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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Anybody online watching this, remember when you had to buy

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Speaker 3: the cassette tape of the sermon. Yeah, man, you have

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Speaker 3: to wait. If you wanted a sermon online, you had

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Speaker 3: to order it. There was no online. You had to

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Speaker 3: call up and order it and wait six weeks. But

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Speaker 3: I got good news. You don't have to wait six weeks.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our EPAM all over the world.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Balantine, help me. Welcome our EPAM all.

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Speaker 3: Over the world. Perchance you missed it. We're celebrating the

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Speaker 3: end of the year. We're not dreading the holidays. We're

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Speaker 3: just getting ready to give God praise and thanks. Here

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Speaker 3: at our church, we end our ye with a year

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Speaker 3: end offering. And I want all of you to be

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Speaker 3: a part of it. And you say, well, I don't

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Speaker 3: live in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to.

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Speaker 3: You say, well, I don't have much to give you

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Speaker 3: don't have to have much to give. I want everybody

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Speaker 3: to be a part of it. And our culmination Sunday

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Speaker 3: is on December the eighth, So between now and then,

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Speaker 3: I want you to pray and ask God how he

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Speaker 3: would have you to be a part, and if the

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Speaker 3: way that He would have you to be apart is

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Speaker 3: just to keep coming to church. I want you to

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Speaker 3: know we will always be here for you, whether you

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Speaker 3: give anything to this ministry or not.

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Speaker 1: You ought to clap about that, because they don't tell

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Speaker 1: you that. At the gym.

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Speaker 3: You can just come in and lift our weights, whether

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Speaker 3: you ever give anything or not. Do that.

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Speaker 1: When's the last time you.

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Speaker 3: Went to a restaurant and they said, whether you ever

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Speaker 3: give anything or not, we'll always have fresh bread for you.

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Speaker 3: But the Lord is like that, and I want to

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Speaker 3: say something else. There are thousands of people who are generous.

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Speaker 1: In this church.

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Speaker 3: And they give, and they and they sow, and they

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Speaker 3: believe and they're consistent.

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Speaker 1: And I thank God for each and every one of you.

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful to.

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Speaker 3: Trust me when I step up to this pulpit. I'm

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Speaker 3: never stepping up here by myself. I mean, there's an

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Speaker 3: army of people in this church who love Jesus, who

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Speaker 3: love the Kingdom, and who are committed to His purpose.

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Speaker 3: And so we want to invite all of you this

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Speaker 3: is a time to begin giving if you've never done that,

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Speaker 3: or to give above and beyond. And I'm excited to

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Speaker 3: see what God will do again. That's December the eighth,

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Speaker 3: December the eighth, Sunday, December the eighth, and between now

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Speaker 3: and then you can give.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, I want to share with you.

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Speaker 3: I got all the preliminary out of the way what

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Speaker 3: the Lord has given me to say to you today.

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Speaker 3: And I have tossed and turned over this message, not

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Speaker 3: because it's controversial, just because I want to be very

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Speaker 3: give to you today.

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Speaker 1: And last night when I went to bed, I thought

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Speaker 1: I had it, woke.

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Speaker 3: Up at three it wasn't it, And I had the right.

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Speaker 1: Passage of scripture.

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Speaker 3: But the Lord wanted me to give it to you

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Speaker 3: in a certain way, and I didn't know how that

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Speaker 3: A few weeks ago, if you were here when I

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Speaker 3: preached on God can use this too. Put that in

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Speaker 3: And then I preached a follow up message about how

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Speaker 3: God will work it in.

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Speaker 3: And I was talking about how God is a master

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Speaker 1: Father. I thank you for your word. Every time that.

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Speaker 3: We bow before your word, we get better. Every time

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Speaker 3: we bow before your word, we get better. Now, if

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Speaker 3: But if we bow before it like you're a great king,

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Speaker 3: we receive so much more than we could ever give.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing us here today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for each person, whatever state that they're in,

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Speaker 3: the hard part and we believe it by faith in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Amen, you may be see to tell your neighbor God's God,

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Speaker 1: this God's got the hard part. Well, we're going to

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Speaker 1: study in Mark chapter four.

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Speaker 3: A little story really is a story sandwiched between two

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Speaker 1: And it's a made up story. But it's not fiction.

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Speaker 4: You say it's a made up story, that's not fiction.

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Speaker 1: Well, when Jesus teaches it, it's truer than a true story.

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Speaker 3: He used these things when he talked, called parables. Everybody

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Speaker 3: could keep it simple.

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Speaker 4: I've heard people say that, Well, Jesus told stories.

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Speaker 1: To keep it simple. How are you doing. You've been

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Speaker 3: I am so thankful anytime I see somebody that I never.

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Speaker 1: Got to meet you right there but under the camera.

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Speaker 1: They say that Jesus would teach.

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Speaker 3: A lot of times just to say you know, I

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Speaker 4: So let me just make it surface level. It's actually

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Speaker 3: He taught using parables or stories, so that people who

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Speaker 3: So what I take from that is that I can't

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Speaker 3: With us physically today, but through the Holy Spirit that

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Speaker 3: through it. So you got to wonder when people say

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Speaker 3: things like, boy, it would have been nice to be

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Speaker 1: You these four verses.

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Speaker 3: There are three parables or stories about seeds, and this one,

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Speaker 3: this one is right in the middle. So it's like

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Speaker 3: a parable sandwich that Jesus is giving the disciples, and

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Speaker 3: So it's a real good one. Look at Mark chapter four,

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Speaker 3: the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

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Speaker 3: The soil produces grain, first the stalk, then the head,

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Speaker 3: sickle to it because the harvest has come. Tell your neighbor,

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Speaker 3: God has a schedule for this. The schedule that God

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Speaker 3: That was good, Like Kirk Curve Street or something. Circle

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Speaker 3: But we'll get the bugs worked out. He's trying to

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Speaker 3: explain something to them. The Kingdom of God. Now this

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Speaker 1: And some of you were like, is that a thing?

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Speaker 3: And actually cassette tapes are making a comeback in the

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Speaker 3: is that even a thing? And the Kingdom of God

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Speaker 3: was not even a thing. They knew the Kingdom of Israel,

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Speaker 3: the Law of Moses, but they didn't know the Kingdom

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Speaker 3: understand a concept for which you have no context. It's difficult,

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Speaker 3: I guess I would say it's difficult to know what

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Speaker 3: something is like when you haven't lived it, when you

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Speaker 3: For Jesus teaching me about the seed, to let me know,

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Speaker 1: And this is the paradox of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 3: God is like, something they saw every day, something that

442
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 3: they saw every day. Oh yeah, I've seen seed scattered,

443
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 3: I've seen wheat reaped. I've seen wheat milled, turned into flour.

444
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 3: And then I've seen the flour mixed with the water

445
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 3: and turned into bread. Like I've seen that before, but

446
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 3: many of us have it. Let me ask you a question,

447
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 3: how many of you make your own bread? So all

448
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 3: of you are in the advanced class, and the rest

449
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 3: of us have to do remedial work to even get

450
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Speaker 3: to this level.

451
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Speaker 1: Because we only understand fat fast fat.

452
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, we only understand fast, so how

453
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Speaker 3: can we understand faith? But maybe I said it wrong

454
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 3: on purpose. We want fat, we want it fat. I

455
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 3: want to have faith and I want it fat. I

456
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 3: want to have a job and I want it fat.

457
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Speaker 3: I want to have a breakthrough.

458
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Speaker 1: And I want it fat.

459
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Speaker 3: I want to have six back fabs, but I want

460
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Speaker 3: it fat.

461
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Speaker 1: I want it fath.

462
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Speaker 3: Tell your neighbor, I want it fath. But we are

463
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Speaker 3: not coming to a God who gives it fath and

464
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 3: it takes faith. So I thought we would celebrate the

465
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Speaker 3: man who Jesus talked about.

466
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Speaker 1: He's not a real man. That's why I can givehim

467
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Speaker 1: a name. He says, like a man who's so succeed.

468
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Speaker 3: So we don't know this man, but we applaud him

469
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: and we celebrate him because he's sewing. He's sewing, he's sewing.

470
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Speaker 3: I admire people who are so wers. I admire people

471
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Speaker 3: who don't have to post everything they sew.

472
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Speaker 1: I admire people. Look, you don't have to post your workout.

473
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Speaker 1: If you do enough of him, we'll be able to tell.

474
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Speaker 3: I admire people who show up and sew, and show

475
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Speaker 3: up and sew, and show up and sew.

476
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Speaker 1: Every e kids, volunteer, Just try and to cast.

477
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 3: That demon out of your kid right now that has

478
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 3: been driving you crazy all week long.

479
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: I celebrate sowers. Let's celebrate every sower.

480
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Speaker 3: Every giver, everybody who makes it possible, everybody who speaks

481
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Speaker 3: words of encouragement, everybody who sows, everybody who sows. And then,

482
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Speaker 3: of course there's the fact that he that he reaps too.

483
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Speaker 1: Let's do it like a sandwich.

484
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Speaker 3: In verse twenty six, it says a man scattered seed

485
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Speaker 3: on the ground, Okay, And then in verse.

486
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Speaker 1: Twenty nine, it says, as soon as the.

487
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Speaker 3: Grain is right, he puts the sickle to it, because

488
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Speaker 3: the harvest has come. So in both of these verses

489
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Speaker 3: we see that this is someone who will work.

490
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Speaker 1: He's willing to work.

491
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I meant to say. He's willing to

492
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Speaker 3: work for it. And you gotta be for anything worth

493
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Speaker 3: having in your life. You've got to work for anything

494
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Speaker 3: that is worthwhile in your life.

495
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Speaker 2: And you know.

496
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Speaker 3: How remedial could I be that I read this text

497
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Speaker 3: for so many years thinking that the star of this

498
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 3: story was the sewer. I thought, well, maybe you know,

499
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Speaker 3: this is a parable, it's kind of a metaphor maybe

500
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Speaker 3: what Jesus means. I mean, I'm digging into it, I'm

501
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 3: studying it. I'm like, maybe Jesus is always sowing into

502
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Speaker 3: our life. And since he's talking about the end of

503
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Speaker 3: the age here, he's maybe talking about the harvest that

504
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 3: he's going to bring in. The harvest, and you know,

505
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 3: those who are saved will be brought in. And I

506
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 3: thought that we should talk this morning about the sewer

507
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 3: upon further examination, And you know, I told you I

508
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 3: went to bed and I thought it was one thing

509
00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 3: I had so much.

510
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Speaker 1: Good stuff to say to you about the value of sewing.

511
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Speaker 1: And I still will teach that and should teach that.

512
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Speaker 3: And it's important to have discipline, and it's important to

513
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 3: keep yourself accountable, and it's important for you to make

514
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 3: an effort, and it's important for you to show up

515
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 3: in those places. I'm not discounting any of that.

516
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Speaker 1: But in this story, the sewer is not the star.

517
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Speaker 3: And that challenges us because I think that we think

518
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Speaker 3: God ought.

519
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: To bless us because of how good we were.

520
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 3: We think that people ought to appreciate us because of

521
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 3: how much we gave.

522
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Speaker 1: We think that people ought to promote.

523
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Speaker 3: Us because of how talented we are, and all of

524
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 3: that has a place, don't get me wrong, but it

525
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 3: is not the center of this story.

526
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Speaker 1: So what is you say? Jesus?

527
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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, I mean he's the star of every story.

528
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Speaker 3: But did you notice that there was not a mention

529
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Speaker 3: of God in the story that Jesus told. There was

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Speaker 3: a process by which a seed became grain, but there

531
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Speaker 3: was no mention of God.

532
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Speaker 1: And I actually want to use that to teach you something.

533
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Speaker 3: Just because you're not aware of him doesn't mean he's

534
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 3: not there, doesn't mean he's not there. Just because you

535
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 3: can't see or prove, or sense or feel.

536
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: Or deduce how God is working in this situation in

537
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: your life doesn't mean he's not there. And this is

538
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: a pearable.

539
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 3: And see if Jesus is using the sower to represent God, well,

540
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 3: that doesn't make sense, and I'll prove it to you.

541
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Speaker 1: Watch this.

542
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Speaker 3: It says in verse twenty seven about the sower night

543
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Speaker 3: and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed

544
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 3: sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. Justin

545
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 3: circle he does not know how. Everybody say he does

546
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 3: not know how will never find that sentence associated with God.

547
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Speaker 3: So this cannot be that the sower represents God.

548
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Speaker 1: It cannot be. As much as God has given us,

549
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Speaker 1: this is not appearable about how.

550
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Speaker 3: Hey, God has given you a lot of seeds, make

551
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Speaker 3: sure that you developed them, because.

552
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Speaker 1: It says he does not know how.

553
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Speaker 3: So obviously, if he does not know how, we're not

554
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 3: talking about God here. So I came to ask a

555
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 3: question today, where is God in this?

556
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Speaker 1: Where is God in this?

557
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 3: Because I've been sowing, I've been weeping, but I'm not

558
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Speaker 3: reaping yet.

559
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Speaker 1: Where is God in this? You tell me he's here?

560
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Speaker 1: But it's still hard.

561
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Speaker 3: You'll tell me he's here, but I'm still I'm still

562
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Speaker 3: not over the things that you say. He died to

563
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Speaker 3: save me from. Where is God in this? And Jesus said,

564
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Speaker 3: this is what the kingdom of God? God is like

565
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 3: a man scatters seed. This can't be God on the

566
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 3: ground night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up.

567
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Speaker 3: Evidence number two that it can't be God.

568
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Speaker 1: He sleeps.

569
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Speaker 3: My Bible says God never sleeps nor slumbers, So this

570
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 3: can't be God we're talking about in this passage, because

571
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 3: God is watching over you even as you sleep.

572
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: God works the night shift. God will sit by your

573
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Speaker 1: bed and sit there with you in the most hard

574
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Speaker 1: emotional place.

575
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Speaker 3: So it can't be God that is referred to here

576
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Speaker 3: as the sower. And then I realized that the star

577
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 3: of the text is not the sickle that reaps the harvest,

578
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 3: nor the sower that sows the seed. But watch this

579
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Speaker 3: in verse twenty eight, And this is so anointed that

580
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: a chain is going to fall off of somebody's life

581
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 3: when I say it verse twenty eight. All by itself,

582
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 3: the seed produces grain. Let's do it all by itself.

583
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 3: The soil produces grain. Wait, do I say, See, that's

584
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 3: what we think.

585
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Speaker 1: That's what we think. We think, I gotta do this

586
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: a I gotta make it happen.

587
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: And now we're nervous, and now we got no lining

588
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 3: in our stomach. And now we got no friends because

589
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 3: they don't want to hear us complain anymore. And now

590
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 3: we got nobody else to call because they don't have

591
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 3: our answers anyway, because we think we've got to do

592
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 3: this by ourselves. And so there are situations in your

593
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: life right now where you're thinking about how hard it

594
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 3: is going to be, how hard it is going to

595
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 3: be in this next season, in this next stage, how

596
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 3: hard it is going to be. Give me my close camera, y'all.

597
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: I want to preach to the people, give me my

598
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 3: close camera. How hard it is going to be for

599
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 3: me to make it through this period that's coming up.

600
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: How hard it is going to be for me to

601
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: go into this meeting next week.

602
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 3: How hard it is going to be for me to

603
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 3: deal with my kids when if I can't deal with

604
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 3: them now, how am I going to deal with them

605
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 3: in three years? How hard it is going to be

606
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 3: for me to go through another year like this with

607
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 3: these unanswered prayers, And after you get done telling him

608
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 3: how hard it is going to be, you realize that

609
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 3: you forgot that he promised to do.

610
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Speaker 4: The hard part.

611
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 3: Because everybody in the text has a job. The sower

612
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 3: has a job to sew, you should sew. The reaper

613
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 3: has a job to reap, and you should reap. Both

614
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 3: of those things are important. But did you notice in

615
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 3: verse twenty eight that the most important thing that happened

616
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 3: in the passage happened whether the man was asleep or awake.

617
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 3: It happened regardless, Because all by itself, the soil produces grain.

618
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: I could preach thirteen weeks on.

619
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Speaker 3: All by itself, the soil produces grain. Yes, it needs

620
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 3: a seed to pull from, but it is not dependent

621
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Speaker 3: on the seed in any other way. I am trying

622
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Speaker 3: to say that while your part has a part, it's

623
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 3: not the main part.

624
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: Stop bringing that main character.

625
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 3: Energy to your prayer life acting like God's gonna lead

626
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 3: you to speed run all these levels without him.

627
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: He's not gonna do that.

628
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Speaker 3: When you get to the hard part, He's going to

629
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 3: do the hard part. And even if your part feels

630
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 3: hard right now and harder than you can bear, I

631
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 3: want you to think about all the hard stuff God

632
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 3: is already.

633
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Speaker 1: Doing right now that you're not even thinking about. This

634
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: helps me.

635
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 4: To realize that while I'm preaching, which is hard. It's

636
00:34:53,120 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 4: hard that my my heart is beating. Is said that

637
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Speaker 4: it beats about one hundred thousand times a day.

638
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: I looked it up.

639
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 3: Grahan used to couldn't do that, so you could just

640
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 3: make up a number, and it's.

641
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: Sending all that blood all through my body. They said,

642
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just looked this up. I don't

643
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: know if it's true.

644
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 3: It is on the internet that it said that that

645
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 3: there is enough in my body right now that of

646
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 3: the twenty two thousand breadths I will take today, check

647
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 3: this out, that will basically process the oxygen.

648
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: It was crazy you.

649
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 3: Came up talking about oxygen because I meant to mention

650
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: it and that will expel the carbon dioxide. That there

651
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 3: are three hundred million tiny little sacks where all that

652
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 3: happens inside of me. So when you say it is

653
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 3: God's breath in my lungs, your body has three hundred

654
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 3: million tiny little sacks.

655
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: The good stuff.

656
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 3: Is getting taken in, the bad stuff is getting taken out,

657
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 3: and God.

658
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: Is doing all that. And I never heard a worship

659
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: song about it.

660
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 3: I heard about the lungs filling our lungs with prace,

661
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 3: but I never heard about the tiny little sacks where

662
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 3: all the carbon dioxide gets expelled and the oxygen gets

663
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Speaker 3: processed and gets sent back out to the bloodstream.

664
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Speaker 1: I never read about any of that. Because God is

665
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Speaker 1: so good, we take him for granted.

666
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 3: He's so good, we take him for granted, and then

667
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 3: we run up on something hard and we're like, Oh,

668
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 3: that's gonna be hard, like the rest of it isn't

669
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Speaker 3: The possibilities that you would be born in this time

670
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 3: are so infintestibly what's the word infant?

671
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: They're so small, they're so tiny.

672
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 3: They're so tiny that the fact that you would even

673
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 3: be here today, with the opportunities that you have, with

674
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 3: the life that you have, with the strength that you have,

675
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: God has already done that. So what's the next hard

676
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 3: thing you have in front of you? If God has

677
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 3: already done a miracle in three hundred million tiny little

678
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 3: sacks that I didn't see in my body yesterday that

679
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 3: I didn't even thank him for yesterday, that I didn't

680
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 3: even know what was happening yesterday, That I'm not even

681
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 3: sure I'm explaining right today. If God did that for me,

682
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 3: then bring on this one too. Because God made me

683
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 3: a promise. He's got the hard part. Let me preach

684
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 3: this from my soul. We get so anxious when the

685
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Speaker 3: devil roars. We get so anxious playing out our lives,

686
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Speaker 3: and yet we, like the disciples, forget the fact.

687
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Speaker 1: That we have the bread with us.

688
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Speaker 3: Can I teach this like I want to teach it.

689
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 3: I wish I'll had three hours today. I would tell

690
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Speaker 3: you about how in Mark chapter eight, the disciples were

691
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 3: heading to an assignment, a ministry assignment, and they were

692
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 3: stressed out because look at Mark eight fourteen, they forgot

693
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Speaker 3: to bring bread. Jesus had already multiplied to feed five

694
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 3: thousand men, women, and children. But they were still stressed

695
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Speaker 3: because no matter how many hard situations God brought them through,

696
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 3: they still forgot what they had in Him, and they

697
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 3: got focused on the next hard thing.

698
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Speaker 1: I gotta get this across.

699
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 3: You are focused on the hard thing, the hard thing,

700
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 3: and when you focus too much on the hard thing,

701
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Speaker 3: you forget your help. The irony of this. In verse fourteen,

702
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 3: the disciples had forgotten to bring bread except one loaf.

703
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 3: They had with them in the boat. Next verse, be careful,

704
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 3: Jesus warned them, watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees.

705
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Speaker 1: And that of Herod.

706
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Speaker 3: Next they discussed this with one another and said, it's

707
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Speaker 3: because we have no bread.

708
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna limit him.

709
00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 3: Pop quiz, who is the bread of life? Who's in

710
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 3: the boat? So what do you have to worry about

711
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: if you forgot bread? I'm trying to say that your

712
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,959
Speaker 3: sewing is not the most significant thing when it comes

713
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Speaker 3: to the sovereignty of God. I know you didn't get

714
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 3: some things right. I didn't either. I know there's some

715
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 3: things you don't understand.

716
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: I don't either. I know it's hard to be you,

717
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: me too. But the most important thing in the boat

718
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Speaker 1: is not what they forgot, it's.

719
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Speaker 3: Who they had. How cool Jesus is aware of their discussion.

720
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Speaker 3: He asked them, wait time I have having no bread

721
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 3: when you have me?

722
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Speaker 1: You still not see or understand?

723
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Speaker 4: Are your hearts hardened?

724
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Speaker 1: You have eyes but fail to see, and ears but

725
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: fail to hear?

726
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 3: And don't you remember when I broke the five loaves

727
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 3: for the five thousand?

728
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 4: How many basketballs and pieces did you pick up?

729
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: Twelve? They replied, and when I broke the seven loves

730
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: for the four thousand, Now.

731
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Speaker 3: Jesus doing a math lesson how many basketballs and pieces

732
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Speaker 3: did you pick up?

733
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Speaker 1: They answered seven. He said to them, do you still

734
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Speaker 1: this is what he wants to say to you to day?

735
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Speaker 1: Do you still not trust me?

736
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 3: Do you still not know?

737
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Speaker 1: And see, we don't because.

738
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Speaker 3: That thing about the soil that he shared, that's scary.

739
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Speaker 1: It's scary for a seed to be in the soil.

740
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Speaker 1: It is scary to be in the middle of your life.

741
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: It is scary to go through a messy divorce.

742
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 3: It is scary when they tell you we're not renewing

743
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 3: your position.

744
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: It is scary when you don't have your next step plant.

745
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: It's scary in the soil.

746
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Speaker 3: But notice that the place in the passage where the

747
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 3: most happened was the place that was the least visible.

748
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Speaker 3: If the seed stays in the sower's hand, it will

749
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Speaker 3: always be a seed. But if it goes down in

750
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Speaker 3: the ground, it goes down seed, but it comes up grain.

751
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Speaker 1: Five.

752
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 3: Your neighbors say, I'm coming out different. I'm coming out different.

753
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 3: I'm coming out different. That's how you'll know that God has.

754
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: Met with me. Because I won't look.

755
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Speaker 3: Like I went in when I come out, I won't

756
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 3: be like I was when I come forth. This is

757
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 3: what the Kingdom of God is like a man scattered seed,

758
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 3: and then the seed is on a trajectory to become bread.

759
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: Which is sustenance.

760
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Speaker 3: But in order for the seed to be bred, first

761
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Speaker 3: it must be buried. I want to talk to you

762
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 3: for one moment about buried bread. Buried bread, buried bread.

763
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 3: You say I didn't read any bread in Mark chapter four,

764
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 3: Yes you did. Jesus said to them he is the bread,

765
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Speaker 3: and he's talking to them about seed, but he is bread.

766
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: He's giving them.

767
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 3: A picture of what is possible, and he's painting it

768
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Speaker 3: on a level that they can comprehend, and they get it.

769
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Speaker 3: The seed can't stay in your hand and become a harvest.

770
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Speaker 4: I'm trying to tell you, let go, let go, let

771
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 4: go of.

772
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 3: Your need to control people and just start adjusting your access,

773
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 3: Let go of your need to have data make sense,

774
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: and start checking in with God more than you check

775
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 3: in with grass. I'm saying, let go. Come on, your

776
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 3: neighbor needs a little friendly encouragement. Tell him you better

777
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 3: let it go, because if you don't let it go.

778
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 3: It will always be this. But if it gets in

779
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: the soil, let's go back to our key verse, this

780
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 3: is gonna be my new life verse y'all until next

781
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 3: week Mark chapter four, verse twenty.

782
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Speaker 1: Eight, all by itself the soil.

783
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Speaker 3: So the soil represents God. So the soil represents in Him.

784
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 3: I live and move and have my being. So the

785
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 3: soil lets me know that when the seed went out

786
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 3: of sight, it didn't go away.

787
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: It went somewhere to change.

788
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 3: Everything in your life has to go through the soil

789
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 3: to become what it's meant to be. If it never

790
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 3: gets planted, it never becomes grain. If it never becomes grain,

791
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 3: it will never be bread. If it never is bread,

792
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 3: it will never be what it was meant to be.

793
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 3: So before it can be bred, I don't know who

794
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 3: this is. Far im trying to find you.

795
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: Before it can be bred, it has to be buried.

796
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 3: You never heard about buried bread because you just get

797
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 3: it from the bakery. You just look at someone's life

798
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,479
Speaker 3: and say they're so patient, they're so wonderful, they're so amazing. Well,

799
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 3: before they became bred, let me tell you what they were.

800
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: They were buried.

801
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 3: They went through something that pulled out, something that changed,

802
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 3: something that broke through something.

803
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm telling you God has got.

804
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 3: You in this place in your life because he's pulling

805
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 3: out something to break through, something.

806
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: To break forth. Bread. It's gonna be bred.

807
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be fat, but it's gonna be bred.

808
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 3: It's gonna be bread for your children. It's gonna be

809
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 3: bread for your community. Touch seven people say it's gonna.

810
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: Be bread is buried right now, but.

811
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 3: It's gonna be bread. Uncomfortable right now, but it's gonna

812
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 3: be bred. It doesn't look good right now.

813
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: I can't even see it you're feeling.

814
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 3: I can't even see anything opening.

815
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: In my life.

816
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 3: This is not making a difference for everyone who feels disappointed.

817
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: I want you to know that it is not a death.

818
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: It is a stage of development. Just like now, I'm

819
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: not a farmer. I'm not a farmer.

820
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 3: But when he said all by itself, the grain produces,

821
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 3: and I thought about how Wow, as much as the

822
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 3: sower did, he could go to sleep and the soil

823
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 3: kept working. That's like God in my life that while

824
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 3: I'm not even conscious of it, he's working well. I

825
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 3: can't even explain it. He's working it matter of fact,

826
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 3: go back to verse twenty seven real quick.

827
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Speaker 1: Remind him what the passage said.

828
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Speaker 3: Jesus said, though he does not know how verse twenty seven.

829
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Speaker 1: Though he does not know how. Now go ahead and

830
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: get it out of your system. It'll feel good safe.

831
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: I don't know how.

832
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 3: Certain processes I don't have to understand because God is sovereign.

833
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: And I thought about d V.

834
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 3: When we record an album at the church, and we

835
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 3: sing the songs, you know, we write the songs, we

836
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 3: sing the songs, we record the songs, and then people

837
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 3: start asking me, pastor Win, are those songs coming out that.

838
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: We recorded Friday?

839
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 3: Because they think we can record it Friday and it

840
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 3: can be on your phone Saturday because they want that

841
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 3: fath worship. And I'm having fun today? Is it all

842
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 3: right if I have a good time in the church

843
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 3: where God is building his kingdom and the gates of

844
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 3: hell will not prevail.

845
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: Too much tension in the world.

846
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 3: When we come together, we ought to celebrate the one

847
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 3: thing we've.

848
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Speaker 1: Got in common.

849
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 3: We got common grown, we got common grown.

850
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: So where's J Mix? Jy Mix? He's told me be

851
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: here all right, so J Mix?

852
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 3: How many of you have ever heard Jay mix sing

853
00:46:58,520 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 3: a worship song.

854
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: No you haven't, you're lying in chart. I'm a fact

855
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: check you. But before it gets to your.

856
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 3: Phone, this is so annoyed what I'm about to say

857
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 3: about him. Before it gets to your phone, it shows

858
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,240
Speaker 3: up in his computer as files.

859
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: When we finished recording a.

860
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 3: Song the Lord, Oh My Soul, and it's so fun friend.

861
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: A Lord, oh My night.

862
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 3: And by the time y'all finish jumping, he's already sorting

863
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 3: the files because on his computer will go over one

864
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 3: hundred pro Tools tracks. And now he's got to take

865
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 3: the hundred tracks of y'all singing and clapping and them

866
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 3: singing and clapping and all of that. And in a

867
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 3: place that nobody sees called a studio. Jim mikes someonea

868
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 3: use you to represent God in this illustration, But don't

869
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 3: get a big head. It's a good illustration to be

870
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 3: a part in a place that nobody sees.

871
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: He has to do stuff to those.

872
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 3: Songs that you've never even heard of, so that by

873
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,439
Speaker 3: the time it gets to your ears, you feel that thing.

874
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got to go through and you don't

875
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 1: even know this is a thing. Do you tell your neighbor?

876
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: Is that a thing.

877
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 3: He has to take the vocals and deep breath them.

878
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 3: Not deep breath, not like yoga deep breath. That means

879
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 3: when people are all on the mic, you don't want

880
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 3: to hear that on your air pods.

881
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: That's creepy. Let everything that has breath but not that loud.

882
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: So he has the deep bread he has to de

883
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Speaker 1: breath it.

884
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 3: Oh, and then don't even get me started on how

885
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 3: they have to take the clicks and remove them from

886
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 3: the mics from when.

887
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 1: Y'all try to clap but you don't have any.

888
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 3: Rhythm because we're not sending our churches music out in

889
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 3: the world with no rhythm.

890
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: I Am not going to be represented by that.

891
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 3: So they will literally have to move in and remove

892
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:11,919
Speaker 3: some of the collapse and retrack some of the instruments

893
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 3: because you know, we change that part and they forgot,

894
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 3: And then we've got to get this in there and

895
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 3: we'll witness sound good at that.

896
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: All of that is happening in the mix with J Mix.

897
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 1: What a prophetic name to be.

898
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 3: Called J mix, And that's exactly what it is.

899
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: It's a mix.

900
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 3: It's a mix by the time he sends it off

901
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 3: to be mixed, by the time it has sent off

902
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 3: to be mastered. They have spent months. That's why it

903
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 3: takes so long. Hey, drop that this Sunday. We can't

904
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 3: drop it till we do what we gotta do with it.

905
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 3: And if we do what we've got to do with

906
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 3: it in development, if we do what we've got to

907
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 3: do with it in the dark, when it is released

908
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 3: into the world, it will be a sound that will

909
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 3: resound and it will have maximal impact. And that is

910
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 3: what this parable is saying to me, is that the

911
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 3: soil is where God produces you.

912
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: The soil is where.

913
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 3: God takes the colapse out because sometimes you don't need

914
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 3: to move to people's applause as your rhythm. That the

915
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 3: soil is the studio where God has to debreath some things.

916
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 3: God has to get you to start start panting after

917
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 3: His presence in the soil.

918
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: It's the place where God does the hard part.

919
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 3: And so I come with the prophetic declaration today that

920
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 3: unless you refuse to be planted, you are not the

921
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 3: star of this story.

922
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: God will do the hard part. Whatever it is that

923
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: custody thing you got going.

924
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 3: With your three year old and you don't know how

925
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 3: are they gonna know me as their dad, if I

926
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 3: don't have custody of them.

927
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 1: God will do the hard part.

928
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 3: He will make sure if you stay planted, that you

929
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 3: have the opportunities that you need to raise that child.

930
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 3: And if there's somebody else He needs to send that

931
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 3: has the gift that they need.

932
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:18,919
Speaker 1: God will do the hard part.

933
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 3: But it is scary in the soil, because this is

934
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 3: the part you can't control.

935
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: This is the part you can't micromanage.

936
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 3: This is the part where you are so tempted to

937
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 3: put your death grip on the seed and try to

938
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 3: tell it what to be.

939
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: Before it can become bred, it has to be buried.

940
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 3: Every seed you sow has to be surrendered, which means

941
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 3: that it can only be what's inside of it. Stop

942
00:51:52,200 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 3: trying to produce somebody else's purpose. I want to liberate you.

943
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 3: You don't have to fulfill anybody else's calling. Notice the

944
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 3: Passage did not start with a seed of grain and

945
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 3: turn into a vineyard of grapes.

946
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: It's not supposed to.

947
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 3: And you don't have to produce anything God didn't put

948
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 3: in you. Get off TikTok, Get off Instagram. You don't

949
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 3: have to look twenty three when you're forty seven. You

950
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 3: don't have to produce anything that's not Maybe I'm preaching

951
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 3: to myself right now.

952
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: These gray hair has got me.

953
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 3: Self conscious these days hot by somebody say whatever's in

954
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 3: me will be produced until it.

955
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: Reaches it's full potential.

956
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 3: Now you need to preach that back to him that

957
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 3: was week, say whatever's in you will be produced until

958
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,319
Speaker 3: it reaches it's full potential.

959
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: Now, y'all get ready to shout, because I already.

960
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 3: Told you before it is bread, it has to be.

961
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 3: God is not doing nothing in your life. This season

962
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 3: is not insignificant in your life. Nothing about this is random.

963
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 3: Nothing about this takes him off guard, Nothing about this

964
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 3: has him nervous. Nothing about this pushes him away. Before

965
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 3: it becomes bread, it must be buried.

966
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: But watch this. Before it's buried, it's already bred because everything.

967
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 3: That is coming up out of the soil was already

968
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 3: in the seed. I can't to declare you already got it.

969
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 3: Praise it for twenty seconds eight feed seconds, fiftegu seconds gone,

970
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 3: eights seven six not far so?

971
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: Who did that hit? Just now? If it's one hundred people,

972
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: give God praise that it hits you. If it's a

973
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: hundred people, let's review.

974
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 4: A so or so to seed.

975
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 1: It fell on the ground, it went in the ground,

976
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: It went down.

977
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 3: As a seed, it came up as a stalk. Something

978
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:34,720
Speaker 3: was happening while it was in the dark place. I wonder,

979
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 3: is that what you needed to hear, that something is

980
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 3: happening in your dark place?

981
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: What is the dark place? It's the place where God

982
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: pulls out.

983
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 3: The potential that is in you, so that when he

984
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 3: brings it forth, it'll be exactly what He meant for

985
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 3: it to be. I come against the spirit of comparison

986
00:54:55,719 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 3: that is robbing you of your joy. The seed was

987
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 3: not responsible to produce anything.

988
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 1: God didn't encode it to produce. God has already done

989
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 1: the hard part.

990
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 4: Jesus has already done the hard part.

991
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 3: Is so hard for you to receive the forgiveness, but

992
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 3: he already did the hard part. He died to give

993
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 3: it to you. Is so hard for us to walk

994
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 3: in his new life. You know what I think the

995
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,760
Speaker 3: passage is trying to say is that God the Father

996
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 3: is the soil, and.

997
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 4: Jesus the Savior, was our seed.

998
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 3: Because he is the seed who went into the earth

999
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 3: for three days, and when he came forth, he became.

1000
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: The bread of life. He was already bred.

1001
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 3: But for us to receive him. And if you have

1002
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 3: spiritual ears to hear what I'm saying right now, I

1003
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 3: am telling you that you have to go through some

1004
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 3: things to.

1005
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: Become what God has called you to be.

1006
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 4: But I'm here to also tell you that what you

1007
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 4: need to be, it is already in you.

1008
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 1: It had to be buried to be bred, and.

1009
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 4: It was bred when it was buried. You already are.

1010
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,479
Speaker 3: You already are chosen by God. You already are loved

1011
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 3: by him. You say, but I'm broken, So is the seed.

1012
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 3: You say, But I'm dirty, So was the seed. You say,

1013
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 3: But I'm hurting, So was Jesus.

1014
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: But I was betrayed. So was Jesus.

1015
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 4: So was the seed.

1016
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:56,800
Speaker 3: You keep sowing and you'll keep seeing that God. God's

1017
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 3: got the heart part. I thought about our relationship, me

1018
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 3: and God. I reckon of the two of us. It

1019
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 3: is easier for me to be in relationship with him

1020
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 3: than him to be in relationship with me.

1021
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: How many feel that way? That God's got the hard part.

1022
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 3: When it comes to your relationship, And yet he still

1023
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 3: wants you. He signed up for all of that. He

1024
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 3: checked your whole profile and He put a purpose inside

1025
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,959
Speaker 3: of you. And I want to pray for people today

1026
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 3: who are struggling with this, because what the text gave

1027
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 3: me was for your life and for my life, a

1028
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 3: principle and a promise. The principle is that everything in

1029
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 3: your life has to be buried to become bread. Your

1030
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 3: gift is under development, your intellect is under development, your

1031
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 3: experience is under development. All of that stuff that you

1032
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 3: think is dead, it's under development.

1033
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: But never forget this.

1034
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 3: It was already bred when it went into the ground.

1035
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 3: It was just waiting for the time to come forth.

1036
00:57:58,360 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: And I think about Jesus.

1037
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,919
Speaker 3: He came to earth, he taught his disciples, He taught

1038
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 3: them parables, He taught them many times through his actions.

1039
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: But he ultimately came to die.

1040
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 3: And so when it came time for the Passover meal,

1041
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 3: he sat down and he began to eat with them.

1042
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 3: And look what Matthew's twenty six twenty six says about it.

1043
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 4: To give us a picture that God will do the

1044
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 4: hard part.

1045
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: He took the bread while.

1046
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 3: They were eating, and when he had given thanks, he

1047
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 3: broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, take

1048
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 3: an eat. This is my body. Shortly after that he died.

1049
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 3: When he broke the bread, it was symbolic of how

1050
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 3: his body would be broken. Now you see why I

1051
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 3: think Jesus was the seed. The seed breaks when it's

1052
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 3: in the ground. Jesus's body was broken on the cross.

1053
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 3: But notice what he said to them, Matthew twenty six

1054
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 3: twenty sixth Please, he said, you take it to eat.

1055
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 3: My body is broken for you. He has done the

1056
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 3: hard part. So whatever comes after.

1057
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: This, he's got it. He's got it.

1058
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 3: How shall he who died to give us life not

1059
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 3: also graciously with him give us all things. When the

1060
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 3: seed is out of your hands, it's in his right

1061
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 3: Now bow your head and close your eyes.

1062
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 4: The spirit of the Lord is moving powerfully.

1063
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 3: Maybe in your living room, maybe in your kitchen, maybe

1064
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 3: in your sick bed, maybe in your car, maybe in

1065
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:46,479
Speaker 3: your workout, maybe in your midnight hour, maybe right here

1066
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 3: in this church on the fourth row. God has you

1067
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 3: in the soil. It's not hard for him. It's hard

1068
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 3: for you. It's easy for him, he's God. But it's

1069
00:59:59,160 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 3: hard for.

1070
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: You to know how long, to know what to do.

1071
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 3: And it's okay to be like the man in the

1072
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 3: passage to say I don't know how.

1073
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: The how part is not your job, is God's part.

1074
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: I declare in.

1075
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 3: The name of Jesus that you are a seed to

1076
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 3: that God is working through your life. That God is

1077
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 3: giving you nutrients that you know not of in this season.

1078
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 3: That God is giving you everything that you need for

1079
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 3: the calling that He's assigned to your life.

1080
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: That you, like a mustard seed, might.

1081
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 3: Start out small, but there will be really big branches.

1082
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 3: If you faint not, let us not become weary and

1083
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 3: well doing, for in due season we shall read. If

1084
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 3: we faint not, I declare over your life today that

1085
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 3: this is rich soil, This is good ground. You are

1086
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 3: hidden under the shadow of the Almighty. This is good ground,

1087
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 3: planted in the garden of the Lord. You are an

1088
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 3: oak of righteousness, and this is good ground. Now let

1089
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 3: me pray for your children you're worried about. God's got

1090
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 3: them in good ground. They're gonna bring four things too.

1091
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 3: They're gonna be bred too. They're gonna go through a

1092
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 3: process too. But you just keep on praising right through

1093
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 3: that process. You keep praising while God is doing stuff

1094
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 3: in the studio.

1095
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 1: You keep praising well.

1096
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 3: God keeps producing, And there's somebody here today, who needs

1097
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 3: to give your life to Jesus Christ. You've never really

1098
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 3: done this thing. You've never really given your life to Jesus.

1099
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 3: You've never really surrendered it. You keep trying to do

1100
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 3: it on your own. You keep trying to work your

1101
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 3: way to God. You keep going up and down.

1102
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: We all do. That's why Jesus came. It's time to

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Speaker 1: let grace take over. It's time to let Grace take over.

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Speaker 3: So right now, if you want to give your life

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Speaker 3: to Jesus, I'm gonna lead you in a prayer. You

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Speaker 3: can repeat after me. The prayer is not magical, but

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Speaker 3: the God we pray it to. He is supernatural. He

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Speaker 3: has all power, and he came down to raise you up.

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Speaker 3: If you want to put your life in his hands today,

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Speaker 3: repeat after me, Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in

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Speaker 3: need of a savior, and I believe that Jesus Christ

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Speaker 3: is the Son of God and the savior of the world.

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Speaker 1: Today I make Jesus the lord of my life.

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Speaker 3: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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Speaker 3: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

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Speaker 3: This is my new beginning. I am a child of

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Speaker 3: God on the counter of three. Shoot your hand up

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Speaker 3: if you've prayed that one two three. We celebrate your

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Speaker 3: resurrection day. We celebrate your new creation Day.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah man, yeah man.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's do a little better. Let's do a better,

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Speaker 1: let's raise a little rufus. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry.

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

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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now,

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Speaker 2: or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information

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Speaker 2: and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe.

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Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at

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Speaker 2: Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.