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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: My subject today is contentment. You've heard of the Ten Commandments.

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Speaker 2: You heard of them, You've broken them. You've heard of

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Speaker 2: the ten Commandments. This is not the ten Commandments. My

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Speaker 2: sermon today is called the content mint Commandments. I want

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Speaker 2: to speak on the subject of contentment and what it

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Speaker 2: takes to live in a place of contentment. And I

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Speaker 2: was so mad at Abby's softball, t ball, whatever you

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Speaker 2: call it, the one where they don't keep score. She

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Speaker 2: takes all the fun out of it for me. I

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Speaker 2: was so mad at her game. Yesterday. There was this

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Speaker 2: eighteen month old and that baby just had me furious

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Speaker 2: because he was so good and so happy. And it

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Speaker 2: caused me to contrast how my children behaved at age

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Speaker 2: eighteen months. And I looked at my oldest son and

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Speaker 2: then my middle child, and I said, do you see

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Speaker 2: that baby that is the opposite.

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Speaker 1: I asked the.

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Speaker 2: Mom, I said, is he always like this? And she

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Speaker 2: said yeah, And I said, I hate you for it.

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Speaker 2: She said, he's just always content. And I told Elijah

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Speaker 2: and Graham, I said, you were the opposite of always content,

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Speaker 2: whatever the opposite was. If you would have been like that,

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Speaker 2: Holly and I would have had twelve disciples. We would

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Speaker 2: have just kept populating the earth. One of you is

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Speaker 2: equal to twelve of those. And the reason I wanted

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Speaker 2: to choose Philippians for is because there's one verse I

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Speaker 2: want you to.

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Speaker 1: Listen for it.

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Speaker 2: It describes Paul toward the end of his journey in

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Speaker 2: serving Christ. He describes a state of contentment that on

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Speaker 2: the surface seems natural to him because he's Paul after all.

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Speaker 2: To somebody say he's Paul after all. But I would

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Speaker 2: suggest to you that Paul is describing a kind of

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Speaker 2: contentment here that is not a disposition you are born with,

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Speaker 2: about Paul, I don't think about somebody who just low

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Speaker 2: This is the dude who was not content just to

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Speaker 2: preach to the Jews. He had to take the Gospel

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Speaker 2: to the Gentiles mess everything up, wasn't circumcising them. Had

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Speaker 2: to confront Peter because Peter was kind of prejudiced, but

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Speaker 2: didn't want to act prejudice unless he was around his

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Speaker 2: prejudice friends. He was never content just to maintain the

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Speaker 2: status quo. And yet the most famous verse about contentment

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Speaker 2: that was interesting to me, almost like he's describing contentment

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Speaker 2: not as a disposition, but a skill that can be learned.

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Speaker 2: How many of you would love to learn to be

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Speaker 2: more content in your life? If your hands up, you're

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Speaker 2: over thirty five, because still then you just want more stuff,

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Speaker 2: more stuff, more stuff, more stuff, more stuff, more stuff.

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Speaker 2: And then you realize you've been drinking ocean water all

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Speaker 2: your life and it only made you more thirsty. And

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Speaker 2: the greatest skill in life is not accumulation, but contentment.

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Speaker 2: And Paul's going to.

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Speaker 1: Illustrate that here in the fourth chapter of the Book.

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Speaker 2: Of Philippians, which is a letter to a church that

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Speaker 2: he found it. Now, we don't know exactly where Paul

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Speaker 2: was when he wrote this letter. We know that he

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Speaker 2: was in prison somewhere. I don't even know if it's

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Speaker 2: important that we know where he was physically as much

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Speaker 2: as we study where he was emotionally and spiritually. And

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Speaker 2: so here's what he says some of the last words

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Speaker 2: of this letter to a church that he fathered a

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Speaker 2: decade earlier. He says, I rejoiced greatly in the Lord

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Speaker 2: that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying this because I'm in need, for

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Speaker 2: I have learned to be content.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't born this way.

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Speaker 2: I was born screaming my head off, but I have learned.

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Speaker 1: Me is enough. But I have learned by now. I'm

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Speaker 2: I know what it is to be in need, and

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Speaker 2: what it is to be in a Mayback. I've learned, though,

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Speaker 2: So I have learned. Watch there's a phrase again. I

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Speaker 2: have learned you notice a theme here. I had to

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Speaker 2: content in any and every situation, whether well fed or

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Speaker 2: Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles. Moreover,

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Speaker 2: as you Philippians know, in the early days of your Queen,

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Speaker 2: and it's with the Gospel. When I set out for Macedonia,

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Speaker 2: not one church shared with me in the matter of

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Speaker 2: giving and receiving except you only for even when I

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Speaker 2: was in Thessalonika, you sent me aid more than once

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Speaker 2: when I was in need. Not that I desire your gifts.

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Speaker 2: Touch somebody, say I'm good. That needs to be your

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Speaker 2: opening line. If you are single and dating people, before

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Speaker 2: you get deep into the conversation, look at them and

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Speaker 2: this works out, I'm good. If it doesn't, I'm good.

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Speaker 2: Look at your neighbor one more time and say I

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Speaker 2: was already good before they seated me next to you.

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Speaker 2: I was already good. What I desire is that more

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Speaker 2: be credited to your account. I receive full payment and

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Speaker 2: have more than enough. I am amply supplied now that

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Speaker 2: I have received from epaphroditis the gifts you sent. They're

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Speaker 2: fragrant offering and acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. And my

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Speaker 2: God will meet all your needs. How did the passage

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Speaker 2: that started out talking about Paul's imprisonment in talking about

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Speaker 2: their needs? We're going to find out today the contentment commandments.

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Speaker 2: I think the misunderstanding that a lot of people have

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Speaker 2: about the nature of God in our relationship with him

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Speaker 2: is that he is a god of restrictions. I've come

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Speaker 2: to see him more and more as I study the

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Speaker 2: written word and the way that his spirit moves, and

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Speaker 2: just observe general creation, that he is a god of

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Speaker 2: Regulations that he gives to his children are designed to

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Speaker 2: bring us into maximum freedom.

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Speaker 1: One of the first things that.

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Speaker 2: God did after leading them through the Red Sea, drowning

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Speaker 2: because that's the hard part. It's the hard part, not

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Speaker 2: to bring you into freedom, but to teach you how

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Speaker 2: to live in it. For many of us, true freedom

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Speaker 2: doesn't feel familiar, and we would rather stay in something

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Speaker 2: that enslaves us, that is predictable, rather than embrace something

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Speaker 2: that is new and good and true and pure. So

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Speaker 2: we will go back to familiar addictions, We will go

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Speaker 2: we will choose normal over new. When God took up

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Speaker 2: on Mount Sinai to give him those ten commandments that

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Speaker 1: People how to live in freedom.

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Speaker 2: Look at your neighbors, say God wants you free, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Really really free, Tell him really really free. Free from

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Speaker 1: what people.

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Speaker 2: Think about you, free from the need.

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Speaker 1: To have more stuff, free.

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Speaker 2: From the free from the need to be appreciated by others,

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Speaker 2: because your dials of validation are internalized, and the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit is your judge and arbitter and vindicator. God wants

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Speaker 2: you free, be free, be free. So by the time

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Speaker 2: you get into all the thou shalts and thou shalt nots,

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Speaker 2: what you're really hearing is a God who wants his

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Speaker 2: people to be free. And it seems to me that

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Speaker 2: the Bible is a master course in living in freedom.

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Speaker 2: Starts with those ten commandments, but then by the time

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Speaker 2: you get over to Paul, he's teaching true freedom in christ.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting.

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Speaker 2: That God used somebody who was in chains to teach

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Speaker 2: his people about freedom. Paul is writing a theological discourse

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Speaker 2: Call you to exemplify or demonstrate something that is directly

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Speaker 2: what your life is manifesting in that season. So when

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Speaker 1: But what you find when you come to the Book

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Speaker 2: His rights as much as he is speaking of his freedom.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of interesting because it seems like Paul

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Speaker 1: We'll make our own decisions and live our own lives.

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Speaker 2: of Philippians Philippians chapter four, Paul has pretty much said

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Speaker 2: everything he wants to say to this church he founded

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Speaker 2: a decade ago. He's expressing several freedoms. You can look

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Speaker 2: at these sometimes when you're not busy. I know you're busy,

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Speaker 2: but if you get a chance, go look at chapter one.

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Speaker 2: He'll tell you about his freedom from fear. This is

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest freedoms that God desires to grant

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Speaker 2: to his children, freedom from fear. In fact, for him,

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Speaker 2: it's gotten so severe by this point he said, I

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Speaker 2: don't care whether I die or live. Is he suicidal? No,

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Speaker 2: There will be a parade when I get to Heaven

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Speaker 2: of all of the people that I let to Christ

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Speaker 2: while I was on the earth. So it's kind of

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Speaker 2: cool because I'd like the party with Jesus. Take me out,

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Speaker 2: But if you leave me here, I'll keep working so

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Speaker 2: the party will be bigger when I get there.

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Speaker 1: What would it mean to be free?

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Speaker 2: He uses a construct called weather or it's like.

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Speaker 1: Saying it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: It's like he's got his priorities so fixed that he

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Speaker 2: is free from fear.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to be free from my flesh. I would

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Speaker 2: Paul said, I don't have anything to prove at this

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Speaker 2: season as the other. I often wonder does stuff really

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Speaker 2: make you more content or does it just make you

441
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Speaker 2: more insatiable.

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Speaker 1: The quieter it gets, the more accurate the teaching.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of weird because it's easier sometimes to be

444
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Speaker 2: content when you don't have something that you want.

445
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 1: And you think you're going to.

446
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Speaker 2: Get it one day, because in that season, you can

447
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 2: tell yourself, I'll be content when. But what about when

448
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 2: you got it and the contentment didn't come with the package.

449
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 2: Just thinking with you here, I think the key is

450
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: you've got to if you're going to survive the seasons

451
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Speaker 2: of winter while waiting on spring to come and live

452
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Speaker 2: in contentment. I think you got to keep Here's number four,

453
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Speaker 2: thou shalt keep a secret. Stash Well says, I got

454
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Speaker 2: your gift. Finally, Thanks for the gift. It's about time.

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00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 2: No God, it's Okay, it's just I know you didn't

456
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Speaker 2: have a chance. I know there was something that was

457
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Speaker 2: keeping you from it. I choose to believe the best

458
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Speaker 2: about you. Verse eleven.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this because I'm in need.

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Speaker 2: This thing, you know, just gets worse and worse and worse.

461
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Speaker 1: I got your gift, it took a while. I didn't

462
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Speaker 1: really need it.

463
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Speaker 2: I think what he's saying is I had my own

464
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Speaker 2: to live off of, and I wasn't waiting for you

465
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Speaker 2: to give me something.

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Speaker 1: This is the best thing you can do.

467
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Speaker 2: If you go over to somebody's house for the first

468
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Speaker 2: time and they're feeding you and you don't know about

469
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Speaker 2: their culinary ability, pre eat, pre eat. It's just a

470
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Speaker 2: way to make sure that whenever they serve.

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Speaker 1: See you ought to come.

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Speaker 2: To church full that way, no matter who preaches or

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Speaker 2: what they say.

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Speaker 1: I ain't go far.

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Speaker 2: Okay, come on, magnify the Lord with me.

476
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Speaker 1: Let us exalt his name together.

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Speaker 2: I got much of sin, and I appreciate it, but

478
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Speaker 2: I didn't need it.

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Speaker 5: Don't somebody say it's nice but I don't need it.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to be appreciated, but I don't need to

481
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Speaker 2: be appreciated to serve God. I got my owns off.

482
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Speaker 2: I get high on my own supply. Help me somebody

483
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Speaker 2: that happen in charge fifty three years. Got a secret stash.

484
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Speaker 2: I got some scriptures I can preach to myself. I

485
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Speaker 2: got some songs I can sing, Oh by myself. I

486
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: got some truth I know in my soul. I can't

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Speaker 2: do all things.

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Speaker 1: Through Christ, who strengthens me. It's not from me, but

489
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Speaker 1: it's in me.

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Speaker 2: I got a secret stash. Now this is important. Come

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Speaker 2: in at number five, y'all doing good? You want the rest?

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Speaker 1: All right? Number five so important. Critical distinction.

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Speaker 2: Thou shalt not Thou shalt not confuse the supply with

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Speaker 2: the source. What happened to the Israelites was while Moses

495
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Speaker 2: was on the mountain as God was teaching his children

496
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Speaker 2: to be free, they started dancing around a golden cat

497
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Speaker 2: because they got the created things confused with the creator.

498
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Speaker 2: And when God provides your needs. Notice that Paul starts

499
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Speaker 2: by saying, I rejoiced in the Lord for the gift

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Speaker 2: that you sent. I did not rejoice in the gift.

501
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 2: I rejoiced in the one who gave it. And he

502
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Speaker 2: wants the Philippians to know it wasn't you You just

503
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 2: brought it.

504
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Speaker 1: To the table.

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Speaker 2: I've told you before that my family has a blessing.

506
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Speaker 2: The lyrics are, thank you Lord for all you've done

507
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Speaker 2: for this food and for Christ, your son. Amen, let's

508
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Speaker 2: see some food, and thank you mommy. It's the family blessing.

509
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 2: We sing it, we pound the table, the savages that

510
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: we are, but when we go out to eat, we

511
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Speaker 2: change it, we modify it slightly. It's an alternate version,

512
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Speaker 2: thank you Lord for all you've done for this food

513
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Speaker 2: and for Christ.

514
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Speaker 1: You're Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Amen, let's see some food and thank you Daddy. T

516
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Speaker 2: The other day, well, Graham thought it would be cute

517
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Speaker 2: to thank the server, and this rationale was, why are

518
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: we thinking you? You didn't cook it or even bring

519
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Speaker 2: it to the table, Which.

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Speaker 1: Gave me an opportunity for a theology lesson.

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00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 2: I said, James brought it because I bought it. See,

522
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Speaker 2: you can't preach like me a cracker barrel.

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Speaker 1: I promise you can't. I don't have to have a

524
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Speaker 1: pumpit to preach.

525
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Speaker 2: And it's about realizing that, however God blesses you in

526
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Speaker 2: any season, whoever he uses it to do it. His

527
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: hand was behind it, whether in plenty or in want.

528
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: Here's the secret of being content. Sometimes you'll have plenty

529
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Speaker 2: in one area and not enough in another.

530
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Speaker 1: I guarantee you, in your life you are living in

531
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Speaker 1: dual seasons.

532
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 2: You might have a lot of money plenty, but not

533
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Speaker 2: a lot of time want. You might have a lot

534
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 2: of peace plenty.

535
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Speaker 1: But not very good health. Want.

536
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: You might have good career path trajectory plenty, but a

537
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: relationship with your teenager that is completely incomprehensible and you

538
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 2: really see no way out other than homicide.

539
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Speaker 1: And you know that that's a commandment you can't break.

540
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: I'm telling you everybody's living in both. But the key

541
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Speaker 2: is to know that it all comes from the same hand.

542
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Speaker 1: That's what Job said.

543
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 2: Shall we accept good from his hand and not also trouble?

544
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: Shall I accept the blessing and reject the burden.

545
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Speaker 1: The supply is not the source.

546
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Speaker 2: Those speakers are not the preacher, right, They're nice speakers,

547
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: They're not preaching.

548
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: Really, I'm not the preacher. I'm the straw. I'm not

549
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: the drink. I'm the straw.

550
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 2: Darn any idea how much pressure that takes off of me.

551
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 2: It's so good to know that if God choosees to

552
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Speaker 2: bless you through these words today. That's that's God that

553
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 2: did it. All I can do is hope not to

554
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,959
Speaker 2: screw it up, so you can slorp it out.

555
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 1: For the first time I ever touched your neighbors, say,

556
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Speaker 1: slorp it out.

557
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 6: And the last that's the last time. God gave you

558
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 6: a new car. It's great, it's great.

559
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 2: I know it smells wonderful. But don't get the leather

560
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: confused with the Lord. God gave you a relationship, that's right.

561
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Speaker 1: God gave you a wife.

562
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: That's right.

563
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: It's good, but she's not God.

564
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 2: Every good and perfect gift comes from above.

565
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Speaker 1: Make a confession. God is my source. God is my source.

566
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Speaker 1: One more time. God is my source.

567
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Speaker 2: If you believe that, you'll have no problem offering your

568
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Speaker 2: life to him because He gave it to you to

569
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Speaker 2: begin with. And I know what to do when I'm

570
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Speaker 2: not getting what I want. I know how to live

571
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Speaker 2: in plenty. I know how to live in more. Paul says,

572
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking you because I'm in.

573
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Speaker 1: Need, but I have needs. I have needs.

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Speaker 2: In fact, you hear a little bit of pain in

575
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 2: the apostles voice when he says, when I first started out,

576
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 2: not one church shared with me in the matter of

577
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 2: giving and receiving. How would that feel? How would it

578
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 2: feel to have to make tints on the side because

579
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: people were accusing you of being greedy, and so rather

580
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 2: than violate the con of the people, you would.

581
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 1: Rather stay up late and go without.

582
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Speaker 2: Paul said, there were some people who could have helped me,

583
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Speaker 2: should have helped.

584
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: Me, and they didn't.

585
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: But I remember how you did, and even when you

586
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 2: weren't helping me, I chose to remember the times that

587
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 2: you did.

588
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: You don't have to number six.

589
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 2: Thou shalt not downplay disappointment. Wow, it's okay to be disappointed.

590
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 2: You can be disappointed and content at the same time.

591
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 2: You can be disappointed. I'm telling you. Paul was disappointed

592
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 2: that he was waiting for a trial that he never

593
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 2: should have been put on. But he refused to be

594
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 2: defined by his disappointment. And that is the difference between

595
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 2: one who has hope in Christ.

596
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: And one who does not.

597
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: It is not the experience of disappointment that differentiates us.

598
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 2: It is the definition we assigned to disappointment. Paul knew

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Speaker 2: that disappointment will lead to death. Sinny if I stay

600
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 2: with it, if I do not allow myself to die

601
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 2: in my place of disappointment, I will see the goodness of.

602
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 1: The Lord in the land of the living, and.

603
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 2: My God will supply all of your needs.

604
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: How does he do it? I got four more.

605
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 2: We're going to hit him quick, and I want to

606
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 2: bring you to action. Somebody shout, I'm content. Say it again,

607
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 2: I'm content. I'm content. I'm content in a small space,

608
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 2: a big space, a lot of stress, little stress, big job,

609
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 2: no job, corner office, no office. I'm content. I want

610
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 2: to get there. How do I get there?

611
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: Here?

612
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 2: It is the final four commandments. Thou shalt number one, recognize,

613
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 2: thou shalt release, thou shalt receive, and most importantly, after

614
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Speaker 2: you've done all to stand, thou shalt, and my God

615
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: will supply all your needs according to his glorious riches.

616
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 2: In Christ, Paul said, I have found where my needs

617
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 2: are really met, and I will not be moved. I

618
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 2: know the one who knows my needs, and I will

619
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: not be moved because I found the secret of being content.

620
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Speaker 1: In every situation.

621
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Speaker 2: The first thing is to recognize it. Some of us

622
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 2: have a paphroditis standing right in front of us. But

623
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 2: we will not recognize the blessing for what it is.

624
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: It made me think about when Andrew told.

625
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 2: Jesus, we don't have enough food to feed these five

626
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: thousand men, and the irony of the fact that he

627
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 2: could be standing in front of the one that John

628
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 2: called the bread of life and be complaining about a

629
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 2: left of bread, because sometimes we do not recognize the

630
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: good things God has given us, because our eyes have

631
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 2: been blinded to what we're not and what.

632
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: It used to be and what it could have been.

633
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: That shall recognize God has sent a paphroditis into your situation?

634
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: Will you recognize him when he comes?

635
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: God has sent provision for every need, and My God

636
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 2: shall supply all your needs if you see the need.

637
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: Beneath the need.

638
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 2: And this is where you've got to release. This is

639
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 2: where you've got to release the frustration, the anger, and yes,

640
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 2: the worry, because you cannot receive the word of God

641
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 2: when your heart is filled with worry and the cares

642
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: of life. And only after you have released those things

643
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 2: to Him can you receive. I'm gonna be honest with you,

644
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 2: some of you are really bad at receiving what God

645
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 2: wants to give you. You're stubborn. You don't want to look

646
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: like you need any help. A paphroditis comes to your

647
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 2: door and you send him back to Philippi with his bag.

648
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 2: I don't need anything. I'm good, Paul said. It was

649
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: good for you to share in my troubles. It meant

650
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: a lot to me.

651
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes marriage is crumble because of needs.

652
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 2: We didn't express that the other person was willing and

653
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 2: able to meet if they had known them. Wow, but

654
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 2: see needs not a very attractive characteristic in our society.

655
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 2: We don't want to be contrite. We don't want to

656
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 2: be seen as needing anything. So we filter our lives

657
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 2: and we filter out our frustration, and we wonder why

658
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 2: we're weak, and we wonder why we're alone, and we

659
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 2: wonder why Philippians four nineteen isn't happening in our life.

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Speaker 2: It's not a lack of supply, it's a lack of

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Speaker 2: my willingness to receive it. Naymon would have died of

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Speaker 2: leprosy if he did not receive the instruction from the

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Speaker 2: servant girl to his wife to go to the dirty

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Speaker 2: waters of the Jordan and dip and be cleansed to

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Speaker 2: receive his healing.

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Speaker 1: He had to receive an instruction.

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Speaker 2: From somebody who he thought was beneath him.

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Speaker 1: Paul said, I got your gift, and I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: And here's the thing. I don't know what's going to

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Speaker 2: happen to me next. Paul says, I'm here in this prison.

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Speaker 2: I may get out, I may not, but I want

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Speaker 2: you to know something.

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Speaker 7: I'm already out, whether they let me go from prison,

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Speaker 7: whether the situation changes, whether I get to come back

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Speaker 7: to you, whether.

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Speaker 1: I get to see you again. Oh, I'd love to

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Speaker 1: see you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the gift you gave me is so good,

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Speaker 2: but I will.

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Speaker 1: Not I will not leave this place of confidence in

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Speaker 1: the provision of God. I will remain in Christ, and

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Speaker 1: my God will supply.

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Speaker 2: All your needs according to his glorious richest. That's how

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Speaker 2: free I am. I'm so free now that you sent

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Speaker 2: me a gift for my needs. But I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: that God is going to use what you did to

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Speaker 2: meet my needs, and He's going to meet all your

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Speaker 2: needs because I am free me.

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Speaker 8: It's not about me, it's not about what I need.

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Speaker 8: It's not about this prison cell. It's not about Caesar.

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Speaker 8: It's all about Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Heart freeze, be free, be free. Thou shalt be free.

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Speaker 1: Be free? Touch three people say, be.

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Speaker 9: Free, be free, be free, be free, be free, be free,

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Speaker 9: be free, be free.

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Speaker 1: You hear me, be free.

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Speaker 8: You don't have to live like this. Be free, be

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Speaker 8: small than enough, be free.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you see be free?

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Speaker 8: Slackly be free?

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Speaker 2: Be free?

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Speaker 1: Now shall be free. My greatest need is freedom. My

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Speaker 1: greatest need.

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Speaker 2: Is freedom. Contentment is the key. Freedom is the goal.

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Speaker 2: Contentment is the key. You won't be financially free when

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Speaker 2: you get more money.

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Speaker 1: You'll be financially free when you really believe I've already

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Speaker 1: got Come on, my God will supply your needs.

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Speaker 2: Stand up if you would, I want to pray for

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Speaker 2: your contentment. I had to learn it now most of

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Speaker 2: us are still learning. It took me a long time

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Speaker 2: of trying to perform and thinking that if I could

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Speaker 2: prove myself to certain people, I would feel like a

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Speaker 2: worthy human being. But I found out that kind of

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Speaker 2: identity can be stolen so quickly by the smallest failure

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Speaker 2: that I decided it was not worth me chaining myself

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Speaker 2: to other people's opinions or my status in life or

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Speaker 2: my income. That's the greatest state not CEO, but free,

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Speaker 2: to be really free. The only way that can happen

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Speaker 2: is if you know that he knows what you need

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Speaker 2: and he's got it. That he knows and he's got it,

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Speaker 2: that not one sparrow falls from the ground, he doesn't

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Speaker 2: see it, and when hair falls from your head is.

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Speaker 1: Moved, he keeps it on record. He knows what I

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Speaker 1: need and he's got it.

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Speaker 2: Because if you don't believe he's got it, you'll run

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Speaker 2: to all kinds of other things to try to get

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Speaker 2: your needs met.

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Speaker 1: They were put there by God and they can only

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Speaker 1: be fulfilled by him.

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Speaker 2: The greatest trouble of your life will come when you

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Speaker 2: try to get a god instilled need met in a

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Speaker 2: non God sanctioned way. My God will supply all your needs,

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Speaker 2: not just the Church, ones all your needs according to

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Speaker 2: his glorious riches in Christ.

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Speaker 1: The only way you can receive the.

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Speaker 2: Provision is to remain in the place that He promised

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Speaker 2: it would be, in his presence. It's the fullness of

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Speaker 2: joy and in his right hand pleasures forevermore.

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Speaker 1: But you've got to be willing to let him know

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Speaker 1: that you know that you need him. So why don't

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Speaker 1: you lift your hands and tell.

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Speaker 2: Him that you need him.

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Speaker 1: Ab a father.

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Speaker 2: Every hour, Most Gracious Lord, no tender voice like bying

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Speaker 2: can peace Afore, thank you.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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