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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving.

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Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message. So I thought we

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Speaker 1: would call on Moses.

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Speaker 2: If we're talking about faith, he certainly deserves to be heard.

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Speaker 1: As to how he did what he did.

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Speaker 2: And I chose a selection in Exodus four one through five,

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Speaker 2: and I want to read it to you.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Let's go over and see Moses on the far side

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Speaker 2: of the desert and Midian, the voice of God has

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Speaker 2: summoned him from the crackling of a bush that will

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Speaker 2: not burn, but is on fire. And I think that's

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Speaker 2: a picture of a life that is set on fire

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Speaker 2: by faith, is that it burns up but it doesn't

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Speaker 2: and out. And now he's negotiating with God and he says,

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Speaker 2: an exodus for one.

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Speaker 1: What if.

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Speaker 2: They do not believe me or listen to me and say,

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Speaker 2: the Lord did not appear to you. And then the

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Speaker 2: Lord said to him, and what's that in your hand?

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Speaker 1: Staff?

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Speaker 2: He answered? The Lord said throw it down on the ground.

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Speaker 2: And Moses threw it on the ground. It became a snake,

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Speaker 2: and he ran from it. Somebody say, smart guy. Well

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Speaker 2: then the Lord said to him, reach out your hand

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Speaker 2: and take it by the tail. So Moses reached out,

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Speaker 2: took hold of the snake, and it turned back into

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Speaker 2: a staff in his hand. This said the Lord, is

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Speaker 2: so that they may believe the Lord, the God of

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Speaker 2: their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,

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Speaker 2: and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you. I

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Speaker 2: really want to live.

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Speaker 1: Verse four.

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Speaker 2: The Lord said to him, reach out your hand and

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Speaker 2: take it by the tail. So Moses reached out, took

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Speaker 2: hold of the snake, and it turned back into a

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Speaker 2: staff in his hand. I need your help for one

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Speaker 2: moment before you take your seat, and I need you

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Speaker 2: to announce my message title to your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: So put your hand on their shoulder.

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Speaker 2: Get their attention, and when you give them my title

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Speaker 2: in a moment, I want you to holler at him

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Speaker 2: when you give.

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Speaker 1: Them my title.

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to whisper it, mumble it, suggest it.

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Speaker 1: I want you to command it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, tell your neighbor, say neighbor, I don't know what

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Speaker 2: you're going through.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're dealing with. But God told me.

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Speaker 2: To tell you handle it. That's my nigh kid, fight

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Speaker 2: your other neighbors, say neighbor, other neighbor.

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Speaker 1: You were my second choice.

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Speaker 2: Don't be offended, but just know that God wanted me

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Speaker 2: to tell you handle it.

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Speaker 1: Amen, clap your hands. You may be seated.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Worship team. Don't we have fun together? Don't

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Speaker 2: we have a good time?

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Speaker 1: Amen? Look at this because.

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Speaker 2: If you can have a flashback with me from when

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Speaker 2: Tom Hanks was on that island alone and he he

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Speaker 2: had to make friends with a volleyball. Now, those of

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Speaker 2: you who are participating in this portion of the sermon

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Speaker 2: are old.

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Speaker 1: I know only five of y'all would remember this reference.

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Speaker 2: But in the movie Castaway, where Tom Hanks had been

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Speaker 2: alone so long that his only companion was a volleyball,

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Speaker 2: and he called the volleyball.

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Speaker 1: What Wilson.

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Speaker 2: And they did a good job with that movie that

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Speaker 2: remember it as a character. You know, you can become

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Speaker 2: so attached to something inanimate that it becomes lifelike to you.

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Speaker 2: Exhibit a right. I remember when I first asked Chris Brown,

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Speaker 2: I was like, you think I should get an iPhone.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I don't think I would. I

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Speaker 2: don't think I would use it very much. Yeah right,

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Speaker 2: I just didn't know what it was capable of. Moses

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Speaker 1: In his hand in Exodus chapter.

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Speaker 2: And by the time God gets through showing Moses what

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Speaker 2: that staff can do, Mose, I wonder.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if he got.

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Speaker 2: So attached to the staff that he ever gave it

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Speaker 2: a name. Do you think do you think he called it?

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Speaker 2: What do you think he called it? I think he

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Speaker 2: called it rod.

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Speaker 1: Even.

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Speaker 2: I feel a connection to my microphone, this particular microphone.

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Speaker 2: When I go preach other places and they give me

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Speaker 2: another mic it takes me like five minutes to get

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Speaker 2: it right in my hands because this one. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I know this microphone, I know how to handle it,

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Speaker 2: and I like having this microphone. I can control certain

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Speaker 1: I really like it.

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Speaker 2: When I want to preach. When I want to preach

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Speaker 2: like I'm Drake, I can grab it up here. It's

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Speaker 2: not the professional way to hold it. My sound guys

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Speaker 2: hate that when I do that, but they put a

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Speaker 2: special thing on it because they know I do it,

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Speaker 2: so it doesn't make all this feedback. But anyway, it's

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Speaker 1: It's see.

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Speaker 2: You can tell I have a close relationship because I

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Speaker 2: gave it a name. I call it Mike. That's how

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Speaker 2: close we are. Okay, I'll stop now. But in Exodus

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Speaker 2: chapter four, Moses he's getting acquainted with his staff. He's

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Speaker 2: getting to know God and he's getting to know Rod,

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Speaker 2: all in the same scene. And I like it because, well,

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Speaker 2: I know something Moses doesn't know about what that thing

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Speaker 2: this staff, that will become, in many ways so much

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Speaker 2: he feel like it was a part of him.

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Speaker 1: I know what this staff is going to do at

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Speaker 1: the Red Sea.

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Speaker 2: I know that when the Egyptians are chasing Moses and

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Speaker 2: of Egypt, that that Moses is going to stretch that

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Speaker 2: staff over that sea, and the right side of the

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Speaker 2: sea is going to tell the left side of the sea.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you in a little while. We got to

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Speaker 1: split up for a minute.

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Speaker 2: I'll meet you back when the Egyptians hit the water,

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Speaker 2: because we're going to drown them.

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Speaker 1: But we've got a part for God's people.

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Speaker 2: How many know that God will direct the elements on

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Speaker 2: your behalf when you walk in in faith.

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Speaker 1: I found that to be true in my life.

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Speaker 2: But but that was the staff that Moses stretched, That

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Speaker 2: was the sea he stretched it over.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know this yet, we do.

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Speaker 2: So I'm really interested because I feel like I feel

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Speaker 2: many different times in the scripture. I saw it one

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Speaker 2: time when Pharaoh wouldn't let the people go, and God

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Speaker 2: told Moses, you know, take your staff and stretch it

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Speaker 2: And when you strike that river, it's going to turn

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Speaker 2: from water to blood, and that'll compel Pharaoh to give

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Speaker 2: a second thought to keeping you inslaved. And he did that,

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Speaker 2: and the water turned to blood. That staff, it's the

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Speaker 2: same staff that's in chapter four. It's the same staff

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Speaker 2: in chapter seven when he does he strikes the nile,

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Speaker 2: turns the blood. Then he strikes the bloody nile, and

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Speaker 2: cover the land of Egypt. And it was that same

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Speaker 2: seven he struck the nile, turned the blood, struck the

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Speaker 2: nile again, frogs came out. Then he struck the ground,

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Speaker 2: out of the dust. And so all this is happening

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Speaker 2: intrigued to know how did it start? And I'm intrigued

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Speaker 2: to know that it started with a staff. I'm intrigued

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Speaker 2: because that same staff when the people of God we're

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Speaker 2: them enough to make sure they don't die. Aren't you

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Speaker 2: grateful for God's patience with you. Well, he took the

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Speaker 1: It in the right way, it did something.

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Speaker 2: It was cool and water came out of the rock

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Speaker 1: And so so.

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Speaker 2: I want to learn everything I can about this staff.

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Speaker 2: I saw Moses fight against the Amalekites. Well, he didn't

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Speaker 2: the Israelites were victorious on the battlefield. Often it's the

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Speaker 1: But it was the staff in his hands. It was

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Speaker 1: the staff in his hands.

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Speaker 2: Tell somebody next to you, there's a staff in your hands.

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Speaker 2: And what's cool about it is that there are many

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Speaker 2: lessons that we can learn and we don't even have

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Speaker 1: We can just learn them for our everyday lives.

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Speaker 2: And the first thing that I think the staff is

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Speaker 2: saying to us in this message today is that everything

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Speaker 2: you need is within reach. Moses, in response to God's calling.

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Speaker 2: I feel the spirit of God on me today to

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Speaker 2: preach this message, by the way, so you ought to

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Speaker 2: be excited about what you're going to receive.

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Speaker 1: He continues the.

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Speaker 2: Conversation with God after God shows him who he is

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Speaker 2: with the phrase that I preached the whole series around

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Speaker 2: one time, and the phrase is what if? Verse one.

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Speaker 2: Moses answered, what if? Do you know how many dreams

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Speaker 2: have died beneath the weight of that phrase? What if?

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Speaker 2: What if is a It's a phrase that I like

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Speaker 2: to refer to as fierce greatest hit.

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Speaker 1: What if? What if? I mean, how many things in.

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Speaker 2: Your life did you not do because what if? And

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Speaker 2: how many things in your life did you do that

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Speaker 2: you shouldn't have done because what if? How many nights

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Speaker 1: But what if? Kept you awake.

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Speaker 2: How many mornings did you wake up anxious? Because what

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Speaker 1: What if not? Just what if?

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Speaker 2: it in a cradle. And if the cradle isn't enough proof,

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Speaker 2: he proves it on the cross, when he defeats death

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Speaker 2: with the very instrument that symbolizes its most violent nature.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't feed death with the tank, he doesn't defeat

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Speaker 2: death with the sword. He defeats death with a cross.

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Speaker 2: Because God has a strange way of handling your situation.

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Speaker 2: And so he's handling it and you don't even know

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Speaker 2: he's handling it because you've never seen it handled like

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Speaker 2: that before.

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Speaker 1: He tells you to turn the other cheek, and.

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Speaker 2: Usually you're the one turning someone's cheek when they offend you.

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Speaker 2: And God said, no, I got another way to handle it,

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Speaker 2: to handle it. Can you handle it? Can you handle

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Speaker 2: it and see what started as the thing that Moses

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Speaker 2: feared a snake became the very thing that Moses needed

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Speaker 2: a staff.

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Speaker 1: Let me work on that.

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Speaker 2: The first time I did ministry was in a church

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Speaker 2: called Santi Circle Community Church. Now, my first church was

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Speaker 2: in the Methodist Church in Mook's Corner where I grew up.

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Speaker 2: Mickey made me his youth minister, and he would put

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Speaker 2: me in this little room in the Woodmen of the

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Speaker 2: World Building. This is on the outskirts of Monk's Corner,

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Speaker 2: South Carolina, on the outskirts of Monk's Corner, South Carolina

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Speaker 2: in the Women of the World Building.

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Speaker 1: And I was reliving this with some of our team

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Speaker 1: this week.

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Speaker 2: We have an apprenticeship program at the church called two

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Speaker 2: teaching forum.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I was doing a teaching forum this past week and

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Speaker 2: they said, you are good at connecting with different types

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Speaker 2: of people people, white people, old people, young people, religious people,

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Speaker 2: not religious people.

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Speaker 1: How do you do that?

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Speaker 2: I said, you got to go back to the Woodmen

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Speaker 2: of the World Building to understand that. In the Woodmen

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Speaker 2: of the World Building, I had these kids, about fifteen kids.

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Speaker 2: They would bring in, most of them on vans, and

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Speaker 2: me and Anne Johnson and Miss Delilah.

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Speaker 1: That was the lady's named Delilah. Miss Delilah. We get

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Speaker 1: the kids over on.

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Speaker 2: The vans, and many of them came from really a

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Speaker 2: low income part of town, and so they would come

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Speaker 2: in and white kids, black kids, but most of them

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Speaker 2: only came for food, and so they came over and

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Speaker 2: just wanted something to do. And that's who I started

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Speaker 2: preaching to. So you think it intimidates me, if you

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Speaker 2: sit with your arms crossed. I started with much worse

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Speaker 2: than you. I started in a room full of snakes.

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Speaker 1: I can deal with it. I can handle it, so

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Speaker 1: I said.

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Speaker 2: But I had a balance because if I wasn't interesting,

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Speaker 2: a fight would break out.

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Speaker 1: So I had to like it moving.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if they got bored, they got violent, and

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Speaker 2: so you know, I'm over here working on my Bible text.

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Speaker 2: I'd only been reading my Bible for a couple of months,

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Speaker 2: so I didn't know a lot about the Bible yet.

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Speaker 2: So I was just making stuff up out of the

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Speaker 2: Bible the best I could.

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Speaker 1: I was sixteen, y'all. So there was one kid in the.

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Speaker 2: Group called Matthew Johnson, Matthew Johnson, and he was like

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Speaker 2: he was thirteen, but he had been in Bible school

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Speaker 2: all his life.

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Speaker 1: The kid's Bible, this Bible nerd. His mom had taken

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Speaker 1: him to every vacation.

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Speaker 2: Bible school in the Charleston metro area all of his life.

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Speaker 1: He had like nine weeks of Bible school every summer under.

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Speaker 2: His belt vacation Bible school. So if I got something wrong,

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Speaker 2: Matthew would stand up and correct me. In the middle

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Speaker 2: of the Wednesday night class one night, I came in

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Speaker 2: preaching about the woman with the issue of blood. And

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Speaker 2: I hadn't studied it, but I thought I knew what

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Speaker 2: it meant. And I said, this woman came to Jesus

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Speaker 2: and she was bleeding. Her face was just covered in blood.

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Speaker 2: Somebody must have beat her out I don't know who

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Speaker 2: got a hold of her, but she's bleeding. Matthew stood up,

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Speaker 2: said it was an internal issue of blood Steven thirteen

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Speaker 2: year old. But then on the other end of the spectrum,

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Speaker 2: if I was accurate but not interesting.

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Speaker 1: Then those kids didn't care.

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Speaker 2: So one night a fight broke out in the middle

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Speaker 2: of my teaching and I just walked out, walked out

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Speaker 2: the building, shut the door on that little twenty five

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Speaker 2: dollars a week they were paying me to teach that class.

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Speaker 2: And I sat under a tree and I was like, Jonah,

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Speaker 2: if you ever heard of Jonah in the Bible, he

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Speaker 2: sat under a tree and prayed that he might die

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Speaker 2: so he wouldn't have to preach to the Ninovites.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, Lord, you kill I'd rather you

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Speaker 1: kill me than go.

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Speaker 2: Back in there with these kids, because I'm gonna kill them,

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Speaker 2: and I'd rather be dead than in prison.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna sit out here till you show me

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Speaker 1: what to do.

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Speaker 2: After about ten minutes of this, Ryan who was like

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Speaker 2: the biggest kid in the group who came in on

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Speaker 2: the van, Ryan came over and Ryan really liked me.

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Speaker 1: And Ryan came over to the tree and he.

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Speaker 2: Said, Yo, see, I want you to know something that

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Speaker 2: as long as you need to stay out here and

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Speaker 2: get yourself together, it's cool because I just had to

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Speaker 2: talk with everybody in this room, and I want you

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Speaker 2: to know when you come back in is handle. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what he said to those kids. I don't

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Speaker 2: even want to know. But when I went back in

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Speaker 2: that room, it was like an Episcopalian church on a

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Speaker 2: Sunday morning.

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Speaker 1: It was like a Catholic Mass.

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Speaker 2: Those kids were leaned forward in their chair. Why because

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Speaker 2: he handled it. I don't even know how buddy handled it.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had a situation in your life where

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Speaker 2: you were throwing a petty party and didn't want to

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Speaker 2: go back in and didn't want to try again, and

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Speaker 2: had taken off from Egypt and didn't even want to

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Speaker 2: face your future because.

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Speaker 1: Of the paint of your pass.

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Speaker 2: But here comes Jesus walking up to you on the

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Speaker 2: second road today on the fourth row at the Gaston campus,

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Speaker 2: walking up to you on an iPhone street, wants.

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Speaker 1: To let you know, whenever you get ready to come

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Speaker 1: back in and do what I've called you to do,

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Speaker 1: come on back in. Its handled.

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Speaker 2: Somebody set his handle, set his handle's handled. God told Moses,

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Speaker 2: you can go back to Egypt, because everybody who wanted

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Speaker 2: to kill you is dead. While you were out here

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Speaker 2: in Egypt, I was dealing with your issues.

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Speaker 1: And his handle touch. Three people say, is handle, is handle?

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Speaker 1: Is handle. God wants you to know.

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Speaker 2: Shame can't keep you at bay anymore because what Jesus

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Speaker 2: was doing on that cross when they thought that he

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Speaker 2: was dying, he wasn't dying. He was delivering you from

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Speaker 2: the power of sitting death and was held against me,

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Speaker 2: was nailed to his cross. And I'm standing here today

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Speaker 2: with my hands stretched.

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Speaker 1: High, with my hand held high, with my shoulders.

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Speaker 2: Strown back, blidly approached.

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Speaker 1: The throne with confidence in the time of my need.

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Speaker 1: Because it's handle, it's handled.

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Speaker 2: I feel the sphirit of Olivia Pupe coming on me.

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Speaker 2: Somebody shot his handles.

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Speaker 1: It's handle.

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Speaker 2: That's what Ryan said. He said, is handle. When you

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Speaker 2: get ready to come back in, you need to know

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Speaker 2: his handle. When you get ready to go into your future,

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Speaker 2: you need to know his handle.

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Speaker 1: Somebody shot his handle, is handled, his handle, his handle,

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Speaker 1: his handle.

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Speaker 2: I love that Bible verse in Philippians four thirteen, where

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Speaker 2: Paul is talking about I know what to do in

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Speaker 2: any situation. If I have a little, if I have

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Speaker 2: a lot, I can handle it. Because he says, there

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Speaker 2: is a famous Bible verse. Have you heard this before?

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Speaker 1: He said, Christ can do all things through me. Did

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Speaker 1: I mess it up? And must because I'm tired from

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Speaker 1: the race.

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Speaker 2: I must have got a little of that champagne absorbed

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Speaker 2: in my body at the at the race.

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Speaker 1: Let me try again.

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Speaker 2: Christ can do because because He's gonna handle it right,

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Speaker 2: Christ can do all things through me. God's gonna handle it.

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Speaker 2: Huh oh, he wants to help you handle it. Here's

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Speaker 2: how God showed me. He said, I will handle what

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Speaker 2: you can't, but I will not handle what you want.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: I handle your sin. You can't handle that. A hand

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Speaker 2: your past, you can't handle that. But he told Moses,

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Speaker 2: let me show you one more things. So now he

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Speaker 2: told Moses, somebody shot handled handled. He told Moses, he said.

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Speaker 1: Pick it up. Now it's not a staff anymore in

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Speaker 1: this moment, it's a snake. So what does Moses do?

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Speaker 1: He does what you do with your fears, and he runs.

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Speaker 1: Did you see it in the text? He said, what

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Speaker 1: verse was it?

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Speaker 2: Was it three?

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Speaker 1: Where he ran was it three get and he ran

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Speaker 1: from it.

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Speaker 5: That's the same thing that he did when he killed

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Speaker 5: the man in Egypt. He's learned to run. He's learned

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Speaker 5: to run, and God won't handle what you run from.

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Speaker 1: So he runs. Can y'all hear me? Okay in the back?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I know what I should do, because this thing

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Speaker 2: only works in my hand. This is a good sermon

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Speaker 2: for your life, for your marriage, for your soul, for

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Speaker 2: any situation. God tells him to reach for the thing

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Speaker 2: that he's been running from, and as he reaches, watch this.

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Speaker 5: As he reaches, the staff changes back into a staff

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Speaker 5: from us as he reaches.

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Speaker 2: We got to work on this, y'all weren't paying attention.

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Speaker 2: Go to four Go to four seventeen, Exitus four seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I'm almost done. I will hasten to a close. Well.

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Speaker 2: He told him to go l jay, he said, but

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Speaker 2: take this staff. Everybody shout, come on, shout the phrases

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Speaker 2: inbolded orange letters for a reason. Take the staff. Hit

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Speaker 2: me with twenty real quick. I think it's twenty. So

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Speaker 2: Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey,

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Speaker 2: and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff

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Speaker 2: of God. Next verse, when he was confronting Pharaoh, he said,

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Speaker 2: go out and confront him on the bank of the now,

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Speaker 2: and take the staff that was changed into a snake.

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Speaker 2: You see in a pattern. I keep going next verse

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Speaker 2: until you all see it. When they were standing in

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Speaker 2: front of the Red Sea, he said, raise your staff

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Speaker 2: and stretch out your right right. It's got to be

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Speaker 2: in your it's got to be in your Go to

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Speaker 2: the next verse. What's the next verse. Oh, that's when

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Speaker 2: they were That's when they were going out, and he

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Speaker 2: was going out ahead of the people, and he said,

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Speaker 2: take in your hand the staff with which you struck

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Speaker 2: the nile. Here's here's the interesting thing, and this is

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Speaker 2: what the Lord wanted you to know. His situation was changing.

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Speaker 2: But the same staff that got him through the last

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Speaker 2: one worked in the next one when he had it

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Speaker 2: in his hand. The only time that Moses got in

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Speaker 2: trouble with his staff is when he struck the rock

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Speaker 2: that God told him to speak to, and he didn't

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Speaker 2: enter the Promised Land because he didn't know how to

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Speaker 2: handle what was in his hand. You get in trouble

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Speaker 2: when you try to handle it your way. You get

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Speaker 2: in trouble. When you try to resolve it your way,

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Speaker 2: you get in trouble when you try to take the

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Speaker 2: snake by the head. See that was interesting to me.

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Speaker 2: We just moved out into the country two years ago,

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Speaker 2: and everybody was given me advice greg on being in

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Speaker 2: the country. I think they were worried about me, that

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't know what to do and how.

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Speaker 1: To survive in the country. And they were right. So

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Speaker 1: I welcomed their advice.

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Speaker 2: And everybody was telling me, now you're you're gonna see

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have snakes for the first time.

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Speaker 1: So here's what you need to do with the snake.

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Speaker 1: And you know what nobody told me.

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Speaker 2: Nobody told me that to handle a snake the way

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Speaker 2: God told Moses to handle a snake.

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Speaker 1: Nobody. Go back to verse verse four. He said, reach

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Speaker 1: out your and what.

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Speaker 2: Nobody told me to take the snake by the tail,

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Speaker 2: because that's not the way you handle a snake naturally.

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Speaker 1: Take it by the.

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Speaker 2: You'll look confused. I'm not doing my job, am I

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Speaker 2: I got to get this right, he said, take it

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Speaker 2: by the See, the way we try to grab situations

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Speaker 2: in our life is we want.

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Speaker 1: To control it. That's not the right way to hold.

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Speaker 1: He said, take it by the take it by the now,

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Speaker 1: to take a snake by the tail, and I will.

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Speaker 6: Remind you that the snake didn't change back into a

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Speaker 6: staff until it was in Moses's hand. Your issue is

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Speaker 6: not going to change until you handle it. Your pain

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Speaker 6: is not going to become your purpose until you handle it.

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Speaker 1: But if you handle it your way, you're going to

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Speaker 1: be depressed about it.

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Speaker 2: But if you handle God's way, God's work, God's way,

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Speaker 2: God's will, God's way, God's word, God's way. You've done

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Speaker 2: it long enough your way. It is time for you

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Speaker 2: to do it God's way. And it's time for you

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Speaker 2: to take it by the tail. God told me to

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Speaker 2: tell you you feel it, don't you. God said that

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Speaker 2: mistakes happen, But when they happen, take them by the

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Speaker 2: tail and trust me to turn your mistake into a

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Speaker 2: miracle when you take it by the tale. When pain

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Speaker 2: and rejection happen in your life, your rejection in one

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Speaker 2: season can lead to your destiny.

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Speaker 1: In the next. When you take it by the tale.

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Speaker 1: I came to say that.

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Speaker 2: What they said about you isn't gonna destroy you. It's

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Speaker 2: only gonna develop you, to make you stronger to give

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Speaker 2: you a stepfastness. When you take it by the tail,

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Speaker 2: you know what you're gonna do with that doctor's report.

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Speaker 1: Take it by the tail. You know what you're gonna

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Speaker 1: do with that loneliness.

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Speaker 2: Take it by the tail. You know what you're gonna

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Speaker 2: do with everything that's been keeping you up at night, worried,

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00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 2: wringing your head. This isn't my problem, This isn't my issue.

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Speaker 2: The battle is the Lord's. He'll handle Pharaoh. I got

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Speaker 2: this thing by the tail.

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Speaker 1: I trust your Lord.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody trust them in your situation? So I.

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Speaker 1: So I trust God enough to take it by the tail.

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Speaker 1: And it only changes when you handle it. As long

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Speaker 1: as you stand there looking at it, it's a snake.

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Speaker 5: As long as you stand there praying about it, it's

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Speaker 5: a snake. You can't pray and make the snake go away.

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Speaker 5: Pray about it, pick.

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Speaker 7: It up and make it work, and come on, come on,

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Speaker 7: make it, come on, make it work.

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Speaker 2: In your favor. I'm saying handle it. I'm saying there's

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Speaker 2: nothing life can throw at you.

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Speaker 1: That you can't handle it.

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Speaker 2: By the spirit of God myself, I can handle it.

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Speaker 2: Somebody encourage five people in your area tell him you

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Speaker 2: can handle it.

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Speaker 1: You can handle it. You can handle it, Yes, you can.

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Speaker 2: You've gotta handle it. You've gotta handle it. You were

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Speaker 2: made to handle it. You were built to handle it.

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Speaker 2: God's gonna help you handle it. He's gonna show you

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Speaker 2: how to handle it.

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Speaker 1: He's got you in the palm of his hand. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna help you. Raise thou children. He's gonna help.

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Speaker 2: You'll get through this season. He's gonna help you make

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Speaker 2: the decision. Lift your hands like it's handled. Come on,

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Speaker 2: lift your voice like this handled and shut unto.

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Speaker 3: God, little voice God me on trial, need to We

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Speaker 3: need to name God. We need the boy h got me, boyd.

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Speaker 1: Child, I gotta tell you this. My time is over.

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Speaker 1: Touch somebody say it's handled his hand, because the thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Just hit me and it scared me and it would

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Speaker 2: haunt me if I didn't say it to you. What

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Speaker 2: if Moses had kept running, he never would have seen

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Speaker 2: what the staff could do. He never would have seen

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Speaker 2: the transformation that would take place.

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Speaker 1: Think about it. It was a decision in a moment.

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Speaker 2: What if I never would have picked a mic up

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Speaker 2: and started preaching into cameras to screens. How many people

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Speaker 2: could we not have touched together. And I didn't think

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Speaker 2: I could do it, and I was real scared about it,

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Speaker 2: and I didn't know if I could forgive my dad

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Speaker 2: because he really hurt me right before he died. And

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Speaker 2: I almost ran from it, and I almost didn't go

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Speaker 2: over to his house on Father's Day and stopped by

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Speaker 2: for fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: But I'm so glad that I took it.

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Speaker 2: By the tail side with my hands shaking, and I

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Speaker 2: wanted to run, and still pretty much every week before

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Speaker 2: I preach, there's a part of me that.

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Speaker 1: Wants to run.

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Speaker 2: I got a friend here today who's a good preacher,

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Speaker 2: really good preacher, great preacher. He told me he's coming

782
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Speaker 2: to visit, and I almost asked him, do you just

783
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 2: want to preach? Because I think I got a sermon?

784
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 2: But right now it looks like a snake. See, I

785
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 2: told the apprentices the other I said, when when I

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Speaker 2: know a sermon is going to be good on Sunday

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Speaker 2: is when I'm scared.

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Speaker 1: Of it on Thursday. That's that's how it works for me.

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Speaker 1: But if you I gotta go. I'm out of time.

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Speaker 1: But I'm ensure you this.

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Speaker 2: If you stand there and look at it long enough,

792
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Speaker 2: and you stand there and and and and analyze the

793
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 2: snake long enough, and you get down here and wait

794
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Speaker 2: for it to change. And God, if they say I'm sorry,

795
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 2: then I'll forgive them. And God if you if you

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Speaker 2: give me more money, then i'll get Then I'll tithe.

797
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Speaker 1: And God, if you and you're.

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Speaker 2: Waiting for it to change on the ground, but it's

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Speaker 2: only gonna change when you trust.

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Speaker 1: God enough to take it by the tail, come on,

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Speaker 1: lift your hands. I want to pray for you. God,

802
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: give them courage. You know they're gonna need it. You know,

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh has them running. You know, Pharaoh is that is

804
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: that snake? Do you know? Pharaoh is that thing? You know,

805
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: Pharaoh is that addiction. You know, Pharaoh is that insecurity?

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00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 2: You know, Pharaoh is that taskmaster that tries to convince

807
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:09,919
Speaker 2: them that they're never enough.

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Speaker 1: But we came today to say that the head of

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Speaker 1: the serpent has already been crushed. Hallelujah.

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Speaker 2: We thank you for Jesus. We thank you for as

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Speaker 2: stretch storms, we thank you for as crops, we thank

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Speaker 2: you for as power, and we declare over our lives today,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is that stands against your children and Jesus

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