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Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Tim Hatch. Welcome to Timhatch Live

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Speaker 2: to check out the content, and I pray it blesses

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Speaker 2: your life. God wants to do things not just for you,

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Speaker 2: but through you. Touch lives, through you, change the world

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Speaker 2: you were involved in their life. Providence Part four. I

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Speaker 2: all part of the plan. It's all part of the plan.

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Speaker 2: and You're gonna be amazed. I love this passage. I

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Speaker 2: love this book. I've enjoyed preaching it. Are you enjoying

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Speaker 2: it's instilling faith in you and you are getting ready

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Speaker 2: Providence means God is working no matter what the world

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Speaker 2: if you're in Christ, there are four words that I

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be killed, King, my people, me, your wife.

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Speaker 2: And verse five, he says who is he? And where

433
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,439
Speaker 2: is he who has dared to do this? And she's like,

434
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 2: he's at that dinner table, and there's there. It is

435
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 2: finally a break in the action that all began with insomnia.

436
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 2: Don't despise the small things in your life. God is

437
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,919
Speaker 2: involved even in the small things. She says, A foe,

438
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 2: an enemy, the wicked Hayman. Then Hayman was terrified before

439
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 2: the king and the queen. You know, I stop here

440
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 2: to say this. You know the Jews they run Hollywood.

441
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:43,960
Speaker 2: You know this, right, I mean, and I don't say

442
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,640
Speaker 2: that disparage them, but they do. And the reason why

443
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 2: is because they're amazing storytellers. They know how to tell

444
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 2: a good story. And some of you need to get

445
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 2: this in your spirit because.

446
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 3: You're not understanding how life works.

447
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,679
Speaker 2: The reason that they tell good stories is because these people,

448
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,359
Speaker 2: for thirty five hundred year have been through hell and back.

449
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 2: They've had people hate them, try to kill them. You

450
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 2: can go from from Pharaoh to Hayman, to Hitler, to

451
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 2: Hamas to Hesbalah. They all start with h for some reason,

452
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 2: maybe because they all come from the pit of hell,

453
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 2: and they've been coming for these people for thousands upon

454
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 2: thousands upon thousands of years, and every.

455
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 3: Time you think they're gonna be.

456
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 2: Gone, they make a comeback because God is faithful to

457
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 2: his promises and He's gonna preserve that people until Jesus

458
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: Christ comes again. And what they got as a result,

459
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 2: you gotta get this. What they got as a result

460
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 2: was a good story. Do you know what makes a

461
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 2: good story? Trouble, hardship, setbacks somebody. You gotta start looking

462
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 2: at your life as, oh, this is what God is doing.

463
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 2: He's writing a better story. Because the story where you

464
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 2: get everything that you want and everything goes your way

465
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Speaker 2: and you always succeed and everybody loves.

466
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Speaker 3: You is boring and no one can relate to.

467
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Speaker 2: It because everyone struggles and everyone goes through and tribulations,

468
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter how much money you make, and

469
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter how good you look. Everybody goes through difficulties.

470
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 2: And if you want God to do something with your difficulties,

471
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 2: give him your life, surrender your plans, and say God,

472
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 2: have your way with this challenge. I want other people

473
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 2: to hear how you saved me from that I want

474
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 2: other people to hear how you restored my heart. I

475
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 2: want other people to hear how you brought me back

476
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 2: from cancer, how you saved my kid from fornication, how

477
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 2: you delivered my family and brought me to this place.

478
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 2: Because God takes pleasure and bringing his people back from

479
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 2: the brink again and again, and he wants to do

480
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 2: that in you, and Esther just finally says it, Hayman,

481
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,199
Speaker 2: this guy, he wants to kill us verse seven. And

482
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 2: the king rose in wrath, rose in wrath and went

483
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Speaker 2: out from the place where they were eating and drinking,

484
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Speaker 2: went to the palace garden. Hayman stayed to beg for

485
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 2: his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm

486
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 2: was determined against him by the king. And verse says

487
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 2: the king returned from the palace garden to the place

488
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Speaker 2: where they were drinking wine as Hayman was falling on

489
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Speaker 2: the couch where Esther was, and the king he said,

490
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 2: is he even gonna go and molest my wife in front.

491
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 3: Of me and my own palace?

492
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: And there's a there's a legend about this moment the

493
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: Jews have that Hayman, when he was begging for his life,

494
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 2: just stood there before the.

495
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Speaker 3: Queen, and it was please intervene to save me, don't.

496
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: Let him kill me, And an angel came up behind

497
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 2: him and shoved him on top of the queen.

498
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Speaker 3: I love that.

499
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 2: I love that legend because it reminds me of something

500
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: that some of you need a reminder of.

501
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 3: There's angels at work on behalf of God's people. Do

502
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 3: you believe this?

503
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: You've got to understand there are spiritual forces of wickedness

504
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,719
Speaker 2: coming against you. But I got better news. There are

505
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 2: stronger angels and mightier angels that are working for your good.

506
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 2: You don't just got Christ in you. You don't just

507
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 2: got the Holy Spirit in you. You don't got just

508
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 2: the Father watching over you. You don't just got the

509
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 2: Church supporting it. But you've got angels owing to work

510
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 2: for your protection.

511
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 3: The Bible says they're.

512
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 2: Ministering spirits sent to serve those who are called to

513
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 2: eternal life in Christ.

514
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 3: Jesus, I don't know about you, but I pray for angels.

515
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 3: Do you pray?

516
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 2: I don't pray two angels, I pray four angels. I say, Father,

517
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 2: set your angels around my children. When when my kids

518
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: get their driver's license, every time they get their drivers.

519
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 2: I say, all right, Lord, I need some extra angels

520
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 2: around that child now, So you need to pray angels

521
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 2: around your family, angels around your children, angels around your home. Lord,

522
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 2: I want protection in the spiritual realm so that the

523
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 2: enemy doesn't have his way with my family. So the

524
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 2: angel pushes them. I think that's what happened anyway.

525
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 3: Verse nine.

526
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Speaker 2: Then Harbono, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, moreover,

527
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 2: the gallows that Hayman has prepared for Mornecai, whose words

528
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 2: save the king, is standing at Hama's house.

529
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Speaker 3: Fifty cuba is high. And the king said, hang them

530
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Speaker 3: on that.

531
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Speaker 2: So they hanged Hayman on the very gallows that he

532
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 2: prepared for Mordicai. You know, there's a proverb that talks

533
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: about this reality that happens to Hymen right here is

534
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 2: Proverbs twenty six twenty seven, and it says this, he

535
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 2: who digs a pit will fall into it. Be careful, Christians,

536
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 2: of digging pits for your nemesis.

537
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 3: Be careful Christians of trying to get other people back.

538
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: It's childish, it is unfaithful to God, and it really

539
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: works out for you, you know, what I'm talking about.

540
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 2: Some of you were quiet today. You got you gotta

541
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about. You give that person the

542
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 2: silent treatment because you want to let them know that

543
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 2: you're angry, so you never talk to them. I'm not

544
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 2: gonna talk to them anymore. Okay, are you fifth Are

545
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 2: you in fifth grade? Is that what's going on here?

546
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: Or you do the innuendo post on Facebook? You're really

547
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 2: aiming it at them, but you're, you know, trying to

548
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 2: aim and target them or whatever. It's like, let's stop

549
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 2: being children. We are God's people, we are Christ. He's

550
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 2: got his vengeance, belong to God. He'll pay back whatever

551
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: wrongs we've suffered. He'll pay back, and he pays back

552
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 2: better than we could ever think. And so this is

553
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 2: Hayman though, that's Hayman's spirit and he and.

554
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 3: It kills him.

555
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 2: He dug a pity, fell into it, he built a gallows,

556
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 2: and he hung on it. So now let me summarize

557
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: the rest of the book. Hayman is dead, but the

558
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 2: threat on the Jew's life is still there because the

559
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 2: Edith could not be revoked. So God takes the God

560
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: the king takes the ring off of Hayman's finger the

561
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 2: signet ring of authority, and he puts it on Mordechai's finger.

562
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: This is another symbol, a symbol of our reality. Do

563
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 2: you understand that the devil had authority over this earth

564
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 2: up until Jesus died and rose again. Now, the devil

565
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 2: got that authority in the garden with Adam. When Adam

566
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: disobeyed God and listened to the devil, he lost dominion,

567
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: He lost authority on this planet. That's where the wars

568
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: and the chaos and the degregation, all the evil comes from.

569
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 2: And Gesus came and undid what Adam did wrong. Jesus

570
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: obeyed perfectly, He followed the Father. He laid down his

571
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 2: life as a perfect s in the sacrifice, and he

572
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 2: rose again triumphantly on the third day, and he got

573
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: back our authority. Do you realize that you have authority

574
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus over your life, over the spirits, over

575
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: the realms of.

576
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 3: The unseen things.

577
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 2: He's got authority in Jesus' name, So you gotta learn

578
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 2: to walk around your house in Jesus name. I just

579
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 2: take authority over this house right now, So you gotta

580
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: take authority on.

581
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 3: The way to work.

582
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: I take authority over my spirit on the way to

583
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 2: work in Jesus' name. Some of you you can't keep

584
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 2: your mouth shut. You open mouth, your insert foot. You

585
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 2: don't know why you keep putting things in your mouth

586
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: that shouldn't be in your mouth. You gotta say, I

587
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 2: take authority over my mouth in Jesus' name. So you

588
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: got thoughts that you don't know why they come into

589
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 2: your head.

590
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 3: You're getting dreams.

591
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 2: You don't know why they're coming in your head. You

592
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 2: gotta take authority. You have authority in the spiritual realm,

593
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: not because of who you are, but because who Jesus is.

594
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 2: So he gives him the signet ring, and Mordecai and

595
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 2: Ester write up a new propose. Here's another edict to counter.

596
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: They cannot write it, but the counter the first edict.

597
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: The Jews can now defend themselves. And so they get

598
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 2: this edict written and has spread throughout the city of Susa,

599
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 2: and they go to work, and on the day they

600
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 2: were supposed to be attacked, they actually fight back, and

601
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 2: they defend themselves and they kill the sons of Hayman

602
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: and five hundred other people. But they need another day,

603
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: and so Esther goes back and says, I need another

604
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: day to do this. There's a lot of enemies out

605
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 2: there beyond the city of Susa, in the realm of

606
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 2: the Empire. So they send in the letters all throughout

607
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 2: the Empire that the Jews can defend themselves. And seventy

608
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: five thousand enemies attack the Jews, and the Jews strike

609
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: back and strike them down. And the Bible says that

610
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 2: many people become Jews because the fear of the Jews had.

611
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 3: Fallen on them. It's amazing turnaround.

612
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: God specializes in quick reversals. Somebody needs to tell yourself

613
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 2: that right now, this story is not done yet. Somebody

614
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: say this after me, this story. Oh, you gotta say

615
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 2: it like you mean it. This story is not done yet.

616
00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 2: Somebody say this, This family is not done yet. Somebody

617
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 2: say my future is not done yet. God is still working.

618
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 2: Do you believe it?

619
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 3: Shout a man. Come on, you.

620
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: Gotta stir yourself up and talk faith into your life.

621
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 2: I can't be the only person excited this morning. You

622
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 2: might be weak and tied, so am I. I have

623
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: any in But I'm agnointed by the Holy Spirit of God,

624
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: and he has formed me and He's working through me.

625
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 2: And He's gonna bring victory into our lives. They take

626
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 2: authority over their enemy. They have victory over their enemies

627
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: that were bound to defeat them.

628
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: Instead they got defeat.

629
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 2: They got defeated, and the Jews were victorious. Oh man,

630
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 2: I wish I could get this into someone's head today.

631
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 3: You are a victor. You are more than a conqueror.

632
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 3: You are not a loser. You are not the.

633
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: The subject of what's happened to you. You are the

634
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 2: object of God's grace over you, and his love that

635
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: wants to be deposited in you, and his victory that

636
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 2: is certain for you. And the best is yet to come.

637
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 2: So they they win two days, and then Mordechai sends

638
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: letters throughout all the rum and says, look, Jews, a fellow, Jews,

639
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 2: letters go out.

640
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 3: We're gonna celebrate these.

641
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: Two days every year forever, and it becomes the feast

642
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 2: of Puram. And do you know that to this day

643
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 2: the Jews celebrate the feast of Purum. It's at the

644
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 2: last of the winter season and at the beginning of spring.

645
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 2: And I think that's a perfect time to celebrate victory.

646
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: Because winter can get you down. Amen, winter can get

647
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 2: you down. Winter can get you like beaten up and defeated.

648
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: But every year, just when it's as dark as it

649
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 2: can possibly look, we got to remind ourselves that spring

650
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 2: is coming down the road.

651
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 3: That's what the feast of Purum is.

652
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: Here's the last verse of Esther, last verse, verse three

653
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 2: of chapter ten. Mordecai the Jew was second in rank

654
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 2: to King of Hassrus, and he was great among the

655
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for

656
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: he saw it the welfare of his people and spoke what.

657
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 3: And spoke peace to all his people.

658
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: I want to end this series by speaking some peace

659
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: over you. Peace in the midst of whatever is distressing

660
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 2: you or freaking you out or confusing you.

661
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 3: Four ways to get it. Are you ready? From Mordecai's life.

662
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 2: Number one, do good wherever you are in the name

663
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: of Christ. Wherever you are now Mordechai, that's what made

664
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: his life turn around.

665
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: He did good.

666
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 2: He was working at the King's gate. Where did he live.

667
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: He lived in Susa. He lived in the capital city

668
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: of Persia. Understand he was an exile. He was a

669
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: Jew living in a foreign He was one of listening

670
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: to this very carefully everybody. He was one of God's

671
00:32:52,960 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 2: people living in a pagan heathen world sound familiar?

672
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: Huh?

673
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 3: Do you feel strange to this world? Christian?

674
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: Do you feel like what is going on? Why are

675
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: the inmates running the asylum? Do you get strange to

676
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: the things that are what crazy is coming down the

677
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: pike this week? If you feel that way, it's because

678
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 2: you are Listen, you were born again. You are not

679
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 2: of this world. Jesus says, you don't belong here. This

680
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: is not your home. Somebody say, this.

681
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 3: Is not my home.

682
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,239
Speaker 2: But you still need to do good. Learn how to

683
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: do good in the foreign places. Learn how to love

684
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 2: some pagans in Jesus name, Love your non believing neighbor.

685
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to go to work this week and be

686
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 2: the guy who buys lunch just to bless people.

687
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 3: Do good. Some of you.

688
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 2: You keep moaning instead of promoting. You keep complaining instead

689
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: of contributing.

690
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 3: And as long as.

691
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 2: You're a complainer, you're never gonna get anywhere. I have

692
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 2: people who work for me, and I'll tell you something.

693
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 2: The complainers don't last very long.

694
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 3: They don't.

695
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 2: It's annoying to have people complaining all the time. Be

696
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 2: somebody who works positively wherever you are. Mordechai did good

697
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 2: for a pagan king. He saved his life. Now listen

698
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: to this, and this is so important. After he was celebrated,

699
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 2: after he was led on the horse by Hayman through

700
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 2: the streets of Persia, do you know what?

701
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: Do you know what Mordechai did? Look at it.

702
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 2: Chapter six. Back to chapter six, verse twelve. It says

703
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 2: Mordecai returned to the King's gate, He was celebrated for

704
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 2: a day, and then he went back and did his job.

705
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 3: He just did good. He just did good.

706
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: By the way he was at the king's gate. Chapter two,

707
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: verse twenty one says he was at the king's gate

708
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 2: when he saw the assassination plot that the two eunuchs

709
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: of the king were trying to carry out. And so

710
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 2: what you see here.

711
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 3: Is a faithfulness in Mordecai.

712
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 2: And I think this is so important for some of you,

713
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: because you you do good and you don't see results,

714
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: and then you stop doing good.

715
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 3: Do you understand that.

716
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: Between Ester chapter two and Ester chapter five and six

717
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: was five years that Mordechai saves the king's life.

718
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 3: In chapter two.

719
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 2: Doesn't get recognized, doesn't get promoted, doesn't get benefits, nothing happens,

720
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 2: but it gets recorded. Five years go buy things, get worse,

721
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 2: life gets darker, the edict is enacted. He's going to

722
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 2: die and then at the right time he gets rewarded.

723
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 2: Here's what you got to learn how to do in

724
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 2: your life. You got to learn to sow seeds of

725
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 2: goodness in your present for fruits of blessing in your future.

726
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: Some of you want instant microwave Christians, God is not

727
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 2: a microwave. He is a slow cooker. He is a

728
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: barbecue pit. Come on, somebody. He slowly cooks that meat

729
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: of goodness in your life until the juices are boiling

730
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: out of the center of it. And it smells so wonderful.

731
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 2: And I'm making you depressed right now, aren't I? This

732
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 2: is this is part of my fast A's coming out

733
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 2: because I've been watching all the advertisements for food, and

734
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,479
Speaker 2: i don't know about you, but I'm like, I'm gonna

735
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 2: eat that when I'm done. I'm gonna eat that. When

736
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 2: I'm gonna done. I'm I'm gonna be four hundred pounds

737
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,479
Speaker 2: by April fourth. That's what's gonna happen to me. It's

738
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 2: just the season the fastest, the feast is coming, Amen, somebody.

739
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 3: But you gotta learn how to plant seeds in this fast,

740
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 3: in this fast.

741
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 2: And I think some of you gotta break free from

742
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: this because I feel it in the spirit, and I'm

743
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 2: gonna say it. Nothing has happened, and you feel like

744
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 2: the fastest been a failure. That's not how it works.

745
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 2: You fast in one season, you get the fruit.

746
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 3: In another season.

747
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: You some of you might get the fruit from this

748
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 2: fast five years from now. Are you willing to do good?

749
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: Are you willing to go back to that gate? Are

750
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: you willing to keep working? Are you willing to keep

751
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: sewing good seed into your life? The world has enough

752
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 2: people who are out to get all that they can

753
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 2: right now, and those people are the most insufferable people

754
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:22,760
Speaker 2: on the planet. Most of them work in Hollywood. We've

755
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 2: got to learn to be givers and doers of good

756
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: wherever we are. And here's the second point. It leads

757
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 2: me right into it. Don't seek human recognition. This is

758
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 2: the way Hayman lived. Do you understand that Hayman dies

759
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 2: hanging on the gallows that he made for Mordecai. But

760
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 2: the only reason why he made the gallows for Mordecai.

761
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 2: Do you know why he made the Gallas for Mordecai

762
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 2: Because Mordecai.

763
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 3: And this is so insane to me.

764
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 2: Mordecai was the only person in the empire who didn't

765
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: worship him. Oh, if I could just spend a whole

766
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: message on this. Don't seek people's praise. It's a trap.

767
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've met people, but they can

768
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 2: be awful. Have you met people? Yeah, they can love

769
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 2: you today and hate you tomorrow. They'll build you up today,

770
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 2: they'll tear you down tomorrow. And here's the worst part.

771
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: If you get people to love you and like you

772
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: and celebrate you, nobody tells you this. You got to

773
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 2: keep them loving you and celebrating you and worshiping you

774
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 2: and loving you. That's impossible. And guess what you lose

775
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 2: in the midst of making everybody love you.

776
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 3: You lose you.

777
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: You become a people pleaser and not a God server.

778
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: And God who doesn't don't care about you pleasing people.

779
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 2: You understand that you can't. You can't properly parents if

780
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: you need your kid's approval. I don't know this modern,

781
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 2: this modern way of parenting, I don't get it. Johnny,

782
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 2: tell me how you feel what's going on. I know

783
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 2: you're throwing a tempertantrum in the grocery aisle right now,

784
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: but tell me your truth.

785
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 3: I want to hear from you.

786
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 2: No, pull Johnny out the grocery store into the car

787
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 2: back home and spake Johnny that kidneys a whoopon.

788
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 3: That's what I got when I was growing up. I

789
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 3: turned out. Okay, I don't got any twitches.

790
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 2: You gotta learn to love the fact that God has

791
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 2: has loved you with an everlasting love.

792
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 3: You don't need the love of other people.

793
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: You can't be married if you need your spouse to

794
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: celebrate you.

795
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 3: Oh.

796
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 2: I could do a whole week on that husband's Your

797
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: wife is not your fan. My wife is not my fan.

798
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 2: She does not worship me at all.

799
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 3: Oh. This it was a great story.

800
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 2: One day I was I preached and I got down

801
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 2: and my wife was stating it and this Nigerian lady

802
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 2: with the Nigerian accent came up to us and I

803
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 2: was like talking to her, and Cheryl comes up. I said, oh,

804
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 2: this is my wife, Cheryl, and she goes. The Nigerian

805
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 2: lady goes, oh, oh, you're his wife. You must be

806
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: on your knees every day, thanking God that you are

807
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 2: to marry to this man. Now, I perceived that this

808
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 2: woman had the gift of prophecy, but evidently Cheryl did

809
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 2: not feel the same way. And it's a fun story

810
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 2: that I tell and we tell it, you know, parties

811
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 2: and everything.

812
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,959
Speaker 3: But she's not my fan. But I don't.

813
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 2: If I live for her approval and worship, our marriage

814
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 2: would be a mess. Wives, same goes to you. Your

815
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:59,479
Speaker 2: husband is not your Instagram photographer. He is a grown man.

816
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: Do not make him a lackey. He doesn't exist for

817
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: your pleasure. He exists for God's purpose and you gotta

818
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 2: learn to let go of them. Always needed to approve

819
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 2: of you. If you're gonna be married forraversation, never be honest.

820
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 3: Do good. Oh gosh, I forgot to tell the story.

821
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 3: Is it okay? If I go to point one again

822
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 3: and tell the story? So okay, okay. So this is

823
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 3: a true story about doing good.

824
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: There was two guys who were running a broke Rundown

825
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 2: general store in the eighteen hundreds. One was a dead

826
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 2: be drunk and one was an aspiring lawyer. He wanted

827
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 2: to be a lawyer, but he couldn't get to be

828
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 2: a lawyer because he had no money, and they had

829
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 2: a conversation as they were broken on the verge of bankruptcy.

830
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 2: The one want to be the lawyer said, man, I

831
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 2: wish I could get a hold of Blackstone's commentary on

832
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 2: law I'll sell this store tomorrow if I can get

833
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 2: a hold of that. That's what it would cost sell

834
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 2: the store. I'll buy the commentaries. His dead be drunk

835
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 2: partner said, no way, we're not selling the store. They

836
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: were down to their last couple of bucks, and the

837
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: traveler drove by the store, stopped and he said, got

838
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 2: out of his wagon, out of his carriage, and he said, look,

839
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 2: I got a barrel I gotta sell. I can't fit

840
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 2: in the car and I need money desperately. Would you

841
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 2: give me fifty cents for it? The dead duke drunk said,

842
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 2: no way, get.

843
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 3: Out of it here. We don't have any money.

844
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 2: And the guy who want to be a lawyer said,

845
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 2: you know what, I'll give you a sety cents.

846
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 3: His heart went out to him and he did good.

847
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 3: He bought the barrel. He didn't need help.

848
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 2: The stranger out put the barrel in the back of

849
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 2: the store. Months go by. This is a true story,

850
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 2: is why I needed to tell the story. Months go by,

851
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 2: he cleans out the general store. He goes and he

852
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 2: finds the barrel, lifts open the barrel a bunch of rubbish,

853
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 2: pulls the rubbish out, reaches down and underneath the rubbish

854
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 2: was the complete set of Blackstone's commentary on law. He

855
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 2: pulls it up. He looks up to God and he says,

856
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 2: maybe I'm made for something greater. Eventually the store goes bankrupt.

857
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: This guy teaches himself law on his own time, in

858
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: his own way, studies himself up.

859
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 3: He runs for the state legislature.

860
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: He wins six terms as a state legislature representative. He

861
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 2: runs for US Congress, he wins one term as a

862
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 2: US Congressman. He runs for Senate and he loses. But

863
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 2: do you know that he wan for president and he

864
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 2: became the sixteenth President of the end United States. His

865
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 2: name was Abraham Lincoln. It all started with one work

866
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 2: that was good for somebody else, and then you don't

867
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: seek recognition.

868
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 3: Now back to that one. Jesus said, it's a trap.

869
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 2: He talked about the Pharisees in John chapter twelve, verse

870
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: forty three, he said, they love the glory that comes

871
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,439
Speaker 2: from man more than the glory that comes from God.

872
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 2: Matthew twenty three to five. He says, everything they do

873
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 2: is a show, is just to be seen by others.

874
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 3: Don't you understand that if you're doing things to.

875
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 2: Please others, you're just becoming a show, You're just becoming

876
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 2: a people pleaser.

877
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 3: It's a trap of life.

878
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: Do you know why you don't need people's praise or

879
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 2: people's recognition. This is why, because you've already got the

880
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,959
Speaker 2: recognition from God. And what you have to understand about

881
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 2: God is that he is keeping accurate records of what

882
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 2: you do. Jesus said in Matthew chapter ten, forty two,

883
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 2: whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup

884
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: of cold water, just a cup of water, because you're

885
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 2: my disciple, then you will not lose your reward. Hebrews

886
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 2: chapter six, verse ten. God is not unjust to overlook

887
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 2: your work. And the love that you have shown for

888
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: His name is serving the sames. As you still do,

889
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 2: you gotta do it not for other people's sake, So

890
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: you gotta do it for God's sakes. Knowing that the

891
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 2: good you see, the good seed you sow in one

892
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 2: season will be fruit in a season yet to come.

893
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 2: Point number three, one day can change everything.

894
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 3: I like this point. I like this point. That's what

895
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 3: Esther chapter five and six tells us.

896
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 2: Esther Chapter five ends with Mordecai, I'm sorry, Hayman building

897
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 2: a gallows, and Esther chapter six, twenty four hours later,

898
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,479
Speaker 2: Hayman is hanging on those gallows. End of chapter seven,

899
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 2: it's just twenty four hours. One day can change everything.

900
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 2: Some of you are looking at your life and is

901
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 2: saying there's no movement. I'm not getting anywhere. I don't understand. Hey,

902
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 2: one day, somebody say, one day. God does not need

903
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 2: a long time to get something done. God is a

904
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 2: miracle worker. God can do something in one He can

905
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 2: do something in one moment. Don't you know that when

906
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 2: he comes back, he's coming back in the twinkling of

907
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 2: an eye. It's not gonna take long for us to

908
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 2: be gone from this world and be in Heaven forever.

909
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 2: Is gonna happen in an instant second. And there is

910
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 2: nothing that God can do and can't do in one

911
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 2: day of your life.

912
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 3: He can change everything. Something needs to write this down.

913
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 2: Stop worrying about your lack of movement, because God only

914
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 2: needs a moment. Oh, Joseph was sold as a slave

915
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 2: by his brothers who hated him. And then he was

916
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 2: working as a slave and he was doing good. And

917
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: then he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, and then

918
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 2: he was thrown into prison, and he was forgotten.

919
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 3: But on one day Pharaoh had a dream.

920
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 2: No one could interpret it, but that guy Joseph in

921
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: the prison, he can interpret. And they pulled him out

922
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 2: of the pit. He pulled him out of the prison

923
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 2: and put him in the palace and became the prime

924
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 2: minister of Egypt.

925
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 3: In one day.

926
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 2: Or Moses, who was wandering the wilderness with his father

927
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 2: in law sheep for forty years, he tried to deliver

928
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 2: Israel in his own strength.

929
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 3: He killed one Egyptian.

930
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 2: Thus as far as he got, and then he goes

931
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 2: and he's in exile. And for forty years, this guy

932
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 2: four decades, friend, I'm forty six. He did them my

933
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,439
Speaker 2: whole life outside on forty seven. He did that all

934
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: for forty years. He was out in the wilderness with

935
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 2: the sheep that he didn't even own. And one day

936
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 2: he saw a bush that didn't burn, and you know

937
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 2: the rest of the story.

938
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 3: Or David, who was a shepherd boy and a singer, and.

939
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 2: His father rejected him, and his brothers didn't like him,

940
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 2: and everybody vilified him, and he was anointed by Samuel,

941
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: but people still didn't pay attention to him. And he

942
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 2: was a little delivery boy. He brought the breton the

943
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 2: cheese to his brothers at the army front. And he

944
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 2: was basically doing uber eats all his life, that's what

945
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 2: he was doing. But one day he shows up as

946
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 2: this moment that Goliath is taunting the people of Israel,

947
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 2: and he said, who is this philistine who would taunt Israel?

948
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 2: And in one day that shepherd boy turns into a

949
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,919
Speaker 2: mighty warrior for God. God does not need a long time,

950
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,240
Speaker 2: He needs one day to get it done. In your life,

951
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 2: perhaps the most famous one, Jesus Christ. Healed the sick,

952
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: raise the dead, cast out demons, fed the multitudes. And

953
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 2: then he was betrayed by his own disciple, and he

954
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 2: was abandoned by all of his other disciples, and he

955
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 2: was handed over to pagan sinners, and he was crucified

956
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 2: and neil to a tree and thrown in a grave.

957
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 2: But one day came when the when the grave opened

958
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 2: and the stone rolled away, and the heavens fell down,

959
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 2: and the angels came down, and Jesus rose on the

960
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 2: grave and split history in half in one day.

961
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 3: God does not need a month, He needs a day.

962
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 2: Some of you gotta wait for the day and let

963
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: God have his way through all the things that you're

964
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: waiting for one day and ultimately all those stories and

965
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 2: the story of Esther and the story of Mordecai. Really

966
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 2: there's a bigger there's a bigger plot in mind, which

967
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 2: brings you to point number four. Don't lose the big

968
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 2: plot bringing salvation to many.

969
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 3: Do you understand that.

970
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 2: Esther was beautiful, But she wasn't pretty just so that

971
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 2: she could hang out in the palace and eat at

972
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 2: the dinner table. She wasn't pretty just so she could

973
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 2: look a certain.

974
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 3: Way in front of King Xerxes.

975
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 2: She was beautiful for the purpose of intervening in the

976
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 2: saving of the jews lives. And Mordecai wasn't rewarded for

977
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 2: saving the king's life simply because he deserved it, and

978
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 2: simply because you know, he needed a leg up, and

979
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: he was hated by mor Hayman. No Mordecai was rewarded

980
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 2: so that he could be instrumental in saving many lives.

981
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 2: Let me tell you about your life. I started this

982
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 2: message by saying God is working for you, but he's

983
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 2: working what through you. Your story is a subplot of

984
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: the big plot.

985
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 3: Don't miss that or you will be miserable.

986
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 2: Ultimately is about saving lives, friend, Ultimately is about bringing

987
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 2: people to Jesus.

988
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 3: That's what God wants to do through you. How can

989
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 3: you God use this story.

990
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 2: This chaos, this crazy, this family, this life to bring

991
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 2: people to Jesus. That's where life starts to get interesting,

992
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 2: starts to make sense, starts to find its way. Then

993
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 2: you know you're not here by accident. You're here on purpose.

994
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 3: One day, one day, many many years ago.

995
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 2: Waters Church was a small single church up in Nord, Massachusetts,

996
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 2: and it was a.

997
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 3: Small little Italian Benecostal.

998
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 2: Church in the nineteen eighties, and it had grown to

999
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: about two hundred and fifty three hundred people. But the

1000
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 2: pastor kind of went rogue and left with a bunch

1001
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 2: of people split the church in half, a very devastating

1002
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 2: thing for any church, and they wallowed in lack of

1003
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 2: direction for many years and they were looking for a

1004
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,839
Speaker 2: pastor and looking for a pastor, and they would bring

1005
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 2: candidates into pastor and to candidate for the pastor at job.

1006
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: And back in those days, you voted, and so they

1007
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 2: would take a vote and every candidate would be voted down,

1008
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 2: and if the person who didn't get voted in, all

1009
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 2: the people who like that guy would leave church. And

1010
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 2: they went from three hundred people down to forty people.

1011
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 2: Forty people in nineteen ninety. And they went through this

1012
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 2: process for many, many, many months, and eventually they came

1013
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 2: to a guy that they said, this guy seems pretty good.

1014
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 3: We're gonna go with him. And it was a slim.

1015
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 2: Chance, but it was a good chans that this guy

1016
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 2: was gonna get voted in in a board meeting right

1017
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 2: after a Sunday morning one day, a Sunday morning, and

1018
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 2: they had the pulpit open. They didn't have anybody to preach,

1019
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: so they called the district offices and they said, listen,

1020
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 2: is there anybody who could preach for us?

1021
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 3: We have our pulpit open. Wouldn't you know that.

1022
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 2: There was a guy that was that was going across

1023
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 2: the United States interviewing for his church positions himself and

1024
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 2: they said, well, we're not looking for a pastor anymore.

1025
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 2: We found one, we think, and sure if he want

1026
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 2: to come and precess, fine, Well this guy was from

1027
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 2: South Africa and he came and he preached, and some

1028
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 2: of you know who he is. And he preached us

1029
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, and his name is passed guys Or. He's

1030
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 2: the senior pastor of our church. And when you know

1031
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 2: how he preaches, and the fire came down and the

1032
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit fell and people got saved and delivered and

1033
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,839
Speaker 2: things were happening. It was amazing church service, and.

1034
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 3: Everyone was going away.

1035
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 2: And they went to the meeting after that service and

1036
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 2: they voted the other guy out and they said, we

1037
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: want this guy to be our pastor one day. He

1038
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 2: can change everything. And I used to go to that

1039
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 2: church as a kid. I used to go to the

1040
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 2: church as a teenager. And one day I showed up.

1041
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,919
Speaker 2: One day I showed up and the kids, the teens,

1042
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 2: were hanging out after church. And I remember we were

1043
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 2: hanging out. We were in a car driving down a

1044
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 2: road I know the road where it happened. And one

1045
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 2: of the kids said to me, Hey, Tim, would you

1046
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 2: like to come with us to a youth conference. And

1047
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,439
Speaker 2: I hated youth conferences and I didn't really I wasn't

1048
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 2: really interested in church. I didn't really want to, you know,

1049
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 2: be all that engaged in church. I kind of just

1050
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 2: went because my parents brought me. But for some reason,

1051
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 2: I said yes, and I went to that youth conference.

1052
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 2: And I got to the church to the youth conference,

1053
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 2: and a guy got up on stage and started screaming

1054
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,439
Speaker 2: like I'm screaming to you and starting to talking about

1055
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit wants.

1056
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 3: To feel you.

1057
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 2: And I came down to the altar and I put

1058
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 2: my hands up and the Holy Spirit fell into my

1059
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 2: life and started a fire that's been burning for thirty

1060
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 2: six years, Frim, and God called me into the ministry.

1061
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 2: God called me to be a past one day, Frim,

1062
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 2: one day can change everything. And then that started a

1063
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 2: battle between my mother and I.

1064
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 3: Oh, we had a battle. We had a battle through

1065
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 3: my teen years.

1066
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 2: That happened when I was twelve years old and I

1067
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 2: told my mom I want to be a pastor, and

1068
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 2: she said, no, you're going to be an engineer. And

1069
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 2: I said, no, I want to be a pastor. She said, no,

1070
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 2: you're going to be an engineer or a computer programer.

1071
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 2: You're gonna make a lot of money. Because she was

1072
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 2: a pastor's daughter and she didn't want me to go

1073
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 2: through the hardships of a pastor's family.

1074
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 3: I said, no, mom, God has called me into this ministry.

1075
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 3: I gotta do it. And we fought all through life.

1076
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 3: But because the Bible.

1077
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: Says all to your father and mother, she she filled

1078
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 2: out my applications for college.

1079
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 3: She did it, and she.

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Speaker 2: Said, you're gonna go to this school and you're gonna

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Speaker 2: get this degree, and you're going to be a very,

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Speaker 2: very successful young man.

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Speaker 3: I was resistant, but it's like.

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Speaker 2: I find And then one day she went to church

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Speaker 2: up in Norhod with Pastor Geyser and she had a

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Speaker 2: conversation with him and she said, I can't understand. My

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Speaker 2: son wants to be like you, but I wanted to

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Speaker 2: be an engineer. And Pastor Geyser said, listen, let him

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Speaker 2: go and pursue the ministry because if he's not.

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Speaker 3: Called, if he's not called, he'll give up and.

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Speaker 2: He'll become whatever you wanted to become. He'll become an

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Speaker 3: And she said, you know.

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Speaker 2: What, that sounds like a good idea. And she prayed

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Speaker 2: for me to run away from the ministry. Turns out

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Speaker 2: I was called friend. Turns out God had his hand

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Speaker 2: on my life. And one day and one conversation and

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Speaker 2: one sudden can change everything for us and for you.

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Speaker 2: You might be going through the valley of the shadow

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Speaker 2: of death, but God.

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Speaker 3: Is with you.

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Speaker 2: You might be struggling with depression, but God's not done

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Speaker 2: with you. You might be in suicide wash, but God

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Speaker 2: wants to resurrect you. The story is not over. Resurrection

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Speaker 2: has happened. Jesus is on the throat. I'm telling somebody,

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Speaker 2: what's your faith in the God who does miracle, in

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Speaker 2: the God who opens graves, in the God who steals

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Speaker 2: the waters.

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Speaker 3: Hallelujah.

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Speaker 2: Oh, God's gonna do something to our church. God's gonna

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Speaker 2: do something through this fast. The fast is yet to come.

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Speaker 3: Don't lose heart. Hallelujah.

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Speaker 2: I know some of you are dying to get those

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Speaker 2: last blanks filled in so they put it on the screen.

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Speaker 3: There are no accidents when you're in Christ.

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Speaker 2: It's all part of the plan. God knows from beginning

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Speaker 2: to end. And I need to tell somebody here. You're

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Speaker 2: not an actor. You're not a mistake, and your life

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Speaker 2: isn't an accident. There's no accidents in Christ. There's no

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Speaker 2: such thing as chance. If you want chance, go to Vegas.

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Speaker 2: God orchestrates, God ordains. God is working for you and

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Speaker 2: through you. No matter what the world is doing. What

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Speaker 2: just staying with me at this point, If you're done

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Speaker 2: writing those things down, what just staying with Let's give

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Speaker 2: God a praise offering in that, Let's.

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Speaker 3: Give God a pray. Come on out, Let's give God

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Speaker 3: a praise and then play Halla Jesus Well.

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Speaker 2: I trust that this message has been a blessing to

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Speaker 2: your life and empowered your faith. I've got a lot

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Speaker 2: more content for you available on our website. Check out

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Speaker 2: Timhatchlive dot com or scan the QR code on the

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Speaker 2: Your generosity empowers this content and to go farther than

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