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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. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Oh man, what a what an amazing

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Speaker 1: day of celebration.

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Speaker 2: And everybody say and make it melodic like that, say and.

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Speaker 1: And put it in the comments. Say and.

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Speaker 2: I'm beginning a brand new series today.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna spoil y'all.

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Speaker 2: I just finished a series. I'm starting a series. You

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Speaker 2: are gonna get used to this, and you're gonna expect

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Speaker 2: me to be organized and systematic from.

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Speaker 1: Here on out.

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Speaker 2: But the Lord really spoke to me, and I'm excited

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Speaker 2: to share what he spoke. We are going to be

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Speaker 2: spending the next several weeks. See how I left that

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Speaker 2: open ended, the next several weeks as long as the

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Speaker 2: Lord leads me to studying about the Holy Spirit in

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Speaker 2: the Book of Acts. Many of you know that I

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Speaker 2: have a Bible club with my family for about a

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Speaker 2: year and a half. In chapter A Day keeps the

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Speaker 2: Devil Away.

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Speaker 1: And we have somebody's going to make me a T

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Speaker 1: shirt that says that now, I'm sure of it. Probably

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Speaker 1: already is one.

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Speaker 2: But we came upon the Book of Acts recently and

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Speaker 2: we kind of move around.

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Speaker 1: We're not going straight through.

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Speaker 2: We have been in Jeremiah and it gets really, really dark,

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Speaker 2: and so I was like, let's do the Book of

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Speaker 2: Acts because that's a real page turner and it's exciting.

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Speaker 1: So that's what we got into.

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Speaker 2: And I asked the family if I could invite you

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Speaker 2: into our series, and we're going to do this together

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Speaker 2: now as a global church family, from the Book of Acts,

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Speaker 2: not the whole book, just you know where God leads us.

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Speaker 2: And I even made like an official graphic for this series.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's getting serious. Normally I just figure out

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Speaker 2: it's a series after the fact, but right now I'm

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Speaker 2: ready for you. And we're going to talk about the

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Speaker 2: subject of making sense of your story through the lens

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Speaker 1: And the title of the series is Ghostwriter. Yeah, put

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Speaker 1: it up there for me.

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Speaker 2: Ghost Writer, not like the comic book ghost writer the guy.

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Speaker 2: This is ghost writer making sense of your story through

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Speaker 2: the lens of the Holy Spirit. This is going to

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Speaker 2: be so powerful in your life, I can hardly wait

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Speaker 2: to share it with you.

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Speaker 1: Today. We're going to begin with Acts, Chapter one.

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Speaker 2: I'll read you my scripture, and then I'll seet you

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Speaker 2: and we'll begin to learn together how many need the

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Speaker 2: Lord to make sense of some things that are going

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Speaker 2: on in your.

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Speaker 1: Life right now? Oh good, good, good, good good.

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Speaker 2: Then we're talking about the right thing here, ghostwriter.

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Speaker 1: Acts Chapter one, verses one.

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Speaker 2: And two, and then we'll go to verses twelve through

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Speaker 2: twenty two for the sake of time today. In my

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Speaker 2: former book Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began

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Speaker 2: taken up to heaven after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 2: through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

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Speaker 2: So you'll see the Holy Spirit in the book of

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Speaker 2: Acts mentioned fifty five times. Safe to assume he's the

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Speaker 2: important character in this story of the early Church spreading.

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Speaker 1: Now Jesus has taken up from the disciples.

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Speaker 2: They go back to wait for the Holy Spirit, and

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Speaker 2: we pick up in verse twelve. Then the apostles returned

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Speaker 2: Simon the Zealot, and Judas, son of James. This is

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Speaker 1: But they're all there Verse fourteen.

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Speaker 2: And they all joined together constantly in prayer, along with

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Speaker 2: payment he received for his wickedness.

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Speaker 1: Judas bought a field.

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Speaker 2: There he fell head long, his body burst open, and

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Speaker 1: For said Peter.

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Speaker 2: It is written in the book of Psalms. May his

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Speaker 2: place of leadership. Therefore, it is necessary to choose one

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Speaker 1: Clap your hands, everybody today.

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Speaker 2: The series is Ghostwriter and the sermon is called page Turner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, page turner.

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Speaker 2: On your way to your seat, Tell your neighbor it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a page turner.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a page turner.

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Speaker 2: Amen, Big readers in the room, any big readers in

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Speaker 2: the room, Big readers make some noise, not like you're

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Speaker 2: in the library. You know, reading something makes make some noise.

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Speaker 2: You love a good story, and I need you to

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Speaker 2: And one statistic that I read said, well, over seventy

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Speaker 1: In my different elmeson my service.

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Speaker 2: The ghost writer is someone that the person will bring

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Speaker 2: When you want American Idol, and you know, just because

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Speaker 2: know and even you know how to tell the story.

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Speaker 2: You know, you might have done something really incredible, like

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Speaker 2: you bring somebody in. You're like, I want to tell

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Speaker 2: But I'm not really a storyteller. I need some help.

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Speaker 2: And that's where the holy ghost comes in in my

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Speaker 2: Of how God saved you, of how God kept you,

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Speaker 2: imagine for a moment that you were one of these disciples.

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Speaker 2: Let's say you're not even a main character. You're just Bartholomew,

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Speaker 2: They were entrusted to to be stewards of the gospel story.

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Speaker 2: God didn't leave me where I was, it made no

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Speaker 2: I came to church because I need the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: I need the third person of the Godhead. I need

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Speaker 2: He actually said this, he said, I'm leaving, and you've

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Speaker 1: Impossible task now.

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Speaker 2: For you, even raising an eleven year old might seem

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Speaker 1: It made no sense I would.

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: He said, a few days is a few, twenty is

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Speaker 2: a few, twelve is a few a year. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Jesus to the Lord, to day is a thousand years.

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Speaker 2: Thousand years is a day. Holly said something very profound

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Speaker 2: the other day. She said, I could go through trials

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Speaker 2: easier if God would give me a time clock on them,

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Speaker 2: if I only knew it's just ten days. And so

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Speaker 2: the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called Mount

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Speaker 2: of Olives, Sabbath days walk from the city. When they arrived,

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Speaker 2: they went upstairs to the where they were staying. Those

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Speaker 2: present were.

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Speaker 1: Peter.

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Speaker 2: We won't read every name again, I already read them once.

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Speaker 2: But notice who's not there Jesus. The last time they

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Speaker 2: were in this room, maybe Jesus was with them, he's not.

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Speaker 2: Now what they have guided by is gone. And you're like, well,

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Speaker 2: Jesus is always with me. I can see somebody clipping

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Speaker 2: this right now and saying, Stephen Verdick said that Jesus

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Speaker 2: was not with the disciples. I don't see his name

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Speaker 2: on the list. He doesn't have a physical body at

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Speaker 2: this moment on the earth. They can't hear his audible voice.

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Speaker 2: That's what they're used to and all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: they're joining together constantly in prayer, along with the women

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Speaker 2: marry mother of Jesus's brothers.

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Speaker 1: There there, it's about one hundred and twenty of them.

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Speaker 1: And we have two elements that are in every great story, okay.

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Speaker 2: One is that everything is messy that makes a great story.

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Speaker 2: The second is something is missing, something is missing, and

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Speaker 2: whenever you see a great story. One of my favorite

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Speaker 2: shows that ever came on Netflix or I don't remember

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Speaker 2: the original network, but the opening scene of the series,

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Speaker 2: you see a pair of khaki pants fly through the air,

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Speaker 2: and then the next scene you see a guy in

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Speaker 2: his whitey tidies behind the wheel of an RV with

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Speaker 2: a gas mask on. And I got to know, how

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Speaker 2: did he end up in his whitey tidies, How did

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Speaker 2: his khaki pants fly through the air? Who's pants are these?

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Speaker 2: Why is there a gas mask? What's going on on

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Speaker 2: this show right now? And I gotta watch because it's

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Speaker 2: messy and there's something missing.

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Speaker 1: Is it possible.

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Speaker 2: That the messiness in your life right now, and the

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Speaker 2: missing thing in your life right now is the birthplace

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Speaker 2: of a story that is just about ready to unfold

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Speaker 2: for God's glory in your life. I think so, because

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Speaker 2: the Bible says, in those days Peter. In those days,

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Speaker 2: Peter stood up among the believers. Now, let's take just

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Speaker 2: a moment to appreciate the beauty of the moment that

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Speaker 2: Peter is standing among the believers. And maybe you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: appreciate the beauty of this moment if you didn't read

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Speaker 2: Luke's other book. In Luke's other book, we see Peter

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Speaker 2: when Jesus was going to the cross to be accused.

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Speaker 1: And condemned and hung and mocked and whipped.

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Speaker 2: And as Peter is watching Jesus go to the cross,

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Speaker 2: I want to show you this in Luke's other book,

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Speaker 2: A Gospel of Luke, Chapter twenty two, verse number Way

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Speaker 2: down here, there's a long chapter Luke. There's a long

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Speaker 2: chapter Luke where he lets us know that when some there,

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Speaker 2: as Jesus is going into the court of Caiaphas to

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Speaker 2: be tried, when some there had kindled a fire in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together,

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Speaker 2: Peter sat down with them. So, now do you understand

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Speaker 2: why it's so amazing that by the time Luke writes

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Speaker 2: his sequel, tell somebody next to you wait till you

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Speaker 2: see the sequel, because by the time we get to.

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Speaker 1: The sequel, the same Peter, I love it too.

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Speaker 2: This gives me hope because there's been times in my

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Speaker 2: life where I sat down by the fire. There's been

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Speaker 2: times in my life where I.

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Speaker 1: Compromised my convictions.

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Speaker 2: There's been times in my life where I denied Christ

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Speaker 2: with my actions, even though my lips said that I

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Speaker 2: loved him. But in Endy, good to see Peter, who

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Speaker 2: in Luke twenty two point fifty five was sitting by

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Speaker 2: the fire. And the Bible says, the Bible says, the

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Speaker 2: Bible says, I don't care what your past says.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what Bartholomew thinks about it.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what the accuser of the brethren says.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says, in those days, Peter stood up among

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Speaker 2: the believers.

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Speaker 1: So watch this.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got the one who was sitting by the fire,

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Speaker 2: and now he's standing with the fire on the inside, declaring.

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Speaker 1: The word of the Lord. I'll speak a.

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Speaker 2: New sequel over your life. I'll speak a new season

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Speaker 2: over your life. I speak character development.

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Speaker 1: Over your life.

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Speaker 5: I'll see someone who was sitting down last night, sitting.

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Speaker 1: Down in front of a computer watching porn. But God

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Speaker 1: brought you to stand, you up on your feet, to.

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Speaker 5: Brace God today.

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Speaker 1: That's a story.

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Speaker 2: Whyah my story. My story doesn't end with me sitting

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Speaker 2: by this fire. My story doesn't end with me sitting

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Speaker 2: in this failure. My story doesn't end with me crying

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Speaker 2: over who left. My story doesn't end with my weak

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Speaker 2: moment causing me to relapse. My story doesn't end with

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Speaker 2: the fear telling me to stay out.

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Speaker 1: My story has a sequel. Tell if you got a sequel. Bro, Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is the sequel. I fought your neighbors.

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Speaker 2: Say it's a sequel, Baby, this is a sequel.

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Speaker 5: I was sitting in the last scene. But wait till

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Speaker 5: you see my sequel. Wait till you see this sequel.

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Speaker 5: Because the best stories are born in the messiest moments.

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Speaker 5: Give him a messy Hallelujah.

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Speaker 2: Give him a hard thought, Hallelujah. Give him a heart

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Speaker 2: felt Hallelujah.

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Speaker 1: Give him a been through.

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Speaker 5: Helen came out on fire, Hallelujah.

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Speaker 4: I am.

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Speaker 2: I feel the Holy ghost because my mind said it

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Speaker 2: was over. But I got a ghostwriter. My mind said

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Speaker 2: it was over. But I got a ghostwrider, and when

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Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you will be my witness.

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Speaker 5: Stand up. If you're a witness, stand out, Peter, sit down, signing,

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Speaker 5: stand up, Peter, stand up, stand up.

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Speaker 1: If you got a story, stand up. If you've been through.

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Speaker 5: The waters, stand up, and me watched you clean stand up?

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Speaker 1: How did he stand up out of that failure? He

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Speaker 1: had help. Somebody holler, I got help. Put it in

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Speaker 1: the comments.

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Speaker 2: I got help. Let me tell you about the helper

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Speaker 2: called the Holy Ghost. He's a ghost writer, and the

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Speaker 2: Bible says he's a comforter. So if you are without comfort,

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Speaker 2: you are not without comfort. Five seconds from now here

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Speaker 2: comes to comfort.

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Speaker 1: Or somebody say, I.

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Speaker 2: Have Helphi give me clarity, because the Bible says that

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Speaker 2: he is my God.

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Speaker 1: I got a guide. Somebody shot, I got a guide.

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Speaker 2: Even though the physical presence of Jesus wasn't there with him,

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Speaker 2: and he is not here with us today, we have

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Speaker 2: something on the inside that's letting us know he's more

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Speaker 2: real than what I can see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a baptizer.

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Speaker 2: Anybody been baptized by the Holy Spirit, anybody been immersed

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Speaker 2: in his mercy?

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Speaker 1: To let you know it's not over.

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Speaker 2: He's a he's a baptizer. Oh, I got so much

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Speaker 2: to say about the Holy Spirit. He's an advocate. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's an interpreter. Help you make sense out of your life.

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Speaker 2: Help you sit down with stuff and say, God, show

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Speaker 2: me my childhood from your perspective, Show me why I

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Speaker 2: went through it from your perspective. I know what people

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Speaker 2: would say about it. What do you say about it?

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Speaker 2: I got a ghostwriter. It's not your story. It's not

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Speaker 2: your story. Tell your neighbor. I'm sorry, but it's not

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Speaker 2: your story. Now point up and clarify. I say it's

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Speaker 2: his story, and he's gonna help me tell it. And

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Speaker 2: wait till you see my sequel. Now look at him

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Speaker 2: and say, I'm a page turner. Clap your hands. If

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Speaker 2: you're a page turning out, blow it a.

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Speaker 1: Down in the highest All right, y'all sit down.

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Speaker 2: Peter stood up. What did he say? What did he say?

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Speaker 2: Peter stood up in front of the whole group. I

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Speaker 2: gotta show you this. Oh, this is gonna help you

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Speaker 2: because I see somebody today it's like God is doing

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Speaker 2: this because he's getting ready to do this. If you

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Speaker 2: don't think it's too gross.

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Speaker 6: Just do it real quick.

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Speaker 1: That put that finger lick emoji thing on the chat

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Speaker 1: on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: I got one of those, and just just prophetically what

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Speaker 2: God is about to do.

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Speaker 1: Now watch this, watch this.

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Speaker 2: If we did to Peter what the enemy does to us,

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Speaker 2: we'd be doing this. But you ain't gonna find God

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Speaker 2: back there because he is not here.

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Speaker 1: He has risen. You get it, You get it?

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Speaker 2: Shall I belabor the point? Don't look at me in

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Speaker 2: Luke twenty two. I'm not in Luke twenty two anymore.

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Speaker 2: This is the sequel. And I love the Lord because

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Speaker 2: he has been preparing Peter for this moment. I mean,

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Speaker 2: even Peter's failure was an opportunity for him to receive

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Speaker 2: grace so that he could strengthen his brothers. And I'm

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Speaker 2: about to show you something that was so powerful. When

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Speaker 2: I saw it, I argued with God, Should I preach it? Now?

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Speaker 2: A really good word from God will shut you up

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Speaker 2: sometimes sometimes make it shout, and sometimes be like, I

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Speaker 2: gotta think about that.

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Speaker 1: Hmm. Let me see, I don't know about that. Man.

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Speaker 1: You're telling me, You're telling me that I can be

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Speaker 1: free from this. You tell me, I got to think

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Speaker 1: of about that.

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Speaker 2: You're telling me that I have the same Holy Spirit

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Speaker 2: that the apostles I got. It I got because I

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Speaker 2: sure don't feel like much of an apostle.

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Speaker 1: And then you got.

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Speaker 2: Peter stood up, said, brothers and sisters, now this is

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Speaker 2: going to make you mad. He said, the scripture had

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Speaker 2: to be fulfilled. That doesn't make you mad. This will

635
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Speaker 2: which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas.

636
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Speaker 2: It's bad enough that we don't have Jesus with us,

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Speaker 2: and we got to talk about Judas. And Peter's like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about Judas. We've got to do something about

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Speaker 2: the void that Judas left in this ministry. So Peter

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Speaker 2: points back to a scripture and he begins to explain

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Speaker 2: something about Judas. How Judas served as a guide for

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Speaker 2: those who arrested Jesus. He served as a guide for

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Speaker 2: those who arrested Jesus. He was one of our number

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Speaker 2: and shared in our ministry.

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Speaker 1: We don't like to claim him because he betrayed our Lord.

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Speaker 2: At this point, there is a period and Luke inserts

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Speaker 2: a parenthesis to let us know an important detail. With

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Speaker 2: the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field.

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Speaker 1: There he fell headlong.

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Speaker 2: His body burst open, and all his intestines spilled out.

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Speaker 1: Everyone in Jerusalem heard about it.

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Speaker 2: They called that field in their language a caldom of

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Speaker 2: that is field of blood. Why did he put this

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Speaker 2: part in Because all the best stories are born in

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Speaker 2: the messiest moments. And as the Church, the body of Christ,

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Speaker 2: is being born, we see the body of Judas that

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Speaker 2: burst open. Nowt out to you, because don't you think

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Speaker 2: if you had one book to tell the whole story

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Speaker 2: of the spread of Christianity all through the Roman Empire,

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Speaker 2: you only put in what's important and something he wanted

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Speaker 2: us to know. By the way, Luke is a medical doctor,

662
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Speaker 2: so he's into intestines and stuff.

663
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Speaker 1: Apparently he's like, oh yeah, just one, a little thing.

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Speaker 1: His intestines burst open and spelled out.

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Speaker 2: Because I want you to know that as something is

666
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 2: being born in your life, something else will be bursting

667
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: out and it will be messy.

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Speaker 1: But watch this. This is the word. It's a necessary mess.

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Speaker 1: It's a necessary mess.

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Speaker 2: Two types of messes in our house, the one Holly

671
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 2: makes while she's cooking and the one the kids make

672
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 2: after we go to bed, and we find in the

673
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 2: morning and find them ten dollars. We have a system

674
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 2: for this because her mess is feeding us, and their

675
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 2: mess is completely unnecess Come on, and there's a difference

676
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 2: between the one who is cooking something and makes a

677
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 2: mess and the one who doesn't know how to clean anything.

678
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get off this real quick because my kids

679
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 2: don't want that side of me to come out in

680
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 2: the pulpit, and neither do you. Because there are some

681
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,479
Speaker 2: messes that are unnecessary. But the Lord said I would

682
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: be speaking to somebody today. The Holy Spirit showed me

683
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Speaker 2: that we would be speaking in this series about some

684
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 2: necessary messes in your life.

685
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Speaker 1: That it's a mess right now. But it is not

686
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Speaker 1: because God forgot where to put things.

687
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Speaker 2: It is not because God has left you. It's messy

688
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 2: right now. Something's missing right now. It doesn't make sense

689
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 2: right now, but it is a necessary mess for the

690
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit to come.

691
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Speaker 1: Judas had to go. I will prove it to you.

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Speaker 2: Peter says that it was written in Psalms when David

693
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Speaker 2: wrote about Judas, and he mentions how Judas see the

694
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Speaker 2: language served as a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

695
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Speaker 2: Now in our story, the fact that Judas led Jesus

696
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Speaker 2: to be arrested makes him.

697
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Speaker 1: Let's write it.

698
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: Judas is the the villain. Right, you sell Jesus for

699
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 2: thirty pieces of silver. They take him to the cross,

700
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Speaker 2: just when he's at the height of his ministry. Judas

701
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Speaker 2: is the villain. And by the way, I thank God

702
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Speaker 2: for the Holy Spirit because I was practicing this sermon

703
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 2: this morning and I was spelling villain wrong, and the

704
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 2: Holy Ghost told me go get your dictionary app and

705
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 2: I realized that the a comes before the eye and

706
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Speaker 2: I didn't have to learn it on YouTube. Let's thank

707
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit for the ghost writer. I'll tell you

708
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 2: I wrote it fifteen times. I was practicing this sermon

709
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 2: and it was like, that doesn't look right.

710
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.

711
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Holy Spirit, keep me from making a fool

712
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 2: out of myself. And so he's the villain. But Peter said,

713
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Speaker 2: Peter said something very interesting. He said he served as

714
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Speaker 2: a guide for those who arrested Jesus. Because it's been

715
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Speaker 2: forty five days now as the story is unfolding, Judas

716
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 2: is the villain. He is the one betraying Jesus. But

717
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 2: it's been forty five days and Jesus has given instructions

718
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 2: now and they have spent time with the ghostwriter. Now

719
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Speaker 2: Peter sees it a little differently. He says, it had

720
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Speaker 2: to be it had to be fulfilled. We thought Judas

721
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Speaker 2: was the villain, and from one standpoint, he is. But

722
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 2: it had to be fulfilled because he was the guide

723
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Speaker 2: that got Jesus arrests, and Jesus had to be arrested

724
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Speaker 2: in order to be accused, and he had to be

725
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 2: accused in order to be sentenced, and he had to

726
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 2: be sentenced in order to be sacrificed. And he had

727
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: to be sacrificed in order to be buried, and he

728
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 2: had to be buried in order to be raised, and

729
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: he had to be raised in order that you could

730
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Speaker 2: be saved. So now what I see? Get ready to

731
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 2: shout about this? You want to shout about something. Judas

732
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 2: wasn't the villain. Judas was the vessel. And God says,

733
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Speaker 2: I'm ready now, lorded that what you've been calling the

734
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 2: villain of your story, the thing that you think came.

735
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Speaker 1: To kill you.

736
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Speaker 5: Oh no, God said, I sit down as a vessel

737
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Speaker 5: to deliver my grain.

738
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Speaker 1: In your life. There is something in your life. Are

739
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: you ready for this?

740
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 2: Not everybody can handle this level of preaching because we

741
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 2: need Judas to be the villain. We think everything that

742
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 2: hurts comes from hell, but some of the stuff that

743
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 2: hurt me didn't come from hell. David said, it was

744
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 2: good for me that I was afflicted. Some of the

745
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,240
Speaker 2: stuff that hurt me humbled me. It humbled me because

746
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 2: God said, if you'll be humble in my sight, at

747
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 2: due time, I will lift you. So now let me preach.

748
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: It's not a movie. It's an episode. It's an episode.

749
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 2: You think this is the end of your story, but

750
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 2: you forgot something. This is a page turner. This is

751
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 2: a page turner. Get ready for this because in your

752
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: life right now, there is somebody who is waiting to

753
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 2: see if you're gonna keep going. After you've been through

754
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: what you've been through, there's somebody you know what. Your

755
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 2: life is a page turner. Your grand babies are waiting

756
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 2: to see how this turns out. Will you go back

757
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 2: or will you go forward? Will you stay in Luke

758
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 2: twenty two or will you stand up by the spirit

759
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 2: of the God who's saved you. Don't tell me this

760
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 2: is a fairy tale.

761
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: It's real. In my life, I've.

762
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 2: Watched people die and praise God with their last breath,

763
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Speaker 2: and the story still wasn't over. I'll tell you about

764
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 2: an encounter I had in a bookstore with a lady

765
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Speaker 2: named Bianca. She wandered into the bookstore and had prayed

766
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 2: that morning, I need a sign God, I need a

767
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 2: sign God. She was leaving her house for the first

768
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Speaker 2: time in weeks. She saw me and I was over

769
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 2: there in the Christian living section, checking did they have

770
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Speaker 2: my book on the shelf. I wish I could say

771
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Speaker 2: I went to pray for people or learn something, but

772
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 2: I was on a different mission.

773
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Speaker 1: She walks over and says Pastor.

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Speaker 2: I said yes. She said, I don't mean to bother you.

775
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 2: I said, it's not a bother. She said, I'm Bianca.

776
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 2: I said, Hi, Bianca. She said, I just kind of

777
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,919
Speaker 2: can't believe what I'm seeing right now because I've had

778
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 2: I've had a really hard time the last few years,

779
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 2: and I have all but quit on God.

780
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: And the worst part.

781
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 2: Is I moved to Charlotte to go to Elevation Church

782
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 2: and I haven't been since quarantine.

783
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: But today I said, I'm going to get out of

784
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: the house and I'm going to make.

785
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 2: An appointment to have a facial and I'm going to

786
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 2: go to the bookstore and I'm going to do one

787
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 2: thing physical, one thing spiritual. And I said, God, if

788
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: I go out today and I don't get a sign

789
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: that you're still with me, I don't know if I

790
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 2: can make it.

791
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 1: Two miscarriages in three years.

792
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can make it marriage, barely

793
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 2: hanging on because of how low I am at the

794
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 2: bottom of these feelings.

795
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: Don't know if I can make it.

796
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 2: But if God, you will give me a sign today,

797
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,479
Speaker 2: I said, Bianca, what about the sign that you moved

798
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 2: to Charlotte.

799
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: To come to Elevation.

800
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 2: And God brought somebody else who moved to Charlotte to

801
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 2: go to Elevation to this bookstore. I don't want to

802
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 2: give them by name because they're not sponsoring me, and

803
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 2: they didn't have my book to this bookstore. And she said, well,

804
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 2: I came over here to buy a book. Can you

805
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 2: recommend a good one for me? I said absolutely, I'll

806
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 2: buy you two. If the first one doesn't work, surely

807
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 2: the second one will.

808
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:12,959
Speaker 1: And if neither of them are.

809
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 2: Good, I paid for him, so you can't complain, Bianca,

810
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 2: this is your sign, This is your side. This is

811
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 2: your side, This is your side. I thought it was

812
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 2: real funny because I bought her a Joyce Meyer.

813
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 1: Book and signed at Stephen Verdick.

814
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,879
Speaker 2: And then she turned to me before we left and said,

815
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 2: one more thing. You've done so much, and I don't

816
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 2: mean to ask for more, but do you have anything

817
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 2: to say to me that might help me to believe

818
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 2: that God has not done with me? And I had

819
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 2: no idea what to say to her, because what do

820
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 2: you say? You don't say a cookie cutter Christianese raised

821
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 2: that rhymes and sounds like hickory dickory dot.

822
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: It takes all you got. What do you say?

823
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 2: I'm thankful that I had help in that moment. You know,

824
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit will help you know what to say,

825
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,280
Speaker 2: to say to your kid, to say to your wife,

826
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 2: to say to yourself, the say to your accuser, to

827
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 2: say to your shame.

828
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: To say to your mountain. I'll tell you what to

829
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: say to your mountain.

830
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 2: Move. I don't feel like climbing the day and I

831
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 2: don't I'm hiking shoes.

832
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: Get it out of my way. Move somebody shall move.

833
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: God's not through with you.

834
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 2: I reached and grabbed one more book off the shelf,

835
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 2: and the Holy Spirit gave me something to share.

836
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: I shared it last year, but y'all forgot it.

837
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 2: I reached and got a book and I just held it,

838
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 2: and where I held it was about right in the middle.

839
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 2: And I looked at her and said, Bianca, I'm so

840
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 2: sorry what you suffered. I'm so sorry how it's hurt you.

841
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 2: I have no words to say that can make the

842
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 2: miscarriages go away. I have no words to say that

843
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 2: can guarantee the next result. I have no prophetic word

844
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 2: from the Lord. But I feel like the Lord.

845
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: Wants you to know that your life is a story

846
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: he's telling, and you're.

847
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 2: Only this far in, your only, this far in your

848
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: only tell your neighbor this far in y'all, I preached

849
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 2: all this and it's just acts chapter one, Your only.

850
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: The devil wants you to think that this scene is this,

851
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 2: and it's not this. God is just getting started. In

852
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 2: my former book, Theofholos, come on tap your neighbors say,

853
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 2: can I call you Theophilis. In my last book, I

854
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 2: wrote about all that Jesus began to do.

855
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: But he's just getting started. He's just getting started.

856
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 2: Because when the Holy Ghost comes upon you you will

857
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 2: have power. When the Holy Ghost comes. He will guide

858
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 2: you into all truth. When the Holy Ghost comes, you

859
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 2: will stand up straight where you used to sit in shame.

860
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 2: When the Holy Ghost comes upon you, He's a baptizer.

861
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 2: The Holy Ghost is a corrector. The Holy Ghost is

862
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 2: a comforter, and the Holy Ghost is.

863
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: A page turner. And if your life.

864
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 2: Is a story God is telling, like Peter's life is

865
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 2: a story that God was telling, like the Gospel is

866
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 2: the story that God is always telling, that dead things rise,

867
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 2: that sins can be forgiven, that new beginnings are possible.

868
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 2: You look at your life from your point of view.

869
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 2: You called Judas the villain, heartbreak the villain. You are

870
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 2: tempted in this moment to close the book and go back.

871
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: But the Holy Ghost, the Spirit.

872
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 2: Of God, is a page turner who does not leave

873
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:44,760
Speaker 2: me in Luke twenty two, but brings me to Acts

874
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 2: chapter one.

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Speaker 1: So welcome.

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Speaker 2: To the next chapter, Bianca, Welcome to the sequel, Theophilus.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Peter, y'all. Peter.

878
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 2: What touched me so much reading this was to realize

879
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Speaker 2: Peter could have been dead right there alongside Judas. They

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Speaker 2: both failed Jesus. The difference between Peter and Judas. Wasn't

881
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Speaker 2: what they did or didn't do. They both messed up.

882
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 2: It's that Peter was a page turner. Okay God, okay God.

883
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: That happened. That happened. That happened.

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Speaker 2: Now, Holy Spirit, I ask you, I I adjure you,

885
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Speaker 2: I commission you, by the grace of God that has

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Speaker 2: given to me, sit with the Holy Spirit this week.

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Speaker 2: How do I do that? Pastor, I've never done that before.

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00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 2: It is as simple as you sitting down with the

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Speaker 2: page of the scripture. Sit down with the same scripture

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Speaker 2: I read today. Take your Bible, open it to acts

891
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 2: and say, Lord, Holy Spirit, speak to me, show me,

892
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 2: show me your lens on my life, because I'm looking

893
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Speaker 2: through my lens and it doesn't make sense. I'm looking

894
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 2: through my lens and I'm a single mom and I'm

895
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 2: not going to be able to give this child what

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00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: they need to grow up with a strong family presence.

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00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm looking through my lens and I don't have.

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00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 2: Enough to do this, and yet you gave me the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And why did you call God, God, give me your lens,

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00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: the lens of your spirit.

901
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 2: Peter, who was sitting by a fire, stood up among

902
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Speaker 2: the disciples.

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00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: In those days.

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Speaker 2: In between the space of Jesus the Savior rising from

905
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Speaker 2: the grave and the Spirit of God.

906
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: Come in, not knowing how long they would wait. He

907
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Speaker 1: acknowledged the mess and the uncertainty, and he says some

908
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: very powerful words. For it is written that is what

909
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: is going to tell you what to do next.

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00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 3: It is written in the book of Psalm, may his

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00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 3: place be deserted, let there be no one to dwell

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Speaker 3: in it.

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Speaker 1: That is a direct quote.

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Speaker 2: From Psalm sixty nine, verse twenty five. And everybody say,

915
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 2: and may another take his place of leadership? Wow, So

916
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 2: he said it was written in Psalm sixty nine to

917
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 2: twenty five that Judas was going to leave. That's what

918
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 2: God was talking about all those years ago, and is

919
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 2: happening in our situation. And see if you stop there,

920
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 2: May his place be deserted. Let there be no one

921
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 2: to dwell in it. Hopeless, we don't have what we need.

922
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 2: We can't move forward. Jesus is gone.

923
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: We don't know. It is the power of this.

924
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:13,479
Speaker 2: And because Peter said in Psalm sixty nine twenty five

925
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 2: that says, may his place be deserted, let there be

926
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 2: no one to dwell in it. But in Psalm one

927
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 2: oh nine, verse eight, it says, may another take his.

928
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: Place of leadership.

929
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 2: I prophesy another over your life today, another chapter, another victory,

930
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 2: another testimony, another one, another, one another, one another one.

931
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 2: And you don't get this kind of wisdom.

932
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:44,760
Speaker 1: Unless you're a page turner.

933
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 2: You got to get in here and start to see

934
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 2: what God says about you about your life and ask him,

935
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, speak to me. That's what I write at

936
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Speaker 2: the top of my notes every time I read the Bible.

937
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, speak to me from this scripture.

938
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 2: Because if I don't, I think Judas was the villain

939
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 2: when really he's the vessel. I'll think that the rejection

940
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: was a curse, when really it was a blessing to

941
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 2: make more space in my life for what God has next.

942
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 2: I'll think that the problem is permanent and the faith

943
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 2: is temporary, and I will not know that the faith

944
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 2: was meant to remain and the problem came to pass.

945
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that God can speak over your situation,

946
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 2: but you need the ghost writer. So you stop telling

947
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 2: yourself there's a period where there's a comma, So you

948
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,399
Speaker 2: stop telling yourself that because you're messy, God can't give

949
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 2: you a ministry, the devil is a liar, and the

950
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 2: Holy Ghost is true.

951
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: Somebody say I'm a page turner.

952
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I never sat by the fire. I'm

953
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 2: not saying I never made a mess. I'm not saying

954
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 2: I never messed it up. I'm just saying the devil

955
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 2: starts lying you this week.

956
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: Just go.

957
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 2: You could do it suddenly. You could do it in

958
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 2: the conference room. Nobody will even know.

959
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 6: Just go, because this story is just getting started.

960
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: You're only this far in. Next week, I'm gonna pick

961
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: it up right here. Will you be back. We're only

962
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: this far in.

963
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 2: But before we close, I want you to stand in

964
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 2: your sanctified feet, and I want you to plant your

965
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 2: heels right there on the ground wherever you are and

966
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 2: put it in the comment say I'm a page turner. Wait,

967
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 2: I thought God was the page turner.

968
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 6: Yeah.

969
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 2: God is the one who makes it possible. But you

970
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 2: are the one that makes it happen. By the decision

971
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 2: to move forward in His presence, with His power in

972
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 2: your life, the Holy Spirit will come upon you.

973
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: We will see the gospelill go out in this book.

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00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 2: But it starts with your decision to know. I'm only

975
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 2: this far in, and we never would see Peter preach

976
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 2: on the day of Pentecost if he didn't turn the page.

977
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 2: And we never would see the man at the gate

978
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 2: called beautiful jump up on his feet with his ankle

979
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 2: strong if we didn't turn the page. Your children's children

980
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 2: are waiting to see how your story goes next. Let's

981
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 2: show him a good one, so you could tell them

982
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 2: that defeat didn't have the last word in your life,

983
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 2: that addiction didn't have the last word in your life.

984
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: I stood up like Peter. I had a story to tell,

985
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: and I had help lift your hands.

986
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 2: I've come a long way.

987
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: I've seen how you work.

988
00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 2: There's so much goodness and grace, much more than I.

989
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 5: See, sir, because I know who I am.

990
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: But I can't stay where I'm at. You've come this

991
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: far by say.

992
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 2: And I just can't turn back because he's not done

993
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 2: with you.

994
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not done with you.

995
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: To lud, Yeah, there's a mass.

996
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 4: Sorry, he's not done with She wouldn't I'm say, he's

997
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 4: not going with me, is not dumb with me, He's

998
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 4: not done, he's not duming me. Yeah, there's a master

999
00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 4: to this story. Come, he's so may stop.

1000
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: You're not talking, gets as asshole.

1001
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 6: He's have t.

1002
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: Start up, tear the hands off.

1003
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 6: You're not Henry.

1004
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 4: Haven't lifted, Henry head lifted, not talk it be chapter.

1005
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 5: You're not sick, You're having sat Here gives the next steppisode.

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01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:52,200
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01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:54,840
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