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Speaker 1: Let us pray, and Joshua said, unto the people, sanctify yourselves,

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Speaker 1: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. Joshua

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Speaker 1: three five, Father, you have delivered me out of this

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Speaker 1: I am your child. You have consecrated me and set

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Speaker 1: me apart to do good works that will glorify your

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Speaker 1: name in the earth. You have washed me clean in

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Speaker 1: the waters of baptism. The blood of your precious son,

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Speaker 1: Jesus cleansed me from my sins and put white robes

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Speaker 1: of righteousness on me. I am a new creature in Christ.

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Speaker 1: You are a holy God, and without sanctifying myself, I

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Speaker 1: cannot draw near to you and enter into the intimacy

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Speaker 1: you desire to have with me. Cleanse my heart, Lord,

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Speaker 1: and renew a right spirit within me. Sanctify my thoughts, attitudes,

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Speaker 1: and actions. As I humble myself before you, As I

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Speaker 1: separate myself from this world and focus on you and

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Speaker 1: your kingdom principles, I feel myself being prepared for a

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Speaker 1: greater revelation of your power. As I align myself with

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Speaker 1: your word, I can trust you to reveal your wondrous

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Speaker 1: will draw near to me, and I will see you

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Speaker 1: move on my behalf in a miraculous way in Jesus' name. Amen,

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Speaker 3: Have you found your place in Joshua yet? Some of

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Speaker 3: you are just going to look at the screen. That's cheating.

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Speaker 4: And what did we do before we had screens and phoned?

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Speaker 4: You actually had to open your bible. You know, remember

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Speaker 4: back in the day when the pastor would say turned

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Speaker 4: to Ezekiel, you were like, oh, no, where's that in

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: And so Joshua chopped in number three, beginning in verse five,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna skip around a little bit, the scripture says,

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Speaker 4: and Joshua said to the people, sanctify yourself, for tomorrow

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Speaker 4: the Lord will do wonders among you, jumping down the

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Speaker 4: verse fourteen. So it was when the people set out

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Speaker 4: priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant. Before the people

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Speaker 4: Today in our series mental health Goals, I want to

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Speaker 4: I could see what's happening in y'all's eyes right now.

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Speaker 4: I could feel what you're saying. Right now, get some stones. Amen,

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Speaker 4: Let's pray, Father, in the name of Jesus. Right now

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Speaker 4: your holy Spirit. Thank you for touching every heart. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 4: From the last few weeks, we've been talking about how

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Speaker 4: to renew our mind, because we have learned that our

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Speaker 4: Weapons so that we can pull down the strongholds or

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Speaker 4: three weapons that he's given us our meditation, what we

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Speaker 4: Synchronicity of these three weapons where our mind becomes renewed

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Speaker 4: God tells Joshua to use all three. He says, this

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Speaker 4: That's the mighty renewing weapon of confession. But you shall

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Speaker 4: And the reason why is because God is the same always, yesterday, today,

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Speaker 4: at daybreak, and he prayed at midday. Daniel, Chapter six,

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Speaker 4: Verse ten, number ten. Now, when Daniel learned that the

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Speaker 4: decree had been published, this is a decree. You can't

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Speaker 4: pray to anybody other than the idol of the king.

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Speaker 4: When he learned that the decree was published, he went

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Speaker 4: home to his upstairs room, where the windows opened toward Jerusalem.

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Speaker 3: Three times a day. He got down on his knees.

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Speaker 4: And prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he

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Speaker 4: had done before.

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Speaker 3: Or I could preach this when.

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Speaker 4: The government put out something that was opposed to the

447
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Speaker 4: word of God, guess what Daniel did.

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Speaker 3: He did what the word of God said.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, Oh, I wish I could preach this for a

450
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Speaker 4: second right here. The church is soft. The church is soft.

451
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Speaker 4: The government said you can't go to church. Who said,

452
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Speaker 4: God said, do not forsake the assembling of yourself together.

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Speaker 4: Back in the early days when there were plagues outside,

454
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Speaker 4: the church was full of sick people, infird people. The

455
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Speaker 4: saints were going on to the sh and pulling people

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Speaker 4: into the House of God. Because he don't even know

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Speaker 4: this power in the house of God. The church is soft,

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Speaker 4: and Daniel he said no, no, sorry, I'm gonna be respectful,

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Speaker 4: but you know what, I'm gonna pray.

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Speaker 3: And he did this when it was hard, when it

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Speaker 3: was hard.

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Speaker 4: Why because this is how he stayed triumphant during difficult times.

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Speaker 4: We stay triumphant when we do and practice with the

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Speaker 4: word of God has to say we anchor some type

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Speaker 4: of ritual reminder to a holy habit right or to

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Speaker 4: a healthy habit. So one of the things that happened

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Speaker 4: to me is is is I got COVID right, thank God,

468
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Speaker 4: I believe God to heal me from COVID. And so

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Speaker 4: when I got COVID, I got blood clots in my

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Speaker 4: legs and I took medicine and God healed the blood clots.

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Speaker 4: Because God is the one who is behind healing amen.

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Speaker 4: No matter how he does it just matters that he

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Speaker 4: does it. And so one of the things they told me,

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Speaker 4: they said, well, you know, you have to drink a

475
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Speaker 4: lot of water and you have to keep moving all

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Speaker 4: the time.

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Speaker 3: So you know what I did.

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Speaker 4: I started anchoring through ritual reminders certain things that.

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Speaker 3: Were gonna remind me to walk and drink water.

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Speaker 4: So here's what I do every day at twelve o'clock

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Speaker 4: when the alarm when the clock hits twelve, I get up.

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Speaker 3: I walk. You all have been seeing me walk.

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Speaker 4: And I just walk around the church and walk around

484
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Speaker 4: the church and walk around the church. And you know

485
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Speaker 4: what I do when I'm walking around the church, either

486
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Speaker 4: I have a staff meeting with somebody, or I pray

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Speaker 4: as I'm walking around the church. That's called habit stacking,

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Speaker 4: by the way, So I walk. Then when five o'clock

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00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 4: comes around, guess what I do before I go home.

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Speaker 4: I walk and I walk and I walk and I walk.

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Speaker 4: And that's after I get up at the crack of

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Speaker 4: door every morning and get on that peloton.

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Speaker 3: Or start doing a P ninety X or something like that.

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Speaker 4: So three times a day the alarm clock tells, that's

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Speaker 4: my ritual reminder. You know how, I drink water every

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Speaker 4: time I got a pee on my way to the bathroom,

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Speaker 4: my guzzle water. I'm well pee anyway, right, this is

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Speaker 4: a good time to get some water in me. And

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Speaker 4: so those are just ritual reminders, simple things that anchor

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Speaker 4: to holy habits. Holy What was Joshua's ritual reminder?

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Speaker 3: He had two? Number one was the ark.

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Speaker 4: The ark was a reminder that God's presence was with

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Speaker 4: him and the children of Israel always. In the text,

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Speaker 4: we find that the ark went before them, that it.

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Speaker 3: Stood in the middle of the Jordan.

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Speaker 4: River, as they passed by, the priest with the ark,

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Speaker 4: and then after everybody went by, it came after them.

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Speaker 3: The ark was their ritual reminder.

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Speaker 4: Of the presence of God, that God's presence was with

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Speaker 4: them always, that he goes before them, that he stands

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Speaker 4: beside them, and that.

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Speaker 3: He is behind them. I don't know who I'm talking

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Speaker 3: to right now, but God wants you to know.

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Speaker 4: He goes before you to clear the way so that

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00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 4: you can get to where He has destined for you

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Speaker 4: to go. And then while you are transitioning, he stands

517
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Speaker 4: right by your side, even in the hard times. And

518
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Speaker 4: then after you made it through, he takes up the

519
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 4: rear guard to make sure you don't go back to

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Speaker 4: where He has delivered you from. He goes before you,

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Speaker 4: he stands beside you, and he.

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Speaker 3: Is behind you.

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Speaker 4: The ark was their ritual reminder. It's like the song

524
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Speaker 4: that we sang, I know who goes before me, I

525
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Speaker 4: know who stands beside The God of the God of

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Speaker 4: angel armies is always by my side. The one who

527
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Speaker 4: reigns forever. He is a friend of mine. The God

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Speaker 4: of angel armies is always by my side. The Ark

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Speaker 4: their visual reminder so that they would not forget. And

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Speaker 4: by the way the ark was to them what the

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Speaker 4: pillar of fire and the cloud of smoke was during

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Speaker 4: the time of Moses. Do you remember during the time

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Speaker 4: of Moses, God parted the Red Sea. But it had

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Speaker 4: been a long time since they saw God move that way.

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna even know.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes we can forget when it's been a little while,

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Speaker 4: and we need things to remind us of what God

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Speaker 4: has done in the past. And if you read this story,

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Speaker 4: God does exactly the same thing in the passing or

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Speaker 4: the parting of the Red Sea as he does in

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Speaker 4: the parting of the Jordan River. First thing he does

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Speaker 4: is he goes before them. As they were going through

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Speaker 4: the wilderness to the Red Sea, there was either a

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Speaker 4: cloud of smoke if it was a daytime, or a

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Speaker 4: pillar of fire if it was nighttime. That was always

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Speaker 4: before them, and that was leading them. The presence of

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Speaker 4: God was leading them. And then one day they came

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Speaker 4: to the edge of the Red Sea and the Egyptians

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Speaker 4: were bearing down and it says, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: the pillar of fire and the cloud of smoke disappeared.

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Speaker 4: And they thought, that's just like God, he leaves us

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Speaker 4: at our moment of despair. Isn't it crazy that the

553
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Speaker 4: enemy makes us think those thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Then well we can't see God.

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Speaker 4: We think, well, he's left us at our moment of despair.

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Speaker 4: If you read the scription said God didn't leave, He

557
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Speaker 4: just repositioned himself.

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Speaker 3: He actually got behind them.

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Speaker 4: Why he was in between the oncoming Egyptian army and

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Speaker 4: the Red Sea that was before them. Why because God

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Speaker 4: didn't want the army to get him from the back.

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Speaker 3: And then where was God in the middle.

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Speaker 4: You remember how the water walls stood up on this

564
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Speaker 4: side and stood up on that side.

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Speaker 3: You know what that was.

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Speaker 4: That was God in the water with him holding up

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Speaker 4: the walls. Why God before them, God behind them, God

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Speaker 4: beside them.

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Speaker 3: The ark.

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Speaker 4: It was their ritual reminder that God was with them

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Speaker 4: every step of the way. By the way Joshua told

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Speaker 4: the people Joshua chapter three, verse number three, when you

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Speaker 4: see the ark of the Covenant of the Lord your

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Speaker 4: God and the levitical priests carrying it, you are to

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Speaker 4: move out from your positions and follow it.

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Speaker 3: Here's what he said.

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Speaker 4: He said, when you see the arc move, When you

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Speaker 4: see the arc move, see the visual reminder.

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Speaker 3: Do it.

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Speaker 4: When you see the visual reminder, do it. Don't just

581
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 4: let it blend in. Don't just forget about what it means.

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Speaker 4: Practice what it is prompting you to do. Get to moving.

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Speaker 4: When you see the visual reminder, do the action you're

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Speaker 4: supposed to do.

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Speaker 3: Stop and pray. Quote that scripture, spend time worshiping him.

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Speaker 3: Kiss your wife. Some of you'll need a visual reminder.

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Speaker 4: To kiss your spouse. I don't understand people. People get married,

588
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 4: they're married all a sudden.

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00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 3: They don't even kiss anymore. The dayton can't keep their

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Speaker 3: hands off of one another.

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00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 4: They get married now it's all legal, and they don't

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Speaker 4: want to have nothing.

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Speaker 3: To do with one another. That's backward, right. Can't a

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Speaker 3: visual reminder.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's your alarm clock, Hey honey, this is nine

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Speaker 4: o'clock on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Not I don't care what it is.

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00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 4: Can't a visual reminder, drink your water, exercise whatever the

599
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Speaker 4: ritual reminder reminds you.

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Speaker 3: To do, do it when you see it. Get to move.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, it's worth noting that when the

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00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 4: people did what the ritual reminder triggered them to do,

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Speaker 4: God did what God promised. When they moved behind the ark.

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Speaker 4: When they stepped out, God stepped in. Listen to me again.

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Speaker 4: When they stepped out, God stepped in. When they stepped out,

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Speaker 4: God stepped in. When they stepped out, God stepped in.

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Speaker 4: Look at the verse Joshua, chapter three, verse number fourteen.

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Speaker 4: So it was when the people set out from their

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Speaker 4: camp to cross over the Jordan, with the priest bearing

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Speaker 4: the ark of the Covenant before the people, and as

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Speaker 4: those who bore the arc came to Jordan and their feet,

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Speaker 4: the feet of the priest who bore the arc dipped

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Speaker 4: in the edge of the water. For the Jordan Nova

614
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 4: flows its banks during the whole harvest season. The waters

615
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 4: came down from upstream and they stood still and rose

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Speaker 4: in a heap very far away at Adam, the city

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Speaker 4: that besides Zaraton. So the waters that went down into

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Speaker 4: the Sea of Araba, the salt sea, failed and were

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Speaker 4: cut off, and the people crossed over opposite Jordan. Notice

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Speaker 4: what happened when they stepped out, God stepped in. But

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Speaker 4: God was very far away. When they stepped out, God

622
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 4: stepped in, but God was very far away at the

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Speaker 4: city of Adam, nineteen miles from where they were. How

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Speaker 4: many of you know that when you step out, God

625
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 4: steps in even if you don't see him moving at

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00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,239
Speaker 4: that particular moment in your life, Because even when you

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00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 4: can't see him, he's working. He never stops, never stops working.

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Speaker 4: And so even though it's out of sight, one thing

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Speaker 4: you have to realize is that when you step out

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Speaker 4: in faith, God acts immediately, say, pastor, you got scripture

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Speaker 4: for that. Yeah, I've got a lot of scripture for it.

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Speaker 4: Daniel prayed and faster twenty one day the angel showed up.

633
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Speaker 4: He said, I really needed this. Why did it take

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Speaker 4: twenty one days? Here's what the angel said. The angel said,

635
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 4: the moment that you prayed, God dispatched me. What's your answer,

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Speaker 4: But the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia withstood me

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00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 4: twenty and one days. Now, that's a whole sermon and

638
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 4: of itself. But here's what I want you to see.

639
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 4: The moment Daniel prayed, the moment you stepped out, God

640
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 4: steps in. Even when you cannot see God stepping in,

641
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 4: when you step out, you can rest ashore because you've

642
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 4: tasted his goodness, and so you trust in his promise.

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00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 4: When you step out, God steps in. But notice God

644
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Speaker 4: is upstream in the city of Adam. Now this is

645
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 4: powerful because Adam is a symbol of the ultimate time

646
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 4: God stepped in. Adam is a symbol of the ultimate

647
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 4: time God stepped in. Adam was created to live in

648
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 4: the paradise of God. Adam was created to have unbroken

649
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 4: fellowship with the Father. Adam was created to live forever.

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Speaker 4: Adam was created to provide God with the family to

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Speaker 4: love and care for. But Adam messed up. Adam sinned

652
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 4: and all sorts of messed up circumstances into the world.

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Speaker 4: Sin is responsible for the messed up circumstances in the world,

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Speaker 4: Not God, but sin.

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Speaker 3: How many of you believe God wants you to sin? Good?

656
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Speaker 3: That's theologically correct.

657
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 4: If God doesn't want you to sin, then God didn't

658
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Speaker 4: want any of the consequences of sin to ever come

659
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Speaker 4: on you.

660
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 3: Right.

661
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 4: But Adam sin and all the bad consequences came in,

662
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 4: and it seemed like mankind was doomed.

663
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 3: But what happened.

664
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Speaker 4: God stepped in When it looked like mankind was doing

665
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Speaker 4: what a god do.

666
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 3: He stepped in.

667
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 4: The waters were shut off at the city of Adam.

668
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 4: Why is he using the city of Adam, because that

669
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Speaker 4: is the ultimate example of when God stepped in. Matter

670
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 4: of fact, One Corinthians fifteen says, the first man Adam

671
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 4: was a being, but the last was a life giving spirit.

672
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 4: God stepped in. He stepped into the mess. He stepped

673
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 4: into the trial. He stepped into the storm. He stepped

674
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 4: into the sickness. He stepped into the step back. He

675
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 4: stepped into the situation. He stepped in. When you step out,

676
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 4: I wish I had somebody who could help me tonight.

677
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 4: When you step out, God steps in. When you step out,

678
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 4: God steps in. All your stepping out does is release

679
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 4: what God has already planned to do. God is not reacting.

680
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 4: God's like the oh, what am I gonna do now?

681
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 4: The Father's not calling Jesus in the Holy Spirit together.

682
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 4: Can we have a little power figure.

683
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 3: Out how we gonna do this? Stepping out?

684
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 4: All it does is release what God has already planned.

685
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 3: How do I know this?

686
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 4: Because the waters stopped upstream nineteen miles away at a

687
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Speaker 4: city called Adam. Adam is an example of when Jesus

688
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 4: became or stepped into our situation. Well, when did that happen?

689
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 3: Somebody said, well, it happened almost two thousand years ago.

690
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 3: You would be wrong.

691
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 4: Jesus didn't step in two thousand years ago. Jesus didn't

692
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 4: even step in on the cross. The Bible says he

693
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 4: was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the earth. See,

694
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 4: we operate with time, and so it looks like to

695
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 4: us that God is delayed in his response. God's responses

696
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 4: are already lined up for you. God's plan for your life,

697
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 4: God's purpose for your life, God's will for your life,

698
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 4: God's goodness for your life. It's already there for the taking.

699
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 4: That's why you make your way prosperous. That's why you

700
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 4: have good success because when you step out, God doesn't

701
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 4: just step in, but what God has planned for you

702
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 4: all of a sudden begins to materialize in your life.

703
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 3: Step out, get to move in.

704
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 4: When you see the arc going before you move, when

705
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 4: you see the ritual reminder, step out. But Joshua had

706
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 4: another ritual reminder. It was it was the stones. Notice

707
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 4: what it says, before they left the Jordan and before

708
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 4: the Jordan River closed back up, God told Joshua, he said,

709
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 4: get you twelve men, one from every tribe of Israel.

710
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 4: Right and he says, and tell them to go, get

711
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 4: a stone from under the feet where the priest stood.

712
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 4: The priests were holding the ark. The power of God

713
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 4: was responsible for the miracle. Go get a stone, not

714
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 4: from anywhere. Don't get a stone from the river bank.

715
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 4: Don't get a stone from the wilderness us. Get a

716
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 4: stone from right underneath the feet of the priests.

717
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 3: Take a stone from the mist of the Jordan river.

718
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 4: Joshua, chapter fourth, verse number five, carry over before the

719
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 4: ark of the Lord, your God, into the midst of

720
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Speaker 4: the Jordan River. And each one of you shall take

721
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 4: a stone on your shoulder. Take something from under the

722
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 4: feet of the priest that is heavy, a stone.

723
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Speaker 3: Put it on your shoulder that's heavy enough.

724
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 4: To remind you of how hard it was when you

725
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 4: were stuck in the middle of your situation. So that

726
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 4: you won't go back, so that you won't do what

727
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 4: the enemy wants you to do, and go back to

728
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 4: where God has delivered you from. Take a ritual reminder

729
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 4: that lets you know that being stuck in that mess

730
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 4: was heavy. Why do you ever want to go back again?

731
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 4: Stones our ritual reminders that prevent us from going back,

732
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Speaker 4: and that help us when the days that are ahead,

733
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 4: by staying on course. Jesus told the paralyzed man. Remember

734
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 4: the guy called him Matt, the paralyzed man. Why because

735
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Speaker 4: he was carried on a mat by his four friends.

736
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Speaker 4: I don't know his name, but I call him Matt.

737
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Speaker 4: His friends carry him all that distance, rip up on

738
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Speaker 4: the roof, lower him down to Jesus. Right Jesus eventually,

739
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 4: First he says, your sins are forgiven. Everybody gets mad

740
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Speaker 4: that he forgives sins. He says, so that you will

741
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Speaker 4: know the son of Man has power on her to

742
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 4: forgive sins, because forgiving sins is the greater miracle then

743
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 4: healing your body. Although they're connected on the cross. Although

744
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 4: they're connected on the cross, some people got some foolish theology. Well,

745
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 4: it's not not God's will for everybody to be healed,

746
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 4: and it's not God's will for everybody to be saved.

747
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 3: Why they're connected on the cross.

748
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 4: His body was broken, his blood was shit, he says,

749
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Speaker 4: So that you may know that the son of Man

750
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Speaker 4: has power to forgive sins. I say, unto you, rise,

751
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 4: take up your mat and walk. Now, if that was me,

752
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 4: I would have said, rise and walk. That's not what

753
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 4: Jesus said. He said, rise, take up your mat and walk.

754
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 4: If I was mad, I would have looked at Jesus.

755
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 4: I don't have anything to do with that mat. Ever, again, Jesus,

756
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 4: I'm leaving the mat right here.

757
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 3: Jesus.

758
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no. You need a ritual reminder. Take

759
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 4: this home with you. Put it on the wall in

760
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 4: your house. Put it somewhere where you could see it,

761
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 4: so that every time the enemy tries to pull you away,

762
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 4: every time your life tries to go in this direction,

763
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 4: you look at that mat, and you said, all my life,

764
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 4: until I met Jesus, I was lying on that mat.

765
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 3: But when I met Jesus, he calls me to get

766
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 3: up from that mat.

767
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 4: That's my stone, that's my stone. Remember when David was

768
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 4: on the run from Absolom.

769
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 3: David was on the run.

770
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 4: Absolom's son was trying to overthrow them, and David didn't

771
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 4: know where to go. He didn't have no food, he

772
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 4: didn't have no weaponry. Right, he's on the run, he

773
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 4: doesn't know where he's supposed to go, and he runs

774
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 4: to nob nob was where the House of God was.

775
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 4: The Temple of God. And when David had nowhere to run,

776
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 4: guess where David ran to the House of God. Nowadays

777
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 4: you got to beg people to come out to church

778
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,959
Speaker 4: because COVID is more contagious here than it is out there.

779
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 4: See sometimes, Hey, I'm really polite when I'm not preaching,

780
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 4: but when I'm preaching, I'm not that polite because when

781
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 4: I'm preaching, what happens is I start to begin to

782
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 4: deal with stuff that the enemy has duped you into believing.

783
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 4: You know what this pandemic has done. It's lord the

784
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 4: church into a sleep. Pluck people off. I don't need church.

785
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 4: I need to come out to the House of God.

786
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 4: He ain't reading your Bible. When David had.

787
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 3: Nowhere else to go, he ran to nob to.

788
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 4: The House of God, where the priest was and where

789
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 4: the showbread was. And when he got there to a Beemelech.

790
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 4: You know what he asked to Bemelec. He said, I'm starving?

791
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,839
Speaker 4: Can I get something to eat? And you know what

792
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 4: a Bemelech did, He said, the only thing we got

793
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 4: here is the show bread. You couldn't eat the showbread

794
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 4: that was only for the priest.

795
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 3: But how many of you know, when.

796
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 4: You go to the House of God, you get living bread,

797
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 4: You get the bread of life that you need. And

798
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 4: don't tell me you can understand it all by yourself.

799
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 3: I know you got the Holy Ghost.

800
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 4: But God has gifted certain people to give us things.

801
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 3: That some of y'all came here.

802
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 4: You never even heard the word nobbed. You don't even

803
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 4: know what the showbread was.

804
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 3: And he said, I got to eat. I'm hungry, hungry.

805
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 4: And he said, well there it is, go ahead and meat,

806
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,919
Speaker 4: and David ate the forbidden bread in the house of God.

807
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 3: Why because grace always triumphs over the.

808
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 4: Law, because it's the letter of the law that kills,

809
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: but it is the spirit of the law that gives life.

810
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 3: And he said, can I get the bread? And he

811
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 3: ate the bread?

812
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 4: And then he said, I need a weapon, he said,

813
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 4: And guess why I came here, He said, because I

814
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 4: knew that the sword of Goliath was here.

815
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 3: He said, he said, I need it.

816
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 4: I need it.

817
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 3: I need it, I need it, I need it.

818
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,439
Speaker 4: Look at this First Samuel, chapter twenty one, verse number nine.

819
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 4: So the priest said, the sword of the Goliath, the

820
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 4: philistine whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, there

821
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 4: it is. It's wrapped in a cloth behind the ephad

822
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 4: If you will take that, take it for there is

823
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 4: no other except that one here. That's the only weapon

824
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 4: we got. Said, I got nothing else to help you

825
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:06,479
Speaker 4: defend yourself, just that, And David said, look what David said, Oh,

826
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 4: there's nothing like it. Give that one to me. Why

827
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 4: that sword when David was on the run. Why that

828
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 4: sword when David was being hunted. Why that sword when

829
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 4: David when the odds were stacked against David. Because that

830
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 4: sword was a reminder that if God be for him,

831
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 4: who can be against him? That sword was a reminder

832
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 4: that greater is he that was in David than he

833
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 4: that is in the world. That sword was a reminder

834
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 4: that if God is on your side, your enemy is

835
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 4: your underdoor.

836
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 3: That sword was a reminder.

837
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 4: Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley lowell enough,

838
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 4: Ain't no seed.

839
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 3: Wide enough, Ain't no giant big enough. That sword was

840
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 3: a reminder that.

841
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 4: No matter how hard it gets, God can always cut off.

842
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 5: The head of your child.

843
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 4: That sword was a reminder to keep David doing what

844
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 4: God had asked him to do, because eventually, where God.

845
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 6: Wanted him to be he get back to that was

846
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,280
Speaker 6: this stone.

847
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 4: There was his stone and David, when David's faith was

848
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 4: on the rocks. David is, let me get back to

849
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 4: something that reminds me of what God does in the

850
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 4: middle of challenging circumstances. The sword, the matter, the arc, stones,

851
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 4: you got any stones. You got stones around you to

852
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 4: remind you to keep doing, day in and day out,

853
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,720
Speaker 4: what God has asked you to do, so your mind

854
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 4: can be renewed and your life transformed. Here are some

855
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 4: of my stones. I don't know which ones I want

856
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 4: to sh you first. Let's go with this one. You

857
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 4: can't see it, and I'm glad you can't. It's a

858
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 4: picture of me and my wife at the Grand Canyon.

859
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 4: I was fat as all get out right there, two

860
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty two pounds is squashed into my clothes.

861
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 4: This is on my desk every day. You know it's

862
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 4: there every time I start getting fat and have us

863
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 4: to me a lot. I'm always beaten down fat, I'm

864
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 4: always beating it down. It reminds me keep eating healthy,

865
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 4: Get back on track, Get back on track. Why you

866
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 4: gotta serve God long? I don't just want to be

867
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 4: healthy because I look good because I look good when

868
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 4: I'm fat.

869
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 6: Anyway, I want to be healthy so I could serve

870
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 6: God with long life and give God everything I have.

871
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,760
Speaker 3: That's on my desk. This is on my desk.

872
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 4: It's a picture of my wife and my my daughter Nicole,

873
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 4: and my son Joseph, when my kids were real young.

874
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 4: It's not a picture of what they look like now.

875
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 4: It's a picture of them years ago, because no matter

876
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 4: how old they get, they'll always be my babies. But

877
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 4: you know why this is on my desk to remind

878
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 4: me that every decision I make affects them. That when

879
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 4: I got married and when I became a father, I

880
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 4: no longer made decisions only for me.

881
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 3: I made decisions for them.

882
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 4: And this reminds me every day when I look at it,

883
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 4: to make sure that I make God honoring decisions with

884
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 4: my life out of my passion and my love, not

885
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 4: just for God, but for them. You know what this is?

886
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 4: So I'm does that hold my home office? This is

887
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 4: a picture of Times Square.

888
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 3: You know.

889
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 4: I have this picture to remind me God called me

890
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:53,919
Speaker 4: to New York. I'm not in New York City because

891
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 4: I wanted another gig. I'm not in New York City.

892
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 4: We're not in New York City as a church because

893
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 4: I did I wanted to miss football games on Sunday

894
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 4: because we have church at five o'clock on Sunday's not

895
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 4: why I'm in New York City. I'm in there because

896
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 4: God called me there. And you know what this does.

897
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 4: It reminds me to keep on doing what God has

898
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 4: called me to do in New York City and called

899
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 4: us to do as a church until I see with

900
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 4: that campus what God put in my mind.

901
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 3: It's a reminder. It's a reminder.

902
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 4: You know what this is. This is another one of

903
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 4: my stones. It's the first CD that we ever did.

904
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 4: It's called Miracle. You know what this reminds me of

905
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 4: is that God brought songs out of one of the

906
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 4: most turbulent times in my life.

907
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 3: And these songs.

908
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 4: Even for a minute though last album, for a minute,

909
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 4: it was number one on pre orders on iTunes for

910
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 4: a minute it was there, and as a God reminds

911
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 4: me of every time I look at this, keep on

912
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 4: praising Him no matter how hard it gets.

913
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 3: It's one of my stones that I have in my life.

914
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 3: You know what this is.

915
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 4: The book that came out of one of the most

916
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 4: turbulent times in my life.

917
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 3: This book reminds me that no.

918
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 4: Matter how difficult I guess, God can always turn every

919
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 4: situation around. This book reminds me that no matter how

920
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 4: much the enemy steals from me, that he's going to

921
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 4: eventually have to pay it back sevenfold. This book reminds

922
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 4: me of the faithfulness of God. It's on my desk.

923
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 4: You know what these things are. It's in my office.

924
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 4: It's on my desk in my office. It's a shovel

925
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 4: in the rock.

926
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 3: Duh.

927
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 4: The rock says, Jesus is the rock. The shovel says.

928
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 4: Groundbreaking shovel opening day, two thousand and four. This was

929
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 4: the first shovel ever putting the ground on this property.

930
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 4: It's a rock that came up when I dug into

931
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 4: the dirt. You know what this tells me to do?

932
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 4: Tells me keep on doing little things like their big things,

933
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 4: and God will do big things like their little things.

934
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 3: Every time I see this, I said, keep on, keep on.

935
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.

936
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 4: I know everybody likes to be grand, and I know

937
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 4: everybody likes to make a splash. But here's what Every

938
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 4: time I look at that, just keep on doing the

939
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 4: little things like their big things. Keep on surfing God

940
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 4: with everything I got. Did you notice I don't care

941
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 4: how many people show up for church.

942
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna preach.

943
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 4: I don't care if you say a man. I don't

944
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 4: care if you don't say man. I don't care if

945
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 4: you stare. I don't care if you shout. I don't

946
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 4: care if you stand up. I don't care if you

947
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 4: look at me like I got four heads. I ain't

948
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:49,280
Speaker 4: preaching for you. I'm doing little things like their big things,

949
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 4: because I know that that is the impetus for God

950
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 4: to do big things like their little things.

951
00:51:54,440 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 3: You got some stones? What are you say? Stones?

952
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 4: Ritual reminders that anchor you to healthy habits so that

953
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,959
Speaker 4: your mind can be renewed and your life transformed. Whould

954
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 4: you standing your feet with me? I don't normally do this,

955
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna tell you this.

956
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 3: Fows.

957
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 4: You got to go back and listen to this two

958
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 4: three more times. I could feel the glory on this message.

959
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 3: Listen to it.

960
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 4: One Peter Chapter two, Verse six is behold, I lay

961
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 4: in sighon a chief cornerstone elect precious, and he who

962
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 4: believes on him will, by no means be put to shame.

963
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 3: Jesus is a stone.

964
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 4: Every time you hear Jesus, every time you see a cross,

965
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,280
Speaker 4: every time Easter comes around, every time Christmas comes.

966
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 3: Around, every time you say time.

967
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 4: Two thousand and two, don't end up there said the

968
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 4: year of our Lord AD right, every time you say time,

969
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 4: every time you reference history BCAD.

970
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 3: Jesus is your stone. What's this supposed to remind you of?

971
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 4: That God loved the world so much, He loved you

972
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 4: so much that he left heaven. He was born of

973
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 4: a virgin, He lived a sinless life, he died on

974
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 4: a cruel cross, and he rose again and left an

975
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 4: empty grave behind. He's a stone. He's a stone to

976
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 4: remind you that you don't have to go to hell.

977
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 4: He's a stone to remind you that eternal life was

978
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 4: given for you, that He gave his life for you,

979
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 4: that heaven was creative for you. Jesus is your stone,

980
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 4: the chief corner stone.

981
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 3: If you were to die this moment of the second,

982
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 3: where you going heaven or Hell?

983
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 4: I don't know, pastor if you don't know you're going

984
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 4: to hell, let me say it again. If you don't know,

985
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 4: that means you're going to hell. I had somebody get

986
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 4: so mad at me because I told people they were

987
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 4: going to go to hell if they didn't have Jesus.

988
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 4: They were here for the first time. There's like, how

989
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 4: could you tell people that said, I believe God's smarter

990
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 4: than me. She said, what say? Yeah, I believe God

991
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 4: said you came to church. Obviously you have some reference

992
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 4: for the Bible, right She said, yeah? I said, you

993
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 4: know that's what the Bible says. She said, where did

994
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 4: they say it? I showed her. So without Jesus, you're

995
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 4: going to hell. If you don't know, you're going to hell.

996
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 4: Because if you don't know, when Jesus comes into your life,

997
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 4: guess what happens. You have an assurance in your heart,

998
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 4: you know where you're going to heaven or hell. They

999
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 4: never came back to church, by the way.

1000
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 3: That makes me sad. But what is my option?

1001
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 4: This is why a preacher doesn't never supposed to preach

1002
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 4: for what people want to hear. This is why a

1003
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 4: preacher it shouldn't matter whether people like it don't like it,

1004
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 4: we're entertained or not, because we're preaching the word of God.

1005
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 3: The word of God ought to aggravate you.

1006
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 4: Sometimes if you come to church. You never get aggravated

1007
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 4: by anything that I say. Then I'm gonna pray. God

1008
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 4: helps me to turn it up a little bit to

1009
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 4: aggravate you real bad.

1010
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 3: The word of God. Where you going heaven or hell?

1011
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 3: Do you know?

1012
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 4: With everybody just between them and the Lord right now,

1013
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 4: if you don't know you're going to heaven, if you're

1014
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 4: watching on television, if you're watching online, you don't know

1015
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 4: whether you're going to heaven. God wants to save your

1016
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 4: soul right now. If that you just put your hands

1017
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 4: up in the air. We're gonna pray right now. I

1018
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 4: don't know if I'm going to heaven, but today I'm

1019
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 4: gonna make sure I'm going hold them up high. I

1020
00:55:55,640 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 4: don't be bashful in any way. Hallelujah, God bless you

1021
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 4: over here.

1022
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

1023
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 4: Hell, Lou Is there anybody else because I don't know

1024
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 4: if I'm going, but today I want to make sure

1025
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 4: I'm going at home watching online? Hold both your hands up.

1026
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 4: If that's you, We're gonna pray this prayer. Say this

1027
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 4: out loud after me, everybody praying. Heavenly Father, today I

1028
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 4: give you my life.

1029
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 3: I ask you to forgive me.

1030
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 4: I repent of my sins, and I make Jesus the

1031
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 4: Lord of my life.

1032
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 3: I'll never be the same in Jesus' name.

1033
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 4: Amen, If you prayed that prayer for the first time,

1034
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 4: I want to welcome you to the family of God.

1035
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 4: The ushers are gonna find you. They're gonna give you

1036
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 4: a little book. Take a minute and just fill out

1037
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 4: that little card in that book. We want to help you.

1038
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 4: If you're online, there's a little button there. It says

1039
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 4: I gave my life to Jesus.

1040
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 3: Poke it.

1041
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 4: Listen, Come on back next week. We're gonna finish this.

1042
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 4: We're gonna keep going. Invite some friends out to church.

1043
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 4: Invite them the Miracle weekend, Invite.

1044
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 3: Them the Easter.

1045
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 4: God wants to save people. God wants to touch God

1046
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 4: wants to heal people. He's a good God.

1047
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,959
Speaker 3: Amen. We love you. We'll see again real soon.

1048
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,600
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1049
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:14,120
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1050
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1052
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1053
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