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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Fernick.

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

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Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. I just want to take

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Speaker 1: a moment before we jump into the word.

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Speaker 3: Anybody excited to get into the scripture today? We're going

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Speaker 3: to open up God's word. But two things I want

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Speaker 3: to pray for. Anybody that needs a miracle today. Anybody

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Speaker 3: that needs healing today. Anybody that needs finances. You know

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Speaker 3: the Bible says our Lord God, nothing is too difficult

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Speaker 3: for you. If you've got a prodigal today, I know

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Speaker 3: the God that can wake them up with kindness. If

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Speaker 3: you've got a situation, I know the God that can

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Speaker 3: remove that mountain and put it into the sea. Come on,

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Speaker 3: anybody believe today that God is who he says he is.

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Speaker 1: Anybody we have faith that he could do what he

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Speaker 1: said he would do. Come on, clap.

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Speaker 4: Let's have done some faith and thanksgiving today.

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Speaker 1: Do me a favor. If you need a miracle, just

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Speaker 1: lit your hand. Lord. We thank you for your grace,

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Speaker 1: We thank you for your power.

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Speaker 3: We trust not in riches or mammon or chariots or horsemen.

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Speaker 1: But our trust is in the name of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: We thank you God that you are who you.

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Speaker 3: Say you are and you can accomplish what concerns us.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 3: We cast all of our cares onto you because we

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Speaker 3: know you care for us.

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Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: And everybody said together, come on, clap one more time

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Speaker 3: and thank God. Come on elevation twenty years, twenty years.

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Speaker 3: And I just want to say, thank God for Elevation Church.

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Speaker 3: Thank God for all that He's done in this place.

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Speaker 3: Thank God for all that He's done through this place.

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Speaker 3: And the Bible says not to us, not to us

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Speaker 3: be the glory, but to his name. Can we give

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Speaker 3: God some glory for twenty years.

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Speaker 4: Of his faithfulness? Come on, anybody believe the vest is

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Speaker 4: yet to come for Elevation Church. And I just want

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Speaker 4: to say, thank God, not.

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Speaker 3: Just for Elevation Church, but anybody love your pastors today.

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Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen at Holly Fernick, come on, oh, come on,

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Speaker 1: you can clap louder than that today if you love

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Speaker 1: your fine goodness.

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Speaker 3: We thank God for pastors Stephen to Hally, Thank God

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Speaker 3: for their faithfulness, for their continual.

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Speaker 1: Yes. Anybody could say yes for.

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Speaker 3: One year or maybe ten, but twenty years of faithfulness, serving, giving, preaching, writing.

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Speaker 1: Oh, come on this, give honor where honor is due

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Speaker 1: to our pastors today. Thank God for pastors Stephen and Holley.

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Speaker 1: And you know they've just been out on tour. They've

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Speaker 1: been out on tour.

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Speaker 3: They're sewing into Chicago, sewing into New York. I believe

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Speaker 3: they were in Columbus, Ohio, sewing in. You know, I've

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Speaker 3: always believed that when you sow into somebody else's field,

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Speaker 3: you're going to reap it.

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Speaker 1: In your own.

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Speaker 3: And I pray that we would be a church that

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Speaker 3: covers them in prayer. Amen, Why don't we take a

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Speaker 3: moment and pray for our pastors right now? Lord, We

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Speaker 3: thank you for our leaders, our pastors that you've given

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Speaker 1: What a gift to have pastors like them.

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Speaker 3: We pray that their soul would be refreshed, their soul

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Speaker 3: would be encouraged. Thank you God for protection over their home,

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Speaker 3: over their children.

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Speaker 1: We thank you that you're speaking to them, giving them.

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Speaker 3: Vision, dreams, allow signs and wonders and miracles to continue

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Speaker 3: to break out through their ministry. We think you that

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Speaker 3: they would feel rested in their soul, and we just

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Speaker 3: bless them today. We thank you God for the gifts

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Speaker 3: of our pastors in Jesus name.

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Speaker 1: And everybody said, come on one more time, clapping, thank God.

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Speaker 1: Do me a favorite before you sit down. Turn it

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Speaker 1: against somebody a high five. Tell them you woke up

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Speaker 5: You woke up on time today.

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Speaker 3: You woke up you ain't late. You woke up on

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Speaker 3: time today. Go to the Book of Numbers, chapter twenty one.

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Speaker 1: If you have a Bible number is twenty one. Again.

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Speaker 1: My name is Chad. I live in La. I'm blessed.

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Speaker 3: Any married people here in the house today sounds painful.

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Speaker 3: Any happily married people in the house today?

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Speaker 3: My wife and I have been married for seventeen years.

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Speaker 3: We got four children. Any parents here today?

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Speaker 3: Years and fourteen, twelve, ten, eight. And my eight year

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Speaker 3: year old. He needs Jesus right now. But we're blessed.

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Speaker 1: Be here today. Can we clap? This was his first

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Speaker 1: time being up without his mom and dad.

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Speaker 3: Didn't Cram do a great job, my guy right there clapping,

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Speaker 3: Thank God for my God.

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Speaker 5: I love you so much.

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Speaker 1: I love you so much. Number twenty one, go there

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Speaker 1: in your Bible. We're gonna go to the Old Testament today.

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Speaker 1: It says this.

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Speaker 3: Then they journeyed from Mount Horror by the way of

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Speaker 3: the Red Sea to go around the land of Eel,

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Speaker 3: and the soul of the people became very discouraged on

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Speaker 3: Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to

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Speaker 3: die in the wilderness, for there's no food and no water.

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Speaker 3: And are soul lows? This worthless bread? I just have

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Speaker 3: to believe. That's gluten free bread right there, first, gluten

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Speaker 3: free bread, and all of the Bible right there is

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Speaker 3: So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and

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Speaker 3: Israel died, And therefore the people came to Moses and said,

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Speaker 3: have spoken against the Lord and against you. Prayed to

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Speaker 1: So Moses prayed for the people.

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Speaker 3: And the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent,

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Speaker 3: everyone who is bitten when he looks at it shall live.

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Speaker 3: So Moses made a bronze serpent, put it on a pole,

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Speaker 3: when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

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Speaker 1: I want to preach a message today. Right down the title.

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Speaker 1: It's called on my Way Back, On my Way Back, and.

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Speaker 3: I just want to tell you today, I don't know

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Speaker 3: how far you drifted away from God.

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Speaker 1: It's never too late to come back to Jesus.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how far you feel like you are

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Speaker 3: a way from the will of God for your life.

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Speaker 3: But anybody thankful that it's never too late with God.

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Speaker 3: You're never too far gone from God if you believe

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Speaker 3: that we serve the God that welcomes.

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Speaker 1: You home with open arms. On my way Back, I.

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Speaker 3: Just like this idea because you know, I feel like

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Speaker 3: every Monday morning I start my diet again.

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Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to you right now?

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Speaker 3: Every Sunday night, I'm like, you know, tomorrow morning, I'm

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Speaker 3: getting this body back in shape. Every Monday morning, I'm like,

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Speaker 3: start working out a few mondays ago of alls in

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Speaker 3: that Monday flow and we do Orange Theory Fitness. We

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Speaker 3: like to go to this place called Orange Theory Fitness.

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Speaker 3: It's diabolical by nature, makes you sweat and work out.

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Speaker 1: But I was like, babe, tomorrow morning, we're gonna go back.

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Speaker 1: And so when I walked in, I signed up on

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Speaker 3: When I walked into the gym, there was a guy

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Speaker 3: standing there and he had made me like a sign

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Speaker 3: Chad's four hundredth workout, And I was like, what a

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Speaker 3: welcome back sign.

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Speaker 3: I had no idea that I was nearing my four

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Speaker 3: if this is my four hundredth workout, this have to

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Speaker 3: about to cross two days later her seventh hundredth workout.

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Speaker 3: Come on clap from my wife Julia. She's putting in

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Speaker 3: four hundred workout, But I really felt it was saying like,

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Speaker 3: welcome back, lazy man of God. Welcome back slacker. See

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Speaker 3: what I want you to understand today about God. It

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter how far away you are from God. God

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Speaker 3: always loves to welcome his children home.

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Speaker 3: God never turns away anybody that comes to him when

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Speaker 3: Come on clap today if you're thankful for the grace

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Speaker 1: I love this.

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Speaker 3: Story in number twenty one because really it's a story

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Speaker 3: about a route back to God. Did you catch what

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Speaker 3: that they were on the way to eat them, but

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Speaker 3: the Lord took them around the long way, and it

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Speaker 3: said on the way they became impatience. Have you ever

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Speaker 3: Timetable is different than your timetable. I want to remind

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Speaker 3: he's never too late. Our God is a what on

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Speaker 3: If you believe that about God, I'm going to give

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Speaker 3: you four things to write down today. Write down number one.

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Speaker 3: The first thing God deals with me as I come

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Speaker 3: back is he deals with my faith in God's timing.

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Speaker 3: He deals with my trust in the timing of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: See. I love this about God.

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Speaker 3: God said, my ways are above your ways, My thoughts

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Speaker 3: are above your thoughts. A day is like a thousand

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Speaker 3: like a day. God knows the end from the beginning.

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Speaker 3: He is the Alpha and the Omega. We believe that

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Speaker 3: God is sovereign and seated on the throne, and God

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Speaker 3: knows just what you need, and he knows just when

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Speaker 3: you need it. Anybody thankful today that God will supply

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Speaker 1: Oh I love Isaiah forty put on the screen. Have

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Speaker 3: The Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends

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Speaker 3: understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak. That's

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Speaker 3: cowboy fans. I'm prophilying to somebody right now. And to

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Speaker 3: those who have no might, he increases their strength. Even

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Speaker 3: you stressed about anything? Well, I'm a man of God,

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Speaker 3: So I said no, And she said, surely you must

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Speaker 3: be stressed about something. I'm a man of confession. I

442
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Speaker 3: said no, I'm not stressed about anything. She said, well,

443
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Speaker 3: your body says contrary, and I'll never forget. Feeling discouraged.

444
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Speaker 3: You got to be careful with discouragement because discouragement will

445
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Speaker 3: turn into rebellion.

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Speaker 1: You notice what they did.

447
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Speaker 3: They started to complain against God, and they started to

448
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Speaker 3: complain against their pastor. It's never encouraged people that complain

449
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Speaker 3: against God and their pastor.

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Speaker 1: It's discouraged people.

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Speaker 3: And I'm just telling you guard your heart when you

452
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Speaker 3: feel discouraged. That's why it's so important that you put

453
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Speaker 3: on the word of God in your house. That's why

454
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Speaker 3: it's so important that you listen to elevation worship. You

455
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Speaker 3: listen to elevation rhythm, and you get the spirit of

456
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Speaker 3: faith and the spirit of worship into your house, and

457
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Speaker 3: you say, no weapon that's formed against me is going

458
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Speaker 3: to prosper, And every tongue that rises against me in

459
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Speaker 3: judgment I will condemn. I am more than a conqueror

460
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Speaker 3: in Christ Jesus, I'm the head and not the tale.

461
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Speaker 3: I am a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a marvelous life.

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Speaker 1: Come on, clap and give God praise.

463
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Speaker 3: That you might not have what you want to have,

464
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Speaker 3: might not be where you want to be, But come on,

465
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Speaker 3: clap and thank God you not where you're used to be.

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Speaker 3: Come on, Has God been good and faithful and generous

467
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Speaker 3: to any Oh? Come on, let the redeemed of the Lord,

468
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Speaker 3: So give him.

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Speaker 1: A shot of praise today. If you're grateful to God, you.

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Speaker 3: Gotta be careful with discouragement.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be careful with seasons of frustration.

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Speaker 3: Because what I noticed about God, God loves to take.

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Speaker 1: Us along the long way. He loves to take us

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Speaker 1: on the path of much resistance. He loves to develop

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Speaker 1: his character. Let me preach to somebody. God loves you

476
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Speaker 1: just the way you are. He just loves you way

477
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Speaker 1: too much to leave you that way.

478
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Speaker 3: God's working something inside of you. God's developing something that's lacking.

479
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Speaker 3: God's straining you, fir Us, come on, clap and praise

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Speaker 3: him today.

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Speaker 1: God's doing something, and.

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Speaker 3: He who has begun a good work will be faithful

483
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Speaker 3: to complete it. You want to know what's crazy about

484
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Speaker 3: the story in numbers twenty one, they were fresh off

485
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Speaker 3: of victory.

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Speaker 1: They were fresh off of w.

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Speaker 3: They had just had a win by taking out one

488
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Speaker 3: of the kings, and yet there was frustration.

489
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Speaker 1: Because you saw a.

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Speaker 3: Win last year doesn't mean you're gonna get an automatic

491
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Speaker 3: victory this year.

492
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Speaker 1: You gotta be patient with the Lord.

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Speaker 3: You gotta trust God's perfect timing. God is in control,

494
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Speaker 3: seated on the throne. And if God before you, who

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Speaker 3: can be against you, give him a praise. And so

496
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Speaker 3: and so the soul of the people became very discouraged.

497
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Speaker 3: And they're so discouraged that the result of the discouragement.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you do when you're discouraged. I

499
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Speaker 3: usually go to McDonald's for mcflurry's and so, but what

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Speaker 3: they did. What they did was they complained against God,

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Speaker 3: and they complained against Moses because a lot of times,

502
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Speaker 3: what usually all that energy will result in taking it

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Speaker 3: out on your leaders, my good shepherd and the shepherd that.

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Speaker 1: God's placed over me.

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Speaker 3: And I'm just I'm just asking you, when you're discouraged,

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Speaker 3: run to the house of God. When you're discouraged, get

507
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Speaker 3: around somebody that will refresh you and lay hands on

508
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Speaker 3: you and pray for you. As iron sharpens iron, so

509
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Speaker 3: one man sharpens another.

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Speaker 1: Come on, I got to get around the people of God.

511
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Speaker 1: I got to get around some worshipers.

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Speaker 3: Anybody grateful for your godly friends today, come on, clap

513
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Speaker 3: and thank God for the ones that I.

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Speaker 1: Pray for you.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to this man of God recently and

516
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Speaker 3: we laid hands and prayed for him, and he said,

517
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Speaker 3: you don't know how long I've longed.

518
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Speaker 1: For somebody to pray for me. Get you some friends

519
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Speaker 1: that you know.

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Speaker 3: I don't like when people apologize, like, hey, you know,

521
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Speaker 3: I just I hate to be spiritual, but can I

522
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Speaker 3: pray for you?

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Speaker 1: It's like, yes, you could pray for me. We're going

524
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Speaker 1: through hell on earth.

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Speaker 3: We need somebody to lay hands and PROPHESI and tell

526
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Speaker 3: me that God has for mea with me.

527
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Speaker 1: And the soul of the people became.

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Speaker 3: Very discouraged, and they started to speak against God and Moses.

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Speaker 3: And as they're speaking against God and Moses, the Lord

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Speaker 3: sent some snakes. I don't know how you feel about snakes,

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Speaker 3: but they're my biggest fear. Some are afraid of spiders,

532
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Speaker 3: some are afraid of the dark, some are afraid of

533
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Speaker 3: close talkers, some are afraid of bad breath. I'm afraid

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Speaker 3: of snakes. I don't care if they're on the ground

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Speaker 3: or in the plane. I'm afraid of snakes. And the

536
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Speaker 3: Lord sends snakes to bite them, and all of a

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Speaker 3: sudden they're dealing with a snake bite. And as they're

538
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Speaker 3: dealing with a snake bite, they realize, oh no, we.

539
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Speaker 1: Done messed up.

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Speaker 3: And so they come back to Moses and they say, Moses,

541
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Speaker 3: we have sinned against you and against God. Please forgive

542
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Speaker 3: us right down number three today. Sometimes God will deal

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Speaker 3: with your confession. I've got to confess my sins. I've

544
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Speaker 3: got to listen. If you can name it, God can

545
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Speaker 3: heal it. But until you can come clean about that

546
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Speaker 3: thing that you're dealing with and till you can be

547
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Speaker 3: open about that struggle that you've been going through.

548
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Speaker 1: How could God touch what you're not willing to reveal?

549
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Speaker 3: The Bible says the man that conceals his sin, we

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Speaker 3: will not prosper.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love what the Bible says in Psalm fifty.

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Speaker 3: One, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is

553
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Speaker 3: always before me against you, and you alone? Have I

554
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Speaker 3: sin and done this evil in your sight? What about

555
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Speaker 3: first John one to nine, If we confess our sins,

556
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Speaker 3: he is faithful and just to forgive us.

557
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Speaker 1: Of our sins and to cleanse.

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Speaker 3: Us from all Was that word right there unrighteousness?

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Speaker 1: If I want to put an emphasis.

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Speaker 3: Right there on the word if if we confess our sins,

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Speaker 3: God is faithful and just to forgive us of our

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Speaker 3: sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I like

563
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Speaker 3: this thing. Confession. We've got to confess. You know where

564
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Speaker 3: confession comes from. Conviction leads to confession when you feel

565
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Speaker 3: the conviction of God. These guys looked at these snake bities.

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Speaker 3: They said, oh no, we didn't. It's one thing to

567
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Speaker 3: have a mosquito bite. God's messing with you when you

568
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Speaker 3: get a snake bite, and they say, we need to

569
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Speaker 3: confess our sin. We need to be honest about our transgressions.

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Speaker 3: You are only as sick as your secrets. Your authority

571
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Speaker 3: is in your authenticity. And when you get real with God,

572
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Speaker 3: God already saw it.

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Speaker 1: God already knows about it.

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Speaker 3: God never looks away when you and I make mistakes.

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Speaker 3: His face is set a flint. And when you feel

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Speaker 3: the conviction of the Holy Spirit, anybody thankful today for

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Speaker 3: the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Conviction shows me you're alive.

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Speaker 3: Conviction shows me God's still working with you. Remember, you

579
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Speaker 3: gotta be careful with conviction, because if you do something once,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna feel bad. But if you don't talk about it,

581
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Speaker 3: do it again, you're gonna feel kind of bad. You

582
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Speaker 3: do it a third time, you ain't gonna feel nothing.

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Speaker 3: What keeps your conviction is your confession. When I come

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Speaker 3: before the Lord and I say, Lord, i've sin and

585
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Speaker 3: fallen short of the glory of God. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: the Blood of Jesus, Thank you for the Cross of Christ.

587
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Speaker 3: Thank you for a new beginning and a second chance.

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Speaker 3: Think you that you always make a way for me

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Speaker 3: to come back to your house. Come on clap and

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Speaker 3: give God praise if you believe that he's the God

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Speaker 3: of second.

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Speaker 1: Third, fourth, fifth, Come on clap.

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Speaker 3: If you believe he's the God of second.

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Speaker 1: Chances today.

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Speaker 3: And I want to encourage you to get good at confession,

596
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Speaker 3: get good at naming the thing that could have power

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Speaker 3: or stronghold over you. But the moment you confess the blood,

598
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Speaker 3: the moment you confess it to God, it loses all

599
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Speaker 3: his sting and he loses all his power.

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Speaker 1: If you can name it, God can heal it.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget. There's this pastor that I really love

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Speaker 3: and respect. He's going to be with the Lord now.

603
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Speaker 1: But he's just a.

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Speaker 3: Real righteous, holy, powerful man of God. And he tells

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Speaker 3: this story that one time, early in the morning, he

606
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Speaker 3: woke up and he called like his second in command,

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Speaker 3: kind of right hand pastor.

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Speaker 1: Early in the morning. I said, there's been an incident.

609
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Speaker 3: I need you to get over to my house immediately.

610
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Speaker 3: Something's happened, something bad. And so the associate pastor got

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Speaker 3: in the car and he drove as fast as he

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Speaker 3: could in the pastor's house and he's thinking in his head,

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Speaker 3: what happened.

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Speaker 1: What did he do? What went on? Is it the kids?

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Speaker 1: Is the what happened?

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Speaker 3: And he gets to the pastor's house early in the

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Speaker 3: morning and the pastor opens the front door and he's

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Speaker 3: in his robe and he says, please come in, and

619
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Speaker 3: he's got community out. He said, you need to serve

620
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Speaker 3: communion to me and you need to pray for me.

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Speaker 1: I've sinned. And the associate pastors thinking, oh no, we

622
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Speaker 1: lost the church. Oh no, what did you do? Oh

623
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Speaker 1: my gosh, this is terrible. Oh no.

624
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Speaker 3: He's like, yes, Pastor, of course, and he said, and

625
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Speaker 3: the Pastor's really serious and he goes, last night, that

626
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Speaker 3: made a mistake.

627
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Speaker 1: Can I send I ate Orioles? And the associate pastors

628
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Speaker 1: like Jus.

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Speaker 3: He's like, but I made a vow to the Lord

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Speaker 3: years ago that I would never have another OREO.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking, that's a vow I ain't never making.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus name.

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Speaker 3: That's got between you and the Holy ghost. I ain't

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Speaker 3: touching that one. You can man you on another level,

635
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Speaker 3: man of God.

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Speaker 6: But can you hear the fear of the Lord? Can

637
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Speaker 6: you hear the closeness to Jesus? Serve me communion?

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Speaker 3: And I did it last night, So I'm confessing the

639
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 3: next morning, I have sinned against the Lord.

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Speaker 1: I made a vow.

641
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Speaker 3: I've got a fulfill a vow. I want you to

642
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 3: be quick with your confession. Don't hold off for six

643
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Speaker 3: months or nine months. The Bible says, repent therefore and

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Speaker 3: be converted, that your sins may be washed away, and

645
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 3: times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord.

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Speaker 3: When you confess the cross and confess the blood of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing you've done, there's nothing you've touched. There's no

648
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Speaker 3: place that you've gone that My God can't heal. My

649
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 3: God can't forgive, My God can't deliver anybody thankful today

650
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 3: for the grace of Jesus. So he deals with my

651
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 3: faith in God's timing. He deals with my discouragement. He

652
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 3: deals with my confession, and then I love.

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Speaker 1: This last one. He deals right down the last one.

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Speaker 1: He deals with my obedience.

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Speaker 3: So the Lord says to Moses, Moses, get a fiery snake, and.

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Speaker 1: I want you to put it on a pole, and I.

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Speaker 3: Want you to lift it up high in anybody that

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Speaker 3: looks at this fiery serpent, if.

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Speaker 1: They look, they will be healed.

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Speaker 3: All throughout the scriptures, God asks people to do stuff

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Speaker 3: that are not conventional, but it will unlock their mid Oh,

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Speaker 3: come on, do you remember when Joshua had to walk

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Speaker 3: around Jericho seven times? Do you remember when that man

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Speaker 3: had to dip into the water seven times? Do you

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Speaker 3: remember when the man with the withered hand had to

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Speaker 3: stretch out his hand? Do you remember when the widow

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Speaker 3: had to make the room for the prophet? Do you

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Speaker 3: remember when Abraham had to leave his land?

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Speaker 1: Do you remember when? Come on?

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Speaker 3: Everybody through the Bible had to do something to unlock.

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Speaker 1: The miracle of God. It all happened through obedience.

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Speaker 3: And the Bible says in Philippians chapter two, verse eight,

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Speaker 3: in Jesus being found in appearance as a man, he

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Speaker 3: humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death,

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Speaker 3: even death.

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Speaker 1: Of the cross.

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Speaker 3: Jesus himself had to humble himself and become obedient, even

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Speaker 3: to the point of death and death on the cross.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 3: One of the things I love about God is that

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Speaker 3: this is a foreshadow. This is a type cast of

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Speaker 3: what's to come. See here in the Old Testament they

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Speaker 3: lifted up a snake, and the Bible says that if

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Speaker 3: you looked, you would live. But In the New Testament,

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Speaker 3: we lift up the son of Man. His name is Jesus,

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Speaker 3: And if you believe, you shall live.

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Speaker 1: In the Old.

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Speaker 3: Testament, their cure represented their curse. But in the New Testament,

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Speaker 3: Jesus became the curse for us, and he is.

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Speaker 1: Now lifted above all names.

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Speaker 3: Anybody thankful today for the grace that's found in Jesus Christ, Oh,

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Speaker 3: come on, clap and give him a praise today.

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Speaker 1: John chapter three, verse thirteen.

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Speaker 3: And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,

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Speaker 3: even so must the son of Man be lifted up,

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Speaker 3: that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have

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Speaker 3: eternal life. In the Old Testament, it's look and live.

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Speaker 3: In the New Testament, it's believe in live.

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Speaker 1: But in both cases I'm gonna obey. I've got to

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Speaker 1: do what God.

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Speaker 3: Said to unlock the miracle of salvation, to unlock the

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Speaker 3: miracle of God's best. And I'll just tell you the

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Speaker 3: Bible says God takes not delight in sacrifice.

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Speaker 7: As much as God loves obedience, God is attracted to

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Speaker 7: your obedience. And sometimes God doesn't give you something new

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Speaker 7: to do until you go back and do the last

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Speaker 7: thing He told you to do, And I wonder how's

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Speaker 7: your obedience, Because obedience preceedes blessing. Obedience unlocks miracles when

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Speaker 7: you obey the voice of.

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Speaker 3: God, when you do what God tells you to do.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you nothing will unlock the Kingdom of God

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Speaker 3: in your life like obeying the voice of the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Jesus said my voice. My sheep will.

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Speaker 1: Recognize a stranger's voice.

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Speaker 3: They will not follow anybody. Believe today that God's got

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Speaker 3: a plan for your life. God's got something for you

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Speaker 3: to do. There's a will of God for your There's

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Speaker 3: a will of God for all of us.

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Speaker 1: There's a will of God for you. And you gotta obey.

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Speaker 3: You gotta trust and obey, for there's no other way.

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Speaker 3: I gotta obey God. I gotta say, God, if you

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Speaker 3: want to take me along the long road, if you

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Speaker 3: want it to take as long as the four or

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Speaker 3: five takes to get to eat them, your will above

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Speaker 3: my will.

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Speaker 1: Not my will be done, but your will.

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Speaker 3: If you want to take me along the way, help

728
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Speaker 3: me to decrease so that you can increase.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, help me to obey at every turn.

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Speaker 3: Help me to obey in every season unless I grow discouraged,

731
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Speaker 3: and I start to complain these kids, this spouse.

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Speaker 1: Some of you today.

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Speaker 3: You don't need a new spouse, You need a new perspective.

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Speaker 3: You need to see this person as the miracle that God.

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Speaker 1: Come on, clap if you believe it.

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Speaker 3: Married people, I gotta see you the way God has

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Speaker 3: called me to see you.

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Speaker 1: I gotta talk to you the way God has called

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Speaker 1: me to talk to you. I gotta get all that discouragement.

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Speaker 3: I gotta get all that frustration, and I gotta turn

741
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Speaker 3: it into praise. And there are some things I gotta confess.

742
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Speaker 3: I gotta confess that I am a sinner in need

743
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Speaker 3: of grace. But I confess that you love me and

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Speaker 3: that you're for me, and that you're with me. And

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Speaker 3: I'll obey you no matter what the cost. I'll obey you,

746
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Speaker 3: no matter what you tell me to do. You just

747
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Speaker 3: think about the youth ministry of the Israelites at the time.

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Speaker 1: No, mom and dad likes Son. I noticed snake, big you,

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Speaker 1: But I need you to trust me. Here we're gonna

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Speaker 1: lift it up.

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Speaker 3: I want you to stare at it, son, kids like

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Speaker 3: I'm not looking at the.

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Speaker 1: Thing that just hurt me.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, sun yet you have to owe, because if

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Speaker 3: you obey, you're gonna live. If you obey, you're gonna flourish.

756
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Speaker 3: And I just want to just tell you about God.

757
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Speaker 3: God's into your life. God's gonna ask some things of you.

758
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Speaker 3: The Bible says, the steps of the righteous are ordered

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Speaker 3: by the Lord. God's gotta plan for your life. No

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Speaker 3: eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and no

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Speaker 3: mind can imagine the things that God has in stored

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Speaker 3: for those who love Him and are called according to

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Speaker 3: His purpose.

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Speaker 1: God's got a plan for your life, and We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to obey.

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Speaker 3: Anybody want God's best for your family, anybody want God's

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Speaker 3: best for your life, Come on, clap.

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Speaker 1: And give and pray. You're gonna have to obey.

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Speaker 3: It's talking to a friend the other day. Let's being

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Speaker 3: the great church. Things are going off. It's going like crazy,

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Speaker 3: tons of people. The people are coming, the money is not.

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Speaker 3: And he felt like the Lord told him, I want

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Speaker 3: you to.

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Speaker 1: Fast and pray for the finances of the church.

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Speaker 3: I felt like the Lord told him, fast and pray

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Speaker 3: for the finances of this church.

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Speaker 1: He said, if the Lord told me to do it,

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Speaker 1: I gotta do it. So he went on a fast, and.

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Speaker 3: He started to pray, And when he finished the fast

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Speaker 3: on the last day, his phone rang and there was

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Speaker 3: a man that he hadn't spoke to in nine years.

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Speaker 3: And the man on the other line said, it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: I know we haven't spoken in nine years. But this

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Speaker 3: morning the Lord woke me up and showed me your face.

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Speaker 3: And the Lord spoke to my heart and told me

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Speaker 3: to wire you two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to

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Speaker 3: your church.

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Speaker 1: Oh, come on, clap if you believe it today.

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Speaker 3: Clap if you believe that obedience will unlock something.

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Speaker 5: Clap.

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Speaker 3: If you believe that God's ways are better than.

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Speaker 1: Your ways, come on, clap.

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Speaker 3: If you belie if he knows the end from the beginning,

794
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Speaker 3: wonder you give God praise if He's taken you along

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Speaker 3: the long way.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait on you. I'm gonna worship you.

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Speaker 3: In the midnight hour, even when I don't feel like it,

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Speaker 3: even when it doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: I will not be discouraged.

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Speaker 3: I will lift up my hands and your sectuary because.

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Speaker 1: Your love is better than life.

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Speaker 3: I confess the blood, I confess them.

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Speaker 1: Oh, come on, life, if you believe it, and I

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Speaker 1: will pay the Lord. I will oh pay God.

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Speaker 3: Jesus humbled himself to the point of death on the cross.

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Speaker 3: That's why God exalted him and gave him the name

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Speaker 3: that is above every name. Oh, come on, if you

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Speaker 3: believe it today, let's worship our King. Let's give our

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Speaker 3: God praise. Come on this, worship God together today. Hallelujah.

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Speaker 8: Give me wanna.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna lift it up today.

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Speaker 8: I'm speak, I'm listening. I'm come on, lit it up.

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Speaker 5: Allelujah.

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Speaker 8: Say you have.

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Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, one more day.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Want to just put your hands

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Speaker 3: out in front of you.

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Speaker 1: Thank God for the way that he's developing you. Thank

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Speaker 1: God today for the path that he's got you on.

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Speaker 1: Thank God for the long road.

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Speaker 3: Just thank God right now for his sovereignty. Thank God

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Speaker 3: for his shepherding. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall

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Speaker 3: not want. Just give him a praise today in your

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Speaker 3: heart for the goodness of God. Even if you take

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Speaker 3: me along the long path, even if it takes longer than.

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Speaker 1: I ever expected, I'll worship you. I'll wait on you.

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Speaker 3: For those that wait on the Lord will renew their

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Speaker 3: strength Today I'm not in a hurry because you're not

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Speaker 3: in a hurry. You're the author of my salvation. You

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Speaker 3: know the beginning from the end. You're the outfit the

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Speaker 3: old me.

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Speaker 1: God.

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Speaker 3: I've placed my trust in you today. Forgive me for

834
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 3: my discouragement. Forgive me for setting false expectations.

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Speaker 1: Release me.

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Speaker 3: I release gratitude in this house today. If you're thankful

837
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Speaker 3: the God just slipped up a hand. We release our gratitude.

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Speaker 3: We thank the Lord. Bless the Lord.

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Speaker 5: Bless the Lord and all.

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Speaker 1: That is with in me. At all times, I will

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Speaker 1: praise you. Come on, I will thank you without seizing.

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Speaker 3: Make me a worshiper, Make me a true worshiper that

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Speaker 3: will worship you in.

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Speaker 1: Spirit and in truth. I thank you God.

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Speaker 3: I praise you Lord that you put on a garment

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Speaker 3: of praise for the spirit of despair, that you're trading

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Speaker 3: me beauty for ashes. I thank you for the oil

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Speaker 3: and joy that's landing on my house. I'm thank you

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Speaker 3: that new songs of joy, new psalms of praise and

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Speaker 3: deliverance are coming to my house.

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Speaker 5: I confess my sin.

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Speaker 1: I will not hide. Where can I go from your presence?

853
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 1: Where can I hide from.

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00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 3: You, even if I try to make my pad in

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Speaker 3: the depths of shee Old, You're there.

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Speaker 1: I think you that your eye.

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Speaker 3: Is upon your sprow, and I've found my obedience.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming back to the heart of worship. I'm coming

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Speaker 1: back to living for Jesus.

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Speaker 3: I'm grunning back like the prodigal son. Come on, if

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Speaker 3: you believe it, today lives your voice, lives.

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Speaker 9: Your head asked, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Speaker 1: You mean everything to me.

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Speaker 5: I really want a patient a day. Hallelujah.

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Speaker 1: Sing that again, one more day. Coming back, I'm coming back.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming back.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus,

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Speaker 3: Thank you Jesus. God has not quit on you. God's

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Speaker 3: not mad at you. He's madly in love with you.

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Speaker 3: God has no plan B for your life. Today, We're

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Speaker 3: coming back to the heart of worship.

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Speaker 1: This message came to me about a week ago. I

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Speaker 1: was driving in my car getting on the four or five, and.

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Speaker 3: I didn't have time to do my read through that morning,

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Speaker 3: so I pressed play.

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Speaker 1: And it started to read through.

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Speaker 3: Numbers twenty one, and I heard the word discouraged, and

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Speaker 3: I press pause, and I said, what it is you say, discouraged.

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Speaker 3: And I thought of you, and I thought about today,

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Speaker 3: and I thought there'd be somebody here today that just

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Speaker 3: needs to hear the word of the Lord. Say to

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Speaker 3: you that I'm the God that refreshes souls. I'm the

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Speaker 3: God that will make you lie down in green pastures.

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Speaker 3: I'm the God that will lead you side still waters.

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Speaker 1: You know what the gospel is. I was wrong. I'm forgiven.

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Speaker 1: I'm restored. I was wrong.

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Speaker 3: I'm forgiven, but thank God, I'm restored today.

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Speaker 1: You know what this story was.

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Speaker 3: I was wrong, but I'm forgiven and I'm walking out

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Speaker 3: of today restored.

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Speaker 1: Get your confidence back, elevation.

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Speaker 3: I can do all things through Who Christ. Through who

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Speaker 3: Christ that strengthens me. So, Lord, we thank you that

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Speaker 3: we're built up in our holy faith. We thank you

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Speaker 3: that you never looked away, because you're God of mercy

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Speaker 3: and compassion, and you sent solutions for the Israelites, and

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Speaker 3: you sent solution for us.

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Speaker 1: The son of Man, Jesus, the Living God. And we

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Speaker 1: believe on a day like.

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Speaker 3: Today, through his obedience, we can walk in victory. We

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Speaker 3: pray today that as we celebrate your goodness, we will

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Speaker 3: understand the grace that's found in Christ. We will believe

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Speaker 3: and live because of Jesus. And Jesus we celebrate your obedience.

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Speaker 3: Thank you that you obeyed the Father, even to the

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Speaker 3: point of death on the cross. Thank you that you

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Speaker 3: obeyed the Father and you chose us rather than yourself.

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Speaker 1: In the same way you obeyed the Father.

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Speaker 3: We want to obey the Father. We want to walk

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Speaker 3: with you and serve you. We love you more than

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Speaker 3: anything else. In Jesus' name, and everybody said together.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's clap and thank God one more time.

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Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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

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Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

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Speaker 10: You that we're able to reach people all around the world.

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Speaker 10: And if you want more information on how to be

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