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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 1: Be sure to.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 2: All right, I want to do something today a little

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Speaker 2: different than I normally do. Give you my title and

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Speaker 2: my subject, and then I'm going to sit you down

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Speaker 2: and tell you a story from the Bible that I

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Speaker 2: don't think you've ever heard before.

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Speaker 1: It's what I call a deep cut.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I like these Bible stories that we haven't heard

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Speaker 2: a million times, like Moses in the Red Sea and

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Speaker 2: David Nglet those are good too. Jesus getting up from

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Speaker 2: the Grave, that's the best one. But there are these

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Speaker 2: little stories. And there's one little story that I've been

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Speaker 2: living in for the last few weeks and I want

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Speaker 2: to share it with you.

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Speaker 1: But first let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: What we're going to talk about today is something that

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Speaker 2: the Lord told me to.

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Speaker 1: Tell you, a charge that he wants me to give you.

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Speaker 2: And today I want to teach you how to challenge

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Speaker 2: the shadow. Challenge the shadow, and just give your neighbor

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Speaker 2: that title. On your way to your seat, say challenge

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Speaker 2: the shadow and put it in the comments. If you're online,

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Speaker 2: you may be seated. Challenge the shadow, and this is

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Speaker 2: going to help us today. Challenge the shadow. In Second

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Speaker 2: Kings chapter twenty there is a story of a king

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Speaker 2: named Hezekiah. He was the greatest king since David in

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Speaker 2: the time where many of the kings were wicked.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't perfect. No human king is.

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Speaker 2: That's Jesus' job when he comes onto the scene in

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Speaker 2: the Book of Matthew. But Hezekiah did pretty good, and

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Speaker 2: God helped him in a great way. He accomplished a lot,

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Speaker 2: He defeated and subdued a lot of enemies. But the

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Speaker 2: Second King's chapter twenty verse one, just after God has

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Speaker 2: given Hezekiah a great victory, something kind of crazy happens,

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Speaker 2: and I want to tell you about it today.

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Speaker 1: The Second King's chapter twenty verse one.

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Speaker 2: The scripture records in those days Hezekiah became ill and

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Speaker 2: was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah, son

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Speaker 2: of Amas went to him and said, this is what

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Speaker 2: the Lord says. Put your house in order, because you're

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Speaker 2: going to die. You will not recover. Thanks a lot,

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Speaker 2: Prophet Isaiah appreciate that. Can we get another prophet in here.

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Speaker 2: How about Micah Nahum, how about it zephy Andiah. But

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Speaker 2: this word from God comes through the prophet. You're gonna die.

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Speaker 2: You won't recover. Now look at this. In verse two,

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Speaker 2: Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to

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Speaker 2: the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Remember, Lord, how I.

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Speaker 2: Have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and

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Speaker 2: have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah

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Speaker 2: wept bitterly. Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the

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Speaker 2: word of the Lord came to him. Go back and

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Speaker 2: tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, this is what

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Speaker 2: the Lord, the God of your father David says. And

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Speaker 1: Now go back and tell him.

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Speaker 2: Go back and tell Hezekiah, I have heard your prayer

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Speaker 2: and seen your tears. I will heal you on the

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Speaker 2: third day. From now you will go up to the

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Speaker 2: temple of the Lord. Now I will add fifteen years

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Speaker 2: to your life, and I will deliver you in this

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Speaker 2: sake of my servant David. And then Isaiah said, prepara

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Speaker 2: poultic of figs, and they did so and applied it

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Speaker 2: to the boil, and he recovered. Hezekiah had asked Isaiah,

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Speaker 2: of the Lord on the third day from now? And

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Speaker 2: Isaiah answered, this is the Lord's sign to you, that

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Speaker 2: the Lord will do what he has promised. Shall the

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Speaker 2: God might be saying to somebody today you choose. You

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Speaker 2: amen for a god who can do anything, Say amen

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Speaker 1: Can do anything. Yeah, he can do anything.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I'm trying to learn in

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Speaker 2: to accept the way that it is and face it,

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Speaker 2: and the times that I'm supposed to reject the way

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Speaker 2: that it is and change it by faith. We have

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Speaker 2: a workout room in my house, and all over the

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Speaker 2: walls of that room I have written different quotes over

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Speaker 2: the years. Lived in this house for ten years, so

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of little things on the wall, and

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Speaker 2: I write things on the wall. Sometimes they're just inside jokes.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes they're little motivational slogans. The name of the room

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Speaker 2: is called the Pound. It's an acronym. It stands for

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Speaker 2: the place of Ultimate natural Development.

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Speaker 1: I think you made that up. I give Chunks credit

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Speaker 1: where credit is due. He's a genius and he's a

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Speaker 1: fiscal therapist. Now.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that it says on the wall

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Speaker 2: in the Pound, it says, no challenge, no change. You

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Speaker 2: know when I wrote that up there, when Elijah started

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Speaker 2: working out with me. My oldest son turns eighteen in

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Speaker 2: just a few weeks. He's in Orlando. Shout out to

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Speaker 2: Elijah b Verdict, my workout partner. He's been lifting with

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Speaker 2: me down there in the pound for three years. And

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Speaker 2: you know, he used to get in there and do

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Speaker 2: if it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you. So

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Speaker 2: I just wrote that up on the thing. I know

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Speaker 2: it's not that deep, but I just wrote it up.

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Speaker 2: There no challenge, no change. Now. The funny thing is

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Speaker 2: Elijah is actually his personality is a challenger. They have

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Speaker 2: all these personality tests and one of them, Holly says,

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Speaker 2: she studies all the personality tests.

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Speaker 1: I don't read them. I really don't put a lot

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Speaker 2: And so I guess I'm a challenger if I'm challenging

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Speaker 2: the validity of a personality test. But she says that

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Speaker 2: my son is also a challenger, and he is. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you how much a challenger he is. When we

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Speaker 2: actual sentence. He said, I don't think I don't think

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Speaker 1: Let me explain something to you, ladies.

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Speaker 2: There is no more time honored principle among men than

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Speaker 2: that a bit press will grow your chest and become

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Speaker 2: the ultimate expression of your value as a human being.

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Speaker 1: That that number is so significant.

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Speaker 2: I was so excited for him the other day he

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Speaker 2: hit two twenty five on bench.

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Speaker 1: Y'all want to see the video. I pulled it right

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Speaker 1: before I came out.

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Speaker 2: He was he was actually in Florida this a few

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Speaker 2: weeks ago and they were out there for a trip.

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Speaker 1: Shown the video there's my boy.

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Speaker 3: Off count down my way, that way, that way.

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Speaker 2: So he's he actually made the beat that went behind

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Speaker 1: So he's really really a.

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Speaker 2: Manifold accomplishment, and I'm so proud of him, Like, hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Put your bitch to twenty five. Ask my boy.

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Speaker 2: You love Jesus, but you bitch two twenty five is

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Speaker 2: to plates is kind of a big deal. It's kind

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Speaker 2: of ride a passage for all men.

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Speaker 1: No challenge, No Change.

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Speaker 2: The most significant part of that repetition was the part

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Speaker 2: where he wasn't gonna get it and then he got it,

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Speaker 2: and all of that testosterone in the room and the

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Speaker 2: No challenge, No Change, the boy who didn't believe that

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Speaker 2: bench press worked your chest is now benching two twenty

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Speaker 2: five plate by plate. And sometimes, you know, using just

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Speaker 2: a stupid example from the weight room, our lives can

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Speaker 2: encounter situations where we are making decisions we don't even

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Speaker 2: or whether there is the potential for us to push

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Speaker 1: Challenge the Shadow.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was a unique title that God gave

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Speaker 2: me because in our passage of scripture today, the king

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Speaker 2: Hezekiah is experiencing the announcement of the end of his life.

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Speaker 2: And I don't mean to make light of that or

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Speaker 2: me today who have heard a bad report in an

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Speaker 1: There is a parallel in this scripture. I don't know

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Speaker 2: But when God wanted to give Hezekiah a sign that

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Speaker 2: the prophet said it couldn't happen.

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Speaker 1: But Hezekiah challenged.

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Speaker 2: What the prophet said, God gave him the sign of

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Speaker 2: in this day they didn't have fitbits and roll exes,

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Speaker 2: the later that it got in the day, the shadow

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Speaker 2: the longer the shadow gets going down the steps.

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Speaker 1: Can you picture it.

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Speaker 2: It signifies that the day is drawing to a close,

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Speaker 2: just as the shadow in the passage LinkedIn's on the

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Speaker 2: steps to announce that you're running out of time. The

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Speaker 2: or to Hezekiah the prophet Isaiah.

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Speaker 1: They had a partnership.

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Speaker 2: Now I want to talk about this partnership between the

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Speaker 2: enemy tells you that it's over. It's a different thing

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Speaker 2: when your buddy. These guys were tight. They had to

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Speaker 1: My dad died.

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Speaker 2: And God sent me today to give you this message

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Speaker 2: or from life. I am saying this that sometimes what

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Speaker 2: you accept as the consequence of a hardship is actually

443
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 2: the opposite of what God intends to give you through

444
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 2: the hardship, so that sometimes you go through the breaking,

445
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: but you don't get the benefit. Sometimes you go through

446
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: the problem, but you don't access in that problem the

447
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 2: power that you could have if you learned what I

448
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 2: want to teach you today.

449
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: Because what I want to teach you today.

450
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 2: Is no matter what has been spoken over you or

451
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: inside of you, if it does not align with the assignment.

452
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: That God has placed on your life.

453
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 2: The moment you decide to focus your faith and drag.

454
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Speaker 1: It out of the shadows and into the light. Things change.

455
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 2: Things change, say it out loud, things change. Things change.

456
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: They really do.

457
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 1: Things change. They really do.

458
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 2: People still do get married in their forties, They really do.

459
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 2: People still do live after experiencing the worst tragedy.

460
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: Things change.

461
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 2: People who formerly were so depressed that they couldn't even

462
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,959
Speaker 2: get out of bed, go on to found companies.

463
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: They really do.

464
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: People who get fired from jobs for being incompetent later

465
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 2: get celebrated for being innovative once they find their fit.

466
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: Things change. Say it out loud. Things change, They really do.

467
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: Things change. People who once struggled with sin.

468
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: To the point that they identified themselves as a recovering

469
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: alcoholic become mentors for other recovering alcoholics.

470
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: Things change, they really do.

471
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: Families where nobody ever went to college, families where nobody

472
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 2: ever really got out of high school go on to

473
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: produce some of the greatest leaders that you've ever seen.

474
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: Things change, They really do.

475
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for because it's not

476
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 2: in my nose, but the Holy Ghost got a hold

477
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: of me to tell you things change.

478
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Speaker 1: They really do. I'm not preaching fairy tale. I'm not

479
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: preaching sweethearts. I'm not preaching Papa promise, get a blessing.

480
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: I'm preaching that when.

481
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: You turn your face to the wall and turn your

482
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: attention to the heavens and walk away kind of the

483
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: shews of what has been there is a lie. God said,

484
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 2: let there be light, and there was well.

485
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: I reckon whatever he speaks still worse.

486
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 2: So if he says, let there be joy, get ready

487
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: to get happy.

488
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Speaker 4: If he says let there be be, get ready to see.

489
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: The storm start to be still? Five three people say

490
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: things change? They really do. You're standing next to a

491
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Speaker 1: living witness that things change. You're standing next to an

492
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Speaker 1: exhibit a that things change.

493
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 2: You're standing next to somebody who one time thought I

494
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna make it.

495
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Speaker 4: But hey, Hanzakiah, I say, get back, puse. God says

496
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Speaker 4: you're over rule the set up, can't have.

497
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Speaker 1: You yet, Hey, I say out, get back here. God

498
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: said I can.

499
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Speaker 3: Look.

500
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Speaker 1: Hey, I say, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not

501
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: saying God change his mind. I'm just saying I'm said,

502
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: by faith, there's a wisdom to die. I should warn you,

503
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: as I preached this, that i'm preaching to you what

504
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: I have walked through.

505
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: You say, Pastor, we didn't hear that you had boils

506
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 2: on your body? No, No, not talking about boils on

507
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: my body. I'm talking about beliefs that I carried. Oh God,

508
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 2: oh God. I mean these beliefs. They were painful, they

509
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 2: were progressive. There were times that I believed things about

510
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 2: myself that I was beyond love. There were times I

511
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: believe things about myself that I was beyond help. There

512
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: were times I believed things about my thought patterns that

513
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 2: they were just genetic and they couldn't be changed. There

514
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,959
Speaker 2: were times I believe things about my potential that I

515
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: wasn't the one for the job even though God had

516
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 2: called me to.

517
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: And there were times I believe things now. The thing about.

518
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: Believing the thing that isn't true is that you don't

519
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 2: know what it wasn't true, because once you know it

520
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 2: wasn't true, you don't believe in it anymore. So you don't

521
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: know that it isn't true while you're believing it. The

522
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 2: moment you know it's not true, you stop believing it.

523
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 2: That's why I love this passage. Because the devil didn't

524
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Speaker 2: tell Hezekiah you're going to die.

525
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Speaker 1: The prophet did.

526
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Speaker 2: And this is where we have to get more sensitive

527
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: to the Holy Spirit than we are to our senses.

528
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: Even if the sickness doesn't go away in your life,

529
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 2: through your suffering, God is going to be glorified.

530
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Speaker 1: More than you could ask her imagine.

531
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Speaker 2: And I know that that doesn't really like get the

532
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: same kind of relief that it does. When Isaiah tells

533
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Speaker 2: them to get some figs and rub that what they

534
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 2: call it the poultice. Did you see that word from

535
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Speaker 2: verse seven? I thought that was a crazy word. And

536
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 2: then Isaiah said, prepare a poultice a figs. I had

537
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,959
Speaker 2: to look that one up. It's an ointment. That poultice

538
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 2: is annointment. But that I thought was powerful too, because

539
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: for the healing that we need in our lives, it's

540
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 2: not just the prayers, it's the poultice. It wasn't just

541
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Speaker 2: he said you're going to live and he waved a

542
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 2: wand there was a process involved in that. So I wonder,

543
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Speaker 2: sometimes are we taught that it's all about what we do,

544
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 2: and then other times we're taught it's not about what

545
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: we do. And somewhere in this message today, God wants

546
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: you to hear that you have to choose to challenge

547
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: the shadow or the shadow will swallow you.

548
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: Think about it. Go with me.

549
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 2: Can you go with me back in history just a

550
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Speaker 2: few hundred years, go back and see that shadow stretching

551
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Speaker 2: down the steps and see the prophet's word coming to

552
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Speaker 2: announce it's over for you, Azekiah.

553
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: And I wonder have you felt.

554
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Speaker 5: That shadow stretching over an area of your life lately,

555
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 5: And has God brought me to your life today.

556
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Speaker 2: To give you a prophetic word for that situation.

557
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: That you think can't change.

558
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 2: Even if the situation doesn't change, the way.

559
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: You see it must.

560
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 2: That is the first step, not that the situation would change,

561
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 2: but that the way you see it would change everything.

562
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Speaker 1: God gave me this one time too.

563
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 2: He said, everything you're praying about today as a burden,

564
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Speaker 2: you were thanking me for as a blessing before it

565
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 2: got heavy, Everything in my life that I was praying

566
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 2: about as a burden. Oh God, this is so hard,

567
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: This is so heavy. What's something God gave me that

568
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 2: I asked him for? It was just growing bigger. Everything

569
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 2: has to start with how you see it. That's what

570
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Speaker 2: a prophet does.

571
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: He's a seer. Is say, I had the ability.

572
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 2: To see hundreds of years into the future where he

573
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 2: prophesied the birth.

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Speaker 1: Of Jesus Christ.

575
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Speaker 2: So how just Hezekiah and his tears and his prayers

576
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 2: stop a prophet as powerful as Isaiah? In his tracks,

577
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 2: Isaiah is walking back, He's all the way to the

578
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: middle court. He's like, well, God, I really didn't want

579
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Speaker 2: to tell him that, but and he can't take another step,

580
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: got something arrest him.

581
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Speaker 1: Now he doesn't know what it is yet.

582
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Speaker 2: All he knows is I told Hezekiah he was gonna die.

583
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 2: I turned my back, I went back to go home,

584
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Speaker 2: and something stopped me. What he didn't know was at

585
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Speaker 2: the moment. I believe at the moment that Hezekiah's tears

586
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: were hitting the pillow, his feet got heavy, and he

587
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 2: couldn't take another step.

588
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: Now, what are you saying, pastor Stephen?

589
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 2: Are you saying that if I cry enough, God will

590
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 2: change my situation?

591
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: Or that if I just pray.

592
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: This prayer, Can we pray that prayer from Hezekiah and

593
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Speaker 2: get it back and get it restored?

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Speaker 1: And can I pray this prayer from Hezekiah and get

595
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Speaker 1: everything that was in my life that was missing put

596
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: back together again. I do not believe that.

597
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 2: It was the formula of his prayer that brought healing.

598
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: I believe it was the change of his focus.

599
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I believe that when

600
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 2: he wept bitterly and he prayed fervently, when he chose

601
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Speaker 2: to rehearse truth through tears.

602
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: Everybody say truth through tears.

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Speaker 2: That is a valuable valuable, valuable confession. It is one

604
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 2: thing to quote truth when you have evidence that absolutely

605
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: supports that truth, but truth through tears is a completely

606
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 2: different level of trust in God, and that kind of

607
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: trust in God. Will say to the shadow, hey, you

608
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 2: say it's over. God says, it's a new beginning. And

609
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: I believe that's what happens in our life when we

610
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 2: really make the shift into faith, is that God shows

611
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: us that what we've called an ending.

612
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 1: Is a beginning. Do you believe that? Because if you don't,

613
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 1: you're not a Christian.

614
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 2: Because that's all the Resurrection was was a redefinition of

615
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 2: what men call endings. I know that you've been worried

616
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: about it. I know that you've been burdened by it,

617
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: bothered by it, broken by it. That is not the question.

618
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 2: The question isn't will you cry? It's what will you

619
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Speaker 2: confess as you do? Because I think there are times

620
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 2: in all of our life when the shadow comes to

621
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 2: announce it's over, but.

622
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: The shadow is not the source. Will you challenge the shadow?

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Speaker 1: Imagine this.

624
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Speaker 2: They rubbed this ointment all over Hezekiah's body, and he says, okay,

625
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 2: I need a sign that this is gonna work, and Isaiah,

626
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 2: you gotta get in this.

627
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: Get in this image. It's so cool.

628
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 2: Isaiah goes, all right, you want to sign, I'll give

629
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 2: you a sign because you don't really believe it yet.

630
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 2: So the shadow is gonna move so God can show

631
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 2: you that you've got more time. Shall I go forward

632
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 2: ten steps or shall it go back ten steps? Now,

633
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: let's work work this out real quick. The sun comes

634
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 2: up over the temple, The shadow goes down the steps.

635
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 2: That is the natural pattern of things.

636
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:00,479
Speaker 1: I said.

637
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 2: If the shadow keeps going down the steps, that's what's

638
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 2: supposed to happen.

639
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: How will I know.

640
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 2: That God can do it if it goes exactly how

641
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: it's supposed to.

642
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: Maybe this is why certain things in our life.

643
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: Don't go exactly how they're supposed to, because how would

644
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 2: you know that it was God if it just went

645
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 2: how was supposed to. If people just recognized you like

646
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 2: they were supposed to, how would you know that it

647
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 2: is God.

648
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: That promotes you? If everybody supported you and endorsed you,

649
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: that was supposed to support and endorse you, How would

650
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: I know it was God? If the shadow just did

651
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: what shadows do.

652
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: I got another one for you. If it happened when

653
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 2: you wanted it to, you would have thought it was you.

654
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:00,959
Speaker 2: So God said, I got to do something real quick.

655
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 2: I gotta make the shadows stretch out so that you

656
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 2: get in a position where you won't say, oh, I

657
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 2: was really smart, Oh I was really clever.

658
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: Oh I was really faithful.

659
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 2: Notice while Hezekiah was talking about his faithfulness, Isaiah kept walking.

660
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 2: But when he cried a tear and said, God, if

661
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 2: you don't.

662
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: Do it, it will not get done.

663
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 2: Isaiah said, WHOA, that's faith, roll, that's trust. WHOA, that's

664
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:37,959
Speaker 2: somebody who has come to the end of himself. That's

665
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 2: somebody who has seen the shadow but will still come

666
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 2: back to the source. What y'all looking at? He loves

667
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 2: good preaching. You see people stand up in a football game.

668
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 2: This is better than a football game. This is a

669
00:41:52,960 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 2: church of the Living God. Thank you Jesus. They think

670
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 2: it's crazy when we get excited about the Word of God.

671
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 2: I see people get excited about somebody in some mesh

672
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: shorts running up and down some hardwood floors bouncing.

673
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: A ball into a hoop.

674
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 2: I think I can get excited when the Word of

675
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 2: the Lord comes to me and starts telling me this

676
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 2: shadow is not going to consume you. Yes, Lord, Why

677
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 2: are you scared to praise God? Why are you scared

678
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: to give him glory? Why are you quiet when you

679
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 2: come in here? You better get rydical about this thing.

680
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: Tom's running out.

681
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: Baby. You can't afford to sit there and wait for

682
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 2: a feeling.

683
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: This is a Lord and a feeling. This is the

684
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:56,359
Speaker 1: worst of Almighty God. If you don't cry out the rocks.

685
00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 6: Well, if you don't cry it out, am I saying?

686
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 7: Somebody released the sound of words of the will, the pumping.

687
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: In his fast and say get back here, I'm on.

688
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 4: Whooo all right, go all right, I thought.

689
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 2: Somebody say I'm back, I'm fast. Now Watch the shadow,

690
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 2: Watch the shadow, Watch the shadow. Verse eleven. Isaiah said, Okay,

691
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: you need a sign. The shadow is going to stop

692
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 2: going forward, and it's gonna do something that will always

693
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 2: prove the presence of God. You're ready to shout over this.

694
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 2: You're gonna love this. Verse eleven. He said, he made

695
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: the shadow go back up the steps again. For everybody

696
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 2: who's looking at something right now that looks like it

697
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: is over Watch what God did for Hezekiah when Hezekiah

698
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 2: called on him. He made the shadow go back up

699
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 2: the steps, And I thought, God, this doesn't make sense.

700
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 2: Shadows don't climb stairs exactly, not until you challenge them. See,

701
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 2: as long as we just let it be whatever way

702
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 2: it is and go, okay, well.

703
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: That's just how it is, or that's just how I am.

704
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: And we never challenged the shadow by coming back to

705
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 2: the source, It's just gonna keep going down, down.

706
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 1: Down.

707
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 2: Have you been depressed, have you been discouraged? Have you

708
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: given up on your dream that God put inside of you?

709
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 2: Is the shadow going down the steps in your life?

710
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: Challenge it.

711
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 2: Whatever that looks like for you, God will reveal it

712
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:06,720
Speaker 2: by his spirit.

713
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: I hear God saying challenge that. I wish I had a.

714
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: Flag like they have on football, so I could throw

715
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 2: the challenge flag on some situations in your life.

716
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 1: So stuff you're complaining about, hey.

717
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 2: Stop complaining about stuff you can change. Stop complaining about

718
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 2: stuff you can change.

719
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's do it. Let's do it.

720
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: Let's get practical. Let's get practical. Holly loves it when

721
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 2: I get practical. She's very literal. I'm very figurative. I

722
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 2: am a songwriter. She is a teacher. She taught school

723
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 2: while I was learning to write songs. So I'm like,

724
00:45:54,360 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 2: challenge the shadow, and she's like, hallelujah, howe, how many

725
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: I need some help with hallelujah? How Like I feel

726
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 2: y'all believe you? Okay, okay, okay, what are you saying?

727
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 2: The shadow came back, like, what does that mean? Does

728
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 2: that mean you want me to go out to the

729
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 2: graveyard And I've had a family member that's been dead

730
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 2: and pray for the person to get up from the

731
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 2: dead and stuff like that.

732
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: No, I've never done that in my life. That's not

733
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: the kind of faith that I have. But I do

734
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: have this kind of faith, and this is a practical faith.

735
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 2: It is the ability for me to see that sometimes

736
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 2: in my life when I am complaining that I don't

737
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 2: have something, it is a product of the way that

738
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: I see something. So challenging the shadow could be as

739
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 2: simple as this, in the last week, raise your hand

740
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 2: if in the last week, and I would have you

741
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 2: close your eyes and just like for privacy sake, but

742
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it. Looking all around, you have said

743
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 2: I do not have enough time. Say it, raise your hand.

744
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 2: I don't have enough time. But Warren Buffett did I'll

745
00:46:58,640 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: have enough time.

746
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: But Jesus only lived to be thirty three and saved

747
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: the world. Yeah, but that's different. It was Jesus. Yes, different.

748
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't even have a car and he still did it.

749
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 2: Jesus couldn't even get an airplane and he did it.

750
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,439
Speaker 2: You don't have time now. We just compressed so much

751
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 2: stress into a shorter time spend that we have no

752
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 2: ability to prioritize. So sometimes challenging the shadow is this

753
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 2: mentality that you have when you wake up any given

754
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 2: day and you go, I'm not going to be able

755
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 2: to get it all done. No, not with everything that

756
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 2: you do that nobody told you to do. You do

757
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 2: not have enough time to do your job and Bob's

758
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 2: job and God's job. As long as you keep running

759
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 2: around with the s on your chest that you think

760
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: stands for savior, but it really stands for stressed, the

761
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 2: shadow grows down the steps and so you end each

762
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 2: day going, I don't have enough time. I need to

763
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: check your Netflix que to see if God really accidentally

764
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 2: skipped some time he was supposed to give you. Challenge

765
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 2: the shadow Do you see what I mean? It sounds

766
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: so big, like Wow, we're reading this passage about this

767
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 2: king who was about to die, and God said, I'm

768
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 2: gonna give him fifteen more years. Sometimes it's not about

769
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 2: fifteen years, it's about fifteen minutes.

770
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: I learned. If I take fifteen minutes.

771
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 2: And seek God first in my day, the whole day

772
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 2: gets longer.

773
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: It's almost like the shadow.

774
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 2: Goes up the steps if I seek him first. But

775
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 2: if I'm not focused, then I'm gonna end the day

776
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 2: not enough time. I'm gonna start the day, not enough sleep.

777
00:48:53,640 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: And the shadow will swallow me. How about this one? Wow,

778
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: we're at it. I feel like I need to put

779
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,439
Speaker 1: on some rubber gloves, so I go this deep. All right,

780
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: this is this crazy stuff right here. Boo.

781
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 2: This is a big one for a lot of us.

782
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 2: It's the idea that it's too late for me. Now,

783
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 2: how about that one? Anybody? Anybody? He said, that's real? No,

784
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 2: it's a shadow feels real. It feels real, especially in

785
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: this day in time, man, because they are trying to

786
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 2: wheel us to the nursing home when we're forty five?

787
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: Am I right? Have you said? The other day?

788
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 2: Mom? If you die, can you write right down to

789
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 2: the boys and let them know I'll take care of

790
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 2: your closet.

791
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: She is killing my wife in the prime of her life.

792
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm still buying holly clothes and jewelry, and

793
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 2: Abby's already claiming it because she'd ride on the doorstep

794
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: of death and tell you what. And that's funny until

795
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 2: it's not. I remember a guy told me one time

796
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 2: songwriting is a young man's game.

797
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 1: He was forty, and in a sense.

798
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: He's right, because most people who write pop songs and

799
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 2: all different kinds of music, they write it when they're

800
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 2: in their twenties or even younger than that. And he

801
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 2: had kind of resigned himself to the fact that he

802
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna write any more good songs.

803
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: He went on to write a few good ones.

804
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 2: But I bet you're somewhere in him dealing with that

805
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 2: because he was saying that out of his own fear

806
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 2: he was over forty.

807
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: I bet somewhere in his fear of that.

808
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,399
Speaker 2: He had to turn his face to the wall and ask,

809
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 2: got is that really true? Because normally, yeah, people do

810
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 2: their best work early, but this is not the NBA.

811
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 1: Why have we let our culture turn into this. Once

812
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: you're over thirty, you're worthless. The devil is a liar, y'all.

813
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: Here's how much I don't believe that.

814
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 2: I won't even I won't even let them put my

815
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 2: sermons online that I preached when I was thirty because

816
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 2: I did not know anything when I was thirty.

817
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,240
Speaker 1: And I'll probably take this one down.

818
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 2: When I'm sixty because I intend to keep living, and

819
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 2: I intend to keep learning, and I intend to keep

820
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 2: contradicting myself as long as it takes to grow. So

821
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 2: if God shows me something different, the shadow can roll back.

822
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 2: I can admit my ignorance and go, I didn't know that.

823
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 2: Then I'm growing.

824
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: Now. Why have we given ourselves no grace to grow?

825
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 2: Why do we define what can come next by what

826
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 2: has already been?

827
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: Is that not a step?

828
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 2: Was it? Every mistake that you made up to this

829
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 2: in your life a step toward wisdom?

830
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: So watch this if you can receive it.

831
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 2: Everything you thought was a step down from God's vantage point,

832
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 2: it was a step up. That's what it means when

833
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 2: God makes the shadow go backward. But you've got to

834
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 2: challenge it.

835
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: You've got to get in the face of your failure

836
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: and say, oh, guess what you are failure? You are

837
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: a foundation.

838
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 2: I saw something online the other day and said, you're

839
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 2: not starting over, You're starting from experience.

840
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: How about that?

841
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 2: Young people, all my forty three year old senior citizens

842
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: make some noise with me.

843
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm a pert pid mom.

844
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 2: It's so crazy, how quick we give up on what

845
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 2: might have been the greatest season of your life. I declare,

846
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 2: your grandkids need you to grow into it. If for

847
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 2: nobody else, do it for what's coming after you.

848
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: A girl that worked for me turn thirty.

849
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 2: I said, congratulations, She said, oh no, please, don't speak

850
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 2: of it.

851
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: I said, speak of what she said. I can't stand

852
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: to think about it. Turning thirty. Imagine that.

853
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 2: Imagine that the enemy is so good at getting us

854
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 2: to die that we just stay stupid. We won't learn,

855
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 2: We won't challenge anything. We won't challenge a prejudice. We

856
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 2: won't challenge a preconceived notion of ourselves.

857
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: We won't challenge an insecurity. We won't challenge a hobby,

858
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: we won't challenge an interest. We just live in it.

859
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 2: Because Hezekiah called the prophet back with his tears, I reckon,

860
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 2: you can rebuke the enemy off of your life with yours.

861
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 2: It changed my life when I realized that the God

862
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 2: said let there be light. Verse also points to the

863
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 2: fact that the God who said let there be light

864
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 2: also controls the shadows. The author of truth is the

865
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 2: controller of time. I just speak this message today from

866
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 2: my heart to yours, that sometimes you need to stand

867
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 2: in the shadows and speak to the source. Isaiah sa.

868
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 2: I can make it. I can make it keep going down,

869
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:08,479
Speaker 2: which is what it naturally does. Or if you really

870
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,839
Speaker 2: want to see what God spoke come to pass, here's

871
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen.

872
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: What was supposed to stay down, He's gonna go back up. Now.

873
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:29,720
Speaker 2: I don't know what brought you down in your life,

874
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 2: and I can't know what's bringing you down in your soul.

875
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 2: The promise of God is not just limited to some

876
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 2: obscure old Testament king. As a matter of fact, this

877
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 2: whole story isn't really a story. It's a shadow. The

878
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 2: prophet said, in three days you will arise. I read

879
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 2: my Bible some I seem to remember another thing about

880
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 2: three days.

881
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: And rising.

882
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 2: You remember anything in that Bible about three days in rising?

883
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 2: You remember in John chapter two where Jesus came through

884
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,959
Speaker 2: the temple and he was like, this is all out

885
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 2: of order, and I feel God going.

886
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: Through somebody's temple today and clearing.

887
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 2: Out everything that doesn't belong and wiping out every shadow

888
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 2: that has tried.

889
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,240
Speaker 1: To eliminate your purpose and your peace.

890
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 2: And those gathered that day said, what will be Look

891
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 2: at this in John chapter two, verse E. You're going

892
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 2: to love this verse He said, what sign can you

893
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 2: show us to prove your authority to do this? Nineteen

894
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 2: is all the answer I need. Jesus answered them, Destroy

895
00:56:55,400 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: this temple and I will raise it. You already there's

896
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 2: about to be a resurrection.

897
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: Destroy this temple.

898
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 2: Take away my good name, Jesus said, Hang me up

899
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 2: on a cross, call me the king of the Jews.

900
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 2: As you mock me with the crown of thorns, plunge

901
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 2: a Roman sphere into my side.

902
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 1: You can destroy it, but if you do, you.

903
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 2: Should know I will raise it again in three days.

904
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Speaker 1: That's why he died to challenge the shadow.

905
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 2: That's why he rose to challenge the shadow.

906
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: That's why he ascended to the right hand of God.

907
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: To let you know that even the grave and even

908
00:57:58,280 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: the keys.

909
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 3: Of dead in hell or in his.

910
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 7: Half, Why would I die in the shadows.

911
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 6: When I know the source? Here's the source of my strength.

912
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:19,919
Speaker 6: He is the strength of my life. Hey, has Akiyat,

913
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 6: you shall not die.

914
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 7: You show live, live, live, he live out of the shadows,

915
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 7: into the light, out of the past, into the promise.

916
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: You shall live.

917
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 2: Because the one who controls the sun and spoken into

918
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 2: its place can certainly bring the shadows back. The one

919
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 2: who sees you and that pit can certainly pull you out.

920
00:58:58,760 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: The one who gave.

921
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 2: You your unique composition as a child of God can

922
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 2: certainly bring you into your purpose. No matter how much

923
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 2: time has passed.

924
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: Even Isaiah had.

925
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 2: To turn around when Hezekiah cried, Even the prophet had

926
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 2: to turn around and say, there is a better word.

927
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 2: Even God waits for your faith, no challenge, no change.

928
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 2: If the shadow just went down the steps and it

929
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 2: was easy, you wouldn't know he was God. You were

930
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 2: in this moment, in this season of your life. Not

931
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:41,919
Speaker 2: only because life is hard, that's one reason. Not only

932
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 2: because bad things happen, that's another reason, but because God

933
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 2: is using this as a sign. I pictured all week

934
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 2: that shadow coming back up the steps.

935
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: I thought, what would that be like to watch something

936
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 1: that looked like it was over.

937
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, step by step come on

938
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 2: get your feet moving.

939
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: Onward, Christian soldiers, step by step.

940
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Shadows don't walk up steps. They do

941
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 2: when God speaks, stone stone, roll from full graves they

942
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 2: do when Jesus speaks. Sins can't be forgiven, the past

943
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 2: can't be undone.

944
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: The record can't be a raise, it can't win. The

945
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: blood speaks.

946
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 2: I need everybody who's believing for a better word, to

947
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 2: stop the prophet in his tracks right now.

948
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: And begin to praise God.

949
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 2: When you praise him, the shadow falls back.

950
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: When you brace him, the shames fall off. When you

951
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: praise him, the darkness.

952
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 2: Starts to scatter and disciminate and disappear.

953
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: I declare, it's coming back. It's coming back.

954
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 2: It's coming back to you now to wait on the Lord,

955
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 2: so remove their strength.

956
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: It's coming back right now. It's coming back with every step.

957
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 1: It's coming back with every brace, It's coming back with

958
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: every breath. It's coming back with every tear. Come back,

959
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: come back, shit back here. I say, yeah, speak the

960
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 1: word that day. Say listen, this.

961
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 3: Should not come with.

962
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 7: You're not done with me, You're not.

963
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 3: Done with me.

964
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 6: I don't know what you're suffering from, but I say, room,

965
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 6: listen I.

966
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: Don't know what's your valley.

967
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 6: Shot, but I know the luth of the other shine

968
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 6: calls out bread you hear up time with me.

969
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 2: It's not done with you.

970
01:01:56,240 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: You're not done with me. You got fit see years pay.

971
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 7: So much.

972
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 2: His life?

973
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: Who hear it in that setting? With walking?

974
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 7: Yok it? Walk in it?

975
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: F Kennedy. Walking t't a robbing you're rather.

976
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 6: Foot step can't to lift this your side that it's

977
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 6: your signal.

978
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 7: This is your step, this is your word.

979
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: Step away you make the true he's coming. Yes, he's gone.

980
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 1: Can you look back? We talk about the step and

981
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: the room? What the lord to?

982
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 7: What the hood?

983
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 2: Can't you?

984
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 4: He's gonna down, So set away, make it through.

985
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna lett be like he's coming.

986
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 2: Who let them be? Let to me?

987
01:02:54,480 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 1: It's passigle. You got pors on. Anything is PASSI this

988
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:02,520
Speaker 1: is the table lord.

989
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 2: That's man.

990
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 7: Anything is possible, I will retorted, hide s.

991
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: Did die with the normal. I'm coming out to.

992
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 4: Anything is possible, anyth Anything is possible.

993
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: What's that design? Anything? Anything? It's possible? Who went by?

994
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 1: She did die with thee? Anything is my stiffer he

995
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: gets you?

996
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 2: Anything?

997
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:47,960
Speaker 1: Anything is possible? Who went by to did die.

998
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 2: What the.

999
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 8: It's turning around? He's turning around. I say, it's turning around.

1000
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 8: He's turning around. Somebody says, turning around, it's turning around.

1001
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 8: Us three people tell him it's turning around. It's turning around.

1002
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 8: It's turning around.

1003
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: It's turning around. It's turning around. Come on, move a

1004
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: little bit. It's turning around. It's turning around. God said

1005
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: his turnaround.

1006
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:35,959
Speaker 2: Time.

1007
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 1: What you're gonna do with the base you have left?

1008
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 1: What you're gonna do with the wisdom you've got?

1009
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 6: Now?

1010
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with the breakthrough he made?

1011
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do.

1012
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 7: With your open door?

1013
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: It's time.

1014
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 2: It's time.

1015
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: It's time to find out why you're still alive. It's

1016
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: time to pray.

1017
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 6: Say while you're still got breath, I mean for the

1018
01:04:58,800 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 6: sun goes down.

1019
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

1020
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

1021
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,480
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Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation,

1024
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 2: whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

1025
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,120
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01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world. And if

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01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 2: you want more information on how to be a part

1028
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 2: of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again

1029
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:45,000
Speaker 2: for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the

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