WEBVTT - Page Turner

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 2>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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<v Speaker 2>gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message. Oh man, what a what an amazing

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<v Speaker 1>day of celebration.

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<v Speaker 2>And everybody say and make it melodic like that, say and.

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<v Speaker 1>And put it in the comments. Say and.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm beginning a brand new series today.

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<v Speaker 1>You know I'm gonna spoil y'all.

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<v Speaker 2>I just finished a series. I'm starting a series. You

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<v Speaker 2>are gonna get used to this, and you're gonna expect

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<v Speaker 2>me to be organized and systematic from.

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<v Speaker 1>Here on out.

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<v Speaker 2>But the Lord really spoke to me, and I'm excited

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<v Speaker 2>to share what he spoke. We are going to be

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<v Speaker 2>spending the next several weeks. See how I left that

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<v Speaker 2>open ended, the next several weeks as long as the

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<v Speaker 2>Lord leads me to studying about the Holy Spirit in

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<v Speaker 2>the Book of Acts. Many of you know that I

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<v Speaker 2>have a Bible club with my family for about a

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<v Speaker 2>year and a half. In chapter A Day keeps the

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<v Speaker 2>Devil Away.

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<v Speaker 1>And we have somebody's going to make me a T

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<v Speaker 1>shirt that says that now, I'm sure of it. Probably

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<v Speaker 1>already is one.

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<v Speaker 2>But we came upon the Book of Acts recently and

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<v Speaker 2>we kind of move around.

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<v Speaker 1>We're not going straight through.

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<v Speaker 2>We have been in Jeremiah and it gets really, really dark,

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<v Speaker 2>and so I was like, let's do the Book of

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<v Speaker 2>Acts because that's a real page turner and it's exciting.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's what we got into.

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<v Speaker 2>And I asked the family if I could invite you

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<v Speaker 2>into our series, and we're going to do this together

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<v Speaker 2>now as a global church family, from the Book of Acts,

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<v Speaker 2>not the whole book, just you know where God leads us.

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<v Speaker 2>And I even made like an official graphic for this series.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>ready for you. And we're going to talk about the

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<v Speaker 2>subject of making sense of your story through the lens

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<v Speaker 2>of God's Spirit.

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<v Speaker 1>And the title of the series is Ghostwriter. Yeah, put

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<v Speaker 1>it up there for me.

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<v Speaker 2>Ghost Writer, not like the comic book ghost writer the guy.

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<v Speaker 2>This is ghost writer making sense of your story through

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<v Speaker 2>the lens of the Holy Spirit. This is going to

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<v Speaker 2>be so powerful in your life, I can hardly wait

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<v Speaker 2>to share it with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Today. We're going to begin with Acts, Chapter one.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll read you my scripture, and then I'll seet you

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<v Speaker 2>and we'll begin to learn together how many need the

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<v Speaker 2>Lord to make sense of some things that are going

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<v Speaker 2>on in your.

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<v Speaker 1>Life right now? Oh good, good, good, good good.

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<v Speaker 2>Then we're talking about the right thing here, ghostwriter.

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<v Speaker 1>Acts Chapter one, verses one.

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<v Speaker 2>And two, and then we'll go to verses twelve through

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<v Speaker 2>twenty two for the sake of time today. In my

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<v Speaker 2>former book Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began

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<v Speaker 2>to do and to teach until the day he was

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<v Speaker 2>taken up to heaven after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit,

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<v Speaker 2>through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

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<v Speaker 2>So you'll see the Holy Spirit in the book of

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<v Speaker 2>Acts mentioned fifty five times. Safe to assume he's the

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<v Speaker 2>important character in this story of the early Church spreading.

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<v Speaker 1>Now Jesus has taken up from the disciples.

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<v Speaker 2>They go back to wait for the Holy Spirit, and

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<v Speaker 2>we pick up in verse twelve. Then the apostles returned

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<v Speaker 2>to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives.

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<v Speaker 1>Sabbath day's walk from the city.

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<v Speaker 2>When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where

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<v Speaker 2>they were staying. Present were Peter, John James, and Andrew Philip,

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<v Speaker 2>and Thomas Bartholomew, and Matthew James, son of Alpheus, and

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<v Speaker 2>Simon the Zealot, and Judas, son of James. This is

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<v Speaker 2>not the same Judas as the one who betrayed Jesus,

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<v Speaker 2>as Judas is Scariot. And this guy has a very

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<v Speaker 2>unfortunate name for this time. I think if my name

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<v Speaker 2>was Judas forty days after Jesus was crucified, I just

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<v Speaker 2>go by Jay or something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>But they're all there Verse fourteen.

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<v Speaker 2>And they all joined together constantly in prayer, along with

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<v Speaker 2>the women, and marry the mother of Jesus, and with

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<v Speaker 2>his brothers.

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<v Speaker 1>Now pay attention. In those days, Peter stood.

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<v Speaker 2>Up among the believers, a group numbering about one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>and twenty, and said, brothers and sisters, the scripture had

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<v Speaker 2>to be fulfilled, in which the Holy Spirit spoke long

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<v Speaker 2>ago through David concerning Judas, who served as a guide

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<v Speaker 2>for those who arrested Jesus. He was one of our

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<v Speaker 2>number and shared in our ministry. Parenthetical insert with the

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<v Speaker 2>payment he received for his wickedness.

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<v Speaker 1>Judas bought a field.

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<v Speaker 2>There he fell head long, his body burst open, and

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<v Speaker 2>all his intestines spilled out. Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this,

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<v Speaker 2>so they called that field in their language a keeldema,

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<v Speaker 2>that is field of blood.

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<v Speaker 1>For said Peter.

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<v Speaker 2>It is written in the book of Psalms. May his

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<v Speaker 2>place be deserted, let there be no one to dwell

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<v Speaker 2>in it, And everybody say, and may another take his

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<v Speaker 2>place of leadership. Therefore, it is necessary to choose one

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<v Speaker 2>of the men who have been with us the whole

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<v Speaker 2>time the Lord Jesus was living among us, beginning from

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<v Speaker 2>John's baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up

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<v Speaker 2>from us. For one of these must become a witness

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<v Speaker 2>with us of his resurrection. Let's thank the Lord for

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<v Speaker 2>the witness that he has given us of his resurrection.

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<v Speaker 1>Clap your hands, everybody today.

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<v Speaker 2>The series is Ghostwriter and the sermon is called page Turner.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, page turner.

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<v Speaker 2>On your way to your seat, Tell your neighbor it's

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<v Speaker 2>going to be a page turner.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to be a page turner.

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<v Speaker 2>Amen, Big readers in the room, any big readers in

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<v Speaker 2>the room, Big readers make some noise, not like you're

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<v Speaker 2>in the library. You know, reading something makes make some noise.

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<v Speaker 2>You love a good story, and I need you to

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<v Speaker 2>know when you read an autobiography, usually it's based.

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<v Speaker 1>On a true story.

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<v Speaker 2>And one statistic that I read said, well, over seventy

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<v Speaker 2>five percent of memoirs that we read, if it's a

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<v Speaker 2>famous person, or someone who won a gold medal in

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<v Speaker 2>the Olympics, or somebody who was a former president, they

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<v Speaker 2>will have had help from a ghost writer. And I

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<v Speaker 2>know you know the term, but just so we get

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<v Speaker 2>on the same page, working.

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<v Speaker 1>In my different elmeson my service.

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<v Speaker 2>The ghost writer is someone that the person will bring

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<v Speaker 2>in if they have a story but they need help

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<v Speaker 2>telling it. And so the ghost writer might come along

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<v Speaker 2>and spend twenty hours, forty hours, in some cases even

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<v Speaker 2>a year with the person saying, tell me your story,

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<v Speaker 2>tell me what.

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<v Speaker 1>It was like.

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<v Speaker 2>When you want American Idol, and you know, just because

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<v Speaker 2>you're a good singer and you want American Idol, doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>know and even you know how to tell the story.

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<v Speaker 2>You have a gift to sing, but you may not

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<v Speaker 2>have a gift to right. So you bring in some

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<v Speaker 2>help and you have a story, but you need some help.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you might have done something really incredible, like

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<v Speaker 2>you you hiked a huge mountain. But just because you're

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<v Speaker 2>good at hiking doesn't mean you're good at grammar. So

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

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<v Speaker 2>this story how we almost died, and then I want

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<v Speaker 2>to tell them how I almost eat my brother and

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<v Speaker 2>because we ran out of food. But I'm good at surviving,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm good at I'm good at I'm good at climbing.

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm not really a storyteller. I need some help.

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<v Speaker 2>I've got a story to tell, but I need some

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<v Speaker 2>help telling him. And that's where a ghost writer comes in.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's where the holy ghost comes in in my

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<v Speaker 2>life and the life of the Disciples that I just.

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<v Speaker 1>Read to you about.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I have a story to tell, but I need

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<v Speaker 2>help telling it. Say amen, somebody, if you've got a

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<v Speaker 2>story to tell, if you got a story to tell

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<v Speaker 2>of how.

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<v Speaker 1>God made a way for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Of how God saved you, of how God kept you,

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<v Speaker 2>of how God blessed you, of how God raised you,

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<v Speaker 2>I have a story to tell and I need some help. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>imagine for a moment that you were one of these disciples.

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

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<v Speaker 2>and you've just seen Jesus taken from you. The one

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<v Speaker 2>that you were guiding by is gone, the one who

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<v Speaker 2>broke it down and made sense of it for you

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<v Speaker 2>every step along the way. Now Here's why I'm talking

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<v Speaker 2>to this woman by the will. Now Here's why I'm

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<v Speaker 2>feeding people that you want to send away. Now Here's

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<v Speaker 2>why I sent you into the storm so that I

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<v Speaker 2>could show you that I'm lord of the storm. Now

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<v Speaker 2>Here's why I said that in this parable, and this

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<v Speaker 2>is what I meant. All of a sudden, what they

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<v Speaker 2>have been guiding by is gone in their sight. He

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<v Speaker 2>was taken up hidden in a cloud. And they are

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<v Speaker 2>told to be witnesses watch this of the story of

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<v Speaker 2>his sinless life, his unjust death, and his supernatural resurrection and.

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<v Speaker 1>His eventual coming again.

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<v Speaker 2>They were entrusted to to be stewards of the gospel story.

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<v Speaker 2>My brothers and sisters, we are stewards of this same story.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you not know that the same spirit that lived

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<v Speaker 2>in them lives in me? Because I believe in Jesus,

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<v Speaker 2>I have a story to tell. I wasn't there to

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<v Speaker 2>see it firsthand. When he opened Bartimaeus's eyes, I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>see them. Lower the man on the mat through the roof,

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<v Speaker 2>and Jesus said, your sins are forgiven, and oh, by

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<v Speaker 2>the way, get up and walk to Bonus. Scene deleted

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<v Speaker 2>content just because I'm Jesus like that. I wasn't there

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<v Speaker 2>to see it. But I have the same spirit that

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<v Speaker 2>witnesses to me. He said, you will be witnesses in Jerusalem.

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<v Speaker 2>That's where they are Judea Samaria. That's the next circle

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<v Speaker 2>or the circumference of influence, and to the ends of

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<v Speaker 2>the earth. Imagine your Bartholomew. What you have guided by

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<v Speaker 2>is gone, and God has commanded you to go. It

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<v Speaker 2>makes no sense. It makes no sense for many of us.

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<v Speaker 2>Even to praise God today from a sensual perspective made

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<v Speaker 2>no sense because you've been under depression. For you to

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<v Speaker 2>begin to sing from your spirit today and declare that

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<v Speaker 2>God didn't leave me where I was, it made no

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<v Speaker 2>sense because in some ways you're still there. But we

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<v Speaker 2>didn't come to church to make sense of our situation.

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<v Speaker 2>I came to church because I need the Holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 1>I need the third person of the Godhead. I need

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<v Speaker 1>the one that Jesus said he would send.

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<v Speaker 2>He actually said this, he said, I'm leaving, and you've

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<v Speaker 2>got to go and do this.

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<v Speaker 1>Impossible task now.

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<v Speaker 2>For you, even raising an eleven year old might seem

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<v Speaker 2>like an impossible task. I certainly felt that way at

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<v Speaker 2>each stage of our children's development. Makes no sense that

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<v Speaker 2>I would be a parent while I still kind of,

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<v Speaker 2>in a way feel like a kid.

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<v Speaker 1>It made no sense I would.

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<v Speaker 2>Pastor a church that was several times the size of

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<v Speaker 2>the town that I grew up in.

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<v Speaker 1>None of this makes sense. My story. I'm telling you

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<v Speaker 1>my story. My story what God has allowed me to

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<v Speaker 1>see and do makes no sense without the Holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like that frog sitting on a fence post. I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't get here by myself. That's my story.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm sticking to it.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that it's not by Mike, it's not by power.

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<v Speaker 2>It's by the Spirit of the Lord. Oh. I'm excited

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<v Speaker 2>about the Spirit of God because I believe when you

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<v Speaker 2>sit with the Holy Spirit, He's going to help you

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<v Speaker 2>tell a better story. Like what is it like to

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<v Speaker 2>have the Spirit of God as your ghostwriter?

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<v Speaker 1>Bring out my teaching screen.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm ready to break this down, y'all give it up

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<v Speaker 2>for the screen as it comes. Thirty percent of y'all

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<v Speaker 2>did that when I said it? You nonconformist. Aren't you

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<v Speaker 2>just so strong willed you didn't clap? Okay, thank you, fellas.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see if we can make sense of this line

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<v Speaker 1>by line, verse by verse.

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<v Speaker 2>I think there is an amazing story being told in

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<v Speaker 2>this scripture, how the Gospel will eventually go all the

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<v Speaker 2>way into the Roman Empire, and yet it is starting

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<v Speaker 2>in such a strange place.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd like you to write this phrase down.

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<v Speaker 2>The best stories are born in the messiest moments.

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't that true?

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<v Speaker 2>How'd you get here? Let's go back to your birthday.

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<v Speaker 2>Was it messy? If it wasn't messy, you didn't make it.

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<v Speaker 2>The only way you made it here is through a mess.

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<v Speaker 2>And so it goes again and again. And I'll show

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<v Speaker 2>you this in scripture because you know, I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if you're really listening or not. There is a pen somewhere.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe it by faith. Well they're all on this side. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>Professor Verdick in the house, I love it.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to show you this scripture.

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<v Speaker 2>In a way where you can see what it must

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<v Speaker 2>have felt like for doctor Luke is writing this book.

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<v Speaker 2>And notice the first thing he says, follow with me.

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<v Speaker 2>He says, in my former book Theophilis, he's writing to

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<v Speaker 2>a patron who is enabling him to tell the story

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<v Speaker 2>of Jesus. Now you may recognize Luke, who wrote the

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<v Speaker 2>Book of Acts, from such blockbuster presentations as Luke. The

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<v Speaker 2>gospel story that he recorded Matthew Mark Luke and John

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<v Speaker 2>Luke was his, and he didn't name it.

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<v Speaker 1>Luke, but we call it Luke because he wrote it.

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<v Speaker 2>Now he's saying, in my former book Theophlis, I wrote

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<v Speaker 2>about all that Jesus and I love this word and

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<v Speaker 2>I hope I can make you love it too, all

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<v Speaker 2>that Jesus began.

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<v Speaker 1>To do and to teach. So what does that mean? Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>If Jesus came and lived a sindless life, died a

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<v Speaker 2>criminal's death, rose from a borrowed grave, and then ascended

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<v Speaker 2>to heaven to send the Holy Spirit. And when Luke

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<v Speaker 2>starts writing this book, he says, I wrote a book

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<v Speaker 2>about all that Jesus began to do. It makes me

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<v Speaker 2>think that he's just getting started and there will be

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<v Speaker 2>a sequel that is not only true of the Book

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<v Speaker 2>of Luke in the Book of Acts. That is true

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<v Speaker 2>for you, that Jesus is just getting started in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>And even if you were only to live a few

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<v Speaker 2>more days, you have no idea the ripple effect of

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<v Speaker 2>what your life will mean to a generation not yet born.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you are a steward of the Gospel story, you

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<v Speaker 2>have a story to tell. It's not just Luke that's

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<v Speaker 2>telling the story. It's not just the writers of the

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<v Speaker 2>Bible that tell the story. The Bible says you are

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<v Speaker 2>a living epistle, not an apostle. That's the people that

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<v Speaker 2>followed Jesus. And an epistle is not the wife of

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<v Speaker 2>an apostle. An epistle is a letter. The Bible is

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<v Speaker 2>basically saying that you are a story that God is

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<v Speaker 2>telling of his gospel power. That means that when people

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<v Speaker 2>meet you, they have an opportunity to meet Jesus, the

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<v Speaker 2>same Jesus who met you in the mess you were in.

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<v Speaker 2>All of the angels can sit this part of the

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<v Speaker 2>sermon out, But everybody who was in a mess and

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<v Speaker 2>met a savior, who was in a mess and made

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<v Speaker 2>a mess and met a savior.

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to understand your life is.

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<v Speaker 2>A story, and here's the really good news, he said.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus began to do it and teach it until the

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<v Speaker 2>day he was taken up. This seemed like a loss.

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<v Speaker 2>He was taken up. It was a complete change for

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<v Speaker 2>all of the apostles. He was taken up to heaven

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<v Speaker 2>after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles

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<v Speaker 2>he had chosen, and every word of those two verses

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<v Speaker 2>would preach. But for now, maybe I could just talk

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<v Speaker 2>about the fact that the Holy Spirit is going to

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<v Speaker 2>help you tell this story. I see that they're not

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<v Speaker 2>going on a verse here on the screen. I got

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<v Speaker 2>to get over here. The Holy Spirit is going to

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<v Speaker 2>help you.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell your story.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you've been telling yourself some really bad stories. And

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<v Speaker 2>I know it because I do it. And if we

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<v Speaker 2>don't have the Holy Spirit, we will try to make

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<v Speaker 2>sense of our life through our senses, and we will

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<v Speaker 2>keep solving the wrong problems, creating more pain.

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<v Speaker 1>We will keep.

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<v Speaker 2>Solving problems at the level at which they appear and

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<v Speaker 2>never understand the level from which they originate. But the

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<v Speaker 2>Holy Spirit, when he comes, he will help you tell

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<v Speaker 2>the story so that you stop telling yourself Satan's story

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<v Speaker 2>about why you failed so that you stopped telling yourself

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<v Speaker 2>Satan's story about why you blew it. You keep telling

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<v Speaker 2>yourself the story I failed because I'm a failure.

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<v Speaker 1>You edited out ninety nine times.

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<v Speaker 2>You didn't fail that God gave you a victory. You

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<v Speaker 2>took the one that you failed at. You magnified that

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<v Speaker 2>you got stuck in a scene and called it a story.

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<v Speaker 2>But I have help, because the Holy Spirit will help

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<v Speaker 2>me zoom out and see that failure is always an event.

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<v Speaker 1>It is never an identity.

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<v Speaker 2>Telling yourself stories, You've been telling yourself stories about where

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<v Speaker 2>you ought to be by now in your life. I

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<v Speaker 2>should be farther along by now. How do you know that?

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<v Speaker 2>You don't even know how long you have left? How

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<v Speaker 2>do you know you're not as far along as all

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<v Speaker 2>your friends?

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<v Speaker 3>Has?

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody asked me the other day, all of my friends

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<v Speaker 2>are doing great things and I'm not. Do you have

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<v Speaker 2>anything to say to me? And all I want to

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<v Speaker 2>say back is you don't know what your friends are

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<v Speaker 2>going through. You just see your friends through their filter.

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<v Speaker 2>You just see them through the filter. You don't know

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<v Speaker 2>what they're dealing with. You don't know what they are

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<v Speaker 2>farther along. They might portrayed places with you in a

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<v Speaker 2>skinny minute, in a New York minute.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a New York minute. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>But the fact of the matter is, even the way

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<v Speaker 2>we measure time is kind.

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<v Speaker 1>Of crazy, you know, has a lot of a She said,

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<v Speaker 1>in a few days, you're going to receive the Holy Spirit.

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<v Speaker 2>Why didn't one of the fellas, Bartholomew, go excuse me, Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>One clarifying question when you say a few days, what

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<v Speaker 2>is a few to you? Because it's like basketball, right, like,

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<v Speaker 2>hang on, honey, I'll be there. There's only five minutes

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<v Speaker 2>left in the game. That could be three hours in basketball.

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<v Speaker 2>Time depends if they start fouling.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>We tell you about our life sometimes, and many of

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<v Speaker 2>you know that, against my will, I was basically manipulated

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<v Speaker 2>into buying my family a dog, a Boston Terrier, and

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<v Speaker 2>we've enjoyed his presence in our home for the last

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<v Speaker 2>two years. I'm gonna tell you more about this in

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<v Speaker 2>a coming week, so just come back and I'll tell

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<v Speaker 2>you the rest. But we realize the other day that

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<v Speaker 2>bo first of all, he is very anxiety ridden dog.

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<v Speaker 2>Something happened on the fourth of July with some fireworks.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not exactly sure what didn't mean to do this

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<v Speaker 2>to him, but he is traumatized by loud sounds, particularly storms,

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<v Speaker 2>So when there are storms we have to give him

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<v Speaker 2>some medicine and uh, and it's really sad and he

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<v Speaker 2>shakes and my Benadrill Bill is through the roof. Ever

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<v Speaker 2>since I got this dog, I didn't put that in

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<v Speaker 2>a little line on him, but I didn't know I

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<v Speaker 2>was getting such an anxious dog. And then the second

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<v Speaker 2>thing that we just realized he's really triggered by his suitcases.

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<v Speaker 1>But makes sense.

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<v Speaker 2>Because he doesn't know we've been gone for like two

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<v Speaker 2>weeks before going out on elevation nights and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>and he doesn't know.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not like he's smart.

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<v Speaker 2>He's not looking at the size of the suitcase. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just an overnight trip. They'll be back in no time.

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<v Speaker 2>And he try to make sense of it, like are

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<v Speaker 2>you gone for a day? Are you gone? Is this? It?

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<v Speaker 2>Is this?

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<v Speaker 1>Goodbye?

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<v Speaker 4>Now?

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<v Speaker 1>God, imagine watch this that.

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<v Speaker 2>Since we know the story, we know that Jesus was

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<v Speaker 2>resurrected three days after he died. He was taken from

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<v Speaker 2>them forty days after he was resurrected. Then there were

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<v Speaker 2>ten days, ten days while they were waiting for the

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<v Speaker 2>spirit that.

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<v Speaker 1>He spoke about, and.

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<v Speaker 2>Not only are they going through a storm of uncertainty,

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<v Speaker 2>but they don't know what this suitcase means. Jesus, you're

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<v Speaker 2>leaving and you're sending the spirit to live in us,

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<v Speaker 2>and we trust you. But it's kind of hard in

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<v Speaker 2>this ten day period to know what to do next.

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<v Speaker 2>And these are the moments, my friend, when you need

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<v Speaker 2>the Holy Spirit, because you can do something so stupid

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<v Speaker 2>while you are waiting ten days that it'll spend you

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<v Speaker 2>ten years trying to undo it.

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<v Speaker 1>You will tell yourself a story.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you ever have you ever texted somebody that didn't

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<v Speaker 2>text you back quick enough? And the bubbles came, and

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<v Speaker 2>the bubbles went, and the bubbles came, and the bubbles went,

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<v Speaker 2>and every time the bubbles came in went, you told

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<v Speaker 2>yourself a story about why.

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<v Speaker 1>They weren't texting you back.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh God, they were texting while driving, and they drove

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<v Speaker 2>off the road and the bubbles went away.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh God. And really it was nothing more than.

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<v Speaker 2>The fact that they got distracted and you weren't that

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<v Speaker 2>important to them to text you back right away, But

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<v Speaker 2>you had them dead.

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<v Speaker 1>In your mind because you told yourself a story.

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<v Speaker 2>Now do you see why we need help not only

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<v Speaker 2>telling the gospel story, not only that our lives would

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<v Speaker 2>be a testimony to the Savior who shed his blood.

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<v Speaker 1>For us, but so that we tell ourselves the.

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<v Speaker 2>Right story in the spaces of ten days. I wonder,

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<v Speaker 2>is somebody in a ten days space.

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<v Speaker 1>Between what you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know God promised you and the help that you believe

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<v Speaker 2>that he'll send you, and you need the Holy Spirit

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<v Speaker 2>to make sense of him. So they go back to Jerusalem.

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<v Speaker 2>They start praying, which I think is very important. They

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<v Speaker 2>start praying with their prayer partners, which I think is

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<v Speaker 2>even more important. And then something very cool happens. Luke

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<v Speaker 2>gives us a cast of characters. Since we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>be in the Book of Acts, let's see the opening

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<v Speaker 2>credits for the Church. Now, remember the church is being born,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's a messy moment. And here's what's messy about it.

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<v Speaker 2>The apostles returned to Jerusalem. All they see is a suitcase.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus is gone. They don't know how long it's going

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<v Speaker 2>to take. He said a few days. Did anybody hear

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<v Speaker 2>him say? Did he say two days?

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<v Speaker 1>No?

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<v Speaker 2>He said, a few days is a few, twenty is

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<v Speaker 2>a few, twelve is a few a year. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus to the Lord, to day is a thousand years.

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<v Speaker 2>Thousand years is a day. Holly said something very profound

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<v Speaker 2>the other day. She said, I could go through trials

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<v Speaker 2>easier if God would give me a time clock on them,

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<v Speaker 2>if I only knew it's just ten days. And so

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<v Speaker 2>the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called Mount

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<v Speaker 2>of Olives, Sabbath days walk from the city. When they arrived,

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<v Speaker 2>they went upstairs to the where they were staying. Those

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<v Speaker 2>present were.

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<v Speaker 1>Peter.

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

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<v Speaker 2>But notice who's not there Jesus. The last time they

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus is always with me. I can see somebody clipping

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<v Speaker 2>this right now and saying, Stephen Verdick said that Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>was not with the disciples. I don't see his name

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<v Speaker 2>on the list. He doesn't have a physical body at

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

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<v Speaker 2>That's what they're used to and all of a sudden

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<v Speaker 2>they're joining together constantly in prayer, along with the women

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<v Speaker 2>marry mother of Jesus's brothers.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>One is that everything is messy that makes a great story.

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<v Speaker 2>The second is something is missing, something is missing, and

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<v Speaker 2>whenever you see a great story. One of my favorite

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<v Speaker 2>shows that ever came on Netflix or I don't remember

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<v Speaker 2>the original network, but the opening scene of the series,

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<v Speaker 2>you see a pair of khaki pants fly through the air,

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<v Speaker 2>and then the next scene you see a guy in

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<v Speaker 2>his whitey tidies behind the wheel of an RV with

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<v Speaker 2>a gas mask on. And I got to know, how

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<v Speaker 2>did he end up in his whitey tidies, How did

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<v Speaker 2>his khaki pants fly through the air? Who's pants are these?

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<v Speaker 2>Why is there a gas mask? What's going on on

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<v Speaker 2>this show right now? And I gotta watch because it's

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<v Speaker 2>messy and there's something missing.

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<v Speaker 1>Is it possible.

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<v Speaker 2>That the messiness in your life right now, and the

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<v Speaker 2>missing thing in your life right now is the birthplace

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<v Speaker 2>of a story that is just about ready to unfold

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

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible says, in those days Peter. In those days,

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

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<v Speaker 2>a moment to appreciate the beauty of the moment that

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<v Speaker 2>Peter is standing among the believers. And maybe you wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate the beauty of this moment if you didn't read

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<v Speaker 2>Luke's other book. In Luke's other book, we see Peter

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<v Speaker 2>when Jesus was going to the cross to be accused.

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<v Speaker 1>And condemned and hung and mocked and whipped.

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<v Speaker 2>And as Peter is watching Jesus go to the cross,

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<v Speaker 2>I want to show you this in Luke's other book,

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<v Speaker 2>A Gospel of Luke, Chapter twenty two, verse number Way

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<v Speaker 2>down here, there's a long chapter Luke. There's a long

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<v Speaker 2>chapter Luke where he lets us know that when some there,

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<v Speaker 2>as Jesus is going into the court of Caiaphas to

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<v Speaker 2>be tried, when some there had kindled a fire in

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<v Speaker 2>the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together,

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<v Speaker 2>Peter sat down with them. So, now do you understand

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<v Speaker 2>why it's so amazing that by the time Luke writes

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<v Speaker 2>his sequel, tell somebody next to you wait till you

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<v Speaker 2>see the sequel, because by the time we get to.

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<v Speaker 1>The sequel, the same Peter, I love it too.

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<v Speaker 2>This gives me hope because there's been times in my

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<v Speaker 2>life where I sat down by the fire. There's been

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<v Speaker 2>times in my life where I.

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<v Speaker 1>Compromised my convictions.

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<v Speaker 2>There's been times in my life where I denied Christ

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<v Speaker 2>with my actions, even though my lips said that I

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<v Speaker 2>loved him. But in Endy, good to see Peter, who

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<v Speaker 2>in Luke twenty two point fifty five was sitting by

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<v Speaker 2>the fire. And the Bible says, the Bible says, the

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<v Speaker 2>Bible says, I don't care what your past says.

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<v Speaker 1>The Bible says.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't care what Bartholomew thinks about it.

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<v Speaker 1>The Bible says.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't care what the accuser of the brethren says.

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<v Speaker 2>The Bible says, in those days, Peter stood up among

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<v Speaker 2>the believers.

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<v Speaker 1>So watch this.

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<v Speaker 2>Now we've got the one who was sitting by the fire,

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

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<v Speaker 1>The word of the Lord. I'll speak a.

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<v Speaker 2>New sequel over your life. I'll speak a new season

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<v Speaker 2>over your life. I speak character development.

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<v Speaker 1>Over your life.

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<v Speaker 5>I'll see someone who was sitting down last night, sitting.

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<v Speaker 1>Down in front of a computer watching porn. But God

0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:06.800
<v Speaker 1>brought you to stand, you up on your feet, to.

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<v Speaker 5>Brace God today.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a story.

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<v Speaker 2>Whyah my story. My story doesn't end with me sitting

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<v Speaker 2>by this fire. My story doesn't end with me sitting

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<v Speaker 2>in this failure. My story doesn't end with me crying

0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:31.520
<v Speaker 2>over who left. My story doesn't end with my weak

0:30:31.640 --> 0:30:35.520
<v Speaker 2>moment causing me to relapse. My story doesn't end with

0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:37.280
<v Speaker 2>the fear telling me to stay out.

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<v Speaker 1>My story has a sequel. Tell if you got a sequel. Bro, Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>this is the sequel. I fought your neighbors.

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<v Speaker 2>Say it's a sequel, Baby, this is a sequel.

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<v Speaker 5>I was sitting in the last scene. But wait till

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<v Speaker 5>you see my sequel. Wait till you see this sequel.

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<v Speaker 5>Because the best stories are born in the messiest moments.

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<v Speaker 5>Give him a messy Hallelujah.

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<v Speaker 2>Give him a hard thought, Hallelujah. Give him a heart

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<v Speaker 2>felt Hallelujah.

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<v Speaker 1>Give him a been through.

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<v Speaker 5>Helen came out on fire, Hallelujah.

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<v Speaker 4>I am.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel the Holy ghost because my mind said it

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<v Speaker 2>was over. But I got a ghostwriter. My mind said

0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:44.320
<v Speaker 2>it was over. But I got a ghostwrider, and when

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<v Speaker 2>the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you will be my witness.

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

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<v Speaker 5>stand up, Peter, stand up, stand up.

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<v Speaker 1>If you got a story, stand up. If you've been through.

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<v Speaker 5>The waters, stand up, and me watched you clean stand up?

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<v Speaker 1>How did he stand up out of that failure? He

0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:25.040
<v Speaker 1>had help. Somebody holler, I got help. Put it in

0:32:25.120 --> 0:32:25.680
<v Speaker 1>the comments.

0:32:25.760 --> 0:32:28.840
<v Speaker 2>I got help. Let me tell you about the helper

0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:31.600
<v Speaker 2>called the Holy Ghost. He's a ghost writer, and the

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

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<v Speaker 2>you are not without comfort. Five seconds from now here

0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:38.800
<v Speaker 2>comes to comfort.

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<v Speaker 1>Or somebody say, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Have Helphi give me clarity, because the Bible says that

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<v Speaker 2>he is my God.

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<v Speaker 1>I got a guide. Somebody shot, I got a guide.

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

0:32:50.640 --> 0:32:52.360
<v Speaker 2>and he is not here with us today, we have

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<v Speaker 2>something on the inside that's letting us know he's more

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<v Speaker 2>real than what I can see.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's a baptizer.

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<v Speaker 2>Anybody been baptized by the Holy Spirit, anybody been immersed

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<v Speaker 2>in his mercy?

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<v Speaker 1>To let you know it's not over.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a he's a baptizer. Oh, I got so much

0:33:18.920 --> 0:33:23.240
<v Speaker 2>to say about the Holy Spirit. He's an advocate. Yeah,

0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:26.240
<v Speaker 2>he's an interpreter. Help you make sense out of your life.

0:33:26.800 --> 0:33:28.840
<v Speaker 2>Help you sit down with stuff and say, God, show

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<v Speaker 2>me my childhood from your perspective, Show me why I

0:33:33.280 --> 0:33:36.720
<v Speaker 2>went through it from your perspective. I know what people

0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:38.719
<v Speaker 2>would say about it. What do you say about it?

0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:44.360
<v Speaker 2>I got a ghostwriter. It's not your story. It's not

0:33:44.480 --> 0:33:46.520
<v Speaker 2>your story. Tell your neighbor. I'm sorry, but it's not

0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:50.040
<v Speaker 2>your story. Now point up and clarify. I say it's

0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:54.280
<v Speaker 2>his story, and he's gonna help me tell it. And

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<v Speaker 2>wait till you see my sequel. Now look at him

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

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<v Speaker 2>you're a page turning out, blow it a.

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<v Speaker 1>Down in the highest All right, y'all sit down.

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<v Speaker 2>Peter stood up. What did he say? What did he say?

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<v Speaker 2>Peter stood up in front of the whole group. I

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<v Speaker 2>gotta show you this. Oh, this is gonna help you

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<v Speaker 2>because I see somebody today it's like God is doing

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<v Speaker 2>this because he's getting ready to do this. If you

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<v Speaker 2>don't think it's too gross.

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<v Speaker 6>Just do it real quick.

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<v Speaker 1>That put that finger lick emoji thing on the chat

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<v Speaker 1>on YouTube.

0:34:46.320 --> 0:34:50.719
<v Speaker 2>I got one of those, and just just prophetically what

0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:51.719
<v Speaker 2>God is about to do.

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<v Speaker 1>Now watch this, watch this.

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<v Speaker 2>If we did to Peter what the enemy does to us,

0:34:56.400 --> 0:35:04.200
<v Speaker 2>we'd be doing this. But you ain't gonna find God

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<v Speaker 2>back there because he is not here.

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<v Speaker 1>He has risen. You get it, You get it?

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<v Speaker 2>Shall I belabor the point? Don't look at me in

0:35:17.840 --> 0:35:20.880
<v Speaker 2>Luke twenty two. I'm not in Luke twenty two anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the sequel. And I love the Lord because

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<v Speaker 2>he has been preparing Peter for this moment. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>even Peter's failure was an opportunity for him to receive

0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:35.839
<v Speaker 2>grace so that he could strengthen his brothers. And I'm

0:35:35.880 --> 0:35:38.080
<v Speaker 2>about to show you something that was so powerful. When

0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:42.360
<v Speaker 2>I saw it, I argued with God, Should I preach it? Now?

0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:45.040
<v Speaker 2>A really good word from God will shut you up

0:35:45.080 --> 0:35:48.600
<v Speaker 2>sometimes sometimes make it shout, and sometimes be like, I

0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:49.640
<v Speaker 2>gotta think about that.

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

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<v Speaker 1>You're telling me, You're telling me that I can be

0:35:57.560 --> 0:35:59.839
<v Speaker 1>free from this. You tell me, I got to think

0:35:59.840 --> 0:36:00.479
<v Speaker 1>of about that.

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<v Speaker 2>You're telling me that I have the same Holy Spirit

0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:05.880
<v Speaker 2>that the apostles I got. It I got because I

0:36:05.920 --> 0:36:07.719
<v Speaker 2>sure don't feel like much of an apostle.

0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:11.319
<v Speaker 1>And then you got.

0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:16.759
<v Speaker 2>Peter stood up, said, brothers and sisters, now this is

0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:22.360
<v Speaker 2>going to make you mad. He said, the scripture had

0:36:22.480 --> 0:36:27.879
<v Speaker 2>to be fulfilled. That doesn't make you mad. This will

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<v Speaker 2>which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas.

0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:39.040
<v Speaker 2>It's bad enough that we don't have Jesus with us,

0:36:40.480 --> 0:36:43.640
<v Speaker 2>and we got to talk about Judas. And Peter's like, yeah,

0:36:43.719 --> 0:36:48.200
<v Speaker 2>let's talk about Judas. We've got to do something about

0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:52.799
<v Speaker 2>the void that Judas left in this ministry. So Peter

0:36:52.880 --> 0:36:56.280
<v Speaker 2>points back to a scripture and he begins to explain

0:36:56.280 --> 0:36:59.200
<v Speaker 2>something about Judas. How Judas served as a guide for

0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:04.640
<v Speaker 2>those who arrested Jesus. He served as a guide for

0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:08.160
<v Speaker 2>those who arrested Jesus. He was one of our number

0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:09.360
<v Speaker 2>and shared in our ministry.

0:37:09.360 --> 0:37:13.080
<v Speaker 1>We don't like to claim him because he betrayed our Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>At this point, there is a period and Luke inserts

0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:22.840
<v Speaker 2>a parenthesis to let us know an important detail. With

0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:25.400
<v Speaker 2>the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field.

0:37:25.600 --> 0:37:26.759
<v Speaker 1>There he fell headlong.

0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:32.040
<v Speaker 2>His body burst open, and all his intestines spilled out.

0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:33.839
<v Speaker 1>Everyone in Jerusalem heard about it.

0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:36.200
<v Speaker 2>They called that field in their language a caldom of

0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:38.799
<v Speaker 2>that is field of blood. Why did he put this

0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:47.360
<v Speaker 2>part in Because all the best stories are born in

0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:52.160
<v Speaker 2>the messiest moments. And as the Church, the body of Christ,

0:37:52.239 --> 0:37:57.120
<v Speaker 2>is being born, we see the body of Judas that

0:37:57.239 --> 0:38:01.600
<v Speaker 2>burst open. Nowt out to you, because don't you think

0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:04.720
<v Speaker 2>if you had one book to tell the whole story

0:38:04.760 --> 0:38:07.440
<v Speaker 2>of the spread of Christianity all through the Roman Empire,

0:38:08.600 --> 0:38:12.800
<v Speaker 2>you only put in what's important and something he wanted

0:38:12.880 --> 0:38:15.040
<v Speaker 2>us to know. By the way, Luke is a medical doctor,

0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:17.840
<v Speaker 2>so he's into intestines and stuff.

0:38:17.880 --> 0:38:19.920
<v Speaker 1>Apparently he's like, oh yeah, just one, a little thing.

0:38:20.000 --> 0:38:22.399
<v Speaker 1>His intestines burst open and spelled out.

0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:26.000
<v Speaker 2>Because I want you to know that as something is

0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:30.440
<v Speaker 2>being born in your life, something else will be bursting

0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:32.400
<v Speaker 2>out and it will be messy.

0:38:32.480 --> 0:38:36.200
<v Speaker 1>But watch this. This is the word. It's a necessary mess.

0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:40.400
<v Speaker 1>It's a necessary mess.

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<v Speaker 2>Two types of messes in our house, the one Holly

0:38:44.200 --> 0:38:48.000
<v Speaker 2>makes while she's cooking and the one the kids make

0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:49.840
<v Speaker 2>after we go to bed, and we find in the

0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:52.280
<v Speaker 2>morning and find them ten dollars. We have a system

0:38:52.320 --> 0:38:57.680
<v Speaker 2>for this because her mess is feeding us, and their

0:38:57.840 --> 0:39:04.320
<v Speaker 2>mess is completely unnecess Come on, and there's a difference

0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:07.360
<v Speaker 2>between the one who is cooking something and makes a

0:39:07.440 --> 0:39:10.760
<v Speaker 2>mess and the one who doesn't know how to clean anything.

0:39:11.320 --> 0:39:13.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna get off this real quick because my kids

0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:14.920
<v Speaker 2>don't want that side of me to come out in

0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:18.279
<v Speaker 2>the pulpit, and neither do you. Because there are some

0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:21.479
<v Speaker 2>messes that are unnecessary. But the Lord said I would

0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:24.640
<v Speaker 2>be speaking to somebody today. The Holy Spirit showed me

0:39:24.680 --> 0:39:27.640
<v Speaker 2>that we would be speaking in this series about some

0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:30.120
<v Speaker 2>necessary messes in your life.

0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:33.400
<v Speaker 1>That it's a mess right now. But it is not

0:39:33.560 --> 0:39:36.200
<v Speaker 1>because God forgot where to put things.

0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:39.520
<v Speaker 2>It is not because God has left you. It's messy

0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:43.400
<v Speaker 2>right now. Something's missing right now. It doesn't make sense

0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:47.239
<v Speaker 2>right now, but it is a necessary mess for the

0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:48.680
<v Speaker 2>Holy Spirit to come.

0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:52.399
<v Speaker 1>Judas had to go. I will prove it to you.

0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:57.280
<v Speaker 2>Peter says that it was written in Psalms when David

0:39:57.360 --> 0:40:01.920
<v Speaker 2>wrote about Judas, and he mentions how Judas see the

0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:07.880
<v Speaker 2>language served as a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:14.080
<v Speaker 2>Now in our story, the fact that Judas led Jesus

0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:17.600
<v Speaker 2>to be arrested makes him.

0:40:17.920 --> 0:40:18.520
<v Speaker 1>Let's write it.

0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:29.680
<v Speaker 2>Judas is the the villain. Right, you sell Jesus for

0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:32.440
<v Speaker 2>thirty pieces of silver. They take him to the cross,

0:40:32.520 --> 0:40:35.120
<v Speaker 2>just when he's at the height of his ministry. Judas

0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:37.160
<v Speaker 2>is the villain. And by the way, I thank God

0:40:37.200 --> 0:40:39.880
<v Speaker 2>for the Holy Spirit because I was practicing this sermon

0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:42.400
<v Speaker 2>this morning and I was spelling villain wrong, and the

0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:44.960
<v Speaker 2>Holy Ghost told me go get your dictionary app and

0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:47.360
<v Speaker 2>I realized that the a comes before the eye and

0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:49.640
<v Speaker 2>I didn't have to learn it on YouTube. Let's thank

0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:54.560
<v Speaker 2>the Holy Spirit for the ghost writer. I'll tell you

0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:57.120
<v Speaker 2>I wrote it fifteen times. I was practicing this sermon

0:40:57.400 --> 0:40:58.759
<v Speaker 2>and it was like, that doesn't look right.

0:40:58.760 --> 0:40:59.440
<v Speaker 1>I don't know about that.

0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:01.680
<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Holy Spirit, keep me from making a fool

0:41:01.680 --> 0:41:06.880
<v Speaker 2>out of myself. And so he's the villain. But Peter said,

0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:13.200
<v Speaker 2>Peter said something very interesting. He said he served as

0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:19.719
<v Speaker 2>a guide for those who arrested Jesus. Because it's been

0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:25.920
<v Speaker 2>forty five days now as the story is unfolding, Judas

0:41:26.000 --> 0:41:30.719
<v Speaker 2>is the villain. He is the one betraying Jesus. But

0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:35.120
<v Speaker 2>it's been forty five days and Jesus has given instructions

0:41:35.160 --> 0:41:40.319
<v Speaker 2>now and they have spent time with the ghostwriter. Now

0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:44.759
<v Speaker 2>Peter sees it a little differently. He says, it had

0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:50.600
<v Speaker 2>to be it had to be fulfilled. We thought Judas

0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:54.840
<v Speaker 2>was the villain, and from one standpoint, he is. But

0:41:54.960 --> 0:41:58.000
<v Speaker 2>it had to be fulfilled because he was the guide

0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:03.320
<v Speaker 2>that got Jesus arrests, and Jesus had to be arrested

0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:08.560
<v Speaker 2>in order to be accused, and he had to be

0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:13.759
<v Speaker 2>accused in order to be sentenced, and he had to

0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:18.759
<v Speaker 2>be sentenced in order to be sacrificed. And he had

0:42:18.840 --> 0:42:22.920
<v Speaker 2>to be sacrificed in order to be buried, and he

0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:27.239
<v Speaker 2>had to be buried in order to be raised, and

0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:30.600
<v Speaker 2>he had to be raised in order that you could

0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:34.239
<v Speaker 2>be saved. So now what I see? Get ready to

0:42:34.239 --> 0:42:37.560
<v Speaker 2>shout about this? You want to shout about something. Judas

0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:45.120
<v Speaker 2>wasn't the villain. Judas was the vessel. And God says,

0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:49.239
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready now, lorded that what you've been calling the

0:42:49.360 --> 0:42:53.040
<v Speaker 2>villain of your story, the thing that you think came.

0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:53.520
<v Speaker 1>To kill you.

0:42:53.960 --> 0:42:57.840
<v Speaker 5>Oh no, God said, I sit down as a vessel

0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:00.080
<v Speaker 5>to deliver my grain.

0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:04.239
<v Speaker 1>In your life. There is something in your life. Are

0:43:04.280 --> 0:43:05.040
<v Speaker 1>you ready for this?

0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:08.600
<v Speaker 2>Not everybody can handle this level of preaching because we

0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:11.560
<v Speaker 2>need Judas to be the villain. We think everything that

0:43:11.680 --> 0:43:14.759
<v Speaker 2>hurts comes from hell, but some of the stuff that

0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:19.360
<v Speaker 2>hurt me didn't come from hell. David said, it was

0:43:19.480 --> 0:43:22.279
<v Speaker 2>good for me that I was afflicted. Some of the

0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:26.240
<v Speaker 2>stuff that hurt me humbled me. It humbled me because

0:43:26.360 --> 0:43:30.120
<v Speaker 2>God said, if you'll be humble in my sight, at

0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:37.040
<v Speaker 2>due time, I will lift you. So now let me preach.

0:43:38.560 --> 0:43:43.640
<v Speaker 2>It's not a movie. It's an episode. It's an episode.

0:43:44.520 --> 0:43:47.600
<v Speaker 2>You think this is the end of your story, but

0:43:47.760 --> 0:43:51.960
<v Speaker 2>you forgot something. This is a page turner. This is

0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:55.879
<v Speaker 2>a page turner. Get ready for this because in your

0:43:55.920 --> 0:43:59.600
<v Speaker 2>life right now, there is somebody who is waiting to

0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:02.759
<v Speaker 2>see if you're gonna keep going. After you've been through

0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:06.960
<v Speaker 2>what you've been through, there's somebody you know what. Your

0:44:07.040 --> 0:44:10.720
<v Speaker 2>life is a page turner. Your grand babies are waiting

0:44:10.760 --> 0:44:14.360
<v Speaker 2>to see how this turns out. Will you go back

0:44:15.160 --> 0:44:18.399
<v Speaker 2>or will you go forward? Will you stay in Luke

0:44:18.440 --> 0:44:22.120
<v Speaker 2>twenty two or will you stand up by the spirit

0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:30.440
<v Speaker 2>of the God who's saved you. Don't tell me this

0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:32.680
<v Speaker 2>is a fairy tale.

0:44:32.880 --> 0:44:36.000
<v Speaker 1>It's real. In my life, I've.

0:44:35.880 --> 0:44:39.360
<v Speaker 2>Watched people die and praise God with their last breath,

0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:44.560
<v Speaker 2>and the story still wasn't over. I'll tell you about

0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:47.560
<v Speaker 2>an encounter I had in a bookstore with a lady

0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:51.840
<v Speaker 2>named Bianca. She wandered into the bookstore and had prayed

0:44:51.880 --> 0:44:55.279
<v Speaker 2>that morning, I need a sign God, I need a

0:44:55.480 --> 0:44:58.960
<v Speaker 2>sign God. She was leaving her house for the first

0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:02.759
<v Speaker 2>time in weeks. She saw me and I was over

0:45:02.800 --> 0:45:05.600
<v Speaker 2>there in the Christian living section, checking did they have

0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:09.319
<v Speaker 2>my book on the shelf. I wish I could say

0:45:09.360 --> 0:45:11.960
<v Speaker 2>I went to pray for people or learn something, but

0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:13.280
<v Speaker 2>I was on a different mission.

0:45:15.280 --> 0:45:17.280
<v Speaker 1>She walks over and says Pastor.

0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:21.480
<v Speaker 2>I said yes. She said, I don't mean to bother you.

0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:23.640
<v Speaker 2>I said, it's not a bother. She said, I'm Bianca.

0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:26.360
<v Speaker 2>I said, Hi, Bianca. She said, I just kind of

0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:30.919
<v Speaker 2>can't believe what I'm seeing right now because I've had

0:45:31.680 --> 0:45:34.960
<v Speaker 2>I've had a really hard time the last few years,

0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:37.600
<v Speaker 2>and I have all but quit on God.

0:45:38.760 --> 0:45:39.920
<v Speaker 1>And the worst part.

0:45:39.760 --> 0:45:42.960
<v Speaker 2>Is I moved to Charlotte to go to Elevation Church

0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:47.759
<v Speaker 2>and I haven't been since quarantine.

0:45:47.960 --> 0:45:51.120
<v Speaker 1>But today I said, I'm going to get out of

0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:53.120
<v Speaker 1>the house and I'm going to make.

0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:57.800
<v Speaker 2>An appointment to have a facial and I'm going to

0:45:57.880 --> 0:45:59.480
<v Speaker 2>go to the bookstore and I'm going to do one

0:45:59.480 --> 0:46:04.319
<v Speaker 2>thing physical, one thing spiritual. And I said, God, if

0:46:04.360 --> 0:46:07.120
<v Speaker 2>I go out today and I don't get a sign

0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:10.160
<v Speaker 2>that you're still with me, I don't know if I

0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:10.799
<v Speaker 2>can make it.

0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:14.240
<v Speaker 1>Two miscarriages in three years.

0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:18.400
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I can make it marriage, barely

0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:20.960
<v Speaker 2>hanging on because of how low I am at the

0:46:20.960 --> 0:46:22.640
<v Speaker 2>bottom of these feelings.

0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:24.000
<v Speaker 1>Don't know if I can make it.

0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:27.560
<v Speaker 2>But if God, you will give me a sign today,

0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:31.479
<v Speaker 2>I said, Bianca, what about the sign that you moved

0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:32.600
<v Speaker 2>to Charlotte.

0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:33.160
<v Speaker 1>To come to Elevation.

0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.440
<v Speaker 2>And God brought somebody else who moved to Charlotte to

0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:43.279
<v Speaker 2>go to Elevation to this bookstore. I don't want to

0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:45.040
<v Speaker 2>give them by name because they're not sponsoring me, and

0:46:45.040 --> 0:46:57.279
<v Speaker 2>they didn't have my book to this bookstore. And she said, well,

0:46:57.320 --> 0:47:00.480
<v Speaker 2>I came over here to buy a book. Can you

0:47:00.560 --> 0:47:06.000
<v Speaker 2>recommend a good one for me? I said absolutely, I'll

0:47:06.040 --> 0:47:09.720
<v Speaker 2>buy you two. If the first one doesn't work, surely

0:47:09.800 --> 0:47:10.799
<v Speaker 2>the second one will.

0:47:11.640 --> 0:47:12.959
<v Speaker 1>And if neither of them are.

0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:15.880
<v Speaker 2>Good, I paid for him, so you can't complain, Bianca,

0:47:16.280 --> 0:47:19.560
<v Speaker 2>this is your sign, This is your side. This is

0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:25.200
<v Speaker 2>your side, This is your side. I thought it was

0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:27.440
<v Speaker 2>real funny because I bought her a Joyce Meyer.

0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:28.720
<v Speaker 1>Book and signed at Stephen Verdick.

0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:35.879
<v Speaker 2>And then she turned to me before we left and said,

0:47:35.920 --> 0:47:37.880
<v Speaker 2>one more thing. You've done so much, and I don't

0:47:37.920 --> 0:47:40.760
<v Speaker 2>mean to ask for more, but do you have anything

0:47:40.800 --> 0:47:44.880
<v Speaker 2>to say to me that might help me to believe

0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:47.319
<v Speaker 2>that God has not done with me? And I had

0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:49.640
<v Speaker 2>no idea what to say to her, because what do

0:47:49.800 --> 0:47:54.120
<v Speaker 2>you say? You don't say a cookie cutter Christianese raised

0:47:54.120 --> 0:47:56.640
<v Speaker 2>that rhymes and sounds like hickory dickory dot.

0:47:56.800 --> 0:48:04.280
<v Speaker 1>It takes all you got. What do you say?

0:48:05.000 --> 0:48:09.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm thankful that I had help in that moment. You know,

0:48:09.440 --> 0:48:11.399
<v Speaker 2>the Holy Spirit will help you know what to say,

0:48:12.280 --> 0:48:14.280
<v Speaker 2>to say to your kid, to say to your wife,

0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:17.000
<v Speaker 2>to say to yourself, the say to your accuser, to

0:48:17.000 --> 0:48:18.160
<v Speaker 2>say to your shame.

0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.160
<v Speaker 1>To say to your mountain. I'll tell you what to

0:48:21.200 --> 0:48:21.960
<v Speaker 1>say to your mountain.

0:48:22.400 --> 0:48:24.799
<v Speaker 2>Move. I don't feel like climbing the day and I

0:48:24.840 --> 0:48:25.960
<v Speaker 2>don't I'm hiking shoes.

0:48:26.280 --> 0:48:31.440
<v Speaker 1>Get it out of my way. Move somebody shall move.

0:48:32.680 --> 0:48:33.799
<v Speaker 1>God's not through with you.

0:48:34.960 --> 0:48:37.360
<v Speaker 2>I reached and grabbed one more book off the shelf,

0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:40.279
<v Speaker 2>and the Holy Spirit gave me something to share.

0:48:40.320 --> 0:48:42.200
<v Speaker 1>I shared it last year, but y'all forgot it.

0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:47.319
<v Speaker 2>I reached and got a book and I just held it,

0:48:48.040 --> 0:48:50.520
<v Speaker 2>and where I held it was about right in the middle.

0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:53.480
<v Speaker 2>And I looked at her and said, Bianca, I'm so

0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:56.920
<v Speaker 2>sorry what you suffered. I'm so sorry how it's hurt you.

0:48:57.480 --> 0:48:59.279
<v Speaker 2>I have no words to say that can make the

0:48:59.320 --> 0:49:01.920
<v Speaker 2>miscarriages go away. I have no words to say that

0:49:02.000 --> 0:49:05.000
<v Speaker 2>can guarantee the next result. I have no prophetic word

0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:08.200
<v Speaker 2>from the Lord. But I feel like the Lord.

0:49:07.960 --> 0:49:11.400
<v Speaker 1>Wants you to know that your life is a story

0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:14.480
<v Speaker 1>he's telling, and you're.

0:49:14.400 --> 0:49:28.520
<v Speaker 2>Only this far in, your only, this far in your

0:49:29.520 --> 0:49:35.200
<v Speaker 2>only tell your neighbor this far in y'all, I preached

0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:43.360
<v Speaker 2>all this and it's just acts chapter one, Your only.

0:49:43.719 --> 0:49:47.200
<v Speaker 2>The devil wants you to think that this scene is this,

0:49:48.520 --> 0:49:53.360
<v Speaker 2>and it's not this. God is just getting started. In

0:49:53.480 --> 0:49:58.759
<v Speaker 2>my former book, Theofholos, come on tap your neighbors say,

0:49:58.760 --> 0:50:02.560
<v Speaker 2>can I call you Theophilis. In my last book, I

0:50:02.640 --> 0:50:05.279
<v Speaker 2>wrote about all that Jesus began to do.

0:50:06.280 --> 0:50:13.400
<v Speaker 1>But he's just getting started. He's just getting started.

0:50:13.800 --> 0:50:16.759
<v Speaker 2>Because when the Holy Ghost comes upon you you will

0:50:16.800 --> 0:50:20.120
<v Speaker 2>have power. When the Holy Ghost comes. He will guide

0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:23.200
<v Speaker 2>you into all truth. When the Holy Ghost comes, you

0:50:23.239 --> 0:50:26.280
<v Speaker 2>will stand up straight where you used to sit in shame.

0:50:26.600 --> 0:50:33.160
<v Speaker 2>When the Holy Ghost comes upon you, He's a baptizer.

0:50:34.440 --> 0:50:37.920
<v Speaker 2>The Holy Ghost is a corrector. The Holy Ghost is

0:50:37.920 --> 0:50:41.839
<v Speaker 2>a comforter, and the Holy Ghost is.

0:50:41.800 --> 0:50:51.799
<v Speaker 1>A page turner. And if your life.

0:50:53.560 --> 0:50:58.719
<v Speaker 2>Is a story God is telling, like Peter's life is

0:50:58.760 --> 0:51:02.239
<v Speaker 2>a story that God was telling, like the Gospel is

0:51:02.280 --> 0:51:06.040
<v Speaker 2>the story that God is always telling, that dead things rise,

0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:11.600
<v Speaker 2>that sins can be forgiven, that new beginnings are possible.

0:51:13.320 --> 0:51:16.279
<v Speaker 2>You look at your life from your point of view.

0:51:17.800 --> 0:51:22.560
<v Speaker 2>You called Judas the villain, heartbreak the villain. You are

0:51:22.600 --> 0:51:27.560
<v Speaker 2>tempted in this moment to close the book and go back.

0:51:31.400 --> 0:51:34.600
<v Speaker 1>But the Holy Ghost, the Spirit.

0:51:34.320 --> 0:51:38.799
<v Speaker 2>Of God, is a page turner who does not leave

0:51:38.840 --> 0:51:44.760
<v Speaker 2>me in Luke twenty two, but brings me to Acts

0:51:45.320 --> 0:51:48.480
<v Speaker 2>chapter one.

0:51:52.000 --> 0:51:53.120
<v Speaker 1>So welcome.

0:51:55.600 --> 0:52:02.719
<v Speaker 2>To the next chapter, Bianca, Welcome to the sequel, Theophilus.

0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:06.400
<v Speaker 1>Welcome Peter, y'all. Peter.

0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:09.920
<v Speaker 2>What touched me so much reading this was to realize

0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:14.520
<v Speaker 2>Peter could have been dead right there alongside Judas. They

0:52:14.560 --> 0:52:19.719
<v Speaker 2>both failed Jesus. The difference between Peter and Judas. Wasn't

0:52:19.760 --> 0:52:23.040
<v Speaker 2>what they did or didn't do. They both messed up.

0:52:24.239 --> 0:52:31.759
<v Speaker 2>It's that Peter was a page turner. Okay God, okay God.

0:52:31.880 --> 0:52:35.160
<v Speaker 1>That happened. That happened. That happened.

0:52:35.160 --> 0:52:39.919
<v Speaker 2>Now, Holy Spirit, I ask you, I I adjure you,

0:52:40.000 --> 0:52:42.759
<v Speaker 2>I commission you, by the grace of God that has

0:52:42.800 --> 0:52:45.920
<v Speaker 2>given to me, sit with the Holy Spirit this week.

0:52:46.800 --> 0:52:49.240
<v Speaker 2>How do I do that? Pastor, I've never done that before.

0:52:49.400 --> 0:52:52.040
<v Speaker 2>It is as simple as you sitting down with the

0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:55.280
<v Speaker 2>page of the scripture. Sit down with the same scripture

0:52:55.360 --> 0:53:00.000
<v Speaker 2>I read today. Take your Bible, open it to acts

0:53:00.880 --> 0:53:06.319
<v Speaker 2>and say, Lord, Holy Spirit, speak to me, show me,

0:53:07.920 --> 0:53:12.920
<v Speaker 2>show me your lens on my life, because I'm looking

0:53:12.920 --> 0:53:16.480
<v Speaker 2>through my lens and it doesn't make sense. I'm looking

0:53:16.520 --> 0:53:18.600
<v Speaker 2>through my lens and I'm a single mom and I'm

0:53:18.600 --> 0:53:20.400
<v Speaker 2>not going to be able to give this child what

0:53:20.440 --> 0:53:23.120
<v Speaker 2>they need to grow up with a strong family presence.

0:53:23.120 --> 0:53:25.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking through my lens and I don't have.

0:53:25.320 --> 0:53:27.879
<v Speaker 2>Enough to do this, and yet you gave me the opportunity.

0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:31.880
<v Speaker 1>And why did you call God, God, give me your lens,

0:53:33.520 --> 0:53:36.080
<v Speaker 1>the lens of your spirit.

0:53:38.000 --> 0:53:44.520
<v Speaker 2>Peter, who was sitting by a fire, stood up among

0:53:44.560 --> 0:53:45.960
<v Speaker 2>the disciples.

0:53:47.120 --> 0:53:48.239
<v Speaker 1>In those days.

0:53:49.880 --> 0:53:55.120
<v Speaker 2>In between the space of Jesus the Savior rising from

0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:56.760
<v Speaker 2>the grave and the Spirit of God.

0:53:56.600 --> 0:54:01.520
<v Speaker 1>Come in, not knowing how long they would wait. He

0:54:01.560 --> 0:54:05.960
<v Speaker 1>acknowledged the mess and the uncertainty, and he says some

0:54:06.200 --> 0:54:14.440
<v Speaker 1>very powerful words. For it is written that is what

0:54:14.560 --> 0:54:17.040
<v Speaker 1>is going to tell you what to do next.

0:54:18.080 --> 0:54:25.160
<v Speaker 3>It is written in the book of Psalm, may his

0:54:25.320 --> 0:54:28.960
<v Speaker 3>place be deserted, let there be no one to dwell

0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:29.239
<v Speaker 3>in it.

0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:31.240
<v Speaker 1>That is a direct quote.

0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:37.920
<v Speaker 2>From Psalm sixty nine, verse twenty five. And everybody say,

0:54:38.040 --> 0:54:43.600
<v Speaker 2>and may another take his place of leadership? Wow, So

0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:46.200
<v Speaker 2>he said it was written in Psalm sixty nine to

0:54:46.280 --> 0:54:49.440
<v Speaker 2>twenty five that Judas was going to leave. That's what

0:54:49.480 --> 0:54:52.759
<v Speaker 2>God was talking about all those years ago, and is

0:54:52.800 --> 0:54:57.000
<v Speaker 2>happening in our situation. And see if you stop there,

0:54:57.120 --> 0:54:59.040
<v Speaker 2>May his place be deserted. Let there be no one

0:54:59.040 --> 0:55:02.040
<v Speaker 2>to dwell in it. Hopeless, we don't have what we need.

0:55:02.080 --> 0:55:04.000
<v Speaker 2>We can't move forward. Jesus is gone.

0:55:04.160 --> 0:55:06.480
<v Speaker 1>We don't know. It is the power of this.

0:55:06.719 --> 0:55:13.479
<v Speaker 2>And because Peter said in Psalm sixty nine twenty five

0:55:13.560 --> 0:55:16.319
<v Speaker 2>that says, may his place be deserted, let there be

0:55:16.400 --> 0:55:20.359
<v Speaker 2>no one to dwell in it. But in Psalm one

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<v Speaker 2>oh nine, verse eight, it says, may another take his.

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<v Speaker 1>Place of leadership.

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<v Speaker 2>I prophesy another over your life today, another chapter, another victory,

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<v Speaker 2>another testimony, another one, another, one another, one another one.

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<v Speaker 2>And you don't get this kind of wisdom.

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<v Speaker 1>Unless you're a page turner.

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<v Speaker 2>You got to get in here and start to see

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<v Speaker 2>what God says about you about your life and ask him,

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<v Speaker 2>Holy Spirit, speak to me. That's what I write at

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<v Speaker 2>the top of my notes every time I read the Bible.

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<v Speaker 1>Holy Spirit, speak to me from this scripture.

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<v Speaker 2>Because if I don't, I think Judas was the villain

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<v Speaker 2>when really he's the vessel. I'll think that the rejection

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<v Speaker 2>was a curse, when really it was a blessing to

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<v Speaker 2>make more space in my life for what God has next.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll think that the problem is permanent and the faith

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<v Speaker 2>is temporary, and I will not know that the faith

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<v Speaker 2>was meant to remain and the problem came to pass.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you that God can speak over your situation,

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<v Speaker 2>but you need the ghost writer. So you stop telling

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<v Speaker 2>yourself there's a period where there's a comma, So you

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<v Speaker 2>stop telling yourself that because you're messy, God can't give

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<v Speaker 2>you a ministry, the devil is a liar, and the

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<v Speaker 2>Holy Ghost is true.

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<v Speaker 1>Somebody say I'm a page turner.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not saying I never sat by the fire. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not saying I never made a mess. I'm not saying

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<v Speaker 2>I never messed it up. I'm just saying the devil

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<v Speaker 2>starts lying you this week.

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<v Speaker 1>Just go.

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<v Speaker 2>You could do it suddenly. You could do it in

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<v Speaker 2>the conference room. Nobody will even know.

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<v Speaker 6>Just go, because this story is just getting started.

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<v Speaker 1>You're only this far in. Next week, I'm gonna pick

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<v Speaker 1>it up right here. Will you be back. We're only

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<v Speaker 1>this far in.

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<v Speaker 2>But before we close, I want you to stand in

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<v Speaker 2>your sanctified feet, and I want you to plant your

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<v Speaker 2>heels right there on the ground wherever you are and

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<v Speaker 2>put it in the comment say I'm a page turner. Wait,

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<v Speaker 2>I thought God was the page turner.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>God is the one who makes it possible. But you

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<v Speaker 2>are the one that makes it happen. By the decision

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<v Speaker 2>to move forward in His presence, with His power in

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<v Speaker 2>your life, the Holy Spirit will come upon you.

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<v Speaker 1>We will see the gospelill go out in this book.

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<v Speaker 2>But it starts with your decision to know. I'm only

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<v Speaker 2>this far in, and we never would see Peter preach

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<v Speaker 2>on the day of Pentecost if he didn't turn the page.

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<v Speaker 2>And we never would see the man at the gate

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<v Speaker 2>called beautiful jump up on his feet with his ankle

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<v Speaker 2>strong if we didn't turn the page. Your children's children

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<v Speaker 2>are waiting to see how your story goes next. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>show him a good one, so you could tell them

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<v Speaker 2>that defeat didn't have the last word in your life,

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<v Speaker 2>that addiction didn't have the last word in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>I stood up like Peter. I had a story to tell,

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<v Speaker 1>and I had help lift your hands.

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<v Speaker 2>I've come a long way.

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen how you work.

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<v Speaker 2>There's so much goodness and grace, much more than I.

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<v Speaker 5>See, sir, because I know who I am.

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<v Speaker 1>But I can't stay where I'm at. You've come this

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<v Speaker 1>far by say.

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<v Speaker 2>And I just can't turn back because he's not done

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<v Speaker 2>with you.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, he's not done with you.

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<v Speaker 1>To lud, Yeah, there's a mass.

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<v Speaker 4>Sorry, he's not done with She wouldn't I'm say, he's

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<v Speaker 4>not going with me, is not dumb with me, He's

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<v Speaker 4>not done, he's not duming me. Yeah, there's a master

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<v Speaker 4>to this story. Come, he's so may stop.

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<v Speaker 1>You're not talking, gets as asshole.

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<v Speaker 6>He's have t.

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<v Speaker 1>Start up, tear the hands off.

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<v Speaker 6>You're not Henry.

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<v Speaker 4>Haven't lifted, Henry head lifted, not talk it be chapter.

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<v Speaker 5>You're not sick, You're having sat Here gives the next steppisode.

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