WEBVTT - My Maker Is My Mirror

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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 podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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

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<v Speaker 2>Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving

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<v Speaker 2>in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message Joshua Chapter fourteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Please remain standing for one moment in respect and honor

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<v Speaker 2>for the word of God. The Lord has given me

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<v Speaker 2>something today that is so beautiful to me, and I

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<v Speaker 2>pray that I can show it to you accurately today

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<v Speaker 2>and that you can receive it. I praise God in

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<v Speaker 2>advance for the way He's going to show you today

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<v Speaker 2>who He really is in your life and who you

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<v Speaker 2>really are in his eyes. A man, I'm so glad

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<v Speaker 2>you're here. I prayed you wouldn't miss church today. I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, Lord, whoever needs to hear it, even if

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<v Speaker 2>their kids fight them all the way to church and

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<v Speaker 2>they got a flat tire, help them to roll down

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<v Speaker 2>the street on a hub. Captain, get this message today.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you tuned in, it wasn't by mistake. We

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<v Speaker 2>were praying that everyone who would need this message would

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<v Speaker 2>get it, even if it's two years later and you

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<v Speaker 2>found it on YouTube after watching a cat.

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<v Speaker 1>Video or bts. This is gonna be your message, This

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<v Speaker 1>is gonna be the one.

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<v Speaker 2>The Lord has heard the questions you've been asking, He's

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<v Speaker 2>seen the struggle you've been facing, and he wants to

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<v Speaker 2>give you something today to see.

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<v Speaker 1>It in a different light.

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<v Speaker 2>Joshua chapter fourteen a very pivotal scripture for the nation

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<v Speaker 2>of Israel and for us. As Joshua gives the inheritance

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<v Speaker 2>that God promised so many centuries ago to the people

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<v Speaker 2>who were walking into the land, and as he's dividing

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<v Speaker 2>up the different parcels or the lots, casting lots to

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<v Speaker 2>decide which tribe will live on what lot, one person

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<v Speaker 2>takes initiative named Caleb, and I want to read you

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<v Speaker 2>his speech that he made to Joshua, because he's trying

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<v Speaker 2>to convince him that he's supposed to live in a

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<v Speaker 2>certain place, and so he's going to tell him some

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<v Speaker 2>things from his resume, and he's also going to tell

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<v Speaker 2>him some things and reflect on some things that have happened.

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<v Speaker 2>And I want you to eavesdrop on it today Joshua fourteen,

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<v Speaker 2>verse six.

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<v Speaker 1>Then the people of Judah came to.

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<v Speaker 2>Joshua at Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jeffina.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm so sorry I got to put this in here.

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if it's significant that it's Judah because that

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<v Speaker 2>represents praise in the Bible, and I wonder if there's

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<v Speaker 2>something about praise that helps us to take possession of

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<v Speaker 2>the promises of God.

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<v Speaker 1>I just wonder that out loud in your presence today.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure, but I wonder if some of the

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<v Speaker 2>problems that you've been focusing on, if you could get

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<v Speaker 2>in a place of praise, you might see the solution clearly. Today,

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<v Speaker 2>We're never going to make it through the next day

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<v Speaker 2>versus if we keep interrupting, So.

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<v Speaker 1>Start over.

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<v Speaker 2>Then the people of Judah came to Joshua, Gilgal and

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<v Speaker 2>Caleb the son of Jeffuna. Then I said to him,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what the Lord said to Moses, the man

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<v Speaker 2>of God in Kate desh Barnea, concerning you and me.

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<v Speaker 2>I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord, sent me from kay desh Barney. I was

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<v Speaker 2>just a young man, just forty years old. That's very youthful,

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<v Speaker 2>very youthful age. I was forty years old when Moses

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<v Speaker 2>sent us to spy out the land, and I brought

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<v Speaker 2>him word again, as it was in my heart. But

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<v Speaker 2>my brothers who went up with me, made the heart

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<v Speaker 2>of the people melt. Yet I wholly followed the Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>my God. I didn't let it get to me. I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't let it get in me what they said. And

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<v Speaker 2>Moses swore on that day, saying, surely the land on

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<v Speaker 2>which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for

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<v Speaker 2>you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed

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<v Speaker 2>the Lord, my God. And now behold, behold, the Lord

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<v Speaker 2>has kept me alive, just as he said. These forty

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<v Speaker 2>five years since the time.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a long time to wait for a promise to

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<v Speaker 1>come to pass.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a long time to suffer for somebody else's disobedience.

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<v Speaker 2>Forty five years I survived the wilderness. It's been forty

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<v Speaker 2>five years since the time that the Lord spoke this

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<v Speaker 2>word to Moses, while Israel walked into wilderness. And now behole,

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<v Speaker 2>I am this day, eighty five years old. I am

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<v Speaker 2>still as strong today. Eighty five that's still flexing. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>still as strong today as I was in the day

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<v Speaker 2>that Moses sent me my strength now is as my

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<v Speaker 2>strength was then, for war and forgoing and coming. So

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<v Speaker 2>now somebody shout, now there's been a long time coming.

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<v Speaker 1>But now give me this.

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<v Speaker 2>Hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day.

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<v Speaker 2>For you heard on that day how the we're there,

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<v Speaker 2>with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord

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<v Speaker 2>will be with me and I shall drive them out,

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<v Speaker 2>just as the Lord said. And then Joshua blessed him,

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<v Speaker 2>and he gave hebren to Caleb, the son of Jafunah

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<v Speaker 2>for an inheritance.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, look at.

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<v Speaker 2>Your neighbor and give them my title, and then I

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<v Speaker 2>want to share a lesson with you. Look at him,

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<v Speaker 2>and first of all, say you look amazing. Tell them

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<v Speaker 2>you've never looked better. And now tell him say I

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate that, but my Maker is my mirror.

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<v Speaker 1>They didn't get it.

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<v Speaker 2>Look at the next person and say, I appreciate it,

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<v Speaker 2>but my Maker is my mirror. Thank you, Lord for

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<v Speaker 2>illumination of your word in Jesus' name.

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<v Speaker 1>Amen.

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<v Speaker 3>Amen, Well let's give him one more shout as we

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<v Speaker 3>take our seat.

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<v Speaker 1>Amen. I wasn't really a shout, it was more of

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<v Speaker 1>a murmur.

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<v Speaker 2>I will teach you how to shout one day like

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<v Speaker 2>you do when your kids don't clean up.

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<v Speaker 1>Do that.

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<v Speaker 2>But for the Lord, Amen, it's great that we get

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<v Speaker 2>to see how God makes a nation. He's forming a nation.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, I want a people that can present me.

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<v Speaker 1>To the world.

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<v Speaker 2>And he didn't do it the typical way, because if

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<v Speaker 2>you wanted to have a great nation, you would pick.

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<v Speaker 1>A rich one, a wealthy one.

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<v Speaker 2>And yet, instead of making a nation that was already

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<v Speaker 2>great greater, God found a man who was too old

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<v Speaker 2>to have kids with a wife who was barren in

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<v Speaker 2>her womb, and created a great.

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<v Speaker 1>Nation out of an impossible situation.

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<v Speaker 2>I am preaching so hard already, and I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 2>throttle down.

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<v Speaker 1>But this is a message in itself.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that when God found Abram, this was before he

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<v Speaker 2>had a consonant in his name. The artist formerly known

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<v Speaker 2>as Abram on to be Abraham. He was the father

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<v Speaker 2>of many nations, but when God called him, his stuff

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't even working anymore. And the reason I'm telling you

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<v Speaker 2>that is because sometimes God will speak something over your

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<v Speaker 2>life and you will look in the mirror.

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<v Speaker 1>And not see it.

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<v Speaker 2>He'll speak something in your soul and you'll look in

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<v Speaker 2>the mirror and you won't see it, which is so

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<v Speaker 2>important to know that it's not how God sees you

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<v Speaker 2>that determines where your life ends up. If it had been,

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<v Speaker 2>Moses wouldn't have died in the wilderness. It's not how

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<v Speaker 2>God sees me. It's how I think God sees me

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<v Speaker 2>that determines where I end up. I'll prove it to

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<v Speaker 2>you all the way from Genesis chapter one. Remember, let

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<v Speaker 2>us make man in our image. God needed someone to

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<v Speaker 2>show the world what he looked like, or else he

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<v Speaker 2>would have just been a concept. God would have been

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<v Speaker 2>an abstract theory. So he made man, and one man

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<v Speaker 2>to reflect who he was. He needed someone to show

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<v Speaker 2>his nature through. So he made me in you. And

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<v Speaker 2>when you insult the product, you insult the manufacturer, which

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<v Speaker 2>is why it's good to know our theology that he

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<v Speaker 2>made me from the dust, that God took something that

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<v Speaker 2>seemed filthy and something that seemed finite and made something

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<v Speaker 2>that would reflect what is eternal. Then after making the man,

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<v Speaker 2>he began to create not only the world the man,

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<v Speaker 2>but a nation through Abram, through someone who seemed unlikely,

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<v Speaker 2>And the nation of Israel spent a whole lot of

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<v Speaker 2>time trying to figure out what we spent our whole

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<v Speaker 2>lives trying to figure out, or at least our teenage

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<v Speaker 2>years and our twenties, is like, what's my identity? So

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<v Speaker 2>what you're really seeing in Joshua be fourteen is not

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<v Speaker 2>just people getting some realist state, but they're coming into

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<v Speaker 2>their identity, their national identity.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's hard because.

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<v Speaker 2>They've been through so much and they started from something

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<v Speaker 2>so small. It is easy for them to see themselves

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<v Speaker 2>according to what they've been through or where they started.

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<v Speaker 1>And now they're breaking up.

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<v Speaker 2>There's nine and a half tribes that get this land,

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<v Speaker 2>and so Joshua and the priests they're shaking this receptacle.

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<v Speaker 2>This is how they would cast lots. They would take

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<v Speaker 2>the thing and shake it and they would have little

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<v Speaker 2>wood blocks with different codes on them, and then they

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<v Speaker 2>would kind of shake it out and what it fell

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<v Speaker 2>on that meant this tribe gets that land, and this

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<v Speaker 2>tribe gets that land. When Caleb interrupts the process, he's like,

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<v Speaker 2>hold on, you're not going to figure out where I

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<v Speaker 2>live by just rolling some dice.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, I got a promise, Moses said.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, remember Moses was the one who was supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>lead the people into the land, but he was unable

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<v Speaker 2>to do it. And here's how I would put it

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<v Speaker 2>if I were a preacher.

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<v Speaker 1>He got them out of each but he.

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<v Speaker 2>Never got Egypt out of them, because they were oppressed

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<v Speaker 2>for you know, four hundred and thirty years. And when

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<v Speaker 2>you've been under something for any length of time, when

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<v Speaker 2>you've been under the power of any influence for any

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<v Speaker 2>length of time, that influence becomes your identity.

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<v Speaker 1>So now your.

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<v Speaker 2>Addiction speaks more to you about your potential than God's

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<v Speaker 2>word over you, than the prophetic gift that's.

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<v Speaker 1>Inside of you.

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<v Speaker 2>It happens to all of us when when you've been

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<v Speaker 2>suffering from something, you can begin to take on the

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<v Speaker 2>name of your disease or your issue. It's rating the

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<v Speaker 2>name of your creator, whose image you were made of.

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<v Speaker 2>But see, it's how you see it. It's how you

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<v Speaker 2>see yourself. And I think I can prove to you

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<v Speaker 2>if you give me like two and a half minutes,

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<v Speaker 2>that the reason the people didn't go into the land

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<v Speaker 2>under Moses was because Moses never really saw himself in

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<v Speaker 2>the image of his creator.

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<v Speaker 1>Abram did.

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<v Speaker 2>Abram did, even though he had a hard time getting

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<v Speaker 2>with it, even though he was like, you got any

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<v Speaker 2>pills for that or anything like that, because I'm old now.

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<v Speaker 2>And even though he had to wait for Isaac and

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<v Speaker 2>he messed up in the process and ended up producing

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<v Speaker 2>something that caused him more trouble by sleeping with Hagar.

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<v Speaker 2>Even though all of that happened, God still called him

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<v Speaker 2>the Father of faith, the father of many nations, and

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<v Speaker 2>to show him who he was, he brought him out

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<v Speaker 2>of his tent, out of his limitation, out of his situation,

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<v Speaker 2>and he said, Okay, here's your revelation. Here's your situation.

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<v Speaker 2>Get out of your situation, and now look up, preach

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<v Speaker 2>into somebody.

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<v Speaker 1>Look up. And he said, count the stars if you can.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how far he got before he was like,

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<v Speaker 2>what's the point of God, akin, you know three hundred

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<v Speaker 2>and forty three hundred and forty four.

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<v Speaker 1>What are you trying to show me?

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<v Speaker 2>And God said, as many as they are, so shall

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<v Speaker 2>your descendants be, So shall your seed be. So he

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<v Speaker 2>gives him an image, an image, not just an idea,

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<v Speaker 2>but an image.

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<v Speaker 1>Now. Colossians one fifteen look.

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<v Speaker 2>It up real quick says that Jesus is the image

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<v Speaker 2>of the invisible God. That's very powerful, that Jesus shows

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<v Speaker 2>us what God is like that the Word became flesh

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<v Speaker 2>and dwelled among us. That's what Jesus is. He is

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<v Speaker 2>the image of the God that we can't see. Did

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<v Speaker 2>I get it right? Colossians one fifteen, that he is

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<v Speaker 2>the image of the invisible God. This is the challenge

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<v Speaker 2>for everybody under the sound of my voice. There is

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<v Speaker 2>a way that God sees you because he formed you.

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<v Speaker 2>There is that you see you. There is a way

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<v Speaker 2>that others see you. And where you go from this

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<v Speaker 2>point forward in your life is going to depend on.

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<v Speaker 1>Which mirror you believe.

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<v Speaker 2>I got all these mirrors in my house that are

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<v Speaker 2>messed up, and I know they're messed up because they

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<v Speaker 2>keep showing me. My beard is supposed to be black.

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<v Speaker 2>But I look in those mirrors and they're messed up.

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<v Speaker 2>They're defective. I'm gonna take them back to the store

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<v Speaker 2>because they keep showing me these gray patches. Like I'm

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<v Speaker 2>forty years old and I started rebuking mirrors in my house.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, these lines coming up under my eyes, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, you are a liar like your father the devil.

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<v Speaker 2>I cast you back to the pit of hell or

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<v Speaker 2>this it actor how many, ever, looked in a messed

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<v Speaker 2>up mirror. How many, ever, have people around you that

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<v Speaker 2>made you feel a certain.

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<v Speaker 1>Way about yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>When Moses was coming into his identity and assignment, he

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<v Speaker 2>had to deal with the fact that he was really

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<v Speaker 2>living with two different images of who he was. And remember,

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<v Speaker 2>God is using Moses to deliver the Israelites out of

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<v Speaker 2>this Egyptian oppression.

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<v Speaker 1>And when Moses first first starts to act on his.

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<v Speaker 2>Impulse, he does the right thing, but he does it

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<v Speaker 2>the wrong way. He defends his people, but he does

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<v Speaker 2>it by murdering an Egyptian. So he's ahead of his

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<v Speaker 2>time and he's out of his own but he's doing

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<v Speaker 2>the right thing. But he still doesn't know who he

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<v Speaker 2>is yet, and it's difficult for him because he doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>really fit in with either group that he's living with.

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<v Speaker 2>The Hebrews are the people he was born from. The

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<v Speaker 2>Egyptians are the people that he was raised by. But

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<v Speaker 2>he identifies more with the people that he was born

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<v Speaker 2>from than the people he was raised by, so he

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't really fit in. And when you don't really fit

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<v Speaker 2>into either group, you end up running. That's what happened

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<v Speaker 2>to Moses. He confronted an Egyptian who was beating a

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<v Speaker 2>Hebrew one day, and he killed him and buried him.

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<v Speaker 2>But then the next day he went out and saw

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<v Speaker 2>two of his brothers fighting, and he was like, break

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<v Speaker 2>it up, guys. You know we're suffering enough from them.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't have to kill each other. And this is

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<v Speaker 2>in Exodus chapter two. I want to show it to.

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<v Speaker 1>You real quick. You got it Exodus two.

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<v Speaker 2>The man said back to him, who has made you

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<v Speaker 2>a prince and a judge over us?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you mean to kill me as you have killed

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<v Speaker 1>the Egyptian?

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<v Speaker 2>And then Moses was afraid and thought, surely the.

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<v Speaker 1>Thing is known, and he ran. He ran.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't really see him in his next stage of

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<v Speaker 2>his assignment until forty years later. He ran because he

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<v Speaker 2>was to Hebrew to be an Egyptian, and to Egyptian

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<v Speaker 2>to be a Hebrew. And when you don't really fit

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<v Speaker 2>in with either, you don't know who you are, and

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<v Speaker 2>you spend years of your life running from who you

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<v Speaker 2>really are, looking in the mirror of your last mistake.

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<v Speaker 2>He ran, and he ran, and he ran. And see

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<v Speaker 2>the question is the right one, he said, who made you?

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<v Speaker 1>Who made you? But if you don't know that.

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<v Speaker 2>You will hand other people your mirror to show you

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<v Speaker 2>who you are. And let me tell you something about people.

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<v Speaker 2>People would rather define you by your worst mistake. What's

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<v Speaker 2>crazy about Moses is he killed a man and there's

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<v Speaker 2>only one verse in.

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<v Speaker 1>The Bible about the murder. Now, if you let church people.

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<v Speaker 2>Write the Bible, they would have had a whole book

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<v Speaker 2>about it. Would be called the Book of Moses's murder,

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<v Speaker 2>the Book of Moses's mistake, the Book of Debi's divorce,

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<v Speaker 2>the book of your lowest moment. But maybe God doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>see you through the lens of your mistake.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe he sees you through the lens of his grace.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe when he looks at you, he sees the finished

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<v Speaker 2>work of Jesus Christ. Have you ever thought about the

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<v Speaker 2>fact that if they didn't make you, they can't define you.

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<v Speaker 1>My maker, there is my mirror. I promise. I'm trying

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<v Speaker 1>to be as calm as I can be.

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<v Speaker 2>But when God showed me that my maker is my mirror,

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<v Speaker 2>he showed me Moses standing in front of the burning bush.

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<v Speaker 2>And God's like, I'm gonna use you. You're gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>the one to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>You're the one.

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<v Speaker 2>Who's had the conflicted identity and so many mistakes, and

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<v Speaker 2>you don't even really believe in yourself. And so I

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<v Speaker 2>was thinking about you and how you might be standing

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<v Speaker 2>in front of something that God is speaking to you

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<v Speaker 2>and is burning on the inside, but you can't really

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<v Speaker 2>locate yourself because honestly, you don't fit into either group.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't really fit in with really.

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<v Speaker 2>Churchy people because they are so perfect and they pray

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<v Speaker 2>so much, and they make Bible verses out of their

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<v Speaker 2>kids sandwiches before they pack them in the lunch box

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<v Speaker 2>numbers thirteen thirty one, cut out with scripture stencils and

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<v Speaker 2>pack it in the lunch box like the Fish and

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<v Speaker 2>the Loaves and the Little Boy. And you are not

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<v Speaker 2>churchy enough, but you're really not worldly enough, because the

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<v Speaker 2>spirit of God is on the inside of you when

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<v Speaker 2>you try to sin, telling you that you're something greater

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<v Speaker 2>than that. And you're kind of righteous, but you're kind

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<v Speaker 2>of ratchet, and you're kind of a worshiper, but you're

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<v Speaker 2>kind of worldly, and you kind of worry but you

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<v Speaker 2>kind of worship, and you're kind of organized, but you're

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<v Speaker 2>kind of chaotic, and you're kind of powerful, but you're

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<v Speaker 2>kind of petty and you come on, I'm preaching to somebody,

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<v Speaker 2>and you're a little bit of both.

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<v Speaker 1>And your self concept is in development.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is when it's very important who holds your mirror,

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<v Speaker 2>because if the wrong people show you, you get a

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<v Speaker 2>distorted image of yourself, and then you start matching in

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<v Speaker 2>your life what you see in your mind.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what That's what Moses did.

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<v Speaker 2>God's like, all right, got a job for you to do.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna give you everything you need. Cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Moses is like, uh but uh but uh but see

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<v Speaker 2>the thing about me. Watch what's what He says. This

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<v Speaker 2>is Exodus four ten. It's which mirror you're looking at, right,

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<v Speaker 2>So if you look at the mirror of what you're

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<v Speaker 2>missing and you only see what's not there, that's what

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<v Speaker 2>Moses did. He's like, he goes, oh my lord, this

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<v Speaker 2>is an Exodus four ten. Oh mg, he says, oh

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<v Speaker 2>m L. He's like, I'm not eloquent. I am not eloquent.

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<v Speaker 2>It's funny because I got the scripture on the back

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<v Speaker 2>screen right now, and it's got a typo in it.

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<v Speaker 1>It says I I am eloquent. He said, the opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>That's that's what he said, right there, I am not eloquent,

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<v Speaker 2>and you really have both voices. That's that's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>how it feels, right like one is saying I am

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<v Speaker 2>and one is.

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<v Speaker 1>Saying I'm not. And I don't know which one.

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<v Speaker 2>I got this thing on the inside of me that

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<v Speaker 2>feels like I can do it and I'm supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>do it and I'm gonna make it. But I got

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<v Speaker 2>this other thing saying and I don't know which way

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<v Speaker 2>to look.

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<v Speaker 1>So he said, I'm not eloquent.

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<v Speaker 2>And then he says, either in the past or in

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<v Speaker 2>the last five minutes, nothing has changed since you started speaking.

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<v Speaker 2>It's still the same. I got saved and my nose

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<v Speaker 2>is still big. I got saved, and I'm still kind

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<v Speaker 2>of cross eyed and I read slow. I got saved

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<v Speaker 2>and I still don't feel intelligent enough. I got saved

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<v Speaker 2>and I still got memories. I got saved, and I

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<v Speaker 2>love God, but I still got trauma. I got saved

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<v Speaker 2>and I love God, but I'm still limited.

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<v Speaker 1>By my experience.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, I'm not. I'm not what you think I am.

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<v Speaker 2>God's answer is so instructive. Next verse, the Lord said,

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<v Speaker 2>who has made who made your mouth? Who made your brain? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but I'm just weird. What if the world is weird

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<v Speaker 2>and we're the normal ones?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I like it.

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta be careful who I look at when I preach,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, because you're like a mirror. Oh they

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<v Speaker 2>put this Chris is Chris Brown around? If he's around

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<v Speaker 2>bringing back up, Colin comeson when the worship leaders are leading.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't know this, but there was a choir out

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<v Speaker 2>here today at Valentine and they were standing on these

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<v Speaker 2>risers and if Chris didn't coming, you'll have to do okay,

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<v Speaker 2>so LJ. They think that they're just up here saying

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<v Speaker 2>I tell about you'll, we could teach a whole thing

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<v Speaker 2>on this. Can y'all still see me back here, because

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<v Speaker 2>I want to tell this to them. One time, they

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<v Speaker 2>discovered that a lot of primates and all humans are

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<v Speaker 2>softwired with mirror neurons, so our brains actually experience the

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<v Speaker 2>same emotion that somebody were watching if we're tuned into them.

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<v Speaker 2>And they got it from a monkey that was watching

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<v Speaker 2>a man open a nut, and they had it hooked

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<v Speaker 2>up to his brain and they saw the same brain

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<v Speaker 2>activity in the monkey's brain that was in the man's

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<v Speaker 2>brain who was opening the nut. And they realized that

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<v Speaker 2>all humans are wired in such a way with mirror

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<v Speaker 2>neurons that I experience your reality by watching you experience it.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is why when a parent gets mad, kids

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<v Speaker 2>can feel that stuff. They can feel that tension. It's

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<v Speaker 2>called a mirror neuron. Here's what was happening while you

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<v Speaker 2>were singing. This is how I fight my battles. Somebody

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<v Speaker 2>out there was going through a battle, but they've been

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<v Speaker 2>feeling like they were losing.

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<v Speaker 1>But God puts you out here as a mirror.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, now, all of a sudden, they didn't feel victorious

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<v Speaker 2>this week. But when they saw you worshiping God, don't

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<v Speaker 2>run from me. I got you by this leather coat.

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<v Speaker 2>When they saw you worshiping God, they didn't feel like

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<v Speaker 2>they had the victory. But while you were shouting the victory. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if you would do that for somebody on

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<v Speaker 2>your row right now. I know you had a hard

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<v Speaker 2>week too, But magnify the Lord with me.

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<v Speaker 1>Let us exalt his name together. If you don't have

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<v Speaker 1>faith today, borrow mine. You are gonna make it. I said.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's called mirror neurons.

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<v Speaker 2>And just as contagious as faith is, so is cynicism.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you got cynical people holding up your mirror,

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<v Speaker 2>you'll always feel small. You'll always feel smaller than your child,

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<v Speaker 2>smaller than your giant, smaller than your addiction, because you're

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<v Speaker 2>not looking at your God. But when your maker is

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<v Speaker 2>your mirror. Three forty four, three forty five, three forty six,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm still counting. God's not done yet. His mercies are

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<v Speaker 2>new with every rising up the sun. He who began

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<v Speaker 2>a good work in me, will be faithful to complete it.

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<v Speaker 2>One thing about a mirror, it always shows you the

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<v Speaker 2>image in reverse. God knows how your situation turns out.

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<v Speaker 2>God knows how your story ends. God knows what he

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<v Speaker 2>put in you. When this message flooded into my heart,

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, it's gonna change somebody's life because they've

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<v Speaker 2>just been looking in the wrong mirror, been looking at

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<v Speaker 2>their mistakes. When your mistakes are your mirror, you stay

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<v Speaker 2>on the outside of Canaan, even though you have the

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<v Speaker 2>strength to go in, not because you are small, but

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<v Speaker 2>because you see small. So the spies came back and

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<v Speaker 2>they were like, hey, Moses, Remember Moses has dealt with rejection,

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<v Speaker 2>his whole life, and so a lot of times when

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<v Speaker 2>people don't accept you, it's because they have rejected themselves.

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<v Speaker 2>Not all the time, a lot of times. And this

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<v Speaker 2>is a really important point. Everybody's acceptance is not a

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<v Speaker 2>blessing because the majority might be the wrong mirror. Ten

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<v Speaker 2>out of twelve said we can't go in. Ten out

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<v Speaker 2>of twelve said there.

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<v Speaker 1>To be We went in. This is what they said.

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<v Speaker 2>We went to the land Moses, and they became the

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<v Speaker 2>mirror for the millions of people who had a promise

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<v Speaker 2>from God but hadn't possessed it yet. This is why

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<v Speaker 2>so important who you're around, what you take in, what

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<v Speaker 2>you look at, you become what you behold. So the

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<v Speaker 2>people are giving a report and they're like, it's a

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<v Speaker 2>great place. The valleys are fertile, it's a rich land.

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<v Speaker 2>We brought you back some grapes. Grapes were so big

0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:32.159
<v Speaker 2>they had to carry them on poles. But then they

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<v Speaker 2>stopped looking at God, stopped looking at grapes and started

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<v Speaker 2>talking about giants. And when they looked too much at

0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:44.520
<v Speaker 2>the giants as their mirror, they saw themselves as grasshoppers.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what they said.

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<v Speaker 2>Numbers thirteen thirty three They said, there were the Nephelum,

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<v Speaker 2>the sons of Anak who come from the Nephilum.

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<v Speaker 1>There were giants in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Land, big strong adversary that we would have to dispossess

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<v Speaker 2>to take the land. And we seemed to ourselves, wow,

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<v Speaker 2>like grasshoppers.

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<v Speaker 1>Not to God.

0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:18.600
<v Speaker 2>We seem to ourselves like grasshoppers. Most people see God

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<v Speaker 2>really big. Even those who barely believe in God see

0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:26.800
<v Speaker 2>him really big. It's not how big you see God,

0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:29.760
<v Speaker 2>it's how much you believe that God is in you.

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<v Speaker 2>We seemed to ourselves as grasshoppers, and so we seemed

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<v Speaker 2>to them.

0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:45.159
<v Speaker 1>Our reflection determined our reality. We looked at him. What

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<v Speaker 1>got me about it.

0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.200
<v Speaker 2>Is that they could have seen the exact same situation

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<v Speaker 2>in reverse.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch this. They were like, the giants are too big.

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<v Speaker 2>God promised us the victory, but I guess we can't

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<v Speaker 2>go in because of the size of the giants. Reverse it,

0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:05.840
<v Speaker 2>because God always shows you the image and reverse. So

0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:09.480
<v Speaker 2>it's like this, God has already promised us the victory

0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:10.680
<v Speaker 2>and the.

0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:12.200
<v Speaker 1>Giants are so big.

0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:17.600
<v Speaker 2>If the giants are that big and God has promised

0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:22.200
<v Speaker 2>us the victory, if what is coming against us is

0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:28.159
<v Speaker 2>that great, how much greater must God be within me?

0:28:29.080 --> 0:28:31.480
<v Speaker 1>Greater is he come on and help me?

0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:35.520
<v Speaker 2>That is within me, then he that is in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>The size of my giant is a proof of the

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<v Speaker 2>size of my God.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>If God is letting me experience a challenge this big See,

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<v Speaker 2>God is trying to use your enemies to show you

0:28:56.080 --> 0:29:05.400
<v Speaker 2>how valuable you are in his gigdom. And why would

0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:10.840
<v Speaker 2>you let your enemies hold your mirror? Anyway? Who cares

0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:14.640
<v Speaker 2>what the sons of anac think you look like? That's

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<v Speaker 2>what Caleb said. He was like, shut up, we can

0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:22.240
<v Speaker 2>do it. Hit somebody, say, shut up, I can do it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's in the Bible too. It's in the Bible. Caleb

0:29:24.560 --> 0:29:26.160
<v Speaker 1>said that he says shut up.

0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:29.080
<v Speaker 2>He silenced the people and said, if God is with.

0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:32.400
<v Speaker 1>Us, my maker is my mirror.

0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:36.760
<v Speaker 2>And I always thought it was funny because he's like, hey, Joshua,

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<v Speaker 2>I know you're rolling these little lots around on the

0:29:39.200 --> 0:29:42.200
<v Speaker 2>ground to figure out who lives there. But remember God

0:29:42.240 --> 0:29:45.360
<v Speaker 2>gave me a promise that I would live in the

0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:53.520
<v Speaker 2>high place I want hebron, hebron three thousand feet above

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<v Speaker 2>sea level, above.

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<v Speaker 1>Sea level.

0:30:04.400 --> 0:30:05.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna have to take a month off after I

0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:09.720
<v Speaker 2>appreciate this message. I'm giving you everything I got. You've

0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:13.080
<v Speaker 2>been living a c level. You've been looking in the

0:30:13.120 --> 0:30:16.440
<v Speaker 2>wrong mirror. You've been consulting the mirror for your flesh.

0:30:16.800 --> 0:30:20.720
<v Speaker 2>You put twenty minutes into your makeup today, but you

0:30:20.040 --> 0:30:22.600
<v Speaker 2>didn't you didn't get in this mirror right here.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a mirror too. This is a mirror too.

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<v Speaker 2>You've been struggling over external issues, but what about what's

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<v Speaker 2>in you?

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<v Speaker 1>James said something curious.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, if you listen to the word and don't

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<v Speaker 2>do it, you're like a man who looks at himself

0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:48.520
<v Speaker 2>in a mirror. In the beginning was a word, and

0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:49.840
<v Speaker 2>the word was with God, and the word.

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<v Speaker 1>Was God, My maker is my mirror. So I can't look.

0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:59.239
<v Speaker 2>I can't run around the people who are struggling with

0:30:59.320 --> 0:31:03.600
<v Speaker 2>their own sin of self to determine mine.

0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:08.040
<v Speaker 1>And I can't use the situation either.

0:31:09.360 --> 0:31:12.200
<v Speaker 2>That's why I love Caleb because it's almost like he's lying.

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<v Speaker 2>Come moment, he's eighty five and he's walking. I'm talking

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<v Speaker 2>about I still got it. Now, what mirror are you

0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:28.640
<v Speaker 2>looking at? Look at somebody says I still got it?

0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:31.880
<v Speaker 2>It'll feel good to say it. Too, I still got

0:31:31.920 --> 0:31:36.840
<v Speaker 2>it because I'm not talking about the flesh. I'm talking

0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:40.720
<v Speaker 2>about faith. And the wilderness can do one of two

0:31:40.760 --> 0:31:44.080
<v Speaker 2>things to you. It can kill you or it can

0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:49.240
<v Speaker 2>make you stronger. Caleb said, all that I went through,

0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:54.120
<v Speaker 2>I didn't get bitter. I didn't get the wilderness in me,

0:31:54.720 --> 0:31:58.960
<v Speaker 2>even though I went through the wilderness. In fact, everything

0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:01.800
<v Speaker 2>I went through over the last four and a half

0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:05.200
<v Speaker 2>decades only serve to convince me.

0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:08.280
<v Speaker 1>That much more that I still got it.

0:32:08.800 --> 0:32:11.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean, if God promised it to be back then

0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:15.800
<v Speaker 2>and saw me through all this, I don't want to

0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:19.800
<v Speaker 2>live at the level of feelings. You settle too low.

0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:23.000
<v Speaker 2>You settle for what you see, You settle for what

0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:26.640
<v Speaker 2>people say. You settle for old templates, you settle for

0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:31.200
<v Speaker 2>old scripts, you settle for emotions. When you're stated in

0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:35.240
<v Speaker 2>heavenly places with Jesus, you got to settle up.

0:32:35.520 --> 0:32:37.120
<v Speaker 1>You gotta get up above what.

0:32:37.040 --> 0:32:40.280
<v Speaker 2>You see, above what you feel, and above what you've

0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:40.800
<v Speaker 2>been through.

0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:46.480
<v Speaker 1>He said, I want to live.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to live where the blessings are. I want

0:32:52.320 --> 0:32:56.000
<v Speaker 4>to live where the battles are. You can't have a

0:32:56.080 --> 0:33:05.800
<v Speaker 4>victory without a battle. God is raising you up right now.

0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:12.360
<v Speaker 4>He's doing it through a process. The level you will

0:33:12.360 --> 0:33:17.160
<v Speaker 4>settle on is the level that you see yourself. And

0:33:17.240 --> 0:33:21.040
<v Speaker 4>it makes me so sad to think of how many

0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:24.360
<v Speaker 4>times that you and I have gone to the wrong mirrors,

0:33:25.960 --> 0:33:29.760
<v Speaker 4>and so we see a grasshopper when we're really a giant,

0:33:38.240 --> 0:33:39.800
<v Speaker 4>When we see a failure.

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<v Speaker 2>When really it was a lesson, when we see what's

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<v Speaker 2>missing because we can only see through the filter of

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<v Speaker 2>our fear. God said, let us make man in our image,

0:33:57.800 --> 0:34:03.240
<v Speaker 2>in our likeness. You are not my maker. You will

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:10.239
<v Speaker 2>not be my mirror. When God said I Am to Moses,

0:34:10.840 --> 0:34:14.440
<v Speaker 2>you know my name is I Am, he was trying

0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:22.080
<v Speaker 2>to get in to see you are as I am.

0:34:22.320 --> 0:34:26.160
<v Speaker 2>That's what a mirror does. God says, I want to

0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:32.319
<v Speaker 2>see myself in you. When God sees you, he sees himself.

0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:37.000
<v Speaker 2>He sees his son. Christ is the image of the

0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:40.600
<v Speaker 2>invisible God, and if he is in you, he is

0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:42.480
<v Speaker 2>more than the world against you.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to pray for a few hundred people today.

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<v Speaker 2>You will know who you are if the message resonated

0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:57.080
<v Speaker 2>with you in a personal way.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's this. You've been going to the wrong mirror.

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<v Speaker 2>You've been consulting physical, natural, relational, elements incomplete fragmented elements,

0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:10.759
<v Speaker 2>and you don't know who you are right now, and

0:35:10.800 --> 0:35:12.560
<v Speaker 2>you're stuck between two realities.

0:35:13.600 --> 0:35:18.200
<v Speaker 1>The message God gave me was your Maker is your mirror.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know what's beautiful. You're his.

0:35:26.040 --> 0:35:30.800
<v Speaker 2>He wants to use you to reflect himself to the world,

0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:34.200
<v Speaker 2>and so he's gonna give you some stuff.

0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:35.840
<v Speaker 1>Some of it's gonna.

0:35:35.560 --> 0:35:38.000
<v Speaker 2>Be giants in front of you, some of it's gonna

0:35:38.000 --> 0:35:39.279
<v Speaker 2>be giants inside of you.

0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:41.400
<v Speaker 1>David was good at killing.

0:35:41.160 --> 0:35:43.480
<v Speaker 2>Giants as long as they were standing in front of him.

0:35:43.680 --> 0:35:45.600
<v Speaker 2>It was the ones within him that took him out.

0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:48.680
<v Speaker 2>Some of them are gonna be short term, some of

0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:50.759
<v Speaker 2>them are gonna be long term. If you go to

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<v Speaker 2>the wrong mirror, you'll always feel small.

0:35:53.239 --> 0:35:56.319
<v Speaker 5>But if you will learn how to worship and get

0:35:56.320 --> 0:35:59.279
<v Speaker 5>in the word of God and believe the promise that

0:35:59.360 --> 0:36:03.680
<v Speaker 5>He spoke for your life and get in this mirror, you.

0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:06.279
<v Speaker 2>Are not going to win over insecurity. Looking in the

0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:09.480
<v Speaker 2>mirror of Instagram, it is only going to show you

0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:12.240
<v Speaker 2>what you're not, what you can, and what you want.

0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:15.040
<v Speaker 2>But if you get in this mirror, I'm telling you

0:36:15.080 --> 0:36:17.800
<v Speaker 2>the word of God can do something for your spirit.

0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:21.160
<v Speaker 2>It can make you stronger in your spirit than your

0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:22.839
<v Speaker 2>enemies are in your situation.

0:36:24.760 --> 0:36:26.799
<v Speaker 1>Now stand up on your feet. I want to pray

0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:29.879
<v Speaker 1>with you. I want to pray with you. I want

0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:32.960
<v Speaker 1>to prophesy over you. I don't want anyone moving or leaving.

0:36:33.680 --> 0:36:36.440
<v Speaker 2>The Lord said that this word would hit deep for

0:36:36.480 --> 0:36:40.280
<v Speaker 2>the ones who needed it. Have been seeing themselves, according

0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:44.080
<v Speaker 2>to past experiences, have been looking in a rear view

0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:47.040
<v Speaker 2>mirror at something that happened, and are about to wreck

0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:50.680
<v Speaker 2>in the face of their future. And he said that

0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:56.800
<v Speaker 2>today he wanted to give you a different mirror, different mirror.

0:36:59.000 --> 0:37:02.600
<v Speaker 1>Caleb said, I'm not just settling for my lot in life.

0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:05.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm not just settling for depression.

0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:08.279
<v Speaker 2>I was hesitant to preach the message because I thought

0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:10.960
<v Speaker 2>people would hear it like it was some you know,

0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:16.400
<v Speaker 2>God give me my BMW, you know, God make me famous.

0:37:17.160 --> 0:37:20.000
<v Speaker 2>That's not what Caleb said. He said, I want the challenge.

0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:23.720
<v Speaker 2>I want the altitude. I want the opportunity to prove

0:37:23.800 --> 0:37:26.920
<v Speaker 2>God again. I want to live at the high place.

0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:30.880
<v Speaker 2>I want to be my higher self. I'm still strong.

0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:34.600
<v Speaker 1>I still got it. I still got it.

0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:38.960
<v Speaker 2>My faith went through testing forty five years and I survived.

0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:41.799
<v Speaker 2>I still got it. I'm not ashamed of what I

0:37:41.880 --> 0:37:44.960
<v Speaker 2>went through. It proves that God was with me. I

0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:46.160
<v Speaker 2>still got it.

0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:56.319
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for your word, Lord, It shows us who

0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:56.640
<v Speaker 1>we are.

0:37:57.960 --> 0:38:00.359
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for worship where we can reflect you, where

0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:03.400
<v Speaker 2>we can behold your glory.

0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:07.399
<v Speaker 1>Close your eyes, visualize.

0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:13.040
<v Speaker 2>The king told Elisha that he would strike the ground

0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:17.760
<v Speaker 2>three times. Elisha said you, you've got to see the victory.

0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:20.960
<v Speaker 2>Before you see the victory, open the east window and shoot.

0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:25.000
<v Speaker 1>It's the first creation is You got to.

0:38:25.000 --> 0:38:29.760
<v Speaker 2>Be able to see yourself made of dust but touched

0:38:29.800 --> 0:38:31.040
<v Speaker 2>with divinity.

0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:33.520
<v Speaker 1>You got to see.

0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:38.080
<v Speaker 2>Yourself free, even though you don't feel free, even though

0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:40.479
<v Speaker 2>you still keep running back to lesser stuff. You gotta

0:38:40.560 --> 0:38:44.000
<v Speaker 2>know you got a higher purpose and a greater name.

0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:47.320
<v Speaker 2>I wish you would lift your hands in His presence,

0:38:47.320 --> 0:38:49.799
<v Speaker 2>wherever you are. I wish you would lift them high

0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:52.279
<v Speaker 2>and surrender. I wish you would lift them like the

0:38:52.280 --> 0:38:54.960
<v Speaker 2>burden has been rolled away, and begin to sing. I'm

0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:58.279
<v Speaker 2>gonna see a victory. I'm gonna see a victory. I

0:38:58.440 --> 0:39:02.080
<v Speaker 2>shall see it, gonna see it in my spirit. I'm

0:39:02.120 --> 0:39:04.960
<v Speaker 2>gonna see it in my heart. I'm gonna see it.

0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:09.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna see deliverance. I'm gonna see the red Sea part.

0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:13.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna see the mountains mooth. I'm gonna see.

0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:16.120
<v Speaker 3>It come to pass in my blood line. I'm gonna

0:39:16.200 --> 0:39:19.560
<v Speaker 3>see it. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna have the

0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:23.200
<v Speaker 3>joy of the Lord. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna

0:39:23.239 --> 0:39:26.840
<v Speaker 3>fulfill it. I'm gonna walk in it. I'm gonna receive it.

0:39:27.200 --> 0:39:30.360
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna prove it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna

0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:33.719
<v Speaker 3>make it. I'm gonna sound it, I'm gonna declare it.

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