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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life. Enjoy the message wherever you are today,

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Speaker 2: whether the weather is gloomy or not, we bring you

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Speaker 2: greetings in Jesus' name. Clap your hands. Elevation Church. Let's

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Speaker 2: welcome our efam.

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Speaker 3: Around the world, all over the globe.

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Speaker 1: The joy of the Lord is our strength. I was

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Speaker 1: glad when they sat unto me, let us go to

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Speaker 1: the House of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Well, sometimes you can't get to the house of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: The house of the Lord is coming to you today.

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Speaker 2: We speak God's peace, protection and favor over your life

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Speaker 2: on every location, whether in a prison or whether you

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Speaker 2: just slept in God can cover all of that. And

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Speaker 2: I believe that by the time we're done today, you're

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Speaker 2: gonna say it was no accident that my path converge.

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Speaker 2: This word is just for you. Clap your hands if

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Speaker 2: you believe God has a word for you today.

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Speaker 1: Hallelujah.

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Speaker 2: I am continuing in my series called ghost Writer. I

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Speaker 2: think that you are more excited than your shout just indicated.

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Speaker 1: I will say that again.

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Speaker 2: I am continuing in my series called Ghost Trouble. Come on, Graham,

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Speaker 2: clap grama life good. We are in Acts chapter two,

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Speaker 2: verse one, and I'm gonna read eighteen verses. I know

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Speaker 2: you didn't read your Bible all week, so I got

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Speaker 2: to stack a few extra on for you. Take a

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Speaker 2: look at this scripture with me, from Acts chapter two,

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Speaker 2: verse one through eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if you would.

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Speaker 2: With me the crushing pressure on the disciples of Jesus

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Speaker 2: Christ as they wait for the Holy Spirit to be

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Speaker 2: poured out, which Jesus has promised them, but how many

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Speaker 2: not Just because Jesus promised it doesn't mean the process

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Speaker 2: of waiting for it gets any easier. In this predicament

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Speaker 2: that you find yourself in in this season of your life,

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Speaker 2: it's not really that you doubt God, is it. It's

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Speaker 2: that you doubt you? Can I hold out? Can I

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Speaker 2: be strong? Can I do what's required? And I guess

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Speaker 2: in a way that is doubting God because he made us.

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Speaker 2: And to doubt the product is to insult the manufacturer.

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Speaker 2: If God says you can make it. You can make it.

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Speaker 2: If God says you can do it, you can do it.

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Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean it's easy. So then the Lord

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Speaker 2: sends a word to confirm in those seasons for us,

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Speaker 2: and I believe He's going to do that for you today.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says in Acts, chapter two, verse one, when

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Speaker 2: the day of Pentecosts came, they were all together in

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Speaker 2: one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a

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Speaker 2: violent wind came from heaven and filled.

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Speaker 1: The whole house.

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Speaker 2: Last week I ended on that verse. I talked about

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Speaker 2: plot holes in our lives, things we don't understand, can't

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Speaker 2: make sense out of, and how God filled the hole.

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Speaker 2: But I used the word whole, wholi versus whole, and

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Speaker 2: how God has everything taken into account for your life. Now,

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Speaker 2: look at what the Holy Spirit did. He filled the

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Speaker 2: to be tongues of fire that separated and came to

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Speaker 2: rest on each of them. All of them were filled

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Speaker 2: with the Holy Spirit. That's what we want to We

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Speaker 2: want to be filled not with the foolish opinions of

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Speaker 2: only were they filled with the Holy Spirit, But they

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Speaker 2: began to in other tongues as the spirit enabled them.

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Speaker 2: Now there were staying in Jerusalem, God fearing Jews from

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Speaker 2: every nation under heaven. And when they heard this sound,

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Speaker 2: a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard

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Speaker 1: Utterly amazed, they asked, aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

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Speaker 2: Then? How is it that each of us here's them

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Speaker 2: in our native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

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Speaker 1: Y'all clap.

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Speaker 2: I worked hard on pronouncing those words all week, got

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Speaker 2: practice ship out loud about ten times. I did it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even have to speak in tongues.

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Speaker 2: I did it in English. We hear them decl clearing

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Speaker 2: the wonders of God in our own tongues. Now watch

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Speaker 2: this contradiction, Verse twelve. Amazed and perplexed. Amazed and perplexed,

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Speaker 2: It's like, God, I believe what you're doing, but I'm

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Speaker 2: still confused. That's how they felt, amazed and perplexed, really

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Speaker 2: got some in every crowd. Some however, made fun of

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Speaker 2: them and said, and they've had too much wine. You

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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So so.

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Speaker 2: You know how you do. Hey, anytime God is moving,

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Speaker 2: someone will be mocking. So if God is moving in

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Speaker 2: your life as a teen and your friends aren't inviting

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Speaker 2: you to all the parties and they're making fun of you,

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Speaker 2: oh you're that little Christian kid, You're that little Bible

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Speaker 2: tote kid, You're that little virgin girl. Absolutely God is

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Speaker 2: moving in my life and I'm getting ready for the

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Speaker 2: next season He's bringing me into and they're mocking. Will

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Speaker 2: never stop your God from moving in your life unless

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Speaker 2: you let it, because watch this verse fourteen. Then Peter

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Speaker 2: stood up with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed

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Speaker 2: the crowd, fellow Jews and all of you who live

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Speaker 2: in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you.

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Speaker 1: Let me break it down. You're talking about it.

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Speaker 2: But let me say something about it because I know

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Speaker 2: something about it. Listen carefully to what I say. These

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Speaker 2: people are not drunk as you suppose. It's only nine

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Speaker 2: in the morning. Theeter had jokes. Theeter had a great

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Speaker 2: opening line and rapport with this audience. Now if you

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Speaker 2: come back at nine o'clock to night, they might be drunk.

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Speaker 2: I can't speak, but it's too early for that.

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Speaker 1: It's only nine in the morning.

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Speaker 2: No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel

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Speaker 2: in the last days, God says, I will.

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Speaker 1: Pour out my spirit on all people.

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Speaker 2: Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will

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Speaker 2: see visions, Your old men will dream dreams. Even on

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Speaker 2: my servants, both men and women. I will pour out

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Speaker 2: my spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. Tell

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Speaker 2: your neighbor you will prophesy. Tell them man I prophesy

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Speaker 2: over your life. God is going to speak to you today.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Part three of Ghostwriter. The name of our

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Speaker 2: sermon this week is called source mais source material. Now

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Speaker 2: tell your neighbor on your way to the seat, like

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Speaker 2: the new kids on the block said, I got the

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Speaker 2: right stuff and be seated. Yeah, source material Week one,

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Speaker 2: page turner, Week two, plot hole Week three, Source material,

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Speaker 2: Bring me my screen. I feel like teaching, preaching, prophescien,

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Speaker 2: speaking in tongues, whatever it takes. You know, source material

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Speaker 2: doesn't sound very sexy as a title.

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Speaker 1: I understand page turner.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of like, oh yeah, new chapter, new boyfriend,

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Speaker 2: new neighborhood, new net worth, new zip code, new network.

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Speaker 2: My new network is my new net Worth. Put another

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Speaker 2: zero because it's a page turner. Open another chapter. It's

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Speaker 2: a page turner.

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Speaker 1: And then plot hole.

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Speaker 2: Once you found out what that was last week, you

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Speaker 2: were shouting about it because you were Sometimes what you

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Speaker 2: think is a plot hole is actually God setting up

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Speaker 2: a twist to take your life in a different direction.

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Speaker 2: This one source material, I need to break it down,

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Speaker 2: even though you know what it means basically. But how

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Speaker 2: about this, First of all, let me just write it.

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Speaker 2: And I do appreciate all of you who are praying

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Speaker 2: for me while I write on this screen, that God

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Speaker 2: would heal my handwriting. I read in the Bible where

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Speaker 2: Jesus healed blind eyes, but I don't know if he

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Speaker 2: ever healed anybody's handwriting. But I certainly need that. And

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Speaker 2: if you're listening on a podcast, I am writing the

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Speaker 2: word source material, and I spelled them Praise the Lord,

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Speaker 2: source material just put simply, well, let's read the definition,

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Speaker 2: and read the definition to you.

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Speaker 1: It is the.

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Speaker 2: Data, the documents, or the information source material. Yeah, let

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Speaker 1: It's the original data.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the word I needed. Original, the original data,

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Speaker 2: documents or records used as the basis for creating new work.

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Speaker 2: If you apply it across multiple disciplines, it would look

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Speaker 2: like this. If you are a journalist, your source material

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Speaker 2: should be first hand accounts, accurate, quote in context, facts, statistics,

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Speaker 2: because I felt like that was a little bit needlessly edgy.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about music. If you're a musician, you only

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Speaker 2: have so many notes to work with. For every song

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Speaker 2: it's just a bop on the radio, you get twelve notes.

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Speaker 1: Bach had twelve notes, Beethoven had twelve notes. What you

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Speaker 2: Twelve notes, and what you do with meter and rhythm

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Speaker 2: ingenuity and creativity, but you get twelve notes, and from

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Speaker 2: those twelve notes, millions of songs have been sung and written.

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Speaker 2: If you are a screenwriter trying to write a movie,

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Speaker 2: So a musician might take a sample and make a

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Speaker 1: I thought about using Barbara Kingsolver.

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Speaker 2: She wrote a book called Demon Copperhead, and she based

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Speaker 2: it on the Charles Dickens book David Copperfield, but she

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Speaker 2: reset that story in a modern context in Appalachia, and

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Speaker 2: so when she did it, it was a fresh story,

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Speaker 2: but it came from a classic source. This book that

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Speaker 2: two thousand and four, and it was a New York

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Speaker 2: Times bestseller in two thousand and seven. A twenty seven

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Speaker 2: he went on vacation in Mexico, and he needed something

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Speaker 2: to read because he really needed to disengage his mind

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Speaker 2: when I'm looking for something to disengage my mind. I

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Speaker 2: don't take a book this thick, but this is a

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Speaker 2: different kind of dude. He walked past it and bought it,

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Speaker 2: and he read it while he was on vacation. Don't

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Speaker 2: show him what book it is. I'm hiding that on purpose.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to help me, but I don't want to

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Speaker 2: reveal it yet because the fact of the matter is,

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I can't prove it. I don't have

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Speaker 2: any records of it. But this particular individual, he's the

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Speaker 2: same age.

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Speaker 1: That I am, and I've never met him. I respect him.

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Speaker 2: The year two thousand and seven, we were both twenty

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Speaker 2: that year, at least once, and this book was such

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Speaker 2: a big deal that I'm sure I walked by this book.

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Speaker 1: How are we supposed to take the Gospel.

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Speaker 2: To the ends of the earth. For one thing, we

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Speaker 2: don't have a car, let alone a plane. How are

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Speaker 2: we supposed to speak their language when we get there?

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Speaker 1: But as he.

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Speaker 2: Does so many times in our life, God had the

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Speaker 2: answer on the way before they even formed.

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Speaker 1: The question to ask who is this?

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Speaker 2: For God has already dispatched the answer.

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Speaker 1: And there's no light yet, but.

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Speaker 2: He's already on the scene. And here's where it gets confusing.

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Speaker 2: When we go to our scripture. At first it looks

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Speaker 2: like maybe God isn't there. Look at this in Acts

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Speaker 2: chapter two. I don't always know why people shout about

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Speaker 2: stuff in the Bible that they shout about. When you

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Speaker 2: say the day of Pentecost came, that was a Jewish festival.

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Speaker 1: It was called the Festival of Weeks.

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Speaker 2: It was the end of the barley harvest and the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the wheat harvest, and so you had to

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Speaker 2: make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and they would usually see

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Speaker 2: about triple the population in the city, so every street

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Speaker 2: was crowded, and everybody's there. They're coming from all over

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Speaker 2: the world, those who honor and fear God, and they're

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Speaker 2: bringing their first fruits, offering to say, thank you, Lord

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Speaker 2: for this harvest. We believe you for the next. Everything

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Speaker 2: we have comes from your hand. And while they're celebrating

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Speaker 2: the harvest, they're waiting on one. They are waiting for

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit to be given so that they can

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Speaker 2: receive the harvest of souls that would reach to the

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Speaker 2: ends of the earth. And the Bible says when the

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Speaker 2: day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place,

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Speaker 2: and suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent

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Speaker 2: wind came.

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Speaker 1: And everybody, when you read that, they always like if

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Speaker 1: you read it in a church, everybody will always shout.

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Speaker 2: When you say suddenly, and they will shout about the

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Speaker 2: sound of a violent win. But let's take ourselves out

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Speaker 2: of just the fact that this sounds exciting. What is

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Speaker 2: a violent win when this is called a storm? If

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Speaker 2: you subtract all of the nice, oh, the sound suddenly

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Speaker 2: the sound of violent the sound of a violent wind.

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Speaker 2: That's not something that we usually shout about.

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Speaker 1: That's something that we usually close the shutters and try

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Speaker 1: to survive. And then look at the next thing that happened.

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Speaker 2: It said that the violent wind came from heaven and

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Speaker 2: filled the whole house where they were sitting.

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Speaker 1: And they saw verse three what seemed to be tongues

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Speaker 1: of fire.

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Speaker 2: And you say tongues of fire, and everybody will shout and.

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Speaker 1: Tongues of fire? Can you ever put your tongue on

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Speaker 1: the stove? Have you ever even eaten the halapeno pepper?

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Speaker 1: Why would you shout about that? A fire will burn you.

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Speaker 2: So now we shout about the storm, and we shout

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Speaker 2: about the fire.

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Speaker 1: But let's be honest. If a wind is un controlled.

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Speaker 2: It can kill you. A wind is a blessing if

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Speaker 2: it's in the right amount and you have a sail.

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Speaker 2: But a wind can also take you off course. A

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Speaker 2: wind can also create a hurricane. A wind can also

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Speaker 2: knock you on your back. A wind can destroy, so

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Speaker 2: can a fire. A fire can sweep through everything that

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Speaker 2: you love. A fire can reduce to ruppish an entire village,

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Speaker 2: an entire city. We've seen this happen in our time.

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Speaker 2: So why are we shouting about a storm? Why are

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Speaker 2: we shouting about a fire? I'll show you why. This

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Speaker 2: is why you came to church. We're not shouting about

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Speaker 2: what the wind was, We're shouting about where it came from,

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Speaker 2: because the Bible says that it came from heaven. So

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Speaker 2: one thing I know about my life, it's not what

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Speaker 2: I go through, it's where it came from that determines

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Speaker 2: the result it will have in my life. I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to say that the devil is not the source of

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Speaker 2: every storm we go through. I'm trying to say that

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Speaker 2: some fires that we walk through were not sent by

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Speaker 2: the enemy to destroy us. They were sent by the

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Speaker 2: Lord to refine us. So now I need to know

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Speaker 2: a question. The storm in your emotions, the storm in

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Speaker 2: your household, the storm that you're going through in your industry,

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Speaker 2: the storm that you're going through as you sort these

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Speaker 2: things out that are happening at this age.

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Speaker 1: Of your life, where did it come from?

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Speaker 2: Did it come from the enemy to destroy you or

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Speaker 2: did it come from the Lord to develop you? Better question,

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Speaker 2: does it really even matter? Because if God is the source,

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Speaker 2: by the time the storm has to pass through his hand,

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Speaker 2: the storm that was sent to destroy you. I'll know

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Speaker 2: why I'm screaming the whole sermon. I'm just passionate about

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Speaker 2: what I say because I hear the sound and it

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Speaker 2: sounds like a storm. But it came from the Lord,

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Speaker 2: and it will not destroy me.

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Speaker 1: It will only develop me.

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Speaker 2: You feel that it came from heaven. Say that out loud,

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Speaker 2: it came from heaven. I just want us to read

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Speaker 2: the Bible like it's real. Here comes a violent win.

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Speaker 2: You're not shouting, you're ducking under stuff. Here come tongues

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Speaker 2: of fire, And the Bible doesn't say that it was

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Speaker 2: actual fire.

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Speaker 1: Watch this. Read it real slow.

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Speaker 2: It says it was to sound like the blowing of

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Speaker 2: a violent wind. It seemed to be tongues of fire.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't what it looked like. It wasn't what it

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Speaker 2: looked like. It wasn't what it looked like. I know

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Speaker 2: it looked like it was the end for you last year,

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Speaker 2: but it wasn't what it looked like. I know it

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Speaker 2: looked like the reason they pushed you away is because

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Speaker 2: you're no good, But it wasn't what it looked like. Ah,

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Speaker 2: tell your neighbor it wasn't what it looked like. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't what it looked like. It looked like a dead end,

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Speaker 2: but it was really a doorway because it wasn't what

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Speaker 2: it looked like. How many have a testimony it came

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Speaker 2: from heaven. It hurt like hell, but it came from heaven.

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Speaker 2: I hear the Holy Spirit blowing in my spirit today

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Speaker 2: telling me to tell you it wasn't what it looked like.

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Speaker 1: Looked like it would be the last time. But Doc's

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Speaker 1: got new wine.

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Speaker 3: Well for your mouse had well this atmosphere with Ray,

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Speaker 3: it wasn't what it looked like.

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Speaker 1: Never thought they had him, put him in the brave.

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Speaker 1: Looked like he was a criminal, they're to stay. But

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Speaker 1: it wasn't what it looked like.

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Speaker 4: Three days.

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Speaker 2: Don't let me preach on the holy ghosts. I'm telling

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Speaker 2: you right now, it wasn't what it looked like. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, sit down. Interesting the Bible said that it

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Speaker 2: filled the house where they were sitting, sitting sitting. Are

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Speaker 2: you sitting where you're supposed to be sitting? I don't

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Speaker 2: mean like right now in the church? Is usher told

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Speaker 2: me it's not my fault. Is he sitting where you're

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Speaker 2: supposed to be sitting. See, I think some of you,

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Speaker 2: m I don't mean, I don't mean to be confrontational theral,

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Speaker 2: I think some of you aren't getting what you should

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Speaker 2: be getting because you're not sitting.

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Speaker 1: Where you should be sitting.

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Speaker 2: Okay, if the disciples try to go in their own

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Speaker 2: strength and take the Gospel all through the Roman Empire,

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Speaker 2: what are the chances that it makes it to Valentine today?

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Speaker 2: What are the chances that it makes it to Winston Salem.

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Speaker 2: What are the chances it makes it to Gaston County?

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Speaker 2: What are the chances that it makes it to Zimbabwe?

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Speaker 2: What are the chances that it makes it to your room,

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Speaker 2: your hospital room right there? What are the chances that

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Speaker 2: we're still preaching about Jesus today if they tried.

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Speaker 1: To do it in their own strength.

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Speaker 2: Recently, in preaching, I had to adjust some things about

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Speaker 2: my style of preaching to sustain my ability to preach.

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Speaker 2: And one of the things that I decided I would do,

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Speaker 2: in addition to the way that I prepare and plan

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Speaker 2: and try to lean more into God and less into

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Speaker 2: this idea that I have to change someone's life when

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Speaker 2: I preach, and more that He is source, that he

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Speaker 2: is the source, and I am just a sail and

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Speaker 2: his is the wind. Even in raising your kids, you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes you have to realize that the reason you are

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Speaker 2: so stressed out as a parent is because you are

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Speaker 2: trying to fill a role in their life that you

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Speaker 2: are not supposed to fill. Yeah, and all the teenagers like,

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Speaker 2: thank you Jesus, preach Pastor Stephen, see thirteen year olds

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Speaker 2: waking up all around the church, tell them lea me alone. No, no, no.

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Speaker 2: You are supposed to be their guide, not their God.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes we get confused about what we're supposed to do.

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Speaker 2: So I want to ask you, are you Are you weary?

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Speaker 2: Are you out of stamina? Are you out of strength?

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Speaker 2: Because you are asking God to support something that you're

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Speaker 2: not even supposed to be doing, of trying to make

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Speaker 2: them what you think they need to be. Are you

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Speaker 2: minding your own business? Or do you keep borrowing drama

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Speaker 2: from social media trying to pray away stress that you

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Speaker 2: ingested in your own system by mindless scrolling. You weren't

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Speaker 2: supposed to be scrolling at eleven thirty pm.

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Speaker 1: You were supposed to be sleeping.

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Speaker 2: Then you saw something you weren't supposed to be seeing.

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Speaker 2: Because you were scrolling on something when you should have

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Speaker 2: been sleeping, and you were sitting somewhere that you shouldn't

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Speaker 2: have been sitting, and now you're not getting what you

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Speaker 2: could be getting because you're sitting where Anyway, it's half

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Speaker 2: holygoes half doctor SEUs. Today.

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Speaker 1: But I went to see a guy.

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Speaker 2: I said, one thing I need to work on is

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Speaker 2: my voice, because I would preach a lot of times

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Speaker 2: and I would feel very horse after I preached. And

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Speaker 2: I thought the guy he was a voice coach. His

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Speaker 2: name is Roger Love. I thought he would say stop

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Speaker 2: screaming so much. So I came to him and I said,

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Speaker 2: I know you're gonna tell me two things to do,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not going to do either one of them.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna say, stop drinking diet coke.

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Speaker 1: That's off the table. The Lord. The Lord and I

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Speaker 1: have an arrangement that is not my Isaac.

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Speaker 2: And number two, number two, you're gonna tell me to

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Speaker 2: stop screaming and I'm not doing either. And he said,

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Speaker 2: I don't need to drink diet coke. It's gonna kill you.

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Speaker 2: But it's not what's messing up your voice. I said,

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Speaker 2: it's not. I thought you were gonna tell me the

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Speaker 2: chemicals came from a conspiracy in China. They're trying to

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Speaker 2: He said, no, no, no, He said, you can drink

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Speaker 2: that coke and you can scream all you want. He said,

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to stop screaming. I want you

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Speaker 2: to start breathing. Now. This guy's expensive. I said, I

636
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Speaker 2: paid you how much for you to tell me to breathe?

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Speaker 2: He said, yeah, no, wonder your voice hurts. I had

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Speaker 2: had a thing in my throat for about six months

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Speaker 2: and I couldn't make it go away. And I said,

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Speaker 2: I know that when you screamed is supposed to her.

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Speaker 2: He said, it's not supposed to hurt. Tell your neighbor,

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Speaker 2: it's not supposed to hurt. Yeah, we go through things,

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Speaker 2: but I was sustaining damage that I didn't need to

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Speaker 2: sustain because of something as simple as I wasn't breathing.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear how much I just screamed at you?

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Speaker 1: And my voice.

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Speaker 2: Still feels strong because he taught me, I can scream

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Speaker 2: if I breathe. If I breathe, if I breathe, I

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Speaker 2: can make the sound I need to make.

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Speaker 1: Whether I should scream or not, that's your business.

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Speaker 2: But I do have a scripture, Acts Chapter two, verse fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Then Peter put the scripture up, stood.

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Speaker 1: Up with the eleven.

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Speaker 2: Raised his voice of a scripture.

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Speaker 1: I can screen bar.

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Speaker 2: He didn't say a soft He said it from a

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Speaker 2: deep place.

658
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Speaker 1: And it says he stood up, and it says he

659
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Speaker 1: raised his voice.

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Speaker 2: But I have been learning that the only way you

661
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Speaker 2: can really make a volume is if you take a breath.

662
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Speaker 2: The Bible says he raised his voice. What the Bible

663
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Speaker 2: does not say is that he took a deep breath. However,

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Speaker 2: we have evidence that he took a deep breath before

665
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Speaker 2: he raised his voice, because that day, off of one sermon,

666
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Speaker 2: he preached about the crucifixion of Jesus, he preached about

667
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Speaker 2: the resurrection of Jesus, he preached about the judgment of Jesus.

668
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Speaker 1: He preached about the need.

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Speaker 2: For repentance and baptism and confection of sin. And he

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Speaker 2: pierced their heart and three thousand of them became believers

671
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Speaker 2: that day. There were no microphones, there was no public

672
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Speaker 2: address system. How did his voice get all the way

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Speaker 2: from here to three thousand people.

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Speaker 1: He had to breathe. He had to breathe, And.

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Speaker 2: I want to give you a Holy ghost voice lesson

676
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 2: today for your life.

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00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 1: You got to breathe. You're not breathing.

678
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: Is some things that are hurting in your life that

679
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 2: aren't supposed to be hurting, but you're not breathing.

680
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Speaker 1: If you would get a breath from Heaven before you.

681
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 2: Would take that next step, you would feel the wind

682
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Speaker 2: of God in.

683
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: Your sel and you wouldn't have to row your boat alone.

684
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 1: You would have something blow in.

685
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 2: Your sales that would help you get where you're trying

686
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Speaker 2: to go. But you hadn't been breathing. You've been running

687
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: from one appointment to another. You've been running from one

688
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 2: stressful situation to another. You've been running from one hypothetical

689
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 2: scenario to another, and you haven't been breathing. You haven't

690
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 2: stopped lately and said, God, I need you for this. God,

691
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Speaker 2: show me what you have called me to do. And

692
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Speaker 2: if you are trying to do something in your strength

693
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Speaker 2: that you are not supposed to do in God's sovereignty,

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Speaker 2: he will not support it. The Holy Spirit will only

695
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 2: support what the voice of the Lord orders. That means

696
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: God will not help you be more like the person

697
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 2: you're comparing yourself to. God will not help you reach

698
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 2: the goal of somebody who has different gifts than you.

699
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Speaker 2: They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire, They

700
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 2: heard what sounded like a rushing wind. Part of my

701
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: wisdom is knowing what I'm not supposed to do, so

702
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Speaker 2: that i am not expecting God to support me in

703
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Speaker 2: something I'm not even supposed to be doing.

704
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be.

705
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 2: Hanging around them, so you will not have the strength

706
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 2: to avoid the temptation if you keep spending the majority

707
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 2: of your time with them, because you are not supposed

708
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: to have them as your inner circle. I am going

709
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,479
Speaker 2: to preach this word to help somebody so you don't

710
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: hurt where you're not supposed to hurt, because you are

711
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: sitting where you are not supposed to sit. This is

712
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 2: an amazing revelation for us that the way that the

713
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 2: Spirit of God moved into disciples, the way that the

714
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Speaker 2: Gospel of Jesus Christ reached the end of the world,

715
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Speaker 2: the end of the earth, is all through this one

716
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 2: little phrase. It says the Spirit enabled them. That means

717
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 2: they reason the same spirit that was hovering over the

718
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 2: waters in Genesis One, that they breathe in the same

719
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: spirit that was hovering over the creation when it was

720
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Speaker 2: still chaos, and that same spirit does not hover over

721
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Speaker 2: your life today. It lives within your very soul. Breathe

722
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 2: it in. Breathe it in. Stop arguing with people, and

723
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 2: breathe God in. You know, I feel like our whole

724
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: problem is sometimes we try to ask the right question,

725
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 2: but we ask to the wrong crowd. The Bible says

726
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 2: there were people staying under heaven from every nation. If

727
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 2: you think I'm pronouncing all of those names again, you're crazy.

728
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 2: But the Bible says that they were amazed and perplexed

729
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 2: and all of the people.

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Speaker 1: Now imagine this. They are hearing the Gospel in their

731
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Speaker 1: own language.

732
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Speaker 2: When you talk about tongues in church, there's different things

733
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 2: that can mean. One is a prayer language that is

734
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 2: known to God but unknown by others, and spoken by

735
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: the person that speaking, And that is real. This is

736
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 2: not that they were speaking in one language and the

737
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 2: people were hearing in another. It was known to the

738
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Speaker 2: listeners even though it was not previously known to the speakers,

739
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 2: So it was a miracle. How are we going to

740
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 2: get the Gospel to the ends of the earth and

741
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 2: we don't even speak the language?

742
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Speaker 1: The spirit will enable you.

743
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 2: How am I going to show up in that situation

744
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 2: and know what to do?

745
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: The Spirit will enable you.

746
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: How am I going to be a witness to Jesus

747
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 2: Christ when my life is such a mess. The Spirit

748
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 2: will enable you. God hovers over darkness. God feels emptiness.

749
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 2: God comes to people who are open and waiting and

750
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 2: ready and breathing and needing. The Spirit enabled them, And

751
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 2: the Bible says that as all of these different crowds

752
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 2: gathered around, amazed and perplexed, they asked, here's the mistake

753
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: one another that will always get you in trouble trying

754
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 2: to process your life with somebody that's at your same level.

755
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: That's why God gives you the gift.

756
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 2: Of his spirit. That's what Peter said. He stood up,

757
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: raised his voice. Let me circle that because I like that,

758
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 2: raised his voice and addressed the crowd. The answer was

759
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Speaker 2: not coming from the crowd. It had to be given

760
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 2: to the crowd. Peter raised his voice and said to

761
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 2: the crowd, fellow.

762
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Speaker 5: Juice, let me do it loud, fellow juice, let me

763
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Speaker 5: get deep breath, fellow juice, in all of you who

764
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 5: live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you Listen

765
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 5: carefully to what I say.

766
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: Stop asking one another.

767
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 2: Stop looking for solutions from people who don't know any

768
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: more more than you do about it. He raised his

769
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Speaker 2: voice addressed the crowd, said, all of you, listen to me.

770
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Speaker 2: These people are not drunk as you suppose. Oh I

771
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 2: love that phrase. As you suppose. Everybody say as you supposed,

772
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 2: Say it again, as you supposed.

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Speaker 1: Here's what happened.

774
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 2: The crowd saw this crazy thing happening, and they thought

775
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Speaker 2: they must be crazy, they must be drunk.

776
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Speaker 1: This is ridiculous, This makes no sense. What do you

777
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:30,720
Speaker 1: think they're doing. I think they're drunk.

778
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 2: What do you think they're doing?

779
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: I think they're crazy. What do you think they're doing?

780
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 2: And as they're passing this around all through the crowd,

781
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Speaker 2: they begin to support what they have already supposed. Have

782
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Speaker 2: you noticed this in your life that you support whatever

783
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Speaker 2: you've supposed. So if you supposed today that you came

784
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 2: to Elevation and you're like I heard as a call

785
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 2: because somebody told you it was a cult, and you

786
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,760
Speaker 2: come in here looking for a cult.

787
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: You know what, you will find evidence.

788
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Speaker 2: For the verdict that you already created because you thought

789
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: you were supposed to be the judge, and you're really

790
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 2: supposed to be a witness. Even if you suppose somebody

791
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: doesn't like you. I don't think they like me. You

792
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 2: will find every reason they don't. Did you see how

793
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,479
Speaker 2: they just looked at me? They smiled at you. Yeah,

794
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 2: but it wasn't a full smile. It was like a

795
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 2: three four smile. Do you see that three quarter smile?

796
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 2: Eighty percent at the most was I didn't see any teeth.

797
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 2: Did you see any teeth? They don't like me. I

798
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 2: told you they don't like me. I mean, we do

799
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 2: this all the time. We suppose and then we support.

800
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 2: I suppose that it's my destiny to be an addict.

801
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: So then I find the friends.

802
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 2: That will support what I suppose. I suppose that I'm

803
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 2: never going to get out of this cage. I'm never

804
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 2: going to break free, I suppose, and then.

805
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Speaker 1: So I don't see anything. What happens in your life

806
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: is you see.

807
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 2: Something, you think something, you think something, you think something,

808
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 2: you think something, and then you believe something, You believe something,

809
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 2: you become something.

810
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 1: I'll do it again. You see something, so then.

811
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Speaker 2: You think something, you think something, you think something, you

812
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 2: think something, so you believe something. And then you become

813
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 2: something and then you say see no, no, no, you

814
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 2: saw something, you thought something, you believe something, and then

815
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 2: you became something and then you said, see, I told

816
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 2: you that's how it was. No, no, no, You just

817
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 2: supposed and then support it. You supposed that nothing ever

818
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 2: goes your way. You supposed that God can't use someone

819
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Speaker 2: like you.

820
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: You suppose that it's too late. You supposed that you're

821
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 1: too young.

822
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, somebody else that's half your age already did it.

823
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 2: Somebody else that's twice your age is still doing it.

824
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 2: But you support what you suppose, and sometimes you.

825
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Speaker 1: Don't realize that.

826
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Speaker 2: Help me, Holy Spirit, that what you have supposed is

827
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Speaker 2: not coming from the right place.

828
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: It's not coming from God.

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Speaker 2: I studied it in the Greek because I really wanted

830
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Speaker 2: to understand.

831
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Speaker 1: What Peter said.

832
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Speaker 2: He said, these people are not drunk as you suppose.

833
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Speaker 2: The Greek word for suppose you ready for this?

834
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Speaker 1: Hoopolambano.

835
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Greek kind of week in elevation church.

836
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Speaker 1: H limbano. What does it mean? It means to take

837
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Speaker 1: up from below? Hoopo lombano. Everybody say hoopo lombano.

838
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 2: Put it in the comments I want to see who

839
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 2: spells at.

840
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: The worst hoopo limbono. I'm not writing that on the board.

841
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: Hoopo lombano.

842
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:16,439
Speaker 2: It means to.

843
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: Take from below.

844
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Speaker 2: You might recognize this verse because it is also in

845
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 2: Acts one nine.

846
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 1: Put Acts one nine on the screen. Can I teach

847
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: you a little while today? I'm almost done, but I

848
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: want to.

849
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Speaker 2: Give you this. He he's speaking to his disciples. He's

850
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 2: getting ready to leave the earth. He's getting ready to

851
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 2: send the spirit. And Jesus said to them that you

852
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 2: will be my witnesses. And he was taken up before

853
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: their very eyes. The word taken up hoopo limbano. The

854
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 2: word suppose, hoopo limbano, taken up. He was taken up

855
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: from below? Where did they get their opinions? Where did

856
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 2: they get the conclusions? Hoopo limbono? They took it up

857
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 2: from below? And Peter said, no, this is not a

858
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 2: hoopo limbano situation. This is not something that you can

859
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 2: take up from the bottom. No, this is what was spoken.

860
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 2: So here's the contradiction. I got what you suppose and

861
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: what was spoken. And what I want to know is

862
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 2: which one are you going to go with? In your

863
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 2: life for this season, what you took up from the

864
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 2: bottom or what came down from above. Some of the

865
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 2: stuff that you've been believing it does not have its

866
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 2: source in God.

867
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,479
Speaker 1: And if its source is not in.

868
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 2: God, it will sabotage you and it will lead you

869
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: to a conclusion that is absolutely unsustainable.

870
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Speaker 1: But this is not a take up from below moment

871
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 1: in your life.

872
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 2: This is a.

873
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: Come down from above moment.

874
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 2: Peter said, this is not a moment for you to

875
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 2: take up an assumption from below. This is a moment

876
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 2: for you to receive an assignment from on high. I

877
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 2: feel God saying you are looking up at the wrong thing.

878
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 2: You are looking around at the wrong thing for in

879
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 2: this season of your life. You cannot get it from below.

880
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: It must be given from above. Now, there were two

881
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 2: things present at the creation of the cosmos, the spirit

882
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 2: of God and the Word of God. That's the source material.

883
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 2: You have both of those things too. What will you

884
00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 2: do with it? What will you do with it? One

885
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,919
Speaker 2: person will take this word today that was given and say, God,

886
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 2: where have I been looking around? Where I need to

887
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 2: be looking up? What have I been looking up at?

888
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 2: And given my attention to that. Actually I should cast

889
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 2: under my feet and walk on over the top of

890
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 2: one person will take this word, put it on the shelf.

891
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 2: How did he create that from this?

892
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 4: He worked? He worked, he worked, he worked. This will

893
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 4: work in your life if you work it. How did

894
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 4: the gospel go from a small room and spread all

895
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 4: over the globe to you and I today?

896
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 2: The source material, the spirit of God, the source material,

897
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: the word of the God. Do you not realize we

898
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 2: have the same gospel. Do you not realize you have

899
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 2: been given the same gospel that broke chains off Paul

900
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 2: and Silas see.

901
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: The same gospel that the.

902
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 2: Ethiopian eunuch pulled over and stopped this chariot.

903
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: What are you doing with me?

904
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 2: Ah? I believe there is so much more inside of you.

905
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 2: And I hear a sound sounds like a violent wind.

906
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 2: I see what seems to be tongues of fire. I

907
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 2: hear the voice of the Lord speaking over your life today.

908
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 2: And God said, everyone standing, we will pray and seal

909
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 2: this word. Stop right where you are. Nobody moving out

910
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 2: of this room. Stay where you are. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

911
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 1: You hadn't been breathing. Baby, you can't run if you.

912
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 2: Don't breathe, you can't lead if you don't breathe.

913
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: You can't think if you don't breathe. Breathe, breathe.

914
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 2: Peter raised his voice. He breathed, the sound of the

915
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. That's the breadth of Almighty God coming to

916
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 2: fill your lungs, fill your life.

917
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: Breathe, baby, breed, breed, breathe, breathe.

918
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 2: That's the sound of the wind.

919
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: It's the spirit of God.

920
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 2: It's not a violent wind, it's a creative breath, and

921
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 2: it's coming to you right now. Lift your hands like

922
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,760
Speaker 2: their sails and receive it. I receive the Holy Spirit.

923
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 2: I receive a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit for

924
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 2: my life. I receive it. Tap into it. Speak to me, Lord,

925
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 2: I'm breathing. Oh, I'm breathing this week for me to

926
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,879
Speaker 2: have the Holy Spirit, for me to have the same

927
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,439
Speaker 2: stuff that created the world, and not worship God. I'm

928
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 2: breathing this thing in. I'm walking in this word. Peter

929
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 2: was able to walk on one word on the top

930
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 2: of a stormy sea. I can walk through the situation

931
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 2: in my life this week with one word from you,

932
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 2: Almighty God.

933
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 1: I worship you. Open your mind and tell him. I

934
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: worship you God. I worship you Lord. I worship the

935
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: one who is and was and is to come.

936
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 2: His name is Jesus.

937
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: He is the Almighty God.

938
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 2: He is the Ancient of days. I worship you, Lord.

939
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm not drunk, I'm not crazy. I just need you, Lord.

940
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: I worship you, Lord. I worship you Lord.

941
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 2: And Lord, Now is your wind, your fire? Come and

942
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 2: light us up again and fill our lungs with your praise.

943
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 2: We intend to accomplish every assignment that you've given us

944
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 2: for our lives this week.

945
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: No, we're not one of.

946
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 2: The twelve Disciples, but we are your children. I commission

947
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 2: these your children, by your grace, God, that from the

948
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 2: upper room of their waiting, they will see manifestations of

949
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 2: your glory in every area of their life. I believe

950
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 2: it because you've spoken it. We didn't come to church

951
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 2: to look around today. We came to look up and

952
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 2: look in and to praise you for who you are. Now,

953
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 2: every person who receives this word, clap your hands and

954
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 2: let the Lord know you're great.

955
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: It's about eyes closed.

956
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 2: When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together

957
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 2: in one place, and suddenly your life can change suddenly,

958
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 2: right now, there is someone in this room who needs

959
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 2: to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. It

960
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 2: is an amazing moment when you finally stop trying to

961
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:50,919
Speaker 2: do in your own strength what can only be done

962
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 2: by the spirit of God. And I want to invite

963
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 2: you right now to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord

964
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 2: and savior. Everybody in here needs to saying. We need

965
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 2: the grace of God. We need the forgiveness of our sin.

966
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 2: And today, if you will repent of your sin and

967
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 2: believe in Jesus, you will be saved. Everybody who wants

968
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 2: to give your life to Jesus today, I want you

969
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,439
Speaker 2: to repeat this prayer after me, and we'll all say

970
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 2: it out loud together for the benefit of those who

971
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 2: are coming to God. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, Today

972
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 2: is my day of salvation. I believe that Jesus Christ

973
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 2: is the Son of God and the Savior of the world.

974
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 2: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

975
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

976
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 2: rose again to give me life.

977
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 1: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.

978
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: I am a child of God on the.

979
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 2: Count of three shoots your hand up if you prayed

980
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 2: that one, two three. We celebrate you.

981
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: A new beginning upon you. We believe God for greater

982
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: things in your life.

983
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 2: New beginnings, new mercies, a fresh foundation.

984
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 3: Let's praise God for what he did for every so

985
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 3: many said in Jesus' name. Clap those hands and give

986
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 3: God praise in the name.

987
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 2: Of Jesus camphis fasters. You can take it right here, church.

988
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 3: Let's celebrate the Lord who brought us together today. Clap

989
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 3: both of those hands. If you know who gave you breath.

990
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 3: Let everything that has bread praise the Lord.

991
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 2: Holly is gonna come close us in prayer at Valentine.

992
01:00:52,680 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 2: You'll welcome her as she comes today. I saw her

993
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 2: at nine am and I said, that's a stage outfit.

994
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 2: I need to get you up on that stage, Holly.

995
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 2: I want you to pray for everybody today who feels like,

996
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 2: how am I supposed to do this? How am I

997
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 2: supposed to do this? We saw a woman this week

998
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 2: give a testimony who's been in a wheelchair for fifty years,

999
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 2: and she wakes up every day with chronic pain. And

1000
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 2: she said, there's days where I just think, how am

1001
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 2: I supposed to do this well, if you're supposed to

1002
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 2: do it, God will support you for it moment by moment.

1003
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 2: And I want you to pray, Holly, that God would

1004
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 2: show us sometimes to support that we walk past, That

1005
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 2: God would show us what we're walking past.

1006
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: That He has put in our life.

1007
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 2: How many of you received that today, that God wants

1008
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 2: to show you the source of your strength.

1009
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: So Holly sealed this work for prayer.

1010
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 2: Would you join hands with the person on either side

1011
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 2: of you, Please, let's join together.

1012
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: Father, we come to you now, and we are Our

1013
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: hearts are so full.

1014
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 6: We're so grateful for the word that has been spoken

1015
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 6: over our hearts today.

1016
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 2: Thank you Jesus, Holy Spirit.

1017
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 6: Your presence has been welcomed in this place. God, Thank

1018
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 6: you Holy Spirit that every time the word of God

1019
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 6: has spoken on this.

1020
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 2: Stage, that you show up. Thank you Jesus.

1021
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 6: Thank you seal this word on our hearts today, God,

1022
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 6: that we are supported. Lord, open up our eyes to

1023
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 6: see the support that is all around us this week. God, God,

1024
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 6: help us to see that you are with us, and

1025
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 6: that you were working for us, and that you were

1026
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 6: working through us. Lord, give us the courage to move

1027
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 6: forward and the callings that you have given each and

1028
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 6: every one of us. Lord, Thank you for our pastor, Lord,

1029
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 6: for the word that you have spoken through him.

1030
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: Today we receive it.

1031
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 6: God, we receive what you are speaking to us.

1032
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 2: Thank you that we get.

1033
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 6: To move forward in the strength that you have given us.

1034
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: In the strength for our calling.

1035
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 3: Lord.

1036
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 1: And it's in Jesus the same we pray.

1037
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 2: Amen. I five three people who say you got the stuff,

1038
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 2: you got the stuff.

1039
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 3: I dismiss you in the name of Jesus. Have an

1040
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 3: amazing week. You got it, you got the stuff, you

1041
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 3: got the stump.

1042
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:34,080
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1043
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 2: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of

1044
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 2: you that this ministry is possible. You can click the

1045
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 2: link in the description to give now or visit Elevation

1046
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 2: Church dot org slash podcast for more information and if

1047
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 2: you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe.

1048
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