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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. You doubt, that's good.

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Speaker 3: Doubt is a door that God can come through and take.

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Speaker 1: You deeper in your faith.

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Speaker 3: It's not that you doubt what God can do. You

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Speaker 3: are wondering why won't He do it for you. I

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Speaker 3: am not going to allow myself to believe that just

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Speaker 3: because I'm facing resistance, I did something wrong.

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Speaker 1: As if God.

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Speaker 3: Speaks something and it's always easy. The proof that God

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Speaker 3: speaks it isn't that it's easy. It's that He's with

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Speaker 3: me when it gets hard. God hasn't forgotten you, He's

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Speaker 3: favored you. The hand of God has always been on

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Speaker 3: your life and is still on your life. And I

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Speaker 3: still listen to prisons.

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Speaker 1: I listen to him.

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Speaker 3: Stand up on your feetus, free the time.

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Speaker 4: Come on Columbia.

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Speaker 3: Riverwalk you see Toronto all of our campuses. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: be sharing from Luke chapter seven today in our fourth

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Speaker 3: installment of the series. I know that voice, I know

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Speaker 3: a name, and I know that voice. It's been my

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Speaker 3: aim through the series not to teach you so much systematically,

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Speaker 3: like three steps to hear from God or seven steps

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Speaker 3: to hear from God, because I figure God is way

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Speaker 3: bigger than seven steps. One time in the Bible, God

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Speaker 3: spoke through a donkey, So I figure if we start

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Speaker 3: listing all the ways that God could speak, we'd be

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Speaker 3: here too long, we would miss lunch.

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Speaker 1: So what I'm endeavoring to do instead.

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Speaker 3: Is just give you some pictures from the Scripture of

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Speaker 3: the times when the Lord spoke, and then as we

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Speaker 3: paint that picture, hopefully you will see specifically something that

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Speaker 3: God is speaking to you. How many have felt God

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Speaker 3: speaking to you in the last few weeks as we've

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Speaker 3: been journeying through His word together.

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Speaker 1: Now, in Luke chapter seven, I'm going to read two stories.

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Speaker 3: The first one I'm not going to preach on, but

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Speaker 3: it will be so helpful for us to understand. The

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Speaker 3: second one in Luke chapter seven, verse eleven. Luke seven eleven.

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Speaker 3: That was easy for me to remember where to start today.

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Speaker 3: The Bible says. Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town

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Speaker 3: called Nane after his disciples and a large crowd went

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Speaker 3: Heart went out to her, and he said, don't cry.

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Speaker 3: Then he went up and touched the beer they were

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Speaker 3: carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said,

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Speaker 3: young man, I say to you, get up and watch

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Speaker 3: this verse fifteen. The dead man sat up. Even a

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Speaker 3: being carried out of the gate. And then the Bible

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Speaker 3: says he sat up and began to talk, and Jesus

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Speaker 3: They said, God has come to help his people. This

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Speaker 3: Remember that isn't the story I want to preach about.

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Speaker 3: Here's what I want to talk about today. Verse eighteen.

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Speaker 3: John's disciples told him about all these things. Calling two

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Speaker 3: are you the one who is to come? Or should

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Speaker 3: we expec back to someone else? What kind of crazy

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Speaker 1: Are you really who you claim to be? Crazy?

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Speaker 3: What kind of crazy question to ask from John of

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Speaker 3: all people, John the Baptist. I can understand Mark the Methodist,

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Speaker 1: Ask you get it? Are you the one?

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Speaker 3: The messengers, go back and report to John what you

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Speaker 3: We're going to go back to that verse nineteen for

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Speaker 3: Or should we expect someone else? The title of my

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Speaker 3: You ever wondered that before? What if I got it wrong?

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Speaker 3: I know you can't nod too much because you came

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Speaker 1: And you drove to church in it and the salesman

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Speaker 3: It was a good deal. But what if I got

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Speaker 3: it wrong? We're going to talk about it today.

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Speaker 1: Father. I know what you spoke to me.

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Speaker 3: But I asked God, would you use me to speak

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Speaker 3: So here's my voice box, here's my mind. Everything I

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, ay Man, you may be seated.

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Speaker 3: Since my oldest son Elijah has been home now from

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Speaker 3: he went to college. I had this very vivid memory

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Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody in this room is questioning that

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Speaker 3: What if I got it wrong. I could tell not

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Speaker 3: The interesting thing about that is and of course that

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Speaker 3: What he didn't know is that I was in the

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Speaker 3: what if you got it wrong? Not what if you

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Speaker 3: shouldn't go to college here? Because to me, I'm just like,

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Speaker 3: then we'll drop out. You know, this is not life

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Speaker 1: I hope we got it right, but we can. We

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Speaker 3: What I was thinking more about is like, what if

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Speaker 1: Raising you? Like what if I didn't do enough?

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Speaker 3: But this is my test run. You are my lab rat.

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Speaker 3: What if I got it wrong? I firmly believe that

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Speaker 3: when you have your first child, you should set up

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Speaker 3: all the mistakes that you will make on them that

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Speaker 3: I did the best job I could as a dad.

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Speaker 3: What if I got it wrong? Because this is my

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Speaker 1: So what if I traumatized you and didn't know it.

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Speaker 1: Taught you to fish, you don't have any friends.

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Speaker 3: And what if because you don't have any friends, you

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Speaker 3: And I'm being silly, but not by much, because once

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Speaker 1: What if I got it wrong?

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Speaker 3: Because there is no Bible verse that tells me how

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Speaker 3: on a mountain cliff.

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Speaker 1: And on one.

446
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Speaker 3: Side of the property you had the palace where all

447
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 3: the parties would happen, and then beneath the palace carved

448
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Speaker 3: into the cliff, you had a prison. John was a

449
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Speaker 3: desert preacher. He wasn't used to dungeons. He was used

450
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Speaker 3: to open air. And before you judge him for being

451
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 3: in prison, he was there for preaching. Sometimes you're wrong

452
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 3: because you've sinned. Sometimes you end up in a tight

453
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Speaker 3: space because you did something wrong, and hey, there's grace

454
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 3: for you there when you get it wrong and God

455
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 3: shows you that you're wrong. By the way, learn to

456
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 3: look for God's warnings in your life as blessings, not curses.

457
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Speaker 3: When I drive my car and i'm it up, sometimes

458
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Speaker 3: it starts to beep at me, and it kind of

459
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 3: annoys me that it beeps, But I'm glad that it

460
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 3: beeps because the beat.

461
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Speaker 1: Means that I'm about to back up into something. And

462
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Speaker 1: even if it's annoying, I don't want.

463
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 3: It to go away because it is telling me, hey,

464
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Speaker 3: you might want to slow down. And the faster it beeps,

465
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 3: the more it means that you need to pay attention

466
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Speaker 3: because there is something, there's something. Touch somebody and say

467
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Speaker 3: the beep is a blessing. That's what I'm trying to say.

468
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Speaker 1: The beef is a blessing. When God's spirit convicts you

469
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Speaker 1: of something.

470
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Speaker 3: In your life, that's a blessing, just like when he

471
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Speaker 3: comforts you. When God starts beeping and says, don't text

472
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Speaker 3: him back.

473
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Speaker 1: When God starts talking to.

474
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Speaker 3: You and says you better block them real quick. When

475
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Speaker 3: God starts talking and says, you know, you can't watch

476
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Speaker 3: seven hours of that and then pray for peace.

477
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Speaker 1: They're all running around on the screen.

478
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Speaker 3: Everybody's having sex with everybody. If they're not having sex

479
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Speaker 3: with them, they're killing them. If they're not killing them,

480
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Speaker 3: they're cussing them out.

481
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Speaker 1: If they're not costing them out.

482
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Speaker 3: You can't watch seven hours of that and then pray

483
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 3: for peace. God will say, be back up off of that.

484
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Speaker 3: You don't need all of that. That is not condemnation.

485
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 3: That is the kindness of God that leads me to repentance.

486
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Speaker 3: And when God shows you something that's wrong in your life,

487
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 3: I'll know this is for But there's two things.

488
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Speaker 1: You can repent and redeem. Repent and redeem.

489
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Speaker 3: When God shows you something wrong, Hey, you were harsh,

490
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 3: how you talk to them, You can repent and redeem.

491
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Speaker 3: You can even open up a door to have another

492
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Speaker 3: conversation about it. When God shows you something, When God

493
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 3: shows you something that he wants you to change, when

494
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 3: God says, hey, you got that wrong, God will always

495
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Speaker 3: show you where to repent with the goal of redemption.

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Speaker 1: That's the difference between God and Satan.

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Speaker 3: God will take you through things and show you what's

498
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Speaker 3: wrong through reflection. That's his tool to bring you to repentance.

499
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 3: Instance is his tool to bring you to redemption, so

500
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 3: that he can take what the enemy meant for evil

501
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 3: and use it for good. The enemy doesn't use reflection.

502
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 3: The enemy uses regret. That's his weapon, and he wants

503
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 3: to show you not only was it wrong, but you're wrong.

504
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 3: In the case of John, he has done nothing wrong,

505
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:27,719
Speaker 3: only righteous. And Matthew says he was in prison and

506
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Speaker 3: when he heard from prison about the deeds of the Messiah,

507
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 3: he said, are you the one or should we expect

508
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 3: somewhere else? You know what I think, Church, look at me.

509
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 3: I think he had been isolated so long. I think

510
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: the prison walls had started to talk to him. I

511
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 3: think it was clear to him who Jesus was in

512
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Speaker 3: the Jordan, but it was cloudy in the jail. You

513
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 3: ever had something that was clear to you in one

514
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 3: moment and cloudy in the next.

515
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: That's John.

516
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 3: And he's doubting, but he's in a dungeon. And sometimes

517
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 3: you will judge someone for doubting, but you don't understand

518
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 3: their dungeon. Yes, Lord, I will preach it to three people,

519
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,719
Speaker 3: three people, because it's hard for me to believe what

520
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 3: you're saying. When I'm facing bankruptcy and you're saying.

521
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: Jira, you are enough.

522
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 3: Jira needs to help me pay off my light bill

523
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 3: and my gas bill and then it'll be enough. It

524
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 3: is hard for me to hear you talk about second chances.

525
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 3: It's even hard for me to hear you talk about

526
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Speaker 3: college when we're trying to have a kid and we've

527
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 3: been trying seven years and we can't have one. So

528
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 3: the truth of the matter is you are hearing my

529
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 3: declaration through the filter of your dungeon, and it can

530
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 3: be hard for you to believe, not because that you

531
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Speaker 3: doubt what God can do. They were telling him Jesus

532
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 3: is raising the dead, Jesus is opening the eyes of

533
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 3: the blood. He is doing miracles and it's amazing. It's

534
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: not that you doubt what God can do. You are

535
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: wondering why won't he do it for you? And this

536
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 3: is the tension when I say I know that voice,

537
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 3: it is that I heard their testimony. But I'm going

538
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 3: through my test and I am hearing the party on

539
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 3: the hill. But I am not in the party in

540
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 3: the palace. I'm down here underneath it. I'm still trying

541
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Speaker 3: to recover. I'm still trying to remend my relationship with

542
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 3: my own daughter. I'm still trying to heal from things

543
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: that happened seven years ago.

544
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: I'm in a dungeon dealing with my doubt.

545
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Speaker 3: So if that is you today, and I cannot predict

546
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: who this message might be for, but.

547
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Speaker 1: I want to give you three points.

548
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: In the first one is this, listen to him, not

549
00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 3: the prison. Listen to him not the prison. Johnson his

550
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 3: disciples to ask are you the one?

551
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: Or should we look for someone else?

552
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 3: And he did the right thing, you know, because when

553
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 3: you try to make sense of your situation in isolation,

554
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 3: you always come to the wrong conclusion. Have you been

555
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 3: doing that lately? Wave a pinky at me. This is

556
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Speaker 3: when you start letting your situation tell you that what you.

557
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: See is all there is.

558
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 3: I'm in this prison, what you see is all there

559
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 3: is I'm alone again on a Friday night. All my

560
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 3: friends are at the party. What you see is all

561
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Speaker 3: there is. I serve that company for eight years and

562
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Speaker 3: they just let me go. Claude took my job, and.

563
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Speaker 1: Now I'm out here with no education, and what I

564
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Speaker 1: see is all there is. This is where it's so

565
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Speaker 1: important that you know that.

566
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if you listen to your prison in these moments,

567
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 3: your faith will die.

568
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 3: John told his disciples, I've been listening to this prison

570
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 3: long enough.

571
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Speaker 1: Go ask Jesus.

572
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 3: Here's the spirit of the Lord saying, go ask Jesus.

573
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: He knows the plans he has for you, plans to

574
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Speaker 3: prosper you and not to harm you, to give you

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Speaker 3: a hope in the future.

576
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Speaker 1: Go ask Jesus. Don't ask your emotions.

577
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 3: If God is still with you, your emotions will fluctuate. Your

578
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 3: emotions fluctuate with your blood sugar. You better go ask Jesus.

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00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: Don't even ask your friends what they think about it.

580
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 3: When it's really serious. You've got to have friends, but

581
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 3: you've got to have friends who can go with you

582
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: to Jesus.

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Speaker 1: What do you say about it? Lord, I'm gonna open

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Speaker 1: my word.

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Speaker 3: Come on, I am not going to take what the

586
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 3: devil is telling me in this prison cell.

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00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: I am not going to.

588
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 3: Believe every thought that I think. I am not going

589
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Speaker 3: to allow myself to believe that just because I'm facing resistance,

590
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 3: I did something wrong.

591
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: Can I preach about that.

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00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 3: We think that resistance means we did something wrong, as

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Speaker 3: if God speaks something and it's always easy. The proof

594
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 3: that God speaks it isn't that it's easy, It's that

595
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,479
Speaker 3: He's with me when it gets hard. And in fact,

596
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 3: sometimes you face the biggest resistance when you are in

597
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 3: the most significant moments of your life.

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Speaker 1: I will prove it to you.

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00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 3: Last week, I've preached about Jesus in the storm. Do

600
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 3: you remember that and how he told the disciples to

601
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 3: get in the boat and go to the other side,

602
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 3: and he sent them into the wind. Don't you think

603
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 3: they felt that wind and thought maybe he didn't really

604
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 3: say go to the other side, maybe he didn't really.

605
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: Tell us to get in this boat.

606
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 3: But actually the wind was an indication that there was

607
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: something so significant on the other side of the storm

608
00:32:59,160 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 3: that they had.

609
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Speaker 1: To get to.

610
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 3: Because resistance is an indication of significance. Let me break

611
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 3: it down to the smallest level. If a neighbor that

612
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 3: lives next door to me steals my WiFi, I'm not

613
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 3: going to resist it. I'm not going to even say

614
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 3: anything about it. That is not a battle worth fighting.

615
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 3: It's just my WiFi.

616
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: If they jump on.

617
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Speaker 3: My wifi's signal, I'll probably let it go. I won't

618
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 3: resist it at all if they steal my WiFi.

619
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Speaker 1: If they steal my wife.

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Speaker 3: That's different than my WiFi, because now we have got

621
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Speaker 3: to access a different part of my anointing. And this

622
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 3: part of my anointing isn't the praying part. This is

623
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Speaker 3: the laying on of hands part, because you can have

624
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Speaker 3: my WiFi. But my wife is important to me and

625
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 3: that's worth fighting for. And you can tell what's significant

626
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 3: to me by I resist. Has the enemy been resisting you?

627
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: I suggest to you that it may be that the

628
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 3: favor of.

629
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Speaker 1: God is so strong on your life.

630
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 3: That the enemy knows he has to fight you lest.

631
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Speaker 1: You get through this and do something significant. I fight

632
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: for you.

633
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 3: Girl.

634
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: She left me this week. She just got back from Tanzania.

635
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: Why are y'all cheering? I was almost I was.

636
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: I was almost through every pack of Ramen noodles I

637
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 3: could find at the.

638
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 1: Grocery store when she got back.

639
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 3: I'll fight for my wife because it's the most significant

640
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 3: relationship I have. And here is John in prison, and

641
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 3: I imagine he feels like some of us, and the

642
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 3: prison walls are saying, why is everybody else getting to

643
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 3: see the miracles? Why is everybody else getting married? Why

644
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 3: is everybody else having babies? Why is everybody else praising

645
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: God for their testimony? Did their kids come back home

646
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 3: to God and yours didn't? Why have they been three

647
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 3: years sober and you can't make three months? Why has

648
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 3: the fight been so strong? God hasn't forgotten you, He's

649
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 3: favored you. The hand of God has.

650
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: Always been on.

651
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 3: Your life and is still on your life. And I

652
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 3: don't listen to prisons.

653
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: I listen to him. How we doing?

654
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 3: We're doing all right? Listen to him? What does the

655
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 3: Lord say? What does he speak about my situation? But

656
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 3: it's not only John's situation.

657
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: That we've got to understand. It's his expectations. It's his expectations.

658
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 3: See, John was raised in a belief system that said,

659
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 3: when Messiah comes, he is going to judge our enemies

660
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 3: and free our people.

661
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: Comes Jesus, you got to remember. John and Jesus had

662
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: a special relationship.

663
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 3: The Bible actually says that when Elizabeth, John's mom was

664
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Speaker 3: pregnant and Mary, Jesus's mom, came to visit Elizabeth, her relative.

665
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Speaker 3: When Mary said hello to Elizabeth the baby in Elizabeth's womb,

666
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Speaker 3: John started jumping. John knew Jesus's voice before Jesus was born.

667
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 3: John started jumping just when Mary said hello. Jesus didn't

668
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 3: even say hello. Somebody who was carrying Jesus said hello.

669
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Speaker 3: John started jumping. John took a praise break in the

670
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Speaker 3: sixth month of his mother's pregnancy.

671
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: When he heard that Jesus was here. Jesus is here,

672
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: Jesus is here. Jesus is here. Jesus is here. Jesus

673
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: is here, Jesus is here, Jesus is here. Reach said.

674
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 3: When people say Jesus is here, Jesus is here, Jesus

675
00:36:59,600 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 3: is here.

676
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 1: Jesus is here.

677
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 3: And if you know him, it'll make something inside you

678
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 3: jump when he shows up.

679
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:05,479
Speaker 1: Huh, it'll make.

680
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 3: Something inside you get excited when he shows up.

681
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: John was excited when he saw.

682
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 3: Jesus, excited enough to say, look the lamb of God

683
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,720
Speaker 3: who takes away the sins of the world.

684
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 1: But then Jesus starts to do his ministry.

685
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 3: And remember when John was announcing Jesus in the Jordan,

686
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 3: give me Matthew three verse twelve again, please, he said,

687
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 3: His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will

688
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 3: clear his threshing floor, gathering his weed into the barn

689
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 3: and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

690
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 4: Yo.

691
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 3: John's Jesus was coming with a fork where you thresh

692
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 3: the wheat and throw it up and then let the

693
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 3: chaff fall off and burn in the fire. And John

694
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 3: was like, does what Jesus is going to do to

695
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 3: all of you who don't believe?

696
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: You see that chaff in that fire. You see that fork.

697
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: My God is strong and mighty, and hebut to burn.

698
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: You better turn or burn, get right or get left.

699
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: And you don't to bust, cuss, don't cuss, don't discuss much.

700
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 3: You're gonna burn you up in the fire in the fork.

701
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 3: And then they come to John. They're like, John, it's amazing.

702
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 3: He's he's opening blind eyes. John's like, that's nice, but

703
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 3: what about the fork.

704
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: Yes, it's amazing.

705
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 6: Man.

706
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 3: People who were never able to speak are speaking. He

707
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 3: just looses, they're tongue in, they're speaking. It's amazing as grat.

708
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: But the fire.

709
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 3: In fact, when they were coming back to John, and

710
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 3: Jesus said, tell them that the blind see, and the

711
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 3: lame walk, and the mute speak, and the deaf here,

712
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 3: and the dead lives, and the good news is pre

713
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 3: to the poor. He was quoting Isaiah thirty five and

714
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 3: Isaiah sixty one. So imagine you're John. Imagine you're John

715
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 3: and you're expecting a fork in a fire and you're

716
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 3: in prison, and they come to you and they're like, okay,

717
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 3: we got a message from Jesus.

718
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: We asked what you told us to ask him? Are

719
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: you the one? And John's like, uh huh, what did

720
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 1: he say? And look at their their report.

721
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 3: They say, Okay, the death here, the mute speak, the

722
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 3: lame walk, recovery of sight to the blind, the dead live,

723
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 3: the good news has preached to the poor. Now John

724
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: knows that Jesus is quoting Isaiah sixty one. The blind

725
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 3: received site. Look at this in Isaiah sixty one. The

726
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 3: spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me because the

727
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 3: Lord has annointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

728
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: Now I gotta slow down and show you this.

729
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 3: Go back please to Luke chapter seven, when they're telling

730
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 3: him what Jesus said, or when Jesus is telling them

731
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 3: the message to take back please. Yes, John the Baptist

732
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 3: sent us to ask you the one who is the comers,

733
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 3: should we expect someone else? And then Jesus starts talking

734
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 3: to the messengers next first place. Jesus at that very

735
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 3: time was curing many diseased, So he replied, go back

736
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 3: and report to John what you have seen and heard.

737
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 3: The blind receives site the lame, those who have leprosy

738
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 3: are cleansed.

739
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: This is Isaiah thirty five.

740
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Speaker 3: The deaf hear, the dead raised, and the good news

741
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 3: is proclaimed to the poor. Go back to Isaiah sixty one.

742
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 3: The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because

743
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 3: the Lord has annoyed me to proclaim good news to

744
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 3: the poor. So John's like, go ask Jesus that I said,

745
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 3: are you the one? In other words, he's doubting, In

746
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 3: other words, are you going to do what I.

747
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 1: Expect you to do? So so they said, okay. He said,

748
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: the blind, the lame, the da da da da da.

749
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: And he said that the good news is preached to

750
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 1: the poor. And John goes, oh, he's quoting Isaiah sixty one.

751
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite scriptures. The good news

752
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: is preached to the poor, and look what comes next.

753
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 3: He sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to

754
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 3: proclaim freedom for the captives.

755
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: And release from darkness for the prisoners.

756
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 3: So John sitting there, He's like, Oh, he's about to

757
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: get to the park about freedom for the captives, which

758
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 3: means he's coming to get me. But what do you

759
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 3: do when God doesn't say the part you want him

760
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 3: to say? Because Luke chapter seven says that Jesus said,

761
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 3: go tell John that the blind receives sight, the lame walk,

762
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 3: those who have leprosy or cleansed.

763
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: This is Luke seven twenty two.

764
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 3: The death here the dead or raised, and the good

765
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 3: news is proclaimed.

766
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: To the poor.

767
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 3: And John's like, yeah, yeah, and bind up the broken

768
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 3: hearted and set the captives free. Right, But Jesus doesn't

769
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 3: say that part. What do you do when Jesus leaves

770
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 3: out the park that you wanted to hear the most?

771
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 3: Because all He's t that is blessed is anyone who

772
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 3: does not stumble on account of me. In other words, John,

773
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 3: I need you to let go of your plan and

774
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 3: lock into my purpose.

775
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: I need you to let go of.

776
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 3: What you thought God's speaking to somebody today.

777
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: I need you to let go.

778
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 3: Of your plan and lock into God's purpose because I'm

779
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 3: not going to do what you wanted me to do.

780
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 3: I know you were waiting on a fork. I know

781
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 3: you were waiting on a fire. I know you were

782
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 3: waiting on freedom. I know you were waiting on all

783
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 3: of these things to happen. But John, I need you

784
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 3: to know that you are someone who is so significant

785
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 3: that I can trust you enough to leave you in

786
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 3: that situation. And I know that even if the situation

787
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 3: doesn't change, even if I don't come when you want

788
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 3: me to, even if I don't do what you want

789
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 3: me to, even if I don't answer your prayer like

790
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 3: I'm answering all of theirs, I know and believe that

791
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 3: you have the faith to remain even when you don't

792
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 3: see the release that you're praying for.

793
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: And so John is saying where's.

794
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 3: The fork, Where's the fire? And Jesus is saying, where's

795
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 3: the faith. I need you to believe about me in

796
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 3: this season of your life, that I can still do

797
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 3: what you knew I could do when you were jumping

798
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 3: around before you were born. Touch somebody say, I still

799
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 3: believe it.

800
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: I still believe it.

801
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 3: I still believe I still somebody shouted at the top

802
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 3: of your lungs, I.

803
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: Still believe it. Where's the fork? You mocking me? I

804
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: believe this stuff. I believe every word of this is true.

805
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: I believe that.

806
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 3: God can do something even in a dungeon, that.

807
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: All the world's powers could not do in a power us.

808
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: I still believe it. I still believe it.

809
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 3: I didn't get what I wanted when I wanted it,

810
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 3: but I still believe it. And then the Bible says

811
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 3: that he turned around to the crowd and begin to

812
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 3: say about John, what did you go into the wilderness

813
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 3: to see a read swayed by the wind?

814
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 8: Not?

815
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 4: John?

816
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 3: If not, what did you go out to see a

817
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 3: man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear expensive

818
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 3: clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces.

819
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: But what did you go out to see a prophet? Yes,

820
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: I tell you, and more than a prophet. Keep going.

821
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: This is the one about whom it is written.

822
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 3: I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will

823
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 3: prepare you're way before you.

824
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 1: Hold that frame, hold that frame, hold that frame, hold

825
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: that frame. This is the one.

826
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 3: Do you remember what Jesus said to John to death

827
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 3: here blind see? Do you remember what John asked Jesus?

828
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 3: Are you the one?

829
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: Look what Jesus said about John? This is the one.

830
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 3: Here's what I'm trying to say. John, stop believing in Jesus.

831
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 3: But Jesus never stopped believing in John. And I good

832
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 3: to know that if I'm faithless, he remains faithful. And

833
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 3: by the way, John didn't stop believing long. The Bible

834
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 3: records that he was actually willing to give his life

835
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 3: for Jesus in prison, even when they cut his head off.

836
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: He didn't turn back from what he knew was right.

837
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: That's the kind of faith John had.

838
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 3: So Jesus said, let me tell you about John, because

839
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 3: some people think, you know, if you.

840
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,919
Speaker 1: Have great faith, God will always give you everything you want.

841
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 3: That's one version, but another version says. Another version says

842
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 3: that God knows that you have the kind of faith

843
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 3: that can remain and stay and believe and trust even

844
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 3: if he doesn't.

845
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: Meet your expectations.

846
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 3: In human relationships, when an expectation isn't met, one of

847
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 3: two things happen. One is it gets filled in that

848
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 3: gap and it gets filled with grace. You know, hey,

849
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 3: you didn't meet my expectations, but I understand. The other

850
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 3: is it gets filled with a grudge. Do you have

851
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 3: a grudge against God that you haven't mentioned in your

852
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 3: heart right now? From what he didn't do for you

853
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 3: that he wanted you wanted him to do. He said,

854
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 3: I trust John enough that I can give him my

855
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 3: word and that will be enough. What a beautiful story.

856
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 3: I used to think this was the worst prison story

857
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 3: in the Bible because in Acts chapter sixteen, they sing

858
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 3: at midnight and the chains come loose in everybody he

859
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 3: gets free.

860
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: I used to think that.

861
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 3: Joseph was in prison and then he got out of

862
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 3: prison because he interpreted a dream.

863
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: I thought that was amazing.

864
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 3: I thought that when Peter was in prison and the

865
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 3: angel came and broke his chains off and got him.

866
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: Out, I thought it was amazing.

867
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 3: But you know what I think was even more amazing

868
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 3: to me to encourage my faith is that John never

869
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 3: got out of prison, but his faith never left either,

870
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 3: even though he doubted.

871
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,959
Speaker 1: You doubt, that's good. Doubt is just a door.

872
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 3: Doubt is a door that God can come through and

873
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 3: take you deeper in your faith. That's all right, But

874
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 3: just John, just John, don't fall away.

875
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: Don't fall away.

876
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 3: Keep trusting that He is enough even when he doesn't

877
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 3: do the stuff that you want him to do.

878
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: Because I have.

879
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 3: Learned in my life that it is the moments when

880
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 3: God does not do what I wanted that my faith

881
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 3: really has a chance to demonstrate. With your heads bowed

882
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 3: and your eyes closed all over this auditorium, I have

883
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 3: a message today for somebody who thinks I got it wrong.

884
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 3: You know, God never looks at you and thinks, what

885
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 3: if I chose the wrong person. Even when John was doubting,

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Speaker 3: God still knew that's my man, that's my profit.

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Speaker 1: I can trust him enough. Father. My prayer for.

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Speaker 3: Your people today is that they would trust you enough

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Speaker 3: that when you do not do the thing that they

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Speaker 3: most wanted you to do. And I know, Lord, I

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Speaker 3: can feel it. Even in this message, is a part

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Speaker 3: of me that wants to preach. And God's gonna get

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Speaker 3: you out of this, and God's gonna come and open

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Speaker 3: the prison doors.

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Speaker 1: And I pray that you will do that.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes God, when you allow us to stay.

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Speaker 1: In the situation, we're in.

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Speaker 3: I believe there is a greater revelation that you want

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Speaker 3: to give. So show yourself strong, God, show yourself mighty on,

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Speaker 3: behalf of your people. Show them a level of trust,

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Speaker 3: Show them that you are enough for their unmet needs.

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Speaker 3: Show them that you are still enough even when they

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Speaker 3: feel like they are not. Father, maybe we have the

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Speaker 3: faith like John to say, I.

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Speaker 1: Must decrease, you must increase. Everybody, stand to your feet.

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Speaker 3: There's a little song that we sing that I want

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Speaker 3: you to sing a little differently after hearing this message today.

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Speaker 3: It says, I trust in God, my savior, the one

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Speaker 3: who will never fail. Hey, the fact that he will

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Speaker 3: never fail doesn't mean that he always does what I want.

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Speaker 1: It means that he promises to be with me right

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Speaker 1: in the middle of it. Clap your hands if you

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Speaker 1: believe that. Put a phrase on this.

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Speaker 3: Message, and now would you lift both of your hands

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Speaker 3: like you're just saying to your father, I believe that

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Speaker 3: you're the one who will never fail. You cannot fail,

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Speaker 3: you cannot lie. Say this God, I know you got me,

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Speaker 3: and I trust you, and I trust your timing, and

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Speaker 3: I know your voice, and I trust your name. Can

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Speaker 3: we sing a few lines of that. I trust in God,

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Speaker 3: my savior.

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Speaker 1: Trust him God.

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Speaker 6: Mersy gord one, Oh yeah, will mever.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Lord, he will never fail.

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Speaker 4: I trusting God, you savedio one.

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Speaker 6: Who over man, he will never fat. God. Trust in God,

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Speaker 6: He's my safe, your one who will well, you will

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Speaker 6: never fair.

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Speaker 4: I trusting God who.

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Speaker 6: My safdio one who will he will live with it.

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Speaker 1: So God, I still believe you.

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Speaker 3: I believe you're a shepherd who walks with me through

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Speaker 3: the valley. Yes, God, somebody say, amen, I still believe you.

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Speaker 1: I believe that, even though you did not meet.

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Speaker 3: My expectations, you are worthy of my trust.

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Speaker 1: I still believe you. I might be.

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Speaker 3: Going through a medical diagnosis, but I still believe you.

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Speaker 3: No matter what do doctor say. I know the doctor

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Speaker 3: that made the doctor that made the doctor.

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Speaker 1: I trust in God.

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Speaker 3: Somebody's saying, I trust.

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Speaker 1: In God.

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Speaker 3: As I'm waiting, I choose to worship as I'm questioning.

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Speaker 1: I true just to trust.

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Speaker 3: I trust in God. I trusted in your I trusting

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Speaker 3: his promise.

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Speaker 6: I'm trusting your name.

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Speaker 3: I trust in what he's saying.

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Speaker 4: God, You're truth and every man is a liar.

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Speaker 3: It I trusting trusting nothing say.

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Speaker 4: Come on resta lit up ever parting?

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Speaker 6: Any look at f.

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Speaker 3: Song?

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Speaker 6: He tried, sir, that's not still That's not still my song?

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Speaker 4: Any any I saw any heard as every hand nothing

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Speaker 4: every d father, that's every ho.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

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Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

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Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're

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Speaker 2: able to reach people.

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Speaker 8: All around the world. And if you want more information

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Speaker 8: on how to be a part of Elevation, click the

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Speaker 8: link in the description. Thanks again for listening. Make sure

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Speaker 8: to leave a review, share the message, and subscribe.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.