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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Before we get into the word, let me mention that

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Speaker 1: we're getting really excited about Elevation Nights. We're going on

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Speaker 1: tour October twenty sixth through Thursday, November third. Now listen

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Speaker 1: out everybody online, put in the comments in the chat

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Speaker 1: where you're watching from today, what city, what state? And

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Speaker 1: let me tell you where we're coming. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be me and I might let Chris Brown come. I

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Speaker 1: hadn't decided about it yet. You think I should let

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Speaker 1: him come to be? You want to share a bunk

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Speaker 1: with him? You want the top bunk. So we'll be

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas, Houston, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Sunrise, Florida,

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Speaker 1: and Jacksonville, Florida. If you are within five hundred miles

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Speaker 1: of Atlanta, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas, Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: or Lando, Florida, Sunrise Florida, or Jacksonville, Florida. We would

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Speaker 1: love to see you. That's October twenty sixth through November third,

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Speaker 1: and you can go to Elevation Nights dot com to

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Speaker 1: get your tickets and information and we'll be there. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking today, other people will drive two hundred miles

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Speaker 1: for what we have right here in our backyard, the

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Speaker 1: presence of this amazing community of believers. And I'm excited

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Speaker 1: today when lady told me one time that she drove

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Speaker 1: twelve hours to come to church, and she said it

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Speaker 1: was on my bucket list. And I stood up and

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Speaker 1: told the church, you see what's on her bucket list

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Speaker 1: is in many of our backyard. So you just have

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Speaker 1: to keep that perspective. God is doing an amazing work

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Speaker 1: at all of our locations and all around the world.

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Speaker 1: Give God a praise. Come on, Let everything that has

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Speaker 1: bread praise the Lord that has a new significance in

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Speaker 1: the time of COVID. Right. Let everything that has breath

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Speaker 1: that we appreciate more that God gave us another day

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Speaker 1: and that we're here to praise him. And we want

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Speaker 1: to take full advantage of that. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: the word of God? It doesn't matter if you are.

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Speaker 1: I am, so I'm excited enough for all of us.

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Speaker 1: I want to share with you from Hebrews chapter eight today,

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Speaker 1: verses three through seven. I think I'm done with Joe.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Hebrews chapter eight. Pat had a long decay. Hebrews

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Speaker 1: chapter eight, verse three through seven. Ready, every high priest

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Speaker 1: is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so

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Speaker 1: it was necessary for this one, Jesus, to also have

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Speaker 1: not be a priest, for there are already priests who

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Speaker 1: offer the gifts prescribed by the law. They serve at

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Speaker 1: a sanctuary that is a copy and a shadow of

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Speaker 1: what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned

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Speaker 1: when he was about to build the tabernacle. See to

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Speaker 1: it that you make everything according to the pattern shown

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Speaker 1: you on the mountain. But in fact, the ministry Jesus

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Speaker 1: has received is as superior to theirs, as the covenant

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Speaker 1: of which he is mediator is superior to the old one.

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Speaker 1: Since the new covenant is established on what better promises.

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Speaker 1: For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant.

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Speaker 1: No place would have been sought for another. Back to

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Speaker 1: verse five. They serve the high priest in the levitical

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Speaker 1: Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle.

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Speaker 1: They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy. This

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Speaker 1: is why Moses was warned. See to it that you

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Speaker 1: make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

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Speaker 1: The Lord told me to give you the sermon in

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Speaker 1: the form of a warning today, and the warning is,

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Speaker 1: You may be seated. Be careful what you copy. I

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Speaker 1: didn't say not the copy. That's dumb. People will tell

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Speaker 1: you sometimes don't copy being original. No, you need to

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Speaker 1: copy a little bit, right. You need to copy through

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Speaker 1: certain developmental stages. Our kids copy, you know, our kids copy.

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Speaker 1: That's how they put one foot in front of the other.

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Speaker 1: They copy sounds phonetically. It's a part of the developmental

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Speaker 1: That's the thing write in anything. You shouldn't just stop

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Speaker 1: disciple them. As a dad. I want to disciple my kids,

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Speaker 1: not through a class. I don't really think they need

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Speaker 1: get to hear my words a lot, but in what

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Speaker 1: about Bible verses. I don't just want to disciple my

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Speaker 1: kids and what they think about Greek or Hebrew. In

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Speaker 1: to talk to him about some other words too, Some

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Speaker 1: especially now Graham's thirteen and Elijah sixteen. One thing I

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Speaker 1: really thank God for is I've had the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that it's going to be at least two

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Speaker 1: But I kind of turned the workout room that's in

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Speaker 1: like a laboratory, where I'm not only showing him how

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Speaker 1: to do certain exercises. But I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: told you this way. I've been taking him through the

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Speaker 1: top one hundred rock albums of all time. Right, strain

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Speaker 1: up a child and the way that they should go,

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Speaker 1: and the way that they should go is led Zeppelin. Right.

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Speaker 1: We listen to Grades in the gardens to an old

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Speaker 1: church basement, but then sometimes sometimes we listen to other albums.

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Speaker 1: Something funny happened to the other where we were listening

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Speaker 1: to Jimmy Hendrix Little Wing, one of the greatest guitar

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Speaker 1: fourteen and LJ Elijah says to me, this guy sounds

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Speaker 1: like Pearl Jam. He thought Jimmy nineteen sixty nine was

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Speaker 1: I said, no, boy, you don't have to grow up

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Speaker 1: of the copy in Hebrews, chapter eight, y'all thought this

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Speaker 1: up for my servant. The writer of Hebrews is understanding

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Speaker 1: He does something kind of crazy in order to bring

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Speaker 1: emulating and imitating Christ. He points to somebody that they

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Speaker 1: He talks about it in Hebrews chapter eleven, different people

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Speaker 1: trying to say, like, you think is bad because somebody

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Speaker 1: And if I could talk to you today, I would

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Speaker 1: He offered himself as a gift. He is a great

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Speaker 1: It costs me too much if I depressed all enough.

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Speaker 1: The writer of Hebrews, nobody even knows who wrote Hebrews.

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Speaker 1: But he's so brilliant because he's showing us Moses. Why

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Speaker 1: is he showing us Moses and then Jesus, Because he's

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Speaker 1: showing you that Moses could only take you so far,

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Speaker 1: even for the children of Israel. I mean, think about it.

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Speaker 1: Moses led them to the edge of the Promised Land,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't get to take them in. Joshua did that.

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Speaker 1: And when God called Joshua, and now Moses was a

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Speaker 1: great man, no doubt about it. Moses, Moses was really

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Speaker 1: actually gracious with the people that he led. Because God

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Speaker 1: said one time, well, I'll just kill him and start

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Speaker 1: all over with you and give you better people to leave.

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Speaker 1: He said, Lord, don't do that. It'll make you look bad.

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Speaker 1: You said, you put your name on these people, and

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00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: your hand was on and bring them out of Egypt.

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Speaker 1: So if you kill them, it's gonna make you look bad.

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Speaker 1: I probably would go. I probably would vote for you.

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Speaker 1: To kill him too. But if we really take this

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Speaker 1: into consideration, it's not good for your reputation, God, even

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Speaker 1: though it's my preference right now that notwithstanding, Moses was

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Speaker 1: so controlled by the focus group that he sent into

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Speaker 1: the Promised Land that he copied the fear of the

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Speaker 1: ten Spies who said we can't go in, and he

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Speaker 1: never got to lead the people. So by the time

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Speaker 1: that Moses dies in Joshua chapter one, God is giving

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Speaker 1: Joshua a talk about what he's called him to do,

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Speaker 1: and he says something kind of cool, because remember, Moses

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Speaker 1: really knew God. Moses really knew God. But look at

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Speaker 1: this in Joshua chapter one, verse five, after he says

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you this land that I swore

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Speaker 1: to the people Joshua one to five, no one will

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Speaker 1: be able to stand against you all the days of

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Speaker 1: your life as I was with So I will be

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Speaker 1: with Now what does that mean? That means I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be present with you like I was present with him.

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Speaker 1: But your process, Joshua, will not be like Moses's process.

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Speaker 1: And another, his limitations will not be your limitations. Where

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Speaker 1: he stopped is where you're starting. Where he stopped is

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Speaker 1: where you're starting. You're not gonna be like me. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna be better than me. You're gonna be so much

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Speaker 1: better than me. You're not Stephen Ferdick's son. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be Elijah Verdick's dad, Graham Fredick's dad, Habby Verdick's dad.

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Speaker 1: Do you understand when God calls you and he puts

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Speaker 1: his spirit in you, you are not limited by what

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Speaker 1: you've seen. That's not the end of your potential. So

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Speaker 1: he tells Joshua, I'm gonna be with you like I

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Speaker 1: was with Moses. I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

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Speaker 1: Verse six. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead

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Speaker 1: these people to inherit the land I swore to their

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Speaker 1: ancestors to give them. Next verse be strong and very courageous.

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Speaker 1: Be careful. Aha, what's my sermon called? Be careful what

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Speaker 1: you copy? So Joshua, listen. I want you to listen

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Speaker 1: like God's talking to you. Don't be limited by what

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Speaker 1: you saw Moses do. Moses is not your model. God is.

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Speaker 1: That's what the writer of Hebrews are saying. See, the

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Speaker 1: law could only take you so far. That's why Jesus came.

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Speaker 1: The law was good, but it could only get you

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Speaker 1: so far. The law was great, but it was fought

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Speaker 1: in that you couldn't keep it. There was nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: with the law, there was something wrong with me. I'm

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Speaker 1: the lead that kept me from going further when the

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Speaker 1: law was my regulation. So now what the law was

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Speaker 1: powerless to do, in that it was weakened by the

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Speaker 1: sinful nature. God did by sending his son, the better

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Speaker 1: high priest in the order of Melchizedek, whose blood wets

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Speaker 1: more than a million bulls and ghosts and doves. That's

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Speaker 1: who Jesus is. He is the arbitrator and the mediator

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Speaker 1: of a better covenant. My covenant is not with Moses.

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Speaker 1: My covenant is not with my past. My covenant is

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Speaker 1: not with others. My covenant is not with my genetics.

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Speaker 1: My covenant is not with my depression. My covenant is

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Speaker 1: not with fear. My covenant is not with his spies.

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Speaker 1: My covenant is not with this staff. My covenant is

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Speaker 1: not with Pharaoh. My covenant is with my father. I

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Speaker 1: got a covenant, a better covenant. Somebody shall better better better, better,

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Speaker 1: better better better. It's gonna be better, better, be better better,

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Speaker 1: So be careful what you copy from before when God

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Speaker 1: is trying to bring you into something better. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad that I don't have to do it in

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Speaker 1: this season like I did it in that season. He said,

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Speaker 1: you're still okay. You know how we talked about copy

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Speaker 1: in the world when we started the sermon, all those

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Speaker 1: drug dealers and tick talkers and all those evils. That's

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Speaker 1: not who the writer of Hebrews was talking to. They

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Speaker 1: weren't copying the world. They were stuck in a copy

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Speaker 1: of a copy of a copy of a copy of

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Speaker 1: a copy of worship that was external. Wouldn't that be hard?

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Speaker 1: Like I can't even drive when I go to London

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Speaker 1: because they drive on the wrong side of the road.

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Speaker 1: That's right, it's the wrong side of the road. It pounds,

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Speaker 1: not kilograms too while we're at it, but uh K,

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Speaker 1: you know that's hard for me to even drive on

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Speaker 1: the other side of the road. They're having to believe

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Speaker 1: they never personally saw Jesus. They're having to believe in

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Speaker 1: that and let go of what they were always taught

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Speaker 1: would bring them to God. So if I can make

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Speaker 1: this practical, because I know that's a little abstract. Most

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Speaker 1: of what we copy in relationships is not what we

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Speaker 1: were taught, but what we caught from the relational dynamics

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Speaker 1: that we were around. You know how coronavirus is contagious,

528
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Speaker 1: so is crazy and they don't make a mask for that.

529
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Speaker 1: Yet if they could have been a mask for that,

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Speaker 1: how many of y'all will buy at fifty dollars one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars. So one of the first things that me

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Speaker 1: and Holly did when we sat down, and this was

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Speaker 1: after we had about three or four fights our marriage,

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Speaker 1: if we started talking about, well, how did your parents fight?

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Speaker 1: How did my parents fight? What are we subconsciously copying

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Speaker 1: from the way that we saw conflict handled? That is good?

537
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: And what if we subconsciously copied that needs to go

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Speaker 1: based on who we are, based on our personalities, based

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Speaker 1: on our calling. Because I honor where I came from,

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Speaker 1: and I honor what I saw, But I don't have

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Speaker 1: to copy what I saw when it no longer fits

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Speaker 1: what I'm called to. I'm gonna give you that again

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Speaker 1: because you just missed that FILET Mignon what I say again,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to copy what I saw, Huh. I

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Speaker 1: can honor it, but I don't have to copy it.

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Speaker 1: I can honor the tradition. Thank you Moses. You built

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Speaker 1: the tabernacle in the wilderness. Thank you, High Priest, that's

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Speaker 1: the lineup area. Thank you for that. There's nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: with that. In many ways, it's a continuation of that.

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Speaker 1: But are you copying something that you're no longer called to?

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Speaker 1: And another thing, this is what happened with the Pharisees.

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Speaker 1: You remember the Pharisees and the sad Ducees. They were sad,

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Speaker 1: you see, because they esteemed the traditions of men above

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Speaker 1: the traditions of God. That's what happened to them. What

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Speaker 1: does that mean. That means that as the law was

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Speaker 1: given from Moses, the law was good, but as it

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Speaker 1: got copied a copy of a copy of a copy

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00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: of a copy of a copy. Now here's what had happened.

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Speaker 1: By the time Jesus showed up on the scene. They

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Speaker 1: were still preaching God's commandments and copying those, but they

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Speaker 1: had lost God's heart to the point where if a

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Speaker 1: man got healed on the sabbath, they would say, you

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Speaker 1: can't do that. They copied the commandments. Jesus said, sabbath

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Speaker 1: was made for men, not man. For the sabbath in

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Speaker 1: copying it, they lost the quality of it and out

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Speaker 1: of our life growing up. Everybody over thirty makes some noise.

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Speaker 1: All right, there's some stuff that isn't bad, but you're

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Speaker 1: standing in front of something better. And if you copy

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Speaker 1: the way you did it before, and as God is

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Speaker 1: trying to bring you better. I'll give you an example

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Speaker 1: from Moses's life. He did this one time. The people

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Speaker 1: were thirsty one time in the wilderness. Moses is like,

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Speaker 1: why God, why, Like you're running carpool in a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, Okay, why God? Why? Right? And so the

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Speaker 1: Lord's like, well, take that staff I gave you and

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Speaker 1: strike the rock and then the water will come out.

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Speaker 1: And he's like really, He's like, really, I'm gonna show

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Speaker 1: the people that I'm God. And he's like, all right,

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Speaker 1: So the same staff, remember it I appreciate a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, parts to sea with it. Well, now he

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Speaker 1: strikes the rock with it. Here comes the water, and

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Speaker 1: the people drink, and God doesn't kill him, and they

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Speaker 1: go on to complain some more. Now you got to

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Speaker 1: go all the way to the end, because here's something

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Speaker 1: that says in Hebrews. It says in Hebrews thirteen seven

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Speaker 1: look at it later. Remember your leaders spoke the word

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Speaker 1: of God concerning you and considered the outcome of their

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Speaker 1: way of life. Now, when we're looking at somebody's Instagram feed,

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Speaker 1: we're not seeing the outcome of their way of life.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing the snapshot. Even when you interact with people

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Speaker 1: in church, they do not always lit their hands like

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Speaker 1: they were doing thirty five minutes ago. They're not always

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Speaker 1: so peaceful and so worshipful and so holy. So, so

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Speaker 1: don't judge yourself according to that. But the scripture says

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Speaker 1: considered the outcome of their way of life. And the

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Speaker 1: reason that Moses couldn't lead the people in is because

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Speaker 1: in his frustration about the people's grumbling, this is crazy,

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Speaker 1: because I think I've done this before. God told him

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Speaker 1: the second time they were thirsty in the wilderness, speak

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Speaker 1: to the rock and the water will flow out. But

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Speaker 1: Moses didn't want to speak to the rock. He wanted

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Speaker 1: to do it how he did it before. So in

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Speaker 1: his frustration, you've been frustrated lately, and so what you've

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00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: been doing what Moses did? It says he struck the

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Speaker 1: rock power that God told him to speak to. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do it like I did it before. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what you say, God, I'm gonna get my way

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Speaker 1: right away. I'm gonna do this the way that it

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Speaker 1: benefits me. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna show I'm

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Speaker 1: a man, I'm Moses. And he didn't get into the

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Speaker 1: promise because he copied the way God told him to

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Speaker 1: do it before. What I was wondering while I was praying,

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Speaker 1: because I pray for y'all. By the time we get together,

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Speaker 1: I've been with you all week. I'm serious, I've been

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Speaker 1: with you all week, and I thought about how you

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Speaker 1: are praying about some things in your life right now.

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Speaker 1: You need water from a rock, water in the wilderness.

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Speaker 1: That could be provision, that could be an emotional need

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Speaker 1: you have. And if I take it all the way,

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Speaker 1: I see some of you trying to do what you

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Speaker 1: did ten years ago and it's not working. So you

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Speaker 1: are stuck because you are copying the way that you

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Speaker 1: struck the rock. And now God is giving you a

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Speaker 1: new way to do it, but you won't do it

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Speaker 1: the new way as long as I copy the way

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Speaker 1: that I did it back then. I got a text

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Speaker 1: from a friend the other day and he said, I

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Speaker 1: want you to understand. You're in a new season as

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Speaker 1: a preacher. Now, I said, tell me about it. He said,

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Speaker 1: it's the season of a father. You're no longer a

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Speaker 1: twenty six year old church planter, so when you preach,

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Speaker 1: step into your role as a father. Now, I said,

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Speaker 1: I got people in the church that are twenty years

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Speaker 1: older than me. He said, it's not about chronology, it's

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Speaker 1: about calling. So God is giving you permission to do

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Speaker 1: it different, to do it different. Say it, do it different.

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Speaker 1: Tell the person that to do it different. You got

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Speaker 1: to do it different. You got to do it different

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Speaker 1: if you keep hitting stuff the way you're hitting stuff,

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Speaker 1: if you keep doing things out of frustration, if you

641
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: keep trying to copy what you did before, and see,

642
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: this is what gets me. I heard a guy one time.

643
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: He was standing up to preach to his congregation, and

644
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: he said, I wish I could have coffee with everybody

645
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: in this church and share what I'm going to share

646
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: with you today. And I sat there and thought, well,

647
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: you could. The church had forty people in it, so

648
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: you could knock that out by Thursday. If you're really motivated,

649
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: if you do four a day, I'll go math. But

650
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: I think you could do that. He had heard another

651
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Speaker 1: pastor who pastored thirty thousand people say that, and he thought, well,

652
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: that sounds cool. So now he gets up in copies

653
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: in his context what he saw somebody else do in

654
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: a context that is not his context. This is like,

655
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: remember when David put on the armor of Saul and

656
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: he walked around for a moment and he's got to

657
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: fight Goliath, and he's like, I guess he will give

658
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: me whatever the guy wears who fights, and Saul's like,

659
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: here you go, you can wear mine. And David walks

660
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: around in him a little bit and he's like, this

661
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: is heavy, this is weird, and this is not me.

662
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,399
Speaker 1: Right now, I think I would be better off with

663
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: my slingshot, with what God called me to do. I

664
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: know this is how you would fight, but I've got

665
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 1: to do it different. Some of you, as teenagers, God

666
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: is going to show you you don't have to go

667
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: to every party because at the end of popularity, a

668
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: lot of the people who are so popular are going

669
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,479
Speaker 1: home so miserable. I tell you, I'm a dad right now,

670
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: I'm preaching like a dad and parents, we don't have

671
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: to copy the way everybody else raises their kids. You

672
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: have permission to break tradition with whatever does not fit

673
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: your calling. You have got to build in the valley

674
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Speaker 1: what God showed you on the mountain. In case you

675
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: haven't noticed, we live in a culture that worships our

676
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: kids at the expense of our families. So I had

677
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 1: moments where when the kids were all playing sports, where

678
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: I said, nobody's coming to your game tonight. We're dropping

679
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: you off and we're going on a date because I

680
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: haven't been with your mom in two weeks. And after

681
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: you leave me, she's gonna be the only one I

682
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: have left in the house. And I'll pick you up

683
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 1: and you can tell me about it, and maybe somebody

684
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: else to get a video. So what I'm supposed to

685
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: parent them like they're all Serena and Venus like I'm

686
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: supposed to be Tiger. It was that I know culturally

687
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: inappropriate reference. A lot of stuff comes along with all

688
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: of this. Everybody has to do it the way God

689
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: shows you to do it. But what happens is we

690
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: start building according to somebody else's blueprint, whether it's the world,

691
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: whether it's the concept of God that you were handed

692
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: that is not accurate to the scripture. You need to

693
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: read the Bible for yourself. I'm not your professional holy spirit.

694
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: I'm a preacher. You need to get in Hebrews and

695
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: say well, Pastor Steven missed this part. Now, this part

696
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: was the best part. He said that, But that made

697
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: me wonder about that, because if it's just a copy

698
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: of a copy of a copy of a copy of

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Speaker 1: a copy, I'm just Pearl Jam I'm not Jimmy. I'm

700
00:44:54,520 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: not Jesus. Neither is Moses. There are your broke friends

701
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: that you're taking financial advice from, or your unmarried friends

702
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: that are giving you marriage advice. Well, I would tell him.

703
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 1: I bet you would your imaginary marriage. Feel the spirit

704
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: of Dave Ramsey coming on me anyway, Be careful to

705
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 1: obey the word that I have given you. Joshua, You're

706
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: gonna go somewhere they couldn't go. You're gonna do something

707
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: they couldn't do. You're gonna break saints that help them

708
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: all their life. Now you do it and be strong

709
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: and courageous. Stop copying crazy because you don't want to

710
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: be weird. I wanna be weird. If what I'm seeing

711
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: in this world right now is normal, God make me weird.

712
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: I wanna be the weirdest one there is, y'all. And

713
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: not let your kids listen to that rock and roll

714
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 1: music and that rap music. I'll tell you what right now,

715
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: that's bad. They're the devil. I saw all the kids

716
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,439
Speaker 1: that went off after their parents didn't experience anything with them.

717
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: I got to decide how to raise my kid, y'all.

718
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: I put a picture of me on a We might

719
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: take this out before we put it on YouTube. Y'll

720
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: check with me. I put a picture of me one

721
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: time with the kids. We went to see God's team,

722
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 1: the Clemson Tigers. Sorry, pal, he's got a game caught

723
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 1: shirt on and I had on the Guns N' Roses shirt. Now,

724
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: all the comments that on the picture said, uh, why

725
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: wearing guns and Roses shirt? That's worldly, not as good.

726
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: You're spending time with your kids like you live in

727
00:46:53,239 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: a monastery. So be careful what you copy. Be careful

728
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: that you don't copy the condemnation that other people put

729
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: on you. And this is the last thing I'll tell you,

730
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: And then I will just be quiet and I will

731
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: go baptized Graham, and I'm gonna have the best time

732
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: doing it. And I'm baptizing. I'm not in my name,

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. I want you to do it like

734
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: Jesus did it, because I wanted to tell you one

735
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: more thing that God told Joshua. Be careful what you

736
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: copy in your heart, for it will set the direction

737
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: of your life. You're what he told Joshua. He said,

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Speaker 1: meditate on this book of the law that Moses gave you.

739
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: Don't be like Moses. You're different than Moses. But I

740
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: want you to take the same word of God that

741
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: was given to him. What a brilliant thought that what

742
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: I copy in my heart. He said, I want you

743
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: to meditate on what I spoke. Go over you so

744
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: that you can lead these people where I called you

745
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: to go. You see how meditation says direction. And a

746
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: lot of us with what we do with different things

747
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: that we've thought about ourselves, said about ourselves, agreed with

748
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: about ourselves, condemnation, the enemy's putting us, we do a

749
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 1: copy and paste. So we take something like you know

750
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: that I'm unworthy. We take something like that I'm not

751
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: good enough, that I'll never be that Da da da

752
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: da da da, And so then I copy and paste it.

753
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: I almost did an illustration where I wanted to show

754
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: you what would happen to the screen if you copied

755
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: and pasted that over and over again, it would fill up.

756
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm unworthy, I'm and you know what, apart from the

757
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: grace of God, we are. But you know how they

758
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: say sometimes on like on a walkie talkie, they say,

759
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: copy that, copy that, copy that. What God wants you

760
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: to do is start iditating on his words, not the

761
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: ones that somebody else spoke, and copy it in your heart.

762
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to give you a new covenant.

763
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: It's a better covenant, and it's not written on tablets

764
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: of stone because those break. I'm gonna put it on

765
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: your heart, and I'm gonna give your heart a flesh.

766
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: And i want you to take your I want you

767
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: to take your Bible, and I want you to take

768
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: what God has spoken over your life, and I want

769
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: you to copy that. I want you to find out

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00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: what he called you, what he gifted you to do,

771
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: what he put the seat of potential in for you,

772
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: And copy that, and don't get so caught up in

773
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: trying to copy something you're not that you never find

774
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: out who you are. You will have to be strong

775
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: and courageous because you live in a culture that copies crazy,

776
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: and it'll take faith and it'll take focus. But if

777
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: God said that you are his child, copy that. Copy that,

778
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: And when God speaks that I'm going to take even

779
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: the mistakes that you've made in your life and I'm

780
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: gonna whip them up into something that you'll be testifying

781
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: about as a miracle three months from now, then copy that.

782
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: I have these moments where God uses somebody to encourage me,

783
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: and my first instinct is to cancel it out. Oh,

784
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: they just said that because they're being nice. Oh, they're

785
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: just complimenting me, because they're sucking up because I'm the boss. Oh,

786
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: she just said that because she has to live with

787
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: me and she doesn't want me in a bad mood.

788
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: I'll cancel it instead of copying it. Then somebody says

789
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,439
Speaker 1: something mean about me, negative about me, or they don't

790
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: even have to say it. I say it to myself,

791
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: and you want to copy that. So anyway, when I

792
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 1: baptize you in a minute, can you come up. We

793
00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: won't wrestle this time. Yeah, just come all the way out.

794
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: Were y'all here? When I wrestled Graham? This is Graham

795
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: he says funny stuff like how am I so ripped

796
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: in every part of my body? Nobody else in our

797
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: family is naturally muscular. That's good, you know, me said,

798
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: that's so good. But when I baptize you in just

799
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: a minute, maybe after the cameras are off and all that.

800
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: But I almost asked Mom to get you here early today,

801
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: But then I decided just to do it now because

802
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: the Lord told me to end my sermon this way,

803
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: because he would use it to speak to others. Someone

804
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: say it to you. This Bible I started preaching from

805
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: him right after you were born. I had given the

806
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: big One, the Life Application when to Elijah, the one

807
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,399
Speaker 1: that sits by his bed, and he's actually been reading

808
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: it a lot lately, so that's good. And every time

809
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: I preached a passage, I highlighted it and I put

810
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: what I preached, and I've been saving it for you,

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00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: and I want to give it to you today. And

812
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: I wrote you a letter and I told you a

813
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 1: story and you can read that later. And I marked

814
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: in it where where Jesus was baptized. Even Jesus was baptized,

815
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, he was setting the example, and you're not

816
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: Jesus you're nothing close, and I'm not John the Baptist,

817
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: but when you're going to be baptized as a symbol,

818
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,240
Speaker 1: it's you emulating the depth of Christ and the risen

819
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: the resurrection of Christ and the washing away of your sin.

820
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: It doesn't save you, but it says that you're saved

821
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: and that you belong to Christ. And in the note,

822
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: and I highlighted this for you, and I put it

823
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: all on the letter, but just in case it helps

824
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 1: somebody else. When Jesus is baptized, a voice from heaven said,

825
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: this is my son, whom I love. With him, I

826
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: am well pleased. I want you to copy that in

827
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: your heart because I'm concerned that the culture is going

828
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 1: to copy of a copy of a copy of a copy,

829
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,359
Speaker 1: and the devil will try to tell you all kinds

830
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,320
Speaker 1: of things through your life that you're not called, or

831
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: you're not chosener, it's not worth it, or you're missing

832
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: out by following Christ and all that that's not true.

833
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: I want you to copy that because the craziest thing

834
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: is God said that to Jesus before he opened any

835
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: blind eyes, before he multiplied fish and loaves, before he

836
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: did any of his miracles. God said, I love you,

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00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: I'm pleased with you. Copy that it feels awkward. No,

838
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: it's good though. When you go down in that water,

839
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: I want you to know that you can dive to

840
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: the hole. When you come up out of the water,

841
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: you're raised to walk in the newness of life. Copy that,

842
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: stand up on your feet. The scripture says in Ephesians

843
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:16,240
Speaker 1: five to one, the imitators of God as dearly loved children.

844
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: When you didn't see the model of love, is hard

845
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: to recreate it. When you didn't see the model of acceptance,

846
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: it's hard to recreate it. But the day there is

847
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: a voice from heaven speaking over YouTube, there is a

848
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: better covenant. This is my child. Do you unwill please

849
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: copy that? Father. I speak your word over every man

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Speaker 1: and woman today, from the ones that are ten feet

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Speaker 1: away from me to the ones who are thousands of

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Speaker 1: miles removed. I pray that as your word comes from Heaven,

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Speaker 1: like the rain that falls, like the snow that comes

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Speaker 1: down and accomplishes its purpose, that your word would replenish

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Speaker 1: and multiply the seed that is in our heart. Today.

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Speaker 1: We thank you that you are bringing us into something

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Speaker 1: better than Egypt, better than the world's customs. We thank

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Speaker 1: you that you are bringing us into something better than Moses.

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Speaker 1: You're better than we ever thought you could be. When

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Speaker 1: your word speaks one thing and our fear speaks another,

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Speaker 1: we choose to agree with what you spoke. We will

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Speaker 1: copy that in the name of Jesus. I pray Amen.

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