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

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Speaker 2: check out the content, and I pray it blesses your life.

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Speaker 2: God wants to do things not just for you, but

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

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna talk together. And I'm gonna go to

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Speaker 2: of this book, and You're gonna be amazed. I love

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Speaker 2: this passage. I love this book. I've enjoyed preaching it.

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Speaker 2: And I hope it's instilling faith in you and you

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

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Speaker 3: She finally does it. She finally says something that saves

436
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Speaker 3: the Jews.

437
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Speaker 2: Queen Esther answered, if I found favor in your sight,

438
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Speaker 2: O King, and if it please the King, let my

439
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,879
Speaker 2: life be granted me for my wish and for my people.

440
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 2: My request for we had been sold I and my

441
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 2: people to be destroyed, to be killed, to be annihilated,

442
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 2: if we had been sold as slaves, I wouldn't bothered

443
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,199
Speaker 2: you because it doesn't. It's not worthy of the king's

444
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 2: you know, discomfort. We're gonna be We're gonna be killed, King,

445
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 2: my people, me, your wife, and verse five he says,

446
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 2: who is he and where is he who has dared

447
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,400
Speaker 2: to do this? And she's like, hey's at that dinner table.

448
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,400
Speaker 3: And there's there.

449
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,400
Speaker 2: It is finally a break in the action that all

450
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 2: began with insomnia. Don't despise the small things in your life.

451
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 2: God is involved even in the small things.

452
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 3: She says.

453
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Speaker 2: A foe, an enemy, the wicked Hayman. Then Hayman was

454
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 2: terrified before the king and the queen. You know, I

455
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,239
Speaker 2: stop here to say this. You know the Jews they

456
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 2: run Hollywood.

457
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:42,640
Speaker 3: You know this, right?

458
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,840
Speaker 2: I mean, and I don't say that that disparage them,

459
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 2: but they do. And the reason why is because they're

460
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 2: amazing storytellers.

461
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 3: They know how to tell a good story.

462
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 2: And some of you need to get this in your

463
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Speaker 2: spirit because.

464
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Speaker 3: You're not understanding how life works.

465
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Speaker 2: The reason that they tell good stories is because these people,

466
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Speaker 2: for thirty five hundred year have been through Helen back.

467
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 2: They've had people hate them, try to kill them. You

468
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 2: can go from from Pharaoh to Hayman to Hitler, to

469
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 2: Hamas to Hesbalah. They all start with h for some reason,

470
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 2: maybe because they all come from the pit of hell,

471
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Speaker 2: and they've been coming for these people for thousands upon

472
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Speaker 2: thousands upon thousands of years, and every time.

473
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Speaker 3: You think they're gonna.

474
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 2: Be gone, they make a comeback because God is faithful

475
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Speaker 2: to his promises and He's gonna preserve that people until

476
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ comes again. And what they got as a result,

477
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 2: you gotta get this. What they got as a result

478
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 2: was a good story. Do you know what makes a

479
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 2: good story? Trouble, hardship, setbacks somebody. You gotta start looking

480
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 2: at your life as, oh, this is what God is doing.

481
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 3: He's writing a better story.

482
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 2: Because the story where you get everything that you want

483
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 2: and everything goes your way and you always succeed and

484
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 2: everybody loves you is boring and no one can relate

485
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 2: to it because everyone struggles and everyone goes through and tribulation,

486
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter how much money you make, and

487
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter how good you look. Everybody goes through difficulties.

488
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 2: And if you want God to do something with your difficulties,

489
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 2: give him your life, surrender your plans, and say God,

490
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 2: have your way with this challenge. I want other people

491
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 2: to hear how you saved me from that. I want

492
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Speaker 2: other people to hear how you restored my heart. I

493
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: want other people to hear how you brought me back

494
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 2: from cancer, how you saved my kid from fornication, how

495
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 2: you delivered my family and brought me to this place.

496
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 2: Because God takes pleasure in bringing his people back from

497
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 2: the brink again and again, and he wants to do

498
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Speaker 2: that in you.

499
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Speaker 3: And Esther just finally says it, Haymen, this guy he

500
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Speaker 3: wants to kill us.

501
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Speaker 2: Verse seven, And the king rose in wrath, rose in wrath,

502
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 2: and went out from the place where they were eating

503
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: and drinking, went to the palace garden. Haymond stayed to

504
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 2: beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw

505
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Speaker 2: that harm was determined against him by the king. And

506
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 2: verse says the king returned from the palace garden to

507
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Speaker 2: the place where they were drinking wine as Hayman was

508
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Speaker 2: falling on the couch where Esther was, and the king

509
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: he said, is he even gonna go and molest my

510
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 2: wife in front of me and my own palace? And

511
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 2: there's a legend about this moment. The Jews have that Hayman,

512
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 2: when he was begging for his life, just stood there

513
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 2: before the queen and it was please intervene, save me,

514
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Speaker 2: don't let him kill me, And an angel came up

515
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 2: behind him and shoved him on top of the queen.

516
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Speaker 3: I love that.

517
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 2: I love that legend because it reminds me of something

518
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 2: that some of you need a reminder of. There's angels at.

519
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 3: Work on behalf of God's people. Do you believe this?

520
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: You've got to understand there are spiritual forces of wickedness

521
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 2: coming against you. But I got better news. There are

522
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 2: stronger angels and mightier angels that are working for your good.

523
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 2: You don't just got Christ in you. You don't just

524
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 2: got the Holy Spirit in you. You don't got just

525
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 2: the Father watching over you. You don't just got the

526
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 2: Church supporting you. But you've got angels owing to work

527
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 2: for your protection. The Bible says they're ministering spirits sent

528
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 2: to serve those who are called to eternal life in Christ.

529
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Speaker 3: Jesus, I don't know about you, but I pray for angels.

530
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 3: Do you pray?

531
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 2: I don't pray two angels, I pray four angels. I say, Father,

532
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 2: set your angels around my children. When when my kids

533
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: get their driver's license. Every time they get the drivers

534
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 2: I say, all right, Lord, I need some extra angels.

535
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 3: Around that child now.

536
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,719
Speaker 2: So you need to pray angels around your family, angels

537
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 2: around your children, angels around your home. Lord, I want

538
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 2: protection in the spiritual realm so that the enemy doesn't

539
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 2: have his way with my family.

540
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 3: So the angel pushes them. I think that's what happens anyway.

541
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 3: Verse nine.

542
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Speaker 2: Then Harbono, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, moreover,

543
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Speaker 2: the gallows that Haymon has prepared for Mordecai, whose words

544
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 2: save the king, is standing at Hama's house. Fifty cub

545
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 2: was high, and the king said, hang them on that.

546
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he

547
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 2: prepared for Mordicai. You know, there's a proverb that talks

548
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: about this reality that happens to Hayman. Right here is

549
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 2: Proverbs twenty six twenty seven, and it says this, he

550
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 2: who digs a pit will fall into it. Be careful,

551
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 2: Christians of digging pits.

552
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 3: For your nemesis.

553
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 2: Be careful Christians of trying to get other people back.

554
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: It's childish, It is unfaithful to God.

555
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 3: And it really.

556
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: Works out for you. You know what I'm talking about.

557
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 2: Some of you were quiet today.

558
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 3: You gotta know what I'm talking about. You give that.

559
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 2: Person the silent treatment because you want to let them

560
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 2: know that you're angry, so you never talk to them.

561
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna talk to them anymore. Okay, are you

562
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 2: fifth Are you in fifth grade? Is that what's going

563
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,360
Speaker 2: on here? Or you do the innuendo post on Facebook?

564
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 2: You're really aiming it at them, but you're you know,

565
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 2: trying to aim and target them or whatever. It's like,

566
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 2: let's stop being children. We are God's people, we are Christ.

567
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: He's got his vengeance, belong to God. He'll pay back

568
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 2: whatever wrongs we've suffered. He'll pay back, and he pays

569
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 2: back better than we could ever think. And so this

570
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 2: is Hayman though, that's Hayman's spirit and he and it

571
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: kills him. He dug a pity, fell into it.

572
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 3: He built a.

573
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 2: Gallows, and he hung on it. So now let me

574
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 2: summarize the rest of the book. Hayman is dead, but

575
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: the threat on the Jew's life is still there because

576
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 2: the Edith could not be revoked. So God takes the God.

577
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: The king takes the ring off of Hayman's finger, the

578
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 2: signet ring of authority, and he puts it on Mordechai's finger.

579
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: This is another symbol, a symbol of our reality. Do

580
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 2: you understand that the devil had authority over this earth

581
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 2: up until Jesus died and rose again. Now, the devil

582
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 2: got that authority in the garden with Adam. When Adam

583
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 2: disobeyed God and listened to the devil, he lost dominion,

584
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: He lost authority on this planet. That's where the wars

585
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: and the chaos and the degregation, all the evil comes from.

586
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 2: And Gesus came and undid what Adam did wrong. Jesus

587
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: obeyed perfectly. He followed the Father. He's laid down his

588
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 2: life as a perfect sin, the sacrifice, and he rose

589
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 2: again triumphantly on the third day, and he got back

590
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 2: our authority. Do you realize that you have authority in

591
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 2: Christ Jesus over your life, over the spirits, over the

592
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: realms of.

593
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 3: The unseen things.

594
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 2: He's got authority in Jesus' name, So you gotta learn

595
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 2: to walk around your house in Jesus name. I just

596
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 2: take authority over this house right now. So you gotta

597
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: take authority on the way to work. I take authority

598
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 2: over my spirit on the way to work, in Jesus' name.

599
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 2: Some of you you can't keep your mouth shut, your

600
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 2: open mouth, your insert foot. You don't know why you

601
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 2: keep putting things in your mouth that shouldn't be in

602
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 2: your mouth. You gotta say, I take authority over my

603
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 2: mouth in Jesus' name. Some you got thoughts that you

604
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 2: don't know why they come into your head. You're getting dreams,

605
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: you don't know why they're coming in your head. You

606
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 2: gotta take authority. You have authority in the spiritual realm,

607
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: not because of who you are, but because who Jesus is.

608
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 2: So he gives him the signet ring, and Mordecai and

609
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 2: Ester write up a new propose. Here's another edict to counter.

610
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: They cannot write it, but the counter the first edict.

611
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: The Jews can now defend themselves. And so they get

612
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 2: this edict written and has spread throughout the city of Susa,

613
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: and they go to work, and on the day they

614
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 2: were supposed to be attacked, they actually fight back, and

615
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 2: they defend themselves, and they kill the sons of Haymen

616
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: and five hundred other people, but they need another day,

617
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: And so Esther goes back and says, I need another

618
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: day to do this. There's a lot of enemies out

619
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: there beyond the city of Susa, in the realm of

620
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: the Empire. So they send in the letters all throughout the

621
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 2: Empire that the Jews can defend themselves.

622
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 3: And seventy five thousand.

623
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 2: Enemies attack the Jews, and the Jews strike.

624
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 3: Back and strike them down.

625
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: And the Bible says that many people become Jews because

626
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. It's

627
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: amazing turnaround. God specializes in quick reversals.

628
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 3: Somebody needs to.

629
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 2: Tell yourself that right now, this story is not done yet.

630
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: Somebody say this after me, this story. Oh, you gotta

631
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 2: say it like.

632
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 3: You mean it.

633
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 2: This story is not done yet. Somebody say this, This

634
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 2: family is not done yet. Somebody say my future is

635
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 2: not done yet. God is still working.

636
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 3: Do you believe it? Shout a man.

637
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 2: Come on, you gotta stir yourself up and talk faith

638
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 2: into your life.

639
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 3: I can't be the only person excited this morning.

640
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: You might be weak and tired, so am I I

641
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: have any But I'm agnointed by the Holy Spirit of God,

642
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: and he has formed me, and he's working through me,

643
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: and he's gonna bring victory.

644
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 3: Into our lives. They take authority over their enemy.

645
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 2: They have victory over their enemies that were bound to

646
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: defeat them.

647
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: Instead they got defeat.

648
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 2: They got defeated, and the and the Jews were victorious.

649
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 3: Oh man, I.

650
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 2: Wish I could get this into someone's head today. You

651
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: are a victor. You are more than a conqueror. You

652
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 2: are not a loser. You are not the the subject

653
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 2: of what's.

654
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 3: Happened to you.

655
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Speaker 2: You are the object of God's grace over you, and

656
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,959
Speaker 2: his love that wants to be deposited in you, and

657
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 2: his victory that is certain for you.

658
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 3: And the best is yet to come.

659
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: So they win two days, and then Mordechai sends letters

660
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: throughout all the rum and says, look, Jews, a fellow, Jews,

661
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: letters go out.

662
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: We're gonna celebrate.

663
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 2: These two days every year forever, and it becomes the

664
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: feast of Puram. And do you know that to this

665
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: day the Jews celebrate the Feast of Purum. It's at

666
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 2: the last of the winter season and at the beginning

667
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: of spring. And I think that's a perfect time to

668
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 2: celebrate victory because winter can get you down.

669
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 3: Amen, Winter can get you down.

670
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 2: Winter can get you like beaten up and defeated.

671
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 3: But every year, just when it's.

672
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 2: As dark as it can possibly look, we got to

673
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 2: remind ourselves that spring is coming down the road.

674
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 3: That's what the feast of Purium is.

675
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: Here's the last verse of Esther, last verse, verse three

676
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 2: of chapter ten. Mordechai the Jew was second in rank

677
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 2: to King of Hassrus.

678
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: And he was great among the Jews.

679
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 2: And popular with the multitude of his brothers. For he

680
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: sought the welfare of his people and spoke what and spoke.

681
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 3: Peace to all his people.

682
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: I want to end this series by speaking some peace

683
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 2: over you. Peace in the midst of whatever is distressing

684
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 2: you or freaking you out or confusing you.

685
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 3: Four ways to get it? Are you ready?

686
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 2: From Mordecai's life, Number one, do good wherever you are

687
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 2: in the name of Christ, wherever you are now Mordecai,

688
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 2: That's what made his life turn around. He did good.

689
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: He was working at the King's gate. Where did he live?

690
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 2: He lived in Susa. He lived in the capital city

691
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: of Persia. Understand he was an exile. He was a

692
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: Jew living in a foreign He was one of listening

693
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: to this very carefully, everybody.

694
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 3: He was one of God's.

695
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: People living in a pagan heathen world.

696
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:06,959
Speaker 3: Sound familiar? Huh? Do you feel strange to this world? Christian?

697
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: Do you feel like what is going on? Why are

698
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: the inmates running the asylum? Do you get strange to

699
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 2: the things that are what? Crazy is coming down the

700
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: pike this week? If you feel that way, it's because

701
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 2: you are listen. You were born again. You are not

702
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 2: of this world. Jesus says, you don't belong here. This

703
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 2: is not your home. Somebody say, this is not my home.

704
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,239
Speaker 2: But you still need to do good. Learn how to

705
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: do good in the foreign places. Learn how to love

706
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 2: some pagans in Jesus name, Love your non believing neighbor.

707
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to go to work this week and be

708
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 2: the guy who buys lunch just to bless people.

709
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 3: Do good. Some of you.

710
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: You keep moaning instead of promoting. You keep complaining instead

711
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 2: of contributing. And as long as you're a complainer, you're

712
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 2: never gonna get anywhere. I have people who work for me,

713
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you something. The complainers don't last very long.

714
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 3: They don't.

715
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 2: It's annoying to have people complaining all the time. Be

716
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: somebody who works positively wherever you are. Mordechai did good

717
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 2: for a pagan king. He saved his life. Now listen

718
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: to this, and this is so important. After he was celebrated,

719
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 2: after he was led on the horse by Hayman through

720
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 2: the streets of Persia.

721
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 3: Do you know what? Do you know what Mordechai did?

722
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: Look at it.

723
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 2: Chapter six, Back to chapter six, verse twelve. It says

724
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 2: Mordecai returned to the King's gate, He was celebrated for

725
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: a day, and.

726
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 3: Then he went back and did his job. He just

727
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 3: did good. He just did good.

728
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 2: By the way he was at the king's gate. Chapter two,

729
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: verse twenty one says he was at the king's gate

730
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 2: when he saw the assassination plot that the two eunuchs

731
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 2: of the king were trying to carry out. And so

732
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 2: what you see here is a faithfulness in Mordecai.

733
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: And I think this is so important.

734
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 2: For some of you, because you you do good and

735
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: you don't see results, and then you stop doing good.

736
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 3: Do you understand that.

737
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 2: Between Ester chapter two and Ester chapter five and six

738
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 2: was five years that Mordechai saves the King's life in

739
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 2: chapter two doesn't get recognized, doesn't get promoted, doesn't get benefits,

740
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 2: nothing happens, but it gets recorded. Five years go buy

741
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 2: things get worse, life gets darker, the edict is enacted.

742
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 2: He's going to die, and then at the right time

743
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 2: he gets rewarded. Here's what you got to learn how

744
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: to do in your life. You got to learn to

745
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 2: sow seeds of goodness in your present for fruits of

746
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 2: blessing in your future. Some of you want instant microwave, Christians,

747
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: God is not a microwave. He is a slow cooker.

748
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 2: He is a barbecue pit. Come on, somebody. He slowly

749
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 2: cooks that meat of goodness in your life until the

750
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 2: juices are boiling out of the center of it, and

751
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: it smells so wonderful. And I'm making you depressed right now,

752
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 2: aren't I? This is this is part of my fast

753
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: A's coming out because I've been watching all the advertisements

754
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 2: for food, and i don't know about you, but I'm like,

755
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna eat that when I'm done.

756
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 3: I'm gonna eat that. Wh I'm gonna done.

757
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be four hundred pounds by April fourth. That's

758
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen to me? It's just the season the fastest.

759
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 2: The feast is coming, Amen, somebody. But you gotta learn

760
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 2: how to plant seeds in this fast, in this fast.

761
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: And I think some of you gotta break free from

762
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: this because I feel it in the spirit, and I'm

763
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 2: gonna say it. Nothing has happened, and you feel like

764
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 2: the fastest been a failure. That's not how it works.

765
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: You fast in one season, you get the fruit. In

766
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 2: another season you some of you might get the fruit

767
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 2: from this fast five years from now. Are you willing

768
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 2: to do good? Are you willing to go back to

769
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: that gate? Are you willing to keep working? Are you

770
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 2: willing to keep sewing good seed into your life? The

771
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: world has enough people who are out to get all

772
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 2: that they can right now, and those people are the

773
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 2: most insufferable people on the planet.

774
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 3: Most of them work in Hollywood.

775
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 2: We've got to learn to be givers and doers of

776
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 2: good wherever we are. And here's the second point leads

777
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 2: me right into it. Don't seek human recognition. This is

778
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 2: the way Hayman lived. Do you understand that Hayman dies

779
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 2: hanging on the gallows that he made for Mordecai. But

780
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 2: the only reason why he made the gallows for Mordecai.

781
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 2: Do you know why he made the gallows for Mordecai

782
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 2: Because Mordecai.

783
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 3: And this is so insane to me.

784
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 2: Mordecai was the only person in the empire who didn't

785
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: worship him. Oh, if I could just spend a whole

786
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: message on this. Don't seek people's praise. It's a trap.

787
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've met people, but they can

788
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 2: be awful. Have you met people? Yeah, they can love

789
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 2: you today and hate you tomorrow. They'll build you up today,

790
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: they'll tear you down tomorrow. And here's the worst part.

791
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: If you get people to love you and like you

792
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: and celebrate you, nobody tells you this. You got to

793
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: keep them loving you and celebrating you and worshiping you

794
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 2: and loving you.

795
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 3: That's impossible.

796
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 2: And guess what you lose in the midst of making

797
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 2: everybody love you.

798
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 3: You lose you.

799
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 2: You become a people pleaser and not a God server.

800
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 3: And God who doesn't don't care about you pleasing people.

801
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 2: You understand that you can't You can't properly parent if

802
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 2: you need your kid's approval. I don't know this modern,

803
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 2: this modern way of parenting. I don't get it. Johnny,

804
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 2: tell me how you feel what's going on. I know

805
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 2: you're throwing a tempertantrum in the grocery aisle right now,

806
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 2: but tell.

807
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 3: Me your truth. I want to hear from you. No,

808
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 3: pull Johnny out the grocery store into.

809
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 4: The car back home and spake Johnny, that Kidney's a whaapon.

810
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 3: That's what I got when I was growing up. I

811
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 3: turned out. Okay, I don't got any twitches.

812
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 2: You gotta learn to love the fact that God has

813
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 2: has loved you with an everlasting love.

814
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 3: You don't need the love of other people.

815
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: You can't be married if you need your spouse to

816
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 2: celebrate you. Oh, I could do a whole week on

817
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 2: that husband's Your wife is not your fan. My wife

818
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 2: is not my fan. She does not worship me at all. Oh,

819
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: this a great story. One day I was I preached

820
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 2: and I got down and my wife was stating it

821
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 2: and this Nigerian lady with the Nigerian accent came up

822
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 2: to us and I was like talking to her, and

823
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 2: Cheryl comes up. I said, oh, this is my wife, Cheryl,

824
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 2: and she goes to the Nigerian lady.

825
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 5: Goes, oh, oh, you're his wife. You must be on

826
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 5: your knees every day thanking God that you are married

827
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 5: to this man. Now, I perceived that this woman had

828
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 5: the gift of prophecy, but evidently Cheryl did not feel

829
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 5: the same way. And it's a fun story that I tell,

830
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 5: and we tell it, you know, parties and everything.

831
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 3: But she's not my fan.

832
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: But I don't if I live for her approval and worship,

833
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: our marriage would be a miss.

834
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 3: Wives.

835
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 2: Same goes to you. Your husband is not your Instagram photographer.

836
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: He is a grown man. Do not make him a lackey.

837
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 2: He doesn't exist for your pleasure. He exists for God's

838
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 2: purpose and you gotta learn to let go of them.

839
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 2: Always needed to approve of you if you're gonna be married. Traversation,

840
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 2: never be honest.

841
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 3: Do good? Oh gosh, I forgot to tell the story.

842
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 2: Is it okay? If I go to point one again

843
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 2: and tell the story? Said, okay, okay, So this is

844
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: a true story about doing good. There was two guys

845
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: who were running a broke Rundown general store in the

846
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 2: eighteen hundreds.

847
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 3: One was a dead be drunk and one was an

848
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 3: aspiring lawyer.

849
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 2: He wanted to be a lawyer, but he couldn't get

850
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 2: to be a lawyer because he had no money. And

851
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 2: they had a conversation as they were broken on the

852
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: verge of bankruptcy. The one want to be the lawyer said, man,

853
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 2: I wish I could get a hold of Blackstone's commentary

854
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: on law I'll sell this store tomorrow. If I can

855
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 2: get a hold of that. That's what it would cost

856
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 2: sell the store. I'll buy the commentaries. His dead be

857
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 2: drunk partner said, no way, we're not selling the store.

858
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 2: They were down to their last couple of bucks and

859
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 2: the traveler drove by the store, stopped and he said,

860
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 2: got out of his wagon, out of his carriage, and

861
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 2: he said, look, I got a barrel I gotta sell.

862
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 2: I can't fit in the carre and I need money desperately.

863
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 2: Would you give me fifty cents for it? The dead

864
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: dug drunks said, no way, get out of here. We

865
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 2: don't have any money. And the guy who want to

866
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 2: be a lawyer said, you know what, I'll give you

867
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 2: fifty cents. His heart went out to him and he

868
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: did good. He bought the barrel. He didn't need help.

869
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 2: The stranger out put the barrel in the back of

870
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: the store. Months go by. This is a true story,

871
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 2: is why I needed to tell the story. Months go by,

872
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 2: he cleans out the general store. He goes and he

873
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 2: finds the barrel, lifts open the barrel a bunch of rubbish,

874
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 2: pulls the rubbish out, reaches down and underneath the rubbish

875
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 2: was the complete set of Blackstone's.

876
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 3: Commentary on law. He pulls it up.

877
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 2: He looks up to God and he says, maybe I'm

878
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 2: made for something greater. Eventually the store goes bankrupt. This

879
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: guy teaches himself law on his own time, in his

880
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: own way, studies himself up. He runs for the state legislature.

881
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: He wins six terms as a state legislature representative. He

882
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 2: runs for US Congress, he wins one term as a

883
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 2: US Congressman. He runs for Senate and he loses. But

884
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 2: do you know that he war for president and he

885
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 2: became the sixteenth President of the United States. His name

886
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 2: was Abraham Lincoln. It all started with one work that

887
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: was good for somebody else, and then you don't seek recognition.

888
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 3: Now back to that one. Jesus said, it's a trap.

889
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 2: He talked about the Pharisees in John chapter twelve, verse

890
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 2: forty three.

891
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 3: He said, they love.

892
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 2: The glory that comes from man more than the glory

893
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 2: that comes from God.

894
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 3: Matthew twenty three to five.

895
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 2: He says, everything they do is a show, is just

896
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 2: to be seen by others.

897
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 3: Don't you understand that if you're.

898
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: Doing things to please others, you're just becoming a show,

899
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 2: You're just becoming a people pleaser. It's a trap of life.

900
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: Do you know why you don't need people's praise or

901
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 2: people's recognition. This is why, because you've already got.

902
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 3: The recognition from God.

903
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 2: And what you have to understand about God is that

904
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 2: he is keeping accurate records of what you do. Jesus

905
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: said in Matthew chapter ten, forty two, whoever gives.

906
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 3: One of these little ones even a cup.

907
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 2: Of cold water, just a cup of water, because you're

908
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 2: my disciple, then you will not lose your reward. Hebrews

909
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 2: chapter six, verse ten.

910
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 3: God is not unjust to overlook your work.

911
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 2: And the love that you have shown for his name

912
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 2: is serving the names that you still do. You gotta

913
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 2: do it not for other people's say so. You gotta

914
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 2: do it for God's sake, knowing that the good you

915
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 2: see the good seed you sow in one season will

916
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 2: be fruit in a season yet to come.

917
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 3: Point number three, one day can change everything. I like

918
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 3: this point. I like this point.

919
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 2: That's what Esther chapter five and six tells us. Esther

920
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 2: Chapter five ends with Mordecai, I'm sorry, Hayman building a gallows,

921
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 2: and Esther chapter six, twenty four hours later, Hayman is

922
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 2: hanging on those gallows. End of chapter seven, it's just

923
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 2: twenty four hours. One day can change everything. Some of

924
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 2: you are looking at your life and is saying there's

925
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,919
Speaker 2: no movement. I'm not getting anywhere. I don't understand. Hey,

926
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: one day, somebody say, one day. God does not need

927
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 2: a long time to get something done. God is a

928
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 2: miracle worker. God can do something in one He can

929
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 2: do something in one moment. Don't you know that when

930
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 2: he comes back, he's coming back in the twinkling of

931
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 2: an eye. It's not gonna take long for us to

932
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 2: be gone from this world and be in Heaven forever.

933
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 2: Is gonna happen in an instant second. And there is

934
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 2: nothing that God can do and can't do in one

935
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: day of your life.

936
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 3: He can change everything. Something needs to write this down.

937
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 2: Stop worrying about your lack of movement, because God only

938
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 2: needs a moment. Oh, Joseph was sold as a slave

939
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 2: by his brothers who hated him.

940
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 3: And then he was working as a slave and he

941
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 3: was doing good.

942
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 2: And then he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, and

943
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: then he was thrown into prison and he was forgotten.

944
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 3: But on one day Pharaoh had a dream.

945
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 2: No one could interpret it, but that guy Joseph in

946
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: the prison, he can interpret. And they pulled him out

947
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 2: of the pit. He pulled him out of the prison

948
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 2: and put him in the palace and became the prime

949
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 2: minister of Egypt in one day. Or Moses, who was

950
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 2: wandering the wilderness with his father in law sheep for

951
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 2: forty years, he tried to deliver Israel in his own strength.

952
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 2: He killed one Egyptian. That's as far as he got.

953
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 2: And then he goes and he's in exile. And for

954
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: forty years, this guy four decades friend, I'm forty six.

955
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 2: He did them my whole life outside on forty seven.

956
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 2: He did that for forty years. He was out in

957
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,760
Speaker 2: the wilderness with the sheep that he didn't even own,

958
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,240
Speaker 2: and one day he saw a bush that didn't burn,

959
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 2: and you know the rest of the story. Or David,

960
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 2: who was a shepherd boy and a singer, and his

961
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 2: father rejected him, and his brothers didn't like him, and

962
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 2: everybody vilified him, and he was anointed by Samuel, but

963
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 2: people still didn't pay attention to him.

964
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 3: And he was a little delivery boy.

965
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 2: He brought the bread and the cheese to his brothers

966
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 2: at the army front. And he was basically doing uber

967
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 2: eats all his life, that's what he was doing. But

968
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 2: one day he shows up as this moment that Goliath

969
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 2: is taunting the people of Israel, and he said, who

970
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: is this philistine who would taunt Israel? And in one

971
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 2: day that shepherd boy turns into a mighty warrior for God.

972
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 2: God does not need a long time, He needs one

973
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 2: day to get it done. In your life, perhaps the

974
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 2: most famous one, Jesus Christ. Healed the sick, raise the dead,

975
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 2: cast out demons, fed the multitudes. And then he was

976
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 2: betrayed by his own disciple, and he was abandoned by

977
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 2: all of his other disciples, and he was handed over

978
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 2: to pagan sinners, and he was crucified and neil through

979
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 2: a tree and thrown.

980
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 3: In a grave. But one day came when the when

981
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 3: the grave opened and the stone rolled away, and the

982
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 3: heavens fell down, and.

983
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 2: The angels came down, and Jesus rose on the grave

984
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 2: and split history in half in one day. God does

985
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 2: not need a month, He needs a day. Some of

986
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 2: you gotta wait for the day and let God have

987
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 2: his way through all the things that you're waiting for

988
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 2: one day and ultimately all those stories and the story

989
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 2: of Esther and the story of Mordecai. Really there's a

990
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 2: bigger there's a bigger plot in mind, which brings me

991
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: to point number four. Don't lose the big plot bringing

992
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 2: salvation to many.

993
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 3: Do you understand that.

994
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 2: Esther was beautiful, But she wasn't pretty just so that

995
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 2: she could hang out in the palace and eat at

996
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 2: the dinner table. She wasn't pretty just so she could

997
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: look a certain way in front of King Xerxes. She

998
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 2: was beautiful for the purpose of intervening in the saving

999
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: of the jews lives. And Mordecai wasn't rewarded for saving

1000
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,320
Speaker 2: the king's life simply because he deserved it, and simply

1001
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 2: because you know, he needed a leg up, and he

1002
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 2: was hated by mor Hayman. No Mordecai was rewarded so

1003
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 2: that he could be instrumental in saving many lives.

1004
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 3: Let me tell you about your life.

1005
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 2: I started this message by saying God is working for you,

1006
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 2: but he's working.

1007
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 3: What through you.

1008
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 2: Your story is a subplot of the big plot.

1009
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 3: Don't miss that or you will be miserable.

1010
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 2: Ultimately is about saving lives, friend, Ultimately is about bringing

1011
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 2: people to Jesus.

1012
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 3: That's what God wants to do through you.

1013
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 2: How can you God use this story, this chaos, this crazy,

1014
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 2: this family, this life to bring people to Jesus. That's

1015
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 2: where life starts to get interesting, starts to make sense,

1016
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 2: starts to find its way. Then you know you're not

1017
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 2: here by accident. You're here on purpose, one day, one day,

1018
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 2: many many years ago. Waters Church was a small single

1019
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 2: church up in Nord, Massachusetts, and it was a.

1020
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 3: Small little Italian Pentecostal church.

1021
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 2: In the nineteen eighties, and it had grown to about

1022
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty three hundred people. But the pastor

1023
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 2: kind of went rogue and left with a bunch of

1024
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 2: people split the church in half, a very devastating thing

1025
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 2: for any church, and they wallowed in lack of direction

1026
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 2: for many years, and they were looking for a pastor

1027
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 2: and looking for a pastor, and they would bring candidates

1028
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 2: into pastor and to candidate for the pastor at job.

1029
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: And back in those days, you voted, and so they

1030
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 2: would take a vote and every candidate would be voted down,

1031
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 2: and if the person who didn't get voted in, all

1032
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 2: the people who like that guy would leave the church.

1033
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 2: And they went from three hundred people down to forty people.

1034
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 2: Forty people in nineteen ninety. And they went through this

1035
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 2: process for many, many, many months, and eventually they came

1036
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 2: to a guy that they said, this guy seems pretty good.

1037
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 3: We're gonna go with him. And it was a slim chance.

1038
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 2: But it was a good chance that this guy was

1039
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 2: gonna get voted in in a board meeting right after

1040
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 2: a Sunday morning one day a Sunday morning, and they

1041
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 2: had the pulpit opened.

1042
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 3: They didn't have.

1043
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 2: Anybody to preach, so they called the district offices and

1044
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 2: they said, listen, is there anybody who could preach for us?

1045
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 3: We have our pulpit open. Wouldn't you know that there

1046
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 3: was a guy.

1047
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 2: That was that was going across the United States interviewing

1048
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 2: for his church positions himself, and they said, well, we're

1049
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,879
Speaker 2: not looking for a pastor anymore. We found one, we think,

1050
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 2: and sure if he want to come and precess, fine.

1051
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 2: Well this guy was from South Africa and he came

1052
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 2: and he preached, and some of you know who he is.

1053
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 2: And he preached est Sunday morning, and his name is

1054
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 2: passed guys Or. He's the senior pastor of our church.

1055
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 2: And when you know how he preaches. And the fire

1056
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 2: came down and the Holy Spirit fell and people got

1057
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 2: saved and delivered and things were happening, and it was amazing,

1058
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 2: hurt service, and everyone was blowing away. And they went

1059
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 2: to the meeting after that service, and they voted the

1060
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 2: other guy out and they said, we want this guy

1061
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 2: to be our pastor one day. He can change everything.

1062
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: And I used to go to that church as a kid.

1063
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 2: I used to go to the church as a teenager.

1064
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 2: And one day I showed up. One day I showed

1065
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 2: up and and the kids, the teens, were hanging out

1066
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 2: after church. And I remember we were hanging out. We

1067
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 2: were in a car driving down a road I know

1068
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 2: the road where it happened. And one of the kids

1069
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 2: said to me, hey, Tim would you like to come

1070
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,919
Speaker 2: with us to a youth conference. And I hated youth

1071
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 2: conferences and I didn't really I wasn't really interested in church,

1072
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 2: and I didn't really want to, you know, be all

1073
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 2: that engaged in church. I kind of just went because

1074
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,879
Speaker 2: my parents brought me. But for some reason, I said yes,

1075
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 2: and I went to that youth conference. And I got

1076
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 2: to the church to the youth conference, and a guy

1077
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 2: got up on stage and started screaming like I'm screaming

1078
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 2: to you and starting talking about the Holy Spirit and

1079
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit wants to feel you. And I came

1080
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 2: down to the altar and I put my hands up

1081
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 2: and the Holy Spirit fell into my life and started

1082
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 2: a fire that's been burning for thirty six years from

1083
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 2: and God called me into the ministry.

1084
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 3: God called me to be.

1085
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 4: A past One day, frim one day can change everything.

1086
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 2: And then that started a battle between my mother and I. Oh,

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Speaker 2: we had a battle. We had a battle through my

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Speaker 2: teen years. That happened when I was twelve years old

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Speaker 2: and I told my mom I want to be a

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Speaker 2: pastor and she said, no, you're gonna be an engineer.

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Speaker 2: And I said, no, I want to be a pastor.

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Speaker 2: She said no, you're gonna be an engineer or a

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Speaker 2: computer programmer. You're gonna make a lot of money. Because

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Speaker 2: she was a pastor's daughter and she didn't want me

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Speaker 2: to go through the hardships of a pastor's family.

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Speaker 3: I said, no, Mom, God has called me into this ministry.

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Speaker 3: I gotta do it. And we fought all through life.

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Speaker 3: But because the.

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Speaker 2: Bible says all to your father and mother, she she

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Speaker 2: filled out my applications for college.

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Speaker 3: She did it, and she said, you're gonna go to

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Speaker 3: this school.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna get this degree, and you're gonna be a very,

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Speaker 2: very successful young man.

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Speaker 3: I was resistant, but it's like I find And then one.

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Speaker 2: Day she went to church up in Norwood with Pastor

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Speaker 2: Geyser and she had a conversation with him and she said,

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Speaker 2: I can't understand. My son wants to be like you,

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Speaker 2: but I wanted to be an engineer. And Pastor Geyser said, listen,

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Speaker 2: let him go and pursue the ministry because if he's

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Speaker 2: not called, if he's not called, he'll give up and

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Speaker 2: he'll become whatever you wanted to become.

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Speaker 3: He'll become an engineer or whatever.

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Speaker 2: And she said, you know what that sounds like a

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Speaker 2: good idea, and she prayed for me to run away

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Speaker 2: from the ministry. Turns out I was called friend. Turns

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Speaker 2: out God had his hand on my life.

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Speaker 4: And one day and one conversation and one sudden can

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Speaker 4: change everything for us and for you.

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Speaker 3: You might be going through.

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Speaker 4: The valley of the shadow of death, but God is

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Speaker 4: with you. You might be struggling with depression, but God's

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Speaker 4: not done with you. You might be in suicide wash, but

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Speaker 4: God wants to resurrect you. The story is not over.

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Speaker 4: Resurrection has happened. Jesus is all the throat. I'm telling somebody,

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Speaker 4: what's your faith in the God who does miracle, in

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Speaker 4: the God who opens graves, in the God who stills

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Speaker 4: the waters. Hallelujah. Oh, God's gonna do something through our church.

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Speaker 3: God's gonna do.

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Speaker 4: Something through this fast. The best is yet to come.

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Speaker 4: Don't lose heart. Hallelujah. I know some of you are

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Speaker 4: dying to get those last blanks filled in, so let

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Speaker 4: he put it on the screen.

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Speaker 2: There are no accidents when you're in Christ. It's all

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Speaker 2: part of the plan. God knows from beginning to end.

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Speaker 2: And I need to tell somebody here, you're not an actor,

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Speaker 2: You're not a mistake, and your life isn't an accident.

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Speaker 2: There's no accidents in Christ. There's no such thing as chance.

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Speaker 2: If you want chance, go to Vegas. God orchestrates, God ordains.

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Speaker 2: God is working for you and through you. No matter

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Speaker 2: what the world is doing. What just staying with me

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Speaker 2: at this point? If you're done writing those things down?

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Speaker 2: What just staying with Let's give.

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Speaker 4: God a praise offering in this but let's give God

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Speaker 4: a pray. Come on out, Let's give God a praise

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Speaker 4: and then play Pata Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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

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

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

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

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