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Speaker 1: Are you ready for this Elevation Nights twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: Spring Tour. It's on the way. Come on, give God praise,

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Speaker 1: whoo shout. If you know somebody within one hundred miles

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Speaker 1: gonna be starting this tour on April twenty sixth, go

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Speaker 1: know because we did it last year. So last year

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Speaker 1: when I announced it, I said it's gonna be powerful,

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Speaker 1: and I was just saying that by faith. But this

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Speaker 1: year I know by experience, because we did it. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be preaching. The team is going to be there.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be in Chicago, Illinois, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, DC, Reading, Pennsylvania, Newark,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, and Boston. So do me a favor. If

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Speaker 1: you know somebody around there, send them a lane. Elevation

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Speaker 1: Knights tell them, tell them you gotta do. If you

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Speaker 1: you have to make some beds to get a ticket, whatever,

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Speaker 1: moss some lawns It'll be worth it because God is

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Speaker 1: gonna do an amazing thing Elevation Nights dot com that

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Speaker 1: starts April twenty six That's my little brother's birthday, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna fly him out. I haven't told him this yet,

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Speaker 1: but he watches his service every week he's in. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna fly him out to New Jersey, where he already lives,

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Speaker 1: and get him a ticket to that show. You're welcome,

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, I got you. I'm gonna get you a

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Speaker 1: want that be awesome. Oh man, well, we don't have

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Speaker 1: to wait till April twenty sixth. There is a word

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Speaker 1: from the Lord. The presence of God has been powerful

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Speaker 1: already today, and I heard from God what I'm going

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Speaker 1: to share with you, and he confirmed it through multiple sources.

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Speaker 1: So this is going to be absolutely life changing. In

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Speaker 1: Fee Samuel, chapter thirteen, it has been a while since

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Speaker 1: I've preached a good old Testament battle story. I haven't

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Speaker 1: even preached one yet this year. So what better Sunday

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Speaker 1: But I did wear a red That's good. That's good.

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Speaker 1: You ready for Samuel thirteen. I'm going to read a

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Speaker 1: long scripture. Okay, all right? For Samuel thirteen sixteen, Saul

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Speaker 1: Not only that, my oldest child is sixteen years old.

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Speaker 1: And it provides a contrast which has been eye opening

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Speaker 1: other day, I was saying something to one of my kids,

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Speaker 1: the Spirit of the Lord said, shut up. Don't say that.

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Speaker 1: You recognize the name Philistine from the famous Philistines in

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Speaker 1: but he's a Philistine. Also, you might remember Delilah, Remember

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Speaker 1: Delilah Shah the haircut just for us, just for us,

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Speaker 1: And they're coming from everywhere against the Israelites. They're actually

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Speaker 1: Who am I to do anything? God never promise that.

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Speaker 1: He only said that it's possible. Shout is possible, but

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Speaker 1: Possible is not automatic. If I had never invited her

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Speaker 1: never fallen in love with me on the bus. And

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Speaker 1: experienced the gift of the goodness. So what I'm trying

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Speaker 1: for them. Go for it, Go for it, go for it.

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Speaker 1: to go for it. But but but I've got God's grace.

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Speaker 1: You've got God's grace to empower you to go for

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Speaker 1: what He's given you. That's what the grace is for.

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Speaker 1: I got my coffee this morning. I'm ready. I'm ready,

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Speaker 1: I felt like Jonathan. But twenty five years later, that's

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Speaker 1: to go toward something. And Saul saulus sitting under something,

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Speaker 1: sitting under something with somebody. Did you notice he had

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Speaker 1: one of the descendants of Ichabod with him under the tree.

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Speaker 1: Ichabod was the one that was named right after the

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Speaker 1: Ark was captured by the Philistines, the great grandson of Eli,

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Speaker 1: the priest. I know this is a lot of Bible background, y'all,

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Speaker 1: but is so significant for you to realize that where

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Speaker 1: you sit, who you sit with, and what you believe

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Speaker 1: about the will of God is critical to what happens

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Speaker 1: next in your life. Of course, Saul was sitting under

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Speaker 1: the pomegranate tree. He had just been told by Samuel

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Speaker 1: that God was going to take his kingdom away because

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Speaker 1: he hadn't waited to offer the sacrifice. He was disappointed. Literally,

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Speaker 1: he had been appointed as king and he was going

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Speaker 1: to lose what he was. He had been defeated by

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Speaker 1: the Philistines in chapter fifteen. And also he didn't have

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Speaker 1: the weapons. Yeah, I hear you, Ferdie this all sounds good.

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00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: And if I was a preacher and I knew all

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Speaker 1: these Bible verses, and I had a parafink wife lying

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Speaker 1: Holly like you're only he's out there talking about how

445
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: great and how perfect she is, maybe this would be

446
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: good for me too. Why didn't the Israelites have any weapons?

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Speaker 1: The scripture said that there was not a blacksmith found

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Speaker 1: in the land of Israel. The reason there was no

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Speaker 1: blacksmith found in the land of Israel is because the

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Speaker 1: Philistines knew if we can keep the Israelites from taking

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Speaker 1: what they have and shaping it into something that they

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Speaker 1: can fight with, they will always be weak. And here's

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Speaker 1: what had happened. That puts Saul under the pomegranate tree,

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Speaker 1: and that keeps you in states where you don't trust God,

455
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Speaker 1: don't think God wants to hear from you, don't pray,

456
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Speaker 1: don't believe anything can change, just stand there and surrender

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Speaker 1: to the way things are and call it faith. Trusting

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Speaker 1: God without moving toward is not faith. The importance of

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Speaker 1: a blacksmith is something I never saw when I was sixteen,

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00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: but I see it now because I got a sixteen

461
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: and I got a fourteen and I got a ten.

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00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: I got three of these, And I see Philistines all

463
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Speaker 1: around my kids. I see Philistines all around my kids.

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Speaker 1: And Graham's gonna roll his eyes when I say this,

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Speaker 1: because he hates when I do it. But I see

466
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Speaker 1: social media raising a generation. And what worries me about

467
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: that church? It's not about the technology scene. Yet. Understand,

468
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: the Philistines had the best technology. They had learned how

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Speaker 1: to work with iron. The Israelites were still working with bronze.

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Speaker 1: So when it says they didn't have weapons, the reason

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Speaker 1: they didn't have weapons, am I'm born, y'all. This is

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Speaker 1: so deep to me. The reason they didn't have weapons

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Speaker 1: the Philistines knew what to do with iron. So every

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Speaker 1: time that the Israelites wanted their farming equipment sharpen, they

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Speaker 1: had to go to the Philistines, which represents the world,

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Speaker 1: who are not God's people, who do not have God's spirit,

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Speaker 1: who do not have God's promise. So now watch this,

478
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Speaker 1: they had to go to the world to get their weapons. Now,

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Speaker 1: I talk to my kids about everything that is age

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Speaker 1: appropriate to talk to them about, which includes as much

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Speaker 1: as they hated sex, I talk to my kids about

482
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Speaker 1: sex as much as it's appropriate for the age, and

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00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: they hate it. But if you think I'm gonna let

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Speaker 1: TikTok teach my kid, yeah I said it. If you

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Speaker 1: think I'm gonna leave my kid without weapons because I'm uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: If you think I'm gonna let somebody jeez happy out

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Speaker 1: of twerk and I'm not gonna talk to her about

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Speaker 1: what it means to be a woman, get out of

489
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Speaker 1: my face. Crazy. You think I'm gonna send my kid

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Speaker 1: into the world to fight the devil without weapons, not

491
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Speaker 1: just sex, not just sex, Let's get off of that.

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Speaker 1: I know that's long enough. It's emotions too, because let

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Speaker 1: me ask you, how many of you have lost battles

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Speaker 1: because you didn't have a blacksmith? And is this not true?

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Speaker 1: It's too late when you get into the battle to

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Speaker 1: get a blacksmith. What do you mean It's too late

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Speaker 1: until you let anger take you over and now your

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00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: little lizard brain is running the show. Now you got

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Speaker 1: a little lizard driving your decisions. It's too late at

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Speaker 1: that point for you to learn that my emotions don't

501
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: control me if I have the spirit of God insidemen.

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00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: But see as much as you can know that Is

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Speaker 1: that a pomegranate tree that you sit under or is

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Speaker 1: it an actual process in your life that produces victory.

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Speaker 1: Because there's a difference the stuff we can shout over

506
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Speaker 1: versus the stuff we can fight with. It's one thing

507
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Speaker 1: to have farming equipment, it's another thing to have fighting instruments.

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Speaker 1: The Israelites had the raw material, they didn't have a blacksmith.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had to go to battle but you

510
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Speaker 1: didn't have a blacksmith? Have any of you in the

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Speaker 1: room had to be a dad, but you didn't have

512
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Speaker 1: a dad who showed you along the way how to

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Speaker 1: do this. That was my dad's story. I'm in utter amazement.

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Speaker 1: What a good job my dad did, considering the blacksmith

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Speaker 1: he never had. His dad killed himself. He did good

516
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Speaker 1: to stay alive. And then he told me one time,

517
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: he told me, he said, have you ever run anything

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Speaker 1: and you start thinking you have to kill yourself? You

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Speaker 1: talk to me, He said, I will drop everything I'm

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Speaker 1: doing and I will go. I'll take you fishing. I'm like, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I don't like fishing. He's like, whatever the point is,

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Speaker 1: I will take you. You do not have to go

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Speaker 1: that route. What was that he was trying to be

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Speaker 1: the blacksmith that he never had. Oh that's wonderful. You're

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Speaker 1: telling me to just go for it. You sound like

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Speaker 1: we're a rocky movie, Pastor Steven. I can't put this

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Speaker 1: into practice in my life. I know you can't because

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Speaker 1: you didn't have a blacksmith. And when you don't have

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Speaker 1: a blacksmith showing you here is how you navigate this

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Speaker 1: emotional state, or this is how you take a scripture

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Speaker 1: and actually live it out, then you'll have plenty of

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00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: pomegranates to sit under, plenty of good sounding things that

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00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: represent on plenty of words, but no weapons. I am

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00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: seeing people go down left and right as a pastor.

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00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:13,439
Speaker 1: Right now, what else is new? And it wouldn't bother

536
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 1: me if the devil was stronger than us. I messed

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Speaker 1: up and stumbled across a verse that said, greater is

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Speaker 1: he that is in you than he that is in

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Speaker 1: the world. Or as Jonathan said, nothing can hinder the

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Speaker 1: Lord from saving, whether by many or by few. If

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Speaker 1: that is true, why are you losing? If that is true,

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Speaker 1: why isn't it working? And the Lord spoke to me

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Speaker 1: he didn't have a blacksmith. When you don't have a blacksmith.

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Speaker 1: You don't have anybody to show you how to take

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Speaker 1: the raw material and turn it into something that is

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Speaker 1: useful in your life. That's why I want to be

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Speaker 1: a better blacksmith than you. Man, So I don't tell you, oh,

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Speaker 1: you can't do this and you can't do that. I

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00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: don't want to be Saul. So you sit under the

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Speaker 1: pomegranate's with me. Even if I take this to a

551
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: level of Elijah's music. That boy just made an album

552
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: on his computer in his bedroom over the last four months,

553
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: an entire album. I never did that now, but I've

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00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: been a pretty good blacksmith to him along the way.

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00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: Two and a a half years ago. He didn't even know

556
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: what I was doing, but I snuck a recording mic

557
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: in his room at the same time he was saying,

558
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Speaker 1: I don't like my voice. I don't want to sing.

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00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: I don't like my voice. Nobody likes their voice when

560
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Speaker 1: they're thirteen, if they're not justin Bieber. But I'm not

561
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 1: trying to get you to love your voice right now.

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00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to put something that you have to

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Speaker 1: trip over when you wake up in the morning. So

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Speaker 1: every time you see that that might you might step

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Speaker 1: on it one day, and you might sing something, and

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Speaker 1: then you might sing something else. And I'm not taking

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Speaker 1: credit because it's his battle, but I'm his blacksmith. I

568
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: need every dad in here to change your Instagram bio

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Speaker 1: to blacksmith, because if you are nothing else, I need

570
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: every pastor watching this sermon to rip something off and

571
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: you can preach it later, to just change your job

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Speaker 1: title and put blacksmith at least for the rest of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Because you have got to see yourself

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Speaker 1: as someone who has been given the responsibility by God

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Speaker 1: to shape and to form. I found myself this week

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Speaker 1: feeling sorry for Saul because he didn't have anybody to

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Speaker 1: show him how to be a king. He was the

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00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: first one. He had a powerful dad, but he never

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00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: been a king before he didn't have a blacksmith. Then

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Speaker 1: when I was feeling sorry for Saul, I was feeling

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Speaker 1: sorry for Jonathan because the one who was supposed to

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Speaker 1: be his black smith was so broken that he couldn't

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Speaker 1: show him how to do it either. Then I started

584
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: wondering about you, and I started wondering, are you in

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Speaker 1: a battle without a blacksmith? Are you in a war

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Speaker 1: where you didn't have the weapons for it. That was

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Speaker 1: the state of Israel, and that was why Saul was

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Speaker 1: under the tree, and that was why the children of

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Speaker 1: God were running to the world for their weapons. Let

590
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: me bring this into a New Testament context. In Second Corinthians,

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Speaker 1: Paul is talking to the church about how we fight,

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Speaker 1: not if we fight, everybody has a fighting style, but

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00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: how we fight. He says that, yeah, that though we

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Speaker 1: live in the world, we do not wage war as

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Speaker 1: the world does. We don't go to the Philistines to

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Speaker 1: get our weapons sharpened. It's too expensive. We don't go

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00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: to social media to get our emotional needs met it's

598
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: too expensive. We don't go to the devil for our dopamine.

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00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: Hit Please, devil, give me some dopamine. Made me feel

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Speaker 1: good for a second, Give me pleasure for a second,

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Speaker 1: make me feel something for a second. It's too expensive

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00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: because you can get it from the devil. But it's

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00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: too expensive. How many of you have found out it

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00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 1: is too expensive to go to the world to get

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Speaker 1: your weapons. It's too expensive because even if it works,

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Speaker 1: it isn't worth it. And that's why Paul says, man,

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Speaker 1: we don't wage war like the world does. We have

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Speaker 1: to fight these battles. We have to live in this world.

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Speaker 1: We have to be realistic, but we don't have to

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Speaker 1: fight it that way. The weapons that we have have

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00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: divine power to demolish strongholds. That's in the Bible, y'all.

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00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: That is the spirit of Jesus inside of you. It

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00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: is divine power to demolish strongholds. When you go to

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00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: the world for your weapons, there's no power in them.

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00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: When you go to the world for your weapons, it

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00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: doesn't demolish strongholds. It creates strongholds. It creates dependence on

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Speaker 1: the thing that you are going to for the need

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Speaker 1: you are trying to meet. Why would you go to

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Speaker 1: the devil for it when your dad has it in abundance.

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00:43:54,880 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: When you are out of God and so Jonathan's nothing

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00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: can hinder the Lord. I have a covenant with Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: No weapon, and he got a victory. Well, he had

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Speaker 1: one weapon. The armor bearer had no weapon. And even

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Speaker 1: in that the Lord spoke to me. He said, quit

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Speaker 1: saying you don't have any You got one. You got one,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes one is enough. I am forty two in

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Speaker 1: six days. That's right in the middle. While you're not

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Speaker 1: sure if that's cheerable or not like And the thing

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Speaker 1: I found out is that there is only one thing

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Speaker 1: in the world that I know that I'm pretty good at,

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Speaker 1: other than like loving my wife, my kids, and all,

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Speaker 1: that is not baseball, at least not at a professional level.

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Speaker 1: Even when it comes to the things that I do

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Speaker 1: in my life today, I'm not saying I'm great at administrating.

635
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Speaker 1: I'm not say I'm horrible at it, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: great at it. I'll say I'm good at managing people.

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Speaker 1: I'm good at it. Sometimes i'm good at it in

638
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: certain seasons, but I can't say I'm great at it.

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Speaker 1: I found one thing that I can do that God's

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00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,959
Speaker 1: hand is on. Out of that one, which I'm saying

641
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: is sharing his work. Okay, in case that's not clear,

642
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: I hope it's clear. I hope that that's obvious that

643
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: God gave me that gift. Maybe it's not. I don't know.

644
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I wonder what I'm saying. I can do this

645
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Speaker 1: and and and and God uses it right, and I've

646
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Speaker 1: been doing it since I was sixteen. Out of that

647
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: one thing that God gave me, let me let me

648
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: tell you what what the what the devil will do.

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00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: He will tempt you to diminish what you've been given.

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00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: Because out of this one thing that I've given my

651
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: life to do, I've been able to see God do

652
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: amazing things. I've been all over the world doing this.

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00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: I have stood in front of people that didn't even

654
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Speaker 1: speak my language with an interpreter doing this. I have

655
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: met people that I never thought i'd get to me

656
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: doing this. I've seen people that came up to me

657
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: and said that their life was greatly helped doing this.

658
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Speaker 1: And yet this that I do is talking. This that

659
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Speaker 1: I do is imperfect. This that I do. Sometimes I'm

660
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, I feel like what I

661
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: do is one of the weirdest things in the world.

662
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: Try to tell you what God thinks about stuff keyword try.

663
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm figuring it out as I go as well. But

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Speaker 1: out of this one imperfect, uncertain thing that God has

665
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Speaker 1: given me to do that I believe He called me

666
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Speaker 1: to do, that, I believe He graced me to do that,

667
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: I stand up and do no matter how I feel

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Speaker 1: about it. Out of this one thing that God gave

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Speaker 1: me to do, I have seen God do things. One

670
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: is enough. I don't have to be good at basketball.

671
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: To do this, I don't have to be good at

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00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: I don't have to you know what, I don't even

673
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Speaker 1: have to be good at counting to do this, I

674
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: don't have to be good. There's a lot of stuff

675
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: that I have reconciled to the fact that I will

676
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,720
Speaker 1: never be great at that, but standing in the grace

677
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Speaker 1: that God gave me and doing the thing that God

678
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Speaker 1: called me to do, this gift that I have been

679
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: preaching on this boy called Jonathan for twenty five years.

680
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: I have preached at least three hundred sermons on this

681
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: one text, and one was enough. I preached it in Australia.

682
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: I preached it in Singapore. I preached it in London.

683
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Speaker 1: I preached it in Camden, South Carolina. I preach it

684
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Speaker 1: in Valentine. When I'm forty two, I'll preach it. If

685
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Speaker 1: God gives me the grace I'm eighty four, I will

686
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Speaker 1: preach this one word one give one calling one weapon

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Speaker 1: one weapon. You say there was no weapon, No, there

688
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: was one. And God has always given you something. God

689
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: has always given you something. The prophet asked the woman,

690
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: what do you have in your house? She said, nothing

691
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: except a little oil. You see that thing you almost overlooked,

692
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 1: that thing you didn't think was worth mentioning. That was

693
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: the one that the miracle was in. You mean one

694
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: weapon was enough to kill twenty Philistines. It was my faith.

695
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: God likes to do it like that, does. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: want you given the credit to your weapons. He doesn't

697
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: want you to raise your weapons. He wants you to

698
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Speaker 1: praise him. I don't know if it's true that they

699
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Speaker 1: didn't have any weapons. They just didn't know where their

700
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: weapons were. Can I show you something? What's your name? Again?

701
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Speaker 1: Your story inspired me, Yolanda. I was thinking this might

702
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: just be for you, This whole word might just be

703
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: for Yolanda. They were talking about Yolanda earlier and all

704
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,720
Speaker 1: that she's been through, and I thought about telling you,

705
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: do you know where your weapons are? A lot of

706
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: people don't. They just accept depression. They don't have a worship.

707
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying field depression. I'm saying I don't accept that.

708
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Speaker 1: I don't accept that as being my new default setting

709
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Speaker 1: and the limitation of my life. We have addictions. We

710
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: all have addictions. Me as you scroll, you are delusional, Yolanda.

711
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Speaker 1: I started by calling this sermon no weapon there were

712
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Speaker 1: no weapons with the Israelites because there were no blacksmiths.

713
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Speaker 1: All of the ways that the enemy kept you from

714
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Speaker 1: getting what you should have had, and all of the

715
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: ways that he wants to use what you think you

716
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: should have had that you don't have from keep you,

717
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: to keep you from doing what God called you to do.

718
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: That was my message. And it said there wasn't a

719
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Speaker 1: weapon in the hands of Israel. In the hands of Israel,

720
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Speaker 1: that's true. But guess who did have weapons. The Philistines.

721
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: They had weapons. They made weapons, They had the monopoly

722
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Speaker 1: on medal of making, so they were fully weaponized. And

723
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Speaker 1: that's just the way God wanted it. I'm about to

724
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: show you something that blew my mind. Oh I hope

725
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: it blows your mind, because while you're sitting there thinking

726
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: about what you don't have that God didn't give you. Know,

727
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: he's giving you all things ritually to enjoy, and he's

728
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: giving you forgiveness of your sins and salvation through the

729
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: blood of His son. All that I don't have any weapons,

730
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: You got the Holy Spirit, the minded spirit, which is

731
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: life and peace, to show you everything you ever good

732
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: perfect give what hass y'all, I remind myself of the

733
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: older brother in the prodigal Son story, sitting in the

734
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: father's house, talking about you never gave me a goat.

735
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Speaker 1: You give your other son, the one you really like,

736
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Speaker 1: the goat, and you don't give me a goat, And

737
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: the Father's like, you're always with me, and all I

738
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: have is yours. This is not about resource. It's about recognition,

739
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: recognizing what you already have, recognizing who you already have.

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Speaker 1: Everybody left me, not everybody, Not everybody is gone, Not

741
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: everybody is flaky, Not everybody is a judas or a betrayer.

742
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: And I love how Jonathan moved toward what was too

743
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:32,240
Speaker 1: big for him with what he had, with what you've got,

744
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:39,720
Speaker 1: If this one armor bearer, go with what you've got,

745
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: if you are already past the point in your life. See,

746
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: Saul didn't have to stay under the tree either. Saul

747
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: had a weapon. At the end of his life, he

748
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: fell on his own sword, the weapon that Jonathan won

749
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: with saw killed himself. It wasn't about what they had,

750
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: It's about what they did with it. There is somebody

751
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: on your row that went through a divorce and lived

752
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: through it and learned from it and moved forward and

753
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 1: It did not make them. No, I'm telling you, it

754
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: hurt them. It was hard for them. They wish they

755
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: never would have had to go through it. They wouldn't

756
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: wish it on you, but they made it through it.

757
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: It is not what happens to you that defines you.

758
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: Do you need me to turn Yolanda loose with the microphones?

759
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: Did you hear what she went through? And did you

760
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: see her worshiping? And some of us didn't worship because

761
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: we didn't get the park close enough. They were saying

762
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: all these things she went through and she's still worshiping.

763
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: You must have read all the way to First Samuel

764
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Speaker 1: fourteen twenty. I'm not sure if you did, but something

765
00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: tells me that you did. In First Samuel fourteen, the

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00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 1: Bible says that after Jonathan, you're ready for this, this

767
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 1: bless my whole life. Please, y'all get ready to shout

768
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: that when Jonathan moved toward the enemy with his one weapon,

769
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: look what God did that Jonathan could not do. Because

770
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: you've been looking at what's against you, forgetting what's for you,

771
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: forgetting who's for you, forgetting who's in you. But when

772
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: Jonathan moved forward in the strength that he had, with

773
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: the sword that he had, with the partner that he had,

774
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: with the resources, the wisdom, the plan that he had,

775
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: not the one he wanted, the one that he had.

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00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: Watch what God did, the Bible says. Then Saul and

777
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: all of his men assembled and went to the battle.

778
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: They found the Philistines in total confusion. Y'all, let me

779
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: do it right. But we don't have any weapons, but

780
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: your enemy does. And when they got to the battle,

781
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: guess what happened. The Philistines, their enemies that had kept

782
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: them in hiding, were striking each other with those iron swords.

783
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: So I just picture the Philistines sharpening their swords, not

784
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: knowing their swords that they were sharpening were going to

785
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: be the very instruments of their own demise. I want

786
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: the devil to know that no weapon formed against me

787
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 1: will prosper. Somebody shout, no weapon, So watch this, watch this.

788
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: The devil's been busy, hadn't he been trying to defeat

789
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: you and discourage you and get you to And he's

790
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: serpent in the swords, and he planned the attack, and

791
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: he thought, if I hit him here, if I hit

792
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: him there, if I cut him off here, they'll stop

793
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: coming What he didn't know is the weapons may be

794
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: in the hands of the Philistines, but the Philistines are

795
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 1: in the hands of God. When you move, when you move,

796
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: when you move tour who when you move tour what

797
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: God has called you to, you will be surprised and

798
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: maybe the very weapon that you thought was going to

799
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: kill you is going to be the one God is

800
00:56:54,600 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: going to use to save you. There it is, there,

801
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: it is. That is the prophetic word. You've been praying,

802
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: You've been asking God to show you something. Some of

803
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: you have been asking God to confirm. Why am I

804
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: going through this? Why is this coming against me? Why

805
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: can't I get past this? Why can't I move through this?

806
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: Why didn't I have someone to help me with this?

807
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: God said, I wanted to show you what I could do.

808
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: So the thing that the enemy sharpened to kill you

809
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: is going to be the thing that God uses to

810
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: save you. If you move toward if you sit under

811
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: the pomegranates, your faith will surely weaken. If you move

812
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: toward the Philistines and talking straight into the face of

813
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 1: your fear, straight into the face of what's fighting you

814
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: in the power of God. Because the weapons we fight

815
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:13,959
Speaker 1: with don't come from the world. So I see Isaiah

816
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: fifty four sixteen in a new light. Now where God said, behold,

817
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: I created the blacksmith, who blows the coals in the fire,

818
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: who brings forth an instrument for his work. Your enemy

819
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: is God's instrument too. He uses all of that, all right.

820
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: Think of the thing that you think God can't use.

821
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Think of the thing that

822
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: makes you embarrassed. That's what I'm talking about. Think of

823
00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 1: the thing that is facing you from three different detachments.

824
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm talking about. When they got to

825
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: the battle and used what they had, they found that

826
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: God created the blacksmith. God will not permit anything to

827
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: happen to me in my life that He will not

828
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: use for his glory. You believe that. And nothing can

829
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.

830
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: I came to talk to somebody who's down to one weapon,

831
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: one person, one word from God. You're moving towards some

832
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: Philistines today, who are you? Wave at me, Wave at me,

833
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: wave at me. The Lord said to tell you. The

834
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: promise of Isaiah fifty four seventeen is that no weapon

835
00:59:54,080 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: formed against you will prosper, not that it won't be formed,

836
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: it's just that it won't work. The enemy was killing

837
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 1: the enemy, the swords that they sharpened to kill the

838
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: people of God. When God moved, they started. I see

839
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: your enemies beginning to scatter today. I see your enemies

840
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: fleeing from you seven ways today, because I like the

841
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: picture what the devil thought when he was betrayed, when

842
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: he was prompting the heart of Judas to betray Jesus. Oh,

843
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: this is going to end it. This is going to

844
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: kill the ministry of Jesus. Do you not realize the

845
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: very thing the devil prompted Judas to do set salvation

846
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: and motion. He killed the enemy with his own sword.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got to put your own faith on this word,

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Speaker 1: because if all you do is sit under this like

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Speaker 1: it's another pomegranate, it won't deliver you. But if you

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Speaker 1: can move forward on this word today, Lord, I pray

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Speaker 1: for those who are moving toward a passageway today. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the beginning of a new relationship.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the beginning of a new challenge.

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Speaker 1: But they've been feeling it down good. I don't heh

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Speaker 1: the weapons for this war. I don't know what to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm not literate in this. I've never been exposed to this.

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Speaker 1: I'm not experienced with this. But Lord, you have not

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Speaker 1: left us without a weapon. You have given us your word,

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Speaker 1: You have given us your spirit, you have given us

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Speaker 1: your son, and we're going forward with what we have. Father,

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Speaker 1: I thank you today that as this word has been preached,

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Speaker 1: somebody's getting up from a pomegranate tree, walking away from

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Speaker 1: Ichabod and moving toward what they're praying for this week.

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Speaker 1: Give them the courage, the instruction, the specific prompting of

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Speaker 1: your spirit to move toward something that they're praying for,

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Speaker 1: something that they're hoping for. God, you know how hard

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Speaker 1: it is to come out from under that tree. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: under that tree. Everything we've known is under that tree.

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Speaker 1: The ethot is under that tree, the priest is under

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Speaker 1: that Everything is under that tree, except you, Except you.

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Speaker 1: You're calling us forward. I thank you for your presence God,

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Speaker 1: not only in this place. I thank you for your

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Speaker 1: presence as we go forward toward the Philistines in our

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Speaker 1: own life. That's where we need you, That's where we

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Speaker 1: need your word. That's where we need to worship. Lord.

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Speaker 1: I thank you today that your word never returns void.

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Speaker 1: No weapon, no weapon, no weapon, no disease, no heartbreak,

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Speaker 1: no failure, no weapon, no accusation, no virus, no weapon,

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Speaker 1: no weapon, no weapon, no weapon, no weapon, no weapon,

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Speaker 1: no betrayal, no pain, no trauma, no weapon, no weapon,

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Speaker 1: no weapon. No weapon is greater than your word. No

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Speaker 1: weapon is greater than your spirit. No weapon is greater

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Speaker 1: than your presence. No weapon is greater than the covenant

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Speaker 1: we have with you. No weapon that is fun self

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Speaker 1: prosper somebody shop. No weapon, no weapon, no weapon. It

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Speaker 1: was full, but it didn't work. No weapon, no weapon.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the chat right now. No weapon, no weapon,

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Speaker 1: no weapon. Tell seven people, no weapon, no weapon, no weapon,

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Speaker 1: no weapon, no weapon, no weapon, no weapon, no weapon,

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Speaker 1: no weapon, no weapon. And I'm gonna tell you something.

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Speaker 1: If God didn't give it to you, you don't need

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Speaker 1: it right now. He gave you what you need from

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Speaker 1: where you're going. No weapon, no problem. I got a

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Speaker 1: word from Almighty God. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple things I'd love for you to do.

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Speaker 1: joining us on the Elevation Podcast