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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you something that happened to me

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Speaker 2: last summer. I have a friend who lives in another country,

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Speaker 2: Kin Costa. He's originally from South Africa. He resides now

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Speaker 2: in London, England. He travels the world. He comes to

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Speaker 2: see me once a year. Just turned seventy. It's good man.

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Speaker 2: He has a book out called Joseph of Arimathea. Free

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Speaker 2: plug for my friend, because he gave me the scripture

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Speaker 2: that I want to use to frame our message. Not

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Speaker 2: necessarily to preach the scripture, but to frame the message.

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Speaker 2: And I figured I owed him a book plug. So

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Speaker 2: check it out on Amazon, Kin Costa, Joseph of Arimathea.

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Speaker 1: Now that that's out the way. When he comes to

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Speaker 1: see me, he will usually bring three or four scriptures

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Speaker 1: and we'll read the scriptures together. He jot them down.

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Speaker 2: This is the paper that he brought me in July

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Speaker 2: when he came to see me after my break family

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Speaker 2: break this summer, and he brought me these scriptures and

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Speaker 2: we sat on the porch and we looked at the

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Speaker 2: scriptures and the first one was Exitus fourteen fourteen, and

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Speaker 2: we read it together, and he said, that's the wrong one,

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Speaker 2: and so we moved on. He gave me Joshua three four,

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Speaker 2: Isaiah forty two sixteen, and then Leviticus twenty six ten.

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Speaker 2: I probably should admit this, but I normally skipped Leviticus

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Speaker 2: on the Bible reading plans. It's not my go to

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Speaker 2: book to fight discouragement. But we looked at it and

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Speaker 2: we read it together.

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Speaker 1: Put that one on the screen. Leviticus twenty six ten.

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Speaker 2: The Lord says you will still be eating last year's

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Speaker 2: make room for the new.

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Speaker 1: And we read that together, and I said, well, what

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Speaker 1: does it mean? He said, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I put it in my Bible in a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: I Uh, it fell out of my Bible on a

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Speaker 2: Friday night. I started looking at it again and I

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Speaker 1: I said, what does it mean? He said, Oh, that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. And he preached about it and that

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Speaker 1: was good. Well.

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Speaker 2: The phrase that I want to use and put it

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Speaker 2: up there again is where it says, make room for

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Speaker 2: the new. And the Lord told me to tell you today,

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Speaker 2: make room for the new. This is a word from

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Speaker 2: the Lord for somebody who is in this room or

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Speaker 2: at one of our campuses. Come on, let's thank God

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Speaker 2: for all of our locations. From Lake Norman all the

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Speaker 2: all the way to Matthews. We are spanning South Charlotte

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Speaker 2: with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and beyond Melbourne, Florida

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Speaker 2: University City. You wouldn't believe it. Raleigh, North Carolina is

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Speaker 2: even joining us. I gotta admit I didn't see that coming.

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Speaker 2: So y'all drove in for make room for the new.

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Speaker 2: This is a word for you, make room for the new.

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Speaker 2: You know I'm getting into old stuff now. I've got

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Speaker 2: I would rather listen through a scratchy analog representation of

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Speaker 2: I think there's something comforting about something that you used

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Speaker 2: And so a lot of things come full circle in

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Speaker 2: that at one point you had to atone for your

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Speaker 2: faith the paradigm of justification. We call it justification by faith,

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Speaker 2: not how much faith you have that saves you, it's

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Speaker 2: This Bible says that it is by grace you have

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Speaker 2: been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves. It

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Speaker 2: is the gift of God, not of works. So that

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Speaker 2: no one can boast and think about this. God's people

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Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden, in the passage I

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Speaker 2: and leaning not to our own understanding. But it still

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Speaker 2: you're like, well, that's wrong. You know, it's easy to

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Speaker 1: And then now get this tension with me.

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Speaker 2: They have to try to figure out how to protect

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Speaker 2: How do I protect my kids while not putting my

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Speaker 2: How do I I'm thinking this about Abbey right now,

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Speaker 1: Up and talk to her about something. And how am

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Speaker 2: And trust a thirteen year old boy when I've been one?

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Speaker 1: How will I do that? I don't know. But what

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Speaker 1: I do know is this. You ready.

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Speaker 2: This is the first thing I've said that you probably

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Speaker 1: Not the last. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Your tolerance for tension determines your potential for growth.

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Speaker 1: Your tolerance for tension determines.

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Speaker 2: What I say, your potential for growth. And we don't

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Speaker 1: God said it, I believe it. That settles it.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you right now, brother, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: God said it. That settles it. You can just take

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Speaker 2: But wait a minute, wait a minut, Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: As opposed to the.

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Speaker 1: It's the gift of tension.

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Speaker 1: Formula for growth.

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Speaker 2: And yet when it comes to our movies, we love tension.

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Speaker 1: That was an ineffective prayer. He did not.

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Speaker 2: Seem too interested in answering that prayer to take my

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Speaker 1: In fact, it seems as if some of.

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Speaker 2: The things that came into my life in one season

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Speaker 1: Come on, Raleigh. They get used to it. I know

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Speaker 1: For a minute. Joppa? Everybody say Joppa.

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Speaker 1: Joppa, Joppa.

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Speaker 1: Joppa is like your job Jaba Joppa.

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Speaker 2: see it in a miracle happened. He was just going

440
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Speaker 2: to see it and going to comfort them and going

441
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Speaker 2: to do what he did in a miracle happened, Joppa, Joppa.

442
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 2: Place where God puts stuff together, Joppa. While he was

443
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 2: in Joppa, Joppa, it's kind of familiar. Who else went

444
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 2: to Joppa?

445
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Speaker 1: In the Bible?

446
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 3: I was trying to remember. I was talking to the

447
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 3: interns this week, and I put him on the spot.

448
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 3: We had such a good time then with I said,

449
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 3: who else went to Joppa? They went through every character

450
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 3: in the Bible, guessing zach Kiyas Bartimaeus Luke Matthew John.

451
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 3: I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no no,

452
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Speaker 3: it's somebody in the Bible. I'm gonna give you a hand.

453
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Speaker 3: It involves a fish rhymes with corona. Jonah went to Joppa.

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Speaker 3: But watch what he did in Japa?

455
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Speaker 1: You ready? Jonah won? Three says.

456
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Speaker 2: Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed to Tarshish.

457
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Speaker 2: He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship

458
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Speaker 2: bound for that port.

459
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Speaker 1: God called him to Ninevah, but he resisted it.

460
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Speaker 2: He resisted going to Ninevah because those were not the

461
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 2: people he expected God to bless. He resisted what he

462
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 2: did not understand. He resisted what he could not conceptualize.

463
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: He resisted what he had no frame of reference for.

464
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 2: He went down to Joppa and boarded a ship heading

465
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Speaker 2: away from the Lord. So now I've got a contrast,

466
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Speaker 2: and I want to ask ask what will you do

467
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 2: in Joppa? Will you be like Peter who when he

468
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 2: got to Joppa and God send him an opportunity to say, Peter,

469
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Speaker 2: I want you to make room for something new.

470
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Speaker 1: I want you to believe that I can break a

471
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Speaker 1: barrier in your life.

472
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: I want you to believe that I'm about to do

473
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: something that your mind has not conceived. Will you be

474
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: like Peter who went with it? Or are you going

475
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: to be like Jonah who ran from it? Peter went

476
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Speaker 2: to Joppa. While he was in Japa praying, he saw

477
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Speaker 2: something amazing that he didn't expect. And he looked and

478
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Speaker 2: he saw a sheep from the four corners four corners

479
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: representing the four corners of the earth. God's like, I'm

480
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 2: about to break all of your barriers. I'm about to

481
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: break through your unbelief. See, we talk about making room

482
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Speaker 2: for the new. You want to go have a yard

483
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Speaker 2: sale or something like that, or put everything on It's

484
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 2: not about closet space. It's not about it's not about

485
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 2: clearing out your closet. It's about the transformation.

486
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Speaker 1: Of your mind. Do you have room for the new

487
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: in your mind? Because they didn't.

488
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 2: Peter didn't when God showed Peter what he was about

489
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Speaker 2: to do, Like, this is the way it always is.

490
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: When God shows us something, we compare it to our

491
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Speaker 2: previous point of reference and then we start consulting our

492
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Speaker 2: resources and God wants to bring us new relationships. But

493
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Speaker 2: watch this, if you're not ready for new people in

494
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 2: your life, you will bring the same patterns to the

495
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Speaker 2: new relationships that you brought to the old relationships, and

496
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: we literally keep people out of our lives that God

497
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Speaker 2: wants to send because we are holding on to the

498
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 2: hurts from the one who have already left. I feel

499
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Speaker 2: the spirit of God breaking barriers as I preach right now,

500
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 2: because you're like, what is this message you have to

501
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: do to me? I'm not getting on an airplane and

502
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 2: going to preach to somebody in cessarea like Peter did.

503
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: You don't have to.

504
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: All you have to do is dare to believe that

505
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: God is making room for the new in your life

506
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: right now. And even sometimes when it was painful for

507
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: me and I thought I was losing things in my life,

508
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: I wasn't losing it.

509
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Speaker 1: God was moving it. Who is this for?

510
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 2: I just need to know, probably about twenty people, you

511
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 2: didn't lose it.

512
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Speaker 1: God moved it.

513
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 2: He said, you will still be eating last year's harvest.

514
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: When you have to move it out. Somebody shall move

515
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: it out. God.

516
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 2: Anything that is in the way of me being who

517
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 2: I need to be in this season, get it out

518
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: of my heart, get it out of my mind, get

519
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: it out.

520
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: Of my habits. You can have it, God, I don't

521
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: want it.

522
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 2: I want what you've got, So you can't receive new

523
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: miracles with old mindsets.

524
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Speaker 1: Make room for the new.

525
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 2: It looks like this, emptying yourself, humbling yourself and asking God,

526
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Speaker 2: what do you.

527
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,959
Speaker 1: Want to do in my job of Or you can

528
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Speaker 1: run from it and resist it, and you can keep

529
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: remembering when the kids were so cute. They are forty

530
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: three now they stop being cute. Quite a while ago.

531
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Speaker 2: And the church was trying to figure out how do

532
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 2: we protect what we loved while we embrace.

533
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Speaker 1: What is new? And I don't know.

534
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: I think there are at least three lessons in this text.

535
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 2: Y'all got a minute, make room for the new. Number one,

536
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 2: God says this, don't limit yourself by labels. The first

537
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 2: thing God told Peter, he said, you've got your nice

538
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: little neat categories, because when the sheet came down, Peter

539
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: saw all kinds of animals, and y'all need to know.

540
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: In this culture, they respected visions. This was not like

541
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: Peter's hallucination or you know how some people now are

542
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 2: so weird and they're like, well, the Lord showed me

543
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Speaker 2: a vision of us walking on the beach. It's like, bro,

544
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 2: you need to ask her out and stop trying to

545
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 2: embed it in this weird spirituality.

546
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Speaker 1: So Peter actually saw.

547
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Speaker 2: But remember there's sometimes a tension between what you thought

548
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 2: God showed you. It's at tension, and that tension is

549
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 2: a real gift because that's where growth happens, where it's

550
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: like God. I thought. I thought I was going to

551
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 2: be married to her the rest of my life, but

552
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not married now, and that's painful. But

553
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 2: what you do with it becomes your japa, which determines

554
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 2: do you run from God's purpose for your future or

555
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 2: do you run toward it. That's jappa. And the word

556
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 2: God gave me was don't limit it with the label,

557
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: because the first thing he told Peter, he said. Peter said,

558
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Speaker 2: in verse six, acts eleven, I looked into it and

559
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 2: saw four footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles,

560
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Speaker 2: and birds. And then after he saw the pigs in

561
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Speaker 2: a blanket, he said, I try to keep y'all awake.

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Speaker 1: Then I heard a voice telling me get up, Peter,

563
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Speaker 1: kill and eat.

564
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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: When I read that, I said, God was trying to

566
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Speaker 1: get Peter to go hunting. No, wasn't. It wasn't about

567
00:34:59,480 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: the animals.

568
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: He was about to send Cornelius, whom Peter saw as

569
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Speaker 2: an unclean gentile.

570
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Speaker 1: So he was using this. It wasn't about bacon. It

571
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: was about barriers, mental barriers.

572
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Speaker 2: So when he said, get up, Peter, kill an e,

573
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 2: it wasn't that God wanted Peter to kill a pig.

574
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Speaker 1: It was that he was trying to kill Peter's categories.

575
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Speaker 1: In this season of.

576
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 2: Your life, God is trying to kill your categories. He's

577
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 2: going to use people you did not even like to

578
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: grow you up and mature you. There was one person

579
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Speaker 2: the other day that shared a Bible verse with one

580
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 2: of my kids, and they left our church years ago.

581
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Speaker 1: They didn't even like me when they left.

582
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Speaker 2: But when they gave a Bible verse to my kids,

583
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Speaker 2: I said, God, I don't care who hands them the scriptures.

584
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Speaker 2: I'll take a cold cup of water in the pit

585
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: of hell from anybody. I don't care who hands it

586
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 2: to them. Use who you want to use, God, do

587
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 2: what you want to do, kill my categories. As a

588
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 2: matter of fact, when we say all things work together

589
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 2: for the good, what we mean when we quote Romans eight.

590
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: Twenty eight out of context?

591
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 2: Because Romans eight twenty eight is connected and conjoined incidentally

592
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 2: to Romans eight twenty nine, which says, according to his purpose.

593
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: So what it means by good is this going to

594
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 2: fulfill his purpose? Not my preference. Y'all can shout right now.

595
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 2: What it means is I can't categorize. That's God's job.

596
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 2: It is God's job to know what's best for me.

597
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 2: It is God's job to know what needs to happen.

598
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 2: It is God's job to know what experiences I need

599
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: to get. So God says, stop limiting it by labels.

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00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 2: Labels labels can apply to a group of people. He said,

601
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: look what the Lord said when he said, arise, Peter,

602
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: kill and eat. Peter says, surely not, Lord, nothing impure

603
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: or unclean has ever entered my mouth.

604
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: Now watch what God said in verse nine. Those are

605
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 1: your category, is not mine.

606
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 2: The voice spoke from heaven a second time, saying, do

607
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: not call anything impure that God has made clean. Stop

608
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 2: limiting God with your labels. Most people that live in

609
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 2: Charlotte weren't born in Charlotte. So you come here and

610
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: it's like, I don't really like Southerners. Well, you're stuck

611
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: with us for this season, So do not overgeneralize the

612
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 2: people that you have to live with. Now, the same

613
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: thing can be said of any group of people, northern

614
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Speaker 2: or southern, or anything.

615
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: We want to mention.

616
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 2: This is the problem. We are all so prejudiced. We

617
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 2: stopped realizing it a long time ago. You're like, I'm

618
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 2: not prejudiced. I'm not prejudiced. Prejudge. You do it all

619
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: the time. I do it all the time. We think

620
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Speaker 2: we know what is and what isn't going to be

621
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 2: good all the time. We even think we know who

622
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 2: is holy and who is not holy by what they wear.

623
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: You know, even with people, we think we know who

624
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 2: is important and who is not. You have no idea.

625
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 2: You have no idea. And then we size up opportunities

626
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 2: by how public they are to see how significant they are.

627
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: But Peter was in Joppa doing something that was off

628
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 2: the radar when God led him to Cornelius's house to

629
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 2: take the Gospel to the gentiles, and I just wanted

630
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 2: to say, don't limit your life by labels.

631
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Speaker 1: Don't limit what God can do through you through labels.

632
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 2: Somebody say you single, say, well, first of all, I'm saved, sanctified,

633
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 2: and then i'm single.

634
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Speaker 1: But don't put that as my first label. There's a

635
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Speaker 1: whole lot more to me than what's going on on

636
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Speaker 1: one finger on my left hand, So please do not

637
00:38:52,800 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: limit me. Preach. Pastor Stephen Ferne, I am one guy

638
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: said to me.

639
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 2: He was, like, your preaching has gotten more Pentecostal these days.

640
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: All he meant was I yell more.

641
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 2: And the only reason I yell more now than I

642
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 2: used to is because when the church was small, I

643
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: needed people and I was didn't want to scare them off.

644
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: Now we got enough. If we scare a few off,

645
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: a few more will come and I can holler like

646
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: I want to. I can great. It'suck. I feel it, not.

647
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 2: Theological stylistic, So don't be limited by labels. I'm white,

648
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 2: but I'm not only white. I'm black, but I'm not

649
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 2: only black. Please do not prejudge me based on something

650
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 2: I had no control over. I want you to get

651
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 2: to know my character. I want you to get to

652
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 2: see the God in me, rather than labeling me. So

653
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 2: don't judge me by mine. Ask little nas X ask

654
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 2: him about labels. Is it country?

655
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Speaker 1: Is it wrap? I'll tell you what it is.

656
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 2: It's a billion streams, it's a Grammy, and it's multimillion dollars.

657
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Speaker 1: You could take me, write out this box and drive

658
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Speaker 1: me to the bank.

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00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 2: And God wants to do something bigger. But you will

660
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Speaker 2: limit yourself with the label, and you limit others the label.

661
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: Who you can and can't receive from, who God can

662
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 2: and can't use in your life, What God can and

663
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 2: can't use in your life.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, they're insulting me, are they? Or is God

665
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: using them to instruct you?

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00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 2: I don't like it, doesn't feel good, So don't limit

667
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 2: yourself with labels. And number two, don't be loyal to

668
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 2: a lie. I don't have time to show you. But

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Speaker 2: the passage and acts in with Peter and the counsel

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Speaker 2: there the deacon board that called him in as a

671
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 2: Baptist flashback I was having right there when they called

672
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 2: him in. By the end of it, I said this

673
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 2: on Sunday. I didn't say it on Saturday last week.

674
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 2: It said that it started with protest and ended in praise.

675
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 2: When they brought him in. They were protesting, like we

676
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 2: always do when God is doing something new in our lives.

677
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: God, I don't like it. I don't like it. I

678
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: don't like it.

679
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 2: Now everybody that hears new will hear something different. When

680
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: I preach, people will quit their jobs over this marriage.

681
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 2: People are over this message. People will put their marriage

682
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 2: over this message. Some will quit their job and their

683
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: marriage over this message. And they're missing the point. Because

684
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 2: what I mean is make room for the new in you,

685
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,919
Speaker 2: so you don't have to find out after you moved

686
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 2: a five different running from yourself.

687
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: That sometimes the environment is not the issue.

688
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 2: And what we will do a lot of times is

689
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 2: we will hold on so tightly to a lie because

690
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 2: it's familiar that we will miss what God is bringing

691
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 2: to us by faith because we don't like how it feels.

692
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 2: Don't be loyal to a lie. And my third one

693
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: is don't be late. Don't be late. One thing the

694
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 2: Spirit told Peter that I wanted to say to you

695
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 2: through the power of the Holy Spirit today. Yeah, you

696
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 2: got it. They're so good in the back they anticipated

697
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 2: my verse I love them Acts eleven twelve says that

698
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 2: the Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going

699
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 2: with them. Don't be late, because if you hold on

700
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 2: to what's old, the way you thought and what you

701
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 2: wanted and how it was, you might miss today's miracle.

702
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 2: Trying to hold onto yesterday's blessing. What am I holding

703
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 2: that's old? It's keeping me from receiving what's new, what's now,

704
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 2: what's your I don't mean that we don't value tradition

705
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 2: and experience and continuity.

706
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: That's not my message.

707
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: But the scripture said in Leviticus twenty six' ten you

708
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 2: will still be eating last year's, harvest that's the, old

709
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 2: when you will have to move it out to make

710
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: room for the. New it's not that the old was,

711
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 2: Bad it's just that the new is, here a new,

712
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 2: covenant a new, day a new. Season some of you

713
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 2: are really destabilized right.

714
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: Now in, life.

715
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 2: We all go through these season of instability that really

716
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 2: tests our. Faith And god gives us this tension in

717
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 2: these moments to see what will we do In? Joppa

718
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: run From god or run Toward? God and if that's

719
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 2: where you are today In, JOPPA i mean in a psychological, sense,

720
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 2: obviously not a geographical sense or a spiritual, sense an emotional,

721
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 2: sense trying to figure, Out, god what are you doing

722
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: in my? Life i've never seen this, Before i've never

723
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: felt this. Before i've never been in my forties. BEFORE

724
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: i wonder what you will do In Joppa the thing

725
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 2: About god's blessing is it rarely checks your schedule to

726
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 2: see if this would be a convenient. Time in, Fact leviticus,

727
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 2: said as they were giving all the instructions for worship

728
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 2: and the covenant to set up the, community and how

729
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 2: to deal with diseases and, poverty and how to deal with,

730
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: indebtedness and how to be a, people and as they

731
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 2: were a and acclimating to be out Of egyptian slavery

732
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 2: and coming into a new, place Before god made them the,

733
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 2: promise he, said you need to know that you're still

734
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 2: going to be eating.

735
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 1: Last year's harvest when you have to move it out

736
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: to make room for the. New this is how it.

737
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 2: Works you're not even used to it, yet and here

738
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 2: comes something, new and you have to learn to multitask your.

739
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 2: Miracles you have to learn to multitask your. Miracles you

740
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 2: have to learn to move between things and to Trust

741
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 2: god and keep, giving keep, going keep, trusting and keep

742
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 2: believing by, faith or else you're going to find yourself

743
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 2: missing today's opportunity because you are too attached to yesterday's.

744
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 2: BLESSING i wonder what new Mindset god is creating in

745
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 2: me in this.

746
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: SEASON i want to. KNOW i wonder what barriers he's

747
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: going to break through your. LIFE i want to.

748
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,919
Speaker 2: Know he, said you will still be eating last year's

749
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 2: harvest when you will have to move it out to

750
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 2: make room for the. New that's what repentance. Is it's

751
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 2: a change of. Mind it makes room for the, new

752
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 2: new way of. Thinking you're doing it the old. Way

753
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 2: you keep, manipulating keep, forcing keep getting. Angry that's the old.

754
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 2: Way that's not how you do it. Anymore if anyone

755
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 2: is In, christ he is a new. Creation the old has,

756
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 2: gone the new has. Come there's a new.

757
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: Way to do, this a new way to, live a

758
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: new way to, love a new.

759
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: Way to, serve a way that seems upside down but

760
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: is actually right side. Up And god, said if you

761
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 2: will make room for the, new you will still be eating.

762
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: Last year's harvest when you will have to move it.

763
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 2: Out, FATHER i thank you for your word, today the

764
00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 2: power of, it the precision of.

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00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: It you are so on.

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00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 2: TIME i trust. YOU i trust you that it will

767
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 2: not return. Void what you spoke in this place today

768
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 2: is not just About. Peter this is not a history

769
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: lesson or an agricultural. Lesson this is a word from

770
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 2: heaven for someone's, life make room for the. NEW i

771
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 2: pray for your, People, lord whatever they're holding on to

772
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 2: that is, old that needs to be moved out to

773
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 2: make room for the. New maybe all their life they

774
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 2: thought they had to earn, acceptance so they're stuck in

775
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 2: performance and they think you are like that. TOO i

776
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 2: pray that today that grace would clear the way to

777
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 2: make room for the. New AND i thank you today

778
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 2: that strongholds in our minds are being broken by the

779
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 2: power of The spirit Of. God we thought we had

780
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 2: To we thought we had to run to something else

781
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 2: to get our needs. Met that's the old way of.

782
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 2: Thinking that's the old way of, living that's the old

783
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 2: way of. Coping but we came into your presence today

784
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: to make room for the. New we thank you that

785
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 2: you're doing something in our life right. Now we never

786
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 2: truly know the power of this moment until it's. Over

787
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 2: we never fully understand the reason for this season until

788
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 2: we're in the next. One BUT i asked that you

789
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 2: would grant unto us the gift of faith so we

790
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 2: can trust you for what's. Next everyone's, standing no one.

791
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 2: Moving If god brought you here today and you've been

792
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 2: holding on to something. Old maybe it's an offense or,

793
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 2: regret could be a pattern of, habits or just a

794
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 2: way that you get your. Way god KNOWS i have,

795
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 2: plenty and you want to release.

796
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: That right, now.

797
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 2: In the presence of The, LORD i invite you to

798
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 2: just lift your hands To heaven like you're letting something,

799
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 2: go and just keep your hands, Up just keep them, up.

800
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i don't want to miss.

801
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 2: It, GOD i don't want to miss what you have for.

802
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 2: Me we don't want to miss what you have for

803
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 2: us because we were, afraid because we thought we were

804
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 2: smarter than. You you are the, potter we are the.

805
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: Clay we ask you to mold us and fill us

806
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: and make.

807
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: Us Oh, lord touch each, heart each, mind lift the,

808
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 2: bird and break the. Barrier whatever they think you can't,

809
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 2: do do. It show them what kind Of god you.

810
00:49:55,480 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 2: Are show them how you can raise the, dead how

811
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 2: you kill categories and make ways and do stuff that

812
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 2: human minds cannot innovate or. Imagine do it in our, Lives,

813
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 2: god do it through our. Children do it in our,

814
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 2: generation do it in our, world do it in our.

815
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 2: Church do it in this. Movement create in us a clean,

816
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 2: heart make room for the. New we're letting go of

817
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 2: what it. Was we're letting go of what we. Thought

818
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 2: we are embracing your, ways for your ways are higher

819
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 2: than our, ways and your thoughts are higher than our.

820
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: Thoughts and we.

821
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 2: Came in this place today as your tabernacle to make

822
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 2: room in our hearts for.

823
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 3: You.

824
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 2: Lord if there's someone here today who needs a new,

825
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 2: beginning who needs to be, saved who needs to be

826
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 2: brought into the family Of, god right, now in this,

827
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 2: moment would you touch their heart and bring them to

828
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 2: faith In Jesus. Christ they can be saved and forgiven

829
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 2: and set. Free right, now at all of our, Locations

830
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 2: i'm going to give an invitation for someone who wants

831
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 2: to receive the grace Of Jesus christ for your, life

832
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 2: who wants to, Say, God i'm giving up my life

833
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 2: to you And i'm embracing your life and your plan for.

834
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 2: Me The bible says that it is by grace you are,

835
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 2: saved not of. Works no one can boast about.

836
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: It it is the gift Of. God so for everyone

837
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: who wants to receive this.

838
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 2: Gift the scripture says that we were dead in our

839
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 2: sins And christ died for. Us he didn't just die

840
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 2: for us to be good. People he died to give us.

841
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 2: Life he died to give us a new. Beginning he

842
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 2: died to make us brand. New so right, now if

843
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 2: this is your, day and you have Felt god speaking

844
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 2: to you While i've been, preaching and you have Felt

845
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 2: god calling you, home and you are ready to make

846
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: room for the new in your, LIFE i want you

847
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 2: to repeat this prayer after. Me we pray together as

848
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 2: a church, family repeat after, Me Heavenly, father today is my.

849
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 2: DAY i believe That Jesus christ is The son Of

850
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 2: god and The savior of the. World and TODAY i

851
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 2: Make jesus the lord of my. LIFE i believe he

852
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 2: died THAT i would be forgiven and rose again to

853
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 2: give me. LIFE i receive this new. Life this is

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00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 2: my new. BEGINNING i am a child Of. God on

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00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 2: the count of, three shoots your hand. Up if you

856
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 2: prayed that, one, two, three shoot him, Up shoot him. Up,

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Speaker 2: God bless, You, god bless. You come. On let's celebrate new.

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Speaker 2: Life let's celebrate new. Beginnings let's celebrate new.

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