Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to share the word of God with
Speaker 1: you today. If y'all feel like hearing it like I
Speaker 1: feel like preaching it, something's going to happen in here.
Speaker 1: Go with me. Go with me to Mark chapter two.
Speaker 1: Mark chapter two. As a matter of fact, could you
Speaker 1: stand to honor the reading of God's word. I know
Speaker 1: you were standing earlier. It feels like spiritual aerobics, but
Speaker 1: it's the only one. I'm asking you to stand up
Speaker 1: for every other one that's on you. Mark chapter two
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look at verses twenty three through twenty eight,
Speaker 1: and then we'll probably read down into chapter number three
Speaker 1: as well. When you're ready to read it, say yeah.
Speaker 1: If you're not ready, say hold up. I heard faint.
Speaker 1: Hold up, And I'm await for you to find the gospel.
Speaker 1: According to Mark chapter two, and it says, starting in
Speaker 1: verse twenty three. One sabbath, Jesus was going through the
Speaker 1: grain fields, and as his disciples walked along, they began
Speaker 1: to pick some heads of grain. No Pharisee said to him, look,
Speaker 1: why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?
Speaker 1: And he answered, have you never read what David did
Speaker 1: when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
Speaker 1: And in the days of abth are the high priest.
Speaker 1: He entered the House of God and ate the consecrated bread,
Speaker 1: which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he
Speaker 1: also gave some to his companions, and he said to them,
Speaker 1: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: So the son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: Another time, Jesus went into the synagogue and a man
Speaker 1: with a shriveled hand another version says withered hand was there,
Speaker 1: and some of them were looking for a reason to
Speaker 1: accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if
Speaker 1: he would heal him on the Sabbath. And Jesus said
Speaker 1: to the man with a shriveled hand, stand up in
Speaker 1: front of everyone. And Jesus asked them, which is lawful
Speaker 1: on the sabbath to do good or to do evil,
Speaker 1: to save life, or to kill. But they remained silent
Speaker 1: and looked around at them in anger and deeply distressed
Speaker 1: at their stubborn hearts, and said to the man, stretch
Speaker 1: out your hand. He stretched it out and his hand
Speaker 1: was completely restored. Then the Pharisees went out and began
Speaker 1: to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. Ooo, pauls,
Speaker 1: I don't want to preach before I preach, but in
Speaker 1: that interesting how two people can be in the same
Speaker 1: environment but have two totally different experiences. Here's a man's
Speaker 1: hand who has been completely restored. I imagine to your
Speaker 1: place erupted giving God praise. But not the Pharisees. They
Speaker 1: saw this man's healing as an opportunity to begin a
Speaker 1: plot to kill Jesus. This man's healing was the impetus.
Speaker 1: It was the catalyst for the plot that put Jesus
Speaker 1: on the cross. I was playing around with titles before
Speaker 1: I preached this. I almost started to call this message
Speaker 1: when healing you is killing me. That would have been
Speaker 1: a good title. That would have been good a tie.
Speaker 1: That's not my title. And some of y'all ain't been
Speaker 1: saved your whole life, and uh, you've been a vegas.
Speaker 1: So I almost titled this message, almost tied to this
Speaker 1: message how to win with a bad hand. Some of
Speaker 1: you get that tomorrow. You don't like that, you're like that,
Speaker 1: but uh, it's not my title today. It's not my
Speaker 1: title today. I am amazed the ability of our Savior
Speaker 1: to completely restore his hand, completely restore. Our God is
Speaker 1: a god of restoration. I want to appreciated ay, just
Speaker 1: using this as a title, where restoration starts. Where restoration starts,
Speaker 1: would you bow your heads with me, Ephaan, wherever you
Speaker 1: are Some of y'all still in your bathrobe listening to
Speaker 1: this message. Father, thank you for your word. Speak to
Speaker 1: us today. Amen. He may be seated in the presence
Speaker 1: of the Lord where restoration starts. Elevation, fam. I'm fully
Speaker 1: aware that we are immersed in a new year in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. If I'm honest with you, there are
Speaker 1: some lessons that I learned in twenty twenty that I
Speaker 1: am still walking out today. Twenty twenty. Tell me some
Speaker 1: lessons it taught me a myriad of lessons. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: first lesson I learned in twenty twenty. First lesson I
Speaker 1: learned in twenty twenty as I was sheltered in place
Speaker 1: for several months with our three little humans who are six, four,
Speaker 1: and three. The first lesson that I learned in twenty
Speaker 1: as I was sheltered in place couldn't go nowhere with
Speaker 1: our six year old, four year old and three year old.
Speaker 1: First lesson I learned in twenty twenty, who is that
Speaker 1: our teachers are grossly underpaid? Grossly under pay. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: if you got a stimulus check, send it to a teacher. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is hard out here in these streets. That's the
Speaker 1: first lesson I learned in twenty twenty. The second lesson
Speaker 1: I learned in twenty twenty is that sometimes your greatest
Speaker 1: ability is your adaptability, your ability to adapt. How many know,
Speaker 1: God can use somebody that knows how to pivot, that
Speaker 1: knows how to shift, somebody that's not so married to
Speaker 1: what has been and what was that they don't know
Speaker 1: how to move into what God is doing. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you God can use you if you understand the
Speaker 1: power of adaptability. The third thing I got from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty that I didn't really learn, but I was reminded
Speaker 1: of that is that the Church of the Living God
Speaker 1: is not optional, it is a necessity. The Church is essential.
Speaker 1: How mean you know we need the church. I know
Speaker 1: it looks crazy in the world right now, and it's
Speaker 1: dark days, and that has reminded me of the truth
Speaker 1: and the fact that we need the Church of the
Speaker 1: Living God. We need something that will be light in
Speaker 1: the midst of this darkness. We need people that will
Speaker 1: stand up and declare the good news of the Gospel
Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. I'm telling you we need the church. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is essential. It is essential. I can live with
Speaker 1: the bad barber. I'll just have a bad haircut. I
Speaker 1: can live with the bad dentist. I'll just have a
Speaker 1: bad toothache. I can live with the bad plumber. It'll
Speaker 1: just mess up my house. But I need a church
Speaker 1: that's alive. I can't have a dead church. I need
Speaker 1: a church that's alive, that will stand up for truth
Speaker 1: and speak. God is telling you to speak. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I love the Church of the Living God.
Speaker 1: I was reminded of that. I'm thankful for the church.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for the Word of God. In fact, it
Speaker 1: was awesome today just being able to worship with you today.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you should have heard y'all singing I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see your victory. Some of I were off key, but
Speaker 1: it was cool. I loved it because there's something about
Speaker 1: when the church comes together in worships. I'm be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I'm I'm lonely on this stage. I am lonely.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody but me and you, bro We're the only ones,
Speaker 1: only ones up here. It's lonely on the stage, but
Speaker 1: it is not as lonely as it was during the
Speaker 1: pandemic last year, when I was preaching to empty sanctuary,
Speaker 1: just looking to the lens of a camera, speaking into
Speaker 1: the abyss of darkness, hoping that what I was saying
Speaker 1: was resonating on the other sea side of the screen.
Speaker 1: I'm just so glad that there are people in here.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I can see your right now. Actually kind
Speaker 1: of got me thinking, because I have an interesting vantage
Speaker 1: point right here on the stage because I can see you,
Speaker 1: you can see me. If I look at these incredible screens,
Speaker 1: I can see myself. What's interesting to me is that
Speaker 1: you can't see you. Just think about that for a moment,
Speaker 1: Like you don't have a clue what you look like
Speaker 1: right now. Even those of your epam like, don't go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom in your house. And no, you don't
Speaker 1: know what you look like right now, but I do.
Speaker 1: I can see you. You don't have a clue what
Speaker 1: you look like. You know what you looked like before
Speaker 1: you came to church. You know what you look like
Speaker 1: if you stopped in the bathroom before. But you don't
Speaker 1: know what you look like right now. And I can
Speaker 1: see you. You can't see you, but I can see you.
Speaker 1: To think that you would have the nerve, the audacity
Speaker 1: to say, Ooh, I'm gonna change some things in my life.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is gonna be a new me.
Speaker 1: You can't even see you. Hey, you don't talk about
Speaker 1: there's a new year because you can't see your self.
Speaker 1: And how many you know? You cannot change what you
Speaker 1: cannot see see. All change in your life must be
Speaker 1: preceded by recognition. You have to see something before you
Speaker 1: can actually change it. Many of us want God to
Speaker 1: restore some things, but perhaps before the restoration, we actually
Speaker 1: need recognition of the things in our life that are
Speaker 1: broken that we are unaware of. That He wants to
Speaker 1: restore because you can't see yourself. You don't know what
Speaker 1: you look like. Come on, not the only one ever
Speaker 1: experienced this phenomenon where you had a kill salad. You know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to do better summer, you're trying to do better.
Speaker 1: You have your kill salad at twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: You get to your house about six o'clock in the evening. Okay,
Speaker 1: you look in your mirror in your bathroom and see
Speaker 1: the biggest piece of kill in between your teeth, and
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, wait a minute, I had that
Speaker 1: kill salad at twelve o'clock. I talked to sixty three
Speaker 1: people right after that list did nobody want to tell me?
Speaker 1: Then I had a big old piece of cant help
Speaker 1: him my mouth. Oh I need new friends, because you
Speaker 1: would have got it out if you could see it.
Speaker 1: But you cannot change. But you cannot see. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget talking to a leader, a very influential leader, and
Speaker 1: I was just asking them all these questions about leadership,
Speaker 1: and he said, Robert, there's actually a question that I
Speaker 1: asked other people as a leader that's formed my leadership.
Speaker 1: I said, man, give me the question. He said, I
Speaker 1: asked this question of my wife, he said. I asked
Speaker 1: this question of the people that I lead, he said.
Speaker 1: I even asked this question of close friends. I asked them,
Speaker 1: what is it like to be on the other side
Speaker 1: of me? What is it like to be on the
Speaker 1: other side of me? That's a good question, he said.
Speaker 1: I asked that question because I have blind spots. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it's like to be on the other
Speaker 1: side of me. That is the only thing I don't
Speaker 1: have perspective on. I don't know what it's like to
Speaker 1: be on the other side me, he says. So I
Speaker 1: have to ask people that I love, and then I
Speaker 1: have to sit back and listen to what they say
Speaker 1: and not get defensive when they say something that they
Speaker 1: know this. I have to hear what they say because
Speaker 1: I can't see myself see some of y'all listen to
Speaker 1: dis message like, Oh, I don't need this message. I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good. You know my marriage is good. I know this,
Speaker 1: I know this, I'm a good husband. And I would
Speaker 1: say to you, how do you know you've never been
Speaker 1: married to yourself? This some parents you ever seen parents like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with these kids? These kids
Speaker 1: have lost their mind. I know one thing. I'm a
Speaker 1: good parent. Right, y'all got electricity, don't you. I'm a
Speaker 1: good parent. I know that. How do you know you've
Speaker 1: never parented yourself. I'm just saying, you don't know what
Speaker 1: it's like to be on the other side of you
Speaker 1: because you can't see yourself. So when God wants to
Speaker 1: restore something, the first thing you need to ask of
Speaker 1: God is God, help me to see what I cannot see.
Speaker 1: Show me the things that are broken in me. Don't
Speaker 1: let me spend my entire life looking at what's wrong
Speaker 1: with everybody else that I never take the time to
Speaker 1: address the things that are wrong with me. Oh God,
Speaker 1: help me see me. Don't let me live my life
Speaker 1: like the Pharisees, who were real good at seeing what
Speaker 1: was wrong with everybody else, that they could never see
Speaker 1: what was wrong with them. This is the problem of
Speaker 1: the Pharisees. The Pharisees were real good at microscopes. You know,
Speaker 1: microscopes you look with detail at the specimen was wrong
Speaker 1: with everybody else, But they were horrible with mirrors. They
Speaker 1: could not look at themselves, but they could see what
Speaker 1: was wrong with everybody else. I see h I say
Speaker 1: what you need to fix. I see what's wrong with you.
Speaker 1: That's the problem with the pharisees. You know you a
Speaker 1: pharisee when you're talking about what I see, I see
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you. That's why they have pharisees. P
Speaker 1: H A R. I see, I see, I see what
Speaker 1: you need to fix. And you got a lot of
Speaker 1: things that are on. It's horrible. When you're really good
Speaker 1: at microscopes, you're terrible and pulling on Michael Jackson and saying,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the man in the mirror. I'm asking
Speaker 1: him to change his ways. The Pharisees couldn't see themselves,
Speaker 1: so Jesus had this incredible, uncanny ability to help them
Speaker 1: see themselves, and they hated it. They couldn't stand that
Speaker 1: Jesus would show themselves to themselves. That's what made them
Speaker 1: angry and mad. And that is what is in my
Speaker 1: text today. Are y'all good? I feel like preaching this
Speaker 1: message before before I even start talking about the pharisees
Speaker 1: who cause detension in our text today. I also find
Speaker 1: it intriguing that nobody ever type cast themselves as a
Speaker 1: pharisee in the Bible. Have you noticed that, like you
Speaker 1: ain't never in your life while reading the Bible said
Speaker 1: that's me, that's me. I'm a pharisee. And't that funny?
Speaker 1: And it's funny that the people that regularly attended church,
Speaker 1: people who today regularly attend church, never think they're like
Speaker 1: the pharisee. Come on, you always the person with the
Speaker 1: withered had. Come on, You're the woman with the issue
Speaker 1: of blood. You're the one that just got issues that
Speaker 1: if you could just get to Jesus, he would fix it.
Speaker 1: You're never you never say I'm the pharisee. Come on,
Speaker 1: the Pharisees are like your caters who don't agree with you,
Speaker 1: But you never say I'm the Pharisee. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: remind you you can't see yourself. So perhaps another question
Speaker 1: you should ask, besides what's it like to be on
Speaker 1: the other side of me, is could the pharisee be me?
Speaker 1: Nobody type casts themselves at the Pharisees, and the Pharisees
Speaker 1: couldn't see themselves, and Jesus would show them to themselves
Speaker 1: and Jesus is interesting their problem with Jesus. They had
Speaker 1: a lot of problems with Jesus. But you don'ts that
Speaker 1: at the root of their problem they were jealous. They
Speaker 1: were jealous of Jesus. Ooh, jealousy is something else. How
Speaker 1: many you know, when you are effective at doing what
Speaker 1: God has called you to do, people are gonna be jealous.
Speaker 1: I don't know who this is for today, but somebody
Speaker 1: is stepping into the effulgence of your purpose and you're
Speaker 1: getting a lot of negativity, and you're getting a lot
Speaker 1: of haters and get a lot of critics, and they
Speaker 1: blogging about you, texting about you and tweeting about you.
Speaker 1: And you're about to shrink back from the call of
Speaker 1: God on your life because you got some resistance, because
Speaker 1: you got some jealousy. But God told me to tell
Speaker 1: you you need to walk in the totality of what
Speaker 1: He's called you to be. When you are doing what
Speaker 1: God has called you to do, people are gonna hate.
Speaker 1: People are gonna be jealous, people are gonna talk about you.
Speaker 1: Learn to live with the criticism. The only people that
Speaker 1: don't get criticized are the people that never say anything,
Speaker 1: never do anything, and never become anything. But if you'll
Speaker 1: start stepping in your call, people are going to be jealous.
Speaker 1: Just learn to live with it. Get you some tough
Speaker 1: skin and keep a soft heart. I'm telling you people
Speaker 1: will be jealous. One writer said that jealousy is the
Speaker 1: trophy that mediocrity gives to excellence. Woo, I'm saying it again,
Speaker 1: so maybe you could tweet it later. Jealousy is the
Speaker 1: trophy that mediocrity gives to excellence, because when you are
Speaker 1: excellent and flowing in your call, people get jealous. They
Speaker 1: were jealous of Jesus. Not only that they didn't like
Speaker 1: the claims of Jesus, because Jesus was claiming to be
Speaker 1: the Messiah, the son of the living God. They're like,
Speaker 1: hold on, Jesus, nothing good comes out of Nazareth. We
Speaker 1: know where you came from. You ever met those people,
Speaker 1: then anytime you start stepping in your call, they remind
Speaker 1: you of where you came from and remind you of
Speaker 1: who you were. Oh, didn't like the claims of Jesus.
Speaker 1: They also didn't like who Jesus hung out with. Do
Speaker 1: you know Jesus had a reputation. He had a reputation
Speaker 1: for hanging out with people that had bad reputations. And
Speaker 1: Pharisees was like, huh, if he was really holy? He
Speaker 1: was really a man of God, he would know how
Speaker 1: terrible and deplorable and despicable those people are, and he
Speaker 1: wouldn't hang with him. Oh, they had so many issues,
Speaker 1: but none of those aforementioned issues or what God, Jesus
Speaker 1: on the cross. You know what, God, I'm on the cross.
Speaker 1: You know what their hot button issue with Jesus was.
Speaker 1: They couldn't stand that he kept doing stuff on the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's what got him crucified, is that he
Speaker 1: kept doing stuff on the Sabbath. Read your Bible. The
Speaker 1: only time they got all hot headed and all madsten
Speaker 1: Jesus kept doing miracles on the Sabbath. They got so
Speaker 1: frustrated all throughout his ministry. They're like, what can't you
Speaker 1: just heal people on another day and leave our Sabbath alone.
Speaker 1: That was the issue that got him on the cross,
Speaker 1: is that he kept doing stuff on It's almost like
Speaker 1: he did it on purpose, Like, yeah, I remember store
Speaker 1: stuff on the Sabbath because I know it's gonna make
Speaker 1: you mad. They didn't like it. How many know the
Speaker 1: Pharisees took the Sabbath serious. They had been given a
Speaker 1: mandate by Moses on the Sabbath, which means to cease
Speaker 1: from work to rest. Promise. Moses didn't say what did
Speaker 1: that look like? So they started adding rules, adding rules
Speaker 1: because that's what religion will always do. It adds rules
Speaker 1: because religion needs a mark that says if I do this, this,
Speaker 1: and this, then God will accept me. But Grace doesn't
Speaker 1: say that. Grace says, you are the recipient of something
Speaker 1: that you don't discern. You are the recipient of somebody
Speaker 1: that paid a price for your life, that lived the
Speaker 1: life you were supposed to live, and died the death
Speaker 1: you were supposed to die, and you don't have to
Speaker 1: deal with karma. That's what Grace says. Grace says, even
Speaker 1: though I'm messed up, because of the blood of Jesus,
Speaker 1: I can receive. Oh they didn't like it. They were
Speaker 1: mad because they have added all kinds of rules and
Speaker 1: regulations to the Sabbath. They're like, Jesus, if you gonna
Speaker 1: heal somebody, do it on another day beside the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: Ooh they took the sabbath serious. Oh you'll sit down.
Speaker 1: We're just talking home. You know. Juice today still keep
Speaker 1: the Sabbath very serious. I learned this the hard way.
Speaker 1: I learned this hard way elevation fam I went to
Speaker 1: I went to Israel. I went to Holy Land, and
Speaker 1: I'm perusing the Holy Land, having a good time. And
Speaker 1: I'm walking around and I wanted to see everything, walking
Speaker 1: around the wole land and drinking a lot of water.
Speaker 1: It was hot, and I missed the bathroom break. Can
Speaker 1: I missed the bathroom break? That's on me. I was
Speaker 1: having a moment in Bethlehem and I missed the bathroom break.
Speaker 1: And get back to the hotel and I got to go.
Speaker 1: I got to go. And I run into the hotel
Speaker 1: and go to the elevator. The elevator opens and I'm
Speaker 1: like on the ninth floor, on the ninth floor. I
Speaker 1: walk into the elevator. This elevator, I kid you not
Speaker 1: stopped on the first floor, stopped on the second floor,
Speaker 1: stopped on the third floor, stopped on the fourth floor,
Speaker 1: stopped on the fifth floor, on the sixth floor, I
Speaker 1: passed out. Stop on the seventh floor. Afol. It finally
Speaker 1: gets to the ninth floor. I get off an exasperation,
Speaker 1: go into my hotel, come back out, catch the same
Speaker 1: elevator all the way back down. Stop on every single floor.
Speaker 1: By the time I got to the lobby, I had
Speaker 1: an attitude. Okay, there was no fruit of the spirits
Speaker 1: in my life. I was mad. I said, where is
Speaker 1: the manager? I paid a whole lot of money to
Speaker 1: walk where Jesus walked, and they can't fix the elevator
Speaker 1: in this hotel. It's stopping on every single floor. Got
Speaker 1: talk to the manager immediately, and so I'm walking to
Speaker 1: talk to the manager. And somebody from our tour was like, Robert,
Speaker 1: where are you going? I said, I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: to the manager because that elevator stopped on every single one.
Speaker 1: You don't want to know what happened to me on
Speaker 1: that seventh floor by the elevator and it stopped on
Speaker 1: every single one. They said, Robert, it's the Sabbath. I said,
Speaker 1: I don't care what day it is. They need to
Speaker 1: get a technician to fix that elevator. They said, no, Robert, Robert,
Speaker 1: that's the Shabbat elevator. I said, I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's the Shazam elevator. Somebody needs to do something and
Speaker 1: fix it. It stopped for a single floor. They said, Robert, no,
Speaker 1: bro it's the Sabbath, and and and the reason is
Speaker 1: stopped on every floor is because to push a button
Speaker 1: would be worked, and you have to cease from work
Speaker 1: on the sabbath. Oh, you think that's crazy. You need
Speaker 1: to see all the rules the Pharisees added in the
Speaker 1: day of Jesus. Oh my, they had all constable people.
Speaker 1: You could only take one nine hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 1: steps on the Sabbath. You took that two thousand step,
Speaker 1: that was work. You couldn't carry anything that weighed more
Speaker 1: than a fig on the Sabbath. If you do something
Speaker 1: in the air, you better catch you with the other hand,
Speaker 1: because if you caught it with the same hand, that
Speaker 1: was work on the Sabbath. You couldn't light a candle
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. You couldn't write a letter on the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: You couldn't take a bath because you might spill water
Speaker 1: and try to clean it up. You walking around musty
Speaker 1: because you're trying to keep the Sabbath holy. They had
Speaker 1: all kinds of rules and regulations they have added to
Speaker 1: the Sabbath. And how mean you know you sure couldn't
Speaker 1: heal anybody on the Sabbath. You sure couldn't restore anybody
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. You sure couldn't open up blind eyes
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. And here comes Jesus in the midst
Speaker 1: of all of their rules and all their regulations, and says,
Speaker 1: I am God. I'll heal who I want to heal.
Speaker 1: I restore who I want to restore. I know you
Speaker 1: got your rules, but I came to seek and save
Speaker 1: that which is lost. And anytime I see something broken,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring restoration in spite of whether you think
Speaker 1: it's right or wrong. Has ever had God restore something
Speaker 1: in your life? I tell you to take ten seconds
Speaker 1: and give him some praise, like you know he restores? Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on, you know your marriage wasn't always like that.
Speaker 1: You know your kids weren't always saved. You know you
Speaker 1: didn't always have the money. But how many are thankful
Speaker 1: that God step damn and restores. I feel like preaching
Speaker 1: he restores. He can't help himself. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: If something is broken, he has to bring restoration. He's
Speaker 1: attracted to the brokenness. How dare you hide your brokenness
Speaker 1: in the presence of our God? How dare you walk
Speaker 1: in with shame thinking God can't restore or redeem your life?
Speaker 1: That's what he specializes in. He specializes in taking broken things.
Speaker 1: It brings restoration. So the Pharisees couldn't understand why does
Speaker 1: he keep breaking the rules on the Sabbath. Some you
Speaker 1: need to change your perspective of God because you think
Speaker 1: that God is in heaven waiting to hit you upside
Speaker 1: the head when you break a rule. It's not the
Speaker 1: Jesus of the Bible. He broke rules to restore you.
Speaker 1: He broke rules to redeem you. He restores, He restores.
Speaker 1: Its interesting you peruse the pages of your Bible, you
Speaker 1: see that he does it on the Sabbath on purpose.
Speaker 1: Who remember Luke Chapter thirteen, there's a woman who has
Speaker 1: a spirit of infirmity. Don't miss that. It's a spirit
Speaker 1: of infirmity that is affecting her physical body, which means
Speaker 1: there are some things that manifest in your body that's
Speaker 1: starting the spirit. Oh, I'm thankful for doctors. I'm thankful
Speaker 1: for all of it. I go to doctors, I got
Speaker 1: a counselor, I got a therapist. I love it all.
Speaker 1: But there's some stuff you don't need a doctor for.
Speaker 1: You need deliverance. There's some things that gotta be cast
Speaker 1: out Can I preach this like I feel it? The
Speaker 1: Bible says she had a spirit of infirmity, and that
Speaker 1: spirit was affecting her physical body to the point that
Speaker 1: for eighteen years she's crippled, bowed over. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: for eighteen years not being able to pull yourself up,
Speaker 1: not being able to stand up straight. I think it's
Speaker 1: a picture of humanity because how many know you can't
Speaker 1: pull yourself up, you can't get yourself together. Have you
Speaker 1: not figured this out yet? How many New Years' resolutions
Speaker 1: you gotta break? Diget you can't fix you. You want
Speaker 1: to hashtag jack up to fix yourself. That's why you
Speaker 1: need a savior. Eighteen years spirit of infirmity affecting her
Speaker 1: physical body until Jesus says, daughter, be freed from your suffering,
Speaker 1: and this woman stands up straight for the first time
Speaker 1: in eighteen years. Only problem was he healed her. On
Speaker 1: the seven John, chapter five, there is a man who
Speaker 1: sits by a pool, A layman who sits by a
Speaker 1: pool called Bethesda, And every so often the waters would
Speaker 1: be stirred, and whoever God in first would get their healing.
Speaker 1: And for thirty eighty years this man missed his moment.
Speaker 1: I don't know who this is fortyday, but some of
Speaker 1: you right now have that feeling, that weight of I've
Speaker 1: missed my moment. The enemy is loud in your ear, saying, oh,
Speaker 1: God could have done a miracle last year, maybe the
Speaker 1: year before last, but now now sorry, you've missed your moment.
Speaker 1: Thirty eight years, this man sat by the pool and
Speaker 1: never got his healing, never got his breakthrough. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep one hundred with you and tell you a
Speaker 1: little story. I preached this text before, like when I
Speaker 1: was young, and I think God Discernon is not on
Speaker 1: YouTube because I preach his tics with the attitude, with attitude,
Speaker 1: because I didn't have no empathy for this dude. I'm like, homie,
Speaker 1: thirty eight years, like you couldn't get close to the
Speaker 1: pool for thirty eight I'm like, thirty a year, you
Speaker 1: could at least shimmied your way close to the pool. Oh.
Speaker 1: I had no compassion for homeboy. I was like, come on,
Speaker 1: And I even preach that Jesus talked to him with
Speaker 1: an attitude. Oh, because you know, we don't get vocal
Speaker 1: intonation in the Bible, so I preach Jesus comes to
Speaker 1: him and says, do you want to get well? So
Speaker 1: I preach it like Jesus had attitude and came up
Speaker 1: to him like, do you want to get well? Do
Speaker 1: you even want to get well? Like Jesus was annoyed
Speaker 1: with the people that he was about to heal. Oh,
Speaker 1: I preached that when I was young. But now I'm
Speaker 1: coming up on thirty eight, and I know what it's like,
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna be real to have some issues
Speaker 1: that you're like, yeah, it's me again. Lord, you know
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure this out. I got grace,
Speaker 1: I got compassion now because I'm getting close to thirty eight,
Speaker 1: I know what it's like to have some stuff you're
Speaker 1: still working out. So I'm so thankful that God didn't
Speaker 1: look at that man. Jesus didn't look at that man
Speaker 1: with the vocal intonation of annoyance, telling out do you
Speaker 1: want to get well? He spoke to him in the
Speaker 1: vocal intonation of expectation, saying do you want to get well?
Speaker 1: Because I know you think you missed your moment, but
Speaker 1: when it comes to me, you can never miss your
Speaker 1: moment because I'm the god that can restore the years
Speaker 1: that the enemy took from you because I bring restoration.
Speaker 1: Somebody ought to praise him if you're thankful that he
Speaker 1: can restore even the years that you wasted. God's the
Speaker 1: only one that can redeem time. He thought he missed
Speaker 1: his moment. So Jesus says, do you want to get well?
Speaker 1: Get up and take your man. He gets up, takes
Speaker 1: his man, He starts walking. The problem was he was
Speaker 1: walking on the seven you boy, ye John chapter nine,
Speaker 1: there's another man. The Bible says, it's born. He's born blind.
Speaker 1: And who Jesus and the disciples roll up on this man?
Speaker 1: And the disciples, Oh, the church staff members asked the
Speaker 1: most asinine question of this man. Who is born blin
Speaker 1: the dumbest question to ask. They say, Jesus, who's sinned?
Speaker 1: Who sin him? Or his parents for him to be
Speaker 1: born blind? Jeez? Which one? You see how narrow that question?
Speaker 1: It had to be one of those two. You see
Speaker 1: how narrow that question is. And Jesus looking at him
Speaker 1: like dummies neither. It has nothing to do with his
Speaker 1: sin or his parents sin. See. This is why you
Speaker 1: have to be careful when you're going through suffering, because
Speaker 1: when you go through suffering, the trick of the enemy
Speaker 1: will make you think that your suffering is a direct
Speaker 1: result of something that you did, so you'll expe countless
Speaker 1: nights thinking the reason I'm facing this is because I
Speaker 1: didn't do that. And the reason I'm facing this is
Speaker 1: because I'm messed up over here. Your suffering is not
Speaker 1: always the direct result of your personal sin. That is
Speaker 1: not true. Oh, don't believe that lie of the enemy. Now,
Speaker 1: Sometimes it is amen. Yeah, sometimes your suffering is a
Speaker 1: direct result of your sin. Sometimes you blame the devil,
Speaker 1: and the devil's looking at you like, no, that wasn't me,
Speaker 1: that was you. Now, you replied to that, DM, I
Speaker 1: didn't do that. You typed it. You typed. Remember it
Speaker 1: was Saturday night, you was lonely, you did that. So
Speaker 1: there's some things that's you. Jesus says, that's not the case. Here.
Speaker 1: We live in a broken world. He said, mean, guess what,
Speaker 1: even though this happened, this happens so the glory of
Speaker 1: God can be revealed in this that. Yes, he's going
Speaker 1: through it. He didn't do anything to cause it, but
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna use it. I'm still gonna get the
Speaker 1: glory out of it. Come on, say anybody that can
Speaker 1: testify that you're going through something right now that you
Speaker 1: you know, when it's all set in time, God is
Speaker 1: going to get the glory out of it. So you
Speaker 1: know what Jesus does. This dude spits in some mud,
Speaker 1: breaks all kinds of COVID nineteen rules, and just splits
Speaker 1: it all in the man's eyes, tells him to go
Speaker 1: wash off, And that man washed off and got his
Speaker 1: sight for the first time in his life. Only problem
Speaker 1: was he got a site on the So the Pharisees
Speaker 1: are noticing a trend. He keeps doing stuff on the
Speaker 1: seventh obviously doesn't care about our rules. So they took
Speaker 1: it upon themselves. They said, well, we're just gonna watch them.
Speaker 1: We're gonna follow them and make sure he doesn't do
Speaker 1: any more healings on the Sabbath. Now I'm to my text.
Speaker 1: Oh that was my intro. So in my text, you
Speaker 1: gotta see this. They're in a grain field, in a greenfield,
Speaker 1: following Jesus and his disciples in a grainfield. They're stalking
Speaker 1: Jesus and his disciple integrate stalks. They are literally stalking.
Speaker 1: It's trying to wake somebody. Hell, they're stalking him in
Speaker 1: a grainfield? Can you say him in a grainfield? Stalking Jesus,
Speaker 1: following him and his disciples. But this one made me
Speaker 1: laugh is that they don't like him. They don't like him,
Speaker 1: but they're following him. They don't like him, but they're
Speaker 1: following him. You know, there's nothing new under the sun.
Speaker 1: And it's funny how today, how people won't like you,
Speaker 1: but yet they still following you, like you pushed the
Speaker 1: follow button. I didn't ask you to follow me, but
Speaker 1: you're following me and you don't like that I'm follow boo,
Speaker 1: Why are you following me if you don't like me?
Speaker 1: When that funny, Oh, people won't like you, they still
Speaker 1: follow you. They speak quiet face looking frustrated, constepated, like
Speaker 1: they've been sucking on lemons all day. And I'm being
Speaker 1: extra cause I'm trying to paint a picture because I
Speaker 1: want you to see. Don't miss this religion versus relationship.
Speaker 1: They're speak quiet, stalking Jesus and disciples. Meanwhile Jesus disciples
Speaker 1: are having the time of their lives. They're just chilling Jesus. Hey, hey, Jesus,
Speaker 1: you are preaching today on that mount. Oh you can preach,
Speaker 1: you can preach now you long within it, you long
Speaker 1: within it, but man, you'll get pressed. Jesus, we don't
Speaker 1: even get no food. You're preachings hello. And she's like,
Speaker 1: when we're in a gray field, if you're hungry, get
Speaker 1: some food. Like, okay, there's your own ladies eating gray
Speaker 1: having a good time. Do you see relationship? You understand
Speaker 1: that the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all need to get your joy back. You
Speaker 1: cry too many tears last year. God wants to restore
Speaker 1: your joy. They're having a good tongue eating grain. Right
Speaker 1: when they eat that grain, the pharisees pop up. Ah,
Speaker 1: I see and this and something like have y'all been
Speaker 1: here the whole time? Like, yes, we have, and we
Speaker 1: see and I can literally see the disciples they still
Speaker 1: got food in the matter. Like and she's like, don't
Speaker 1: worry about them. I got them yet, Chip, Peter, calm down,
Speaker 1: Let me get them, let me get them back up,
Speaker 1: back up, I got them. See. I mean, know, this
Speaker 1: is the season to know what to respond to and
Speaker 1: what not to respond to. This is season know what
Speaker 1: to type back into an email and what not to
Speaker 1: say back to an email. You gotta let the Lord
Speaker 1: fight your battles. If you keep stepping in to fight
Speaker 1: the battle, you're leaving God out of the equation. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you got to sit back and let him fight for you. See, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all back up. I got this, I got this and
Speaker 1: Jesu gos Have you not read? Have you not read
Speaker 1: in the days of anbf are the High Priest when
Speaker 1: David and his companions were hungry and the aid of
Speaker 1: the consecrated bread that was set apart for the high Priest?
Speaker 1: Have you not read that I love Jesus because he
Speaker 1: is throwing shape? Because of course they read it. They
Speaker 1: got it memorized, the whole first five books of the
Speaker 1: Old Testament memorized. You still skip Leviticus and your one
Speaker 1: you're reading Bible play. They got this thing memorized. Of
Speaker 1: course they know it. What is he calling out? He's
Speaker 1: calling out their interpretation of the word. He's calling out
Speaker 1: the fact that you know the letter of the law,
Speaker 1: but you've forgotten the spirit of the law. He's calling
Speaker 1: out the fact that you know the word, but you
Speaker 1: don't know the author. And because you know the word
Speaker 1: and not the author, you have elevated your human tradition
Speaker 1: over people. You're more concerned with people keeping a code
Speaker 1: of conduct than you are with having compassion and human
Speaker 1: need transcends human tradition. I came to seek and save
Speaker 1: that which is lost, not for people to keep a
Speaker 1: conduct coate. You're so busy keeping the code of conduct
Speaker 1: you don't even have a heart for people. He leaves
Speaker 1: them with it and then goes into the synagogue to preach,
Speaker 1: and they're standing there like, well, well, still a Sabbath.
Speaker 1: He gets in the synagogue and he's preaching, and I
Speaker 1: see the Pharisees following him into the synagogue, and I
Speaker 1: see them scanning the synagogue the day, perhaps to see
Speaker 1: broken people, because they know if there's broken people, he's
Speaker 1: gonna heal them. I can see them scanning, looking through
Speaker 1: the sanctuary for people that are broken. Oh no, she
Speaker 1: got both her eyes good, he got both his legs,
Speaker 1: he got yeah, how man, you know, they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be broken people in the church. They're supposed I don't
Speaker 1: know when the church became a place of a museum
Speaker 1: of perfection. No, you're supposed to have some people that
Speaker 1: are still working some stuff out. You're supposed to have
Speaker 1: some people that you're like, did I just catch secondhand
Speaker 1: high from hugging hand you're supposed to have? Some people
Speaker 1: got some stuff on their breath that you're wondering what
Speaker 1: it is. This is what the church is for. It's
Speaker 1: a hospital for broken people. This ain't a museum for
Speaker 1: perfect people. This is a place where people who are
Speaker 1: broken and hurting know where the bread of life is,
Speaker 1: not because we got it all figured out, because we
Speaker 1: know we need him. I can see him scanning the
Speaker 1: crowd all of a sudden, in the back he walks in.
Speaker 1: They go, oh, got one wether phise. He's like, who
Speaker 1: right there? Third girl from the back. He always comes
Speaker 1: in lane like who is that? You know who that is?
Speaker 1: That's Willy. Willy, Yeah, WILLI with the withered hand, that's him.
Speaker 1: He always come back like it's like, oh, that is
Speaker 1: with me. I'm like that you laughed at that, because
Speaker 1: isn't that what we do? We identify people by their issue, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, his name is not really Willing. For
Speaker 1: those who knew the church e fan around the world,
Speaker 1: I want you to leave here saying passtory. I preaid
Speaker 1: that message on Mark chapter two about Willy and the
Speaker 1: Bible I just I made that up. His name is
Speaker 1: I read Will. Some want to clarify. It's funny how
Speaker 1: people will define you by your dysfunction to the point
Speaker 1: that you think you are what you did. And I
Speaker 1: came to tell you more than your mistake. Stop defining
Speaker 1: yourself by your dysfunction. Some of you have let other
Speaker 1: people define you by your mistake said what you did.
Speaker 1: Willy with the withered hand. They don't call him the
Speaker 1: man with one good hand or a man with two
Speaker 1: good legs. No, it's the man with the withered hand,
Speaker 1: because people will define you by your dysfunction. And really
Speaker 1: walks in late because he doesn't want anybody to see.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Willy was expecting a miracle that day,
Speaker 1: just like some of you. You're not expecting a miracle.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm just gonna tune in the elevation. I
Speaker 1: ain't expecting I'll see some of you came in and
Speaker 1: there you want to expect. I don't think he was
Speaker 1: expecting a miracle, because read your Bible. Every person that
Speaker 1: got in the presence of Jesus, they knew he's ten
Speaker 1: for ten. He didn't miss miracles. They said something whether
Speaker 1: it's a woman in an issue of blood. She pressed
Speaker 1: her way through. Remember ghetto Bartimaeus, who was all loud,
Speaker 1: saying Lord son of David. He was blind, Lord Son
Speaker 1: of David, had mercy on me, and people around here
Speaker 1: were like, calm down, be quiet. He's like, oh, y'all
Speaker 1: can see Lord son of Dave and have mussy. He
Speaker 1: was loud because he knew Jesus would do something about it.
Speaker 1: He didn't say anything. You know why. He wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: the miracle. Withered hand is different. It's not a lame leg.
Speaker 1: It's not a blond eye. Your withered hand represents the
Speaker 1: thing that you've learned to live with, the thing that
Speaker 1: you've lost hope. You just saying, God, you can't restore that.
Speaker 1: And God sent me on a sign of delevation to
Speaker 1: tell somebody today he wants to restore that thing. The
Speaker 1: marriage you think is hopeless, the business that you think
Speaker 1: the pandemic has completely shut down, and God can't use
Speaker 1: you in the business world ever known. He wants to
Speaker 1: restore the thing that you've learned to live with. And
Speaker 1: Jesus notices Willy and I can see the Pharisees noticing Jesus,
Speaker 1: notice Willy and I can say Jesus noticing the Pharisees
Speaker 1: noticing him, noticing. Really, I can see this conversation with
Speaker 1: their eyes. I can see the Pharisees looking like, you
Speaker 1: better not heal him. You see Jesus looking like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't think I'll heal he really? Huh? Stand up,
Speaker 1: calls them in front of everybody, and then he turns
Speaker 1: to the Pharisees and ask them a question, what are
Speaker 1: you doing Jesus? Where he's about to do a miracle?
Speaker 1: And you need to understand when you're a god that
Speaker 1: can heal all kinds of diseases any kind of way.
Speaker 1: If you heal a unique way, that means you are
Speaker 1: teaching us something with the way you are doing that. Healing.
Speaker 1: Every miracle is a parable. When you can heal all
Speaker 1: kinds of ways, the specific way in which you heal,
Speaker 1: it's teaching something. What are you teaching Jesus? What does
Speaker 1: he do? Tells him to stand up and looks at
Speaker 1: the Pharisees and ask them a question. I love it.
Speaker 1: They came to trap Jesus. Jesus flips the script and
Speaker 1: traps through says, is it lawful? To do good or
Speaker 1: evil on the Sabbath, to save the life or the kill.
Speaker 1: Simple question that demands a simple answer. This is what
Speaker 1: God does. See, the Pharisees were real good at religion.
Speaker 1: Religion always takes that which is simple and makes it complex.
Speaker 1: It adds rules, it adds regulations. Religion will always take
Speaker 1: that which is simple and make it complex. But look
Speaker 1: at what Grace does. Grace takes that which is complex
Speaker 1: and it makes it so simple. He asks a simple
Speaker 1: question because he is the personification of grace, and Grace
Speaker 1: takes that which is complex and it makes it simple.
Speaker 1: Come on, That's what he did with the ten commandments.
Speaker 1: He said, if you're struggling with all ten and you
Speaker 1: can't even memorize them, then just take it to two.
Speaker 1: And love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul,
Speaker 1: mind and strained. And love your neighbor as yourself. If
Speaker 1: you take care of those two, those two will take
Speaker 1: care of the ten. Because Grace always takes that witch
Speaker 1: is complex and it makes it simple. Hallelujah. He's this,
Speaker 1: Which one is it? Do good or evil? Save a
Speaker 1: life or destroy life? Simple question. They remain silent. Really, Pharisees,
Speaker 1: you ain't got nothing to say. You were real loud
Speaker 1: about them picking grain, but you don't have anything to
Speaker 1: say about brokenness. You know you're a pharisee. We're you're
Speaker 1: loud about certain issues, but you're quiet on other issues.
Speaker 1: When people are hurting and broken. Oh, God, give us
Speaker 1: a church that'll be loud about every issue that faces humanity,
Speaker 1: not just the issues that we want to be loud about,
Speaker 1: but anytime they're hurting and broken and suffering and lost people. God,
Speaker 1: give us a church that will stand up and say,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be loud about everything. Because everybody was created
Speaker 1: and the image of God that carries me among o
Speaker 1: day and you are valuable to him. God, help must
Speaker 1: be loud about what you're loved about. It remains silent.
Speaker 1: You had nothing to say. And he marveled that they're
Speaker 1: stubborn hearts. They're stubborn hearts. They're stubborn hearts. Oh, I
Speaker 1: see what you're doing, Jesus. They've got withered hearts, and
Speaker 1: he's got a withered hand. Their hearts have become hard
Speaker 1: as his hand. That man's hand was injured to an accident.
Speaker 1: The Greek tells us this wasn't born this way. Something
Speaker 1: happened in his past that now carries residue in his present.
Speaker 1: And in the same way. They started with good intentions
Speaker 1: to uphold the long and keep it holy. Their hearts
Speaker 1: have become so hard now that they've lost compassion, no
Speaker 1: wonder he looked at them first. He wanted to do
Speaker 1: two miracles that day. He wanted to heal and restore
Speaker 1: their heart and hearts, and restore that man's hand. Oh no,
Speaker 1: miss the message. He loves them too. He loves the
Speaker 1: Pharisees too. He wanted to heal their heart in that
Speaker 1: man's hand. You know why because your heart in your
Speaker 1: hand are connected. Anything you reach for with your hand
Speaker 1: first started in your heart. Your heart in your hand
Speaker 1: are connected. But since they refused, he asked the man
Speaker 1: to do what he wanted their hearts to do. Stretch
Speaker 1: forth your hand, reach out again. I can see the
Speaker 1: man going, Jesus. If I could reach out, I would
Speaker 1: have done it by now. Stretch forth your hand, Jesus.
Speaker 1: You don't know how long I'm good, Jesus, I can
Speaker 1: get around. Stretch forth your hand, Jesus, I can't. If
Speaker 1: I would have stretched it, I would have done it.
Speaker 1: Five years ago. If you've been healed this marriage, you
Speaker 1: would have done it years ago. If you could have
Speaker 1: he doing this child, you would have done Stretch forth
Speaker 1: your hand. But I tried before. I know you tried before.
Speaker 1: But it's different now because I'm commanding you to do it.
Speaker 1: And anytime God commands you to do something, how many
Speaker 1: you know within the commandment will come the empowerment for
Speaker 1: you to do it. So, if he's telling you to stretch, stretch,
Speaker 1: If he's telling you to take a step of faith,
Speaker 1: take a step of faith. As he stretched, restoration came
Speaker 1: to his hand. And what happened to that man's hand
Speaker 1: could have happened to their hearts. They would have stretched.
Speaker 1: Your heart and your hand are connected. Where does the
Speaker 1: restoration start? Starts in your heart? Some of you, this
Speaker 1: has been a difficult season to believe again, to dream again.
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if you've been complaining about the thing
Speaker 1: in your hand. But God actually wants to restore your heart.
Speaker 1: He wants to give you a new heart. Heart. They
Speaker 1: can believe again, heart, they can hope again, heart, they
Speaker 1: can trust again. I know you lost some things last year.
Speaker 1: I'm not belittling what you've been through, but God saying,
Speaker 1: can you stretch your heart to believe? A kid? H
Speaker 1: you walk away just like the Pharisees and miss the
Speaker 1: miracle that was right in front of you. How many
Speaker 1: has heads be bound and os be closed? Father, Today
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to restore hearts. God give us new hearts,
Speaker 1: hearts that believe again, hearts that trust again. Jesus, restore
Speaker 1: our hearts because God, I know if you restore our hearts,
Speaker 1: then healing will come to our hands. If you restore
Speaker 1: what's on the inside, it will affect everything on the outside.
Speaker 1: This is what you do, Jesus, You heal us from
Speaker 1: the inside out. God. I pray for my brother and
Speaker 1: my sister. I was having trouble believing again or hoping again.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, bring life back into their hearts. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: just right where you are, just lift up your hands.
Speaker 1: I sense the presence of God in this place. He's
Speaker 1: restoring your heart to trust him again, to believe again.
Speaker 1: If He heals your heart, it will take care of
Speaker 1: your hand whither our hands are lifted because we want
Speaker 1: you to do and inner work. Heal us from the
Speaker 1: inside out. Where does restoration start? And it starts in
Speaker 1: our hearts, so we receive it today. God, I pray
Speaker 1: for the person who's never surrendered their heart to you
Speaker 1: today and the enemy is lied to them and made
Speaker 1: them think that their issue is their identity. Father, thank
Speaker 1: you that because of your finished work on the Cross,
Speaker 1: all things are made. Now we can always come home.
Speaker 1: I thank you for it today, Thank you for joining us.
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