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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.

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Speaker 3: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: You know how I know you're important.

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Speaker 2: It takes boldness to call your sermon you must be important.

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Speaker 2: It takes boldness to call your sermon that. But I

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Speaker 2: know it not because of the car you drive, not

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Speaker 2: because of the house you live in, not because I

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Speaker 2: looked up how.

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Speaker 3: Many Instagram followers you have.

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Speaker 2: I know you're important because of your storm. See the

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Speaker 2: size of your storm tells me something about your importance.

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Speaker 2: The size of your storm lets me know the importance

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Speaker 2: of your assignment.

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Speaker 3: The devil doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Start a storm for somebody who is not threatened by If.

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Speaker 3: You're going through a storm, there's something so big on

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Speaker 3: the other side. And if you met.

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Speaker 2: High five three, people say you must be important because

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Speaker 2: that big, bad devil's been huffing and puffing and he

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Speaker 2: thought he would blow your house down.

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Speaker 4: But the trial to serve to prove your foundation.

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Speaker 3: Come on, my house is on the rock.

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Speaker 1: I can't. I was so confused for so long.

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Speaker 2: I thought the storm meant that God had left me,

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Speaker 2: you know, But in this passage, the storm means He's

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Speaker 2: on the way.

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Speaker 3: Did you hear what I said?

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Speaker 5: If you're going through a storm right now, or if

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Speaker 5: one happens to hit on Thursday morning, I want you

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Speaker 5: to know that the storm is a sign that Grace

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Speaker 5: is on the way.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says the storm came up suddenly the moment

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Speaker 2: Jesus started in the direction of the man, here came

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Speaker 2: a storm, not because God wasn't with him, but precisely

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Speaker 2: because he was headed.

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Speaker 3: In his direction.

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Speaker 2: All right, So if that's true, if what I just

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Speaker 2: said is true, that there is a storm that proves

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Speaker 2: nobody attacks what isn't valuable, I promise you if I

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Speaker 2: went to play Game seven today, Lebron wouldn't guard me.

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Speaker 1: I promise you.

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Speaker 2: They would let me run all round that court and

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Speaker 2: do whatever I wanted to do.

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Speaker 3: They would hand me the ball gladly.

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Speaker 1: You only guard.

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Speaker 2: Why would you guard someone who wasn't in a position

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Speaker 2: to score?

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Speaker 1: I know you're important. Look here, Brooke.

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Speaker 2: When I prepared this message, I was like everybody won't

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Speaker 2: get this message because they'll do this thing. When I

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Speaker 2: get to this man called Legion and I say he

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Speaker 2: was living among the tombs and cutting himself with stones,

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Speaker 2: they would disassociate themselves and say, well, I got some problems,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not that bad. And when he says my

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Speaker 2: name is Legion, they'll back up off of him and

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Speaker 2: they'll disassociate in the text and they'll say, well, I'm

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Speaker 2: like the Disciples going through a storm, but I'm not

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Speaker 2: the man called Legion.

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Speaker 1: Really, are you so sure?

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Speaker 2: Because it said he lived among the tombs, so you

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Speaker 1: Are you sure?

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Speaker 2: Are you sure this isn't you somewhere in here? It

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Speaker 2: may have a different demonstration, but it's the same dynamic

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Speaker 2: because they said they would try to chain him up

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Speaker 2: and he would break the chains and they couldn't hold

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Speaker 2: him anymore, and he would hurt himself. Are you telling

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Speaker 2: me there's no area of your life where you're out

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Speaker 2: of control? I started to study the text, thinking I

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Speaker 2: was like Jesus, and who do I need to go help.

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Speaker 2: The more I studied it, I thought maybe there's some

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Speaker 2: Legion in me. I don't mean demonic possession, But I

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Speaker 2: do mean oppression. I've got my own chains. I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you the greatest secret God ever showed me about you,

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Speaker 2: Yes you. He told me that all y'all are crazy.

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Speaker 3: True story.

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Speaker 2: He knew the man was crazy when he got on

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Speaker 2: me excited. I figure maybe he knows about my issues too.

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Speaker 3: I am Legion.

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Speaker 2: He said, Legion is six thousand foot soldiers. That's a

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Speaker 2: lot of demons. Jesus said, what is your name? You

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Speaker 2: little bit of Legion. There are many means. Somebody told

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Speaker 2: me that looks just like me. They say she's your

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Speaker 2: mini me. I was like, you don't know how true

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Speaker 2: that is. There are many mes.

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Speaker 1: Huh. There's online you. There's Sunday Morning you. That's the

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Speaker 1: only one I ever get to see.

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Speaker 2: But then I found out there's a Friday night You.

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Speaker 2: Don't make me interview your spouse, please, I will pull

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Speaker 2: them up here and give them the mic.

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Speaker 1: There's a you.

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Speaker 2: Only she knows he knows there's a youth that only

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a youth that cries out there or not.

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Speaker 1: You don't cut yourself with stones, I understand that.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes you inflict pain on yourself and you can't

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Speaker 2: stop it, and you don't even know why you keep

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Speaker 2: pushing people away. You've been living among the tombs so long.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's tomb is them all. Somebody's tomb is pornography. Somebody's

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Speaker 2: tomb is an addiction that if we named it in

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Speaker 2: the room, you think surely that person wouldn't come to church.

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Speaker 2: You be surprised how quick the demons run to Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Those demons ran before Jesus and fell before him and said,

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Speaker 2: don't make us leave. Got it like we wanted here?

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Speaker 2: We got these people on lockdown. But they knew that

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Speaker 2: premises of this man's personality and his psychology, and they

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Speaker 2: knew that someone strong enough to subdue them had finally

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Speaker 2: showed up in the region of the Gharriceanes. Because you've

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Speaker 2: tried everything else, and you've run to everyone else. But

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Speaker 2: I declared today you were in the presence of a

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Speaker 2: greater grace. And what works couldn't do, and the law

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Speaker 2: couldn't do, and chains couldn't do, and shackles couldn't do,

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Speaker 2: God's about to do it in your life. Grace can

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Speaker 2: do what shames can't do. So now we get to

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Speaker 2: the part about the pigs. We hadn't even got to

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Speaker 2: the pigs yet. The pigs are the most important part.

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Speaker 2: This is the part where I'm wondering why the demons

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Speaker 2: wanted to get inside the pigs. And on the surface,

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Speaker 2: I understand that the devil never wants to give up

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Speaker 2: any ground. You understand once he has established a foothold.

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Speaker 2: How many of you don't believe in the devil? I

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Speaker 2: want to see who hadn't had kids yet? That's all

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to do. He doesn't want you to be

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Speaker 2: the first one in your family not to need drink

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Speaker 2: to feel good about yourself. He doesn't want you to

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Speaker 2: So what does he want? He wants to stand guard

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Speaker 2: in the area. And this is a brilliant strategy. I

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Speaker 2: gotta give it to these devils. The devils are smarter

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Speaker 2: get information, they know how to accomplish a purpose, and

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Speaker 2: they know how to discern what is valuable.

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Speaker 1: This is it? Stay with me? Are you with me?

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Speaker 3: Come on, We're on something.

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Speaker 1: Are you with me?

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Speaker 2: Lean into this word, the word you resist, This is the.

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Speaker 3: One that you need.

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Speaker 2: Jesus is in this house. The presence of God is

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Speaker 2: in this place. The power of a mighty God is

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Speaker 2: in this moment. Now, So Jesus says.

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Speaker 3: You gotta go.

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Speaker 2: Let that man go. He's important to me. I went

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Speaker 2: through the storm to get to him. I went through

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Speaker 2: went through bucketfuls of water, bail out of Peter's boat

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Speaker 2: change the world. This, this man is a vip. I

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Speaker 2: know everybody else has forgotten about him, but I want

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Speaker 2: him now. Let me say something real quick. If he

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Speaker 2: went through the storm for this man, and he went

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Speaker 2: to the cross for you, how valuable must you be?

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Speaker 3: How much is your life?

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Speaker 2: For he said God, and Jesus said, okay, you can

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Speaker 2: go into the pigs.

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Speaker 1: And they went into the pigs.

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Speaker 3: And then they made the pigs trawl.

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Speaker 2: Because the demons know two things. One, pigs can't swim.

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Speaker 1: But we all know that. What the demons know that

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Speaker 1: we don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think the demons understood that the people in the

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Speaker 2: region cared more about.

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Speaker 1: The pigs than they did about the man. This is

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Speaker 1: two thousand pigs.

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Speaker 2: This represents a significant part of the portfolio of these

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Speaker 2: raising pigs. So what does the enemy attack? Whatever you

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Speaker 2: And yes, he knows how to hit you where it

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Speaker 2: get to your relationship with God. What's really most valuable

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Speaker 1: He knows where to hit you. He knows where your

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Speaker 2: He knows your playlist, what you say to yourself about yourself.

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Speaker 1: He knows your proclivities, your perversions, he.

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Speaker 2: Knows what makes you feel ashamed, so he hits you

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Speaker 2: there to make you lash out in anger.

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Speaker 1: He knows how to keep you bound.

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Speaker 2: And since he couldn't stay in the man, the devil

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Speaker 2: went into the pigs. If I killed the pigs, they'll

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Speaker 2: send Jesus away. Let me hurt Job. This is when

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Speaker 2: the devil had a meeting with God. He said, I've

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Speaker 2: And God said, have you checked out my boy?

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Speaker 1: Job? Job's a bad dude. This is an updated translation.

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Speaker 1: It's a little more modern. Probably says it in your Bible.

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Speaker 2: And the devil said, he's only serving you. He's only

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Speaker 2: serving you because his herd is still intact. Let me

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Speaker 2: touch his body, let me touch his children. The enemy

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Speaker 2: will use anything to get to your faith. What he's

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Speaker 2: after is your relationship with God. But he will use

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Speaker 2: of God. He knows exactly where you're vulnerable. Guess where

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Speaker 2: you're the most vulnerable. Wherever you place the greatest value.

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Speaker 2: These pigs were worth two million dollars in modern money.

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Speaker 1: He said, if I can.

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Speaker 2: Get in the pigs and make the pigs drown, in

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Speaker 2: the water. The people will be so afraid because they

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Speaker 2: wonder where the enemy attacked you. I bet it was

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Speaker 2: in the place of your greatest value. But guess what

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Speaker 2: I got good news. He only attacks what's valuable. So

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Speaker 2: if he has has attacked you lately, get ready to shallow.

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Speaker 2: Guess what that means about you? You must be important, you,

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Speaker 2: o God. The devil knows more about your destiny than

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Speaker 2: I preach this like God gave it to me? God said,

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Speaker 1: You must be important.

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Speaker 2: The devil wouldn't tie you up if he wasn't afraid

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Speaker 1: It's the opposite. I thought.

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Speaker 3: Who knows how to break.

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Speaker 2: Says now, I just wonder, are there any chain breakers

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Speaker 3: I mean, you see chain.

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Speaker 3: I am a child of God.

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Speaker 4: Take a few moments and praise Him.

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Speaker 4: Come on, children, come on, come on, say breakers, come on.

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Speaker 2: I don't care.

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Speaker 4: Shall it to God with the voice of trial. I

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Speaker 3: You must be important. He threw you in the.

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Speaker 3: You must be important.

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Speaker 2: And you were so important that Jesus went through gethseemone

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Speaker 3: Don't you ever.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to take you out of it. I

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Speaker 2: we could call this sermon from maniac to missionary. I

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Speaker 2: See, you are so important to me. And who wasn't

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Speaker 2: I thought I was worthless. I believe that for years,

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Speaker 2: Because the enemy only attacks what's valuable.