WEBVTT - Trapped In Nazareth

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our

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<v Speaker 2>podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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<v Speaker 1>Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope it gives your perspective to see God has moving

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<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 2>Our scripture today is found in Mark chapter six, verse

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<v Speaker 2>one through six. I want to read this to you

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<v Speaker 2>from our Savage Jesus series, which just keeps going. This

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<v Speaker 2>is now the longest series that I've ever preached.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't intend it. I just got stuck in it.

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<v Speaker 2>But we've been just tracking this man named Jesus that

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<v Speaker 2>we thought we knew so much about, and he keeps

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<v Speaker 2>shocking us and surprising us. And we realize that we

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<v Speaker 2>can spend our whole lives studying about him and only

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<v Speaker 2>begin to glimpse how great he is and also how

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<v Speaker 2>revolutionary his life was and his time here on earth.

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<v Speaker 2>And so we want to pick up in March six today,

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<v Speaker 2>and we're in for a real treat today because we

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<v Speaker 2>get to see Jesus take a trip back home, and

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<v Speaker 2>we get to see the response to his ministry from

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<v Speaker 2>those who knew him as a little boy. And we'll

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<v Speaker 2>get to evaluate that in the light of our own lives.

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<v Speaker 2>And I want to read you the scripture and then

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<v Speaker 2>take some time teaching it today. Very excited about this

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<v Speaker 2>particular message. The scripture says in Mark chapter six, Verse one,

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by

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<v Speaker 2>his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach

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<v Speaker 2>in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

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<v Speaker 2>Where did this man get these things? They asked, what's

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<v Speaker 2>this wisdom that has been given him?

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<v Speaker 1>What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? It's going good, right, Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>this guy's good. Whoa write that down? Hey? This is amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>But then something shifts in the tone of the text.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is where we'll spend our time trying to

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<v Speaker 2>discern the difference between their amazement in that verse and

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<v Speaker 2>their annoyance in the next one. Isn't this the carpenter

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<v Speaker 2>in this mary Son, the brother of James, Joseph, Judas,

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<v Speaker 2>and Simon.

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<v Speaker 1>Aren't his sisters here with us?

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<v Speaker 2>And they took offense at him, And Jesus said to them,

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<v Speaker 2>a prophet is not without honor except in his own town.

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<v Speaker 2>Among his relatives and in his own home, and he

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<v Speaker 2>this next part, I know you think they made a

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<v Speaker 2>mistake when they typed it in for the screen because

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<v Speaker 2>it says that Jesus could not and we're not used

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<v Speaker 2>to seeing anything that he can't do. And so I know,

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<v Speaker 2>you think I need to fire the production team who

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<v Speaker 2>put the scripture up. That it should say he would not,

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<v Speaker 2>that he was unwilling to, but it actually it actually

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<v Speaker 2>says he could not.

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<v Speaker 1>He was unable to.

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<v Speaker 2>There was one thing that even Jesus was not able

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<v Speaker 2>to do, and it was to override the unbelief of

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<v Speaker 2>the people that he wanted to heal, that he wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to serve, that he wanted to save. But the Bible

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<v Speaker 2>says that when Jesus came home, he could not do

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<v Speaker 2>any miracles there except lay his hands on a few

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<v Speaker 2>sick people and healed them. And it's interesting because when

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<v Speaker 2>we started the passage, the people were amazed at Jesus,

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<v Speaker 2>but now when we come to this verse, Jesus is

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<v Speaker 2>amazed at the people. And the only time we see

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus unable to do something in scripture, and the only

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<v Speaker 2>time we see Jesus amazed in scripture is in regards

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<v Speaker 2>to faith. It says he was amazed at their lack

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<v Speaker 2>of faith, and so there was something he wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>do for the people that he couldn't do for the

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<v Speaker 2>people because of something that was within the people. That's

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<v Speaker 2>what I want to speak about today. The title of

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<v Speaker 2>this message is Trapped in Nazareth. Trapped in Nazareth, And

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<v Speaker 2>on your way to your seat, look at the person

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<v Speaker 2>next to you and say, you seem stuck, Please be seated.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes people think Jesus was from Bethlehem. He was born

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<v Speaker 2>in Bethlehem. Oh little tell bethlm how still we see

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<v Speaker 2>the lie?

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<v Speaker 1>But he was born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth.

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<v Speaker 2>That's where this passage takes place, not where he was born,

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<v Speaker 2>but where he was raised in Nazareth, not where he

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<v Speaker 2>did most of his ministry. He didn't do most of

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<v Speaker 2>his ministry in the place where he grew up, because

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes in order to be used by God, you have

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<v Speaker 2>to leave what is familiar. That's an important point and

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<v Speaker 2>we'll cover it more fully, But I just want to

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<v Speaker 2>tell you a little bit about Nazareth, which is twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five miles southwest of Capernaum. That was his base. That's

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<v Speaker 2>where he set up shop and moved around that Sea

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<v Speaker 2>of Galilee to do miracles. That's where his fame was

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<v Speaker 2>being published. When it says in verse one, Jesus left there.

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<v Speaker 2>He didn't leave the place where he was ministering and

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<v Speaker 2>go back home because it wasn't working out. He left

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<v Speaker 2>his success to go back to where he started. And

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<v Speaker 2>that interesting. He didn't go back because he needed a

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<v Speaker 2>room in Mary's basement or to sleep on the couch

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<v Speaker 2>for a little while while they raised some funds for

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<v Speaker 2>the ministry. He wasn't go funding me and trying to

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<v Speaker 2>get it off the ground. He was in fact going

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<v Speaker 2>back home for a specific purpose, which we know because

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<v Speaker 2>it says this important detail that he took his disciples

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<v Speaker 2>with him.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, why is it important.

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<v Speaker 2>That he took his squad if I may call them

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<v Speaker 2>a squad, just to modernize the.

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<v Speaker 1>Text a little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>If the Bible were written today, it would say he

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<v Speaker 2>went accompanied with his squad.

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<v Speaker 1>He went with them, and he went.

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<v Speaker 2>Back to the people who he grew up with, and

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<v Speaker 2>he took them with him. Now that's important why because

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<v Speaker 2>he's taking them as a part of their training, he

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<v Speaker 2>is commissioning them to change the world, and he takes

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<v Speaker 2>them back. I'll never forget when I took Colley to

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<v Speaker 2>Monk's Corner for the first time. She was so bored

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<v Speaker 2>and she acted so interested, and I knew I found

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<v Speaker 2>the woman I wanted because she pretended like Monk's Corner

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<v Speaker 2>was the most fascinating city in the United States of America.

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<v Speaker 2>Now she had traveled by this point to forty nine

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<v Speaker 2>of the United States. She had seen many things, and

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<v Speaker 2>so I know there was nothing special about Monk's Corner,

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<v Speaker 2>But boy, she made me feel like she was interested

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<v Speaker 2>in Sonic where we hung out every Friday night, just

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<v Speaker 2>different landmarks like this that were important to my development.

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<v Speaker 1>Just didn't taking the disciples home to show him around.

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<v Speaker 2>He has a purpose. I'm not making a detour. He's

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<v Speaker 2>not even coming home for Thanksgiving. He's not checking in

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<v Speaker 2>it's not been a while. He's actually coming home for

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<v Speaker 2>a purpose. He's coming home for a purpose. And while

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<v Speaker 2>he is there, he is invited to give the guest

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<v Speaker 2>lecture in the synagogue on the Sabbath day. And as

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<v Speaker 2>he does that, as he stands up to teach, the

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<v Speaker 2>people notice that there is something about him that they

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<v Speaker 2>did not notice when he lived among them, because he'd

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<v Speaker 2>been there for a long time. But now that he's

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<v Speaker 2>been gone for a while, they see him differently when

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<v Speaker 2>he comes back. And since I already read the whole

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<v Speaker 2>passage to you, we may as well talk about the

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<v Speaker 2>fact that Jesus was rejected by.

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<v Speaker 1>Those who were the closest to him.

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<v Speaker 2>He found wider acceptance among the sinners than he did

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<v Speaker 2>the religious. In fact, one way that the prophet said

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<v Speaker 2>it was he came unto his own, and his own

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<v Speaker 2>received him.

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<v Speaker 1>Not that's a very sad.

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<v Speaker 2>Place to be, by the way, when the people closest

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<v Speaker 2>to you don't appreciate you, don't support you.

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<v Speaker 1>And don't express their love to you.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, I have met grown men who are still

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<v Speaker 2>trying to prove something to their dead dad who never

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<v Speaker 2>said I'm proud of you. There's something about when you

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<v Speaker 2>wanted approval from somebody who was closest to you. And

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<v Speaker 2>we all have these people in our lives that we

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<v Speaker 2>really desperately crave for them to tell us that not

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<v Speaker 2>only what we do matters to them, but that they

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<v Speaker 2>admire us as a man, maybe some man thing. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, if you can help me sort this out.

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<v Speaker 2>Whether this is a gender thing or whether it's across

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<v Speaker 2>the board. I want to be admired by the people who.

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<v Speaker 1>Really know me. That means something.

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<v Speaker 2>To me, because I figure I can fake everybody else out.

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<v Speaker 2>But if the people who are closest to.

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<v Speaker 1>Me and now the most, if they don't think I'm

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<v Speaker 1>full of crap, I'm doing something, talk to me.

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<v Speaker 2>I love how y'all look at me confused, like you're

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<v Speaker 2>not full of crap. Sometimes, you know how you're real

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<v Speaker 2>nice to the server at the restaurant, but you yell

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<v Speaker 2>at your wife.

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<v Speaker 1>Like that, like that thing that just made you go.

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<v Speaker 1>Do me?

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<v Speaker 2>So the pain of wanting someone close to you to notice?

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever just wanted someone to notice? Come on,

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<v Speaker 1>I know you're sitting.

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<v Speaker 2>Next to them, so we got to play it straight.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever wanted somebody to just notice?

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<v Speaker 2>This is why I make Holly preach occasionally, because I

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<v Speaker 2>just want her to know how freaking hard it is.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why she leaves me with all of the kids occasionally,

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<v Speaker 2>because she just wants me to know. This is not

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<v Speaker 2>as easy as I make it look. Okay, So every

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<v Speaker 2>once in a while, I got to leave these demons.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean blessings from the Lord, so you can know, so.

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<v Speaker 1>You can know.

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<v Speaker 2>And yet what amazed me about the life of Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>was how often the people closest to.

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<v Speaker 1>Him took him for granted. And that what happens me.

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<v Speaker 2>You know this, sometimes when you get too close to something,

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<v Speaker 2>it becomes too common. Remember, these people had a hard

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<v Speaker 2>time seeing Jesus as their deliverer because they had seen

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus in diapers. It's kind of hard to believe he's

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<v Speaker 2>going to save the world when you knew him in

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<v Speaker 2>his terrible twos.

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<v Speaker 1>Did Jesus have terrible twos?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a theological question for another time.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's kind of hard sometimes to see the miracle

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<v Speaker 2>in something that you have become familiar with. He quotes

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<v Speaker 2>a saying because these people that he grew up around

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<v Speaker 2>don't seem to receive him on the same level that

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<v Speaker 2>the Gentiles, even who were not known to associate with

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<v Speaker 2>the Jews, and in fact were known in many ways

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<v Speaker 2>to be resistant to the Jewish religion, had no problem

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<v Speaker 2>welcoming him. In fact, when he showed up for them,

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<v Speaker 2>they came in droves to hear him speak.

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<v Speaker 1>But now he's back.

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<v Speaker 2>Home, and the disciples must have been shocked, because I

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<v Speaker 2>know they were looking forward to this. They're taking the

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<v Speaker 2>show back home, and certainly we're going to get to

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<v Speaker 2>see the impact of the ministry in this small town.

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<v Speaker 2>Nazareth isn't a big place. Nazareth is only like a

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<v Speaker 2>couple hundred people.

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<v Speaker 1>The only reason you know.

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<v Speaker 2>The name Nazareth is because Jesus put it on the map.

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<v Speaker 2>Before Jesus, Nazareth was unknown. And so going back to Nazareth,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, twenty five miles from where we're doing all

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<v Speaker 2>this great ministry, going through the precipitous cliffs of our Belle,

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<v Speaker 2>all of these routes that they would travel the seven

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<v Speaker 2>mile major trade route as they're going, don't you know

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<v Speaker 2>Peter was excited. I can't wait to show them what

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus can do. Boy, they're gonna be shocked when they

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<v Speaker 2>see what you've become. He's going back home, Bieber is

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<v Speaker 2>going back to Canada, Drake is going back to Toronto.

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus is going.

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<v Speaker 2>Back home to Nazareth and he's preaching and it's amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>They're amazed.

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<v Speaker 3>Ooh that's good, Jesus, Oh that's good.

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<v Speaker 2>And all of a sudden somebody said, wait, he's one

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<v Speaker 2>of us. And the moment they categorized him as one

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<v Speaker 2>of us.

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<v Speaker 1>He became common.

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<v Speaker 2>And the moment you categorize something is common that was sent.

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<v Speaker 1>To be special, you trip over the miracle.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you miss it in the mundane.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, Lord, I'll preach it just like that.

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<v Speaker 2>God said for me to tell some of you husbands

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<v Speaker 2>that some of the things that you used to be

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<v Speaker 2>amazed about in the woman that you married are some

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<v Speaker 2>of the same things you're complaining about eight years in.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Purnitt, you said it. You know how it is.

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<v Speaker 2>It's some of the things that are amazing when a

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<v Speaker 2>relationship begins.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, he's just so, he's so amazing. He's just mysterious.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I want to holler at you in eleven years

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<v Speaker 2>about how mysterious he is and how amazing it is,

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<v Speaker 2>because in eleven years you might be mad that he

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<v Speaker 2>won't talk. It was sexy that he was mysterious, it

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<v Speaker 2>was amazing, But now what was amazing is annoying.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me help the fellas out.

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<v Speaker 2>You know how she looks amazing when she comes out

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<v Speaker 2>for a date. The reason she looks amazing is because

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<v Speaker 2>you don't yet have a glimpse into the process by

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<v Speaker 2>which she looks amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>And I promise you.

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<v Speaker 2>Something about the process that it takes to make her

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<v Speaker 2>look amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to be two hours of you waiting.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not preaching about me, he qulls averb.

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<v Speaker 1>A prophet is without honor only in his hometown.

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<v Speaker 2>In other words, sometimes the people who are the closest

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<v Speaker 2>treat it the most common. And this is the principle

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<v Speaker 2>that we would summarize by saying familiarity breeds contempt. But

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<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you something else. It also breeds complacency. And

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<v Speaker 2>when something is so close to you for so long,

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<v Speaker 2>when when God puts something in your midst that is

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<v Speaker 2>magnificent and miraculous, but you live among it long enough,

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes you have been around it so long that you

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<v Speaker 2>cease to be amazed by it, and you start taking

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<v Speaker 2>things for granted. In one way, if people take you

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<v Speaker 2>for granted, I want you.

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<v Speaker 1>To know, it's a compliment.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a compliment to your consistency.

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<v Speaker 1>If people take you for granted.

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<v Speaker 2>This is why your kids never say thank you, because

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<v Speaker 2>they always eat.

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<v Speaker 1>Starve them three days. Cut the water off.

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<v Speaker 2>For a week, you know, the reason they don't thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for it is because it's always there. I had

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<v Speaker 2>to understand this about preaching because when I started preaching,

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<v Speaker 2>people were always pinched my cheek.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, that was so good. And one day they stopped

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<v Speaker 1>pinching my cheek.

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<v Speaker 2>And at first I was offended because I thought they

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<v Speaker 2>didn't appreciate me. And then I realized that maybe it

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't that I wasn't preaching good anymore. Maybe I had

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<v Speaker 2>preached consistently well enough for long enough that they no

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<v Speaker 2>longer felt the need to pat my bottom to get

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<v Speaker 2>me to do it again.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what I teach our staff at Elevation Church.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll say, you know you're getting good at something when

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<v Speaker 2>people stop telling you that you did a good job,

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<v Speaker 2>because it just becomes what they expect from you, and

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<v Speaker 2>they'll stop complimenting you because you're consistent. So when they

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<v Speaker 2>stop complimenting you, that in itself is a compliment. In

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<v Speaker 2>other words, if I'm telling you, thank you so much

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<v Speaker 2>for doing this on time, that's.

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<v Speaker 1>Not a compliment.

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<v Speaker 2>Translation, you are so unreliable and undependable that I am

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<v Speaker 2>literally shocked that you got your stuff together for once.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for making your bed. What are you twelve?

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<v Speaker 2>I expect you to do it. You're supposed to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't have to thank me for preaching. I preach

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<v Speaker 2>because it's fire shut.

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<v Speaker 1>Up in my bones. Who unto me if I do

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<v Speaker 1>not preach the gospel. If you want to send me

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<v Speaker 1>a gift card, I'll spend it. But I don't have

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<v Speaker 1>to have it.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have to have it touch somebody say I

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<v Speaker 2>don't need it, not to survive on because I have

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<v Speaker 2>matured like Jesus, to the point that even when they

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<v Speaker 2>did not see him for who he was, he still

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<v Speaker 2>did what he could. He could not do many miracles,

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<v Speaker 2>but he did what he could, unappreciated what he could,

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<v Speaker 2>uncelebrated what he could, unnoticed what he could, unrecognized what

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<v Speaker 2>he could.

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<v Speaker 1>Taken for granted what he could. Here's the danger.

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<v Speaker 2>While it is a compliment to you, when people take

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<v Speaker 2>you for granted, it is a danger to them because

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<v Speaker 2>what is consistently hear me Lake Norman, what is consistently

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<v Speaker 2>taken for granted is eventually taken away. Here comes Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>to his hometown, Nazareth, and he's coming with the same

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<v Speaker 2>healing power that resurrected a twelve year old girl in

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<v Speaker 2>Mark chapter five that healed a woman with the issue

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<v Speaker 2>of blood.

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<v Speaker 1>She didn't take Jesus for granted.

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<v Speaker 2>She knew she had one shot to get to him,

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<v Speaker 2>and she wasn't gonna throw away her shot.

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<v Speaker 1>She knew this might be the only chance that I have.

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<v Speaker 2>It's funny to me people come to uh Elevation sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>from other parts of the country, and it always shames

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<v Speaker 2>some of us who live here because it's in our backyard.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's on their bucket list, and they're excited. They

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<v Speaker 1>got the.

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<v Speaker 2>VIP brochure, they got an Elevation Worship hoodie on with

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<v Speaker 2>the Elevation youth had on, and they got some They

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<v Speaker 2>know all the songs better than the people who live

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<v Speaker 2>in Waxaw.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's kind of crazy to.

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<v Speaker 2>Us because they come with a spirit of worship. They're early,

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<v Speaker 2>they don't complain about the park, and they didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with it because they got there early. And

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<v Speaker 2>then it puts some of us to shame because what's

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<v Speaker 2>on their bucket list is in our backyard. And sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>we can take something for granted, and I'm guilty of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes that God has given me the privilege to pastor

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<v Speaker 2>such a wonderful, beautiful church, full of such diversity of thought,

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<v Speaker 2>diversity of ethnicity, diversity of income, diversity of background, diversity

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<v Speaker 2>of strength. And sometimes I can let it become just

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<v Speaker 2>another Sunday.

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<v Speaker 1>But the devil is a liar. This is not common.

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<v Speaker 1>This is not common, This is not common.

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<v Speaker 2>And I will not take these things for granted.

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<v Speaker 1>I will not allow my.

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<v Speaker 2>Miracle to become trapped in my familiarity. Here what I said,

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<v Speaker 2>because you might have clapped over it. I will not

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<v Speaker 2>allow my miracle to become trapped in my familiarity. Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>comes to Nazareth, full of healing, full of resurrection, full

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<v Speaker 2>of blind eye opening power, full of death, ear opening power,

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<v Speaker 2>full of lame to walk, blind to see power, full

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<v Speaker 2>of dead raising power, and all that power shows up

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<v Speaker 2>in a little town like Nazareth, and Jesus has not

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<v Speaker 2>lost any power on the twenty five mile journey through

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<v Speaker 2>the cliffs of our Bell. But the people have lost

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<v Speaker 2>their appreciation of his power. And since they have lost

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<v Speaker 2>their appreciation for his power, they have limited the potential

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<v Speaker 2>for his power to be released into their lives. I

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<v Speaker 2>wonder has it happened to some of us when we

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<v Speaker 2>first got saved. We were grateful. It felt good to

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<v Speaker 2>be forgiven. It felt good to be free. It felt

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<v Speaker 2>good to have something to live for. It felt good

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<v Speaker 2>to have an orientation in life that was not us

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<v Speaker 2>on a throne. It felt good to not need people

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<v Speaker 2>to tell us what we were worth because we had

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<v Speaker 2>been bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.

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<v Speaker 1>But something happens.

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<v Speaker 2>Because we don't have to sacrifice bulls and goats and

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<v Speaker 2>pigeons and doves and bulls, and since we don't have

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<v Speaker 2>to smell the blood of the sacrifice, sometimes we can

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<v Speaker 2>become complacent and treat the blood.

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<v Speaker 1>Of Jesus which was shed for us, as a.

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<v Speaker 2>Common thing because we don't feel it. And because we

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<v Speaker 2>don't feel it, we begin to become familiar with it.

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<v Speaker 2>And when you become familiar with it, sometimes you miss

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<v Speaker 2>the power of it. And some of you are tripping

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<v Speaker 2>over your miracle because it's been in front of you

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<v Speaker 2>so long you have stopped being amazed. I came with

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<v Speaker 2>a word for somebody. Stay amazed. Don't get jaded by it.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't start to back up and put your hands in

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<v Speaker 2>your pocket and act like.

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<v Speaker 1>You got yourself here.

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<v Speaker 2>If we can get honest, you know you still need

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<v Speaker 2>that same grace. If it wasn't still flowing, you wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>be still breathing. Don't blame me like that. There's some

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<v Speaker 2>stuff in your life that if it had not been

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<v Speaker 2>for the Lord on yours I five five people. Tell them,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm still amazed. Stay amazed by it. Don't get too

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<v Speaker 2>comfortable with it. Don't start thinking you earned what you

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<v Speaker 2>first received. Don't start acting like God owes you will

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<v Speaker 2>favor to leave you on the planet. Every pay is

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<v Speaker 2>a gift, Every breath is a gift. Now, let's do

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<v Speaker 2>what David said. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>Let everything that has hands clap those hands.

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<v Speaker 1>Holgy people and.

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<v Speaker 2>Shallow to God with a voice of triumph.

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<v Speaker 1>Power came to Nazareth, but it was trapped.

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<v Speaker 2>It was trapped in their familiar expectation, and they missed

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<v Speaker 2>the miracle.

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<v Speaker 1>They tripped over it.

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<v Speaker 2>Literally, it's implied in the word that mark Usus says

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<v Speaker 2>that they were amazed. But then when they started thinking

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<v Speaker 2>about it, watched their dialogue. Where did this man get

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<v Speaker 2>these things? They didn't deny his power? What's this wisdom

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<v Speaker 2>that has been given him. They didn't deny his wisdom.

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<v Speaker 2>What are these remarkable miracles that he is performing. They

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<v Speaker 2>didn't deny his miracles. They didn't doubt it. They despised it.

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<v Speaker 2>Why did they despise it? Because he looked like one

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<v Speaker 2>of them. He came in a common way, and when

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<v Speaker 2>God comes in a common way, we trip over him.

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<v Speaker 2>In our process of trying to get to something that

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<v Speaker 2>we think is important, we trip. Here's what they said.

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<v Speaker 2>Isn't this the carpenter there tripping? They're tripping? They thought

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<v Speaker 2>he was tripping. Who does he think he is? This

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<v Speaker 2>guy is tripping. I love how they call him this,

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<v Speaker 2>this man, this dude. It's only five hundred people in

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<v Speaker 2>the town. You know good and well what his name is.

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<v Speaker 2>But they gave him a different name. What's what they

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<v Speaker 2>called him? The carpenter? Common This one's even better. Isn't

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<v Speaker 2>this Mary's son? You don't do that. In Jewish custom,

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<v Speaker 2>you call the child by the name of his father. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe at this point Joseph's dead, But even if Joseph

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<v Speaker 2>is dead, you still call him by the name of

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<v Speaker 2>the father, unless you don't know exactly who his father is. Remember,

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus came from questionable circumstances. Mary said it was God.

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<v Speaker 2>But none of us saw the pregnancy test. That angel

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<v Speaker 2>didn't tell us. She was telling the truth. So we

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<v Speaker 2>know Mary's his MoMA. She's got the same nose. But

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<v Speaker 2>that daddy thing baby, that baby, that baby might have,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Mary was talking to Tom. They spent

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of time together. It is circulated. See Nazareth's

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<v Speaker 2>small town. You didn't grow up in a small town,

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<v Speaker 2>so you don't know how it goes in a small town.

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<v Speaker 2>It didn't take long for this rumor to become embedded.

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<v Speaker 2>Where did he come from? None of us really know.

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<v Speaker 2>It wasn't what he did that they doubted. It was

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<v Speaker 2>where he came from. Where did he come from from?

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<v Speaker 1>Nazareth? Who was one of them?

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<v Speaker 2>And so they looked at him for a minute, Oh

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<v Speaker 2>this is good, and then they remember, wait, he's.

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<v Speaker 1>One of us. He can't be special. He came from us.

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<v Speaker 2>What would make them think like that? What was it

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<v Speaker 2>about Nazareth that had them trapped in their percep Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>now we need Nathaniel because you know Christmas time everybody

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<v Speaker 2>always sings Mary.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you know? But Mary wasn't even in church that day.

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<v Speaker 1>She wasn't even there. She wasn't even in the synagogue.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't hear this preach from Pulpits a lot, I

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<v Speaker 2>think because it's hard to tie up with the boat. Jesus'

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<v Speaker 2>family thought he was crazy during the three years of

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<v Speaker 2>his ministry. In Mark chapter three, they came to get

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<v Speaker 2>him from Capernaum. They came to bring him back home

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<v Speaker 2>because he had gotten Here's how we say it in

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<v Speaker 2>the South, too big for his breeches. That's a Southern saying,

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<v Speaker 2>bridges being our pants.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't know how you say it

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<v Speaker 1>back home. I went to Australia.

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<v Speaker 2>In Australia they call it tall poppy. It means when

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<v Speaker 2>you get to Hi, you want to grow up too high.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody needs to cut you down. This is what's happening

0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:54.800
<v Speaker 2>in Nazareth. They're like, ooh, it's good, ooh, the healer

0:27:54.840 --> 0:28:01.560
<v Speaker 2>is here. Wait a minute, Mary's boy, this is tooo familiar.

0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:06.800
<v Speaker 1>This feels like us. And when it felt like.

0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:10.280
<v Speaker 2>Them, something within them caused them to push it away.

0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:13.160
<v Speaker 1>We only see why in John chapter one.

0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:17.760
<v Speaker 2>And I'm so glad that God gave us four Gospels,

0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:22.760
<v Speaker 2>because Mark puts one perspective, Matthew puts one, Luke puts one.

0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:27.080
<v Speaker 2>In Luke four, it says that they were so offended.

0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:32.040
<v Speaker 2>Scandalon is the Greek word. It means to set a trap.

0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:37.760
<v Speaker 2>They were so offended they became trapped in their offense,

0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:43.120
<v Speaker 2>and God's power could not operate at its full capacity

0:28:43.560 --> 0:28:47.680
<v Speaker 2>because their mentality was trapped in their offense.

0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:49.880
<v Speaker 1>Why were they so offended?

0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:53.560
<v Speaker 2>What was it about Nazareth and the people of Nazareth

0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:56.280
<v Speaker 2>other than the fact that they grew up around Jesus?

0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:59.160
<v Speaker 1>Was there something else? There had to be something.

0:28:58.920 --> 0:29:02.120
<v Speaker 2>Else for them to push away, to have sickness in

0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:02.960
<v Speaker 2>their village, but.

0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:05.960
<v Speaker 1>Push away the one that could heal them, for them.

0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:09.640
<v Speaker 2>To have demon possession oppressing their children, but send away

0:29:09.880 --> 0:29:12.080
<v Speaker 2>the one who could make the demon shriek and run

0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:15.440
<v Speaker 2>out of town. What was it about Nazareth that made

0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:18.160
<v Speaker 2>them push away the one who came to set them free?

0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:22.120
<v Speaker 2>What was it about Nazareth? Well, Nathaniel's gonna tell us.

0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:24.800
<v Speaker 2>Nathaniel doesn't get a lot of speaking parts in the Bible,

0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:28.920
<v Speaker 2>so let's pay close attention. Is very uncommon that Nathaniel speaks,

0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:31.720
<v Speaker 2>But the Bible tells us one thing that he said

0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:36.320
<v Speaker 2>that this whole text and our entire understanding of why

0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:39.600
<v Speaker 2>God often cannot do what he wants to do in

0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:43.880
<v Speaker 2>our lives. It hinges on this because when Philip came

0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:48.040
<v Speaker 2>to find Nathaniel, he was excited about Jesus. This is

0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:51.560
<v Speaker 2>when Jesus was first assembling his squad, this is before

0:29:51.600 --> 0:29:54.600
<v Speaker 2>he sent them out to do any miracles. And Philip

0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:58.200
<v Speaker 2>comes running up to his friend Nathaniel. He's called Nathaniel,

0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:01.800
<v Speaker 2>and John's gospel other right call him Bartholomew. He had

0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:06.040
<v Speaker 2>an alias here he's called Nathaniel. And Philip comes to

0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:09.320
<v Speaker 2>Nathaniel because sometimes the first thing you do when you

0:30:09.400 --> 0:30:13.280
<v Speaker 2>really meet Jesus is drag people with you. Sometimes, when

0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:15.640
<v Speaker 2>God really gets a hold of your life, you will

0:30:15.640 --> 0:30:16.960
<v Speaker 2>bribe people into coming.

0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:17.960
<v Speaker 1>To church with you.

0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:20.040
<v Speaker 2>You'll buy them Starbucks to get them to sit with

0:30:20.120 --> 0:30:21.720
<v Speaker 2>you in church because.

0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:23.760
<v Speaker 1>You know how messed up they are. But you can't

0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:24.240
<v Speaker 1>tell them that.

0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:26.120
<v Speaker 2>But if you drag them in this church and let

0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:28.760
<v Speaker 2>me open the Bible, God will tell them, and together

0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:31.360
<v Speaker 2>the Holy Spirit in you can get them fixed. And

0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:33.640
<v Speaker 2>so you say come with me to church, and they say,

0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:35.560
<v Speaker 2>I don't like church, and you say, well, this is

0:30:35.600 --> 0:30:38.200
<v Speaker 2>a normal church, and they say, I'm in the church

0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:42.400
<v Speaker 2>before I hearn about that evolution in church in churance

0:30:42.600 --> 0:30:43.320
<v Speaker 2>in that the church.

0:30:43.680 --> 0:30:46.080
<v Speaker 1>That's the church where you're coming with me. Now shut

0:30:46.160 --> 0:30:46.680
<v Speaker 1>up and come.

0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:50.360
<v Speaker 2>And so Philip found Nathaniel verse forty five, John one

0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:51.640
<v Speaker 2>and told him we have.

0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:52.480
<v Speaker 1>Found the one.

0:30:52.560 --> 0:30:56.280
<v Speaker 2>Somebody shout, we found him. This is the one Moses

0:30:56.320 --> 0:30:59.080
<v Speaker 2>wrote about in the Law, and whom the prophets also wrote,

0:30:59.200 --> 0:31:08.640
<v Speaker 2>Watch Jesus of Nazareth, where's he from again? Nazareth the

0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:15.720
<v Speaker 2>son of Joseph. And Nathaniel's reaction helped me to understand

0:31:17.000 --> 0:31:22.000
<v Speaker 2>why the people of Nazareth resisted Jesus and missed his miracles.

0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:25.200
<v Speaker 2>And it helped me understand why I tend to push

0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:30.320
<v Speaker 2>people away sometimes. And it helped me understand why sometimes

0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:32.320
<v Speaker 2>I reject the love people are trying to give me,

0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:37.560
<v Speaker 2>but really I'm rejecting something else. Because when Philip said

0:31:37.600 --> 0:31:42.160
<v Speaker 2>we found the one, Nathaniel was excited. But when he

0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:48.120
<v Speaker 2>said where he was from, Jesus of Nazareth, Philip said

0:31:48.680 --> 0:31:54.320
<v Speaker 2>forty six, Nazareth, let me do this in my best

0:31:54.360 --> 0:32:05.280
<v Speaker 2>ai voice. Practice Nazareth Nazareth. Tell me about Nazareth. Watch

0:32:05.280 --> 0:32:09.720
<v Speaker 2>what he says. It hinges on this. I thought they

0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:13.960
<v Speaker 2>only rejected Jesus and took offense and were trapped scandal

0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:16.720
<v Speaker 2>on to set a trap. I thought they were offended

0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:21.440
<v Speaker 2>by Jesus because they were so familiar with him. But

0:32:21.560 --> 0:32:26.120
<v Speaker 2>now I think the reason that they rejected Jesus is

0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:33.720
<v Speaker 2>because they rejected themselves. Apparently Nazareth had a reputation because

0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:37.000
<v Speaker 2>the first thing Nathaniel said was Nazareth.

0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:42.960
<v Speaker 1>Can anything good come from there?

0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:51.640
<v Speaker 2>That's how I feel about myself sometimes, you know, because

0:32:51.680 --> 0:32:56.720
<v Speaker 2>I know myself. And when they took offense at him,

0:32:57.520 --> 0:33:01.080
<v Speaker 2>at first I was angry with them. Then I realized

0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:06.960
<v Speaker 2>they weren't really rejecting him. They had a reputation. And

0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:13.040
<v Speaker 2>Nazareth is this backwoods town. Nazareth is on nobody's bucket list.

0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:19.000
<v Speaker 2>They talk funny in Nazareth. It's not like Jerusalem. It's

0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:20.400
<v Speaker 2>not a very religious place.

0:33:21.880 --> 0:33:22.440
<v Speaker 1>Nazareth.

0:33:24.840 --> 0:33:29.800
<v Speaker 2>You mean the boy with a baby daddy, who were

0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:35.240
<v Speaker 2>not even short Nazareth. He came from us. It wasn't

0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:38.360
<v Speaker 2>that they couldn't believe what he did. They couldn't believe

0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:48.080
<v Speaker 2>it came from them. His miracles to them were remarkable.

0:33:49.440 --> 0:33:51.680
<v Speaker 2>But when they tried to reconcile the fact that he

0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:58.840
<v Speaker 2>was one of them with what he was doing, they

0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:02.680
<v Speaker 2>couldn't reconcile the fact that something good could come from us.

0:34:04.880 --> 0:34:06.719
<v Speaker 1>And when you have a view of yourself that has

0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:07.680
<v Speaker 1>been shaped.

0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:16.440
<v Speaker 2>Year after year, even generation after generation, by stereotypes, or

0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:20.359
<v Speaker 2>by generalizations, or by failures, it comes to a point

0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:23.560
<v Speaker 2>where you really start to believe that nothing good can

0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:26.960
<v Speaker 2>come from you. And some of you are right there today,

0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:31.960
<v Speaker 2>trapped in Nazareth because you got some things in your past,

0:34:31.960 --> 0:34:35.120
<v Speaker 2>and some of them aren't even your fault. But just

0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:37.680
<v Speaker 2>because it wasn't your fault doesn't mean it's not your prison.

0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:43.320
<v Speaker 2>And in this room there is sexual molestation that happened

0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:46.920
<v Speaker 2>twenty three years ago and still dominates.

0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:48.719
<v Speaker 1>Your perception of what your future can be.

0:34:50.760 --> 0:34:52.760
<v Speaker 2>And there are many in this room who are still

0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:57.719
<v Speaker 2>imprisoned in a failed relationship. The relationship failed five years ago,

0:34:57.760 --> 0:34:59.680
<v Speaker 2>but you are living in it in this very moment.

0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:05.640
<v Speaker 2>Can anything good come from someone like me? He's just

0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:08.960
<v Speaker 2>like us, He's one of us. And they were amazed

0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:12.640
<v Speaker 2>at first, and then they began to despise what they

0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:16.120
<v Speaker 2>were first amazed that when they realized, wait a minute,

0:35:16.239 --> 0:35:18.120
<v Speaker 2>he's one of us. There is a part of us

0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:20.400
<v Speaker 2>that is able to believe that God is great.

0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:24.000
<v Speaker 1>But when we try to reconcile the fact of.

0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:29.680
<v Speaker 2>His greatness with the reality of our brokenness, we start

0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:33.520
<v Speaker 2>to feel like these people and we push Jesus away.

0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:36.440
<v Speaker 2>And it's not that we can't believe that he's great,

0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:40.439
<v Speaker 2>it's just that we can't believe that anything good could

0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:41.920
<v Speaker 2>come from.

0:35:41.680 --> 0:35:42.680
<v Speaker 1>Our life.

0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:46.720
<v Speaker 2>Because there's so much that I don't know, and there's

0:35:47.000 --> 0:35:49.040
<v Speaker 2>so much that I should have done it, so much

0:35:49.080 --> 0:35:51.960
<v Speaker 2>that I shouldn't have done. And now I'm trapped in

0:35:52.080 --> 0:35:55.480
<v Speaker 2>Nazareth because see, I've made some mistakes and I know

0:35:55.640 --> 0:35:58.600
<v Speaker 2>Jesus is a healer, and I know he's amazing, and

0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:01.720
<v Speaker 2>I know he's a miracle. World is not his miracle

0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:06.240
<v Speaker 2>working power. That's in question. Here is me. I'm trapped

0:36:06.840 --> 0:36:10.919
<v Speaker 2>in Nazareth. It's me and I'm a preach till all

0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:14.080
<v Speaker 2>of your facade comes falling off because you come in

0:36:14.160 --> 0:36:16.720
<v Speaker 2>this church and you look at me a certain way,

0:36:16.960 --> 0:36:19.600
<v Speaker 2>and you come with this sterile approach to God, but

0:36:19.719 --> 0:36:22.960
<v Speaker 2>he can't do what he really wants to do in

0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:29.400
<v Speaker 2>your life. Because you're trapped in Nazareth. So you listen

0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:34.360
<v Speaker 2>to me preach, and you'll sing a few songs, and

0:36:34.400 --> 0:36:35.800
<v Speaker 2>you'll say a few prayers.

0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:40.120
<v Speaker 1>But Jesus is limited in what he can do through.

0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:43.759
<v Speaker 2>Your life because you are trapped in what you were.

0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:54.360
<v Speaker 2>Nazareth was so unknown and so disregarded that Nathangel's first

0:36:54.440 --> 0:36:56.359
<v Speaker 2>response was not Nazareth.

0:36:57.560 --> 0:36:58.480
<v Speaker 1>Not Nazareth.

0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:04.560
<v Speaker 2>Like the devil tells you, you.

0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:04.560
<v Speaker 1>You really think you can raise those kids?

0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:07.120
<v Speaker 2>You never saw it done. What makes you think you're

0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:12.239
<v Speaker 2>going to be any better than your dad was? It's

0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:16.360
<v Speaker 2>what tells you you can't. It's what can be in

0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:21.879
<v Speaker 2>proximity of the power of God, but not receive. They

0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:28.160
<v Speaker 2>were right there, but they resisted and rejected it. And

0:37:28.200 --> 0:37:31.799
<v Speaker 2>yet it wasn't Jesus they were rejecting. It was that

0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:37.080
<v Speaker 2>they had been rejected and people have said something about

0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:41.400
<v Speaker 2>you long enough you start to believe it's really true.

0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:44.960
<v Speaker 2>And I am convinced that the people of Nazareth that

0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:49.520
<v Speaker 2>day were not rejecting Jesus as much as they were

0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:54.640
<v Speaker 2>rejecting themselves. See, you have to develop your view of

0:37:54.640 --> 0:37:57.359
<v Speaker 2>who God is through the prism of who you think

0:37:57.400 --> 0:38:01.839
<v Speaker 2>you are. And if you believe the rest of your

0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:05.919
<v Speaker 2>life that you are worthless, it will be very hard

0:38:05.960 --> 0:38:09.040
<v Speaker 2>for you to worship a God who thought you were

0:38:09.120 --> 0:38:20.000
<v Speaker 2>worth dying for. As a matter of fact, I want

0:38:20.040 --> 0:38:23.440
<v Speaker 2>to help set somebody free who has been disappointed because

0:38:23.440 --> 0:38:26.160
<v Speaker 2>someone rejected you. A lot of times they're not rejecting you.

0:38:27.480 --> 0:38:29.800
<v Speaker 2>A lot of times what they are rejecting is something

0:38:29.800 --> 0:38:33.160
<v Speaker 2>that had nothing to do with you. And sometimes they

0:38:33.200 --> 0:38:37.080
<v Speaker 2>push you away because there's something pushing on the inside

0:38:37.080 --> 0:38:39.480
<v Speaker 2>of them. A lot of what we experience as rejection

0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:44.359
<v Speaker 2>is really just projection. It's people who have been disappointed,

0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:47.160
<v Speaker 2>who have been hurt, And now you're thinking, what's wrong

0:38:47.200 --> 0:38:50.040
<v Speaker 2>with me? Why doesn't she appreciate me? It's not you

0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:54.720
<v Speaker 2>she doesn't appreciate. Is that she can't appreciate herself because

0:38:54.760 --> 0:38:58.160
<v Speaker 2>she has not yet healed from something. Sometimes when people

0:38:58.239 --> 0:39:01.400
<v Speaker 2>are pushing you away, it's not even about you. Stop

0:39:01.480 --> 0:39:05.400
<v Speaker 2>being so self centered. Stop thinking that people are responding

0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:09.279
<v Speaker 2>to you. People have real hurts, people have real issues.

0:39:09.560 --> 0:39:12.239
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes they can't get over what happened to them. To

0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:16.360
<v Speaker 2>celebrate you, will you love them anyway? Are you strong

0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:20.359
<v Speaker 2>enough in God? Is your relationship with him strong enough

0:39:20.400 --> 0:39:24.120
<v Speaker 2>to know that what they say about me doesn't change

0:39:24.160 --> 0:39:31.840
<v Speaker 2>who I am. Men's denial cannot block my destiny.

0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:35.160
<v Speaker 1>Jesus was still a.

0:39:35.040 --> 0:39:39.160
<v Speaker 2>Prophet, whether they knew it or not, whether they celebrated

0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:42.360
<v Speaker 2>him or not, whether they rolled out a red carpet

0:39:42.600 --> 0:39:45.120
<v Speaker 2>or ran him out of town, he knew who he was.

0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:48.879
<v Speaker 1>Do you know who you are or do you need

0:39:48.960 --> 0:39:50.640
<v Speaker 1>people to tell you who you are?

0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:54.000
<v Speaker 2>Because if you let people tell you who you are,

0:39:54.320 --> 0:39:57.239
<v Speaker 2>they'll say you're just a carpenter. They'll say you're just

0:39:57.280 --> 0:40:00.680
<v Speaker 2>a single mom. They'll say you're just a teenager. They'll

0:40:00.719 --> 0:40:03.440
<v Speaker 2>say you're just a divorceee. But if you know who

0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:06.480
<v Speaker 2>God is, you realize your life is not defied by

0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:09.279
<v Speaker 2>an event. Oh, as a matter of fact, it actually is.

0:40:09.800 --> 0:40:13.160
<v Speaker 2>That event happened on a hill called Cavalry, when he

0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:16.360
<v Speaker 2>set his blood for me, when the precious Lamb of

0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:19.799
<v Speaker 2>God looked at me through time and set I'll die

0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:22.319
<v Speaker 2>for him.

0:40:22.360 --> 0:40:34.080
<v Speaker 1>So now I know that I am accepted by him.

0:40:35.000 --> 0:40:39.920
<v Speaker 2>I love Jesus tenacity because a lot of us, if

0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:43.799
<v Speaker 2>we would have been rejected in our hometown, that would

0:40:43.800 --> 0:40:45.840
<v Speaker 2>have been enough to kill our mission.

0:40:48.520 --> 0:40:51.760
<v Speaker 1>But what I want to show you for everybody who.

0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:55.600
<v Speaker 2>Has been rejected or has been rejecting the grace that

0:40:55.640 --> 0:40:58.839
<v Speaker 2>God has been trying to give you. Sometimes you're rejecting yourself.

0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:06.200
<v Speaker 2>Is that something good can come from Nazareth? I say

0:41:06.400 --> 0:41:11.880
<v Speaker 2>something good can come from Nazareth. And I want to

0:41:11.920 --> 0:41:14.719
<v Speaker 2>tell you another thing. Well, I got you here. You

0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:19.240
<v Speaker 2>don't have to stay where you started. How many praise

0:41:19.320 --> 0:41:27.000
<v Speaker 2>God for that? I don't have to stay.

0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:30.439
<v Speaker 3>I don't have to stay where I started. I don't

0:41:30.480 --> 0:41:34.920
<v Speaker 3>have to be who I was. I don't have to

0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:40.359
<v Speaker 3>be trapped in Nazareth. I don't go home and tell

0:41:40.400 --> 0:41:43.840
<v Speaker 3>your husband you're leaving like he's Nazareth.

0:41:46.040 --> 0:41:49.279
<v Speaker 2>People will abuse my little sermons sometimes take them out

0:41:49.320 --> 0:41:49.920
<v Speaker 2>of context.

0:41:50.800 --> 0:41:53.200
<v Speaker 1>Be quitting your job like it's Nazareth.

0:41:54.400 --> 0:41:56.440
<v Speaker 2>You got a mortgage to pay, bro, and I need

0:41:56.440 --> 0:42:01.000
<v Speaker 2>you to tithe, So keep that job. Keep that job.

0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:10.319
<v Speaker 2>Maybe Nazareth isn't a place. Maybe it's a perspective. That's

0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:14.719
<v Speaker 2>where we get trapped, not where we are, but what

0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:16.799
<v Speaker 2>we think about where we are. Jesus could have done

0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:20.759
<v Speaker 2>it in Nazareth, they just weren't willing to receive it.

0:42:21.400 --> 0:42:24.360
<v Speaker 2>And what's what he did, Because this is what somebody

0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:26.240
<v Speaker 2>under the sound of my voice needs to do today.

0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:28.600
<v Speaker 2>And I don't know why, but I feel like when

0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:31.440
<v Speaker 2>I show you this, it's going to help you understand

0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:36.040
<v Speaker 2>how to get unstuck. That's something that has been playing

0:42:37.239 --> 0:42:39.759
<v Speaker 2>like it's on repeat on your playlist, over and over

0:42:39.800 --> 0:42:41.840
<v Speaker 2>in your mind that you can't get out of.

0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:44.799
<v Speaker 1>It could be a failure. It could be a friend

0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:47.560
<v Speaker 1>that left you. It could be somebody you keep trying

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<v Speaker 1>to prove.

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<v Speaker 2>Yourself to, but you're never going to prove yourself to

0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:52.480
<v Speaker 2>them because they've never proved themselves to themselves. So how

0:42:52.520 --> 0:42:54.319
<v Speaker 2>are you going to get their approval if they don't

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<v Speaker 2>even approve of themselves. This is what's going to help

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<v Speaker 2>you because I never saw it before because I preached

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<v Speaker 2>this passage. One day, I'm going to do a whole

0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:04.160
<v Speaker 2>series called I Apologize, and it's going to be all

0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:05.400
<v Speaker 2>the passages that I.

0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:07.759
<v Speaker 1>Preached and I screwed them up, and I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>go back and.

0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:11.440
<v Speaker 2>Apologize to those passages of scripture in a whole series.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is installment one.

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<v Speaker 2>I apologize for stopping in verse six because often I

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<v Speaker 2>would stop right here and say.

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<v Speaker 1>He was amazed at their lack of faith.

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<v Speaker 2>But right there in the same verse, it says he

0:43:24.800 --> 0:43:29.080
<v Speaker 2>was amazed at their lack of faith. Right there in

0:43:29.080 --> 0:43:31.399
<v Speaker 2>that same verse where it says he was rejected by

0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:33.320
<v Speaker 2>the people who should have respected him the most.

0:43:33.760 --> 0:43:35.680
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever felt that way?

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<v Speaker 2>It could be a parent, it could be a child

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<v Speaker 2>that you've done the most for. The only people that

0:43:42.040 --> 0:43:43.799
<v Speaker 2>can really hurt you are the ones you really love.

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<v Speaker 2>There's nothing like being rejected by people that you expected

0:43:48.440 --> 0:43:51.520
<v Speaker 2>more from and even had the right to expect more from.

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<v Speaker 2>He should have been able to do ten times the

0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:56.520
<v Speaker 2>miracles in Nazareth. He should have been able to do

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<v Speaker 2>much more for the people who already knew him, and

0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:04.400
<v Speaker 2>that could have been enough to stop him.

0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:06.560
<v Speaker 1>Soft Jesus would have stopped in Nazareth.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I'm sorry, y'all think I'm taking it too far.

0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:16.480
<v Speaker 2>I'll tone it down. I apologize. I'm so sorry. I

0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:19.760
<v Speaker 2>won't say these things anymore. I'm sorry. I won't heal anybody.

0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:21.600
<v Speaker 2>If y'all don't like it, I'll go back to the

0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:24.520
<v Speaker 2>carpenter shop. It's cool. Just please don't make fun of me.

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<v Speaker 2>We get so worried about rejection that we miss God's

0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:35.719
<v Speaker 2>next direction for our life. And the moment you understand

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<v Speaker 2>that many of the rejections that we experience are really redirections.

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<v Speaker 2>You will no longer be trapped in Nazareth. Some of

0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:54.600
<v Speaker 2>us have gotten bitter offended. We're trapped scandaloon to set

0:44:54.600 --> 0:44:56.719
<v Speaker 2>a trap trapped in Nazareth.

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<v Speaker 1>What is Nazareth? The place where people said you couldn't

0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:03.399
<v Speaker 1>a place where who was supposed to be there wasn't there?

0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:06.040
<v Speaker 2>The place where you failed and you had great expectations

0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:12.480
<v Speaker 2>and you disappointed them. Here's what happens next. He was

0:45:12.480 --> 0:45:18.240
<v Speaker 2>amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus, so rejection

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<v Speaker 2>is not the end, because the next thing he did

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<v Speaker 2>after they rejected him in Nazareth.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch this went around teaching.

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<v Speaker 2>From village to village, calling the Twelve to him.

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<v Speaker 1>He's already called them to be his disciples.

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<v Speaker 2>Now he can release them into their ministry, calling.

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<v Speaker 1>The twelve to him. God, I love your word.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you for showing me this, because I thought rejection

0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:50.759
<v Speaker 2>minute was over. But when I read this, I realize

0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:55.279
<v Speaker 2>that some of our greatest blessings can only come on

0:45:55.360 --> 0:46:01.319
<v Speaker 2>the other side of rejection. And to send them out

0:46:02.520 --> 0:46:07.400
<v Speaker 2>two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits.

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<v Speaker 2>These were his instructions. E take nothing for the journey

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<v Speaker 2>except the staff. Touch somebody say you don't need it,

0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:15.960
<v Speaker 2>You don't need it. Whatever you don't have, you don't

0:46:15.960 --> 0:46:18.080
<v Speaker 2>need it. Whatever they didn't give you, you don't need it.

0:46:18.239 --> 0:46:20.719
<v Speaker 2>Whatever they didn't say, you don't need it. Whatever wasn't

0:46:20.760 --> 0:46:22.719
<v Speaker 2>put in your path, you don't need it. Don't take

0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:26.520
<v Speaker 2>it with you. Wear sandals, but not an extra shirt.

0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:28.120
<v Speaker 1>Verse ten. Whenever you enter.

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<v Speaker 2>A house, stay there until you leave that town. And

0:46:30.160 --> 0:46:32.560
<v Speaker 2>if any place will not welcome you or listen to you,

0:46:32.640 --> 0:46:38.439
<v Speaker 2>leave that place. Don't you stay trapped in Nazareth. Don't

0:46:38.480 --> 0:46:40.560
<v Speaker 2>you spend the rest of your life trying to prove

0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:43.600
<v Speaker 2>yourself to people. Don't you spend the rest of your

0:46:43.640 --> 0:46:46.200
<v Speaker 2>life apologizing for a week's season.

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<v Speaker 1>They won't welcome you.

0:46:52.440 --> 0:46:54.080
<v Speaker 2>If it doesn't work out there, if you can't get

0:46:54.080 --> 0:46:54.479
<v Speaker 2>it right.

0:46:54.400 --> 0:47:00.360
<v Speaker 1>This time, leave that place. Leave that place. It's not

0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:02.120
<v Speaker 1>an address, it's not a zip code.

0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:08.120
<v Speaker 2>It's a perspective, and shake the dust off your feet

0:47:08.160 --> 0:47:11.399
<v Speaker 2>as a testimony against this. Must be why he brought

0:47:11.400 --> 0:47:15.279
<v Speaker 2>the disciples to naza because he wanted to show them

0:47:15.280 --> 0:47:20.160
<v Speaker 2>what to do with rejection, and he knew that they

0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:26.239
<v Speaker 2>were not ready to be released in ministry until they

0:47:26.280 --> 0:47:34.080
<v Speaker 2>had first been rejected. The road to resurrection is paved

0:47:34.760 --> 0:47:43.640
<v Speaker 2>with rejection, and the stone that the builders rejected, that

0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:50.480
<v Speaker 2>the people tripped on, became the chief cornerstone. Jesus had

0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:54.680
<v Speaker 2>showed them how to cast out devils, Jesus had showed

0:47:54.719 --> 0:47:57.879
<v Speaker 2>them how to heal the sick. Jesus had showed them

0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:01.239
<v Speaker 2>how to touch lepers. But now he's showing them how

0:48:01.239 --> 0:48:03.000
<v Speaker 2>to do one more thing that they're gonna need and

0:48:03.000 --> 0:48:04.160
<v Speaker 2>then they can be released.

0:48:04.719 --> 0:48:08.520
<v Speaker 1>He had to show them how to shake it off. Oh,

0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:12.000
<v Speaker 1>I feel the spirit of Taylor Swift. And he had

0:48:12.000 --> 0:48:13.279
<v Speaker 1>to show them one more thing.

0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:16.759
<v Speaker 2>It's not always gonna go like you wanted to go,

0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:18.960
<v Speaker 2>and not everybody is gonna see.

0:48:18.800 --> 0:48:20.000
<v Speaker 1>What you want them to see.

0:48:20.200 --> 0:48:22.759
<v Speaker 2>And you're not always gonna make the right moves, and

0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:25.799
<v Speaker 2>there are gonna be some mistakes. But if you will

0:48:25.880 --> 0:48:35.640
<v Speaker 2>say it off and move forward in faith, you're ready.

0:48:35.680 --> 0:48:41.440
<v Speaker 2>Now you're ready. Now you failed some and you're ready.

0:48:41.480 --> 0:48:45.160
<v Speaker 2>Now you've heard a lot as you're ready. Now you're

0:48:45.239 --> 0:48:50.759
<v Speaker 2>humbled by it. You're stronger because something you now know

0:48:51.560 --> 0:48:56.920
<v Speaker 2>that only God can approove of you. You now know

0:48:57.040 --> 0:49:01.600
<v Speaker 2>not to look to people for their validation. You're coming

0:49:01.640 --> 0:49:10.360
<v Speaker 2>out of Nasareth. Stop tripping. Stop tripping over what people think.

0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:15.640
<v Speaker 2>Stop tripping trying to get somebody to clap for you

0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:20.040
<v Speaker 2>who's not even paying attention. They got their own car payment.

0:49:22.040 --> 0:49:24.080
<v Speaker 2>Stop needing people to validate what you know.

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<v Speaker 1>God made you already.

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<v Speaker 2>Those disciples went out from there and they started casting

0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:43.000
<v Speaker 2>out demons, taking authority.

0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:48.880
<v Speaker 1>But first they had to go through rejection. First, they

0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:52.880
<v Speaker 1>had to go through disappointment. First, they had to go

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<v Speaker 1>to Nasareth. Twenty five mile trip.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus took the boys on just to show them what

0:49:58.760 --> 0:50:03.160
<v Speaker 2>to do, and it doesn't work, Just to show them

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<v Speaker 2>that even Jesus had to be rejected. He was despised

0:50:07.920 --> 0:50:10.560
<v Speaker 2>and rejected, you know why, so you would never have

0:50:10.640 --> 0:50:14.960
<v Speaker 2>to be You might be rejected by people, but you

0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:21.480
<v Speaker 2>will never be rejected by him.

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<v Speaker 1>And I want to tell you one more thing. Stand

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<v Speaker 1>up so I'll quit.

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<v Speaker 2>God selects what man rejects, so people pick Saul. God

0:50:32.560 --> 0:50:38.880
<v Speaker 2>wants David. You better celebrate everybody who's ever hurt, everybody

0:50:38.880 --> 0:50:42.160
<v Speaker 2>who ever had someone.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on the stone that the builders rejected.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel resurrection and power rising up in thirty people.

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<v Speaker 1>Where are the thirty.

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<v Speaker 2>We're coming out of national, coming out of the gray,

0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:05.279
<v Speaker 2>coming out of here, coming out of failure. If less

0:51:05.360 --> 0:51:10.160
<v Speaker 2>you and you know, let those hands and class I

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<v Speaker 2>believe in Naster lives.

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