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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: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: Hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 3: I really am excited to continue a series today that

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Speaker 3: I started last week, and I'm.

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Speaker 1: Calling the series. You're ready. I know that voice.

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Speaker 3: I know that voice, and we're talking about how to

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Speaker 3: discern God's voice and then do what it says.

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Speaker 1: Aren't both of those important?

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Speaker 3: You know what I noticed about us sometimes as believers

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Speaker 3: in Jesus, we get so caught up in the parts

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Speaker 3: of what God has spoken that are hard to discern,

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Speaker 3: and we ignore the parts that are hard to do.

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Speaker 3: Some things that God has spoken to us about they're

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Speaker 3: not hard to discern.

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Speaker 1: He just told us to do that, to forgive, but

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Speaker 1: that's hard to do. I'm gonna come over to this side.

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Speaker 1: I feel resistance on this side of the room. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's better over here. I'm gonna just check the waters

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the Lord will tell you confess your sins one

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Speaker 3: to another. That's easy to discern, that you need to

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Speaker 3: be honest about your sin. It's hard to do because

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Speaker 3: I want you to see me like that, so I

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Speaker 3: want to keep this armor on. Well, we're talking about

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Speaker 3: not only discerning the voice of God, but being able

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Speaker 3: to do what he speaks.

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Speaker 1: And I want you to be seated today.

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Speaker 3: Normally I share my scripture while you're standing, but I

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Speaker 3: want you to be seated because I want to talk

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Speaker 3: you into the scripture today. So take your seat wherever

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Speaker 3: you are and turning your bible please to First Corinthians,

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Speaker 3: chapter four, verse one through five. First Corinthians four one

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Speaker 3: through five. Thank you for your word.

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Speaker 1: Lord.

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Speaker 3: Somebody say what Samuel said. Speak Lord, your servant is listening.

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Speaker 3: We talked about Samuel last week and how he attuned

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Speaker 3: his ear to the voice of God, and so that

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Speaker 3: before he spoke for God, he had to learn to

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Speaker 3: hear from God.

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Speaker 1: Very important.

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Speaker 3: The apostle Paul was another preacher who had to hear

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Speaker 3: from God before he could speak for God, because there

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Speaker 3: was a time in his life when he persecuted followers

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Speaker 3: he had to come to that all important place that

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Speaker 3: really measures your maturity in the Lord, where he said

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Speaker 3: I was wrong.

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Speaker 1: Try to say that one time. See how heart it

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Speaker 3: And he spent the rest of his ministry not trying

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Speaker 3: to make it up to God, but trying to spread

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Speaker 3: the message of the God who had saved him by grace.

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Speaker 3: After spending his whole life trying to earn God's favor

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Speaker 3: through keeping the law in First Corinthians. After for Paul

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Speaker 3: is well into his established ministry and he's doing something

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Speaker 3: we would never think that someone.

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Speaker 3: He's defending himself to the Corinthian church. Not that like

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Speaker 3: they really had any right to judge.

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Speaker 1: Him, because they were wild. They were so wild.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about sexual immorality in the church. It was

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Speaker 3: different back then. They had stuff going so crazy that

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Speaker 3: believers were suing each other because they couldn't mediate any

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Speaker 3: Then, and they were also not only dysfunctional, but they

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Speaker 3: were divided. So, yeah, one group in the church like

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Speaker 3: we like when Paul preaches. Then there was another group

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Speaker 3: And Paul speaks into all of that, telling them you

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Speaker 3: should be eating meat by now, but you still need

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Speaker 3: to realize that if God's word is being preached, he

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Speaker 3: can use anything he wants to bring it to you,

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Speaker 3: the one he wants to bring it to you anytime

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Speaker 3: But then it gets personal, and I've spent a lot

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Speaker 3: of time debating how to share this message today because

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Speaker 3: it is personal to me. I have determined that the

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Speaker 3: greatest way for me to make it personal to you

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Speaker 3: is to share how it's personal for me. But first,

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Speaker 3: let's see how it is personal for Paul. First Corinthians four,

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Speaker 1: You are not responsible for what.

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Speaker 3: God has not revealed, and you get to trust Him

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Speaker 3: revealed through Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Look at verse two.

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Speaker 3: Now it is required that those who have been given

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Speaker 3: a trust must prove famous. No, that's what everybody in

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Speaker 3: if you've been entrusted with it, you don't have to

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Speaker 3: be famous. You just have to be faithful. You don't

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Speaker 3: even have to be that smart. You just have to

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Speaker 3: be faithful. You don't even have to be perfect, You

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Speaker 3: just have to be faithful. Verse three is where I

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Speaker 3: want to pick up our thought for today. I care

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Speaker 3: very little if I am judged by you or by

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Speaker 3: any human court, indeed touching nation. So I don't care

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Speaker 3: what you think about me. You didn't convince them. Say

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Speaker 3: it again. I don't care what you think about me.

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Speaker 1: Now ask them, do you like my outfit? Does it

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Speaker 1: look good on me? Does it make me look fat?

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Speaker 3: I hear a preacher one time, even preaching, he said,

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Speaker 3: I don't preach for the praise of men.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, I see the irony anyway. We all need validation.

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Speaker 1: And so last week I talked about values.

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Speaker 3: You'll know God's voice when you have God's values. To

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Speaker 3: hasn't revealed when I'm not doing what he has revealed

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Speaker 3: God's values, watch this. I can go to any college

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Speaker 3: If I have God's values, I can take a wrong decision,

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Speaker 1: Because when I have God's values, I hear God's voice.

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Speaker 3: Today, I want to switch it a little bit, and

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about not values, but verdicts. Verdicts.

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Speaker 3: It's a courtroom term, he said. He said, I care

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Speaker 3: very little if I'm judged by you Verse three.

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Speaker 1: So he must care a little bit, but not too much.

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Speaker 3: I kind of care, but not enough to be controlled

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Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to do my best, but but I'm

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Speaker 3: not controlled by it. I care what you think, but

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to prove it to you or any

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Speaker 3: human core And this gets deep Verse three part B. Indeed,

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Speaker 3: I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear,

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Speaker 3: but that doesn't make me innocent because my heart is deceptive.

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Speaker 1: It is the Lord who judges me.

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Speaker 3: Therefore, judge nothing before the appointed time.

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Speaker 1: Wait until the Lord comes.

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Speaker 3: He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness

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Speaker 3: and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time,

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Speaker 3: each will receive their praise from God.

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Speaker 1: Here's the title of my message.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about when Jesus is your jury.

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Speaker 1: Come on, y'all, got quiet.

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Speaker 3: I know you're trying to write it down, but you

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Speaker 3: can multitask shout while shout while you're right, when Jesus

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Speaker 3: is your jury? Because I'm telling you there are internal

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Speaker 3: every single day about others, about yourself, about your life.

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Speaker 3: And I want to talk about that a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And I chose the word jury because that's the job

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Speaker 3: of a jury, right to declare a verdict after examining

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Speaker 3: evidence and in your heart. Even at this point in

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Speaker 3: my message today, you have already made certain verdicts about

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Speaker 3: the word that I'm preaching today. You've already started deciding

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Speaker 3: disagree with what he's saying. Do I think Pastor seven

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Speaker 1: You know all the things that you think, and.

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Speaker 3: You laugh at that, you laugh at that, but it

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Speaker 3: And this is where I want to share with you personally.

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Speaker 3: My eighteen year old son, Graham is preaching a lot

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Speaker 1: Of all my kids. They don't have to preach to

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Speaker 3: And he started asking me questions about preaching, like how

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Speaker 3: do you do an introduction? And you know, how do

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Speaker 3: How do I get my humor to come across more

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Speaker 3: when I preach, because they don't laugh when I talk.

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Speaker 3: You see what he did. It's their fault they're not laughing.

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Speaker 1: Up to the my level?

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Speaker 3: Delusion can be a tool for the preacher, But he.

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Speaker 1: Is funny and he is learning. And one day he

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Speaker 3: I'm going to share this personally, but it's not autobiographical.

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Speaker 1: It's for your application, So listen to this.

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Speaker 3: I study in our house at a dining room table

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Speaker 3: with about seven empty chairs.

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Speaker 1: I like studying there number one because it's.

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Speaker 3: Close to the food, and number two I like it

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Speaker 3: because those empty chairs help me prepare. Here's why I

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Speaker 3: sit with the Bible. I say, Lord, speak to me.

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Speaker 3: I need you to show me in your word what

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Speaker 3: it says, not what I think, not what I preached

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Speaker 3: about it last time. And Lord, even if I don't

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Speaker 3: completely understand it, I want to share it because I

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Speaker 3: would rather give the people a word that is fresh

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Speaker 3: So as I'm studying a lot of times, I get

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Speaker 3: sermon when I give you the outline. But after I've

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Speaker 1: Please don't commit me to the outreach partner.

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Speaker 3: That helps with mental health when you hear this, but

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Speaker 3: great theologian.

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Speaker 1: He's in heaven now and he is a great theologian.

445
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Speaker 1: What's his name? John.

446
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Speaker 3: They were doing a lightning round with him at a

447
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Speaker 3: theological panel, and they were saying, we're going to say

448
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Speaker 3: a name of a person, or the name of an event,

449
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 3: or the name of an organization, and we want you

450
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Speaker 3: to lightning round, just respond what you think about that person. Now,

451
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Speaker 3: I was very unsuspecting because honestly, I really loved this

452
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Speaker 3: guy's teaching, and I studied his books and seminary I

453
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Speaker 3: mean cemetary, I mean seminary.

454
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Speaker 1: And I studied his books to the point.

455
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Speaker 3: Where I actually had started buying volumes of his different

456
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Speaker 3: commentaries on the Bible. So it was really weird to

457
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Speaker 3: me because I was just watching this thing on YouTube

458
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Speaker 3: as a spectator, and I was like in the other

459
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Speaker 3: room getting ready to go preach on a Saturday night,

460
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Speaker 3: and they said my name, they go, they go Steven Ferdick.

461
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Speaker 1: I'm like, is my mom in.

462
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Speaker 3: Here somewhere calling me by my first and last name?

463
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Speaker 1: Like did they say my name? And I got back

464
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Speaker 1: to the screen just in time to see it. And

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget it because it wasn't just what he said,

466
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Speaker 1: It was how he sighed before he said it.

467
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Speaker 3: I was expecting him to say who, because I don't

468
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Speaker 3: think of myself as anybody that this man should know about.

469
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Speaker 1: I read his books. But he goes.

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Speaker 3: Ah, And what he said next was one word, but

471
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Speaker 3: it felt like it had about a million syllables. He said, unqualified.

472
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Speaker 3: I said, what did John just call me? And the

473
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Speaker 3: first thing I wanted to do was's fight.

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Speaker 1: You thought I was.

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Speaker 3: Going to say pray. No, I didn't want to pray

476
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Speaker 3: for him. I wanted to lay hands on him.

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Speaker 1: Because that's in the Bible too.

478
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Speaker 3: It's in the Bible, like something out of the Bible.

479
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Speaker 3: I can share it with you now because there's no

480
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Speaker 3: bitterness in my heart toward this man.

481
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Speaker 1: I'm sure in heaven and I'm.

482
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Speaker 3: Sure we'll eat grits and eggs together one day when

483
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Speaker 3: I get there, because I'm gonna.

484
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Speaker 1: Be there too, whether he wants me in there or not.

485
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna knock on.

486
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Speaker 3: His door and I'm gonna say, I read your book.

487
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Speaker 1: Let's have a book club, John.

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Speaker 4: But you know what's weird is that sometimes when I

489
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Speaker 4: sit down to study, even though I forgave him, even

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Speaker 4: though I wrote a book called Unqualified.

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Speaker 3: And sent him one hundred and twenty dollars tie and

492
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Speaker 3: the book signed in the.

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Speaker 1: Mail, Yeah I did that. I don't even know they made.

494
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Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty dollars ties until I bought him one.

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Speaker 3: Even though I'm gotten over it, there are still sometimes

496
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Speaker 3: that I sit down to preach to one John and

497
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Speaker 3: find myself trying to.

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Speaker 1: Prove to another John.

499
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Speaker 3: But God said that's the wrong Joe, God, because God.

500
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Speaker 1: Did not call you to convince the jury.

501
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 3: God called you to please Him and help John.

502
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Speaker 1: So clap your hands. If you know I got nothing

503
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Speaker 1: to prove.

504
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Speaker 3: Wrong, John, write that down next time you find yourself

505
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Speaker 3: trying to prove something to somebody who isn't even paying attention.

506
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Speaker 3: By the way, you know what they're doing, trying to

507
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Speaker 3: prove themselves to somebody who isn't paying attention. So they

508
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Speaker 3: can prove themselves to somebody who isn't.

509
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Speaker 1: Paying attention because they're proven. And what are you proven to?

510
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Speaker 3: And what will it improve you if they do approve

511
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Speaker 3: of you? Here what I said, What would it improve

512
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Speaker 3: you if they did approve of you? So I'm saying,

513
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Speaker 3: like Paul said, I care a little bit, but I

514
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Speaker 3: can't be controlled by a jury when God has given

515
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 3: me a job. Even if it's not a person saying it.

516
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 3: I bet you've heard it before.

517
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Speaker 1: Unqualified.

518
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Speaker 3: Why do I make his voice sound like you on

519
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Speaker 3: a respirator or something?

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Speaker 1: Unqualified? I could hear, I could hear the jury. We

521
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Speaker 1: have reached a verdict on.

522
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Speaker 3: Verdict, your honor, we pronounced him unqualified, and I'm like, yeah,

523
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 3: like Moses, Yeah, like the Virgin Mary, Yeah, like a

524
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Speaker 3: shepherd boy named David, Yeah, like a cousin fisherman, the

525
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Speaker 3: name Peter, anybody God ever use he bit it through.

526
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Speaker 1: They're dysfunction.

527
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Speaker 3: So come all right, we're talking about the praise that

528
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Speaker 3: come from God. Say it, the praise that comes from God,

529
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Speaker 3: the praise.

530
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Speaker 1: I wrote this down.

531
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Speaker 3: Stop performing for people that don't hold your prize. Say

532
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Speaker 3: it again, vertie for the people in the back of

533
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Speaker 3: the church who have been trying to impress somebody, but

534
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 3: there's nothing at the bottom of the box. You'll remember, Cereal,

535
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Speaker 3: you reach down in it and there's something at the

536
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Speaker 3: bottom of the box. Some of you are reaching so

537
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Speaker 3: far down for the approval of people, but there's nothing

538
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Speaker 3: in the bottom of the box. It doesn't matter if

539
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Speaker 3: they like, It doesn't matter if they don't.

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Speaker 1: You can love them, but do not perform for.

541
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Speaker 3: Them, because how can you commit to the praises of

542
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Speaker 3: God if you are addicted to the praises of people.

543
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Speaker 3: Mm hm m hm.

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Speaker 1: Stop performing for people. Hold your prize.

545
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Speaker 3: I didn't say something ministering to people who treat you

546
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Speaker 3: mean that's called turn the other cheek.

547
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Speaker 1: That's in the Bible. You gotta do that. God revealed that.

548
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Speaker 1: But you don't have to perform for.

549
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Speaker 3: I don't have to take first Corinthians four, verse five

550
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Speaker 3: and then go to Revelation twenty three about the Great

551
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Speaker 3: White Throne of judgment, the three different types of judgment

552
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Speaker 3: in the Bible. Just because John might be watching me

553
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Speaker 3: from heaven. I'm not preaching to that John. I'm preaching

554
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Speaker 3: to you. I have a job to do today. You

555
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 3: have a job to do. Are you performing for people?

556
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Speaker 3: He said, the Lord has my prize, So the Lord

557
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Speaker 3: is the one that I'm doing it for. I thought

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Speaker 3: that was so freeing for me. See, when you are

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Speaker 3: a servant, Okay, I'll go ahead and break down my

560
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Speaker 3: pride barrier and just doing I was trying.

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Speaker 1: To avoid it, but I can't now. I want to

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Speaker 1: say it right.

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Speaker 3: Look young up here, Okay, when you are a servant

564
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Speaker 3: of God's purpose, you won't be a slave to people's praise.

565
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Speaker 3: When you're a servant of God's purpose, I got to

566
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Speaker 3: move on, but I want to talk to you about

567
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Speaker 3: being a slave of people's praise. See, if you are

568
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Speaker 3: a slave of people's praise, you will be a casualty

569
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Speaker 3: of their criticism. So sometimes the danger isn't from the haters,

570
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Speaker 3: it's from the praise. Because if you become too addicted

571
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Speaker 3: to people's praise, people telling you you do a good job,

572
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Speaker 3: what about when God calls you to do something that

573
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Speaker 3: nobody's going to compliment you say, I know that voice.

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Speaker 1: That's not the collapse of the crowd, that's the call

575
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Speaker 1: of God.

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Speaker 3: Do you know the difference. I have to learn the

577
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Speaker 3: difference where the Lord will say to you sometimes I

578
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Speaker 3: need you to do something that's going to make the

579
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Speaker 3: crowd think you're crazy.

580
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Speaker 1: But the crowd's crazy, not you. And if your jury.

581
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Speaker 3: Of being a parent is other people telling you how

582
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 3: much screen time your kids should have, are they paying

583
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 3: for the data plan? You got to work that out

584
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 3: with God. You might have to parent all your different

585
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 3: kids different ways. The Bible says train up a child

586
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Speaker 3: in the way that they should go, not in the

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Speaker 3: way that your neighbor's child should go, not in the

588
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Speaker 3: way that some experts said they should go.

589
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Speaker 1: Get over it. There are no experts.

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Speaker 3: There's just guides along the way, And there is a

591
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Speaker 3: God who made you, and the God who made you,

592
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Speaker 3: knows what's in you, and he's the only one who

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Speaker 3: gets to decide if you've been responsible with what He've

594
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Speaker 3: been trusted to you.

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Speaker 1: And that's why it doesn't matter much.

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00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 3: When people praise you, because people don't know what God

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00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: gave you. So it could be possible that you were

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Speaker 3: given much more than you're working with and people are impressed,

599
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 3: but God is not pleased.

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Speaker 1: Only God knows what he gave you.

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Speaker 3: It could be possible that you are doing much better

602
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Speaker 3: than people would think, but you were given a very

603
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 3: rough start in life, and for you to be where

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Speaker 3: you are right now is the grace of God. And

605
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Speaker 3: don't let anybody's schedule intimidate you for where your life

606
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Speaker 3: is supposed to be right now. So if I'm not

607
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Speaker 3: a slave to their praise, I can't be a casualty

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Speaker 3: of their criticism.

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Speaker 1: Please God, help John, Please God, that's all I have

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 3: Please God, and help John and all of the Johns

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Speaker 3: that are in this room. And I think you got

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00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 3: to focus it down to know like Paul knew. He said,

614
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Speaker 3: I am entrusted with what God has revealed to me.

615
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: And that might be one certain thing for each season

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Speaker 3: that God reveals and says you are respond this. You

617
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 3: are not responsible for the outcome. You are only responsible

618
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Speaker 3: to apologize. You are not responsible for the outcome. You

619
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 3: are only responsible to show up. You are not responsible

620
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Speaker 3: to create something wonderful. You're just responsible to create consistently.

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Speaker 3: When I came off my summer break, I wrote.

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Speaker 1: A lot of songs.

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Speaker 3: Somebody said, did you write us a lot of great songs?

624
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Speaker 3: I said, a lot of songs. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: they're great yet. I'll let y'all decide that. That's not

626
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Speaker 3: my job.

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Speaker 1: I'm not the jury. I don't examine myself. I can

628
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Speaker 1: only show up.

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Speaker 3: That's all I can do and be what Paul called faithful.

630
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Speaker 3: And this kind of faith requires and this is a

631
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Speaker 3: very bad word, so we might need to bleep it out.

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Speaker 1: The sermon number two patience, bleep.

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Speaker 3: It out, or nobody's gonna watch the video.

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Speaker 1: Patience.

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Speaker 3: Verse five is one of my favorite verses in the Bible.

636
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Speaker 3: And yet the Lord showed me something fresh for us today.

637
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Speaker 3: Can I give it to you? Can I give it

638
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 3: to you like God gave it to me? Somebody say, patience, Therefore,

639
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 3: judge nothing before the appointed time. Wait until the Lord comes.

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Speaker 3: What's he talking about. He's talking about the day when

641
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Speaker 3: we'll stand before God. And you know, when I stand

642
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Speaker 3: before God, no matter who's up there going unqualified.

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Speaker 1: Don't let him in. I'm not gonna take a test

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Speaker 1: to get in. I'm not gonna take a test. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna do emotion.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna find the man on the middle cross and

647
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Speaker 3: point and say it like this, I'm with him, And

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Speaker 3: that's how I'm gonna get in. Because my eternal verdict

649
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 3: hinges on my relationship with Jesus, and I have accepted

650
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Speaker 3: him as the Lord and savior of my life, and

651
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Speaker 3: he died for me, and he covered me, and all

652
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Speaker 3: of the sin that I did was canceled. It's not

653
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Speaker 3: only canceled, but God has so loved me with his

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Speaker 3: love that he is conforming me to the image of

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Speaker 3: his son Jesus, and that is settled. That is the

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Speaker 3: eternal verdict over my life. But I'd like to say

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Speaker 3: that there are also internal verdicts that we make in

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Speaker 3: the meantime, and that's not always just based on your

659
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Speaker 3: relationship with Jesus.

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Speaker 1: That's based on your relationship with the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 3: So those verdicts that go on inside of you where

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Speaker 3: you judge stuff. You judge stuff about yourself, like who

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Speaker 3: you think you need to be to be qualified for

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Speaker 3: a thing, or who you think you need to know

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Speaker 3: to get in certain doors. All of those judgments how

666
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Speaker 3: you think your life needs to turn out. Remember I

667
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Speaker 3: said last week that we can't ask God for directions

668
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Speaker 3: if we don't let him set the destination, like God

669
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Speaker 3: is not like GPS, where you put in the destination

670
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Speaker 3: and then God will just give you the directions to

671
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Speaker 3: the destination you chose. And so, in the process of

672
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Speaker 3: trusting God, in the process.

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Speaker 1: Of hearing God, there are some times.

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Speaker 3: Where I have to trust his timing even when I

675
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 3: don't feel like he's talking. And sometimes he's talking, but

676
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 3: I've already made up my mind what i want him

677
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Speaker 3: to say, so I can't hear what he says because

678
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 3: I already have the script written. This verse says something

679
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Speaker 3: about the appointed time.

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Speaker 1: Let's read it again.

681
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Speaker 3: Therefore, judge nothing before the appointed time. So Paul is saying,

682
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 3: don't judge things that happen in your life, don't judge events.

683
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: Don't even judge things that you call failure as being fruitless.

684
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Speaker 3: Some of the greatest fruit in your life is born

685
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Speaker 3: from the greatest failures.

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Speaker 1: Shall I say it again?

687
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: Some of the greatest fruit from your life will come

688
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 3: out of the greatest failures. How many can testify to that?

689
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Speaker 3: Just wave a hand at me, he says. Judge nothing

690
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Speaker 3: before the appointed time.

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Speaker 1: So right now this verse.

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Speaker 3: Therefore, judge nothing before the appointed time.

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Speaker 1: Say it?

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Speaker 3: Therefore, judge nothing before. Okay, therefore, judge nothing before in

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Speaker 3: light of the fact that God is the judge, in

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Speaker 3: light of the fact that God is the jury, in

697
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 3: light of the fact that God knows what he has

698
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 3: entrusted to you. He says, therefore, judge nothing before the

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Speaker 3: appointed time.

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Speaker 1: So what time is it right now? Somebody check your

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Speaker 1: watch real quick.

702
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: Ten forty two am Eastern Standard time?

703
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Speaker 1: Is that right?

704
00:37:51,440 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 3: Ten forty two Eastern Standard time on Sunday's today's day?

705
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Speaker 1: What's wrong? Fili?

706
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 3: Like I lost the room? Y'all seem distracted. Are y'all

707
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 3: distracted by something? I'm trying to preach? But y'all see

708
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: that nobody's looking at me. Y'all seem distracted by something.

709
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 3: Y'all are distracted because you're judging something, something that you

710
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Speaker 3: didn't expect.

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Speaker 1: But something that I planned.

712
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Speaker 3: Because before I preach the sermon, I told Davide, when

713
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Speaker 3: I say what time is it, I want you to

714
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Speaker 3: start walking from the back of the church and walk

715
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Speaker 3: on the stage.

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Speaker 1: And when you walk, act like you're doing.

717
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Speaker 3: It on purpose, so the security doesn't snatch you. Act

718
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Speaker 3: like you know where you're going, so some redneck doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Jump up and tackle you.

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Speaker 3: Somebody'd be like, oh, I get no, no, no, he's

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Speaker 3: coming up here because I called him.

722
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Speaker 1: Because I called him.

723
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Speaker 3: See, you thought he was a distraction, but really he

724
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Speaker 3: was a demonstration.

725
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Speaker 1: You didn't know what he was there for.

726
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Speaker 3: But I told him before he started walking up the

727
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Speaker 3: stairs what I needed him there for. Because I said

728
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Speaker 3: at a certain time in my sermon, I'm gonna say

729
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Speaker 3: what time is it? At that moment, I don't want

730
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Speaker 3: you to ask anybody's permission. I don't want you to

731
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Speaker 3: push past anybody. I don't want you to second guest.

732
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Speaker 3: When I say what time is it? Start walking and

733
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Speaker 3: just stand there. And the people are gonna think, what's

734
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Speaker 3: he there for? But I told you before what you're

735
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Speaker 3: there for. Because I want to use you in this

736
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Speaker 3: sermon illustration. There have been some things in my life

737
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Speaker 3: where God put me in situations and I didn't know

738
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Speaker 3: what I was there. But before Joseph ever got thrown

739
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Speaker 3: into the prison, God knew what he would be there for,

740
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Speaker 3: to feed his entire family.

741
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Speaker 1: Y'all, don't hear me preaching. Paul was in prison in.

742
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Speaker 3: Philippi and he started praising God at night, and suddenly

743
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Speaker 3: everybody's chains came loose. He didn't start praising after the

744
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Speaker 3: chains broke. He started praising before because he knew.

745
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Speaker 1: What he was.

746
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Speaker 3: Therefore, I'm trying to say that when you know your purpose,

747
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Speaker 3: that when you know your father, when you know his fools,

748
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 3: let me put it plain, stop judging stuff that God

749
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Speaker 3: is not done with yet. Okay, that was pretty good

750
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Speaker 3: punctuation mark.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: See, because he's there for a purpose. You judged it

753
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 3: before you knew what it was there for. You judged it.

754
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 3: You are judging certain things about you, and you are

755
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 3: calling them weaknesses. You are calling them weaknesses, but they're

756
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Speaker 3: really not weaknesses.

757
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Speaker 1: They're weapons. They are therefore God to use.

758
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Speaker 3: Paul said, one time I had a thorn in my

759
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Speaker 3: flesh and I asked God to take it away, but

760
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Speaker 3: he left it there for a purpose, so that I

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Speaker 3: might know his grace is sufficient. Don't judge it before

762
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Speaker 3: you get to see what it was there, for God

763
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Speaker 3: knows what he's doing. Am I preaching better than this

764
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Speaker 3: Episcopalian church of shouting?

765
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Speaker 1: I don't need their praise.

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Speaker 3: Hey, cuse, the Holy Ghost is telling me this word

767
00:41:55,520 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 3: is working, all right, Go sit back down.

768
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Speaker 1: And don't run back up here again.

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Speaker 3: If he runs back up here again, he's not authorized

770
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Speaker 3: for an illustration.

771
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Speaker 1: And a powerful april.

772
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Speaker 3: I thought it was a distraction, but Pastor was using

773
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Speaker 3: it for a demonstration. If that's true of me, how

774
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 3: much more is God using things. You think it's a distraction,

775
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 3: you're judging it, you think it's a disappointment.

776
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Speaker 1: You're judging it. Don't judge it before God gets to

777
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Speaker 1: show you.

778
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Speaker 3: What it's all right, But paul says something so important

779
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Speaker 3: that I hope you saved a little room for dessert,

780
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Speaker 3: because if you read this what Paula is saying, He's like,

781
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Speaker 3: you can't judge me. I'm holy, you can't judge me.

782
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Speaker 3: I know I'm walking with God.

783
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Speaker 1: In fact, he.

784
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Speaker 3: Makes this statement, and I think this is the problem

785
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Speaker 3: with only using this scripture, So I want to use

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Speaker 3: one more today.

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Speaker 1: For this installment, get something out of this. Praise the Lord.

788
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Speaker 1: Oh that therefore befo A thing really really got me

789
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Speaker 1: when I was studying, But.

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Speaker 3: I realized there's somebody listening to me who doesn't know

791
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Speaker 3: what it is. Therefore, and that what Paul said, not

792
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Speaker 3: all of us can say. You know, when he said

793
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Speaker 3: I don't judge myself verse four, my conscience is clear. See,

794
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Speaker 3: we can't all say that when he said it is

795
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Speaker 3: the Lord that judges me. Just a few words later,

796
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Speaker 3: do you see that in verse four part B, it

797
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 3: is the Lord that judges me. We can all say

798
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Speaker 3: that because it's ultimately going to be God's job to

799
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Speaker 3: judge us.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately. Ultimately, I mean.

801
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Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that people won't hand out consequences and

802
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 3: that your life won't have certain verdicts that are just

803
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 3: you know, handed to you by life. But it means

804
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 3: that ultimately God will judge you. But the part that

805
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 3: we might be tripping over is we can't all say,

806
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Speaker 3: like Paul, my conscience is clear, because there are a

807
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Speaker 3: lot of you who are listening to me, and you're

808
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 3: hearing this through the filter of guilt. And when I

809
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 3: read to you about Paul saying, you can't judge me.

810
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Speaker 1: I know that my conscience is clear.

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Speaker 3: You're thinking to yourself, people can't judge me because they

812
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 3: don't even know.

813
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Speaker 1: How bad I really am.

814
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Speaker 3: And even sometimes listen to me, when someone tries to

815
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Speaker 3: give you praise or a compliment or lift you up,

816
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Speaker 3: you won't let it in because there is something that

817
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Speaker 3: you know about you. So now I want to call

818
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Speaker 3: on a third person named John. If you go to

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Speaker 3: John chapter eight with me briefly, there is a perickopee

820
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Speaker 3: about a woman who was caught in the act of adultery,

821
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Speaker 3: and she was brought before Jesus to be judged by

822
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Speaker 3: a jury of religious professionals.

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Speaker 1: For our purposes.

824
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Speaker 3: Today, you may not be dragged in front of Jesus

825
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 3: to be judged by a group of people. It may

826
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Speaker 3: be by your own regret, resentment, dark nostalgia, remembrances of

827
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Speaker 3: things that you did, and current struggles with things.

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Speaker 1: That you still do.

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Speaker 3: The Bible says in John chapter eight, verse one, that

830
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Speaker 3: Jesus went to the Mount of Olives, and at dawn

831
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Speaker 3: he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the

832
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Speaker 3: people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them,

833
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 3: so get the picture.

834
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Speaker 1: It is as it should be.

835
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Speaker 3: Jesus, the Savior, is at the center, and everyone is

836
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Speaker 3: gathered around him, and he taught them. Verse three, The

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Speaker 3: teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought a woman

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Speaker 3: caught in adultery. So while the crowds are being taught,

839
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Speaker 3: this woman is caught, and she is brought before Jesus,

840
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Speaker 3: the one who taught the crowds.

841
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Speaker 1: Now they brought the woman.

842
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Speaker 3: Who was caught in adultery, and they get they do

843
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 3: something that religion always does. See, when the passage started,

844
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Speaker 3: Jesus was at the center.

845
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: But when they got involved, Sin was at the center.

846
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Speaker 3: So they say, look at her sin, Jesus, we caught her.

847
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Speaker 3: The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.

848
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Speaker 1: Brought a woman caught in adultery.

849
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Speaker 3: They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus,

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Speaker 3: teach her. This woman was caught in the act of

851
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Speaker 3: adultery in the law. They're quoting scripture. This must be

852
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Speaker 3: God in the law. They're talking about the Bible. This

853
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 3: must be God in the law. Moses commanded us to

854
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Speaker 3: stone such women.

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Speaker 1: Now, what do you say.

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Speaker 3: That is a dangerous question to ask Jesus if you

857
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 3: don't really want to answer, don't ask him if you

858
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 3: don't want to know, because Jesus might not agree with you.

859
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 3: It is a dangerous thing when you have made a

860
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Speaker 3: Jesus in your mind that only ever agrees with you.

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Speaker 3: Jesus might think different about it than you. Jesus might

862
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Speaker 3: see it different than you. Jesus is my jury. Jesus

863
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Speaker 3: is my jury. So they asked the question, teacher, what

864
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Speaker 3: do you say about it? Hey, there, what do you teaching?

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Speaker 3: All these wonderful things? But we're bringing you a woman

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Speaker 3: who was caught. We caught her red handed. We caught

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Speaker 3: her in the act. We know what the Bible says.

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Speaker 3: And they were using this question as a trap in

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Speaker 3: order to have a basis for accusing him. But it's

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Speaker 3: a bad idea to try to trap the answer with

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Speaker 3: your questions. I said, you better not try to trap

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Speaker 3: the answer with your questions. See, I've got to come

873
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 3: to him and say what do you think? And I

874
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 3: think the most powerful thing in the Bible is what

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Speaker 3: happens right in the.

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Speaker 1: Middle of the verse. But Jesus been down.

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Speaker 3: And started to write on the ground with his finger.

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Speaker 3: Notice he stoops before he speaks, he stoops before he speaks.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't have to stoop. He's God. He doesn't have

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00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 3: to stoop. He is the highest name, the name above

881
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,439
Speaker 3: every name, the name at which every need will bow.

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00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to stoop. But instead of.

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Speaker 3: Clearing his throat to speak, he rolls up his sleeves

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Speaker 3: to get dirty and get to work in the life

885
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Speaker 3: of a woman who was caught in the act of adultery,

886
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Speaker 3: and whatever he wrote in verse seven, they were not

887
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Speaker 3: satisfied with his actions, the Bible said. When they kept

888
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 3: questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, let

889
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,240
Speaker 3: any of you who is without sin be the first

890
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 3: one to throw a stone at her.

891
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: And again he stooped down and rode on the ground.

892
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Speaker 3: And at this those who heard begin to go away,

893
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Speaker 3: one at a time, the older ones.

894
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Speaker 1: First, I wonder what they did in the sixties, baby,

895
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Speaker 1: what were they doing at Woodstock? And this is really

896
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Speaker 1: good news.

897
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Speaker 5: Until only Jesus was left with the woman still standing there.

898
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 5: And Jesus straightened up and asked her, woman, where is

899
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Speaker 5: your jury?

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Speaker 3: Has no one condemned you? No one, sir? She said,

901
00:49:53,120 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 3: Then neither do I condemn you. Jesus declared, now and

902
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Speaker 3: leave your life of sin. One Baptist preacher said, it's

903
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 3: a good thing they drop their rock, because Jesus can

904
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Speaker 3: change water into wine. And if he can change water

905
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Speaker 3: into wine, if one of those boys would picked up

906
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Speaker 3: a rock and thrown it at her, Jesus would have

907
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 3: turned it into rubber mid air, and that rubber rock

908
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 3: would have bounced off of her and bounce back into

909
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Speaker 3: a rock and bust their brains out. That's what the

910
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Speaker 3: Baptist preacher said. But just touch your neighbors, simply say

911
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 3: you better.

912
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Speaker 1: Drop your rock.

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Speaker 3: You better drop your rock, because none of us really

914
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Speaker 3: wants Jesus to start bringing forth all of the evidence,

915
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Speaker 3: of all of the thoughts, and all of the things,

916
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Speaker 3: and all of the times and all of the struggles.

917
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Speaker 3: But what I love about the passage is that they

918
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Speaker 3: were caught up in what a sinner she was. I

919
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Speaker 3: don't know if you noticed, but they accused her. See,

920
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit is not an accuser. That's Satan's job.

921
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit is an advocate. And when Jesus is

922
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Speaker 3: your jury, when Jesus.

923
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Speaker 1: The perfect one, this thoughtless one.

924
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 3: The lamb of God, the lion of the tribe of Judah,

925
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Speaker 3: the Bride in the Morning Star, the Lily of the Valley,

926
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Speaker 3: the Rose of Sharon.

927
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Speaker 1: When that God gets.

928
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Speaker 3: Down in the dirt, it doesn't matter what people declare

929
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 3: over your life. Even you can't judge you when Jesus

930
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 3: is your jury, because the Bible says, help me preach somebody.

931
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 3: The Bible says that as he stooped down and began

932
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 3: to ride in the dirt, they said, the law commands

933
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 3: us to stone such women.

934
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: Oh she's such a sinner. Oh she's such a sinner.

935
00:51:54,800 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 3: So remember this power to change belongs to God. See

936
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 3: Jesus did not tell her you have permission to keep sinning.

937
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 3: He told her, now that you've met me, you have

938
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 3: power to stop. So that's why anytime the enemy starts

939
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 3: telling you you're such a sinner, you can't be used

940
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 3: by God.

941
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: You're such a sinner.

942
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 3: God can't forgive you for that you're such a sinner. See,

943
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 3: you're missing the whole point. The point isn't that I'm

944
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 3: such a sinner or.

945
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: That I'm such a saint. Is that he's such a savior.

946
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on, he's such

947
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: a savior. Yeah, but you're such a sinner.

948
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 3: And so when the enemy starts beating your brains out

949
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 3: with these rubber rocks, when the enemy starts throwing stuff

950
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 3: at you and hurling, and there's verdicts in your head,

951
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 3: you say, yeah, I'm such a sinner. I'm not here

952
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 3: because I'm such a saint. I'm here because he's such

953
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 3: a savior. As a matter of fact, he's such a

954
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 3: savior that, in one gospel account, when the woman with

955
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 3: the issue of blood snuck up and touched the hymn

956
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 3: of his garment, didn't even touch him, just touch the

957
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 3: him of his garment, the dirty part of his garment,

958
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 3: the part that dragged through the streets when she touched

959
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 3: the hem of his garments. Normally, if the unclean touches

960
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 3: the clean, the clean becomes unclean.

961
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: But he's such a savior. He's such a savior.

962
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 3: That when you touch this savior, it doesn't make the

963
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 3: clean unclean. Baby, it makes the unclean clean. He's such

964
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 3: a savior. He's such a savior. He is such a savior.

965
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 3: Touch somebody, say he's such a savior. He's such a savior.

966
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 3: He's such a savior that when he got to the

967
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 3: grave and it was four days into lazarus death, he

968
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 3: had to call Lazarus by name because there was so

969
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 3: much power in his word that if he had just

970
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 3: said get up, every dead body in Jerusalem and Bethany

971
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 3: would have got about the brave because it's such a savior.

972
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 3: There's enough in one word from God. And he is

973
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 3: such a savior that one drop of his blood can.

974
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: Make the foul liss clean.

975
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 3: He's such a savior that when the thief on the

976
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 3: cross turned to the man in the middle and said,

977
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 3: I know I don't deserve it. I know I've wasted

978
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 3: so much time. I know I deserve to be up

979
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 3: here and you don't.

980
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: But would you remember me?

981
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 3: I don't even know who you are yet, I don't

982
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 3: even really get it yet. But would you remember me?

983
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 3: And he said, today you'll be with me in paradise.

984
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 3: So I'm telling you today, the power of my testimony

985
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 3: and the power of my confession, and the power of

986
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 3: my thought, and the power of my overcoming and the

987
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 3: power of my victory is not that I'm such a saint.

988
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 1: Is that he is such a savior.

989
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 3: Law commands us to stone such a woman. She's such

990
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 3: a sinner, don't you hear that sometimes about yourself. You're

991
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 3: such an idiot. Yeah, but Jesus is sucher than you.

992
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 3: I think I should preach a message called you know

993
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 3: we talked about he's a savior. He's such a savior,

994
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 3: and he's sucher than your sin. He's such a savior.

995
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 3: He's such a savior that they only had the power

996
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 3: to catch her in the act of adultery. But he's

997
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 3: such a savior. He has the power to catch you

998
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 3: when you fall and stand you back up again. So

999
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 3: when the verdict goes in my mind, you're unqualified, or

1000
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,280
Speaker 3: you're dirty, or you're unworthy, or you're a peace trash

1001
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 3: or and man, I gotta.

1002
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: Tell you something.

1003
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 3: In one of those chairs around my table is me.

1004
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 3: I ap preach to me because I hear it all

1005
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 3: the time. You're such a moron. Come on, how many

1006
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 3: of you liked me struggle with self talking. You're not

1007
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 3: gonna pay for therapy, so this is all you're gonna

1008
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 3: get today listening to me.

1009
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: Talk to you.

1010
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 3: When I went to therapy for the about the third

1011
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,720
Speaker 3: or fourth time, I was describing all of these thoughts

1012
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 3: that go in my head. I was describing my jury.

1013
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 3: The therapist didn't call it that. That's what I've learned,

1014
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:37,800
Speaker 3: that it's a jury making a verdict. But she interrupted

1015
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 3: me with a question. She said, Hey, I hear you

1016
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 3: saying some really harsh things about yourself.

1017
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: Whose voice is that? That's a good question.

1018
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 3: And sometimes my voice in my head sounds more like

1019
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:54,919
Speaker 3: the serpent that accused us than.

1020
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: The Savior that advocates.

1021
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 3: So I shared First Corinthians four one through five to

1022
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 3: let you know that Jesus is your jury and that

1023
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 3: you have a job. But I read John eight to

1024
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 3: know that your job is not to be Jesus.

1025
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: Your job is to trust him.

1026
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 3: And he did for you what you couldn't do for you.

1027
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 3: And so when the when the such a start this week?

1028
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: And they will.

1029
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 3: You're such a You're such a You're such a bad man,

1030
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 3: you're such a Whose voice is that? It's not the

1031
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 3: voice of the savior, it's the voice of shame. And

1032
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 3: you know what, Shame can't lift you out of your sin.

1033
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 3: Shame can't lift you out of your sin, and grace

1034
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 3: will not leave you in it.

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Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

1040
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00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:20,959
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