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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 podcast.

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

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Come on, clap those hands. If you're thankful,

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Speaker 2: Let's do something real quick.

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Speaker 1: Let's fill the place with praise with our testimony.

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Speaker 2: We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the

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Speaker 2: word of our testimony. Turn around and tell about three

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Speaker 2: people something that God has done for you. Just something

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Speaker 2: that you're thankful for today. It can be as simple

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Speaker 2: as He woke me up. It can be as deep

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Speaker 2: as He gave me peace. Put it in the chat.

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Speaker 2: Just about two or three things to be thankful for.

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Speaker 2: Two or three things to be thankful for. Two or

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Speaker 2: three things.

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't be hard breadth in my life. I got two

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Speaker 1: or three things to be thankful for.

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Speaker 2: Clothed in my right mind, I've got two or three

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Speaker 2: things to be thankful.

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Speaker 1: For, goodness and mercy.

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Speaker 2: I got two or three things He forgave my past,

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Speaker 2: and he's already in my future.

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Speaker 1: I got two or three things.

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Speaker 2: Allelujah.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 2: If there's anything that you want to accomplish during this

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Speaker 2: multitasking testimony service and you are single and they are too.

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Speaker 2: Just retrying to say I'm thankful that they seated us

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Speaker 2: next to one another today. I'm just grateful that I

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Speaker 2: get to be in proximity to your anointing.

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Speaker 1: How many are grateful to be in the House of

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Speaker 1: the Lord?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me see how many of you grew up

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Speaker 2: with the King James Bible.

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Speaker 1: I was glad when they.

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Speaker 2: Said, unto me, let us go to the House of

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Speaker 2: the Lord. And you know, it's a beautiful thing when

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Speaker 2: you want to be here. And I don't know if

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Speaker 2: that's the case for you or not today, but somebody

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Speaker 2: wanted to be here and couldn't be here.

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Speaker 1: So I think all of us.

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Speaker 2: That can be here ought to thank God that he

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Speaker 2: kept us another day.

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Hey, Dough, it's so good to have you, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Thank God for Doe.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on your marriage. Hey, listen, this is kind of funny.

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Speaker 2: I just thought of this. The last time I saw Doe.

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Speaker 2: Me and her and Josh went over in a writing

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Speaker 2: room one afternoon. We wrote that song new Thing Coming.

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Speaker 2: The next time I heard her name, she was getting married.

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Speaker 2: So when she said I've got a new thing coming.

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Speaker 1: God, you meant that thing. Hot five your neighbors saying,

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Speaker 1: I mean that things. Good to have you, God, bless you.

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Speaker 2: I got a new thing coming, I mean that thing.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that could be my New Year's sermon. I mean

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Speaker 2: that day.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I see so many beautiful love Wheat T shirts. I

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Speaker 2: see a Metallica T shirt. I see a Panther's T shirt.

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Speaker 2: I see a Whitney T shirt. Do you even know

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Speaker 2: three Whitney songs? Okay, she's shaking her head vociferously. I

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Speaker 2: believe you. Then, I personally am so grateful to get

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Speaker 2: the pastor church where our generosity is legendary in our city.

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Speaker 2: And I know that a lot of people will say

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Speaker 2: different things about me and whether my jeans are too

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Speaker 2: tight or too baggy or things like that, and that's fine.

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Speaker 2: But one thing they can never question about this church

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Speaker 2: is your heart for the hurting to help people. And

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Speaker 2: that's awesome. And I know a lot of people like

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Speaker 2: to argue about who believes the right thing and this

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Speaker 2: and that, but when we get out there and show

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Speaker 2: the love of Jesus. It kind of silences all of

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Speaker 2: that and just puts it in action. So tell your

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Speaker 2: name where You're gonna look great in green. That's the

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Speaker 2: color of the shirt. It's more green, babe, than yellow.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at it kind of green. It's like completely green.

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Speaker 2: It's not even a little yellow. Didn't Holly look pretty

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Speaker 2: up here in her custom blue lovely shirt? Hu host shirt? Well,

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Speaker 2: you can host me anytime. Y'all did that disgusted laugh thing?

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Speaker 2: You're like, get to the scripture. This is gross. I

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Speaker 2: bring greetings to all of our locations our Etham around

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome our Etham joining us online.

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Speaker 2: Let us know where you're joining from. Now I get

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Speaker 2: to serve you the Word of God. I'm excited and

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Speaker 2: you will be two. I'm only gonna read one verse

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Speaker 2: thank me. I didn't say I'm only going to preach

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Speaker 2: and then we'll talk about two times in the Bible

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Speaker 2: that it was illustrated, because I think to see an

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Speaker 2: illustration of faith is what we really all want, not

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Speaker 2: just to have somebody tell us, hey, you should trust God,

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Speaker 2: or hey, it's.

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Speaker 1: Going to be all right.

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Speaker 2: And you're like, how do you know that you've never

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Speaker 2: been through what I've been through? But the Bible gave

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Speaker 2: us all these case studies that we can always find

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Speaker 2: somebody in the Bible that went through something worse than

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Speaker 2: we're going through and God did something amazing for them,

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Speaker 2: and we hitch our.

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Speaker 2: So that's what we want to do today, is hitch

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Speaker 2: our faith to two heroes in the Bible. And I'll

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Speaker 2: tell about that in the moment, But first let me

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Speaker 2: give you a verse in Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse seven.

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Speaker 2: I'm using the English Standard Version for a little bit

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Speaker 2: more literal translation this week, just for accuracy's sake, where

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Speaker 2: Paul says parenthetically, and talking about life and death and

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Speaker 2: the eternity that is in our hearts, he says, parenthetically,

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Speaker 2: just eight words that are very very sale. Listen to this,

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Speaker 2: for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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Speaker 1: It's only eight words.

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Speaker 2: I'll say it again, for we walk by faith, not

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Speaker 2: by sight. Now touch your neighbor and give them my title,

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Speaker 2: say neighbor.

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Speaker 1: It's the motion that matters. Yeah, it's the motion that matters.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, while I got you warmed up, turn

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Speaker 2: to your other neighbors, say, other neighbor, it's the motion

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Speaker 2: that matters. Do like this when you're telling them with

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Speaker 2: may be seated. It's the motion that matters. It's the

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Speaker 1: We had a special event at the church Austin where

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Speaker 2: Able to come and bring their teams and there was

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Speaker 2: a breakout session just for church planters, people who were

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Speaker 2: and we opened up the microphone for question and answer,

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Speaker 2: And I was feeling annointed and I was feeling a flow.

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Speaker 2: I said, ask me anything. Well, one guy asked a

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Speaker 2: great question. He said, at this stage, he said, I'm

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Speaker 2: four months in And I don't remember where he was from,

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Speaker 2: but I remember he said, at four months in, what

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Speaker 2: do you think is the most important skill that you

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Speaker 2: need at this stage? And again, this was several years

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Speaker 2: was he thought I was like a professional or something

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Speaker 2: like that. He said, at this stage, what do you

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Speaker 1: And I said, four months in most important skill.

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Speaker 2: And I love these opportunities just to see what the

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit will bring up to help somebody. So I

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Speaker 2: what God wants me to say.

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Speaker 1: And my first thought was to go technical.

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Speaker 2: You know, you need good children's ministry and good procedures

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Speaker 2: for accountability, and you need to pray. And I thought

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Speaker 2: of all the spiritual practical, but then it came to

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Speaker 2: like this. I said, I think the most important skill

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Speaker 2: because there are going to be so many things that

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Speaker 2: started giving him examples. When we cleared out our bank

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Speaker 1: And so I told him about that.

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Speaker 2: I told him about the egg drop when we dropped

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Speaker 2: all these Easter eggs out of a helicopter two months

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Speaker 2: that nobody would end up on the news fighting over

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Speaker 1: So I said, you got to step out in faith.

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Speaker 2: And I just kept listening like I was going through

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Speaker 2: a highlight reil of all the times I stepped out

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Speaker 2: in faith. Well, I can't say God stopped me, but

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Speaker 2: you have stepped out in faith and more than you,

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Speaker 2: your your wife, your teen, this church has stepped out

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Speaker 2: want you to stop right now listing how you stepped

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Speaker 1: He didn't even know that.

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Speaker 2: I didn't plan this pivot, but I didn't. I just

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Speaker 2: stopped right in the middle, I said. But even more

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Speaker 2: and we're we're going to serve one hundred thousand hours

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Speaker 2: to our community in love week.

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you about some times where I

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Speaker 2: Love Week but I felt hateful, and I felt hateful

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Speaker 1: Some people saying things about me that weren't true.

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Speaker 2: And I had to stand up and preach love when

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Speaker 2: I felt hate.

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Speaker 1: So maybe the most important.

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Speaker 2: Skill isn't just stepping out in faith, but to learn

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Speaker 2: to step out in doubt.

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Speaker 1: Now I almost called.

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Speaker 2: Discermon that step out in doubt?

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Speaker 1: How to step out in doubt?

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Speaker 2: But I know how religious you are are, and you

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Speaker 2: would say unto me. But James one five through seven says,

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Speaker 2: let him who asks asking faith nothing wavering. For he

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Speaker 2: that wavereth is like a double minded man, unstable in

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Speaker 2: Not that man think he should receive anything. Why only talking,

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Speaker 2: King James, when you're arguing with preachers. By the way,

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Speaker 2: let not that man think he should receive anything from

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Speaker 1: He is a double minded man. I love that scripture,

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if right now, anything I see

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Speaker 2: All right, do you really believe this that we walk

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Speaker 1: What I mean is it's the motion that matters. Let

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Speaker 1: You get back next week.

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Speaker 2: Because it's the motion that matters.

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Speaker 2: Because Moses said, I can't speak good and I can't.

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Speaker 1: Do it, and I killed an.

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Speaker 2: Egyptian, and how will I go to Pharaoh's an Egyptian

446
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Speaker 2: and say, let the people go?

447
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Speaker 1: And what they don't believe me?

448
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Speaker 2: And I'm not a motivational speaker. And Moses, the non

449
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Speaker 2: motivational speaker, ends up with the most important message of

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Speaker 2: all time.

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Speaker 1: Because he stepped out in doubt. Prove me otherwise. Quote

452
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Speaker 1: every scripture you wanted me.

453
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Speaker 2: One of the greatest leaders God used, told God he

454
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Speaker 2: couldn't do it, and then did it.

455
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Speaker 1: And then did it, and then did it. Well. He

456
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Speaker 1: did all he could do.

457
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Speaker 2: He put some plagues on the people, and he even

458
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Speaker 2: got the Egyptians to give plunder to the Israelites so

459
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Speaker 2: they would not leave empty handed.

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Speaker 1: Now with the wealth of an entire nation on their back.

461
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Speaker 1: The children of Israel, two millions strong, are marching boldly.

462
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Speaker 1: The Bible says, out of Egypt.

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Speaker 2: Now Here comes the part that I think is kind

464
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Speaker 2: of funny, and I think this happens in our life.

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Speaker 2: Verse ten, when Pharaoh drew near. Pharaoh's the enemy that

466
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Speaker 2: they just left, that they thought they were free from.

467
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Speaker 2: But they weren't quite yet, but they thought they were.

468
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Speaker 2: And they're in motion, right, And then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: Pharaoh the Bible gives exact numbers as six hundred chariots

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Speaker 2: and his best fighting men is now chasing them down

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Speaker 2: because not only.

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Speaker 1: Have they lost their labor, but they've given up their wealth.

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Speaker 2: And so Pharaoh drew near, and the people of Israel

474
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Speaker 2: lifted up their eyes. Is the scripture on the screen,

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Speaker 2: shout the next word, and they saw something. They saw

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Speaker 2: a thing. They saw a thing that they thought they

477
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Speaker 2: had just left. Touch your neighbors, say, I saw a thing.

478
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Speaker 2: I was doing pretty good with my eating plan, but

479
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Speaker 2: I was trying to make it practical.

480
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Speaker 1: I was doing pretty good.

481
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Speaker 2: I wasn't texting any girls because I was gonna get

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Speaker 2: this season of my life straight.

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Speaker 5: But us.

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Speaker 1: Okay, y'all don't like that. David was on the roof

485
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Speaker 1: one day and he.

486
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Speaker 2: So now look at me all hypocritical and holy sanctimonials,

487
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Speaker 2: like you never saw a thing and beheld something and

488
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Speaker 2: believed something and behaved away. But in order to really

489
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Speaker 2: understand why you're behaving that way, don't you understand why

490
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Speaker 2: you're believing that way?

491
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Speaker 1: And to understand why you're believing that way.

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Speaker 2: Don't you have to really think back to what you

493
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Speaker 2: beheld that made you believe that. So I completely understand

494
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Speaker 2: what comes next for us to judge the Israelites because

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Speaker 2: spoiler alert, they get scared, they see Pharaoh and they

496
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Speaker 2: feel fear.

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Speaker 1: Well, how could they do that? God turned seas into highways.

498
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Speaker 1: They didn't know that song.

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Speaker 2: They were living it. I'm living this, I'm walking by it.

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Speaker 2: I'm having to take uncertain steps. I thought God would

501
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Speaker 2: fix me just right before he made me preach to you.

502
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Speaker 2: But the truth is, sometimes I will preach to you

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Speaker 2: a lesson that I have limped to.

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Speaker 1: And you can do the same.

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Speaker 2: Now in this particular instance, it's like you judging an

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Speaker 2: Olympic athlete, thinking to yourself.

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Speaker 1: Well, I could probably do that. No, you probably couldn't

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh drew near you ever watched this?

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Speaker 2: For it?

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Speaker 1: You're like, I think I probably could you. No, I

511
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Speaker 1: probably couldn't do that. Not like that.

512
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Speaker 2: I could do a version of that, but not exactly that.

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Speaker 1: They lifted up their eyes.

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Speaker 2: Now, I want you to really get in this text

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Speaker 2: with me today, because I told you we put too.

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Speaker 1: Much confidence in our senses.

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Speaker 2: And I know we have to use our senses to

518
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Speaker 2: keep ourselves from getting our fingers burned on stoves and

519
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: walking across crowded highways and things like that. But we

520
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Speaker 2: cannot make decisions with our senses when it comes to

521
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Speaker 2: this next step of faith in this season of our

522
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Speaker 2: life and the way we see ourself and the way

523
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Speaker 2: we see the people that God has given us, the

524
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Speaker 2: impact your senses will get you killed. Here's why they

525
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Speaker 2: looked up and behold the Egyptians were marching after them,

526
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Speaker 2: and they feared greatly. Is this a sin, No, it's

527
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Speaker 2: a feeling. The sin is the decision after the feeling. Yeah,

528
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Speaker 2: and God forgives that sin too. But if you really

529
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Speaker 2: want to be free from it, you got to ask

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Speaker 2: the question, what did I lift my eyes up and

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Speaker 2: see that is dragging me back into a past that

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Speaker 2: I said I would leave behind. What is making me

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Speaker 2: so afraid that I keep running back to stuff that.

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Speaker 1: I know I'm done with.

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Speaker 2: What do I keep seeing that makes me fight off

536
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Speaker 2: people that love me?

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Speaker 1: What do I keep remembering?

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Speaker 6: Is the the devil controlling your whole future with an

539
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Speaker 6: old movie? An old movie I'm talking nineteen eighty eight

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Speaker 6: block Buster b.

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Speaker 2: Kin Rewind, Karate kids stuff, the devil kids showing you

542
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Speaker 2: stuff you got kicked in nineteen eighty eight, and he

543
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Speaker 2: doesn't even have to resist you anymore. All he has

544
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Speaker 2: to do is get you to rewind. I came to

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Speaker 2: find out what are you beholding? Because if you keep

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Speaker 2: beholding what they want to feed you. Yes, I'm talking

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Speaker 2: about everything that's on our news right now. Yes, I'm

548
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Speaker 2: talking about everybody that's vying for your attention. Your attention

549
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Speaker 2: is too expensive to keep giving it to things that

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Speaker 2: do not have your best interest at heart. I know

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying. God said this to me. God said

552
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Speaker 2: this to me. Your attention is too expensive. It is

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Speaker 2: costing you your freedom.

554
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Speaker 1: That pornography isn't really free if you could see how

555
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Speaker 1: expensive it was as it affects your intimacy.

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Speaker 2: You would run from it, not welcome it. But we

557
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Speaker 2: don't see that part. The enemy always hides the expense

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Speaker 2: illuminates the benefits, the feeling of relief. Now the Israelites,

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Speaker 2: of course, they're in a physical moment. And I told

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Speaker 2: you this was funny, and there's probably nothing funny about

561
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying right now, here's the funny part. Watch

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Speaker 2: how Moses wants to deal with this in faith, and

563
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Speaker 2: how God tells Moses to deal with it by faith,

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Speaker 2: because this will speak directly to that thing that you

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Speaker 2: are overthinking in your mind right now. Just for complete honesty,

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Speaker 2: so I'm not up here total by myself naked. How

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Speaker 2: many of you are dealing with uncertainty right now in

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Speaker 2: an area of your life where you are trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out whether the doubt that you have is something

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Speaker 2: that you should pay attention to as caution or step

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Speaker 2: forward because God is calling you to have faith.

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Speaker 1: This will help you.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you exactly right or wrong in this,

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Speaker 2: but I can give you a picture. And here's the picture.

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Speaker 2: They cried out to the Lord. Verse number ten.

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Speaker 1: They cried out to the Lord. This sounds good.

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Speaker 2: That's what's supposed to do right very emotional, and they

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Speaker 2: should be. Now I'm not minimizing their situation here, but

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Speaker 2: watch how quickly they forget what God just did in

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Speaker 2: delivering them.

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Speaker 1: And watch how quickly fear.

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Speaker 2: Can cancel out and make you forget how bad it

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Speaker 2: really was where you were. In an attempt to go back,

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Speaker 2: they said to Moses, it's because or excuse me, is

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Speaker 2: it because there are no graves in Egypt that you've

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Speaker 2: taken us away to die in the wilderness. What have

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Speaker 2: you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?

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Speaker 2: Is this not what we said to you in Egypt?

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Speaker 2: Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians, For

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Speaker 2: it would have been better to serve the Egyptians than

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Speaker 2: to die in the wilderness, would it. Fear will make

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Speaker 2: you think that, depression will make you think that, pressure

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Speaker 2: will make you think that.

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Speaker 1: And all three of those things are present. So I

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Speaker 1: get it. And now Moses, the great.

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Speaker 2: Motivational speaker, he's going to give the question an answer

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Speaker 2: at the seminar.

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Speaker 1: What do we do now? Moses stands up.

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Speaker 7: He says he's not a very good speaker, but he's

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Speaker 7: given it his best right now, and Moses said to

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Speaker 7: the people, fear not, try that again.

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Speaker 1: Fear not. Yeah, let's just morek a messy fear not.

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Speaker 2: Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord, which

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Speaker 2: he will.

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Speaker 1: Work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you.

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Speaker 2: See today you shall never see again. And if y'all

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Speaker 2: don't shout over verse fourteen, I'm gonna get a new church.

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Speaker 1: The Lord will fight for you.

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Speaker 2: And you have only two Be silent, Oh, be silent.

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Speaker 2: Don't shout because he's wrong. Sounds good, but he's wrong

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Speaker 2: with shit. We're always that way because sometimes it is.

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Speaker 2: But in this case it's wrong. Because there is a

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Speaker 2: body of water called the Red Sea in front of you.

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Speaker 1: You can't cross it.

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Speaker 2: There are chariots from Egypt behind you. You can outrun them.

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Speaker 2: So Moses's advice right here, one translation says, you need

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Speaker 2: only be still. We've all heard before. Be still and

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Speaker 2: know that he is God. And sometimes this will be

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Speaker 2: the instruction. But for this moment, for this Moses, for

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Speaker 2: this nation, for this situation, being still will get you killed.

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Speaker 1: So watch God. I love God. Then the Lord said

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Speaker 1: to Moses, why do you cry to me?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's not very nice. Jehovah Jirah. He's supposed to

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Speaker 2: be my provider. I'm crying to you because you're Jehovah

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Speaker 2: Nissi my banner. I'm crying to you because you're Jehovah

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Speaker 2: Shalom my peace. I'm crying to you because I can't

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Speaker 2: do this, and I'm emotional, and I'm afraid, and Moses

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Speaker 2: is old, and the people are angry, and the peace

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Speaker 2: is very slow.

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Speaker 1: Look.

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Speaker 2: Look, look, if you travel with five kids a lot

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Speaker 2: and extra to two hours to get across town, if

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Speaker 2: you travel with two million, this isn't going to happen

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Speaker 2: very fast.

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Speaker 1: And the Lord said to Moses, I know.

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Speaker 2: I got a lot on you, and I know it

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Speaker 2: seems impossible, but why do you cry to me? Tell

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Speaker 2: the people of Israel to go forward? You are not

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Speaker 2: going to fix this with emotions. So, Moses, Mozetta, I

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Speaker 2: want to appreciate to all genders and people and all that,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're looking at right now, I

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Speaker 2: want you to know something about emotions. They can be

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Speaker 2: helpful guides to get us to a certain place, but

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Speaker 2: sometimes sitting with the emotion endlessly just creates more of

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Speaker 2: what you are asking God to take you out of

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Speaker 2: and the only way to deal with it is to

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Speaker 2: go through it.

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Speaker 1: Is to go through it.

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Speaker 2: And that's what God told Moses. He said, you can

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Speaker 2: cry about this all day. We could pray about it.

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Speaker 2: You can study a verse about it, you can quote

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Speaker 2: about it, you can do all of that.

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Speaker 1: But the only way.

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Speaker 2: For us to deal with this is for you to

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Speaker 2: tell the people to go forward.

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Speaker 1: And then there's one more instruction that he.

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Speaker 2: Gives Moses, and I thought was significant and really kind

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Speaker 2: of silly in the face of the challenge at hand.

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Speaker 1: He said, verse sixteen, lift up.

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Speaker 2: Your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea

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Speaker 2: and divide it that the people of Israel may go

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Speaker 2: through the sea on dry ground.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, that will totally work. How we read the

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Speaker 1: Bible with these cotton candy eyes, I'll never even know.

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Speaker 2: We got this fake filter we put on all the

666
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Speaker 2: stories like, yeah, that's the way it works.

667
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: Put the staff and.

668
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 2: Let them go.

669
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Speaker 1: I saw the thing he did it.

670
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 2: I saw a thing. I saw a movie about it.

671
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: Moses just put up his staff. It's the difference to

672
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Speaker 2: read the thing.

673
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: And do the thing.

674
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Speaker 2: I guarantee you all of my scholarly confidence, low as.

675
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Speaker 1: It may be that Moses's hand was shaking because he's all.

676
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: And because he's scared, but the fact that his hand

677
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,240
Speaker 2: was shaken.

678
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: Did not stop to see from splitting. And what I'm saying.

679
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: Is, you can do it with a shaky hand. You

680
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 2: can do it with knocking knees. You can do it

681
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: with a lump in your throat. Oh yeah, Taylor, I

682
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: can do it with a broken heart.

683
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: I can prace him with a painful situation.

684
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 2: I can make progress in a cloudy condition.

685
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like that. Give God praise, just like that, Cause.

686
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 2: Some of you today you just lifted your hands freely,

687
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 2: but some of y'all.

688
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: Your hands felt heavy.

689
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 2: And I keep meeting people and they say, well, when

690
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: I really feel like it, then I'll praise God, because

691
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 2: sometimes I don't want to fake it and come to

692
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 2: church and sing God, You've been so good to me,

693
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: because I don't really feel like He's been good to me.

694
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 2: But I realized something in the spirit that praise is

695
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: a pushback. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, praise is a pushback.

696
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: Praises.

697
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 2: How I tell the red sea, you stand here, you

698
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 2: stand there, praises, How I tell my doubt, you stand here,

699
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 2: you stand there, and even if I stretch my.

700
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Speaker 1: Hand shaky, it's the motion that matters.

701
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 2: Do you think you need a better staff. The best

702
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: staff can't split a c Stop thinking you need an

703
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: external upgrade. All you need is an internal commitment to

704
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 2: God that I will step out, not just when I

705
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 2: feel something, not just when something good happens to me,

706
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 2: not just.

707
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: When I have a good idea. I'll step out with

708
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: a bad idea and buffet till it shies.

709
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 2: Telling you the most important skill is right here. Because

710
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 2: I don't see anywhere in the text.

711
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: Maybe you do.

712
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 2: You can go study and write me an email about it.

713
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:46,959
Speaker 2: If their feelings changed, whether their feelings change, they're still

714
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 2: mad at Moses.

715
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: Moses is certainly.

716
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 2: Mad at them because everything I do for my kids

717
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 2: that they don't think me for, I get mad at

718
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: And this is a pretty big thing he did for.

719
00:39:58,560 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: Them to get them out.

720
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Speaker 2: And I think sometimes we stay stuck in resentment, and

721
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: then we let us called the root of bitterness, keep

722
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 2: us anchored to situations that we can move through. And

723
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Speaker 2: everything you feel God knows about, and everything you feel

724
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 2: God cares about, everything.

725
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: You feel God is comfortable in the presence of But

726
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 1: you have to let it move through you. By moving

727
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: through it.

728
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 2: If you always surrender to it, you never gain strength

729
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 2: or freedom, whatever it is.

730
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Speaker 1: But God, what do you mean? Look at the verse?

731
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Speaker 2: One whole word God gave me here that I think

732
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 2: is going to be so powerful for somebody. I don't

733
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Speaker 2: want to forget to say it. He said, if you

734
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: be still, you get killed. But that wasn't the word.

735
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: This is the word.

736
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Speaker 2: Why you tell me about this problem? Tell the people

737
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: of Israel to go forward? And I thought to myself,

738
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 2: wait a minute. They're on foot, the chariots have wheels,

739
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 2: they have children. All of the people chasing them are

740
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 2: fighting it. You ever feel like there's nothing you can

741
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 2: do to catch up now, like you are so far

742
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 2: behind in your life that even if I run as

743
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 2: fast as I can, all this I have to drag

744
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 2: behind me.

745
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: And the Lord said, go forward, watch this, not fast?

746
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: Just forward. Isn't that good? Not fast? He said, it

747
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:38,720
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be fast.

748
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Speaker 2: I know you're loaded down by a lot of things,

749
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: and I know you're on foot, and I know you

750
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 2: didn't get that kind of training, and I know that

751
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 2: you've lost some years, and I know that you've wasted

752
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 2: away some opportunities. And I know you killed a few

753
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 2: brain cells, and I know you closed a few doors,

754
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 2: and some people that won't call you back. And I

755
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 2: know there's gonna be some things you're gonna have to

756
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 2: navigate through. And you feel like what's in front of

757
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 2: you is too big and what's behind.

758
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 8: You is too fast. But you don't have to go fast.

759
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 8: You just have to go forward. Why because after the

760
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 8: water parts for you, it's gonna close back over your enemies.

761
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 2: And you're on foot, and Pharaoh has wheels, so it

762
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 2: would seem like there's no way you can outrun him.

763
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 2: But there's one thing your enemy didn't count on when

764
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 2: he was chasing you with this. Chariots wheels don't work

765
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 2: in water. If Pharaoh was gonna chase you, he should

766
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: have brought a boat. Because what he didn't count on

767
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 2: is that when you do help me.

768
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Speaker 1: Preach before I have a cardiac arrest in front.

769
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Speaker 2: Of two thousand people, God said, I'm not looking for

770
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 2: you to be fast enough. I'm not looking for you

771
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 2: to make up for time that you lost. I don't

772
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 2: make up the time you lost. How redeem the years

773
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 2: that the kicker.

774
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Speaker 5: Worm has He I'll deal with your past. I'll deal

775
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 5: with your credit, I deal with your boss, I'll deal

776
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 5: with the market, I'll deal with the.

777
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 2: Hot five seven people say, will still working water, will

778
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 2: still work in water when you get out here in faith,

779
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: there's not a thing.

780
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: The devil can do to drag your back.

781
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 5: God's wheels don't work in water.

782
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Speaker 1: You hear what I'm saying. I don't have to be fast.

783
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: I just gotta move forward because your stuck wheel can't

784
00:43:55,200 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 2: catch my slow feet. You will journey with me now

785
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 2: over twelve hundred miles to another sea. In scripture, over,

786
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 2: excuse me, two hundred miles in twelve hundred years.

787
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: So we're covering a great distance. I understand that.

788
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 2: And if I may fast forward for a moment to

789
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 2: one of your favorite Bible stories, because you want to

790
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: be like this guy so much.

791
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Speaker 1: Old Peter, old.

792
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 2: Fish and empty net, foulmouth gospel preaching, Peter, Oh, you're

793
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 2: hacking Peter Old Pentecost Sunday, Peter, Oh, Simon, Peter, Oh,

794
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 2: crazy Peter.

795
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: Old Peter took.

796
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: His boat, let Jesus preach in it, and then took

797
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,959
Speaker 2: his boat and did whatever Jesus told him all around

798
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 2: the Sea of Galilee, Matthew chapter fourteen says that Jesus

799
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 2: performed a great miracle fed fi thousand men, women and children.

800
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 2: I told you last week, don't let the math distract you.

801
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how many there are, matters how much

802
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 2: he is. Oh, it doesn't matter how many they are.

803
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 2: It matters how much he is, greater as he that

804
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 2: is in. I gotta teach you all the Bible, so

805
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 2: y'all know this stuff so you can step out in

806
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 2: doubt and change.

807
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 4: It to faith. The step is what makes it faith,

808
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 4: not the feeling. The step is what makes it faith.

809
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 4: The behavior. You gotta switch this thing. You keep beholding,

810
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 4: believing and then behaving. But if we can switch it,

811
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 4: if we can switch it, if you.

812
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 2: Could believe and behave according to what you believe, you

813
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 2: would behold things that you don't even know where possible.

814
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 2: Then you'll see a thing. Then you'll see a thing.

815
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 2: You'll see a thing, and you'll speak a thing. God says,

816
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 2: I'm not forsaken. You'll see a thing, you'll feel a thing,

817
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,439
Speaker 2: and you'll speak a thing. God says, no weapon formed

818
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 2: against me will prosper. You'll see a thing and you'll

819
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 2: speak a thing. It is for his glory, not my

820
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,399
Speaker 2: self righteousness. That I have been saved.

821
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: It is the gift of God, not of works, so

822
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: that no one can both.

823
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 2: You'll see a thing, and you will speak a thing,

824
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 2: and the devil will show you things all the time

825
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 2: in your mind. Oh yeah, he doesn't even have to

826
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 2: do it physically. He showed Jesus all the kingdoms of

827
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 2: this world right in his own mind during the forty

828
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: day fast. But Jesus saw another thing. I want to

829
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 2: teach you how to see another thing. Matthew Chapter fourteen.

830
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 2: The Bible says that the disciples got in the boat

831
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 2: why because Jesus told them to go to the other side.

832
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, I want you to see once on

833
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 2: your other side, so you cannot die in this storm.

834
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: Tell him you can cry.

835
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: You can complain, you can rest, but you can't quit, because.

836
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: It's the motion that matters. Clap your hands if.

837
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 2: You know it's the motion that matters, now, Matthew fourteen.

838
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: Matthew fourteen. After feeding five.

839
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Speaker 2: Thousand, immediately Jesus verse twenty two made the disciples get

840
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 2: into the boat and go before him to the other side.

841
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 2: While he dismissed the crowd Notice what he didn't give

842
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 2: them an agenda. Notice what he didn't give them information.

843
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 2: Notice what he didn't give them a timetable. I thought

844
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 2: about my.

845
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: Dog Bo here. I thought about how I don't know

846
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: if y'all know, we have a Boston terior.

847
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 2: It was kind of a big deal in the church

848
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 2: because for years I told the family that they were

849
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 2: not responsible enough to have a dog. Was right, but

850
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 2: I bought him on anyway, Holly and Abbey, of course,

851
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 2: have done wonderfully with Bo. Graham has fulfilled every prophecy

852
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 2: I had of his irresponsibility.

853
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: About the dog, because he saw a thing.

854
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 4: All right, now, love your body.

855
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 2: Bo is an anxiety dog. Not that he helps us

856
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 2: with our anxiety. He has so much anxiety, and incrementally

857
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 2: it's getting worse.

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00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: I'll show you a picture of Bow real quick, put

859
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 1: on screen.

860
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 2: And that picture was sent to us while we were

861
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 2: away on a trip for elevation nights preaching and ministering,

862
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 2: and one of our wonderful people that are on the

863
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 2: team was send us a picture to show us Bo.

864
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 2: And we all said to each other, we can't tell

865
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: from that picture whether he's freaking out, losing his mind,

866
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,479
Speaker 2: or having the time of his life because they both

867
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 2: make the same face. That's how he looks when he's horrified,

868
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 2: that's how he looks when he's happy. And so you

869
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: can't really tell what's going on from that picture. Now

870
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 2: you can take it down. But there are two things

871
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 2: that bo will be scared of, and both of these.

872
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: Fears are acquired. Acquired. I don't think he had them

873
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: when we first got him. We got him very little.

874
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: And please don't send any emails for how to remedy

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Speaker 1: any of this.

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00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 2: He's already under the supervision of a wonderful veterinarian and

877
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 2: Holly's working on all of that. But anytime that he

878
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 2: sees everybody say sees these two things a suitcase, or anytime.

879
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: He hears a storm.

880
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 2: So he's afraid of two things, a suitcase and a

881
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:43,760
Speaker 2: storm because the first one a suitcase. He's seen those before,

882
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 2: and sometimes when he sees one of those, we're back

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00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 2: twenty four hours later. He didn't even have time to

884
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 2: miss us. But we've been gone from him two weeks before,

885
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 2: and I think he likes us because when the suitcase

886
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 2: comes out, he starts following us everywhere. How many of

887
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 2: y'all your dog does the same thing, because not because

888
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 2: you're leaving, but because I don't know how long it's

889
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 2: gonna be.

890
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: Because you don't have a way to communicate this to me.

891
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 2: Jesus said, I'll see on the other side, here's your suitcase.

892
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: And the disciples are like, yeah, but like we're gonna

893
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: be there a while.

894
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 2: You come in to night, you come in on, how

895
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 2: much time you need alone, I know you're tired. None

896
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 2: of that.

897
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: Just this is not good. I call it transition.

898
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 2: With no timestamp, I can't fast forward to know how

899
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 2: this ends or how we get back. And Jesus certainly

900
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 2: didn't tell them what happened next, because not only did

901
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 2: they have a suitcase, but they had a storm. That's

902
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 2: the second thing both afraid of. And as you know,

903
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to see anything or even really hear anything.

904
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 2: This worrisome dog, this prayerless dog, who does not trust

905
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 2: God at all.

906
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: If I tell.

907
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 2: You he can smell a storm three weeks before it happens,

908
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 2: he'll know his Thursday two pm, I need to have

909
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 2: a panic attack, and he will prep for the panic attack.

910
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: Tell you is true? Is it true? Is it true?

911
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: The dog is?

912
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 2: The dog is losing his mind, and we're working on that.

913
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 2: But I bring it to you as an illustration to

914
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 2: say that we all deal with suitcases and storms, and

915
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: we're really not much different than the dog. Because I

916
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 2: don't know how long I'm gonna have to be in

917
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 2: this transitional place, I'll know how long they're gonna like me.

918
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 2: I don't know how long till they decide to leave me,

919
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 2: like the last.

920
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: Person did too.

921
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 2: I've seen this before, and I'm not okay with it,

922
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 2: not because of the transition, but because.

923
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: I don't know the time.

924
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 2: Dable imagine now you are not only a disciple in

925
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 2: transition suitcase, but as you are transitioning verse twenty three.

926
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 2: After he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on

927
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 2: the mountain side by himself to pray, and when evening came,

928
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 2: he was there alone. But the boat by this time

929
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 2: was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves,

930
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 2: for the wind was against them. Now I've got a

931
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 2: suitcase and a storm. I would never pull out a

932
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 2: suitcase during a storm in front of boat. I think

933
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 2: it might be his last puppy moment memory, and it's

934
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 2: happening at the same time in your life.

935
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: And it's a transition, and it's trouble, and I'm.

936
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 2: Stepping out in doubt, and I've got things validating that

937
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 2: this may not be the best time. And so what

938
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 2: do I do?

939
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: Well? Watch this as they are rowing.

940
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 2: Visibility is low, timetable, uncertain, their life in the balance,

941
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 2: their future very very questionable. The Bible says, now you

942
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 2: believe the Bible, right, come on, you believe the Bible.

943
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 2: I want you to see something in the Bible today.

944
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 2: The Bible says the wind was against them, and in

945
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 2: the fourth watch of the Night, verse twenty five, he

946
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 2: came to them walking on the sea. But when the

947
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 2: disciples saw a thing walking on the sea, they were terrified.

948
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 2: But it's Jesus. But they don't know that. They just

949
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,959
Speaker 2: see a thing. They don't know the thing they're looking at.

950
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 2: And the thing that they're afraid of is the thing

951
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 2: that they were praying for. Touch somebody, say help is

952
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 2: on the way. He came out to them walking on

953
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 2: the sea, and they were terrified and said it's a ghost.

954
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 2: And they cried out like the Israelites in fear. But

955
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 2: immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, take.

956
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: Heart, it is I do not be afraid.

957
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 2: Now I need to ask a question, because I am

958
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 2: not surprised that Jesus can walk on water.

959
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 1: He can do whatever he want with what he's spoke

960
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: into existence.

961
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 2: Colossian says, all things were created by him, for him,

962
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 2: through him, and not anything that was made was made,

963
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 2: but that it was made in him, by him and

964
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 2: for him. I am not surprised that he can transcend

965
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 2: what he spoke. I am not surprised that he can

966
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 2: suspend the laws of buoyancy. I am not surprised that

967
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 2: he is on water. Look at verse twenty five. I'm surprised.

968
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 2: Why are you walking? If they're in trouble, shouldn't you run?

969
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 2: Shouldn't you hurry up to get there?

970
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: Why are you walking? Why are you walking? God?

971
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 2: Why you tell me not know?

972
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 1: When my brother Lazarus is sick? Why are you walking?

973
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 2: Come on?

974
00:54:53,760 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: Why are you walking? Jesus? And the question is why

975
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:09,439
Speaker 1: don't you? Because that's what matters in this moment he said,

976
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: it is, I do not be afraid. Next verse.

977
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 2: This is the guy you want to be like. Right

978
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 2: next verse, please on my screen. Next verse, the next one,

979
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 2: the next, next one, now that one, that one, the

980
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 2: one before that twenty eight twenty eight, Hey, there we go,

981
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 2: and Peter answered him.

982
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: Lord, if it is you, if watch him get delivered

983
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:46,879
Speaker 1: on an if, well, you.

984
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 2: Gotta step out on what is pete is the substance

985
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 2: of things helped for? But I can't see it right now,

986
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 2: so I gotta step out on.

987
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: Doubt. But Hugh does just like a wave of the sea,

988
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: tossed and driven Your quote and diverse wrong. That's about

989
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: your confidence in God, not your confidence in you.

990
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 2: Peter doesn't question what Jesus can do. He just questions,

991
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 2: is a you? That's the thing nobody tells us. If

992
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 2: it's you, how many of you are walking on an if?

993
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: Right now? Just if? Just if? If it's you, command

994
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:24,280
Speaker 1: me to come to you on the water.

995
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 2: Next verse, Jesus talks to Peter like he's bo come.

996
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: Huh. That's like how you talk to a dog.

997
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 2: Sometimes you need to simplify what you do next in

998
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 2: your life. Sometimes you are so complicated that you can't

999
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 2: be saved because you over complicated. Sometimes it is as

1000
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:53,439
Speaker 2: simple as one four letter word, come, come, come.

1001
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: If it is you, tell me to come, she said, well,

1002
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: let me give you seventeen proofs to this me. No no, no, no. Come.

1003
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 1: I'll show you who I am while you walk toward me.

1004
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: I'll show you who I am while you walk toward me.

1005
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,479
Speaker 2: You meet me tomorrow morning with your Bible. I'll show

1006
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 2: you who I am while you walk toward me. You

1007
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 2: say you're sorry for what you did and own that

1008
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 2: thing and move forward in it, and set up an

1009
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 2: appointment to work through the root issues so it doesn't

1010
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 2: happen again.

1011
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: And I'll show you who I am while you walk

1012
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: toward me.

1013
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 2: For we walk by faith, not by sight. He told Peter, come,

1014
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 2: and so Peter verse twenty nine, got out the boat

1015
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 2: and walked on the water. Wouldn't you run? Maybe that's

1016
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 2: all he could do in that moment, was just walk.

1017
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 2: I don't know how it makes it any safer to

1018
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 2: walk on water than.

1019
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: To run on it.

1020
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 2: Or maybe there's a lesson the day that wait on

1021
00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 2: the Lord will re knew their strength.

1022
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: They will walk and not be weary. They will walk.

1023
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: That's what it is is. Walking.

1024
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 2: My faith is stepping out on doubt and finding out

1025
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 2: He's good. You have got to do this thing doubting

1026
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 2: so that God can give you faith when your foot hits.

1027
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: The next step. That is how I see you.

1028
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 2: I do not see you as a horrible person who

1029
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 2: doesn't really trust God because you're struggling right now to

1030
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 2: even think he hears your prayers.

1031
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't see you that way. I see it kind

1032
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: of like Peter, like if if if, if.

1033
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 2: And Jesus does not rebuke you for your feelings, because

1034
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 2: it's the motion.

1035
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: That matters.

1036
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,919
Speaker 2: Stop punishing yourself for having the wrong emotions.

1037
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: Keep showing up and see what God does.

1038
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep showing up and keep saying, Okay, God, what

1039
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 2: can I learn from that? This is the discipline of discipleshift.

1040
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 2: It's the motion that matters. Is not how fast you

1041
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 2: can get to him. Peter steps out of the boat,

1042
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 2: and it's not about how fast he gets to Jesus,

1043
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 2: because he's walking, and he's walking, and you will notice

1044
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 2: that the Bible says in verse thirty, when he saw

1045
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 2: the wind, he was afraid. He what he saw a thing,

1046
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 2: And when he saw a thing, he lost sight of

1047
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 2: someone that was greater than the thing that he saw.

1048
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 2: I'm almost there. It's the motion that matters. The wind

1049
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 2: was blowing the whole time. That's not what knocked you down.

1050
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 2: It was when your eyes shifted to the thing and

1051
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,959
Speaker 2: not the one who is greater than all fans. That's

1052
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 2: what happened. And when he saw the wind, he was

1053
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:11,200
Speaker 2: afraid and beginning to sink. He cried out, please let

1054
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 2: me minister this to you today, Lord save me.

1055
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: And Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold

1056
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: of him. Say unto him, you have little faith. Why'd

1057
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: you doubt you'd be like? See what he doubted? Yeah,

1058
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: but he didn't drown, did he? You won't drown stepping out.

1059
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 2: You drown if you have a pity party and plan

1060
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 2: your funeral in the place of your last disappointment.

1061
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: That's how you drown. But if you move forward, God's

1062
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 1: got something for you. God's got someone for you. God's

1063
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: got a fresh word for you. God's got manna everywhere

1064
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: in your wilderness. God's got fruit in Canaan waiting the

1065
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: right time to come up out of the ground. Why

1066
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: did you die? See, it's not how fast Peter could

1067
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 1: get to Jesus. Give me Verse thirty one. Immediately Jesus reached.

1068
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 2: It's not how fast you can get to Jesus, is

1069
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 2: how fast he can get to you. Because it's the

1070
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 2: motion that matters. So let's wage Warren push back on

1071
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 2: anxiety today. It's not how quick the panic attack comes

1072
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 2: on you. It's how quickly God can come in the

1073
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 2: middle of the attack and deliver you from the fowler's snare.

1074
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 2: It's the motion that matters. It has never hinged on

1075
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 2: your gift. It has never hinged on your goodness. It

1076
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 2: is never hinged on your right stepping.

1077
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 1: It's on his right reaching. This is not the step

1078
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 1: that counts. This has God got.

1079
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 2: You in a season right now that He is teaching

1080
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 2: you to reach for him Because God, I have my doubts.

1081
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 2: If I could tell you one skill that you need

1082
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 2: to learn in your life, it's to reach for.

1083
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: Him when you sink like a rock, reach for him.

1084
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: Don't run from him.

1085
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 2: You keep getting taught that you can't come to God

1086
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 2: unless you perfectly have faith. Tell Peter he got back

1087
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 2: in the boat and set an Olympic.

1088
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: World record for water walking. I don't care if it

1089
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: was two seconds.

1090
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 2: He beat John, he beat James, he beat barked all

1091
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 2: of you. All they got was a boat ride. Peter

1092
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 2: got a world record. You can have bronze, you can

1093
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 2: have silver. Give me my gold medal because I stepped

1094
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 2: out and I slipped, but he reached out, had I

1095
01:02:56,520 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 2: sun hand. I'm here today worship big help. Does I

1096
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 2: got tho shit? I got bushit, I got a mirror

1097
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 2: a goal because I got moulship.

1098
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: It's the motion that matters.

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Speaker 2: Just about the time Peter sees a thing the wind,

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Speaker 2: he sees another thing, the hand of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I want you to see another thing. I want you

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Speaker 1: to see another thing.

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Speaker 2: I want you to see another thing, maybe, just maybe,

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Speaker 2: if you could walk by faith, if you can believe,

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Speaker 2: you will behold.

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Speaker 1: If you can believe. I'm trying to say, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to see it to believe it. You have to

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Speaker 1: believe it to see it.

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Speaker 2: One prophet said, I hear the sound of the abundance

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Speaker 2: of rain, and the man said, there's nothing there.

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Speaker 1: Six times he said go back wide, because it's the

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Speaker 1: motion that matters. And the seventh time, the servants say,

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Speaker 1: I can see a cloud.

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Speaker 2: Heavy with rain, and it looks like it's tiny, but

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Speaker 2: it's headed our way.

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Speaker 1: I can see a cloud heavy with rain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I see the wind, but I see something else.

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Speaker 1: It looks like revival head and miles. Yeah, I see

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Speaker 1: the bills, but I see something else. I can see

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Speaker 1: a cloud heavy with rain. What's it looked like? And

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Speaker 1: it looks like freedom?

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Speaker 2: Tell pharoh, it's headed.

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Speaker 1: All the way. I get see it heavy? Hey up?

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Speaker 1: What he's heavy?

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Speaker 2: It looks like.

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Speaker 3: of you who give generously to this ministry.

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Speaker 1: Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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