church, and they said,

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<v Speaker 2>the most important place to make sure that there's plenty

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<v Speaker 2>of security is anywhere there is transition, because where there

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<v Speaker 2>is transition, there is distraction, and where there is distraction,

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<v Speaker 2>there is opportunity for someone who means harm to capitalize

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<v Speaker 2>on the lap of focus and create instability.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what I've been thinking.

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<v Speaker 2>About in regards to Acts Chapter three this week, how

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<v Speaker 2>that the enemy will often set up a gift shop

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<v Speaker 2>to take your stuff at points of transition on the

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<v Speaker 2>way out, on the way in, that's the only two

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<v Speaker 2>times it costs me money.

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<v Speaker 3>When she takes me to a museum.

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<v Speaker 2>They charge me for a ticket to get in, and

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<v Speaker 2>then my wife empties our retirement fund.

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<v Speaker 3>On the way out. But it is at those points

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<v Speaker 3>of transition.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm preaching today to somebody who is in a transition

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<v Speaker 2>in your life that is significant, and it is the

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<v Speaker 2>most significant place of opportunity, and it is the most

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<v Speaker 2>vulnerable place of insecurity at those points of transition.

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<v Speaker 3>And maybe I should show you in the text.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, maybe, before Holly gets mad at me for this illustration,

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<v Speaker 2>I should show you in the text. Go all the

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<v Speaker 2>way back up to Acts, chapter three, verse one. Y'all

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<v Speaker 2>feel like studying the Bible a little bit today. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>look at it now, Peter and John, We're going up

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<v Speaker 2>to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour,

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<v Speaker 2>and a man who was laying from birth was being

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<v Speaker 2>carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the

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<v Speaker 2>temple called Beautiful to ask alms from those entering the temple.

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<v Speaker 3>Everything I just said is transitional.

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<v Speaker 2>Every single component of the verses I just read has

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<v Speaker 2>a transitional element.

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<v Speaker 3>And when I saw that.

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<v Speaker 2>In the text, I was like, this is perfect for

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<v Speaker 2>what we're trying to understand in our lives, because our

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<v Speaker 2>lives are constantly changing, and they're changing so fast that

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<v Speaker 2>by the time we recognize the change, we don't have

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<v Speaker 2>time to make the adjustment.

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<v Speaker 3>By the time we know how to be a.

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<v Speaker 2>Good parent, they are fifty three years old. By the

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<v Speaker 2>time we know what we should have saved money for

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<v Speaker 2>is too late, and the bill is already overdue.

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<v Speaker 3>By the time we get.

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<v Speaker 2>The wisdom, we don't have to sprink to implement it

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<v Speaker 2>because we're tired from all of our dumb mistakes.

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<v Speaker 3>So when I read it and I realized everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Is transitional, put it up again, Acts three, verse one.

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<v Speaker 2>Now it's a transitional word. Peter and John were going

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<v Speaker 2>up to the temple. They were on the way somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>at the hour of prayer. It was a transitional time.

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<v Speaker 2>So they're going about their day and now it's time

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<v Speaker 2>to pray, ding ding ding, everybody to the temple. Peter

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<v Speaker 2>and John are transitioning to the temple. They are transitioning

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<v Speaker 2>in their ministry because up until this point They've always

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<v Speaker 2>had Jesus in human form to supervise their miracle working

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<v Speaker 2>attempts and efforts, and sometimes they didn't get it right,

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<v Speaker 2>and he was there to correct them. But he's not

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<v Speaker 2>here in human form anymore. And they are in transition,

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<v Speaker 2>and so now.

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<v Speaker 3>Here they're going to church at three in the afternoon.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what the ninth hour means. It's a transitional period

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<v Speaker 3>where all good Jewish.

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<v Speaker 2>Men and women would go to the synagogue for prayer.

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<v Speaker 2>Peter and johnnre are moving toward the temple, transitional period

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<v Speaker 2>for the church, transitional moment in their day in between

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<v Speaker 2>two activities. Then it says that verse two there was

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<v Speaker 2>a man who was being carried whom they laid daily

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<v Speaker 2>at the gate of the temple that is called the

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<v Speaker 2>Beautiful Gate. So now the Church as a whole is

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<v Speaker 2>in transition, as the Spirit of God is beginning to

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<v Speaker 2>manifest himself through signs, miracles, and wonders through the hands

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<v Speaker 2>of the apostles. Peter and John are in transition on

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<v Speaker 2>their way to the Temple, which is their daily routine,

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<v Speaker 2>and there's a man who the Bible says is being carried.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know how I missed this. For so many years.

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<v Speaker 2>I always pictured this miracle with the man already laying

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<v Speaker 2>beside the gate.

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<v Speaker 3>But he wasn't at the gate yet. The Bible says he.

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<v Speaker 2>Was in.

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<v Speaker 3>Transition. He wasn't even in the spot yet.

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<v Speaker 2>Because see, like if you were gonna make it and

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<v Speaker 2>you couldn't walk, you had to have a racket. And

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<v Speaker 2>so the best place you could go pick a spot

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<v Speaker 2>while people are going to church, and they would do

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<v Speaker 2>it different. They wouldn't get you on the way out

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<v Speaker 2>because you already gave an offering in church, so they

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<v Speaker 2>would get you on the way in, right, And if

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<v Speaker 2>you can catch them on the way in, maybe they'll

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<v Speaker 2>drop you some change, and maybe they'll you know, it

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<v Speaker 2>was considered piety to give alms, and so they're catching

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<v Speaker 2>people with a gift shop at the gate by the temple.

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<v Speaker 2>He wouldn't have been the only one. This was a

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<v Speaker 2>very commonplace to set up. But I was blessed by this,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thought you maybe too. He wasn't even in

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<v Speaker 2>his spot yet when God decided to give him a miracle.

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<v Speaker 2>I think a lot of times that if I could

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<v Speaker 2>get here, or if I could, if I could, if

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<v Speaker 2>I could lie there, or if I could accomplish this,

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<v Speaker 2>or if I could do that, or if I could

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<v Speaker 2>fix it, or if I could establish it, or.

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<v Speaker 3>If I could move through it. But I want you

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<v Speaker 3>to notice.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a transitional miracle. It means that Church hasn't

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<v Speaker 2>even started yet, but God is already on the scene.

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<v Speaker 2>It means that God does not need for your life

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<v Speaker 2>to be at a certain point where people say it

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<v Speaker 2>should be in order to bless you. So this is

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<v Speaker 2>for everybody who is in transition. And I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if you're switching jobs.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know if.

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<v Speaker 2>You're switching girlfriends. I don't know if you're switching schools.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you're switching ways of living. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if you're switching from You used to get

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<v Speaker 2>high on a substance, but now you're trying to connect

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<v Speaker 2>to Christ.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know what the switch is.

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<v Speaker 2>But I love the fact that God was waiting to

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<v Speaker 2>bless the person before he even got to the spot.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a transitional miracle. And here's what I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to say. God is gonna bless you on the way.

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<v Speaker 2>God is gonna bless you. He's gonna meet you and

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<v Speaker 2>cut you off on your way to your spot and

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<v Speaker 2>bless you anyway, how many no God can cut you

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<v Speaker 2>off and bless you. So he was about to go

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<v Speaker 2>into the gate. And what is a gate. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>symbol of transition. Everything in the text is pointing me

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<v Speaker 2>to the fact that God is most active in moments

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<v Speaker 2>of what I perceive to be instability and transition.

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<v Speaker 3>Now feel the Holy Spirit just all up in your.

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<v Speaker 2>Stuff because there's something you're trying to get through. But

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<v Speaker 2>you don't have to wait to get through it. You

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<v Speaker 2>can believe God right smack dab in the of it.

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<v Speaker 3>It sounds good, preach is good, doesn't feel good. I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>it's so weird how we.

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<v Speaker 2>Ask God to change our lives and when he really does.

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<v Speaker 2>Because now he changed your life. Now it's going to

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<v Speaker 2>change your friends. Now he changed your life. Now it's

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<v Speaker 2>gonna affect how you spend your time. Now he changed

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<v Speaker 2>your life, and now it's gonna it's gonna destabilize everything

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<v Speaker 2>that you've come to depend on. It's a transitional text.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a transitional moment for the author Luke as he's

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<v Speaker 2>compiling a history of the church. He's going from an

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<v Speaker 2>explanation to a demonstration. That's when it gets good, when

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<v Speaker 2>you go from theoretically believing something to pray acting it

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<v Speaker 2>out in your life. The miracle is in the transition.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how we walk, right, I transition the weight of

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<v Speaker 2>my body. And until I transition the weight, I cannot move.

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<v Speaker 2>The center of gravity must change in the same way.

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<v Speaker 2>Every time God is moving you forward in your life,

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<v Speaker 2>there will be a period of transitional instability. In this passage,

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<v Speaker 2>the man has never walked before in his life.

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<v Speaker 3>He's being carried to the gate.

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<v Speaker 2>Peter and John are going to church, and in transition

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<v Speaker 2>God sets up a moment for transformation. And when it

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<v Speaker 2>happens is so shocking, not only to the onlookers and

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<v Speaker 2>not only to Peter and John who are just trying

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<v Speaker 2>to get to Sunday school. Now this is important too.

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<v Speaker 2>Can I throw this in? This is for free. I

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<v Speaker 2>won't say it in the next service. I will just

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<v Speaker 2>say it for you, all right, the trough, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the early bird, in the worm and all that. It

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<v Speaker 2>all applies right now, now look at me. The first

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<v Speaker 2>miracle that is recorded in the Book of Acts was

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<v Speaker 2>waiting in something that everybody else was stepping over to

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<v Speaker 2>get to something they deemed more important. That's just for y'all.

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<v Speaker 2>Now let's look at it. And Peter. Now they saw

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<v Speaker 2>Peter and John.

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<v Speaker 3>This man is.

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<v Speaker 2>On his way to a spot. Peter and John are

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<v Speaker 2>on the way to church. Study in the Bible. How

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<v Speaker 2>many things that happen on the way. How active God.

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<v Speaker 3>Is in the journey in transition.

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<v Speaker 2>How many things that God uses to change our life

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<v Speaker 2>happen in between two fixed points that we deem important.

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<v Speaker 2>Just all the little places Jesus would stop and do

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<v Speaker 2>a miracle, because you know that the feeding of the

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<v Speaker 2>five thousand was not on jesus itinerary. He was just

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<v Speaker 2>trying to get somewhere else, and there happened to be

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<v Speaker 2>twenty thousand people that wanted to hear him teach. Some

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<v Speaker 2>of the greatest stuff that God will do in your

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<v Speaker 2>day will not be on your calendar.

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<v Speaker 3>Some of the greatest stuff that God will do in

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<v Speaker 3>your life will not be in your five year plan.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on, some of the greatest stuff that God will

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<v Speaker 2>reveal in your life will not be on your dream board.

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<v Speaker 2>And they're just trying to get the church, and the

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<v Speaker 2>man is just trying to get something to eat. And

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<v Speaker 2>they meet in transition, and God is in position, and

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<v Speaker 2>the man is in transition, and Peter and John are

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<v Speaker 2>in transition, and God is positioning all of it, just

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<v Speaker 2>like he is in your life today, just like he

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<v Speaker 2>is in your family, just like he is in your situation,

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<v Speaker 2>just like he is in our church.

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<v Speaker 3>And he's arranging a meeting.

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<v Speaker 2>And the man sees Peter and John and he asked

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<v Speaker 2>to receive alms. Verse four directed his gaze at him,

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<v Speaker 2>as did John, and said, look at us. And he

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<v Speaker 2>fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.

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<v Speaker 2>I always like to say that he was expecting the

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<v Speaker 2>wrong kind of change. He wanted to know, do you

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<v Speaker 2>have a few quarters? Do you have a few dimes?

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<v Speaker 2>And Jesus like the one thing I've learned about him

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<v Speaker 2>is sometimes he doesn't meet your expectation because he wants

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<v Speaker 2>to exceed it. Don't be too disappointed if God didn't

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<v Speaker 2>give you what you wanted. This man, in this moment

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<v Speaker 2>is about to receive a change that he didn't even

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<v Speaker 2>have the faith to ask for. And God sets up

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<v Speaker 2>at his spot, you know, the spot where he was

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<v Speaker 2>just going to beg and get through another day and

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<v Speaker 2>some change, some spare change, and Peter's like, oh, I

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<v Speaker 2>got change for you.

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<v Speaker 3>See, this is a transitional moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember that Jesus said that if you ask anything in

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<v Speaker 2>my name, I'll give it to you. His name represents

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<v Speaker 2>his authority and his power, and so when Peter said

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<v Speaker 2>what he said next in the next verse, I have

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<v Speaker 2>no silver in gold, but what I do have I

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<v Speaker 2>give to you. At first, this man is thinking, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>another one of those Christians.

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<v Speaker 3>That leaves you a track and doesn't leave you a

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<v Speaker 3>tip at the restaurant. That'll send you straight to hell.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, if you don't tip your server twenty percent,

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<v Speaker 2>don't come to elevation church twenty percent, if they spit

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<v Speaker 2>in your drink twenty percent. But Peter is saying, now, look,

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<v Speaker 2>let's get past what you expected. Let's get past this

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<v Speaker 2>temporary change that you desire. I have no silver and gold,

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<v Speaker 2>but what I do have I have a name. It's

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<v Speaker 2>not my name because in my name you get nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>In my ability, there is limited strength, power and resource.

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<v Speaker 2>But I know a name, and the one who has

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<v Speaker 2>this name gave it to me. So I'm not operating in.

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<v Speaker 3>My own authority. But watch, this is the transition of power.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus said, if you wait for my spirit, you can

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<v Speaker 2>receive my power. So if you don't get out and

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<v Speaker 2>move the way that you think you ought to move,

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<v Speaker 2>but wait for me to direct your path. If you

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<v Speaker 2>will be in position, you can receive my power. Who

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<v Speaker 2>in the name of g Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise

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<v Speaker 2>up and walk?

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<v Speaker 3>And he took him by the right hand. Why the

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<v Speaker 3>right hand. That's the hand of authority.

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<v Speaker 2>Why the right hand, because all power and authority was

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<v Speaker 2>given to Jesus. Come on, get happy with me. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't care if it's fifty of y'all. But God said,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm standing over your situation, presiding and prevailing. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I forgot something, said macdon. In psychology, they make a

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<v Speaker 2>distinction between change and transition. Okay, the two are not

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<v Speaker 2>the same, and we'll see it in this man's life

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<v Speaker 2>because in this transitional miracle, what.

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<v Speaker 3>Is often unstated.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that just because the man received a miracle, it

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<v Speaker 2>didn't immediately fix his mindset. Okay, And I want to

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<v Speaker 2>spend a moment here because I believe many people are

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<v Speaker 2>frustrated in their inability to change, and I think in

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<v Speaker 2>the text is a clue as to why but we're

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<v Speaker 2>going to have to pay attention to the transitions in

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<v Speaker 2>this text. And if you will lean into this text

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<v Speaker 2>for just a moment, it's going to show you something

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<v Speaker 2>about why some of.

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<v Speaker 3>The changes in your life don't stick.

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<v Speaker 2>Why some of the changes in your life as soon

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<v Speaker 2>as they are introduced. It seems like, you know, everybody

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<v Speaker 2>wants change in a certain area. And it's often been

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<v Speaker 2>said that change is the only constant in life, and

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<v Speaker 2>I agree with that.

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<v Speaker 3>But change is traumatic, even if it's positive.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, So there's desirable changes, there's undesirable changes. And while

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<v Speaker 2>we're running around thinking that we control our lives, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the thing that really changes everything is the text message that.

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<v Speaker 3>You never expected.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you, I I used to think that our

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<v Speaker 2>church could avoid criticism, right because I would think, well,

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<v Speaker 2>if we do this right, and we do that right,

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<v Speaker 2>and we have integrity over here, It's never going to

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<v Speaker 2>be the things that you expect that people are going

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<v Speaker 2>to attack you about. It's going to be something that

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<v Speaker 2>you never even thought possible. It's just going to be

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<v Speaker 2>something that you didn't you didn't have the foreknowledge to expect.

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<v Speaker 2>Like this man, Okay, he never knew that he was

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<v Speaker 2>about to get healed. But healing creates a new set

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<v Speaker 2>of problems that if you don't understand this dimension, and

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<v Speaker 2>it is a distinction. Change and trend position are two

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<v Speaker 2>different things. So the man says, I want some change.

0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:09.520
<v Speaker 2>Peter's like, cool, I'm about to change your life. He's like, ah, man,

0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:11.520
<v Speaker 2>three dollars is fine. I mean, I'm just looking for

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<v Speaker 2>a burger right now. But Peter's like, no, no, I

0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:15.119
<v Speaker 2>don't want to give you. I don't want you to

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<v Speaker 2>buy a whopper. I want you to walk. Take my hand.

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<v Speaker 2>This authority boom and like a current, it shoots through

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<v Speaker 2>his body.

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<v Speaker 3>And what's what happens to him?

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<v Speaker 2>This is a beautiful thing when God blesses you in

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<v Speaker 2>a moment. And immediately he took him by the right

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<v Speaker 2>hand verse seven and raised him up. And immediately there

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<v Speaker 2>is no duration, there is no progression. Immediately the man's

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<v Speaker 2>feet and ankles were made strong, and leaping up, he

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<v Speaker 2>stood and began to walk. Before you shout about that verse,

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<v Speaker 2>pay attention to the transitional words because it says that

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<v Speaker 2>he began to walk, and all he knew how to.

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<v Speaker 3>Do was beg because he was born unable to walk.

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<v Speaker 2>This is part two of last week when I told

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<v Speaker 2>you that sometimes better feels backwards. And it's wonderful that

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<v Speaker 2>he could walk, But where's he gonna go? Every day?

0:29:27.760 --> 0:29:29.400
<v Speaker 2>He was carried to this spot?

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<v Speaker 3>Now?

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<v Speaker 2>What cool man? You? You didn't want to buy me

0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:39.160
<v Speaker 2>a sandwich? I would have took pop Eyes or Chick

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<v Speaker 2>fil A.

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<v Speaker 3>But now.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I'm standing here and I'm leaping, and I'm happy

0:29:46.960 --> 0:29:47.920
<v Speaker 2>and I'm changed.

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<v Speaker 3>But it represents a transition. Now change.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me read this to you so I don't mess

0:29:56.440 --> 0:29:59.680
<v Speaker 2>it up. This is outside of my realm. I do

0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:02.600
<v Speaker 2>the the psychology part. I want to read it and

0:30:02.640 --> 0:30:04.120
<v Speaker 2>make sure I get it right. I don't want to

0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:12.760
<v Speaker 2>get sued for malpractice up here. Change is external is

0:30:12.800 --> 0:30:16.960
<v Speaker 2>something that happens to you. Okay, the man didn't do

0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:22.280
<v Speaker 2>physical therapy and learn to walk. It was an unexpected change,

0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:28.320
<v Speaker 2>good or bad. Change is external. Change could be traffic.

0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:32.719
<v Speaker 2>Change can be weather. Change can be something that happens

0:30:32.760 --> 0:30:35.920
<v Speaker 2>in your body. Change can be something that happens globally.

0:30:36.560 --> 0:30:40.320
<v Speaker 2>Change happens externally, and it is a situation that is

0:30:40.400 --> 0:30:46.040
<v Speaker 2>imposed by outside circumstances or unforeseen conditions.

0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:47.600
<v Speaker 3>That's change. Follow me.

0:30:48.200 --> 0:30:55.000
<v Speaker 2>Transition is always an internal or a psychological event. You

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<v Speaker 2>see the contrast. He jumped up immediately. That's changed. He

0:31:01.000 --> 0:31:06.320
<v Speaker 2>began to walk. That's transition. Some of us are frustrated

0:31:06.400 --> 0:31:11.360
<v Speaker 2>by change because we are unwilling to endure the process

0:31:11.800 --> 0:31:15.440
<v Speaker 2>of transition. I need God's help to preach this now.

0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:20.840
<v Speaker 2>So we jump up, and we jump up happy. You

0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:23.360
<v Speaker 2>know how you get happy when God does something awesome

0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:24.040
<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a change.

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<v Speaker 2>But transition is where transformation happens, not by something external,

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<v Speaker 2>but by something internal. I'll prove it to you, David said,

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<v Speaker 2>create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew

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<v Speaker 2>a right spirit in me.

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<v Speaker 3>What does that mean?

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<v Speaker 2>David wasn't praying about his situation. He was praying about

0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:50.120
<v Speaker 2>his spirit because he understood that if God changes your

0:31:50.200 --> 0:31:55.440
<v Speaker 2>situation but the spiritual process is left underdeveloped, it will

0:31:55.480 --> 0:32:07.800
<v Speaker 2>cause an implosion. Now the change happened, it was not illegitimate.

0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:10.400
<v Speaker 2>He jumped up, he walked. His feet and ankles could

0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:13.000
<v Speaker 2>do it. But it wasn't his feet at this park

0:32:13.040 --> 0:32:17.680
<v Speaker 2>point that was the problem. Just because your feet are strong,

0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:22.280
<v Speaker 2>and just because your legs were and just because you

0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:25.840
<v Speaker 2>now have the strength to stand, doesn't mean you have

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<v Speaker 2>the understanding to walk, and you're in transition, and it

0:32:37.240 --> 0:32:39.520
<v Speaker 2>doesn't make much sense to you when you're in transition,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's unstable when you're in transition. In fact, when

0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:49.640
<v Speaker 2>you're in transition, you can feel trapped. Here's why I

0:32:49.720 --> 0:32:50.480
<v Speaker 2>left Egypt.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not in Canaan. I'm trapped in transition.

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<v Speaker 2>Saved enough not to go to Hell, but I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>saved enough to not want to go to the club.

0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:15.600
<v Speaker 3>I'm trying. We got the Angel choir over here in

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<v Speaker 3>this section. The reality of it is this.

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<v Speaker 2>Transition takes time, and change happens suddenly, and to be

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<v Speaker 2>trapped in transition is to be waiting for your mind

0:33:32.920 --> 0:33:37.840
<v Speaker 2>to catch up with the transformation that has already happened

0:33:37.840 --> 0:33:42.560
<v Speaker 2>in your life. So I was praying about it, and

0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:45.280
<v Speaker 2>I was asking God to give me a picture of

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<v Speaker 2>what this looks like. I went back over to Hebrews

0:33:48.800 --> 0:33:55.000
<v Speaker 2>chapter five, and I looked for background on that particular

0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:59.400
<v Speaker 2>situation where you see a Christian community struggling to come into.

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<v Speaker 3>The fullness of what God has for them.

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<v Speaker 2>And in one of the most middle school teacher passages

0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:09.920
<v Speaker 2>of Scripture of all time, because he's really really frustrated

0:34:09.960 --> 0:34:14.719
<v Speaker 2>with his pupils. This anonymous author begins to rant in

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<v Speaker 2>Hebrews chapter five.

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<v Speaker 3>Verse eleven, because he's trying to get something out.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's frustrating when you have something valuable but you

0:34:23.600 --> 0:34:27.359
<v Speaker 2>have nowhere to put it. Is frustrating when you feel

0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:30.319
<v Speaker 2>like you have something to give but nobody to receive it,

0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:33.959
<v Speaker 2>especially in a relationship, when you want to give more,

0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:36.640
<v Speaker 2>but when you look to give what you have in you,

0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:38.480
<v Speaker 2>you don't find anywhere to pour it into.

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<v Speaker 3>That's frustrating. And as he's building up and building up.

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<v Speaker 2>And he's describing maturity, he's describing not just the miraculous

0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:52.800
<v Speaker 2>salvation event, but the maturity of following Christ into deeper

0:34:52.840 --> 0:34:56.720
<v Speaker 2>things and better motivations and new ways of doing things

0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:59.479
<v Speaker 2>that rely on grace rather than legalism or the law.

0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:03.080
<v Speaker 3>As as he teaches them to switch, he becomes.

0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:05.759
<v Speaker 2>Frustrated, and somewhere in his letter he senses that he's

0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:06.680
<v Speaker 2>losing their attention.

0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:09.680
<v Speaker 3>So he goes about this, we have much to say eleven.

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<v Speaker 2>And it is hard to explain since you have become

0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:17.120
<v Speaker 2>dull of hearing I love this. This means it's your

0:35:17.160 --> 0:35:19.360
<v Speaker 2>fault for not getting it. It's not the preacher's fault

0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:21.480
<v Speaker 2>for not saying it right. I'm gonna put this verse

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<v Speaker 2>on my pulpit. You have become dull of hearing. It's

0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:27.760
<v Speaker 2>not that I'm confusing, it's just that you're slow.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse twelve for though by this time, that's what he said,

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<v Speaker 2>for though, by this time.

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<v Speaker 3>You ought to be teachers.

0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:38.960
<v Speaker 2>You hear, you ought to be teaching somebody, but you

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<v Speaker 2>didn't transition.

0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:43.000
<v Speaker 3>You didn't transition.

0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:47.000
<v Speaker 2>You got up and learned to walk, but you didn't

0:35:47.040 --> 0:35:50.759
<v Speaker 2>reach back your hand to anybody else. You've been a

0:35:50.840 --> 0:35:55.839
<v Speaker 2>Christian for fourteen years and you're still not asking any

0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:57.120
<v Speaker 2>better questions of life.

0:35:57.200 --> 0:35:58.399
<v Speaker 3>You're still simplifying it.

0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:02.880
<v Speaker 2>You've been walking with God this long and you should

0:36:02.920 --> 0:36:03.400
<v Speaker 2>be further.

0:36:04.600 --> 0:36:07.640
<v Speaker 3>But I'm frustrated because you're not farther along.

0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:13.640
<v Speaker 2>And as he's I don't know, he's frustrated. As a

0:36:13.640 --> 0:36:15.480
<v Speaker 2>halftime talk to you know, he's in the locker room.

0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:21.080
<v Speaker 2>We're better than this team. We're better than this, Yeah,

0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:24.080
<v Speaker 2>cried tone. You're better than this, that's what he's saying.

0:36:24.800 --> 0:36:27.880
<v Speaker 2>He said, you have need of someone to teach you

0:36:27.920 --> 0:36:30.959
<v Speaker 2>again the basic principles of the oracles of God.

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<v Speaker 3>You need milk, not solid food. For everyone who lives

0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:38.520
<v Speaker 3>on milk is unskilled in the Word of righteousness since

0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:42.360
<v Speaker 3>he is a child. But solid food is for the mature,

0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:47.360
<v Speaker 3>for those who have their powers of discernment trained.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, it is a skill. Transition is a skill. Change

0:36:57.560 --> 0:37:03.280
<v Speaker 2>is a gift. Transition is a skill. And he said

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<v Speaker 2>this skill requires use and practice to distinguish good from evil.

0:37:10.760 --> 0:37:14.640
<v Speaker 2>The only way to know the difference between God's will

0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:18.520
<v Speaker 2>for your life and your will for your life is you've.

0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:21.719
<v Speaker 3>Got to go to gainst Semone. You've got to go to.

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<v Speaker 2>The place that Jesus went to where he learned the

0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:30.239
<v Speaker 2>separation between what I want based on comfort and convenience

0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:35.560
<v Speaker 2>and human preference and feelings, and what God wants based

0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:37.600
<v Speaker 2>on the position that He has put me in.

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<v Speaker 3>Now understand this. When Jesus finally.

0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:44.040
<v Speaker 2>Got to the cross, he had no trouble giving up

0:37:44.080 --> 0:37:49.160
<v Speaker 2>his life. It was only in gatht Semite transition where

0:37:49.200 --> 0:37:52.560
<v Speaker 2>he had to pray God if there's any other way.

0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:56.000
<v Speaker 2>The greatest test is in transition, So get ready for this.

0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:59.840
<v Speaker 2>If you are being tested, you are in transition. And

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<v Speaker 2>what that means is the greatest oil of anointing comes

0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:09.200
<v Speaker 2>in the place of greatest transition. So God is growing

0:38:09.239 --> 0:38:16.560
<v Speaker 2>you up. That's what he's doing. He's growing you up.

0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:19.239
<v Speaker 2>He's teaching you to stand.

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<v Speaker 3>Therefore, to stand when it's uncertain, to stand when it

0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:29.080
<v Speaker 3>doesn't feel good, to stand when it's controversial, to stand

0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:31.880
<v Speaker 3>when it doesn't seem to be happening, to stand on

0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:34.440
<v Speaker 3>what you know when you can't trust what you see

0:38:35.320 --> 0:38:36.080
<v Speaker 3>or what you feel.

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<v Speaker 2>And you're in transition, and transition takes a little time.

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<v Speaker 2>And now the decision is this, do I hold on

0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:57.759
<v Speaker 2>to the old or do I lean into the new?

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<v Speaker 2>That's what the man had to decide, and so do you,

0:39:01.480 --> 0:39:06.040
<v Speaker 2>and so do I. Because I had my spot, I

0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:12.040
<v Speaker 2>had my system, I had my support. But now I'm

0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:16.360
<v Speaker 2>in transition and I can't do what I used to

0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:23.520
<v Speaker 2>do anymore. So I had this I had this cup

0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:28.160
<v Speaker 2>where people would come by and they would drop change

0:39:29.160 --> 0:39:32.319
<v Speaker 2>in my cup, and I had to drop my cup

0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:35.160
<v Speaker 2>to grab hold of Peter's hand.

0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:41.880
<v Speaker 3>So I could stand up and begin to walk.

0:39:43.960 --> 0:39:45.600
<v Speaker 2>But that's not the part of the text that got

0:39:45.600 --> 0:39:52.080
<v Speaker 2>my attention, because after the man stands up, everybody is

0:39:52.120 --> 0:39:57.240
<v Speaker 2>shocked to see this man who they were used to ignoring,

0:39:58.680 --> 0:40:00.240
<v Speaker 2>who used to be kept on the outfie.

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<v Speaker 3>And they were like, that's Joe. I gave him a

0:40:05.400 --> 0:40:06.600
<v Speaker 3>name because the scripture didn't.

0:40:06.640 --> 0:40:08.400
<v Speaker 2>And it doesn't seem right that I would spend fifty

0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:09.960
<v Speaker 2>minutes talking about him and not even.

0:40:09.840 --> 0:40:15.759
<v Speaker 3>Give him the courtesy of a name. That's Joe. No,

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<v Speaker 3>it can't be dudes walk in, jump in, dancing.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it's time telling you that's him. How you know

0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:26.680
<v Speaker 2>it's him? Cause I know I walked by him every day.

0:40:27.200 --> 0:40:29.320
<v Speaker 2>I used to walk by him every day. I walked

0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:31.640
<v Speaker 2>by him every day. I walked by I walked by

0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:33.680
<v Speaker 2>him every day, and he'd come in and we would

0:40:33.719 --> 0:40:35.879
<v Speaker 2>transition past each other every day, and.

0:40:35.840 --> 0:40:39.360
<v Speaker 3>Then we would say and see when he started to change.

0:40:39.600 --> 0:40:45.080
<v Speaker 3>They couldn't understand it and they didn't like it. Transition

0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:46.160
<v Speaker 3>is traumatic, you know.

0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:52.160
<v Speaker 2>And the way I know it's traumatic is because he dances,

0:40:53.600 --> 0:40:57.840
<v Speaker 2>he walks, He goes past the gate and goes into

0:40:59.040 --> 0:40:59.960
<v Speaker 2>Solomon's portico.

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<v Speaker 3>This was a big, long porch, man.

0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:04.799
<v Speaker 2>It would take that whole side of the temple was

0:41:04.920 --> 0:41:05.880
<v Speaker 2>one big porch.

0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:09.120
<v Speaker 3>And I never.

0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:12.279
<v Speaker 2>Forgot this verse when I read it, because it said

0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:17.600
<v Speaker 2>that in verse eleven that the man clung to Peter

0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:18.120
<v Speaker 2>and John.

0:41:20.200 --> 0:41:24.280
<v Speaker 3>I never forgot that. That just gripped me when I read.

0:41:24.080 --> 0:41:28.520
<v Speaker 2>It, because I realized that it matters in these moments

0:41:28.520 --> 0:41:34.880
<v Speaker 2>of transition what you cling to. And I hear the

0:41:34.880 --> 0:41:38.640
<v Speaker 2>Spirit saying to somebody today that you are going to

0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:42.160
<v Speaker 2>have to choose to cling to something that is new

0:41:42.200 --> 0:41:46.759
<v Speaker 2>and uncomfortable to you to move forward in this transitional

0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:50.960
<v Speaker 2>season of your life. For many of us, this means

0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:54.160
<v Speaker 2>that we are having to let go of something old

0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:57.879
<v Speaker 2>that exists in the paradigm of our mind in order

0:41:57.960 --> 0:41:59.200
<v Speaker 2>to embrace something new.

0:41:59.280 --> 0:42:00.600
<v Speaker 3>I mean, just.

0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:03.360
<v Speaker 2>Because the man can walk doesn't mean.

0:42:03.239 --> 0:42:04.600
<v Speaker 3>That he can stand by himself.

0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:08.560
<v Speaker 2>So now when we met him in the text, he's

0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:12.040
<v Speaker 2>being carried, and when we say goodbye to him in

0:42:12.080 --> 0:42:16.719
<v Speaker 2>the text, he's clinging. What makes that significant for our

0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:21.760
<v Speaker 2>lives is you cannot take hold of what's new while

0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:25.439
<v Speaker 2>you have a death grip on what's old, and God

0:42:25.520 --> 0:42:28.879
<v Speaker 2>is saying you have gone as far as you can

0:42:28.960 --> 0:42:33.040
<v Speaker 2>go holding on to what you used to be. This

0:42:33.239 --> 0:42:37.719
<v Speaker 2>requires that the excuses that have become so embedded in

0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:41.240
<v Speaker 2>your life have to be left behind at the spot

0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:46.279
<v Speaker 2>of your transformation. Because you're in transition now, God is

0:42:46.320 --> 0:42:47.879
<v Speaker 2>giving birth to a new thing.

0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:49.000
<v Speaker 3>In your life.

0:42:49.160 --> 0:42:52.440
<v Speaker 2>It is going to require letting go of old habits.

0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:55.040
<v Speaker 3>Look, man, if you are a.

0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:59.320
<v Speaker 2>Husband now, you can't be single in your mindset anymore.

0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:03.360
<v Speaker 2>We got to consider a new responsibility. What happens a

0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:06.840
<v Speaker 2>lot of times is we go into new situations holding

0:43:06.880 --> 0:43:11.279
<v Speaker 2>on to old habits. You can't have a husband situation

0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:15.239
<v Speaker 2>and have bachelor habits before long. It will tear you

0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:18.719
<v Speaker 2>apart trying to hold on to two things. So I

0:43:18.760 --> 0:43:21.920
<v Speaker 2>hear God saying today, let it go. It is not

0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:25.440
<v Speaker 2>serving you in this season anymore. Why would you hold

0:43:25.480 --> 0:43:27.920
<v Speaker 2>on to something that taught you how to beg that

0:43:28.040 --> 0:43:29.120
<v Speaker 2>taught you how to blame.

0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:32.839
<v Speaker 3>It can't heal you anymore. Something greater is here.

0:43:33.360 --> 0:43:35.839
<v Speaker 2>There is a name that is greater than any other name,

0:43:36.360 --> 0:43:39.720
<v Speaker 2>higher than any other name, stronger than any other name.

0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:47.000
<v Speaker 3>But you got to cling to it.

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<v Speaker 2>And cling doesn't mean that you kind of swat at it.

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<v Speaker 2>Cling means that you grab for Jesus with all you've got,

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<v Speaker 2>because you know life, Jacob that if he doesn't bless you,

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<v Speaker 2>you won't be blessed. Said he clung to Peter and John.

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<v Speaker 2>And what you cling to in this season of transition

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<v Speaker 2>in your life will determine whether you go forward or

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<v Speaker 2>stay at the gate. You know what, the first thing

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<v Speaker 2>that Peter did when he saw the man grabbing on

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<v Speaker 2>to him was he used him for a sermon illustration.

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<v Speaker 2>God wants to use you. God wants to use you.

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<v Speaker 2>God set it up so that he could use you.

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<v Speaker 3>God set it up just so he could use you

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<v Speaker 3>for his purpose and his glory. But you're in transition

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<v Speaker 3>right now, and by holding on to the old, you

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<v Speaker 3>forfeit the future.

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<v Speaker 2>I came to say, let go of that thing that

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<v Speaker 2>keeps you paralyzed, let go of that thing that keeps

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<v Speaker 2>you fearful, and let go of.

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<v Speaker 3>That thing that keeps you stuck. This is a.

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<v Speaker 2>Metamorphosis, and to be stuck at one stage of your

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<v Speaker 2>spiritual growth when opportunity, power, and authority is standing in

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<v Speaker 2>front of you is a terrible thing. With everyone standing

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<v Speaker 2>at every location, I would like to pray for you

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<v Speaker 2>concerning this transitional moment in your life. It would be

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<v Speaker 2>awesome if I knew all the details, but I don't

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<v Speaker 2>have to.

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<v Speaker 3>God does.

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<v Speaker 2>And you've been on the way somewhere and frustrated because

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<v Speaker 2>change is taking longer than you thought it would. Now

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm speaking to right now. Is not you waited

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<v Speaker 2>three days on something. I mean when you have been

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<v Speaker 2>frustrated that you are not changing. Now, here's what God

0:46:06.920 --> 0:46:09.360
<v Speaker 2>is saying. What do you need to let go of

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<v Speaker 2>and what do you need to take hold of the

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<v Speaker 2>word that he uses that they translate cling is also

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<v Speaker 2>used to mean put under arrest. In that cool this

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<v Speaker 2>man was like, oh no, y'all, ain't leaving me here.

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<v Speaker 2>He grabbed Peter and John and refused.

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<v Speaker 3>To let go.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's what it takes to see change in

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<v Speaker 2>our life, to grab hold of it and say, oh no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>no no, You're not going to leave me like you

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<v Speaker 2>found me.

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<v Speaker 3>No no no, no, no no no. I'm not gonna try

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<v Speaker 3>this once and then go back to misery.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to suffocate in despair when hope is

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<v Speaker 2>in front of me in the form of the spirit

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<v Speaker 2>of God.

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<v Speaker 3>No, it's the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>I ask you now because I know that somebody has

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<v Speaker 2>been trapped in between.

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<v Speaker 3>Old and new, trapped in between a past and a future.

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<v Speaker 2>I ask you right now to give them the grace

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<v Speaker 2>not only to stand up, but give them the direction

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<v Speaker 2>to walk. I pray right now in Jesus' name, that

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<v Speaker 2>nobody would leave this place holding on to something that

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<v Speaker 2>is keeping them stuck. In the name of the Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>I command you to rise up and walk, not just

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<v Speaker 2>to jump up and shout, but to walk in a

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<v Speaker 2>new direction, To walk toward what God has called you,

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<v Speaker 2>To walk toward what He sees in you, to walk

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<v Speaker 2>toward what He created you to be spirit of the

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<v Speaker 2>Living God in this moment of transition. Whether it's circumstantial

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<v Speaker 2>or whether it's emotional, doesn't matter. I pray that you,

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<v Speaker 2>being the constant God who never changes, the constant God

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<v Speaker 2>who does not move, who is not bound by time,

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<v Speaker 2>that you would touch every situation by your grace and

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<v Speaker 2>glory today and enable feet that we're never able to

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<v Speaker 2>stand before, to jump upright and to walk in a

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<v Speaker 2>new direction. Home, Lord, you know what they're dealing with,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know what is beneath what they're dealing with

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<v Speaker 2>on the surface. I pray for patience. Sometimes it takes that.

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<v Speaker 2>I pray for new partnerships. Give every person in this

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<v Speaker 2>room a Peter and John that they can walk with

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<v Speaker 2>on the way to where you're leading them.

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<v Speaker 3>It is so uncertain.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't know what one to the next holds We

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<v Speaker 2>just know that change is inevitable, but we choose transformation

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<v Speaker 2>through every change in our life, good or bad.

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