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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to my family real quick. You

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Speaker 1: might not know who I am. My name is Tim Summers,

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Speaker 1: and I get the opportunity to be the youth pastor

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Speaker 1: here at Elevation Church. And that's my beautiful family, my

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Speaker 1: gorgeous wife, that's my queen. She got me buzzing. And

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Speaker 1: that's my big boy Brodi. He's thirteen years old. I

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Speaker 1: know I don't look that old. Thank you, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: And then I got my little three year old Genesis.

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Speaker 1: I know you say that now, and I want you

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Speaker 1: to look at you a real quick say, I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad I'm sitting next to you. Okay, pick your second choice.

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Speaker 1: Look at your second choice. Let them know I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad I'm sitting next to you too. Come on you see,

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Speaker 1: let them know, let them know you could find your

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Speaker 1: way to your seat. So honored to be able to

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Speaker 1: be here. It wasn't last week. Absolutely incredible. It was amazing.

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Speaker 1: And I know what you're thinking, Bishop TD Jakes, Jim,

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Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay. I'm not judging you, all right,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna be in the Book of Matthew. Everyone say, Matthew,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be very interactive. I'm a youth pastor.

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Speaker 1: I understand the attention span. Okay, I understand it. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you four verses today. Okay,

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Speaker 1: four verse, says Matthew. Chapter three, verses thirteen through seventeen.

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Speaker 1: It says this, Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, God's always on the move.

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Speaker 1: They don't know what's about to Giddo. Then Jesus came

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Speaker 1: from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.

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Speaker 1: But John tried to deter him, saying, I need to

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Speaker 1: be baptized by you. Why are you coming to me? Pleyah,

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Speaker 1: Jesus replied, let it be so. Now. Everyone say now

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Speaker 1: come on, everyone say now it is proper for us

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Speaker 1: to do this to fulfill all righteousness. And then John

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Speaker 1: consented it as soon as Jesus was baptized. He went

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Speaker 1: up out of the water, and at the moment, heaven

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Speaker 1: was opened, and he saw the spirit of God descending

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Speaker 1: like a dove, alighting on him. In a voice from

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Speaker 1: heaven said, this is my son, whom I loved, and

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Speaker 1: with him, I am well pleased. I want you to

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Speaker 1: look at your neighbor real quick, and I want you

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Speaker 1: to tell him the title of my message. I want

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Speaker 1: you to say thank you next, thank you next. Now,

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Speaker 1: if this was a youth service, i'd hit that ariana

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Speaker 1: grande instrumental right now. But since it ain't, I'm still

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Speaker 1: going to hit it. Get it, Okay, you stop. I

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Speaker 1: can already hear the YouTube comments flying right now online.

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Speaker 1: How dare them? You know, the Summer's House likes to

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Speaker 1: have a lot of fun. Okay, maybe a little too

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Speaker 1: much fun every once in a while, hens you TV,

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Speaker 1: But we really like to have a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: And if I'm honest with you, the fun happens around

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Speaker 1: dinner time. Okay. Now, we're not this perfect fan like

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Speaker 1: confetti and everyone's just happy. No, it's not like that whatsoever. However,

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Speaker 1: we do like to have fun. Now, you got to

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Speaker 1: like you know Ariana Grande, like dancing. My three year

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Speaker 1: old is like, oh, like his dance move is like this.

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Speaker 1: talking about My son always looks at me and he's like, Daddy,

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Speaker 1: like we're gonna have a cookie, We're gonna have some candy,

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Speaker 1: She's like, no, son, you got to make a happy plate. Now,

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Speaker 1: happy plate is an empty plate. And if you make

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Speaker 1: And uh like, hey mom, can I have some cake? No? Son, sorry,

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Speaker 1: Now here's what you gotta understand. He started doing this

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Speaker 1: give me like a we're working on self control right now. No, no, right,

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Speaker 1: going from Galilee to your Jordan. He's going from Galilee

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Speaker 1: It's a one hundred percent guarantee that God is going

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Speaker 1: to do something beneficial in your life. There's no if

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Speaker 1: my job. And when He blesses me, when he takes

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Speaker 1: do I say? Thank you Jesus, What an honor. I

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Speaker 1: knew that if I made this decision right now, that

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Speaker 1: take care of me, that you are gonna let me down.

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Speaker 1: And even though it took two years, I would love

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Speaker 1: to be in this position rather than my own plan.

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Speaker 1: If I could have everyone standing in this moment. I

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Speaker 1: want to give people the opportunity to come into a

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Speaker 1: relationship with Jesus Christ right now, because for some of you,

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Speaker 1: you've been waiting on what's next. And it's not bad

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Speaker 1: to plan, it's not bad to be organized, it's not

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Speaker 1: bad to be a forward thinker. But when it becomes

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Speaker 1: the priority, you're preventing everything that God has for you

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Speaker 1: and wants for you, wants for your family, wants for

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Speaker 1: your marriage, wants for your soul, and for your spirit.

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Speaker 1: I think there are many people in this room and

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Speaker 1: across all the locations on EPHAM right now in online

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Speaker 1: who you're saying. You know what. I'm ready right now

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Speaker 1: because this is it. What's next? Now? What's next? Now?

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Speaker 1: That's all you will ever be given. And when you

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Speaker 1: see God do something over and over in your life,

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Speaker 1: you'll realize it's because you could steward now. You could

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Speaker 1: steward it with every head bow and every eye closed.

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Speaker 1: Anyone who wants to come into a right relationship with

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I want you to pray this prayer along

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Speaker 1: with me, and as a church family, we're going to

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Speaker 1: pray it together. And so I want you to say this, say,

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Speaker 1: dear Jesus, I thank you for who you are. I

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Speaker 1: thank you for who the Bible says that you are.

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Speaker 1: I believe that you died on the cross, you rose

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Speaker 1: head bow and every eye close. At all locations on

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Speaker 1: the counter. Three. If you just pray that prayer right

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Speaker 1: now and you're saying, you know what, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: worry about what's next. I know that in this moment

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Speaker 1: is the moment that I want to make the most

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Speaker 1: out of it. You pray that prayer for the very

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Speaker 1: first time on the counter. Three, I want you to

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Speaker 1: raise your hand. One. Don't worry about next. Two no hesitation,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, no fear. Three, come on, raise your hands.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's give it up. Everyone raising their hands

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Speaker 1: making a decision right now at every location it come on.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Special things to those of

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Speaker 1: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of

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Speaker 1: you that this ministry is possible. You can click the

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Speaker 1: link in the description to give now, or visit Elevationchurch

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