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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Furtick.

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

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. I

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Speaker 2: hope this inspires you. I hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: I hope it gives you perspective to see God is

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Speaker 2: moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: I want you to remain standing for just a moment

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Speaker 3: as I read this scripture in Hebrews 11, verse 29

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Speaker 3: and 30.

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Speaker 1: Just a very short, simple scripture today. Hebrews 11, verse

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Speaker 1: 29 and 30.

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Speaker 3: And 30.

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Speaker 1: Only two verses. We might get out early today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's hilarious. Get out of here and watch the Panthers

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Speaker 1: win today. I'm praying for them, man. I'm praying for them.

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Speaker 1: Coach Dave, the whole crew, it's going to happen. It's

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Speaker 1: going to happen.

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Speaker 3: But before we get to that, let's get into this word.

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Speaker 3: Sound like some Chicago Bears out there.

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Speaker 1: Sound like somebody.

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Speaker 4: We got an enemy in the camp.

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Speaker 1: Okay, as I was saying, Hebrews chapter 11. The Holy

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Speaker 1: Spirit has a word for you today. Speak, Lord, your

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Speaker 1: servant is listening.

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Speaker 3: Hebrews chapter 11, verse 29 and 30. The Bible says,

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Speaker 3: By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as

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Speaker 3: on dry land, But when the Egyptians tried to do so,

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Speaker 3: they were drowned. By faith, the walls of Jericho fell

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Speaker 3: after the army had marched around them for seven days.

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Speaker 1: I want you to give my title to your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Announce it to him. This is good news.

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Speaker 3: You're going to love to tell him this. Matter of fact,

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Speaker 3: it's so good they're not even going to believe it

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Speaker 3: when you tell them. But the title of my message today,

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Speaker 3: give it to your neighbor. Look at him and say,

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Speaker 3: you can skip this. You can skip this. Father, I

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Speaker 3: know how you gave it to me. Enable me now

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Speaker 3: to give it to them. In Jesus' name, amen. Tell

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Speaker 3: your other neighbor on your way to your seat, you

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Speaker 3: can skip this. Put it in the comments. Put it

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Speaker 3: in the chat. You can skip this. You can skip this.

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Speaker 3: Don't start fast-forwarding the video, though. You don't skip it,

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Speaker 3: like literally.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 3: One of the coolest things about my life other than

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Speaker 3: being Holly's husband and Graham and Elijah and Abby's dad

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Speaker 3: is getting to meet people who share things with me

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Speaker 3: that are so deep and so tender and so touching.

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Speaker 1: And usually they do it in such a short amount

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Speaker 3: So when I meet somebody and they go to the

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Speaker 3: church or they've been blessed by the ministry of this church,

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Speaker 3: I get the privilege of hearing from them, hey, I

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Speaker 3: wasn't doing so good. I don't want to go into

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Speaker 3: all the details right now, but I just want to

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Speaker 3: say to your entire congregation, thank you. The song Jireh

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Speaker 3: got me through a season of terrible loss.

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Speaker 1: I actually lost my child.

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Speaker 3: And people would just say this, and it's so intense,

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Speaker 3: and it's so quick. One day, me and Holly were

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Speaker 3: walking through the streets of Charleston, and it was the

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Speaker 3: month of July, so it was very hot outside, and

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Speaker 3: she had an ice cream cone. Somebody walked up and said,

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Speaker 3: I know you, and Holly was like mid-lick, The person

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Speaker 3: went from excited to crying just like that.

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Speaker 1: Now Holly has a dilemma on her hands.

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Speaker 3: This person is crying and sobbing because, obviously, they're about

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Speaker 3: to share something very deep and meaningful. The question is,

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Speaker 3: to lick or not to lick? The ice cream is

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Speaker 3: running down her hand, but I think she just slowly

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Speaker 1: It's a privilege.

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Speaker 3: I always love to hear these things. I You get

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Speaker 3: positive stuff out there, not very much negative in real life.

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Speaker 3: That's internet courage. People in real life are kind. When

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Speaker 3: they look you in the eyes, it's really nice, and

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Speaker 3: I really enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: I had it happen to me this week, as a

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Speaker 3: It was so short what the man said, because I

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Speaker 3: It was in the bathroom, and He was very respectful, though.

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Speaker 3: He was very respectful. He kept it very eyes forward.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of weird.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: He goes, what a story of forgiveness, huh?

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Speaker 3: It was a music documentary, so I wasn't really expecting

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Speaker 3: him to say something that deep. And I'm thinking, I

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Speaker 3: something you would say if you knew I was a pastor, right?

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Speaker 3: What a story of forgiveness, huh? At the bathroom, you know,

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Speaker 3: standing there. So wash our hands, walk out. And he goes, hey,

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Speaker 3: didn't want to bother you in there, but it's quite

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Speaker 3: possible that your church saved.

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Speaker 1: My life many years ago. And he said, and I

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Speaker 1: know it saved my marriage because I.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't a Christian. My wife was. She got me

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Speaker 1: to come to your church, and it turned our marriage around. So, thanks, man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: This guy, and he's got this big old grown man

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Speaker 3: he goes, I've been coming to your church since I

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Speaker 3: was five years old. Immediately, I'm like, how can this be?

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Speaker 3: You're like five foot eleven, and you've listened to me

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Speaker 3: preach when I'm five years old. I'm only 26, so

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Speaker 3: how does this work? And I said, man, you look

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Speaker 3: so handsome. Keep serving God.

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Speaker 1: And we walked out. But think about what he said.

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Speaker 1: I was a Christian, or I wasn't a Christian. My

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Speaker 3: She brought me to church. It saved my life, saved

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Speaker 3: my marriage. And just that, just a little snippet like that,

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Speaker 3: and it made my day. I mean, man, I was

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Speaker 3: just skipping out of the theater. Like, oh, that's amazing, right?

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Speaker 3: But the danger in that is that it's just a summary, right?

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Speaker 3: The danger in that is even in sharing it with you,

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Speaker 3: I debated about whether to share it to open this

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Speaker 3: message because let's say you're out there and your husband

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Speaker 3: doesn't know God and your husband is deep in an

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Speaker 3: addiction or your husband is maybe not even in the

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Speaker 3: picture right now. And you brought your husband to church

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Speaker 3: and he didn't raise his hand or sign up to

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Speaker 1: One of those groups.

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Speaker 3: But instead, He looked at you after the sermon and said,

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Speaker 3: that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.

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Speaker 1: I don't like it.

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Speaker 3: He yells too much, and I don't understand what he

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Speaker 3: was talking about with all these.

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Speaker 1: Names that I don't get, and I'm never going back.

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Speaker 3: So now you go back to your situation, and you

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Speaker 3: heard a summary of someone else's situation, and you could

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Speaker 3: mistakenly believe that there's something wrong with your faith that

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Speaker 3: made it work for the man in the movie theater,

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Speaker 3: but not your husband. We need to do away with

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Speaker 3: this idea that faith in God means you never have

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Speaker 3: to go through anything hard. And we need to do

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Speaker 3: away with this idea that faith in God and trusting

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Speaker 3: him and believing him and obeying him and doing what

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Speaker 3: he says means that you will always get the same

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Speaker 3: result that somebody else shared with you. Because a summary

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Speaker 3: is not a story. I read you two verses today

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Speaker 3: from Hebrews chapter 11. Both of those verses were written

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Speaker 3: thousands of years after the events they occurred to. Perhaps

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Speaker 3: a background overview of the book of Hebrews would help

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Speaker 1: Because the author of Hebrews is unknown. He's anonymous.

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Speaker 3: We don't know who wrote the book of Hebrews, but

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Speaker 3: His purpose in writing the book of Hebrews to the

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Speaker 3: early church was to encourage them to persevere, to stick

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Speaker 3: it out, to say you can make it, to remind

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Speaker 3: them of what a treasure that they have in Jesus

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Speaker 3: so that they don't fall into the trap of going

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Speaker 3: back to their life before him. Eleven chapters into this

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Speaker 3: wonderful rewards and all of the contrasts of what happens

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Speaker 3: if you stick it out and what happens if you quit.

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Speaker 3: He goes into an expose that we call the hall

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Speaker 3: of faith.

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Speaker 1: Not the hall of fame. The hall of faith.

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Speaker 3: It's not the hall of fame because not everybody that's

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Speaker 3: mentioned in it is famous. Write this down in your notes.

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Speaker 3: Not everybody great is famous and not everybody famous is great.

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Speaker 1: A free seminar.

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Speaker 3: For Sunday morning, for you to pontificate on the fact

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Speaker 3: that as you read about all of these heroes of

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Speaker 3: doesn't mention Elijah. How are you going to write a

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Speaker 3: Elijah in it. You remember I preached about him two

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Speaker 1: It didn't rain.

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Speaker 3: He prayed that it would rain, and it did rain.

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Speaker 3: He prayed God would kill him. God said, nope, get

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Speaker 1: How did he not make the hall of faith?

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Speaker 3: He's leaving a lot out. He doesn't mention Daniel. Can

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Speaker 3: you believe that? You're writing about faith, and.

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Speaker 1: You're going, who can I talk about? Let's see. I

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Speaker 1: could talk about Moses, that makes sense. Abraham, that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: And when it comes to Daniel, who spent the night

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Speaker 3: when it came to Daniel … who was so distinguished

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Speaker 3: God daily, so he had the courage to obey God dramatically.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to Daniel, you say nothing about Daniel.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mention Jonah. I understand that one. Jonah kind

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Speaker 3: and then when he does preach, his sermon is, 40

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Speaker 3: more days, and Nineveh will be destroyed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, leave him out. Leave him out.

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Speaker 3: But it's not just the people that he leaves out.

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Speaker 3: Let's read it again. He says in verse 29, ooh,

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to show you this. By faith the people

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Speaker 3: when the Egyptians.

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Speaker 1: Tried to do so, they were drowned.

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Speaker 3: By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the army

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Speaker 3: they passed through the Red Sea. That's all he says.

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Speaker 3: As if they did it with a good attitude. As

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Speaker 3: if they came to the Red Sea and said, O

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Speaker 3: God of earth, wind, and fire, O God of waters

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Speaker 3: hope for years to come.

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Speaker 4: When they came to the Red Sea, they turned around.

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Speaker 3: To Moses and said, You should have let us die

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Speaker 1: But this is a summary. It's a sentence. The sentence

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Speaker 1: is not the story.

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Speaker 3: Because if I double-clicked on the movie theater conversation, and

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Speaker 3: I said, let's go back in the bathroom and finish

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Speaker 3: this conversation, you know, away from.

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Speaker 1: People, that'd be weird. But if I said, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: All the Scripture says … Watch this. It's profound.

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Speaker 3: It simply says they passed through. Touch three people and say,

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Speaker 3: I prophesy over your life today. What you're going through

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Speaker 4: The story is, I panicked. The story is, I almost

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Speaker 4: A photo dump is not a family vacation.

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Speaker 3: Now, here you are sitting at home looking at somebody

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Speaker 3: You went to Pineville, and they went to Paris, and

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Speaker 3: It sounded pretty good for the Israelites, right? Do y'all

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Speaker 3: know this Bible story? They marched around the walls. I'm

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Speaker 1: For your life. But the walls falling.

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Speaker 3: Too much, their march was a little bit more difficult

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Speaker 1: We're celebrating Tetris.

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Speaker 3: 31 years, wonderful years of marriage. Nobody had 31 wonderful years.

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Speaker 3: Am I right about it? To get the 31 wonderful years.

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Speaker 1: He, Bruce.

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Speaker 4: All right, stop, stop.

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Speaker 3: to talk about the 40 years of wilderness, the Holy

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Speaker 3: Spirit said, you can skip this. Don't put the wilderness in.

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Speaker 3: By faith, they went through the Red Sea. By faith,

444
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Speaker 3: the walls fell. What about the wilderness?

445
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Speaker 1: Skip it. Don't put it in.

446
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Speaker 3: Now, it's not that he is concealing the wilderness. He

447
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Speaker 3: talks about it in chapter 3. But at this particular moment,

448
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Speaker 3: for what he wants to say in this moment, by

449
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Speaker 3: faith ….

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Speaker 1: By faith, Abraham. By faith, Jacob. By faith, Joseph. By faith, Samson.

451
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Speaker 1: By faith, Barak. By faith, by faith, by faith, by faith.

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Speaker 3: He says, put it in about the waters that parted,

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Speaker 3: and put it in about the walls that fell, but

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Speaker 3: skip the wilderness. I wonder, is the reason that the

455
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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit had the author of Hebrews in his sovereignty

456
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Speaker 3: skip the wilderness … because they could have skipped the

457
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Speaker 3: wilderness too, and so can you.

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Speaker 1: Some stuff you can't skip. Some stuff is unskippable.

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Speaker 3: I am so sorry, ladies, but no matter how much

460
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Speaker 3: AI we invent, you cannot have a baby and not

461
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Speaker 3: get bigger.

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Speaker 1: Not yet. Not yet. You can't skip that part.

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Speaker 3: There is some stuff you cannot skip. You can't take

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Speaker 3: a seed between your three anointed holy fingers and pray

465
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Speaker 3: for it and say,' Oh, seed, I don't want you

466
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Speaker 3: to experience dirt. Dirt is very uncertain, and dirt is

467
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Speaker 3: very unsanitary, and so instead, seed, I am going to

468
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Speaker 3: love you to life, seed.

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Speaker 1: You can't even do this with your kids. You can't.

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Speaker 3: Love them into growth. You have to let them go

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Speaker 3: into growth, because some stuff they have got to go through,

472
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Speaker 3: they can't skip it. I feel the Holy Ghost. Some

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Speaker 3: stuff you can't skip. Holly and Abby went to the U.S.

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Speaker 3: Open this week. I skipped it.

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Speaker 1: She said, it'll be fun.

476
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Speaker 4: I said, it'll be crowded.

477
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Speaker 1: I'm skipping it.

478
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Speaker 3: I'll finance it, but I want no part in it. So,

479
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Speaker 3: they went to the tennis match, and they watched tennis

480
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Speaker 3: all day. Now, Holly plays a little tennis, not professionally,

481
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Speaker 3: but she was leaving for her match Saturday, and she

482
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Speaker 3: said jokingly to me before she left, you think I'll

483
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Speaker 3: play better today? But you didn't practice this week. She said, yeah,

484
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Speaker 3: but I watched so much tennis. Listen, she said, surely

485
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Speaker 3: I learned something. I got the text three hours later.

486
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Speaker 3: She said, I have never played worse in my life.

487
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Speaker 3: I had never been beat so bad. Because watching isn't working.

488
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Speaker 3: So if you come to church and you're like, oh,

489
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Speaker 3: that's very inspiring.

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Speaker 1: You think I'll be more.

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Speaker 3: Patient this week because I watched that guy talk for

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Speaker 3: an hour? No!

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Speaker 4: You're going to get beat.

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Speaker 3: You're going to get killed. That's why you can't just

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Speaker 3: read about Moses, read about Joshua, read about Samson, read

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Speaker 3: about David, read about Samuel, read about the prophets. You

497
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Speaker 3: have to work this thing. You have to take one

498
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Speaker 3: word from God that God gives you and work it

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Speaker 3: and forgive one person.

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Speaker 1: Can you forgive one person? Can we get a two?

501
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Speaker 1: Can we get a three? Can I get four? Can

502
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Speaker 1: I get five?

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Speaker 4: Can I get 70 times seven?

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Speaker 3: Whatever it takes, you have to work this, and you

505
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Speaker 3: can't skip that.

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Speaker 4: There are some things you have to go through.

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Speaker 3: You cannot skip a stage of development.

508
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Speaker 1: But you can skip disobedience.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to work on this.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to work on this. I'm going to break

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Speaker 1: it down.

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Speaker 3: When they went through the Red Sea, listen to me,

513
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Speaker 3: it was required. God didn't ask, do you want to

514
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Speaker 3: go through the Red Sea? He said, either go through

515
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Speaker 3: the Red Sea or stay here.

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Speaker 1: Crying about it and die.

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Speaker 3: I guess they didn't have to go through the Red Sea,

518
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Speaker 3: but it was their only option if they wanted to survive.

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Speaker 1: You've got to go through this.

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Speaker 3: Hey, that's what keeps me preaching, because somebody has to

521
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Speaker 3: be up here talking. I don't really get to pray

522
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Speaker 3: about … You know how you get to pray about, like, Lord,

523
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Speaker 3: speak to me, and then if he doesn't, you can …

524
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Speaker 3: I can't do that. I'll be making bargains with God like, God,

525
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Speaker 3: I'll sell it all. I'll give it all away.

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Speaker 1: Give me a word. Why?

527
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Speaker 3: Because I've got to go through the process to do this.

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Speaker 3: So it is for you. There are some parts of

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Speaker 3: your process that you cannot skip. If you skip the

530
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Speaker 3: Red Sea, the Egyptians will follow you to your next assignment.

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Speaker 3: If you skip the uncomfortable thing, you're going to still

532
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Speaker 3: be dealing with the dysfunctional thing when you get to

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Speaker 3: the place.

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Speaker 1: Where God has taken you. You have to go through this.

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Speaker 1: The Red Sea is required. You can't skip that. You

536
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Speaker 1: can't skip.

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Speaker 3: The practice of coming into the presence of God and saying, Lord,

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Speaker 3: I need your strength today.

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Speaker 1: I really don't want to get out of this bed,

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Speaker 1: but I have to go forward.

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Speaker 3: You can't skip that and not expect it to catch

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Speaker 3: up with you. Even at this stage of my life,

543
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Speaker 3: there's stuff I used to skip I can't skip now.

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Speaker 1: Stretching. Stretching.

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Speaker 3: Stretching to me used to be a nice idea. Now

546
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Speaker 3: it is a necessary, life-saving practice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather not wear my seatbelt in my car than

549
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Speaker 3: not stretch before I do my squats, because I'd rather

550
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Speaker 3: take a chance. God will protect me on the road,

551
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Speaker 3: but I know he's not going to protect these hamstrings.

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Speaker 1: I've got to stretch.

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Speaker 3: I didn't used to have to stretch. I've got to stretch. Now,

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Speaker 3: they didn't have to go through the Red Sea when

555
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Speaker 3: they were slaves. They had to go through it when

556
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Speaker 3: they were free.

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Speaker 1: There are some things in.

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Speaker 3: Your life in this season that God is leading you through,

559
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Speaker 3: because he's calling you to be a leader.

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Speaker 1: You can't skip this.

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Speaker 3: That's why you had to come to church, and one

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Speaker 3: of your friends is just washing their car and getting

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Speaker 3: a head start on the wings. No, I can't eat

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Speaker 3: wings with you before church.

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Speaker 1: I can eat wings after.

566
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Speaker 3: But I have to get in the house of God,

567
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Speaker 3: because they that.

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Speaker 4: Wait on the Lord will mount up on wings like eagles. So,

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Speaker 4: you eat your wings, but I have.

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Speaker 1: To get mine. I can't skip this. The Red Sea

571
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Speaker 1: was required. The Red Sea was necessary. The Red Sea

572
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Speaker 1: is where God drowned their enemies. Who am I preaching to?

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Speaker 3: The waters were necessary, and so were the walls. When

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Speaker 3: the walls of Jericho fell, God had to do something

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Speaker 3: supernatural so that they would.

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Speaker 1: Have the faith to fight the rest of the battles.

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Speaker 3: Jericho was the first city they had to take. They

578
00:31:20,220 --> 00:31:23,630
Speaker 3: had many more battles to fight. You have to face this.

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Speaker 3: The walls wouldn't have fallen unless they walked around them,

580
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Speaker 3: and the sea would not have split if they didn't

581
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Speaker 3: walk through it. The water was necessary. The walls were

582
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Speaker 3: not optional, but the wilderness was. The waters were God's

583
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Speaker 3: tool to set them free. The wilderness was what they

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Speaker 3: chose because they were not willing to fight.

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Speaker 1: Let me explain this to you.

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Speaker 3: In Hebrews 11, verse 29… Do you want me to

587
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 3: share all this, or do you want me to.

588
00:32:14,540 --> 00:32:23,270
Speaker 1: Skip it? You said don't skip it. That was so polite.

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00:32:23,290 --> 00:32:26,170
Speaker 1: He said, I'd like to hear it. I mean, I

590
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Speaker 1: can't speak for the entire congregation.

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00:32:27,950 --> 00:32:30,210
Speaker 3: It's a very diverse group and body, and I know

592
00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:33,350
Speaker 3: everyone else might know this part, but fill.

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Speaker 1: Me in if you'd like. This is the greatest church

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Speaker 1: in the world, man. This is the greatest church in

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Speaker 1: the world.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Well, Write this down. God is in the gap.

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Speaker 3: That gap where they wandered 40 years, God is in

599
00:33:02,220 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 3: the gap. And the enemy wants to take that gap too. Now,

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00:33:07,740 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 3: for the Israelites, the gap was between their identity as

601
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Speaker 3: slaves and their identity as sons and daughters of God.

602
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,580
Speaker 3: And on their way out, I should probably just break

603
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:25,460
Speaker 3: this down generationally. Verse 29 is Moses' generation. Verse 30

604
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Speaker 3: is Joshua's. It's a generation gap. 40 years in the

605
00:33:30,780 --> 00:33:32,620
Speaker 3: Bible represents a generation.

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Speaker 1: That's how they counted generations. So it's a generation gap.

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Speaker 3: And the generation that saw the walls fall is not

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Speaker 3: the same generation that saw the waters part. All of

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Speaker 3: the men who were above the age of 20 didn't

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Speaker 3: get to go in to the promised land. And even

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Speaker 3: though Joshua isn't named, he is the exception. Joshua and Caleb,

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Speaker 3: they're the ones who, when they went out to spy

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Speaker 3: out the land, they come through the Red Sea, they

614
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Speaker 3: do a little recon. They say, hey, go see what's

615
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Speaker 3: going on in there.

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Speaker 1: Is it walled? Is it fortified? What's the grapes like?

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Speaker 1: Bring us back some grapes.

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Speaker 3: Well, they brought back grapes, but they were talking about giants.

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Speaker 3: And they talked about the giants more than they talked

620
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Speaker 3: about the grapes. So they got stuck in something that

621
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Speaker 3: God wanted.

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Speaker 1: To bring them through. That's the wilderness.

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Speaker 3: The wilderness they lived in for 40 years, and they

624
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Speaker 3: died in a desert that God could have delivered them

625
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: right through. We know from Deuteronomy that the trip through

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Speaker 3: the wilderness to the Promised Land, the edge of Canaan,

627
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Speaker 3: Kadesh Barnea, where they sent out the spies, and 10

628
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 3: came back with a.

629
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Speaker 1: Bad report and two with a good one, Joshua and Caleb.

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Speaker 3: We know from Deuteronomy that it was an 11-day journey.

631
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Speaker 1: How do you turn 11 days into 40 years?

632
00:34:50,250 --> 00:34:52,030
Speaker 3: How do you get stuck in something that God wanted

633
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Speaker 3: to take.

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Speaker 1: You through in a week and a half? I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at the Scripture again in verse 30. Put it

636
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Speaker 1: up there. It says, In seven days the wall fell.

637
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Speaker 1: Seven days was all it took. Ten minutes a day.

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Speaker 1: Seven days.

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Speaker 3: Okay, hour and a half on the seventh day, because

640
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 3: they marched seven times that day.

641
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Speaker 1: And the walls fell. Just that quick.

642
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Speaker 3: So something that one generation couldn't do in 40 years …

643
00:35:21,469 --> 00:35:28,370
Speaker 3: Another generation did in a week. With God, what.

644
00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:34,220
Speaker 1: Should take years takes days. With God.

645
00:35:37,460 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 3: So, in case you feel like it's too late for you,

646
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,830
Speaker 3: with God, what should take years takes days.

647
00:35:46,090 --> 00:35:48,390
Speaker 1: In case you've wasted some seasons and you're.

648
00:35:48,250 --> 00:35:51,109
Speaker 3: Feeling kind of bad because you've been in a wilderness

649
00:35:51,730 --> 00:35:54,730
Speaker 3: of your own decisions. Oh, I tried to blame others,

650
00:35:54,790 --> 00:35:56,770
Speaker 3: but it's really not them to blame. You know how

651
00:35:56,810 --> 00:36:00,290
Speaker 3: I found out? Because even after they left my life, I.

652
00:36:00,270 --> 00:36:05,469
Speaker 1: Kept struggling with the same thing. I'm here in this wilderness.

653
00:36:06,070 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 3: And I wish I had not disobeyed God. I wish

654
00:36:10,219 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: I hadn't gotten in that relationship. I wish I hadn't

655
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,219
Speaker 3: invested in that business. I wish I hadn't dropped out.

656
00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 3: I wish I hadn't tried it at that party.

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Speaker 1: I wish I.

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00:36:18,260 --> 00:36:20,540
Speaker 3: Wouldn't have gone where everybody else was going. I wish

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00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 3: I would have said I'm too drunk to drive. I

660
00:36:22,460 --> 00:36:24,500
Speaker 3: wish I would have been nicer. I wish I would

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Speaker 3: have been around. I wish I wouldn't have traveled so

662
00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:27,779
Speaker 3: much for work. I wish I would have put more aside.

663
00:36:28,070 --> 00:36:30,210
Speaker 3: In case you are wishing in a wilderness today, you

664
00:36:30,230 --> 00:36:37,150
Speaker 3: need to know with God, By faith, what should take

665
00:36:37,290 --> 00:36:40,069
Speaker 3: years takes days.

666
00:36:40,890 --> 00:36:41,630
Speaker 4: How do you know?

667
00:36:42,130 --> 00:36:46,250
Speaker 3: In seven days the walls fell. In seven days what

668
00:36:46,310 --> 00:36:50,030
Speaker 3: stood against them came crumbling down. In seven days they

669
00:36:50,070 --> 00:36:51,129
Speaker 3: made it into the land.

670
00:36:51,570 --> 00:36:53,990
Speaker 4: In seven days … Everybody shout, seven.

671
00:36:55,010 --> 00:36:56,109
Speaker 1: I can do better than that.

672
00:36:56,550 --> 00:37:00,660
Speaker 3: In seven days God took darkness and made it into light.

673
00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 3: In seven days God separated the waters in the firmament

674
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,660
Speaker 3: above from the waters in the firmament beneath. In seven

675
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:14,980
Speaker 3: days God made vegetation and plants and every seed-bearing thing.

676
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 3: In seven days, God filled the.

677
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,180
Speaker 4: Sky with birds and the water with fish.

678
00:37:21,590 --> 00:37:25,670
Speaker 3: In seven days, God reached into the dust and breathed

679
00:37:25,750 --> 00:37:27,070
Speaker 3: in it to the breath of life.

680
00:37:27,590 --> 00:37:28,830
Speaker 1: In seven days.

681
00:37:29,250 --> 00:37:32,689
Speaker 3: And you tell me what God can't do. I got

682
00:37:32,790 --> 00:37:36,700
Speaker 3: a seven-day God who only needs six. Because on the

683
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 3: seventh day, he put his feet up and.

684
00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:49,029
Speaker 1: Said, I'm done. And I'm resting in it. High-five seven people. Say,

685
00:37:49,070 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: God can do it. Quick. See, if you were making

686
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,060
Speaker 1: the world, you'd have to get the raw.

687
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 3: Materials to do it, but God doesn't have to get

688
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,250
Speaker 3: the raw materials. He can speak a word, and his

689
00:38:02,350 --> 00:38:04,410
Speaker 3: word is the raw material.

690
00:38:04,790 --> 00:38:06,350
Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word.

691
00:38:06,690 --> 00:38:09,730
Speaker 3: And the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

692
00:38:10,190 --> 00:38:11,419
Speaker 4: So when God.

693
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,779
Speaker 3: Said, let there be light, he didn't have to build

694
00:38:13,820 --> 00:38:16,259
Speaker 3: a power plant. He said, I'm going to skip all

695
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 3: that and speak what I want to speak.

696
00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 4: I believe there are some people in this room.

697
00:38:21,060 --> 00:38:24,219
Speaker 3: Today who need to know that God can do in

698
00:38:24,410 --> 00:38:27,529
Speaker 3: one moment a favor what a lifetime of labor could

699
00:38:27,550 --> 00:38:32,029
Speaker 3: never accomplish.

700
00:38:32,090 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 4: High-five seven people again and say, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.

701
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 4: God can do it.

702
00:38:37,620 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 3: Quick.

703
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:38,980
Speaker 1: Seven days.

704
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,790
Speaker 4: That's all it took.

705
00:38:43,810 --> 00:38:50,730
Speaker 3: One night wiped out the entire Egyptian army. You're sitting

706
00:38:50,750 --> 00:38:52,410
Speaker 3: there figuring out what you're going to have to do

707
00:38:52,450 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 3: about this situation. You're figuring without your father. With God,

708
00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:10,919
Speaker 3: what should take years takes days. Without God, what should

709
00:39:10,980 --> 00:39:19,950
Speaker 3: take days takes years. They could have been out in

710
00:39:19,950 --> 00:39:24,090
Speaker 3: 11 days. They turned it into 40 years because instead

711
00:39:24,110 --> 00:39:28,190
Speaker 3: of coming to God, their source, they sent their spies

712
00:39:29,550 --> 00:39:31,060
Speaker 3: and they went by what they saw instead of what

713
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 3: God said. The second generation, they said 40 years is

714
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,670
Speaker 3: long enough. You know what I think is amazing about Jesus?

715
00:39:45,030 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 3: He bridges the gap. He bridges the gap. He makes

716
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:56,490
Speaker 3: possible by faith what they can only experience through works.

717
00:39:58,590 --> 00:40:01,430
Speaker 3: They could have skipped the wilderness if they had obeyed God.

718
00:40:02,130 --> 00:40:04,610
Speaker 3: You can skip the wilderness if you believe. What are

719
00:40:04,630 --> 00:40:06,549
Speaker 3: you saying? Are you saying I don't have to go

720
00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:07,169
Speaker 3: through hard things?

721
00:40:07,190 --> 00:40:08,529
Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying you don't have to go through.

722
00:40:08,930 --> 00:40:12,109
Speaker 3: I am saying that there is some stuff you can

723
00:40:12,330 --> 00:40:14,760
Speaker 3: skip even within the hard stuff you go through.

724
00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:22,620
Speaker 1: I need to use a stupid example right now, forgive me.

725
00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:27,140
Speaker 3: Video games have changed a lot since my generation of

726
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:27,740
Speaker 3: video games.

727
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,500
Speaker 1: Really, they've improved so much.

728
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 3: I wish, I mean, I don't ask God for much,

729
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 3: but why couldn't I be 14 right now with the

730
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 3: state of video games?

731
00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: It would have been so much more enjoyable, right?

732
00:40:41,390 --> 00:40:43,129
Speaker 3: Because I walked in the other day, Elijah was playing

733
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:46,930
Speaker 3: Donkey Kong, the new Donkey Kong, but he was Donkey Kong.

734
00:40:47,410 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 3: That was so trippy for me. In my generation, we

735
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,530
Speaker 3: were running from Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong slinging barrels at you,

736
00:40:55,010 --> 00:40:55,990
Speaker 3: running up on ladders.

737
00:40:57,070 --> 00:41:03,610
Speaker 1: He was Donkey Kong. He can control Donkey Kong. They

738
00:41:03,630 --> 00:41:04,090
Speaker 1: make fun of me.

739
00:41:04,330 --> 00:41:06,070
Speaker 3: I was trying to play one of their games a

740
00:41:06,110 --> 00:41:11,270
Speaker 3: couple of summers ago, and I'm sitting there watching the screen.

741
00:41:12,190 --> 00:41:15,390
Speaker 3: We didn't have this on my games, but the game stopped,

742
00:41:15,430 --> 00:41:17,910
Speaker 3: and it played a little movie. on the thing, and

743
00:41:17,930 --> 00:41:20,290
Speaker 3: somebody was talking, and I'm just sitting there. Graham walks in,

744
00:41:20,330 --> 00:41:23,969
Speaker 3: and he goes, What are you doing? I said, I'm

745
00:41:24,030 --> 00:41:24,629
Speaker 3: watching the thing.

746
00:41:24,690 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: It stopped. I'm watching it. He goes, That's a cut scene.

747
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: Why are you watching a cut scene? I said, It's

748
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: a what? He said, It's a cut scene.

749
00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:37,259
Speaker 3: Then he reached over, and he pushed a button on

750
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:43,390
Speaker 3: my controller that said X, and he said something. When

751
00:41:43,430 --> 00:41:44,690
Speaker 3: I say it, I want you to shout.

752
00:41:45,530 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: He said, What? You can skip this.

753
00:41:51,420 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: I came here today, like Joshua, to see if I

754
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,910
Speaker 3: can find an X button on your controller, because you're

755
00:42:00,030 --> 00:42:05,390
Speaker 3: sitting through something, suffering through something, struggling through something, and

756
00:42:05,430 --> 00:42:06,589
Speaker 3: you can skip it.

757
00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: You can skip it.

758
00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 4: They're not ready for that. Don't put that beat on them.

759
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,069
Speaker 3: You have to skip that, because if you start playing

760
00:42:18,110 --> 00:42:20,370
Speaker 3: those drums, we'll be here all day.

761
00:42:20,750 --> 00:42:21,790
Speaker 4: When I start.

762
00:42:21,530 --> 00:42:24,890
Speaker 3: Telling the people that you don't have to die in

763
00:42:24,910 --> 00:42:29,930
Speaker 3: this wilderness, that dry bones can live again, that you

764
00:42:29,989 --> 00:42:31,910
Speaker 3: don't have to spend the next 40 years ….

765
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:38,700
Speaker 1: Come on.

766
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 3: Just push your neighbor like it's an X button.

767
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: Say, you can skip this. You can skip this. You

768
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: can skip this.

769
00:42:45,780 --> 00:42:46,140
Speaker 4: For real.

770
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: Let me teach. You can skip this. No, I can't

771
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:50,500
Speaker 1: skip the Red Sea.

772
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,570
Speaker 3: No, I can't skip the six days of walking. You

773
00:42:53,590 --> 00:42:57,009
Speaker 3: have to walk around the walls, but watch this. You

774
00:42:57,050 --> 00:42:58,830
Speaker 3: can skip it if you step.

775
00:43:00,190 --> 00:43:01,390
Speaker 1: What do you mean?

776
00:43:01,590 --> 00:43:03,430
Speaker 3: You mean that if I do the right thing, and

777
00:43:03,469 --> 00:43:05,529
Speaker 3: if I pray the right prayer today, and if I

778
00:43:05,570 --> 00:43:07,509
Speaker 3: praise the right praise today, and if I worship the

779
00:43:07,550 --> 00:43:09,589
Speaker 3: right worship today, that the thing in my life that

780
00:43:09,610 --> 00:43:11,350
Speaker 3: I'm praying about is just going to fall down like that? No.

781
00:43:11,830 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 3: I am saying to you that you may not be

782
00:43:15,410 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 3: able to skip.

783
00:43:17,780 --> 00:43:23,660
Speaker 1: The difficulty, but you can skip the unbelief. That's what

784
00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: you can skip.

785
00:43:25,170 --> 00:43:25,430
Speaker 3: No, no.

786
00:43:25,450 --> 00:43:27,549
Speaker 1: You have to go through the waters. You have to.

787
00:43:27,570 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 4: Face the wall, but you don't have to wander in

788
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,180
Speaker 4: the wilderness. Not one more day.

789
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,060
Speaker 1: You can skip this. You can skip this.

790
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,770
Speaker 4: I want you to hear my annoying voice in your mind.

791
00:43:40,910 --> 00:43:44,690
Speaker 1: All week long when you go to have that argument.

792
00:43:44,770 --> 00:43:46,370
Speaker 1: You know good and well.

793
00:43:47,170 --> 00:43:49,339
Speaker 3: That if you say what you're about to say …

794
00:43:51,140 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 3: You're going to be cleaning this up for the next

795
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,220
Speaker 3: 20 minutes, for the next two weeks. I was sitting

796
00:43:57,260 --> 00:43:59,739
Speaker 3: at a family dinner this past week, and I was

797
00:43:59,780 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 3: just irritated. It was me. It wasn't the people at

798
00:44:02,739 --> 00:44:06,540
Speaker 3: the table. They were delightful, but I found myself edgy.

799
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,460
Speaker 3: When you get edgy, you get petty, because you're stressed.

800
00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:12,060
Speaker 3: You spiral, and now you're edgy and you're petty, but

801
00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:14,140
Speaker 3: now you have an edge, so now you just cut something,

802
00:44:14,380 --> 00:44:15,340
Speaker 3: and now you're cleaning.

803
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: Up blood for the next hour.

804
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,180
Speaker 3: Because your kids are all bleeding because you didn't know

805
00:44:19,219 --> 00:44:20,140
Speaker 3: how to come to the table.

806
00:44:20,540 --> 00:44:24,589
Speaker 1: And skip what you wanted to say so you could

807
00:44:24,630 --> 00:44:29,029
Speaker 1: eat the food in peace. I'll tell you. It was

808
00:44:29,070 --> 00:44:31,210
Speaker 1: like slow motion, too. I went to say it. I

809
00:44:31,210 --> 00:44:33,009
Speaker 1: was so proud of myself, because I don't always skip it.

810
00:44:33,030 --> 00:44:34,830
Speaker 1: Most of the time, I just say it. I went

811
00:44:34,870 --> 00:44:37,930
Speaker 1: to say it. I was like, you know you are.

812
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,620
Speaker 3: It went out of my mouth, and I envisioned in

813
00:44:42,700 --> 00:44:48,739
Speaker 3: the future a one-hour overcompensation of me now trying to

814
00:44:48,780 --> 00:44:49,819
Speaker 3: be so nice.

815
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,720
Speaker 1: Because I was so mean. Y'all don't ever do this

816
00:44:52,780 --> 00:44:53,069
Speaker 1: at home.

817
00:44:53,550 --> 00:44:55,770
Speaker 3: I'm going to go home and repent, and y'all can

818
00:44:55,790 --> 00:44:58,110
Speaker 3: polish your halo, and we'll meet back here in a

819
00:44:58,150 --> 00:44:59,610
Speaker 3: year when I get my life together.

820
00:45:01,510 --> 00:45:03,590
Speaker 1: But I got it right, and it was like the

821
00:45:03,630 --> 00:45:04,390
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit said.

822
00:45:05,430 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 3: You can go ahead and start this drama by just

823
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,010
Speaker 3: saying whatever you want to say, or you can skip it.

824
00:45:13,340 --> 00:45:15,410
Speaker 1: Mid-sentence. You know ….

825
00:45:17,910 --> 00:45:19,730
Speaker 3: I didn't even have the presence of mind to make

826
00:45:19,770 --> 00:45:21,670
Speaker 3: something up like I was going to say. I just

827
00:45:21,710 --> 00:45:26,930
Speaker 3: let the batteries die on my stupid mouth. All right,

828
00:45:26,950 --> 00:45:28,950
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say this. You can skip it if you'll

829
00:45:29,010 --> 00:45:29,870
Speaker 3: shut your stupid mouth.

830
00:45:32,710 --> 00:45:37,610
Speaker 1: Is that all right? I'm sorry.

831
00:45:40,140 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 3: James says, if you will control your tongue. That's what

832
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,899
Speaker 3: I meant to say. See, I didn't need to say

833
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 3: it like that, but I said it like that.

834
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: After they marched. Verse 30. It's in the Bible. After

835
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:56,220
Speaker 1: they marched.

836
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,739
Speaker 3: After they marched for seven days, the walls fell down,

837
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 3: and they didn't have to live in the wilderness because

838
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 3: they marched.

839
00:46:03,820 --> 00:46:05,330
Speaker 1: You know what the generation before them did?

840
00:46:07,310 --> 00:46:07,650
Speaker 3: Murmured.

841
00:46:10,910 --> 00:46:13,710
Speaker 1: They went in and saw the giants. I got it

842
00:46:13,750 --> 00:46:15,390
Speaker 1: ready for you in the King James Version. You want

843
00:46:15,410 --> 00:46:19,130
Speaker 1: to see it? Look at it in 14.2, Numbers 14.2.

844
00:46:19,130 --> 00:46:21,610
Speaker 3: They saw the giants came back and all the children

845
00:46:21,630 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the

846
00:46:25,180 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 3: whole congregation said to them, would that God we had

847
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,140
Speaker 3: died in the land of Egypt or would God we

848
00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:31,260
Speaker 3: had died in this wilderness?

849
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,860
Speaker 1: And they did because they murmured.

850
00:46:36,910 --> 00:46:40,330
Speaker 3: Second generation came along and said, we can skip this.

851
00:46:45,489 --> 00:46:51,070
Speaker 3: If we murmur We're going to stay here. If we march, God.

852
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,380
Speaker 1: Will make a way. I came to ask you a question.

853
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: Are you going to murmur or march? Are you going

854
00:46:56,500 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: to murmur or march?

855
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:00,380
Speaker 3: Last week I taught you that God can turn a

856
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 3: mumble into a miracle when you pray, but the Enemy

857
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 3: can turn a murmur into misery.

858
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: You have to bite your tongue. One thing that impressed

859
00:47:11,580 --> 00:47:13,780
Speaker 1: me about Joshua … He learned from the lessons of Moses.

860
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,790
Speaker 1: He said, Go over to Joshua 6. That's where they

861
00:47:17,870 --> 00:47:19,210
Speaker 1: walk around the walls of Jericho.

862
00:47:20,530 --> 00:47:23,390
Speaker 3: One day I'm going to preach a remix of my

863
00:47:23,730 --> 00:47:25,950
Speaker 3: favorite sermon from my youth.

864
00:47:26,530 --> 00:47:31,050
Speaker 1: It was called Don't Stop on 6. I might preach

865
00:47:31,070 --> 00:47:31,720
Speaker 1: it next week.

866
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 3: Oh, the memory of it is probably better than the

867
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,900
Speaker 3: sermon was, but in my.

868
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: Head it was awesome.

869
00:47:40,030 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 3: Because Joshua did something so strategic. Now, God met with Joshua.

870
00:47:43,780 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 3: He said, you gotta take the people into the land.

871
00:47:45,500 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 3: I want you to have the priests to go ahead.

872
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 3: I want them to have the ram's horn, not the

873
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 3: silver horns like the priests would blow, the ram's horn.

874
00:47:50,460 --> 00:47:52,820
Speaker 1: Which signify jubilee, which signify freedom.

875
00:47:52,860 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 3: I want you to blow the horns every day you march.

876
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:02,860
Speaker 3: And march 10 minutes a day. And then go back. Now,

877
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 3: Joshua knows something.

878
00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: He's very intuitive.

879
00:48:05,070 --> 00:48:08,150
Speaker 3: Well, it's 24 hours in a day. The march is

880
00:48:08,170 --> 00:48:11,410
Speaker 3: gonna take 10 minutes. I guess we've got to polish

881
00:48:11,430 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 3: our stuff and get ready, so that's an hour. What

882
00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 3: are we going to do with the other 23 hours?

883
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,580
Speaker 3: The last time the people of God started talking about

884
00:48:20,620 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 3: their situation, they murmured themselves right out of their miracle.

885
00:48:26,580 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 3: So God told Joshua, have a march, but he did

886
00:48:28,940 --> 00:48:31,020
Speaker 3: not tell him to do this. This was just his instinct.

887
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,020
Speaker 3: God will tell you to do things by instinct that

888
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:35,460
Speaker 3: you don't even have a direct scripture for.

889
00:48:36,860 --> 00:48:39,580
Speaker 1: I'll prove it to you. Verse 14.

890
00:48:39,580 --> 00:48:41,580
Speaker 3: Number nine, the armed guard marched ahead of the priest

891
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,180
Speaker 3: who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark.

892
00:48:44,580 --> 00:48:46,140
Speaker 1: All this time, the trumpets.

893
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:50,100
Speaker 3: Were sounding, but Joshua had commanded the.

894
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,609
Speaker 1: Army, do not give a war cry. Listen to this.

895
00:48:53,510 --> 00:48:54,870
Speaker 1: Do not raise your voices.

896
00:48:55,489 --> 00:49:02,509
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, do not say a word until the

897
00:49:02,650 --> 00:49:05,930
Speaker 3: day I tell you to shout.

898
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:13,489
Speaker 1: Then shout. and they marched instead of murmuring.

899
00:49:13,610 --> 00:49:16,730
Speaker 3: God is telling you today that you are going to

900
00:49:16,790 --> 00:49:22,180
Speaker 3: have to bite your tongue and blow your trumpet so

901
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 3: you can skip some of the stuff you've been fighting

902
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 3: with because you keep creating wilderness with your words. But

903
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 3: your tongue is getting you in trouble, but your trumpet

904
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 3: can get you out. Because the trumpet represents what?

905
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,140
Speaker 1: Praise. The trumpet represents what? Victory.

906
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 3: So, I'm making a mantra for my life this week.

907
00:49:47,460 --> 00:49:52,180
Speaker 3: More trumpet, less tongue. I'm going to praise God more

908
00:49:52,260 --> 00:49:56,540
Speaker 3: this week and complain less this week, because I don't

909
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,259
Speaker 3: want to dig myself deeper into a disappointment that I'm

910
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:01,390
Speaker 3: already dealing with.

911
00:50:01,750 --> 00:50:02,570
Speaker 1: I've been in this.

912
00:50:02,430 --> 00:50:05,910
Speaker 3: Wilderness long enough. I've been depressed long enough. I've been

913
00:50:05,969 --> 00:50:09,870
Speaker 3: anxious long enough. So, yeah, I've got to go through

914
00:50:09,910 --> 00:50:13,089
Speaker 3: this sickness, but I don't have to lay at home

915
00:50:13,290 --> 00:50:18,350
Speaker 3: all day Googling different symptoms about what the sickness could be.

916
00:50:18,710 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 3: I've got to go to my treatment, but I don't

917
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 3: have to give the enemy my imagination.

918
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: I can skip this. I can skip.

919
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 3: This because God is a healer, because God is Jehovah Rapha,

920
00:50:30,180 --> 00:50:34,020
Speaker 3: because God is my banner, because God is my medicine.

921
00:50:34,460 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 3: I can skip this. I wanted to let you know,

922
00:50:40,780 --> 00:50:43,980
Speaker 3: not yet, I can skip this. I want you to

923
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,280
Speaker 3: hear it in your head all week. No, I can't

924
00:50:46,420 --> 00:50:49,780
Speaker 3: skip the things that God has ordained me to go through,

925
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:51,910
Speaker 3: but I do not have to live in a state

926
00:50:52,170 --> 00:50:53,890
Speaker 3: of prolonged pain.

927
00:50:54,290 --> 00:50:55,430
Speaker 1: I can skip this.

928
00:50:56,989 --> 00:50:59,350
Speaker 3: The next time you go to do the addictive behavior

929
00:51:00,510 --> 00:51:03,830
Speaker 3: that you know where it leads to, you know it's

930
00:51:03,870 --> 00:51:06,089
Speaker 3: going to put you in a wilderness. You know it's

931
00:51:06,130 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 3: going to put you in shame. I want you to

932
00:51:08,860 --> 00:51:11,330
Speaker 3: hear the Holy Spirit saying to you, you can skip this.

933
00:51:12,950 --> 00:51:14,870
Speaker 3: You can skip this. You don't have to go to

934
00:51:14,910 --> 00:51:17,310
Speaker 3: work tomorrow with bloodshot eyes hiding what.

935
00:51:17,210 --> 00:51:18,230
Speaker 1: You looked at all night.

936
00:51:18,730 --> 00:51:20,450
Speaker 3: You don't have to go to work tomorrow with a

937
00:51:20,530 --> 00:51:22,290
Speaker 3: headache that's so bad that you.

938
00:51:22,170 --> 00:51:22,870
Speaker 1: Want to die.

939
00:51:22,890 --> 00:51:25,630
Speaker 3: You don't have to go into your next situation, your

940
00:51:25,670 --> 00:51:26,330
Speaker 3: next season.

941
00:51:26,710 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: You can skip this.

942
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 3: You don't have to play out every worst-case scenario. You say,

943
00:51:33,460 --> 00:51:37,259
Speaker 3: Pastor Stephen, how can you say that? It's bigger than me.

944
00:51:37,580 --> 00:51:43,299
Speaker 3: This sickness, this anxiety, this struggle, it's bigger than me.

945
00:51:43,620 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 3: How can you tell me I can skip the wilderness

946
00:51:46,620 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 3: because of Matthew 4.

947
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,430
Speaker 1: Verse 1?

948
00:51:51,810 --> 00:51:55,570
Speaker 3: There is someone other than Joshua who went through the wilderness.

949
00:51:57,290 --> 00:52:00,390
Speaker 3: Because the Bible says, Help me, Holy Spirit. Help me

950
00:52:00,450 --> 00:52:03,530
Speaker 3: help somebody today. Help me help somebody who's in a wilderness.

951
00:52:03,850 --> 00:52:05,989
Speaker 3: Help me help somebody who feels like there's no way out.

952
00:52:06,260 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 3: Help me help somebody who's just circling around and around

953
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,580
Speaker 3: the same wilderness. Help me help somebody today, God, who's

954
00:52:11,620 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 3: just stuck in it. Help me help somebody who keeps

955
00:52:14,060 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 3: hating themselves. Help me help somebody who keeps reaching out

956
00:52:17,540 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 3: for things that are hurting them. The Bible says, Then

957
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 3: Jesus was led by the Spirit. into the wilderness to

958
00:52:29,060 --> 00:52:36,210
Speaker 3: be tempted by the Devil. After fasting 40 days and

959
00:52:36,210 --> 00:52:40,230
Speaker 3: 40 nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him

960
00:52:40,270 --> 00:52:41,390
Speaker 3: and said, If you are the Son of God, tell

961
00:52:41,410 --> 00:52:43,489
Speaker 3: these stones to become bread. Jesus answered, It is written,

962
00:52:43,530 --> 00:52:44,890
Speaker 3: Men shall not live on bread alone, but every word

963
00:52:44,910 --> 00:52:46,390
Speaker 3: that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil

964
00:52:46,410 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 3: took him to the holy city and had him stand

965
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:48,859
Speaker 3: on the highest point of the temple.

966
00:52:49,180 --> 00:52:50,100
Speaker 1: If you are the Son of God.

967
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:51,500
Speaker 3: He said, throw yourself down, for it is written, He

968
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 3: will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift

969
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,779
Speaker 3: you up in their hands, so that you will.

970
00:52:55,700 --> 00:52:57,020
Speaker 1: Not strike your foot against a stone.

971
00:52:57,060 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 3: And Jesus answered him, It is also written, Do not

972
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 3: put the Lord your God to the test. Again the

973
00:53:00,580 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 3: devil took him to a very high mountain and showed

974
00:53:02,020 --> 00:53:03,380
Speaker 3: him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

975
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: All this I will give you, he said, if you

976
00:53:04,620 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: will bow down and worship me. And Jesus said to him,

977
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: Away from me, Satan.

978
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:15,819
Speaker 3: For it is written, Worship the Lord your God and

979
00:53:16,020 --> 00:53:24,390
Speaker 3: serve him only. Then the devil left him, and angels

980
00:53:24,530 --> 00:53:30,170
Speaker 3: came and attended him. The reason I don't have to

981
00:53:30,330 --> 00:53:34,610
Speaker 3: stay in my wilderness is because Jesus went to his.

982
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,450
Speaker 1: And what the generation could not do.

983
00:53:39,370 --> 00:53:43,420
Speaker 3: In 40 years, Jesus did in 40 days with God.

984
00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 3: What should take years takes days. I need somebody to

985
00:53:51,780 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 3: shout right now. If you are glad that you have

986
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:59,870
Speaker 3: a Savior who did not skip the wilderness, you have

987
00:53:59,930 --> 00:54:03,870
Speaker 3: a Savior who did not skip the scourging, you have

988
00:54:03,950 --> 00:54:08,190
Speaker 3: a Savior who did not skip the mocking, and because

989
00:54:08,250 --> 00:54:11,910
Speaker 3: he did not skip the cross … I'm coming out

990
00:54:11,969 --> 00:54:12,350
Speaker 3: of this.

991
00:54:13,190 --> 00:54:14,140
Speaker 4: I'm coming out.

992
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 3: I'm coming out of this, the last.

993
00:54:16,500 --> 00:54:18,780
Speaker 4: Thing I do. I'm coming out.

994
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:19,620
Speaker 3: Because he's in me.

995
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,219
Speaker 5: I'm coming out because greater is he that lives.

996
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:25,140
Speaker 4: In me.

997
00:54:27,860 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 3: Than he that's in the world. You can skip this.

998
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,100
Speaker 3: You don't have to live in fear. You can skip this.

999
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 3: You don't have to live in shame. Your shame is

1000
00:54:39,140 --> 00:54:42,330
Speaker 3: nailed to the rugged cross. You can skip this. The

1001
00:54:42,390 --> 00:54:45,549
Speaker 3: next time the enemy comes up in your ear, you

1002
00:54:45,590 --> 00:54:47,310
Speaker 3: know what you did.

1003
00:54:47,630 --> 00:54:50,890
Speaker 1: Don't even defend yourself. Skip it. Take him straight to

1004
00:54:50,930 --> 00:54:51,430
Speaker 1: the cross.

1005
00:54:51,930 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 3: Take him straight to the borrowed tomb.

1006
00:54:55,060 --> 00:54:56,580
Speaker 1: Where the Savior was buried.

1007
00:55:02,910 --> 00:55:09,450
Speaker 3: Skip it, because you have a Savior who lives inside

1008
00:55:10,270 --> 00:55:13,959
Speaker 3: of you. Everyone standing, no one moving. You can skip this.

1009
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:20,060
Speaker 3: You can skip this. Christ did not die for you

1010
00:55:20,100 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 3: to punish yourself for sins that he paid for.

1011
00:55:25,780 --> 00:55:29,770
Speaker 1: You can skip this. Forty years in the wilderness ….

1012
00:55:31,430 --> 00:55:34,290
Speaker 3: And they could have made it in 11 days. A

1013
00:55:34,489 --> 00:55:40,790
Speaker 3: seven-day march brought the walls down. Seven days of creation.

1014
00:55:42,310 --> 00:55:44,660
Speaker 3: God is trying to do something for you right now

1015
00:55:44,700 --> 00:55:47,580
Speaker 3: in your life, but you won't.

1016
00:55:48,020 --> 00:55:52,259
Speaker 1: You won't worship. You keep letting the enemy fill in

1017
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: the blanks, fill in the gaps.

1018
00:55:54,980 --> 00:55:57,859
Speaker 3: I'm trying to tell you that between verse 29 and

1019
00:55:57,900 --> 00:56:01,450
Speaker 3: verse 30, was a wilderness, but when the writer of

1020
00:56:01,469 --> 00:56:02,650
Speaker 3: Hebrews went to write.

1021
00:56:02,489 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: It down, he skipped it.

1022
00:56:04,010 --> 00:56:04,290
Speaker 3: Why?

1023
00:56:05,330 --> 00:56:08,770
Speaker 1: Because they didn't have to die in the wilderness, and

1024
00:56:08,830 --> 00:56:09,469
Speaker 1: neither do you.

1025
00:56:11,739 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 3: I don't know what your wilderness is today, but the

1026
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 3: Holy Spirit instructed me when I got to this part

1027
00:56:17,660 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 3: in my message to pray for you about it.

1028
00:56:20,100 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: Bow your head and close your eyes.

1029
00:56:23,500 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 3: I saw it in my study in this moment that

1030
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:31,609
Speaker 3: the Enemy, like he tempted Jesus, been tempting you. Turn

1031
00:56:31,630 --> 00:56:35,430
Speaker 3: the stones into bread. Throw yourself from the temple. Bow

1032
00:56:35,469 --> 00:56:37,430
Speaker 3: down in worship. No, no, no.

1033
00:56:37,790 --> 00:56:38,609
Speaker 1: I'm skipping this.

1034
00:56:40,010 --> 00:56:42,390
Speaker 3: I know where this takes me, and I don't like it.

1035
00:56:42,650 --> 00:56:47,610
Speaker 1: I have a Savior. Not Joshua. Jesus. Somebody say, Jesus.

1036
00:56:48,410 --> 00:56:48,690
Speaker 3: Come on.

1037
00:56:48,710 --> 00:56:51,610
Speaker 1: Call his name like you know him. Say, Jesus. I

1038
00:56:51,660 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: need you to get me out of this wilderness.

1039
00:56:54,540 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 3: I need you.

1040
00:56:55,780 --> 00:56:58,380
Speaker 1: That's how you're going to do it. When the pain

1041
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:03,379
Speaker 1: is louder than the promise. I'm skipping this.

1042
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,100
Speaker 3: I am not going to stay down in something that

1043
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:09,180
Speaker 3: God raised me out of.

1044
00:57:10,989 --> 00:57:16,190
Speaker 1: So, blow your trumpet. Let everything that has breath …

1045
00:57:17,770 --> 00:57:18,430
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.

1046
00:57:19,930 --> 00:57:22,870
Speaker 3: One of the greatest ways I have found to deal

1047
00:57:22,910 --> 00:57:29,020
Speaker 3: with my wilderness … so that I lift my hands.

1048
00:57:29,260 --> 00:57:32,220
Speaker 3: Why don't you do it right now? Lift your hands,

1049
00:57:33,540 --> 00:57:37,630
Speaker 3: especially if you have been in a wilderness. There are

1050
00:57:37,670 --> 00:57:40,030
Speaker 3: some things we have to go through. There are red seas.

1051
00:57:40,070 --> 00:57:40,790
Speaker 3: There are walls.

1052
00:57:40,830 --> 00:57:42,530
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm not saying problem-free.

1053
00:57:42,770 --> 00:57:44,810
Speaker 3: I'm just saying you don't have to die in it.

1054
00:57:45,890 --> 00:57:47,550
Speaker 3: I'm just saying you don't have to lay down. You

1055
00:57:47,570 --> 00:57:49,820
Speaker 3: don't have to repeat it over and over. You can

1056
00:57:49,970 --> 00:57:55,820
Speaker 3: skip this, and when you worship, What happened in Matthew 4,

1057
00:57:55,820 --> 00:57:57,260
Speaker 3: verse 11 happens to you.

1058
00:57:57,580 --> 00:57:59,180
Speaker 1: The Bible says the devil left him.

1059
00:57:59,580 --> 00:58:02,180
Speaker 3: I command you, Satan, in the name of the Lord,

1060
00:58:02,510 --> 00:58:04,170
Speaker 3: to drop your weapons and free.

1061
00:58:04,530 --> 00:58:05,630
Speaker 4: For the Lord.

1062
00:58:05,370 --> 00:58:09,570
Speaker 3: God Almighty has given me authority in the name of Jesus.

1063
00:58:09,630 --> 00:58:10,810
Speaker 1: Come on, open your mouth.

1064
00:58:11,190 --> 00:58:14,210
Speaker 3: You need to say, Thank you, Jesus. You need to say,

1065
00:58:14,300 --> 00:58:17,420
Speaker 3: I trust you, Lord. You need to say, Thank you, Lord,

1066
00:58:17,460 --> 00:58:20,980
Speaker 3: for bringing me through. You need to say, I trust you, Lord.

1067
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 3: I'm lifting my hands. and I'm coming out of fear

1068
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,730
Speaker 3: and I'm coming out of depression.

1069
00:58:29,850 --> 00:58:37,790
Speaker 5: If I'm still breathing, if I'm still living, I can

1070
00:58:37,850 --> 00:58:40,610
Speaker 5: come out of this.

1071
00:58:40,650 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: Bring the lights down.

1072
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:42,470
Speaker 3: Let's worship.

1073
00:58:43,100 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 4: Let's worship out of this wilderness. Bring the lights down.

1074
00:58:50,460 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: Come on.

1075
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:52,030
Speaker 3: Get your hands up.

1076
00:58:54,170 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 5: Get them up! Get them up like you've been through

1077
00:59:00,540 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 5: the water!

1078
00:59:04,810 --> 00:59:10,930
Speaker 1: Sounds like you know how to.

1079
00:59:12,410 --> 00:59:17,660
Speaker 4: Make the water fall.

1080
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,780
Speaker 1: Sing the chorus, Chris.

1081
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:21,540
Speaker 3: Your turn.

1082
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,460
Speaker 1: Blow your trumpet.

1083
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 3: Yeah!

1084
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: We're the grateful people.

1085
00:59:28,870 --> 00:59:35,350
Speaker 5: Because I saw some walls fall.

1086
00:59:35,450 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 3: God can do it. He is a.

1087
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:43,260
Speaker 1: Way maker.

1088
00:59:43,340 --> 00:59:49,890
Speaker 5: He delivers whoever.

1089
00:59:50,700 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: Oh my God. Thank you for joining us.

1090
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,700
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1091
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,140
Speaker 2: this ministry. It's because of you that this ministry is possible.

1092
01:00:19,700 --> 01:00:21,880
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1093
01:00:21,940 --> 01:00:26,300
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1094
01:00:25,820 --> 01:00:28,950
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1095
01:00:28,970 --> 01:00:31,470
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1096
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1099
01:00:37,250 --> 01:00:38,800
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